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← Caesar’s Lost Weekend with Cleopatra
Why Did They Kill Caesar? →
Posted on May 16, 2009 by 100swallows
Who killed him?
The three leaders [triumviri] Octavian, Lepidus, and Anthony ordered his execution. But it was Anthony who hated him most.
This is how the Roman historian Appian tells it:
“Cicero…was condemned along with his son, his brother, his nephew, and all his connections, supporters, and friends.
He was escaping by boat but being unable to tolerate the roughness of the sea, returned to land and lay low in a country place of his…near the Italian town of Caieta. When the men who were tracking him down came near…some crows flew into his room, squawking and rousing him from sleep, and pulling his bedclothes from him, until his attendants divined that this was a sign from the gods, put him in a litter, and took him down to the sea again through a dense thicket which hid him.
“Numbers of men were running in various directions and trying to discover if Cicero had been seen anywhere. Everyone else, wishing Cicero well and pitying him, said that he had already put out to sea and his boat was under way, but a cobbler, who was a dependant of Clodius, one of Cicero’s bitterest enemies, showed the path to a small party under Laenas, the officer in command. He ran along it, and when he saw that Cicero’s attendants far outnumbered the men coming with him to wreak their vengeance, he very astutely shouted out, “Centurions behind me, come up on the double!’
“The attendants were terror-struck, thinking that more soldiers were coming, and Laenas, who had actually once won a court case with Cicero’s support, pulled his head out of the litter and proceeded to cut it off. It took three blows and some sawing through because of his inexperience, and he also cut off the hand with which Cicero had composed the speeches against Anthony, portraying him as a despot, which he entitled Philippics in imitation of Demosthenes.
“People immediately rushed to take the good news to Anthony, some on horseback, others by sea. Laenas found him seated in the forum and waved the head and hand at him from a long way away. Anthony was overjoyed and garlanded the officer, and gave him 250,000 denarii on top of the normal reward, on the grounds that he had removed the man who had been his greatest and most aggressive personal enemy.
“Cicero’s head and hand were fastened for a long time to the rostra in the forum, where he had previously played the popular leader, and more came to see the sight than had listened to him. It is said that Anthony had the head placed before the table at his meals, until he was sated with looking at the vile object.
“This, then, was the way in which Cicero was killed and outraged after his death—a man who is renowned to this day for his literary achievements, and was of the greatest service to his country when he held the office of a consul.” Appian, The Civil Wars, Book IV
Compare with Plutarch’s account.
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16 Responses to How They Killed Cicero
The Romans didn’t mess around with all the ways they had to kill you.
anyone know how he died tho like who killed him
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Aqil Minhas says:
Despite his tragic end, Cicero’s name will live on
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100swallows says:
Anonymous: Thanks for your comment. I agree. Have you read Pliny the Younger? Check him out. He’s another very decent man. Few can read Cicero in Latin any more. I need to have that translation beside the Latin but even so it’s worth it.
There is something in his writings that I find up liftin it shows Rome for what it was and not what the film people would have us think it was, I once did start to read his letters as he wrote them in Latin but I am not that good wish I was.
ryanblank says:
I had always understood that when Laenas cornered him, Cicero’s last words were, “There is nothing proper about what you are doing soldier, but do try to kill me properly.” He was a brave man, a masterful orator, and a gaurdian of the rights of the people.
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Madame Monet says:
A very sad ending.
Madame Monet
Thanks, Ken, I’m glad to have you as a reader here. I don’t know about those TV commercials but don’t you be forgiving of barbarism practiced by our country.
Ken Januski says:
Appian said: Cicero’s head and hand were fastened for a long time to the rostra in the forum, where he had previously played the popular leader, and more came to see the sight than had listened to him.
As unsettling as this is it’s always useful to see the behavior of past generations. Sometimes they make the occasional, seeming barbarism of our own seem not so bad………. I will now be slightly more forgiving of the endless TV commercials for some sort of body thrashing(WWF, slasher movies, etc).
A quiet moment has given me time to visit your other blog Swallows and it’s just as rich and rewarding as The Best Artists.
Ritesh: Cicero’s “Philippics” were vicious. It would have taken a Caesar to forgive him for them. Remember too that Cicero urged the senate to vote Anthony an enemy of the state when Anthony was in Gaul with his army and he worked very actively against him.
Octavian let Anthony have his way with Cicero. Appian says the proscription lists were drawn up this way:
“The triumvirs withdrew privately to put together a list of those who were to die. They marked down not only the powerful men they mistrusted, but also their own private foes. In exchange, they surrendered their own relations and friends to each other, both then and later. Extra names were constantly added to the list, some from enmity, others only because they had been a nuisance, or were friends of enemies, or enemies of friends, or were notably wealthy. They needed…a great deal of money for the war…”
Plutarch tells this story, which shows that Octavian respected Cicero:
“A long time afterwards, so I have been told, Octavian [then called Caesar Augustus] was visiting the son of one of his daughters. The boy had a book of Cicero’s in his hands and, terrified of his grandfather, tried to hide it under his cloak. Augustus noticed this and, after taking the book from him, stood there and read a great part of it. He then handed it back to the young man with the words: ‘A learned man, my child, a learned man and a lover of his country.’ And directly after the final defeat of Anthony, when Augustus was consul himself, he chose Cicero’s son to be his colleague.”
Cicero was a whiner and a bickerer in his letters but he was no coward.
Ritesh Ranjan says:
Heartrending!! Reading about the manner of Cicero’s death, the mutilation of his body and the extremely distasteful act of displaying his body parts was mindnumbing. I remember reading in Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, that Antony was the one who wanted to proscribe Cicero the most. It also said that Octavian was opposed to the idea, but later gave in. Is it true? The comparison with Demosthenes is quite interesting. Demosthenes detested Phillip’s tyranny and made volatile speeches against him. However, unlike Demosthenes who almost fainted from fright when he met Phillip and also ran away from battle to save his skin, Cicero faced his death valiantly.
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Why So Many People Are Opting Out Of My Health Records
10 daily Senior News Reporter
"So many risks", IT and privacy advocates say.
My Health opt out period starts July 16
Many people have concerns about privacy and security
Some say they are having issues opting out, with long phone wait times
Privacy experts say the system could be hacked
Your social media feeds might be clogged with people talking about the government's new My Health records system, and their plans to opt out of the controversial framework. You might not know, however, what it's all about and why your friends are so keen to distance themselves from a system the government says will be a great advance to help doctors.
Many people were trying to opt out of the system on Monday, but were experiencing long phone wait times of more than an hour, and some were finding they already had a My Health record they didn't know about.
Doctors will have online access to your health records (Getty Images)
So what's going on? Here's what you need to know.
What is My Health?
My Health is a new database from the Australian Digital Health Agency to keep track of your health information, giving access to medical staff. The idea is your information won't get lost or overlooked if you move between different doctors or medical facilities, with the online records allowing staff to check on allergies, medication, medical conditions and test results.
The ADHA said the records system would also have benefits in emergency situations, such as if someone is found unconscious or cannot tell doctors the information they need.
Every Australian will automatically have a My Health record created for them unless you opt out, with the records to become available to doctors from November 2018. The records will be kept for 30 years after a person's death.
Can you opt out?
Yes, and that's why you might have been hearing a lot about the system recently. Every Aussie will have a My Health record created, but from Monday July 16 until October 15, you can choose to opt out of the system entirely.
You can also control what data is on the system, as well as which people can access it, if you want to have a record but have certain details left off it.
Click here for information on how to opt out.
Why are people opting out?
Many people have reported having concerns with all their sensitive health information -- which could include their mental health, sexually transmitted infections and a HIV status-- available on one central database. Following recent government privacy and tech bungles -- such as the 2016 Census, and Medicare numbers being sold on the dark web -- ordinary citizens, privacy advocates and tech experts have issues with their data being hacked or inappropriately accessed.
"There are so many issues. There are so many risks that, all combined, I'm like 'uhh no'. Simply, the Australian government cannot do computers," IT consultant and Electronic Frontiers Australia board member Justin Warren told ten daily.
"We have seen so many instances where government IT systems fail in predictable ways. The risk of exposure of your health information is so high. It’s very valuable info, cyber criminals will be coming after it and we’re building a dirty great database to put it in one place."
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What other privacy issues are there?
Warren and others also worry about how the health database may be used by not only hackers and criminals, but other government or public departments. Section 70 of the My Health Records Act 2012 said system operators can legally disclose health information if it is "reasonably necessary" to prevent or investigate crimes, or for "the protection of public revenue" -- but little has been detailed about what circumstances that would apply.
Warren also worried about how the health information would be shared with other government departments, raising the example of Centrelink's data-matching program to cross-check welfare claims against other government databases.
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Others have raised fears insurance companies could gain access to the health records, denying coverage or jacking up premiums based on private information. While the government has banned insurers from accessing My Health info, the sector is still pushing for permission and hoping the government will reconsider.
Considering the records are also to be held for decades after a person's death, advocates also fear how policy around access to the information may be changed by future governments.
What are ordinary people saying?
Many are reporting long waiting times on the phone to opt out of the My Health record system and said since they do not have the required documentation -- driver's licence or passport -- then they cannot opt out.
"I'm against anything that allows expansion of police state type powers - there is no goddamn reason law enforcement should be able to access someone's health data for crime prevention or 'revenue protection'," one woman told ten daily.
"This [government] cannot safeguard info. Too many breaches and inept with anything digital. They stuffed the NBN, Centrelink," another woman said.
One man tweeted that he tried to opt out of My Health on Monday, only to find he already had an account and could not delete it. Others have reported similar problems.
How can I opt out of My Health?
From the My Health website:
To opt out of My Health Record, you need to verify your identity.
your Medicare Card, or Department of Veteran’s Affairs (DVA) card, and
one of the following forms of Australian identification:
your driver licence; or
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If you have lost your Medicare card, or don't know your Medicare number, contact Medicare to find out your details.
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08 January 2020 - Official Communication
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) has nominated Finland’s Disc Golf team in the annual World Games Athlete of the Year competition. The award honors an athlete or a team for their outstanding performance in 2019 or for their social commitment or particularly fair behavior. We direct everyone to the following site and voting for “Flying Disc – Team Finland” at https://www.theworldgames.org/awards/Athlete-of-the-Year-2019-70.
Team Finland, one of 25 candidates for the award this year, defeated Germany to win the WFDF World Team Disc Golf Championships in Alutaguse, Estoniain August 2019. The eight-person mixed squad did not lose a match at the championships and this victory catapulted Finland to the top of WFDF’s world Disc Golf country rankings at year end 2019.
WFDF announced today the results of its 2019 elections, with the WFDF member associations voting on several open positions on the Board of Directors.
Kate Bergeron (USA) was re-elected as Treasurer, Brian Gisel (CAN) re-elected as Ultimate Committee Chair, Lori Daniels (USA) elected as Freestyle Committee Chair, and Wolfgang Maehr (SGP) elected as SOTG Committee Chair.
For the continental associations, Nicole Bulos (DOM) was elected President for Pan America and Fumio “Moro” Morooka (JPN) re-elected to represent Asia-Oceania.
Shiellah Quintos was elected as chair of the Events Subcommittee of the Ultimate Committee. All of the above will serve a two year term from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2021.
In addition, Liam Grant (IRL) was appointed by the board to serve out the remaining year of the term of the Chair of the Athletes' Commission.
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The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) ended the decade by bringing together the Ultimate community for the annual International Spirit of the Game Day celebrations. More than 500 activities from at least 34 countries were held across the world on December 7 in honor of Spirit of the Game, a core and guiding element of the sports of Ultimate and Guts.
Participants were encouraged to share their love of Spirit of the Game on social media by posting about their events or sharing artwork on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Submissions came in the form of videos, articles, drawings, and more. More than 20 international vendors partnered with WFDF to offer merchandise as part of the festivities.
“The players, teams and organizations that supported these international activities —and the 21 vendors who supplied prizes this year —understand there’s so much more to Spirit of the Game than simply sportsmanship,” said Travis F. Smith, outgoing chair of the WFDF SOTG Committee. “iSOTG Day is our community’s annual opportunity to explore how Spirit of the Game can be better expressed and improved. Each year I’m blown away seeing how many people care so intensely about Spirit and its central role in disc sport.”
More information can be found on the official website of the event: http://www.spiritofthegameday.org/
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The World Flying Disc Federation is pleased to announce that it has appointed Luke Tobiasiewicz as its IT Administrator in a part-time consultancy. Luke Tobiasiewicz, who had been serving as Chair of the WFDF IT Committee and is of British and Polish nationality, is currently also working as an IT Consultant for the Veritas Foundation (London) and for the St Albans Independent College (UK) as the IT Manager. He will also serve as Competition Director at the WFDF 2020 World Ultimate and Guts Championship in Leeuwarden, Netherlands in July 2020.
Today, on International Spirit of the Game Day, the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) releases its updated list of Spirit of the Game scores by country. This list aggregates scores received by countries attending WFDF world and continental championship events for Ultimate and Beach Ultimate over the past four years (see complete list below).
New to the list in 2019: Costa Rica, Luxembourg, Mozambique and Virgin Islands. Also new is also the Guts division, which introduced spirit scores at the Asia Oceanic Ultimate and Guts Championships. The full data set with 63 countries in alphabetical order in the linked table.
WFDF updates World Ultimate Rankings
25 November 2019 - Official Communication
Update follows WFDF 2019 Pan American Ultimate Championships, EUF 2019 European Youth Ultimate Championships and EUF 2019 European Masters Championships.
The World Flying Disc Federation today released the updated World Ultimate Rankings. These country rankings are based on the finishing positions of teams at the most recent WFDF World and Continental Ultimate events:
International Spirit of the Game Day 2019 is 7th of December
WFDF is gearing up for the 6th annual International Spirit of the Game Day, which will take place on Saturday, 7 December 2019. This year, the day's theme is “Spirit of the Game — It’s Not Just High Fives!” iSOTG Day, organized by the World Flying Disc Federation in partnership with the charitable organization Early Recognition Is Critical (E.R.I.C.), encourages Ultimate communities around the world to celebrate and reflect on Spirit of the Game, a core and unique element of the sport of Ultimate, by hosting events, clinics and activities where players can discuss and demonstrate good spirit.
Anyone (groups or individuals) can participate in iSOTG Day, and they will get the chance to win prizes from dozens of vendors simply by posting a video, photo, article, etc., on the iSOTG Facebook event , on Instagram, or on Twitter with the hashtag #iSOTGDay. Submissions are open between 29 November and 9 December 2019. The winning submissions will be chosen by members of the WFDF Spirit Committee, E.R.I.C., as well as partner representatives.
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The event was hosted at the Sarasota Polo Club in Florida, USA from Sunday 3rd November to Friday 8th November 2019. PAUC featured national and club Ultimate teams in the Men’s, Women’s and Mixed divisions, along with Mixed Masters, Men’s Masters and Men’s Grandmasters divisions. More than 1,360 athletes on 67 teams from 13 countries participated in PAUC.
WFDF seeks bids to host upcoming 2021 and 2022 WFDF Ultimate & Beach Ultimate Championship Events
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) Board of Directors, Ultimate Committee and Beach Committee are seeking bids from potential host organizers for the upcoming 2021 and 2022 WFDF Championship events.
WFDF will select one (1) Tournament Organizing Committee (TOC) per event to host the following Grass Ultimate & Beach Ultimate events:
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WFDF Appoints David Raflo as Interim Beach Ultimate Committee Chair
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[Posted Fri 19 Feb]
The Queen’s - Year 1961
The room erupted. The whole room erupted in hoots and hollers and raucous laughter. For a moment Roland Lebel sat frozen. Then his right arm released the captive. He rose to his feet with a roar. Or a howl. His chair toppled. Chantal toppled, off her chair to her right.
One door tore off its hinges as Lebel stormed through. Now it was that Auguste felt a stab of concern, for Chantal. She had fallen.
[Posted Tue 16 Feb]
Chapter 37 - Year 2011 - BAIT AND SNITCH
“You son of a bitch.” Latimer bulled his way past the outer door. Kennet took a couple of paces backward. The door snapped shut behind Latimer. They were facing off in the driveway, a metre apart. Latimer clenched his hammy fists down near his hips.
“I hear you fight with your feet. You lift one foot off the ground, I’ll ram this down your throat.” He raised his chunky right fist to chest height.
Robert was saying, “We’ve got other units mounting a surveillance. This guy, we’ve been watching him since he stepped off the plane this morning.”
Kennet felt the hairs lift on the back of his neck. There was a shadow on the blond man’s neck, left side. The man’s gaze encompassed the black Chrysler. Kennet zoomed in on the shadow. It was a tattoo. He lowered the glasses and popped the door.
[Posted Tue 9 Feb]
Marchand stepped forward and scooped up the brick. He was wearing latex gloves. “Well,” he said. “This is interesting.” He turned the package over. “And look. The snake brand. This looks like pretty damning evidence.” He looked around the circle. “Anyone see where this came from?”
One of the uniforms pointed to Jacob.
[Posted Fri 5 Feb]
A muffled response from the dinghy.
“Jacob! We got com-pan-y!”
Another black form materialized behind the one in the bow. It had to be the guy with his hand on the steering arm of the invisible outboard.
This time the response was clear: “I know!”
Back in the wall of darkness, a light flashed. Then another. Then another. Jumping around. Sweeping to and fro, up and down.
He became aware of a rumble increasing in intensity. Within two minutes the sound had engulfed him, battering him from all sides. What the hell. He imagined the bedrock of the Precambrian Shield vibrating, and rattling, cracking, and shaking loose. The wavelets that his bow cut through remained unchanged. Then a faint light to the southeast. An aura that grew stronger.
[Posted Fri 29 Jan]
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The man gazed at him, stricken. He shook his head, tightly, as if it might fall off if he moved too quickly.
[Posted Tue 26 Jan]
The logging truck had not been noticeably delayed by climbing the hill. It was forging on, closing the space between them. Soon the gap was only fifty metres. Kennet accelerated to seventy-five klicks an hour. An empty truck had no business heading toward the mill in Terrace. Something was going on. A minute later the truck was twenty metres behind him.
He had explored every corner of the furnace room. There was no tool that could help him. No tool, no implement, no handy written instructions about how to draw a bolt on the far side of a heavy metal door . . . Nothing in his pockets.
The explosion roared again in Kennet’s ears. This time, he saw the leaves fly. The bushes that shrouded the shooter, shaking. Vibrating with the energy of the projectile and the expanding gases and the successive waves of cordite and sulphur. The head exploding. The pink and gray matter smeared on the black finish of the Lexus SUV.
“I arrived in time to interrupt the hammer guy. You remember the hammer guy. He visited you just before we met the first time.” The man’s face blanched. “Yeah. That guy. He’s a fugitive from the Balkan wars. Has solid credentials in torture and murder. I can take you to meet him, if you wish. He runs drugs too.”
“F-- that. You’re not taking me anywhere . . . “
The OPP biker cops had told Marchand that an Angel rarely got busted for breaking the law. They left the dirty work to puppet clubs and low-level criminals. Full-patch Angels provided oversight and connections, national and international. And when the Angels turned their sights on Ontario, the bilingual Chuvalo became the Ontario organizer, using the Monkshoods as the wedge.
[Posted Fri 8 Jan]
“Did you notice anything peculiar when we paddled Jackfish Bay?”
“That was magical, Kennet. Calm seas at dusk. We got lucky. With our short boats, we’d have been surfing if the rollers came in. Peculiar? No. Just that light.”
“Light? What light?”
[Posted Tue 5 Jan]
He walked around to the front of the Hummer and placed the flat of his hand on the hood. Cold. But wait. As he held his hand there, he felt a hint of warmth. He lifted his hand. Hell, he wanted to feel the heat rising from a heavily-worked engine. He brought his hand down again. And again. And again. Soon he was pounding the hood rhythmically. The house door flew open . . .
And the giant’s right hand shot to his belt and extracted a heavy revolver, which he leveled at Kennet’s chest across the bar. From the gun’s distinctive ventilated rib and the full-length underlug, his mind registered it as a Colt Python. It was a showy piece of weaponry, but it could do the job here - six jobs, if necessary - in a short space of time. Kennet raised his hands to shoulder level.
[Posted Tue 29 Dec]
“He isn’t my buddy.” Karl Latimer glared at him through the screen. “And they haven’t won . . . yet. You think my operations are crippled? Not by a long shot.”
“Come outside, Karl. I’m not going to assault you. I just want to talk.”
Karl released a locking mechanism and shoved the door open. His two-hundred-forty-pound bulk stepped onto the driveway. Kennet retreated a couple of steps to allow him personal space.
[Posted Fri 25 Dec]
“Whatever. You said he blindsided you? Lucky you. You’re alive. No bullet for you in the back of the head.”
The man’s voice broke on the last few words. Then, no sound on the receiver, as though the caller had muffled the transmitter with his hand.
Kennet said, “You lost someone.”
No response. Silence.
He added, “In the massacre.”
The Voice returned. “Yeah.”
Marchand’s parting words: “Professor.”
“Trouble . . . Death . . . seems to follow you.”
Kennet shook his head sharply. “Correction, detective. I follow death. I follow. Where it leads.”
In his room, Kennet closed the door, locked it, shut out the murmur that drifted up the stairs.
He looked away and gestured toward the street, lit by yellow sodium vapour. “She died out there.” He made another gesture, as though pushing the thought away from him. “Far away. Out there.”
He brought his eyes back to Kennet. They were sockets of misery. “She wasn’t found for days. And when they notified me, I travelled there. And I brought her. I brought her home.”
“Good.” Kennet groped for words. “That was . . . good.”
“Shit!” This time he raised his voice.
“What?” said the larger man in a hoarse whisper.
“I dropped my gun.”
“I need my gun, Max.” Ralphie turned his back and bent over.
“Ralphie, leave it. The fuzz’re downstairs. Someone’ll be coming back here any second. Leave it.”
The Mariaggi - Year 1961
Some of the guys said she was especially pretty. But their eyes still followed her. He didn’t care what they said, she was pretty. And hardworking. Like a mare he once had, when he was working beyond Chicoutimi.
At one point one of his companions said to her, “Goin’ to the Queen’s tonight, honey?” She smiled at him, and ducked her head.
[Posted Tue 8 Dec]
Chapter 18 - Year 2011 - GONE FISHING
He lay there a moment, nose smarting. I have to stop doing that, he thought. He felt prickling sensations on his back. He rolled over. The floor was wet. It was a warm wetness. Tell me I didn’t, he thought. He clutched his crotch. Dry.
[Posted Fri 4 Dec]
Power coursed through Kennet’s arms, and he sensed that if he continued, he would shake the man’s head clean off, and some warning was triggered in his brain that compelled him to release his grip and he threw his arms up and he brought his elbows and forearms up to his face and he squeezed his head between them, squeezed hard, and he heard a moan, a moan that built in intensity.
“’M home now,” he said. “Go now. Go now.” He craned his neck to look at Kennet. “Get out,” he said, without emphasis. He grasped the door knob with his left hand and the door with is other and wrenched himself around to face Kennet.
“Get out ‘fore I call the cops,” he said.
[Posted Fri 27 Nov]
“I’m sorry,” said Kennet, “for your friend.”
“Not a close friend. But I knew him. And I regret . . . you found him. It must have been hard . . . on you.”
“In my former job, I found a lot of bodies.” Kennet took a breath. “I confess . . . after a while . . . I grew insensitive to bodies. I had to cope, somehow. Then came a time when . . . I recovered my sensitivity. And I became less effective . . . at that job. Now I teach.
[Posted Tue 24 Nov]
Gaspar shrugged. “He never asked. He asked me about Larry. And for a while there, I thought I was in trouble. I . . . I didn’t mention about Moe and Curly and Shem. Am I in trouble now?”
“Not with me. Did anyone ever call Moe or Curly or Shem?”
“Just for Curly. Just a few minutes ago, as a matter of fact.”
“First I head of it,” said Kennet. “Any details?”
“He was trucking,” said Dom.
“Before he died,” said Dee.
“You knew him?” asked Kennet.
“No name given,” said Dom. “But he drove for Mercier Trucking. So we’ll know before the clock strikes noon.”
“Our clock never strikes,” said Dee.
“True,” said Dom. “It’s a non-union clock.”
[Kennet] “An older gray Hyundai wouldn’t draw much attention in these parts. I’ve seen a lot of older gray cars, in a variety of colours.”
“Yes . . . nondescript.”
“Someone was paying above market price for a nondescript car, one that wouldn’t draw attention.”
Marchand said, “Yes. And we would not be stopping a car in good condition . . . “
Chapter11 - Year 2011 - GONE FISHING
Marchand said, “You walk like an old man. You hurt?”
Kennet sank gratefully into the cushions, tissue balled up in his fist. “Yes. But I have a cure. I have a lead in the case. How would you like to make the drug bust of your career?”
Marchand pulled up a padded chair and sat down. “Okay. I forgive you. Tell me about it.”
Chapter 10- Year 2011 - GONE FISHING
[Kennet] “I want to know about the local drug scene.”
Karl threw back his head and laughed. “You’ve come to the right place. I’m the authority on that. And what is your interest, exactly?”
“I teach at the university.,”
“Really. And here I am, thinking you’re a law enforcement officer, an undercover.”
[Posted Fri 6 Nov]
Chapter 9 - Year 2011 - GONE FISHING
Kennet flipped the phone shut. Well, that clarified matters. He wouldn’t be talking to Jillian [Detachment Commander] tonight, or to Detective Marchand. They’d be off duty, and besides, he had no idea how to contact them after hours. The detachment office opened at seven in the morning. Till then he was free to - he was obliged to - follow his instincts.
[Posted Tue 3 Nov]
Their talk drifted to other subjects, to Geraldton’s early days, to Kennet’s father, his role as superintendent for Neenah-Clark Canada Ltd., with an office in Longlac. How unusual it was for a Neenah-Clark manager to make his home in Geraldton, twenty-five miles away . . .
“Your father was thinking of you,” said Andrija.
“Of you and your little brother.”
[Posted Fri 30 Oct]
“Marcus, listen. These guys are criminals. They have guns.”
“Guns? Hey! What really happened out there?”
“Just be careful. Follow my lead.”
Kennet walked cautiously, kayak on his shoulder. The clearing, apparently an old gravel pit, featured some large boulder piles and clumps of brush. When he heard a vehicle approaching, he crouched behind some brush, lowering the kayak, and checking that Marcus followed suit. Through the leaves he saw a red pickup dash past, heading south. He didn’t recognize the make of the truck.
“That’s them,” he whispered.
[Posted Tue 27 Oct]
Squatting beside the kayak, Kennet pulled the daypack from a hatch and extracted binoculars and a camera. He slipped the compact camera into one shirt pocket, tucked the GPS into another, and hung the glasses from his neck. He then pulled out a newspaper.
“What the hell’re you doing?”
“Might find some time for reading.”
“The hell you will.”
“Well, you will. I just need this.” Kennet slipped off the front-and-rear-page sheet and handed Marcus the remainder.
Kennet removed his brightly coloured PFD, dropped it into the boat, and stuffed the folded sheet into his shirt. He then saluted the glowering Marcus and stepped into the tangle of alders and black spruce.
Kennet pulled out the used envelope and passed it over. It was addressed to Occupant.
Robert opened the flap, looked inside, and whistled soundlessly.
“Okay. Should I arrest you now?”
“It’s evidence. From my informant. This is where I need your advice.”
“The crime unit has to investigate. They have to talk to your informant.”
Kennet looked steadily at Robert, lips pursed.
After twenty seconds, Robert said, “Then you have to show them where this plantation is.”
“I don’t know where it is . . . exactly . . .”
“Sure,” said Camo. “Just wanted to warn you of the dangers.” He now displayed a lopsided grin between sentences.
“Explain, please.”
Blondie had extracted a crossbow from the box. He sat himself on the tailgate and began fiddling with the mechanism.
Camo said, “Washouts. Windfalls. You could get bunged up. Your nice paint job could get all scratched up . . . Tough to explain to the insurance . . . after you been warned.”
“Looks like you’re hunting.”
“Could be. Could be bear . . . moose . . . alligator . . . “
In the early days, timber company managers such as foremen and superintendents resorted to this artifice to eliminate folds in a map sheet, folds that would soon weaken and tear with repetitive folding and unfolding. That made it an old map. The frayed edges and old stains confirmed it was a really old map. But the leaves were fresh. The leaves of cannabis.
The man’s left hand was bloody. Blood had welled from the wound but it was no longer flowing. It was coagulating in the area of his solar plexus. A ray of orangey sunlight had penetrated the screen of trees and traversed the man’s right shoulder and chest and stomach and highlighted the wound.
A weird though flickered through Kennet’s mind: the sun’s sucking up his life . . .
[Posted Fri 9 Oct]
There had been one curious incident. As they had launched the canoe upstream from the falls, Marcus had snatched up a piece of flotsam.
“What the hell is this?” He held up a transparent plastic pouch, empty, its jagged opening explaining the lack of contents. “Garbage! Goddamn it. I’d like to catch the litterbug!”
“How the hell do I know? Kool-Aid, maybe. Pancake mix. Milk powder.” He scrunched up the bag and stuffed it in his daypack.
[Posted Thu 8 Oct]
Year 1961 - CAMP 58
The huge orange Timberjack was on the point of toppling down the hill. The machine had been climbing the hill when it had tilted dangerously. One front wheel rested on a boulder. Marc had hit the emergency stop. Immediately the air intake had closed. The fuel feed had shut down. If the machine had toppled, Marc would have survived in the metal cab, but only if the spurting fuel had not exploded into flame when it hit the red-hot engine parts.
“That thing,” said Marc, “it try to kill me again.”
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Becoming Her: A Diva’s Tribute
Nicole Vanessa Ortiz (Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Spamilton), returns to Feinstein’s/54 Below with a follow up sequel to her solo concert debut in 2019 Becoming Her: A Diva’s Tribute!
Since she was a child, female vocalists have inspired Nicole to use her gifts as an artist on stage. She landed on “American Idol” as a finalist, won the grand prize on “The Wendy Williams Show” singing competition, and made such an impression singing on BET’s “Apollo Live” that Gladys Knight personally invited her on tour!
After an exciting year of debut performances in roles like Rusty from Footloose at The Kennedy Center and a viral performance of “Your Daddy’s Son” as Sarah in Ragtime at The Serenbe Playhouse, Nicole is overjoyed to be back in NY with a whole new lineup of classic hits that will celebrate women in music whose iconic anthems have shaped the way we experience love, heartache, and triumph.
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Proposal kicks off Phillies Opening Day at Citizens Bank Park
By Maggie Kent
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- America's game and the excitement it comes with it, is back at Citizens Bank Park.
This team has a lineup fans can be proud of.
"It's exciting just seeing all the players, all the superstars, with each other on one team. Andrew McCutchen, Bryce Harper to see them all play together with Realmuto back there is going to be great," says Liam Livewell of West Deptford.
It's a game that brings memories of triumph and heartbreak. Memories of childhood bonding moments.
Speaking of memories, wedding bells will soon be ringing for Emily and Ryan after a proposal in front of the Veterans Stadium Liberty Bell.
Phillies fans have high hopes after big season opener. Annie McCormick has more on Action News at 11 p.m. on March 28, 2019.
Action News asked Ryan, why opening day? "She's a huge fan and it just felt right," he said.
Emily's answer was "Yes and go Phillies!"
Today marks Kim Sparks' 48th home opener.
"It's baseball. If you're not a fan, you don't understand. It gets in your blood. This is my holiday, opening day" said Sparks.
Lillie Hanna has been cheering on the Phillies for 46 home opener games.
"Even when I was working I would take a personal day to come and my children when they were little they would come to the vet," said Hanna.
In the stands, there's no shortage of Bryce Harper jerseys. Kylie O'Connor has been following the 26-year-old baseball phenom for years.
"I started to like Bryce so I had to get a Bryce Jersey from Washington D.C. But today I bought a number 3, Phillies jersey and I'm making the switch," O'Connor said.
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Frock-coats and drama kings
Filed under: Actors, awards, channel 4, Cinema, drama, dublin, films, gigs, ireland, Jews, literature, musings, novels, public service media, radio, Reflections, writing | Tags: boy A, carlingford, ciara knightley, clive owen, county down, cranford, darcy, david morrissey, donegal, hogfather, jason isaacs, joe wright, louth, mark kermode, matthew macfadyen, pride and prejudice, radio 5, rowan joffe, rte, rts, secret life, steptoe, terry pratchett, tom robinson band
Sitting here in Carlingford, County Louth on a quiet evening in charge of sleeping children above, with my other half out with some of her dozens of cousins on the other side of Carlingford Lough in Rostrevor, County Down, with some godawful pseudo-american chatshow on RTE1 (Tubirdy Tonight – the name captures the height of shite it represents – a charmless, dull host behind a reproduction antique desk on the other side of which sits a fake nobody guest (the renowned Deirdre O’Kane?) with a D4 tango tan behind which are wooden window panes giving on to a fake cityscape unlike any part of Dublin I’ve ever seen, a lifeless photo devoid of dynamism or truth) and some two-bit boxing match on RTE2 with a ringside commentator with huge arched eyebrows and a forehead like the Mekon – jaysis, we’re blessed with our public service broadcasting back in Blighty, Ireland has much to offer the world but telly isn’t among its riches – I flick to a movie on Ulster TV, Joe Wright’s recent iteration of Pride and Prejudice with Ikea Knightley, as Mark Kermode (who popped up earlier this evening on the Culture Show) calls her on his weekly movie review show on Radio 5 with Simon Mayo. (How’s that, heavenly muse, for a Miltonian sentence?)
From this movie, which has somehow lost its appeal on a second, small-screen viewing, I drift off to an altogether more engaging gathering than the one before me with the dreadful Mr Collins showing off his lightness of foot. The other night I had the pleasure of meeting Mr Darcy himself, Matthew Macfadyen, and his charming wife Keeley Hawes (Cock and Bull Story, Ashes to Ashes, Spooks, The Bank Job) at the RTS Production Awards where he very deservingly won the best actor award for the excellent Secret Life in which he portrays a recently released paedophile striving for rehabilitation. This Channel 4 commission, written and (first-time) directed by Rowan Joffe (28 Weeks Later, Gas Attack), culminates in an astonishing scene in a fairground where the struggling ex-con brings his handsome Darcy-like features and non-Darcy-like charm to bear on an underage girl. Will he or won’t he? It’s painfully impossible to call.
I watched the drama as one of the twenty hours I went through as a judge in the Scriptwriter – Drama category in the company of the likes of Simon Cellan Jones (Cracker, The Trial of Tony Blair) and Kudos’ Derek Wax (Sex Traffic). For me it was the best film, alongside Mark O’Rowe’s Boy A, but the BBC’s adapted screenplay for Mrs Gaskell’s Cranford eventually won the category. Brilliantly crafted of course and a wonderful cast to deliver the lines with the greatest of expertise – but not brave in the Channel 4 way of Secret Life and Boy A. Too much Pride and Prejudice, too little Shameless for me.
I’d been introduced to the self-effacing (for such a tall man) Matthew Macfadyen by Jason Isaacs, who I hadn’t seen for some twenty years. On occasion we traveled together to school on the bus when he was a big boy and I an insignificant underling. I remember him being warm and open – most bigger boys just ignored you at best. He remembered himself as being unpleasant at that age and “driven by fear”. Mark Kermode – who says hallo to Jason Isaacs and David Morrissey every week on the aforementioned review programme – recalls Jason (who was in the same year as him) as very cool and collected. Jason recalls Mark as the cool one to be looked up to with his quiff and rockabilly persona. Which all goes to show the gulf between our perception of ourselves and how we actually come across to others, as well as the role self-confidence and fear plays in our formative years and beyond. Darcy has just walked out suddenly on a confused Elizabeth for just such reasons.
It was lovely catching up with Jason after so long, last time we met he was still in Capital City with Clive Owen et al. [Correction – see comment below: Make that Douglas Hodge – Clive Owen was in Chancer which aired the same year with Peter Vaughan and Leslie Phillips, written by Tony Grounds.] Since then he’s been to Hollywood (Mel Gibson’s The Patriot, Armageddon, Harry Potter, etc.) and back (to be able to raise his daughters properly) and the night of the RTS was playing Harry H Corbett in The Curse of Steptoe and Son on BBC4 to enthusiastic reviews. We chatted about the urban myth that was the Edgware Walker (as brought to the screen by the maverick Lee Kern), about mutual schoolmates including the legendary Laurence Gould, broader than he was tall, famous for launching two skinheads down the stairs at Stanmore Station, and that was another subject of conversation, the neo-nazi violence of the mid-70s which Jason recalls much more vividly than I can. My first gig was the Tom Robinson Band at the Hammersmith Odeon – TRB introduced me to Anti-Nazi League activism, as well as the notion of gay rights – but it was all a bit theoretical for me. It seems like the couple of years age gap between us made it all much more real for Jason. He also spoke insightfully about his own craft. Producer Vadim Jean (Leon the Pig Farmer, Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather) joined us for that bit of the convo – he held up Gene Hackman as one of the most consistently excellent screen actors. Watching Donald Sutherland as Mr Bennett does make you think about consistency – the man from Mash and Klute is also the winner of the all-time worst accent award for his role in Goldcrest’s disasterous Revolution. But in the end it’s all just make-believe. Jason’s older brother, a doctor, it turns out saved a man’s life by performing an emergency tracheotomy (with a biro!) on a plane heading to North Africa. In the light of that, Lydia running off with the perfidious Wickham seems to pale into insignificance.
A few years ago I was filming in Northern Ireland with Eddie McCaffery of Joose TV (then Emerald Productions) and Roddy Gibson (now a TV specialist course director at Middlesex Uni). We had a break from filming and headed up to Horn Head in Donegal. Whilst walking out on the bog of the headland we came across an older man collapsed with blood coming from his mouth, his distraught sister kneeling at his side. The three of us had recently spent weeks in an edit suite cutting a scene involving first aid and so were quite up on our life-saving. We did all the right stuff, got blood all over Roddy’s new jacket which served to cushion the old fella’s head, ended up carrying the prone body (surprisingly heavy) by stretcher back up off the bog to the ambulance which took him to Letterkenny hospital. We never heard a word from the man or his sister. Jason’s brother was given an airline voucher for £30 for his trouble. Elizabeth Bennett may be struggling a bit with her values here but those are both seriously out of whack. Jason’s brother was, however, invited to his emergency patient’s subsequent wedding where he came to see for himself what the act meant to the young man’s parents. Lady Catherine de Burgh (Judi Dench, who also featured in Cranford) has just been shown the door by the feisty Elizabeth, a frock-coated Matthew Macfadyen is striding through the mist, so wedding bells are just around the corner now as things trundle to their happy ending.
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Consumer Spotlight: Streaming Services in Canada
November 28, 2019| Blog, Millennials, News, Polls
By Megan Ross With the recent launch of both Disney+ and Apple TV Plus, the streaming wars are heating up. The market is saturated with all your favourite tv shows and movies accessible at the click of your mouse. It begs the question of whether there is enough room in the market or money in
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Majority support merging school systems in Ontario
November 28, 2019| News, Polls
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Abacus Data welcomes Megan Ross to the team as a new Senior Analyst
November 21, 2019| News
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Does Alberta want in or out and how does the rest of the country feel?
November 19, 2019| News, Politics, Polls
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Andrew Scheer or Who?
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What about the millennials and #elxn43?
October 20, 2019| News, Politics, Polls
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Election Poll: NDP and BQ rise as Liberals and Conservatives remain deadlocked
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Election Poll: Singh impresses at debate while Trudeau and Scheer break even
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About LISTEN TO ME:
In New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Proby’s brand new series, five best friends open a hot new restaurant, but one of them gets much more than she bargained for when a sexy former rock star walks through the doors—and into her heart.
Seduction is quickly becoming the hottest new restaurant in Portland, and Addison Wade is proud to claim 1/5 of the credit. She’s determined to make it a success and can’t think of a better way to bring in new customers than live music. But when former rock star Jake Keller swaggers through the doors to apply for the weekend gig, she knows she’s in trouble. Addie instantly recognizes him—his posters were plastered all over her bedroom walls in high school—he’s all bad boy…exactly her type and exactly what she doesn’t need.
Jake Keller walked away from the limelight five years ago and yearns to return to what’s always driven him: the music. If he gets to work for a smart-mouthed, funny-as-hell bombshell, all the better. But talking Addie into giving him the job is far easier than persuading her that he wants more than a romp in her bed. Just when she begins to drop her walls, Jake’s past finally catches up with him.
Will Addie be torn apart once again or will Jake be able to convince her to drown out her doubts and listen to her heart?
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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Kristen Proby is the author of the popular With Me in Seattle series. She has a passion for a good love story and strong characters who love humor and have a strong sense of loyalty and family. Her men are the alpha type—fiercely protective and a bit bossy—and her ladies are fun, strong, and not afraid to stand up for themselves. Kristen spends her days with her muse in the Pacific Northwest. She enjoys coffee, chocolate, and sunshine. And naps. Visit her at KristenProby.com.
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In the last 25 years AFDA students and alumni excellence, talent and craftsmanship has been recognised at entertainment industry award ceremonies both locally and abroad.
In 2006 the AFDA honours graduation film, “Elalini”, directed by Tristan Holmes won the Student Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Foreign Language Student Film - the holy grail of film awards.
Moving back home, since the introduction of the South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTA’s) in 2006, AFDA students have won the Best Student Film award on 8 occasions. Our alumni and staff have picked up over 80 SAFTA Golden Horn awards and over 200 award nominations in all the different categories, fields and disciplines up for grabs at the SAFTA’s.
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2019-20 UEFA Champions League, Group Stage
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Barcelona held to frustrating scoreless draw by Slavia Prague
Barcelona's patchy form continued as they were unable to break down a diligent and bold Slavia Prague side at home and were held to a 0-0 draw in the Champions League on Tuesday.
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With Luis Suarez injured, Barca lacked a cutting edge in attack and visiting goalkeeper Ondrej Kolar produced an admirable display to shut out the Catalans, thwarting Lionel Messi and Sergi Roberto from close range in the second half.
Messi also struck a post in the first half and Barca later had an effort by Arturo Vidal ruled out for offside against the Argentine.
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Messi 6/10, Griezmann 5/10 as Barca are held goalless by Slavia Prague
Pique pleads patience as Barca booed off pitch
"We had chances to score but the ball wouldn't go in," Barca defender Gerard Pique said. " Results aren't going our way in these last two games, and when you go two games without winning at Barca the fans expect more because expectations are so high.
"It's difficult to say right now but there have been times when we've not looked good in the past and we've ended up winning trophies. With Luis Enrique it looked like things weren't working for the first six months and then we won the Treble.
"I would ask for a little patience. I know the fans want more, we understand that, but we're working hard to find the solutions. Not so much in terms of results, but in terms of how we're playing."
Lionel Messi and Barcelona failed to score against Slavia Prague. Getty
Barca lead the group on eight points after four games, while Slavia are bottom with two.
The Czechs, who were unfortunate to lose 2-1 at home to Barca two weeks ago, made a bright start and nearly took an early lead with a heavily deflected shot which was repelled by the Catalans' goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen.
They did manage to find the net at the end of the first half but the goal was disallowed for a clear offside.
The visitors had bright spells in the second half although they did not manage to test Ter Stegen further, and angry boos and whistles rang out around the Camp Nou at full-time.
"It's a difficult moment for us but the fans have the right to express how they feel and it's up to us to deal with it," said Barca defender Clement Lenglet.
"We knew Slavia were a dangerous opponent who had quality and we were not taken by surprise by them. We suffered at various stages of the game.
"We don't have any time to sit around and get worried, we have to keep working and play every three days. We're going to turn this around."
There was more bad news for Barca after the game, with the club revealing first-choice left back Jordi Alba had injured his hamstring.
The club's statement did not say how long the Spaniard would be out for but Spanish media reports said he could be missing for three weeks.
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Tag: microscopy
Observed doctors and medical students as they learn about the workings of the clinical microbiology lab, I’m impressed by their love of the India ink test for cryptococcus. The way this test works is: Cryptococcus is a type of infectious yeast that looks a lot like Candida if you just do a gram stain. But it has a polysaccharide capsule around each cell (unless for some odd reason it isn’t producing a capsule), wider than the cell itself. So if you put Cryptococcus in a colored liquid, most famously a solution of India ink, the polysaccharide capsule shows up as a huge empty white area around the cell. Whereas with Candida, only the cell itself is white.
We apparently don’t use this test regularly anymore, but we still show it to people in case they need to know what it is.
Something about the India ink test just makes people happy. A lot of diagnostic microbiology uses techniques that were developed several generations ago, but this one is just so simple, requiring not “acid alcohol” or various toxic red and purple substances, but merely the simplest form of ink, developed millennia ago. And to use the phrase “India ink”, instead of “colloidal carbon” or something, is such an anachronism in the 21st century. Most of us last saw that phrase when reading some classic of literature like The Secret Garden or A Bear Called Paddington. And aside from the name, there’s something magical about seeing this invisible capsule appear around what seemed to be a normal yeast cell. Like lemon-juice ink made visible.
So here are some depictions of India-ink-stained Cryptococcus in the literature. First, camera lucida drawings from a 1935 JID paper by Rhoda W. Benham (Cryptococci — their identification by morphology and serology) that must have been a handy field guide to Cryptococcus species. The top right corners of the dishes are shaded to show how they look under India ink.
Now, some photos of patient tissues directly stained with India ink.
From Wilson HM, Duryea AW (1951), Cryptococcus meningitus (Torulosis) treated with a new antibiotic, actidione®. Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry 66(4):470-480.
From Carnecchia BM, Kurtzke JM (1960), Fatal toxic reaction to amphotericin B in cryptococcal meningo-encephalitis. Annals of Internal Medicine 53(5):1027-1036.
From Schupbach CJ, Wheeler CE Jr, Briggaman RA, Warner NA, Kanof EP (1976), Cutaneous manifestations of disseminated Cryptococcosis. Archives of Dermatology 112(12):1734-1740. Note “Tzanck preparation”, looking for multinucleated giant cells.
From Love GL, Boyd GD, Greer DL (1985), Large Cryptococcus neoformans isolated from brain abscess. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 22(6):1068-1070.
From Bottone EJ, Kirschner PA, Salkin IF (1986), Isolation of highly encapsulated Cryptococcus neoformans serotype B from a patient in New York City. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 23(1):186-188.
And some images of cells grown in culture. Ending with one in color!
From Neill JM, Abrahams I, Kapros CE (1950), A comparison of the immunogenicity of weakly encapsulated and of strongly encapsulated strains of Cryptococcus neoformans (Torula histolytica). Journal of Bacteriology 59(2):263-275.
From Littman ML, Tsubura E (1959), Effect of degree of encapsulation upon virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology & Medicine 101:773-777.
From Bulmer GS, Sans MD, Gunn DM (1967), Cryptococcus neoformans I: Nonencapsulated mutants. Journal of Bacteriology 94(5):1475-1479.
From Dykstra MA, Friedman L, Murphy JW (1977), Capsule size of Cryptococcus neoformans: Control and relationship to virulence. Infection & Immunity 16(1):129-135.
From Chang YC, Kwon-Chung KJ (1994), Complementation of a capsule-deficient mutation of Cryptococcus neoformans restores its virulence. Molecular & Cellular Biology 14(7):4912-4919.
From Doering TL (2000), How does Cryptococcus get its coat? Trends in Microbiology 8(12):547-553.
From Zaragoza O, Casadevall A (2004), Experimental modulation of capsule size in Cryptococcus neoformans. Biological Procedures Online 6(10):10-15.
From Zerpa R, Huicho L, Guillén A (1996), Modified India ink preparation for Cryptococcus neoformans in cerebrospinal fluid specimens. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 34(9):2290-2291.
And a bonus: High-tech 3-dimensional visualization! These are 40 focal “slices” of a single cell. From Zaragoza O, McClelland EE, Telzak A, Casadevall A (2006), Equatorial ring-like channels in the Cryptococcus neoformans polysaccharide capsule.
Pubmedwhack: Immuno-DTO
Today’s Pubmedwhack comes from the world of unstable metals and electron microscopy. For the definition of “Pubmedwhack”, see this earlier post.
Following the invention of immunofluorescence, scientists developed other methods for using labeled antibodies to identify certain proteins or substances under a microscope.
There’s immunohistochemistry (IHC), in which the antibodies are labeled not with a fluorescent marker, but with an enzyme which produces a visible reaction in the presence of a substrate. This is less precise, but lets you see your protein of choice under visible light while also looking at the structure of the tissue. The slides labeled this way last longer instead of being quenched by the microscope’s light source.
You can also use labeled antibodies to see things under the electron microscope (immuno-electron microscopy or immuno-EM). In 1960 Rifkin et al. (1) published an image of virus particles on a cell surface, labeled with ferritin-conjugated antibodies. As you can see, instead of the labeled antibodies changing the color of a region of the cell, each individual labeled antibody is visible as a “granule”.
from Rifkin et al (1960), Nature 187:1094
This was made possible by an innovation published one year earlier, entitled Preparation of an electron-dense antibody conjugate (2). Ferritin is a small protein which just about all organisms use as an iron carrier. When “iron-loaded”, almost a quarter of its mass is iron atoms. Therefore this is an especially electron-dense molecule, visible as a dark spot under the electron microscope, as seen above. Soon, further advances let scientists see ferritin-labeled structures inside cells.
For about a decade ferritin was the label of choice for immuno-electron microscopy. Then in 1971, a new technique came along (3, 4), in which antibodies were mixed with a solution of colloidal gold until they absorbed to the metal’s surface. Gold-labeled antibodies could be separated from free antibodies by centrifugation. Immunogold is still the dominant immuno-EM staining method 40 years later.
from Faulk et al (1971), Nature New Biology 231:101
In the 1960s, other techniques were created for immuno-EM. I have almost no EM experience and don’t know the pros and cons, but clearly there was a desire to get rid of the protein element of the electron-dense antibody label, and just attach the antibody to a metal ion. The protein was unnecessarily big, and subject to denaturation. So the 1960s also saw a lot of papers using antibodies labeled with mercury (technically the diazonium salt of tetraacetoxymercuriarsanilic acid (5) and p-(aminophenyl)-mercuric acetate (6), phrases which mean little to me).
from Zhdanov et al (1965), J Histochem Cytochem 13:684
There were also studies using antibodies labeled with heavier metals. In his long career, Ludwig Sternberger and his lab (at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere) invented several microscopy techniques, with the most important probably being the horseradish peroxidase (see original paper (7), and appreciation of it as a “citation classic”).
He also spent much of the 1960s devising improved metal-based antibody labels for electron microscopy, including immunouranium (8), immunouranium with added osmium for enhanced contrast (9), and finally immuno-diazothioether-osmium tetroxide (10), or immuno-DTO. The uranium methods seem somewhat useful, but as far as I can tell were only used by Sternberger’s own lab. Immuno-DTO in particular seemed almost unusable; they used it more than once, but a Pubmed search for “Immuno-DTO” only returns one result (11). As Sternberger himself says in a review (12) of his and other techniques:
Unfortunately, the diazotized diazothioethers are not very stable even at Dry Ice temperatures and the solid deteriorates in a few days. Therefore, it was not surprising to observe that the osmnium tetroxide-binding iower of diazothioether antibodies was unstable, even on storage in liquid nitrogen.
Oh well, it was a nice idea.
1. Rifkind RA, Hsu KC, Morgan C, Seegal BC, Knox AW, Rose HM (1960). Use of Ferritin-Conjugated Antibody to Localize Antigen by Electron Microscopy. Nature 187:1094-1095.
2. Singer SJ (1959). Preparation of an Electron-dense Antibody Conjugate. Nature 183:1523-1524.
3.Faulk WP, Taylor GM (1971). An Immunocolloid Method for the Electron Microscopy. Immunochemistry 8(11):1081-1083.
4. Faulk WP, Vyas GN, Phillips CA, Fudenberg HH, Chism K (1971). Passive Haemagglutination Test for Anti-rhinovirus Antibodies. Nature New Biology 231:101-104.
5. Pepe FA (1961). The Use of Specific Antibody in Electron Microscopy: I: Preparation of Mercury-Labeled Antibody. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 11(3):515-520.
6. Zhdanov VM, Azadova NB, Kulberg AY (1965). The Use of Antibody Labeled with an Organic Mercury Compound in Electron Microscopy. J Histochem Cytochem 13(8):694-687.
7. Sternberger LA, Hardy PH Jr, Cuculis JJ, Meyer HG (1970). The Unlabeled Antibody Enzyme Method of Immunohistochemistry: Preparation and Properties of Soluble Antigen-Antibody Complex (Horseradish Peroxidase-Antihorseradish Peroxidase) and its Use in Identification of Spirochetes. J Histochem Cytochem 18(5):315-333.
8. Donati EJ, Figge FHJ, Sternberger LA (1965). Staining of Vaccinia Antigen by Immunouranium Technique. Exp Mol Pathol 4(1):126-129.
9. Sternberger LA, Hanker JS, Donati EJ, Petrali JP, Seligman AM (1966). Method for Enhancement of Electron Microscopic Visualization of Embedded Antigen by Bridging Osmium to Uranium Antibody with Thiocarbohydrazide. J Histochem Cytochem 14(10):711-718.
10. Donati EJ, Petrali JP, Sternberger LA (1966). Formation of Vaccinia Antigen Studied by Immunouranium and Immuno-diaxothioether-osmium tetroxide Techniques. Exp Mol Pathol Apr:Suppl 3:59-74.
11. Sternberger LA, Donati EJ, Hanker JS, Seligman AM (1966). Immuno-diazothioether-osmium tetroxide (immuno-DTO) technique for staining embedded antigen in electron microscopy. Exp Mol Pathol Apr:Suppl 3:36-43.
12. Sternberger LA (1967). Electron Microscopic Immunocytochemistry: A Review. J Histochem Cytochem 15(3):139-159.
Gallery: Early immunofluorescence
How did immunofluorescence begin? Who was the first scientist to use fluorescently labeled antibodies to stain cells under a microscope?
The answer to this is pretty clear. Albert Coons of Harvard Medical School, in two papers from 1942 and 1950. In this 1962 speech (published in JAMA) Wesley Spink of the University of Minnesota describes Coons’s accomplishments.
The first time fluorescent molecules were attached to antibodies was in the early 1930s, as described in a brief letter to Nature by John Marrack (1934). But at this point the antibodies are being used in suspension, for serological experiments similar to those that detect bacteria by agglutination. In this case the bacteria can be measured colorimetrically by mixing them with fluorescently labeled antibody, washing off nonspecific antibodies, and seeing if the bacteria turn pink.
In fact, here’s the entire article.
In The Demonstration of Pneumococcal Antigen in Tissues by Means of Fluorescent Antibody (1942), Coons and associates showed that fluorescein isocyanate (FIC) could be attached to antibodies and used to stain thin tissue sections on slides, in the same way many histological stains had been used in the past. Rabbits were immunized with pneumococcus, and their serum was conjugated with FIC. This was used to visualize the bacteria in the liver of a mouse with severe pneumococcus infection. The first immunofluorescence image ever published, I believe, was this 20-minute (!) exposure.
But the fluorescent antibody technique didn’t take off until Coons and Kaplan published the sequel eight years later. I can’t find any papers from the 1940s that cite the Coons paper and actually include fluorescent images of their own.
The pivotal 1950 paper is entitled Localization of Antigen in Tissue Cells: II: Improvements in a Method for the Detection of Antigen by Means of Fluorescent Antibody. Kind of like Rambo III, the numbering of this title is odd because there was no Localization of Antigen in Tissue Cells Part I. Instead, it’s explained that “the first paper in this series was entitled ‘The Demonstration of Pneumococcal Antigen in Tissues by Means of Fluorescent Antibody'”, meaning that this is a sequel 8 years in the making.
And what a sequel! Over 2,100 citations, according to Google Scholar’s notoriously inflated algorithm. Meanwhile PubMed’s claim of 301 is a clear underestimate. It was cited a lot.
Suddenly everyone was able to use fluorescent antibodies to find out where their antigen of choice was located inside the cell, or inside the tissue, or inside the animal. Especially after 1958 when Riggs and colleagues at the University of Kansas showed how to make FITC (fluorescein isothiocyanate) conjugates, which are more stable than FIC and don’t require phosgene for their chemical synthesis. Using thiophosgene is no picnic either, but apparently it’s less deadly.
Just as early issues of the Journal of Virology are filled with papers that show “The Ultrastructure of [Name of virus]” by taking random pictures of it with an electron microscope, it seems like it was easy to get a microscopy paper published in the early 1960s. You injected rabbits with a substance, labeled their serum with fluorescein, stained some slides, and put together a manuscript called “Demonstration of [Name of substance] in [Name of tissue] by the Fluorescent Antibody Technique”.
I decided to look through some papers that cite Coons and Kaplan (1950), to find examples of early immunofluorescence. Here are a dozen images, all from at least fifty years ago.
(2) Chicken muscle fiber, stained with rabbit globulin specific for myosin (0.5 microns, 1000x). (3) A “dark medium phase contrast” image of the same slide for comparison. (Finck et al., J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1956)
(3) Cottontail rabbit papilloma, stained with rabbit serum specific for Shope papilloma virus and goat anti-rabbit (75x). (4) An H&E stain of the same slide, to show that the virus antigens are in the keratinized region. (Mellors, Cancer Res 1960)
Embryonic chicken fibroblast infected for 10 hours with the Rostock strain of fowl plague virus (now known to be influenza A virus H7N1), stained with rabbit serum specific for “g antigen” (now called NP) (950x). The same cell stained by Giemsa-Wright stain, to show the nucleus. (Breitenfeld and Schäfer, Virology 1957)
Rat eye (lens and iris), stained with rabbit globulin specific for rat glomerulus (190x). Another section of the same eye stained with non-specific rabbit globulin. This is an example of the papers that used specific antiserum to find common antigens in seemingly unrelated tissues, in this case kidney and eye. (Roberts, Br J Ophthalmol 1957)
Human tissues, stained with human serum specific for blood group A or B. Yes, human serum. A volunteer of blood group A was used to get the serum against blood group B, and vice versa. (Szulman, J Exp Med 1960)
Group B streptococci, stained with rabbit globulin specific for group B streptococci (magnification unspecified). This paper’s total lack of negative controls is charmingly naive. (Moody et al., J Bacteriol 1958)
(5) Amoebae frozen during pinocytosis, with free fluorescent antibody (non-specific rabbit globulin) visible in pinocytosis vacuoles (2000x). (6) Phase-contrast view of another section of the same amoeba. (Brandt, Exp Cell Res 1958)
Mononuclear cells from nasal smears of ferrets infected with influenza (PR8 strain), stained with rabbit globulin specific for influenza virus (560x). Cells display a range of nuclear and cytoplasmic staining patterns. (Liu, J Exp Med 1955)
Cladosporium bantianum mold stained with rabbit serum specific for C. bantianum (1000x). By comparison, C. carrionii stained with serum specific for C. bantianum, to show lack of cross-reactivity. (Al-Doory and Gordon, J Bacteriol 1963)
Mixture of two yeast species photographed under both ultraviolet and visible light simultaneously (magnification unspecified). Saccharomyces cerevisiae (near center) glows green when stained by rabbit serum specific for S. cerevisiae. Red light serves as counterstain for other species (Pichia membranefaciens). (Kunz and Klaushofer, Appl Microbiol 1961)
A single myoblast isolated from a stage 23 chick embryo, stained with rabbit globulin specific for myosin (1100x). The arrow indicates where the nucleus obscures the myosin. (Holtzer et al., J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1957)
Kidney of rat injected with nephrotoxic rabbit antibodies to cause nephritis; the rabbit antibodies concentrate in the glomeruli, as seen by staining with goat globulin specific for rabbit globulin (37x and 205x). (Ortega and Mellors, J Exp Med 1956)
Vermicious Macrogametocytes
I keep having ideas for “picture gallery” posts, involving different papers’ illustrations of the same sort of thing. So far I’ve only done one (the cockroach feeding apparati) as they turn out to be a lot of work and you can never tell which papers are going to have illustrations and which ones aren’t.
In searching for pictures of encapsulated roundworm larvae in various organs of various animals, I determined that they all look sort of the same. And it’s not that interesting to compare, say, a picture of mouse muscle to a picture of raccoon or porcupine muscle. It’s all muscle. Also it may not be a good idea to extend this blog into worms and other complicated parasite species. Malaria is a parasite and also an infectious disease. But what about worms? So in the area of parasitology, I may want to stick to protozoans.
Leucocytozoons are single-celled organisms that infect birds, and are transmitted by the bugs known as blackflies. They were first observed in the 19th century in owl blood, by a zoologist named Danilewsky working in Kharkov, Ukraine. Danilewsky named them for their resemblance to white blood cells, though the exact genus “Leucocytozoon” was not applied until 1904, as detailed in this historical report by Lithuanian pedant and protozoan expert Gediminas Valkiūnas.
They seem to have life cycles similar to malaria, being fellow members of the phylum Apicomplexa. They go through many stages of life. Sporozoites are generated in the gut of an insect, and migrate to the salivary glands. The insect injects them into the blood of a vertebrate, and they go through several more stages, first in the liver and then in red blood cells. Then an insect takes a blood meal, the parasites end up in the insect’s gut, and they eventually make more sporozoites. It seems that Leucocytozoons are not as specific as malaria parasites, as they often infect white blood cells as well as RBCs, and the sporozoites of some species thrive in places other than the liver.
This figure shows the “macrogametocyte” stage (macro-gamete-ocyte) of the parasite life cycle. The macrogametocytes grow inside red blood cells, eventually filling and distorting the cells. This may be a pretty standard illustration. But it brought something else to mind.
From Fallis AM, Desser SS, and Khan RA (1974), On species of Leucytozoon. Advances in Parasitology 12:1-67 : (available from the publisher, subscription required, or available in partial form from Google Books)
As rendered by the Canadian authors of the paper linked above, these jaunty, big-eyed, dancing blobs are quite evocative. The genus ranges from L. vandenbrandeni (#2), which looks like a baleful ocean sunfish and lives inside the similarly aquatic birds called cormorants, to L. bonasae (#19), which infects grouse and appears to be wearing one of those baggy vinyl baseball caps from the golden age of breakdancing.
The Leucocytozoons bring to mind another type of sinister creature on a more macroscopic scale, from one of my favorite children’s books.
Yes, the Vermicious Knids, which menace visitors to the Space Hotel in Roald Dahl’s Chocolate Factory sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Described initially as resembling eggs with no features other than eyes, they then show that they could change shape.
“They’re tremendously proud of being able to write like that.” “But why say scram when they wanted to catch us and eat us?” “It’s the only word they know.”
The macrogametocytes of Leucytozoons look especially similar to Vermicious Knids when the latter are only displaying one eye, as in the above message to humanity, or in these creative illustrations by comics artist Isaac Cates.
Noncanonical Vermicious Knids
As you’d expect, most useful photos of these organisms are in color and therefore don’t look much like these ink drawings.
But here’s some beautiful drawings, in color, of red blood cells containing a similar parasite, Haemoproteus syrnii. Just like the first Leucocytozoons ever observed, this organism infects owls. What are they trying to say? Are they communicating by Braille or some other pattern-based system? Or by spelling out letters? They seem only capable of “C” and “O”.
From Karadjian G et al. (2013), Haemoproteus syrnii in Strix aluco from France: Morphology, stages of sporogony in a hippoboscid fly, molecular characterization and discussion on the identification of Haemoproteus species. Parasite 20:32 (11 pages) :
The paper (from folks at France’s National Museum of Natural History) is free.
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New finance laws change landscape of Brazilian elections
@PCabralReporter
Published September 13, 2018 at 8:13 PM
Updated September 13, 2018 at 8:59 PM
Brazil’s general elections next month could bring a new president and vice president to office.
Voters will also have a whole slate of new national and local representatives to vote on.
The campaign is in high gear but there is a significant difference this year.
New campaign finance laws are limiting the money candidates can raise and spend.
CGTN’s Paulo Cabral has more on this new political reality.
In years past, print shops like this one in Sao Paulo got a big boost in business during election season. But not this year. Some jobs still came in but new limitations on campaign spending took most business away.
According to the new law, political parties and candidates can no longer receive donations from companies only from individual citizens, limited to 10 percent of their yearly income. Instead, the parties now get public funds for campaigning distributed according to the size of their current representation in Congress.
The owner here says it’s worse for his business but maybe better for the country.
“Well, for me as a businessman it was good when more money was spent in campaigns. But as a Brazilian citizen I think maybe this is the kind of money that didn’t have to be spent on this,” Fad Elias Abdalla, owner of Pontograf said.
The new campaign finance rules drastically reduced the resources available for candidates and political parties had to adapt to a new reality of canvassing votes by spending less.
“It becomes more one to one, more discussion of proposals, and less let’s say special effects or Hollywood type of images we had in previous campaigns. It’s the first general election with those rules. And I think we do have to review certain rules. I really do think that business should participate in political campaigns but with strict rules,” said Luiz Felipe D’Avila a government program proposals coordinator.
For candidates who never had corporate support, the new rules didn’t change much. Monica Seixas represents a group of 10 co-candidates of what they call the “activist bench.” Formally she’d be the only elected official but she’s committed to discuss all decisions with the group, if their collective bid to the state assembly is successful. Crowdsourcing is their main funding strategy.
“More than 700 people donated money to us because they believe in our project and want to be a part of this movement of reclaiming politics. We believe that when companies finance campaigns, they do it because they have vested interests. So, if people want to reclaim politics, they need to participate from the start,” said Monica Seixas the state assembly candidate, Socialism and Liberty Party.
The new finance rules are already changing the way political campaigns are run in Brazil. How successful they are in limiting corporate influence and engaging new voices in public discourse will become more apparent after results come in next month.
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The Iliad and the Odyssey - Review
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Hello, Trojans and Achaeans! Last November I read both the Iliad and the Odyssey, so now I want to talk about them. By the way, if you are here to read about stuff like where’s the line between cruelty and heroism or if humans have free will or not, this is not the place, make your own homework.
When people think about the Iliad they usually think about one of three things: The first thing is the beginning of the Trojan War, when Paris had to decide which one of three goddesses (Aphrodite, Hera and Athena) was the most beautiful. He picked Aphrodite so she kidnapped Helen as a reward. The second is the death of Achilles when Paris shoot an arrow at his heel. And finally, the trojan horse, no explanation needed. Well, you might be surprised that NONE OF THESE THINGS HAPPEN IN THE ILIAD!
Seriously! I have no idea from where those things came from! I mean, in the Odyssey they mention that Achilles is dead and the horse, buts thats it. They don’t go into details. And from where the legend of the Apple of Discord came from? And why those three things are always connected to the Iliad if they don’t even happen there? Anyway, let’s move on.
The Iliad is not the story of the Trojan War, it’s a story set during the Trojan War. The conflict starts when, after some complicated plot reasons, Agamemnon “steals” this woman named Briseis from Achilles. So he, as the very mature adult that he was, throws a tantrum and refuses to fight, leaving the Achaean army (the greeks) without their strongest fighter.
One of the things that annoyed me the most about this book is that they tell you the name and a brief summary of the lives of every single dude that dies. This got very tedious and I just stated skimming through the parts when this happened and pretty sure I didn’t miss anything. One chapter is just a list of many people that fought in the war, their horses and weaponry. I just skipped that part completely.
There are way too many characters in this book, but only a few of them are worth remembering: Achilles, Patroclus, Diomedes, Ulysses, Agamemnon, Ajax, Hector, Paris and Helen. I also want you to know that the Achaeans share one single brain cell between all of them and Ulysses had ownership over it the whole time, but Diomedes could sometimes borrow it. The Trojans also had one brain cell, which belonged to Hector.
First of all, Agamemnon is a jerk, he didn’t do a single helpful thing in this entire book and was only there to annoy people. There is even this play that works as a spin off about Agamemnon. Apparently, the gods tell him that he needs to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to sail to Troy, so he does, his wife Clytemnestra gets mad, and as soon as Agamemnon gets to his homeland she kills him. That play also has a sequel named The Oresteia.
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Hector was one of my favorite characters. He was the only Trojan with any amount of common sense (except at the ending) and I was actually sad when he died. If he wasn’t in charge Paris would have been on his own and the Achaeans would have crushed Troy on the first year of the war. The last chapter in this book is dedicated to his funeral. Paris, as you can imagine, is incredibly dumb and accomplished nothing thought the book. The only reason he was able to kill Achilles was because Apollo helped him.
I also really liked Diomedes, who is incredibly underrated. He was one of the few that was actually really good at stuff, was smart enough to not mess with the gods (unless another god tells him to), and was generally nice. He needs more appreciation. Ajax is mentioned a lot but the only thing he does is being good at fighting and getting killed by Poseidon.
Every chapter with Achilles in it was gold. It’s just so funny that Achilles, a grown ass adult, threw a tantrum, locked himself in his tent and refused to talk to anyone. Which eventually got his boyfriend killed but that’s not as funny. At some point he kills so many people that a river gets pissed about it and tries to drown him, but Achilles kicks his ass. And the entire time this is happening the gods are just staring at him wondering if he’s going to die or not. There is not much to say about Patroclus, he is kinda just there.
Let’s talk about Achilles and Patroclus’ romance, I know that’s the reason you are all here. Curiously, Homer never explicitly says that they are a couple, but the subtext is very obviously there and anyone that says otherwise is lying. What I find so incredibly funny is that, because the Iliad is a very old and important book, not only a lot of historical figures have read it, but have actually shipped the characters.
For example Plato, the Greek philosopher, not only shipped Achilles and Patroclus but had actual headcanons about who was the bottom in the relationship, he thought it was Achilles and I would love to know what was his reasoning behind that. The Iliad also influenced his work in other ways but none of them are as funny as the shipping part. Another funny thing about him was that “Plato” might have not been his real name. The word “Plato” means “sturdy” in ancient Greek, and he was an olympic champion in wrestling. If “Plato” was just his nickname it would be like if Dwayne Johnson was a famous philosopher and people in the future only knew him as The Rock. Isn’t that the greatest thing ever?
Another historical figure that shipped Achilles and Patroclus was Alexander motherfucking the Great. Not only did he idolized Achilles, and probably had a crush on him, but he actually kept a copy underneath his pillow wherever he slept. Alexander also compared his relation with Hephaestion (his boyfriend) with the romance between Achilles and Patroclus. Which is actually really appropriate since Hephaestion later dies and Alexander throws him one of the most expensive funerals in history. Life is absurd.
So, that’s what I wanted to say about the Iliad. Please go read it, it’s really good.
This book can be divided into two parts: Before Ulysses arrives to Ithaca and after he does. It also starts with his son Telemachus trying to find some clues about his dad, as a character he was okay, I guess. He doesn’t act like older characters, which is good because he is only twenty years old. There is no much to say about him either.
After we get introduced to Telemachus we move to Ulysses, who is in Calypso's’ island, he gets picked up by Hermes, goes to Menelaus and Helen’s kingdom, explains everything that has happened to him since he left Troy, and then goes to Ithaca. The reader doesn’t actually follow Ulysses in his journey, but is only explained to what happened, which is really disappointing because I really wanted to know more about the monsters.
Let’s talk about Poseidon, he is mad at Ulysses for blinding his son, the cyclops Polyphemus. For some reason people make a big deal about this, like Poseidon made a lot of plans and invested time into stopping Ulysses from arriving to Ithaca instead of doing literally anything else, but in reality Poseidon didn’t even tried to do anything. He sent a storm against Ulysses one time and that was it. Did he had better things to do or just forgot about it? Do you guys think that Poseidon can control ice? I mean, it's made of water. Can he change the temperature of the water, like boil or freezing it at will? What about blood-bending? Also, did you guys knew that Poseidon has blue hair?
Another thing I found hilarious is that Poseidon is canonically terrible at punishing humans and Zeus makes fun of him because of it. That’s just the greatest. So there are two possibilities, either Poseidon sent the storm towards Ulysses and thought it was enough of a punishment or just forgot about his revenge plan. You choose which one is better.
The real villains of this story are the other sailors.Those guys caused almost every problem on their way home. They kinda deserved to die, if they didn’t Ulysses would have never reached Ithaca. Those sailors are the embodiment of everything that can go wrong with teamwork.
Ulysses as a character was okay, not really my favorite but I didn't hated him either. He is a smart guy, we all know that, but I noticed that he didn't solved most of the problems he had by himself but had someone else there to help him. That person was usually Anthea, but Hermes, Circe and Telemachus were there too. The only amazing idea he ever had was the Trojan Horse, and that's it. He was also very clever when he blinded the cyclops, but inmidiatly ruined it by saying his name.
The second part of the book is when Ulysses reaches Ithaca, which happens halfway through the book. This part is really boring because nothing happens beyond Ulysses being in disguise and getting yelled at by people. This second half just drags a lot more than the Iliad and it becomes a lot more tedious. His reunion with Telemachus was sweet but happened very quickly, it was the only thing that I really cared about in this part, well, that and the scene when the dog dies, that was sad.
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There you have it guys. What do you think? Have you read any of these books? Let me know in the comments below.
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Fairy Tale Food: Pumpkins, and The Legend of Rose Petal
It’s that time of year again, when countless innocent pumpkins, their one night of jack-o-lantern glory past and gone, are unceremoniously dumped into the compost bin. Ah, the melancholy…
I can’t help but be reminded of the pumpkin shards littering the road as Cinderella limps home, one glass slipper still left on her foot, supremely indifferent to her dress that hangs in rags on her or the rain that streams down her head, as she is still lost in happy memories of the ball and the prince. In both of the Disney films the pumpkin comes to a quite spectacular end, splattering to pieces under the hooves of the palace guard in frantic pursuit of the mysterious princess.
Interestingly enough, I didn’t encounter the pumpkin in the Cinderella tale until I came to Canada and watched the Disney cartoon, which is modelled on Perrault’s telling of the story. The Grimms’ version of “Cinderella”, which is what I grew up with, hasn’t got a pumpkin in it; Aschenputtel gets to the ball on foot. She’s a much more independent sort than Perrault’s French court lady. There also isn’t a fairy godmother, not really. Aschenputtel’s fairy, umm, god-creatures are a pair of turtle doves that live in the tree on her mother’s grave (and peck out the stepsisters’ eyes during the grand finale – yeah, there might be a reason Disney went with the Perrault version).
Pumpkins aren’t too prolific in fairy tale land, but Perrault is by no means the only one who uses them. Another tale that brings in pumpkins, in an interesting juxtaposition with roses, no less, is Clemens Brentano’s “The Legend of Rosepetal”. Brentano was a contemporary of the Brothers Grimm, one of the chief members of German Romanticism. He wrote various fairy tale collections, and his tales are cited as prime examples of the literary fairy tale. However, his Italian Fairy Tales, of which “The Legend of Rose Petal” is one, are actually adaptations of Giambattista Basile’s Pentamerone – in other words, Brentano didn’t “write” them, per se, but took existing tales and retold them. Basile’s version of “The Legend of Rosepetal” is called “La schiavottella”, “The Kitchen Maid” – but Brentano expanded the tale, and, what’s of greater interest to us here, added pumpkins.
The story comes in two parts. Part One begins with the Duke of Rosmital, whose beautiful sister Rosalina is only interested in roses and having her hair combed. Prince Foreverandever wants to marry Rosalina, but she’s having none of it – “That’d be like a rose marrying a pumpkin!” Ouch.
But the prince isn’t so easily put off. He goes to an enchantress, who works things so he becomes a rose bush, which she presents to the princess as a seedling stuck inside a pumpkin to keep fresh. The princess, of course, wants the rose bush to plant in front of her window. But first, the enchantress makes her eat a few spoonsful of pumpkin seed and promise to do a monthly game of “Jump Over the Rose Bush”. The princess agrees to anything, no matter how weird, just to get a hold of that rose bush. Of course, during her very first game, she knocks a rose petal off the bush, which she quickly catches hold of and swallows. Ooops!
“Now you’ve done it,” says the enchantress. “You’ve swallowed pumpkin and rose – so now you’re married to Prince Foreverandever. See ya!” And off she goes. Rosalina passes out from shock, and the next night she dreams she has a rose bush growing from her mouth.
The next month, when the bush has another rose blooming, the princess isn’t feeling so good. By the third month, she keeps having dreams of turning into a pumpkin, which become more and more intrusive, until finally, by month nine, she is convinced she’s a pumpkin, and that she’s going to die! (Yeah, that’s one way of describing it…) What do you know, when she wakes up, beside her bed there’s half a pumpkin, in which lies a beautiful baby girl whom she names Rosepetal.
Part Two: We’ll skip over a few things. Suffice to say, this is where the story turns “Snow White”, “Bluebeard”, and “Cinderella” at once. Little Rosepetal grows up. Mommy gets jealous of her, and in her rage accidentally kills her kid by stabbing her in the head with a comb. Oh dear. She has the girl put in a glass coffin and kept in a spare bedroom, and then she and the rose bush at her window both die from grief.
Rosalina’s brother (the duke from the beginning of the story) marries a nasty woman. One day, she opens the door of the forbidden chamber and finds the girl in the glass coffin. She takes out the comb and wakes the girl, Snow-White-style, and then goes all Cinderella and makes the girl her slave, making her do dirty work and abusing her. Eventually, to carry on the Cinderella theme, Rose Petal asks the duke to bring her a gift from the market.
The gift (a little doll) is the instrument of the duke’s finding out the truth about his niece and his wife. He kicks out the wife, finds a princely husband for Rosepetal, and in the end, Rosepetal even sees her parents, Rosalina and Prince Foreverandever-the-Rosebush. She gets their blessings on a life of Happily Ever After, and they waft off into the ether. Shortly thereafter, a little prince is born, and he, Brentano says, told this story to him for nothing more than a piece of gingerbread. The End.
Cute, isn’t it? Basile’s version is very similar, but without the pumpkin. And presumably the gingerbread at the end.
Personally, I like this version. However, I’ll skip the gingerbread, but I’ll make a pie out of my leftover jack-o-lantern. Pumpkin pie is really easy to make. Here’s how:
Fail-Safe Pumpkin Pie
Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C).
1 single unbaked 10″ pie crust
2 c cooked, mashed pumpkin (chop up jack-o-lantern, put in pot, cover with water, boil until soft, cool, peel, mash)
1/4 c cream
Whiz all and sundry in food processor, dump into crust, bake for 45-55 minutes or until filling puffs evenly all the way to the center.
Remove from oven, cool on rack, serve with whipped cream.
Observe minute of silence for memory of jack-o-lantern or of Prince Foreverandever.
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Tagged as Cinderella, Cinderella movie, Clemens Brentano, Das Märchen von Rosenblättchen, fairy tale food, Grimm's Fairy Tales, jack-o-lantern, Perrault, pumpkin pie, pumpkins, The Legend of Rosepetal
5 responses to “Fairy Tale Food: Pumpkins, and The Legend of Rose Petal”
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sherylbf
I would love to comment intelligently on your most informative post, but alas, my brain is too tired! Enjoyed reading it!! 😄😉❤
That’s a great comment right there! 😊
Very entertaining post!! You can be as dry as the desert sometimes, and I sit here reading and laugh out loud. Thanks for the pumpkin pie recipe!! Looks yummy!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😉 Yes, it’s a good recipe, and it always turns out.
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2008: Factory closure leaves workers in the cold
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Touch, play. Touch, kick.
I was so lucky to be provided piano lessons growing up. My first teacher started my first lesson by commanding me not to marry the wrong person! And then taught me how to listen and learn and express myself through music. I showed some talent, so I got the fancy kind of lessons, in Boston, every weekend from Junior High through High School. My mom, my dad, and my grandmother formed the almighty trio who shepherded me, guarded me and took me to Phó during break hours. They gifted me the piano, which is now my forever companion in the same way that a loved one joins you in the room without saying anything, but is always ready to talk deep if you’re feeling it.
My second teacher, the first at NEC, tore me down and built me up. Sarah Takagi is a martial arts wielding technician who zoomed WAY in on finger and wrist and arm mechanics, for years, before building back to the complexity of what I had previously been playing sloppily and joyously without even knowing how wrong I was doing it. Sarah would say, ‘Touch, play, — touch – and then play’, and have me tap out sections with my fingers never pressing the notes. Touching the note before you play allows precise countermovements with the arm and wrist as a sort of fulcrum. She could go on.
My third teacher played the piano so differently. Where Sarah had complex and detailed, hand-oriented technique, I remember Roberto would favor a direct, weighted movement, with the finger and hand and arm forming almost a single block dropping down to the very bottom of the note out of the heavens above. None of this touch, play, madness. Yes, I would keep my hands relaxed and close to the keys, but using the weight of your arm, not your fingers, we are not punching at the notes.
Of course I am almost entirely misrepresenting what Sarah and Roberto actually taught me, but whatever that was, these two lines of thinking have morphed and been useful to me for years beyond actually playing piano. Alex, how are you tackling the situation in front of you? Are you all in, all clear to go, right down to the bottom of this thing, or are we tapping, touching first, sensing and using our tools and techniques to gain leverage and precision?
I applied this most recently in my second (ever) Muay Thai class, during which I am learning the basics of how to punch, kick, and move. An advanced member of the class I was working with instructed me to lift my leg and kick him in the upper chest, but touch his chest with my foot, and then push off, using that momentum to arrive back where I started. Touch, kick. Touch — and then kick.
I further apply this regularly as I work in an office and internally and externally, there can be a funny interplay between directness and a coy, feeling-you-out kind of vibe. These subtle cues, which may even have important upsides like promotions or bonuses, are always difficult for everyone to sort out, and I am grateful for every tool I have in my bag!
This is just the very tip of what Mary, Sarah, Roberto, and Andrew, in addition to the shepherding trio mentioned above, brought to my life by nurturing my young love for music. My eternal gratitude goes to those people. Now this business of passing it on!
May 29, 2019 alex classical piano, music, piano Leave a comment
The New Great American Experiment: UBI
We have all heard America referred to as “The Great Experiment”. We remember how Europe chided, doubted that regular citizens could govern themselves without a ruling or privileged class. Determined to prove them wrong, we set up checks, balances, and a bill of rights. We debated for a century and even went to war to find an answer to that question. We debated for another century, and while our country has persisted and made gains, we continue to suffer from dramatic inequality and worse health and success outcomes than many of those old elites we would so like to defy.
The Great American Experiment set the stage for a country where individuals had the liberty to live freely, if they sold their labor and worked hard. Money attained through “hard work” was positioned as our golden ticket to real freedom. This seemed to work well enough through industrialization as we truly did need every hand on deck to staff the plentiful low to medium-skill, decent-paying jobs.
However, times have changed. We are living in an era of great surplus of wealth due to three giant (10X) leaps in technological efficiency. We can see that labor efficiency will continue to increase as the digital revolution spreads to each warehouse and factory floor. We also recognize that poverty is a cash shortage, not a moral failing. We believe that the fastest way to ‘cure’ poverty is to give those people money directly.
And so, I propose we arrange a NEW “Great American Experiment”.
The New Great American Experiment separates an American citizen’s right to live from their ability to contribute to the market, by providing each citizen with enough money to cover their most basic needs.
This type of program is called a Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI). GBI is a no-strings-attached floor of income from the government to its citizens, paid in monthly installments of roughly $1000 a month, which allows each person to, at minimum, be neither involuntarily hungry nor homeless. However, on this very meager budget, a person may not be able to afford that yearly iPhone upgrade, so our free market should stay as free as ever and that person can get a job if she or he so chooses. GBI FAQ’s here.
Why should we do this?
Because it’s possible. Challenging, yes. But for the first time in history, logistically, all of the basic pieces have developed enough that we have a shot at re-engineering the carrots and sticks that propel our decisions and drive our economy. Here are three major factors that make GBI more likely to be, at last, possible:
1. 3X, 10X technological efficiency
The first 10X efficiency multiplier was agriculture which allowed humans to specialize and form complex non-nomadic society. The second 10X was industrialization which prompted further specialization, utilized human labor extensively, and created outputs at incredible scale.
The third 10X has happened recently and is the digital revolution. With automation and robotics as wind under our sails, mature economies are likely to end up utilizing about 10X LESS units of human labor than developing or industrial economies. A few dozen people in a garage can create billions of dollars of ‘value’ that has no direct relationship to the amount of ‘labor’ that went into creating the product. Giant manufacturing plants employ relative handfuls of people to oversee increasingly automated processes. Digital solutions that are a whole order of magnitude cheaper than using human labor will continue to proliferate. And for the most part, we shouldn’t fight it. At least to start, most jobs that robots can do, humans don’t do very well or dislike doing, and for saving people from the trudge and drear of those daily realities, I am grateful to have robots to lend a hand. I would rather a person have no job than a bullshit job.
2. A trend towards a socially accepting climate
In our society, our greatest obstacle is this:
I work, and therefore, so should you.
This is a moralistic judgment that we have cradled lovingly in our bootstrap-pulling, self-reliant American arms ever since the protestant work ethic hopped the pond.
And it is no longer helpful or welcome in our society.
At its deepest idealogical root, America stands for liberty and freedom — the ability to live a good life in the way that each person chooses. As long as they are not causing any damage to others, what anyone uses their resources (including and especially time) for should be generally irrelevant to everyone.
Instead, I propose an alternate moral imperative:
If it is logistically possible, then we SHOULD aim to engineer an empowered and happy society with the best of the tools modernity has to offer.
In order for the USA to accept UBI, we need leaders to show us a way to make sense of a society that doesn’t use our capacity to contribute labor as the universal yardstick for all value.
3. A good leader / evangelist / champion
We depend on leaders to represent our views and evangelize systemic change. Leaders can bring ideas to life and inspire the public’s imagination, which is exactly what I hope is happening here with Andrew Yang.
Andrew Yang is an American businessman who is running for president in 2020: see Yang2020.com. I learned about Andrew Yang before ever having heard of UBI — I applied to Venture for America my senior year of college and was rejected. I was disappointed, but I have always admired the initiative: Bring top talent to startups in underperforming cities. Andrew struck me then as a thought leader in the tech-meets-social enterprise space, taking business principles and using powerful new techniques from ‘lean’ startup theory and design thinking in actual settings with actual people. He strikes me now (as a UX designer) as an absurdly great candidate that might somehow make perfect sense in the context of our wild-card Trumpian world.
The world is gone crazy. We see and say it all the time these days, in our offices and uber rides and over dinner tables. Trump, Brexit, and Brazil, oh my. Perhaps this ‘radical’ trend, or whatever it is, could be turned on its head. Maybe all it really signifies is that people are hungry for change, frustrated by modern wage slavery, looking for a better way in all the wrong places. Maybe the visible threat of backwards, regressive social trends in our country and in the world can cause a strong and opposite reaction for us, the American public, so that our minds open to solutions that are not just an iteration better, but an order of magnitude better.
The first of two notes of caution:
As a specie, we are obsessed with the concept of the ‘silver bullet’. The magic panacea, the snake-oil cure all for blemishes, ails, and worries. We must be measured with our expectations for UBI, methodical in our approach, and non-sensational in our claims. I do not know if UBI in America will inherently lead to better solutions to trash collection worldwide, and I don’t know if anyone can really know that. This word of caution is a derivative of Evgeny Morozov’s ‘technological solutionism‘ critique, which I usually find very compelling. In this case, I don’t think the ‘tail is wagging the dog’ or a solution is being created where there is no problem. We are using the technologies of government and money to rise the tide and float many boats at once. A thousand dollars a month means I might spend an extra month job-searching instead of settling for the first offer to come my way. However, as with any ecosystem, changing an input in a major way WILL have unexpected consequences, many of which we will deem ‘good’ or ‘bad’. I think of the White Horse Story in those moments, which I also recognize is naive. But it is important to not trivialize the enormity of such a shift as GBI represents, as it heralds an era where most people who work are highly skilled. Andrew Yang can’t have all of the answers, and we shouldn’t expect them. If we can steel ourselves to handle a phase of elevated ambiguity in the course of this great experiment, then I think there is a lot of reward to be received in short time.
Note of caution #2
This is important now in our current moment of Facebook and Instagram alienation and will continue to be important in coming periods of increased automation:
No matter if or how we choose to work, we all MUST stay engaged. This is a matter of individual and public health.
Disengaged people end up lonely. Lonely people end up dead.
We still need things to do and reasons to feel important, even in a society where automation has produced enough surplus that relatively few humans are needed to keep the gears spinning.
However, we should NOT shy away from these great advancements just because we are afraid of being bored. We are so much more creative and full of ingenuity than that. We shall not be complacent while mothers and fathers remain enslaved to multiple shitty jobs just to pay for daycare so they can keep working multiple jobs, just because we are afraid of not knowing what to do with ourselves in our free time. That is cowardly and is shooting for the coconut in a tree instead of the moon, let alone the stars.
Andrew Yang has put forth the idea of Modern Time Banking which is relatively underdeveloped and easy to criticize, but this is the spirit folks. Pick up where he left off. This will be a long, gradual transition over decades or centuries where at first, most people will be busy with work-lives and engaged in communities just as we are today. However, as less people are formally employed, we will need new institutions to structure our identities and keep our hands busy. The roots of those institutions already exist and it is up to us to plant the seeds for our descendants who may live without the same tooth-and-claw struggle that still exists today.
No, capitalism is blind to inequality and rewards only the strongest, which is not okay in societies where we care about each person. Privatization should not apply to prisons, schools, and healthcare.
March 10, 2019 alex Andrew Yang, Automation, design thinking, freedom dividend, GBI, Guaranteed Basic Income, Yang2020 Leave a comment
A Few Scenarios for Practicing UX
I’ve had some friends ask how they might go about getting a UX design job. The short answer is make things & develop a portfolio. The longer answer involves culturing a mentality and mastering process. But sometimes it’s hard just to think of things to make. Design is not art – it can’t just exist for the sake of existing. It must solve a problem. Let’s imagine up some problems to solve.
1. A library wants to engage with kids as they first walk into the children’s book department. They plan to install a series of large touch screens. What would the goals of the engagement be? How can the library experience be enhanced for kids aged 5-10 through using technology? Make assumptions, develop personas, interview questions, user story map, wireframes, comps, prototype.
2. An insurance startup is developing a mobile app that allows users to quickly log incident details, take photos, and capture all relevant details. Assume ‘green pastures’ for all technology needs and fabricate incidents to illustrate usage. What factors will be considered in establishing a user flow and interface? How can visual identity not only serve to make a brand impression but to facilitate user actions? Develop personas, interview questions, user story map, wireframes, comps, prototype.
3. A pet store / museum / aquarium is developing a tablet experience for kids / adults / customers to buy / learn about the live creatures on display. Choose a set of parameters and make reasonable assumptions. What are the viewer’s goals as they are using the tablet? What are they trying to achieve, and what does the store / museum want them to care about? How does the content (live animals) change the way you present information? Personas, wireframes, you know the drill.
4. Happy John’s Burgers is a revolutionary, human-less food experience. Each table is a 6-10 person food preparation center and users wield a custom joystick to select their preferences. HJB needs a menu experience that should incorporate gestures, facial / voice recognition, and brings custom precision to the ordering and paying experience. How does the software inform users what options are available? How does the human-less environment change the way the software is designed? What frustrations would users be likely to experience, and how might you provide solutions in advance? How can look and feel impact the customer experience?
5. You are in the year 2350 in a crowded, heavily polluted city, and most people sleep in sleek glass climate-controlled bed-pods. When lying down, a screen appears above you. How can these futuristic bed-pods-screens provide a useful, comforting experience that users will spend many hours in at a time? Using voice and gesture controls, users can control their environments. How else can these pods provide utility to users? Perhaps they also serve as an entertainment center, or as an external screen for the user’s personal devices. Wireframe this experience, low fidelity. Find billionaire, pitch, repeat.
Other useful activities for developing a UX mindset:
Organize the hell out of your grocery list. How are products dispersed through the store, what items are grouped together, and why?
Walk into the entrances of 10 stores in a mall, pause, and inspect. What user actions are visible from your standpoint? How much of the user journey is evident from that point – is at least the next step indicated, or some directionality given? How is this achieved? Apply this to supermarkets, amusement parks, hospitals.
Screenshot and tag examples of design precedent everywhere you see it. Icon styles, dropdown/flyout styles, interesting bits of layout or typography, compelling uses of color. While UI design often requires a good amount of originality, it’s unwise to reinvent wheels needlessly – rather, it’s critical to use existing norms and conventions enough so that users can immediately recognize elements and understand what’s going on.
For all of the scenarios presented above, revisit them through the lens of accommodating users with disabilities. Decent article about that here.
Each of these projects should take you two weeks or more. Rushing a process won’t make you learn faster. If you need more work, work on two projects. Separate your work into phases, and keep yourself constrained. Get a Gantt chart going if it helps. If you run out of work to do in a phase, start a new sketch document and try to wireframe Wikipedia’s home page without looking at it. What do you think the designers at Wikipedia chose for the home page to present? What do they want people to use it for, and what would users want to use it for? What assets does Wikipedia have to display? What does Wikipedia want from its users, and how do they obtain it?
Hope this helps someone!
July 26, 2017 alex design, practice, scenarios, technology, user experience, UX 1 Comment
*caution: graphic, and entirely fictional; all resemblance purely coincidental.
Max Suleman was an average sort. A mild strength for numbers, a mild weakness in history and writing, a very average body that provided very average results on tennis courts and rugby fields. He was generally friendly, though thoroughly boring once you got to know him. His parents were just the same: run of the mill, salt of the earth Americans with decent careers and decent interests. As an only child of working parents, Max grew up under the wing of no less than two-dozen nannies, most of whom took care of him for a few months and then moved on to find greener pastures. If this had any psychological effect on Max, he wasn’t aware of it, nor was he ever annoyed or frustrated by the revolving door of caretakers. Sure, he liked some of them more than others, but when his favorite babysitter from the second half of his ninth year left without saying so much as ‘goodbye’, he remembered shrugging, and shrugging again, and since then, he must have shrugged no less than ten thousand times.
Max turned twenty-two only a few months ago. He went to a four-year community college and majored in Applied Data Analysis. He was proud of his studies but would readily admit that he felt very little passion at all for data analytics. Very little passion, he would say. “Almost none. None, really. I just don’t care what triggers the uptick in user engagement, even if it’s for something cool like a healthcare app or.. or whatever. Why should I care so much about what everyone else does? I don’t want anyone caring that much about what I do.”
Max needed a job. He had been a grocery bag stuffer and a house-painter in his off-hours during his years in college. He wasn’t desperate — his parents made sure that he left college with no debt, a fact that he tried very hard not to take for granted every time he saw them. But he could do the basic math, and the math said that he needed a job.
He applied for a few jobs. A few weeks went by and his bank account was still looking fine. “Good thing I painted those houses” he would mutter to himself while he read through job listings. He felt that he should probably make use of his degree. Even though he didn’t care much for data analytics, he saw the salaries and weighed some pros and cons and decided that he should probably make use of his degree. He got a job doing marketing at a local furniture store. Seriously, a furniture store. He couldn’t have cared less.
Three months later, Max had mastered the art of furniture store social media marketing. Strangely enough, he found that he was quite good at furniture marketing, and the store owners were quite pleased that his activities had helped to boost sales almost 25%. If Max enjoyed the praise, he didn’t let it show, but that wasn’t very hard for him because in all honesty, he couldn’t have cared less. “Great! So another business has made a bit more money because I’ve spent most of my time doing things to make sure they would make more money. Revolutionary, totally radical.” Once in a while, he would consider a hypothetical: If I were to be really happy and doing things that I cared about, what would I be doing? After a few seconds of consternation, he would arrive at the same result. “Nothing. I would be doing nothing, and that would make me happy because then I have nothing to do, and then I could do… nothing.”
One morning, on minute six of the twelve-minute drive to his office, he heard a story on the radio about some crazy gunman who walked into a church and killed some people. He never listened to the news – he didn’t care – he had been flipping through channels when it snuck into his ears. It planted a seed.
“Prison!” He exclaimed to his windshield. He looked left and right, making sure no-one heard his bizarre outburst. And then he kept thinking. “Prison! Ok, so there’s a social structure and ringleaders and some dangerous folks, but… there are different sorts of prisons, right? Low, medium, high security… and really, what do people do in prison all day? What can they do? I suppose they can read, or write things, or do exercises in their cell, but really they must do not-very-much. They might even do nothing. Nothing at all.” A seed had been planted.
Max read about being in prison after work for the next three weeks. He looked at the crimes that people committed and what sorts of prisons they got sent to. He even picked his top 5 favorite prisons, which was a very odd thing for him to do because he had never had favorite anythings before, or at least not since that babysitter left. He felt strangely energized by the strange plan that was forming in his head. He even drove three hundred miles one Saturday morning into the next state where a chrome-buckled cowboy at the State Fair would be able to sell him a gun.
It was the day of, and his plan was perfect. All he had to do was get arrested for something illegal enough to do a few years in the clink. Five, ten years… of sweet, sweet nothing. He woke up before his alarm went off, wide eyed and giddy, almost forgetting to bring ammunition on his way out the door. Fourteen minutes to the bank in town center, a few short strides with a duffel bag over his shoulder, and all of the pieces were in place. He stood in the center of the grand entrance and took a breath. Here goes.
He unzipped the duffel, grasped the gun, cocked it while still in the bag, and then hoisted it above his head like they do in the movies. For the first time in a dozen years, he yelled, screamed to the room, “THIS IS A ROBBERY! EVERYBODY DOWN”. He smiled to himself calmly, and, aiming blindly at the ceiling, pulled the trigger, one, two, three, four, five times.
And the great chandelier from the grand entrance came a-crashing down, right on top of the huddled mass before him. Hundreds of pounds, probably thousands, he thought to himself as he was tackled and shackled. “Some people just died”, he thought to himself while he was in the back of the police cruiser. “I just.. caused some people to die,” he said out loud while sitting in the police station, attracting angry glares from the officers around him. Still shocked, he looked at the nearest officer and said with more astonished bemusement than horror, “I didn’t mean for anybody to die. I didn’t need to kill anyone! I just wanted to go to prison for a while!”
It turned out that five people died under the weight of the great chandelier, and all five of those people were from the same family, which included three young children and their grandmother. Only the mother, who had asked her husband to take the kids with him to the bank that morning, survived, and it turned out that this poor mother, now childless, was a member of the state judiciary committee and was known for her dedication to family values and a fierce pragmatism focused on cost-effective capital punishment. Max was sentenced to death, and died one year and two months later, after spending one year and two months in prison doing — nothing.
January 18, 2017 alex active shooter, millennial, short story Leave a comment
AMC Amazing
I always get a little sentimental around times of change. I think most of us grow attached to routines and stability and comfort, but as a young person with a career in mind, comfort is the enemy of growth, and growth is the capitalist imperative that we’ve all internalized to determine our self worth, so I’m very excited to grow. But before I go about growing, I’d like to chew on these last months and consider how they’ve been.
I’ve spent the last 11 months working at an AMC dine-in theatre. I took the job for money. I chose a job that was outwardly unrelated to my desired career path so that I could focus on Sealed and maintain a separation of work and work. AMC never followed me home nor demanded unreasonable overtime, and it generally provided a steady income that was earned through tolerable work that ultimately proved to be generally worthwhile. I suppose I’m using a lot of qualifiers — “tolerable”, “ultimately”, “generally” — and that’s because it wasn’t a perfect solution and I did have frustrations. But that’s less interesting to talk about than what I gained from the experience, which ultimately proved to be quite a lot.
I think this will work best as a list. OK Buzzfeed, I’ll comply:
1. I learned how to talk about food.
Those of you who know me know that I am not a “foodie”. It’s not that I don’t enjoy eating, because I often do. And it’s not that I don’t respect the institution of eating, because it can be a fabulous art and is often an excellent facilitator of friendships and shared experience. But I tend to tire quickly of foodie conversation — I think it’s low on Maslow’s hierarchy of conversation — and I don’t have particularly acute senses of smell or taste. AMC, however, has shown me some light. Good food makes people happy, and happy people tip well. Hmm, is that the takeaway? Nah, it’s more than that. Food is simultaneously an intimate and personal preference and also a need that is shared by literally everyone. Presenting a food option, replete with colorful language and confidence in the product, and then witnessing the payoff as people leave happy, has actually provided a level of base satisfaction that I didn’t imagine I would value. There have been dozens of picky kids and finicky old folks that I have proudly schlepped orders of crispy brussels sprouts and oreo shakes that have left their consumers happier. I don’t sneer at happiness. That shit’s important.
2. I met a crew of generally wonderful people.
Of course there’s a qualifier there, as saying ‘most people are wonderful’ is infinitely easier to defend than ‘everyone is wonderful’. But part of the reason I chose to work in Framingham was to meet different people. I grew up in Whitebread, MA, and went to college in Privilegeton, CT, and frankly never had much of a chance to get to know people with different ethnic and class backgrounds. To my AMC friends reading this, that’s not why I value you, because now I know you, but it was at least part of why I chose not to work in my hometown.
I like to pride myself in my ability to empathize and listen. I have a persistent curiosity for life stories, and I have visceral respect for people who are true to themselves. I felt lucky hundreds of times through my time at AMC to share small conversations with my coworkers who I saw achieve, struggle, rally, succeed, laugh, cry, recover, and continue. The array of life circumstances among the 30+ coworkers I’ve had the pleasure of knowing is vast. My admiration for many of them grew consistently as I learned more about their situations. Many of them display outstanding characteristics that I have absolutely learned from. I wish I felt comfortable naming names, because the sensitivity, charisma, resilience, and competence I witnessed from this random group of humans impressed me regularly and I did not always share how it affected me. I am grateful for many micro-lessons in humanity and respect, and I take comfort in the idea that ‘life is long’ and perhaps we’ll know each other again.
3. I grew my non-dominant outgoing side.
I served according to a simple mantra. I’d walk into a theatre and think, “Time to be friendly!” It’s so simple that it reliably cut through any noise or anxiety or frustration that I might have felt. To be outwardly friendly is to prescribe to a well-defined set of norms that put people at ease, keep conversations light and playful, and keep my own mindset calm and focused. Perhaps it’s a symptom of youth, but I think that so often, we’re focused on appearing smart or competent or profound that the comfort of the people we’re talking to goes entirely unconsidered. Friendliness is potent. For me, it requires effort — an elevated but restrained energy, a dedication to clear communication and eye contact — and it results in, again, happiness. My guests see the effort I put into making them feel comfortable and they smile and sit back, relaxing in pamperedness and ease of situation. And then, for me, anyways, the reptile-human in me mirrors their emotion and suddenly I’m happy too, smiling at their happiness and basking in the simplicity of the exchange. Customer service is rewarding on a micro-scale like few other activities, up there with board games and beer pong and sex. I get a thrill out of it, and refining those careful cues has been reliably rewarding for me.
4. I gained an intimate understanding of a carefully engineered guest experience.
I am a designer, which means that I enjoy considering the design decisions that lead people to a desired outcome. In my opinion, AMC does a really, really good job. Most every aspect of the AMC experience is carefully engineered, from the box office to the recliner seats to the managerial hierarchy.
Every decision is aimed at giving the guests power over their experience. They reserve their seats, which are then theirs. They have a button attached to their seat, which gives them the power to summon (me) whenever they choose. They have a menu at each seat that is broad enough to satisfy whatever categorical urge they feel: concession, appetizer, full meal, dessert, full bar. They get free refills and prompt service. Managers swoop in and fix problems as efficiently as possible. Ordering and payment is accomplished with a handheld device that gets the details squared away before the show even begins. I never had the privilege of sitting in on a high level AMC corporate strategy session, but my hypothesis is that people who feel like they are in control will worry less, relax more, and therefore enjoy the moviegoing experience that much more. Noticing the details of how AMC strives to empower its guests helped me to understand why I took the actions I took, why I followed the guidelines set by corporate, and gave me renewed respect for the importance of institutional design.
I loved many aspects of working at AMC. I’ve de facto memorized a hundred ads and previews that are often incredibly artful. I’ve eaten my body weight in free popcorn and seen more than my share of free movies. Serving Deadpool and Zootopia and The Revenant was an absolute blast, and I have more respect for Bad Moms and its overworked Chardonnay-swigging clientele than I ever thought I would. So for all of the benefits I’ve derived, thanks AMC, it’s been real.
I’m not quite ready to announce my next step, but I’m thrilled to announce that a next-step does in fact exist and will be beginning in the next few weeks.
October 8, 2016 alex AMC, design, food, power, theatre 1 Comment
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ABC, CBS and NBC blocking website access on Google TV
Dylan Bailey
The big three broadcasting companies have blocked the web-based version of their shows from Google TV. Although some websites are optimized for Google TV the big three networks, which air some of the most popular shows, will not be joining in.
In fear that they will lose advertising revenue, Walt Disney and NBC Universal have confirmed that access has been blocked access to broadcast TV shows available on their websites. CBS has declined to comment, and Fox may using this same strategy and pull it’s content as well.
Currently Google is in negotiating with the big three trying to bring back content to it’s devices. One of the key advertising points of Google TV was that it enables access to all the web content you already get on your PC, but bringing it to your television. However, ultimately it’s up to the content provider to allow access so we’ll see if Google and TV networks strike a deal.
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Over Mount Fuji (17)
By Joel Huan Last updated Jul 26, 2016
Everything is crashing. The noise roars louder. Byron sees wreckage raining down, falling on him. Pinned and choking on dust, a storm of pain courses through him and he can’t feel his legs.
Two samurai appear, poised and ready to pounce. As they swing their katanas across his mid-section, he screams and closes his eyes. Then, silence.
When Byron opens his eyes, a beautiful maiden stands before him. He moves his hands toward her, but the slab above him cracks, a few pieces of debris fall. He hears muffled voices. “Anyone in there?”, “Can you hear me?”
The horning of ships woke Byron in the early morning. He struggled to sit up, but cringed in a rictus from his cramp. Peering from the cabin’s window, he massaged his legs and squinted at the shimmering sun through the clouds.
Ships sounded their horns from near and afar as Byron thrust his arms into his jacket. He staggered onto Satsuma Maru’s deck to view the shore and jetty, delighted that he would soon have his feet on solid ground.
A flurry of excitement exploded among the crew when the crowds gathered at the docks of Yokohama.
Carrying bouquets of flowers, little girls in colorful kimonos, white socks and slippers stood in front of the crowd. Tears streamed down the cheeks of mothers and wives, eager for their sons and husbands to appear on deck. Among the assembled press and cheering spectators, officials mingled with priests who offered prayers. A cannon fired a military salute from the nearby hilltop.
Oh! Back on earth, but it’s heaven! Byron smiled when the research vessel anchored and the crew disembarked. Brightly-colored ribbons decorated the gangways. Sentinels, posted fore and aft, saluted the crew over rails and bulwarks. Professor Yoshino, Akita and Kiichi jostled from the ship to a press conference, where each gave his experience of the expedition. Imperial recognition seemed assured.
Throughout the pomp and pageantry, Byron still felt himself reeling as if the ground shifted beneath him. He would gladly be back to conduct more analyses of the data they had collected once they no longer required his public appearance. Except for the wreck, nothing appeared significant.
Over the next two weeks, while Byron took swimming with a new passion, Wulfstein had become more introverted.
Back at Sakura, the villa they stayed, the Professor often sat alone for long hours and his response to questions monosyllabic. Something must be weighing on his mentor’s mind. Wulfstein worked seven days straight at the lab since his arrival. Rarely did he go to bed before midnight, and often left for work before Byron rose.
But after another week, Wulfstein refused all questions or interviews, often returning home early at around three in the afternoon to read and meditate. During twilight, he took long walks south of the villa. When back in the lounge, he normally sat in his favorite armchair, coffee on the side table, pencil in hand, doodling.
Whatever scientific debacle Wulfstein might try to avoid, controversy would remain. At his instigation, the crew had found a wreck. Byron wondered if this finding would relate to the lost Hornets. If so, how?
Late one Friday afternoon, noting that the Professor was in a cheerful mood, Byron decided to ask him about his background.
“I graduated from the University of Munich,” Wulfstein said.
“And what did you study?”
“At first I specialized in Egyptian and Greek philology and paleography.” Wulfstein pointed to the scholarly books on the table. “I learned to read those texts in the Sumerian and Assyrian tablets. During my graduate program, I reviewed the history of cuneiform languages and read Chinese pictorial scripts.”
“Chinese pictorial script? You mean you studied Mandarin?”
“Yes, and being fluent in Mandarin, I studied and taught dragonology for seven years at the University of Kaifeng.”
“Why Kaifeng?”
“Kaifeng is one of the Seven Ancient Capitals of China. In fact, Kaifeng was once the largest city in the world.”
Byron grimaced. Odd! Everything seems odd! “But how did geology come into the picture?”
“I came to believe in the synergy of knowledge. So I went on to MIT to study science.”
“Then you don’t believe in specialization?”
“Not exactly, but if your eyes are fixed too closely to the trees, you wouldn’t see the forest.” His chest heaving, a surge of inner emotion seemed to grip the Professor as he continued. “Only the blind would take a portion of an elephant and say: ‘This is it. This is all it is.’ You need to study each part of an elephant and put them all together, Byron.”
Byron wanted to argue, but thought better of it. He had no confidence to dispute such philosophy. But it seemed the old man had been trying to analyze an impossible puzzle.
The old Professor seemed passionate. With his magnifying glass, he referred to where the Philippine Sea plate subducted below the Japanese mainland, the solid bulk of Izu Peninsula acted as a stumbling block. It collided head-on with the continental crust, serving like a brake.
“If no quake relieves the stress caused by the blockage,” Wulfstein said, “it will continue to accumulate—giving rise to a Big One stronger than 9.5 on the Richter scale.”
Byron shook his head. “That’s a mind blower. At least ten million would die if such a quake hit the Great Kantō region.”
Wulfstein turned silent. Byron noticed the old man had never mentioned anything about his family, and despite having made a name for himself in the scientific community, he had few friends. Yet it would be erroneous to say he didn’t have social adeptness, for he often shook his head in sorrow and mentioned how sad the loss of lives would be if his prediction came true.
“Japan may be known as a Necklace of Islets,” Wulfstein said. “But what’s not well known is that Japan is also a Necklace of Calderas.”
Byron remained quiet. He knew any caldera is a supervolcano like Yellowstone, usually circular depression at the summit of a volcano formed when magma was erupted from a shallow underground magma reservoir. Finally he asked, “You mean 130 million souls are going to perish?”
“Only in the extreme, Byron,” Wulfstein said, his face crumbling with sadness. “Only in the extreme.”
The Professor’s ironclad obsession with solving the caldera mystery had overtaken the exciting finds in the western Pacific. How could they relate to each other? And was Wulfstein so morose and sorrowful because he thought the extremes would eventuate?
The mysteries remained. Wulfstein had been searching for other explanations, perhaps even in close touch with other fields of knowledge. For, in a manner befitting the crackpot many said he might be, he had books on Atlantis and Lemuria scattered across his table.
“What are you investigating?” Byron asked, but the old man appeared as if he hadn’t heard him. “Have you found any evidence that the lost continent of Lemuria had dissipated under the waves?”
And in the last few days, the Professor maintained his silence. Whenever Byron drew him into discussion, he clammed up. It became increasingly plain that his nerves had been strained to breaking point. His sorrowful face told a story, and he often appeared teary-eyed; he might be racing against time to find the evidence to support a prediction of a Big One—and losing.
But on the next Saturday, Byron discovered from the Japan Times that the old man had speculated on mythical beasts. “There must be more beasts living in the deep,” Wulfstein wrote. Reading it, he shrugged, resenting Wulfstein’s refusal to admit him into his confidence. After all, Wulfstein had invited him to Japan, and expected them to work together. Instead, the Professor often wandered into another era, another world. Perhaps even into fantasy. How could any beast, however huge or mythical, be relevant to earthquakes? How could he allow himself to be captured by such fantasy? With such extreme conjectures, surely he deserved a reputation as a quack.
Frustrated, Byron could only watch Wulfstein frowning in his armchair, struggling against some odds, seemingly unable to reconcile his thoughts. Although lightning flashed and thunders rolled outside, he remained undistracted. Did he think a calamity would soon occur, and that innumerable lives would be lost?
“All the same,” Wulfstein said suddenly, “one war correspondent may not make a war. But when you see a vulture hovering, you’ll soon find a carcass.”
Byron became confused. Was Wulfstein comparing himself to a war correspondent? A vulture? Or a carcass?
“I’m sorry the conclusion of my prediction has devastating consequences,” Wulfstein continued. “I simply have to investigate the issue to the end.”
The Professor paused, his eyes narrowed to slits. “The compelling thing for me to do is to see the geological mechanisms at work and test the ideas that’ve been on the fringe of accepted scientific theory.”
Byron listened, and now he realized Wulfstein wanted action—back to the graveyard of the earth?
“We must put these ideas to the test,” Wulfstein continued. “Right now, Byron, you are my witness. I’m predicting a major eruption from Mt Fuji within the next six months.”
“Are you sure?” Byron asked. “Mt Fuji had erupted three months ago, but nothing serious had happened.”
“I’m definite. Its silence is only temporary.” Wulfstein slumped back into his seat.
Silent one moment, explosive the next, the Professor himself was acting like a volcano.
Outside, rain and hailstones splattered upon the roof, followed by lights flickering and rolls of thunder.
“Very few will want to hear this,” Wulfstein continued. “We must make a trip to the ocean floor to study its environment. I don’t want to cast my mind to the erroneous predictions made by others. Mind you, a pack of wolves is already at my door.”
Byron wanted to ask, but the phone rang. He answered it and handled it to Wulfstein at the caller’s request. It resulted in a long interchange between Wulfstein and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Byron suspected that the Academy was about to pick the Professor as the winner in geosciences. He had already heard of the award, one with emphasis on “the dynamics of the deeper parts of the earth.” And the recipient was obliged to give a Lecture at the laureate Clifford Prize award.
Once Wulfstein hung up, his eyes looked clouded.
“Congratulations,” Byron said.
Wulfstein looked edgy, his eyes flitting. “I’m expecting the Lecture will be scrutinized by a mix of wolves and vultures.”
“So the Lecture will be a bait?”
“Sure. That’s why I tried to stay away from these conferences and symposiums. I’m happy here, free from the shadow of the scientific community.”
“Have you considered this might be an opportunity to discredit your work as mythology?”
“My work is more than mythology, Byron. More than a billion lives are at stake. If the Lecture is a bait, they can have my neck, too.”
Byron didn’t know exactly what he meant. “Aren’t you concerned that they consider your work has been fouled by your earlier search for the lost city of Atlantis?”
“Don’t you realize our society has already been mythologically fouled? We need to reevaluate everything, including the numerous causes of lost civilizations. Are we an exception, Byron? But our most universal custom is a gobbledygook.”
“Our society is already fouled?”
“Do I need to tell you this, that the grandest festival in the world has its origin in a myth?”
What is the old man trying to say? Is he going to introduce another baffling subject? Astounded, Byron responded with a puzzled look.
“Heads clouded collectively in the sands, our society couldn’t figure out that the festivities of the December 25th holiday originated from the mythological birthday of Mithra, a Babylonian Sun deity that demanded Sunday be kept sacred.”
Byron contemplated for a moment. Odd! This is real odd! Although universal acceptance shouldn’t be the deciding issue, such beliefs were just a collage of man’s quest to understand truth.
“Science and clear thinking will perish from a desire for conformity,” Wulfstein added. “And when I die, I’d like to be remembered as a fish that didn’t go with the flow.”
Byron thought it was this unpopular search Wulfstein had been indulging in since his youth that caused his alienation. An eclipsed aspect of his self-assured identity, created by a deep-seated conviction that had a subconscious effect on him. His mentor couldn’t stop now; he must continue; he’d endured too much to have his work destroyed.
Head bent, Wulfstein fell deeper and deeper in thought, oblivious to everything else.
But Byron’s anxiety rose. Would the Clifford Lecture bring the issue to a climax?
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For years I have been puzzled by an observation, or a question. That question is, of all countries why only Japan has amassed a seppuku culture? Why only the Japanese have taken the trouble indulging such agonizing deaths with so much intensity, splendor and artistry?
The more I mull over it, the more it fascinates me. Japan maybe a necklace of islets, but Japan is also a necklace of calderas. As other plot points came into mind, I found that I needed to become a fiction writer, seeking out understanding as novelist John Gardner once said, ‘Fiction seeks out truth.’
In the process, I found novel writing excites me as it provides the necessary degree of freedom to allow a few other ideas to be explored. These other ideas—bloop, dreams, leviathan, Edgar Cayce, TWA Flight 800, Snowden—all seemingly unconnected but I wanted to thread them in this fictitious writing, far beyond what’s possible in non-fiction.
The settings of Boston and Tokyo in Over Mount Fuji enhance a global theme and serve as a reflection of my diverse backgrounds. And the subplot incorporates a cross-cultural romance in a catastrophic setting, with a somber and reflective ending.
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Nidiot, Jon Richardson
Nidiot is comedian Jon Richardson’s second standup DVD. It kicks off with The Countdown Kid introducing him and Jon skillfully tossing a cowboy hat across a stage and onto a mic stand (by skillfully, I mean they edited out an embarrassing number of takes where he missed). A “nidiot,” as the DVD menu screen explains, is someone who over-thinks things, unlike an idiot who under-thinks things. For example, Jon Richardson talked himself out of having a wank under a willow tree in the middle of nowhere because he reasoned that if a body is found here someday, his DNA will be all over the crime scene.
Most people would rather admit they watch porn than buy this DVD. –Matt Forde
Nidiot features all brand new material, just written this year. The DVD is recorded at one of 82 nights of the tour, this one being one of the two sold-out nights at the Hammersmith Apollo. The backdrop includes a wave form that reacts to laughter and black gloss mirrors. The DVD recording is slightly different than other nights on the tour because they have to light the audience to get those reaction shots. Jon says he finds it interesting to see the audience because he thinks about how much their laughter is based on their background, who they’ve come with, how they got their ticket, etc. Is he over-thinking it?
Jon Richardson is a standup comedian. His memoir is It’s Not Me, It’s You!. He stars in the documentaries A Little Bit OCD and The Real Man’s Road Trip. He is a team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats. @RonJichardson
There is a lot of America material for you anglonerds because it turns out that his trips to America have had a huge effect on him, and I don’t just mean the time that his friend Matt Forde puked and laughed at the same time on their second trip to New York. Filming The Real Man’s Roadtrip with Sean Lock turned Jon vegetarian. He also found happiness when his friend lost his hat on a drunken speedboat party in America.
Well, okay, maybe the real happiness came from finding his fiancee Lucy, who he was set up with by some friends. Not knowing how to deal with this, he panicked and invited her on holiday to Portugal, where he spent the whole trip being violently ill….and yet they’re still together. This is a critical turn for the man who wrote a book about how he was undatable. In the commentary, he notices his shirt is too tight because happiness has given him a belly, and Matt Forde claims fretting burns calories. But don’t worry. Jon’s happiness hasn’t made him boring.
After the amazing apple anus train story in Funny Magnet, Jon delights us with another train story, concluding, “You can’t even get on a train anymore without getting someone else’s insides on you.” If you’re not into puke jokes, this DVD is not for you. Aside from train vomit and Jon’s holiday illness, the commentary is no place for refuge either, as they detail the crimson puke of Matt Forde’s urinal episode in Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant and observe that “ralph” is more of an American term.
Yes, Matt Forde is back for another commentary track, and he is joined by an assortment of characters in half-assed impressions, such as Ed Miliband, Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, Gordon Ramsay, Jeremy Clarkson, Sean Lock, Alan Carr, and more. Jon theorizes that with his personality, he’s better suited to work in a factory where every day is the same rather than in the emotional roller coaster that is the comedy industry. He also unveils his intentions to move back north in the next five years.
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Volunteering at the Boswell Book Festival
The Boswell Book Festival, held at Dumfries House in Ayrshire, is the only festival of biography and memoir in the world and I’ve been to it many times and enjoyed every visit, but being a volunteer exposed me to all sorts of different experiences from what I expected.
I met loads of lovely people, even a blast from the past as a former colleague put it when she approached me, stroked an 8ft Burmese python called Richard, was the first customer in the new Hayloft cafe and stood beside Nigel Havers as he waited to go on stage on the opening night.
I took tickets at the venue doors, directed guests along the necessary one-way system as Dumfries House wasn’t designed for masses of people trooping along its corridors, and sold tickets for the children’s festival. It was such a delight to see so many kids keen to listen to their favourite authors and buy their books. There were plenty of events to keep them occupied too.
Kirsty’s Kritturs had brought along a variety of intriguing creatures that had the children slightly cautious at first but then enthusiastically holding giant cockroaches, patting the Egyptian Uromastyx (or lizard to you and me) and peering in at the tarantula and the scorpion. And of course, stroking Richard the python. He was soft and quite cold so wasn’t really enjoying what passes for early summer here.
The speakers were, as usual, excellent. We were able to attend the events we were working at so I heard Alan Johnson MP deliver his usual insightful, funny and totally self-deprecating interview about his life, from a child in a London slum to being Home Secretary in Gordon Brown’s government.
Richard Ingrams, formerly of Private Eye and now of the Oldie discussed with New Zealander Paul Tankard, the role of James Boswell in journalism and the state of it today with fake news and loss of freedom of speech.
And Robert Crawford spoke most interestingly of the poet TS Eliot and his biography of his early life. There were many other speakers that I didn’t manage to see (there are over 60 events crammed into a weekend) but whose books I will probably buy.
Nigel Havers and a play on the life of Joan Eardley the painter, bookended the festival and both were fascinating in different ways and provided a satisfying beginning and end to the 2017 festival.
Would I do it again? For sure! It was quite hard work at times but so well organised that we did manage to have breaks in between events. It is quite a logistical nightmare to ensure that everything runs smoothly, that speakers are ferried to and from airports and train stations, that the audience gets to the right venue (there are six different ones) and that the speakers’ books are on sale. Kudos to the Waterstone’s staff who rose to the occasion! And of course the organisers themselves, who are, like us, volunteers and do it for the love of it.
Roll on next year!
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So sorry to have missed which is surely one of the most enjoyable Bookie things of the year especially when it concentrates on non-fiction.
Sounds like you had a most enjoyable weekend.
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Chimney Sweep in Bushey, Hertfordshire
Chimney sweeping in Bushey
The history of Bushey
The first written record of the town of Bushey is an account in the Domesday Book, which describes a small agricultural village named 'Bissei' during the 12th century. Since then, archaeological findings of Stone Age tools provide evidence that the area was inhabited as far back as the Palaeolithic period. The town also has Roman links from the time Britain was occupied. A Roman tessellated, or mosaic pavement was discovered near Chiltern Avenue in Bushey
The origin of the Bushey name is not really known. Some suggest it may have meant 'Byssa's Isle', and that it started out as a lake type village that was surrounded by marshes, streams and lakes. A more modern theory is that it is simply derived from the Old English word bysce and Old French boisseie, meaning a 'place covered with wood'. The latter theory could prove more apt, as the town is located on the border of the Chiltern Valleys, which were once smothered in a very dense forest.
Accounts of Bushey Heath begin during the Napoleonic Wars while there was a serious food shortage. To help solve the problem, the government awarded the waste land to the east of Bushey to wealthy Bushey landowners to be used for farming and this land was more generally known as Bushey Common. The main purpose of this was to produce food from the difficult clay soil.
The 19th and 20th centuries marked the time of most change in Bushey, especially between 1860-1960 CE. The population of Bushey rose 28 fold within two centuries, from 856 in 1801, to just under 24,000 today. One of the main reasons for this growth was due to the boom in industry caused by the railway in the early 20th century. A result of this was that many new jobs were created in and around the Watford area, and in the early 1920s, Busheys first council houses were built. More housing was later built for the service families working in defence organisations in Stanmore and Northwood. The expansion eventually died down, due to much of the land in and around Bushey being protected under the Metropolitan Green Belt following the Second World War.
Stories, legends and folklore of Bushey
Because there was very little farming in Bushey Heath in years gone by, it meant that Bushey Heath was a heavily wooded area right up until the 18th century. There was also a severe lack of street lighting and police, that meant that Bushey Heaths history is littered with tales of thieves, highwaymen and even murder. The road from Bushey Heath to Stanmore is reported to be where the highwaymen carried out their crimes. Here they would lay in wait, ready to pounce and rob the dozen of carriages that passed through Bushey Heath on a daily basis from their trade in London. Before travellers and traders would dare to attempt the journey, they would form up at the Boot Inn at Edgware and the Three Crowns at Bushey Heath so they would not have to attempt the journey alone. One of the highwaymen that was claimed to have been responsible for the attacks on this route was the legendary highwayman Dick Turpin, although evidence would suggest that he was in fact more active in and around Essex.
What Ansell Chimneys do when they visit your Bushey home?
We usually require about half an hour per chimney to do a proper sweep.
It is important that the area in front of the fire is cleared so we have no furniture in the way to hinder access to the fireplace and it protects your valuables too. An area of about 6 square feet should be adequate.
On certain properties, the chimney may be swept through an external hatch in the chimney breast. Although these are great from our point of view for access, we will still need to come into your home to ensure that no debris from the sweeping process has fallen into the fireplace or any soot has fallen into the room, causing a mess.
With the use of dust sheets over the fireplace, we effectively seal off the area as an extra barrier against chimney debris getting into the room. However, if soft furnishings or delicate objects are close to the fireplace, we ask that you cover these or remove them just to make sure they are safe.
You will not be required to cover all the furniture and surfaces in the room where the fireplace is, unless you really want to.
All we really need is somewhere close by to plug in our powerful vacuum cleaner. We can then commence the sweeping process with our brushes, rods and the vacuum to remove the soot and any other debris that is dislodged.
Ansell Chimneys will leave your room, fireplace and chimney clean and safe to use once again.
Call Ansell Chimneys out to Bushey when it's convenient for you
To be certain of a safely operating chimney, you should have them swept about once a year. The most sensible time to have your chimney swept is during the warmer months, as you are unlikely to be using the fire. Like so many things that happen annually, it's all too easy to forget to book them in time, so to get around this problem Ansell Chimneys offer a useful reminder service and will give you a call annually or bi-annually, the choice is yours.
Ansell Chimneys keep your Bushey home clean and dust free
Most people think that chimney sweeping is one of the dirtiest procedures around, but the method Ansell Chimneys use means that very little soot, dust or debris will find its way into your living space. We offer a very clean service so you can keep your Bushey home clean.
Why not ask Ansell Chimneys for advice on sweeping your chimney in Bushey
Ansell Chimneys really are the experts, If you are experiencing a lack of draw on a chimney, or smoke finding its way back into your room, give us a call; we are always very happy to provide advice on what could potentially be a life threatening situation.
Ansell Chimneys advice is free of charge. If you can't use your fire because it's dangerous, you will be missing out on the homely glow a real fire brings during the winter months. So why not give us a call and get that open fire up and running again.
Cost of chimney sweeping services
Our prices are based on the property location and number of chimneys that need sweeping. Please contact us for a no obligation quote. As Bushey is not far from our head office, jobs here will not attract a higher quote.
Birds nests and blockage removal in Bushey
One of the first signs that an animal is making a home, or has previously made one in your chimney is that there will be twigs, leaves or other debris in the fireplace that has fallen from above. The most frequent culprits that like to set up residence in your chimneys tend to be some of the carrion birds, such as crows and magpies and occasionaly squirrels. There are plenty of these creatures around Bushey and as the town expands, their natural habitat is decreased. This simply means they will look for an alternative place to roost or nest, as the number of trees diminishes.
Any obstruction in a chimney can be potentially lethal! It's not just the solid fuel fires that are a problem either, even a gas fire will release carbon monoxide back into the living space if it can't escape safely up the chimney. When it comes to a fire that burns solid fuels, the chimney can become blocked resulting in smoke coming back into the room or a chimney fire could start, causing a huge amount of expensive damage to the rest of your home.
If you think there is a blockage in your chimney, don't wait for something bad to happen, give us a call immediately. We will remove the blockage and in doing so, be in a better position to tell you why it happened in the first place. For example, there may be a loose or dislodged brick or piece of mortar. It may even be a nest from a bird or squirrel and a bird cap or cowl may well be the answer to prevent it happening again in the future.
Because birds eggs and nests are protected by law in England and Wales and that there may be hatched baby birds in a nest, we will not remove nests during the breeding season, which is May & June, this ensures that the young have had a good chance to leave the nest. After all, there are fewer birds around Bushey already because of loss of habitat, light pollution and the increase in the number of cats that are kept as pets. Ansell Chimneys like to ensure that we don't contribute to the decline of our little feathered friends.
Bird cages, caps and cowls fitted in Bushey
Should your chimney require a cap or cowl, Ansell Chimneys will have the one to suit your property to protect against the following:
Birds or squirrels getting into and possibly nesting in the chimney
Our caps and cowls prevent rain from getting into the chimney
A good quality cowl or cap stops down drafts
To prevent bird and rain entry to a disused chimney, leaving the homeowner with an option to start using a fire in the future without having to clear many years build up of debris.
It is vital to fit the correct type of bird cage, cowl or cap, or problems may occur. With Ansell Chimneys valuable experience, we can identify your particular needs and advise you on the correct type for your situation. We will also look at the other houses nearby to ensure we fit one that is in keeping with the Bushey area.
Ansell Chimneys fit all the major types of cages, caps and cowls, so let us know what you want to keep out of your chimney and we can tell you what would be the best option for you.
Ansell Chimneys have a selection of cowls in our vans to demonstrate what they look like and what they are most effective at keeping out of the chimney. We will then arrange to come back to Bushey to install the correct cap or cowl to your chimney.
Fitting the caps and cowls is a relatively straightforward job and we do everything we can to avoid the need for scaffolding or other specialised access equipment, a ladder will usually be sufficient.
Fortunately, Bushey is well within our 'areas covered' range so this will not push the price up at all for either chimney sweeping or bird caps and cowl fitting.
Smoke tests
After Ansell Chimneys have swept your chimney, we carry out a quick, simple but effective test to ensure there is the correct draw and no smoke or other pollutants can flow back into your living space. This is quite simply a match-like device that smokes profusely when burnt and is placed just above the site of the fire. If the smoke is neatly drawn up the chimney, the fire will be safe to use.
So if you live in Bushey and need your chimney swept, why not call or email Ansell Chimneys and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
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Reading Nietzsche: Enough With Plato Already
Posted on August 30, 2013 by expedeherculem under Uncategorized
“For heaven’s sake, do not throw Plato at me,” Nietzsche wrote in Twighlight of the Idols, in what I have found to be one of the best sources of background information on the development of his thought: a section called What I Owe to the Ancients. After extolling the early Greeks and explaining that 19th-Century (and indeed, contemporary) thinkers could not understand them without the intermediary Romans (“Who could ever have learned to write from a Greek? Who could ever have learned it without the Romans?”), Nietzsche lays seige to one of the longest-standing intellectual castles: Plato’s The Republic:
I am complete skeptic about Plato, and I have never been able to join in the admiration for the artist Plato which is customary among scholars. In the end, the subtlest judges of taste among the ancients themselves are here on my side. Plato, it seems to me, throws all stylistic forms together and is thus a first-rate decadent in style: his responsibility in thus comparable to that of the Cynics, who invented the satura Menippea. To be attracted by the Platonic dialogue, this horribly self-satisfied and childish kind of dialectic, one must never have read good French writers—Fontenelle, for example. Plato is boring.
In the end, my mistrust of Plato goes deep: he represents such an aberration from all the basic instincts of the Hellene, is so moralistic, so pre-existently Christian—he already takes the concept “good” for the highest concept—that for the whole phenomenon Plato I would sooner use the harsh phrase “higher swindle,” or, if it sounds better, “idealism,” than any other.
Not surprisingly, I for one tend to agree. In fact, I wrote a paper in my favorite political philosophy class in college about Plato/Socrates losing the argument presented in the book, which I somehow later adapted into a totally different paper about Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (the hallmark of such a “well-rounded” humanities education at a small liberal arts school, right?).
The character of Thrasymachus in The Republic, Plato’s scowling straw-man, is of particular importance, and is worth looking up—as much as it’s worth re-reading Republic with him as the unlikely protagonist. He argues the nihilist viewpoint quite well, despite Plato’s linguistic tricks and the fact that he is the one telling the story. And while at first it might seem that he’s attempting to justify any action whatsoever, as long as its made in the pursuit of strength, what he’s really doing is challenging the premise that there is an ideal human—or ideal human-made worldview—in the first place.
Here is where Nietzsche also has a problem, writing in the aforementioned section: “In that great calamity, Christianity, Plato represents the ambiguity and fascination, called an ‘ideal,’ which made it possible for the nobler spirits of antiquity to misunderstand themselves and to set foot on the bridge leading to the cross.”
But before digging even that deep, I think one could find fault with The Republic‘s justification of, if not call for, a rigid caste system enforced by an arbitrary and lopsided hierarchy, as if “king” and “justice” could be uttered in the same breath coherently. That, by the way, is my same critique of Bob Marley, which I’ve detailed here.
And yet, every philosophy student will still read The Republic and most likely come away with the exact opposite response that should be expected of a truly critical thinker: namely, that someone can will something into existence simply by asserting it, and that the burden of proof is then on the listener of such an assertion and not on its author. Plato insists that there must be this thing that is an essence of intrinsic goodness, and then hears compelling evidence to the contrary (most notably by our friend Thrasymachus), and then continues to insist on his original assertion unmodified—and then, further, builds a whole undemocratic militarized State with said assertion as the foundation. Pretty boring, eh?
A poem by Louise Glück:
You have only to wait, they will find you.
The geese flying low over the marsh,
glittering in black water.
They find you.
And the deer–
how beautiful they are,
as though their bodies did not impede them.
Slowly they drift into the open
through bronze panels of sunlight.
Why would they stand so still
if they were not waiting?
Almost motionless, until their cages rust,
the shrubs shiver in the wind,
squat and leafless.
You have only to let it happen:
that cry — release, release — like the moon
wrenched out of the earth and rising
full in its circle of arrows
until they come before you
like dead things, saddled with flesh,
and you above them, wounded and dominant.
Here’s some commentary on the poem, and a brief bio of the poet.
This poem reminds me of a previous one I posted, called “The Animals,” which ends with a call, “Will any come back will one / Saying yes / Saying look carefully yes / We will meet again.” The opening line of this one, “You only have to wait, they will find you.” is almost a continuation of the previous one, in the same way that “Fourth Time Around” is a continuation of “Norweigan Wood (This Bird Has Flown).” Glück answers the question: you don’t have to follow them, just wait and they will find you—as if to say: you can’t evade them even if you wanted to; the material world is still (and will always be) the limit.
The last stanza alludes to the impending crash, if not to the on-going and ever-intensifying disappointment created by modern humans’ interaction with nature: we stand above the organisims, but only in our own minds, as they appear “like dead things” and we dominate, yes, but by doing so are also “wounded” in the process. The endgame of such a domination will not be pretty.
The first stanza, which uses the image of geese flying over water, reminds me of “There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves” by James Kavanaugh. In the dedication to his book of poems, Kavanaugh wrote:
A cat named Ralph who makes me laugh
and feel loved
And a tired old man who makes me cry
and feel helpless. But especially to those
Who can hear the honking of geese
above the sound of traffic
Who can hear the weeping of boys
above the sound of mortars
Who refuse to take life as it is—
because it wasn’t always
who look close enough to see
the hurt hidden in anger,
the fear disguised in arrogance,
the eloquence locked in silence beyond all words,
To those who love the faces in the city.
“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” – H.L. Mencken
Reading Nietzsche: On the Writing Process
Due to his deteriorating mental condition near the end of his life, Nietzsche never did what a lot of writers do in their twilight: offer insight into their writing process and thoughts on their own work. That is, I thought Nietzsche never did that, until I read this passage from Beyond Good and Evil:
Alas, and yet what are you, my written and painted thoughts! It is not long ago that you were still so many-coloured, young and malicious, so full of thorns and hidden spices you made me sneeze and laugh—and now? You have already taken off your novelty and some of you, I fear, are on the point of becoming truths: they already look so immortal, so pathetically righteous, so boring! And has it ever been otherwise? For what things do we write and paint, we mandarins with Chinese brushes, we immortalizers of things which let themselves be written, what alone are we capable of painting? Alas, only that which is about to wither and is beginning to lose its fragrance! Alas, only storms departing exhausted and feelings grown old and yellow! Alas, only birds strayed and grown—in our hand! We immortalize that which cannot live and fly much longer, weary and mellow things alone! And it is only your afternoon, my written and painted thoughts, for which alone I have the colours, many colours perhaps, many many-couloured tendernesses and fifty yellows and browns and greens and reds: —but no one will divine from these how you looked in your morning, you sudden sparks and wonders of my solitude, you my old beloved—wicked thoughts!
While, in his usual fashion, Nietzsche relishes in linguistic acrobatics in lieu of straightforwardness, even when supposedly offering some kind of introspective illumination, he still manages with this passage to give us a look into the writer’s mind, if only briefly. And he does so in a strange way: by writing a letter to his own words, as if once on the page, they not only existed outside of his mind but could change on their own, and could, presumably, communicate ideas not entirely Nietzsche’s (how prophetic!).
I must admit, it’s downright comforting to realize that even Nietzsche, who could write about paint drying and make it interesting (if not controversial), bemoaned the challenge of putting thoughts to paper while keeping their initial dynamism. Even Nietzsche apparently found it hard at times to translate the flickerings of brilliance that we all experience—either while drifting off to sleep or while pausing to look out the window during work, or while driving down an almost abandoned street in the middle of a stark night—into a coherent, let alone captivating, text.
Nietzsche also must’ve been frustrated by that all-too-human process of self-editing, whereby we always ask ourselves what so-and-so would say (for me it’s my 10th-grade English teacher), whether the thing we’re writing is any good at all, or if that em dash should really be a colon or vice versa. It’s always a good idea to read your own writing, but this net that we cast can also sometimes catch some flashes of beauty, truth, or real meaning, and perhaps there might be something lost in the process. Even before we get to the computer or find some paper to write on, the initial thought we had is turned over in our minds: is shaped, refined, and constrained.
Of course, this passage only makes me more intrigued about what Nietzsche didn’t write, or edited out, considering what eventually did end up on the page set the bar for all philosophy (in the West, at least) ever since. Luckily, there’s stoo so much of his writing which I haven’t read yet, so it’s back to the book! …
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noun, plural ol·i·gar·chies.
1. a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
2. a state or organization so ruled.
3. the persons or class so ruling.
Now that you’re familiar with ALEC (and if you’re not, read this), you might be curious as to its corporate members. When organizing to change legislation, to influence policy decisions, or even simply to build cadre, it’s important to be specific. Yes, ALEC is a giant octopus that we may never have comprehensive knowledge of, some things can be deduced by simple internet searches. A trip to the library also awaits. In the meantime, here are some sources for lists of corporate members of ALEC, just to get started:
Task Force members as of July 2011, from Common Cause
Wikipedia list of members (scroll down)
List of Task Forces on ALEC website
ALEC’s IRS audit
Granted, the full list of current corporate members is unknown (listing them would violate their Constitutional rights of speech and free association, say Conservatives*), but we can assume with some degree of certainty that any openly Right-wing company is in some way involved. Cracker Barrel, for example, is included in the first list linked above. They are also included in Alternet’s short list of 5 food companies run by radical right-wingers. No surprise there.
from veracitystew.com
And then, of course, there are a bunch of oil companies and banks, who we know run everything in this country anyway, ALEC or no ALEC. But ALEC is of particular importance because they draft the bills like the one passed by the Texas legislature this summer. As we continue building a feminist movement, we might want to entertain the time-honored tradition of hitting people in the pocket book. Could calling out, boycotting, or pressuring corporate members of ALEC be a viable strategy as we move forward?
* Linda Upmeyer asks in the Chicago Tribune: “Are we upholding the ideals of the Constitution if we tolerate the liberal senator using his position to stifle the speech of a free-market nonprofit he disagrees with?” HA.
A poem by Mary Oliver:
out of the meadow’s brose
and swung over the lake –
it settled
on the small black dome
of a dead pine,
alert as an admiral,
its profile
distinguished with sideburns
the color of smoke,
and I said: remember
this is not something
of the red fire, this is
heaven’s fistful
of death and destruction,
and the hawk hooked
one exquisite foot
onto a last twig
to look deeper
into the yellow reeds
along the edges of the water
the tree, the cave,
the white lilly of resurrection,
and that’s when it simply lifted
its golden feet and floated
into the wind, belly-first,
and then it cruised along the lake –
all the time its eyes fastened
harder than love on some
unimportant rustling in the
yellow reeds — and then it
seemed to crouch high in the air, and then it
turned into a white blade, which fell.
From Owls and Other Fantasies
Collected commentary on Mary Oliver’s poetry
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Keeping his crown: Lewis Hamilton captures sixth career drivers’ title
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Lewis Hamilton claimed his third straight and sixth career FIA Formula One™ World Drivers’ Championship at the United States Grand Prix, putting the finishing touches on Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport’s record-setting sixth consecutive championship double.
With his sixth title, Hamilton now sits alone with the second-most drivers’ crowns, moving ahead of Juan Manuel Fangio. Michael Schumacher holds the most titles in history with seven.
Valtteri Bottas took the checkered flag at the Circuit of the Americas, winning his fourth race of the season as Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport captured their ninth 1-2 of the campaign.
SIX-TIME WORLD CHAMPION! . Congratulations @lewishamilton . #F1 #Formula1 #USGP #LewisHamilton #Champion #Mercedes @mercedesamgf1
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Lewis Hamilton: “It’s hard to explain what I’m feeling right now, to be honest. Cloud nine doesn’t even get close, it’s somewhere far above that. It’s been the hardest year I can remember; it’s been so challenging, going through the ups and downs, so right now I’m just so full of emotion, it’s overwhelming. I feel truly humbled, and really, really grateful to everyone back at the factories, the entire Daimler family and everyone at PETRONAS – everyone who has worked so hard to enable us to do what we do and achieve this. It’s such a privilege and honor to work for this team, to be able to go out there and have the platform to put in performances like today. And Niki, I miss him so much. Today, he’d have taken his cap off. I wouldn’t have been able to do this without Niki, he’s here with us in spirit. I saw my parents right after the race and seeing my dad’s smile, it says it all. My family have supported me since day one, they worked so hard for me to be here today. I’m so glad they could all come out here, together. Yesterday was a difficult day and today I just wanted to recover and deliver a one-two for the team. Valtteri did a fantastic job, so huge congratulations to him.”
CHAMPION OF THE WORLD! 🏆 GET IN THERE, LEWIS!!!! SIX TIME F1 WORLD CHAMPION!! YOU HAVE DONE IT!!! 👊 #ATeamComeTrue
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Valtteri Bottas: “First of all huge congratulations to Lewis – six championships is an impressive achievement! He had a strong season and he deserves the title, he was better overall. Lewis is a tough opponent, he has very few weaknesses, makes almost no mistakes and drives very consistently. But I’ve been gaining some good momentum, so I’m looking forward to another close fight with him next year. It’s been a really good weekend for me and the team. I struggled at this track in previous years, so it was great to cross the line in first place. It was not an easy race; I had a strong start and a good first stint, but we had to switch to a two-stop to cover Max and I was a bit worried that Lewis on the one-stop might be on the better strategy. It was a proper fight and quite a bit of fun; I had to really push, but my pace was strong and I managed to catch Lewis towards the end. We had a good battle on track and I passed him to secure the win. It feels really good to win the race like that when you have to really fight for it.”
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Toto Wolff: “I’m so proud of everyone – what an incredible achievement! There’s a massive amount of work behind the scenes to secure a result like this, where one driver claims the Championship and the other one wins the race. A massive thank you to everyone who contributed to this – here at the track, back at home in Brackley and Brixworth, at Daimler in Stuttgart and at PETRONAS in Kuala Lumpur. Taking his sixth drivers’ title is a truly remarkable and special achievement. You can see how motivated Lewis still is, he wants to win every race and get the best result possible. It’s not been an easy year, with tough competition and the loss of Niki. I’d like to think Niki’s looking down on us, tipping his cap after today’s result. Valtteri drove an absolutely faultless race today, he has been on incredible form all weekend and he thoroughly deserved the victory. Lewis fought back in style and put in a great drive to go from P5 to P2.”
James Allison: “The amount of effort it takes to win a championship is huge, so when it all comes to the final fruition, you just swell up with great, great pleasure – and to have the cherry on the cake of standing on that podium looking out on our team and everybody in the crowd was fantastic. It’s brilliant to be part of this team – it makes you really keen to work, it takes you way above and beyond what you would normally give because you’re surrounded by all these people that you don’t want to let down and you enjoy being in an environment that is supporting you, letting you take risks, letting you screw up, but not slapping you in the face for it, just urging you on collectively as you go. It’s an exciting place to be and it tends to make people want to be in it. Today, we all think of Niki who was such an important part of our team. Losing him was quite a massive blow, particularly to Toto who spent so much of his working life with him, but for all of us as well, because Niki was someone with such a big personality, such a huge figure in our sport and such a friend to the team. I think he would have appreciated this – doing it in such fine style this year, he would have seen this as a team at the top of its game. He’d probably be telling us to work on next years car now, but I think we’ve done him proud this season.”
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In 1877, following the Haymarket Massacre the Chicago police formed a “red squad” to investigate radical political groups. This trend soon continued nationwide and in the early 20th Century the Justice Department even opened up a Radical Division--headed by J. Edgar Hoover. As the Radical Division eventually became the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the FBI made it a central part of their mission to surveil, disrupt, and neutralize “radical and subversive” groups. Following the mass movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the political police were put on the defensive. The FBI, as well as many local police departments, claimed to have been reformed and insisted they would no longer investigate free speech, but crime. Yet, as soon as these “reforms” were implemented, the FBI, along with local law enforcement, began using counterterrorism authorities to investigate peace groups, racial justice groups, and economic justice groups--in other words the same old targets. This panel will trace the history of the FBI, as the political police, as well as look at how in spite of claims of “reform” the FBI continues to carry on the same political investigations just using different powers. It will also examine recent cases of spying by the FBI and local law enforcement.
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Monopoly capitalism creates the export of capital and modern imperialism, the subjugation of nations. The struggle of oppressed nations for liberation and national equality against imperialism is a direct struggle against monopoly capitalism and aligns with the fight of the working class against exploitation. Workers in imperialist nations must support liberation struggles of oppressed nations in their own interests. The struggle against national oppression and imperialism connects to issues of racism, war, refugees, immigration, trade, manufacturing, wages, etc.
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Releasing the Grip of Corporate Domination of Our State
California experienced some corporate-free progressive electoral victories in the 2018 primary season and we should all focus our efforts on bringing corporate-free progressive candidates and progressive ballot measures into a full victory come November. Yet it must be said that overall the CA primary did not yield the uplifting electoral results that many of us had hoped for.
The good news is that many of us are clear that winning elections is only part of the needed work ahead. It is largely thought that by participating in the electoral process we can change and improve our lives. This is only partially true.
We all know that the electoral process is set up against the interests of working people.
The electoral process allows candidates to be bought and creates a pseudo-democracy, a fake-democracy, in which most elected officials end up doing what their corporate funders want,and play the ?reform-game? (changing/improving minor aspects of life to keep a system going that is rotten to the core by greed, economic inequality, social oppression, environmental destruction and permanent war.)
Elections are important opportunities, however, to organize and develop power for working families and take power away from the 1% oligarchs that rule. Participating in elections needs to be essentially about developing working people power and the role of anyone elected by working people must be to accumulate more power for working people.
Only an enormous accumulation of power in the hands of an organized working class will allow us to resolve our problems and survive and do well.
It will happen, hopefully in time.
(Not too many centuries ago it was unthinkable that the all powerful monarchies would be toppled and abolished. Most are gone. Perhaps corporations will be someday soon be ?abolished?, or at least pushed back to their ?only temporary? status.)
As true progressives, our most important role in 2018 post-primary California must be to assure that the momentum for organizing working people continues and that our movement grows to its fullest potential. That means looking beyond party affiliation. Today working people in our state are of various political persuasions. They are registered to vote in various political parties or are registered No Party Preference (NPP). NPP is now the second largest category of voter registrations (2nd only to Democrats) in the state numbering nearly 5 million voters. A corporate-free alliance of progressive groups and individuals based on shared values and vision, regardless of party affiliation or no affiliation, offers a way forward. This panel will discuss that option as a next step for California progressives.
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Conveners of the Coalition for Peace, Revolution, and Social Justice will review the formation of a new Los Angeles anti-war coalition: How it was formed, how it operates, what sort of progress has been made, where is it headed?
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Outdated Democracy: A 21st Century Civics Lesson is a documentary film project that examines and evaluates our 19th century electoral system, explains why our democracy is failing, and offers solutions for updating our antiquated electoral system so that it works for everyone. This presentation combines chapters from the film project with a lively audience discussion led by filmmaker, writer and former high school civics teacher Lisa Elaine Scott.
?The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!? Corporate news is consumed with covering the Trump/Russia affair, but it pales in comparison to the real threats in people?s lives--climate change, underemployment, poverty, lack of health care, lack of clean water--just to name a few. How should independent news cover the most pressing issues of our times without speaking into their own silos? In the age of Trump, is the future of independent media at risk? Join us for an open discussion and an opportunity for feedback with The Real News hosts and featured guests.
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Should the Democratic Socialists of America continue to support Democrats for office, or should they break from the Democratic Party and with others, help to form a new, viable third party completely free of the two party system? This forum is less of a debate and more of a panel discussion with DSA and Green Party member, Jabari Brisport; radical labour historian and North Star editorial board member, Mark Lause; and from the DSA National Political Committee, Dele Balogun.
Immigration enforcement in the US has been ramped up to unprecedented levels under the ideologically nativist Trump administration. The harms experienced by immigrant communities under the policies of the Trump administration and those of his predecessors remain an under-researched aspect of the critical criminology of migration. The speakers included on this thematic panel are working collectively to build an academic literature around these harms and the systems & structures that motivate their continued - and expanding - imposition.
During this panel discussion, we will deconstruct the democratic establishment and the methods they use to work against true progressive candidates. We will discuss what works in boosting progressives in districts and states won by Donald Trump by large margins in 2016. Mike Pence’s home state of Indiana was won by Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Primary in 2016 and then won by Donald Trump in the general election by 19 percentage points. We will discuss what makes progressive campaigns different, a critical look at the recent development of progressive pacts such as Our Revolution, Brand New Congress, and Justice Democrats. Where do progressive candidates in Red States go from here? #DemEnter or #DemExit A look toward 2020.
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Series 25: Articles and Speeches
Folder 8: Notes
Folder 9: Lists of Speeches and Articles, 1929-68
Folder 10: "Is Something Wrong with Current Engineering Education?", 1908
Folder 11: "A Sound Mind in a Sound Body" in American Boy, May 1919
Folder 12: Articles by Brundage, 1926-29
Folder 13: "One Hundred Feet Under Chicago with a Caisson Digger", ca. 1928
Folder 14: Radio Talk Notes, January 1929
Folder 15: AAU, 41st Annual Convention, "In Defense of the Amateur Code", November 1929
Folder 16: Sportsmanship Brotherhood, December 30, 1939
Folder 17: Speech Notes, 1930
Folder 18: Welcome Speech to British Empire Track Team, 1930
Folder 19: Bobby Jones Dinner, 1930
Folder 20: NCAA Convention, December 31, 1930
Folder 22: Athletic Policy Notes, Chicago Athletic Association, February 25, 1931
Folder 23: Chicago Tribune dinner for French and American Boxers, May 11, 1931
Folder 24: "Athletics and Industry", 1931
Folder 25: Speeches, Athletics and Business, June 10, 1931
Folder 27: Catholic Youth Organization, January 3, 1933
Folder 29: "For Honor of Country and Glory of Sport" in Olympic News, August, 1934
Folder 30: College Alumni and Athletics, November 23, 1934
Folder 33: Articles, Building Construction Business, December 1936
Folder 35: IOC, 36th Session, Warsaw, 1937
Folder 37: Baron de Coubertin Speech, 1938
Folder 38: University of Illinois Speech, 1938
Folder 1: Chicago Olympics, August 28, 1938
Folder 2: Speech Notes, 1939
Folder 3: University of Chicago, 1939
Folder 4: Talks in Japan, 1939
Folder 5: "The Coach as Key Man", February 1939
Folder 6: "Chicago" at the Federated Advertising Club, March 9, 1939
Folder 7: Articles, 1940
Folder 9: Citizens to Keep America Out of War Committee Speech, August 4, 1940
Folder 10: "The All American Way," Premier Showing, January 10, 1941
Folder 11: Sheldon Clark Dinner, December 10, 1941
Folder 12: Avery Brundage Book, Russian Sports, Notes, 1942
folder missing
Folder 13: Sports and the USA, 1942
folder digitized
Folder 14: First Pan American Games, Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 1942
Folder 15: "Outline" of article on Amateurism and Olympics, February 9, 1942
Folder 17: Dedication of the "Press Gallery," Hotel La Salle, December 11, 1943
Folder 19: Central American and Caribbean Game Speeches, 1946
Folder 20: National Four Wall Softball Championships, 1946
Folder 21: "The Olympic Game and the Question of Broken Time," in Amateur Athletics, May 1947
Folder 23: Broken Time, addresses and talks, 1947-48
Folder 24: "The Olympic Games," in Amateur Athlete, August 1948
Folder 26: Knights of Columbus Program, January 17, 1948
Folder 27: "Amateur Sport and Broken Time," in World Sports, November 1948
Folder 28: Holiday Greeting in Allsports, November 1948
Folder 29: Cornerstone Message, Cromwell and Collier Building, 1949
Folder 30: City of Santa Barbara Award Acceptance Speech, July 2, 1949
Folder 31: Notes on Sports, Politics, Art, and the Olympic Movement, 1950-59
Folder 32: Central American and Caribbean Games, 1950
Folder 33: Football Memos, 1950
Folder 34: 44th Session Speech, Copenhagen, May 1950
Folder 35: "Stop, Look, and Listen", ca. 1951
Folder 36: "What's Wrong with College Football?", October 7, 1951
Folder 37: Data, Statements, Talks, 1952-59
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Folder 1: Data, Statements, Talks, 1952-59
Folder 3: New Year's Message, 1952
Folder 4: "The Fumbled Ball," in The Phi Delta Kappan, March 1952
Folder 5: Olympic Telethon, June 21, 1952
Folder 6: "My Biggest Olympic Battles" in This Week, June 29, 1952
Folder 7: Remarks upon accepting keys of IOC office from J.S. Edstrom at Lausanne Dinner, 1952
Folder 8: Memos and Notes on sports, art, and politics, 1952-58
Folder 10: Messages and articles, 1954-57
Folder 11: Sports speeches, 1954-56, 1959
Folder 12: "After Three Weeks in Russia" Commonwealth Club of California, 1954
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Folder 14: University of Illinois School of Physical Education Dinner, November 1954
Folder 15: Articles, 1955
Folder 16: Pan American Sports Congress in Mexico, January 3, 1955
Folder 17: "What I Saw in Three Weeks Behind the Iron Curtain," Economic Club of Detroit, 1954-55
Folder 18: "The Russian Menace in Next Year's Olympics" The Saturday Evening Post, April 30, 1955
Folder 19: IOC 50th Session Speech, Paris, June 13-17, 1955
Folder 20: "Olympische Grundsatze" in Leichtathletik, December 20, 1955
Folder 21: Statement for Sovietskaja, Russia, 1956
Folder 22: Olympians Meeting Statement, New York, May 11, 1956
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Folder 24: III Pan American Games, Chicago, 1959
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Folder 26: "Broken Time", April 7, 1969
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Folder 12: IOC 73rd Session, Munich, 1972
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Folder 14: Channel City Club, November 3, 1972
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Folder 16: Chicago Youth Week, 1973
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Folder 20: Amateurism, 1929-39
Folder 22: Amateurism, 1929
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Folder 3: Amateurism, 1972
Folder 4: Amateur Athletic Union
Folder 5: Amateur Athletic Union, 1929
Folder 6: Amateur Athletic Union, 1930-38
Folder 8: Amateur Athletic Union, 1942-46, 1949
Folder 10: Amateur Athletic Union, 1960-62, 1969
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Folder 11: Association of Commerce and Industry, ca. 1930's
Folder 12: Campaigns to Promote, 1939
Folder 13: Association of Commerce and Industry, 1940-41
Folder 14: Olympic Site and Sports Center, 1955, 1958
Folder 15: Olympic Games, 1928
Folder 16: X Olympiad, Los Angeles, 1932
Folder 17: Olympic Games, 1933-36
Folder 18: IV Winter Games, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 1936
Folder 19: XI Olympiad, Berlin, 1936, 1938
Folder 1: XII Olympiad, Osaka, 1938
Folder 2: Olympic Games, 1938-39
Folder 4: On the XIV Olympiad, London and the V Winter Games, St. Moritz, 1948
Folder 6: XV Olympiad, Helsinki, 1952
Folder 7: XVI Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956
Folder 8: VIII Winter Games, Squaw Valley, 1958-60
Folder 9: XVII Olympiad, Rome, 1960
Folder 10: IX Winter Games, Innsbruck, February, 1964, 1961, 1964
Folder 11: V Olympiad, Stockholm, 1912, 1962
Folder 13: XVIII Olympiad,Tokyo, 1962, 1964, 1967
Folder 15: X Winter Games, Grenoble, 1968
Folder 16: XIX Olympiad, Mexico City, October 12-27, 1968
Folder 18: XI Winter Games, Sapporo, 1972
Folder 19: XX Olympiad, Munich, 1972
Folder 20: Olympic Movement
Folder 21: Olympic Movement, 1938
Folder 1: Olympic Movement, 1954-59
Folder 3: Olympic Movement, Olympic Academy, 1965-69
Folder 4: Olympic Movement, Transatlantic Forum, July 4, 1967
Folder 5: Olympic Movement, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., September 17, 1968
Folder 7: Olympic Movement, 1972
Folder 8: Not By Avery Brundage, 1926, 1934-39, 1948
Folder 9: United States Olympic Committee, 1935-39
Folder 10: United States Olympic Committee, 1935-39
Folder 12: United States Olympic Committee, 1940-42, 1948
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Folder 1: Notes and memorandums
Folder 2: Interviews, 1931
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Book review: ‘The Lumen Seed’ by Judith Crispin (2016)
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Publisher: Daylight Books
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers should be aware that the posting on this book contains images and names of people who may have since passed away.
Judith Crispin
Sonya Napaljarri Cook Painting
Warnayaka Arts Centre, Lajamanu Community NT, December 2015
Tabra Nakamarra’s Puppy
Lajamanu Community NT, June 2015
Truth and consequence in red dirt country
Australia has a long tradition of social documentary photography, dating back to the late nineteenth century. From Fred Kruger’s photographs of the Aboriginal community at Coranderrk in the 1870-80s through, variously but not exclusively:
Frank Hurley‘s photographs of the First World War, Antarctic exploration, Aboriginal communities and Australian industry
F. Oswald Barnett and his photographs of the slums of Melbourne in the 1930s
Charles P. Mountford (1890-1976) was an ethnographer and photographer, working from the 1930s-1960s who “showed a keen interest in and respect for Aboriginal culture, a fact that is evident in his archive. Although peppered with the vernacular and attitudes of the times, Mountford’s writing, and more tellingly his photographs, are indicative of his belief that Aboriginal life was richer and more complex than most white Australians conceded.” (State Library of South Australia)
Mervyn Bishop (born 1945), followed in 1974, an Australian news and documentary photographer whose work combines journalistic and art photography. Joining The Sydney Morning Herald as a cadet in 1962 or 1963, he was the first Aboriginal Australian to work on a metropolitan daily newspaper and one of the first Aboriginal Australians to become a professional photographer. Focusing on Indigenous self-determination, Bishop’s work “covered the major developments in Aboriginal communities throughout Australia, including the historical moment in 1975 when the (then) Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, poured a handful of earth back into the hand of Vincent Lingiari, Gurindji elder and traditional land owner. This image – representing the Australian government’s recognition of Aboriginal land rights – became an icon of the land rights movement and Australian photography.” (Art Gallery of New South Wales)
Harold Cazneaux and Max Dupain‘s photographs of Australian life from the 1920-1980s
Jim Fitzpatrick and his Drouin series from WW2
Rennie Ellis‘ photographs of celebrity and Melbourne life
William Yang‘s photographs exploring issues of cultural and sexual identity
Female photographers of the 1960s-90s, such as Micky Allan, Sue Ford and Carol Jerrems who all crossed over into art photography
Robert McFarlane (1960s onwards) who specialises in social issues
John F. Williams who photographed Sydney in the 1970s
Jeff Carter who photographed all around Australia from the 1950s onwards
Ian North and Gerrit Fokkema who photographed Canberra in the 1980s
Joyce Evans (1980s onwards) who took important portraits of a diverse cross-section of Australian intelligentsia and personalities and documented Australian country towns and events for the National Library of Australia
Glenn Sloggett who photographed Australian suburbia with a startling mix of warmth and melancholy from the 1990s onwards
More recently, the war photographs of °SOUTH members such as Tim Page, Stephen Dupont, David Dare Parker, Jack Picone and Michael Coyne
Trent Parke who is the only Australian member of the Magnum Photo Agency, whose work moves beyond the strictly documentary to sit between fiction and reality, offering an emotional and psychological portrait of family life and Australia that is poetic and often darkly humorous
And Juno Gemes Indigenous social documentary photography, who documents the changing social landscape of Australia
Unlike America, where social documentary photographers are well known, hardly a name from the above list (save perhaps Max Dupain and possibly Frank Hurley) would be recognised by a wider Australian public and there is little evidence or acknowledgement of their work in Australia. I believe that this is because social documentary photography has never been heavily promoted in this country and that this type of photography is a slice of many people’s work without becoming the driving force behind their oeuvre.
As my friend and curator Nick Henderson observes, “Perhaps the lack of visibility is in part due to many of the social documentary photographers undertaking work for the various state libraries, who regularly commission work documenting place – sometimes external, but also staff photographers – whose work is then not exhibited: many of the institutional galleries haven’t devoted much time to displaying and promoting that work.” While there may have been social documentary photographers in each country town and embedded within federal and state institutions, their work never seems to reach the audience it deserves.
And that is the true
Into this amorphous arena comes a brilliant book Sydney based poet, photographer and composer Judith Crispin titled The Lumen Seed (Daylight Books 2016), a book of that addresses the stories of the Warlpiri people of Lajamanu through conversation, poetry, drawings and photographs, a book that should be compulsory reading for all Australians.
This smallish book (in size, 23.5cm wide by 15cm high) of 120 pages has good strong boards, excellent typography, nicely weighted paper and feels solid in the hand. The book is well printed, although some of the highlights of the photographs have gone missing in action. The layout of the images and text is engaging, challenging the reader to comprehend, contemplate and consider what is being shown and spoken to them. Use of negative space, as can be seen in the example pages below, is excellent. The reader does not feel overwhelmed by comatose verbiage, but empowered when listening to the stories, proposed: “This book is about magic. Not the magic of Kabbalists, Theosophists, or conjurers, not Crowley’s magick with a k, not the magic of the New Age or Western religion – but magic that describes the world hidden inside this world, a world seen only by Aboriginal elders and the dying.” (Judith Crispin, Introduction, p. 12)
As Crispin states, this book is not a book of photojournalism and is the most subjective it can be, the photographs growing out of her love for this community. The multi-dimensional photo essay, for that is what it is in more traditional terms, represents some of the views and customs of the Warlpiri people and for Crispin, her journey started in the centre of Australia’s Anglophile government, Canberra, and ended at Wolfe Creek Crater, birthplace of the rainbow snakes, the Warnayarra, which underpin all Australian Aboriginal cultures. The peoples of this ancient culture speak to the earth, they tend it and understand it; they believe in the deep magic of the landscape, and strengthen the land through gardening and the trees through song. They speak to the spirits of the waterholes and have a deep respect for the spirit of the animals that inhabit the land. “The deep love that Warlpiri people have for the landscape, its mountains and waterholes, is almost incomprehensible for white people.” (Juno Gemes, Foreword, p. 9)
I’m British and I have been here in Australia since 1986 and I have never understood the non-relationship Australia has with its Indigenous people. Growing up on a farm for the first twelve years of my life in England gives me some understanding of a life lived well on the land. We were working class poor, my mother having to boil water on a stove so us kids could have a bath in a copper on the kitchen room floor; and we lived on what we could shoot from the land – pigeons, pheasants, rabbits and hares – and we were acutely aware of the providence and blessings of nature for our sustenance. A totally different connection to land than an Aboriginal one, but a connection none the less, as I found out when I visited the old farm on a recent visit to the UK in August. Walking up the cart path where I had played as a kid brought all the magic rushing back… the flowers, the forest, the trees, the animals and the earth.
Therefore, when I read of the white man’s abuse of the traditional lands of the Aboriginal people I am appalled. If you read the extract from Five Threnodies for Maralinga printed below, you begin to understand the pain and anguish of these people, killed by the atomic cloud of over 7 major tests and 700 minor trials involving plutonium, uranium, and beryllium at the Maralinga site which occurred between 1956 and 1963, part of the Woomera Prohibited Area in South Australia and about 800 kilometres north-west of Adelaide. “In 1948, Warlpiri people were forcibly relocated almost 600 kilometers from their spiritual homeland to Hooker Creek, now Lajamanu, in Gurindji country. Old people, afraid to live among Gurindji ancestors and spirits, tried to walk back to Yuendumu but were rounded up and returned.” (p. 45)
This beautiful, powerful and deeply personal book tells some of their stories. It saddens me beyond belief that these wonderful people have been estranged and displaced from their traditional lands; decimated, killed, and abused; have been exposed to nuclear radiation, poverty, and untold harm and deprivation, both physical and mental. That they endure is a testament to their courage and culture. Juno Gemes observes that, “Crispin’s images are filled with compassion and tenderness. This is not an easy work… The Lumen Seed is a tough and powerful work in photographs, narrative texts, drawings, and poems it sings stories off the Warlpiri at Lajamuna at five minutes to midnight.” (p. 9)
The book needs to be tough to tell the true. But through poetry, love and light a new cosmology emerges that brings hope for a better future. Truth and consequence in red dirt country.
Dr Marcus Bunyan for Art Blart
Many thankx to Myrtille Beauvert, Daylight Books and the artist for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.
The Lumen Seed by Judith Crispin (Daylight Books), a cultural dialogue that is taking place before a backdrop of offences against the Australian continent, as well as a history of systematic discrimination against Indigenous peoples on the part of the country’s white population.
“Yeah, it make me real sad and cry for my country. Because God bin put me there, God put my people there. Why someone could move us, because of his power, because of his idea? Cutting off God’s power, God’s idea here. God’s word, God’s light… and that is the true. Cut off like this electric wire, if you cut him off, like that.”
Jerry Jangala, senior Warlpiri elder and Law man from Lajamanu in the Tanami Desert
“The Lumen Seed is a tough and powerful work. In photographs, narrative texts, drawings, and poems it sings stories of the Warlpiri at Lajamanu at five minutes to midnight. Who will hear, who will see, who will act?
Judith Crispin’s experience echoes mine 40 years earlier, although I could not always get back to the same teachers. We belong to a long photographic tradition. It is the tradition of Tina Modotti and Josef Koudelka – a generation of documentary photographers who believe fervently that if you show people what is actually happening in the world, they will understand and be moved to demand change. Activist social documentary photography has always been defined by this passionate subjective belief in democracy and action.”
Juno Gemes, Introduction to The Lumen Seed, 2016
Judith Crispin. The Lumen Seed book cover
Judith Crispin. The Lumen Seed p. 29
Foreword: Five Minutes to Midnight
There is nothing like twilight in red dirt country – the soft crackling of fire warming your billycan as the Seven Sisters begin their dance across the night sky. Or the camaraderie around a campfire as people speak in their indigenous languages – the women making jokes about the day’s goings-on or about mistakes made in the intricate protocols of a Law you are learning, day by day. Everything that lives has meaning here. Upholding knowledge is a lifelong obligation for First Nation Custodians – not only in the present but into the future. How can we Australians know this land or our place in it, if not through relationship with our hosts, the Aboriginal people?
When inviting me to write this foreword, Judith Crispin explained her choice, saying, “You are uniquely positioned, as Australia’s premier and longest-serving photographer who has worked collaboratively with Aboriginal people in communities around the country making their culture and struggle for justice visible.” Truly, in both a professional and a practical way, I know the difficulties and the deep satisfactions of working in community. I understand the privileges of learning about the Law, the reciprocity of gratitude, and the obligation to stay true to the received teaching over a lifetime.
As a photographer of long experience, with friendships in Aboriginal communities, I know how everything depends on one’s openness to experience, on the give and take inside relationships that informs how one sees and feels. Photographers in this tradition work in slow time. You learn to move with the people, move within the rhythm of their days, within their country, their wind and sky. What is learned through these relationships can change how one sees forever. By invitation, we become messengers from the frontier of interpersonal experience, conveying urgent messages from our teachers and hosts.
Into this collaborative tradition of relational interpersonal documentary photography – which began with the work of committed photographers in Australia during the 1970s – now steps Judith Crispin with her important book about magic, knowledge, and history. She relates teachings of the Law men who adopted her, who gave her the skin name Nangala, a name that defines her relationship to everyone in the community. In this way, she is being “growed up,” learning how to see the universe according to Warlpiri Law.
“There is a particularly miraculous vision of the world that comes only with the diagnosis of serious illness. . . . Something is different now – because I know there is a secret world nested inside this one. I’ve seen it.”
The Lumen Seed opens onto an apocalyptic scene. A hardwood mulga tree, reaching for the sky, holds a placard: “The Lord’s Return is Near.” In Coober Pedy, a curved handmade house rendered in warm mid-tones is edged with the sign “Welcome to Nowhere.” Dusty desert roadscapes unfold into the giant sacred stones of Karlu Karlu. An emu wanders nonchalantly into a gas station. We’re in Emu Dreaming Country now, meeting Crispin’s traveling friends.
A UFO mural at the gas station resonates later in the book with stories of Wolfe Creek Crater, where the meteorite landed. In the Jukurrpa we are told two rainbow snakes created that country, way back at the beginning. UFOs “zipping around the trees” form part of our desert lore. Funky and surreal, these images are imbued with humour. The images that follow lead us onward into a country of visual narratives – foretelling beginnings and endings. Intuitions manifest unpredictably. We enter a thousand kilometres of “bull dust and bone-jarring track, into the Tanami Desert,” which is as nothing compared with the howling grief of Crispin’s first poem…
Foreword extract by Juno Gemes, Hawkesbury River, April 11, 2016, pp. 6-7.
In late 2015 I was diagnosed with cancer. Before then, I’d not understood how five words could change everything. “I’m sorry, Judith,” my doctor told me, “it’s cancer.” It’s a cliché that you only learn to value life when death is walking beside you, but it was absolutely true for me. I remember driving over Clyde Mountain to bring the word cancer to my parents’ home. Every tree on the range seemed invested with vital force. Every leaf was vibrant, iridescent. Gray mountain gums, in headlights, seemed to manifest ancient intelligence – bearing witness to the fleeting existence of human beings. The threat of death reminds you how precious people are – your oldest friends, children, lovers, parents – you wonder how you’ll bear to leave them. There is a particularly miraculous vision of the world that comes only with the diagnosis of serious illness.
The interval between diagnosis and surgery is an eternity. The surgeon showed me a chart – “If the cancer falls into this range,” he said, “you’ll live; this range and you’ll die.” I felt like Schrödinger’s cat, neither living nor dying. People who see their own death live in two worlds, one mundane and one miraculous. Later, when the cancer had been removed and my death sentence lifted, I watched that other world diminish day by day. No matter how I clung to that miraculous vision, it faded – just as the certain knowledge of my death faded. But something remained. Something is different now – because I know there is a secret world nested inside this one. I’ve seen it. …
The earliest photographs in this book were taken in 2013, when I still believed the Warlpiri needed my help – to promote literacy and health, to outline positive pathways toward reconciliation, and so on. The later photographs were taken in December 2015, when I knew, without a shadow of doubt, that I was the drowning woman and the Warlpiri were the lifeboat. Lajamanu’s elders, especially Wanta Jampijinpa, Henry Jackamarra, and Jerry Jangala, were kind to me. They gave me a skin name1 and showed me how to be a “policewoman” for Jdbrille Waterhole. They seemed genuinely delighted by my interest in Warlpiri cosmology, which they illustrated with stories and drawings – some of which are reproduced in this book. The older women took me “hunting” for wattle seed and bush potato. They told me stories of covenants entered into with ancient star-beings and showed me places along the Tanami Track where min-min lights had chased travellers. Fairy tales and mysteries take on new importance when your life feels precarious.
Lajamanu in 2016 is a meeting of two universes. Elders check their Facebook status on iPhones while explaining, in matter-of-fact tones, about a landscape that will hold you or kill you, depending on your scent – where spirit snakes live in the waterways and the dead walk side by side with the living. In Lajamanu I lost my fear of dying, and more importantly, I lost my fear of living. This is a book about magic. Not the magic of Kabbalists, Theosophists, or conjurers, not Crowley’s magick with a k, nor the magic of the New Age or Western religion – but magic that describes the world hidden inside this world, a world seen only by Aboriginal elders and the dying.
This is not a book of photojournalism and makes no attempt to be objective. Quite the contrary, in fact, I wanted this book to be as subjective as possible. These photographs, especially the portraits, have grown out of my love for this community – the poetry of these often physically fragile people, whose unshakable belief in the deep magic of the landscape gives them a strength rarely evident in the city. Warlpiri culture is gentle; it leaves no tracks on the earth. The history of Aboriginal Australia is largely a record of gardening – “cleaning up country” with firestick farming and ceremonies to strengthen trees through song. When Warlpiri people move through the landscape, they introduce themselves. They apologise to that country for breaking twigs. They ask permission to take water from the creeks. If humanity ever transcends its selfish and murderous nature, it will be because of people like the Warlpiri.
Introduction extract by Judith Crispin pp. 11-13.
You shall not trap me in this fish-trap of yours in which you trap the dead,
because I know it, and I know its name,
I know the name in which it came into being.
(Coffin Texts)
The Lord’s Return is Near
Coober Pedy SA, November 2014
The Stuart Highway is a bisecting line in a thousand kilometres of nothing. The sheer scale of the landscape is overwhelming. I’d driven for two days with only Leonard Cohen and David Bowie for company, and had never felt more isolated. I don’t know why I stopped, leaving the Land Rover idling in the middle of the highway, and walked over to the tree. Perhaps its tallness startled me – its length so exposed above the desert floor. I wanted to lay my palm against its bark. At first I didn’t notice the sign nailed high on its trunk: “The Lord’s Return is Near.”
This stretch of highway lies south of the rocket range at Woomera. There are oceans of blood on this land. The Woomera immigration detention centre continued a legacy of suffering that began years earlier, in the 1950s, when Maralinga’s radioactive clouds blew over Woomera, a military township, and killed all the children.
Between 1952 and 1963, British forces dropped nine nuclear weapons and nine thermonuclear weapons between Woomera and the Western Australian border, within contamination distance of urban centres. The Menzies-led Australian government of that time was wholly complicit and lied about the known dangers of nuclear tests. Between these bombings, Britain conducted continuous “minor trials,” which, according to the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia, additionally detonated 99.35 kg of beryllium, 23.979 kg of plutonium, and 7968.88 kg of depleted uranium. By contrast, Little Boy, dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 by the United States, contained only 64 kg of uranium-235, and Fat Man, dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 by the United States, contained only 6.4 kg of plutonium. Anyone who wishes to immediately lose faith in the human race should read the short transcript of the Royal Commission, which is freely available online. (pp. 16-18)
Welcome to Nowhere
I arrived in Coober Pedy the same week that dust storms tore the roof off the pub. This dugout, borrowed from friends in Alice Springs, was built from a disused shaft. I slept near the door separating their home from the remaining length of shaft, extending far into the rock. Strange sounds echoed behind that door – sounds of wind, or dogs howling. The door was nailed closed. When I first visited Coober Pedy, it was the farthest into the desert that I had ever ventured. Beyond it stretched the expanse of the Great Victoria Desert, Simpson Desert, Strzelecki Desert, Pedirka Desert, Tirari Desert, and Sturt Stony Desert. I was at the start of a journey that would follow Stuart Highway into nothingness and emerge in the huge Tanami Desert of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Leaving the dugout, I stopped to photograph the words painted on its roof: “Welcome to Nowhere.” (pp. 22-23)
Karlu Karlu I
Near Ayleparrarntenhe NT, November 2014
Karlu Karlu, nicknamed “The Devil’s Marbles” by white people, was long considered too spiritually dangerous for anyone but Warumungu elders conducting ceremony. Between these giant stones, on a 48-degree day, the radiant heat is almost unimaginable. Near the skeleton of a burned office chair, I found patches of black glass. A Warumungu friend explained that the heat has, in recent years, become so intense at Karlu Karlu that the air itself ignites, fusing desert sand to glass. In Australia’s deserts the evidence of climate change is irrefutable. (p. 24)
Eemie at the UFO Roadhouse
Wycliffe Well Roadhouse and Van-park NT, December 2015
UFO enthusiast Arc Vanderzalm moved to the desert in 2004 to establish a UFO-themed van park. In the van park’s early years, Arc rescued an abandoned emu chick and raised him by hand. He named him Eemie. Travellers stopping for fuel at Wycliffe Well roadhouse are sometimes surprised by an adult emu staring in at them through the window. While a guest of the van park, I once startled Eemie by walking into the ladies’ shower block. He peered out at me through the shower curtain with an air of embarrassment, as though I’d intruded at a delicate moment. Later, as I drove toward Tennant Creek, I spotted Eemie chasing a farm dog down the highway, legs akimbo. (p. 29)
Sexy John
Alice Springs NT, November 2014
Sexy John was rescued as a small calf after his mother was culled as part of a government program to reduce feral camels. He was raised by artists in a collective on the outskirts of Alice Springs and befriended a wild blond-haired boy. More than 160 thousand camels were culled between 2009 and 2013, approximately one-fifth of the camel population of the central deserts. (p. 35)
Extract from Five Threnodies for Maralinga
At Woomera,
seventy-five identical graves
remember babies lost to the predation
of atomic clouds.
Their epitaphs are brief-
Michael Clarke Jones
died 24 August 1952,
aged eight and a half hours.
No one has been here for a long time.
Weeds struggle.
A military vehicle passes,
heading east toward the rocket range.
In the west, Woomera township
is a grid of air force housing.
Land Cruisers fill neat driveways,
lawns are trimmed,
blinds closed.
And no one ever steps out for milk,
no one walks a dog.
I photograph each headstone,
stooping sometimes to straighten a plastic posy,
a tilted ceramic bear.
Wind presses a faded greeting card
to the metal fence.
A matchbox car beside a small boy’s grave
is blue.
There are nineteen stones without toys or flowers,
for stillborns named only “baby”-
Baby Spencer,
Baby Dowling,
Baby Stone.
Don’t look at me
Baby Gower
Baby Roads
from a soldier’s gunny bag
with your eyes too white, too open
like the eyes of poisoned fish
in the Pilbara’s poisoned surf.
Warlpiri Family
Lajamanu Community NT, December 2015
In 1948, Warlpiri people were forcibly relocated almost 600 kilometers from their spiritual homeland to Hooker Creek, now Lajamanu, in Gurindji country. Old people, afraid to live among Gurindji ancestors and spirits, tried to walk back to Yuendumu but were rounded up and returned. In the 1970s, Gurindji people held a series of unique ceremonies to hand over the area and its Wampana and Spectacled Hare Wallaby Dreaming stories to the residents of Lajamanu. While this gesture brought some relief to Warlpiri people, who viewed their involuntary occupation of Gurindji land as a breach of traditional Law, they continue to struggle with their relationship to the country. (p. 45)
Four Kurdu-kurdu [Kids] with Trampoline
Country [Gurindji country], hills… well, I put country first… hills, tree, don’t like you – even that water – and that is true. If you drink water from that, or if you not talking to that country because you don’t know, you got no songs with that area… and in the night, or during the day too, you got no language for to try to talk to that country.
When God bin put you there, in your country, that’s it. You got a right to live on there. You can get sick alright, but not too much. Yuwayi [yes], you know God? He say, “Yeah you get sick but you’ll be alright,” you know? “I’m with you there,” that God talking. And same thing for our ceremony too. You’re right to use your ceremony. You’re right to sing your own Dreaming song and talking to your country . . . and tell it true – real true.
Jerry Jangala (pp. 50-51)
Emu Roadkill and Portrait by Shemaiah Matthews
Lily Nungarrayi Yirringali Jurrah-Hargraves Painting
Without the connection between the land and the person, the individual is lost, empty inside, not connected to anyone or anything or the land. If the connection is lost, they won’t survive and their identity no longer exists. Jukurrpa is our life first. Jukurrpa connects us to our country. It is Law that makes it our right to our country. We can’t be sent away.
This art center [Warnayaka Arts Center] is for the young people to learn their culture and Law. It is important for our youth to learn the knowledge held by the Ngaliya and Warnayaka peoples. The art center is for the survival of culture from the grandfathers’ and grandmothers’ country. The children are getting lost, and there are not many old men left, some women but few men. Some of our important Dreaming sites are hundreds of kilometers from Lajamanu. The grandchildren and great-grandchildren who live in Lajamanu need to know their Jukurrpa; otherwise they will lose their inheritance to this really important country. They need to know the Warlpiri Ngalia Laws so they can go onto their great-grandfathers’ and ancestors’ land, especially where these important Dreaming sites are, like at Mina Mina, belonging to the Kana-kurlangu clan. This is why the art center is so important to the people of Lajamanu. At any time, children can see the works of the elders telling them the Kurdiji, the Law, and all that is tied into the Jukurrpa paintings.
Warnayaka Art elders, recorded by Arts Center manager Louisa Erglis (p. 55)
Sacred Object #1
Muffler painted by Warlpiri artists
Abandoned doll found in Lajamanu Park
Beth Nungarrayi at Jdbrille Waterhole
Jdbrille Waterhole, Tanami Desert NT, June 2015
This area here, no river. It’s the same deal in this country, and so – what do you call it? Soak? [A soakage, or soak, also called a native well, is a source of water in the Australian desert.] You know . . . I’m trying to get that word there. Soak, yeah, you take all right down to find that water, that water make. Sometimes no water, like this time when it’s dry. Look for the water tree. That’s what my father, my grandpa, my great-grandpa, grandmother, they all look for that water tree. Rock holes down. That’s in our country. We can say it today in a Kardiya way, you know? We can say “Lajamanu is my country.” But that not true. It’s not true . . . yuwayi, Nangala. My country is back there . . . my area is back there.
Wirntali-Jarra [Friends]
near Emu waterhole, Tanami Desert NT, December 2015
Henry Jackamarra and Jerry Jangala have known each other since they were small children. More than a decade his senior, Henry treats Jerry like a little brother – still lecturing him on what he eats and wears, although both men are now respected elders. (p. 72)
Jerry Jangala Oversees Kangaroo Ceremony
Tanami Desert Outpost NT, November 2014
The animal is honoured by sprinkling handfuls of dirt over its fur before it is prepared for cooking in the traditional way. Jerry explains that in the old days the punishment for getting this ceremony wrong was death. In modern times, the penalty for making mistakes in this ceremony is exile. Wanta Jampijinpa, Jerry’s son, reassured me that exile did not necessarily mean death in the Tanami desert. A person could earn his or her place back in the community by accomplishing a special task. The exile must find the way to catch a wedge-tailed eagle and bring its soft underbelly feathers back to Lajamanu as proof. Wanta explained to me how such a seemingly impossible task could be accomplished, but I do not have permission to reproduce that here. (p. 78)
Henry Jackamarra Cook, Last Kangaroo Dancer
Light Trails of Henry Jackamarra Cook
Law is a gray kangaroo dancing
the thin landscape of Henry Cook into being,
somewhere in the Tanami,
where knucklebone winds scrape bare rock
and Henry stands marsupial
in firelight’s weird.
In Lajamanu, tin houses edge the street.
No one is outside,
no one.
In the arts center, old ladies paint seed-dreaming.
Breeze lifts the hem of a curtain,
then stillness.
It is still.
Henry doesn’t paint anymore. He sits alone,
watching ceremony from the 1970s.
Everyone in the videos is dead now, except him.
And the dead are in the desert,
faceless as the desert is,
and as remote.
Ten years ago it seemed nothing to walk
three days to his sacred country,
granite country,
where great salt lakes exhale their thirst
over spinifex and sand,
the rattling sun.
But arthritis and cataracts have caged him.
Inside the arts center,
the lights are switched off.
We drag chairs across a concrete porch
to watch the Tanami darken, shelf clouds
seal the crater at Wolfe Creek.
Rain wakens on his tongue
the angular syllables of displacement.
And home is the desert breathing over itself by night,
erasing tracks of all who walk there –
night’s emu rising savage in the Milky Way,
and eyes, eyes in the granite mines.
One day, he tells me, I’ll walk out
to my country and never come back.
At town’s edge, a kangaroo left by poachers.
Red dust thickens its pelt, as the red dust lies thick
on Henry’s Ray-Bans, stiffening his white hair to wires.
I photograph him disemboweling the buck,
its intestines knotted to ritual marks –
Henry and his flayed brother, backlit
against chained ridges,
and the last sun rearing.
Law is an old man dancing
the gray kangaroo into being,
sewing him back into the desert’s body,
into his own body, ochre and growl,
a hunting boomerang beaten on the ground.
Night erases this landscape –
slow trees, sand,
the saltbush has gone.
Just Henry’s heels rising and falling
along a wind-scored track,
utterances of a language which belongs to him
and to which he belongs.
Tomorrow, the Catfish Waterhole
will stretch his white hair out elastic,
as telephone wires vanishing into the Tanami.
Mud returns to him,
the cool slow memories of country
before the missions, before diabetes and grog
shrank his ancestors down so small
he holds them in a single cupped hand
like fireflies, tiny comets
crossing in the black.
Tomorrow he’ll thread gumleaves
through the hole in his nose,
and say, photo me like this Nangala
I am a beautiful man.
Judith Crispin (pp. 81-83)
Lily Nungarrayi Yirringali
Tanami Desert NT, November 2014
I was told Lily, when she was young, was in love with a Karadji man but couldn’t be with him because she didn’t want to leave her community. Her arms reveal the parallel ritual marks of someone on a “sacred path.” Now, despite caring relationships with her family, friends, and fourteen adopted dogs, somehow Lily is always alone. When, together with Molly and Rosie, Lily took me to see Catfish Waterhole, she explained that we were going to see her “mother.” I carried Lily, too frail to descend the bank, to the edge of the water. There she turned water over her palms, the traditional way of greeting the waterhole and avoiding surprising any Warnayarra who might be there. The deep love that Warlpiri people have for the landscape, its mountains and waterholes, is almost incomprehensible for white people. Here Lily sings quietly to Catfish Waterhole – not for any ceremonial or traditional reason, I’m told, but just because it makes the waterhole feel loved. (p. 95)
Molly’s Flame-Tree Seed-pods
Molly Napurrula Sifts Wattleseed
Warlpiri people still supplement their diet with bush food. Ground wattleseed is mixed with oil and baked into a kind of flat bread. The older ladies took me out “hunting” for wattleseed and kurrajong seedpods. In a township with only one shop, where a head of broccoli costs more than a takeaway meal for a family, it is vitally important to supplement the community’s diet with “bush food.” White Australians have almost no idea of the variety of native fruits and vegetables that grow in the apparent desert – bush potatoes, bush tomatoes, bush bananas, honey ants, land crabs, wattleseeds, etc., can be gathered throughout the Tanami. (p. 104)
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A Guide By Colin Stuart
How many people can you fit in an office? What are the legal office capacity limits? How many toilets should I have in an office? What is best practice? This guide is to help you answer those questions, to try to demystify the current rules and regulations and give you practical advice and guidance.
As a business it is important to make best use of your assets. Office space is often wasted and with the cost of the provision of office space reaching anything up to £23,500 per desks in parts of London (Lambert Smith Hampton TOCS Report 2018) it is tempting to try to “sweat the asset” and make the most efficient use of your office space. It is important however, when undertaking office space planning, that you take proper notice of the law and how it relates to the provision of office space and the rights of the workers in that office.
What are the Office Capacity Limits?
One of the key areas of law that affects the workplace is in the limits the law places on the number of people you can fit into an office. There are four primary limiting factors (often called the statutory office capacity limits or statutory capacity) you need to consider when assessing the capacity of your offices and how many people you can fit in:
Means of escape – There is a limit to the number of people you are allowed to have on a floor which is governed by the Building Regulations 2010 and Part B of the approved documents (Fire Safety). The capacity limits depend upon your specific building, the fire escape strategy designed for that building and a number of other factors including fire escape door widths, width and location of escape staircases, distance of travel to those staircases. Your landlord or building developer should to provide you with the fire escape strategy and the specific occupancy limits imposed per floor. If these are unavailable, then specialist help should be obtained.
Toilet Capacity – Part G4 of the building regulations places a duty on the employer to ensure that adequate and suitable sanitary conveniences be provided in rooms to accommodate them with adequate hand washing facilities. Additionally, the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, Regulation 20, Sanitary conveniences, states: “Suitable and sufficient sanitary conveniences shall be provided at readily accessible places”. But what is “adequate and suitable” or “suitable and sufficient”? In addition to regulation 20, there is an Approved Code of Practice for the the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations which gives detailed guidance on how many toilets, urinals and wash hand basin to provide. We have explored this further in our guide on the Provision of Toilets in offices.
Space or Volume – Regulation 10 of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations states that “Every room where persons work shall have sufficient floor area, height and unoccupied space for purposes of health, safety and welfare.” But again, what does this actually mean. Luckily the approved code of practice has guidance for regulation 10 as well. It states that “Workrooms should have enough free space to allow people to get to and from workstations and to move within the room, with ease”. It goes on to specify that “the total volume of the room, when empty, divided by the number of people normally working in it should be at least 11 cubic metres”. In making this calculation a room or part of a room which is more than 3.0m high should be counted as 3.0m high. The figure of 11 cubic metres per person is a minimum and may be insufficient if, for example, much of the room is taken up by furniture etc.”
Ventilation or Fresh Air – for the provision of general ventilation in offices the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recommendations state: “All workplaces need an adequate supply of fresh air. This can be natural ventilation, from doors, windows etc or controlled, where air is supplied and/or removed by a powered fan”. Further CIBSE recommends that “A minimum fresh air requirement of 8 to 10 l/s per person typically adopted in mechanically ventilated spaces”. Fresh air requirements for naturally ventilated spaces are treated differently and as with fire capacity, HVAC design a complex area and depends on a number of factors and where not already known then specialist advice should be obtained.
[For more details on the Laws and Regulations mentioned above, please see our article Office Space Planning and the Law – A Baker Stuart Guide]
Density and Key Ratios
Even if you are in compliance with the office capacity statutory limits above there are other considerations which will limit the number of people you can fit on your office floor.
Desk Density – there is a physical limit to the number of desks you can fit into an office. It depends upon the desk size, the amount of storage you have in your office (see our article on storage in an agile environment), and the other facilities you wish to include such as ad-hoc meeting space, quiet rooms, meeting rooms etc. If you are going for a very dense layout (often called a “max-pack” layout) you need to ensure you are maintaining adequate widths between desks for means of escape and to allow for access by wheelchair users. See our guide on office desk sizing and spacing for further information.
Best practice – as well as considering your max pack limits, to get your workplace to not just be efficient but also effective in how it supports you organisation and the staff working within, it is vital you also consider the environment you are trying to create. A layout densely packed with desks, especially if a desk sharing policy has also been used will create a very “battery chicken” like feel to your office, potentially lowering staff morale and productivity and impacting staff retention – people will vote with their feet! An effective workplace is designed to support the business and with consideration for the people working within the space. You should consider the tasks and activities they are performing and where these are done best – what we like to call “People Centric Design”. Factoring in alternative work areas (often called agile work settings) such as collaboration space, quiet areas / rooms, meeting booths and breakout areas may not be as efficient but creates a much more effective environment that supports the work done within. Its about getting the balance right. For further information on the benefits of agile working please see article “The Case for Change – the Benefits of Agile Working”
Space Efficiency Ratios – one of the ways you can benchmark your office is to calculate your space efficiency ratios, such as space per person and space per workstation. These are normally calculated using the Net Internal Area (NIA) of your office, which excludes core space such as staircases, lift lobbies, plant rooms and main reception areas. It is a good measure of office efficiency as it includes all space comprising the usable office area such as desks, meeting rooms, alternative work / collaboration areas and circulation space. The British Council for Offices Specification recommends 8 – 13 m2 per person. Recent BCO research however found an average of 9.6 m2 per person and concluded that minimum of 6 m2 per person should be provided. For public sector space, current British Government space targets are 8 m2 per FTE (full time equivalent member of staff) however the government publishes an annual survey of all of its property (the State of the Estate report) and it found that the average was 9.9 m2.
Further Baker Stuart Guides
Office Design and Space Planning Series
Office Capacity Limitations – A Baker Stuart Guide
Office Space Planning and the Law – A Baker Stuart Guide
Toilet Provision in Offices – A Baker Stuart Guide
Agile Working Series
What is Agile Working – A Baker Stuart Guide
The A to Z of Agile Working – An Agile Working Terms Dictionary
How to Define an Agile Working Policy (coming soon)
Further reading and references
Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 – Approved Code of Practice
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recommendations
British Council for Offices research – Office Occupancy: Density and Utilisation
About the Author Colin Stuart is a specialist in workplace consultancy and accommodation strategy. He has an award winning track record in the design and delivery of workplace transformation projects. A published author and speaker with an intrinsic knowledge of the drivers of corporate clients both in the public and private sector and how property can respond to those drivers in order to deliver maximum benefit to the business he has delivered major change programmes and real estate projects in both the public and private sector.
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Dr. Nirmalya Chatterjee
Anirban Roy
Ecosystem Services & Human Wellbeing
Fellow, ATREE Eastern Himalayas
nirmalya.c@atree.org
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2017– Fellow Level 1 (equiv. to Assistant Professor) at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru, based at the Eastern Himalayas / North East India Regional Office, Gangtok, SK, India
Using ecological monitoring methods and sociological survey methods to ascertain ecosystem provisioning by soil and water resources in small catchments
Ascertaining long term effects of UNFCCC global climate models (GCMs) on soil ecosystem functions at small catchment scales
Designing interventions for climate adaptation and mitigation for sustainable livelihoods
Determining effects of short term climate events on soil carbon stores, soil/water interactions for seasonal hydrological events and water availability in mountain communities
2016–2017 Teaching Faculty at University of Engineering and Management, Newtown, Kolkata, WB, India
2015–2016 Postdoctoral Fellow at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Eastern Himalayas / North-East Regional Office, Gangtok, SK, India
2009–2013 Graduate Research Assistant at Dept. of Crop & Soil Sciences, Washington State University, USA
2005–2009 Graduate Research Assistant at Dept. of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, USA
2005–2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant at Dept. of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, USA
2001–2002 Science Teacher in Chemistry and Physics, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Kolkata, India
2009–2013 Ph.D. Soil Science (Soil Physics), Washington State University, USA.
2005–2009 M.S. (Biophysical Chemistry), University of Connecticut, USA
2002–2004 M.Sc. (Analytical Chemistry), Maharaja Sayajirao University, India
1998–2001 B.Sc. (Chemistry (Honors)), University of Calcutta, India
soil remediation, climate change effects on soil carbon and pollutant dynamics, soil GHG emissions, soil nutrient availability, soil erosion, carbon sequestration
vadose zone hydrology, contaminant hydrology, storm-water run-off, soil/water biogeochemistry
vegetating of marginal soils, native plant afforestation
Nirmalya Chatterjee & Flury, M. Effect of particle shape on capillary forces at an air-water interface. Langmuir 29(25), 7903–7911 (2013) [PDF]
Nirmalya Chatterjee, Lapin, S. & Flury, M. Capillary forces between sediment particles and an air–water interface. Environmental Science & Technology 46(8), 4411–4418 (2012) [PDF]
Niedzwiedzki, D. M., Nirmalya Chatterjee, Enriquez, M. M., Kajikawa, T., Hasegawa, S., Katsumura, S. & Frank, H. A. Spectroscopic investigation of peridinin analogues having different π-electron conjugated chain lengths: Exploring the nature of the intramolecular charge transfer state. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 113(41), 13604–13612 (2009) [PDF]
Nirmalya Chatterjee, Niedzwiedzki, D. M., Aoki, K., Kajikawa, T., Katsumura, S., Hashimoto, H. & Frank, H. A. Effect of structural modifications on the spectroscopic properties and dynamics of the excited states of peridinin. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 483(2), 146–155 (2009) [PDF]
Nirmalya Chatterjee, Niedzwiedzki, D. M., Kajikawa, T., Hasegawa, S., Katsumura, S. & Frank, H. A. Effect of π-electron conjugation length on the solvent-dependent S1 lifetime of peridinin. Chemical Physics Letters 463(1-3), 219–224 (2008) [PDF]
in press/review/preparation
Nirmalya Chatterjee. Erosion modeling in a mixed land use watershed in the Eastern Himalayas.
Nirmalya Chatterjee. Capillary Forces on Sediment Particles: Experimental Measurements and Theoretical Estimates. PhD thesis, Washington State University, August (2013) [PDF]
Nirmalya Chatterjee, Flury, M., Hinman, C. & Cogger, C. G. Chemical and physical characteristics of compost leachate – a review (WA-RD 819.1). Technical report, Washington Department of Transportation, Olympia, WA, August (2013) [PDF]
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Nirmalya Chatterjee, Lapin, S. & Flury, M. Capillary forces on millimeter-scale sediment particles: Experimental measurements and theoretical estimations. (Oregon Society of Soil Scientists, Winter Meeting, Troutdale, OR, 2013) [PDF]
Nirmalya Chatterjee, Niedzwiedzki, D. M., Aoki, K., Schulte, T., Katsumura, S., Hofmann, E. & Frank, H. A. Optical spectroscopic studies of peridinin and peridinin-chlorophyll-protein (pcp) complexes. (25th Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference, Woods Hole, MA, 2008) [PDF]
Nirmalya Chatterjee, Ilagan, R. P., Aoki, K., Katsumura, S. & Frank, H. A. Steady-state and femtosecond time-resolved optical spectroscopic studies of peridinin derivatives. (24th Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference, Woods Hole, MA, 2007) [PDF]
Nirmalya Chatterjee, Ilagan, R. P., Aoki, K., Katsumura, S. & Frank, H. A. Steady-state and femtosecond time-resolved optical spectroscopic studies of peridinin derivatives. (23rd Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference, Woods Hole, MA, 2006) [PDF]
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2013 – Soil Science Society of America
2013 – American Geophysical Union
12/2015 5-day workshop on “Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology using Bayesian Methods in R”, National Center for Biological Science, Bengaluru, India
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Terrorism Threats: ASIO Director-General David Irvine Addresses National Press Club
The Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, David Irvine, has addressed the National Press Club on the threats posed by espionage and terrorism.
Irvine maintained that the threats to Australia are real, but manageable with vigilance and updated intelligence capabilities. He defended the need for a security service, “governed by law with appropriate safeguards”, and argued against any revamping of the existing regime of checks and balances on ASIO. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Audio, Intelligence, Terrorism Tagged With: ASIO, David Irvine, NPC
Attorney-General George Brandis Stumbles In Metadata Interview
The Attorney-General, Senator George Brandis, has stumbled over the explanation of metadata in an interview on Sky News.
Brandis was responding to questions about the government’s intentions in new counter-terrorism legislation. Using the metaphor of metadata as akin to the address on an envelope, Brandis stumbled over the question of whether the legislation would provide access to a citizen’s web browsing history. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Abbott, Audio, Intelligence, Terrorism Tagged With: David Speers, George Brandis, metadata, Sky News
Abbott Satisfied With Oversight Of Australian Intelligence Activities
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he is “satisfied” with the “robust” oversight of Australia’s intelligence activities.
Responding to President Obama’s announcement overnight of reforms to the rules governing the National Security Agency, Abbott said the US review “addresses the particular circumstances of the United States”.
“Australia has some of the strongest intelligence oversight arrangements in the world,” Abbott said, claiming it “strikes an appropriate balance between maintaining our security and protecting privacy.”
Text of media release from Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
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In a statement on 17 January, President Obama announced the outcomes of the Administration’s review of US signals intelligence activities. [Read more…]
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Obama Steers A Middle Course On Intelligence Activities
President Barack Obama will require intelligence agencies to obtain permission from a secret court before accessing telephone data.
In a speech to officials at the Justice Department in Washington DC, Obama announced that he is winding back the government’s surveillance at home and abroad. He announced a series of oversight measures that will govern the collection of signals intelligence.
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Filed Under: Audio, Intelligence, Obama, Video Tagged With: Barack Obama, Edward Snowden, intelligence, NSA
Clive Palmer’s First Parliamentary Question: Is My Phone Bugged?
In his first question in the House of Representatives, Clive Palmer has asked whether his phone is bugged.
Revelations of Australian intelligence agencies tapping the phones of the Indonesian president and his wife have resulted in a crisis in Australia’s relations with Indonesia. Debate continues in some quarters around the role played by the ABC in publishing intelligence documents stolen by Edward Snowden.
Palmer asked whether “any crossbench members, including me, are having their phones and emails tapped” by any State or Commonwealth agencies.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott played a dead bat in his response, reiterating his earlier statements that the government does not comment on intelligence matters, although he pointed out that proper authorisation is required for phone tapping.
Palmer delivered his maiden speech earlier this week.
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Abbott Statement On Indonesian Intelligence Operations; Regrets But Does Not Apologise
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has made a statement to the House of Representatives on Indonesia and intelligence operations.
Abbott’s remarks follow yesterday’s revelations of Australian phone-tapping of Indonesian officials, including President Yudhoyono and his wife. The Indonesian Ambassador to Australia was withdrawn late yesterday.
“I sincerely regret any embarrassment that recent media reports have caused [President Yudhoyono],” Abbott told the House. “It is in everyones’s interests – Indonesia’s no less than Australia’s – that cool heads prevail and that our relationship grows closer, not more distant.” [Read more…]
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Gillard Releases National Security Strategy
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has released the government’s National Security Strategy.
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In a speech at the Australian National University, Gillard said the strategy “highlights the dramatic economic and strategic shift towards the Asia-Pacific region and provides a blueprint for national security over the next decade”. [Read more…]
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SOLD! Asheville’s BB&T building to McKibbon Hotel Group for $7.5 million
in Asheville business / Asheville News — by Jason Sandford — November 6, 2013
Hotelier John McKibbon placed a big bet on the future of downtown Asheville yesterday with the McKibbon Hotel Group’s purchase of the BB&T building for a cool $7.5 million. Paperwork at the Buncombe County Register of Deeds office confirms the sale. McKibbon is owner of the company.
Back in August, McKibbon and Glenn W. Wilcox Sr. of Tower Associates Inc., the owner of the BB&T building, announced a partnership to redevelop the city’s tallest building. The 17-story structure would be converted from commercial office space to a mixed-use development that will include an upscale boutique hotel. More from that announcement:
Properties included in the new partnership, MHG-Tower LLC, include the 17-story BB&T Building and the associated parking garage at the corner of College and Broadway streets. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.
Glenn W. Wilcox Sr.’s company Wilcox Travel was one of the first tenants when the building opened in 1965 as the Northwestern Bank Building, and Wilcox has been in the building continually for 48 years.
“I moved to Asheville from Boone in September 1965, the same month that what is now the BB&T Building opened. I’m pleased to be partnering with John McKibbon on this exciting project. I have great respect for John and am looking forward to working with a man of such proven integrity,” Wilcox said.
“I‘m honored and pleased to have the opportunity to redevelop downtown Asheville’s iconic high-rise, and partnering with the Wilcox family makes it all the more special. We have enjoyed building and managing hotels in Asheville for nearly 20 years, and we look forward to starting our next project in this landmark location,” McKibbon said.
MHG-Tower LLC will be working with the City of Asheville on the planning and approval process. More details on the project will be released as they become available.
McKibbon opened his Aloft Hotel on Biltmore Avenue in August of last year. He also purchased property at the corner of Haywood Street across from the U.S. Cellular Center and announced plans to build another hotel there. McKibbon has talked up his love of Asheville for the past few years, and it’s clear that he’s banking on the town’s success. Big changes ahead for the mountain metropolis, folks.
Photos of the BB&T building.
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Architecture Fan says:
A classic of the International Style, and nice to have one example in Asheville. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1527678
jtroop says:
I love change, especially downtown!! The facade of this building (and it’s footprint) is not a good use of space. Looking into the ground floor from the street – un-inviting. Looking up at its (golden) reflective windows – un-inspired. It has no depth at all and, where some might say it’s ugly, I say that it’s invisible.
I worked in the building for years and found the layout of the two narrow corridors bridged by a central channel of elevators and stairs to be dark and drab and boring.
Rather than sticking ornate fixtures to the side of it, I believe that simply breaking up those long, overly symmetrical vertical lines could provide all of the detail needed to make it more appealing to the eye.
Yay the person that built the ugliest/most disconnected building in Asheville just bought the largest building in Asheville.. lovely.
Murphy says:
A previous article on this project stated that the plans included an exterior upgrade that will include balconies on the hotel floors… as well as “street level” enhancements including additional landscaping.
As far as the parking garage goes – it would make no sense to “get rid of it”…
1) it would be difficult to explain to hotel guests where (and how) they were supposed to park in a town that already has a shortage of spaces.
2) there will still be several floors of offices remaining as well, with employee parking a necessity; and there are several other businesses that lease monthly spaces in the garage as well- many of them on Market Street.
orulz says:
The parking garage: Tear it down and build something in its place with underground parking. Ideal solution? Rebuild something similar to the Langren Hotel on the site, with enough parking, partially underground, for the new hotel plus whatever is needed by the BB&T.
Barring that, at least find some way to put some retail space in the deck along Broadway.
Asheville Native says:
How anyone can find anything attractive about a dingy dated high-rise is beyond me. There’s not much they could do to it to make it worse, other than paint it some awful color like Indigo or add ferris wheel neon like Aloft. The only way to make it attractive would be to haul it to a scrap metal yard. The hallmark of terrible design is when the building itself has as much aesthetic appeal as the parking garage, and in the BB&T’s case the garage might have more. To the comment about wishing it and the Biltmore would simultaneously disappear, I couldn’t agree more. Add Aloft, Indigo, and that condo building next to the chocolate lounge to that list while we’re at it. Less steel/concrete monstrosities, more buildings with character to match the beauty our city is traditionally known for!
The BB&T is about the only honest building in all of downtown built since 1950.
In case you missed it, buildings like the ones from the 1890s through the 1920s that asheville is “known for” that are all over the place downtown CAN’T BE BUILT anymore, for many reasons.
First and foremost, architects don’t know how to design buildings like that anymore. Back then, architects spent all their time studying classical architecture and ornament. There are essentially zero architects these days with that sort of background anymore. Architecture schools have pretty much entirely shifted over to the modernist philosophy of form following function.
Second, even given a design, the level of detail that was possible then is impossible to duplicate without absolutely breaking the bank. Detail and craftsmanship like the Grove Arcade or Jackson Building pretty much can’t be bought today, at any price.
Modern materials have advanced greatly since Asheville’s boom years of the 1890s through 1920s, and the temptation to save money by using them rather than adhering to historically available materials is too great to resist. This necessarily has a significant impact on the appearance of buildings.
So, the best we can hope for in terms of architecture that “blends in” is an awkward piece of crap like that condo building that was proposed where Pack’s Tavern is, or McKibbon’s Haywood Street hotel proposal.
I’m not sure the reason that the BB&T building is so empty, but it probably has more to do with a generally soft office market downtown combined with a lack of recent updates. Update the interior, change the uses, even replace the cladding, whatever – but keep it as a REAL building, not some half-assed attempt to “seem” historical.
BTW, regarding the Akzona/Biltmore building: You can tear that one down if you want.
luther blissett says:
I have to agree with this: the BB&T is of its time, it’s not pretending to be something it isn’t, and anything on that scale to replace it would probably be an off-the-peg eyesore like the dry-docked cruise liner that is the Aloft, or a sad pastiche of the city’s century-old architecture.
(A British magazine had a travel piece on Asheville a few months ago with picture of Pack’s Tavern, describing it as a historic building with authentic frontage. Oh dear.)
Yeppers says:
Ahha ha, really?
Sunday Times Travel Magazine — occasionally in stock at Barnes & Noble. The writer took a trip from Asheville up the Parkway to Virginia, travelling through what she called the “Deep South”. Uh, no.
Vlad Emrick says:
This is a good thing. The BB&T Building was on the verge of becoming a ghost town. There’s a lot of empty space in the building. Filling it will be important for downtown.
biguglybrown says:
Parking deck is the first to go. It will be gone before you know it.
What would be their reasoning for demolishing a parking deck that would provide parking for their guest/tenants?
IceNine says:
Building a new parking deck that isn’t about to fall down….
Steve Palmer says:
I just hope they don’t turn it into Aloft XXL, but I won’t be surprised if they do.
Rick F says:
I’ve hoped for years that the BB&T building would fall on the Biltmore Building, which was far from I.M. Pei’s best work. Hopefully McKibbon will improve the drab exterior of the BB&T but please leave off the neon. The Aloft neon sticks out like a sore thumb in downtown when you drive into town after dark from the east. Neon on the BB&T building would stand out like a sore middle finger.
Vibe says:
Here! Here! Or is it Hear! Hear! What it is just leave the exterior. Maybe a different color but more or less the same style.
NFB says:
Seriously, how many hotels does downtown need?
Count me in the minority on this one but I hope he leaves the exterior look of the BB&T building more or less intact. I like it. An honest though not exemplary international style building is better than a hideous design-by-public-meeting pastiche like what was proposed for the hotel across from the Civic Center.
Hopefully, he will redevelop the BB&T’s crummy parking garage across the street, and the the bank drive-through and empty lot on the same block as the tower itself.
Dru says:
I don’t think you are just in a minority, i think you are all by yourself. Its the biggest eyesore in the state.
I like that building too, you are not alone.
jeffsguy says:
I totally agree about leaving the facade largely intact. It could use some freshening up but it stands as a (minor) example of the international style.
I have high hopes for the entry plaza which is currently lifeless and forlorn. It needs a innovative contemporary design so that it could be another great urban outdoor space in the heart of downtown. The parking deck and drive-through annex are drab concrete blocks but those are opportunities waiting for a talented architectural team.
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Neil Druckmann Discusses New The Last of Us Part II Details
The game's director discusses Ellie’s evolution, new gameplay systems, and the weight of our in-game actions.
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Naughty Dog recently let a group of fortunate players go hands on with The Last of Us Part II. During the hours-long session we got to know Ellie’s more mature, vulnerable side, as well as her capacity for brutality. The dizzying highs of the sequel’s stunning visuals and captivating storytelling are matched by the guttural impact of its intentionally disquieting violence.
The appeal of The Last of Us Part II is more than a list of exciting new gameplay features, visual enhancements, and continued storylines.
Neil Druckmann, Director of The Last of Us Part II, sheds light on the ambitious sequel in an insightful interview.
First Ideas
When did The Last of Us Part II’s story come into focus? Druckmann chuckles at this question. He recalls a meal shared with the masterful actress behind Ellie, back in 2013.
“I met with Ashley Johnson and I pitched her the idea for Left Behind,” says Druckmann. “And I told her I had something else I was working on and I pitched her that idea. So she’s there in the restaurant crying, and I’m thinking ‘I hope people don’t think I’m doing something horrible.’ But that’s the first time I remember having some strong idea.”
As early as 2013, Druckmann had the basic beginning, middle, and end of the story in mind. That ending would ultimately change during the course of development.
“That’s how it starts. It’s a kernel of an idea. Then you bring more people in and it becomes a shared vision,” Druckmann says. “Video games are this collaborative medium and we all march towards this focused idea.”
The Evolution of Ellie
The series’ canvas shoe-wearing protagonist has changed a lot since her cross-country journey with Joel. “I think she’s really come into her own,” Druckmann says.
“In the first game she’s trying to find someone to rely on,” Druckmann says. “She tells Joel that ‘everyone I’ve ever known has died or left me, everyone except for you.’ She kind of latches onto Joel.”
Ellie and Joel’s relationship is strained at the beginning of The Last of Us Part II. Her new life in Jackson, Wyoming affords her a chance to make new connections with the survivors living there. And she’s grown especially close to one fellow resident.
“Dina becomes this best friend she’s now had for years,” Druckmann says. “They flirt with each other, but Ellie doesn’t quite know where this girl stands. We see that Dina feels very similarly to Ellie.”
Ultimately, Ellie’s relatively comfortable, “normal” life in this post-pandemic world isn’t destined to last. Druckmann alludes to a terrible incident that ignites Ellie on a deadly quest for revenge.
“Ellie wants to make it right by bringing the people responsible to justice, even if she has to go at it alone,” Druckmann says.
A New Infected Emerges
Many sequels come with the thrill of facing new challenges. But Naughty Dog doesn’t want to throw in new infected types for the sake of it. The studio has carefully thought out how the new Shambler – a grotesque mutation bursting with hazardous vapor – fits into the world’s lore.
“In the first game, there is all this documentation about the different stages [of the infection],” Druckmann says. “Now we have to justify why there are different stages. Why are there mutations of these things? Without getting into it here, there is something about the environment and how much time has passed that has allowed these mutations to occur.”
Shamblers do more than enrich the world of The Last of Us — they also thrust players into tense new combat encounters.
“We have Runners that close the distance quickly,” says Druckman. “We have Clickers that move slowly but are one-hit kills. Shamblers provide this area of attack, where they have this cloud of gaseous acid that burns materials around it. It burns your skin. The way you saw it in this demo is that they’re mostly on their own. It gets really interesting because you have a cloud that hurts you when you enter it, but it also blocks your view, then Runners burst through it. So the combinations get really interesting.”
Expanding the Grounded Gameplay Experience
Creating a grounded experience is a pillar of Naughty Dog’s vision. For this game, the team seeks to retain that principle while also expanding Ellie’s gameplay options with a wider variety of weapon customization, abilities, and mobility.
“We’re after a grounded experience, but that doesn’t mean reality one-to-one,” Druckmann says. “First of all, you don’t have all the inputs you’d have in real life. Your inputs are limited to a controller. So with that, how do we create systems and an aesthetic that feels grounded? So Ellie couldn’t kill as many people as she does in the demo in real life, but we need that number to create the tension. The tension is more important than a realistic body count.”
“And likewise with the system, if you had these weapons your life and death would rely on them,” Druckmann continues. “You would clean them, you would tend to them. So we created systems and aesthetic – we really zoom the camera in and show you the weapon and how she works them to improve them – to make you feel the connection she has to these instruments of death, in a way. What it means to survive in this world.”
In addition to challenging players’ skills, Naughty Dog is also adding new gameplay mechanics with the goal of eliciting an emotional response from players. For the first time in the series, Ellie will face animal threats.
“Dogs are a way to evolve human enemies to give them a new sense to sniff you out – no pun intended,” Druckmann says. “They can rely on the sense of smell and as Ellie moves around she leaves behind this [scent] trail that fades over time, but if the dog picks up the trailer he can find you wherever you’re hiding in a way that a human on their own can’t. But there is something when you kill a dog that makes you feel worse than when you kill a human.”
Believable Human Enemies
Fighting guard dogs is just one example of how Naughty Dog is making technical strides to create a more authentic and grim action game. The attention to detail in connecting players’ emotions with their in-game actions extends to human enemies.
“We want to treat violence as realistically as we can in an action game,” Druckmann says. “One example is that every human enemy in the game features a unique name, such as Omar, or Joe. For Naughty Dog, implementing this was a nontrivial task. “[This was] a big effort that required not only new tech, but a lot of recording investment …. The way they communicate is much more sophisticated.. We do that in order to make you feel it’s not just like an NPC or braindead obstacle.”
If you take out an enemy, their friends may scream their comrade’s name in grief. Overcome by emotion, enemies may also become enraged and unpredictable in combat. It all blends together to create a brutal, yet believable experience.
“Your thoughts are provoked in really interesting ways in the way some of the best stories are done.” says Druckmann says. “That’s what we’re striving for.”
Choosing When to Fight
Naughty Dog wants players to feel the consequences of Ellie’s actions more deeply, so it’s natural that some may wish to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. The team is accounting for that.
“We wanted to have whole sequences that you can be spotted, engage in some combat, and escape without clearing the area,” Druckmann says. “Likewise, we wanted to have way more sequences where you could ghost completely. It’s very challenging and very hard, but it’s possible to leave areas. Then there are certain situations where we want you engaged, we want you to partake in certain actions that are going to make you uncomfortable. But that’s part of the narrative,that’s part of Ellie’s journey.”
However, avoiding bloody combat encounters doesn’t mean you’ll totally miss out on interesting areas to explore.
“As you saw with Uncharted 4 and The Lost Legacy, we’re experimenting with much larger layouts,” Druckmann says. “We’re going to do that with this game, and find ways to use that to mirror the story. When we want tension to drop, and we want you to think ‘What do I do next? What do I want to explore here?’ We have that.”
Fearsome Fidelity
The Last of Us was a high watermark for PS3’s technical capabilities, which makes returning to this world with the power of PS4 even more enticing.
“Just as with The Last of Us, we were hitting the limits of memory, of computational power, how many enemies we could have on screen, and the size of levels,” says Druckmann. “Now we’re able to have much wider environments, sequences with a horde of infected, several squads of enemies looking for you in big spaces.”
“Likewise, Ellie has this whole new animation system called motion mapping. Not just Ellie, all the characters. It makes movement more responsive, but also more realistic at the same time. So I think Ellie is one of the best controlling and looking third-person action characters out there.
“The fidelity we can get in the faces and the motion capture — we can better translate what the actors are doing on stage into the game, and get these nuances so we can rely more on the way someone blinks or the way they squint instead of lines of dialogue. It allows the writing to be much more nuanced than it’s been before.”
A Message for PlayStation Fans
Gamers around the world are dying to get our hands on The Last of Us Part II. Where is Naughty Dog’s head?
“We’ve been on this journey for a few years now making this game,” Druckmann says. “We know we’ve been quiet, and we know how engaged our fans are and the PlayStation community is behind us. They inspire us in ways they’re probably not even aware of.”
“We’re on the home stretch and we’re so excited to finish this game. We’ve been very protective about what we’re showing, and even though people here are playing the demo and we’ve put out a story trailer, we’ve been very mindful not to spoil the story and what makes the story special, and what twists and turns are in store them. We just can’t wait for them to play it.”
The Last of Us Part II launches on PS4 February 21, 2020.
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Many restaurant happy hours in Los Angeles have taken on whole new style. No longer is it considered a time to get "not very interesting cheap eats"— rather, if you choose your destination carefully, you may very well find some favorite dishes at a lower price. A number of restaurants are now shaking up the traditional happy hour model with a twist, adding late night happy hours to the mix. Although some fall late in the evening, others could very well replace a meal at a more reasonable time. With that in mind, check out some stellar "reverse" happy hours that will appeal to every taste.
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Super Nacho Hour reigns at Bar Amá, Josef Centeno’s Tex-Mex-inspired eatery in Downtown L.A. Available at the bar only Monday to Friday from 10 p.m. to close, small plate offerings run $5 to $7 and include: Super Nachos of course, done three ways—vegan, vegetarian, and carnivorous (chorizo); guacamole and chips; bean and cheese quesadilla; chicken or fried Kielbasa tacos; short rib taquitos; and the classic Nana’s Frito Pie done with a Centeno twist. Drinks range from $4 for a Negra Modelo to a $5 Michelada and $9 for a glass of wine or a Margarita.
118 W 4th Street Los Angeles, CA 90071
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Barbrix
Sunday through Thursday, the wine bar at this sleek, cozy Silver Lake restaurant with a lovely patio is the place to be from 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. For $3 to $4 a plate, enjoy a late night tete-a-tete sharing shoestring French fries topped with a fried egg; blistered shishito peppers; cantimpalitos (roasted, tiny Spanish sausages with Dijon mustard dip); fried calamari; and market radishes. High roll it with the $7 pork belly bao or the Barbrix burgers and fries for $8. On Monday nights, get oysters from $1. Then sip away on select wines by the glass at half-price.
2442 Hyperion Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027
Bodega Wine Bar - Santa Monica
With locations in Santa Monica and Pasadena, this intimate wine bar/lounge serves late night happy hour fare Sunday to Thursday from 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Enjoy $3 beers, $5 wine, and $6 soju drinks. The food specials will quickly cure any late night munchies with bruschetta and olive tapenade, hummus with pita and roasted potatoes for $6; or a margherita, pepperoni, or mushroom pizza for $8. Special events run nightly, including game night on Sundays and tacos on Tuesday.
814 Broadway Santa Monica, CA 90401
The iconic Chaya Venice was recently renovated - the stunning redesign includes cedar wood tables, glass pendant hanging lamps, spindle-back chairs, leather banquettes and wood floors. And with the mod new look there's a daily all-night happy hour at the bar starting at 5 p.m., featuring small plates, beer, cocktails and a cold sake flight for $8. The izakaya menu from Executive Chef Yuichi Natori includes salmon ceviche, soy-ginger chicken karage, seared albacore sashimi, lamb meatballs, poke, curried cashew humus, and more. Pair these bites with a new menu of fruit based craft cocktails, such as a Lychee Martini and a Blood Orange Sour. House wine is $5 a glass. And if you’re in the mood to splurge a bit, the bar menu is also available and includes sushi, sashimi, oysters, and an enticing list of small plates including Alaskan crab/avocado toast and duck sliders.
Acclaimed chef-author Tal Ronnen’s Melrose Avenue restaurant is the antithesis of what most people associate with a plant-based establishment. Stylish, sophisticated and trendsetting, Crossroads attracts a wide range of palates. The Late Night Bar Menu ($3 to $12) is served daily from 10 p.m. to close and changes seasonally. Expect specialties such as the ever-popular “meatball” pizza, buffalo maitake mushrooms with house bleu cheese, or the irresistible old school sundae with hot fudge and butterscotch cashew praline. Imbibe on cocktails like the Dirty Deeds (tequila, curacao, orange bitters) for $8; wine by the glass for $8; and $5 beer. Elevate it all with beer and a shot of whiskey for $10.
For more than two decades, this West Hollywood fixture has blended rock 'n' roll and vintage Hollywood into a buzzy, classic Italian restaurant with red and white checkered tablecloths, booths, and celebrity photos covering the walls. The late night Beggars Banquet menu is available Sunday through Thursday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Hearty eats include pasta Bolognese and spaghetti pomodoro ($9.50), pizzas for $7.50, and a classic Caesar salad ($6.50). The house cab and chardonnay is $5.50 a glass, while beer is a steal for $4.50. Specialty cocktails like the Dirty Sue, Keith Moon, Go-Go, and Groupie are served up for $8.50.
7205 Santa Monica Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90046
Kettle Black
This rustic chef-driven Italian restaurant is one of the most head-turning venues in Silver Lake: hanging Edison bulbs, a chef’s counter with front row views of pizza coming out of the wood burning oven, golden shelves of wine and liquor on a mirrored wall behind the bar, flower patterned banquettes, wood tables, and potted succulents decorating the walls. The reverse happy hour happens Sunday to Wednesday from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. with great deals on favorites for $9 to $15 like the meatball sandwich with house-made bun, tri-colore salad, margherita pizza, and charcuterie. Wine and cocktails run $4 to $8, with classics like the Manhattan and Negroni.
3705 W Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90029
Mohawk Bend
A good time will be had by all at this very coolly designed hipster-brewpub in Echo Park that serves up locally-sourced seasonal cuisine with choices for carnivores and vegans alike. You can’t beat a choice of 15 personal pizzas, including Banh Mi pepperoni and the new Angry Vegan, or snacks such as nachos, house-made chips and dips, and garlic herb twists. Beer and cocktails range from $4.75 to $8 and wine is $2 off a glass. It all happens Sunday to Thursday from 10-11:30 pm; and Friday and Saturday from 11 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.
2141 West Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026
That Big Easy feeling can be found at this impressive New Orleans-style two story restaurant in Downtown L.A. On Sundays, the late night happy hour is from 4-9 p.m., with the entire menu of OG’s (appetizers) and Po’boys for only $9. Although this reverse happy hour is a little early and only one day a week, it’s still the perfect chance to try specialties such as Dungeness crab hush puppies, turkey neck gravy poutine, and baked mac n’ cheese. Or in the Po’ Boy department, fried Willapa Bay oysters and fried Mississippi catfish. Quench your thirst with $7 frozen daiquiris and select cocktails, as well as $5 draft beer and wine.
Tipsy Cow
With two locations in Sherman Oaks and Woodland Hills, this self-described “urban eating house” specializes in gourmet burgers, brew, craft cocktails, and some interesting small plates for good measure. The late night menu is offered daily from 10 p.m. to close—and might be one of the best deals in town. Favorite eats and drinks run $4 to $6, and include: Tipsy Burgers served on mini-brioche buns; short rib cheesesteak, beef tacos, smoked wings, basil hummus, deviled eggs, buffalo blue haystack fries, buffalo cauliflower, and the Drive-Through Burger. On the libations side, sip well drinks, wine, beer and select cocktails, such as the Tipsy Mule and an Old Fashioned.
15005 Ventura Blvd Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Yamashiro's regal presence looms large: 250 feet over Hollywood with panoramic views. What could be more perfect - or so very L.A. - than a nightcap or a late night bite at this iconic restaurant? The popular Lucky 7 Happy Hour is available Monday through Thursday from 9 p.m. to closing in the restaurant's indoor lounge. The $7 menu includes craft cocktails, sushi, and light Asian fusion dishes. These bites include ahi poke, crispy chicken, salt and pepper fried calamari, and banana leaf baked pork spring rolls, as well as truffle hamachi, spicy tuna crispy rice, pistachio salmon, and the "Reclining Buddha." Vegans will enjoy marinated grilled vegetable skewers with peanut sauce, teriyaki tofu and vegetables, and steamed vegetable dumplings. Specialty cocktails include the refreshing "Japanese Slipper" and "100 Year Mai Tai," along with red and white wine, prosecco and draft beer.
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LGBTQ Column: What does trans look like?
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By Abigail Hadfield, Deputy Copy Editor
As a journalist, I try to follow as many diverse voices on Twitter as possible. I follow journalists from news outlets I like, from ones I don’t like, from national sources to small town papers. I also try to make sure I’m following people from marginalized communities, who report on issues that might be neglected by large news organizations. One such journalist I follow, a transgender woman named Katelyn Burns, reports a lot on LGBTQ issues, and I generally appreciate her reporting.
Several weeks ago, when the Supreme Court began debating whether or not the Civil Rights Act protects LGBTQ workers, Burns tweeted something that bothered me, but it took me a few days to figure out why. She covered the case in person at the Supreme Court and tweeted, “As far as I can tell, I’m the only trans person in the press room.”
Most of the replies said something along the lines of, “Thank you for being there,” which I agree with—I think it’s incredibly important to assign reporters to cover stories that pertain to their identities, especially marginalized identities. As a journalist and a member of the queer community, I want LGBTQ reporters to cover LGBTQ issues whenever possible.
Yet that wasn’t what bothered me about the tweet. It was the first clause, the “As far as I can tell.” After mulling it over for a day or so, I finally figured out why it bothered me—why did Burns assume she could tell the gender identity of every person in the room just from looking at them? Was she implying that transgender people somehow stick out as transgender? Or that, to be transgender, you have to look a certain way?
I believe that her intentions were to state that she thought, or maybe felt, that she was the only transgender reporter in the room. However, this plays into the same kind of rhetoric used by people opposed to transgender rights—implying that you can always tell when someone is transgender because they don’t “pass” as their gender. Not to mention, if someone were to say this sort of thing about sexuality— “As far as I can tell, I’m the only gay person in the room”—it would be a fairly controversial statement to make. The queer community has argued for years that just because someone looks a certain way, it neither says anything about to whom they are attracted nor how they identify.
This kind of rhetoric reinforces the ongoing debate over what it means to “look” trans. Many gender-nonconforming and nonbinary people are often pressured to fit a certain aesthetic—skinny, white, short hair, vaguely androgynous. British nonbinary photogrpaher Jackson Akitt talked about this stereotype when doing a photoseries on nonbinary individuals, citing mainstream actors like Ruby Rose as the media standard for androgynous identities.
“[The media representation of non-binary people is] usually quite biased towards white, typically androgynous, skinny models,” Akitt said in an interview with Vice. “It makes it seem like it’s something for white people to be androgynous and nonbinary. It’s important to have a diverse representation of what we look like.”
Time and time again, nonbinary individuals remind the LGBTQ community that you don’t need to look a certain way to be valid in your identity—we seem to be in consensus on this when it comes to sexuality, but not gender.
Ultimately, what really got to me about this journalist’s tweet is that I knew if I had been in that press room, as someone who is genderfluid and uses they/them pronouns, she would have looked at me and my femme presentation and made an assumption about my identity. And, for all we know, there were other trans reporters who “passed” as cisgender, nonbinary reporters, genderfluid reporters, and so on in that room, who saw this tweet and were made to feel invisible. It happens to me every day when I talk to strangers who think that I look feminine enough that they don’t need to ask my pronouns, or feel justified in telling me that I don’t look genderqueer when I correct them.
What confuses me the most about this mindset—going into a situation assuming you are alone in your queer identity—is that it’s inherently isolating. Most polls and estimates place the LGBTQ population of America at around 4.5 percent of the population, with fluctuation from state to state. Those numbers are often based on self-reporting, so they may actually be underreported, as people still in the closet may be hesitant to self-identify.
Regardless, that means that if an LGBTQ person is in a room of 100 people, or even 50 people, odds are they are not the only one. To me, that’s more comforting than upsetting, because it means that I’m not alone.
If you’re entering a new community and defaulting to thinking the world is against you, especially when it comes to being LGBTQ, it can make everything feel scarier and isolating. Plenty of trans celebrities, and even just every day people, have talked about what it feels like when people assume they are cisgender and then learn otherwise. Sometimes it can be very validating to know that you “pass,” but the accompanying shock of people saying, “Really? I never would have guessed it!” can also be very hurtful.
Ultimately, assuming that you are always the only one who is LGBTQ causes more harm than good—it divides the community, it implies an unnecessary hierarchy of what it means to “look” transgender, and it puts us all into the mindset of constantly being alone in this fight. And if there’s anything I’ve learned from my years in the LGBTQ community, it’s that we are never alone.
Abigail Hadfield, Deputy Copy Editor
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In this feature, a panel of IDSA members identifies and critiques important new studies in the current literature that have a significant impact on the practice of infectious diseases medicine.
Prednisone Reduces the Risk of TB-Associated IRIS in HIV-Infected Patients
Probiotics for Acute Gastroenteritis in Children: Throw in the Towel or Back to the Drawing Board?
Two-Drug Therapy for Treatment-Naïve Adults with HIV-1 Infection
Click here for the previous edition of Journal Club. For a review of other recent research in the infectious diseases literature, see “In the Literature,” by Stanley Deresinski, MD, FIDSA, in each issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Reviewed by Daniel Mendoza, MD, PhD
Early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV-infected patients who have tuberculosis (TB) reduces mortality. However, ART increases the risk of TB-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS). There is a lack of knowledge about strategies to prevent TB-associated IRIS.
Meintjes et al. conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (PredART) to determine whether prednisone reduces the incidence of TB-associated IRIS in South Africa and recently reported their results in the New England Journal of Medicine. They enrolled HIV-infected patients with high risk for developing TB-associated IRIS. They included patients with CD4+ T cell counts of 100 cells or fewer per microliter who were on anti-TB treatment for less than 30 days and were going to start ART. Patients with hepatitis B infection and uncontrolled diabetes were excluded. The groups received prednisone (40 mg for 2 weeks followed by 20 mg for 2 weeks) or placebo. Prednisone or placebo was started within 48 hours after initiating ART. The primary outcome was the intention-to-treat incidence of TB-associated IRIS within 12 weeks after initiating ART.
One hundred twenty patients were assigned to each group. The ART regimen was tenofovir, emtricitabine (or lamivudine) and efavirenz in 233 patients (97.1 percent). Nine patients (7.5 percent) in each group withdrew or failed to complete follow-up. TB-associated IRIS was diagnosed in 39 patients (32.5 percent) in the prednisone group and 56 patients (46.7 percent) in the placebo group (relative risk, 0.70; 95 percent confidence interval [CI], 0.51 to 0.96; P = 0.03). Open-label glucocorticoids were prescribed to treat TB-associated IRIS in 16 patients (13.3 percent) in the prednisone group and in 34 (28.3 percent) in the placebo group (relative risk, 0.47; 95 percent CI, 0.27 to 0.81). There were five deaths in the prednisone group and four in the placebo group (P = not significant). Severe infections developed in 11 patients in the prednisone group and in 18 patients in the placebo group (P = 0.23). One case of Kaposi’s sarcoma occurred in the placebo group.
The PredART trial indicates that starting prednisone within 48 hours of initiating ART lowers the risk of TB-associated IRIS in HIV-infected patients 30 percent more than with placebo, without increasing the risk of adverse events. Clinicians should consider using a 4-week course of prednisone to prevent TB-associated IRIS.
(Meintjes et al. N Engl J Med. 2018; 379:1915-1925.)
Reviewed by A. Krishna Rao, MD, MS
Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) accounts for 1.7 million visits to the emergency department (ED) each year in the U.S. Treatment focuses on close monitoring and symptom management, as few treatments can modify the disease course. The evidence for use of probiotics in AGE is poor and based on studies that are small and often have methodologic limitations. Despite this, probiotics constitute a multibillion-dollar industry, are being taken by patients to treat intestinal infections, and are even represented in guidelinesfor treatment of diarrhea.
Two recent studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine, one conducted in Canada and the other in the U.S., fail to support the use of probiotics in AGE. Both shared many features including robust study design/assessment and 90 percent statistical power. They were multicenter, randomized, and placebo-controlled, recruiting from six Canadian and 10 U.S. EDs. Subjects age 3–48 months with diarrhea (≥ 3 watery stools/24 hours) for up to 3 (Canada) or 7 (U.S.) days were recruited. Exclusion criteria were similar and focused on risk of bacteremia (indwelling vascular access catheters, structural heart disease, or immunocompromised) and chronic GI disorders. The primary outcome was moderate to severe AGE on the Vesikari scale (score ≥ 9 points), a validated metric designed for outpatients. The interventions included Lactobacillus rhamnosus R0011 and L. helveticus R0052 in a 95:5 ratio (Canada) or L. rhamnosus GG (Chr. Hansen) (U.S.) twice daily for 5 days.
Both studies met recruitment goals, completed follow-up in > 90 percent of subjects, had ~80 percent or higher adherence to treatment, and were balanced between intervention/placebo arms. Norovirus and rotavirus were the most commonly detected pathogens. The difference between arms in the primary outcome was small and not statistically significant: 26.1 percent versus 24.7 percent for probiotic versus placebo (odds ratio 1.06 [0.77-1.46]), P = 0.72) in Canada and 11.8 percent versus 12.6 percent (relative risk 0.96 [0.68-1.35], P = 0.83) in the U.S. There were no differences in secondary outcomes (e.g., frequency/duration of diarrhea, vomiting, or unscheduled health care visits) or subgroups (e.g., age, duration of symptoms prior to enrollment, or antibiotic use prior to enrollment).
These data suggest that probiotics do not work for AGE in children. However, there are many probiotic strains and AGE is a collection of many distinct infections. Effects of probiotics in studies are strain and disease specific. Also, there is evidence that only some individuals have a “permissive” microbiome allowing for robust colonization. The present studies did not examine the microbiome of participant stool following the 5-day course to assess for persistent colonization.
So how can we make progress in developing effective probiotic therapeutics? Firstly, focusing on specific strains is critical: A rational, bench-to-bedside approach could be pursued. Secondly, while there was prior evidence for the strains used in the present studies, AGE is a heterogeneous condition caused by many specific infections, and the best evidence for these probiotic strains was in norovirus infection. Thus, focusing on a specific infection is warranted. Finally, precision-health approaches that account for “permissive” microbiomes can be used to pre-screen patients prior to administration of probiotics. Rather than giving up on probiotics for AGE, investigators could go back to the drawing board, take a rational approach to probiotic trial design, and utilize insights from recent studies.
(Freedman et al. N Engl J Med. 2018;379:2015-2026.)
(Schnadower et al. N Engl J Med. 2018;379:2002-2014.)
Reviewed by Michael T. Melia, MD
Two-drug antiretroviral therapy regimens are attractive for many reasons, including the potential for lower toxicity and lower cost. Prior studies of two-drug regimens, however, met with mixed results. A recent study in Lancetprovides additional data for the efficacy of this approach.
The GEMINI-1 and -2 studies were identical, multicenter, double-blind, industry-funded phase III trials of treatment-naïve adult patients with HIV-1 infection. Most patients were young (90 percent < 50 years), 85 percent were male, and 68 percent were white. Patients were randomized 1:1 to receive either dolutegravir (DTG) + lamivudine (3TC) or DTG + tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC). Patients with baseline viral loads ≤ 500,000 copies/mL were included. Patients with baseline major resistance mutations to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTI), non-NRTI, or protease inhibitors were excluded.
In the pooled analysis of the intention-to-treat population at 48 weeks, 91 percent (655/716) of patients receiving DTG + 3TC achieved plasma HIV-1 RNA of < 50 copies/mL, compared with 93 percent (669/717) of patients receiving DTG + TDF/FTC (adjusted treatment difference -1.7 percent, 95 percent confidence interval -4.4 to 1.1). Of the 8 percent of patients with baseline CD4 cell counts ≤ 200/μL, more achieved plasma HIV-1 RNA of < 50 copies/mL with DTG + TDF/FTC than with DTG + 3TC, although most non-response was unrelated to efficacy or treatment failure. None of the 10 patients who experienced virological withdrawal developed NRTI or integrase strand transfer inhibitor resistance mutations. Aside from expected greater renal and bone turnover biomarkers in patients receiving TDF, there were no significant differences in side effects.
For treatment-naïve patients with viral loads ≤ 500,000 copies/mL and without baseline drug resistance, DTG + 3TG is an attractive option. Additional data regarding its durability and its effectiveness among patients with CD4 cell counts ≤ 200/μL (as well as higher viral loads) will help determine its place in the armamentarium of regimens for treatment-naïve patients.
(Cahn et al. Lancet. 2019;393(10167):143-155.)
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Louise Bier 2019 Show.mp3
5:00 As All of Us gets underway, Louise says the plans for what they will be giving back over the life of the project are… frustratingly vague. But they will begin with a medically actionable panel (somewhere around 60 genes but definitely NOT the ACMG59TM.
8:00 Step one is the putting together the infrastructure for about (by my calculations) 4000 positive results sessions a year. Does that mean someone is hiring? Asking for a friend…
15:20 All of Us is not the same as All at Once. Decisions about what to offer will be made in a phased approach.
16:20 Pharmacogenetics? It’s a part of the plan, but aspirational for now. Louise identifies this as an area where the public may be disappointed with the gap between what they expect and what the evidence suggests we can do. I say, the public’s not the only one… I’m pretty disappointed too, for the moment.
20:25 Giving back all the raw data? Despite some clutching of pearls by the genomics community, Louise says that’s still in the plans. She’s on board, although adding “this program challenges me over and over again to see what it looks like to actually put principles into action”
23:00 AOU will do genotyping by array first and genome sequencing to follow.
25:00 Louise says the program, by virtue of its large scale, is forcing the field to grapple with some key questions… no more options to kick the can down the road. Here’s one: what is “information” and what are “results”? Does everything qualify? We… don’t entirely agree. But ultimately Louise says, either they give back everything or someone has to be the adjudicator of all requests – and who wants that job? Not Louise! (fair enough…)
39:40 Another AOU ethical challenge: Louise explains why the plan is to accept children – and why to date that remains on hold.
42:00 Establishing a cohort that looks like America was a principle goal of the AOU program. Louise says the accepted wisdom as they got started was this might not be possible. But, she reports, efforts are paying off. Her message? Don’t do the same things and expect a different result. Their plan was to design in a community based approach, and a willingness to engage and acknowledge wrongs from the past.
As we get underway with All of Us, the huge tax-payer funded project to assemble a database or genomic and medical information on 1 million Americans, there are people working hard to make sure it fulfills two founding principles. First, to treat participants like partners (and this means giving them access to the results). And second, to make sure this effort leaves no one out. Our guest today on the Beagle, Louise Bier of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Columbia University, has been in the trenches on AOU, helping to put together the infrastructure that will create a database that looks like America in all ways: not only ancestry and race, but sex and gender, socioeconomic status and geography.
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2008 Florida State Legislative Accomplishments
1. Brian Daiagi – Claims Bill
H B 797 Relief for Brian Daiagi
Florida ‘s Constitution requires individuals with judgments in excess of $200,000 against a governmental entity to appeal to the Legislature with a Claims Bill.
The Claims Bill for Mr. Daiagi was the result of a jury verdict awarding him $3.9 million dollars for the negligence of the South Florida Water Management District. Mr. Daiagi was in an accident on land owned by the District and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Although the jury had awarded Mr. Daiagi a judgment, and the District Court of Appeal upheld the verdict, the South Florida Water Management District contested the Claims Bill and fought vigorously to defeat it. On the House and Senate Floors, the Bill was hotly debated. Our Firm also worked with the Special Masters and the House and Senate counsel throughout the process.
2. Daniel Decembre – Claims Bill
We successfully passed legislation authorizing the Orange County School Board to pay $1.8 million to Daniel Decembre. Decembre was brutally attacked on school grounds by a dog. The relief bill garnered much coverage from the local newspaper, Orlando Sentinel. It was a hard fought battle that was resolved during the waning hours of Session. We successfully passed the Bill despite a negative recommendation by the Special Master.
3. The Family Law Section of the Florida Bar
The Family Law Section of the Florida Bar provides section members and the public with information on attorneys practicing in the areas of divorce, child custody, adoption, modification of judgments and enforcement of alimony and child support. The Family Law Section also introduces, reviews, and monitors, bills filed in the Florida Legislature that affect Florida ‘s families. The following four Bills were top 2008 priorities. They all passed.
S B 2532 – Child Custody and Support by Sen. Lynn
This legislation promotes amicable resolutions of parenting issues by promoting less litigation and reduces the resulting emotional stress which is unnecessarily inflicted upon children arising from their parents prolonged legal disputes.
S B 1474 – Dissolution of Marriage by Sen. Joyner
This legislation abolishes the special equity doctrine. The special equity doctrine was an antiquated mechanism for division of property in divorce cases. The special equity doctrine was inconsistent with the framework of classification of assets as provided by Florida ‘s current equitable distribution statute, Florida Statute 61.075.
S B 0766 – Pub. Rec. Judicial and Administrative Officials by Sen. Rich
This bill creates a public records exemption for the home addresses and telephone numbers of General Magistrates, Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officers, Article V Judges and their children.
H B 0663 Relating to Termination of Parental Rights
This legislation requires a petition for the adoption of a dependent child to be accompanied by a statement signed by the prospective adoptive parents acknowledging receipt of all information required to be disclosed.
4. Florida Retail Federation
Retailing is Florida ‘s second-largest industry. FRF represents all sizes and types of retailers and businesses, including retailing centers and 3,600 retail pharmacies in Florida . We monitor hundreds of Bills each session and work on many issues.
5. The Washington Center
The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars is an educational nonprofit organization serving hundreds of colleges and universities in the U.S. and other countries by providing selected students challenging opportunities to work and learn in Washington , D.C. for academic credit.
Working with our sponsors, we were able to secure the recurring $240,000 the Washington Center receives from the State Legislature.
6. Florida Medical Association
H B 405 Managed Care
Assisted in passing HB 405, the FMA’s top priority. Currently, insurance companies have 36 months to “look back” at reimbursements made to doctors to determine their validity and make changes as they see fit. This bill, among other things, changed the look back period from 36 months to 12 months. Insurance companies fought ardently against this bill
7. Southwest Ranches
Southwest Ranches was awarded $39,0000 in water projects. Additionally, we passed legislation granting the Town two appointments to the South Broward Utility Board. This Board governs water utility fees for the Town and gives them a seat at the table. The Bill had some opposition.
8. Justice Research Center
Though they were originally on the cut list from the Department of Juvenile Justice Budget, we saved their 10 year contract with the Department from the budget ax.
9. Kristi House
Kristi House is one of our pro bono clients. We helped to pass legislation making it easier to prosecute pimps who engage in the commercial sexual exploitation of children by removing the prosecutions requirement to prove the pimp knew “force, fraud or coercion” would be used to get the minor to engage in sex.
10. Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
We successfully worked to have the Clemency Board grant the restoration of rights to former felons on April 5, 2007. The new Florida Felon Rights rule divided felons into three categories. The civil rights being restored are the right to vote, serve on a jury, hold public office and apply for occupational licenses.
We successfully lobbied for $50,000 from the Florida Parole Commission’s 2007-08 budget to provide for community-based marketing and outreach pertaining to changes made by the Florida Cabinet concerning restoration of civil rights.
11. Bethune-Cookman University
Successfully passed legislation for the Bethune-Cookman University collegiate license plates.
Some of our accomplishments includes legislation that allows B-CU to directly work with the Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys on education issues.
Legislation to include B-CU in the creation of the Tobacco Education and Prevention Program and the Space Technology and Research Diversification Initiative.
Fought for reduced cuts to the FRAG program and the 2008-09 HBCU funding allocation.
Secured more than $4 million in recurring funding for access, retention and recruitment.
12. City of Lauderdale Lakes
We successfully secured $300,000 in funding for the City’s Stormwater Improvement Project Phase 3 and worked with the Florida League of Cities to successfully defeat legislative attempts to place spending revenue caps on local government, and any further property tax reform measures.
13. City of Miami Gardens
We secured $100,000 in funding for the City’s Drainage Improvement Project, and worked with the Florida League of Cities to successfully defeat legislative attempts to place spending revenue caps on local government, and any further property tax reform measures.
14. City of Opa-Locka
We secured $100,000 in funding for Cairo Lane Stormwater Drainage Improvements, $100,000 in funding for the City’s NW 143rd Street Stormwater Drainage Improvements, and $76,049 in FRDAP funding for the City’s local park project, Ingram Park ‘s Lakefront.
15. City of Pompano Beach
We secured $125,000 in funding for the City’s Chlorine System Conversion project, and $135,199 in FRDAP funding for the City’s local park project, Pompano Community Park Amenities.
16. City of West Park
We secured $250,000 in funding for the City’s SR7/US 441 Stormwater Improvements.
17. Florida Memorial University
Some of our accomplishments include :
Defeating legislation that sought to revise the way independent universities calculate their graduation rates.
Defeating legislation that would potentially burden the accountability standards and accreditation status of independent universities.
Successfully amending legislation to include FMU in the creation of the Tobacco Education and Prevention Program.
Successfully fought for lower cuts to the FRAG program and the 2008-09 HBCU funding allocation.
Successfully amended and passed legislation that allows FMU to directly work with the Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys on education issues.
Secured over $3 million in funding for access, retention and recruitment
18. Miami-Dade County
Preserved $3.5 million dollars in funding for the County’s Traffic Signal Control Cabinet Inversion project. The project will be included in the Florida Department of Transportation’s 5 Year Work Plan.
Defeated legislative attempts to weaken the County’s ordinance on Crane Safety. We negotiated with County officials and legislative sponsors for over 15 hours to find a common solution.
Formed a coalition with Orlando and Broward County officials to defeat legislation that would relieve internet companies from paying taxes on local hotel rooms.
Passed legislation that would create a Children’s Zone in Liberty City , Little Haiti, Wynwood, and Unincorporated North Dade. The initiative would establish a holistic approach to addressing the education standards, economic disadvantages, and crime rates in an urban community.
Supported legislation that would strengthen Elder Care facilities throughout the State.
Supported legislation that would provide insurance coverage for individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
19. Service Employee International Union
Lobbied for hearings in the Senate on the change of ownership in Nursing Homes
Worked with Healthcare leaders to maintain statutory language related to 2.9 nursing staff ratios. We were able to reduce the two year rollback to only one year.
Defeated attempts to pass the taxpayer bill of rights in the Florida Legislature and the Taxation and Budget Reform Commission.
Passed legislation that provides transparency in relation to hospital care and costs.
Defeated attempt to modify implementing bill language that would have prevented nursing homes from being cited if they failed to maintain 2.9 staffing levels.
20. City of Hollywood
Passed landmark beach management Legislation, House Bill 1427, which calls on the Department of Environmental Protection to ensure that annual funding priorities include inlet sand bypassing, modifications to channel dredging, jetty redesign, etc. The City of Hollywood has been negatively impacted for decades by Port Everglades. This legislation will prioritize the funding for the Port Everglades sand by-pass project.
Ocean Outfall: Worked with Department of Envrionmental Protection and Hollywood on Ocean Outfall legislation that will curtail its use. We successfully Amended the Legislation as it relates to water reuse, deep well injection, wet weather events, effluent flows, etc. The Amendments and changes will result in significant cost savings to the City.
Funding Issues :
$250,000 Fred Lippman Senior Center ( 14th year of annual funding with no cuts).
$135,199 Oak Lake Park
$135,199 Jefferson Park
$300,000 Port Everglades Sand Bypass,
$124,325 Restoration design and permitting and sand source investigation for Port Everglades to South County line
$459,247 Monitoring of Segment III South Broward Beach project, $325,000 Glass Demonstration Hot Spot
21. Florida Association of Jewish Federation
Holocaust Claims Bill: Senate Bill 2012 extends the period another ten years within which certain insurers must permit claims from a Holocaust victim or from a beneficiary, descendent, or heir of such a victim and extends the period in which actions seeking proceeds of certain policies may not be dismissed.
Each year we also work with many Federations and Agencies on specific funding requests. Our goal this year was to hold the line on existing programs and fight any cuts or elimination of programs in the recurring base budget. The following programs are in the recurring base budget of the Department of Elder Affairs:
Funding Issues
$187,440 Dan Cantor Center
$180,000 Mt. Sinai Caregiver program
$180,000 Elderly House Call
$170,391 Miami Beach Senior Center
$ 42,471 JCS In-home respite
$ 90,000 Senior Wellness
$100,000 Holocaust Survivors Assistance
$ 25,000 Gelber Day Care Center
$157,500 Federation Transportation
Other programs funded include :
$1,416,000 Non Custodial Parent Employment Program
$ 650,000 Ex-offender re-entry program
$ 300,000 Florida Holocaust Center
$ 350,000 Holocaust Survivor Program
22. Oracle
Worked to enact a new governance structure for implementation of People Soft ERP. HB 5043 provides for a new Financial and Cash Management System and some limited funding.
23. Ocean Harbor Insurance Company
Worked to defeat any legislation adverse to the PIP (Personal Injury Protection) insurance statutes approved in the special session in 2007.
24. City of Cape Coral
State Road 78 Funding :
Successfully enacted changes to F.S. 163.3182, the Transportation Concurrency Backlog Authority in SB 682. The existing statute is unworkable as it limits sources of funding (i.e. debt) terms of debt repayment and many other issues. The new statute will address areas of significant transportation deficiencies and inadequacies such as State Road 78 in Cape Coral – Lee County . The Bill changes F.S. 339.135(5) which increased the cap of reimbursement for projects to $250,000,000. This is critical to the funding for State Road 78 project.
Del Prado Road Widening Funding $4M :
Worked with House and Senate budget committees to ensure that any proposed cuts would not defer approved projects for TRIP funding. The language is in HB 5067.
Chantry Park :
Secured $135,000 for park improvements.
25. Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach
The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County owns and operates a number of land fills, incinerators, transfer stations, etc. We successfully Amended various Bills to ensure that they would not negatively impact the landfills operated by the SWA. We also worked on an Omnibus Energy Bill and protected the waste to energy facilities run by the SWA.
26. Community Association Leadership Lobby (“CALL”)
The Community Association Leadership Lobby (“CALL”) had a very successful 2008 Legislative Session. Created by Becker & Poliakoff, P.A., CALL is the leading organization working to enhance the quality of life and protect property values for Florida ‘s community association residents. CALL advocates on behalf of more than 4,400 member communities, including condominiums, homeowners’ associations, mobile home communities and cooperatives throughout the state. CALL monitors and responds to legislation emerging from Tallahassee that can significantly impact its members. The highlights of CALL’s efforts in 2008 include the following:
CALL played a key role in getting “emergency powers” language incorporated into the Condominium Act, via House Bill 995. HB 995 has been signed by Governor Crist and will become law on October 1, 2008. This language was initially drafted by Becker & Poliakoff attorney Joe Adams. The new law provides the board of directors of a condominium new and increased authority to act to protect property and owners in the event of a declared emergency.
Also contained within HB 995, CALL drafted an important “glitch fix” which was added to the Condominium Act (Section 718.113(2)(a), Florida Statutes) regarding material alterations. This correction will clarify and resolve a legal ambiguity that had existed in the statute.
CALL worked to create additional flexibility for communities seeking to implement hurricane protect by requesting revisions to the portions of HB 995 dealing with this issue.
CALL was instrumental in getting many objectionable changes to the Condominium Act, contained in the original version of HB 995, from becoming law. For example, the original version of HB 995 would have called for criminal sanctions for Board members who failed to properly maintain a condominium association’s official records. CALL was able to convince the legislators to remove this onerous language from the bill.
CALL fought to preserve the rights of condominiums to establish two year staggered terms to promote continuity on the board of directors.
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Final Fantasy XV on PC Will Support Xbox One Crossplay But There’s A Catch
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After making waves in the console ecosystem, best-selling game Final Fantasy XV is finally coming to your PCs. The Windows Edition of the game title, which is scheduled for a March 6 launch, went up for pre-order earlier last week.
If you’re interested in getting the Final Fantasy XV in the pre-order stage, then you have 3 different options available for purchase. You can shell out $49.99 and pick the gaming title either from Steam, Origin, or the Microsoft Store. Each of these come bundled with a pre-order bonus, which depends on which platform you use to order the game.
But, some keen-eyed users have discovered that you can get one nifty functionality with the pre-order if you decide to go with the final alternative. Yeah, the Final Fantasy pre-order from the Microsoft Store will get you the ‘Xbox Live cross-platform co-op’ feature as well.
While Final Fantasy XV is inherently a single-player only game, Square Enix had released Comrades DLC to introduce an online multiplayer co-op experience to the game. It was released on all consoles last year but it seems that the game purchased from Microsoft will bundle the said DLC with the pre-order.
Now, there’s a pro and con that you should keep in mind before making your decision. The benefit, obviously, being that you’ll be able to play this critically acclaimed game with all your friends, whether they’re playing on a Window PC or Xbox One through Xbox Live.
But, the downside of buying Final Fantasy XV from Microsoft Store may just sour this deal for you right away. It is highly possible that the game downloaded from the same is going to be based on UWP (Universal Windows Platform) and snatch away the ability to use mods with the same. Is that a dealbreaker for you or not?
If you don’t prefer this, you can opt to pre-order the game from Steam and preserve the ability to use mods using Steam workshop for mods. But, the multiplayer functionality is not going to come bundled with the same. So, the ultimate decision-making power lies in your hands? Which is it going to be? Steam or Microsoft? Do let us your choice and reason for it in the comments below.
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Utility-scale PV Projects Cost Analysis Report - 2016
Josefin Berg | October 28, 2016
This report reviews current and future cost trends for utility-scale PV in China, United States, India, France and Japan, including analysis of LCOE.
Solar Installations to Rise 20 Percent in 2014, Thanks to Strong Fourth Quarter
Global photovoltaic (PV) solar installations will rise to 45.4 gigawatts (GW) in 2014, with 32 percent of this total, or 14.4 GW, coming in the fourth quarter, according to IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
TBEA SunOasis Set to Overtake First Solar as World’s Largest Solar EPC Company in 2014
Josefin Berg | May 15, 2014
U.S.-based First Solar delivered on expectations in 2013 to become the leading Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) company in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry, even though it is likely to be surpassed in 2014 by Chinese EPC TBEA SunOasis, according to a new report from IHS Technology.
Leading Solar Module Suppliers Extend Dominance in 2013; Chinese Still on Top
Jessica Jin | April 30, 2014
The top makers of photovoltaic (PV) modules solidified their market dominance in 2013 with Chinese suppliers continuing to lead the solar world, according to IHS Technology.
US to Dodge Solar Shortage This Year Even Amid New Antidumping Fines on Chinese Module Suppliers
A long-running battle in the global photovoltaic (PV) market between the United States and China over antidumping and subsidy charges could expand into higher solar costs, with wide-ranging ramifications for the U.S. if punitive tariffs are levied on Taiwanese cells.
2013 PV Inverter Supplier Rankings: Asian Suppliers Tighten Grip as European Leadership Weakens
The number of Asian companies appearing among the world’s 10 largest photovoltaic (PV) inverter suppliers doubled in 2013, with four from China and Japan appearing within the charmed circle, compared to just two in 2012 and none in 2011, according to new analysis from IHS Technology.
China to Install More Solar than Europe in 2014 as Asia Drives Global PV Installations to 46 GW, IHS Predicts
Global solar photovoltaic (PV) installations will grow by a robust 22 percent in 2014, largely as a result of recent policy changes in the two largest markets, China and Japan, according to IHS...
Solar Capital Spending Enters 2014 with Strong Momentum; Latin America Leads Manufacturing Capacity Growth
With capital expenditures for the photovoltaic (PV) industry set to bounce back in 2014, a new round of solar spending will commence that will reach $3.8 billion by year-end, according to...
Yingli Solidifies Dominance in Global Solar Module Market
Jessica Jin | September 13, 2013
Yingli in the first half of 2013 rode the wave of solar growth in its home market in China to retain the dominant position in the global business for photovoltaic (PV) modules...
1.3GW of PV Installations Eliminated by EU Anti-Dumping Duties in 2013; Double-Digit Global Growth Still Likely
European photovoltaic (PV) installations are forecast to fall by more than 6 gigawatts (GW) in 2013, with 1.3 GW of this decline attributed to incoming EU anti-dumping duties on Chinese...
Japan Set to Become World’s Largest Solar Revenue Market in 2013 as Installations Boom in Q1
Japan’s solar installations surged by a stunning 270 percent (in gigawatts (GW)) in the first quarter of 2013, positioning the country to surpass Germany to become the world’s largest photovoltaics...
PV Inverter Supplier Base Fragments in 2012 – Minimal Impact From Recent M&A Activity in 2013
The supplier base for photovoltaic (PV) inverters further fragmented in 2012, with the total market share of the 10 largest suppliers falling by more than 4 percentage points, according to the...
Japan to Install More than 5 Gigawatts of PV Systems in 2013 – Overtaking Germany and the US
The Japanese photovoltaic (PV) market is set to grow by 120 percent in 2013 and install more than 5 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity, according to a new report...
Photovoltaic Industry to Enjoy Robust Installation Growth in 2013, but Revenue Dip Poses Challenges
Global photovoltaic (PV) installations will rise this year in a continuing pattern of solid growth, but the industry will nonetheless suffer a decline in overall revenue due to lower volume growth and decreasing system prices, according to an IHS Solar white paper from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS).
PV installations are projected to reach 35 gigawatts (GW) this year, up from 32 GW in 2012, as shown in the attached figure. In comparison, industry revenue—measured as the system price multiplied by total gigawatts installed—will retreat to an estimated $75 billion, down from $77 billion last year, and exhibiting an even steeper fall from the market’s peak revenue of $94 billion in 2011.
A Year of Turbulence for the Solar Industry
Consolidation, trade wars and price drops rule in the second half
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City, county officials brace for possible transmigrante impacts in Marfa
“It won’t just impact Presidio" city, Buddy Knight, a Presidio County commissioner, said of transmigrantes. “I think it’ll impact the whole county.”
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By Stephen Paulsen
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MARFA — An hour south of Marfa, city leaders in Presidio have spent months bracing the possible arrival of transmigrantes, a term for traveling merchants from Central America.
But Marfa could see impacts from the merchants, too. Just a few state and federal highways branch out from the border city of Presidio. And one of them — U.S. Route 67 — runs right through the center of Marfa.
That could mean more traffic for Marfa’s main intersection, or more demand for city goods like groceries and gasoline — though Marfa and Presidio County officials stress it’s still early for them to know exactly what to expect.
“I’m just trying to keep an open mind and envision what the impacts are and what our response would be,” said City Manager John Washburn. “Until we have more info, I don’t think we can do any final planning-stage stuff.”
Transmigrantes export large consumer goods (washing machines, car parts, etc.) from the United States to Central America, and their vehicles are weighed at Mexican ports of entry in a process that can take days. Currently, the only approved Mexican port for transmigrantes runs through Los Indios in South Texas. But Mexican officials have for months floated the idea of opening another approved route in Presidio/Ojinaga.
That puts the border city on the front line for any impacts — including an unknown number of transmigrantes parked and waiting in town for their customs paperwork. Officials there have said they don’t want to see Presidio become like Los Indios, where transmigrantes dominate the city’s economy and are even celebrated with a yearly holiday: Dia del Transmigrante, or “Day of the Transmigrante.”
As Presidio city works to decide how it will handle a possible influx, the Presidio County Commissioner’s Court has also begun studying the issue. In December, Presidio City Administrator Joe Portillo briefed the court on transmigrantes. Rod Ponton, the county attorney and Presidio city attorney, has expressed a desire to coordinate the county with Presidio city on regulating transmigrantes, including with rules on parking.
When Presidio city council met last week to discuss (among other things) transmigrantes, several commissioners were in attendance. “It won’t just impact Presidio [city],” said Buddy Knight, a Presidio County commissioner. “I think it’ll impact the whole county.”
At the state level, the Texas Department of Transportation last year finished its study on U.S. Route 67, which started in 2018 and sought comment from the public and officials on possible improvements for the corridor between Presidio and Marfa.
While the agency did not specifically consider transmigrantes, Jennifer Wright, a spokesman for TxDOT’s El Paso district, said TxDOT “always” plans for increased traffic and may hold additional public-comment meetings if transmigrantes become a major traffic issue in the area.
“It’s not like we’re frozen in time with conditions as they were in 2019,” she said.
Washburn, Marfa city manager, in December briefed Marfa City Council on transmigrantes. He’s also spoken to officials in Los Indios to get a better sense of what to expect.
“They predominantly see a trickle,” he said of transmigrante traffic in the area, citing his conversations with those officials. But the traffic surges during certain times of year, including around holidays like Easter and Christmas.
If Mexico does end up opening a corridor for the merchants in Presidio/Ojinaga, Washburn foresees a few possible impacts. More traffic could lead to vehicle break-downs and could put strain on the four-way stop in the middle of town. If that happens, the city could coordinate with local police and agencies like the Texas Department of Transportation to help keep cars flowing, he said.
Outside of traffic, a large number of people in Marfa could also put a strain on resources, he said. “If they come in and empty the town of gas and groceries, everyone’s going to be negatively impacted,” he said.
But like many U.S. officials in the region, Washburn is still waiting to learn more about the issue. It remains to be seen if Mexico will ultimately approve a transmigrante route through Presidio/Ojinaga and, if so, how many transmigrantes will use the new route.
“I can envision a lot of scenarios,” he said. But he didn’t think it made sense to start preparing until “we know it’s a true possibility.”
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WARNING: Woman Brutally Assaulted From Date She Met On Instagram
Social media is one of the most common places people meet and date online. Many young people don’t even ask for phone numbers anymore, they ask for the woman’s instagram to connect with her instead.
Such was the case for 32-year-old model India Ali. A handsome young stranger, James Baker, 27, had found her on Instagram and started communicating privately before deciding to set up a date with him.
They went out to eat and drink, but then after that, everything went downhill.
It all came to light the terrifying moment when she woke up naked and bloody in a pool of her own vomit.
“I lifted up my head and saw all the throw-up. My face was laying in it on the floor,” the Los Angeles mother of two told the Daily News Wednesday.
“I got up and looked on the bed. There was blood everywhere. I made my way to the bathroom and saw bloody towels on the floor,” she recalled.
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Then she looked in the mirror.
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“That’s when I saw how beat up I was. It was like I was in a dream, like a nightmare actually. It was a numb, heavy feeling in my head. I was so dazed,” she recalled.
“I thought what if they come back and see I’m alive and really try to kill me? I felt they left me for dead but by the good grace of God I woke up,” Ali told KTLA.
She grabbed her purse but couldn’t find her car keys or phone inside. That’s right, not only was she beaten, and assaulted, her car was also stolen. Th when she called 911.
Ali said she drank too much and has only fuzzy memories of leaving the restaurant. She doesn’t recall how they ended up back at the Westin hotel near LAX. She only remembers very little.
“I remember standing up in the hotel and he was choking me,” she said Wednesday.
Ali spent a week in the intensive care unit, Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney David Berger said.
“The amount of blows she received caused her brain to basically twist in her skull, causing veins that connect her brain to shear,” Berger told The News. “She was bleeding through her ears, mouth and nose because of the blood building up inside her brain.”
When a person is hit that hard in the head, their brain swells to counteract the blows, but there’s only so much room the skull has, so then thats when the blood starts to move elsewhere to get out. Such is the case with Ali
Berger said police were able to track Ali’s cell phone and found Baker with her stolen car at a nearby Courtyard hotel.
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He was convicted of felony assault in April and faces a maximum of 10 years and four months in prison when he is sentenced on June 5th, Berger said.
Ali said the the ordeal has left her feeling depressed and drained. But she is grateful she didn’t die and wants others to be careful about dates with strangers they meet online.
“I don’t want anybody else to go through anything like this. I’m trying to put the word out for…
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Taking a trip down memory lane, you might have heard of Napster. Napster was founded as a peer-to-peer audio file sharing platform where people could simply share music with one another, for free.
This was 1999, when the internet was young and not as streamlined and protected as it is today.
It was also the time when music, and most media content, either streamed on broadcast TV or was sold on a transactional basis i.e. one-time price for a single song or album and you could listen to it for a lifetime.
Napster shattered this business model with its free music sharing agenda. While it was created in good faith, it was violating music copyrights which was a big issue since artists were losing well-deserved revenue.
This is when the idea of online content protection was renewed. There was a dire need of an infrastructure which could seamlessly get digital content and assets out to the people without violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.
Thus developed tools and technologies to ensure controlled online access. Overtime, it was given the name digital rights management.
How DRM Works In Vplayed
When it comes to content protection, DRM infrastructure involves a lot of essential and intricate information exchanges.
A License Server needs to approve any play request before the stream starts. When a person clicks on play, the Vplayed player sends a license request to a third party License Server. Vplayed acts as a proxy throughout this request transaction. When the License Server approves the request, the video starts to play.
All this takes place within a matter of seconds to ensure speedy and seamless streaming.
Vplayed’s DRM – Key Features
AES 256 Encryption Protocol
With the help of DRM, the entire video content is thoroughly protected by AES-256 encryption protocol. This ensures your copyrighted content is protected at all times from infringement.
Permissions & Access Control
DRM allows creating a firewall between the user and the content and limiting their access. Vplayed’s admin dashboard can reduce or remove visibility of any video asset on a user level.
Print Prevention & Watermarking
Vplayed’s DRM has in-built print prevention, which means that no one can take a screenshot or a printout of any part of the platform. Also, it gives watermarking facility in which you can add up to 4 watermarks.
Secured Paywall Integration
DRM inserts a paywall between the platform and the user if a non-subscriber tries to access the video content. This helps in ensuring only paid users can access the platform and all its features.
IP Blocking and Geo-fencing
DRM has the ability to block an entire demographic or region based on the IP addresses, enabling geo-blocking feature. This feature is effective to the dot for countries as well as small districts.
SSO (Single Sign-on) Integration
SSO integration allows for a smooth sign-on experience. In this, instead of registering on the platform from scratch, users can utilize pre-existing login credentials (Facebook, Google, etc.) to login to the platform.
Benefits of DRM
Restricts copying or lending of digitized material, thereby creating a barrier against piracy copyright infringement.
Prevents illegal and unethical file sharing while ensuring that the artists and content owners generate profitable revenue.
Improves brand value as utilizing DRM services delivers a message to consumers that the platform is providing legitimate and valuable content.
Provides assurance to companies that their audio and/or video content is safe and secure, thus removing any extra stress regarding the safety of their brand.
Providing consumers with parental controls through features like prevention from accessing adult/violent content.
Helps enterprises control the access to sensitive & confidential information while simultaneously allowing secure transmission of the same data over an encrypted medium.
For content owners who broadcast a bulk of content, DRM solution is the way to protect that content against theft and copyright infringement. In addition, DRM provides a whole lot of features that help in marketing and branding of the content in a secure manner.
Some of the best platforms use DRM to protect their video as well as audio content. Any video or audio is prone to theft and its essential to ensure its safety at all times to provide a well-deserved revenue to the creators.
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← Stupid is as stupid does.
Those were the days, my friends. →
A “cannon shot”
Year of the Gamecock (n.) – an era currently spanning the period from the second week of January to about the middle of the month of October for the years 1992-2010.
— from the GTP Lexicon
One of the great pleasures I took from the Lou Holtz era in Columbia was the sincere delusion that came upon the ‘Cock faithful like clockwork every preseason that this would be the year their beloved team would storm into Atlanta and seize an SEC title on the way to world dominance, as well as some converted safety playing quarterback going on to win the Heisman Trophy triumphantly. Oh, the celebrations to come!
They never did.
Weirdly, that kind of talk simmered down during Spurrier’s run at South Carolina, even though he achieved more than Holtz and coached two players that were worthy of Heisman consideration without snickering.
Now it seems like Agent Muschamp, of all people, is inspiring a return to the good ‘ol days. I mentioned Tori Gurley’s prediction on Finebaum the other day; check out this bravado from The Big Spur, a South Carolina message board.
UGA’s staff knows that the talent margin is closing, that we are no longer a team with a couple of nice pieces – that we are getting deep. Sandridge was a cannon shot. A championship playoff run, at a position of need, and we still get the commitment – regardless of what is being written about currently (and make no mistake, it isn’t a coincidence).
It has been a long time since we’ve been this deep. On the staff and on the roster. It’s the middle of July and we are all in the same range of commitments and we are ahead of them. Pressure is all on them.
The ‘Cocky talk, she burns.
If I’m lucky, these guys can take up a significant portion of the slack created when Stingtalk went dark on us. A blogger can only hope.
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46 responses to “A “cannon shot””
How can they say with a straight face the talent gap is closing when we signed the #1 class in America (2nd all-time according to SB Nation) and they were #19 (7th in the SEC!)?
Cock delusion in July … just like the return of the swallows to San Juan Capistrano
Saxondawg
UGA: 14 5-stars, 48 4-stars.
SC: 0 5-stars, 4-stars. Rankings per Rivals.
They do have us on 3-stars, with 53 of those. We have only 24, so if we stage the battle using only 3-stars, they’ll indeed out-depth us.
I’m sure that’s what the chicken is talking about.
Edit: For SC, that should be 23 4-stars. Sorry. We have, with DRob, 63 blue-chip players (4 and 5-star) and they have 23, none of them high-end five-stars. UF and UT are about equal, with slightly more blue-chippers.
They probably think they rose higher than we did, but their 2017 class was rated #21 compared to our #3. Sax, math is hard for those from the Palmetto State.
They speak of Spurrier as if he actually won something at Sakerlina.
Spurrier would shoot them straight. It’s one thing I always sacrilegiously admired about Spurrier, he would be like “we suck” when it was true.
Also, who among our other last minute signers would we have told “sorry, we are full” to take Sandridge? Tyson Campbell? Quay Walker? Otis Reese? Tommy Bush? Any one of those guys would have been one of Sakerlina’s top 2-3 rated players.
Thorn Dawg
Mark my word, Sandridge will be a bust.
sectionzalum
the Year of Cock also features the Months of Seething – that period from the mid-October indignity of jousting with Kentucky for 4th place in the East, the annual loss to Clem Tech, through the triumphant defeat of Marshall or Ball State at the Poulan Weed-Eater Bowl in late December. One dare not speak of the commitment of Kevin Breedlove, Richard Seymour, or AJ Green during this period, lest one risk igniting a Grand Mal Cocky Hissyfit
Hey now, didn’t Sakerlina finish 2nd in the east and beat Michigan in their bowl game? I know it’s hard given their relative histories, but let’s not confuse the Cocks with Tennessee.
It’s fun to poke at the birds, but I still have a certain amount of respect for them after the 10’ 11’ amd 12 games. A couple of thise years we should have waxed them easily and we just shit the bed. I know we’re better at every position including 3rd string towel
boy, but until we shut down Sandstorm and make that damn bird a “Zaxbys Big three piece meal” I will just stay cautiously optimistic.
I suppose it’s my inner Munson
I will be playing Sandstorm as loud as my Bose system will crank as I leave Williams Brice after we crush their souls the evening of Sept 8
Who are these guys fooling? Themselves Right. We will be ready and focused. Remember Richt is not running this team anymore,, Dawgs by 14
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Hahahahahahahahhaa!!!
Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
I’m not saying they won’t be good or a tough game or even beat us, but saying that the talent gap is closing is completely insane. Based on pure talent it is a simple fact that we are in fact widening the gap. Them getting one or two guys that we want doesn’t make up for the many (what, 16ish?) 5 stars we have that they don’t.
I am starting to think you are getting worried about this game. You are really reaching for some message board material. Quoting a former player on Finebaum and taking message boards as actual info? Go enjoy your summer, wait until the end of August to get scared.
Is this some kind of Gamecock mental jiu-jitsu? Ooh…
You know those quotes weren’t in any way taken as being substantive.
If you can’t have fun in the offseason, when can you?
It’s all fun. I’m not serious about much I write. I think we all know this game is a dogfight. 1/3 of sc’s roster will always come from the state of Georgia. This game feels right as an sec opener for both teams.
Seriously Sides? Scared? We aren’t scared of anyone, and shouldn’t be, but there is respect for many/most teams. You guys aren’t at the top of the list, but worthy of not being ridiculed, but to have your statement taken as legit you need to drop the silly stuff. What you might take from all this dialogue is that your HC seems as dumb with his mouth as he was at FU. One would think he had matured a little at this point but seems to be the same old Boom, the one that leads with his mouth. He should get some Ws on the field and stop with the stupid remarks, he is the one who doesn’t get respect from us, and he hasn’t earned any. Embarrassment to UGA that he received a degree in Athens.
We all have some delusional fans, SC has more than their fair share, but I wouldn’t have ever put you in that group until this comment. As the lexicon entry above states, this is the time for Cocks to crow so it does really indicate the silly season is upon us as we head into Media Days next week. Just didn’t see you as one who would lead the charge before this. See you in September, if our guys are through wetting the bed.
Boom=Chicken Shit.
All the pressure is on Georgia. It’s on the road. Senior running backs all went in the draft. It’s just your sophomore slump qb and a coach who averages 8 wins a season at Georgia.
Truth in the 1sr two sentences. Falls off sharply after that, 1) not everyone has a sophomore slump and, 2) 21 wins in two seasons averages to over 10 per season (and most allow a first season to be discounted for a new regime.) Talent gap grew over the winter. Our RB talent fell off, but we replaced with top drawer studs running behind a better OL. Kind of like two years ago, I don’t think we have to complete any passes to win. Biggest/only edge for SC is the home field, everything else favors us…by a decent margin. I am a “any given Saturday” guy in CFB but the timing hurts you, we have no one else to focus on early in the season, no chance we overlook you.
Cocks need to focus on beating Kentucky…for the first time in 5 years. It’s in Lexington so chances are the Cats will be favored to win again. When you’re getting owned by UK, best to keep the trash talk to a minimum.
That’s some quality trolling right there.
Do you really think the talent gap is closing? If so, please provide objective evidence. Over the last 3 recruiting cycles (which is also Muschump’s time in Columbia), Kirby has opened up a talent gulf (based on the 24/7 composite rankings) between the programs.
We got 13 5 stars.
The Yard Birds have ZERO.
Game over. There is nothing better than winning in March.
You would know, my friend.
We did go to the final four.
Our equestrian team is leaps and bounds better than yours.
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You could always apply for membership, Senator. 😏
“… there are a limited number of representatives from other schools we compete against).”
https://stingtalk.com/board/threads/stingtalk-primer-welcome-new-members-read-this-first.87273/
That fourth rule is doing some heavy lifting.
Ha! I am, however, finding the site to be currently open. Sooo… do your worst. 😉
Stingtalk is open again? How come nobody told me?
Membership has its privileges?
CKS just signed the best player from the state of Sackerlina in 2018, the kid was from Columbia. smh.
And he’s Bryan McClendon’s–who is now Carolina’s offensive coordinator-cousin, Really taking us to the woodshed.
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Boom’s bravado. What’s new?
randy adams (@randyad73431768)
Yup… Amusing, but getting old quickly. If we pick up what some think we will pick up (3 commitments) in the next few days, the potential is to jump as high #2, with 3 less commitments than Bama… Now that’s all speculation right now – but a very good chance that most, if not all of this could happen… I think that will be the Cannon Shot that hit’s the Gamecock right between the spurs…
Corch Irvin Meyers New WR Corch
And it just happened. Picked up 3 recruits tonight, and now we have the No. 2 class behind Bama with less commits so far… meaning much like last year, we’re poised to take over the No. 1 slot by the New Signing Day.
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Green Grove Zone
Sonic Discussion
Why are you really into Sonic?
By Sonikku2k, February 9, 2019 in Green Grove Zone
Sonikku2k 7
Personal research time, your input appreciated greatly
I am asking the question here because I want to personally reflect and find out where we all stand with the Sonic fandom. First and foremost it is quite obvious we are all here because we really like the blue hedgehog but I want to delve a little bit deeper and find out what the various reasons are. For me personally, after 20 years of ups-and-downs with SEGA and their mascot its been a bit of a ride, but there is something there, that makes me just realise sometimes why I like this gaming character so much. Everyone's reasons are different and I'd like to learn more, if possible.
Sonic, is, to me, what some people feel their therapist, guru, or other is. Basically like the character, Wilson, from the film, Cast Away, there was a period of great difficulty in my life, and being surrounded by a nice Sonic game at the time, really just touched me, I guess. I was very alone, with no support at all, and I went through it, on my own, and with my furry pals from my game. From then on its been a personal thing, combined with my real enjoyment of the character's personalities for the most part. I also fell shoulder-deep into the magic of Sonic Adventure, at the time, we could not afford, or even attempt, to buy a computer that could produce that kind of graphics and gameplay. That, with an interesting story, and an exciting phase in the fandom is likely what sealed my fate.
Of course I am aware that folks are into this franchise for different reasons. I have even seen some strong opinions here, and for the most part I also agree with some of those, but, I am trying to go deep, what is it that brings us together here?
I thank you for your time very much.
Marco9966 1,211
I want a comic that's not too sad, that has adventures, that can be long, and IDW Sonic fits this pretty well. It's always good to also see the other members debate about the comic.
Right now I only like the comics, but not the games, I only like the games fron 1991-2010, everything after that is soulless.
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Its funny you mention that, because a comic is exactly what I am contemplating, but if IDW fills the gap, then there's no need for me to do it, is there?
Kazhnuz 370
Ex faslo quod libet
Because I'm having fun.
Even if the game are kinda lackluster and not perfect since at least 15 years, the franchise is full of life and creativity. Be it the IDWComics or other derived product, fan-created content, I've got with Sonic a big dose of new and fun content, and I'm simply still enjoying my experience of the franchise. For me, a franchise like Sonic is way more than just an IP. My experience of Sonic isn't just my experience of the flawed last games, it's also the experience of stuff like Sonic Robo Blast 2 and its derivative games, many romhacks, etc. I'm simply still having fun with Sonic, and enough fun for still wanting to create my own games based on this "universe", for still wanting to explore this universe and create things for it even though I've got my own universes to work on.
( and TBH, even the last few game were kinda enjoyable for me, and are part of why I'm still into Sonic. They were flawed, yet full of small ideas and reference that where enough to make me have a good moment with the games. Sonic Lost World was pretty lively and had fun ideas and used diverse gameplay better than other boost games, and Sonic Forces was kinda fun even if a mess in many place. For me, it's not really that different of how I enjoy Heroes and Shadow even though they are pretty mess on many account. )
PC the Hedgehog 2,955
I don't remember what episode I got this pic from
Nothing too deep for me. I like seeing a colorful, cartoony cast of characters in a colorful cartoony world getting into high-octane exciting adventures. Pretty much the same reason I like Mario (minus perhaps the "high octane" part).
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Iko 181
For the gameplay.
Platformers are my favorite games, and I like when a platformer tries something different. There are many Sonic games now so it can't be called innovative anymore, but Sonic is still unique among the platformers.
I used to like Mario as well, but it became very stale lately, so I'm losing interest in it... though, despite all its flaws, I'm still interested in Sonic, because the franchise is still trying to find the right formula, experimenting with new ideas in each new game.
I still like Kirby though, even though recently it's getting a bit stale too (star allies was very bland and unoriginal, luckily the DLC characters saved it for me... I'd like Sonic to take that as an example of how to use the old characters in newer games).
DanJ86 7,931
Sounds like an easy question for me. The answer is pretty much the same reason I'm not looking forward to the Sonic Movie. For the purposes of your research, I'll try to be as detailed as possible.
Bright Colours, Characters & Varied Environments:
Maybe it was because of the limited technology, but many games back in the 90s were bright and colourful. You'd need to be able to identify your character in the environment they reside in. The earliest characters I can remember from that age is Sonic and Bomberman, I think I became a Mario fan a couple of short years later. The variety of environments was quickly apparent in every game. One second you are in an open field area with waterfalls in the background and islands visible in the distance, then your suddenly in a plant, with dangerous blue chemicals and bright pink water, progress more and your in a city modelled around a casino. No zone looked like a previous zone.
With the characters and the bright levels, the games felt very stylised. I've never been interested in realism and would often actively avoid it. That sense of toonish fun was always present in Dr. Eggman.
Comically exaggerated moustache, simple round body and stick legs, tiny glasses, a toothy grin and a shiny bald head. Every time you beat him, he is engulfed in explosions and is clearly frazzled by the experience. But insists on coming back to try again. Right then and there, you already know that this world is not about realism. Considering the original trilogy, Eggman must've fallen out of orbit and survived, several times. And I haven't even mentioned his crazy over the top gadgets and robots. None of which ever look truly menacing. Except for maybe one...
Comic's Expanded His World:
Back in the day, story telling was limited due to what developers could work with. When you wanted to learn more about the characters and world, you'd have to wait until the next game, but not when the series was expanded into comic form. Back then, there were two. (Though I didn't know that at the time.)
The one that I grew up with will be referred to as Fleetway Sonic The Comic. During the Saturn era, when Sonic games were few and far between, with no real plot or adventure to them, the comic helped bridge the gap. They also helped to introduce me to characters from games I was never able to originally get at the time. So because of Fleetway, I became a fan of Chaotix, Mighty and Nack/Fang.
Sadly, Bean, Bark and Ray never appeared (To my knowledge anyway.)
...Have to cut this post shorter than I wanted. If I can, I'll continue from my post with the Adventure era, next time.
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Kellodrawsalot 372
Nothing special. I really enjoyed the Sonic OVA and older games as a kid, Liked the comic books too watch Sonic X, Satam ect, now really enjoyed Mania and loving the IDW Sonic series.
Diogenes 42,226
At Least There's Mania
Nothing else out there plays like a good Sonic game. And when a Sonic game gets it right, it's one of the greatest platforming experiences in gaming. The speed, flow, and freedom that a good Sonic game offers is simply unmatched, and it's something I want more of.
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Wraith 21,468
YOUR LIFE IS YOUR OWN
My favorite games combine a in gameplay loop with enough work on the artistic side to create a world I want to see more of. The best Sonic games fit the bill on this perfectly. The better classic games have some of the best examples of level design you can find. The Adventure games trade a lot of these mechanics out for a tighter emphasis on world building setpieces and characters that still had me hooked. Even with how far removed the "Boost" trilogy is from everything else it's explosive and satisfying in a way that makes me smile.
And I really do think there are fun Sonic games all over the place, or at least more than this fanbase will give credit for. If something it's going for it's own thing I tend to judge it on it's own merits and when I do that a lot of Sonic games don't come off as all that bad to me. Annoying sometimes for sure but I can't say I regret the time I spent on the Rush series, the Adventure series, the Boost games etc or finding the occasional oddball experimental thing that was actually really fun like Riders.
I'll be blunt and say that I love the Sonic cast to pieces also. They're a combination of top notch character design, cool powers that have endless amounts of application in terms of both game design and action sequences, and having just enough of a strong personality that it should be fun watching them all bounce off of eachother. Any time the gang gets together I'm there for it even if I mostly have to rely on the comics for that now.
Even the Sonic games I don't like as much remain interesting because of how much talent has been on these games over the years. On the artistic side Sonic was honestly fucking glorious even during it's roughest times. This series has had top notch character designers, composers, environmental designers, animators, etc come through. The constant talk of 'ambition' comes from this. You can feel the talent coming through on these games despite the crushing reality of harsh deadlines and a management that doesn't care. Even now the Sonic Comic and Sonic Mania have some top notch artists composers and animators on it, some of them being directly inspired by the Sonic talent of yesteryear.
It's a series with a lot of heart and a lot of people who care working on it despite everything.
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To put it quick and simple. I think i'm mostly into it for the overall art style, characters and insane surreal fantasy worlds and imagining it all in new ways... I am also super fond of long running series that can keep me company across my life which I can keep returning to instead of always having to hop onto new short lived media.
Going into more detail. I like many of the characters, especially their designs and I love the art style in general. I enjoy both drawing Sonic characters and other people's art of them a lot... it is amazing seeing the different interesting ways artists put their own spin on the characters and concepts. I love it when Sonic media focuses their worlds and concepts more on the artsy surreal otherworldly side of design... and I hate it when they try to make Sonic's world closer to real life such as they did on Sonic-06 and Unleashed... I'm absolutely not a fan of Sonic media trying to emulate real life simply with cartoon characters tossed on top... I desire fantasy worlds that doesn't resemble our world whatsoever and want to explore and discover things that you only can in crazy far out there fiction.
The Sonic side cast these days interest me more then Sonic himself honestly... with Blaze being my current favorite Sonic character... don't get more wrong I still love Sonic too... Sonic from the OVA movie is my favorite portrayal of him. It's fun to imagine what the characters do in their day to day lives and what adventures they go on and how they interact with each other... furthermore the Sonic series in general is just a very fun series to reinvent and expend upon for fan made media.
The classic style games for me definitely contain the best overall packaged deal when it comes to art design, gameplay and their fun vague implied stories that allow your imagination to run wild. I really love Sonic music too obviously, both of the Sonic CD US & JP music sets being among my fave Sonic music... I am a fan of the Sonic OVA music and the Sonic Rush music too along with some others. Even tho I enjoy enough of the music from modern games... I prefer the classic Sonic games music styles more overall as I find many of the modern games rock and orchestra music pretty generic and dull often... I think I prefer more unusual style music... luckily there is tons of amazing fan made Sonic music out there too with enough even in the music styles I personally enjoy most.
The amount of quality feedback thus far was way more than I expected. Thanks folks, I am honestly touched
StriCNYN3 493
Coming from a person who's played and liked a lot of games in their day, when a Sonic game gets it's shit together, I don't think there's any other platformer touching it. It just has this draw in it's style that just pulls me in. It honest to god helped shaped my artistic and musical tastes growing up. That's a very powerful influence that not many other games can say it did the same for me.
I also blame Sonic CD's animated intro. That one scene swept me by the foot so hard that it keeps me hoping we'll get something like that in a video game one day. I always felt like that was the blueprints to the ultimate platformer =P.
Okay, I've got some free time. I'll try to go into detail about the Dreamcast era and beyond.
The Rise and Fall of a Dream:
Having grown attached to Fleetway Sonic, jumping to mainline Sonic games with a more complex story was not unwelcome. Though it would take some adjusting, I warmed to this more fleshed out world pretty quickly. Characters from the comic's were still around, just different. The exclusive comic characters were largely hit or miss with me, but in the following years, Fleetway Sonic would end and though it was disappointing, the games managed to fill the void that they left.
Sonic Adventure 2 continued the trend that the first did, but took the story into a darker setting. It was all still good fun and the often never mentioned Sonic Shuffle was a charming outing and perhaps the last time Sonic would emulate that mascot rival of his during the consoles war. For as the Dreamcast falls into eternal slumber, for the first time, Sonic will appear on the same console as that of Mario. No big deal in this day and age, but back in my youth, such a thing was considered impossible.
Because Sega wanted to bring the Dreamcast Adventures over to GameCube, it would be several more years before Sonic got a new outing. One that would be significant to me as I already mentioned that Fleetway made me a fan of the Chaotix and that is Sonic Heroes which would bring them back.
The team itself practically represents why I love Sonic on there own. Brightly coloured with zero realism and so diverse in appearance and personality, they also have a toonish charm to them. While it's not perfect, I still have much love for Sonic Heroes. The handheld games also giving me that same joy, something I personally overlooked in the previous era of games was the awesome music. Once Sonic Adventure came along, the music became more prominent to me and are a staple of the franchise.
When you examine the game, Shadow The Hedgehog and why I dislike it, it becomes even more clear why I like Sonic. Shadow The Hedgehog managed to have many things that Sonic is known for, completely absent. Makes sense since it was a spin off, I suppose. Though it's the only Sonic game I can remember in which I actually traded it in before the console expired. With the entire English voice cast changed, ugly aliens and a darker setting, it just didn't feel like Sonic. Even when Sonic was on the screen. The music was the only thing that made it still feel like a Sonic title, but even then, most tracks were forgettable. At this time, I was very close to giving up on Sonic as a fan and follower of the series. It might surprise some that Sonic 06 managed to fix that problem slightly.
Being Real, Ain't Cool:
So even though Sonic 06 was trying to add more realism, it was still able to bring the typical Sonic elements into the game. Even with the realistic environments, the world was still bright and colourful with very varied types of levels. Thankfully, they didn't keep one of the major changes they did for this specific game.
They shifted the realism to a more appropriate level in Sonic Unleashed. Sonic Colours was like a return to form in some aspects. The boost formula has never been an issue for me. Though I feel like it does relay heavily on reaction time and memory, rather than any skill. When I play them, I tend to bump into everything. In recent years, they have been trying to expand on the world that Sonic and his friends are inhabiting, it's just that most attempts have been poorly executed.
But I love the characters, the music, the personalities. I want to see them at there best and I'm hopeful in seeing it again at some point.
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Strickerx5 6,752
Bopping to the beat of life
Well, there were a couple of things really. The music, locals, ect. Though, if I had to boil it all down into the three main things that, without them, I'd probably up and quit it all... it'd be the spectacles this series employs, the characters themselves, and the sheer sense of speed it gives.
I know the term "spectacle" is a bit taboo around these parts as it's often linked with on-rails sections. Moments in a level where control is taken from you, physics don't matter, and you're not really #playingthegame. Though, the thing is, this has been a thing for the series since GHZ in the very first game. The series has always pushed the current hardware it's on and nothing really showcases that more than these sections. They are often jaw dropping moments that no other platformer can really pull off. Now, too much of a good thing can be bad and I really don't like how automated games like Forces have become but I do very much disagree with even the notion that such moments need to go. Re-work them a bit so that most of them are playable is my preferred path. It's all a game of balance.
As for characters, to keep this short, I think there's a whole lot of untapped potential in the cast. Whether it be from bad writing, bad plot, bad animation, or a mixture of all three, these characters are rarely ever given a chance to shine. Though, for those brief moments where some amount of effort manages to slip through into the script, there's just so much there that it's hard not to care about the cast more than Sega and Sonic Team tend to. Add in the killer designs most of the characters have and I really do hope that Sega and ST can get their shit together and improve the narrative and story telling of this series.
In terms of the sense of speed... well, it's simply just that. Nothing brings me more joy out of these games than speed running levels. Being able to weave Sonic and Co through structures in the quickest way possible with little down time is simply euphoric for me when done right. My approach to platformers has always been more of a "how to get from point A to B in the fastest way possible" sort of deal and this series seems catered to specialize in that play style. To remove that underlining core trait would be to remove what makes me play these games over all the other platformers out there. It's the backbone this series was built on and I feel as though it should be embraced instead of covered up.
Though, of course, there's a balance needed to all of this. I'd just rather not see it stepped over in any regard.
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Stephen Rodriguez 15
I like the series because of its:
1. Platformer based gameplay. I grew up playing several platformers such as the Pac-Man World series or both the 2D and 3D Mario games, so Sonic was totally not far off from what I expected of most adventure based platformers. Regarding the specific gameplay styles, while I do like the Boost gameplay, I still think Sonic and Tails' gameplay in Adventure 1 was arguably the closest ST had ever gotten to successfully translating the classic 2D gameplay into a 3D world.
2. Outside Media
Another thing that has kept me attracted to the franchise is its various non game media. Archie Sonic and Sonic X, despite their many flaws, were the two things that got me interested in whatever else the franchise had outside of games. Even the fact that Sonic had the longest running comic book series out of any video game character is pretty cool, and I think he should be given more credit in that regard. As IDW Sonic continues to progress, it's been my most favorite thing to have come out of Sonic in recent years and I can't wait to see more of what's in store for this year.
Of course, it's agreed that the series in general has some of the best video game music of all time, and I agree with this sentiment. I even have some soundtracks from a few of the games on my phone's music app and listen to them for time to time.
4. Aesthetics and character designs.
I LOVE most of the character designs in this franchise, whether they be Classic or Modern. The diversity in species, color, and outfits really shine out, and it's one of my most favorite things about the characters. I also think the human NPC designs in Sonic Unleashed were the best fit for how humans other than Eggman should always look in Sonic media. The realistic designs they had in certain games prior to Unleashed just completely looked out of place with the cartoony designs of Eggman and the Mobian characters. The diversity in environments is pretty cool too, and I hope to see more of it in future games.
5. Story and character personalities.
One thing the Sonic series is known for is its heavy emphasis on storytelling, and while the stories have been hit or miss depending on the game (some being too light and silly and some being too dark and serious), I still think the storytelling aspect of the series is one of the best things about it. The story in Unleashed is a good example of one that is perfectly balanced between being funny and serious. Seriously, I wish P&G knew how to write Sonic better. *sigh*
The characterization of Sonic, when written well, is a favorite of mine. His cool, cocky, and quickwitted yin contrasts with Mario's happy-go-lucky yang, but he's still this brave character who is always willing to help out anyone in trouble, even if it involves putting his own life on the line.
So yeah, that's pretty much why I still like the series despite its mixed reception in recent years. While I have moved on to being largely interested in other game franchises, old and new, Sonic is one that I will always have a soft spot for.
Rowl 209
For me personally, it is more because of the chats. Sonic is a series, that you can talk a lot about. Good stuff, bad stuff, more bad stuff, mediocre stuff, extremely bad stuff etc. It is a topic that can offer a lot of stuff to talk about. More than Mario and Crash for sure.
Scritch the Cat 400
Back when Sonic premiered, I liked it because it was shiny, new, and put emphasis on its characters and worlds being charismatic in a way that most Nintendo series didn't. Nintendo won me back over with the Donkey Kong Country series being made as their answer to the Sonic series, with more high-tech refinement, but that would fade starting in the Gamecube era, after Nintendo lost Rare and Microsoft bought Rare, and then the Sonic series burst into the room and regained my interest.
In the Gamecube/Game Boy Advance days, I loved it for its wide and colorful cast, which helped make it feel like it was a very all-accepting series and I believe was very beneficial to helping it be a hit with Nintendo players. That feeling collapsed with Shadow the Hedgehog, epically failed to return in Sonic 2006, got bastardized with the Olympics games, and ceased to be a priority most other places.
Nowadays, Sonic products don't necessarily appeal to me anymore, but the culture surrounding them does because it's so full of deep and entertaining analysis of why things aren't going right these days. For all that Sonic fans have become a running joke, many of them are pretty smart, and often seem more talented than the official teams working at Sega.
DabigRG 2,630
I got into Sonic because McDonald's, 4kids, and then Sony did a coordinated 1-2-3 punch of marketing in 2003.
I've stuck with it because it's still one of my favorite series, with so many different avenues to enjoy.
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The Character designs. I like the characters, they all look "cool". Sonic is the reason I got into drawing and these characters are really fun to draw.
That's pretty much it.
Cuz 390
Pinning down what exactly drew me to Sonic at the start would be tricky. I don't exactly remember. For one I've always been drawn to Speedsters when it comes to super heroes, for two Sonic fits the trickster archetype, another character type I like; (I was raised on Looney Tunes and there's a good deal of overlap between Buggs, Elmer, Sonic, and Robotnik. Especially the way Sonic was characterized in the 90's/AoStH/SatAM). You could say unlike a lot of video game protagonists, Sonic always seemed like his own inspirational character and not just an avatar for the player to personify.
The series action bend is definitely a part of it. The Mario and Kirby series have softened in comparison, while Donkey Kong Country never had the same level of ambition. I could never get into Metroid's atmosphere of isolation and solitude. Megaman isn't as experimental as I'd like it to be, or rather it's too neatly compartmentalized into split timelines, and Zelda has this air of stoic distance to it that feels like it limits what you can do in that space.
The classic era introduced me to a wide variety of game types. There's the mainline platformers sure, but also 3D Blast's isometric scavenger hunt, Sonic R. When you're a kid you don't really know, or care about concepts like spin-offs and "canon". It's all feels relevant to young eyes and part of the fun was in trying to connect it together. Even within the main games there are bonus games like Blue Sphere, Sonic 1's rotating mazes, and CD's UFOs that mixed things up and kept me engaged. Maybe that's partly why Sonic Adventure's range of game modes was never an issue for me. I like content and variety.
Despite the image of the fan base being divided among three camps: Classic, Adventure, and Modern fans I fall squarely into both the Classic and Adventure eras.
Constantly trying to reinvent itself has left this series with a lot of deep avenues to explore, and I have a lot of fun going down each and every one of them to see what changes, and what remains that their core.
sucram_h 19
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because his games, especially the boost games and the classics, offer something that isn't available anywhere else. Great graphics, catchy music, fast gameplay, complex levels, all rolled into one package.
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When Emotions Compromise Your Negotiation Leverage
July 29, 2014 /in Negotiation Examples, Negotiations Leverage /by Mladen Kresic
Successful businesspeople like to think of themselves as rational beings that apply thorough analysis to get optimal outcomes. Of course, this is not always the case. We’re humans, not optimizing machines: We’re biased towards doing business with people we like and trust; we succumb to pride when a calmer perspective would have yielded a better outcome for everybody; we get emotionally invested in a deal and can lose focus of its true merits.
It is easy to become emotionally invested in a deal, especially a complex one that has required a large time and resource commitment from you and your team. Nobody wants to simply walk away from something they have cultivated for months—even when the rationale for actually doing the deal starts to dwindle.
We once engaged with a client who was on the verge of a lucrative technology deal. Their position was incredibly strong: Their potential customer was well aware of the value of the deal and our client had painted a compelling picture of what would happen with every passing month that the customer failed to act. Our client even had a track record of successful projects with that same customer, which greatly enhanced their credibility.
With the deal seemingly on the goal line, the customer suddenly began to demand concessions. Our client’s CEO, who had promised his board that the deal would land soon, felt the pressure from both sides. As a result, he gave on some of the concessions, when no concessions were necessary. This elicited more demands from the customer, spiraling into terms we had already agreed to and a cascade of “unprincipled concessions.” He really wanted that deal done, and as the saying goes, “If you want it really bad, you’ll get it…really bad.” The deal closed, but with lost profits for our client.
Your Team is Your Guardrail
We suspect that our client could have closed the deal on much more favorable terms, and sooner, had he trusted the other sales and client services team members on the deal and their rock-solid value argument.
In the end, there was nobody that could counterbalance the CEO’s impatience, which brought in a short-term win at the cost of a more lucrative sale. When building a negotiation team, you recruit internally with your own weaknesses in mind. If you have a hard time asking the difficult questions, get team members who can. Solicit advice from people who challenge your assumptions, who welcome a constructive challenge.
Give yourself the edge by assembling a team of players who complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses. If you are an intuitive, hard-charging risk-taker like Captain Kirk, you’d better make sure there’s a logical Spock on board to lessen the likelihood that the other team will take advantages of your weaknesses and neutralize your strengths.
Staying focused on the merits of the transaction is tough to do when you become emotionally invested. That’s why it takes a good team around you to keep this question front and center as the negotiation unfolds: “Does this deal make sense for both parties?” Because sometimes we’re just too human to be rational all on our own.
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Contributor Update, Sherrie Flick: Thank Your Lucky Stars
We are happy to announce the news of past contributor Sherrie Flick! Her latest collection, Thank Your Lucky Stars,was published last September in 2018. Sherrie will be attending the AWP conference from March 27-30 to appear on panels and offer readings and signings. Thank your Lucky Stars is a collection of fifty stories ranging across all subjects and emotions. Each story attacks the human experience and details love and loss in poetic images and quick wit.
More information about the collection and Sherrie’s upcoming events can be found here, and her nonfiction piece for Issue 10 can be found here.
Congratulations, Sherrie!
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Superstition Review at AWP
March 1, 2018 Superstition Review
If you haven’t heard already, Superstition Review will be attending the 2018 AWP Conference in Tampa, Florida next week. You can visit us at booth T1213 where we will also be representing Iron City Magazine.
We are excited as day one is approaching quickly, the conference is less then a week away.
Want to keep up with Superstition Review during AWP? Visit our Pinterest! AWP 2018 Florida will keep you current while AWP 2017 DC and earlier AWP boards will share experiences from our past attendances.
Speaking of the past, Samantha Allen shared, “10 Survival Tips for AWP Newbies” on the blog. While these tips come from 2012, tip number one, wearing comfortable shoes, is timeless.
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Contributor Update: Sarah Vap
June 30, 2017 June 28, 2017 Superstition Review
Past contributor Sarah Vap was recently featured on the literary podcast, Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People). Rachel Zucker interviews Sarah about upcoming manuscripts, her writing as craft, and her panel at this year’s AWP. You can listen to the conversation here.
Sarah was also featured on the Speedway and Swan podcast with guest host Susan Briante. You can listen to that conversation here, where they discuss the many forms that poetry can take.
Sarah’s interview with Superstition Review can be found in issue 13 here.
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Contributor Update: Patrick Madden Is A Machine (With A Heart Of Gold)
February 15, 2017 February 15, 2017 Superstition Review
Top of the afternoon, dearest readers! We here at Superstition Review are rife with news from the Occident after a barn-burner of a conference at this year’s AWP, held in the belly of the beast in Washington, D.C. Past contributor Patrick Madden is co-editing the 21st Century Essays series with none other than David Lazar! 21st Century Essays is put out through Ohio State University Press, and they themselves have some great news: The 2017 Gournay Prize is taking submissions from now until March 15. If anyone out there has a book-length collection of essays, or knows someone who might, tell them to check out this link here. There’s a publication deal with a cash prize of $1,000 in it for ’em if they win!
“What we imagine it might be like to win a book deal and get $1,000.”
And the proliferation doesn’t stop there: Madden also has provided us with the announcement for not one but TWO collections of essays, titled (respectively) “After Montaigne” (which was also co-edited with David Lazar), out from University of Georgia Press, and “Sublime Physick” (for which Patrick Madden is the sole progenitor), put out through University of Nebraska Press.
Covers for both “After Montaigne” and “Sublime Physick.”
Suffice it to say, Patrick Madden keeps the hits comin’, and we here at Superstition Review are only too happy to share these with you, dear readers. Congratulations to Patrick Madden, and David Lazar, for all their hard work!
That about does it for us today, gang. Thanks for reading, and always, let us know what you think in the comments section below.
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AWP Giveaway!
February 9, 2017 Superstition Review
This weekend Superstition Review has a table at the AWP Writers’ conference in Washington DC. We have some really cool swag, including mugs, t-shirts, and notebooks we are raffling to convention-goers. If you’re at AWP this weekend and want to win, follow us on twitter @Superstitionrev and send us a tweet saying “Hello @superstitionrev from AWP.” Winners will be announced on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 4PM. Swing by the Superstition Review booth (501-T) to claim your prizes.
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Contributor Update: “I Think You’re Totally Wrong” Is Totally Brilliant
February 8, 2017 February 9, 2017 Superstition Review
Hey there, campers! Have you found yourself wandering the dark recesses of your streaming video service of choice, looking for something to watch and coming up short every time? All caught up on Breaking Thrones and Boardwalks & Recreation? Perfect, then we’ve got something you’re going to want to watch; Superstition Review contributors David Shields and Caleb Powell co-wrote a book called “I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel,” which has been turned in to a feature-length film, directed by none other than the proverbial Renaissance Man himself, James Franco. Here’s the trailer:
“I Think You’re Totally Wrong” is currently available in select cities across the U.S.A., but we here Superstition Review got our hands on an advance copy of the film, so we can tell you with some authority: it’s good. The film combines the simmering tension and wit of two writers at the height of their argumentative powers, with the all the introspection and sincerity that one finds in conversations with their closest friends. Shields and Powell muse on the what it means to be engaged with a life well-lived and how that relates to craft and creation, the responsibilities of an artist with respect to honesty and vulnerability, and whether or not it’s possible, or even advisable, to stay out of trouble while being an artist. Raw, funny, and tender as all-get-out, this one is a “must-watch” for anyone who has ever found themselves wondering about the importance of art as it relates to the life of an artist, and conversely, what is the importance of the life of an artist as it relates to an artist’s life.
Cover for the print version of “I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel”
Covered by everybody from Elle Magazine to the Boston Globe, “I Think You’re Totally Wrong” is by any metric, a burgeoning critical hit. Do yourself the immense kindness of finding a screening near you (details can be found here), and as always, drop us a line in the comments section below.
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Editorial Preferences in Nonfiction: Sophie Graham
February 6, 2017 January 31, 2018 Superstition Review
When I read I want to be surprised- I want to see something new in the story that I have never seen before. I find myself drawn to more modern writing styles, the riskier and the more artful the better. How the author uses words to describe places, things, people, ideas or feelings is critical. Without art and skill in how a writer describes the concepts of the story, the writing falls flat as I am unable to really imagine what the writer is trying to describe and I can’t engage in the text. The writer should use words in a style unlike what I normally see, so the piece is entirely unique. The idea behind the words should be just as creative and original as the words themselves- I want to be lead to reflect on the piece long after I have finished reading. Presenting some new question, idea, or experience for me to read about always gets my attention.
In nonfiction, the author reigns supreme. You’re the main character of your own story in nonfiction, and it revolves around you. When I read a nonfiction piece, I want as much information and detail about the author as possible from every sense. The more detail and description the author gives in a story the more able I am to fully reflect on the story they just told me. The descriptions should not only be affective and creative- but artful, almost poetic. The more beautiful a piece is to read, and the longer I find myself thinking about it after I finish it, the better I judge the piece to be.
Sophie Graham, Nonfiction Editor for Superstition Review
Sophie Graham is a junior at Arizona State University double majoring in English Literature and Sociology, and minoring in Geography. She is currently the Nonfiction Editor for Superstition Review. She is also a Writing Tutor at the ASU Tutoring Center. Upon Graduation, she plans to pursue her interests in social work and education.
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Contributor Update: Get in the Flow with the 10th Anniversary Issue of “diode”
Greetings, true believers! We here at Superstition Review have an extra-special announcement: Our dear friends over at diode have released their 10th Anniversary Issue, replete with the profoundly excellent poetic stylings of more than a few past contributors to Superstition Review, including (but not limited to);
John Gallaher
Rae Gouirand
Kathleen Hellen
Bob Hicok
Lee Ann Roripaugh
Patricia Colleen Murphy
Do yourself the immense kindness of taking a lil’ poetry break with the 10th Anniversary issue of diode, and to the goodly gaggle over at diode, Superstition Review says congratulations! Here’s to a hundred more years of poetry.
The logo for diode, currently celebrating 10 excellent years of existence.
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Guest Post, Matthew Lippman: Sacrifice of Love
January 26, 2017 January 18, 2017 Matthew Lippman
Sacrifice of Love: The Poetry of Daniel DeLeon
Daniel DeLeon
This is what I know. I know a young man—an old student of mine. He loved his poetry. He went off to college and continued to love his poetry. Spoken Word was his thing. The performance of singing a poem, of spitting a poem, spoke to him as both prayer and survival. He graduated college and came back to the school where I am still employed. He is now my colleague. We work in the same department teaching poetry and literature to young people. His name is Daniel DeLeon and he is a force. He told me a few months back that he wants to be the mayor of Boston. A Spoken Word artist as the mayor of Boston. I said, “You should be the president of the world.” God knows we need one now more than ever and why not a poet.
When I said this, he laughed. We were sitting in the classroom as colleagues. 7 years earlier we were in the same classroom. He was writing poems as a 17 year old, writing and reading with such focus and purpose that he blew away anything and everything in his path. Till this day I remember a poem he wrote about the toilet in his grandmother’s house in Guatemala. “You have to move a stone slab in order to take a leak,” he told the class. Danny did not care about the scatological nature of his piece. He was proud of his story. A proud young man is hard not to notice. Daniel, on his quest into the adult world, has not lost his pride. It has gotten brighter. It shines even when he is in pain. I thought about that when we were sitting together in our classroom talking about his poetry and his political aspirations. “It’s just about community,” he told me, “and giving back.” I wondered, “Which?” “Both,” he informed me, “both.”
I have thought a lot about the existence of poetry in the world, in the history of the world, as a glue, or, the potential it has to bring folks together. It used to serve this purpose, think Homer, folks in communal joy under the night sky, the hungry flames shooting up into the dance of Cassiopeia and Andromeda. In the pubs and social halls of Limerick. Story-time at the local library. But, the poetry of America if not, for the most part, performed as Performance Poetry, does not bring people together. Poetry is not about community. Ben Lerner knows this. Jorie Graham knows this. If you go to any AWP, AWP knows this. At any one of these conferences there are 2 very divergent waves coming at each other from different parts of the big ballroom where the book fair hails. There is the wave of ‘we are all in this together’ and then there is the other wave of ‘what nut can I get today?’ It’s sad and scary because it obliterates community. More specifically, it obliterates the community that does not come to AWP–the community of the neighborhood, of the schoolyard, of the rest of the world in its turmoil and beauty. Daniel DeLeon, though in his own BMW of desire, has intentions to allow poetry to be a foundation for bringing people together. At Boston College he created a Spoken Word club that grew from 10 to 200 and gave hours and hours of pleasure and joy to hundreds more. I have seen Mr. DeLeon perform his work. It’s intoxicating both as performance and on the page. It’s a poetry that lives in the present, ruminates on his experience growing up in difficult circumstances, and yet, at the same time, resonates with a population of people in this country who have tasted privilege. It is a poetry, which speaks to everyone because it is a prayer for the living, for all people-kind.
Sacrificial Poet
I remember my first prayer,
I kept my eyes open and carefully watched every syllable fall off my mother’s lips
until it was my turn to talk to God
I was old enough to know that Santa was my uncle dressed in a red suit
with a white beard,
but too young to understand why God, doesn’t talk back.
I couldn’t understand why we were rich in spirit, but couldn’t afford milk for my morning bowl of cereal.
I prayed anyway,
told God to buy mommy a house with an ATM machine in the living room so that she would never have to scrounge up change to buy a loaf a bread, ever again.
I told him, if that’s too much,
then maybe he could help me behave
so that daddy would stop putting his hands on me.
15 years later I finally understand that there is no man in the clouds
just picture frames of a pale-skinned Jesus
and that I was a poor naïve boy worshiping a white man’s image of God.
Have you ever seen a peasant bow before a king?
Have you ever seen a slave kneel unto his master?
I haven’t, but I’ve see loyal servants bend into submission
at the altar; praising their almighty God.
Palms pressed against the sky begging to receive answers to their prayers and petitions.
Placing unrequited hopes in a being they can’t see, let alone begin to understand
yet they stand, firmly in beliefs
Waiting and waiting, for something I know nothing of,
something they call salvation,
but I’ve been waiting years for someone to save me from myself
and I’m still waiting to be rescued
I’m still waiting to find refuge in a the shadows of a merciful king
whom I was told cold wash away my sin
but I’m done waiting.
I searched and couldn’t find you.
I called you by name and you wouldn’t respond;
I started crying and you weren’t there to wipe my tears;
I had nothing but a pillow to hug and an emptiness inside me,
a void I wanted to fill,
hunger I wanted to satisfy,
until I heard a poem that said,
“Poet, don’t try to fill that void.
Be hungry, it wont kill you.”
And for I second I thought I heard God in poetry,
only to realize God is poetry because poetry is an enormous love for humanity.
Haven’t you heard of the sacrificial poet?
The ultimate sacrifice, forfeiting fear, and subjecting themselves to scrutiny, yet still
forgiving those who don’t understand this love.
This brave soul crucifies their craft to this stage
puts their expression on display
only to facilitate the salvation and validation of others
For these saviors you don’t have to wait 3 days
just 3 minutes and 3 scorecards that’ll show you everything
See sometimes, when I spit my poems
I close my eyes and picture myself on a pulpit
and imagine that this is my prayer for you.
And even though I no longer praise my mother’s God
I’ve watched myself become a loyal servant, too.
A slave to this pen
pushing it across pages,
a painstaking process
to remind me that just because God doesn’t answer prayers
it doesn’t mean we should lose hope in poetry.
If rapture is the essential driving force behind poetry, some way to use language in form, shape, color, tone and texture to get to a daily ecstatic harmonic temperament, then DeLeon’s poetry is working toward that, not only in content but in exercise. It’s prayer for him, an ongoing conversation between himself and that other thing beyond. If rapture is the thing we lose when we move out of our youthful playfulness and endearment, then rapture is the thing we try and regain, move closer to, with our poetry. Danny writes, “See sometimes, when I spit my poems/I close my eyes and picture myself on a pulpit/And imagine that this is my prayer for you.” Preacher. Teacher. Mayor. President. Poet. His work comes out of a direct service of illuminating some kind of divine community that is, at the core, this human reverence which is love. His poetry is not only word but it is also act. It strives to be body, to take place in the body, to meet the bodies it meets, as body. Part of this comes from the performance element to his verse. It is written to be listened to, to be heard and seen. His writing is both astonishing and astonishment. It is the other side of ‘being cheap.’ His poetry is generosity and gift, for everyone. DeLeon is not interested in contempt, he is interested in the soul to soul, the face to face, the love to love, that comes from spitting a poem in the hottest night, in the greasiest garage, under the fullest moon. What DeLeon knows is that poetry is love. And, if it is love, it has to be God. Any good poem, in the realm of the unsayable, to be said, is doing that divine work to be love. To be act. And you can’t mess with that no matter the landscape of this country, the landscape of the heart and its big boom into the world.
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Contributor Update, Colleen Abel: Get Liberated with “deviants”
How does the day find you, readers? It finds us supremely excited, as we’ve got some great news for you. The wonderful poet and friend of the Superstition Review, Colleen Abel, recently was crowned the victor of Sundress Publications Chapbook Contest for 2016, and as is often the case with these contests, everybody wins with the release of her upcoming chapbook “Deviants,” which is available FOR FREE over at Sundress Publications’ website, found here.
Regarding “Deviants” Victoria Chang writes:
“Colleen Abel’s wonderful book, Deviant, is mesmerizing—once I began, I couldn’t stop reading. The speaker provides a moving account—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes wry, and oftentimes both—of what it means to be ‘fat’ in this world. The central piece is called ‘Fat Studies’ with references to sociologists and humorous pieces about Jackie Kennedy. Ultimately, Deviants is a beautiful book by a talented writer on material so many of us can understand and relate to, but oftentimes don’t have the opportunity to read in this form.”
Staci R. Schoenfeld, the judge for the Chapbook Contest, writes:
“In Deviants, ‘The eye alters all that it falls on.’ And the eye is everywhere—in every poem and in the lyric essay, ‘Fat Studies.’ There is no escape, even in the darkness: ‘It’s true I like you better in the dark. / Deep dark. Where I can’t even see your face.’ And the eye is keen in its appraisal. What it sees is what is most often offered up for alteration—the female body. The poems and the lyric essay all deal in issues of body. These bodies are not, however, places of comfort and safety. Instead the body is dangerous: ‘My heart is not a heart, it is a little nest of razorblades. I look soft, but if you touch me, your hands will be instantly pulverized, as if you had slammed them into concrete.’ Or the body becomes something to escape: ‘If it helps, I don’t want to be myself / either—to slip out of this body when / when you enter, to exchange within the puff / of magic smoke my life for another. / Leave me other.’ The body is in turns stark and lush and finally ‘the body / is a planet you tilt / on its axis spinning.’ Deviants left me both spinning and altered. It made me want to say, Thank you for helping me understand.”
Check out the full press release from Sundress Publications here.
Download, read, and be as inspired as we find ourselves by Colleen Abel’s “Deviants.”
The cover for Colleen Abel’s “Deviants.”
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Tag: Bruce Boxleitner
When Calls the Heart, Season 6 (Series Review)
We don’t speak of her anymore
And once again we return to the fake small town known as Hope Valley for another fruitless season of people living in the dream world crafted by the series creators. Hardly anybody remembers Jack the Mountie anymore except for the fact that he and Elizabeth were married long enough to produce an instant child who’s coincidentally named after him. While Daniel Lissing willingly left the show, which was last season’s biggest news, Lori Loughlin was literally handcuffed, removed, and totally scrubbed from the show. The shadow of her scandal looms over the sixth season, especially with how Hallmark mishandled the whole ordeal and drew unnecessary attention to the problems. As a whole, Abigail’s awkward exit from the show and the subsequent complete rewrite of the show is the most interesting things that happened, but why are we not surprised? Michael Landon Jr. always planned to subject Erin Krakow to his favorite young-widow-starts-sort-of-dating-again treatment as he always has, so there’s nothing left to do but once again point out the same old flaws this series commits and count down the minutes for the Hearties to descend on my little blog post to vehemently defend all things wholesome in the face of such heartless (lol) criticism.
What’s a Hallmark production without the same carbon-copy lineup of good camera work and video quality, acceptable audio quality, and that predictable, nauseatingly bubbly soundtrack? When Calls the Heart part VI checks all the proverbial boxes in this category, and it’s getting very difficult to differentiate any of the seasons from each other (except for the first two). Hope Valley still consists of the same old sets, locations, and props that are no doubt re-purposed for other Hallmark productions and are designed to make the audience believe this is a real Western town. Also, there’s still that tiny forest area Bill goes to dramatically reveal another part of his vastly complex yet noticeably cagey backstory. The only complaint for this section (besides their doing the same thing with no noticeable changes or improvements) is that we still don’t have a set for the beauty salon where the female characters get their hair done (although we might have gotten a quick glimpse at it in the finale).
As we’ve said before, ever Hamilton took over Hope Valley, nothing has ever been the same. We just get the same old helium-infused characters spinning in circles as they retrace old plots steps over and over again. The only chances we have to get outside of the Hope Valley crossroads are Bill’s forest trips to tell us another part of his ever-fluctuating history, but now that we have a new Mountie, I guess we’ll have some trips to that bridge or something. Elsewhere, Elizabeth keeps us wondering why she’s even still in the series as her heart (lol) is passed around like a football and only exists for Michael Landon Jr. and company to continue their fetish of pairing a woman with a law enforcement character just long enough for her to get pregnant before killing said man near the end of the movie\series or even in between installments. Seriously, how is Elizabeth and Lucas vs Nathan any different from Charles vs Jack (except that Marcus Rosner was an essential addition to the show yet was stolen from us)? Elsewhere, the town is littered with many empty-minded side romances that they desperately want us to care about (although Aren Buchholz is quickly becoming one of the most important aspects of the entire series). Even Rosemary is losing her luster as a satirical comic relief who reminds us how un-serious the whole ordeal is as the writers are muting her character to go all dark and brooding because of [WHOOPS SPOILER]. And then there’s that whole situation with Abigail. Ironically, just before Lori Loughlin was led away by the police, her character made a hilariously funny reference to how Bill needed to bring some random bad guy to justice, and this is definitely the defining moment of the entire season. Loughlin’s scandalous shadow looms large over the poor town; even after the writers awkwardly tried to erase her from the universe’s memories, everything was clunky following the hiatus. Subplots awkwardly start and stop with no real conclusions. Scenes between Elizabeth and Lucas seem directly copied from Beauty and the Beast (yes, he gave her a library). Gowen is as uneven as ever (seriously, what do the writers expect from him at this point?). They all seem lost without Abigail to guide them in their everyday lives, but alas, she and Cody (awwww he left too!) has bigger fish to fry in court “back east.” Thus, with nothing really new to say here besides the same garbage we’ve seen from the past two indiscernible seasons, Hearties only have this incoherent stream of consciousness to parse through as they rush from Facebook to “own” the author of this post with zingers better suited for a clickbait news site.
For the most part, the acting of this season is as sappy as ever, but there are a handful of instances, especially near the end, that feel very muted and more scripted than usual. This is no doubt that this is due to some of the redone footage after Loughlin’s untimely exit, and the cast members were likely just emotionally distraught over her absence. Overall, there’s really nothing new to write home about (although Elizabeth does quite a bit of writing these days), and this section is award no points because we expect better than this after six seasons.
As previously mentioned, some of this season’s subplots seem to disappear from the writing with no warning, which is a likely byproduct of the rework done following Loughlin’s arrest. Otherwise, it’s just typical plug and play romances as the writers introduce one after another to the point where you can’t hardly tell the different between them. Also, as a side note, at least a third of the subplots in season six relate in some way to the upcoming summer spinoff show When Hope Calls, which is possibly where many characters will escape to once When Calls the Heart finally runs out of steam.
Oh yeah, so there’s a seventh season coming up. MLJ has at least two more seasons to use Elizabeth’s indecisiveness and lack of personality as a carrot to dangle in front of his rabid fans, but sooner or later, they’ll get tired of this song and dance. With Loughlin’s scandal-ridden exit, this series is already running on fumes and has only been sustained by constant romance bait-and-switch. I mean, is anybody the least bit annoyed with how they treat Elizabeth? Anyhow, this has been another WCTH review from your favorite reviewer in which I didn’t talk about much substantial and just sort of rambled on about random things I thought of while I binge-watched this season. Begin commenting now……………………….
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Silver Bells [2013] (Movie Review)
Bruce Dalt is obsessed with his job as a local sports anchor. He is also obsessed with his son getting a good basketball scholarship. However, he lets his emotions get the best of him when he gets angry at a referee who made a call on his son, Bruce finds himself in the middle of a public relations nightmare. His media employer determines that he needs to complete community service before he can come back to his job. Thus, Bruce is stuck ringing a Christmas bell for the Salvation Army. Will he be able to learn the true meaning of Christmas?
Silver Bells is a typically professional PureFlix and UP production collaboration. As such, there are few errors to note here. Video quality, camera work, and audio quality are all what they should be. The soundtrack is a bit too holiday-ish, but it’s fine. Sets, locations, and props are also fine, albeit filled with Christmas stuff. There are also a lot of Salvation Army ‘product placements,’ but at least this is a good ministry to promote. Finally, there are some small editing issues to note, but on the whole, this is a model production.
Unfortunately, despite the influence of Andrea Nasfell, this plot suffers from a bout of forced comedy and cardboard cutout characters, including a stereotypical over the top holiday-hating character that is forced to like Christmas throughout the course of the film. Also, the holiday-hating character constantly reminds the audience of his unexplained cold attitude towards Christmas. Thus, the Christian message is quite cheap. There is unfortunately nothing truly creative in this plot as it seems like it was manufactured in a Christmas plot factory. Any issues raised are too easily resolved, and even though the Salvation Army has some great causes, it’s not enough to save this story from itself.
Mostly, the lead cast members trying too hard to convince the audience of who their characters are, much like many PureFlix movies. In doing so, they come off as very disingenuous and plastic. However, there are plenty of good moments from the supporting cast members that help this section from being nothing. Emotions are overall average throughout, thus rounding out a nearly-average film.
Films like this one can’t help but be seen as just one made on the assembly line of holiday inspirational films. If you’re going to reuse an old plot concept, at least make it was accessible and believable characters that audiences can relate to. As it is, Silver Bells just seems like it’s trying to check the boxes so it can be a packaged made-for-television film. We need more creativity than this, but the good thing is that Andrea Nasfell has shown that she has the ability to do this when she is supported properly.
November 23, 2017 January 3, 2019 by Box Office Revolutionary Categories: Christmas, Inspirational, Movie ReviewsTags: 10 West Studios, 2013, 4 points, Amy E. Kiser, Amy McFadden, Andrea Gyertson Nasfell, Antonio Fargas, Arthur Cartwright, Brian Schaeffer, Bridgett Newton, Brittany Yost, Bruce Boxleitner, Channelle Battles, Christmas, Greg Rogers, Harold Cronk, Inspirational, John Benchley, Kenton Duty, Kevin Downes, Kym Whitehead, Laura Spencer, Liam Matthews, Phil Gigante, PureFlix, Ralph Lister, Rebel Forge, Russell Wolfe, Ryan Newman, Ryland Gigante, Salvation Army, Thomas Richert, Will Musser Leave a comment
Love’s Resounding Courage {Love’s Everlasting Courage} (Movie Review)
After settling into their new lives together, Clark and Ellen Davis had a daughter named Missie and all seemed well for them. However, things are about to change for them, as a drought threatens to destroy their very livelihood. Their financial struggles prompt Ellen to take on extra work in town as a seamstress. Clark’s parents also come to assist them however they can. However, the new work begins to take a toll on Ellen’s health, and soon Clark must decide what he is going to do as he is faced with an impending tragedy. Will he stand strong in his faith or turn away?
In keeping with most Hallmark movies, the production quality of Love’s Resounding (Everlasting) Courage is above average. The camera work is solid, along with the video and sound qualities. The sets and locations are above average and the surroundings give off a truly authentic frontier feel. The biggest caveat here, besides the typical too-modern costuming, is the sloppy editing. Events sometimes happen too quickly and other times seemingly out of order. However, this is a very well produced film, which really make it a shame that the plot is way off base.
From the get go, it seems like Courage is going to be a really good movie about frontier struggles and the tragedy that shaped Clark Davis as a character for the remainder of the saga. For the most part, this happens. We need more plots like this that realistically demonstrate the tragic and hard things in life that everyone is faced with from time to time. The dialogue therein is pretty good, and the characters are obviously flawed. However, this plot receives a very low score because the obligatory new romantic subplot inserted into this film—the one between Ben and Sarah that was discussed in the inaugural Love Comes Softly film—completely undermines the intent of this entire franchise! In Courage, their love doesn’t comes softly and they don’t marry out of ‘sheer need’, but for love. There would be nothing wrong with this, except that, rather than just follow the original storyline that fans know, Hallmark elected to settle for a predictable romance that utterly strips the franchise of its purpose. Evidently, they thought that audiences wouldn’t notice or care. When will production teams begin to treat audiences better than this?
Much like Love Begins, the acting demonstrates typical Hallmark elements. As usual, the makeup and costuming do not exactly reflect historical authenticity. The line delivery is neither great nor terrible. Emotions can be felt by the audience. In short, this section is business as usual.
Resounding Courage is a problematic movie. On one hand, it has a very interesting premise with a lot of potential. But on the other hand, it completely destroys the original premise of the Love Comes Softly series by inserting a new convenient romance just for the fun of it. The longer this film franchise dragged on, the worse it became, to the point of turning the entire purpose on its ear. This is exactly what will happen when creative teams deviate so far from the original purpose of a novel series to the point that they are just reusing the same concepts over and over again rather than provide audiences with fresh ideas that can be found in the pages of the very books the movies are based off of. This is the end of Box Office Revolution’s Love reviews for now, so we will leave it with this note: make more Christian books into movies, but please, we beg of you, stay true to the books.
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Welcome to a special edition of FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited.
Sep. 4, 2019,
A FiveThirtyEight Chat
Filed under 2020 Election
sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): Last Monday, Federal Election Commission Vice Chairman Matthew Petersen announced his resignation, leaving the FEC effectively shut down, as only three positions on the six-seat committee are currently filled and the agency is legally required to have four commissioners to be fully operational.
What this means is that the agency responsible for both enforcing and advising on the nation’s campaign-finance laws is out of commission for the foreseeable future. And because we’re in the middle of a presidential election … things could get hairy fast.
The FEC has said that it will soldier on, continuing to process filings and other reports, and has called on President Trump to nominate new commissioners and for the Senate to confirm them quickly. But Congress is still in recess and Trump has yet to move forward with appointing new commissioners (remember, there are now three vacancies).
So here with us today to unpack what this could mean for the 2020 election (and campaign finance in general) is Dave Levinthal, editor and senior reporter at the Center for Public Integrity.
dave.levinthal: My pleasure! Thanks for having me.
sarahf: So, first of all, how did we get to the point that the FEC is basically not operational? And just how big of a deal is this for the FEC?
dave.levinthal: You can trace the situation back to 2008, the last time the FEC found itself in semi-shutdown mode because it lacked enough commissioners to legally conduct high-level business.
That year, the FEC went about six months without a quorum of commissioners, until the Senate and President Bush finally struck a deal to appoint new commissioners and get the agency back on track.
clare.malone (Clare Malone, senior political writer): And by “high-level business,” we mean things like opening investigations into possible campaign-finance violations?
dave.levinthal: High-level business would absolutely include investigating allegations of campaign-finance violations. As I wrote last week:
For now, the FEC can’t conduct meetings.
It can’t slap political scofflaws with fines.
It can’t make rules.
It can’t conduct audits and approve them.
sarahf: So … what can the FEC do in its current situation?
dave.levinthal: The most notable thing the FEC will continue to do is carry out its transparency function. That means that political committees, political candidates and so on must still file their periodic campaign-finance disclosures with the FEC — documents that tell the public how much money they’ve raised, spent, etc. — and the FEC staff will still review and post that material.
But if some political committee screws this up, or for that matter acts in a manner that’s potentially in violation of federal campaign-finance laws, they more or less get a temporary pass because the FEC commissioners don’t have the power for now to do anything about it.
clare.malone: Cool. I was interested to learn that there’s been a lot of discord on the commission for a while. A Democrat and an independent on the committee were apparently irritated that certain investigations they deemed worthy weren’t being looked into because the Republican members kept things from moving forward. So in some ways, it sounds like this is the continuation of an already contentious situation at the FEC.
nrakich (Nathaniel Rakich, elections analyst): And Dave, without enforcement mechanisms, there would be no punishment if a campaign does violate campaign-finance laws, right?
dave.levinthal: Generally speaking, the FEC’s law enforcement capabilities are on ice until the Senate approves at least one more nominee to serve on the FEC.
Right now, Trump has nominated one commissioner — a Texas attorney named Trey Trainor who helped stop an anti-Trump movement at the 2016 GOP convention — who he first nominated in September 2017. But the Senate has yet to give Trainor a confirmation hearing, much less going forth and confirming him.
clare.malone: So … why no hearing? I haven’t really seen an explanation for that in everything I’ve been reading.
dave.levinthal: A complex question! My best crack at it: There’s been a tradition — often adhered to, but not always — that the president would nominate FEC commissioners in pairs: one Republican, one Democrat.
But since President Trump has only offered one nominee, the Senate has chosen not to give that lone nominee a hearing. Could it? Sure. Did it need to? Not really — until now — because the FEC has had enough commissioners to at least conduct its high-level business.
nrakich: I find it interesting that, in an age where the Senate has gotten more comfortable with consolidating power within one party (eliminating filibusters for presidents’ nominees, blocking Merrick Garland’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, etc.), that this norm of nominating one Democrat and one Republican simultaneously to the FEC has persisted.
dave.levinthal: Numbers at the FEC commission level have been going the wrong way since the beginning of the Trump presidency. In March 2017, Democratic Commissioner Ann Ravel resigned. And in February 2018, Republican Commissioner Lee Goodman also resigned. That means the FEC has been operating with a bare minimum four commissioners for 1.5 years.
President Trump could have nominated people filled those vacancies at any time, but he didn’t.
clare.malone: Whew.
Dave, champion explanation.
nrakich: Not to be too cynical, but in practical terms, how much of an effect does this shutdown really have? The FEC’s enforcement mechanisms are already pretty toothless and can take years to be resolved anyway.
For example, earlier this summer, now-Sen. Martha McSally was fined for campaign-finance violations she made in … 2014.
She has served two full terms in the House since then.
And despite breaking the rules by taking $319,000 in excess contributions, she was fined only $23,000. So there was no financial disincentive.
clare.malone: Right, and we didn’t learn about Trump’s campaign-finance violations until well after 2016, so there does seem to be a long lag time on this stuff!
dave.levinthal: I’ve heard from more than a few folks who’ve made that very point — that the FEC is already so dysfunctional that there won’t be much difference.
But even if the FEC deadlocks on investigations, even if it’s unable to make affirmative rulings on whether someone broke the law — and this is often the case — at minimum these situations receive a full public airing. For instance, if special interest groups or others vehemently disagree with an FEC ruling, they’ll sue the organization.
Think of all the big court cases that have “FEC” in their names, with Citizens United v. FEC the biggest among them. Without a functioning FEC, this process grinds to a halt, for all intents and purposes.
clare.malone: Got it. So the shutdown is really affecting the transparency of the FEC.
nrakich: I find it interesting, though, that voters don’t seem to care too much about campaign-finance violations. There’s some research suggesting that they don’t do as much as, say, sex scandals (probably for obvious reasons — they’re much drier!) to hurt candidates at the ballot box.
And I assume that most candidates will continue filing disclosure reports even if the FEC is shut down at the filing deadline. But what if they don’t? Would they really suffer any consequences with voters? I’m not sure they would, and that’s scary to me.
clare.malone: I think that’s in part because it’s so much a part of American political culture — and the culture at large — to see big money and politics as linked. There’s a perception that there’s a degree of unfettered spending going on.
dave.levinthal: While the FEC doesn’t have a quorum, if a political committee wanted to stop filing campaign-finance reports or otherwise violate campaign-finance rules, the FEC would not be in any position to do something about it.
Now, the FEC may very well pick up the matter once it’s in business again. But for now, political committees don’t really have anyone policing their activity in a way that would lead to some immediate penalty.
Said another way: The cops are at the station, they’re doing paperwork, but they’re not answering emergency calls.
sarahf: So given how critical the situation is, won’t one of Congress’s first orders of business be appointing the one commissioner Trump has already nominated to get the FEC back up and running?
dave.levinthal: Actually, Sarah, I don’t think there is a reason to think that Congress will make the FEC its first order of business. That’s not to say that the Senate won’t act quickly. But this is largely in the hands of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and, to a lesser extent, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Also, President Trump plays a major role here. He could theoretically nominate a full slate of new commissioners. He could clean house — float six new nominees. But presidents have largely missed opportunities to proactively replace FEC commissioners. The result: The remaining commissioners continued to serve in “holdover status” — serving even though their term has expired.
sarahf: 😱
dave.levinthal: Bottom line? If Trump wanted to defy political convention — something he’s not exactly shy about doing — he could nominate six new commissioners of his choosing.
Legally, he can’t pack the committee with Republicans — no more than three commissioners can be of the same party — but he doesn’t have to nominate Democrats. He could theoretically nominate three Republicans and three … Libertarians. Or independents.
nrakich: Right. I feel like that would be well within character — but also, I feel like Trump doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about the FEC.
sarahf: Or any president, it sounds like.
So if you’re Petersen, why resign now, knowing it would throw the FEC into chaos? Was his resignation a surprise?
dave.levinthal: No, Petersen almost left in late 2017, when Trump nominated him for a federal district judgeship. But Petersen flamed out of the judicial job when he was unable to answer a string of basic questions at his nomination hearing, and he withdrew himself from consideration shortly thereafter. His consolation prize? He continued to serve on the FEC.
At the time — December 2017 — CPI wrote that even then it seemed like the FEC had a strong possibility of losing its quorum of commissioners.
So it’s not as if this problem somehow snuck up on people.
nrakich: Yeah, I keep coming back to the fact that the public doesn’t seem to care about campaign finance.
It’s a big problem, IMO, since this is one of the main mechanisms by which we keep candidates accountable.
clare.malone: Well, very few people ever end up serving jail time for these violations, for instance. And unlike a sex scandal, a lot of people will be bored reading about campaign-finance violations.
dave.levinthal: But there are some money-in-politics sex scandals! (cough Stormy Daniels cough) And the FEC plays a role in those … or could.
nrakich: Right, and there are some types of campaign-finance scandals, like when politicians (for example, California Rep. Duncan Hunter) use campaign money for their personal benefit, that I think appeal to voters’ instinct against politicians abusing their office. But I think that’s different from, say, McSally’s case, where her only crime was accepting more than the legal limit in donations.
I fear Americans see the latter as just violations of arbitrary bureaucratic rules, rather than as an immoral act.
clare.malone: Well, not everyone sees breaking the law on certain things as a moral violation. The law doesn’t necessarily equate with morality! Lots of people might think the ends (big money) justify the means. They might not think that the moral universe extends to bureaucratic violations.
dave.levinthal: Great point, Clare, and yes — there are wide swings in opinion on whether the Stormy Daniels matter is a campaign law violation in the first place. (Michael Cohen certainly has some thoughts on this.)
clare.malone: What about for media watchdog organizations like CPI and Open Secrets, though, Dave?
How will your work potentially change because of this?
dave.levinthal: Our job is to report about the role money plays in American politics. And while most people often don’t care about the legal or technical particulars of campaign-finance law, I’ve never gotten the sense that they don’t care about campaign money, especially in the context of their favorite candidates raising cash.
There are tens of thousands of people every day who make campaign contributions, millions every year. The sophistication of political fundraising has made it as easy as ever to support a candidate or cause. That’s why, for example, you see presidential candidates — President Trump and the gaggle of Democrats — raising huge amounts of money from small-dollar donors.
nrakich: Right — and voters do seem to care about the source of the money candidates raise.
For example, every Democratic presidential candidate has pledged not to accept money from corporate PACs, and most have pledged not to accept money from the fossil-fuel industry or federal lobbyists. They wouldn’t be doing that if they didn’t think voters cared about those issues.
clare.malone: Have we seen any irregularities from any of these Democratic candidates? Or from the Trump campaign (this time around)?
dave.levinthal: No, but the FEC also won’t be in a position to address some novel questions about how political candidates should act. For example, lots of cities have sent the Trump campaign bills for police and public safety costs — related to Trump campaign rallies — that they believe the campaign should pay. The Trump campaign doesn’t acknowledge these bills and doesn’t list them as debt, or even “disputed debt,” on campaign-finance reports. It’d be the FEC’s job, ostensibly, to figure this situation out. It can’t now.
clare.malone: Oh that’s really fascinating. NYC certainly saw a lot of controversy over the cost of Trump Tower security right after his election in 2016.
sarahf: So to wrap, it sounds like as long as the FEC can still perform some of its basic functions (like getting candidates to file their reports), we might not see Petersen’s replacement for a while, right? Where does this political fight head next?
clare.malone: I guess … nowhere? Dave is certainly the expert on this, but I don’t think there’s much political will to replace the FEC positions. And I say that mostly from the point of view of public pressure — there’s no incentive to change the course of behavior toward the FEC.
nrakich: As Dave said earlier, President Bush and Congress did finally reach a deal in 2008 the last time the FEC went into limbo because it didn’t have enough members. But I agree with Clare — I think this is so far down on the to-do list for both Trump and McConnell.
Maybe the FEC becomes a poor man’s Merrick Garland — no action until one party regains full control of government.
dave.levinthal: I talked last week with Rep. Derek Kilmer, a Democrat from Washington, about the broader issue of the FEC’s role in government and politics. And he made the case that the FEC needs to be fundamentally reformed and given greater independence and strength.
He even has a bill that would make the FEC a five-commissioner body, which would address the issue of deadlocked votes. The bill isn’t going anywhere, but his hope is that Democrats will win everything in November 2020, and come 2021, the FEC will be reformed.
So I’d say keep a close watch on Schumer in the Senate. If he wants to make a big stink about this, he could. But he, too, has been pretty quiet about the FEC lately. I will also be curious to see if this comes up during the presidential debate next week, since several candidates have been very anti-Citizens United and anti-BIG MONEY in their campaign rhetoric.
nrakich: Yeah, Steve Bullock presented campaign finance as his big issue when he launched his campaign. But in general, I’ve felt that the candidates have not done a good job sticking to what was supposed to be their signature issue (Eric Swalwell and guns, Jay Inslee and climate change, etc.).
dave.levinthal: Even though Bullock has made it his signature issue, he’s had his own little bumps in the road.
clare.malone: Gillibrand also made public funding a thing, if I recall. That did not catch on.
nrakich: That said, if the FEC is shut down for a full year or more — say, through the 2020 election — I bet there will be more of an appetite to reform it come 2021 if Democrats are in charge.
Just speculating, but I think an FEC shutdown might be the kind of thing that gets more noticeable with time.
dave.levinthal: An FEC that effectively sat out the 2020 election would be monumental. It’d take us back to a pre-Watergate era of campaign-finance regulation in certain ways. (The FEC was created after Watergate to help defend against campaign money problems, irregularities and potential lawlessness.)
In fact, I’d say it’d be the most incentive Congress has probably had since Watergate to fundamentally change the nation’s campaign-finance regulation regime.
Sarah Frostenson is FiveThirtyEight’s politics editor. @sfrostenson
Clare Malone is a senior political writer for FiveThirtyEight. @ClareMalone
Nathaniel Rakich is FiveThirtyEight’s elections analyst. @baseballot
Dave Levinthal is an editor and senior reporter at the Center for Public Integrity. @davelevinthal
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Changes at home may spur Canadians to finally invest abroad — and who can blame them?
The mediocre performance of Canadian stocks could repeat itself, considering the uncertainty and conflicting signals around our fiscal and monetary policies
The mediocre performance of Canadian stocks could repeat itself, considering the uncertainty and conflicting signals around our fiscal and monetary policies.Postmedia News
“It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. Everybody must live, and what would become of the glaziers if panes of glass were never broken?” — Frederic Bastiat
The explosive growth of exchange-traded funds has given Canadian investors a much greater ability to invest abroad than ever before. But Canadians like to stick their household wealth close to home, and we doubt most portfolios would match Canada’s approximate weighting of three per cent of the world’s market capitalization.
Unfortunately, the home bias hasn’t yielded favourable results: the S&P/TSX Composite index is the second-worst performing market in the G20 this year, just ahead of Russia. Indeed, Canadian stocks have only just returned above their 2014 peak and have had a mere three-per-cent annualized return in the interim.
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This mediocre performance could repeat itself, especially considering the uncertainty and conflicting signals around our fiscal and monetary policies.
For example, the Bank of Canada has taken a completely different stance than many of its G7 peers by surprising the market with very hawkish signals.
Compounding matters is that the U.S. Federal Reserve has been trying to talk down its currency by signalling a tempered rate outlook as a means to counteract the impact of reducing the size of its balance sheet.
Consequently, BoC Governor Stephen Poloz’s 25-point rate hike, and hints of more hikes to come, is akin to adding rocket fuel to the Canadian dollar rally without thinking about the consequences.
The Canadian dollar is up nearly 10 per cent from its May lows, and is now at a level we think will start to cause some damage to the country’s economic health.
Higher rates and a higher dollar will certainly impact our balance of trade and, more so, a real estate market that appears to be showing signs of weakness. For example, Toronto home prices have already fallen 19 per cent from their April highs.
There are also a number of one-time items in our recent quarterly GDP report that may not be repeated in the year to come. They include the impact of rebuilding Fort McMurray, Alta., which represents as much as a quarter of Alberta’s GDP growth, and the recovery in the oil patch on higher output.
On this note, we wonder if economists have ever read the broken window fallacy above by the great French economist, Frederic Bastiat, in his piece entitled, “Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas.”
The confusing part is that the federal government is about to run massive fiscal deficits to help stimulate the economy at the very same time the central bank is trying to slow it down.
The Justin Trudeau government inherited a $1.9-billion surplus in 2015, quickly turned it into a $5.4-billion deficit in 2016 and has estimates of annual $29-billion deficits in 2017 and 2018.
It isn’t surprising to see the government looking under every rock as a means to pay for its fiscal stimulus program. The changes so far include last year’s large tax hike for high-income earners, slight increases in both EI and CPP, the termination of four child tax credits, and the cancellation of income splitting for families.
Looking ahead, the government is about to impose a national carbon tax and is currently considering material changes in taxing small business owners, who contributed more than 30 per cent of total GDP in 2014.
All of this comes at a time when taxes have also been hiked at most municipal and provincial levels, especially in Alberta.
It wouldn’t come as a shock to see Canadians respond to this policy uncertainty by allocating their wealth and capital outside the country — and we can’t particularly blame them.
Martin Pelletier, CFA is a portfolio manager and OCIO at TriVest Wealth Counsel Ltd, a Calgary-based private client and institutional investment firm specializing in discretionary risk-managed portfolios as well as investment audit and oversight services.
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Oenology in Long Island: Premium Wine Group–John Leo
Interview with John Leo about PWG (& Leo Family Wines)
on Sept. 27, 2012, updated on Jan. 21 & May 24, 2013
From the PWG Website:
Premium Wine Group is a contract winemaking facility designed to allow an economical way to produce wine without the huge investment in equipment and facility. The individual style is driven by each Producer / Client in the production of their wine. PWG is designed with an array of technologically superior equipment which allows our clients complete freedom in producing wine. Our experienced staff of wine production professionals allows our clients the comfort that their wines are being handled in the highest quality practices.
Both “custom-production” and “custom-crush” services are provided to licensed producers and wholesalers of wine. These services are being utilized by many local wineries and wineries in the Northeast that source fruit from the North Fork of Long Island, see our Producers / Clients
Established in 2000, an initial 545 tons were received, we have steadily grown to 1,000 tons with an ultimate capacity of 1,400 tons. Premium Wine Group’s mission is to continually upgrade plant, equipment and services to allow our Producers / Clients the highest quality environment in which to sculpt their individual wines. This is evident with more than 18 Wineries producing over 100 individual wines each vintage.
NOTE: While Premium Wine Group makes wine for its many outside clients, there are also three employees that work there who are themselves clients: Russell Hearn, Managing Partner/Director of Winemaking, John Leo, production winemaker, and Erik Bilka, production winemaker. While this article is, foremost, about Premium, it also includes sections devoted to the wines of these three producers. (The winegrowing at Lieb Cellars (owned by partner Mark Lieb) and its wines will be the subject of a separate article, as will be the case with Clovis Point, whose wines are made by John Leo.)
It should also be noted that a press release issued on March 28, 2013, states, “Lieb Cellars and Premium Wine Group announced a merger of the two companies. Established in 1992 and 2000 respectively as two separate businesses with Mark Lieb as an investor, the combined companies have received substantial funding through their parent company Southport Lane, a private equity firm focused on growing its portfolio businesses. Southport Lane selected Lieb Cellars and PWG in part for their “custom crush” business, which is the production home of many North Fork wineries and the only one east of the Mississippi. There has been talk of the company going public.”
Because I interviewed John and Russell separately, and the conversations are so extensive, I’m dividing this post into two parts: The first (this one) is based on my conversation with John, and subsequently my interview with Russell, which also includes discussions of T’Jara Vineyard and SuhRu Wines: Oenology in LI: Premium Wine Group–Russell Hearn.
According to the bio of John Leo from Winemakers’ Studio Website, “A native of the Hudson Valley, New York, John graduated with a journalism degree and immediately proceeded to wander slowly around the world. He started working in wine in 1982 and joined the
East End wine growing community in the early 1990s, becoming winemaker for Clovis Point, in Jamesport in 2004. John works full-time at Premium Wine Group where he makes the Clovis Point wines as well as Leo Family Red. A journalist by training, traveler by inclination, and grape grower by preference, John believes in honest hard work, natural transformation and the pleasure of sharing a bottle with friends.”
Personally, I found John to be thoughtful, articulate, soft-spoken yet straightforward, as well as clearly professional in outlook and attitude. It was a pleasure to converse with him.
Interview with John Leo (JL):
JM-L: I want to begin by asking you about your client list on the PWG website. I recognize all of the names but on [see below], but there is one that puzzles me, DeSeo de Micheal [sic], but actually that’s Deseo de Michael . . . What’s his full name?
JL: Michael Smith. His wife is Puerto Rican, so I think that she anointed the name.
JM-L: So that explains that mystery. Well, one of the reasons that I called you was because I’d been in touch with Chiara Anderson Edmands, and she’d said that one of the people that I have to speak to is you. So the advantage of speaking to you now is that I can now speak to you of your wine, their wine, and possibly Sherwood House, because I will be speaking to Bill Ackerman, the vineyard manager.
JL: You know, the consulting winemaker for Sherwood is Gilles Martin, so he’ll have more answers about style and things like that, but about the logistics part I can help out with because it all does come in here.
JM-L: So Gilles and Juan—who used to work here—and other consulting winemakers formulate what they want you to do and how do you work with them? How do they formulate what they want you to do?
JL: Well, we sit down to talk about that. I guess that in a stand-alone winery the winemaker is not only making the decisions but lifting the hoses and doing the work. But they usually have assistants, especially around harvest time, so they’re making their own plans about how much tonnage to bring in, how to ferment it, etc. etc., and their usually delegating that to their assistants in the cellar. So in a sense that’s what we are . . . we’re custom production, so the consultant tells us that he will bring in 5 tons of this Merlot, 6 tons of that Merlot, we want you to handle this one way and that another way. So we’re basically the cellar hands . . . we’re the winemaking service for that . . .
JM-L: So you are, in effect, the cellar assistants.
JL: In a sense, yes.
JM-L: Except that you actually do all the hands-on of making the wine . . .
JL: And we have all the equipment—that belongs to us, and the facility belongs to us, and they’re being charged, sort of, per finished case. [See below, From the PWG website: Wine Production; which lists all the equipment they own.]
JM-L: I see.
JL: So we’re the winery with the labor to get the job done that they want, but in terms of how they formulate things, it’s straightforward, just like in any winery, they decide how they want to handle certain batches, what yeasts to use, what temperature to ferment at, how often to pump over, all those decisions they can make to then communicate them to us and we do the work.
JM-L: The thing, of course, is that they’re not being hands-on, so what happens when some kind of issue, say a stuck fermentation, takes place (which I’m sure doesn’t happen too often) . . .
JL: Not too often, no.
JM-L: or, for example, a temperature issue with the tanks, or you find that the amount of pumping over that they request perhaps is not optimum for the wine as its coming out . . .
JL: Right. That last one is a different issue. I might personally disagree with their protocols, but if that’s their protocol that’s what we do. Lots of oxidation, no oxidation, no air at all. They can ask for seven pumpovers a day or no pumpovers. They can demand of me whatever they want. If it seems that out of the ordinary we’ll clarify. We’ll say, “Are you sure that’s what you’re asking for? That’s not the norm.” Maybe we’ll have to charge more for more pumpovers, so we just want to make sure that that’s what you want.” When they confirm it, it doesn’t matter what I like or think is right or wrong for that batch of wine . . . they’re the boss. In terms of stuck fermentations or a little bit of sulfide issues or things like that, Andrew’s very attentive [Andrew Rockwell, the Laboratory Director]. We’re testing everything every day, after rackings, every day’s ferment, so Andrew’s sticking his nose in the tank every day, and he’s got a good nose and palate and he’s very sensitive, so he’ll let Russell or I know, or if the consultant’s already sitting in the room he’ll go directly to them, or we’ll call the consultant and say, “Hey, there’s an issue with tank 1956, there’s some sulfite issue, a little bit of a stink coming out of it.”
Also, a lot of our newer clients, for example Deseo de Michael, say, “I want to bring in my grapes this year, 600 pounds . . .
JM-L: 600 pounds. Well, if you only have a third of an acre . . .
JL: Exactly. So the first thing I explain to him if you want us to press it, that we need more than that because our presses aren’t that small, so we can’t press 600 pounds effectively, so you’re going to have buy some Chardonnay to put in with yours to make it. So he’s so small that it doesn’t make sense to have a consultant, you know, realistically, but the first year I helped him through that and I didn’t charge him anything, and I said, “You know, you can do it this way or you can do it this way. Here’s the decision points now. You can taste the juice coming out of the press, do you want to cut it there? Do you want to keep on pressing harder? You’ll see the change.” So we just walked him through it. So for 2011 he hired Gilles [Martin] to be his winemaker for his one Chardonnay, so now it’s at a more professional level.
JM-L: Good. But the vines must be very young . . .
JL: Sure. So that’s an extreme example of someone who wants to do things right, is willing to pay commercial charges, but he doesn’t have enough volume to get a full-time consultant . . . so we try to be as helpful as we can.
JM-L: Of course.
JL: We have other clients like that, they have a little bit of fruit in their back yard, so we try to avoid it, but when it’s a friend of a friend, we do stuff like that . . .
JM-L: Sure.
JL: You know, Juan [Micieli-Martinez, Manager and Winemaking Consultant of Martha Clara Vineyards], Gilles [winemaking consultant to several vineyards], Tom Drozd—who makes the Baiting Hollow wines, and Erik [Bilka, the other PWG production manager] has his own wine, and other clients who know what they’re doing. So we expect them to make all those decisions, so we’re just backing it up. We do have some non-Long Island clients, but that is just coincidence.
JM-L: So who are your non-Long Island clients?
JL: Well, you know, Silver Springs, up in the Finger Lakes.
JM-L: All the way up there? Do they send their fruit down?
JL: Mmm, no. When they started five or six years ago, they bought Long Island red, so they make some things up there in the Finger Lakes, and that goes for the white, the hybrid stuff, and they wanted to buy some red, so they approached us and said, “We want to buy a few tons, and how do we get it up to us and what can we do?” And, I don’t think they actually have a winery, I think all their production is custom, either here or there. So anyway, that’s how we got started. And now, every couple of vintages they’ll send some white juice down, and they’ll have us ferment it here because it’s going to be part of a bigger blend or something like that.
JM-L: I see. Very interesting.
JL: So they’re one. And then there’s Belhurst, Belhurst Castle . . .
JM-L: Are they also in the Finger Lakes?
JL: Yes, they are. They’re basically a hotel, a resort hotel, and again, they might have a little show winery, but I haven’t actually been there. But we make their wines, sort of for the same reasons, they’re purchasing all their fruit, both red and white, and we’re making the wine for them.
JM-L: Is PWG unique in New York State?
JL: Not any more. We were the first on the East Coast as a custom crush, and I don’t know, but I think that there are one or two in the Finger Lakes now. I know that East Coast Crush started up and it’s connected to one of the bigger wineries. I don’t know if it’s the exact same facility or if they have separate business names to bring in more clients, or it’s a whole new facility. Russell might know that. And I think that I heard of another place, White Springs was, again, doing their own thing but doing a lot of custom work, I think that just changed ownership and might now be all custom.
JL: But, anyway, we started people thinking about it as an option, since they save a lot of money and only pay for what they’re bringing in rather than buying equipment that’s going to cost them two million to put in and they’re only going to use it once a year, so . . .
JM-L: Yes, like Raphael, which spent six million dollars on their own winery . . .
JL: Yeah, it’s a different interest. If you have the money to invest and you want that showpiece, you know, that’s . . .
JM-L: Well, they have that showpiece, there’s no question of that. Pretty impressive! So, when you have a really abundant harvest out here, even the wineries that have facilities of their own may find themselves with more fruit than they can handle . . .
JM-L: So you do take overage, as it were . . .
JL: Yes. If we have the space for it, sure, and it happens where we have one particular client, another winery that knows pretty much that they’re going to have more fruit coming in every year than they have space for themselves, so they’ve been saying fairly consistently that they need a tank of twenty tons, or something, for this overage. There are other wineries where it’s more vintage-related, most years they’re self-sufficient but some years they’re looking for extra space, so as long as we have the room we’re happy to do that. We also do pressing and settling; some Connecticut buyers of wineries, are buying local Chardonnay or other varieties and they’re looking for a place to have it destemmed, pressed, cold settled [chilled], and then they’re taking it as juice so that they don’t have to drive [the purchased grapes] all the way around. So that’s another part of our business that is pretty consistent every year.
JM-L: So you’re just sending them the must?
JL: Yes, either the must for reds or the settled juice for, say, Chardonnay.
JM-L: And then they ferment it.
JL: Yes, and we have fee schedules—so they don’t have to bring things just to bottle; we have a pressing and settling charge, or you can ferment it here, age it here, and then sell it in bulk, instead of selling it in the bottle, and you’re not paying the full cost . . . In other words, PWG has a fee schedule for all its varied services that allow a client to decide whether to take a wine all the way to bottle, or to sell it early in the process as juice (before fermentation) or later in the process as bulk wine.
JM-L: OK. Well, you and Russell, and who else helped found this?
JL: Well, I’m not a partner, Russell is. It’s Russell and Mark Lieb and a fellow called Bernard Sussman—he isn’t located out here. He lives in New Jersey or may have moved to Florida now. They’re the three partners. I’ve been here since it opened. I was working with Russell at Pellegrini Vineyards when he was planning this, and when 2000 was our first harvest he asked me if, when this was done, I’d like to come with him.
JM-L: Now, how many clients did you start with?
JL: Roughly a dozen.
JM-L: Really? So in other words, you first determined that there would be a market out there, you determined that there would be people who would bring their fruit in, if you would just set up . . .
JL: Yes. And, you see, the reason that we knew that—especially Russell—was that Russell, had been the winemaker for Pellegrini Vineyards, at that point, for eight or nine vintages, and people kept approaching him, saying “I have fruit for sale, I’m thinking of starting my own label, do you have room?” So he was doing custom production at Pellegrini, with whatever excess space he had there, for Erik Bilka and everyone else . . . and, you know, people were looking for space. He knew that there were more vineyards coming online, he knew that this would be a growth market. And I think that Russell first approached Mark Lieb—or it might have been vice versa—because Lieb had a forty-acre vineyard and no facility, and he was trying to buy more property so that he could build a winery, and there was some political issue, possibly, and it was taking longer than he expected so they got together and he said, “OK, you build this and I’ll be an investor in it and instead of making it a Lieb winery we’ll make it a custom production winery. And Russell, you’re going to run it, right?” And it was very clever and it was the right time to get something started . . .”
JM-L: Interesting.
JL: Most of those clients are still with us. I’d say that the only ones that aren’t were the ones that got sold or closed down. But Martha Clara was there the first year, Sherwood House was there, so pretty much everyone who was looking for a place and found us in 2000 has stayed.
JM-L: So Deseo de Michael [aka OR Wine Estate as of 2014] is the just latest . . . ?
JL: Yes, pretty much. Around 2010, in terms of having a license and all of that. But for example, my wine, which is a 2007, and Erik [Bilka], who makes a Riesling from Finger Lakes juice that he brings down, and he started in 2009, and that’s it; it’s not so much new vineyards coming on line anymore, but rather people buying fruit who want to start their own brands.
Leo Family Red: a History
JM-L: I see. So let’s talk about you . . .
JL: I don’t own my own vineyard; my situation is a little different in that I lease two acres. Well, I have a long-term agreement since 1999, with a particular vineyard to lease the two acres and I bring in my own fruit, with the understanding that I’ll do all the handwork. I do the pruning, I do the thinning, I do the harvesting.
JM-L: So you’re not buying fruit, you’re essentially the vineyard manager for a parcel that’s leased to you. So you have complete control of the fruit.
JL: Yes. The things that I didn’t have control over—I started at Martha Clara in 1999–where they controlled the spray schedule, the weed control, anything that had to do with tractor work—I could make suggestions. So in that respect I didn’t have complete control. But I was fine with that. That lasted until 2006, when they decided that they wanted to harvest their own fruit on that plot, so they decided that I was too small to make an exception for . . . so I was all ready to move anyway, and I was fine with that; it was time to move on. So I continued the same arrangement with Pellegrini Vineyards, in their easternmost vineyard, called South Harbor. So there were two acres planted with Merlot there as well, same arrangement as before, so I don’t have control of the spraying schedule. So I worked with the vineyard manager and that worked out nicely. That was between 2007 through 2010. In 2010 I started working for Onabay Vineyard as a winegrowing consultant, working out in the vineyard. So they asked me, would I be interested in leasing a couple of acres with them, and since I was already telling them what to do and hands-on with their whole vineyard it finally meant that it felt like my own vineyard, in that sense.
JM-L: Oh, that’s very nice.
JL: So in 2011 I moved to Onabay. I was very happy with Pellegrini, but at Onabay, where they’ve planted several varieties, I was able to have an acre of Merlot, half-an-acre of Cabernet Franc, and half-an-acre of Petite Verdot.
JM-L: So you were finally able to make a Meritage.
JL: Yes. And I did . . . since 1999 I’ve made wine every year, selling it off in bulk, but bottling a barrel for myself to have something to drink, and. . .
JM-L: I see. So now you’re now making wine in your own way—originally you were only making Merlot . . .
JL: Only growing Merlot. So the early vintages were 100% Merlot, but I started to go to other sources—Premium, for example, and other clients, to get a little bit of Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, whatever happened to be available depending upon the year, including Syrah, Malbec, as well. Working here made it easy for me to know what was out there—the quality, the amounts, whatever was available . . . 2007 was the first wine I bottled and labeled myself; up to 2006 it was a just hobby project, what I kept at home for drinking myself and then to cover costs I’d sell most of the bulk; I sell anywhere from 200 gallons to 1000 gallons a year depending on my harvest yield and my blending needs.
[From the Winemaker’s Studio Website, there is this description of the 2007: “The first and so far, only wine released under the Leo Family label. A blend made of sustainably farmed grapes: 80% Merlot, 7% Syrah, 6% Petit Verdot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon from the North Fork of Long Island. Aged 18 months in French and Hungarian oak, released spring 2011.”] [NOTE: I tasted this wine on Feb. 2 at a dinner party where venison was the main course. It followed a rather funky Spanish Tempranillo, and it showed beautifully. It was already showing secondary aromas and flavors, including lightly-smoked wood, coffee, lead pencil, and sour cherry. It was balanced and had an agreeable persistence on the palate and a very clean finish. I’d describe it as elegant and somewhat austere–rather like a Premier Cru from St-Emilion (Bordeaux). Its structure suggests several more years of maturation and good longevity. It was very much appreciated by all the guests at the venison dinner, and was a really fine food & wine pairing.]
[The back label—shown at right—tells even more about the wine and how it is made. . . ]
JM-L: And how much bulk are you selling now?
JL: Depending on the harvest . . . it was a lot, anywhere from 500 cases to a 1,000, or 200 gallons, some years there wasn’t very much. The 2007 was a blend of Merlot, Syrah, Petit Verdot . . . it’s not all Merlot.
JM-L: Which means that it’s more of a Left Bank than Right Bank Bordeaux style of wine.
JL: Yeah, with the Syrah tossed in too.
JM-L: And with the Syrah, which in the 19th Century, they used in winemaking in Bordeaux.
JL: Yes, I read that too. I’m not going to market it as Bordeaux . . . it’s just was the best that I could do.
JM-L: Of course you’re not going to label it as Bordeaux. Despite all the claims about how Bordeaux-like your wine is, this is still Long Island, after all . . .
JL: Exactly. There’s no French on the label, it’s just Leo Family Red . . .
JM-L: And where is it available? Can I buy it, for example, at Empire State Cellars?
JL: It’s available there; you can also buy it at the Winemakers’ Studio, that’s my biggest outlet . . . Anthony Nappa’s. They pour it and sell it on a regular basis. There’s also a small wine shop right here in Mattituck, called J. Shields. It’s owned by a woman who’s a real oenophile. She just loves wine; I think she studied the sommelier’s course . . . so she took it in a couple of weeks ago. So it’s on the shelf there.
JM-L: What was your aim in making your particular wine?
JL: Honestly, it’s kind of a cliché. I wanted to make a wine that I would enjoy drinking. There are no asterisks. I wanted it to stand on its own on a commercial level. I want make it only in good vintages and have it taste better than what people are expecting. . I wanted to be able say: Taste it and if you like it, buy it, and if you don’t, well, there are no questions asked. I made 420 cases, I think I have about 160 left. If I’m stuck with a hundred cases, fine, I’ll be happy to drink it for the rest of my life.
JM-L: So you’re really saying that the 2007 has great longevity.
JL: Yes, I think it does. Because I released it last year and it’s certainly drinking better this year. It hasn’t shown any signs of fading and improving still.
JM-L: You think that it has the structure to last another five, ten years?
JL: Five, ten years from now? I think so, but I honestly don’t know? It’s hard to say. Two to three years to reach its peak, and how long will it hold?
JM-L: Well, as you know, that’s a sign of good wine and good winemaking. The very fact that there is so much wine being made in Long Island that is age-worthy is, I think, a stunning testament to the level of the winemaking here, and the quality of the fruit and everything else. It’s no secret, after all, that for us, that the quality of the wine from Long Island is, frankly, at times sensational—and, well, times that it’s not— but given how good it is I often to prefer it to that of California.
JL: I’ve come the same way, obviously I’m in the industry and you could say that I’m completely biased, but I’m less and less happy when paying sixty or seventy dollars for a California wine that turns out to be an ordinary red wine, just high in alcohol but without much character.
JM-L: As soon as Robert Parker says “jammy and full of fruit,” I know immediately that that is a wine that I’m not likely to touch.
JL: Exactly. They’re making a style. Good for them. They’re marketing a style and making it work. We’re just not that.
JM-L: The other thing to remember is that everything here is “micro.” You just do not have the production to take on California, you just can’t make enough for a national market.
JL: And that should free us up a lot to experimentation, to be able to focus on quality, which more and more of our customers are asking for over the twelve years we’ve been in the business; at first our clients were just happy to get the fruit in, get it at 22 Brix, get the right pH. It’s got to have flavor. We’re all working on making higher quality wine, we’re challenging one another, we’re raising the bar.
JM-L: And what other vintages have you made since the 2007?
JL: Put into bottle and labeled—just the 2010.
JM-L: And that was a fabulous vintage.
JL: It was very good. At first I didn’t think that it was going to be as good as the 2007, but as I sampled it from the barrel it just got better and better, to the point that I decided to bottle it. Now I think it may even be better than the 2007. Leo Family Red will only be made in the best vintages. And now that we have 2012 in barrel I’m optimistic that 2012 could be another Leo
Family vintage.
JM-L: Well, that’s a good policy.
JL: Well, it’s nice to have a day job!
JM-L: John, you’ve been more than generous with your time, and I thank you for it. I’ll get back to you when I’m ready to write about Clovis Point.
Erik Bilka, who was not interviewed, is the other production winemaker at Premium, and also has his own wine label: Influence—a Riesling made from grapes sourced from Ovid Farm in the Finger Lakes.
From the Influence Wines Website:
“Every vintage a winemaker’s goal is to showcase the best attributes from the fruit he is presented. Fruit intensity, acidity, and sugar balance are all attributes which bring a wine to a harmonious blend of aroma, flavor, and palette impression. The winemakers’ influence determines the quality seen in the glass.
“Once harvested, Influence Riesling is delivered to White Springs Winery in Geneva, NY on Seneca Lake, where the experienced staff led by Derek Wilber crush, press, and cold settle the juice, which is then shipped to Premium Wine Group on the North Fork of Long Island. Upon arrival, winemaker Erik P. Bilka begins the winemaking process. The juice is fermented in stainless steel tanks. Before completion fermentation is halted in order to maintain the natural residual sugars found in this semi-dry vintage. The refining process which involves separating natural occurring sediment from the final product is done delicately in order to preserve the fruits integrity. This minimalist approach by the winemaker influencing only what the juice requires, allows the fruit to be showcased in the final wine.”
Brix at Harvest – 19.8
Ph – 3.10
Titratable Acid – 7.02
Residual Sugar – 22.00 grams/ liter
Aged – 100% Stainless Steel Tank
Bottled – March 31, 2011
To me, the commitment by the oenologists who work at PWG simply goes beyond the normal range of expectation and duty. For each of them is so passionate about wine, and apparently has so much excess energy, that it’s not enough for them to only work full-time at their place of employment, they have a deep need to practice their skills for themselves and their reputations. One can’t ask for more devotion than that. It’s also hard to find better winemakers.
Next, Russell Hearn.
Services provided by Premium Wine Group range from grape sourcing, crush/pressing, fermenting, barrel aging, bottling, Methode Champenoise riddling and disgorging, and Compliance Issues. These services are available to “custom production” clients, Alternating Proprietorship and existing wineries. North-East wineries sourcing North Fork of Long Island fruit may wish to ferment rather than move unstable fruit during harvest. Or those that have exceeded their own production capacity might look to utilize our wide variety of equipment.
Contact us for (Fee Schedule or Component Services Fees) and (Standard Procedures for what is included).
The “producer” is to supply at their expense all:
Fruit (delivered to PWG)
Fermentation supplies (yeast, enzyme and tannin, malo-lactic bacteria)
Wooden cooperage or oak additives
Packaging supplies (bottles, corks, capsules, labels and related items)
Winemaking direction (consultation)
With a highly trained staff operating within a State of the Art facility, all wine production services requested can be performed in a timely and professional manner. Additional specialized equipment allows such processes as:
EuroSelect Destemmer-Crusher, the gentlest way of destemming
Tube-in-tube Must Chiller capable of dropping must temperature 20° F. downstream from the destemmer-crusher en route to press or fermentation tank
Reverse Osmosis System to remove water from grape juice
Ozone Machine for barrel sanitization
Lees filtration via Crossflow System
Crossflow wine filtration via Vaslin Bucher FX 8 System
Methode Champenoise
Complete semi-automatic Methode Champenoise bottling, riddling and disgorging equipment
Mainguet Crown capping device
Oenoconcept – Twin cage (1,000 bottle) automatic riddling machine fully programmable for the most complete riddling
Mainguet – Neck freezing
Mainguet – corking and wire hood application
Sick International – external bottle scrubbing/washing and drying unit
Sick International – capsule dispensing and eye sensitive/ orientating automatic double station capsule pleating device
Full in-line 4,000 bottle/hour bottling line.
McBrady – cardboard dust evacuating and nitrogen bottle sparging device
GAI monoblock twenty (20) spout vacuum/ gravity filler with double (2) nitrogen sparging and triple (3) head vacuum corker
GAI single head screw capping machine, capable of applying Stevlin and Stevlin Lux screw caps
Automatic capsule dispenser and eight (8) head (reversible) capsule spinner and heat shrink capability
Sick Automatic champagne capsule dispenser and pleating device
Kosme – triple station (neck, front and back) six (6) turret pressure sensitive servo motor driven labeler
Manual inspection and packing station
Top and bottom ‘Little David’ case taper
Lanxess Velcorin DT 6 S dosing unit
Our facility has a fully-equipped laboratory, with a full-time Lab Director and assistant during the Harvest period. A production software system (Winemaker Database) allows our clients’ bulk inventory to be tracked from the time juice or bulk wine arrives at the winery, every mo
vement, addition, chemical analysis and process is recorded and tracked. Our clients have full access to this detailed history of their inventory.
Mettler Toledo Auto-Titrator, generating pH, TA, and FSO2 automatically for reliable consistency
Total Acid (Automated Titration)
Total and Free SO2
Heat and Cold Stability
Enzymatic R.S. and Malate
Volatile Acidity
Bottling QA/QC
Routine Wine / Lot Maintenance
Crush Pads
We can receive hand harvested fruit in small half-ton bins, or machine harvested in gondolas. The receiving pad consists of a Weightronix truck scale and printer, two 7-ton Membrane presses with s/s dump hopper for whole-cluster pressing. Two destemmer / crushers: Rauch E20 and Euroselect ES, to ensure uninterrupted receiving capacity. Both presses utilize direct to press systems, if requested, to minimize solids and for “dug-out” red fermentations. Our 50-ton Refrigeration system ensures more than sufficient capacity for rapid cooling of juice. Tube-in-tube must-chiller capable of decreasing must temperature 20ºF. Additionally we have a 700 KW generator to ensure uninterrupted electrical service.
Numerous ‘gentle on wine’ Waukesha (twin lobe) pumps.
Pneumatic ‘punch-down’ tool above (18) red fermentation tanks.
(2) in-line tank heaters to maintain warm red ferments, correct malo-lactic temperature in tank, pre-bottling temperature control.
Crossflow filtration system Vaslin Bucher FX 3 with lees filtration add-on capability plate and frame pad filter as well as membrane cartridge filtration capability.
Steam and ozone capability.
Producers / Clients (all of which use only Long Island fruit)
Baiting Hollow Farms Vineyard
Bouké/Bouquet
Brooklyn Oenology
Clovis Point Vineyard
OR Wine Estate (aka Deseo de Michael)
Harbes Vineyard
Lieb Cellars
Martha Clara Vineyard
McCall Wines
Onabay Vineyards
Pumphouse Wines (Scarsdale, NY)
Sherwood House Vineyard
[Leo Family Wines, by John Leo, employee]
[Influence Wines (Finger Lakes fruit) by Erik Bilka, employee]
[Suhru Wines, by Russell Hearn, PWG partner & production manager]
[T’Jara Vineyards, by Russell Hearn]
Premium Wine Group 35 Cox Neck Rd. Mattituck, NY 11952
info@premiumwinegroup.com
This entry was posted in Vineyards, Vinification, Wineries and tagged Anthony Nappa, Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyards, Belhurst Castle, Bernard Sussman, Bouké Wines, Bouquet Wines, Comtesse Thérèse, Derek Wilber, Deseo de Michael, East Coast Crush, Erik Bilka, EuroSelect, Gilles Martin, Harbes Vineyard, Influence Wines, John Leo, Juan Micieli-Martinez, Leo Family Red, Leo Family Wines, Lieb Cellars, Long Island Wineries, Mark Lieb, Martha Clara Vineyards, McCall Ranch, Oenoconcept, Onabay Vineyard, OR Wine Estate, Pellegrini Vineyards, Premium Wine Group, Pumphouse Wine, PWG, Queens County Vineyard, Russell Hearn, Sherwood House Vineyards, Sick International, Silver Springs Vineyard, Sparkling Pointe, Suhru Wines, T'Jara Vineyard, Tom Drozd, Tube-in-tube Must Chiller, Vaslin Bucher FX 3, Vaslin Bucher FX 8, White Springs Winery, Winemakers Studio on 11 February 2013 by JoseM-L.
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Report into Identifying Uninhibited Drivers
A surprising number of infringements are issued to corporate-owned vehicles where no driver is subsequently nominated.
The Office of the Road Safety Camera Commissioner found that in a two year period there were 53,845 occasions where a company has failed to nominate the driver. When nominated, the driver pays a smaller fine but receives demerit points. If not nominated, a much bigger fine is paid but because no driver is identified no demerits points can be attached to anybody’s licence.
4,280 of these infringements were infringements that would have resulted in an immediate loss of licence. Further, the office found that there were 274 registrations with five or more loss of licence events.
The question has to be asked: why pay $3,000 when you can pay $300?
It appears that some corporate entities are treating the corporate fine as a cost of doing business. Drivers can continue to offend without being made accountable for their actions. This is unfair and unsafe for the large majority of responsible drivers and road users.
Report into Identifying Uninhibited Drivers (pdf 234.06 KB)
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Canada C3 > News > The Prime Minister’s Visit to Canada C3
The Prime Minister’s Visit to Canada C3
We are so grateful to Justin Trudeau for coming to visit our ship, spending some time with our participants and taking the time to learn about why this journey is so special to us. Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister!
Upon arriving, the prime minister was greeted by Expedition leader Geoff Green, and leg 3 participants Erin, from P.E.I., and Sharon, from Nova Scotia.
The prime minister takes in the Canada C3 giant floor map.
Prime Minister Trudeau visited a science lab on board.
The prime minister took a look at the Canada C3 scientists’ research.
The Prime Minister gets emotional over Paddle to the Sea in the Legacy Room on board the Canada C3 ship.
Prime Minister Trudeau greets Leg 3 visual artist Patrick Saad.
Prime Minister Trudeau greets leg 3 scientist Paula Piilonen.
Canada C3 staff members Diz and Vicky and participant Catherine listen attentively to Pierre-Quan, our leg 3 youth ambassador.
At the end of every leg, participants leave their mark in the Canada C3 ship hangar. Prime Minister Trudeau did the same during his visit.
The Canada C3 team poses with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau!
Canada C3 is an initiative of the Students on Ice Foundation. Since 2000, Students on Ice (SOI) has led educational expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. Internationally acclaimed as a leader in polar education and youth engagement, SOI expeditions and outreach initiatives educate youth about the importance of the Polar Regions, support their continued growth and inspire initiatives that contribute to global sustainability. The result is more than 2,500 alumni from 52 countries making positive and lasting impacts in communities around the world.
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation, Canadian Heritage is supporting a series of Signature Projects — high impact projects with national reach — through the Canada 150 Fund. Canada C3 is proud to have been chosen as a Canada 150 Fund Signature Project.
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The most anticipated announcement from Google: when the new Android launches
The latest Android will certainly no much longer have a desert name. Therefore, Android 10 will certainly be readily available prior to the brand-new Pixel phones.
Google releases each brand-new variation of Android in the summertime. In the autumn, it’s in a beta for fixing. Currently, Android 10 has a launch day: September 3.
Android 10 will certainly be readily available, at first, for Google Pixel phones. There are a couple of gadgets that certify for the upgrade. After a couple of months, Samsung and also various other huge gamers will certainly make the upgrade, with its very own user interface over the operating system.
Complying with the launch of Android 10 on September 3, validated by Google’s assistance group, yet not by the firm, there is probably an October occasion committed to the brand-new Pixel phones.
What phones will certainly obtain Android 10 from Google in the initial stage
In concept, any kind of phone you are currently running Android Q beta will certainly obtain the huge upgrade. This consists of Pixel phones, older as well as more recent, however likewise ASUS Zenfone 5z or Essential Phone PH-1.
On the listing for Android 10 are Huawei Mate 20 Pro, LG G8 ThinQ, Nokia 8.1, OnePlus 6T, OPPO Reno, Realme 3 Pro, Sony Xperia XZ3, Techno Spark 3 Pro, Vivo X27, Nex S, Nex A, Xiaomi Mi 9 and also Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 5G.
In the past, Google launched a brand-new variation on August 6 (2018) as well as August 21 (2017 ). In 2015, for instance, the brand-new variation of Android was launched on October 5th. Generally, the business makes such launches on Monday.
Presently there is no main schedule from various other firms with the launches of their variations. By the end of the year, Huawei, Samsung, OnePlus as well as others might bother with front runners and also Android 10.
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Pancakes says:
Looking forward to seeing ‘Stalingrad’.Saw a trailer on stream hd projectfreetv while in Germany that was completely different to the one on Youtube.Looks like it might actually get a worldwide cinema release,unusual for a Russian film.
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Weight control interventions improve therapeutic efficacy of dacarbazine in melanoma by reversing obesity-induced drug resistance
Parmanand Malvi1,
Balkrishna Chaube1,
Shivendra Vikram Singh1,
Naoshad Mohammad1,
Vimal Pandey1,3,
Maleppillil Vavachan Vijayakumar1,
Revathy Meenatheril Radhakrishnan2,
Muralidharan Vanuopadath2,
Sudarslal Sadasivan Nair2,
Bipin Gopalakrishnan Nair2 &
Manoj Kumar Bhat1
Cancer & Metabolism volume 4, Article number: 21 (2016) Cite this article
Obesity-related cellular, metabolic, and molecular alterations have been shown to increase cancer risk and tumor progression and are associated with poorer therapeutic outcome in cancer patients. However, the impact of obesity and weight-control interventions on the therapeutic response in melanoma is poorly understood.
High fat diet (HFD)-induced obese mouse model was used in this study to evaluate the outcome of dacarbazine (DTIC) therapy in melanoma. We employed LC-MS/MS to determine the quantity of the drug in tumor, and in various tissues. Unique in vitro approach was used to complement in vivo findings by culturing melanoma cells in either conditioned medium (CM) obtained from differentiated adipocytes or in serum collected from experimental mice.
We report that diet-induced obesity impairs the outcome of DTIC therapy and reduces overall survival in tumor-bearing mice. We provide evidence that obesity restricts the accessibility of DTIC to tumor tissue. Critically, upon curtailing adiposity, accumulation and efficacy of DTIC is significantly improved. Moreover, using appropriate in vitro approaches, we show that melanoma cells exhibit a drug-resistant phenotype when cultured in serum collected from diet-induced obese mice or in CM collected from 3T3-L1 adipocytes. The impaired therapeutic response to DTIC in obese state is mediated by fatty acid synthase (FASN), caveolin-1 (Cav-1), and P-glycoprotein (P-gp). The response to DTIC and overall survival were improved upon employing weight control interventions in the tumor-bearing HFD-fed (obese) mice.
This study indicates that obesity not only supports rapid melanoma progression but also impairs the outcome of chemotherapy, which can be improved upon employing weight control interventions. From clinically relevant point of view, our study exemplifies the importance of lifestyle interventions in the treatment of obesity-promoted cancers.
Obesity, owing to excess adiposity, is associated with increased risk of many cancer types [1–3]. With the unprecedented surge in global epidemic of obesity and overweight population, incidences of obesity-associated health complications are also likely to increase [4, 5]. Adiposity-related cellular, metabolic, and molecular alterations are known to promote cancer risk and rapid tumor progression [3–7] and adversely affect the response to cancer therapy [8]. However, the positive aspects of obesity management and weight control interventions on the outcome of chemotherapy are not well understood.
Adipose tissue, an endocrine organ, is considered as one of the critical factors involved in tumor progression, angiogenesis, invasion, and metastasis [9–13]. Adipose tissue expansion under persistent nutritional load alters serum profile of adipokines, cytokines, and lipids [7, 10]. These changes eventually create a state of chronic low-grade inflammation [14–16], which supports cancer cell survival and proliferation [17, 18]. Adiposity in overweight and obese people leads to dysregulation of adipocyte functions and associated pathogenesis. Poor survival of cancer patients due to adiposity is an emerging, yet under explored, issue of clinical significance. Meta-analysis of observational studies has established a strong relationship between development and progression of cancers including melanoma, with obesity [1–3]. Melanoma, a life-threatening malignancy which arises in the vicinity of subcutaneous adipose tissue, accounts for the majority of skin cancer-associated mortalities [19]. Obesity affects diagnosis and treatment because of its interference with medical imaging, lowering of tumor markers expression, alteration in the pharmacokinetics of chemotherapeutic drugs, compromised immune surveillance, improper precision of radiotherapy, and increased risk of surgical complications and recovery time [20–22]. In addition, tumor type and degree of adiposity add up to the complexity of therapy and further restrict the choices of chemotherapeutic drugs under obesity [20]. Contribution of adipocytes to chemoresistance of melanoma involves multiple signaling pathways and, hence, is difficult to target them all [23].
Dacarbazine (DTIC) is the only US FDA-approved cytotoxic drug available for the treatment of metastatic melanoma with overall response rate of mere 20–25% [24]. Owing to its proximity to adipose tissue, under obesity, melanoma assumes aggravated lethality with accompanying drug resistance, which makes this association intriguing. However, administration of DTIC at doses based on weight or body size is a complicated medical issue which may have adverse effects [25]. In contrast, any discretion to decrease chemotherapy dose as in normal practice may lead to exposure of cancer cells to a non-effective dosage of the drug that potentially contributes to drug resistance. Therefore, implications of strategy to control the proliferation and invasiveness of cancer in the background of obesity by containing adiposity need to be tested in a preclinical setup before being explored clinically.
Previously, we reported that while diet-induced obesity promotes melanoma growth [26], pharmacological and dietary interventions targeting obesity reverse it to a great extent [27]. Clinically, it has been proposed that a combination of changes in lifestyle together with pharmacological approaches could be a more effective strategy for the management of obesity-promoted cancers [28–30]. In addition, unlike their relatively lean counterparts, the obese cancer patients require specific dosing for a curative response to treatment and overall survival [25]. On these lines, we hypothesized that weight control interventions in conjunction with cancer chemotherapy could have a significant positive impact on the management of obesity-promoted cancers. By implicating pharmacological and dietary interventions to contain adiposity, we have explored the therapeutic outcome of DTIC in melanoma using appropriate in vitro and in vivo models.
Experimental animals and diets
C57BL/6J mice were procured from Experimental Animal Facility (EAF) at National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune, India. High fat diet (24% fat) was purchased from Provimi Animal Nutrition Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India, and normal diet (5% fat) was obtained from Amrut Laboratory, Pune, India. The compositions of diets are provided in supplementary data (Additional file 1: Table S1). Diet-induced obesity was developed in the mice by feeding them with high fat diet as described previously [26, 27]. Male C57BL/6J mice (6–8 weeks old) were divided into normal diet (ND) and high fat diet (HFD) group. ND group was fed with normal diet while HFD group was fed with high fat diet supplemented with ground nut and dried coconut for 6 months. Body weight and serum chemistry profile were measured monthly to verify obesity-associated changes. Water and food were provided ad libitum to all the mice. All animal experiments were carried out as per the requirement and guidelines of the Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA), Government of India, and after obtaining permission of the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC).
Cells and culture conditions
Murine melanoma cells B16F10 and B16F1 and murine pre-adipocyte cells 3T3-L1 were procured from American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, Manassas, VA, USA) and maintained at our in-house cell repository at National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India. Cells were routinely cultured in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagles Medium (DMEM) supplemented with 10% heat inactivated fetal bovine serum (Hyclone, UT, USA or Gibco, NY, USA), penicillin (100 U/ml), and streptomycin (100 μg/ml) (Invitrogen Life Technologies, CA, USA) and maintained at 37 °C in a 5% CO2 humidified incubator (Thermo Fisher Scientific, OH, USA).
Serum biochemical analysis
Blood glucose levels and serum lipids were estimated as described previously [26, 27]. Insulin, leptin, and adiponectin levels in the serum were estimated by mouse-specific respective ELISA kits as described [23]. Resistin, IL-6, and TNF-α levels in the serum were detected by indirect ELISA as described previously [27].
Orlistat treatment and/or diet shifting in HFD mice, tumor challenge, DTIC administration, and follow-up
To study the impact of diet-induced obesity on the outcome of DTIC therapy in melanoma, we treated B16F10 melanoma isografted obese mice with DTIC purchased from Sigma, USA (80 mg/kg intraperitoneally for five consecutive days as described previously) [31]. In addition, to look into the impact of weight loss interventions on the outcome of DTIC therapy in obese mice, mice were administered with orlistat (an antiobesity drug known to inhibit gastrointestinal lipases) and/or shifted from high fat to normal diet followed by DTIC treatment. The detailed experimental plan is illustrated in Fig. 1a. Briefly, obese mice were administered orally with orlistat (10 mg/kg on every alternate day) purchased from Enzo Life Sciences, NY, USA, and/or shifted from high fat diet to normal diet. HFD C57BL/6J mice treated with vehicle or orlistat were termed as HFD-HFD Ctrl and HFD-HFD Orli (N = 11 per each group), respectively, whereas HFD C57BL/6J mice shifted to normal diet and treated with vehicle or orlistat were grouped as HFD-ND Ctrl and HFD-ND Orli (N = 11 per each group), respectively. After 15 days, these mice were injected subcutaneously (s.c.) with B16F10 cells (2 × 105) in 100 μl of PBS and monitored daily for the presence of palpable tumors and dimensions were recorded on alternate days. When tumor size became approximately 40–50 mm3, all groups of mice were treated with vehicle (acidified water) or DTIC as mentioned above. Tumor volume was calculated using the formula 0.52 × length × width2 and was followed up throughout the study. At the end of the experiment, mice were sacrificed by CO2 euthanasia. Excised tumors’ volume and weight were recorded, and the samples were immediately preserved at −80 °C until further use. To observe their survival rates, five mice from each group were followed up for an additional 60 days.
Diet-induced obesity impairs the outcome of DTIC therapy in melanoma which is improved upon employing weight control interventions. a Impact of diet-induced obesity on the outcome of DTIC therapy in melanoma isografted HFD C57BL/6J mice (i). Effect of treatment of orlistat, at antiobesity dose (10 mg/kg, oral), on the outcome of DTIC therapy in melanoma isografted ND C57BL/6J mice (ii). b ND male C57BL/6J mice were divided into two major groups. One group was orally treated with orlistat (10 mg/kg), and the other group was treated with vehicle control on every alternate day for 8 weeks. Both the groups of mice (N= 11 per each group) were injected with B16F10 cells (2 × 105 cells/mouse in 100 μl PBS). After tumor formation, vehicle or DTIC treatment was given as per the experimental layout shown in Fig. 1. (i) Tumor volume, (ii) tumor weight, and (iii) survival of tumor-bearing mice (N = 5 mice per group). c HFD male C57BL/6J mice were divided into two major groups. One group was continuously fed with HFD, whereas the other group was shifted from HFD to ND. Mice from both the groups were orally treated with orlistat (10 mg/kg) or vehicle control on every alternate day for 8 weeks. All the groups of mice (N = 11 per each group) were injected with B16F10 cells (2 × 105 cells/mouse in 100 μl PBS). After tumor formation, vehicle or DTIC treatment was given as per the experimental layout shown in Fig. 1. (i) Tumor volume, (ii) tumor weight, and (iii) survival of tumor-bearing mice (N = 5 mice per group). The results are given as means ± standard deviation; *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, and ****p < 0.0001 denote significant differences between the groups; NS non-significant
Orlistat treatment in ND mice, tumor challenge, DTIC administration, and follow-up
For investigating whether oral delivery of orlistat influences DTIC treatment in melanoma-bearing ND C57BL/6J mice, these mice were divided in to two major groups (N = 11 per each group): ND mice treated with vehicle or orlistat 15 days prior to injecting melanoma cells were termed as (i) ND Ctrl and (ii) ND Orli, respectively. Melanoma cells were injected and orlistat treatment was continued. Following tumor formation, all groups of mice were treated with vehicle (acidified water) or DTIC, and tumor volume was followed up in these mice throughout the study as mentioned above. The detailed experimental plan has been illustrated in Fig. 1a (ii). At the end of the experiment, mice were sacrificed, tumors were excised, and the samples were immediately preserved at −80 °C until further use. Five mice from each group were followed up for survival studies as mentioned above.
Immunoblotting
Melanoma tumor samples or cells were washed three to five times with ice-cold PBS and lysed in ice-cold RIPA lysis buffer as described previously [27]. Briefly, the samples were centrifuged at 12000 RPM for 40 min and clear supernatants were stored at −80 °C. Protein concentrations were determined by Coomassie Plus Protein Assay Reagent (Thermo Scientific, IL, USA). Equal amounts of protein samples (50–100 μg) were resolved on 8–10% SDS-polyacrylamide gel and then transferred onto PVDF membrane (Millipore, MA, USA). The membranes were blocked and further probed with antibodies against caveolin-1 (Cav-1) (1:1000), fatty acid synthase (FASN) (1:1000), pAkt (Ser-473) (1:1000), total Akt (1:1000), PCNA (1:1000), cyclin D1 (1:1000), β-tubulin (1:1000) (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, CA, USA), and P-glycoprotein (P-gp) (1:1000) (Abcam, MA, USA). After washing, the membranes were incubated with HRP-conjugated secondary antibodies (1:2000) and blots were developed using luminescence detection reagents (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, CA, USA).
LC-MS/MS analysis and quantitation of DTIC in tissue extracts
LC-MS/MS analysis was carried out on an Agilent 1290 Infinity ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) system coupled to an Agilent 6540 UHD Accurate Mass Q-TOF mass spectrometer equipped with a Dual AJS electrospray ionization (ESI) source. The samples were introduced to the mass spectrometer through a reversed-phase column (Agilent ZORBAX SB-C18, 2.1 × 30 mm, 3.5 μm). The mobile phase containing water and acetonitrile with 0.1% formic acid was infused at a flow rate of 0.4 ml min−1. The MS scan range was set between 100 and 1000 m/z, with the dry gas flow and dry gas temperature maintained at 6 L min−1 and 320 °C, respectively. Introduction of reference molecules with m/z, 121.05087, 149.02332, 322.04812, and 922.00979 ensured consistency in mass accuracy over a wide mass range. All the mass spectrometric data were acquired in positive ionization mode using Agilent MassHunter data acquisition software, version B.05.01. MassHunter Quantitative analysis software, version B.07.00 was used for the generation of calibration curves and subsequent quantitation of DTIC in the samples. Calibration curves were created using linear fitting, 1/x weighting and including the origin. Calibration standards (0.5–800 ng) were prepared using standard DTIC. All the samples including the standard DTIC preparations were spiked with leucine enkephalin (10 ng) as internal standard. Extracted ion chromatograms of DTIC (m/z, 183.0989) and leucine enkephalin (m/z, 556.2766) were applied for quantitation. The quantitation capability of this method is evaluated by using samples with known concentrations.
Culture of melanoma cells in serum and conditioned medium
Approximately 1.5 × 102 B16F10 cells were plated in 24-well plates and allowed to adhere. After 24 h, DMEM containing 5% serum collected from experimental C57BL/6J mice (as illustrated in Fig. 1) was added and cells were cultured chronically for 10 days. Medium was changed on every 2–3 days. Thereafter, cells were fixed with paraformaldehyde and stained with crystal violet, and images were taken using digital camera (Olympus, Tokyo, Japan).
3T3-L1 cells were plated in 35-mm dishes and differentiated as described [32], along with vehicle or orlistat treatment (50 μM). The medium was changed every alternate day and fresh medium containing orlistat or cerulenin (an inhibitor of FASN) was added to the cells. After 11 days, medium was removed and cells were washed twice with DMEM. Fresh DMEM was added and cells were incubated for further 18 h. For culturing the melanoma cells, conditioned medium (CM) was mixed with fresh DMEM in 1:1 ratio. Approximately 3 × 102 B16F10 cells were plated in 12-well plates and cultured chronically for 10 days in this CM. Thereafter, crystal violet staining was performed to verify long-term survival, and the plates were photographed.
MTT assay
Melanoma cells were plated at a density of 6 × 103 cells/well in 96-well plates and allowed to adhere. After 24 h, cells were treated with vehicle (PBS or ethanol), inhibitors, or drugs as per the experimental requirements. After treatment duration, medium was removed and 50 μl of MTT (methylthiazole tetrazolium, 1 mg/ml in DMEM without phenol red) (Sigma-Aldrich, MO, USA) was added in each well and further incubated for 4 h at 37 °C. Formazan crystals were solubilized in 100 μl of isopropanol, and absorbance was measured at 570 nm.
Long-term survival assay
Melanoma cells were plated at a density of 3 × 102 cells/well in 12-well plates. Next day, these cells were treated with vehicle or orlistat as per the experimental requirements. After 48 h, medium was removed and fresh medium was added. Cells were allowed to grow for 10 days with medium change on every 2–3 days. Thereafter, cells were fixed with 3% paraformaldehyde for 10 min and stained with 0.05% crystal violet for 2 h at room temperature. Images were taken using digital camera (Olympus, Tokyo, Japan).
Rhodamine-123 efflux assay
To measure the efflux of Rhodamine-123 (Rh-123), which is reflective of transport activity for P-gp, melanoma cells were seeded at a density of 1 × 103 cells/well in 35-mm culture dishes and allowed to adhere for 24 h. Thereafter, these cells were chronically cultured in DMEM containing serum collected from experimental mice or in CM form 3T3-L1 cells for 10 days with medium change on every 2–3 days. Cells were washed thrice with PBS and incubated for 30 min at 37 °C in PBS containing 2 μM Rh-123. Further, Rh-123 efflux was measured using Flow cytometer. Fluorescence intensity of Rh-123 was acquired using FACS Calibur, and the data were analyzed using CellQuest Pro software (BD Biosciences, CA, USA).
Immunofluorescence confocal staining
Melanoma cells were plated in multi-well chambered slides (MP Biomedicals, OH, USA) and allowed to grow for 24 h. Next day, medium was changed to DMEM supplemented with serum from ND or HFD mice or in CM collected from 3T3-L1 cells for 10 days. Subsequently, these cells were washed with PBS, and immunofluorescence staining was performed as described previously [26].
Inhibitor-based in vitro studies
Melanoma cells were seeded at an appropriate density in culture dishes or well plates and allowed to adhere. After 24 h, cells were grown in DMEM containing serum collected from experimental mice or in CM collected from 3T3-L1 cells in the presence of vehicle or pharmacological inhibitors for 48 h. Thereafter, cells were processed for MTT assay or long-term survival assay or Rhodamine-123 efflux analysis as mentioned above.
Statistical analysis was performed using GraphPad Prism 7.0 (GraphPad Software Inc., CA, USA). All data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation (S.D.). For in vitro experiments, bars represent variations within the wells of the experiment. The experiments were repeated at least three times. For in vivo experiments involving more than two groups, one-way ANOVA was used, followed by the Tukey multiple comparison test. In vitro or in vivo data involving two experimental groups were analyzed using two-tailed unpaired Student’s t test. The values of p < 0.05, p < 0.01, p < 0.001, and p < 0.0001 were considered as statistically significant (*), very significant (**), highly significant difference (***), and very highly significant difference (****), respectively, unless otherwise mentioned.
Diet-induced obesity impairs the outcome of DTIC therapy in melanoma
We have reported previously that diet-induced obesity and weight loss interventions influence melanoma progression [26, 27]. Among many, diet is one of the important factors that influence chemotherapeutic response in patients. Therefore, to investigate whether diet-induced obesity or dietary interventions could dictate the outcome of chemotherapy in melanoma, we developed diet-induced obesity by chronic feeding of C57BL/6J mice with high fat diet as described previously [26, 27]. After developing diet-induced obese phenotype, ectopic isografts were induced by injecting B16F10 cells as shown in the experimental layout in Fig. 1a (i). Upon the appearance of palpable tumors, DTIC was administered in these mice and tumor volume and obesity-associated parameters were regularly monitored. Parallely, similar experiment was performed in normal diet-fed (ND) mice (Fig. 1a (ii)). As expected, tumor progression was significantly reduced in ND mice treated with DTIC as compared to control (Fig. 1b (i), (ii)). Additionally, DTIC treatment prolonged the survival of ND mice in comparison to the untreated tumor bearing mice (Fig. 1b (iii)). Surprisingly, enhanced tumor growth in HFD mice treated with DTIC in comparison to their untreated counter parts at the same dosage was observed (Fig. 1b (i), (ii)). In untreated HFD mice, overall survival was reduced when compared to their respective ND counter parts. Moreover, survival in HFD mice was reduced due to increased tumor burden under DTIC treatment (Fig. 1c (iii)). Further, to confirm whether DTIC treatment itself altered obesity-associated parameters in ND and HFD mice, serum chemistry profiles were assessed. We found that DTIC per se did not affect the levels of obesity-associated factors in ND and HFD mice as compared to their respective untreated controls (Table 1 and Additional file 2: Table S2). These results indicate that diet-induced obesity impairs the outcome of DTIC therapy in melanoma.
Table 1 Evaluation of obesity-associated factors in HFD C57BL/6J mice
Weight control interventions improve the efficacy of DTIC in obese mice
In order to look into whether controlling adiposity has any influence on the tumor progression, HFD mice were subjected to weight loss interventions. We used both pharmacological and diet control procedures as described in our previous study [27]. Following oral administration of orlistat (10 mg/kg on every alternate day) and/or shifting obese mice from high fat to normal diet (HFD to ND), on the 15th day, B16F10 melanoma cells were injected. Subsequently, tumor progression and obesity-associated parameters were regularly monitored till the termination of the experiment (Fig. 1a (i)). Similar experiments were also carried out in ND mice to further verify if orlistat, at an antiobesity dose, affects the efficacy of DTIC (Fig. 1a (ii)).
Firstly, we monitored whether diet/weight control interventions alter obesity-associated parameters. Normalization in the levels of obesity-associated factors was observed upon orlistat treatment or by shifting experimental HFD mice to normal diet (Table 1). Interestingly, in these mice, the levels of obesity-associated factors were found to be close to the levels in ND mice, particularly when orlistat administration was combined with diet shifting (Table 1). However, obesity-associated factors were unaffected in DTIC-treated group as compared to respective untreated controls (Table 1).
Next, we checked if orlistat, at antiobesity dose, influenced the outcome of DTIC therapy in ND mice. Consistent with the results of our previously published study [24], tumor volume and weight were found to be unaltered in ND mice administered with antiobesity dose of orlistat, as compared to control mice (Fig. 1b (i), (ii)). DTIC significantly decreased tumor volume and weight in ND mice. However, no further change in the tumor growth was observed in the mice receiving orlistat and DTIC as compared to DTIC alone. Similarly, orlistat treatment did not influence overall survival of mice as compared to mice receiving only vehicle (Fig. 1b (i–iii)). Also, no significant change in the overall survival was observed in mice receiving DTIC alone or mice receiving DTIC and orlistat together (Fig. 1b (i–iii)). Thus, orlistat neither altered the tumor-reducing effect of DTIC nor improved survival in ND mice. Moreover, levels of obesity-associated factors were also not altered (Additional file 1: Table S1), suggesting that orlistat per se does not influence the response to DTIC in ND mice. Interestingly, in tumor-bearing HFD mice, we observed that weight control interventions by orlistat treatment or diet shifting not only restricted tumor growth but also improved the efficacy of DTIC, as is evident by reduction in tumor volume and weight (Fig. 1c (i), (ii)), and survivability increased by 40% (Fig. 1c (iii)). Furthermore, DTIC treatment was much more effective in retarding tumor growth and in improving overall survival when orlistat administration was combined with dietary intervention (80% survival at day 60 in case of orlistat treatment and 100% upon combining diet and orlistat) (Fig. 1c (i–iii)). Survivability of tumor-bearing mice receiving orlistat and DTIC therapy or diet control together with orlistat and DTIC was prolonged up to 90 and 100 days, respectively, in comparison with 60 days for HFD mice receiving DTIC only. These observations were in parallel with normalization in obesity-associated parameters in HFD mice, suggesting that reducing adiposity by weight loss interventions profoundly improves the efficacy of DTIC and increases overall survival of tumor-bearing mice.
Elevated levels of tumor-promoting molecules and rapid efflux of DTIC contribute to impaired response
To get mechanistic insights, we sought to explore the molecular events contributing to impaired response to DTIC, in diet-induced obesity. To understand as to why DTIC treatment leads to enhanced tumor growth in obese mice, we checked the levels of molecules involved in tumor progression under obese state. Fatty acid synthase (FASN) is a key molecule associated with increased proliferation, survival, and drug resistance in various cancer cells including melanoma. We have earlier reported that increased level of FASN and caveolin (Cav)-1 contributes to the enhanced tumor growth in obese mice [26]. In the present study, we found that FASN level was further increased and Cav-1 levels was also elevated in tumors of HFD mice treated with DTIC (Fig. 2a). On the contrary, as anticipated, FASN and Cav-1 level was much lower in ND mice treated with DTIC (Fig. 2a). Additionally, to verify whether enhancement in the tumor growth is because of increase in proliferation of melanoma cells following DTIC treatment in obese mice, we checked the level of proliferative molecules. It was found that DTIC treatment caused increase in protein levels of cyclin D1 and proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) in tumors from HFD mice (Fig. 2a). In contrast, reduced levels of these proteins were detected in tumors of ND mice treated with DTIC (Fig. 2a). Changes in level of these molecules were associated with concomitant alteration in the phosphorylation of Akt, an important kinase involved in cell growth, survival, proliferation, and other vital cellular functions [33].
Molecular events associated with the impaired response to DTIC therapy in tumors of the experimental B16F10 isografted mice. a Western blot analysis of lysates from tumors of experimental HFD or ND mice subjected to SDS-PAGE and probed for levels of FASN, P-gp, Cav-1, pAkt, PCNA, and cyclin D1 in ND or HFD C57BL/6J mice treated with or without DTIC. b B16F10 or B16F1 cells were chronically grown in medium containing 5% serum collected from ND or HFD C57BL/6J mice for 15 days. Thereafter, these cells were subjected to immunofluorescence confocal staining of the indicated molecules (scale bar = 20 μm). c Quantitative determination of DTIC concentration in the tumor, plasma, liver, and adipose tissues excised from the indicated group of mice. Level of DTIC was determined by mass spectrometric analysis. The results are given as means ± standard deviation; *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, and ****p < 0.0001 denote significant differences between the groups; NS non-significant
Furthermore, we explored the molecular events those might be involved in mediating impaired therapeutic outcome of DTIC under obese background. We speculated that, because of increased expression of P-glycoprotein (P-gp), tumor cells are not able to retain sufficient quantity of DTIC. This would cause hindrance in the accumulation of an effective concentration of drug in cells. P-gp is a multidrug resistance protein associated with pumping out drugs from the resistant cells [34]. Therefore, we checked the level of P-gp in the tumors of HFD mice administered with or without DTIC. Level of P-gp, which was found to be elevated in tumors of HFD mice, was further increased in tumors from DTIC-treated HFD mice. Under similar setup, DTIC treatment in ND mice reduced the level of P-gp (Fig. 2a). Immunofluorescence staining confirmed the increased expression and localization of P-gp to plasma membrane in B16F10 and B16F1 cells grown in HFD serum as compared to cells cultured in ND serum of C57BL/6J mice (Fig. 2b and Additional file 3: Figure S1, respectively).
To confirm the presence of DTIC in vivo, we checked the distribution of DTIC in tumors and other vital organs by mass spectrometry. We observed significantly reduced level (~6-fold less) of DTIC in tumors excised from HFD mice as compared to the level in ND counterparts (Fig. 2c). DTIC level in the plasma, liver, and adipose tissue from HFD mice was higher as compared to ND mice (Fig. 2c). Concentration of DTIC was found to be even lesser in tumors than in other tissues excised from HFD mice (Fig. 2c). Interestingly, obesity control interventions significantly improved accumulation of DTIC in tumors from HFD mice with concomitant decrease in amount of DTIC in the plasma, liver, and adipose tissue (Fig. 2c). Collectively, these results suggest that increased levels of FASN, Cav-1, and P-gp in tumors are associated with increased tumor growth and impairment in the outcome of DTIC therapy in melanoma under obese state.
FASN, Cav-1, and P-gp are involved in impaired response of melanoma to DTIC treatment under obesity
To corroborate in vivo findings in vitro, we cultured B16F10 cells in serum collected from ND and HFD C57BL/6J mice. These cells were treated with varying concentrations of DTIC. Similar to in vivo findings, we observed that B16F10 cells cultured in the medium containing HFD serum showed an impaired response to DTIC (Fig. 3a) and inhibitory concentration (IC50) of DTIC was significantly increased (~5-fold more) as compared to B16F10 cells cultured in medium containing ND serum (Fig. 3a). The IC50 of DTIC (1415 μM) for cells cultured in medium containing ND serum was used for all in vitro experiments performed on cells cultured in serum collected from the experimental mice. Further, to verify the functional status of P-gp in obese state, we performed rhodamine 123 (Rh-123) efflux assays. In B16F10 and B16F1 cells cultured chronically in HFD serum, Rh-123 efflux was higher as compared to those cultured in ND serum (Fig. 3b and Additional file 4: Figure S2, respectively). Moreover, Rh-123 efflux was reduced in cells cultured in medium containing serum from orlistat-treated and/or diet-shifted mice (Fig. 3b and Additional file 4: Figure S2), which correlates with normalized serum levels of obesity-associated factors. The increase in Rh-123 efflux in the cells grown in medium supplemented with HFD serum was reversed upon treatment with verapamil, an inhibitor of P-gp, (Fig. 3b and Additional file 4: Figure S2) confirming the involvement P-gp in the impaired response to DTIC in melanoma under obese state.
Effect of obesity-associated serum factors on survival of B16F10 cells upon DTIC treatment. a Calculation of IC50 value of DTIC in DMEM containing ND or HFD serum. B16F10 cells were chronically grown in medium containing 5% serum collected from ND or HFD C57BL/6J mice for 10 days. These cells were then subjected to DTIC treatment at the indicated concentrations for 48 h. Thereafter, MTT assay was performed. b Rh-123 efflux assay in B16F10 cells cultured in the medium containing serum from experimental mice. Data were acquired on FACS Calibur and analyzed using BD CellQuest Pro software. c, d Long-term survival assay in B16F10 cells cultured in the medium containing serum from experimental mice in the presence of inhibitors of FASN, Cav-1, and P-gp, either alone or together with DTIC (c). Data were quantitated using ImageJ software (d). The data are representative of experiments performed three times; Ceru or C = cerulenin; MCD or M = methyl β-cyclodextrin; Vera or V = verapamil. The results are given as means ± standard deviation; *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, and ****p < 0.0001 denote significant differences between the groups; NS non-significant
Consistent with above stated findings, impairment in the response of B16F10 and B16F1 cells cultured in HFD serum condition to DTIC, in a long-term survival assay was very clearly visible. In B16F10 and B16F1 cells cultured in medium containing serum from orlistat-treated or diet-shifted obese mice, cell survival was reduced by approximately 70 and 75% respectively, upon DTIC treatment (Fig. 3c, d and Additional file 5: Figure S3). Survival was drastically reduced in the cells cultured in medium containing serum from orlistat-treated or diet-shifted obese mice upon treatment with DTIC, which was comparable with the response to DTIC, in ND serum cultured cells (Fig. 3c, d and Additional file 5: Figure S3).
Next, to ascertain the involvement of FASN, Cav-1, and P-gp in the impaired response to DTIC in B16F10 cells cultured in the presence of serum from HFD and ND mice, long-term clonogenic survival assay was performed in the presence or absence of inhibitors of these molecules. We observed that inhibition of these molecules individually increased the cytotoxicity of DTIC in cells cultured in medium containing HFD serum. Moreover, sensitivity of B16F10 and B16F1 cells to DTIC was greatly increased (approximately 80%) when all the three molecules were simultaneously inhibited (Fig. 3c, d and Additional file 5: Figure S3). Therefore, it is likely that FASN, Cav-1, and P-gp are cumulatively responsible for impairment in the outcome of chemotherapy in melanoma.
Adipocyte-secretory factors impair the response of melanoma to DTIC
Above stated observations suggest that controlling obesity was associated with improved response to DTIC in obese mice, which in turn, implies an inter-relationship between normalization in the obesity-associated factors and cellular sensitivity. Melanoma cells grown in the serum collected from obese mice showed poor response to DTIC while reverse was obtained for cells grown in the serum collected from either orlistat treated or diet shifted. Therefore, we speculated that poor response to the DTIC therapy in melanoma under obesity might be influenced by obesity-associated secretory factors. Thus, we explored the role of adipocyte-secreted factors towards the response of melanoma cells to DTIC. To consolidate our observations, we utilized 3T3-L1 cells, which are considered as in vitro model for adipocyte-secreted factors. For this, 3T3-L1 cells were induced to differentiate in the presence or absence of orlistat (an inhibitor of adipocyte differentiation) for 11 days, and the conditioned medium (CM) from these cells was collected. B16F10 cells were cultured in CM and treated with varying concentrations of DTIC. As expected, we noticed that B16F10 cells cultured in CM from differentiated adipocytes showed impairment in the response to DTIC (Fig. 4a). Cells grown in the CM from differentiated adipocytes required much higher concentration (~5-fold more) of drug to achieve 50% cell killing as compared to those grown in the CM of undifferentiated/preadipocytes (Fig. 4a), suggesting that adipocyte secretary factors indeed contribute towards poor response of melanoma cells to DTIC under obese state. IC50 value of DTIC (649 μM) for cells cultured in CM from undifferentiated preadipocytes was used for all the experiments involving melanoma cell culture.
Adipocyte-secreted factors impair the response of melanoma cells to DTIC. a Calculation of IC50 value of DTIC in CM from 3T3-L1 cells. B16F10 cells were chronically grown in conditioned medium (CM) collected from 3T3-L1 cells for 10 days. These cells were then subjected to DTIC treatment at the indicated concentrations for 48 h. Thereafter, MTT assay was performed. b Immunofluorescence confocal staining of P-gp, Cav-1, and FASN in B16F10 cells cultured in CM collected from 3T3-L1 cells (scale bar = 20 μm). c Rh-123 efflux assay in B16F10 cells cultured in the CM from 3T3-L1 cells. d, e Long-term survival assay in B16F10 cells cultured in the CM from adipocytes in the presence of inhibitors of FASN, Cav-1, and P-gp, either alone or together with DTIC (d). Data were quantitated using ImageJ software (e). The data are representative of experiments performed three times; PA = preadipocytes; ID = differentiated adipocytes; Orli = orlistat; Ceru or C = cerulenin; MCD or M = methyl β-cyclodextrin; Vera or V = verapamil. The results are given as means ± standard deviation; *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, and *****p < 0.0001 denote significant differences between the groups; NS non-significant
Further, to confirm the molecular events involved in impaired response to DTIC, B16F10 and B16F1 cells were chronically grown in CM collected from undifferentiated (PA) and differentiated (ID) 3T3-L1 cells for 10 days. Using immunofluorescence staining, we observed that the level of FASN, Cav-1, and P-gp was increased in the cells cultured in CM from differentiated adipocytes in comparison to those cultured in CM from undifferentiated preadipocytes (Fig. 4b and Additional file 6: Figure S4). This suggests that altered levels of adipocyte-secreted factors are involved in modulating FASN, Cav-1, and P-gp levels which, in turn, influence the outcome of DTIC therapy in melanoma cells.
To mechanistically analyze the involvement of adipocyte-secreted factors in modulating P-gp expression and its functionality, Rh-123 efflux assay was performed. We observed that B16F10 cells grown chronically in the CM from differentiated adipocytes exhibited increased efflux of Rh-123 dye. In contrast, enhanced retention of Rh-123 was detected in B16F10 and B16F1 cells grown in CM from undifferentiated preadipocytes (Fig. 4c and Additional file 7: Figure S5). Thus, reduced uptake in B16F10 and B16F1 cells is likely a consequence of overexpression of P-gp, which is responsible for the efflux of drugs from the cells. The involvement of P-gp was further confirmed by treating B16F10 and B16F1 cells cultured in CM from differentiated adipocytes with verapamil, which increased Rh-123 retention in this setting (Fig. 4c and Additional file 7: Figure S5). These findings suggest that P-gp plays a crucial role in the impairment of chemotherapeutic response under obesity which is primarily mediated by adipocyte-secreted factors.
Differentiation of 3T3-L1 adipocytes is inhibited by orlistat, which leads to reduction in the levels of adipocyte-secreted factors [24]. We sought to determine whether the diminished level of adipocyte-secreted factors (under inhibition of adipocyte differentiation by orlistat) has any implications in the response of B16F10 cells to DTIC. We also noticed that the rate of Rh-123 retention was increased in B16F10 cells cultured in CM from orlistat-treated differentiating adipocytes (Fig. 4c and Additional file 7: Figure S5). Next, long-term colony formation assay was performed to verify whether CM obtained from either preadipocytes or differentiated adipocytes could influence the survival of melanoma cells in presence of the drug. DTIC treatment did not remarkably affect the survival of B16F10 and B16F1 cells grown in CM collected from differentiated ID adipocytes (Fig. 4d, e and Additional file 8: Figure S6). The survival of B16F10 and B16F1 cells cultured in CM from orlistat-treated differentiating adipocytes was reduced significantly to approximately 30% upon DTIC treatment (Fig. 4d, e and Additional file 8: Figure S6), suggesting that reduction in the level of secretory adipokines correlates with improved response to DTIC. Mechanistically, the sensitivity of B16F10 and B16F1 cells grown in CM collected from differentiated adipocytes to DTIC was increased upon inhibiting FASN, Cav-1, and P-gp individually (Fig. 4d, e and Additional file 8: Figure S6). Sensitivity to DTIC improved dramatically (approximately 80%) upon simultaneous treatment with all the three inhibitors (Fig. 4d, e and Additional file 8: Figure S6).
In the present study, we report that diet-induced obesity is associated with impaired response of melanoma to DTIC. Importantly, weight loss interventions can significantly improve the therapeutic efficacy of DTIC. As adiposity influences tumor progression, a combination treatment of obesity together with anticancer therapy is likely to improve survival [28]. Herein, we targeted adiposity and nutrient signaling together, to enhance the therapeutic efficacy of DTIC. This study provides insights on reduction in obesity by orlistat and diet restriction improves sensitivity of melanoma to DTIC, thereby prolonging survival. However, cachexia (a multifactorial wasting syndrome, characterized by the loss of adipose tissue and muscle) and severe weight loss are common in the advanced melanoma, and therefore, the adverse effects of obesity may be more important at relatively early stages of the disease. Use of orlistat as an antiobesity agent serves multiple purpose: (i) an inhibitor of lipase and hence reduction in absorption of fat by intestine [35], (ii) reported to possess anticancer property [36], and (iii) as an inhibitor of differentiation of preadipocytes to adipocytes [27].
Our study provides a preclinical evidence that the outcome of DTIC treatment is impaired in obese mice. Surprisingly, DTIC treatment instead of restricting growth actually promotes rapid tumor growth in obese mice causing decreased overall survival of tumor-bearing obese mice, as compared to untreated counterparts. This observation raises a serious question as to why DTIC treatment paradoxically promotes melanoma growth, and decreases overall survival under obese state. Earlier, it has been reported that chronic exposure of cisplatin to lung cancer cells enhances damage repair and tumor progression [37]. Moreover, Lev et al. have also shown that DTIC promotes rapid melanoma growth and metastasis by increasing the levels of IL8/VEGF [38, 39].
Our results show that levels of P-gp and other molecules involved in drug resistance such as FASN and Cav-1 are elevated in tumor excised from obese mice treated or untreated with DTIC as compared to mice kept on ND. Increase in the level of FASN and Cav-1 has been reported to be associated with development of resistance to cancer therapy [40–42]. Recently, we have shown that Akt mediates increased melanoma progression under obese state [27] and is also involved in regulating drug-resistant phenotype in several cancers [43]. Plasma membrane-associated molecule P-gp, which belongs to multidrug resistance (MDR) family of proteins, is involved in the efflux of drugs from cancer cells [44, 45]. Importantly, there is a molecular link between FASN, Cav-1, and P-gp signaling pathways which is regulated by adipokine-driven Akt activation under obese state. We have previously reported that FASN and Cav-1 interact with each other and are regulated by adipokines [23]. FASN modulates Cav-1-dependent signaling pathways and controls proliferation of cancer cells [42]. Since Cav-1 is a membrane protein and is reported to be associated with drug-resistant phenotype, it is quite likely that it might directly or indirectly influence the activity of P-gp. Owing to the enhanced activity of P-gp, tumor cells accumulate very less amount of DTIC under obese state as compared to its lean counterparts. This leads to proportional increase in the level of DTIC in plasma and accumulation in other vital organs (Additional file 9: Figure S7). Excess accumulation of DTIC in normal organs under obese state may contribute to toxicity and thus also affect overall survival.
Our in vivo and in vitro data suggest that obesity-associated factors themselves promote drug-resistant phenotype in cancer cells. Moreover, it has been reported that drug-resistant cells are highly aggressive and grow rapidly as compared to untreated counterparts [37–40]. Therefore, enhanced tumor growth owing to the DTIC treatment under obese state can be explained based on following possibilities. First, due to the accumulation of low quantity of drug in cells under obese state, cancer cells can develop drug-resistant phenotype which is typically more aggressive than untreated cells. Secondly, it has been reported that cancer cells exhibit enhanced damage repair mechanism against DNA intercalating drugs [37]. Owing to the robust DNA repair mechanism, melanoma cells can also escape from the cytotoxic effect of drugs. DTIC induces cytotoxicity in cancer cells by inducing DNA damage, which actually depends on the quantity of drug present in the nucleus. Put together, insufficient quantity of DTIC present in the cancer cells under obese condition coupled with the ability to rapidly clear DTIC-DNA adduct might promote the development of aggressive phenotype. Moreover, chromosomal abnormality due to abnormal repair mechanisms could also aggravate the melanoma growth. Yet another mechanism that could contribute to the rapid growth is enhanced secretion of IL8/VEGF by cancer cells in response to drugs [38, 39]. Furthermore, activation of Akt signaling pathway and increased level of FASN and Cav-1 contribute to drug-resistant phenotype under obese state [26, 27, 42]. Therefore, it is likely that adipokine-driven activation of signaling pathways and underexposure of drugs lead to development of highly aggressive melanoma phenotype in obese mice.
Epidemiological studies have shown that weight loss alleviates obesity-associated complications and produces disproportionate benefit to health [46]. Data from observational and calorie-restriction studies in animal models support a beneficial role for weight loss interventions in counteracting neoplasia-promoting role of obesity [22, 28]. Interestingly, by employing the strategy to control adiposity, we show that orlistat treatment or shifting from HFD to ND improves DTIC efficacy and increases overall survival of mice. And further, combining these two strategies together leads to improvement in the therapeutic outcome of DTIC and prolong survival of obese mice. Moreover, we report that when obesity was controlled by using pharmacological or dietary interventions, the levels of FASN, Cav-1, and P-gp were reduced which correlates with improvement in the effectiveness of DTIC on ectopic tumors in mice. Interestingly, weight control intervention profoundly increases the accumulation of DTIC in tumor and subsequently reduces its level in plasma and other tissues. These findings suggest that controlling adiposity/body weight is beneficial towards the outcome of chemotherapy and may contribute towards reduction in generalized toxicity to organs. Additionally, this may also be helpful in preventing the development of drug-resistant phenotype in cancers.
Studies from in vitro and in vivo results conclude that stored fat, and adipokines, the adipocyte-derived factors or hormones, aid in the progression of melanoma by up-regulating and driving multiple etiological pathways and regulating signaling cascades [47–49]. Adipokines can specifically trigger several distinct transcriptional programs, those that promote tumorigenesis, cell survival and proliferation, and angiogenesis and invasiveness [50–52]. Altered secretion profile of leptin, and adiponectin, and other inflammatory adipokines such as IL-6 and TNF-α, by interacting with signaling network, accelerate neoplasia [13]. These factors by enhancing P-gp may promote drug efflux, causing accumulation of drug in plasma and induce toxicity to vital organs. In addition, the nutrients and net available energy are also crucial factors that decide the fate of both normal and malignant cells. However, assessing net energy intake and expenditure is difficult to evaluate in humans. Nutrient signaling is an integral part of metabolic regulatory network and links nutrient availability with cell growth and proliferation. Therefore, it is rational to target adipose tissue with antiobesity drug and energy restriction simultaneously.
Using unique strategy by growing melanoma cells in either serum collected from obese mice treated or untreated with DTIC or orlistat, as well as in conditioned medium collected from adipocytes, we show that adipocyte secretory factors actually modulate the therapeutic response of melanoma cells to DTIC. Adipocytes are also known to protect leukemia and breast cancer cells from chemotherapy and radiotherapy, respectively [53, 54]. On the similar line, our study demonstrates that melanoma cells grown in the presence of serum collected from obese mice as well as in the CM collected from differentiated adipocytes cause an increase in IC50 value of DTIC, suggesting that adipocyte-secreted factors adversely affect the outcome of chemotherapy. Melanoma cells grown under these conditions develop chemo-resistant phenotype, characterized by increased expression of FASN, Cav-1, and P-gp. Inhibition of these molecules reverses the chemo-resistant phenotype induced by adipocyte secretory factors. These data imply that adipocyte-secreted factors are crucial in modulating important tumor-promoting molecules which, in turn, affect the outcome of cancer therapy. Collectively, these results suggest that, under obese state, melanoma cells in addition to acquiring a drug-resistant phenotype also develop aggressive proliferative phenotype, as compared to untreated counterparts.
This study provides a mechanistic link between obesity and the outcome of chemotherapy in melanoma through involvement of obesity-associated factors, which alter the status of key signaling molecules involved in cell survival/proliferation, drug efflux, and drug resistance. Interventions leading to weight loss or prevention of weight gain restrict melanoma growth (see the schematic overview in Fig. 5). We investigated the impact of obesity in the outcome of chemotherapy only in a mouse melanoma tumor isograft model, so our findings justify further clinical and experimental research.
Proposed model of impact of obesity and weight control interventions on the outcome of dacarbazine therapy in melanoma. Obesity-associated factors impair the response of melanoma to DTIC by enhancing the levels of tumor-promoting molecules (solid red arrow marks). On the other hand, controlling obesity through weight interventions causes normalization in obesity-associated factors. This in turn improves the efficacy of DTIC through reducing in the levels of melanoma cell growth promoting molecules (dotted blue arrow marks)
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Authors thank Dr. S.C. Mande, Director, NCCS, Pune, India, and Dr. G.C. Mishra, former Director, NCCS, Pune, India, for being very supportive and giving all the encouragement to carry out this work. P.M. and S.V.S. thank University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, India; B.C., V.P., and N.M. thank the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, for the research fellowship. The support from Experimental Animal Facility (EAF), Confocal Microscopy Facility, Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter (FACS) Facility, Central Instrumental Facilities, and technical staff of NCCS and other group members is also duly acknowledged. The authors also acknowledge Amrita Agilent Analytical Research Centre, Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam, India, for the mass spectrometric data.
This work was supported in part by an intramural grant of National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), funded by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, and an extramural grant from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (Grant No. SR/SO/HS-0136/2012). The funding agencies had no involvement in the study design, data collection, interpretation and analysis, decision to publish, or writing of the manuscript.
All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this article and its Additional files 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9: Tables S1, S2 and Figures S1 to S7.
MKB and PM conceived and designed the experiments. PM, BC, and MKB wrote the manuscript; PM, BC, SVS, NM, VP, and MVV performed the experiments and analyzed the data; RMR, MV, SSN, and BN performed the mass spectrometry-related experiments; All the authors read, reviewed, and edited the manuscript.
All animal experiments were carried out as per the requirement and guidelines of the Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA), Government of India, and after obtaining permission of the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC).
This work was carried out for the partial fulfillment of a Ph.D. thesis (of P.M.) submitted to Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. The work was partly presented in the 33rd Annual Convention of Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR) in Kollam, Kerala, India, during February 13–15, 2014.
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Additional file 1: Table S1.
Composition of diets used in the study. Normal diet (ND) was procured from Amrut Laboratory Animal Feed, Pune, India, and high fat diet (HFD) was purchased from Provimi Animal Nutrition Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India. *, HFD was also supplemented with 400 g groundnut and 200 g dried coconut per kg body weight of mice. (PDF 169 kb)
Obesity-associated parameters in the experimental ND mice recorded at the end of the experiment. ND male C57BL/6J mice were divided into two major groups. One group was orally treated with orlistat every alternate day before inoculating with B16F10 cells. The second group was orally given vehicle control on every alternate day for 8 weeks. Mice from both the groups (N = 11 per each group) were injected (s.c.) with B16F10 cells (2 × 105 cells/mouse in 100 μl PBS). After tumor formation, vehicle or DTIC treatment was given as per the experimental layout shown in Figure 1. Their body weight was monitored weekly throughout the study, and serum was collected at the end of the experiment. Blood glucose, serum TG, serum cholesterol, serum-free fatty acids, and serum LDLc were measured. Serum factors including leptin, adiponectin, insulin, resistin, IL-6, and TNF-α were estimated by ELISA. The results are given as means ± standard deviation. (PDF 113 kb)
Additional file 3: Figure S1.
Effect of obesity-associated serum factors on the protein level of P-gp, Cav-1, and FASN in B16F1 cells. B16F1 cells were chronically grown in medium containing 5% serum collected from ND or HFD C57BL/6J mice for 15 days. Thereafter, these cells were subjected to immunofluorescence confocal staining of the indicated molecules. The data were recorded using Zeiss LSM510 META Confocal Microscope. (Scale bar = 20 μm). (PDF 189 kb)
Effect of obesity-associated serum factors on rhodamine-123 (Rh-123) efflux in B16F1 cells. B16F1 cells were chronically grown in medium containing 5% serum collected from ND or HFD C57BL/6J mice for 15 days. Thereafter, these cells were subjected to Rh-123 efflux assay. Data were acquired on FACS Calibur and analyzed using BD CellQuest Pro software. The data are representative of experiments performed three times. (PDF 120 kb)
Effect of inhibition of FASN, Cav-1, and P-gp on response of B16F1 cells to DTIC. B16F1 cells were chronically grown in medium containing 5% serum collected from experimental ND or HFD C57BL/6J mice for 15 days. Thereafter, these cells were subjected to long-term survival assay. First, cells were treated with respective inhibitors followed by treatment of DTIC for 48 h. Then, the medium was changed and fresh medium was added. The medium was changed every 2–3 days. After 10 days, the cells were stained with 0.05% crystal violet and images were taken using Olympus digital camera. Data were quantitated using ImageJ software. The data are representative of experiments performed three times; Ceru or C = cerulenin; MCD or M = methyl β-cyclodextrin; Vera or V = verapamil. The results are given as means ± standard deviation; *, p < 0.05. (PDF 666 kb)
Effect of adipocyte-secreted factors on the protein level of P-gp, Cav-1, and FASN in B16F1 cells. 3T3-L1 cells were induced to differentiate with 500 μM 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX) and 250 μM dexamethasone (DEX). The medium was changed every alternate day. After 10 days, cells were washed twice with DMEM and fresh DMEM without serum was added to the cells. After 18 h, conditioned medium (CM) was collected from undifferentiated or differentiated 3T3-L1 cells. Thereafter, B16F1 cells were cultured in these CM for 48 h, and these cells were subjected to immunofluorescence confocal staining for the indicated molecules. The data were recorded using Zeiss LSM510 META Confocal Microscope (Scale bar = 20 μm); PA = preadipocytes; ID = differentiated 3T3-L1 cells induced to differentiate by IBMX and DEX. (PDF 215 kb)
Effect of adipocyte-secreted factors on Rh-123 efflux in B16F1 cells. 3T3-L1 cells were induced to differentiate with 500 μM 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX) and 250 μM dexamethasone (DEX). The medium was changed every alternate day. After 10 days, cells were washed twice with DMEM and fresh DMEM without serum was added to the cells. After 18 h, conditioned medium (CM) was collected from undifferentiated or differentiated 3T3-L1 cells. Thereafter, B16F10 or B16F1 cells were cultured in these CM for 48 h. Further, these cells were subjected to Rh-123 efflux assay. Data were acquired on FACS Calibur and analyzed using BD CellQuest Pro software. The data are representative of experiments performed three times; PA = preadipocytes; ID = differentiated 3T3-L1 cells induced by IBMX and DEX; Vera = verapamil. (PDF 150 kb)
Effect of inhibiting FASN, Cav-1, and P-gp on response of B16F1 cells to DTIC upon culture in CM collected from 3T3-L1 cells. 3T3-L1 cells were induced to differentiate with 500 μM 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX) and 250 μM dexamethasone (DEX). The medium was changed every alternate day. After 10 days, cells were washed twice with DMEM and fresh DMEM without serum was added to the cells. After 18 h, conditioned medium (CM) was collected from undifferentiated or differentiated 3T3-L1 cells. Thereafter, B16F10 or B16F1 cells were cultured in these CM for 48 h. First, cells were treated with respective inhibitors followed by treatment of DTIC for 48 h. Then, the medium was changed and fresh medium was added. The medium was changed every 2–3 days. After 10 days, the cells were stained with 0.05% crystal violet and images were taken using Olympus digital camera. Data were quantitated using ImageJ software. The data are representative of experiments performed three times; PA = preadipocytes; ID = differentiated 3T3-L1 cells induced by IBMX and DEX; Ceru or C = cerulenin; MCD or M = methyl β-cyclodextrin; Vera or V = verapamil. The results are given as means ± standard deviation; *, p < 0.05. (PDF 538 kb)
MS analysis on the distribution of DTIC in tumors and organ samples collected from experimental ND or HFD mice. Lysates of tumors and organ samples from the experimental ND or HFD mice were prepared and subjected to liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI MS/MS). The spectrum shows protonated mass of DTIC at 183.0984, m/z and the product ions at m/z, 166.0733, 138.0396, and 123.0427 (similar fragmentation patterns were observed in tumors and tissue samples of mice treated with DTIC). The inset contains chemical structure of DTIC with the fragmentation patterns marked. All the MS data were collected in the presence of internal standards, where mass tolerance of DTIC was maintained well within 3 ppm. (PDF 122 kb)
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Witch Hunting in Salem
In February 1692, several young Salem girls, after they were caught practicing magic, claimed they had been afflicted by witches.
Their parents began searching for the witches, and hysteria mounted, especially as pastor Samuel Parris proclaimed, “In this very church, God knows how many Devils there are!” A public witch-hunt led to the arrest of 150 people; 19 were hanged for witchcraft, and one man was executed for refusing to testify.
Christian History asked historian David D. Hall to explain what motivated these troublesome proceedings. Dr. Hall is professor of American religious history at The Divinity School, Harvard University, and author of “Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England” (Knopf, 1985).
Some twenty years before the Salem witch-hunt, a young woman living in the household of the minister of Groton, Massachusetts, began to “carry herself in a strange and unwonted manner.” According to the minister, Samuel Willard, 16-year-old Elizabeth Knapp saw apparitions and experienced violent “fits” over a period of three months.
In the midst of one fit, she spoke in a “hollow” voice, and called the minister “a great black rogue” who “tell[s] the people a company of lies.”
Willard answered back, “Satan, thou art a liar and a deceiver, and God will vindicate his own truth one day.” Others in the room took up the confrontation, telling the Devil that “God had him in chains.”
The answer came back, “For all my chain, I can knock thee in the head when I please.”
Meanwhile, in her own voice Elizabeth told how the Devil had promised to make her a “witch” if she would sign a “compact” to become his servant.
The Difference of Salem
Events in Groton, and later in Salem, proceeded from the assumption that Satan lures certain people into compact with him, promising them, as he promised Elizabeth Knapp, that all “should be well"—they need not worry any longer about sin and salvation.
The people of Groton, however, also believed that, in the full course of God’s providence, good would overcome evil. They witnessed the spiritual healing of Elizabeth as she, under the prompting of Willard, confessed that “the occasion of her fits” was “discontent” with her situation as a servant. She also said she was guilty of neglecting the means of grace. Though at times she accused an older woman in the town of causing her bewitchment, no wider witch-hunt erupted in Groton.
But witch-hunts did arise in other New England towns—Ambridge in 1659, Hartford in 1662–63, Boston in 1688, and infamously in Salem Village (now Danvers) in 1692.
One minister, Deodat Lawson, hearing of the troubles in Salem Village, came there in late March of 1692. He witnessed 12-year-old Abigail Williams “hurried with violence to and fro in the room” and “sometimes making as if she would fly.” Then the names began to flow: Good wife Nourse, Good wife Corey. … A judicial hearing quickly followed, with Abigail Williams and some nine others testifying that they had seen the “likeness” of these women praying to the Devil.
No one heeded Martha Corey when she remarked that her chorus of accusers were “poor, distracted children.” Thus empowered, the accusers piled name onto name. Before the legal process was suspended in October 1692, nineteen persons had been executed.
Uncertainty and Anger
What tensions rose to the surface in 1692 and resulted in this witch-hunt?
As the story of Elizabeth Knapp of Groton reveals, some tensions originated in the religious expectations of Puritanism.
One expectation was that believers fulfill, to the best of their ability, their moral duties. Another was that they examine their motives—in Puritan parlance, their “hearts"—to see whether they had sufficiently repented of sin and trusted entirely in the mercy of Christ. Puritanism intensely and regularly posed this question: Are you sincere?
Answering this question often resulted in self-doubt and uncertainty. One woman, Mary Toothaker, “had thoughts she was rather the worse for her baptism and had wished she had not been baptized because she had not improved it as she ought to have done.”
Sometimes the uncertainty turned to anger, as when Elizabeth Knapp called Willard a “rogue.” And sometimes the anger turned into blaming: Elizabeth, like the young women in Salem Village, blamed her inward confusion on an outside, alien figure, a witch or the Devil.
Accustomed to Confession
Puritans practiced the ritual of confession, and confession became crucial to witch-hunting. To confess was to make visible the hidden sin that lurked in everyone. This was a crucial step, and well accepted, in the process of salvation. When men and women joined the church in early New England, for instance, they were asked to confess their sins.
The magistrates and ministers who questioned the accused at Salem asked them to reveal their hidden allegiance to Satan. Because Puritans felt heavily the weight of their sin, and because confession was an integral part of their lives, we should not be surprised that some fifty men and women confessed to having joined with the Devil.
The Puritans believed that God had entered into a special relationship with godly people. This relationship obliged them to purge themselves of sins, personal and communal, that inevitably accumulated. The ministers and magistrates in New England believed witchhunting, and the public executions that concluded it, cleansed the community of evil.
Some ministers, notably Cotton Mather of Boston, reasoned that the Devil would become unusually active as the return of Christ neared. The presence of witches in New England was evidence of a vast “plot” masterminded by the Devil to overthrow the kingdom of Christ.
Because of the concern for the spiritual integrity of the community, confessing “witches” were asked to name confederates, adding fuel to the fire of accusations.
Belief in witches was not unique to the Puritans. A folklore much older than Puritanism embraced charms, fortune-telling, omens and apparitions, and village healers or “cunning people.” The healers’ vengeful counterparts, witches, could cause someone’s chickens to sicken, cattle to run away, or children to become fatally ill.
Some Puritans turned to “cunning” people or to other folk practices. Not far away from Salem in the 1670s, a woman put a horseshoe over her front door to prevent a suspected witch from entering. When a church deacon saw the horseshoe, he tore it down. In the Salem trials, several of the men and women executed had reputations as healers and cunning folk.
More Than Individuals
Who were the heroes and villains of the witch-hunt? Much blame has fallen on the contentious minister in Salem Village, Samuel Parris; the magistrates who conducted the trials; and Cotton Mather, who defended the judges against the charge they victimized innocent people.
Yet Cotton Mather and his father, Increase, helped end the trials by criticizing certain judicial procedures. And Samuel Parris and the judges were simply acting according to widely held expectations of the time.
Witch-hunting, in fact, was not unique to Puritan America. It occurred in both Catholic and Protestant regions of Europe, and the toll it exacted in New England was much smaller than in Scotland or parts of France and Germany.
Why witch-hunting became deathly in some Puritan villages but not others will likely remain a mystery. Rather than assign blame, we should understand the tragedy at Salem as the outcome of forces larger than any single individual or group. CH
By David D. Hall
[Christian History originally published this article in Christian History Issue #41 in 1994]
The Puritans Behind the Myths
And how these adventurers affect us today.
Harry S. Stout
The American Puritans: Recommended Resources
Resources for more information on the Puritans.
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Mary Rowlandson
Seizing Every Moment for Prayer
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Quickly and reliably on developments in Russia and in the world
The speaker protection will appeal against the decision to return the two million dollars Feoktistov
Posted By: newsmaker 29.06.2018
© RIA Novosti / Michael Voskresenskiye in fotobelka the speaker. Archival photo © RIA Novosti / Michael Voskresenskiye the image Bank
Protection Alexei Ulyukayev will appeal against the return of the retired FSB General Oleg Feoktistov two million dollars in cash, which was transferred to the former Minister as a bribe. This was stated by RIA Novosti his lawyer Larisa Kashtanova.
According to the defense, the General did not prove the right of ownership and disposition of the specified money. Money, said the lawyer, belongs to another person, which is confirmed by the case materials.
Money — back
Previously the Zamoskvoretsky court decided to return Feoktistov two million dollars, which were recognized as material evidence in the case of the speaker. The decision was announced by judge Larisa Semenova.
The money the head of «Rosneft» Igor Sechin in the framework of the operational experiment gave Ulyukayev, as found by the court, for issuing a positive opinion on the purchase of «Bashneft».
Statement Feoktistov considered in closed from media mode. Statement to close the meeting was submitted to the court under the signature of a Deputy head of the FSB, whose name has not been named.
Feoktistov was personally involved in the meeting, the former Minister via video link from prison.
The judge had read out publicly, at this time, five bailiffs blocked Feoktistov to the TV people and photographers did not shoot him.
To a fine of 130 thousand rubles
Kashtanova also explained why the speaker still has not paid the fine of 130 million rubles assigned to him by the court.
«Fine is not currently paid, because the property arrested,» the lawyer said, asking to cancel the decision about arrest of land, money, watches, and car speaker.
The Prosecutor did not object to the withdrawal of arrest from the account of the speaker, but did not agree with the proposal to cancel the seizure.
«In terms of arguments about the need to withdraw funds from the account, then there is no obstacle, because the amount in the accounts are sufficient to pay for the fine. As for other property, the court has already ruled that the arrest of the property will be cleared after paying a fine. After payment of the fine in the measure — arrest — will be automatically charged,» said Paul Filipchuk.
But in the end the court decided to collect from the account of the speaker the amount of the fine.
Business Speaker
Ex-Minister of economic development was sentenced to eight years in prison for bribery. While the speaker pleaded not guilty, calling the incident a provocation. The main evidence of the prosecution testimony began Feoktistova, head of the security service of Rosneft.
In mid-April, the Moscow city court upheld eight-year prison sentence and a 130-million fine for speaker but withdrew the penalty of prohibition to work after official release. After this sentence came into force.
The speaker is serving a sentence in a penal colony in the Tver region.
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Variable-Yield Models
The purpose of this chapter is to give a complete global analysis of the variable-yield model. Essentially, we confirm that the variable-yield models make the same predictions - concerning the growth of a single population, and concerning the outcome of competition between two... [Pg.182]
The chapter proceeds as follows. In the next section the variable-yield model of single-population growth is derived and analyzed. In Section 3, the competition model is formulated and its equilibrium solutions identified. The conservation principle is introduced in Section 4 in order to reduce the dimension of the system of equations by one local stability properties of the equilibrium solutions are also determined. The global behavior of solutions of the reduced system is treated in Section 5, and the global behavior of solutions of the original competitive system is discussed in Section 6. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the main results. [Pg.183]
The predictions of the variable-yield model (3.1) and the corresponding constant-yield model (7.1) are identical. Typical solutions of each model approach the corresponding equilibrium in a monotone fashion (see Proposition 5.3). [Pg.206]
In one respect, the variable-yield model has been a disappointment in the sense that it was hoped that the transient behavior of its solutions would better fit the transient behavior seen in experiments with certain algae [CNIJ. The experiments, described in [CM], involved the growth of a Chlamydomonas reinhardii population on a nitrogen substrate. Following a step increase in the dilution rate, damped oscillations were observed in cell numbers. Cunningham and Nisbet [CNl] note that the singlepopulation variable-yield model could not reproduce these oscillations without the introduction of time delays into the equations. See also the monograph [NG]. [Pg.207]
Similarly, our analysis of the variable-yield model in Chapter 8 is limited to two competing populations because we rely on the techniques of monotone dynamical systems theory. One would expect the main result of Chapter 8 to remain valid regardless of the number of competitors, just as it did for the simpler constant-yield model treated in Chapters 1 and 2. Perhaps the LaSalle corollary of Chapter 2 can be used to carry out such an extension, using arguments similar to those used in [AM] (described in Chapter 2). As noted in [NG], a structured model in which... [Pg.250]
G2] J. P. Grover (1992), Constant- and variable-yield models of population growth Responses to environmental variability and implications for competition, Journal of Theoretical Biology 158 409-28. [Pg.302]
SW3] H. Smith and P. Waltman (1994), Competition for a single limiting resource in continuous culture The variable-yield model, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 54 1113-31. [Pg.306]
See other pages where Variable-Yield Models is mentioned: [Pg.182] [Pg.182] [Pg.183] [Pg.184] [Pg.186] [Pg.188] [Pg.190] [Pg.192] [Pg.194] [Pg.196] [Pg.198] [Pg.200] [Pg.202] [Pg.204] [Pg.206] [Pg.207] [Pg.330]
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2 Investigators: A Closer Look At Fire Department Diver Juan Bucio’s Final Moments
By Dave Savini May 30, 2018 at 7:33 am
Filed Under:CBS 2 Investigators, Chicago Fire Department, Chicago Firefighter, Chicago River, Dave Savini, Juan Bucio
CHICAGO (CBS) — Video of fallen Chicago Firefighter Juan Bucio’s final moments is raising new questions about the rescue operation that cost him his life Monday night in the Chicago River.
Bucio disappeared under the waves of the river near 26th and Ashland while searching for a missing boater, and was pronounced dead after he was pulled out several minutes later.
CBS 2 was on the scene as rescue crews tried to locate Bucio under the waves, and eventually pulled him from the river.
Fire Department dive teams responded to a call about a man who fell off a boat shortly before 8 p.m. Monday on the Chicago River near Canalport Riverwalk Park.
A helicopter dropped Bucio and his partner into the river to search for the boater. The two had been in the water for some time when they began swimming to a Chicago Fire Department boat.
CBS photographer Scott Placko was videotaping the river rescue effort when Bucio and his partner ran into trouble, and crews on the boat began yelling out to them.
“Diver let’s go. Diver let’s go,” a firefighter shouted from the boat.
Bucio and his partner were face to face in the water next to the rocking boat when Bucio’s head went under the waves. His partner placed his hands on the side of the boat to keep his head above water.
Crews on the boat threw a rope to Bucio’s partner. As he was pulled out, there was still no sign of Bucio.
Fire Department radio traffic revealed crews realized Bucio had yet to surface.
“He doesn’t know what happened to Juan,” someone said over Fire Department radios.
Still unsure of what happened to Bucio, crews talked to his partner.
“They were face-to-face at the front of your boat. … He ripped his mask off and then he went down,” someone said over Fire Department radios.
Three minutes passed before other divers entered the water to find Bucio. His body was pulled out after several minutes. An ambulance took him to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:02 p.m.
The chief in charge of safety for the Chicago Fire Department watched CBS 2’s video from the scene on Tuesday, but did not comment, including on questions about the apparent 3-minute delay before other divers were sent into the water to look for Bucio.
Meantime, the boater firefighters were searching for, 28-year-old Alberto Lopez, has not yet been found. Friends said the father of three fell off a boat in choppy water on the river Monday night.
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Kurtis, Jacobson To Anchor 6 P.M. Newscast Through February 2013While celebrating the second anniversary of their return to WBBM-TV, Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson today told colleagues on Tuesday that their contracts to anchor the station’s weekday 6 p.m. newscast have been extended through February 2013.
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Statistics: Don’t Believe Everything you Read
Peter Haapaniemi
Fake news is a problem, and the Pew Research Center reports that 64% of Americans think it is creating significant confusion about current events and issues. And it’s not just the politically driven websites that are making things up: In April, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed fraud charges against three public companies, seven stock promotion firms and 27 individuals (including two CEOs) for “alleged stock promotion schemes” in which supposedly independent writers published positive analyses while “being secretly compensated for touting company stocks.”
Statistics are often at the heart of fake news and other misleading reports. Sometimes the numbers are intentionally twisted or fabricated to make a point. Other times they have simply been unintentionally misinterpreted. Either way, as executives look to research to help guide decisions, they should keep an eye out for data-driven distortions of reality.
DOES IT PASS THE SMELL TEST?
In judging statistics, executives can bring two powerful weapons to bear: common sense and experience. Do the numbers in a study seem unrealistically high—for example, “There are 1 million taxis in New York City”? If the data doesn’t line up with what you know about the world, be skeptical. “If you had no idea things were that bad, they probably aren’t,” writes Joel Best, author of Stat Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data.
At the same time, make sure your own biases aren’t getting in the way of that skepticism. As a National Geographic visual-data specialist recently said, “Let’s be honest: Not everybody is willing to look further into a chart if the result confirms what they want to believe.”
SAYS WHO? CONSIDER THE SOURCE.
Who did the research and the reporting? Who funded it? Who stands to gain from the claims being made by a study? Is it an organization with a financial or political agenda? Is a publication cherry-picking findings to make a study more newsworthy?
Watch for conflicts of interest behind the research, sensational headlines and claims that don’t seem to be backed up by the data. Fortunately, the Internet not only makes it easy to spread false information, it also makes it possible to quickly look into the sources behind reports.
As statistics writer Joel Best has noted, “Every statistic is the product of a series of choices made by the people who produce, process and report the data.” Consider that chain as you consume the numbers.
WHAT AND WHOM DID THEY MEASURE?
Studies will vary in rigor: A quick online survey will be less structured than a long-term academic study employing control groups. Here, key questions revolve around samples: How large was the sample? Was this an opt-in study where anyone could participate—which tends to attract those with strong negative or positive views—or was it one that used a scientifically determined sample population? It can also be useful to look at what the study asked.
In a recent TED Talk, data journalist Mona Chalabi cited a widely reported study in which 41% of U.S. Muslims said they support jihad. But another question in the study found that the vast majority defined jihad as personal, peaceful religious struggle rather than violent holy war—a data point that was largely ignored in press reports.
WHAT ARE THEY REALLY COMPARING?
Putting two sets of statistics side by side can imply comparisons that are simply not accurate. Looking at the sheer number of murders, rather than percentages of murders in, say, New York vs. Albany, would not really be useful. It’s also important to remember that correlation does not mean causation: Two sets of statistics may have similar trend lines but no meaningful relationship.
To illustrate, a Spurious Correlations website has calculated close correlations between thousands of disparate data sets, including the divorce rate in Maine and U.S. margarine consumption (99.26% correlation); the number of lawyers in Puerto Rico and the number of people who die from falling out of bed (95.70%); and online Black Friday revenues and the number of people killed by dogs (99.56%).
HOW ARE THEY DISPLAYING THE DATA?
Even if the statistics are correct, the way they are presented in charts can be misleading. Some common mistakes (or techniques, if one is trying to mislead) are shown above. A. Data points are omitted, time scale is uneven—the results look like a constant increase. B. Two sets of unrelated data on one chart create the impression they are linked. C. 3-D rendering makes identical amounts seem different.
D. Cumulative amounts rather than annual amounts create a false impression of growth. E. Use of truncated Y axis starting above zero makes small fluctuations look dramatic. Today’s tools make it easy for virtually anyone to churn out charts that lead to erroneous conclusions—intentionally or inadvertently.
Peter is a longtime business writer and editor whose work has appeared in a variety of publications and outlets. A former editor at a B2B custom-publishing company, he has written on topics including technology, leadership, energy, finance, management, intellectual property and legal issues in business, among others.
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The information pushers of the status quo – be it the mainstream media, government officials, pharmaceutical companies, or Astroturf bloggers – would have us believe that all vaccines are safe. They attempt to vilify those who simply question the efficacy and safety of the policy “all vaccines for all children.”
These status quo pushers have money interests in keeping all as it is now. Those that question toxic vaccine ingredients and conflicts of interests have nothing to gain, except vaccine safety for our children… everyone’s children. Most questioning “all vaccines for all children” are parents who, acting on the blind faith that their government and pharmaceutical companies would never do anything to injure their child, held their infants down and complied with vaccine policies they believed were intended to keep their children healthy. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The critiques below provide you with the counter view backed up by facts that the status quo doesn’t want you to know.
Influenza Vaccination for All Pregnant Women? So Far the Less Biased Evidence Does Not Favour It
Pregnant women are a WHO priority group for influenza vaccination, but evidence from observational studies in pregnancy is subject, among others, to the healthy-vaccinee bias, overestimating the vaccine effectiveness and safety. An USA survey adds new evidence that documents this bias. Therefore, it is essential to assess vaccine effectiveness and safety with RCTs. Cochrane reviews identified one RCT with “low risk of bias”, in a medium-income country, with NNV 55 for mothers. Its data show an excess of local adverse effects, and a tendency to harm for serious adverse events, with uncertain or very limited protection against influenza.
HPV Vaccine Safety: Cochrane Launches Urgent Investigation Into Review After Criticisms
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Here is a list compiled of the 19 studies from various lists on CDC’s websites to defend the use of thmerosal in vaccines. These are the studies that CDC uses to claim thimerosal’s safety. Each is fatally flawed through the use of incorrect and even fraudulent statistics. Even so, these studies demonstrate that thimerosal has been linked with tics, IQ deficits, speech delay and language delay.
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Criminal Conduct – Poul Thorsen
Food and Drug Administration – FDA
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
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3 1969 Annual Report to the Congress on the Administration of the Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act of 1968 Public Law 90-602. 1970
4 40 CFR 190 environmental radiation protection requirements for normal operations of activities in the uranium fuel cycle, final environmental statement. 1976
5 A new calculation of derived limits for the 1960 radiation protection guides reflecting updated models for dosimetry and biological transport / 1984
6 Absorption, Distribution and Milk Secretion of Radionuclides by the Dairy Cow - V. Radiotungsten. 1972
7 Acclimation Room for the Detection of Low Radium 226 Body Burdens. 1969
8 Adequacy of the Water Flouridation Control Program in South Dakota. An Evaluation of Water Fluoridation at Selected Water Supply Systems in the State of South Dakota. 1973
9 Advisory Report on the Health Effects of Radium 226 in Drinking Water. 1978
10 Air Pollution Injury to Vegetation. 1970
11 Analysis of Broadcast Radiation Levels in Hawaii. 1975
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21 Approaches to the Calculation of Limitations on Nuclear Detonations for Peaceful Purposes. 1969
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29 Characterization of Contaminated Nuclear Sites, Facilities and Materials: Accelerators. 1983
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31 Collection of Radium Leak Test Articles. 1968
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36 Development of a working set of waste package performance criteria for deepsea disposal of low-level radioactive waste / 1983
37 Effects on Populations of Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation. 1972
38 Electronic Product Radiation and the Health Physicist. 1970
39 Environmental pathway models for estimating population health effects from disposal of high-level radioactive waste in geologic repositories / 1982
40 Environmental Surveillance Laboratory for Radionuclide Analyses. Part I. Establishment of an Environmental Surveillance Laboratory: A Case Study. Part II. Analysis of Large Numbers of Milk Samples for Fission Products. 1964
41 Environmetal Radiation Protection Requirements for Normal Operations of Activities in the Uranium Fuel Cycle (40 CFR 190). Volume I. 1976
42 Estimate of Radiation Doses Received by Individuals Living in the Vicinity of a Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant in 1968. 1970
43 Estimates of the cancer risk due to nuclear-electric power generation / 1976
44 Evaluation of Radium Contamination in Aircraft Instrument Repair Facilities. 1969
45 Evaluation of the S. S. White Panorex (Trade name) X-ray Machine. 1971
46 Evaluation of the Westinghouse Capacitor Discharge Mobile X-ray Machine. 1971
47 Evaluation of Waterborne Radon Impact on Indoor Air Quality and Assessment of Control Options. 1984
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49 Factors Influencing Strontium-90 in Milk from the Brainerd, Minn. Milkshed. 1962
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Hi Raul this is an incredible story, thanks so much for sharing it with OpenIDEO. Please do share more about your progress. It'll be great to follow this project.
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LA GALAXY CAPTAIN LANDON DONOVAN CALLED UP TO THE U.S. NATIONAL TEAM
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CARSON, Calif. (Sunday, August 12, 2012) – LA Galaxy captain Landon Donovan has been named to the U.S. National Team roster for their upcoming friendly against Mexico. Donovan, the all-time leading goal scorer for the U.S. with 49 goals in 143 appearances, was one of 22 players named to the squad by head coach Jurgen Klinsmann. He will travel to Mexico City following LA’s game against Chivas USA at The Home Depot Center tonight, a game that kicks off at 8 p.m. and can be seen live on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes.
The U.S. will face Mexico on Wednesday, August 15 at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, Mexico. That game will kick off at 5 p.m. (PT) and will be shown live on ESPN2 and Univision. As a result of his inclusion in the U.S. squad for that game, Donovan will miss the Galaxy game at Columbus, which will be played the same day with kickoff scheduled for 4 p.m. (PT) on the NBC Sports Network.
In 17 career appearances against Mexico, Donovan has scored five goals, including one on his international debut at the L.A. Coliseum in October 2000. Donovan also scored against Mexico in the Round of 16 at the 2002 FIFA World Cup as well as in the 2007 and 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup Finals and in a friendly in February 2007.
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64 Comments Posted by Giovanni Dannato on August 26, 2017
Conventional wisdom tells us that we leave behind high school for adult life, a moral impressed on us with the bittersweet ending of every teen movie. If we observe the real-life American culture it’s obvious that high school informs our attitudes about status for the rest of our lives.
After Charlottesville, one mainstream news article I read surmised “angry white boys…had no prom queen waiting at home.” On the dissident side we see the meme of the Chad nationalist contrasted with the hapless virgin or the general idea of the teacher’s pet “shitlib” getting shoved into lockers by cool bullies and still being bitter about it as a hot-chocolate-sipping, pajama-wearing adult. No matter what people believe, we always see references to the jailhouse hierarchy of high school.
There is a reason high school ridicule is as reliable a default as “small penis,” “can’t get a gf,” “lives in mother’s basement” is for angry women. These insults endure because they are intended to hit people where it hurts most. There are millions of men to whom the feminist stock insults at least partially apply in the most humiliating way. High school is the same. It speaks for itself that the most tender possible spot for many people is to even suggest that they were bottom-tier punks in kid prison.
Coming of age in high school teaches us at a critical formative time that the most athletic and outgoing people are the natural aristocracy of humanity, literally crowned as monarchs in school assemblies held in their honor. The whole point is the elites are not particularly useful, specializing in showmanship and sales. The golden people perform on the field while the subordinate bug people line up to adore them in a synchronized marching band.
Status competition in a royal court is all about currying favor while those merely useful are but tools in the games of those who matter.
This sets up the narrative that defines the rest of our lives. We must accept our places as cogs in a machine to uplift widely smiling “personalities” secure in their status while we must push hard against the gears around us to stay where we’re at.
The football players get to enjoy sultry virgins as callow teens while those who go sexless spend the rest of their lives striving for the left-overs as cubicle-farm underlings. While the golden ones start out with society’s highest rewards, the rest must prove themselves worthy of diminished value through a years-long slog.
Resentment of the jocks plays no small role in kneejerk upper middle class resentment of Donald Trump. He reminds them of crass school bullies who scored with their first crushes—a source of panic and pain their cultural enemies love rubbing their faces in to pay them back richly for their airs of studied contempt.
We should understand though, SWPL posturing is so persistent and insufferable because of status anxiety. As the urban upper middle class, they far outrank the working classes yet they still stew in rankling jealousy. Rather than take up the mantle of noblesse oblige as a secure lesser aristocracy might, they never miss a chance to dump their chamber pots on their low-ranked brethren.
High school inflicts Americans with a bizarre status schizophrenia. On one hand, the culture feeds us a silly myth that the quarterback ends up bagging groceries while the unpopular kids become Silicon Valley billionaires. Of course, this is an attempt to assuage the losers, much like religions telling the poor they’ll finally win after they’re dead. In real life even highly paid STEM professionals can end up getting ordered around by Biff Tannen who got into the right fraternity and got connected with type A alums. While SWPL America is relatively high status, they are smug and callous about it because they sense somewhere deep in their marrow that all is not as it appears.
Another status conflict can be seen in hostile alt-lite reactions to alt-right activism. The most popular elements of the counter-culture see popularity itself as proof of their worthiness just as they would have back in high school. We will never fail to see grand boasts of how many copies of x book have been sold or how many views they get or what publications they’ve been mentioned in. The culture of high school is akin to culture of marketing and this is no mistake.
High school reflects the values of the merchant and managerial classes who have ruled since they beheaded, deposed, and out-earned the hereditary aristocracy.
This makes it hard for most to even grasp the concept of groups founded on principle and loyalty. After all, standing on principle against popular sentiment in prison only gets met with a beatdown in the shower room. It’s not much different at school or on the job.
This mindset is now being challenged by an incipient warrior class supported by an aspiring priesthood. Dissident merchants are doing their part but they don’t yet understand they can no longer lead the hierarchy. This is causing them cognitive dissonance every step of the way as the nature of the movement grows more clear. Marketers who can attract millions of views have great strategic strength but their weakness is that of all those millions, hardly any would risk their lives or reputations. At some point, meaningful action requires serious personal risk and sacrifice.
It is past time to abandon the dysfunctional zero sum non-culture high school initiates us into for a real society capable of giving the best rewards to the best and able to recognize virtues besides marketplace self-interest. If Euro-descended peoples ultimately fail to face this challenge, they will have justly earned a cozy spot on the trash heap of history.
Vincent Law: Chad Nationalism Is A Bad Idea
Robert Stark Interviews Vincent Law
Ulric Kerensky: The Judgment of High School
Abolishing Compulsory Schooling
Referred to National Review Story, Angry White Boys, don’t want to link to them.
Societies alt right, alt-lite, biff tannen, high school, jail, prison, prole, swpl, upper middle class, working class, yuppie
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Fandige August 26, 2017 at 11:09 pm
Aren’t “Nerd” and “Chad” mere stand-ins for, respectively, Ashkenazi and white Anglo?
Well, anyway.
What is funny and quite ironic is that the most extreme Chads and the most extreme Nerds seem to agree, at least implicitly, on one crucial thing: school sucks. The Chad is bored in it because he’s low-IQ; the Nerd suffers in it for various reasons.
Both are correct, and school-culture should be abolished.
I propose a Chad-Nerd Union against schools.
Eduardo the Magnificent August 27, 2017 at 2:53 am
High school is an artificial environment of the highest order, as people who would normally not ever interact with each other are forced together for the entirety of their childhood. Naturally, the adage diversity + proximity = war comes into play. Once out in the real world people naturally separate, but the rules of the artificial environment continue to operate, perpetuated by people (usually extroverts) who succeeded in that environment. Thus, real-world success only relates to high school success if a) the person was able to quickly adjust from an artificial to real environment, or b) the person succeeded in perpetuating high school norms and culture for the entirety of their life (i.e. never leaving the bubble). Most real-world (huge) successes were failures ins school, as they figured out early the facade and quickly started to operate outside of it.
Giovanni Dannato August 27, 2017 at 1:47 pm
Artificial bubble environment, stuck with people you don’t like, sounds like a typical job, actually. This is why people who were popular in high school probably go on to get promoted to management as well. Except for a few fields where competence is required and incompetence is immediately obvious, being likable, “networking,” “being a team player” is more important.
Hugely successful people are by definition very rare, hardly comforting for a typical unpopular bookworm. There’s nothing more American than survivor’s bias.
Dividualist June 7, 2018 at 1:39 pm
“Artificial bubble environment, stuck with people you don’t like, sounds like a typical job, actually. This is why people who were popular in high school probably go on to get promoted to management as well”
This is absolutely not my experience in Europe. But this is not the first time I hear it form the US – there is a stereotype of the masculine, athletic, jock type CEO. Which sounds really unknown here. Our Chads tend to become car mechanics and suchlike. And the CEOs are closer to nerdy. Well, not autismo-nerdy, more like nerds who can nevertheless communicate, but still. Only place in the corporate hierarchy for Chads is sales, of course, in sales charisma matters. But we cannot promote someone who does not know the job far better than his underlings, he would have no authority, if he cannot say “I’ll show you how it is done”. If they cannot delegeate up hard problems etc.
To my best knowledge, this is because America is egalitarian in everything but money, bosses are called on first name terms, they make polite requests to employees, and this allows that managing could be seen as a profession in itself. Perhaps reserved for charismatic people, just like sales. Europe is egalitarian only in money, but not in class or rank or hierarchy, business follows the military model, what the boss says often sounds more like a command, and thus they need to have the personal authority that if the company makes widgets, the boss must be the best and fastest widget-maker because how else could he demand people to work harder. This means the best worker becomes the boss and they often have no idea of things like how to manage or how to make corporate strategy – SAP suffered from this for a long time, having managers who were good programmers but not good managers.
So I guess we get more revenge of the nerds. I think the real Chads from my school didn’t really go to college even.
Giovanni Dannato June 10, 2018 at 8:01 pm
In America, taking things too seriously, following rulebooks to the letter, and avoiding risk is the mark of the stodgy middle of middle class. No one ever really respects them, least of all women. People of high status party with those cheap red plastic solo cups, use informal language, can’t be bothered to learn boring facts(they hire people to do that), wear their ties loose, and use illegal drugs recreationally. A US elite is expected to be a charismatic salesperson, not an intellectual.
Dividualist June 11, 2018 at 9:22 am
But these are also the characteristics of the losers, the lower class, the drifters. What determines if a certain non-rule-following kid of a middle-class family is going to go up or down?
UlricKerensky August 27, 2017 at 11:35 am
Where does one begin?
At the use of scholastic athletics as the lowest level of the only socially tolerated (synthetic) tribal loyalties?
At the fact that while “Chad” culture may or may not be a meme, but the concept is real?
At the artificial nature of the USG primary, and even more, at the secondary education system?
At the role of scholastic athletics as being a remnants of older loyalties since dispensed with?
At the beginning of the USG education system, and how it emulated first it’s model without the context, and later the sporting teams and pep rallies of college Football?
The inner workings of the interplay between the education system, scholastic athletics, larger culture, family ties, atomization, and pre-selection?
The fact that the scholastic athletic machine, despite being one of the least powerful and most unstable factions of USG, is so culturally powerful that even avowed heretics defer to it?
We could even discuss the inner divisions of the system (s) that produce the current “Chad” system, and how it really serves almost no one.
I’ll make my next blog post about this.
Ia August 27, 2017 at 2:36 pm
I had to go to the Vincent Law article to understand what you’re talking about. Not your fault. Maybe it’s a generational thing.
Both chads and nerds on the so called “right” or “alt-right” have trouble manipulating images, gestures, symbols, music. How can you fight a culture war without cultural warriors? I’ve read dozens of beautifully written essays some going back many decades, perfect arguments logically presenting the problems. Even solutions. But, the masses don’t care. People need to be seduced and persuaded. They always have really. You need artists on your side my friends. Not intellectuals. You are intellectualizing yourselves to death.
I think the generation gap affects me too(early Millennial) regards the Chad meme. All the Chads I knew as a kid were dorks with glasses. The popular guys had names like Jason and Justin.
You’re right about the artistic, aesthetic element. I think it would be cool if there was at least some kind of dissident literary magazine.
I guess even when I write analytical posts I like to use imagery and visceral examples rather than dwell on statistics. It’s just so much more fun when I have an image in my head as I write.
Yeah, you have a much more visual, and I think more complex, site here.
It takes years of study to cognititvely understand how to think visually. People need to know art history and how and why modernism came about. Just understanding the rise of the Bohemian culture in 19th century Paris could help.
I’d recommend this in kindle version: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Nadar-Man-Behind-Camera/dp/1101902604/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503845893&sr=1-1&keywords=nadar+biography
Mostly, people need to get over their revulsion for cities because that’s where culture is formed.
Yes, the cities need to be taken back, not abandoned.
This problem arose briefly in my last interview with Robert Stark: core right-wing personality types just aren’t as aesthetically creative. They tend to be openly contemptuous of sensitively attuned people. The Spanish Civil War is a good example with George Orwell, Hemingway, and Picasso on the Left-wing side.
The NRx guys are also more tech and logic oriented.
I think it will be an important step to incorporate disaffected alt-left(pre-Trump speech meaning) urban SWPLs as a fully realized faction.
The poor schlubs who dress up as Nazis probably don’t realize that Hitler studied art. He understood the importance of symbols and in fact organized a series of exhibitions called Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) where modernist images were mocked. He also suppressed modernist images and artists like Emile Nolde (who was a ardent Nazi supporter). Nolde worked in a kind of primitve manner which the Nazis originally accepted as “Gothic.” But, eventually his style was considered technically decadent.
Today, when images and monuments are being suppressed like nothing I’ve ever seen in my lifetime you gotta wonder where we’re heading. And they ain’t modernist images.
Don’t forget the aesthetic of the Volkswagen, enduring brilliance there. And no matter what people think of Nazis I think everyone has to admit the Hugo Boss uniform + luger sidearm looks legendarily badass on the same tier with Darth Vader.
What the struggle over statues tells us is all pretense of civility has been cast aside. Only power struggle remains, might in all its forms decides from here.
Curiously, the Communists rejected modernism too. They finally settled on what’s called social realism. Everything else was considered bourgeios decadence. I can imagine what Stalin or Mao would make of Jeff Koons, the highest priced living artist at auction ever.
So, apparently the current regime is not communist as so many seem to think.
stonerwithaboner August 28, 2017 at 5:51 am
haha, there is something ironic here…
of course it is the Hillary supporters with their elitism and faux intellectualism that hate “bro’s”-we all ’em bro’s in my neck of the woods.
The alt-reich with all it’s pretense of intellectualism will be a huge turn-off for many populist Trumpkins.
In fact a guy I worked with, a full on bro and Trumpkin would probably beat up Dickie Spencer allot better than any antifa could when he thought Dickie was talking down to him with his high fallutin’ lisp…
Ironically, said bro’s “anti-racism” would not come from any kind of high ideals but his desire to sleep with non white womyn. (Let’s just say he liked hookers just as much as AD.)
Giovanni Dannato August 30, 2017 at 11:45 pm
I think “Dickie” is actually the right spokesman for them to have right now precisely because he’s soft-spoken and not angry or intimidating. His faction is stereotypically associated with dysfunctional poor whites so they need someone like him who knows how to dress and act higher class. Naturally this rubs a lot of blue collar guys the wrong way and makes them jealous. They will just have to get over it.
stonerwithaboner August 31, 2017 at 4:39 pm
As long as lispy Dickie is the “face” of the movement, I will have nothing but laughs…
Try not to get too smug about it Priapic Pothead. I seem to remember you liked that Kaepernick guy. Compare that goofball who threw away his high-paying prestigious job making an ass of himself to another guy who is part of an organization that is more or less succeeding at its aims.
“I seem to remember you liked that Kaepernick guy.”
you’d be surprised whom I have respect for…
I can respect both Kaepernick and James Damore without signing up to their ideologies wholesale…
And, um, is this Andrew Anglin dude gonna be the new Larry Flynt in regards to free speech?
https://stonerwithaboner.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/the-unpersoning-of-little-andrew-anglin/
Sure, I think most of us can respect competent people with integrity that fight for another cause, i.e. Lee or Rommel. I actually think the Nation of Islam were kind of alright despite their nutty stories that Europeans were created by an evil scientist. They actually aspired to have their own thing and have a community with self-respect and dignity. They actually understood that their independence meant personal responsibility. I’ve yet to see hardly any other majority black movement since Civil Rights with this level of maturity.
As someone who is interested in systems, I think you would be fascinated by how far one can go before one is shut down and by what means they are shut down. It’s interesting that Pelosi is now denigrating Antifa. Democrats want unarmed and declawed citizenry. I think AD explains this the best.
The establishment lost control of their own thugs, a sign of great internal weakness. Now they’re forced to reel them back in through open displays of disapproval, humiliating in its own right, after much damage to their cause has already been done. The people who did Charlottesville knew they were pushing the envelope of what the system would allow and it went better than they could have hoped by triggering 3 weeks of rage that has alienated millions of ordinary people who hadn’t even heard of antifa before.
Oh, yeah, I also think I mentioned to you awhile back that the manuresphere was pretty soulless because they weren’t into music or art. It’s all, “Get a STEM degree, brah.”
Pretty funny sometimes how they want nothing but STEM but then fly into a fury that Jews make the movies.
The manosphere base are typical upper working class types, the tradesmen and the small business owners. They understand making money doing things that have tangible results. That has its virtues but their lack of appreciation for culture and aesthetics means more creative people can program their minds with whatever they want, with them never the wiser that they are being used.
The movement needs its more cultured elements like the neo-reactionaries or Richard Spencer.
Those manuresphere guys are pretty funny…
They are on a path to success right now, especially if they have leadership that mitigates some of their self-destructive tendencies.
not much of a fan of Jordan Peterson, but his advice “clean your room before you change the world.” Essentially, “have your own house in order” before you try to impose “order” on others. It’s funnier than hell when someone like Forney talks like an “authority” but he doesn’t even have the discipline to get the cheeseburger outta his mouth. Nazi’s are bad dudes and Antifa are bad dudes. I’m eating popcorn and watching the world burn. (Who needs NetfliXXX?)
I think they’re doing alright. All but a few hard core WN 1.0s are pretty polite and restrained compared to the statements even average black people can make in America, keep their jobs and get praise. Even Kaepernick had to abuse the hell out of his platform for months and cost his employers and co-workers billions of dollars before they finally shut him down.
It’s ironic, because 2011, or so, I could’ve been “on the same team” as those dudes who were against George Bush but also knew team Democrat didn’t have anything to offer them. Then they had to go off the rails with the HBD bullshit. I was a commenter at GL Piggy and was told he is now known as Chuck Johnson. From my view, they lost the script.
HBD isn’t bullshit. It produces solid explanations for how the real world works. A world map of IQ correlates almost perfectly with level of development.
My experience living in places like DC taught me that even in the black community the leadership and successful professionals tended to have very light skin and Euro facial features. They wouldn’t even be considered Black outside of the “one drop rule” Anglosphere.
I think a lot of people take HBD personally when it’s about pattern recognition rather than judging individuals.
“They wouldn’t even be considered Black outside of the “one drop rule” Anglosphere.”
Are you talking about O’Bombya?
Pro-Tip, some of the most racist people/status obsessed I have met have been Latin Americans
Obama just one example of that, especially considering he’s not even descended from African-Americans. Bowser, the DC mayor definitely fits the profile. Saw some pictures of NAACP leadership once, some of them looked like they were maybe 1/8th African.
In my experience non-Westernized East Asians are the most racist people by far. Their languages all seem to have a word that means “outside person.” Anyone that isn’t them isn’t quite human, especially not Africans. That said, Africans in their homelands are quite ruthless about pogromming anybody that isn’t them, i.e. Indians in Uganda, Euros in Zimbabwe and SA.
“In my experience non-Westernized East Asians are the most racist people by far.”
good thing the US won the big dubyadubya too! the sauerkrauts and japs are a buncha meanies!
If the Imperial Japanese are any indication, you do NOT want to get captured or conquered by a people with extremely low empathy for outgroups.
hehe, and that is why I am so hostile towards the alt-rite and feminism,they hate low status men such as myself for no reason.
Unfortunately, nobody really likes low status men. Even other low status men try to leave that behind by associating with successful people. High to middling status men want to keep you low status so you can’t compete for power and women. Low status men are of course, invisible to women. That’s why they obsess about the glass ceiling oblivious that they stand upon a glass basement. The alt right is actually an attempt to boost the status of disenfranchised, disaffected men.
stonerwithaboner September 1, 2017 at 12:04 am
“The alt right is actually an attempt to boost the status of disenfranchised, disaffected men.”
White men, just white men. I would be one of the first guys those guys would want to get rid of-I’m probably more of a threat as a mixed man than a fully non-white man.
Anyways, you listed why AVfM and Paulie Boi Elam should just quit-they don’t do a thing for low status men.
Giovanni Dannato September 1, 2017 at 10:04 pm
The tendency of mixed-race people to completely side with their non-euro heritage and become some of the loudest anti-white activists doesn’t help their case. Even extremely privileged mixed people like Obama or Kaepernick seem to carry a massive grudge and people notice a pattern after awhile.
I understand a mixed race person is going to feel torn in the present scenario and as they often do, are going to feel like they don’t completely belong anywhere.
I think the first step is realizing that trying to hide in a quarrelsome coalition of the fringes is the wrong move. You’ve already gotten at least that far. You’ll want to at least not obstruct as things play out.
As it is, you already do have a league of dissidents you hang out with that I referred to as the alt-left. I think it’s actually one of the next growth sectors for the movement as Bernie progressives get red-pilled.
stonerwithaboner September 2, 2017 at 2:37 am
I *have* to be a so-called multi-culturalist, I literally have no choice in this. That was something decided for me. If I were to give up my MGTOW ways and find a womyn for an LTR, whom would I be able to find? A mixed race woman? A liberal white woman? Even a conservative leaning woman whom finds the Gavin McCucks off putting and the Dickie Spencers too effeminate to sleep with? So I literally have no choice. I see no point in being a “token mino” for the Democrats and even less than no point in being so for the alt-reich.
Giovanni Dannato September 2, 2017 at 2:20 pm
You should understand why the alt-sphere is growing then. The ever-escalating antagonism of other tribes combined with their increasing numbers really leaves no other choice. I myself have never had an obsession with race. I happily interact with anyone who seems somewhat fair-minded and has a decent head on their shoulders. Not to mention, “white” culture is a non-culture where no one really helps each other, giving no reason for me to have strong attachments to it. I am not suicidal, though and I understand as a Euro-American male I will be disenfranchised, immiserated, and hunted down if I do not join the fight. I will fight alongside “Nazis” if need be because we will all be called Nazis just the same.
You too need to figure out what faction will keep you alive. Ex-leftists, other non-white dissidents have already let you join their club. Even one of the main figures of the manosphere is Half-Turkish, Half-Iranian. Could a more provocative mixture to pro-whites be dreamed of? His whole brand is even about sleeping with white women, an especially sore spot for many. People give him a pass because he’s completely assimilated into the ultra-SWPL culture of the DC suburbs. I think a key could be to focus on your ideological and cultural alignments over your own ethnic background which you definitely wear on your sleeve. I bet a lot of people who read Advocatus Diaboli don’t even know he’s Indian unless they go back read his archives.
Not to mention, your racial background won’t stop you from getting in an LTR, sounds like you just decided not to pursue that. You’re probably a bit nerdy to be a long-time resident of this part of the web(known you since about 2011) so that probably causes trouble with black women. But if you have the same carefree stoner/surfer attitude in real life and talk normal American English(which I imagine you do) you can play for pretty much any race. I suspect the mixed-blood insecurity/resentment holds you back. A tough obstacle since it goes all the way back into early childhood, but there it is.
stonerwithaboner September 2, 2017 at 5:06 pm
“Even one of the main figures of the manosphere is Half-Turkish, Half-Iranian.”
That guy gives me allot of laughs…
UlricKerensky September 1, 2017 at 7:29 pm
To SwaB (Through I prefer Giovanni’s version of the name): The Alt-lite has absolutely no interest in low status men. Have you read Mike Cernovich’s blog for any length of time? He allied himself with Gamergate only because he wasn’t dealing with any institution that would force him out for being pond scum.
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Tomas Nau September 2, 2017 at 12:18 am
Eh, half of why mixed race people have the whole identity crisis stuff is anglosphere one drop rule norms, most of the other half is mommy/daddy issues.
The way the current system is, you’re encouraged to ID as nonwhite regardless of how little nonwhite ancestry you actually have because of white self-loathing. Look at how white a good chunk of the BLM leadership is.
I don’t know a ton about Cerno, however, I think that guy Gavin McCuckoo is a lunatic. He says all this white pride lite shit (and that’s the kind of shit that if you say, you absolutely must own and not back down.)
That’s the harsh truth. One day Gavin McCuck’s kiddies will go on the interwebz and think, “Geezus, Daddy hates us, he couldn’t get a white womyn so he settled. He woulda just been happier if he went off with Milo. But, shit, now I know why when he smokes his “he-man” ceegar, he looks at us with resentment and burning hatred.”
You either gotta go full bore WN and say this dick is for white chicks only or you gotta go full multi-cult and say “I love all peoples.” (And you gotta mean it.)
So I literally think the alt-lite is more damaging than the alt-reich. If that sounds absurd, it is easy to explain. I think “mainstream” feminists like Marcotte/Schwyzer are far more damaging to society then rad-fems. Rad fems say batshit crazy stuff, but then they want to go live in their teepee and say “knoe menz allowed.” “Mainstream” fems want to present a hateful ideology as “reasonable” and indocrinate mainstream society with their bigotry.
danielchieh September 3, 2017 at 12:29 am
I really don’t think its as simple as those polarizing extremes. A casual perusal of Western literature shows awareness of out groups without immediate need for total exclusion, naming off Jules Verne, Aeneid, or even the Sabine women for thought.
I feel like you’re arguing that an extremist version is better only because it’ll spread less and that the alt-right philosophy is generally “hateful.” I disagree overall, and I’m not white; that they seek to preserve what they feel is beautiful about Western civilization, which requires a majority Western people and population, is hardly hateful.
A return to older norms, with a balance between exclusion and blind acceptance, is a lot more sensible than simply admitting everything: your body wouldn’t survive blind acceptance of microbes, I mean.
danielchieh,
First of all what is “western culture?”
I am not asking this flippantly or sarcastically.
Is it Nietzschean philosophy? (As an aside, I just completed Crime and Punishment which seems to be an absolute critique of the ubermensch philosophy that one group has a higher morality in pursuing power.)
Is it Christianity? Ironically, Jack Donovan was a former Satanist and is now a neo-paganist whatever the fuck that means.
Is it new enlightenment ideas? If so, interestingly enough, Dickie Spencer condescendingly referred to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as “faggy.”
Okay, your last sentence makes me thing of what Jordan Peterson has discussed. The liberal/conservative divide. Do you let in new peoples and ideas with the potential risk of them bringing in contagions and the potential benefit of new ideas that can make your culture thrive. Do you remain closed with the potential benefit of a homogenous culture and the potential risk of stagnation/decline without any new ideas. There isn’t gonna be a “one size fits all” answer here.
danielchieh September 3, 2017 at 4:04 am
There isn’t a simple answer because life isn’t simple; governance is often akin to the act of how to slowly fall to the ground without quite landing. The body itself is such an equilibrium: it obviously has to take in foreign matter and indeed hosts a number of non-native microbes, but allowing such to go out of control results in the death of the host. Unfortunately, liberalism is screeching exceedingly toward this which ends poorly for all of us, as I see it: an ultimate death of the soul, a final process that see us all as genderless working paste in their machines. I’ll rather see Nazis prevail before that. Death before zombification should be a natural choice of all right-thinking men.
What is Western culture as it stands for me? Its the products – the literature, the architecture, the art and the general result of a combination of pressures and individuals that have managed to create something that was flourishing and beautiful. Christianity, the Enlightenment, etc are all aspects of it, but do not make up the whole, and indeed, Christianity was probably massively influenced by the facts on the ground more than its original incarnation of what was essentially a kind of apocalyptic cult. But the the time of Song of Roland, it has gained a completely different meaning.
Its impossible to /precisely/ define what is “western culture” as much as it has been varied and localized, but it is also impossible to /precisely/ define, for example, what is modern Chinese culture, as I’ve mentioned before(Maoism? Confucianism? Money is God?). What we can grasp are the surviving and relevant artifacts: the general notions of the value of the individual, the idea of transcendent values, and admiration for virtues not all which are still as extant in today’s world, such as courage. It has always been a balance: the same culture which produced Voltaire and Beowulf also gave us the witch hunts of Salem – but it is something beautiful which is worth preserving.
Ia September 3, 2017 at 1:14 pm
That’s a very good comment. Thanks.
And, if I might add, you’ve done a better job of describing the tragedy of the West better than most European men would be able to do. That says a lot right there.
danielchieh September 3, 2017 at 3:27 pm
My thanks. Spending weeks alone in a library had its upsides!
this might be frustrating because I am not giving a direct answer here…
I can be against the alt right and for parts of Western Culture.
There really isn’t a lot to it. The “future” that the Left has for us is monolithic and a fate worse than death. The alternative is to throw every kitchen sink at it. I’m cool with that. I’ll negotiate my fate with the Nazis in the unlikely event they win later; for now, the Cathedral must be stopped.
To take an example from fiction: its like being a xeno in War40k, debating if you should ally with the Imperium against Chaos. The answer should be obvious, unless an eternity of gibbering madness for you and any progeny sounds better.
well, the antifa and the alt right are bad in my view. Just because I didn’t vote for crooked Hillary doesn’t make me a Trumpkin. The progressives seem to preach diversity (of appearance) while forcing conformity of ideology. It’s just like feminism and Paulie Elam’s AVfM, both are toxic to low status men…
I think Daniel is telling you that sometimes it is pragmatic to make alliances with people who you may disagree with. The “Nazis” are dissidents for pretty much the same reasons you are. They are low status men trying to get status by challenging the power of high status elites who have been kicking sand in their faces for decades.
Well, perhaps it helps to actualize that the leftists will ultimately lead to even lower status for all men, which leaves low-status men in the utter dirtpan(and for that matter, humanity in general, because as noted, it seeks to process us into interchangeable work soyfluid).
The alternative, while still not great for low-status men(and when is anything not?), is less so.
“I think Daniel is telling you that sometimes it is pragmatic to make alliances with people who you may disagree with.”
I made that mistake in the Inmalafide days…
I actually just came to peace recently with an what I thought was an internal contradiction within myself recently…
I am pro free speech and pro individualism. Seemingly right leaning positions.
However, if we are to have a government, then it should serve the people, so I embrace seemingly leftist positions such as single payer healthcare. I would love to see a guaranteed minimum income within my lifetime.
I cannot stand behind the alt right which is essentially “affirmative action” for full blood white men. I am alienated by the left which has made womyn get paid less/someone said a mean thing to a gay at Stonewall 35 years ago/Anne Coultier is oppressed because “she” isn’t allowed to pee standing up in the ladies room. They’ve lost the script when it came to things like workers rights, etc,etc.
https://stonerwithaboner.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/i-am-an-individualist/
The real metric should be authoritarianism/anti-authoritarinism rather than right/left…
Nazi’s and Antifa are both scary fuckers. The one time Trumpiepoops got it right and everyone is blasting him for it. (Violence on many sides.)
I think most of us would like a world where single payer healthcare was possible but the reality is tribal warfare over a static or shrinking pie. I have weighed in on guaranteed basic living allowance and have outlined the conditions that would be necessary for it to work in a sprawling multi-cultural empire.
You’re not wrong to characterize the alt-right as white affirmative action and that is the inevitable reaction to decades of being under attack. As Euros become less of a majority, they will behave more and more like just another minority group that has to fight for its share of government pork barrel.
I acknowledge you are in a uniquely tough spot by being an even mixture of two groups that are locked in a blood feud.
You may ultimately have to choose whether to align primarily by your ideas or your African blood. If the latter, the establishment might actually represent your interests best. Though you consider yourself to be low status you have “diversity pokemon points” by default. You might not even have those under a new Euro dominion. Through no fault of your own, the one drop rule, and a long history of obstreperous mulattos, you could end up getting lumped in with the opposition. Unless of course you form certain ideological contacts while a dialogue is still possible. As mentioned, I’ve known you online for years and would hope to be on the same side with you, but you will ultimately need to think hard about your alignments and do what will best carry you through a coming time of crisis.
If I had it my way, I would actively seek to incorporate mixed people and “talented tenth” types into a Euro-led coalition, if for no other reason, to separate enemy minority groups from their natural leadership classes and thereby control them more easily.
“You’re not wrong to characterize the alt-right as white affirmative action”
I doubt it. Affirmative action is percieved as unmanly, for weaklings.
Affirmative action on its surface is an appeal to weakness and pity. But in reality it’s a tribal power grab all the same.
Of course it is. I just don’t think alt-right types (in general) like the idea. It rubs them the wrong way. What you’re describing are Bernie Bros. Alt-right types voted overwhelmingly for Trump. I wouldn’t think Trump is a big fan of affirmative action. He may have to get his hands dirty and play the corruption game and politically he may pay lip service to affirmative action but only for expediency sake. Or at least that’s what alt-right types would like to think. The smarter ones realize NY real estate and politics are a dirty game and he who lies down with dogs is gonna get up with a few fleas.
Certain other groups on the other hand love the idea of being labeled “disadvantaged” or “protected” and eagerly seek the designation. In fact, they’re jealous of their victimhood and constantly snipe at one another for the top spot.
Alt-right types will use different justifications that sound cooler to them but they’ll effectively do the same things. Spencer’s proposed policies I think tell us what is coming once alt-right has a political wing. All democratic politics operate on this: what can you give me for my vote? Libertarian-style personal responsibility with a boot in the ass if you make poor decisions is a political non-starter. A dictatorial/monarchical takeover will be the same thing. Those groups who supported the rise of the dictator get more cool stuff while the rest get less. The industrial revolution and the American unipolar order gave a brief respite. Now history is back to normal with its zero sum games, winners, and losers.
ia September 5, 2017 at 10:17 pm
Does Spencer have actual policies? Can you link to something? I’ve never seen him propose any policies just general stuff about white identity, return to a white-controlled state, that sort of thing. Things that were taken for granted before, say, 1968.
Spencer’s more of a performance artist than a politician or leader. He’s pretty good too.
Come to think of it I’ve never read anything by Spencer where he says he wants to end affirmative action. You’d think he would, but I don’t recall him ever writing about it.
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Ni Wanhui and his wife Li Chan had just celebrated their eldest son’s 11th birthday in their hometown in Hebei, and were driving their truck on the long road west to Chongqing, Qinghai and Tibet. A journey of 3,800 kilometres one way. On 27 December 2018, the Qinghai police found their bodies on a notoriously dangerous section of the road to Tibet. The preliminary cause of death was acute hypoxia.
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Prior to their tragic deaths, the couple had become minor social media celebrities on Kuaishou, a popular video sharing platform, with more than 214,000 followers and 300 videos documenting their lives on the road. Their deaths brought into sharp focus the appalling working conditions Chinese truck drivers have to endure on a daily basis. It’s a physically demanding, low yield and highly stressful job. And for drivers who have taken out a loan to buy their own truck, there is the additional pressure of repaying that loan as quickly as possible. This forces them to stay on the road for as long as possible.
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December 13, 2017 News & Views » News Feature
Former Troubled Police Officer Wants to Help Reform Burned Out Cops
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By Ryan Pitkin @pitkin_ryan
The video begins with five officers standing over Michael Fox, pushing him down to the ground as fights rage around them. To the left of the screen, his brother, John Fox, pushes at officers, trying to get them to back away. They close in tighter.
The video, along with another one shot at about the same time, goes in all different directions as it captures the events that took place inside La Bamba nightclub in Salisbury during a night of chaos in 2009.
Security guards and police officers struggle to maintain control of a crowd that seems to be breaking into fights at random everywhere. Patrons slip on what appears to be Michael Fox's blood as he lies face down, handcuffed.
Through it all, Kareem Puranda, then a uniformed officer with the Salisbury Police Department, can be seen bouncing around the room, getting involved in different altercations. About three and a half minutes into the video, he finds himself face to face with John Fox again, this time without a team of officers at his side. After a few words, Puranda swings.
The punch is not the move of a police officer trying to subdue what he perceives to be a viable threat. It's the move of a kid raised on the streets, grown up but still lashing out at something he fears.
It was just one of multiple times that Puranda would be accused of excessive force, each time being found innocent of criminal charges but costing the city tens of thousands of dollars in settlements.
As Puranda looks back at that incident, he recognizes that he was lashing out at more than just a man twice his size. He attributes his behavior to PTSD that began during his childhood in Bronx, New York, and was cultivated when he went through Basic Law Enforcement Training.
Since leaving the police force in 2010, Puranda has focused on how PTSD, burnout and other psychological issues are allowed to silently run rampant in police departments nationally. He now hopes to confront those issues.
In June, Puranda launched Self Talk Counseling & Consulting, a firm that hopes to work with police officers to address the biases and psychological issues that can lead to excessive aggression in the field. In November, he published Breaking the Code of Silence: A Cop's Journey to Triumph and Truth, a book that lays out the reasons he believes psychological counseling should be mandatory for police officers from training through retirement.
Kareem Puranda in his Charlotte office, where he meets in groups and one-on-one with police officers to deal with potential psychological issues. (Photo by Ryan Pitkin)
We visited Puranda's east Charlotte office recently to talk about his experiences in law enforcement and why he should be the one to lead a movement for a more stable police force.
Creative Loafing: What did you think about police before joining the Salisbury Police Department?
Kareem Puranda: Growing up, initially I had this imagination. I looked at the good guys versus the bad guys. The Autobots versus the Decepticons. G.I. Joe versus Cobra. He-Man versus Skeletor. Seeing how they were victorious persuaded my impressionable mind at a young age that I wanted to be a good guy.
Growing up in New York, I lived somewhat of a sheltered life, attributed to my mom's concern for my safety, so I didn't really get much exposure to the environment.
A lot of the challenges that existed in my neighborhood, as it relates to the relationships between police officers and the community, I wasn't privy to until I had an experience in middle school where I was walking home and I blurted out to a police officer who was sitting in his cruiser near where I lived, "One day that's going to be my car."
I'm not sure if he heard what I said, but he was very angry. He gave me an angry response about whatever statement he thought I made.
From that point on I didn't really like police officers, so it wasn't something that was on my radar, but it was something that I grew into after meeting the chief of police in Salisbury [while attending Livingstone College].
What do you think led to the issues you faced as a police officer?
I think it has everything to do with the totality of one's human experience, from childhood up until and throughout adulthood. We are constantly evolving, constantly encountering experiences that shape our perception of the world around us.
Personally, my transition into law enforcement was easy because the hyper-vigilance that you develop as a police officer throughout the training was something I had already practiced in my neighborhood growing up in The Bronx. I was looking over my shoulder, I was always concerned about who was going to rob me or who was going to try to do something villainous.
It's the same mentality in law enforcement: everyone's a suspect. In BLET, they train you to identify the bad guy. He doesn't look like any particular individual, but he is identified by behaviors. He runs. He's noncompliant. He conceals his hands. He doesn't make the transaction with law enforcement smooth, and these are the individuals that you need to be mindful of. They carry guns and drugs and they do criminal things.
What happens is that condition that occurs in BLET is what the officer marries himself to.
Then in the mainstream media, you have different genres of music that subscribe these behaviors to a certain population, which makes the young African Americans the usual suspects.
There's a "trap music" culture that embodies the behaviors that officers are trained to address, and these narratives, they clash.
What experiences stick with you from your time as a police officer, good or bad?
I would say it was a good and bad experience all in one; in fact, those situations that earned me lawsuits, where I was able to challenge the ego that I was operating by — that in one point in time in my life kept me safe in my natural environment. It was that same ego that created the conditions for me to encounter lawsuits and the indictments that I ended up experiencing at the end of my career.
I say it's good and bad because that condition created an awareness within me to write this book, to start my own private practice in counseling and to go back to school to become a counselor to learn more about the conditions behind the psychology; to learn why people do what they do. I was at a loss. I did not know. I wasn't privy to the diagnoses or the criteria for burnout. I didn't know I was dealing with burnout during my time as a police officer, and I was afraid to ask because the culture of law enforcement doesn't give one permission to do so.
What made you want to look at it from that psychological perspective?
I didn't start law enforcement the way that I ended it, and that was the concern. That's what triggered the investigation from my own personal introspective, which is why I wrote this book and utilized my life as a case study to highlight the transition from the neighborhood I grew up in, which I believe induced PTSD at one point in time in my life, and it followed me all the way through my law enforcement career as a normalized thing, not something that was abnormal. And I wasn't privy to it, again, because I didn't see it as something that I needed help for, until these events started happening and it caused me to question why.
What do you say to those who don't believe it's justified for you to be helping officers as someone who faced so many problems on the force yourself?
I had an awakening moment. It's usually out of adversity that the lessons come, or that an awakening type of experience comes. It took those lemons for me to make lemonade, if you will. I don't think I would have tapped into this understanding or this courage that's required to address this scenario in law enforcement culture had it not been for those circumstances. Those circumstances were actually necessary, in my opinion, for my journey.
How would you describe burnout, as someone who's gone through it?
Some of the byproducts of burnout are cynicism, apathy, low energy, just a hopeless or helpless feeling, even while you're trying to do the job. You just show up to go back home — you're really retired on duty, if you will.
There's no motivation. That was pervasive throughout the department that I worked for and even in other departments, with people that I knew that worked in other agencies, it was the same type of low morale. There was no help for the officer.
And is that something you continue to see in your counseling work today?
Absolutely. Officers are struggling inside and there's no permission given to provide them the avenue to get help, because of the concern that they'll be classified unfit for duty and it will compromise their job security.
There's an incident in Eatonville, Florida, going on right now, where an officer has been given a resignation date of December 31 because of his PTSD diagnosis. He was an officer who rescued someone from the Pulse nightclub shooting, and he is now being requested to resign because of the diagnosis. Now, he wasn't the only officer on scene, but he's the only one confessing PTSD, and now he's no longer fit for duty.
So it sort of comes across as a punitive thing to seek help. One of the things that I propose in my book is that counseling should be mandated throughout an officer's training, his career, and even post-law enforcement career through his retirement because of the stress — the high, chronic, layered stress that officers deal with.
That Florida officer, Omar Delgado, is in an unfortunate situation, because he didn't do anything wrong, but couldn't keeping officers who are known to be struggling with PTSD pose a danger to our communities?
One option is administrative duties. I believe he's advocated for being placed on a desk job because he had about six months until he's vested for 10 years. He can do things around the police department in a complementing role; evidence or other areas of the department.
As it relates to PTSD, there are varying levels of it, and everyone who is exposed to a traumatic incident isn't necessarily impacted in a PTSD type of way. However, counseling is in fact able and capable of helping people become officers, become fit for duty again, when you process the events and recognize, as you said, the idea that this incident was no fault of his own. He was tasked with a job to go in there and do what he was paid to do and he did that. So it's a matter of processing with that particular individual, understanding his path to where he is today and how psychological triggers are formed in his own unique mind so that they can be addressed.
Beyond fear of losing their jobs, police officers aren't known to be open to speaking out about on-the-job issues, even in a private counseling office. How do you break through that "Code of Silence" that you refer to in your book title?
It's ultimately trust. Being able to recognize that working with me, independently of the department, is not going to backfire on them. I think ultimately officers fear being able to disclose some of the challenges that they face on the job because it may get back to their superiors, who will question their ability to do the job.
The reality is that we all, as human beings, have challenges that we face, and we all deal with these challenges remarkably differently. The standard that officers are held to in terms of their integrity is a standard of, "You should be able to handle seeing a dead body, you should be able to handle all the grim stuff that average citizens don't want to deal with."
The reality is that they are human beings, like everyone else. The uniform itself carries no power once that officer wears it.
You've done outreach with community members, as well as your work with police, right?
I started a nonprofit back in 2012 called Achieving Success on Purpose, and what I do through that organization is I educate children from lower sector populations. Currently I've been working out of the Naomi Drenan Rec Center, and I do free chess lessons over there to educate children on the concepts of applying chess to real life; being calculated in how you make decisions as well as developing social and emotional intelligence with the other children who are participating in the program.
I've been doing that since 2012, and I'm also trying to kick-start a robotics club, introducing children in those areas to things that are outside of their current scope or reach.
In what ways do you see connections, if any, between officers and community members on extreme sides of the spectrum, meaning residents who dislike police or officers who have shown a clear bias?
The fear-based concept is, in fact, what I believe is induced in BLET. Officers are exposed to videos with shock value, shoot-or-be-shot scenarios, and these scenarios are designed to put the officer in a fight, flight or freeze moment, and to condition the officer to go into a default to survive the fight with the bad guy or make a calculated decision during that high-stress moment.
Neuroscience tells us that making a calculated decision in a high-stress moment is not possible; you're going to go to an impulsive default. And so law enforcement conditions an officer to address the threat with a "double tap," which is two shots to the midsection, the large part of the body, to disable the threat. That impulsive conditioning designates an "us versus them" mentality, especially in the shock value videos when someone walks up and unexpectedly kills an officer while they're trying to do their job. Then it does become an us versus them.
In the community — their perspective going back to the 1960s with Bull Connor down there in Alabama siccing dogs and water hoses on African American protesters — it's a stain, it's an imprint, a traumatic imprint through generations that law enforcement can't be trusted because: Look at how they've treated our people.
So the people in the community don't have issues, per se, with the officer as an individual, but they have issues with the badge and uniform. And that's what creates the adversarial stance. It's a condition that's created by the historical narratives of the country and the training and the videos and what's perpetuated underneath that.
I've seen you criticize the media's role in that narrative, but it's important to report on cases like the shooting death of Walter Scott, for example, for which former officer Michael Slager was just sentenced. He might not have faced justice if the media had not shared that video.
From my personal experience, after I went through my ordeal in 2009, I saw how that circumstance was reported versus what really occurred. What I took away from it was that the media tends to take a half a truth and present it in such a way that makes one assume that it's the entire truth. When the brain reads something, if there's information missing, the brain wants to create the complete sentence without the information being there. I think the media does an interesting job of being able to present a half-truth, and then that blank space is what's left to question, and based upon the tone of the article, it will go in that direction.
I remember going to trial and being able to testify and that being the most exhilarating thing that I was able to do, because I was finally able to tell my side of the story. I was vindicated because I was able to articulate what actually happened. I had to sit on that for years before I was able to actually do that. That was painful for me, because the whole story wasn't being disclosed, and people were judging me based upon that half-truth.
What do you ultimately hope to accomplish with this book?
My main agenda for writing the book is to create a conversation about the necessity for counseling to be instituted in law enforcement training — throughout a law enforcement officer's career as a mandated program and also even for officers when they retire — to change the perception of a tool that can help. Because right now it's looked upon as something that will, in fact, compromise their ability to work, so officers shun it when it's a tool that can help.
Officers are mandated to go to counseling or see a psychologist following a critical incident or event such as a shooting. They have that in place and that's a great thing, but what about those officers who are struggling silently with the burnout — with the progression of burnout that BLET doesn't prepare them for? How do they get help?
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Tom Kirkman November 5, 2018 in Oil (General)
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Some meaty reading to sink your teeth into.
Yes, I think all of these topics in the title to this thread are related. As well as other items in my next comment below. Please do read both articles in their entirety, otherwise any discussion in this thread may wind up being the sound of one hand clapping.
Excerpt from the first article:
This Major Cover Up Could Wreak Havoc On Global Oil Markets
The decision facing President Donald Trump is not an easy one, a problem not of his own choosing and one that the politically charged president would rather not have to deal with.
To sanction or not sanction Saudi Arabia over the alleged killing last month of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi (that often criticized in his Washington Post columns the royal family and Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman) will dictate U.S.-Saudi relations more than any other development since the 1973 Arab oil embargo that sought to punish Washington and its western allies over its support of Israel in the Yom-Kippur War.
The fallout and disapproval has taken on a life of its own in both diplomatic circles and among global media outlets after news initially broke that Jamal Khashoggi had been killed in the Saudi consultant in Istanbul in early October. Not that politically charged killings are anything new, unfortunately, but the problem in this instance was the inconsistencies in the Saudi narrative from the onset.
... The decision facing President Trump as more developments come forth over Khashoggi’s killing has no easy answer for neither him, the U.S., the Saudis or global oil markets.
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Three Events That Could Change The Face Of America
... The Murder Of Jamal Kashoggi
Few of us had ever heard of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Kashoggi a month ago, and most in the public still have no clue as to the implications of his death. I’m not going to theorize much on the reasons why the Saudi government apparently trapped Kashoggi in their consulate in Istanbul, Turkey and then allegedly tortured him to death. The mainstream theory is that this was punishment for the journalist’s escape from Saudi Arabia and subsequent criticisms of Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the rising dictator within the Saudi regime.
Why did Kashoggi willingly and stupidly enter a Saudi consulate, considered sovereign Saudi soil, when he knew he was a potential target for the government? Why would Saudi agents murder the journalist in such an obvious way and in such an obvious place? If he was such a threat, why not kill him away from a Saudi facility? Why not make it look like a robbery or an accident?
It seems to me that normal procedures for assassination were not followed in the slightest when it came to Jamal Kashoggi. And, as Turkish authorities released information on Saudi involvement, the normal attempts at cover-up by multiple governments were missing. This story could have been muddled in a fog of disinformation leading away from Saudi Arabia, but it wasn’t.
The consequences are immense. The end of diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia could result on the part of Western nations. There is even talk of Prince Salman being removed from power and his “Vision for 2030” economic plan going the way of the dodo. I see this as highly unlikely, though.
While the mainstream misrepresents Salman’s economic plan as a means to make Saudi Arabia less dependent on oil, the Vision for 2030 was primarily about distancing Saudi Arabian oil from dependency on U.S. and Western markets.
The decoupling of the U.S. from Saudi Arabia has been in the making for years. This is not something new, or something that would be decided by the killing of a single Saudi journalist. From the passage of a bill by Congress to make the Saudi government liable for damages during the 9/11 attacks, to Saudi threats to dump $750 billion in U.S. assets (under the Obama Administration), to the Saudi atrocities in Yemen, to the rise of Mohammad bin Salman through extortion, there is no shortage of reasons why the U.S. and Saudi Arabia might end relations.
I am of course talking about mainstream narrative, here. The deeper issue at hand is that globalists are seeking an end to the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency and the petro-currency, and Saudi Arabia is a key catalyst to breaking the dollar’s back in a way that makes it appear as though global banks had nothing to do with the situation.
As I have been pointing out for quite some time, Mohammad bin Salman’s Vision for 2030 is not his vision; it is part of a larger globalist dynamic for a completely centralized world monetary system and economy. Salman’s Vision cor 2030 is bankrolled through his Public Investment Fund (PIF) by well known globalist institutions like the Carlyle Group, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone and Blackrock.
Saudi separation from the U.S. has been ongoing, including far reaching oil trade deals with China and Russia , two countries seeking to remove the dollar in bilateral trade. The moral question of trade relations with a tyranny like Saudi Arabia is not what I am questioning here. I am simply pointing out the US dollar's dependency on petro-status, which is tied inexorably to Saudi oil.
The path has already been set. The murder of Kashoggi and its exposure does not hurt globalist intentions, it actually HELPS them by creating a narrative in which the Saudi move away from the U.S. becomes a product of “random chaos” rather than part of a “vision” funded by globalists. If Prince Salman is removed from the equation (an action I am doubtful will take place), the "Vision for 2030" will continue.
Even with Donald Trump’s apparent apprehension to break aggressively from the Saudis over the issue, Congress has already suggested they will move ahead with actions against the vital oil nation without the White House.
Is this to say that Kashoggi was killed in order to create a geopolitical linchpin to aid globalist schemes for de-dollerization? No. Kashoggi is not that important. But this is certainly an event that the globalists and the media they control seem intent on exploiting, adding weight to a long running plan to divide the US from its key oil partner and thus ending the petro-dollar without any links back to them.
To help set the stage here, this discussion thread is actually a follow-up and an expansion on some of my comments from last week:
That scenario would certainly help explain some of the current political machinations and skullduggery in the region. Once again, a disasterous Middle East mixing of competing hydrocarbon exports and competing religious sects.
Next week is probably going to go to 11 on the global political pressure cooker stovetop, with all sorts of spicy ingredients set to come to a roiling boil:
● U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil bite hard
● U.S. midterm elections complete with caravan / invasion from Central America - violent showdown of some sort will likely be played out live on TV
● Knives are out for MbS in Saudi Arabia, with Turkey among others egging on action after Khashoggi murder
I pretty much expect markets to go bonkers next week, at least until after the U.S. midterm elections are over with, Central America caravan dealt with somehow, MbS stays or goes, and the markets figure out that (in my opinion anyway) Iranian oil will likely just shift to the black markets, but not be removed from global markets.
Stock up on popcorn...
Marina, in my opinion, all of the items I listed above are related, and are deliberately being pushed to the boiling point around the same time.
Next week should prove to be tumultuous no matter how things end up shaking out. But that's just my own opinion (obviously I have a minority viewpoint, but that's nothing new).
And I'm holding my breath about 11th November, expecting some fireworks.
I'll try to remember to check back on this thread after next week is done, around 13th November, to see how far off the mark my comment is here.
So, what is my point in all this?
From what I see going on in the big picture, this is an epic battle between the forces of Globalism + Socialism and the forces of Nationalism + Capitalism.
On the one hand, there is the concerted push for independent countries to eliminate or reduce borders, eliminate or reduce national currencies, and become 1 big globalist, grey, Borg family.
And resisting the globalist Borg Socialism intiative, is a handful of EU states and part of the U.S. (mostly the flyover states).
And the clash of ideologies seems ready to happen this month.
Oil prices will likely go bonkers this week and this month, and even more so if the Khashoggi incident is used as leverage to decouple the U.S. PetroDollar from global oil prices.
● Russia is bypassing the SWIFT banking system.
● China is ramping up its PetroYuan.
● Iran seems ready to go to barter trading for selling its oil.
● Brexit is a question mark.
The list goes on and on, but I'll try to keep this fairly simple..
By the end of this year, I tend to think that this epic battle on the world stage between Globalism + Socialism - vs. - Stronger Borders + Capitalism will have a bit of resolution, with one side gaining ground and the other side losing ground.
The first battle shocks should start happening this week, with U.S. sanctions on Iran ramping up, and the U.S. midterm elections - complete with the deliberately timed caravan / invasion from Central America to the Southern U.S. borders. Also, Brexit in UK getting ready to be decided on.
If the forces of Globalism + Socialism gain the upper hand, I tend to think that the Khashoggi incident will get ramped up to cause more chaos. And a subsequent renewed push away from the PetroDollar for oil.
If the forces of Nationalism + stronger borders / Capitalism gain the upper hand, I expect Brexit to move forward, and the PetroDollar strengthened to last longer to fight another day.
Oh, and @Marina Schwarz I hope you started making popcorn. It's going to be an eventful week.
Marina Schwarz + 1,576
All stocked up and ready to start poppin'.
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On the one hand, there is the concerted push for independent countries to eliminate or reduce borders, eliminate or reduce national currencies, and become 1 big globalist, grey, Borg family.
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And now the waivers for buying Persian oil. I wonder if that's partly a bitch-slap to MBS. Fall into line or see how well your plans work. Start behaving or things won't work out so well.
I don't buy into some master plan globalism, people just don't cooperate that well, but mega money seeks out the easy way and has extensive direct, and indirect lobbying power. Countries with extraction based economies are generally an easy mark. The UN isn't really a party to a global government, just bunch of stooges on most things and are a strong argument against a global government. But for the odd thing, like going after polio, the UN does work. And it's better than the alternative of nothing, or guns.
Always, follow the money. And if they hide the money, probably not a place to trust because stated intent, and actual intent, often different.
On 11/5/2018 at 3:37 PM, Marina Schwarz said:
My update, 1 week later, in the original thread.
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Harris Leads Apartment Design Discussion at MHN-CPE Awards Party
Richard Broder of Broder & Sachse Real Estate discussed the importance of market-rate housing to a city in transition like Detroit at the MHN-CPE Awards Party.
New help for minority developers in Detroit learning the ins and outs of the trade
via Detroit Free Press
JP Morgan Chase backed program created to assist minority developers in Detroit
New $5 Million Program Helps Black Developers Rebuild Detroit
via Black Enterprise
African American real estate developers in Detroit will get financing and training opportunities to grow their businesses courtesy of a $5 million program being offered by Capital Impact Partners.
First look inside the Coe in West Village
October 24, 2017 via Curbed Detroit
The first new construction mixed-use development in the neighborhood in decades…Check out these photos!
Broder & Sachse: Eating the elephant, one bite at a time
October 8, 2017 via Crain's Detroit Business
Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services Inc. used strategic planning tools to help the company end its third-party property management contracts and concentrate on property development.
The Case for Connection
October 3, 2017 via Professional Builder
In new multifamily projects, forging a sense of community helps attract renters and buyers. Multifamily developments nationwide are attracting interest with amenities and a sense of belonging.
These Are The Secrets From “Best Places To Work” Any Company Can Use
October 2, 2017 via Fast Company
Broder & Sachse Real Estate’s Director of People & Perks, Myra Ebarb, tells Fast Company what it takes to be named a best place to work!
Broder & Sachse’s The Scott at Brush Park wins industry honors
December 4, 2017 via REJournals.com
Broder & Sachse Real Estate’s and co-developer Woodborn Partners’ Midtown Detroit property The Scott at Brush Park has earned a gold award in the category of Development & Design: Community Impact and a silver award in the category of Best Development.
Three tips for retailers entering nontraditional spaces
December 1, 2017 via Chain Store Age
As vertical mixed-use developments flourish and towns and cities pursue redevelopment as a way to revitalize their civic centers, retailers find themselves presented with abundant opportunities to seek expansion in “nontraditional” urban spaces. First-floor retail beneath residential or office space can be an ideal fit for urban mixed-use projects.
Renters by Choice Drive Soaring Demand for Multifamily Housing
To appeal to a wide range of buyers, new multifamily housing provides amenities, community, and luxuries large and small
La Lanterna Launches Brunch Menu
September 22, 2017 via Michigan Chronicle
Italian restaurant La Lanterna now offers a brunch menu from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m…
La Lanterna Started Brunching
September 11, 2017 via Daily Detroit
On Sunday, La Lanterna started brunch service. That’s an Northern Italian restaurant that’s been revived after a 40 year hiatus in a retail spot in Capitol Park.
10 New Metro Detroit Brunches to Try Right Now, September 2017
September 8, 2017 via Eater Detroit
Ready to break out of your standard brunch routine? Consider this your roadmap to exploring the most exciting new brunch spots in town. Whether it’s a new restaurant or an old favorite with a fresh service, the Detroit Brunch Heatmap updates regularly to highlight spots where the crowds are flocking to at the moment.
Broder & Sachse Acquires Orchestra Place in Detroit’s Midtown District
June 30, 2017 via DBusiness
Birmingham-based development company Broder & Sachse has acquired Orchestra Place in Detroit’s Midtown district. Located at 3663 Woodward Ave., the five-story, Class A building was owned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, which is housed in Orchestra Hall one block north on Woodward.
Strategic Management in Downtown Detroit
June 29, 2017 via MultiHousing News
After more than 20 years, Broder & Sachse ended most of its third-party property management contracts to concentrate mostly on property development. CEO Rich Broder discusses company’s strategy and the state of multifamily in the Detroit area.
Bird Bee Boutique Opens Today in The Albert in Detroit
May 25, 2017 via DBusiness
After operating as a pop-up and an online retailer, clothing and accessories boutique Bird Bee today opens its first brick and mortar location at The Albert in Detroit’s Capitol Park. The soft opening will begin at 5 p.m., followed by a grand opening on Thursday, June 1 from 5-8 p.m., where shoppers can enjoy refreshments
New businesses open in Eastern Market, Capitol Park, West Village
Capitol Park Bird Bee Boutique is the latest business to open at the Albert in Capitol Park. Broder & Sachse Real Estate announced the soft opening May 25 at 5 p.m., with a grand opening celebration June 1 from 5 to 8 p.m. According to a release, “Bird Bee showcases a unique West-Coast-meets-Midwest fusion, selling
Bird Bee Opens Brick And Mortar Store In Capitol Park Thursday
via Daily Detroit
Capitol Park is gaining a new boutique this week. Bird Bee will be opening their doors on Thursday, May 25 for a soft opening. The women’s clothing and accessories store will be located on the ground floor of The Albert. Taylor Bolleber started Bird Bee as an online business and made a name for herself
Hip Boutique for hip women opens Thursday in downtown Detroit
Good news for downtown Detroit shoppers in search of trendy clothing for trendy women. Bird Bee, an independent clothing and accessories store for women, is to open at 5 p.m. Thursday in the Albert (formerly the Griswold Building) in Capitol Park. Featuring young-looking casual dresses, rompers, jeans, skirts and blouses — they practically scream millennial —
The Carter Snell Skin Center – The first retail tenant opens in The Scott at Brush Park
May 17, 2017 via Haute Is...Magazine
Family, friends and guests came out in mass to celebrate the grand opening of the latest entrepreneurial spirit gracing Detroit within the newly developed apartment complex, The Scott at Brush Park. The Carter Snell Skin Center is the dream project of Dr. Brittany Carter-Snell a dual board certified dermatologist and internal medicine physician. A native
Elizabeth Kmetz Named Vice President of Commercial Asset Management & Construction at Broder & Sachse Real Estate
Birmingham-based development company Broder & Sachse recently announced that executive team member Elizabeh Kmetz has been promoted to vice president of commercial asset management and construction. In her role, Kmetz will be responsible for managing property operations, construction, renovations, and capital improvement projects, complex financials, acquisitions, and dispositions. Her changed title reflects a shift made
Michigan’s Broder & Sachse names VP of commercial asset management
via Midwest Real Estate News
Elizabeth Kmetz has been promoted to vice president of commercial asset management and construction at Birmingham, Michigan-based Broder & Sachse Real Estate. Kmetz is now responsible for managing property operations, construction, renovation and capital improvement projects. Formerly serving as the director of commercial property management at Broder & Sachse, a position she took in 2014,
The First Tenant Inside The New Scott At Brush Park Is Open
May 11, 2017 via Daily Detroit
The first tenant at The Scott at Brush Park has officially opened their doors for business.
Dr. Carter-Snell Opens Skin Center at The Scott
May 8, 2017 via B.L.A.C. Detroit
Skin cancer rates have continued to increase in the United States, despite most people knowing that they should wear a hat, use sunscreen and avoid indoor tanning. The American Cancer Society projects there will be 2,780 new cases and 290 deaths due to melanoma in Michigan in 2017; however, Dr. Brittany Carter-Snell says she’s devoted
Downtown Detroit Becomes More Appealing
via GlobeSt.
Big changes are underway in Detroit’s remarkably tight apartment market, as the city’s core becomes a more attractive place to live.
Historic Renovations Help Bring Back CBD
Developers have transformed the office market of Detroit’s CBD by renovating dozens of underutilized buildings and attracting hundreds of firms. But the now-vibrant office market has also sent ripple effects through the residential and retail sectors. The downtown has thousands of new apartments, and much like the CBD’s new office spaces, most are historic renovations
May 4, 2017 via Shopping Center Business
From development slowdowns to property management challenges, the perils of a recessionary cycle are well documented. What is less well understood (and often overlooked) are the structural problems and difficulties that can arise with a booming economy. Obviously, there is no developer or property manager that prefers a slowdown to a robust period of growth
La Lanterna to debut Wednesday in Capitol Park
April 12, 2017 via Detroit Free Press
Located on the first floor of the Albert building, the new La Lanterna will debut softly at 3 p.m. with daily dinner service and a menu of Neapolitan-style brick oven pizzas, salads, paninis, pastas and other classic Italian entrees.
Cranes are in the neighborhoods as the Coe takes shape in West Village
A long vacant piece of land has seen a lot of activity in the past few months in West Village. After an official announcement for investment in strategic neighborhoods last fall, work has picked up at the site of the Coe Development at Coe and Van Dyke.
New bakery coming to Midtown Detroit this summer
March 7, 2017 via Local 4
A new bakery, For the Love of Sugar, is scheduled to open this summer in Midtown Detroit. The company announced that it will open at 3150 Woodward Avenue and offer a wide range of baked goods with a focus on macaroons and specialty made-to-order cakes in a variety of flavors, including Nutella, Ferrero Rocher and
There’s A Bakery Opening On Woodward And They’re Hiring
The pace of Woodward Avenue development is quickening, sometimes with small and sometimes with large developments as we get closer to the opening of the Q-LINE. One of those developments is the opening planned for this summer of “For The Love Of Sugar,” a specialty bakery owned by Manal Hussein. It’s going to open in The
Bakery Bringing Macarons and Specialty Cakes to The Scott in Brush Park
Brush Park’s shiny new mixed-used development The Scott just landed a new tenant. Specialty cake shop and bakery, For The Love Of Sugar, is poised to fill a 1,500-square-foot space on the ground floor of the luxury apartment building, according to a release. Owner Manal Hussein plans to bring a wide range of sweets to
Bakery Focusing on Macaroons and Cakes Coming to Detroit’s Brush Park
For the Love of Sugar, a bakery focusing on macaroons and made-to-order cakes, is scheduled to open this summer at 3150 Woodward Ave. at The Scott At Brush Park apartment building in Detroit. The 1,500-square-foot bakery will do cakes in such flavors as Nutella, Forrero Rocher chocolate and Fruity Pebbles. It will also offer coffee and healthy
Broder & Sachse’s newest commercial partners named to top spring openings in Detroit by After 5 Detroit
March 3, 2017 via After 5 Detroit
What better way to kick off the spring than with restaurant openings, specialty coffee and even something special for your dog? Read on for openings and announcements coming to the Detroit area this Spring. La Lanterna Detroit’s old Italian restaurant, La Lanterna, is headed back to the city, and this time it’s heading for the Albert
City Bark pet boutique opens Friday in downtown Detroit
February 24, 2017 via Crain's Detroit Business
Even pets are getting in on Detroit’s resurgence. City Bark pet boutique officially opens its doors in downtown Detroit’s Capitol Park at 11 a.m. Friday. The store is moving from its original Grosse Pointe location to a 1,250-square-foot space in The Albert building, at 1222 Griswold St. Jamie Judson, 27, owner of City Bark and
City Bark Pet Boutique Opens Friday in Capital Park
February 23, 2017 via DBusiness
Detroiters now have another option when purchasing food and accessories for their four-legged friends, as Birmingham-based development company Broder and Sachse Real Estate announced The Albert’s newest tenant, City Bark, will open Friday. Located at 1222 Griswold St. in Detroit’s Capitol Park, the pet boutique will offer gourmet food and other pet products.
‘City Bark’ Pet Boutique Opens Friday in Detroit’s Capitol Park
A pet boutique, City Bark, holds its grand opening Friday in The Albert at 1214 Griswold in Detroit’s Capitol Park. Doors open at 11 a.m. The 1,250-square-foot, pet-friendly store will feature 15 different types of dog and cat food, as well as a freezer section to serve raw bones and pet treats.
Pet Boutique City Bark to Open in Capitol Park
Downtown pet owners will have a new option soon for all their boutique pet needs. City Bark, which is pet-friendly, is opening in a storefront in the Albert at Capitol Park this weekend. The Grand Opening Friday, February 24 at 11 a.m. will have beer from HopCat and treats for guests and pets. Pets who
City Bark Pet Boutique Opens This Friday, Feb. 24 with Beverages & Bandanas
Downtown Detroit is getting a new pet boutique. City Bark will celebrate its grand opening in The Albert at Capitol Park this week, with doors officially opening at 11 a.m. on Feb. 24. City Bark is the latest retail store to open its doors in The Albert, located at 1214 Griswold. The 1,250-square-foot City Bark
Broder & Sachse Real Estate CEO to speak at Detroit Commercial Real Estate Summit
February 17, 2017 via REJournals.com
Broder & Sachse Real Estate chief executive officer Richard Broder will share his perspective on Detroit developments at the third annual Detroit Commercial Real Estate Summit, where he will serve as a panelist in a session on Detroit’s game-changing projects.
Broder & Sachse names Lee Hurwitz president
A prominent Birmingham-based development company has named Lee Hurwitz as its new president. Hurwitz, who has risen up the ranks since joining the company in 1996, was previously CIO for Broder & Sachse Real Estate, which is helmed by CEO Richard Broder.
New apartment building in Midtown Detroit wows a crowd at grand opening
January 24, 2017 via Detroit Jewish News
The second-floor deck of The Scott at Brush Park on Woodward Avenue features a stainless-steel swimming pool, hot tub, outdoor kitchen, fire pit and heated floors against the backdrop of Midtown Detroit.
Take a look inside The Coe at West Village
January 23, 2017 via Crain's Detroit Business
The Coe at West Village real estate project offered a look at what the interior of its housing units will look like as it works on the development in the rapidly evolving Detroit neighborhood east of downtown.
New Go! Sy Thai location to hold grand opening
January 20, 2017 via MLive
A new Thai restaurant hosting its grand opening on Friday is offering guests a meal voucher for future use and a chance to win party trays. Go! Sy Thai is opening its doors at 11 a.m. inside The Albert in Downtown Detroit’s Capitol Park at 1214 Griswold St. The Albert is a 127-unit, 12-story luxury apartment complex that
Go! Sy Thai to open at The Albert
Go! Sy Thai will open its second Detroit location Friday in The Albert at Capitol Park. Go! Sy Thai is the fast casual branch of the Sy Thai family sit-down restaurants, founded in 1993 in Birmingham.
Fifth Sy Thai Restaurant Opens Friday in Capitol Park as Detroit’s Second Location
Thai food fans this week gain a second Detroit site of Sy Thai, which joins the move-downtown trend. Its fifth restaurant opens Friday in Capitol Park. This Go! Sy Thai location on the street level of The Albert apartments, 1214 Griswold St., is a fast-casual version of the sit-down original in Birmingham since 1993.
Go! Sy Thai Swings Open in Capitol Park on Friday
The anticipated downtown outpost of fast-casual mini chain Go! Sy Thai will throw open its doors on January 20 in Capitol Park, co-owner Gowhnou Lee tells Eater. The restaurant, which was originally slated to debut last fall, is located on the ground floor of The Albert near Dessert Oasis Coffee and Detroit Bikes.
Go! Sy Thai Will Open Second Detroit Location In Capitol Park This Friday
The developers behind The Albert, a luxury apartment building on Griswold street in Capitol Park, have been busy filling up their retail spaces as of late. Today we got word that the planned Thai restaurant, Go! Sy Thai, will open this Friday, January 20.
Here’s what the interior of The Coe at West Village will look like
One development we’re keeping an eye on this year is the Coe at West Village, which will have eight walk-up row-houses along Coe, street-level retail spaces along Van Dyke, and four residential apartments above the retail shops. While shovels are currently in the ground at the construction site, we have a sneak peek at what the
The Scott – Upscale Urban Apartment Living In Brush Park Detroit
January 11, 2017 via Haute Is...Magazine
New and exciting modes of living are transitioning every day; Detroit is no exception to the crush of expansion with housing developments aimed at bringing more people to the downtown Detroit area. No exception is The Scott a beautiful multi-tiered apartment complex located at 3150 Woodward Avenue in Brush Park. The Scott offers upscale living
Detroit Developers Move Beyond The CBD
January 4, 2017 via GlobeSt.
Officials from Broder & Sachse Real Estate have just opened the doors at The Scott at Brush Park, a high-end mixed-use development on Woodward Ave. and Erskine St. in Detroit’s Midtown area, the first of its kind in the city, and many here hope it’s the start of something big for the neighborhoods surrounding the
The Scott at Brush Park Mixed-Use Development Opens in Detroit
January 3, 2017 via Shopping Center Business
The residential portion of The Scott at Brush Park offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units with amenities including a 24-hour concierge service, dry cleaning, stations for pet grooming and a fitness center.
Broder & Sachse, Woodborn Partners Open $65M Mixed-Use Development in Detroit
via Heartland Real Estate Business
Co-developers Broder & Sachse Real Estate and Woodborn Partners have opened The Scott at Brush Park, a mixed-use development in Detroit’s midtown neighborhood. The building features 199 luxury apartments and 15,000 square feet of retail space.
Detroit High-End Mixed-Use Development Opens
December 29, 2016 via Multi-Housing News
The Scott at Brush Park, a 199-unit high-end mixed-use development in Detroit, co-developed by Broder & Sachse Real Estate and Woodborn Partners, has opened its doors. “The city of Detroit has been making a comeback and redevelopment in Detroit has finally reached a point where it can attract and support specialized services and luxury homes typically
Mixed-use development The Scott at Brush Park opens in Detroit
December 28, 2016 via Midwest Real Estate News
The Scott at Brush Park, a high-end mixed-use development on Woodward Avenue and Erskine Street in Detroit, opened its doors to residents this month. The development features 199 residential units and five retail and restaurant tenants. Broder & Sachse Real Estate chief executive officer Richard Broder and Sachse Construction chief executive officer Todd Sachse welcomed
Downtown Detroit mixed-use property opens
via Chain Store Age
The comeback of downtown Detroit, led by the expansive District Detroit project under construction, was advanced this week with the opening of The Scott at Brush Park. The upscale, mixed-use development of Broder & Sachse Real Estate and Sachse Construction is located about eight blocks north of District Detroit on Woodward Avenue.
Bird Bee Boutique opening first storefront in The Albert at Capitol Park
Bird Bee first opened in 2015, with sales limited to online and pop-up events and markets. The 1,600-square-foot retail space in The Albert at Capitol Park will be the West Coast/Midwest fusion’s first brick-and-mortar location, a permanent home for their “West Coast meets Midwest” clothing, jewelry, and accessories.
Bird Bee women’s clothing, accessories store to open in The Albert
December 20, 2016 via Crain's Detroit Business
Bird Bee LLC is opening in Capitol Park’s The Albert this spring. The women’s clothing and accessories store is leasing 1,600 square feet in the property at 1214 Griswold St. in Capitol Park, according to a press release from Birmingham-based Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services Inc., which completed the redevelopment on the building in
Photos: A first look at The Scott at Brush Park
The progress of The Scott at Brush Park construction has been followed throughout the year, starting with a walk through of the early progress in March, and again in September. Broder & Sachse had a firm December 1 opening deadline, and they stuck to it. New residents started moving into the luxury apartments last week, and Curbed
A peek at how gambling on The Scott at Brush Park paid off
December 8, 2016 via Crain's Detroit Business
Richard Broder and Todd Sachse took a big gamble on The Scott at Brush Park, spending at least $10 million on it before they had closed on their financing; $2 million had been spent before they even owned the land at Woodward and Erskine, said Sachse, CEO of Detroit-based Sachse Construction, the project’s general contractor.
The Rise of the Urban ‘Lifestyle Community’
December 5, 2016 via Multifamily Executive
In urban settings across the country, the residential landscape is evolving to respond to the priorities and preferences of a population that’s increasingly focused on multifamily options that emphasize amenities, conveniences, and social engagement. Millennials and empty-nesters alike share an affinity for services and socialization options designed to suit their lifestyles. At a time when more
Broder & Sachse shifts away from third-party property management
November 17, 2016 via Crain's Detroit Business
Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services Inc. is ending most of its third-party property management contracts to concentrate instead on property development. The Birmingham-based company has been active in downtown Detroit in recent years, developing The Scott at Brush Park apartments, due to open next month, and The Albert apartments in Capitol Park, among others. “We
$65M apartments open Dec. 1 to meet ‘unmatched demand’ in Detroit
November 16, 2016 via MLive.com
The Scott at Brush Park will signal a new era in Detroit when it opens Dec. 1 for its first residents. With a $65 million pricetag and nearly 200 apartments over retail space and underground parking, the project adds a wave of newly constructed homes to Midtown. High ceilings add a loft feel, while an open
Midtown: ‘No sign of oversupply’ as 3,600 new apartments and condos planned in Detroit
via MLive.com
Midtown stood alone in Detroit for much of the past decade as the place that attracted new residents, new housing and new investment in a city that sought renaissance for generations. Today, that district – located north of downtown in the heart of the cultural and medical center – is poised for the changes coming
New life in Detroit: The Scott at Brush Park
November 10, 2016 via Midwest Real Estate News
By: Dan Rafter The Scott at Brush Park is an important project for downtown Detroit. The $65 million, 200,000-square-foot five-story mixed-use development will bring 199 new apartment units to the city when it opens later this year. For Todd Sachse, chief executive officer and founder of Detroit-based Sachse Construction, the project is yet more proof
Restaurant slated to open at The Scott at Brush Park in August
October 14, 2016 via Crain's Detroit Business
The yet-to-be-named restaurant, with a concept still under development, is being opened by restaurateurs Michael Abrams and Brian Adelman of Bloomfield Hills, along with David Pittaway of New York City. The trio own 30 Five Guys Burgers and Fries in Michigan and Illinois, with two more under construction, as well as the sports bar Mr.
New Bar and Restaurant Will Open in The Scott at Brush Park Next Year
via Detroit Eater
The Scott at Brush Park, the new five-story apartment building on Woodward and Erskine, announced its first restaurant on the northwest corner of the ground floor. The 4,500-square-foot bistro will have a full bar and a diverse menu. No word yet on what that menu might be.
The Scott complex to add new restaurant to Brush Park
Along with 200 units of market-rate housing, The Scott at Brush Park will also hold a bistro on the ground floor, adding yet another restaurant to Woodward near the Little Caesars Arena development.
Grosse Pointe’s ‘City Bark’ Pet Product Shop Opening in Detroit
September 30, 2016 via Deadline Detroit
City Bark, a Grosse Pointe shop which describes itself as a “unique, one-of-a-kind pet product retailer,” and offers home delivery of pet food, plans to open a store at The Albert, 1214 Griswold, in Capitol Park in downtown Detroit.
Pet products retailer City Bark to open in The Albert
Pet products retailer City Bark will open in The Albert in Detroit’s Capitol Park early next year. This will be the Grosse Pointe-based retailer’s second store. City Bark will open in a 1,250-square-foot space at 1214 Griswold St.
Grosse Pointe’s City Bark to Open Location in Detroit’s Capitol Park
Grosse Pointe-based City Bark, a boutique pet product retailer, will open its first Detroit location in The Albert at Capitol Park in early 2017.
Teen retailer Five Below opening Midland store
September 27, 2016 via mlive.com
Birmingham-based Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services, a full-service property management and development company, has completed a 10,500-square-foot lease on the retailer’s behalf, according to a Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services news release.
5 Below opening store near Kohl’s
September 23, 2016 via Midland Daily News
5 Below, a rapidly growing specialty value retailer that says it offers a broad range of trendy, high-quality merchandise targeted at the teen and pre-teen customer, is opening a store near Kohl’s and Ulta Beauty in Midland.
Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services Obtains Management of Pick-Wick Shopping Center in Warren
September 15, 2016 via Patch.com
Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services, a Birmingham-based, full-service property management and development company, announced today that it has obtained management of the Pick-Wick Shopping Center located at 12 Mile and Schoenherr in Warren, Mich. Broder & Sachse President John Hamburger made the announcement.
The Scott at Brush Park: Inside Detroit’s new luxury apartments
September 12, 2016 via Curbed Detroit
The project is on schedule and slated to open for residents December 1. The ground floor retail space will be ready at a later date, but at least one restaurant has signed a lease. We recently toured a few of the apartments with Richard Broder and the leasing team in this high-end development.
Broder & Sachse named one of Crain’s “Cool Places to Work”
August 29, 2016 via Crain's Detroit Business
From leadership training to time-off policies to wellness perks, read what makes these companies stand out among Michigan employers, as determined by a survey of their workforces.
Market Profile: Detroit’s new model is revved and ready to roll (By Richard Broder)
August 15, 2016 via Chain Store Age
To understand the current state of the Detroit real estate market, and to appreciate how and why Detroit is such a hot market today, we have to look to the past. Historical context is crucial here because, more than most cities, the story of Detroit is the story of a city shaped by its past.
First look inside The Scott at Brush Park
August 9, 2016 via The Detroit News
The rooftop pool, year-round outdoor spa, private library, lounge and rooftop terrace will all be finished by the time residents move into The Scott at Brush Park in December, the latest high-end apartment building to go up in Detroit.
Downtown Detroit apartment rents rise 7 percent
July 22, 2016 via Detroit News
Apartment rents in Detroit’s hot downtown housing market have soared 7 percent since last fall. Since 2013, average rents are up by more than 11 percent.
French-style Bistro to Open This Month at Courtyard Shops in Ann Arbor
July 20, 2016 via dbusiness
Mikette, a French-style bistro that features plates inspired by the culture of Marseille, France, will open this month near the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Italian Eatery Revived in Capitol Park’s Albert Building
July 18, 2016 via Detroit Eater
Downtown’s Capitol Park area is awash with development and open commercial spaces are filling up quickly. The Detroit Free Press reports that the Da Edoardo restaurant group, operators of Foxtown Grille, Cafe Nini, and more, will revive its founding restaurant, La Lanterna, in the Albert Building.
Italian Restaurant To Open In Capitol Park, Name Has Historic Roots To City
Everything old is new again – and the Capitol Park section of downtown, that was in recent memory served in part as a DDOT bus turnaround, is in the middle of a full-on investment binge.
Long-gone Detroit Italian restaurant plans a comeback
La Lanterna, a long-gone restaurant from Detroit’s past, is primed to make a comeback near its former location when it opens on the first floor of the Albert building in Capitol Park later this year.
The Scott: Broder & Sachse’s New Development In Detroit’s Brush Park
July 1, 2016 via Detroit Jewish News
Richard Broder and Todd Sachse, both of whom attend Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, are contributing to that rebirth. The duo has co-owned Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services for 23 years, but this year marks a unique moment. Along with local architecture firm Neumann Smith, they are creating the first ground-up construction project Brush
50 Names to Know in Detroit Real Estate
June 29, 2016 via Crain's Detroit Business
The dealmakers. The landlords. The developers. The financiers. The people who make things happen in metro Detroit’s commercial real estate scene. Here’s our selection of the people whose phone numbers you need on your speed dial – and how they play when they play houses and hotels on the Monopoly board at home.
American bistro planned for the Scott at Brush Park
June 20, 2016 via The Detroit News
An American-style bistro is being planned for the first floor of the northwest corner of the Scott at Brush Park. The luxury five-story apartment complex is expected to be finished before the end of the year.
Detroit renaissance continues with ‘The Scott’
May 26, 2016 via Chain Store Age
The latest chapter in Detroit’s ongoing real estate revival is being written by a $65 million mixed-use project called The Scott at Brush Park, which features 199 luxury residences and roughly 15,000-sq.-ft. of ground-floor retail and restaurant uses.
Richard Broder named finalist in EY Entrepreneur of the Year
May 25, 2016 via The Oakland Press
Richard Broder, CEO of Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services was named a finalist in the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2016 Award for Michigan and Northwest Ohio region.
Go! Sy Thai restaurant to open Capitol Park location this fall
May 19, 2016 via Crain's Detroit Business
Go! Sy Thai is expected to open its second location in Capitol Park in the fall. The 29-seat restaurant is expected to employ approximately 25 full- and part-time workers in its new location in The Albert apartment development.
Go! Sy Thai Adding Downtown Fast-Casual Outpost
May 17, 2016 via Detroit Eater
Fast-casual Thai food empire Go! Sy Thai is headed to downtown’s Capitol Park area. Metro Times reports that the latest restaurant outpost is slated for the Albert Building, alongside fellow tenants Dessert Oasis Coffee and Detroit Bikes. Sy Thai will have a relatively small footprint with seating for 29 diners and an abbreviated menu to match.
Go! Sy Thai to Open Another Detroit Location
The Birmingham-based restaurant group Sy Thai will expand with the opening of its second fast-casual concept in Detroit, called Go! Sy Thai, in The Albert apartment complex in downtown Detroit this fall.
Go! Sy Thai to expand in The Albert in downtown’s Capitol Park
Fans of Go! Sy Thai will be pleased with this news. The fast-casual spot is expanding to include a second location in downtown’s Capitol Park neighborhood.
Broder & Sachse CEO Among Top Entrepreneur Finalists
CEO Richard Broder of Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services is a regional finalist for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2016 Award.
Mixed-Use Fits The Market
As the city of Detroit’s downtown real estate revitalization continues, headline projects serve as way-points on the path to progress. The latest development to make headlines is The Scott at Brush Park, a $65 million, five-story mixed-use development that includes 199 high-end residences and approximately 15,000-square-feet of first floor retail and restaurant space.
City Slickers – Moving to the Motor City is on the rise
April 1, 2016 via Ambassador Magazine
For those who want to be in the heart of it all that’s happening, Detroit’s rental market is better than ever as the selection of new and newly renovated apartments continues to expand. View Page 72/73
11 Projects Happening In Detroit That Are Not The New Red Wings Arena
March 26, 2016 via Daily Detroit
If you still think the only thing worth visiting in Detroit are the sports teams, think again. The area within a few miles of the in-progress arena has more cranes and construction equipment than in recent memory.
Milner Arms apartments in Midtown sells to Broder & Sachse
March 25, 2016 via Crain's Detroit Business
The 93-unit, eight-story Milner Armsapartment building in Detroit has a new owner. An entity affiliated with Birmingham-based Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services closed on the purchase of the building on the south end of Midtown, at 40 Davenport St. just west of Woodward Avenue on the north side of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on Tuesday.
The Scott at Brush Park – WDIV Detroit
March 23, 2016 via WDIV Detroit
Watch coverage of The Scott at Brush Park on WDIV Local 4 Detroit
‘The Scott’ Will Bring Apartments, Retail To Midtown
March 22, 2016 via CBS Detroit
DETROIT (WWJ) — In a continued effort to revitalize downtown Detroit, new apartments along with retail stores are slated to open in December along Woodward at the south end of Midtown.
The Scott at Brush Park project breaks ground Monday
via Fox 2 Detroit
Watch, as The Scott at Brush Park project breaks ground Monday
Inside The Scott at Brush Park
A “groundbroken” ceremony took place yesterday for The Scott at Brush Park, the $65 million, 200,000-square-foot, five story mixed-use development slated to open by the end of the year. We were there for a sneak peek and some exclusive pictures.
The Scott at Brush Park project to be complete by December
March 21, 2016 via Crains Detroit Business
A new apartment development with 199 units for rent and approximately 15,000 square feet of retail space at Woodward Avenue and Erskine is expected to be complete by December. Mayor Mike Duggan, executives from Birmingham-based project developer Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services Inc. and others spoke Monday morning during a media event…
Duggan celebrates progress at Scott at Brush Park
With so many of downtown Detroit’s empty buildings already being renovated, developers have begun to build ground-up projects to meet rising demand for apartments and retail shops. On Monday, Mayor Mike Duggan and other business and civic leaders celebrated one such project, the $65-million Scott at Brush Park mixed-use project.
$65M Detroit apartments to open with pool, spa, retail by December
DETROIT – People and business are moving downtown in droves, and the 200,000-square-foot Scott at Brush Park development will provide part of that horde with a place to live.
Detroit Offers an Urban Lifestyle With Affordable Luxury Homes
March 10, 2016 via Wall Street Journal
Driven by young professionals and empty nesters, sales of luxury homes in the Motor City are up 107% since 2008. Click here to view PDF of full article
Todd Sachse on WJR
February 26, 2016 via WJR News/Talk Radio
Sachse Construction’s CEO Todd Sachse was recently featured on WJR! In this interview, Todd discusses The Scott at Brush Park, Detroit’s renaissance, and the increasing need for skilled trades.
Interior renderings show big Detroit apartment complex before late 2016 opening
February 23, 2016 via MLive
“The Scott at Brush Park will be a landmark project for Detroit, providing a new lifestyle experience not currently available anywhere else in the city.” Check out The Scott on @Mlive.com today!
Here’s what an apartment in The Scott at Brush Park project is planned to look like
Crain’s Detroit Business previewed The Scott’s latest renderings Friday as a sneak peek into what the apartment’s interior will look like!
Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services named best company to work for
January 19, 2016 via REjournals.com
Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services in Birmingham, Michigan, has been selected as a “National 2015 Best and Brightest Company to Work For” by the National Association for Business Resources (NABR). Broder & Sachse chief executive officer Richard Broder made the announcement.
It’s boom time for developments in heart of Detroit
January 8, 2016 via The Detroit News
For the area known as greater downtown Detroit, 2016 is expected to be the kind of year city leaders have dreamed of and worked toward since the 1967 riots.
Dessert Oasis Coffee Roasters celebrates their grand opening in The Albert in Capitol Park
January 7, 2016 via WXYZ TV - Detroit
Dessert Oasis Coffee Roasters celebrates their grand opening in The Albert in Capitol Park! Our CEO Richard Broder, and Dessert Oasis Co-Owner Nathan Hamood, appeared in-studio with WXYZ yesterday morning to share details about the event
Rochester-based Dessert Oasis plans grand opening of Detroit location in Capitol Park
Rochester-based Dessert Oasis Coffee Roasters is set to open its second location, in Detroit, in Capitol Park on Jan. 7. The specialty coffee and dessert cafe will also feature live music in 2,600 square feet in The Albert building at 1214 Griswold St. It will have room for 80 customers and employ nine people.
Downtown Detroit MF Market Tightens
July 29, 2015 via GlobeSt.com
According to a recent Detroit market study published by Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services, downtown Detroit is at a 98% occupancy for rentable housing, with neighborhoods such as Grand Circus Park and the CBD at 99%.
The Scott at Brush Park in Detroit offering challenge to developers
June 16, 2015 via MLive
Broder and Sachse Real Estate Services are operating on all ends of the development spectrum in Detroit, tying everything together with an upscale touch. That’s offering a welcome challenge, according to company owner Richard Broder.
Work on $61.3 million mixed-use project in Brush Park to begin this summer
June 9, 2015 via Crain's Detroit Business
Apartment units to range from below $900 to $2,900 in the Broder & Sachse, Woodborn Partners development at Woodward Avenue and Erskine Street.
Brush Park housing development in Detroit could break ground soon
via MLive
Amid the bustle of M-1 Rail and the new Detroit Red Wings Arena, Detroit’s Brush Park neighborhood will soon see a few big housing developments.
Another new housing development aims for Brush Park
June 8, 2015 via The Detroit News
Brush Park, a once elegant and now sparse neighborhood, may get three new housing developments that could potentially add more than 1,000 residents to the historic community just north of downtown.
Updated renderings released for Detroit’s next high-end apartment complex
March 24, 2015 via MLive
After renderings and reports began to trickle out, Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services, Inc. Tuesday released updated renderings and information on “The Scott @ Brush Park.”
More higher-end apartments planned for Midtown Detroit
A new Midtown Detroit apartment complex along Woodward Avenue is scheduled to break ground this summer and target mid- to higher-end income renters a short walk from the future arena district and near future stops on the forthcoming M-1 Rail line.
Broder and Sachse attributes growth to attention to detail
March 18, 2015 via The Sunday Oakland Press
Responsiveness key to Broder & Sachse’s explosive growth
March 8, 2015 via Observer and Eccentric Newspaper
Inherent in every business are milestones that — if achieved — can accelerate the company’s growth and profitability. Broder & Sachse has attained such a landmark: The property management arm is now managing more than 10,000 apartment units in nine states across the U.S.
Birmingham Property Management Firm Hits Milestone
Broder & Sachse, a property management firm, has more than 10,000 apartment units in nine states across the nation, an increase from the 1,200 units the company was managing in 2010 when it made the decision to grow the business.
Detroit’s The Albert redevelopment working to meet needs in changing Capitol Park
With Detroit Bikes set to be the first retail tenant at The Albert in Detroit’s Capitol Park by April, Richard Broder, Broder & Sachse CEO, said the nearly 11,000 square feet of remaining retail space at the mixed-use development will be filled to meet the needs of the area.
Detroit Bikes to open first retail shop on ground floor of The Albert in Capitol Park
Detroit Bikes LLC will be the first retail tenant on the ground floor of The Albert apartment building in Capitol Park when it opens its first retail outlet in 1,600 square feet there in the spring.
Fun and stylish Albert highlights architect’s design
The Albert … it’s fun and funky, stylish and cool and truly representative of the renaissance that’s happening in downtown Detroit.
Broder & Sachse Names New Director
Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services has hired Elizabeth Kmetz as director of Commercial Property Management.
See inside Detroit’s swanky $8 million Albert Kahn building redevelopment in Capitol Park
December 30, 2014 via MLive
Richard Broder, owner of Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services, said that every surface inside the The Albert was retouched during a seven-month, $8 redevelopment, and that’s crafted the 1929 building into one of the finest places to live in the city.
Rents keep going up in greater downtown Detroit
December 11, 2014 via The Detroit Free Press
People continue to write bigger rent checks for the chance to live in or around downtown Detroit, with some mainstream rents at levels once reserved for penthouses and other ultra-luxurious spaces.
Broder & Sachse is again named one of Metro Detroit’s Best & Brightest Companies to work for
November 5, 2014 via 101 Best & Brightest
The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For™ competition identifies and honors organizations that display a commitment to excellence in their human resource practices and employee enrichment.
Detroit’s Capital Park Undergoes Rebirth
July 23, 2014 via WDIV Local 4
It’s no longer, “when are they going to tear that down?” Now it’s, “when are they going to rehab that?” Detroit sees another downtown neighborhood get revitalized.
Broder & Sachse Expands on Strength of Multi-family Biz
July 15, 2014 via Metro Mode
Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services experienced a significant spike in growth in 2013, thanks in large part to company’s growth in multi-family sector.
Broder & Sachse Expands Multifamily Management Team
Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services has expanded its multifamily management team with two promotions and five new hires.
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The Summer Of Durant
Kevin Durant has welcomed and dispatched all challengers this summer.
So, what have you done this summer? Gone on vacation? Went to a few shows? Drank a few beers and partied? Yeah sounds like a normal summer where everyone is happy that the winter coats are away and the only thing that matters are warm vacations on beaches and being lazy as hell.
Kevin Durant could’ve spent his summer doing the exact same thing as all of his, instead he’s been too busy becoming the new face of the NBA and quite possibly the most popular, and best basketball player on the planet.
Durant’s summer has been a constant highlight reel that has showed him dropping threes by the bucket, dunking from every possible angle and drawing more ooh’s and aah’s than the circus.
Durant has been the man of the summer in any sport. His acrobatics and mind-numbing performances have overshadowed the bleak outlook of the NBA lockout, the MLB playoff races and any other headline that has graced ESPN.
It’s been silly to be honest with you. First there was the 66 that he dropped at Rucker Park earlier in the month where a pull up three for a heat check turned into a YouTube phenomenon. Durant made the crowd erupt with every pull up bomb to the point where fans rushed the court after he hit a fourth consecutive three. Even the on court announcer lost his marbles as Durant stood and posed with the mob of fans with nothing but a screw face signifying “yeah, I’m nice.”
they'll be talking about the Rucker game for a long time
He’s put on shows at Dyckman park, toured China and the Philippines, balled out in gymnasiums all around the country and this past weekend in a matchup of D.C. and L.A. ballers it was Durant’s star that shined the brightest with 44 points in a win for his D.C. area Goodman League team over the L.A. based Drew League squad (led by OKC Thunder teammate James Harden coincidentally). It was a game that had a ton of hype coming into it thanks to Durant’s presence and that of John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and other ballers who came out. While everyone came to play it was Durant that controlled the action most and made the crowd of over 1500 stand in awe.
Not bad for a 22 year-old who’s coming off of his first conference finals appearance this year.
What I like most about this entire turn of events is how eager Durant is to go out there and show just how dominant of a player he is. There were times in the Dallas series where teammate Russell Westbrook stood in his way and wanted to take all of the big shots while Durant stood back helpless.
In these situations it’s just Durant and his opponent. He has the respect of his teammates at the Rucker, Goodman or any other spot so when he gets the ball they just clear out and let him do him. It’s done wonders for his game and his brand.
Whenever the NBA starts up its next season how can the league not make Durant its most focal piece? He’s always been known as a genuine guy with a quiet demeanor and a big heart, but now it looks like his game is reaching new heights.
With LeBron James’ hara kiri of his personal appearance to others in the league Durant is the perfect fit to replace him as the face of the league. Kids, adults, college ballers and the streets adore Durant from coast to coast. He cares about his image to the point that he puts his tattoos on one unseen area of his body so that he won’t mess up any marketing for himself, however he’s nowhere near as vein as James.
Durant is always active on Twitter and is eager to communicate with fans at all times. He always showcases other people on his page and is not afraid to let his guard down for a little bit of fun.
What really separates him from LeBron is that he wants to improve… and wants to fight for his respect. That’s the main reason why Durant is in Harlem, D.C., and L.A. balling on the courts against great pro and street ballers, he wants respect from all forms of the game and not just the league.
Going back to the Rucker Park game just look at his facial expressions. Look at how with every shot he takes and makes he slaps fives with fans, chest bumps rappers and plays with a killer mentality. He’s honing himself for the next time he takes the court and he’s staring Carmelo, LeBron or Kobe in the face and the game is in his hands. While LeBron finally tries to find a low post game in year 9 and is still searching for his killer instinct, Durant is getting his as we speak.
Live from New York its Kevin Durant.
(Side note: if you think Kobe doesn’t recognize Durant balling extra hard then you’re a fool. Why else would Kobe be at a Drew league game balling in a gym with 5 rings? Because Kobe competes, he sees Durant doing his thing, he saw the 66 in Harlem and thought to himself “I have to get out here and see what’s up.” He knows Durant is trying to position himself for the crown and Kobe still wants to match Jordan and isn’t satisfied himself just yet. Kobe didn’t ball in D.C. for the Drew-Goodman game, he didn’t have to. He proved his point already that he’s still around and he can still bring.
You know I used to really hate Kobe, but the older he gets I love him more and more.)
The question now is what happens when the summer ends and NBA players are heading overseas to make money during the lockout? Where will Durant go and what will he do?
Is Turkey an option, Russia? He’s rumored to be staring in a movie about basketball that will start shooting when NBA training camp would start. Durant’s stock is higher than any other player in the league right now. Everyone wants to know his moves, his thoughts and everything that has anything to do with him right now.
And he has this summer to thank for it all. His games at Rucker Park, Trinity, Dyckman and everywhere else that he has played in the last month and a half have dropped our jaws and made us look at him in a different light.
He’s scored a lot of points, wowed a lot crowds and has made himself the number one player to watch in the league whenever it starts up again. Kevin Durant has moved up the NBA’s pecking order and it doesn’t look like he’ll be coming down for awhile.
I think his summer turned out just fine.
2 Comments | tags: carmelo anthony, drew league, EBC, goodman league, james harden, kevin durant, kobe bryant, lebron james, nba lockout, oklahoma city thunder, rucker park, russell westbrook | posted in basketball
What Could’ve Been For Yao Ming
Yao Ming retired today after 9 injury plagued seasons.
When Yao Ming retired this afternoon after 9 injury-plagued seasons in the NBA I couldn’t help but think of what could have been.
When he arrived on the scene Yao was an instant hit. On the court he was a mammoth specimen with unlimited potential. At 7’6” and 280 pounds Yao was one of the biggest men to ever play the game of basketball and also one of the most skilled men at his position.
He wasn’t as big in terms of girth like Shaquille O’ Neal nor was he as nimble as the man the roamed the paint in Houston before him in Hakeem Olajuwon. But Yao had the moves to out maneuver some of the best big men in the NBA and the smarts to guide him through each game.
In his early bouts against Shaq it was a tale of two centers. One who was an immovable object in the paint that intimidated his opponents with his large mass and unbelievable power, the other which even at age 21 was cunning enough to force his opponents into foul trouble and break them down with his prowess and ever evolving game. Yao got the better of Shaq in the win column during those as he was able to overcome those slights in power and speed and guide the Rockets to victory via his wit.
That was Yao, he was a new breed of center. In an age where the center was supposed to be a relic he was on the verge of making it the most ballyhooed position in the league again and start a revolution of the position.
He was skilled on the block as well as the outside. Yao could hit 16-foot jumpers just as easily as he could back Michael Olawakandi down in the paint for layups. He was an exceptional passer who could find shooters with ease and made life for defenders hard whether they were guarding him or watching the perimeter.
In the paint on defense he was becoming an emerging shot blocker who altered shots with his large frame and made life hell for driving guards as well as big men who were trying to score over him.
More than basketball however, Yao was changing the game with presence off of the court.
In his nine years Yao made the All-Star team 8 times thanks to a large fan base from his home land of China that rule routinely made him one of the top two vote getters. His impact helped the league grow exponentially in China as it now regularly sends reporters to the NBA’s main events. Since Yao’s arrival, China now regularly hosts numerous NBA players in the offseason such as Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant to hold camps in the country and help raise interest of the game.
Yao Ming gave us glimpses of what couldve been versus Shaq.
Yao had a documentary about his arrival in the league, and a string of commercials that introduced him to the American population and showed off his funny side. He was truly the league’s first true international star and was on his way to being one of the brightest stars that the game has ever seen.
Then came the injuries.
After his first three seasons where he only missed 2 games, Yao missed 25+ games in each of his final 6 seasons including all of the 2009-2010 campaign. Whether it was his big toe or a forever broken left foot Yao couldn’t stay on the court. It prevented from having as dominant of a career that was foreseen by so many people from scouts to fellow players.
In 2006-2007 Yao was averaging a career high 25 PPG and looked like a surefire MVP candidate before his foot began to give him problems. After the injury he could never reach the potential that was seen in that season and in glimpses in the next few years. His lower body robbed him of what could have been a stellar NBA career and robbed the fans of a superstar that could’ve shined as bright as Michael Jordan, Julius Erving and the other big names before him.
Yao Ming was an exceptional player. He was an All-Star, one of the best centers of his class, and was a cultural force that transcended the Eastern and Western Hemisphere.
Unfortunately thanks to injuries we never truly got to see what Yao was made of. He could’ve been an all-NBA selection, a finals champion, league MVP and a possible hall of famer. We saw shades of it when he played Shaq and Dwight Howard and other excellent big men down in the paint. We could’ve been watching one of the best players of our era.
But we will never know.
2 Comments | tags: dwight howard, hakeem olajuwon, houston rockets, kevin durant, kobe bryant, NBA, shaquille o'neal, yao ming | posted in basketball, Uncategorized
A Sad Night In OKC
This about sums up OKC's collapse.
As far as collapses go, last night in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was pretty heavy.
I know about the 1992 Houston Oilers, the 2004 New York Giants and last year’s Boston Bruins. Those meltdowns were elongated and gradually moving over time.
The Buffalo Bills come back began almost immediately in the second half against Houston. The San Francisco 49ers had 20 minutes of clock left to come back. The Philadelphia Flyers gathered themselves in about a whole week.
The Dallas Mavericks decimated the Oklahoma City Thunder and left them for dead in less than 5 minutes.
How in the world did this happen? Kevin Durant had just hit a three-pointer to put the Thunder up by 15 points with 5:04 remaining. The Mavericks were outrebounded 48-22 at the time; yes you read that right, that is a differential of 26 in rebounds during a playoff game. The Mavs were shooting a ton of threes and not making many of them. Their offense was flat, the crowd was intense, the game was so far out of reach to the eye that my buddy Mike decided to hit the hay and get ready for work and left immediately after that Durant three.
Then somehow Dallas pulled themselves out of the grave… correction, Dirk Nowitzki pulled them out of the grave.
After watching Dallas look absolutely abysmal for 3 plus quarters, Nowitzki piled the gang on his back and carried them over the final 5.
His shot making was spectacular, no matter what Nick Collison did (and by the way, Nick Collison played tremendous defense on him) Dirk just kept hitting shots.
His baseline, off-balanced, one-legged prayer was the stuff of highlight reels, his head fake and patented one-legged fade away brought Dallas to within 4, he kept making play after play to bring Dallas closer to a tie and all Oklahoma City could do was watch.
The Thunder went from a well-oiled machine to an anemic one. Shots that were once falling couldn’t find the net. Durant panicked and chucked shots, Thabo Sefolosha couldn’t connect, Collison couldn’t get a rebound and Russell Westbrook raised more questions about his shaky decision making with a couple of ill-timed turnovers and shots of his own.
It also didn’t help that Shawn Marion, Jason Kidd and the rest of the Mavs defense buckled down and made life hell for everyone of the Thunder players on the offensive end of the floor.
Dirk worked his magic again.
Once Dirk Nowitzki hit those two free throws near the end of regulation to tie the score you could see the dejection and anguish on the faces of almost every one in the arena that wore Thunder garb, including the players.
The young guns who were free slinging and playing out of there minds for the first two rounds all of a sudden looked like a bunch of lost souls. They were scared, timid and searching for answers, Dallas on the other hand looked rejuvenated and hungry.
They came into the overtime period with the same ferocity that carried them throughout the end of regulation. Marion and Kidd were like blankets that Durant couldn’t shake. Their defense was one hell of a back-story to Dirk’s heroics.
(The funny thing about all of this is Jason Kidd’s transformation. 3 years ago before he came to Dallas; Kidd was a mediocre defender that couldn’t hit a jumper. Then last night you saw Kidd doing his best Bruce Bowen on Durant and Westbrook coming up with gigantic defensive plays and hitting the eventual game-winning three. As much as you have to praise Dirk you have to recognize Kidd’s brilliance in reinventing what kind of player he is and raising his game to the next level with a championship so close at hand.)
Throughout all of this the Thunder still had a chance to win this game after Serge Ibaka knocked down an 18-footer. But once Dirk found Kidd for the go ahead three to make it 108-105 you knew that it was over.
A few Durant misses later the meltdown was complete. Dallas had won a game where it was outrebounded by 22, allowed 18 more points in the paint and was down by what seemed like an insurmountable margin with 5 minutes left.
Kevin Durant missed his last 5 shots; the Thunder finished with 25 turnovers and will probably bow out with a game 5 loss at Dallas to drive a stake through their already torn hearts.
The good news is that they can take solace in their defeat by looking at what the Bruins have accomplished. After their epic meltdown last year Boston finds itself a game away from the Stanley Cup finals.
The Thunder can replicate what the Bruins did in part because of a declining Western Conference that they would seem to have an edge in being the favorite next year.
But it won’t take away the sting of this defeat. OKC’s failure to close out game 4 will go down in history with some of the most gut wrenching defeats that we have ever seen.
And we will be seeing it over and over again for a while.
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The Russell Westbrook Saga Takes A Turn
Russell Westbrooks dramatic postseason took a weird turn last night.
Russell Westbrook sat down on the bench with less than a minute left to go in the third quarter replaced by Eric Maynor.
The Oklahoma City Thunder were down by three points and had blown a six point lead earlier in the period. Westbrook was frustrated with a botched play call and vented his frustration on the bench.
Seconds later James Harden hit a three and was fouled by Jason Terry.
He hit the free throw to put the Thunder up by one and they never trailed again.
During this time Westbrook never left the bench.
Russell Westbrook has been the NBA playoffs best drama not named the Miami Heat. His overzealousness and self-indulgence in wanting to be the man have tainted the amazing run that the Thunder have had thus far.
Last night it took a turn that I felt should’ve happened earlier in the playoffs yet the timing couldn’t have been better.
Think about how much of a genius Scott Brooks looks like right now. He sat Westbrook at a point in the game where the Thunder were struggling offensively and needed a boost. In came Maynor in addition to sticking with reserves Harden and Nick Collison while starters Westbrook, Kendrick Perkins and Serge Ibaka sat on the bench. Brooks stayed with all of them for the entire period and the move paid off.
Not only did Maynor do a great job of running the offense but Harden was a beast as well knocking huge shots and finishing with 23 points and Collison did what no other Thunder could do in game 1, stop Dirk Nowitzki.
Collision forced Dirk into a few turnovers and never gave him a clean look at the basket. His feistiness and aggressiveness led to good looks for the Thunder on the offensive end and eventually led to a ten point advantage and a 6 point win.
Eric Maynor did a great job in place of Westbrook last night.
But the main story is Westbrook.
There are two sides to this story: one is that this benching should finally prove to Westbrook where he is on the alpha dog totem pole in OKC.
His internal struggle with trying to be the man over Kevin Durant has made for some good TV and lots of talk for everyone watching. We all know that Durant is the real man in charge but the message needed to be relayed to Westbrook. This was that message.
While Brooks would say that he kept his bench players in for the whole quarter because of how well they played, he can’t just overlook the fact that at some point he had to humble Westbrook. Yesterday he did that in a backhanded sort of way.
Westbrook coming out in the third quarter wasn’t a benching; it was his normal rest time. He normally checks back in at the 7 or 8 minute mark to lead the offense down the stretch. However, with the team playing so well he decided to keep Maynor in the game and leave Westbrook there to sit and wait… and wait… and wait… until the clock struck zero and he was high-fiving teammates after the win. The Thunder won while Westbrook sat and learned. Two birds, one stone.
The other way to view this is that maybe Brooks was right in his words when he said that Westbrook sat only because the bench was playing so well and not due to his poor play in key stages in the playoffs.
Last night wasn’t a mark against Westbrook; rather it was a bonus for the depth of the Thunder. For so many reserves to play in such a key stretch and stand tall is something that could last well past this series and into the finals. Now Durant and Westbrook for that matter have about a good 6 or 7 complementary guys that can step up in any situation and do what’s asked of them. Miami, Chicago or Dallas do not have that same luxury.
Throughout this whole drama Westbrook hasn’t let it get to him. Of course he was frustrated on the bench when his name wasn’t called, I mean wouldn’t you be too after being named all-NBA second team? Instead of letting his ego get the best of him he cheered for his teammates, was the first guys to hand out dap during timeouts and didn’t let reporters get to him with questions after the game.
He said that he was “good” and didn’t care as long as they won the game. A great bit of humbleness from a player who to most was letting his ego get in the way.
Now the question is what happens to Westbrook now?
Will Brooks yank him again if he goes against the game plan? Will he sulk and get upset if his number isn’t called? Will he chick up more terrible looking shots like he has done throughout the playoffs? Or will he play the type of basketball that makes him a top 3 point guard in the NBA?
Just know that every move that Westbrook makes will be looked at even closer than ever before, and if he can’t handle it then we know Coach Brooks will have no problem going to Eric Maynor again. It’s worked once before, Westbrook saw it firsthand.
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A Classic Night For Dirk Nowitzki
Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, a.k.a. The Dirk Show.
2: Dirk Nowitzki knocks down a jumper off of a Jason Kidd feed.
4: Nowitzki drives into the lane to draw a contact foul on Kendrick Perkins. He drains both free throws
6: after Russell Westbrook misses a jumper (one of many in a horrid night for the brash young point guard) Kidd pushes the ball and Dirk drives into the lane untouched for another deuce.
8: Dirk pulls up over Serge Ibaka for an easy deuce
10: after Kevin Durant drains a three, Dirk abuses Ibaka (it happened a lot last night) and buries a 17 footer.
Thus far 4-4 10 points 2-2 from the free throw line. He sits at the 6-minute mark of the first before re-entering at the 1:13 mark.
12: Peja Stojakavic finds a cutting Dirk who rolls it in.
14: Dirk lures Ibaka with one of his many pump fakes and draws a shooting foul. Hits both free throws.
16: Nowitzki shakes Ibaka a drains a 18 footer. (And yes he’s still perfect if you were wondering.
19: in the midst of a crippling 13-0 run late in the second quarter, Dirk drives the lane bounces off of Ibaka drawing the foul and one.
(Side note: 5 years ago when Dirk went off for 51 against Phoenix he turned Boris Diaw into a crash test dummy. I immediately thought of this while watch the 6-10 super athletic Ibaka just get mauled by the bigger, stronger and more cunning Nowitzki. What I really remember was how me and my buddies made the joke that Boris Diaw in French meant Dirk Nowitzki’s B****. Insert Ibaka’s name and Swahili for the same effect.)
OKC got tired of seeing this last night.
21: Dirk drains a 12-footer, sorry Ibaka was on the bench.
First half: 21 points, no shots missed. Three’s, two’s, one’s, nothing.
As the second half began Scott Brooks decides to give other guys a crack at guarding Dirk like Thabo Sefolosha and James Harden… what do you think happened?
23: Dirk draws a foul on… guess who? Hits both.
24: Dirk gets a freebie from an illegal defense.
26: Dirk draws two consecutive fouls on Kevin Durant, one was suspect, but the even better question is why is Durant covering Dirk in the first place?
28: Sefolosha falls for the head fake Dirk hits two.
29: another illegal defense, dirk connects.
31: Dirk in the low block, over Sefolosha, no chance.
(At this point it’s becoming clear that not a single living being is going to stop, contain, slow down or… anything Dirk. If you face him up he’ll drive by you or shoot over you. If he has his back to the basket then he’ll pound you down. The Thunder had no answer for Dirk at all.
Coincidentally neither did Dallas for Durant. Loss in Dirk’s classic performance was Durant who was carrying the Thunder while Westbrook couldn’t hit Cowboys Stadium and Perkins couldn’t stay on the floor. Watch Durant and Nowitzki go at it offensively was like watching a clinic. Both knew their spacing, both knew when to drive and when to shoot and neither could be stopped. If game one was any indication of how this series is going to go then it’s going to be a good one.)
34: Dirk hits a tech.
36: Sefolosha goes for the fake, again, Dirk hits both.
38: Sefolosha can’t handle Dirk’s size and is called for clutching and grabbing. Dirk hits both.
(At this rate Scott Brooks needed a hug.)
Dirk misses his first shot of the game, and Jesus wept.
After three: 38 points. Perfect from the line and half of the Thunder wondering how in the hell they are going to stop him.
40: James Harden falls for the head fake, Dirk hits both. At this point the Thunder should’ve just stopped jumping.
You wanna try stopping me? Bring It!
We interrupt this Dirk Nowitzki report to bring you breaking news… Jose Juan Barea is pretty much the nastiest player in this series not named Dirk Nowitzki.
When he entered the game the whole dynamic changed. It wasn’t just about trying to stop Dirk, now you had to worry about a 6 foot locomotive that moved in fifth for practically his entire time on the court.
I couldn’t tell you how many times that Barea drove past Thunder defenders for an easy layup. He killed Eric Maynor, entered the lane at will and killed Nate Robinson’s ankles on his last layup. It’s like someone fills his tank with nitrous oxide and says let er’ rip before he enters the game.
No wonder Andrew Bynum tried to break his ribs.
After Durant and Ibaka bring the Thunder within 5, the ball just so happened to find its way into Dirk’s hands again.
42: Ibaka falls for the head fake. Dirk hits two. I’m really tired of writing that.
44: after Westbrook hits a layup, Dirk answers with a 16- footer over Ibaka.
46: after Durant nails a three, Dirk answers with an 18 footer over Ibaka. (Serge Ibaka in Swahili means what again?)
48: with the Thunder clinging to what hope they have left, Westbrook fouls Nowitzki and he hits both.
To summarize: 48 points, 12-15 from the field, 24-24 from the line breaking Paul Pierce’s playoff record of 21-21, 6 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 blocks, and possession of Thabo Sefolosha and Serge Ibaka’s soul.
Not a bad night wouldn’t you say?
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Installation view: Wang Jianwei: Time Temple, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 31, 2014-February 16, 2015. Wang Jianwei: Time Temple is made possible by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation. All works by Wang Jianwei ©2014 Wang Jianwei, used by permission. Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Wang Jianwei, "The Morning Time Disappeared", 2014. Digital color video with sound, 55 min., 8 sec., edition 1/5. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Collection. This film was produced on the occasion of the commission Wang Jianwei: Time Temple, presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and made possible by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation. All works by Wang Jianwei © 2014 Wang Jianwei, used by permission.
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Some keys to this mysterious installation might be found in Wang’s experimental film “The Morning Time Disappeared” (2014), screened daily at a vaguely significant hour of 1 p.m. The script, based on Franz Kafka’s famous short story, “Metamorphosis” (1915), is close to the original text except for some minor modifications: its action takes place in present-day China, and the protagonist’s body is transformed into a large fish instead of an insect. Multiple visual and symbolic links connect the film with various parts of the installation. The four-panel painting, although based on images from a different video, restages the film’s psychological drama: a tragic confrontation between a group and one of its former members, who is inexplicably singled out and set apart from the others to wait for their decision on his future fate. The other painting’s image of an epidermis is echoed in the film’s close-up shots of the protagonist’s human face and fish-like body. These and other parallels multiply and reinforce each other, weaving a flexible network of connections.
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Tatiana Istomina
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 7
Air date February 11, 2003
Written by Jane Espenson
Directed by David Grossman
"The Killer in Me" next
"Get It Done"
Sarah Michelle Gellar Buffy
Nicholas Brendon Xander
Emma Caulfield Anya
Michelle Trachtenberg Dawn
James Marsters Spike
Alyson Hannigan Willow
Special Guest Starring
Anthony Stewart Head Giles
Ashanti Lissa
Guest Starring
Danny Strong Jonathan
Tom Lenk Andrew
Iyari Limon Kennedy
Sarah Hagan Amanda
Kristy Wu Chao-Ahn
K. D. Aubert Nikki
D. B. Woodside Principal Wood
Uncredited
Rob Nagle Robson
"First Date" is the fourteenth episode of the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and is the one hundred thirty-sixth episode altogether. It was written by Jane Espenson and directed by David Grossman. It originally broadcast on February 11, 2003.
Principal Wood asks Buffy out to dinner, to which she accepts partly because she likes him and partly because she is intrigued as to what he really is. Xander also agrees to go out at night with Lissa, a girl he meets at a tool demo in Sunnydale. Buffy finds out Robin Wood is in fact the son of a Slayer, while Xander's date turns out to be a demon. Willow receives an SOS text message from Xander and she and Spike round up Buffy and Wood to rescue Xander. Wood finds out Spike is a vampire. Later, The First shows itself to Wood in the guise of Nikki Wood, his dead mother, and tells him it was Spike who killed her.
Giles takes the potentials on patrol and tells them how his keen senses saved him from the Bringer in Robson's flat that tried to sneak up on him, not telling them it was actually because the Bringer's shoes squeaked. During his talk, Spike suddenly tackles him due to having been told of the (now proven false) suspicion that he was actually the First. Giles points out that if he was actually the First then no physical attack would have hurt him anyway, and then asks why Spike is not in pain. Buffy, accompanying Spike, tells Giles of the choice the military gave her and how she decided to get the chip removed instead of repaired.
Later Giles confronts Buffy telling her he believed she made the wrong choice in deciding to get the chip removed, as he considers Spike to be too much of a loose cannon. Buffy reminds him the First still controlled him into killing people regardless, but Giles points out the chip may not have been working then and replacing it might have stopped the First from reasserting control. Buffy tells Giles she trusts Spike now that he has a soul, but Giles tells her he thinks she's making bad decisions where Spike is concerned due to their past relationship, reminding her she's putting a lot of lives on the line for him.
Principal Wood's secret.
At work, Buffy tries to hunt for clues about whether Principal Wood is good or evil in his office. When she is about to open a cabinet, Principal Wood finds her in his office and asks her out to dinner. Back at the house, Buffy expresses mixed feelings about the date, and is unsure over whether she is interested in him. Willow suggests that it would be good for Buffy to "move on." Xander enters and reveals that he too has a date that evening. Upstairs, Buffy is getting dressed for dinner when Spike appears in the hallway, and tells Buffy that he feels fine about her having a date with another man, although Buffy tells him he doesn't have to be noble. The two are on friendly terms with one another.
As Andrew tries to set the timer on the new microwave, he is confronted by the First in the form of Jonathan who tries to persuade him that Buffy and the others don't care about him and will never trust him as he's a murderer, but promises to allow Andrew to survive the coming apocalypse if he helps him by killing all the potentials. Andrew is unwilling to stab them, but the First reminds him that Willow brought a gun into the house and he could use that. Andrew appears thoughtful.
On Buffy's date, she and Wood are jumped by a group of vampires. Buffy slays most of them, and thinks that Wood has set her up until she sees him take out two of the vampires. At the restaurant, Wood reveals that he is a "freelance" demon hunter, and tells her about his mother—that she was the Slayer and was killed when he was four years old, after which he was raised by her Watcher. Buffy is struck by the idea that it is possible for a Slayer to have children. Meanwhile, Xander's date appears to be going well until he learns that she is a demon who has, like other demons, been motivated to work for The First. She ties him up to the wooden structure over the seal in the school basement and sticks a knife between his ribs.
Xander: It can't just keep happening that demon women find me attractive. There's gotta be a reason.
Andrew goes to the First, having retrieved the gun and the First guides him into how to kill the potentials as quickly as possible. Andrew follows along, but also starts to ask questions, like why the First doesn't get Spike to do it since he has a trigger anyway. However, when he asks if the First has any weaknesses, the First realizes Andrew is pumping it for information and that Andrew is wearing a wire; it’s then revealed that Willow, Dawn, Anya, and Kennedy are listening in (as Andrew had proved his loyalty to Buffy by going to them immediately). However it turns out they can only hear Andrew speaking, meaning the First can’t be recorded. The First, angry at being tricked, shows Andrew the knife that he plunged into Jonathan's stomach, stating that Jonathan is going to spend the rest of eternity in pain because of what Andrew did while starting to make the vision of Jonathan decompose. The First then appears to Willow and the others, still disguised as the disfigured Jonathan, promising they will all die before vanishing.
Immediately after the First leaves, Willow receives a text message with a help code from Xander. Spike offers to go fetch Buffy. He finds her at the restaurant with Wood in a slightly romantic moment, and they all rush out to rescue Xander, driving in Wood's car, the three of them awkwardly together with Spike in the backseat. When they get to the seal beneath the school, they fight and kill the demon woman and find Xander not too badly hurt. They prevent the seal from opening again, but during the course of the fight, Wood finds out that Spike is a vampire and that Buffy cares about him very much, making him uneasy.
Later at the house, Giles and Spike aren't happy that Andrew and Willow tried to record the First because of the danger however Dawn compliments Andrew on his bravery in standing up to it. When Spike asks why the First didn't just go to him since he has a trigger, Andrew replies that the First stated it wasn’t time for Spike. Giles declares it’s time for the gang to stop messing around doing things like going on dates. After adding that they need to get rid of the gun, he then says they should figure out a plan of action.
Later Spike tells Buffy that as The First is not ready to use him yet, he will leave town. Buffy tells Spike not to leave because she isn't ready for him not to be there.
In the final scene of the episode, The First shows itself to Wood in the guise of his dead mother (although Wood isn't fooled for a second, and is well aware that it's the First), and it is revealed that she is actually the second Slayer that Spike killed in New York. Wood thanks the First for the information, and starts to think about his next move.
When Willow and Buffy discuss her upcoming date with Principal Wood, Buffy asks "Why does everybody in this house think I'm still in love with Spike?" Although neither Willow nor Buffy herself seem to notice (or at least not consciously admitting they both - obviously in own way - grew fond of the vampire), the Slayer has tacitly implied that she WAS in love with him, something that she has never actually admitted to before. On the other hand, perhaps Buffy does notice, since near the end of the episode she will admit to Spike that her reasons for wanting him to stay are personal as well as "professional."
When Buffy and Anya talk in the bathroom, Anya says a red stain on Buffy's shirt could be blood "or it might be pizza." Dawn actually spilled pizza sauce on this top in Conversations with Dead People, and assured herself that Buffy would just mistake it for blood.
When Buffy and Spike are talking on the landing Spike references picket fences, later saying "Never much cared for picket fences, anyway. Bloody dangerous." Buffy previously staked a vampire with a picket fence in "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date".
When Giles and the Scoobies were walking in the graveyard, there was a gravestone clearly marked "Snyder", which is a possible reference to Principal Snyder. Being eaten by giant snake Major Wilkins, who was then destroyed by Xander’s huge explosives, it's very unlikely there were some of his remains to bury.
As Xander himself points out, Lissa was only the latest of several demonic women who have been drawn to him. Her predecessors included Natalie French, Ampata Gutierrez and Anya. Even Xander's Sunnydale High girlfriend Cordelia Chase ended up becoming part demon (although the Scoobies may not have been aware of this).
The flash cards Giles shows Chao-Ahn are similar to the ones he used in order to communicate information about the Gentlemen.
Spike claimed that Anya said Giles was the First. Anya and the rest of the Scoobies later disproved theory, but apparently neglected to update Spike.
Spike's painless attack of Giles revealed to the rest of the Scoobies that Buffy decided to have his chip removed.
Andrew was setting up a new microwave in the Summers house kitchen. The microwave was destroyed when Dawn was visited by The First in "Conversations with Dead People". Andrew had previously wondered about getting a new one when he wanted to make popcorn.
Amanda still has a scar from the cut she received in "Potential".
Buffy kept the gun used by Willow from "The Killer in Me", which Andrew recovered from her underwear drawer.
In this episode Jonathon (as The First) plans a gun massacre, just as he was suspected of doing in the episode "Earshot".
One Harbinger of Death, beheaded by Giles
Three vampires, dusted by Buffy
Two vampires, dusted by Robin Wood
Lissa, beheaded by Buffy
K.D. Aubert portrays Nikki Wood in this episode (and in "Lies My Parents Told Me"). Nikki was originally portrayed by April Weeden-Washington in "Fool For Love".
The clip of the first vampire stepping into the alley was footage recycled from the teaser of The Gift.
Wood confirms that he grew up in Beverly Hills:
Buffy: "In Beverly Hills."
Wood: "See now, that detail takes the edge off my Little Orphan Robin story, but yeah, that was true."
Xander asked Lissa a very logical question:
Xander: "Did you hatch out of a praying mantis egg in the old high school?"
Pop Culture References
During Xander's monologue about turning gay, he makes a reference to fantasizing about Scott Bakula. Andrew then dreamily remarks "Captain Archer...," a reference to Star Trek: Enterprise, which was also airing on UPN at the time.
Buffy says she'll be home watching a reality show "about a millionaire," which could be a reference to "Joe Millionaire," a reality show that was airing at the time of the episode's broadcast. The show was similar in format to "The Bachelor," with a man choosing a potential future wife from among a number of women, but the twist was that the man was presented as a millionaire despite having only a meager job.
Goofs, Bloopers & Continuity Errors
Principal Wood expressed surprise when Spike was revealed to be a vampire. Earlier, while driving, he seemed to glance at Spike in the car's rear-view mirror. This appears to be a production oversight, as it is established earlier in the series that vampires, even with souls, cast no reflection.
Buffy mentioned Giles picking up Chao-Ahn from China in "Potential." Since Giles had returned by "The Killer in Me," he had presumably already brought her back, so she was likely on the desert retreat with the other potentials. Thus, his remark about her to "take note" seems to come a bit late.
Spike claimed that Anya said Giles was the First, but no such discussion was shown and very little time passed between the original suspicion and when it was disproved.
Principal Wood mentioned to Buffy that he went through a whole "avenging son" phase in his twenties, giving the impression he was at least over 30 years old. However, given that he was born sometime after June 24, 1973 (which was his mother's 18th birthday, and she was still pregnant with him on that date), then he was 29 at the time this episode takes place.
It's highly unreasonable that Wood hadn't found out that Spike killed his mother, given that Spike used to brag about it constantly and there was even literature on the subject.[1]
In this episode D.B. Woodside plays a man tempted into darkness by The First Evil. In the series 'Lucifer' he plays an Angel trying to tempt the Devil back into hell.
German: Das erste Date (The First Date)
French: Rendez-vous dangereux (Dangerous Date)
Patty Medina - "Still Life"
Trembling Blue Stars - "Ammunition"
Robert Duncan - original score
Willow - "We have this system we set up a while back. Like codes. This one's either 'I just got lucky; don't call me for a while' or 'my date's a demon who's trying to kill me'."
Kennedy - "You don't remember which?"
Willow - "It was a long time ago!"
Dawn - "Well, if we play the percentages..."
Giles - "Something's eating Xander's head."
Anya - "Say, that's gratifying."
Spike - "Anya said you were the First. Said you were evil. You're supposed to be all go-through-able."
Giles - "Then what the hell did you tackle me for, you berk? What's that supposed to do?"
Spike - "I, uh, I didn't think of that."
Spike - "Heard you got a date."
Buffy - "Well, it's unclear. I mean, I have this whole theory about a promotion. Or he's evil."
Spike - "Buffy, I'm all right."
Buffy - "You don't have to..."
Spike - "What? Be noble? I'm not. Really, I'm all right. Think I still dream of a crypt for two with a white picket fence? My eyes are clear."
Buffy - "Good. I'm glad. Thank you."
Spike - "Never much cared for picket fences, anyway. Bloody dangerous."
Willow - "What happened?"
Xander - "What do you think happened? Another demon woman was attracted to me. I'm going gay. I've decided I'm turning gay. Willow, gay me up. Come on, let's gay."
Willow - "What?"
Xander - "You heard me. Just tell me what to do. I'm mentally undressing Scott Bakula right now. That's a start, isn't it?"
Andrew Wells - [wistfully] "Captain Archer..."
Xander - "Come on, let's get this gay show on the gay road. Help me out here."
Buffy - "What if you just start attracting male demons?"
Dawn - "Clem always liked you."
Spike - "Did anybody tell you about what happened around here tonight?"
Buffy - "Willow did. The First is back in the mix."
Spike - "It, uh, it talked to the little boy. Said it wasn't time for me yet. I should move out. Leave town before it is time for me."
Buffy - "No, you have to stay."
Spike - "You've got another demon fighter now."
Buffy - "That's not why I need you here."
Spike - "Is that right? Why's that then?"
Buffy - "'Cause I'm not ready for you to not be here."
Spike - (looks at her a moment)"And the Principal? How's he fit in?"(Buffy looks at him a moment, then Spike looks away)
↑ "School Hard"
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Until they are put in place, if they are put in place, just block the upload.
Beating the system
ADN.com will not be happy about what is being reported here. Dispatch publisher Alice Rogoff believes Alaska has a community responsibility to support the newspaper she owns.
Unfortunately, not enough Alaskans share her view. The circulation of the Alaska Dispatch newspaper keeps shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. And the revenues from ADN.com aren’t anywhere near high enough to support the exorbitant costs of producing a now six-day-per-week newspaper.
Given the economic realities, Rogoff has decided to enforce her belief a newspaper is a community responsiblity by requiring payment to access a website she has long proclaimed should be free.
“In 2014, when Alaska Dispatch purchased the Anchorage Daily News, the first thing we changed was to make all our digital content free. We believed then — as I still believe — that publishing the news is a public service, and we wanted our new, broader content to be accessible to all Alaskans and everyone in the world who wanted to know more about this wonderful place,” she wrote in an editorial only a month ago.
“I still feel that way. Publishing the news is a way of contributing to a ‘civil society’ and I still want our news to be available to anyone who wants to be better informed about Alaska and the issues that affect us.”
Whether the January statement was delusional or disingenuous only Rogoff knows, but it ran entirely contrary to what followed in the editorial: the announcement that the news important to “civil society” would NOT be “accessible to all Alaskans and everyone in the world.”
Henceforth, it would be available only to those with the means to pay. There is nothing wrong with this. It is capitalism at work, and capitalism is not a perfect economic system. It is simply the one that conforms to nature. It recognizes the world is driven by the desire of all animals to get fat.
Capitalism is an inherently unfair system, but there is no fair system. Every economic system has its flaws. Given those flows, capitalism is arguably the best system because it harnesses the power of competition to make the world a better place. You are reading this on a computer screen today because of the power of competition driving computers and, later, the internet to where we are now.
As a profit-driven, capitalistic move, Rogoff’s decision to place ADN content behind a paywall might be a good decision or a bad one. Some online news operations have found the paywall works. Others have tried a paywall and abandoned it after losing viewers. Advertisers need viewers.
Advertisers can’t sell you things unless you see their advertising. The old Alaska Dispatch was built around the advertising model. The old Dispatch also recognized it was never going to bring in the sort of advertising revenue a newspaper brings in. So it countered by keeping costs low and productivity high.
It also lost money as it worked its way toward profitability. That is way things work for internet start-ups.
The Dispatch never reached profitability though it was moving in that direction when Rogoff ended the experiment and paid $34 million to buy the Anchorage Daily News from The McClatchy Company. Her financial advisers told her it was a bad investment. The price was too high, but she believed the purchase was going to enable her to soon begin making a profit.
She was still singing that tune as late as last year when she wrote an editoriall “To quote (Washington Post owner) Jeff Bezos, we’re in ‘investment mode’*” The asterisk led to an explanation at the bottom of the editorial explaining that Bezos “was distinguishing between operating at a financial loss versus making a planned choice to invest in future growth.”
The editorial itself focused on all the news things Dispatch was doing to try to make money. “We’re continuing to develop new lines of business— new features that provide value to you, our readers,” it said.
Obviously, those news lines of business didn’t produce enough value to the Dispatch to fix its financial problems. Reliable sources now say Rogoff has lost more money – significantly more money – in the three years she has owned ADN.com than in the six years of Dispatch.
Thus she faced a choice as 2016 drew to an end: She either had to seriously reduce the costs of producing her product or find a way to increase revenue. She voted in favor of the latter and put up the paywall. Her argument as expressed in that January editorial was this:
“When you read a story with an ADN byline, the person responsible for it is a full-time employee of ours. We have more of them — along with editors, photographers and columnists — than many local news organizations in far larger places.
“Until now, we chose to stick to the old business model in which advertisers alone shoulder these costs, along with the traditional paper subscribers. But as more and more of our readers move to mobile, it’s clear we can’t rely on a revenue model that doesn’t involve reader support any more than we can deliver our print newspaper for free.
“That’s why, beginning this month, we will be asking our digital readers to make an investment in quality local news the way our print readers do.”
Request versus demand
Only she wasn’t “asking.” Asking is what Alaska Public Media does. The local affiliate of the Public Broadcasting Service, APM – which combines TV, radio and online news – conducts fundraisers to ask for money.
What ADN is doing is “demanding” payment. It is not “asking” for anything. This is not about “reader support.” This is not about offering anyone an “investment.” This is selling a service, just like any other business.
Arctic Roadrunner doesn’t offer you an “investment” in a burger and “ask” you to pay to show your “support.” It sells you a tasty burger for a price the owners believe justified, and you make the decision on whether you want to buy.
If you were given the choice of paying or not, some number of you might well accept the burger for free.
Unfortunately for ADN, the service it is selling is available free to the more sophisticated users of the internet. You can pay for the service if you want, but there is no reason you shouldn’t feel free to use it for free since its available for free.
There is nothing illegal or immoral about hitting that escape key to stop a pop-up blocker from loading. You are not stealing anything. You are simply stepping around a barrier on the internet highway to read what is written on a billboard.
The worth of what is written there is then up to you to decide. Some might question the credibility of a news organization that tells you it is “asking” when it is, in fact, “requiring.” Or at least trying to do the latter.
But if what it really intended to do was ask – in the style of Alaska Public Media or craigmedred.news (which have no paywalls) or as Rogoff herself wrote in January – you should feel absolutely guilt free in hitting the escape key.
And afterward, if you’ve found something you think valuable, then send ADN a check or drop them a few dollars in an envelope. That is how it works when a website “asks.”
I ask for contributions here. I could argue those contributions are an “investment” in better Alaska news coverage, but I won’t. This might be my opinion, but I’m not so full of myself that I think it should be everyone’s opinion.
Of moose and men
Ethiconomics
There is a paywall on the ADN site?
I do all my browsing “inPrivate” or “Incognito” mode (cookies get dumped everyday).
I have never seen a **pay something or else** window come up on ADN, and I generally read it everyday.
Also use a “script” and “ad” blocker.
craigmedred says:
blocking ads? i have some journalism friends who would think that criminal, Bill.
Tacitus Benevolentia says:
The adjective that I have attached to Rogoff since her arrival on the public scene is Carpetbagger.
Tony Lewkowski says:
I’m on Chrome and using an adblocker, I’ve yet to see a paywall.
I think you can also get around it simply by using incognito mode in Chrome.
I’m using PaleMoon/Firefox with an adblocker and Javascript blocker…I don’t see any paywall there either. On another note, I’ve tried whitelisting craigmedred.news in the adblocker (so that maybe he can get at least a couple fractions of a penny for my being here), but I still don’t see any ads. I think the problem is that there are too many recursive levels of Javascript I would also have to whitelist…when I open this site on IE with no blocking, it often hangs.
It’s sad, really, what Rogoff has done to that paper. I had such high hopes that the “new” ADN would be good for the state. What happened instead is that I found myself one day asking why I was paying for the courtesy to be told in print daily that people, with my perspectives, are the scourge of society. I cancelled the subscription and didn’t miss it for a moment. When asked at the state fair to start a subscription again, I told the salesman that I’d be willing to consider becoming a reader again if the paper would consider more news, less editorial attacks. He dismissed me immediately, which is really what ADN, under Rogoff, has done to the people of Alaska.
StickItToDa woMan says:
There is an easy way to get around the paywall with all browsers. When the paywall login comes up, close it and then clear your browser’s browsing history. Make sure you clear everything, including cookies. Then call up the ADN website again. You should be good to go for 10 stories or so (I haven’t counted the exact number). Then repeat this technique when the paywall login comes up again. Thanks for the hint about the ESC key, will use that if necessary.
Laura Stine says:
Considering ADN’s best stories are made up anyhow, the paywall could be an important step to slowing the spread of misinformation. Rogoff’s tax strategy probably reads a lot like Donald Trump’s…she will go so deep in the red that despite all her millions, she’ll never pay taxes again.
Mavo United says:
Sticking it to the wo(Man) (classical, postmodern, genderless reference to they who be in power)
Dilemma: which REO Speedwagon anthem best captures Rogoff’s last stand and popular sentiment against the new ADN fortress pay wall:
1) Time for Me to Fly
2) Take it on the Run
3) Roll with the Changes
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Amore Mirror
The SAS Royal Hotel is considered Arne Jacobsen’s masterpiece. Completed in 1960, it was the tallest skyscraper in Copenhagen at the time and for many it remains the epitome of modernity. The hotel has now commissioned Space Copenhagen to design something new for the hotel rooms. “The façade is the iconic face of the building,” says Signe. “We were fascinated by the light both outside the building and inside the rooms. Seeing the constant shift of reflections from the façade is truly distinctive to the hotel.” As Peter sees it, “We also wanted to somehow incorporate the views of the city from the top floors. There is a horizontal sequence of windows running from one edge to another. We wanted to echo that aspect inside the rooms, as well.”
Another Rug
The Moor Rugs are the second series of rugs designed by All The Way ToParis produced by &tradition. This time, ATWTP’s departure point camefrom the various shapes of gemstones. ìWe wanted to focus solely onthe shapes, colours and textures ñ without any patterns, notes TanjaVibe and Petra Olsson Gendt, Founders and Partners at ATWTP. ìFor us,a rug brings all the elements of a room together inharmony, creating afeeling of closeness. The result is a compelling sense of cohesion. Especially when you arrangeall the rugs together as a cluster of gemstones. The rugs have asubtle shimmer to the surface to echo the qualities of a gemstone.
Bellevue AJ10 Table Lamp
In homage to Arne Jacobsen’s legendary architectural Bellevue projects, the Bellevue Lamp is captured in all its authenticity – in a lovely plug-in table lamp that comes in two versions; with and without switch. Boasting its signature swan neck and 45-degree shade, it is the epitome of beauty and simplicity in a curvaceous silhouette that beckons you to come closer. Watch for a modern mix of intriguing new colours and materials. Part of &tradition’s desire to keep this icon alive in the hearts and minds for generations to come.
Bellevue AJ7 Floor Lamp
With the Bellevue Lamp, Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen embodies the minimalism of the Modernist Movement with the functionalism of Bauhaus. Viewed as the driving force behind Danish Modernism, Jacobsen’s preference for graceful lines and simple, organic forms are readily recognisable in the Bellevue Lamp. The re-launch of this iconic lamp involves a return to the original Bellevue shape in three styles: the floor lamp, three desk lamps and a wall lamp. To enhance their appeal in a contemporary setting are new colours and a mix of materials.
Bellevue Table Lamp
With the Bellevue Lamp, Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen embodies the minimalism of the Modernist Movement with the practicalism of Bauhaus. Viewed as the driving force behind Danish Modernism, Jacobsen’s preference for graceful lines and simple, organic forms are readily recognisable in the Bellevue Lamp. The re-launch of this iconic lamp involves a return to the original Bellevue shape in three styles: the floor lamp, three desk lamps and wall lamp.
Bellevue Wall Lamp
With the Bellevue Lamp, Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsenembodies the minimalism of the Modernist Movement with the functionalismof Bauhaus. Viewed as the driving force behindDanishModernism,Jacobsen’s preference for graceful lines and simple, organic forms arereadily recognisable in the Bellevue Lamp. The re-launch of this iconic lamp involves a return to the original Bellevueshape in three styles: the floor lamp, desk lamp and wall lamp. Toenhance their appeal in a contemporary setting are new colours and amix of materials: satin polished brass, black with brass, anthracite withbrace and versions mixing ivory or grey beige with brass.
Betty TK1 Chair
Finnish designer Sami Kallio and Danish designer Jakob Thau made the focus of Betty a feature most people don’t focus on; the webbing usually found under a seat intended to provide support. Consequently, the webbing adds comfort that naturally bends a bit with your body. Meanwhile, the one-piece wooden seat frame is part of a sturdy chair that’s surprisingly light – and stackable, available in a selection of contemporary colours for the frame. Betty is an honest, explicit design with nothing hidden and everything exposed. A strong chair when you see it that’s soft when you sit in it.
Blown Ceiling Light
While experimenting with the reflections and refraction of light, designer Samuel Wilkinson discovered a beautiful quilted effect when the light source was surrounded by patterned glass. This led to his design of the Blown series of lamps – and the launch of the Blown ceiling lamp. Choose from either silver or opal glass and let yourself be mesmerised by the effect. Switched on, the Blown ceiling lamp emits a soft light that projects a quilted pattern dispersed across the ceiling. Brilliant for a home, high-end hotel, restaurant, lounge or any other such setting, it adds a subtle sense of graphics that’s striking. The name Blown is inspired by the process of creating the lamp itself, where each lamp is mouth-blown by artisans and expert crafts people. An authentic technique that contributes to the stunning patterns projected onto the ceiling when lit, transforming any space into a work of art.
Blown Pendant
Blown is Samuel WilkinsonÍs first lamp for &tradition. A mouth-blown pendant with a quilted pattern, it comes in two versions: a translucent variant with a silver lustre and a sandblasted white one. The pendant is fitted with a powder-coated cast metal suspension. The pendant was conceived as an exploration of the reflections, distortions, and refractions of a light source when surrounded by patterned glass.
Blown SW6 Table Lamp
The quilted surface texture of the Blown table lamp is distinctive in itself. Switched on, the lamp projects a pattern of reflections and refractions that add a touch of art to a cosy, intimate atmosphere. An extension of the small Blown pendant also by Samuel Wilkinson, it features a silver tinted translucent glass in the same small size, secured upright on a black marble base with a dimmer to adjust the light. Ideal in a private setting by a bedside, desk or windowsill, as well as a commercial or retail venue as part of a display, you can art direct the effect to be subtle or striking.
Bulb Pendant
With Bulb, Danish light artist Sofie Refer lit up the new millennium and a new classic was blown. The shape refers to the first electrical light bulbs by using thick transparent glass. Sofie Refer continues an elegant Nordic tradition, adding her own passion and femininity. The small irregularities in the mouth blown glass make each of the pendants one of a kind and add the story of the glass master’s personal efforts in changing sand, soda and chalk into a modern classic using a thousand year old method.
Catch Chair JH1
Catch, Jaime Hayon’s first contribution to &tradition’s collection, is a chair that welcomes you with open arms. Its armrests extend from the shell like literal limbs, ready to embrace you as you sit down. In addition to being a witty personification, it is also an eye-catching piece of design. Serpentine lines give it a playful lightness that is counterbalanced by a sturdy, well-balanced base and legs that ensure maximum comfort. The shell offers comfort alongside great variability.
Catch Chair JH15
Catch Lounge Chair JH13
With its outstretched arms like a friend ready to greet you with a warm, welcoming hug, the Catch Lounge Chair builds on Hayon’s penchant for humour and personification. At the same time, it introduces a higher back and elongated seat in a singular shell supported by a metal armature. The result is a leisure chair that’s angled back just a bit ñ so you can sit down, relax and, as the name implies – lounge.
Cloud 2-Seater Sofa
The Cloud collection includes a one, two and a three-seat sofa and a pouf, all of which combine a strong and defined weight-bearing structure with cushions and pillows ensuring maximum comfort. Cloud welcomes you in a friendly embrace while maintaining an elegant and structured external silhouette. Cloud’s base feature no-sag springs and the pillows are made using a mix of HR foam and feathers, providing ultimate comfort. Its supporting structure î the back- and armrest segment and base î is made from bend plywood, while its frame and legs are produced in powder-coated steel, designed to match the colours of the upholstery.
Cloud LN5 Lounge Chair
Designed to be spacious and expansive, Italian-born, Swedish-based designer Luca Nichetto wanted to minimise anything voluminous and accentuate the look and feel of lightness. Seen in this new version of Cloud Sofas with a high back.
The secret to Cloud’s truly hygge sensation involves feather and foamfilled seat cushions resting on an upholstered solid wood base. Slim steel legs keep the base “afloat”, with a special coating in black, chrome or bronzed. The cushions along the back are secured in place with a curved shell that extends quite high above your back, constructed from foamwrapped plywood covered in the same textile to match the cushions.
Cloud LN6 Sofa
Cloud One Seater
The Cloud collection includes a one-, two- and a three-seat sofa and a pouf, all of which combine a strong and defined weight-bearing structure with cushions and pillows ensuring maximum comfort. Cloud welcomes you in a friendly embrace while maintaining an elegant and structured external silhouette. Cloud’s base feature no-sag springs and the pillows are made using a mix of HR foam and feathers, providing ultimate comfort. Its supporting structure î the back- and armrest segment and base î is made from bend plywood, while its frame and legs are produced in powder-coated steel, designed to match the colours of the upholstery.
Cloud Pouf
Column JA1
English designer John Astbury played with the proportions, surfaces and materials to create more than a shelf – but in a minimal expression that didn’t seem staged. The outcome? Two different shapes and various finishes. The long shelf is a soft rectangle and its little round sibling is the ideal companion. Pair them at varying heights and configurations, or place each on its own as a side table or in-shop display. Enjoy the option of waxed aluminium for both the shelf and supporting columns or black anodised aluminium for the shelf with oiled walnut
English designer John Astbury played with the proportions, surfaces and materials to create more than a shelf – but in a minimal expression that didn’t seem staged. The outcome? Two different shapes and various finishes. The long shelf is a soft rectangle and its little round sibling is the ideal companion. Pair them at varying heights and configurations, or place each on its own as a side table or in-shop display. Enjoy the option of waxed aluminium for both the shelf and supporting columns or black anodised aluminium for the shelf with oiled walnut.
Copenhagen Desk Lamp SC15
Imagine Maritime gas lamps lighting the way on dark cobblestone streets dating back over a century. Now imagine a modern version that embodies the essence of this icon in a desk lamp crafted in opal glass and oxidised brass – and you have Copenhagen by the design duo at Space Copenhagen.
The compact size allows you to place the lamp in all kinds of settings and the swivel feature gives you more possibilities for illumination. Light intensity is seamlessly controlled through a new dim-feature reflecting the latest Nobel Prize findings about our inner clock and the benefits of proper lighting on our wellbeing. Turn the knob on the base of the lamp from a colder brighter white light for daytime to a warmer white light for a cosy effect. A customised, built-in LED module ensures energy efficiency.
Ideal for any sized desk, the Copenhagen desk lamp will pave the path for pondering great ideas.
Copenhagen Floor Lamp SC14
Choose a cosy corner, add the new Copenhagen floor lamp and you instantly have an ambience with elegance.
The opal glass shade emits a soft ambient light, while the new dimmer allows you to adjust the light from a colder whiter light for daytime to a warmer white light at night time for a calmer effect. It’s the technology reflecting the latest Nobel Prize findings about our inner clock and being in sync with the various phases of the day for a better sense of wellbeing. A customised, built-in LED module ensures energy efficiency.
If you are looking for an iconic lamp with loads of atmosphere, you’ve just found it.
Copenhagen Pendant
The Copenhagen Pendant is an exercise in contrasts. The goal was to design a pendant with a simple industrial feel, but which was still elegant and poetic. Combining the classic and the modern, the maritime and the industrial, it is a pendant developed by Space Copenhagen for &Tradition. Following the success of their first collaboration, the Fly Lounge Series, &Tradition have worked with Space Copenhagen again to produce a pendant range in matt lacquered metal, one of Space Copenhagen’s first lights to enter production.
Copenhagen Table Lamp SC13
Whether you want to focus on work or on life, the Copenhagen table lamp will inspire you. With its opal glass to shed light on the subject, in tandem with an oxidised brass stem and base. Add to that a new dimmer feature, and you can adjust the light from cold to warm and back.
The opal glass shade exudes a soft ambient light, boasting a new dimmer that lets you to adjust the light from a colder whiter light for daytime to a warmer white light at night time for a calmer effect. The technology reflects the latest Nobel laureate findings on synchronising our inner clock to the different phases of the day for a better sense of wellbeing. A customised, built-in LED module ensures energy efficiency.
The Copenhagen table lamp is a welcome addition to any table, perfect for thinking, dreaming or just conversing.
Copenhagen Wall Light SC16
Most people adorn their walls with art, which is why &tradition introduced Copenhagen in a smaller wall version. The compact size gives you multiple placement options. Use it as a cosy bedside lamp or try several to illuminate your hallway. Swivel the lamp left to right for more personal lighting possibilities.
The opal glass shade ensures a soft ambient light, while the new dimmer allows you to adjust the light effect from cold white light for an energy boost by day to a warmer white light for a calmer feeling at night. A technology reflecting the latest Nobel Prize winning findings on the health benefits of synchronising our biological clock to the different phases of the day. A customised, built-in LED module ensures energy efficiency.
Wherever you place it, the Copenhagen wall lamp is destined to be a conversation piece.
Develius Sofa
Develius is the epitome of lounging in luxury. Conceived by Dutch designer Edward van Vliet, the shape is actually a composition of three enormous cushions. An ultra modern expression of a modular sofa, allowing you to arrange the various components to create a very personal sofa – and your own piece of paradise.
Develius is comprised of 16 different modular sofa components varying in depth, width and shape from rectangular to square. Including versions with and without arms, as well as a variety of poufs and the option of lush, loose cushions. Create a cosy corner in a private space. Or a lavish lounge area in a more public arena. Assemble a love seat for two or an expanded version for four or more. You could even use the pouf as an informal side table. The possibilities are practically endless.
Elefy Armchair
Critically acclaimed artist and designer Jaime Hayon is renowned for his playful approach to design – like the ‘Elefy.’ Inspired by an elephant, this emblematic chair mirrors its muse’s large physical form. Viewed from behind, it’s easy to spot the swell of those two large ears, emerging in a rounded curve from the solid bulk of the chair’s body. The similarities don’t end there. The base – available in metal or solid wood – echoes the creature’s four sturdy legs, while the shell comes in a range of contemporary colours and with the choice of full upholstery with either fabric or leather. The impact of this evocative piece extends beyond its physical appearance. While the Elefy’s streamlined shape is distinctly contemporary, the chair was designed with comfort in mind. Instead of angular edges and an aggressive form, its cupping shape cozily envelops the sitter from all sides. Much like the gentle nature of an elephant, the chair was designed to encourage a sense of wellbeing.
Flowerpot Pendant
In 1968 the students revolts in Paris, Rome and the United States were overthrowing stiff, old values, and initiating the Flower-Power generation of peace, love and harmony. Same year, Stanley Kubrick pictured the future of the year 2001, featuring the Verner Panton Chair, and man was soon to set foot on the moon. In the world of design, a colourful, playful pendant hung in restaurants and exhibitions, and very soon, in everybody’s homes. The FlowerPot with its two semicircular spheres facing each other has long proved its lasting design quality and is just as much a synonym of our time, too. & In his young days, Panton often set off from Copenhagen in an odd looking converted Volkswagen for a trek across Europe, dropping in on fellow designers to share ideas – and good meals
Flowerpot Table Lamp VP3
In 1968 the students revolts in Paris, Rome and the United States were overthrowing stiff, old values, and initiating the Flower-Power generation of peace, love and harmony. Same year, Stanley Kubrick pictured the future of the year 2001, featuring the Verner Panton Chair, and man was soon to set foot on the moon. In the world of design, a colourful, playful pendant hung in restaurants and exhibitions, and very soon, in everybody’s homes. The FlowerPot with its two semicircular spheres facing each other has long proved its lasting design quality and is just as much a synonym of our time, too. & In his young days, Panton often set off from Copenhagen in an odd looking converted Volkswagen for a trek across Europe, dropping in on fellow designers to share ideas – and good meals.
Fly Chair SC1
The Fly Series by Space Copenhagen is a lounge collection made up of two sofas, an armchair, two tables and a pouf. Pushing the idea of lounging to its fullest, Fly is a series that allows the user to sit, lie, rest, and relax. Unlike many of the sofas and easy chairs in Scandinavian design history, Fly does not impose any particular posture onto the sitter. The seat itself is optimised for comfort, with loose cushions for the back that can be arranged according to the user’s own needs. But Fly adheres to tradition in other respects; the frame of the sofa and armchair, with a slatted back rest, is made from solid oak, treated with white pigmented oil or smoked oil.
Fly Chair SC10
Fly Pouf
Fly Sofa
Fly Table
The Fly Series by Space Copenhagen is a lounge collection made up of two sofas, an armchair, two tables and a pouf. Pushing the idea of lounging to its fullest, Fly is a series that allows the user to sit, lie, rest, and relax. Unlike many of the sofas and easy chairs in Scandinavian design history, Fly does not impose any particular posture onto the sitter. The seat itself is optimised for comfort, with loose cushions for the back that can be arranged according to the userÍs own needs. But Fly adheres to tradition in other respects; the frame of the sofa and armchair, with a slatted back rest, is made from solid oak, treated with white pigmented oil or smoked oil. It is the type of material and treatment that ages with true grace, only becoming more beautiful with time.
Formakami Pendant JH3
The Paper Lantern series is comprised of three different versions in ivory white rice paper with black stained oak accents in sizes from 46 cm in diameter to 70 cm. Each weighing only 1 kilo, they hang delicately in any indoor setting. Living proof that when East and West meet, the past becomes the present in a poetic expression of both.
Formakami Table Lamp JH18
Delicate materials and hand craftsmanship give the iconic Asian lantern a contemporary twist with the Formakami table lamp by Jaime Hayon. The result is an ambient light in a lamp where the design itself appears light. It’s a hybrid concept fusing different aspects of cultures into a new design idiom. Airy, bulbous shapes crafted in ivory white rice paper with black lacquered ash accents look Asian and yet somewhat Scandinavian. Place the lamps in a modern milieu and cultural references disappear – replaced by a sense of magic. Switched off, there’s a sense of serenity. Switched on, there’s intimacy.
Fornell Suspension Lamp
Drawing his inspiration from the world of art and fashion, Andreas Bozarth Fornell creates simple, streamlined designs you would enjoy sharing a space with. Initially trained as a cabinetmaker, Fornell apprenticed with an architect when fate stepped in. He landed a juicy job as the in-house architect for the Swedish fashion brand Acne, designing the interiors for their riveting retail shops in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Melbourne. Where he merged different materials with inherent colour qualities to create amazing spaces imbued with atmosphere. ìArt is my inspiration, says Fornell. ìWith art comes freedom from functionality. At the same time, Im attracted to functionality. Not design for the sake of design. But objects you can really use in a design you would enjoy looking at ñ and having in your life.
Hoof Table SW1
ÖThe main inspiration for Samuel Wilkinson’s Hoof table derives from the feet which are sharpened at the ends producing a striking yet functional detail. The word Öhoof originates from the protective part of the feet of ungulate animals. In contrast to most tables, the leg ends of Hoof are left in natural wood to avoid the paint from chipping off from being either kicked or knocked when cleaning. The foot detail is created by reversing the usual manufacturing process. Most furniture that have a painted section and a natural part are initially assembled, then masked off, and painted. Hoof stands out by being painted first and then trimmed back to reveal the natural grain.
In Between Bar Stool
Merging man and machine by combining classic wood craftsmanship with compression moulding, Kallio imbues the In Between Bar Stool with someNordic soul. Seen in a simple, timeless design that’s kissing cousins to his In Between Chair and In Between Table, both made in conjunction with &tradition. “We love the mix of classic woodworking techniques and modern machinery,” notes &tradition Brand Manager Martin Kornbek Hansen. “Intrinsic to our own concept is merging the past with the present. So this design, with its simplicity and beauty, is truly emblematic of our own angle on design.”
In Between Chair
The interplay between positive and negative space is central to in Between, Sami Kallio’s chair design for &tradition. Its back and side panels provide a concrete shape and support, but forms are created equally by the gaps in between them. The upholstered seat is the perfect addition to the wooden chair: it embraces modern lifestyles and long, cosy dinners around the dining table, without compromising the chair’s light and elegant expression.
In Between Table SK3
The In Between chair was the first chair to be added to the &tradition stable of furniture and Kallio has reinterpreted certain aspects of the chair in the creation of the table. The curvature of the circular table is for example reminiscent of the negative space in the form of the chairÍs back rest. Similarly the angles of the legs of the table reflect the angles of the chair legs. The table legs were created using woodturning, a traditional technique that uses a lathe to shape wood.
Journey Surface Light
The Journey lamp is a lovely merging of two classic geometric shapes, the sphere and the rectangle. The round, opal glass shade is reminiscent of the moon, with a new dimmer feature to enhance your mood and sense of well-being. Journey is both a table lamp and a wall lamp, with subtle colour combinations that make it easy to place anywhere. There is the mirrored chrome base with a chrome dimmer for a monochromatic look. A matt black base with a brass dimmer. And a clay-toned base with a brass dimmer. Whether the moon is full or not, the intention is for you to enjoy the design and all the moods you can create.
*Can be used as either a table or a wall light
Lato Table
At first glance, Lato resembles a sculpture, with its slim, oval or round table top balanced by an oval-shaped base. Striking, graphic and poetic, its purity of form is proof that simple is sophisticated. The initial inspiration for Lato started with the idea of a lollipop turned upside down. A classic shape from a candy most people recognise from childhood. But how do you turn a lollipop into a table? “Growing up on an island like Murano, I was surrounded by creativity,” explains Nichetto. “Artisans with an immense knowledge and love of materials, who I watched transform abstract concepts into concrete reality. With Lato, I wanted to keep the simplicity and streamline it into a timeless side table in a style that could easily be the centre of attention.”
Enjoy this stunning example of a sculpture that’s a side table – and vice versa.
ìWe thought about climbing plants entering your room in one spot, slowly growing across the ceilings and walls, and blossoming into flowers of light. Ontwerpduo Light Forest is a lighting system adapted for ceilings and walls, designed by Tineke Beun-ders and Nathan Wierink of Ontwerpduo for &tradition. It crawls along walls, bends over beams, and folds across corners, bringing light into spaces that other lighting solutions could never reach. ìElectric points never seem to be where you want them, says Beunders. ìWith Light Forest you can have the light points exactly where you want them to shine. Light Forest consists of a network branches made from extruded aluminium tubes î both strong and light î which are joined with 3D printed SLS plastic parts.
Initially introduced back in 1938, Little Petra won instant praise at the Copenhagen Cabinetmakers Guild Exhibition, subsequently winning awards at exhibits in New York and Berlin. It’s one of just a few designs by architect Viggo Boesen, who became associated with Denmark’s signature design aesthetic in the 1930s called funkis style. Distinguished by a softer, more abundant, organic aesthetic that challenged the minimalistic approach of Bauhaus. Named after Boesen’s mother-in-law, Little Petra is indeed surprisingly petite, able to fit into all kinds of spaces, interiors and environments. Low to the ground, open and embracing, it embodies the essence of a lounge chair, allowing for all kinds of seating positions in any cosy setting imaginable. A lot of work has gone into ensuring the utmost comfort, from the seat to the upholstery. Respecting Boesen’s love of natural materials, the legs of the chair have been crafted in oak or walnut. The result is an endearing lounge chair that beckons you to stay.
Loafer Armchair SC24
The Loafer chair takes after its sibling, the Loafer lounge chair by Space Copenhagen designed for Arne Jacobsen’s refurbished SAS Royal Hotel. Fine-tuned for high-end restaurants, upscale eating environments and private homes, the Loafer chair is a bit lighter, narrower, with a higher seat and a slight slope on either side to comfortably accommodate your arms. A fully upholstered chair that’s soft yet sturdy, you’ll feel like you’re dining in a hotel whether you actually are or not.
Loafer Lounge Chair
The SAS Royal Hotel turned to Space Copenhagen founders Signe Bindslev Henriksen and Peter Bundgaard Rützou, who designed a chair that would look lovely in the hotel – and actually anywhere. Loafer. “The SAS Royal Hotel lobby is an essential part of their legendary interior,” says Henriksen. “It’s enormous and elegant. We wanted to design a piece of furniture that could create a sense of intimacy in this very open space.” “At the same time,” adds Rützou, “The design had to relate the signature spiral staircase and the circular columns of the space. A comfortable design that would somehow also make you feel protected. Sitting alone or in a group, without feeling too exposed.”
Whether for an exclusive hotel, club or lounge, or a private living space, Loafer offers the ultimate in luxury. The freedom to lounge in style forever.
Loafer Sofa SC25
A line extension from the Loafer lounge chair designed for the SAS Royal Hotel by Space Copenhagen, the Loafer sofa has the same seat height and depth. Remaining true to its name, it offers the utmost in comfort, involving extensive time and craftsmanship to ensure the solid construction, plush upholstery and detailed stitching. Available as a two-seater and three-seater sofa, each one is ideal as a centrepiece, partnered as a pair or grouped together. Equally at home in a high-end hotel, lobby, corporate setting or a residence, it’s all about indulging in the experience of lounging – a luxury in itself.
Marble Light
The elegance of the marble Light design is the result of Studio Vit s attention to detail and dedication to perfecting and reducing forms. Made from Italian Bianco carrara marble and mouth blown borosilicate glass, the high quality materials and the pure geometric shapes used for marble Light push the light towards the realm of art object. Yet you find playfulness in the way they riff on the archetypal light bulb form fulfilling &tradition’s second criteria ñ innovation. The seven-piece collection designed by Studio Vit includes a variety of pendants of different proportions and marble weights that allow the lamps to be suspended. The marble Light collection includes one table lamp, five pendants and one marble floor weight with 10m cord.
Mass Light Chandelier
The pendant was first launched in brown marble and glass as the two architects were keen on creating a lamp made from natural stone, which can withstand everyday use. The unusual use of solid marble for a lamp gives an exceptional sense of quality and durability. Later, two other quality materials were added to the range in the form of copper and brass. & the shape of Mass Light is bold, strong and masculine. Yet feminine curves soften the expression. The well-known shape lets you focus on the beauty of the materials, its aesthetic structures and colors.
Mass Light Pendant
Mayor Sofa
Mayor shows a moderation of modernism and a unique regional adaptation: the frame is made of solid oak, the upholstery is tight but with three loose cushions that comprise the seating area, and there is generally a more human approach to modernism with a focus on livability. The sofa is made of high quality materials. The tight upholstery and the two rows of elegant buttons that extend over the armrests and back give the sofa a simple and stylish look. Thus the sofa fits perfectly into both modern homes and workplaces, where quality and design are important parameters.
Mega Bulb Pendant
Mega Bulb, though superior in size, is actually the younger sister of Bulb, first blown five years after in 2006. Just as beautiful, just as elegant, Mega Bulb is the answer to all requests for poetic lightning in larger rooms and spaces. The small irregularities in the mouth blown glass make each of the pendants one of a kind and add the story of the glass master’s personal efforts in changing sand, soda and chalk into a modern classic using a thousand year old method. & Mega Bulb offers both high quality design and high quality light, being a perfect companion for the kitchen chef.
Mezcla JH20
A table is where different people come together for different reasons. To meet and discuss a topic. To agree, disagree or just laugh and enjoy each other’s company. It’s this idea of mixing people, ideas and elements that lies at the core of Mezcla, a table concept by Spanish designer Jaime Hayon, characterised by a mix of exclusive materials.
“The Spanish word for “mixture” is Mezcla,” explains Hayon. “For me it captures the essence of different people coming together and diverse design elements together – in a series of tables where the materials, shapes and colours could meet and greet, so to speak.”
Mezcla Table JH19
Milk Table Lamp
Norm.Architects finds exciting new ways in an ancient Nordic tradition of wood and glass. Though perfectly suited as a lamp, Milk adds more than light to your home. With Milk it was Norm.ArchitectÍs intention to create a soft light that could be placed in all corners of the home to create a cosy atmosphere. Being featured in an array of interior magazines, design blogs and on social media over the last few years they have surely succeeded.
Nærvær Table
Nærvær is the Danish word for presence, the concept at heart of this simple table by Norm Architects that invites you to be present. Whether connecting over a conversation or a cosy meal, it’s all about being intimate and in the moment. Ironically, the design of Nærvær is so simple it doesn’t impose its own presence on a space. Pronounced “naer-vaer”, it’s comprised of a powder coated, circular steel base and cylindrical stem supporting a round or square laminate table top. Don’t miss the oak veneer along the table top edges, a discrete detail in a design that could easily t into a corner or a crowded space. Allowing you to focus on the space and the people who fill it.
P376 KF1 Pendant
Kastholm & Fabricius were Danish architects whose work influenced the signature aesthetics of Danish Modernism. Kastholm added his experience as a blacksmith combined with Fabricus’ training as a cabinetmaker to create distinctively sculptural pieces appealing to an international audience. &Tradition’s re-launch of their P376 pendant lamp honours their original design from 1963, featuring five, concentric shades discretely placed underneath which gently curve towards the middle to emit a soft, diffused light. Available in either pure aluminium or white and in two sizes, the KF1 Ø47,5 and the KF2 Ø70. Enjoy a look that’s classic yet forever contemporary. Sleek and sophisticated with echoes of architecture.
Palette Desk
Each Palette Desk partners two shapes together: an elongated beanshape with a simple round shape. The two merge a marvellous mix ofregal materials available in three different combinations. For the tabletops, choose from polished Nero Marquina marble or honed BiancoCarrara marble, satin polished brass or stained ash veneer in black, redor grey-green. The base is made from welded and powder coated steeltubes, adding a contemporary touch to this collage of contrasts.
Palette Table JH25
Implicit in the idea of lounging is the chance to relax and enjoy the company of others. With the large lounge version of the Palette table by Jaime Hayon, we’ve increased your opportunity for interesting exchanges and experiences. With a multi-tiered table where various shapes, sizes, colours and materials converge together. Elegance is everywhere you look in this compelling collage of materials. Starting with the option of walnut or black ash together with black marble and satin polished brass. The effect is understated yet sophisticated, merging the warmth of wood with the patterned surface of marble in contrast to the silky effect of the satin polished brass.
With the Palette side table by Jaime Hayon, two shapes, sizes and materials converge to create a cosy enclave. Ideal for a coffee, an intimate chat and more. Whether by a sofa or bedside, in an entrance, hallway, reception area or part of an in-store display, the Palette side table creates a unified sense of design in a space filled with different design lingos.
Palette Table JH7
At first glance, each Hayon Lounge table is a lesson in geometry. One version features a round shape coupled with a hexagon together with an elongated oval. Another version has a painter’s palette shape, while another version juxtaposes a rounded rectangle with an elongated oval and a circle. Each table is a composition of three distinctive shapes beautifully balanced at different heights which form a unified whole. Varying in length from 67 cm to 83 cm to 116 cm, the Hayon Lounge Tables give a linear feeling to a 3D object. A sculpture you can enjoy looking at and living with.
Passepartout Lamp
Whether you need lighting for a large, expansive space or a narrowcorridor, for a cosy home environment or a welcoming workspace, thePassepartout Lamp emits a light that’s surprisingly calm and tranquil. Addto that built-in LED technology that ensures a high quality light emissionthat’s also energy-efficient, custom designed so the light is uniformlydispersed throughout a space.The lamp comes in matt white in different shapes that’s decorative withoutdrawing too much attention to itself. Choose one style for a consistentlook or group them together to create a unique design statement.
Pavilion Chair
Located on the castle grounds of Copenhagen’s Kastellet overlooking the waterfront promenade that is home to the Little Mermaid, The Langelinie Pavilion stands with a resilient spirit. The first Pavilion was built in 1885. The second was built in 1902 for the Royal Danish Yacht Club but was sadly destroyed during World War II. The current Pavilion was built 1958 by architect couple Eva and Niels Koppel in homage to modernism. Echoing its own ability to endure is the Pavilion chair by Andersen & Voll. Here the challenge was to design a stackable chair used for mass seating in this iconic, multi-purpose venue, the Langelinie Pavilion. Torbjørn Anderssen and Espen Voll wanted to link early modernism with new modernism.
Pavilion Lounge Chair
At first glance, the Pavilion lounge chair appears almost like a rope that’s come undone. From the curvaceous wood veneer seat and back to the steel tubes that form the armrests and legs, it’s a continuous flow of lyrical lines. A stackable chair that’s airy from any angle, it’s designed to be slightly laid back and with a wider seat than its cousin the Pavilion chair. In doing so, the Pavilion lounge chair is an open invitation to lean back, relax and stay a while.
*Product code for all wood chair: AV5
*Product code for upholstered option: AV6
Pavilion Stool
The Pavilion bar & counter stool has an airy feeling, with fluid curves for the wood veneer seat and back which continue as lyrical lines in the steel tubes of the legs. The result is a silhouette that’s barely there. Ideal for furnishing an expansive bar or a kitchen counter without appearing crowded, they can easily fill a space without the space appearing full. “Tube chairs had their start in early modernism, but they were usually constructed at fixed angles,” notes Anderssen & Voll. “We wanted to explore a more open construction, a freer form of expression.”
*Product code for all kitchen height stool: AV7
*Product code for bar height stool: AV9
Setago Table Lamp
Like many of Jaime Hayon’s pieces, the Setago comes with a story. ‘Seta’ – the Spanish word for mushroom – sets the tone for the diminutive, mushroomlike proportions of this quirky table lamp. But a further clue to its identity is signified by the suffix ‘go’ because this lamp – unburdened by an electrical cord – can literally go anywhere. Rather than remain stationary, it was made to be moved around with ease, plucked like foliage from the floor and carried from one room to the next. To recharge, it simply needs to be attached to a USB cable.
Shuffle Table
Mia Hamborg gives new life to the old Nordic craft tradition of turning wood by adding the colour and playful forms from old painted wooden toys. ItÍs up to you where you want to put this fine piece of furniture and being truly Nordic and democratic, you can even decide the form, colours and height of the table. & This fine table has one function more important than all others: To create joy.
Sillon Mirror
Sillon is French for “groove”, referring to the furrowed frame encompassing a series of three mirrors of varying sizes. Inspired by French Art Deco, the grooves form a repeated pattern that’s graphic, which adds an intriguing clarity and contrast to the mirrors. Choose brass or chrome for the frames as a material touch to the three mirror sizes measuring Ø460, Ø660, Ø960, and you’ll be spoiled for choice as to placement options. From 2019 this product is also available in a rectangular variation. From a lobby, hotel entrance hallway or bedroom to a smaller setting, such as a bathroom, with the freedom to group them together at varying heights or separately to make your own design statement.
Spinning Pendant BH1
The spinning-top toy, a childhood favourite, inspires to the joyful form of the Spinning pendant along with the process of metal spinning. Here, form truly meets function in an innovative way. It’s sleek, it’s sexy and it’s sure to become a new classic. & Benjamin Hubert is always curious to find new solutions and materials, often stopping to feel the texture on a piece of furniture or feeling the weight an old glass vase.
The spinning-top toy, a childhood favourite, inspires the joyful form of the Spinning pendant, along with the process of metal spinning. Here, form truly meets function in an innovative way. It’s sleek, it’s sexy and it’s sure to become a new classic. & Benjamin Hubert is always curious to find new solutions and materials, often stopping to feel the texture on a piece of furniture or feeling the weight an old glass vase.
The Moor Rug
The Moor Rugs are the second series of rugs designed by All The Way ToParis produced by &Tradition. This time, ATWTP’s departure point came from the various shapes of gemstones. “We wanted to focus solely onthe shapes, colours and textures, without any patterns,” notes Tanja Vibe and Petra Olsson Gendt, Founders and Partners at ATWTP. “For us, a rug brings all the elements of a room together in harmony, creating a feeling of closeness.” The result is a compelling sense of cohesion. Especially when you arrange all the rugs together as a cluster of gemstones. The rugs have a subtle shimmer to the surface, intended to echo the qualities of a gemstone.
Topan Pendant
Sometimes the simplest things are the most lasting and memorable, the Topan Pendant being a brilliant example. It was the first mass produced lamp by Verner Panton, later to be followed by the FlowerPot. Topan’s simplicity and coolness proves to be of lasting value. Topan was originally designed for the hotel and restaurant Astoria in Trondheim, Norway, in 1960. Here, Panton used his textile designs Geometry I to IV for floors, walls and ceilings in order to give the room a uniform image. The Topan pendants hung all over, dividing large rooms into smaller and more intimate spaces.
True Colour Vase
The seven vases in the True Colours Vase series come in blue, terracotta, and black brass, white aluminium, green copper, and brown steel. All vary in size î from 10 cm to 24 cm in height and from 6.5 cm to 10.5 cm in diameter î but follow the same principle of production. While each vase is a unique piece that works on its own, together the members of the True Colours family complement each other beautifully. ìColouring metals requires accurate recipes. My new vases for &tradition show the results of research on metals and their true colours; a direct relationship between colour, material and information.
Utzon Pendant
To Jrn Utzon, his father’s naval engineering drawings became a lifelong fascination with ships and boats, along with light. More than a decade before Jrn Utzon created his masterpiece, the Sydney Opera House, he put his child- hood fascination into this pendant, combining successfully the smoothness of the lines of a ship with the source of light for the first time. & The choice of white or polished chrome finish reminds one of the waves and the northern light.
Working Title Table Lamp
With the Working Title Table Lamp, Koskinen started with the idea of a small sculpture for a table. There were three basic components: a base, a stem and a shade. The question was how to create a harmonious composition with all the elements together as an entity? ìTo tie it all together I chose a monochromatic material solution: brushed aluminium. It makes the lamp more elegant. The smooth surface is pleasing to the eye and to the touch. The circular shape of the base is reflected in the shape of the shade, with a flexible, swivel stem connecting the two.
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Remember The Astros Pitcher Who Punched Himself In The Face? He Just Put On A Wilder Display [VIDEO]
(Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)
Jena Greene Reporter
July 12, 2018 12:52 PM ET
Houston Astros relief pitcher Ken Giles has officially been sent down to the minors after putting on a less-than-sportsmanlike display on Tuesday.
Giles, who grabbed headlines for repeatedly punching himself in the face at the start of the season, may be a promising pitcher, but his behavior has been causing concern among the coaching staff. (RELATED: Watch This Astros Pitcher Punch Himself In The Face Repeatedly)
Here’s his first offense in May:
pic.twitter.com/D32L8U8KGj
— Deadspin (@Deadspin) May 2, 2018
On Tuesday, when the Astros pulled Giles to replace him with Hector Rondon during their game against the Oakland A’s, Giles cussed out manager AJ Hinch as he left the mound.
Pretty sure he said “f you man” to Hinch on his way out pic.twitter.com/13DkLs3klO
— Scott Marvin (@ScottEMarvin) July 11, 2018
It’s not exactly difficult to make out Giles saying “f*** you, man” in that close-up shot.
Understandably, the Astros were less-than-happy about this little exhibit so they demoted him to the Triple-A Fresno team on Wednesday.
“We need to get him right. He’s not right. We need to get him right, mentally and physically,” AJ Hinch told reporters.
“I don’t know what he said,” General manager Jeff Luhnow told the Houston Chronicle. “Things are said between players and players and staff, and that’s a clubhouse issue.”
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Ossining Daily Voice serves Ossining, NY
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Ossining Mayor Criticizes Violent Anti-Roundabout Rhetoric
Sam Barron
02/28/2017 9:00 a.m.
A roundabout is being proposed for downtown Ossining Photo Credit: Contributed
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OSSINING, N.Y. -- Discussion about a roundabout in Ossining grew even more heated as Mayor Victoria Gearity condemned comments that veered into threats of gun violence.
The Village of Ossining is pursuing the roundabout, which would be funded via a $500,000 bond at the intersection of Main, Spring and Brandreth Streets and Central Avenue. The Greater Ossining Chamber of Commerce is opposed to the roundabout and has launched a petition drive to put the issue to voters. Construction is set to begin this summer. The chamber must get 2146 signatures by Friday to go forward with a referendum.
"The rhetoric has grown increasingly hostile," Gearity said last week. "The rhetoric, particularly on Facebook, has deteriorated to include misleading statements and false accusations. Those messages hit an all-time low."
Johnny Girolamo, who does public relations for the Ossining Chamber of Commerce, posted on Facebook that he was really angry that people in the village were afraid to sign the petition because of fears of retribution.
"NOT the kind of village I prefer!" Girolamo wrote. "SIGN THE PETITION!"
A man responded with, "Aren't you an ex-cop? Probably still have a pistol...take care of it," and another man replied, "Make em offer they can't refuse."
Gearity said she doesn't know the two men who made the comments, neither of whom live in Ossining, according to their Facebook pages. But Gearity was upset that no one in the thread spoke out against the comments.
"I do know most of the next nine people who commented on that thread. Some are local business owners; some are people I have called friends; in a couple of cases we’ve been to each other’s homes and our children have played together," Gearity said. "We are talking about an infrastructure project."
Gearity said comments like that went too far, and people who are opposed should sign the petition.
"No one should feel intimidated either way," Gearity said. It diminishes this village if threats of violence are ignored and not challenged. Good government cannot be dictated by the loudest and angriest among us."
Girolamo, who declined comment, removed the post and said it was inappropriate. He apologized to Gearity at a board meeting, he said on his Facebook page.
"I was accused of 'spewing rhetoric' alluding to a post that I shared about my blood boiling," Girolamo said. "I explained to her that my heart was hurt regarding a conversation I had with a merchant but she was not hearing it. Apparently, it is all my fault. I will do my best to stick to the topic."
Chamber President Gayle Marchica said Gearity is trying to make herself bigger than the game.
"It's very important that an elected official does not take advantage of the pulpit," Marchica said. "She should stay on task and stick to the issue at hand. We have problems to solve other than making problems that don't exist."
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Scan It, Measure It, Manage It
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Proactive Enforcement and Infrastructure Management with Mobile Terrestrial LiDAR
By Needham Hurst • November 14, 2013
This post is part of the Regulatory Reform for the 21st Century City project.
Cities are losing millions of dollars every year to illegal billboards, unpermitted construction, and inefficient maintenance of public assets.
The problem is inherently about scale — how can a city with limited enforcement and maintenance staff track and monitor every billboard, every construction site, and every inch of public infrastructure? They simply can’t; it is cost prohibitive to track micro changes in the built environment.
Now imagine an up-to-date, interactive 3D rendering of a city accurate down to the centimeter. And what if you could interface that rendering with construction permits, billboard licenses, and zoning restrictions to find gaps in enforcement?
CityScan, a startup out of Chicago and a regional winner of the city’s Challenge Cup, is using mobile terrestrial LiDAR to build just such a system.
A CityScan vehicle
LiDAR-equipped cars transverse cities, cataloguing the built environment with engineering-quality accuracy (a terabyte of data per 8-hour drive). Back at headquarters, analysts armed with proprietary software algorithms comb the data for illegal signs, intelligently matching city license information to the 3D rendering. In its 2012 survey, CityScan found thousands of Chicago's billboards were improperly licensed or outright unlicensed. David Guttman, co-founder and CEO of CityScan, estimates the city loses $5-10 million in potential license fees on these signs.
CityScan’s sales pitch is revenue recovery, but the technology’s real value is how it helps cities work better, faster, and cheaper by streaming objective, real-time priorities to decision-makers.
“Enforcement is complaint driven in every large city in the US. Our technology allows it to be problem driven,” says Guttman. In NYC, CityScan tested its technology comparing construction assets on the ground versus construction permits on a mile-and-a-half stretch of Queens Boulevard. 40% of the construction equipment was unpermitted, including an unsafe 6-story scaffold on a nursing home. In neighborhoods where residents can’t or won’t call 311 to report illegal construction activity, this innovation is critical to making sure all residents receive the same level of service.
Beyond enforcement and revenue recovery, there is potential for forward thinking organizations to use mobile terrestrial LiDAR to target infrastructure maintenance. Many agencies and utility companies face an asset management problem: how do we intelligently target repairs across an extensive infrastructure in a low-cost way?
"Enforcement is complaint driven in every large city in the US. Our technology allows it to be problem driven."
In Chicago, ComEd provides electricity to 3.8 million customers and manages 90,000 miles of power lines in an 11,400-square-mile territory. CityScan is piloting mobile LiDAR to measure the tilt of power poles, inventory company and 3rd party equipment on the polls, assess wire sag, and identify tree encroachment. With this information, ComEd can make informed decisions about where to focus resources to protect Chicago’s electricity infrastructure.
For many cities, street infrastructure is the biggest asset. On the west coast, a mid-sized city is planning a comprehensive sidewalk assessment. The original plan was to spend $1 million to have engineering students walk the entire sidewalk network, evaluating damage by hand. The process would have taken up to a year. With mobile terrestrial LiDAR, the city could have results in a month and with precise damage data like how deep a sidewalk crack is down to the centimeter.
The applications are almost endless — indeed, almost every city approached by the company suggests new and innovative applications: from identifying illegal building conversions and overcrowding by counting doorbells and mailboxes, to post-disaster damage assessments, to comprehensive fire risk assessments combining external LiDAR scans with city records.
Interfacing mobile terrestrial LiDAR with municipal data is the newest innovation in proactive enforcement and infrastructure management. This innovation enables cities to cut costs, recover lost revenues, and deliver services proactively.
Needham Hurst
Needham Hurst is a joint MPP/MBA candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School. He spent the last two years in New York City working for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the mayor’s post-disaster housing task force. At HPD, Needham project managed the financing and rehabilitation of affordable and supportive housing projects. After graduating from Macalester College with a BA in Economics, he worked in Saint Paul, MN, as a foreclosure prevention community organizer. His research interests include housing strategies for vulnerable populations, smart infrastructure, and innovation in local government.
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In the context of usage of our websites personal data of yours will be processed by us as the entity responsible for data processing and be stored for the length of time necessary for the defined purposes and the fulfilment of statutory obligations. We shall be informing you in the following as to which data are affected hereby, the manner in which they are processed and the rights you have in this respect.
According to Art. 4 No. 1 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) personal data refers to all information that refers to an identified or identifiable natural person.
1. Name and contact data of the entity responsible for the processing as well as the company data protection officer
This data protection information applies to data processing on all of our websites that refer to this data protection information. The responsible entity is:
Telephone: +49 30 88774250
Fax: +49 30 887742525
Our data protection officer may be contacted at the above address, attn.: Data Protection Officer or via datenschutz@david-borck.de.
Should you have any questions pertaining to data protection laws or your rights as an affected person you may approach our data protection officer directly at any time.
2. Processing of Personal Data and Purposes of the Processing
a) When visiting the Websites
You may call up our websites without necessarily giving any details regarding your identity. The browser used on your terminal device merely automatically transmits information to the servers on our websites (e.g. browser type and version, date and time of access) in order to be able to establish a connection to the website. These also include the IP address of your inquiring terminal device. This is stored temporarily in a so-called log file and will be automatically deleted after four weeks.
The processing of the IP address takes place for the technical and administrative purposes of the establishment and stability of the connection, of guaranteeing the security and functional capability of our websites and in order to be able, if necessary, to pursue any illegal attacks thereupon.
The legal basis for the processing of the IP address is Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interests derive from the aforementioned security interest and the necessity of a disturbance-free provision of our websites.
We are not able to draw any immediate conclusions regarding your identity from the processing of the IP address and any other information contained in the log file.
We additionally use cookies and analysis services when our websites are visited. You will find more detailed explanations pertaining to this in Figures 4 and 5 of this data protection information.
b) Upon Registering for our Newsletters
Inasmuch as you have explicitly granted your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. a GDPR we shall be using your e-mail address for the purpose of regularly sending you our newsletters. We differentiate thereby between our newsletter that supplies you with general information pertaining to the activities of our company (hereinafter: “Company Newsletter”) and the newsletter that informs you pertaining to specific real estate offers (hereinafter: “Exposé Offers).
In the context of registration for a newsletter we also gather, in addition to your e-mail address, your first and last names as compulsory information in order to be able to send you personalised newsletters.
De-registration is possible at any time, e.g. via a link at the end of every newsletter. Alternatively you are also welcome to communicate your wish to de-register to us at any time by sending an e-mail to service@david-borck.de.
Your e-mail address will be deleted immediately after the revocation of your consent to the sending of the newsletter.
We send our Company Newsletter through the service Newsletter2Go offered by the provider Newsletter2Go GmbH, Köpenicker Str. 126, D-10179 Berlin, Germany (“Newsletter2Go”). Newsletter2Go has been certified by TÜV Rhineland as a services provider with an audited system of data protection management. Newsletter2Go uses the information provided by you for the sending and evaluation of the newsletter on our behalf. We have concluded an order processing contract with Newsletter2Go.
By means of Newsletter2Go we are able to measure and evaluate the conduct of the recipients of our newsletters. This involves the opening, click, bounce, delivery, de-registration, conversion and social sharing rates.
This analysis is effected on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause1 lit. f GDPR, in order to optimise our newsletters. A legitimate interest within the meaning of the aforementioned regulation is to be seen herein.
c) When using our Contact Form
We offer you the possibility of establishing contact with us via a form provided on our website. We thereby collect the following compulsory information:
– Your first and last names and
– Your e-mail address.
We require your first and last names in order to know who the inquiry has come from. We require your e-mail Address in order to be able to reply to your inquiry. You may also supply your telephone number as a voluntary detail. The provision of your telephone number serves the purpose of making it easier to establish contact with you. This data processing is effected in the context of replying to the contact inquiry on the basis of our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR.
d) When using our valuation tool
We offer you the opportunity to value your property using a valuation tool provided on our website. You can access the valuation tool via a pop-up window by clicking on a banner in the header of our website or via our sub website https://david-borck.de/immobilienbewertung.
We collect the following mandatory information:
– Type of property (house/flat/residential and commercial house/land)
– Salutation
– Your last name
– Your email address
We need salutation and surname in order to recognize from whom the inquiry originates. We need the type of property and your e-mail address in order to answer your enquiry. Depending on the type of property, we will ask you further voluntary questions, e.g. about the size of the property or the year of construction of the house. This allows us to provide a preliminary assessment of your property. You can also voluntarily provide us with your first name, company name and telephone number. The indication of your telephone number serves to contact you more easily and to simplify the communication with you.
We process your personal data based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR within the framework of answering your contact enquiry via the valuation tool in order to determine the value of your property and, if interested, to submit you an appropriate offer. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of the aforementioned provision.
3. Forwarding of Data to Third Parties
As a general rule we do not forward your data to any third parties. The transmission of personal data can at most be an option if
– you have granted your explicit consent hereto in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. a GDPR,
– there is a legal obligation to forwarding in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. c GDPR.
We use cookies on our internet site. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and which are stored on your terminal device (laptop, tablet, smartphone and suchlike) when you visit our site. Cookies do not cause any harm to your terminal device and do not contain any viruses, Trojans or other types of malware.
Information is stored in the cookie that always arises in the context of the terminal device specifically deployed in the respective case. This does not mean, however, that your identity is made known to us in this way.
The deployment of cookies serves the purpose of making the use of our offer more comfortable for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies in order to be able to tell that you have already visited individual sites on our website.
Additionally, we also use temporary cookies in order to increase user friendliness, which are stored on your terminal device for a certain predefined period of time. Should you visit our site once again in order to avail yourself of our services, it is automatically established that you had already visited us and which entries and settings you had made at that time, so that it is not necessary to enter these again.
Another reason why we deploy cookies is to statistically register the usage made of our website and in order to be able to assess the optimisation of our offer to you (cf. Figure 5). These cookies enable us to automatically establish that you had already visited us in the past in the event of a further visit. These cookies are deleted automatically after a predefined time set in the respective case has elapsed.
The data processed by cookies are necessary for the named purposes in order to preserve our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR.
Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You may, however, configure your browser is such a way that no cookies are stored on your computer or that a warning always appears before a new cookie is created.
The full deactivation of cookies may, however, result in your not being able to use all the functions of our website.
5. Web Analysis
The tracking and targeting measures listed in the following and deployed by us are implemented on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR.
With the aid of the tracking measures used we wish on the one hand to ensure the needs-based designing and continuous optimisation of our website. On the other hand we use the tracking measures in order to statistically record the use of our website. We furthermore use the data for the optimised blending in of advertising. These interests are to be regarded as legitimate within the meaning of the aforementioned regulation.
The other targeting measures listed in the following and deployed by us are implemented on the basis of Article 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR. The targeting serves the purpose of targeted advertising. We wish by way of the targeting measures deployed to ensure that only advertising oriented towards your interests is displayed on your terminal devices.
The respective data processing purposes and data categories are to be gathered from the descriptions of the respective tracking tool.
We use Google Analytics on our website, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, hereinafter “Google Inc.”). In this connection pseudonymised user profiles are created and cookies (cf. Fig. 4) are used. The information generated by the cookie relating to your usage of this website, such as
– Browser type/version,
– Operating system used,
– Referrer-URL (the site previously visited),
– Host name of the accessing computer (IP address),
– Time of the server inquiry,
are transmitted to a server operated by Google in the USA and stored there. Google observes the data protection provisions of the “US Privacy Shield” and is registered with the US Privacy Shield programme of the US Ministry of Trade. We have furthermore concluded with Google an order processing contract for the usage of Google Analytics. Google gives its assurance by way of this contract that it will process the data in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Processing Regulation and guarantee the protection of the rights of the affected person.
The information is used to analyse the usage of our website, compile reports on the website activities and perform other services connected with the usage of the website and of the internet for purposes of market research and the needs-based designing of this internet site.
The information may also be transmitted to third parties, inasmuch as this is prescribed by law or third parties should process said data by order. Under no circumstances will your IP address be merged with other data possessed by Google. The ).
You may prevent the installation of the cookies by an appropriate setting of your browser software. We do point out, however, that in this case you might not be able to use all functions of the website to their full extents.
You may furthermore prevent the registration of the data generated by the cookie and which refer to your usage of the website (incl. your IP Address) and the processing of said data by Google by downloading and installing a browser add-on.
As an alternative to the browser add-on, in particular in the case of browsers located on mobile terminal devices, you may also prevent registration by Google Analytics by clicking on this link. An opt-out cookie is then set that prevents the future registering of your data when visiting this website. The opt-out cookie applies only in this browser and only to our website and will be stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser you must set the opt-out cookie once again.
You may find further information pursuant to data protection in connection with Google Analytics in, for example, the Google Analytics Assistant.
We use the Google service AdWords and, in this respect, conversion tracking, in order to measure the effectiveness of individual advertisements, offers and functions. To this end a cookie is set as soon as you click on a Google advertisement. This cookie does not serve the purpose of personal identification but is intended to make it possible to establish whether you, during the valid lifetime of the cookie, 30 days, re-visit the site with the specific offer.
Every AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies may thus not be traced via the website of AdWords customers. The information obtained with the aid of the conversion cookies serve the purpose of compiling conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have decided in favour of conversion tracking. We learn the total number of users who have clicked on an advertisement and been guided to a site furnished with a conversion tracking tag.
You may permanently prevent the storage of the Google Conversion cookie by an appropriate setting of your browser software. The data protection declaration of Google on the matter of conversion tracking is to be found here.
c) Google AdWords Remarketing
We use Google Remarketing Tags, which are a service of Google Inc. Google uses cookies (see section 4), which are stored on your computer allowing analysis of your website usage. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. Google is subject to the EU-US Privacy Shield, which guarantees an appropriate level of data privacy.
The IP address is then shortened by Google by the last three digits, making a unique assignment of the IP address no longer possible. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity for website operators and provide other website and internet usage-related services.
Google may furthermore forward this information to third parties as required by law, and to third parties processing this data on Google’s behalf. Third parties, including Google, place ads on internet websites. Third parties, including Google, use stored cookies to serve ads based on previous visits to this site by a user. Google will never associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may revoke permission for data collection and storage at any time with effect for the future. You may deactivate the use of cookies by Google by visiting the page for deactivating Google advertising.
However, please be advised that you may not be able to use all functionalities of this website to their full extent in such case. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data gathered about you by Google in the manner and for the purpose outlined above. Further information about Google´s policies can be found here.
d) Google DoubleClick
On our website information is registered and evaluated using cookies in order to optimise advertising pop-ups. For this purpose we use targeting technologies of Google Inc. (Double Click, Double Click Exchange Buyer, Double Click Bid Manager).
These technologies enable us to approach you purposefully with individual, interest-related advertising. The cookies register, for example, those of our contents in which you have shown interest. On the basis of the information we are also able to display to you offers on the sites of third parties that are specifically oriented towards your interests as these may be deduced from your previous conduct as a user. The registration and evaluation of your conduct as a user is effected exclusively by pseudonym and does not enable us to identify you.
The cookie will be automatically deleted after 30 days.
You may also undertake settings for the display of interest-related advertisements using the advertising setting manager supplied by Google.
Further information and the data protection provisions regarding advertising and Google can be found in the data protection declaration and conditions of usage of Google.
e) Google Tag Manager
We furthermore use the Google Tag Manager from Google on our website. With the aid of the Google Tag Manager we manage the tools we are informing you about in this data protection declaration. Please, therefore refer to the information regarding the specific tool in question for more details on any of these tools
The Tool Tag Manager itself (which implements the tags) is a cookie-free domain. The tool takes care of the dissolution of other tags which may possibly themselves register data. Google Tag Manager does not access these data. If deactivation has taken place at domain or cookie level this shall remain in existence for all tracking tags that have been implemented with the aid of Google Tag Manager.
Further information pertaining to the Google Tag Manager may be found in the usage guidelines for this product.
f) Bing Ads
We use Bing Universal Event Tracking (UET) by Microsoft Bing Ads. This is a service offered by the Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA (hereinafter: “Microsoft”). This enables us to track the activities of users on our website should they have reached our website via advertisements from Bing Ads.
If you reach our website via a Bing Ads advertisement a cookie will be set on your computer. A Bing UET-Tag is integrated on our website. This is a code by way of which, in conjunction with the cookie, some non-personal data concerning the usage of the website are stored. These include the length of the visit to the website, which areas of the website had been called upon and the advertisement via which the users had reached the website. Information regarding your identity is not registered.
This information is transmitted to servers of Microsoft in the USA and stored there, as a basic rule, for a maximum of 180 days. Microsoft observes the data protection provisions of the “US-Privacy Shield” and is registered with the “US-Privacy Shield” programme of the US Ministry of Trade. We have also concluded with Microsoft an order processing contract for the use of Bing Ads. By way of this contract Microsoft gives its assurance that the data are processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and the protection of the rights of the affected person are guaranteed.
More detailed information pertaining to the analyses services of Bing may be found on the Bing website.
More specific information on the topic of data protection at Microsoft may be found in the data protection provisions of Microsoft.
g) Facebook Pixel/Facebook Tracking
We use Facebook Website Custom Audiences of Facebook Ireland Limited (4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland). This is a marketing service offered by Facebook. This enables us to cause individually coordinated and interest-related advertising on Facebook to be displayed to certain groups of pseudonymised visitors to our websites who also use Facebook.
A Facebook Custom Audience Pixel Tag is integrated within our website. This is a Java Script code by means of which non-personal data pertaining to the usage of the website are stored. These include your IP address, the browser used and the departure and target sites. This information is transmitted to servers of Facebook in the USA. Facebook is subject to the EU-US Privacy Shield, so that an appropriate level of data protection is guaranteed.
Here an automated comparison takes place whether you have saved a Facebook cookie. It is automatically established via said Facebook cookie whether you belong to the target group relevant to us. If you should belong to the target group our appropriate advertisements will be displayed to you on Facebook. During this procedure you will not be personally identified as a result of the comparison of the data, neither by ourselves nor by Facebook.
You may object to the use of the service Custom Audience on the website of Facebook. After logging into your Facebook account you will reach the settings for Facebook advertising pop-ups.
You may find more detailed information on data protection at Facebook in the data protection guideline of Facebook.
We use so-called Web Fonts that are provided by Adobe Typekit, a service of Adobe Systems Inc., 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704. When you call up our website your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to be able to display typefaces correctly.
For this purpose the browser you use must establish connections to the servers of Adobe Typekit. Your IP address will thus be transmitted to Adobe in the USA. You may find more detailed information in the data protection pointers of Typekit, which you may call up here.
We use Adobe Typekit on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR, in order to be able to present our website appropriately. A legitimate interest within the meaning of the aforementioned regulation is to be seen herein.
7. Affected Person’s Rights
You have the right:
– To demand in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR information pertaining to your personal data process by us. You may in particular demand information pertaining to the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipient to whom your data have been disclosed or will be disclosed, the intended duration of storage, the existence of a right of correction, deletion, restriction upon processing or objection, the existence of a right of complaint, the origin of your data should these not have been collected by us and of the existence of an automated decision-making process including profiling and, where appropriate, meaningful information concerning the details thereof;
– To demand in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR the immediate correction of incorrect data affecting you and/or to the completion of any incomplete data of yours stored by us;
– To demand in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR the deletion of your personal data stored with us inasmuch as the processing should not be necessary for the exercising of the right of free speech and information, fulfilment of a legal obligation, for reasons that lie in the public interest or for the assertion, exercising or defending of legal entitlements;
– To demand in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR the restriction of the processing of your personal data inasmuch as the correctness of your data is disputed by you; if processing of the data should be illegal but you reject their deletion and we no longer need the data but you should require them for the assertion, exercising or defending of legal entitlements or if you have objected to the processing on the basis of Art. 21 GDPR;
– To demand in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR to receive the personal data which you have supplied to us in a structured, standard and machine-readable format or to demand transmission to another responsible person;
– To revoke in accordance with Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR the consent you may have granted to us to the processing of data at any time with effect for the future. The consequence of this will be that we shall not be permitted to continue in the future the processing of data that was based upon said consent and
– To complain in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR to a supervisory authority. As a general rule you may address yourself for this purpose to the supervisory authority responsible for your normal place of residence, the place at which your workplace is located or the head office of our company.
8. Right of Objection
Inasmuch as your personal data are processed on the basis of legitimate interests according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR you have the right to lodge an objection to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR inasmuch as grounds are given for this that derive from your own particular situation or the objection is aimed against direct advertising. In the latter case you possess a general right of objection that will be realised by us without the need to invoke a particular situation.
Should you wish to exercise your right of objection an e-mail to service@david-borck.de shall be sufficient.
All personal data submitted by you will be transmitted in encrypted form using the commonly accepted and safe standard TLS (Transport Layer Security). TLS is a safe and tried and tested standard that is, for example, also used in online banking. You may recognise a safe TLS connection, inter alia, by the “s” suffixed to http (i.e. https://..) in the address bar of your browser or by the lock symbol in the lower area of your browser.
We otherwise use suitable technical and organisational security measures in order to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or the unauthorised access of third parties. Our security measures are being continuously improved in accordance with technological developments.
10. Topicality and Amendment of this Data Protection Information
This data protection information is currently valid and up-to-date as of May 2018.
The further development of our website and offers pertaining thereto or altered statutory or official specifications may render it necessary to amend this data protection information. The latest data protection information valid at a particular time may be retrieved and printed out whenever you wish at
https://www.david-borck.de/#dataprotection.
General Terms of Contract and of use
These Terms of Contract and of Use govern the use of the online offer of David Borck Immobiliengesellschaft mbH,Schlüterstr. 45 10707 Berlin (hereinafter: Broker) under the domain name www.david-borck.de (hereinafter: Website) and the contractual relationship between the Broker and its customers.
CONTENT, COPYRIGHTS
(1) The offers on the Website and in the synopses are based on the data and information received from the owner or other third parties and are not checked by the Broker. The offers are without obligation and non-binding.
(2) All rights to the contents of the Website and the synopses are vested in the Broker unless otherwise stipulated. The customer is prohibited from copying, disseminating and/or publishing copyrighted contents outside of the legal limits of Art. 44a et seq. Copyright Law. This prohibition exists irrespective of the form in which the contents is copied, disseminated and/or published and also refers explicitly to the inclusion of copyrighted contents for direct access (so-called embedded content).
(1) For proof of the possibility of closing a sales or lease agreement or for negotiating such a contract, the customer undertakes to pay a commission to the Broker. For sales agreements, the commission is 7.14% of the sales price, for lease agreements, 2.38 times the net basic rent (both including VAT). The retail price is the negotiated purchase price plus the value if applicable reducing the purchase price of accepted loads (real property). Otherwise, the commission is shown in the synopsis made available by the Broker.
(2) Contrary to the provisions of Paragraph 1, the Customer is not obligated to pay a commission if seeking an apartment for which they have received proof of the opportunity to conclude lease agreements for residential premises or have had such agreements mediated, unless the Agent is exclusively tasked by the lessor or other authorised party with offering the apartment to the Customer under the terms of the agency agreement.
PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCLOSURE
(1) The customer undertakes not to exploit any of the offers, information or synopses transmitted by the Broker or disclose or provide it to third parties without the Broker’s prior written consent.
(2) For every proven violation against the obligation in Art. 4 (1) of these General Terms of Contract and of Use, the customer pays a contractual penalty to the Broker in the amount of the lost commission according to Art. 3 (1) of these General Terms of Contract and of Use on concluded sales or principal agreements if subsequently a sales or principal agreement is concluded between the third party and the owner without involving the Broker. To calculate commission, Clause Art. 3 (1) of these Terms applies accordingly.
(3) The above prohibition against disclosure also applies beyond the end of the contractual relationship.
The customer assures that the data provided by him is relevant and complete.
DUAL AGENCY
The Broker is entitled to work for both the owner as well as the customer.
(1) The Broker is not liable for the accuracy and completeness of the offers listed on the Website or in the synopsis. If third party contents (videos, pictures), which is marked as such, is embedded in the Website or in the synopsis, the Broker assumes no responsibility for the accuracy and/or legality of these contents. Independent of this, the Broker is liable for the diligent and expert provision of its contractual services as well as for their faultlessness.
(2) Unlimited liability: The Broker is liable in the case of intent and gross negligence. For slight negligence, the Broker is liable for damages arising from injury to life, limb and health of persons.
(3) Limitations of liability: Otherwise, the Broker is liable for slight negligence only
if an essential contractual duty has been violated whose fulfilment is a pre-requisite for being able to execute the contract properly in the first place and on whose fulfilment the customer may normally trust (cardinal obligation), and the liability is limited in amount to the foreseeable damage typical for the contract at the conclusion of contract.
(4) This limitation of liability also applies to the Broker’s vicarious agents.
(1) Should these Terms of Contract and of Use contain invalid provisions, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.
(2) Exclusively German law is applicable to the present Terms under exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).
(3) Should the customer be a business owner, a legal entity under public law or special fund under public law, then Berlin is the legal venue for all disputes arising from or in connection with these Terms.
(4) The European Commission provides a platform for extra-judicial arbitration under the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/ .
Berlin, February 2014
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Gillette and director Coral Amy Brown explore the emotional weight of a becoming a monk.
Seven out of eight sea turtle species face extinction, according to this joint effort from Greenpeace and Aardman Animations.
Sex sells, as the old adage goes, and Zoopla - perhaps surprisingly - are the latest brand to indulge in a bit of rumpy pumpy.
Smuggler are pleased to announce the signing of breakout director Lucy Forbes to their roster.
Raheem Sterling's rise to prominence culminates in this 90" Nike commercial.
Well-travelled filmmaker Marco Gentile has become the latest to join Antiestático for UK and Spanish representation.
Sergei and Aleksandr have gone up in the world, according to Compare The Market's latest ad, and are now the proud owners of an almost entirely 'smart' home.
Sport England's 'This Girl Can' campaign marks its fifth anniversary with a typically diverse and dynamic outing.
Subway’s disruptive streak continues with this 90” plug for the brand’s vegan Meatball Marinara sub.
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Fat Lemon have strengthened their comedy offer by adding Dan Castella to their roster, and Executive Producer Cabell Hopkins couldn’t be happier.
“We are very excited to have Dan on board,” he says. “He’s a super talent who can apply himself to different genres, but his work has an overall warmth and production quality that we admire over here.”
"Home" 60s
Another thoughtful ad for HSBC explores the concept of home and what it really means. Spokesman Richard Ayoade is a level presence, as ever, bringing enough gravitas to his delivery to really make ask, "Is home where we're from, who we love, or how we got to where we are?"
It's a question which used to have an easy answer for many Brits, a workaround from the internal politics of hometowns and adopted cities - they're from Europe. Now that answer is in jeopardy, this campaign feels more timely than ever as it touches on immigration, community, and emotional contentedness.
In addition to these philosophical ponderings, it's an attractively shot piece of work which travels seamlessly from one vignette to the next. Director James Rouse keeps things pacy and visually playful while giving us enough time to consider the question ourselves - where are we from, really?
"Second Shave" 1 min 47s
The Buddhist practice of tonsure - the ritual shaving of the head and face - is part of the ceremony involved in becoming a monk. While little-seen in these parts, Thai culture considers time spent as a monk as one of the most important events in a man's life.
That’s the premise of this engrossing ad for Gillette, who aim to show how their brand - in this age of subscription razor services and beard worship - still carries weight around the world. Hence our trip into the Thai jungle.
Director Coral Amy Brown explores the emotional weight of the event for one family here, as a father looks back over his son's life before the ceremony takes place. The father's pride and love for his son are clear even without subtitles explaining his words, tone alone conveying his nostalgia for the boy he was and hopes for the man he is.
The reminiscing is interspersed with the son's ritual journey to the ceremony, and the emotional release as his father participates in shaving his head is clearly heartfelt. This is a beautiful piece of work from Gillette , and elevated far above the usual stuff we see in this sector.
The Royal Holloway University graduate first made a splash in 2018 with short film ‘Meat’, which blended family drama with self-cannibalism to amusing effect. His latest project, however, draws from personal experience.
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"Confidence That Lasts" 60s
Twelve months after mobilising snowflakes, binge gamers, phone zombies, etc., the Army switch focus to millennials suffering from low self-esteem. The solution, of course, is a stint in the armed forces, which has naturally drawn mixed responses. The protagonist of this compelling 60” film, however, sees the Army as an escape from confidence hacks.
Another thoughtful ad for HSBC explores the concept of home and what it really means. Spokesman Richard Ayoade is a level presence, as ever, bringing enough gravitas to his delivery to really make ask, "Is home where we're from, who we love, or how we got to where we are?" In addition to these philosophical ponderings, it's an attractively shot piece of work.
The Buddhist practice of tonsure - the ritual shaving of the head and face - is part of the ceremony involved in becoming a monk. While little-seen in these parts, Thai culture considers time spent as a monk as one of the most important events in a man's life. That’s the premise of this engrossing ad for Gillette by director Coral Amy Brown.
"Picture Frame" 30s
Sex sells, as the old adage goes, and Zoopla - perhaps surprisingly - are the latest brand to indulge in a bit of rumpy pumpy. One of three new ads by Lucky Generals and directors thirtytwo, this spot introduces flatmates Tia and Jake… well, sort of. The two are actually nowhere to be seen as Diane Morgan’s VO describes the joy inspired by Flat 16 on Savoy Road.
"Me Again" 60s
Having encouraged scores of women to get involved in physical activities following its launch in 2015, Sport England’s 'This Girl Can' campaign returns with a typically diverse and dynamic outing. Focused on breaking down preconceptions people might have about what stops them from exercising, the film exudes confidence as it frames a quickened pulse as an act of empowerment.
"Meatless Meatball Marinara Sub" 90s
Subway’s disruptive streak continues with this 90” plug for the brand’s vegan Meatball Marinara sub. Keen to attract more health-conscious punters through their doors, the brand introduce said sandwich at a tasting session brimming with open-minded diners. Alas, not everything goes according to plan.
"It's Normal to Us" 60s
People are encouraged to let their freak flag fly, so to speak, in this comprehensive commercial for BUPA... at least, when it comes to healthcare. The private healthcare provider claim they're equipped to handle whatever your 'normal' is - regardless of whether physical, mental, or emotional help is required.
"125 Years" 75s
The National Trust celebrate their one-hundred-and-twenty-fifth year in existence with this compelling ode to stillness. Juxtaposing the brutal pace of modern life with the calmness of the natural world, it may surprise viewers that the accompanying text was written by the organisation's co-founder over a century ago. People, it seems, have always needed downtime.
Vue Cinemas
"Get Lost" 60s
The release of the latest ‘Star Wars’ film - divisive as it may be - is an event which prompts those who don't usually indulge to take a trip to the cinema. So it's no surprise that Vue have tapped Finn himself, John Boyega, to narrate this ode to the power of the big screen. Watching films on phones and tablets is all very well, says the ad, but it's not really watching them.
"Made for Ireland" 60s
Czech car maker Skoda aim to re-affirm their status as a major player in the Irish market, courtesy of this Zak Emerson-directed film. As the brand take a cautiously optimistic stance on car sales in 2020, the ad uses bracing photography and a graceful soundtrack to coax motorists from all walks of life into their dealerships.
"Reimagine" 60s
Adidas kick off 2020 with this kinetic and shapely piece of work from Iris Worldwide and director Sarah Chatfield, who weaves together an all-female cast, varied camera angles, and Madame Gandhi’s ‘Top Knot Turn Up’ to potent effect. Propelled by Gandhi’s whip-smart lyrics, the ad pays tribute to those who get things done, whether it be in the gym, on the beach, or on a steep incline.
"The Guilt Fairy" 60s
This is one of those rare commercials that captures your attention as you browse Twitter on your phone during an ad break. The conversation taking place is authentic… given the personnel involved and their history of pointing cameras at ordinary people, we don't doubt that this is completely genuine. And it feels it.
"Accent Yourself" 56s
Embarrassment can often be a barrier to learning a new language, as people are hesitant to attempt to pronounce something if they can't do it perfectly. It's a common problem that language app Babbel address head-on in their latest campaign, which neatly encourages users to embrace their, erm, unique accent.
"Stan the Smartbot" 90s
Santander riff on smart home culture with this entertaining outing from chirpy spokes-slebs Ant and Dec. A plagiarism scandal threatens to topple their Antandec venture, leading the pair of harried CEOs to scramble for ways to revolutionise banking and distract the haters. New technology is, of course, a logical port of call.
"John" 60s
Everyone copes with loss differently: some practise mindfulness, others drink themselves into a stupor. John Trowler, however, prefers the sun lounger method. It’s presumably what his late pet goldfish, Gordon, would have wanted. According to narrator Iggy Pop’s gravelly baritone, an ex-goldfish should be the least of John’s worries.
"Snowbrawl" 87s
Aspiring directors will be delighted to hear that fancy camera rigs are a thing of the past when it comes to shooting for the big screen - at least, according to this whiteout commercial for Apple. And assuming they can afford over a thousand quid for the latest model, of course. The action centres on an all-out snow war, opposing factions of kids pulling out their best moves to try and rescue a kidnapped teddy bear from frozen peril.
"Beach Boy" 60s
The triumph of a truly inspiring local vacation fuels this dreamy commercial for Haven Holidays that draws from ‘Chariots of Fire’ and ‘Ben Hur’. A lad rides a Roman chariot through crashing surf, hair and cape billowing in the breeze as he embraces the freedom of his imagination and charges into a world of his own.
"Become a Jedi" 1 min 34s
Despite the clunky title, ‘Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order' has gone some way to repairing the damage done by EA's controversial ‘Battlefront II'. Devoid of microtransactions or loot boxes, the game's relative innocence is reflected in this spunky commercial from 215 McCann and director Garth Davis. A warm-hearted blast of escapism.
"Qiang Diao" 2 mins 17s
Director Finn Keenan's new gung-ho commercial for Nike introduces Western viewers to the concept of qiang diao, or "confidence, swagger, or flair" in Mandarin. Everybody wants some; not least a certain nouveau riche tool in a pool. Cue a madcap dash by his servant into China's biggest city and one sweaty journey of self-discovery.
Aviator Gin
"The Gift That Doesn't Give Back" 30s
Ryan Reynolds is no stranger to extended cinematic universes, so perhaps it's no surprise that he's created one in Adland for his Aviation Gin brand. The now-infamous 'Peloton Woman' (played by Monica Ruiz) has been enlisted to reprise her much-maligned role... except this time, there's no exercise bike in sight.
Thinkbox
"Tooth Fairy" 60s
Mother's fun debut ad for TV marketing body Thinkbox extols the magic of advertising through a highly successful entrepreneur. Thinkbox being Thinkbox, however, this is no ordinary entrepreneur. Shot like a corporate video with extra fairy dust, the ad charts the Tooth Fairy's journey from a co-working space to magazine covers and her own skyscraper.
"Limited Edition" 60s
Delicacy is the name of the game in this quietly satisfying commercial for Prada's limited edition collaboration with Adidas. Filmed with maximum detail on a minuscule scale, every step in the process of creating a bowling bag and a pair of sneakers is shot with a forensic attention to each stitch, loop, and loose thread.
"Stella" 2 mins 03s
Christmas can be a time when families come together, some travelling great distances to reconnect with relatives they rarely see. However, the festive period can be an isolating time of year for many elderly people, with increasing numbers spending the big day alone. This touching animated film from Passion Pictures sheds further light on the issue.
"Moments in Between" 90s
Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) celebrate the quieter moments of the Christmas season in this charming festive offering. From spending low-key time with loved ones to travelling to highly anticipated events, the film proves that not every minute of the holidays needs to be packed with distracting tinsel. Director Max Vitali handles the low-octane action nicely here.
"You Are Your Story" 90s
Ancestry.com exploit Germany's divisive history to compelling effect with this 90" commercial from director Michael Lawrence, who charts one family's turbulent lineage from the late-nineteenth century to the present day. The costumes and set design boast plenty of beautiful period detail as you might expect, but there's also a theatrical quality to the piece.
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Historical and geographical remarks
Historical and sweet memoirs of the Empress Josephine
A historical collection
An historical presentation of Augustinism and Pelagianism from the original sources
An historical sketch of Columbia College, in the city of New-York
An historical sketch of Henry's contribution to the electro-magnetic telegraph : with an account of the origin and development of Prof. Morse's invention
An historical sketch of Pine Street
An historical sketch of the Greek revolution
An historical sketch of the origin and progress of the Society of the Sons of St. George, : also the charter, by-laws, and permanent resolutions, together with an alphabetical list of the names of the members and associates, list of officers, etc. from
An historical sketch of Trinity Church, New York
Historical sketches of North Carolina, from 1584 to 1851 : compiled from original records, official documents, and traditional statements
Historical sketches of statesmen who flourished in the time of George III
Historical sketches of the fromation and founders of the Phiadelphia Hose Company
The history and antiquities of the city of St. Augustine, Florida, founded A.D. 1565
History and characteristics of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church
The history and philosophy of marriage; or, Polygamy and monogamy compared. / By a Christian philanthropist
The history and practice of the art of photography
History and present condition of the Barbary states
History and progress of phrenology
The history and records of the Elephant club by Knight Russ Ockside, M.D. [pseud.] and Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P.B. [pseud.]
The history, object, and proper observance of the holy season of Lent
The history of America
The history of ancient Greece, its colonies and conquests, to the division of the Macedonian Empire
The history of Charles the Twelfth, king of Sweden
The history of Charles the Twelfth, king of Sweden .
The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha
The history of England
The history of France
History of France : from the earliest period to the present time.
A history of Harvard University
The History of Illinois : from its first discovery and settlement, to the present time
A history of Illinois, from its commencement as a state in 1818 to 1847.
History of Independence Hall : from the earliest period to the present time
The History of ink : including its etymology, chemistry, and bibliography
A history of King's Chapel
History of Madame Roland
History of Mary Queen of Scots
The history of Michael Kemp, the happy farmer's lad : a tale of rustic life, illustrative of the spiritual blessings and temporal advantages of early piety .
History of my pets
The History of our Country
The history of Pennsylvania from its earliest settlement to the present time
History of Pennsylvania Hall
A history of Philadelphia
The history of pithole / by "Crocus"
The history of political parties in the state of New-York
A history of popery
The history of Putnam County, N. Y.
The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia : a tale.
The history of Roxbury town
The history of Sandford and Merton
The history of Scotland
History of Seneca County [Ohio]
The history of Tennessee : from its earliest settlement to the present time
The history of Texas
History of the border wars of two centuries
History of the churches and ministers in Wisconsin
History of the city of New York : from its earliest settlement to the present time
History of the colony of New Haven
The history of the condition of women
History of the conquest of Mexico
History of the early settlement and Indian wars of Western Virginia
History of the Hartford Convention
A History of The Hebrew Monarchy
The history of the hen fever : a humorous record
A history of the holy Catholic Inquisition
History of the insurrection in China
History of the invasion and capture of Washington, and of the events which preceded and followed
The history of the Jews
History of the late war between the United States and Great Britain
A history of the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus
The history of the Loco-foco of Equal Rights Party
History of the national flag of the United States of America
History of the navy of the United States of America
The history of the Order of the Sons of temperance
History of the plots and crimes of the great conspiracy to overthrow liberty in America. : Complete in one volume. / By John Smith Dye
History of the Polk administration
A history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America
A history of the purchase and settlement of Western New York
History of The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century
History of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic.
History of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. v. 1
History of the rise and progress of the iron trade of the United States, from 1621 to 1857
A history of the rise, progress, and present condition of the Bethlehem Female Seminary
The history of the saints
History of the Sioux war, and massacres of 1862 and 1863
A history of the state of Vermont
History of the town of Groton
History of the town of Plymouth
History of the United States cavalry : from the formation of the federal government to the 1st of June, 1863. To which is added a list of all the cavalry regiments, with the names of their commanders, which have been in the United States service since the
History of the united states naval academy
History of the western insurrection in western Pennsylvania : commonly called the whiskey insurrection
History of Vermont : natural, civil and statistical, in three parts, with an appendix
History of West Point, and its military importance during the American Revolution.
History of Wiskonsan : from its first discovery to the present period
Hits and dashes
Hobb's architecture : containing designs and ground plans for villas, cottages, and other edifices, both suburban and rural adapted to the United States / with rules for criticism, and introd.
The holidays: Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide : their social festivities, customs, and carols
The holy and profane states
Holyday tales
The home book of the picturesque, or, American scenery, art and literature
A home for all, or, The gravel wall and octagon mode of building
The home of Cooper and the haunts of Leatherstocking
Home scenes and heart studies
Home song book / prepared for the use of the children of the Home for the Friendless
The home story book
Homeopathy simplified or domestic practice made easy.
Homes of American statesmen : with anecdotical, personal, and descriptive sketches
Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle construction
Honest and earnest
Honey drops
Honor; or, The slave-dealer's daughter
Hoosier mosaics.
Hope for the Jews: or, The Jews will be converted to the Christian faith
The horse and his diseases
Hortus Inclusus. Messages from the Wood to the Garden
The hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia : its origin, progress, work, and wants
Hot corn : life scenes in New York illustrated. Including the story of little Katy, Madalina, the rag-picker's daughter, wild Maggie
Hotel keepers, head waiters, and houskeepers' guide
The house: a manual of rural architecture : or, How to build country houses and out-buildings ...
The house beautiful : essays on beds and tables, stools and candlesticks
Household Friends for Every Season
Household narratives for the family household
How to be a lady : a book for girls, containing useful hints on the formation of character
how to get rich: or A key to honest wealth. Being a practical guide to business success, applicable to all trades & professions
How to lay out a garden : intended as a general guide in choosing, forming, or improving an estate
How to make a living : suggestions upon the art of making saving, and using money
How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners; with a descriptive chart
How to teach according to temperament and mental development : or, Phrenology in the school-room and the family
Howe's science of Language, or seven-hour system of grammar
Hoyle's games : Illustrated edition
Hoyle’s games
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea
Human health ; or The influence of atmosphere and locality
Humbugs of New-York
The humbugs of the world : an account of humbugs, delusions, impositions, quackeries, deceits and deceivers generally, in all ages
The hunters' feast; or, Conversations around the camp-fire
Hunter's panoramic guide from Niagara Falls to Quebec
Hunt's gazetteer of the border and southern states
Husband and wife; or, The science of human development through inherited tendencies
Husband vs. wife / with designs by A. Hoppin
The hyacinth: Affection's gift : A Christmas, New Year, and birth-day for 1851
The Hyacinth of Affection's gift. A Christmas, New-Year's and Birth-day present for 1845
The Hyacinth: or, Affection's gift.
The Hyacinth: or Affection's gift.
Hymns for infant minds
Hymns in prose for children
Hymns, selected from various authord for the use of young persons.
Hymns, selected from various authors
Hymns written for the service of the Hebrew congregation, Beth Elohim, Charleston, S. C.
I will be a gentleman: : A book for boys
I will be a lady: : a book for girls
I will be a sailor. : A book for boys
The Icelandic Discoveries of America; or, Honour to Whom Honour is Due
Ida May : a story of things actual and possible
The ideal man
Idyls of battle and poems of the rebellion
Illinois in 1837
The Illuminated Gems of Sacred Poetry
Illustrated alphabet of birds
The illustrated American biography
The illustrated American biography : containing correct portraits and brief notices of the principal actors in American history
The illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac, for the year 1855
The illustrated family gymnasium
The illustrated hand-book, a new guide for travelers through the United States of America
Illustrated history of the Panama Railroad
Illustrated homes: a series of papers describing real houses and real people
The illustrated natural history
Illustrations of phrenology
Illustrations of prophecy; particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John.
Illustrations to Irving's Life of Washington : to his inauguration as President, comprising 87 engravings on steel and 45 wood-cuts. .
Illustrious personages of the nineteenth century
The image of air & other poems
Imagination and fancy; or Selections from the English poets.
The improved housewife, or Book of receipts
The improved housewife, or, Book of receipts
Improvement to Palmer's endless self-computing scale and key
In Kedar's Tents
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen
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FTTN a huge “mistake”, says ex-BT CTO
Renai LeMay
news One of the UK’s foremost telecommunications experts, a former chief technology officer of British telco BT, has publicly stated that fibre to the node-style broadband is “one of the biggest mistakes humanity has made”, imposing huge bandwidth and unreliability problems on those who implement it, as the Coalition may do in Australia.
The UK Parliament is currently holding an inquiry into ‘superfast’ broadband, as the nation struggles with many of the same issues which the Australian political system has in Australia over the development of the National Broadband Network initiative in this country. Fronting that enquiry in March, according to a transcript seen by Delimiter this week, was Peter Cochrane, one of the country’s most experienced telecommunications experts.
Cochrane spent most of his career at BT, the country’s former monopolist telco similar to Telstra in Australia, where he started as a linesman before progressing into the telco’s research and development department, eventually leading that team and becoming chief technology officer. Since leaving that role a decade ago, he has worked extensively as a force helping to accelerate tech startups, as well as a consultant.
In Australia, the Labor-led NBN initiative is currently using so-called FTTH technology, which sees fibre rolled out to premises all around Australia. However, the Coalition has stated that it sees the deployment as too expensive, and instead is proposing to switch to a fibre-to-the-node style rollout if it wins the next election, where fibre is rolled out to neighbourhood curbside cabinets, with the existing copper cable used for the remaining distance to houses.
Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has used BT’s FTTN rollout — which the telco has said will achieve 80Mbps download speeds and 20Mbps upload speeds this year — as evidence for his case that the style of deployment will work in Australia.
However, in testimony to the UK Parliament, Cochrane rubbished claims that FTTN was an appropriate rollout style for national broadband networks.
“Fibre to the cabinet is one of the biggest mistakes humanity has made,” he said. “It ties a knot in the cable in terms of bandwidth and imposes huge unreliability risks … It is a shame, but I understand why people have made that decision. They have made it worldwide, by the way.”
There were a range of problems with FTTN-style rollouts, according to Cochrane. To start with, he said, it was easy for the streetside cabinets to be vandalised. “Once the local bandits have recognised that there is a car battery in the bottom, you can bet your bottom dollar that a crowbar will be out and the battery will keep disappearing,” he said.
Other problems, he added, went to the speeds which FTTN offered (generally considered to be up to 80Mbps at the moment, although they may be extended in future) compared with fibre, which will in future off 1Gbps on Australia’s NBN infrastructure. “What are the leaders doing? There is Sweden in greater Europe, and in the Far East you have Korea, Japan and China. They have a minimum level of 100 Mbps. That is where they start,” Cochrane said.
“They are rolling out 1Gbps, but they are planning for the next phase of 10Gbps. To return to an earlier point, if you have got fibre to the cabinet and you are relying on copper, I can tell you that the network is going to collapse on copper when you get to 1Gbps. It will collapse much earlier. You may do 200 to 300Mbps over a short distance, but you are not going to do anything with a reasonable reach over 1Gbps, and you are certainly not going anywhere at 10 Gbps. So you have immediately got this knot in the bandwidth.”
And reliability was also an issue. “The number one fault problem with copper is water ingress,” Cochrane told the parliament. “Fibre does not care about water … The fault level in an optical network goes down very low. You can reduce manning, buildings, power consumption and everything.”
The Coalition has also raised the possibility that many Australians will primarily access the Internet through wireless networks such as the 4G (fourth generation) infrastructure currently being rolled out by Telstra and Optus, which will allow speeds dramatically higher than previous 3G rollouts. Telstra has stated claimed customers using the device in its 4G coverage areas (capital city CBDs, associated airports and more than 80 regional and metropolitan locations) could access download speeds ranging from 2Mbps to 40Mbps and upload speeds from 1Mbps to 10Mbps.
However, on this subject also, Cochrane had much to say. “I am saying that it will not do what it says on the tin,” he told the parliament. “One of the things that amuses me greatly is “up to 20Mbps”. It is like “up to 5,000 cornflakes” in my box, but there are three. It does not help. It is an absurd product description. If anything needs deleting from the English language, it is “up to”.”
“If 4G is rolled out, for sure, if you are close to the base station, you will get bandwidth. The further away you go, the less bandwidth you will get. That is a function of physics; you cannot beat that. The only way to get a lot of bandwidth everywhere is to have more and more and smaller cells. That is really what the wireless future is about. To do that, you need more fibre.”
If you read beyond the commentary which I have included in this article and look at the wider transcript, it is clear that in many senses, Cochrane is the UK telecommunications equivalent of a hippy. In his segment in the UK parliamentary committee into broadband, he rants and raves about how great fibre to the home is, and highlights many examples where communities have independently rolled out fibre to their neighbourhoods without the assistance of major telcos like BT.
Cochrane is an out and out evangelist for fibre broadband, and it shows in his one-sided approach to the matter. There really is no point, he says repeatedly, in rolling out anything other than fibre; fibre is cheap enough and delivers such exorbitant levels of bandwidth that it will fill all of humanity’s broadband needs for the foreseeable future.
However, it’s important to realise several facts here.
Firstly, I have included Cochrane’s UK comments in Delimiter, a media outlet concerned with events in Australia’s technology sector, to illustrate how mainstream such discussions are overseas. In Australia, we very rarely see this kind of out and out fibre to the home evangelism, and in general, most of the media commentary around the NBN has been extremely negative. However, in the UK, in the US and in other countries, there are many groups pushing very hard for universal fibre rollouts to every neighbourhood. Cochrane, in the UK, is one example of such an evangelist. He won’t stop until he gets fibre everywhere, and fair enough, as he believes it has incredible benefits for industry.
We haven’t had many such evangelists in Australia, and what this has led to, I believe, is the creation of a debate that is somewhat one-sided.
The Labor Government has taken a strong view that fibre to the home is the appropriate high-speed broadband rollout mechanism for Australia, and there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that its approach is a visionary one which will serve the nation well over many decades to come.
But in the absence of avid broadband fanatics like Cochrane, what has happened in Australia is that the debate over the NBN rollout, despite its ongoing popular appeal, has become extremely one-sided. The volume of the NBN critics in Australia is just so much louder, that they get heard a lot more. In comparison, the volume of those for the NBN in Australia — even though they represent the majority of the country — is much softer. Without strong voices like Cochrane, Australia’s NBN continues to suffer from a bad public relations problem, which does not reflect its actual support in the community.
I suspect that in 50 years, we will look back upon people like Cochrane as visionaries, for daring to say out loud that fibre to every house and business premise will unlock a technological nirvana in global society. And I suspect that we will include Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and the Rudd/Gillard Governments in that camp. In the meantime, for the NBN debate to progress beyond the current unintelligent sniping and become an intelligent, balanced one, Australia needs more voices on the pro-NBN side of the fence.
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Daniel.S 30/04/2012 at 11:06 am
“The number one fault problem with copper is water ingress,” Cochrane told the parliament.
Hear, hear! Every time it rains heavily, my ADSL connection drops out completely due to massive number of errors on the line.
Renai LeMay 30/04/2012 at 11:09 am
Yeah the water definitely impacts our connection as well.
djos 30/04/2012 at 2:58 pm
yeah my DSL thinks it’s James Brown every time it rains to “Get Down, Get Funky, Get Up Again” …..
FTTH for the Win!!!!!
DUDE in Telco 01/05/2012 at 8:57 pm
Begs the question though, if FTTP can delivery 1Gbps or 10Gbps, then why does labor expect the majority of people 50% to be on 12mbps on its fibre network? Thats also not considering the wireless technologies will mostly likely eat into that 50%.
Saying that the network will offer 1Gbps is misleading, as it would cost an incredible amount to deploy core and aggregate networks that will provider end user consumer grate internet services that is in anyway affordable. For example, a 400Gbps DWDM head end will cost around half a million dollars, In addition to that add a 400Gig Router head end, $1Million. That does not include installation cost and on going support and maintenance, in addition to providing power protection and network support at an ongoing cost, do you realise that is a lot of money for 400 uers on 1gb internet? How much will it cost per customer? okay lets say it costs 5million to set up, And do some handwaving, its around $12,000 per year.
Oh wait, do you know why our international links are only 1terabits per sec…ie. 1000 gigabits per sec…
oh, how much it cost for them to upgrade that….tens of millions, how many users on 1gb will be on that link, 1000? …okay lets say we do some overbooking which is normal, say 1 :50, that means with 50,000 users wed have killed off a big slice of our international internet bandwidth…. oh yeah, you better upgrade that international link then….
chris conder 01/05/2012 at 9:49 pm
ever heard of data centres? with gigabit networks you pop a few of them in and keep it local.
DUDE in Telco 01/05/2012 at 10:20 pm
Data centres already have 1-10Gig fibre links, they are dedicated fibre,which PON /FTTP would not be suited for. There arent many data centres compared to homes, i know of no data centre within 10km of where i live in metro sydney.
DUDE in Telco 02/05/2012 at 12:07 am
The engineering folly of the NBN is that is has over engineered itself to the moon.
It is true that each fibre on the NBN will be able to deliver up to 10Gbps, probably more, but does every house in your street need this? Well, they are going to get it. At least the fibre anyway.
This is the cost that comes with providing and having to maintain into the future a premium grade carriage system which should be exclusive only for commerical uses and those where viable.
Building a carriage system (fibre) capable of running at 10Gbps, and running it at 12 or 100mbps is simply wasteful. Trying to be less wasteful and at the same time being wasteful is to try to overbuild network capacity to put everyone on 1Gbps and that the same time digging yourself further into the hole.
The solution is really to find the best fit and practical approach.
myne 04/05/2012 at 7:06 am
You could also argue that building a carriage system capable of running 9,600bps (ie the apparently still possible but mysterious Conditioned Local Loop) and trying to run it at 24,000,000,000bps is wasteful too.
I wonder how much time and sanity has been lost explaining and diagnosing ADSL faults?
I know that I have personally had a 20 minute discussion on Christmas day explaining that no, in fact we didn’t drop the customer’s line speed from 9.1 mbit to 8.9 because of some oppressive policy.
I suppose it paid, but it wasn’t exactly productive.
Chris Conder 04/05/2012 at 7:08 am
We have found that its the fibre laying that costs the money, not the lighting of it. You can light it at 1 gig for virtually the same price if not cheaper than lighting it at 100meg. just sayin.
Peter Cochrane 14/05/2012 at 5:29 am
DUDE WRONG AGAIN
“Building a carriage system (fibre) capable of running at 10Gbps, and running it at 12 or 100mbps is simply wasteful. Trying to be less wasteful and at the same time being wasteful is to try to overbuild network capacity to put everyone on 1Gbps and that the same time digging yourself further into the hole”
This was true of copper but it is certainly untrue for an optical network!
You need to take a course in network economics!
Noddy 01/05/2012 at 9:51 pm
Because it’s 2012 and the plan is to upgrade it over time as necessary with technologies that are affordable at the time.
Alex 02/05/2012 at 6:13 am
In a nutshell, it is ridiculous when we need Oz wide future ready infrastructure to do it with yesterdays technology.
It is clear, the motives of those who advocate we do so…imo.
DUDE in Telco 02/05/2012 at 8:16 am
yeah sure conspiracy…i’m thinking about the rorts going on and all the pushers like this ex-BT guy trying to get governments to overbuild and over engineer networks so which ever board thisguy now sits in, will be able to hock more gear and consulting $$$ at tax payers expense to fund this hopefully long and costly project.
the nbn is nothing more than an OVER ENGINEERING and therefore COSTLY and INEFFICIENT proposal. The claim that every line in the millions of houses will be capable of 1G-10Gbps should not be said with pride but with shame, as it is an example of very poor engineering practice, that we pay for a top of the line fibre link to the majority of residents who may only use a small fraction of the lines capability throughout the life of the NBN.
this kind of over-spec. is not new in engineering,
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Homer
djos 02/05/2012 at 8:25 am
For someone who claims to be in the industry (via your alias), you dont read much as the latest industry studies are showing a minimum lifetime of 60 years for fibre:
http://www.sterlitetechnologies.com/pdf/KnowledgeCenter/AN0001%20-%20Optical%20Fiber%20Lifetime.pdf
guy 02/05/2012 at 10:28 am
60yrs sitting in a lab or inside the packaging…
djos 02/05/2012 at 10:29 am
Read the PDF before you make such obviously incorrect statements!
Noddy 02/05/2012 at 10:49 am
Did they way over engineer copper too, because it was capable of carrying a lot more than the initial phone call? Of course not. Fibre can carry way more than they are providing, so what, the fibre isn’t that expensive, it’s a pretty small cost compared to lablour. Why not use it? It would be stupider to roll out something a little cheaper that, say coax, if it is even that much cheaper, and then have to replace it with fibre eventually anyway.
Not to mention that Copper is far more expensive than fibre these days (fibre cables being essentially glass strands in a series of protective polymer sheaths).
Alex 02/05/2012 at 9:27 pm
@ DUDE in Telco
Sorry, as this is somewhat off topic, but I need to inform you, that I find you and guy’s comments uncannily similar.
Especially the OVER ENGINEERED (shouted like this) and repeated 10Gbps comments you “both” use.
Perhaps you have found your doppelganger?
DUDE IN TELCO – YOU ARE CONSISTENTLY WRONG!
“i’m thinking about the rorts going on and all the pushers like this ex-BT guy trying to get governments”
I’m not trying to get government to do anything of the sort…just getting them to realise that they have been misinformed and need to start thinking about the needs of a nation rather than the easy life desires of companies with outmoded thinking.
The Problem With DUDES in Telco’s
1) They come infected with the limited thinking aligned with their business
2) And their business is founded on a 200 year legacy of copper and not future IT needs
3) They have been used to a monopoly past
4) Like the bankers they have lost all sight of their full responsibilities to the society in which they live
5) Their old technology choices and management systems mean they cannot respond fast to change
6) BUT their was a bit of a golden time when their networks were transformed by optical fibre linking cities
7) In BTs case this saw staffing fall from 242,000 to 110,000, and if they did FTTH it would fall to 30,000 or less
8) AND THEN they did really dumb things like MPLS which is a concatenation of decision errors
9) More equipment and interface types than necessary is really bad engineering
10 And so is over 6000 buildings when you need less than 100 – and this is copper v glass
Here are things telco’s real don’t get:
8) The world is not asymmetric
9) The cost go getting bandwidth to any location is zip – 1 bit/s or 10Gbit/s it is the same – civil engineering dominates all cost – even when you already have ducts in place
10) The cost of fibre is much less than copper for long lines and the local loop – there is no difference….
11) FTTH provides a future proofing, ease of operation, lowest cost and the ultimate flexibility
12) FTTC/K et all with electronics between switch and customer just adds unreliability operating costs
13) PONS – GPON AND BPON et al made sense when fibre was 25p/m but not any more!
14) Direct fibre is simple cheap and reliable and can be built with office grade EtherNet kit
15) Without FTTH we will never have effective 3G or 4G – we need these nodes in offices and homes
16) The UK will be frozen out of Cloud Computing without a bandwidth everywhere
17) Bandwidths like 1Gbit/s might look huge today but they will look puny tomorrow
18) In my lifetime fast was: 90, 110, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 9600, 18,200, 56,000, 64,000, 365 bit/s…,1, 2, 10, 20, 100, 200, 1000Mbit/s……why would anyone think this progression would stop or even slow down ??
19) No surprise then the leading industrial nations look upon the UK and its silly debates with pity and amusement whilst they get on with the job.
20) It is worth visiting China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Scandinavia, Jersey +++ to see the actuality and their plans to move up to 10Gbit/s to the home.
21) Over 35% of the UK population work on the move from home office/s, hotels. cars +++ and without bandwidth on the move they cannot achieve what is possible.
22) This country has its back to the financial wall and needs to focus on the GDP enabling technologies and those members of the population that can invoke +ve change to the benefit of all.
The very saddest thing for me:
23) I realised that all this was possible in 1979 when I completed my PhD – and then I demonstrated that FTTH worked and was cheaper than copper in1986. By the early 90s BT had built the factories to build these systems and we had commence roll out when the Thatcher government stopped the programme in favour of getting in the USA cable companies – who by the way were not allowed to supply telephony service in the USA! Our collaborators at that time were the Japanese and Koreans….and they just kept going….looking at the UK in amazement as we were left in the dust of time!
Now to my position – lest you think me some impractical academic. In my BT life I was employed as:
1) A digger of trenches
2) An installer of poles, cables, telephones PBXs, exchanges
3) A maintainer of PBXs, switches, repeater and radio stations
4) A network designer and planner
5) A research engineer
6) A software writer
7) A designer of test equipment
8) Systems and networks designer
9) Head of Group a then Head of Section and then Head of Division for Transmission Systems
10) Head of Research and then CTO
And since leaving BT life and experience has been even faster and even broader…
I do hope this helps, Peter
PS = You sound like a smart guy – you should move into IT and out of the old telco world…..lots of good companies out there…
Excellent summary, thanks Mr C, I will put that in my #da12bb report.
I used to be the Business Customer Delivery & Data Center Manager for Adam Internet here in SA and I can tell you that the views of “Dudes in telco” here does not reflect the majority onion of those in the ISCT Industry – most of us know full well that the NBN plan (ACCC POI decision excepted) is first rate and will have a massively positive impact on Small to medium business who cant afford fibre or P2P microwave services.
It will also revolutionise content delivery to residential premises and have many other positive flow on effects for government delivered services.
Paull A. 08/04/2013 at 9:11 pm
Over engineered, huh?
Once upon a time, the county laid in a laneway for 3 local serfs to use to get to market, was pretty good for them, and it coped.
Then someone decided it was a good route to use for a Cobb & Co coach, but the damned serfs with their donkeys kept getting in the way, so the coach was delayed. Someone at Cobb & Co had a chat with the county, and next thing, county turned up with horses and moshees and made that track into a boulevarde wide enough for the serfs to pass each other as they dragged their buggies and drays back and forth, and Mr Cobb’s coaches had room to overtake and not be delayed.
Some idiot working in the neighbouring county said it was over-engineered, all that wasted space…
Crank forward 100 years, the county has become a nice sized town, with happy residents, thankful for the county having had the foresight to make that road so wide, never any delays for the happy burghers whizzing up and down in their cars, but they dont like to go over to the hick-town over the hill, because the roads there are narrow little tracks with houses and stuff built right up to them preventing the byways from ever being widened.
Even the citizens of hick-town grumble about their forefathers lack of foresight, unlike those of the neighbouring county
Guy in TELCO and other narrow-minded retrogrades, Take Note!
Spot on Paul, if we don’t build the highways nobody will visit, and the rural areas will continue to decline. As our food and water comes from them we should take better care of them… they are the lifeblood of the cities. The information superhighway is more necessary for them than for anyone. Its vital to get the fibre out into those areas.
Mike 30/04/2012 at 11:20 am
Mark Newton we have a job for you :)
Hubert Cumberdale 30/04/2012 at 11:30 am
I pretty much agree with your opinion/analysis on this. The big problem I think is that the lies News Corp have been spouting have become very much entrenched. Then you have the Turnbull apologists who use shaming tactics to criticise anyone in favor of the NBN: “It’s for movie downloads”, “It’s for games”, “It’s for p0rn” etc.
Just the other day Abbott was speaking in Melbourne repeating the same nonsense about the NBN describing it as “great leap backwards to the 1960s” amongst other things and what details did he provide for his alternative? “there is a better way and we will put it in place” and that’s all he needs because of our apathy, our collective apathy is so great we dont even question this we just accept it. The point is how can anyone even try to promote FTTH in the same way as Cochrane here when they know they are up against Australians rabid stupidity.
jon 15/05/2012 at 8:52 pm
nieavity not stupidity. it’s what the nieve australian is fed by it’s governing body that makes aussies nieve.
“N-a-i-v-e-t-e”
“N-a-i-v-e”
Paul Maynard 30/04/2012 at 11:47 am
Because there is no valid technical argument against FTTH, which was an outcome of Telstras dominance and intransigence, the fallback is an economic one of “it costs too much”.
Invoking the laws of physics won’t help because politicians are already in denial of any science that contradicts their political beliefs.
And we wouldn’t want to be seen as investing in anything that lasts more than one term of parliament.
Wasn’t it the same economists that foresaw the GFC?
applause applause applause.thank you very much.
Muso1 30/04/2012 at 11:59 am
My business (which is just me working from home) would expand and grow immensely with a competitive net speed – I mean competitive with similar businesses operating in the USA, UK and Scandinavia.
I live semi rural, not remote by any means. I despair at the coalition, with city slickers like Turnbull blocking quality infrastructure for the majority, while urban dwellers have fast speeds and wi-fi already.
I’m going to have to move to an NBN location I think, but fear for the future of people like me if Abbott and Turnbull get to shove a stick in the spokes of technological progress.
okay say you live in semi rural, how far are you from the telephone exchange say 10Km? to haul a fibre cable to where you live…hmmm lets say there is best case senario the is already a conduit that has free capacilty inst blocked and doesnt run through heavy forest or up and down hills, around creek bends , across roads etc… that would cost around…hm $50K ? nah probably 100K if you factor in labour, materials, paying for work in regional area such as accomodation, cost of fuel, contractor equipment hire, additional hrs of work, logistics, project management…. thats the best case scenario…. real scenario would be more like $150-200k …maybe more.
If that was the situation they would be on the wireless NBN. Or are you betting on being stupid enough to do a run like that for a couple of premises. And that is assuming the OP is even in that sort of location.
problem is most people “think” they will be getting the fibre,reality is, when they start rolling out and the costs start blowing out, ….
btw wireless is inferior , even to copper. youd rather have a reliable 1Mbps over copper than a flakey 20mbps over wireless
Noddy 01/05/2012 at 10:38 pm
Well, that depends on the wireless. I have used fixed wireless and it was very very reliable, in fact I don’t know of any downtime in over 5 years. It was a link between inner city offices, I think about 7km apart Way more than 12Mb though, it was around 100Mb Though it wasn’t a patch on the 8G fibre speed or latency wise.
DUDE IN TELCO – START BEING REAL!
“okay say you live in semi rural, how far are you from the telephone exchange say 10Km?”
85% of the UK population are less than 1km from a BT fibre.
AND REAL trenching cost vary from £3 – £85/meter
COMMUNITY NETWORKS do it even cheaper!
Agree again Mr C. Trenching can be very cheap. Especially in rural areas with uninterrupted vast tracts of land. And especially if you get farmers on the job. They can do it really easily, they are used to hard graft and long days. Men of grit. We already know fibre and ducting is cheap. So what’s the problem?
DUDE IN TELCO – JESUS!
This is all getting dumber by the contribution.
You know this makes no sense and is totally erroneous!
this is australia. they get contractors to carry out the work for all telco work now so it costs them a pitance and they charge the same amount and then screw those contractors to the ground. they use intermediate company contracts to screw them for as much as they can to cut cost(they say(telstra,foxtel,optusnet & bigpond).
the lone gunmen 30/04/2012 at 2:09 pm
And why would we expect at a techie to say anything else? He is not paying the bill. I have been exposed to IT long enough to know they over promise, invariably under delivery and at a higher price than agreed. Then someone else pays the bill.
Paul Thompson 30/04/2012 at 2:24 pm
Techies generally look for the best, most cost effective solution. It is the salespeople who try to con people into buying IT that they don’t need. A salesperson will tell someone they need a new computer every year just to send email and browse the web. A techie will just fix up that same person’s 8 year old computer instead.
In this case I think that the techie is looking to save money. FTTN is throwing money away on something worthless. FTTH is investing money. It costs more to begin with, because it is much more valuable. FTTN is like putting a spoiler and chrome rims on a clapped-out Datsun 180B, FTTH is like buying a new car – it is more expensive up front but economically much more sensible.
Merlin 30/04/2012 at 5:49 pm
Actually FTTH the way Labor is doing it is essentially free. It’s destroying Telstra’s stranglehold on telecom and basically using Telstra’s absurdly high monopoly margins to pay for the cost of the buildout. Given every single person who cares for voice communication or internet over landline will be using NBNCo’s lines, the revenue required to turn a profit is virtually guaranteed. And as we’ve seen already, prices are often *lower* than what Telstra charges.
sorry to burst your bubble but telstra is one of the major contractors to have won the nbn co rollout.
So? I believe that has been mentioned a number of times. He was talking about Telstra’s vertical monopoly. Telstra are doing work for hire, they retain no ownership of what they are paid to build.
Jay 30/04/2012 at 11:42 pm
Like “up to” it would also be nice to see the end of another one – the demeaning term “techies”. Generally used by clueless marketing people to put people with technical aptitude in the lowest slot possible.
Kambo 30/04/2012 at 3:09 pm
Although you foot the bill, its not an expense – its an investment, much like the NBN.
That techie not meeting the deadline and spending extra hours on optimisation/perfection may have saved or earned you much more.
Err, but it’s not just about the bill, either, something the critics can’t quite grasp.
Duke 30/04/2012 at 4:45 pm
@ ‘the … LONE … gunMEN’
Sathias 30/04/2012 at 7:30 pm
It’s an X-Files reference.
Corsair 30/04/2012 at 2:16 pm
” Australia needs more voices on the pro-NBN side of the fence.”
What Australia actually needs is more intelligent, balanced, voices that can speak with reason and appeal to all.
These voices will not only voice their approval of FTTH – but also hold the Labor Party and NBN Co accountable for the way they manage the whole project (FYI – the management has not been perfect and should not be excused just because “its the NBN”).
THAT is what we need.
Unfortunately – all we get are crazy people who end up polarising the whole debate. I see a lot of them commenting here in fact.
I thinbk we are better off as it is. NBNCo managing the project. Don’t put any political party in charge of an IT projects. Most of the time it’s politics (including company internal politics) that is the ruin of most IT projects. Just leave them the F alone and let them do their job. Most techies take pride in neat, eligant, cost effective sollutions. It’s invariably the pointy haired bosses that screw the whole thing up.
Hubert Cumberdale 30/04/2012 at 3:27 pm
“Most techies take pride in neat, eligant, cost effective sollutions.”
There are actually two extremes here, there are techies that look for the most neat elegant & cost effective solutions and then there are those who try to optimize and squeeze as much as they can out of available technologies. Both have their faults of course but the most glaring and counter productive one is the optimization techies never know when it’s time to upgrade. This as manifested itself into a small vocal group in favour of FTTN, they want to prove to the world they have the “skills” to squeeze the most out of redundant copper. This is just a big ego trip for them just like overclockers.
Good point. I remember a few programmers who got carried away with their favourite little project. Usually once a few get together they tend to pound some sense into the ones that get carried away. I see the beauty in squeezing more performance out of what exists already. That said though, hopefully it would be to squeeze performance at a minimal outlay until a solution was available to take it further. If FTTN was implemented 5-10 years ago as was originally proposed it may have had some use. Now it’s like the guy with the 10 year old Hyundai Accent putting on sports exhausts and body kits. Spending as much money in the end as if he’d bought a better performing car in the first place. The end result is a massive waste of money.
Noddy, I’d suggest the fact that when we buy a current ADSL2 plan that is up 24Mbps and most are lucky to receive even half that, suggests we have “already squeezed the performance to beyond coppers limitations” and it is simply time to move forward…
Yes, I agree. Take some time to read comments before replying. i was not suggesting trying to get more out of copper. I was saying it was uneconomical to try to do so.
Yes I know and was simply elaborating further….
And if you take Turnbull’s advice, you will upgrade from Win31 to Vista!
But no extra CPU or RAM, mind you…
Tim 30/04/2012 at 2:54 pm
I am inclined to agree. What we really need is more intelligent debate on both sides of the spectrum.
Renai, you do a good job, but there needs to be a wider media attitude that seeks to critique the policy and the NBN’s management and things of this nature, rather than just spouting populist nonsense.
I don’t say this to troll, but why don’t we give a little bit of consideration to alternative ways of achieving ubiquitous, accessible and fast broadband? Hypothetical I know, but what if the gov and have gone to Telstra in the post-soul, David thodey era and tried to collaborate. Maybe the gov pays to upgrade the HFC network to docsis 3.0 nationwide, and extend the network to areas that have developed to sufficient density post the initial rollout (here ftth can be used, as a way of saying sorry for years of rim torture even) and in exchange the network is opened up to wholesale access with pricing set by the accc.
And in regional centers of a sufficient size, open access ftth can also be rolled out.
Regional towns that aren’t of adequate size for ftth, but where Telstra is the only player should have back haul installed, and then let market forces build the dslam infrastructure. The regional back haul program seems to be doing a good job of this: internode/iinet have built dslams in places like geraldton because of the backhaul. Or perhaps wireless can be used, especially in places where the copper lines are particularly decayed.
And of course, everywhere else some better satellites should be deployed. A tick here to the NBN.
This isn’t a thorough detailed plan by any stretch. But I always struggle with extremism in any setting. It’s simply not a question of brand new FTTH or decrepate 50 year old copper lines. There are HFC cables which are less than 20 years old. Surely there is plenty of life still in them?
Is fast broadband vital to this country? Yes, we can’t compete on things like manufacturing, but we can when it comes to things in the digital economy. So we need good broadband, and I believe that HFC ought to be part of the mix.
Surely we can found a sensible balance between Alan jones’ laser beams and the NBN which threatens to show us we have learnt nothing since the fiasco that was telstra’s privatization, and their enduring monopoly.
The issues you bring up have been covered numerous times on both this website and by NBNCo, especially in its business plan. In a subsequent comment you claim both sides of the debate should be represented equally. This is a common logical fallacy where two sides are automatically considered “extreme” and the truth thus must lie inbetween.
The reality is there is no such truth to the anti-NBN “side”. None of their technical or economic arguments have any merit whatsoever. You talk of “20 year old” HFC that’s not too old. It’s been explained that HFC is inherently asymetrical, and the quality of the system depends heavily on which company rolled it out. It’s also massively shared, as in 100+ users per node, and each node is only capable of a *theoretical maximum* of 5 gbps if *all bandwidth is provisioned for internet*. Once you reach that max, there’s no going further as the copper can’t handle it. Compare that to GPON, which achieves 2.4 gbps among 32 users on a single node, and is easily upgradable to XGPON (10 gbps among 32 users), and will soon enough be upgraded to 40 gbps among 32 users. Upgrading also requires nothing more than replacing the equipment at the ends of the fiber, an extremely cheap process.
Furthermore NBNCo-style wholesale service over coax hasn’t been proven technically feasible anywhere in the world. The entire economic plan whereby the government recoups its entire investment on the NBN and then *makes an annual 7% profit* requires the implementation of a wholesale service.
As for your DSLAM and wireless comment, they are an order of magnitude slower than HFC, and a complete waste of investment.
There were some points there that I wasn’t aware of, thanks for letting me know.
AJ 30/04/2012 at 2:58 pm
Umm crazy people polarizing comments really where in the press have you seen Positive commentary?? Nowhere but in IT media but mainstream is 100% Negative
@AJ that’s exactly the point, we need balanced and intelligent debate on both sides of the spectrum. The current spectrum where it is almost 100% ridiculed by mainstream media is a very bad situation.
Sadly, when Australia’s media is run almost exclusively by those who oppose the NBN for their own selfish reasons, what chance do we have of rationality reaching the average Aussie?
KingForce 30/04/2012 at 4:58 pm
Agreed. I’m not sure why Renai thinks Cochrane would be better for the NBN debate. I think our Paul Budde beats the UK’s Peter Cochrane (of what little I know of him) any day of the week. I’m totally against Mr Budde’s NBN stance but I have always respected his nuanced arguments.
Renai LeMay 30/04/2012 at 5:01 pm
We tried that. It turns out that 99% of the media doesn’t listen to people like that. That’s why we need more pro-NBN crazies. The media loves crazies ;)
Even though the Australian printed a pro NBN article today?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/monday-section/nbn-opens-up-a-new-world-of-possibilities/story-fna1k39o-1226342073958
The Age recently wrote some positive NBN articles
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/word-on-the-street-this-rocks-20120422-1xf0o.html:
The ABC’s Nick Ross is a strong NBN supporter:
http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2012/04/27/3490479.htm
Also, the majority (56% of people surveyed according to Essential Research) support the NBN.
http://delimiter.com.au/2012/02/21/nbn-enjoys-prolonged-popular-support/
So it’s hard to see why more one-eyed pro-NBN evangelists are needed.
The Australian’s article was an opinion piece from an ad agency. The other stuff has achieved marginal distribution.
I take your point; things are slowly changing. But it would be good to have some more people to say passionate things about the NBN in general.
You should lead by example. Show us how to be a “pro-NBN crazy” :-)
KingForce,
Thanks for the URLs (I will peruse them later, at my leisure).
However, I see, without looking into it too much, there are only two from mainstream media, one from here and another from ABC’s “technology and games” blog.
Unfortunately for the two positive mainstream media articles you possibly pained to find, there are probably 20 negative articles, readily available.
This probably explains why we need more one-eyed, pro-NBN evangelists and many less, blindly political anti-NBN sheep.
Balance is meaningless in this case. There is no argument for FTTN over FTTH. These are real-world speeds BT is seeing in the UK:
Distance to Cabinet Downstream Upstream
147 m 106 Mbps 22 Mbps
183 m 98 Mbps 9 Mbps
245 m 104 Mbps 21.6 Mbps
269 m 98 Mbps 27 Mbps
392 m 81.5 Mbps 19.8 Mbps
490 m 76 Mbps 24.2 Mbps
857 m 32 Mbps 8.5 Mbps
1372 m 22 Mbps 1.7 Mbps
That’s it. That’s all you get. Beyond 1500 meters the speeds aren’t even worth talking about. There’s no “upgrade path” either. Look how terribly assymetrical it is. This isn’t what you want to spend billions of dollars on.
hey Merlin, where are these figures coming from?
Matt 30/04/2012 at 6:32 pm
I’m pretty sure they’re from here (or potentially the original source):
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5160-origin-shows-what-speeds-vdsl2-can-achieve.html
These speeds would have been impressive in ~2006 and might satisfy a few people 2012 – 2014 but the big problem like you said and also my main concern is the upgrade path too, we’ll have to be satisfied with these speeds for a very long time if FTTN is rolled out. Maximum of 80mbps down & 20mbps up in 2021 when NBNco will most likely be offering 100/40mbps as their slowest option? Certainly puts it into perspective the glaring inadequacies of FTTN.
I think there’s a little bit more than could be squeezed from this – at the moment I think they’re using profile 17a without vectoring.
But basically, you’re right.
Noddy 01/05/2012 at 9:31 am
If they start signing up more and more customers I hope they move to vectoring. With the low uptake they are getting there would be very little crosstalk and those numbers would be inflated. If VDSL2 FTTN replaced ADSL2+ here there would be way more than the 5-10% the UK are getting. That would mean way more crosstalk and crosstalk is the big speed killer vectoring fixes. I still cannot find a home grad VDSL2 vectoring enabled modem available for home use. Only a few vectoring modems are available and they are big expensive (3000+) commercial units.
Also I’m concerned about the exorbitant prices that will eventuate from a FTTN network, since it won’t allow people to choose any slower or faster speeds, what you get is what you’ll be stuck with. Using FTTH enables people to choose a plan based on their wants/needs/budget and with FTTN there will be less choice, the only way individuals will be able to save money will be to choose a plan that has less quota reducing the usefulness of a these FTTN plans to dial-up levels. The disadvantaged will be forced to pay much more under this scenario.
FTTN system is devised so that max distance is between 1.5-2km… which is a replacement for the whole copper based system.
Those figures look correct for ADSL2+, but of course it talks nothing about how technology will improve the throughput over a copper loop given <2Km length if this is the system to be adopted and research continued given certainty.
It isn’t a replacement for the whole copper based system because its still using the copper based system and only those close to cabinets will benefit. Also the cost to the end user will remain very high as this is an expensive system to maintain and run. It will be of no benefit whatsoever for those on longer line lengths or with old wires.
Andrew Ferguson 13/05/2012 at 7:41 pm
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5161-how-fast-will-fttc-run-at.html
Shows that in the UK, the distance from cabinet to premise is favourable. Question is whether there is any data for this information in Australia?
It may be better with Australia having smaller more frequent cabinets, or might be worse due to surburban sprawl rather than the flat based living on UK cities.
Chris Conder 13/05/2012 at 10:53 pm
Favourable? to make do with 15 meg or less unless you are close to a cab? The whole job will be to do again if they do that Andrew, in another couple of years 15 meg throttled and capped if its anything like the UK will be useless. I still think the job should be done once, and done right.
Andrew Ferguson 14/05/2012 at 2:20 am
All depends on how much money you want to spend now, and how much money you think you will have in the future…
Remember that South Korea which apparently has fibre everywhere so we are told, only has an average speed of 17 Meg. So even a 15 Meg connection given low contention in the backhaul networks can perform close to South Korean levels.
If all the bottlenecks are removed by using fibre everywhere, and we take an abundance model instead of the scarcity model which is used now, then that will make all the difference. Someone on 15meg on a cabinet can’t go much faster and will end up slowing down further – whereas Korea only have to change the lights or buy more data and they can go as fast as they like. Fibre can keep ramping up. Copper has got almost as far as it can. We can’t change the laws of physics. We can’t shrink the miles. Only fibre can deliver for the next generation of people and applications. Its like trying to go from lands end to john o groats on a bike in a day, whereas in a car its entirely possible. With a high speed jet its minutes. Nowt wrong with bikes. But you need the right tool for the job, and copper is a bike. Adsl is a bike with a puncture. Cabinets have bald tyres ready to burst.
How has the management not been “perfect”? I honestly haven’t heard of a single major screwup. NBNCo has been run as efficiently as any privately owned corporation- and contrary to the way most major corporations are run these days it’s demonstrated a certain level of ethical dedication to society. It’s quite astonishing really.
Tailgator 30/04/2012 at 7:31 pm
The only ‘screw up’ that I can recall is the one regarding the tender for subcontractors. And in that I see nothing unremarkable. I imagine it could be exactly the same thing that could occur with any private enterprise corp. Rather it’s a case of NBNCo being subject to degree of scrutiny far above what would experienced in the private sector. And just like the private sector, it was dealt with. A revised contracting procedure and parameters. No big deal.
Other than that is been minor issues regarding greenfield estates, etc. And considering the scope of works then they are what would justifiably be considered to be fairly minor details.
Rick 01/05/2012 at 12:28 am
”Australia needs more voices on the pro-NBN side of the fence.”
Completely disagree. The NBN can look after itself. They have two dozen people working in PR and not a week passes that you don’t find a fluff piece somewhere in the media highliting a case study (usually the same people) of the NBN about how it is enabling business.
The standard case study users are Paul Gosney and Sharon Turner. Google their names with ‘NBN’ and you will find hundreds of hits. Fairfax wrote about them twice in one week:
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/hometech/sooner-or-later-the-nbn-will-change-your-life-20120315-1v6e5.html
http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/smallbiz-tech/worth-writing-home-about-20111116-1nhwg.html
There is a false argument here that if you prop up one side of the argument against the other that you will somehow arrive at the truth. The NBN is a complex topic and an important part of our future, it shouldn’t be simplified in for-or-against tribalism and nor should it be trivialized with repeated off-the-shelf case studies.
Agree Rick, we need to expose the truth, the facts, and encourage sensible debates to bring these out. I can’t stand case studies, they trivialise the whole thing, but the policy makers seem to need them. The real case study should be the vast number of forums, social media is discussing it all and they are not seeing it. They are mainly sat in ivory towers getting their emails from a secretary printed on dead trees. As I see it we all have two choices:
1. We make do and mend, and patch up the old phone network using cabinets, and keep the expensive monopolised networks running for another decade, and then we upgrade to real NGA,
2. We do the job now. Do it once, and do it right. With fibre to the homes, recycle the expensive copper, and build a futureproof infrastructure.
Claude 13/05/2012 at 11:16 pm
Instead of a case-study, why not a full-blown build in one major metro?
For example concentrate resources and roll it out to all of, say, Adelaide. Then we will have real data about costs, real data about take-up, and real data about timelines. All at a fraction of the price of a national roll-out. This would be a prudent economic approach and is hard to argue with.
If Adelaide works, do another big city or even two – say Brisbane & Canberra. Around the same time you hit some smaller regional cities like Geelong or Fremantle to see if things are different.
If it all still adds-up, do the rest.
here here
Political Animal (@PolAnimalAus) 16/04/2013 at 1:14 pm
http://www.facebook.com/FriendsOfTheNationalBroadbandNetwork
Paul H 30/04/2012 at 3:05 pm
A video of Peter Cochrane’s appearance at the UK inquiry can be viewed here …. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWttQNO_Xos
Probably time to watch that video again?
Transcript can be found here …. http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/communications/Superfastbroadband/ucCOMMS200312ev2.pdf
Geez Renai. Thought you would have included the above links. :-O
I don’t know how the UK Hansard system works etc, and thought it would be too much effort to find out ;)
David Robinson 30/04/2012 at 4:24 pm
A question for anybody that knows.The Govt. has paid Telstra a large amount of money to use its facilities to hasten the NBN rollout. Why does this, if indeed it does, mean only to the “node” and not all the way to the “house”?. If I’m reading this correctly it appears that it is a big hole that anybody could exploit to their own ends and not “ours”.
NBN Co have only leased the ducts and some existing Dark Fibre, If Malcolm really wants to roll out FTTN he’s going to have to hand over even more money to telstra to add the copper to the lease deal and we all saw how long it took to get Telstra to agree to a deal with NBN co – so much for faster cheaper, stupid libs!!!
So are you saying if the fibre doesn’t go all the way to the house, but Telstra’s copper is used that will have to paid for because at this moment it’s not included in the contract?To cut to the chase as a layman with an interest I’m trying to understand why or how this variable came about.
Correct, if the Libs forced a change to FTTN, NBN Co would run fibre and power to where the pillars (most like outcome) are now and install the powered Nodes in their place which “convert” the optical fibre into an electrical signal and send it down your old rotting Copper cable.
This is of course Telstra’s Copper so the libs will have to throw many more billions at Telstra as NBN Co will require exclusive rights to the copper to do this.
SMEMatt 01/05/2012 at 1:00 pm
When you lease a car do you lease a trailer you don’t need.
So why would NBNco lease the copper they don’t need.
Apparently because your “competitor” wants to use it?
They would have to lease the copper, because they have scrimped and only got fibre to the nodes. Far better to get fibre to every house, and then they are free from the constraints and costs of upkeeping an obsolete phone network.
It does mean all the way to the house (thought I believe the conduit from the street to the house is the property owners responibility? The conduit, not the copper in it.). The current agreement lets them use Telstra ducts everywhere. It does not let them use the copper. Part of the agreement is that Telstra would decommision the copper after a certain number of years. I think the standard is 3, and some areas are 10 years where there is wireless NBN. The 10 years is to make sure they have comparable service or better than ADSL2+ as time of decomission.
Thanks Noddy.So if the copper is decommissioned won’t it have to be replaced with something at some stage?
the copper has to be replaced at some point, might as well do it now and save the expense of rolling out BB twice (FTTN followed byt FTTH).
The FTTH network also costs a lot less to run and maintain as the only power that is required is at the POI/Exchange and the House at the other end – there are no powered FTTN cabinets littering the landscape using big battery backup systems to be vandalised etc either.
If the NBN work has proceeded to a stage and or the Contract is irreversible at least up to the node why would the LNP(I’m presuming it will be them) then not choose to go right to the house if it has so many cost and practical advantages?
Because political ideals are more important to them than practicality.
Thanks Paul H for those links.
Cochrane doesn’t say that the British should copy the Australian NBN model of creating a government owned wholesale monopoly that builds FTTH to 93% of premises. He only says that the British government should provide money, ₤560 million, for start up companies (pg 10).
Intriguingly, when Cochrane talks about internet access he says “The cost of a mobile phone and a laptop is so low that, believe me, everyone can afford one.”
But in 2011 ACMA found that 2.6 million Australians do not have access to the internet
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/405235/discounts_needed_low_income_earners_access_nbn_accan/
Also, according to Turbull who cites the ABS; only 43% of households earning less than $40,000 have access to the internet.
http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/blogs/the-true-cost-of-the-nbn/
The most perplexing statement from Dr Cochrane is that he thinks high speed broadband, as a strategic utility, is extremely important, “probably even more so than road and rail.”
Perhaps then, Cochrane may also be exaggerating that FTTN is “one of the biggest mistakes humanity has made”.
Cochrane may well be a visionary, but his head seems too far up in the clouds for my liking.
Every country should copy Australia’s model. When the devil did people stop taking Econ 101? Infrastructure should be provisioned by government. Private companies have perverse incentives that lead to substandard service if infrastructure building is left to them.
The insulation scheme is a case in point. I am not using this as a negative comment on the labor party. More to show what scum bags private enterprise are.
affirmedatheist 02/05/2012 at 10:45 am
The noalition are at it again.
In all seriousness, FTTH is the way to go. Do it properly once and it’ll last 60 years. Do only FTTN and in 10 years you’ll have to upgrade to FTTH anyway, most likely at greater expense. Might as well take advantage of economies of scale and get it done all at once.
The advantage of going FTTH is obvious: once you’ve done it, all you need to do is upgrade the equipment at each end, which is relatively cheap, quick, and has excellent cost/benefit ratios.
I’m not against genuine arguments against the NBN, especially cost; if we can bring it down while still delivering the same thing, let’s do it. And the argument about cost over all is a vaild argument – but it’s the only really valid argument against FTTH, and that argument is largely overcome by the fairly futureproof nature of FTTH.
As to the wireless fanatics? Yes, wireless will have its place in the mix. But the physics of wave propagation mean that you can only get so much out of wireless. Fibre obviously has a limit somewhere too, but light can carry a far greater amount of information (having higher energy) than radio waves (which are relatively low energy). I think the most illustrative example of this is that once signals get to the network, they’re translated across to FIBRE. So an upgrade of fibre becomes necessary anyway.
That’s not to say that wireless won’t continue to be successful, and continue to grow strongly. It will, of course, but the uses people have for wireless are fundamentally different than those for wired connections. Wireless is for portable or small amounts of data, where volumes aren’t that huge. If you’re downloading a 22GB database from another of your business’ data centres though, you’re not going to be using wireless. Ditto for the home user downloading movies, or the IT user working from home who’s tunnelling SSH (Imagining the latter across a wireless connection gives me nightmares), or the university student accessing a 2 hour lecture from a companion university overseas to further his study (there are uses for video other than movies, after all).
In addition, I think wireless data will always be more expensive than wired, being a comparatively scarcer commodity (scarcity increasing price and all that), limiting its growth and use somewhat. I’m using 3G internet as my main connection right now (no choice – I live in a granny flat with a fubar copper pair), and I long for the stability of wired.
At least read my comment properly before posting. Afterall it seems you spent a long time writing it at least spend a few seconds to read what you are replying too. I know the words “insulation scheme” are usually mentioned by coalition supporters. I was mentioning them as an example why the coalition’s idea of giving money to private enterprise to be “more efficient” isn’t always good. There are scumbags that will just try to rip them off.
Spot on! You get it.
No other country should copy the Australian Scheme.
We want all the economic advantages to our self.
@ KingForce
If I were part of a government and 2.6m of my fellow countrymen and women/43% of households earning under $40K couldn’t afford access to privately owned internet, I’d probably take the reins, “as a prudent and fair minded government would”, say enough and roll out affordable internet for them/all Aussies.
Wouldn’t you?
@King Force someone looking at the wider picture.
As a visionary and guest speaker Cochrane has carved a nice niche. What Australia needs is a key figure who understands the nuances of your demographics. how business works and also how the technology can work.
At present you appear to have diametric views, who are fighting rather actually building the network.
Mindless Dribble 30/04/2012 at 5:35 pm
FTTH is the best thing since sliced bread (something fast than light? please let me know). This type of thing is the reason we are looked upon as a backwards country people like Turnbull and Abbott speaking and paying others to speak meaningless dribble at whatever cost to get their seats in the top job. They’re have tried to stall the NBN at every move at whatever cost and have succeeded in doing what they do best NOTHING !
I have a feeling it’s meaningless dribble from Abbott. His only interest is to win the next election. As for Turnbull, I think he is saying what he has to say, not necessarily what he believes.
“His only interest is to win the next election.”
So true. There’s a disturbing amount of desperation to it too. No one that desperate should ever be prime minister, they are the worst kind. Australia would be crazy to just give it to him.
Well he must be. If he is still there come election time it will be his one chance. I doubt they would keep him if he lost.
RonDon 30/04/2012 at 7:12 pm
Pushing for the highest possible technological level is being a “hippy”?
While others are planning for 10Gpbs there are actually people here considering a network that won’t even let us reach 100Mbps!!?
We need 100Mbps now, and later we’ll need more. Give us the NBN already…
Belinda 01/05/2012 at 9:02 am
I agree – Hippy ? (no way)
Watch the youtube video
That guy is a typical conservative
Johnny 30/04/2012 at 7:19 pm
Thanks for the article. Hope to see many more like it.
Julian 30/04/2012 at 9:25 pm
I would like ask about the cost of FTTH. Not laying the fibre, but the cost to the end user.
How much bandwidth can someone on less than the average wage [$40K], or pensioners like me afford?
Peter Cochrane, and others, only seem to talk about how beautiful the FTTH solution is and not what benefits the user can afford.
This is my opinion Julian…
http://delimiter.com.au/2012/04/30/fttn-a-huge-mistake-says-ex-bt-cto/#comment-397331
Can’t say unless you tell us how much you are paying now.
Julian, the cost to the end user over fibre ‘should’ be cheaper, because fibre networks are far more efficient. Copper is a very expensive network to maintain.
one percent poster 30/04/2012 at 10:59 pm
SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE NATIONAL BROADBAND NETWORK
Mr Malone* — My point was that, in relation to OPEL—forget about whether or not it should
have been awarded to Optus or how that should have been done—what it was suggesting was
that you use the appropriate technology to address each problem, and in my opinion that was the
right thing. You use fibre to the node for the cities and the very large regional centres, ADSL2+
with increased capacity for people that are just outside those areas and then something like a
WiMAX or a wireless or a 3G, or whatever it is you want, for the infill to get you up to 96 per
cent. Unfortunately for those people that are outside the power grid, satellite is usually the only
option. Again, we kind of like that.
Mr Malone — We have been quite open about this: our belief is that government should
bugger off and let industry get on with doing what it does best. There is a social requirement
here. There is a social obligation that people that cannot get access should be assisted to get
access where it is not commercial, and we fully accept that.
Mr Malone — We are presently only running ADSL2+. That is world’s best for suburban anywhere. There is a total of only 10 million houses in the entire world that are on fibre to the home and none of them look like suburban Australia. You have got very limited rollouts, obviously, in places like Hong Kong
and Japan, but in places like Milan or Paris as well, it is always into high-density, high-rise
° Michael Malone, CEO & Founder, iiNet
Wow, sure sounds like the Coalition’s policy. . ..
Maybe the reason why Labor’s NBN is so poorly received in the so-called “mainstream” press is because the economic underpinnings of the plan is completely bonkers?
Hmm… just a thought…
And it would be a good one, in 2008
@1%
Since you now and previously, like to post the words of Michael Malone, here’s what Michael had to say 25 February 2012 (so not 4 years ago) –
“With a debt-to-GDP ratio of 8 per cent, it was an absolutely safe bet Australia could afford the National Broadband Network, founder and chief executive of iiNet Michael Malone told a lunch of the Canberra Business Council yesterday.
Even if there were risks: ”We can afford to take that risk.” In 10 years people would wonder why there had been an argument about it, he said, recalling a similar argument about the roll out of electricity in Victoria…”
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/aust-can-afford-nbn-risks-industry-expert-says-20120224-1ttnj.html
Feel free to use this in future, as it is more up to date ;-)
Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/aust-can-afford-nbn-risks-industry-expert-says-20120224-1ttnj.html#ixzz1tYxUoJAF
Actually 1%, let’s recap on everything your source of valuable information, Michael Malone said about the NBN recently (not years ago)…
1. It was an absolutely safe bet Australia could afford the National Broadband Network
2. running bang on target
3. Take up was a weak measure
4. The government’s policy was largely to begin building the network in areas which did not have competitive infrastructure.
5. This left internet service providers with a similar margin but consumers would have a faster, more reliable broadband connection for less.
6. Though mobile technology was an absolute unstoppable trend, he said the speed, performance and cost of fixed line services were much, much better.
7. Congestion on the mobile network already saw incentives to people in the United States to return to the fixed line network.
Thank you Michael, for clearly verifying for us all (particularly those who have been sneakily using your outdated comments) as to exactly what is occurring…
I.e. the “NBN build is affordable”, is “on target”, is being “rolled out to a lot of Aussies who currently do not have”, “RSP’s will be no worse off”…whilst connections will be “faster, more reliable but will nonetheless cost less” and whilst complementary, is “superior to wireless”.
So really what is the problem?
Funny you mention technology suitable for the job. The implementation study did that.
That is why the 93-97% get Fix wireless because that is the point at which the fiber roles is not cost effective. It was not a point chosen at random by the government. FTTN was discounted for one simple reason it could not meet the stated aim of meeting a minimum standard for EVERY SINGLE USER on the network, and be able to meet those requirements when the minimum standard is needed to be increased in the future. None of the DSL bull of when you can only get this speed because your across the road from the exchange and not next door so your cable runs up the street first.
Peter 30/04/2012 at 11:52 pm
Interesting given BT is getting their backside whooped here in the UK by companies like Virgin – who incidently do a FTTN service (I am currently on a 100mb plan for not much at all – its awesome). BT is known for being as bad if not worse than Telstra so what would you expect? Sounds like the sort of thing to come out of the good ‘ol ex senator Richard Alston (broadband is just for porn and serves no real purpose etc)
What is going to happen in the long term is that we will get out fantastic speeds and then the content will die.
Just like with TV where we have a plethora of delivery mechanisms, and we have a plethora of channels, and we have fantastic quality TV sets to watch it all on, yet we have absolutely nothing worth watching.
Sometimes I wonder what people really expect to have when they get their fantastic fiber bandwidth. What problem will it solve? And what effect will it have on content?
Incidentally, the greater the bandwidth and the greater the delivery throughput you can guarantee the greater will be the government involvement in keeping everything “nice and safe”, especially for business. Lock-down is rapidly approaching!
Alex 01/05/2012 at 10:39 am
And private enterprise can/are by the sound of it, making a fortune flogging premium tin foil hats :/
It’s a win – win.
more high definition reality tv shows?
If you have symmetry you will find content makers will bloom and grow. At the moment with asymmetrical slow old copper its too much effort to produce anything. The country who gets that first will corner the market.
Once the kids are given the bandwidth their productivity will soar. Games. Videos. Apps. Businesses will start to germinate and the next big thing could come from OZ.
Don’t compare it to reality shows… the real reality is that people have been throttled back for too long already. Give them the fat pipes and turn them on.
Commercial content making will still suffer from contention no matter what the last mile of connectivity.
So even if NBN is rolled out as full fibre to 93% of properties, if the core network is insufficiently sized and international links are not large enough people will not see much more. This is the reason commercial fibre with 1:1 contention for use by broadcasters and in data centres costs as much as it does.
“One of the things that amuses me greatly is “up to 20Mbps”. It is like “up to 5,000 cornflakes” in my box, but there are three. It does not help. It is an absurd product description. If anything needs deleting from the English language, it is “up to”.
Give that man a cigar !
My broadband claims it is “up to” 24Mbps, but is ACTUALLY only 3Mbps, no where near the “up to” speed.
Salami Chujillo 01/05/2012 at 12:29 pm
I have come to the conclusion that the Majority of Australians are stupid when it comes to technology. They make stupid comments like:
Fibre only has a life span of 15 years
Wireless is the future
My current ADSL speed is enough
What application would need such high bandwidth in the future? show me….
These stupid mouth pieces includes:
2GB Crew
Mal Turnbull
and course….Alan Jones and his love for the German laser technology.
I give up on explaining to peoples why FTTH is a good thing for Australia.
fibre has a life span of 30yrs once its in the ground, and depending on the quality of the cable too. Given NBN is going wholesale deployment i doubt it is the quality that is traditionally used by telcos who deploy to business standards where fibre is a premium service. This would also depend on not just the cable but practices and parts associated with the fibre.
It would be rare to find fibre over 30yrs still in operation anywhere, a cable does not need to be completely dead, but with age you may find faults occuring more frequently due to being in operation, usually its replaced every 20yrs ideally as to guarantee that for business in particularly they run without issues for crucial services.
one percent poster 02/05/2012 at 8:10 am
which is why:
A final observation on investment is that NBN’s heavy capital spending will not cease with the rollout. Both the Greenhill Caliburn review and NBN Co’s Corporate Plan show its completed networks require remarkably high ongoing capex to sustain them, presumably reflecting upgrades of the active electronics and in due course replacement of the fibre.
By the 2020s, the Corporate Plan shows ‘replacement’ capex escalating to around $1.5 billion annually – double most estimates of the current cost of maintaining Telstra’s copper (the most costly and remote parts of which will still have to be maintained at that time). Greenhill Caliburn estimates in total $14 billion in ‘replacement’ capex will be incurred by NBN Co by 2028 for a network that by then will only on average be about ten years old.
Analysis of the 2012-2021 period (where NBN Co has made public more detailed projections) show that ‘replacement’ investment averages an extraordinary $115 each year for each premise with an active service. So much for another frequently repeated NBN myth – that FTTP will drastically curtail network upkeep costs.
http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/speeches/three-years-of-nbn-2-0-what-have-we-learnt/
The ongoing costs are to provide for upgrades to the active electronics; NBN has already said that GPON is going to be upgraded to 10GPON once the rollout of the fibre is complete so stop with the lame liberal conspiracy theories!!!
Dean 02/05/2012 at 1:00 pm
> double most estimates of the current cost of maintaining Telstra’s copper
Since Telstra don’t tell us how much it costs them to maintain the copper, where are we getting these estimates from? Malcolm Turnbull’s blog?
Just shows some people’s rationality and/or extreme partiality doesn’t it Dean.
According to some, whatever Conroy/NBNCo say are lies (apart from the odd clause or comment which thse same critics can perceive as negative, then Conroy/NBNCo are to be believed… sigh).
And “everything Turnbull” says is pure as driven snow… and they even supply URL’s?
Seriously, until I started commenting at places like this I “obviously naively” thought Aussies were pretty fair, unselfish, mate orientated and open-minded. Boy was I wrong…
READ, all sides of politics will exaggerate their positions, that’s a given.
But goodness, haven’t the antics of those opposed to the NBN, with the out and out lies some espouse, given me a wake up call. Sure some of the e-health initiatives outlined for the future via the NBN sound far fetched to us now. But then so did sending instant mail/messages around the world from your own home, let alone from a mobile device, not so many years ago. Ever seen those old secret agent movies now on the greatest hits channels – where the agent actually had a digital watch or a micro-telephone, wow. Bet some thought, no way, back then, too.
But before I am painted with the same but opposite coloured brush let me repeat…
“The NBN is NOT perfect”… but it is EASILY the best plan I have heard…!
Too right Alex. Nothing in this life is perfect anyway, and getting good infrastructure into your country should rise above politics. Its mission critical to get the job done right. As best as you can, and that means fibre.
Hey dude, are you saying copper lasts forever then? Or copper lasts longer than fibre? Or that we should just keep replacing copper forever to protect the telco’s investment, or what? It can’t possibly make sense to use something that is suitable for telephones instead of a medium suitable for massive amounts of data transfer. Why use something as expensive as copper which degrades quickly when cheap glass can do the job so much better and isn’t as subject to degradation?
JamesG 01/05/2012 at 3:14 pm
I think a lot of techos need to understand that a huge chunk of Aussies:
a) dont have a computer at all (eg my grandmother and aunt)
b) barely use the one they have (my parents)
c) will not get benefit from the super speeds the NBN offers. (
On top of this…what exactly can a schoolkid learn using the NBN that they cant today?
And who wants to see a virtual GP over the net? Maybe a sprinkly of people in remote areas who cant visit specialists frequently like someone in Sydney.
Im not against the NBN but I think waaay too much money is being spent on it. Those billions could give us real hospital beds or payrises for teachers or a myriad of other better things in my opinion.
No they can’t because the health budget will remain the same whether there is an NBN or not, as the funding isn’t coming from income taxes…
AGAIN –
http://www.smh.com.au/business/government-goes-global-to-raise-3b-needed-for-national-network-20110710-1h91o.html
http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/BudgetReview201112/NBN
http://nbnmyths.wordpress.com/how-are-we-paying-for-it/
Abel Adamski 01/05/2012 at 6:22 pm
Could you explain 2 things.
1) How come we have this desperate need to spend Billions on healthcare and Education. Wouldn’t be because The Howard Government let them run down preferring to build a pile of cash to worship at and give tax cuts to the top end of town along with nice perks like matching up to $1Million in Superannuation contributions. In the process building in a structural deficit while promoting profligate private debt (140% of GDP ). Whilst fiscal prudence is necessary A National Government Has ONE SOLE responsibility. Look after the National best interest, not selected sectors, this also means provide the foundation for a successful nation not only for the present, but also for the future. Howard was a dismal failure in this regard
2) Where are these Billions going to come from?, remember NBN is being funded from Borrowings, not taxpayer funds. On the basis of being repaid
“what exactly can a schoolkid learn using the NBN that they cant today?”
“Those billions could give us real hospital beds or payrises for teachers”
What exactly can a schoolkid learn from giving teachers payrises that they cant today?
Gav 01/05/2012 at 3:25 pm
Be fair Noddy, he may have upgraded to a tin foil hat to the node.
Relieved 01/05/2012 at 3:46 pm
Cochrane says, “Fibre to the cabinet is one of the biggest mistakes humanity has made,” How shallow! Or does this just show his ignorance. I think that there are a lot of larger mistakes that humanity has made … mistakes with dire consequences for the victims.
Still, I should expect myopic people who think the world and its starving, poor, dispossed and war-torn have no consequence compared to their capitalistic money-making plans. But then again, that is how they got rich in the first place.
Nect time I read about the NBN I will be so glad that its rollout will be righting “one of the biggest mistakes humanity has made”! I hope the refugee fleeing to Australia in a leaky boat understands that point!
The ROI on a proper, fit for purpose, futureproof, ubiquitous fibre to the home network must not be underestimated. It will bring untold benefits to government, healthcare, education and ordinary citizens. Businesses will thrive, new businesses will start, and Australia will become a world leader in the digital revolution.
If you go back to cabinets you go back to the dark ages and waste your time and money, as the whole job will be to do again in a few years.
Break free while you have chance, and work together to make this network happen.
The world is looking to you to show how its done, we need men of grit. Go to it Oz. Do the job once and do it right, don’t be sucked back into the copper pit with cabinets and old phone lines.
one percent poster 01/05/2012 at 5:52 pm
Interesting extract from B4RN business plan for those interested…
Laying new fibre optic cables all the way to remote rural properties is an expensive exercise. However
if a different ownership, funding and operating model is used instead of that traditionally deployed by
the telecommunications companies and ISPs, the costs can be much reduced from the £10K headline
figure per property quoted by the BSG in their report to around £1K per property.
The vast majority of the cost of the fibre laying is for digging trenches, installing duct and fibre and
then making good. Traditionally telecommunications companies have used their code powers and
installed duct under the highway or associated verges. This is expensive for several reasons not least
the high costs associated with complying with health and safety and the street works act. However
from their point of view this is a manageable process as issues around access and wayleaves are
solved for them without having to negotiate with hundreds of landlords and regulatory bodies.
B4RN will adopt a different approach; we will lay the duct not on the highway but across the farmland
on the other side of the wall. Digging a narrow trench and installing a duct within it is dramatically less
expensive across private farmland than along the highway. The work can be done by agricultural
workers and the farmers themselves; it’s not high technology, similar to laying a simple water or
drainage pipe which they do all the time. The combination of lower cost labour and simple installation
without the regulatory burden of the street works act and similar impediments results in a dramatic
reduction in cost per metre installed.
This is nothing like Labor’s current approach….
Certainly an interesting approach to FTTP, but you forgot to mention a few things about B4RN.
Unless I am mistaken (and I must admit to not knowing too much about them) they have been neglected by both private enterprise and governments and are doing it themselves (we have only been forsaken country wide by private companies).
They are self funded/community owned, so a lot if not most of those cables/ducts would be being dug by each individual owner on his/her own property, in one small area in the north of England – not quite the same as Australia, eh?
So of course they can save costs… but good on ’em I say…! Because here is the best part from B4RN (listening Mal) –
*** “This is a community-wide, co-operative, and collaborative initiative to do the job once, and do it correctly without costly stop gap solutions…”
True Alex, this is a community project, but it just goes to show the power of people who are desperate to get a decent connection for their area. No help at all so far from any public funds, but lucky to have in its midst a network designer who says ‘it isn’t rocket science, its more like herding cats’ and we just get on with it. more details on http://b4rn.org.uk – including videos of moleploughing which in OZ could cover many km a day, we only have small fields here, you have open plains and can cover a lot. Get the core in and let people dig to meet you, pay them in shares, let them take an ownership of it and then they look after it and take pride in it. B4RN has a lot going for it, and the model can be adapted to suit.
As I said good on ’em… in other words I applaud and admire your resolve Chris… and especially your words of wisdom – “…do the job once, and do it correctly without costly stop gap solutions…”
A far cry from some here in Oz who unlike you, are receiving modern infrastructure without having to pay from their own pockets and don’t have to lift a finger, still whinge and whine about every facet, simply due to their own entrenched ideologies.
DUDE Telco 05/05/2012 at 2:47 pm
bad idea… it is a last resort that fibres be laid across private property. should be done on council property, otherwise you would end in a lease agreement.
the reason why fibre was laid along highways one is that it is easy to get to, for obvious reasons. it also means its the short path in most cases, in addition the civils is much simplier as with the planning an project management of any future works.
if you come up to a telco constructor and you say to them , i want an indirect route, i want to go through a private land, through other operator, through a utility eg. rail or power grid, they will say, you are asking for trouble….
although it may seem it is high cost at first, in the long run it isnt, and i doubt that it is the higher cost at all, unless its some leased agreement.
but in all cases the cost of providing civils infrastructure is always the highest component of any project without exception and by a mile too…
If a community wants a connection and is prepared to do it themselves they will give free wayleaves like ours are doing. All the routes are to the landlords wishes, as the landlord knows where they will be safest. All routes are mapped and put with the deeds of the land and the network has a copy. This means in the fields by the sides of the road its soft dig, and a massive cost reduction in civils. In some areas its definitely worth thinking about, you shouldn’t dismiss it so easily.
What it means is if the farmer of the neighbouring plot of farmland that sits between your land and the nearest fiber node decides to rip out his section of the trunk route, you’re stuffed.
I’d imagine that landowners would be less than keen to have their title deeds encumbered by perpetual third-party leases.
The farmer can’t remove the infrastructure if he’s signed the wayleave. Why would he want to anyway? Once folk have had a decent connection and found all the benefits its like ripping out water pipe. You wouldn’t do it.
Alex 12/05/2012 at 10:28 pm
Typically Chris, our friend appears to have now altered his stance of using the great work you guys at B4RN are doing, as his supposed evidence that our NBN is no good… to turning against you, too?
Sadly (as you will have now clearly witnessed) to our NBN critics, people such as B4RN are only useful to them, while they are able to misquote and misrepresent you. So thanks for your input.
But, I bet you wouldn’t have believed the hatred some have towards our nationwide NBN and the disgraceful lengths they will go to, to try to discredit it, had you been told and not witnessed the political grandstanding BS, at forums like Delimiter for yourself?
Its only by using forums like this to argue, discuss, constructively criticise etc that we all start to think, and figure stuff out, and make informed decisions. That is the power that this technology is giving to us, and everyone should be able to have a voice in this debate. We just have to keep on delivering our messages, inspiring others, and bringing out the truth and voices of reason. We will get there. Keep the faith.
Agree Chris…
And wouldn’t it be great to see rational “constructive” criticism, even only once.
it is quite possible to demonstrate these applications given that there has been fibre links in the country for over 30yrs…
the problem with this argument is that Labor is unable to demonstrate this …
the reason is because the so called benefits are from technology that currently do not exist, nor can be shown to have a significant impact in the traditional way of doing things like health, transport and education …
The reason is because they are promoting something that may or may not happen, or so its a prediction based on a prediction.
It would be entirely feasible that labor use any of the hundreds of thousands of fibre links in place today from telstra, optus etc. to demonstrate how future benefits and income will be derived, however they cant , but show some grainy and cumbersome set up of ehealth and eduation that is far from satisfactory for general application and release … why? Because its just a prediction.
@ DUDE, it’s all good and well to day such things don’t exist, when those who oppose refuse to acknowledge any that do, and always will?
That’s only because you apparently suffer from an inability to research what is happening in the ICT space – had you actually spent some time following what is actually going on you wouldn’t be taking uneducated pot shots at the NBN using FTTH for 93% of the population!
There are plenty of models to choose from, but the fact remains we have to get the fibre in, and do it quickly before we are all left behind. There is no way a phone line is going to be able to cope with what is coming. We ain’t seen nothing yet. And we won’t if we settle for cabinets.
You’re mistaken. The current Labor Government in Australia has no real working “model” to fund the roll-out of fibre to 93% of the country. The present political directive to build FTTH was a face-saving, knee-jerk reaction of a bunch of incompetent politicians and bureaucrats who bungled the original FTTN tender. A sham study was subsequently commissioned to justify the political decision ex post facto. The so-called “business case” for the project has been ridiculed by various senior industry leaders — one well-known, straight-talking CEO publicly derided it as “bullshit economics”.. . .
Enough about the Australian fiscal train wreck. . . . on the other hand, what your organisation is proposing (or currently implementing) is genuinely innovative and does represent an alternative model that is potentially viable because it proposes directly to reduce the onerous labour costs involved in building last-mile networks.
Your “model” deals with reality in an honest fashion and implements innovative work-arounds, viz. drafting voluntary labour. The current Labor Government’s “approach” (in Australia) is to entirely disregard the cost and just keep pumping borrowed money into the project until they get kicked out of office.
The whole world will be watching your innovative initiative with great interest — a 90% reduction in capital cost is truly astounding!
FFS, stop with the politics. If you want to say they haven’t got a working model to fund the NBN say WHY the current model is wrong. That has been put to Turnbull and many others (and probably you under another alias) in the past and guess what? All that resulted was a stream of BS. Mainly claims that it’s obvious economics that everyone else is too dumb but you to understand, but no facts.
“Enough about the Australian fiscal train wreck” More baseless assertions and emotional word play. How about going to post on a Liberal/Labor debate and leave politics out of the future of Australia’s communication system? The amount being spent is tiny compared to virtually every other expenditure of government so why not just bugger off and bang you Libral drum somewhere else and stop screwing with Australia’s future?
Interesting 1%
That’s not what your #1 quoted expert, Michael Malone says about the NBN, is it?
Tosh, it was you that used the term “bullshit economics” in your comment on Slattery’s talk. The reason, 7% ROI after 30 years isn’t a commercial level of ROI and that they’d be better off putting the money in a bank. They would too, if they just wanted more money, but then there wouldn’t be the infrastructure in place that will hopefully last us a long time.
Other complaints he had is they needed access to telstra ducts and infrastructure, they have now.
There was no indication of end user prices, there is now.
His wasn’t against fibre, but thought there was too much, give the country 3G broadband as he is worried fibre is being rolled out to too many and the ROI may be very hard to achieve. mainy that the 30 year time frame is way too long.
He had some positives too, the unified support for the project from the government, community, industry and the “generational opportunity” to create leading communications infrastructure for the next century.
Hi Onepercent,
I don’t profess to know much about OZ and NBN, although I read everything I can about it. I admire a country who is trying to do such a massive task, and not try to patch up the old phone network. Maybe there is a middle ground? OZ sticks to the plan to build a ‘proper’ network, and instead of pumping in money it enables the people to help themselves? IE featherbed the routes. cut out the bureaucracy. Empower the communities? I am sure there are many men of grit in OZ. If we can do it in Lancashire I am sure they can too. How to convince the powers that be though?
The internet is a network of machines. We are building a network of people, not just infrastructure. A web spreading through our parishes, joining us all up.
We come across natural obstacles. Bedrock. rivers, deep gorges, stone walls, fences, bogs. We find a way to get our fibre through and solve problems as they arrive. That is what people are good at. The worst things to sort out are HSE, tax, highways planning, insurance, bla bla ticking boxes. Those are the obstacles government could help with, it wouldn’t cost them much, but would make a tremendous difference to self dig projects. Dig where you live, like in the nordic countries – we can all take a leaf out of their book.
phil 01/05/2012 at 10:21 pm
Wireless is the way of the future. BYOD is where it is going. Fibre infrastructure goes to the cells where u connect wirelessly. As time rushes buy, new modulation techniques will enable greater bandwidths to the wireless devices and considerable increases in device densities on the wireless towers. ‘I’ believe this is a much more cost effective solution than that currently being sold by government. I love technology, but this is a waste of taxpayers money.
Sorry if I am not toeing the party line, or not following the NBN groupies, but a country as large as oz with such a small population should not be inflicted with a cost that will inevitably blow out during its installation phase.
Why should ozzys pay for something that a minority of users want. Most of us are happy with the meg or so we have now. Put the money into new tech power solutions so we can use petrochemicals for medicines etc, instead of burning it in transport. There are so many more important things to worry about. Faster internet porn is not one of them :)
Abel Adamski 01/05/2012 at 10:33 pm
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/419626/broadband_infrastructure_time_real_policy/
So the saturation of mobile devices moving to lte etc doesn’t convince you?
Yes, there are lots and lots more mobile devices, so many are wireless enabled. In real terms 93% of data is still on fixed connection, the data usage on fixed connection grew 80% in the last year.
I have lots of mobile devices. 2 phones, a kindle 3G, a laptop with 3G, printer. I use them through my fixed connection at home. Out I use 3G, about 0.5G a month. At home I used 60G. Fixed devices, but since they are connected via a router they don’t get counted like 3G wireless devices, PC, NAS, bluray player, XBox 360. Nor does my mobile device fixed usage appear as more than one connection. Yep, there are lots of new LTE devices, I guess it will be a few years before LTE is saturated and reduced to a crawl like 3G is now.
Funny Phil, maybe you don’t do any research and blindly believe whatever you are told by your guru’s (pity they are so dumb ). In the US the Comms providers are desperately trying to move their mobile users onto their landlines. I wonder why?
@ phil – “wireless is the way of the future”…
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/8153.0Chapter7Dec%202011
Not according to the facts it’s not.
phil 02/05/2012 at 9:01 pm
I have some statics as well.
“The volume of data downloaded via mobile handsets over the three months ended 31 December 2011 was 5,000 Terabytes, an increase of 35.3% from June 2011.”
Wireless will not slow down. I know I sound like a long playing gramophone record but it is the natural course of our society. All to do with trends. This particular trend will not diminish anytime soon.
pales in comparison to Fixed line:
“During the June quarter of 2011, 254,947 terabytes of data were downloaded via fixedline broadband networks. Downloads via fixed-networks accounted for 93 per cent of total
internet downloads during the June 2011 quarter, compared to 91 per cent during the June
quarter of 2010.
The average volume of data downloaded per subscriber (excluding mobile handset
subscribers) increased by 56 per cent to 25.1 gigabytes during the June quarter of 2011,
compared to the June quarter of 2010.”
http://www.acma.gov.au/webwr/_assets/main/lib410148/executive_summary.pdf
Fixed line data is growing even faster than mobile data!
and the trend continued in 2011:
“VOLUME OF DATA DOWNLOADED
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) were asked to report the volume of data downloaded for the three months ended 31 December 2011.
The ability of ISPs to report the volume of data downloaded is variable. Data presented for these items should only be considered as an indicative measure of internet activity during the reference period and should be used with caution. The occurrence of special events may result in abnormally high downloads.
The overall volume of data downloaded increased by 26.0% since June 2011 to 345,518 Terabytes.
Data downloaded by fixed-line broadband accounted for 93% of all internet downloads, and increased by 26.4% since June 2011. Data downloaded using wireless broadband continued to grow, with a 20.9% increase compared to June 2011.”
I agree, mobile will not slow down. Wireless will not slow down. In takeup. But it is gonna slow down if the cells and masts don’t get the feed. The future is fixed. Stopgap measures have to be grasped in some places, but we need fibre connectivity everywhere, so data rates can be ramped up when needed without having to change the infrastructure.
Build it once. Build it right. On top of a fibre nation you put a mobile and wifi cloud that will also work. We need them both. But fibre comes first.
Thanks djos.
See what we just achieved phil…? We 3 together discovered that fixed is increasing and so is wireless (although two of us already knew and accept this)…
So as those like myself have been saying and again we 3 just proved it, fixed and wireless are complementary. Otherwise, one or the other would be reversing, wouldn’t they?
http://delimiter.com.au/2012/05/01/worst-of-the-worst-photos-of-australias-copper-network/#comment-398841
Chris. I brought what is happening in the UK and Europe up in different forums previously and I believe it is very relevant in Australia in the smaller communities that will be receiving wireless. The NBN Co has indicated they will work with communities and councils. So yes it is very feasible, but not for larger towns and cities where it is public roads and footpaths that will have to be impacted. Bear in mind with many farms, the PMG/Telecom/Telstra only ran cable to the gate. The farmer had to provide from the gate to the residence, sometimes up to a Kilometre. In the old manual days many a phone service was run via the barbed wire fence, open the gate and the phone line went down. Principle could still apply if farmers worked in together for the rural sector, depending on density
No reason why not, I am sure the farmers would be up for it if it meant they got a decent connection. It depends how badly they want it, and how badly government want them all online to save money in admin. Working together and chucking a heap of common sense into the pot could solve the problem.
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Claude 11/05/2012 at 2:25 pm
The NBN debate is almost always about technology – whats faster, better, etc. from a technological perspective.
What happens if it costs $1 million per house to connect to the NBN? Will it then be a good idea? What if it only costs 15c per house? What value is acheived? How many customers will take it up? What is the sensitivity to less/more take-up? Less/more value?
None of this has been properly answered. Until then I neither support or reject the NBN but remain constantly worried that I’m being conned by people who think govt money is a bottomless pit. Don’t justify it with emotional dreams of a technological utopia. Show me the simple economics.
The fact remains that technology is here to stay. Just like when the printing press was invented and everyone then had access to books.
We now have to find a way of enabling all our people to have access. There is no point in wasting money trying to use obsolete solutions. We must build it properly and do it once. The only way to do this is with fibre. Nothing else is worth the money. It matters not whether its a few cents or a million, if we don’t do it we will be left out of the digital revolution and the cost to the country will be far greater than what we have saved.
Chris: “It matters not whether its a few cents or a million”
Are you really saying its worth doing at any price? I’m afraid thats just not logical. Should Sudan put in a FTTH network at any cost; i.e. would that be good public policy for their population? I would say “obviously not”. For Australia, the question is murkier.
For Australia there must be a point where it makes no sense. Very little attention is given to where that point is, nor on which side the current NBN sits.
Instead, all I see is emotional statements about “the future of our nation” or “its a disgraceful waste of money”. Neither is a basis for cold hard public policy.
Yes Claude, I am saying it is worth doing. The price is down to the policy makers getting the best bang for their buck. It depends totally on whether you want to be a world leader in the digital economy or a third world country. The choice is yours.
We can’t turn back the clock, and the future is digital. That is where the money will be made. Or lost opportunity for the next generation. The job will have to be done, and you may as well get it done now and reap the benefit sooner.
Claude, it’s all in the corporate plan, which is about to be updated (for the better one could assume) due to the Telstra deal.
You can either accept it as a good approximation or not… and at this stage considering the info you seek has basically been around for quite sometime, I’m suggesting you’ll do the latter, “again”.
It’s worth doing as per the Corporate plan, please stop introducing non-existent BS and then arguing over the non-existent BS.
+1 Chris
Alex, you need to read my comment again. I am lamenting that the debate isn’t about things like the corporate plan instead of almost always being about technology. Telling me I’m introducing “BS arguments” is only showing me you don’t understand my point.
Claude, you complained that the debate is always about the tech and then went on to lament about costs (which incidentally I believe, sadly this debate is always about) $1m or 15c, take-up rates/how many customers (and strangely mentioned Sudan, harped on about at any price) and claim that none of this has been properly answered, as such, you are INCORRECT.
I then pointed you towards the official costings from NBNCo, along with ROI, take-up, ETA etc which are all contained within the Corporate Plan.
They have already been answered.
Now if you don’t like the answers or refuse to accept the answers, fair enough. But don’t then say they haven’t been answered because they have.
However, benefit of the doubt, you may not be familiar with the corporate plan, so here’s info for you…
http://www.nbnco.com.au/about-us/corporate-plan.html
http://www.cnet.com.au/story_media/339307519/NBN%20Co%20%20Business%20Case%20Summary.pdf
But to be frank, I think after perusal if you ask the same questions about costs, etc and thus completely ignore the corporate plan (no it’s not gospel, it’s estimations – for a ten year build – there’s no crystal ball with definites) well I think you don’t understand or don’t want to understand your own point!
Claude 12/05/2012 at 7:47 am
Alex, thanks for the links.
RE: Sudan. I was highlighting that an NBN is not intrinsically a good idea. It has to be assessed. In Sudan perhaps public health would be a better priority. In Australia, is there a better priority?
RE: costs. Its not this alone; that would be pointless. Its cost/benefit & risk of NBN vs.some other objective Australia might have. I mentioned bio-engineering as a wild example of another thing that might be good.
Often the debate is about wireless vs. fibre. What a stupid comparison; we don’t compare push-bikes with ferarri’s yet both remain useful. We compare ferrari’s with other things we might buy, like a house.
This is one of a few articles by Malcolm Turnbull that deals with the “simple economics” as you request:
Of course, all of his valuable arguments and insights are universally ignored, derided and labelled as “FUD” by NBNco’s religious supporters.
Djos 12/05/2012 at 12:56 pm
That’s because it is FUD! I like Malcom and you vote for him but his “analysis” is based on biased speculation and conveniently ignores most of the relevant facts ….. Mmmmm, sounds familiar!
Agreed, same FUD. This person thinks the ACCC could drop regulation therefore NBN co would massively raise prices like this. Wireless will take over so they won’t get the uptake. Every bit of “proof” that is financially unviable based on wild supposition and BS.
I particularly like the part where he argues there is no demand for increased speed and volume then goes on to argue that the price of plans will rise by 6% per year because of increased speed and extra CVC for the increasing volumes.
It’s more the point 1% that you are a religious Liberal supporter. Most here couldn’t give a shit about party politics. You’d have much more credibity without your tounge up Malcolm Turnbull’s butt crack.
Noddy, I recommend you start caring about party-politics if you want an NBN. The liberals are probably going to win and will probably tear up the NBN in some fashion. You can continue to rant like a child who has lost his ice-cream, or you come address the economic arguments.
Hey 1%
Sorry to venture somewhat off topic, but considering the above comments… Perhaps you’d like to ask these others, the very same question you asked me previously?
http://delimiter.com.au/2012/05/03/cooked-books-abbott-misleads-on-nbn/#comment-405081
Chris, you failed to say “at any price”. Was that a mistake, or did you avoid that intentionally?
If you are saying it is “worth doing” then I presume that there is some rational analysis that makes the case. The very word “worth” means some kind of cost has been assessed and some kind of benefit. They have been compared to make the judgment of worthiness.
If it is “worth doing at any price” to perform analysis would be a waste of time. It is just religion and it is no more sensible than saying “it will never be worth doing”.
Appeals to being a “world leader in the digital economy” are empty statements. You might just as easily appeal to being a world leader in the bio-engineering economy and spend the money on that.
Claude, if I say its worth doing at any price I just sound like a dreamer. It is worth doing. It is worth doing well. It is the future. It is not going to go away. Better just bite the bullet and get on with it. The benefit will not be apparent for a while, but the ROI will spread over many areas. Health, education, government savings, carbon footprint savings, the list is endless and well documented elsewhere. There is no one thing in the world today that is such a game changer. Invest in it now. Spend the money wisely on good infrastructure. Australia will reap the benefits. Once the fibre is in then its done. You can upgrade the lights on the end whenever needed. Patch up the old phone networks and you’ve wasted your brass.
Chris, I’d really like to see many of the ROI things you talk about debated. I don’t want to see another article that uses gigabit speed metrics as the reason I should want an NBN, or that my children will be happier, etc. I want facts.
As it stands, the NBN is probably going to be gutted when the Liberals win the election. I’d expect this will be the worst of all outcomes. Only an honest debate can avoid that.
Hi Claude, its well documented what the ROI of a decent internet connection is, but here is a fresh look at it if you have time to read it. http://b4rn.org.uk/the-week-when-skype-showed-its-true-value
Just a multitude of little things, increasing the quality of life etc, how do you measure it?
Chris – thanks for the link. I doubt you can measure quality of life for national infrastructure – these things are probably best left to individuals as one persons “quality” is another persons “so what?” This will translate into take-up rates. With the NBN the take-up will hopefully be pretty good because the govt is shutting down all the competitive fixed-line infrastructure. BTW, that shutdown make me suspicious. No other business gets to do that. Surely if NBN is so good, that wouldn’t be necessary?
There’s nothing suspicious at all, imo Claude.
1. NBNCo and existing network owners have “negotiated, as businesses do” to migrate the existing customers on to the newer, updated NBN technology from the old obsolete technology… and then close down the old technology.
It’s common sense, progress and a win-win.
2. Like private companies, the government can make money in the cities but not in the bush. But unlike private companies the government are willing to build in the bush not just the cities, by cross-subsidisation and accepting a lower than normal ROI.
This keeps the bush happy with updated and cheaper comms and even though the cities are in theory subsidising the bush, with the lower ROI NBNCo will accept, the city customers will still receive great prices.
It’s a win-win-win.
But without being too personal, for someone who claims to be neither for nor against the NBN, you have rattled off many of the standard NBN critics lines and not really mentioned many plusses at all. Curious.
Alex, good point about negotiating – but I don’t think it was that clean. But I’ll accept what you say.
RE: the lower ROI. I think that’s ok too. If the NBN is to be a “social good” it doesn’t really have to make a profit of any kind. It just needs to not be a money-pit like, for example, the railways. The question in my mind is do the numbers add up? I see the odd complaint that they don’t and the counter-claim that they do but very little educated discussion one way or the other.
I’ve not rattled off pluses because I can only see technology ones, or “think of the children” motherhood statements. As a consumer, I can’t wait for the NBN – when it gets to my street I’ll be the first to connect. As a taxpayer I’m worried about the risk being taken in my name if it goes pear-shaped. As a citizen I’m worried that all the social benefits are an illusion.
Visionary comments about being a world-leader in broadband impress me not. Its just a cop-out that doesn’t explain *why* broadband and why not some other thing. Why not a world-leader in software? Or medicine? Or nano-technology? Or nuclear-power? I’m not saying any of these things are actually better, but it seems that such discussions about how to spend the money never occurred. It just became a debate about the best technology for delivering the internet.
Its probably all moot now: the libs will most likely either pro-actively disband NBN or they will set it up for failure so they can point and say “See, the Labour policy was rubbish”. Which will be a shame.
I just find it amusing when ppl complain “we might be wasting 36 billion on the NBN” but no one seems to mind us spending 40 billion on 12 subs that are only good for 20 years (vs 60+ for NBN) and like the current ones will prolly spend 2/3rds of their life docked due to a lack of sub-mariners!
Djos: I mind :) Spending on projecting power with subs when most of our military activity is effectively police actions seems pretty dumb.
I’d suggest the coalition will alter the NBN minimally, blame the already signed contracts/Labor for them only being able to make minimal changes and any cost blow out, but when the NBN inevitably works, beat their chests wildly and claim that without their managerial magic, the NBN would have failed.
It’s really a no lose situation for them… anything positive take the credit for and anything negative blame their predecessors.
Of course we will all know better (all except the same old NBN critics who will lap that BS up)…
Alex, I agree – it is a plausible option for them.
It might depend on the accounting – they might move the NBN back into the books so they can say “Gasp! Look how big the budget hole is!” when they take power. Then cancelling it or selling it will allow them to point at enormous savings.
As you say, it is a no-lose situation. Even if they make major changes any resulting problems can still be passed back to the origin of the project.
Its a pity this important decision has been so poorly handled by all concerned.
Good point,
Put the $17B for FTTN on budget, blame the NBN and run huge deficits for as long as they like and forever blame Labor’s mismanagement/NBN…
It’s a win, win, win for them, nicely spotted.
Its a crying shame that politics has anything to do with this important work. We ‘should’ rise above it and work together on matters that concern so many people. This is too big a thing to mess up, those making the decisions should have a solid grasp of physics, and also the global picture of what is happening in other countries. They should not rely on information from telcos and those with something to gain from protecting an obsolete asset.
Sadly Chris it quite simple…
We here in Oz are an ageing, ever more conservative and selfish lot. Being so, an ultra right opposition leader is using his party members, media affiliations and forum sheep, to play upon this, by using FUD about the NBN at every opportunity.
And it is being swallowed…
not necessarily so… many read forums and don’t contribute. Keep the faith, keep discussions going and the truth will out. Knowledge is power.
Rightly you are
Throwing this into the mix, as not seen it mentioned.
FTTN does not rule out a FTTH architecture. Is there not a mixed model that is possible? Openreach (UK) FTTN will be offering full fibre option in 2013. If that proves popular, i.e. they see ROI one can see that they may change their viewpoint.
In Aus with it all being bankrolled centrally things are different, and NBN seems to have become a political football, which is not good.
Question really is whether to spend a lot now to do full fibre, or spend over a longer period going through further upgrades in the future. An outside view of Australia is that it is a nation in a good position to do full fibre in the cities and large towns.
Hey Andrew,
Here’s what the panel of experts gathered to analyse the initial Labor RFP, which primarily consisted of FTTN proposals, said…
“The Proposals have also demonstrated that rolling out a single fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network is:
␣ unlikely to provide an efficient upgrade path to fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP), because of the high costs of equipment associated with rolling out a FTTN network that would not be required for a FTTP network (i.e. FTTN is not a pre-requisite for the provision of FTTP); and
␣ likely to require exclusive or near-exclusive access to Telstra’s existing copper sub-loop customer access network (CAN), the so called ‘last mile’, thereby confirming that strong equivalence of access arrangements would be essential. As well, providing such access to a party other than Telstra runs a risk of liability to pay compensation to Telstra. The Proposals have this risk remaining with the Commonwealth but they have not addressed the potential cost to the Commonwealth of any such compensation. In any event, the Panel considers that no Proponent could accept the cost risk and continue to have a viable business case.
http://www.dbcde.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/110014/Summary_observations_for_website.pdf
This is a lot of the reasoning behind why the government moved on from FTTN, but strangely the opposition are still clinging to, regardless of the unviability of FTTN according to this panel. But of course a bunch of stuffy suited conservative pollies would know better than a panel of experts in this very field :/
Using the UK openreach infrastructure as it is being planned at present (for fttc) is not going to encourage take up of the fibre to the home (ftth) product as it will be far too expensive, even if it has travelled a short distance to a cabinet, what difference will that make? There has always been ftth available in the UK, but the prices make it unviable. The monopoly has to do this to protect its investment in the golden goose that is the copper phone network. Its simple economics, that rely on lack of physics knowledge to fool most of the people all of the time. But they can’t fool all of the people all of the time, and voices are now filtering through to try to raise awareness of the mistakes before they get made. We need a futureproof solution, not a copper patch up stop gap to speed up a few and ignore the rest.
Future proof at what cost?
How fast does it need to happen too. If full fibre to 90%+ were to take ten years, versus FTTC to take 3 years which would be better for people? At the end of the day, a mixed network is really the only way forward and offers a fast roll-out – full fibre to all business premises and cabinet solutions for suburbs.
FTTC is a stop gap, and even Openreach acknowledge this, which is actually more than Virgin Media appear to be doing, their architecture is more of a dead end.
Australia has a very different situation to the UK, as in no big commercial operator appears to have got into fast services commercially.
Considering openreach know cabinets are a dead end or stop gap they are certainly not telling the consumers that on their constant bombardment on TV of their ‘superfast’ broadband LOL.
They are also convincing councils to fund them to do it too.
Rather than try to make them admit their shortcomings, its far better to fund the altnets to supply decent fibre connections to the areas the telcos aren’t interested in. Let the rurals help, let government help, and lets get some new businesses building out in the final third, or even better, the final 10%. The telcos will take care of the cities with their stop gap solutions, and then everyone will be happy? Why worry about 90% and how long it will take. Concentrate on the difficult ones, then the new networks will knock spots off the telco networks and slowly take them over, or at least provide some much needed competition to up the game.
Interesting (or perhaps typical) Andrew, that you asked why not FTTN then FTTP and when given the answer from a panel of experts set up to analyse and measure this very topic (because it’s unviable) you just ignore it and keep promoting FTTN.
BTW it’s been well documented that by the time the opposition are elected, the job planned, a CBA carried out, contracts etc, work on FTTN wouldn’t start until 2016. Then add your mentioned 3 years and its 2019 before the dead end, half arsed, UNVIABLE, FTTN is up and running anyway…
If the start of work is not until 2016 then yes, FTTC/N makes very little sense.
Another big difference in Australia is that you don’t have a big fast cable broadband coverage. Virgin Media with its 100 Meg service passing 48% of UK households means people have a good choice already in the UK.
Australia is hamstrung, as the parties and press appear to disagree. UK press just lapped up any news on broadband positively, and the political parties had a consensus to improve things. Australia almost seems to have one group wanting to do as little as possible.
If a country can afford it, then full fibre is the way to go. The UK situation is different as we are well into commercial roll-outs, and some alt-nets have been at it longer, though oddly very small numbers.
Martyn Dews 14/05/2012 at 6:58 am
Have to agree with Chris on that comment, if FTTN/C is a stop gap and the telco has admitted that then not a single penny of tax payers money should be wasted on it.
Yes FTTN/C will give some users faster connections, but how long will these be sufficient? Only a few years ago we were all happy when we upgraded to a blistering 56Kbs. “Who would need more”, we thought at the time.
As Peter has stated elsewhere here, why should we assume that the hunger for bandwidth will reduce. It won’t. So why go for a stopgap solution that will have to be revisited in a few years time?
Openreach has given FTTC a life span of around 15 years.
By 2025 to 2030 I am expecting lots of empty exchange buildings to be demolished and flats built on them. With perhaps just 1,000 handover nodes for fibre voice and broadband
Dan 13/05/2012 at 11:22 pm
Claude, you’re not going to be able to “prove” the demand for ftth broadband and more than you can prove the demand for a high-speed rail link. But that doesn’t stop governments all over the world ploughing billions into high-speed rail on pretty finger-in-the-air estimates. What you’re doing by enabling ultrafast broadband is giving your citizens a first-class ticket to the next phase of this industrial revolution.
Why aim for ftth rather than fttn? First up, do you really want to be punching below the weight of your economy in the international rankings? A major part of the returns for ultrafast is the opportunity cost for the economy and individuals’ welfare of being outside the ‘premier league’ of internet countries. Online competitors can appear like a plague of locusts and destroy an incumbent industry in no time – if this sounds melodramatic, see the fate of Clinton Cards this week, Game and most video stores in the UK. The internet does not respect venerable brands. You want to be spearheading that disruption through a vibrant digital scene, not at the mercy of swarms from their clusters in Silicon Valley, Eastern Europe and South Korea.
No doubt more studies on the relationship between web speeds and economic growth will emerge. But in the UK the most recent forecast is that 20% of GDP will be web based by 2016, a leadership position our government seems intent on squandering through an at-best second-division infrastructure plan.
Secondly, you need to look at what’s emerging from the early adopters – Google’s Kansas experiment, superfast trials in Cornwall, England, the b4rn project – and ask yourself whether you want a piece of that. Application wise, it’s early days but off the top of my head (and based on today’s applications only), think about seamless video-based distance learning, online gaming (bigger than cinema now), eliminating unnecessary journeys through a home-based flexible workforce (e.g. huge under-utilisation of stay-at-home mothers) being able to access files anywhere, ensuring your best and brightest don’t leave rural areas for hyper-connected cities, medical diagnosis over the web, marketplaces and trading systems, not to mention people getting back the time they spend waiting for downloads. That’s not to mention the apps we won’t know we need until we’ve got them – Facebook, Twitter and the iPhone spring to mind.
Basically, anything sold by an Australian company that’s not nailed down and incapable of being digitised will be turned into a web service by someone. Dropbox and Netflix are the early examples – have you ever tried sync’ing a Dropbox containing what’s on the average PC via a standard connection? 1GB data connections to office PCs are common – people don’t question that. But remote computing at 1/10th of that speed isn’t going to cut it.
Of course we all face budget constraints. Why should investment in broadband infrastructure trump, say, extra public health investment with more predictable returns? Web investments are fraught with uncertainty. Deciding funding allocations years in advance to build an infrastructure fit for a medium that’s evolving in dog years is like trying to nail jelly to a wall. But build an internet infrastructure below international benchmarks and the long-term effects could be huge, especially for the geographically isolated. You can argue that investment with this level of risk should be a matter for the private sector, but most governments have accepted the premise that there’s widespread market failure with returns dispersed so broadly, albeit poorly understood returns.
What this means for Australia’s budget priorities isn’t for me to comment on. Look beyond the myopia of one administration and current web apps, on horizons at least as long as for rail and air investment. As for the UK, our government has just announced a £200bn transport programme; broadband is getting around 0.5% of that number, and yet we’re building a high-speed rail link costing tens of billions. Who said we still think we’re running the Empire?
Agree Dan.
We in the UK also struggle with the same concept as OZ, even though we are tiny in comparison and theoretically the job of providing the infrastructure should be a lot less, we are still being brainwashed into thinking that patching up a short term fix on the old copper is ‘progress’.
Its no wonder we are no longer running an empire.
If we all had FTTH we could possibly catch up, but at this rate we’re soon going to be a third world country in the digital revolution. We need OZ to prove what can be done with a bit of grit. (no pun intended)
The industrial revolution is nowt compared to the digital one. Either lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way is the message my gran would have given to the politicians stalling the process through ignorance of physics. Its time to light the fibre, and recycle the old copper.
I want to use your quote in my next report to the European Digital Agenda. its mega. “Deciding funding allocations years in advance to build an infrastructure fit for a medium that’s evolving in dog years is like trying to nail jelly to a wall. But build an internet infrastructure below international benchmarks and the long-term effects could be huge, especially for the geographically isolated. ” #da12bb
My feeling is that if we concentrate on altnets in the more rural areas they will provide competition to the incumbents because only fibre can supply remote locations, and that service will be far better and cheaper than anything they can force down an old phone line. Therefore the telcos will have to up their game before the golden goose is dead. win win.
What is this golden goose in the rural areas?
B4RN is very different to my view of rural Australia, which based on my limited knowledge generally means much long distances, between farms and small settlements, with regional towns.
Full fibre in the towns should be relatively straightforward, question is if running 10 miles of fibre to one property, would it ever pay for itself?
Now if we forget economics, and decide that full fibre is needed for the greater good, then fine, but as we see this makes it very political, and Australia seems to take a very different view to the general consensus that investment in broadband is good. OK so in the UK we can doing a patch up system, that means network build will continue until 2020, as FTTC is repatched to full fibre to meet EU targets. Though the €9bn from EU funds to do Europe 2020 targets is peanuts.
I don’t necessarily mean do a B4RN, but I am sure the men of Australia could come up with a solution if asked, just like we did for our community.
In order to join the townships you pass many farms, join them in. make a web, all over OZ. Moleploughing a duct in for 10 miles would probably be childsplay to OZ farmers. A couple of hours would blow a fibre through. It isn’t rocket science.
Dan 14/05/2012 at 12:30 am
Correction to my 20% of GDP figure by 2016 – this was actually 23% of purchases and ‘internet economy’ worth £221bn (12.4%) of UK GDP by 2016.
Source is BCG – worth reading this report on the value of internet markets globally: ‘The $4.2 trillion growth opportunity” https://www.bcgperspectives.com/content/articles/media_entertainment_strategic_planning_4_2_trillion_opportunity_internet_economy_g20/
I HAVE NO MORE TIME
To contribute to this blog – but having worked in technology for 50 years – and having been a prime mover in Optical Fibre from the start + running one of the best labs in the field in the 1990s – I can tell you the the ‘Fors’ and going in the right direction and are mostly correct, whilst the ‘Against’ are just plain wrong or protecting some vested interest….but I don’t believe them to be just dumb, no one is that dumb…are they….???
Some very wise comments Peter. Thanks.
Thanks for the input Mr C. Those who know and respect your knowledge salute you.
Neil McRae 14/05/2012 at 8:13 am
Ignore Peter – he is a relic and is seen as totally out of touch in the UK.
“Delivering fibre with normal office ethernet equipment?” spanning tree to deliver a reliable service? anyone with a CCNA in networking could tell you that only the withering of a total madman would do something like that.
FTTN is perfect for broadband delivery- today drives up to 100M and will drive up to 1G in the near future. Fibre would be nice but to dig up the road to everyone’s house doesn’t come cheap. Copper is here and works perfectly.
UK left out of cloud? hmm, that’ll be why Google and HP have their main cloud labs here in the UK? As I said totally out of touch.
1G via FTTN/copper?
Neil = 1G via FTTN/copper?
Yep it is possible for insignificantly short distances – just a little better than wet string :-)
Neil McRae
“Ignore Peter – he is a relic and is seen as totally out of touch in the UK”
BUT seen as in touch in the rest of the world…and they pay my bills :-)
“Fibre would be nice but to dig up the road to everyone’s house doesn’t come cheap. Copper is here and works perfectly.”
Nothing to dig up. They have use of the existing copper ducts and pits. They just need to pull it through.
Copper DID work fine, until privatisation. Since then they cut staff that maintained those lines to 20% They have only been making patch work repairs where needed and the copper network is deteriorating. I am sure you know the scenario since the same thing happened to British rail.
Agree Noddy, the ducts and poles are there, all that needs to happen is you pull out the copper and recycle it, (worth a lot of money) and pull through the fibre. I also agree that copper worked fine for phone calls, and also for some people they managed to get 1st generation internet access through it. As more people used it, and more applications came along, and video started to be used a lot it exposed the limitations of copper. Lots of clever work going on in laboratories to try to squeeze a tiny bit more out of it, but the infrastructure is goosed, and needs a total upgrade. Its like darning socks. The darn gives you a blister, and a new hole appears right next to the darn. Its a thankless task, but one the telcos will do to try to protect the golden goose that gave them prosperity. Sadly its not laying any more eggs for them. The time has come to move on to fibre, and the sooner the better.
Martyn Dews 14/05/2012 at 4:13 pm
1Gbs over copper?! Are you dreaming? Over what distances? Most of the people outside of the village I live in live more than 1000m from the nearest node/cabinet so FTTN/C is not feasible. If you have evidence that is is over those distances Neil please provide some details.
djos = “I can tell you that the views of “Dudes in telco” here does not reflect the majority onion of those in the ISCT Industry”
Sanity at last !
I think DUDE in Telco seems to know f… all about what he is talking about. Either his alias is an attempt to impart him with some cred or he works as a Telco salesman.
Peter Cochrane 14/05/2012 at 10:13 am
Noddy = You made me smile – you really did Peter
Hey, maybe he does more than that. But to argue that FTTH is over engineered because fibre has the capacity to go to 10Gb, 100Gb, 1Tb etc is pretty dumb. Well copper can never meet future needs, not for 50+ years. So what is his argument? We should artificially limit fibre’s capacity? Use some other technology that is faster than copper and slower than fibre to do this? I don’t see the point as you would still need to run cable (coax, HFC, whatever his “not overengineered” idea is” and there would be about zero difference in the cost overall.
He then compares what speeds will be available with FTTH at some future time to Austalia’s overseas link capacity today. Assuming everyone would be wanting data at full speed at only a 50:1 contention.
There are a lot of people spin this stuff on here purely for political reasons. Bugger politics. Politician’s are meant to serve the people. They will happy spend billions to line company CEOs pockets or waste money on $40 billion for 12 submarines for the armed forces to play with. About time they gave the people who vote them in something that improves their life and ensures Australia can be competitive in a more and more data connected society.
Couldn’t have put it better myself Noddy. Well said sir.
Neil = “that’ll be why Google and HP have their main cloud labs here in the UK?”
No that’s because the UK is the number one international hub for the EU connected by optical fibre.
The quality of the power system, political stability, legal system, people capabilities and availability +++
Feeling out of touch yet :-)
One of the great things about a scientific and engineering education and training is that it focusses the mind on the facts and realities, not the slogans, advertising, word-smithing, financial distortion, politics, and nor the personalities, or indeed all forms of personal attack and character assignation. It is a factual science that looks to get the best solution for individuals, society and mankind – which by and large it does in good measure.
* In this case the facts are irrefutable and have been for decades – FTTH wins over all copper solutions
* This has been demonstrated by the world leaders which some of the bloggers here choose to ignore
* What is causing the real steam here is a new model – people so frustrated by living in a not spot they have chosen to go do it themselves
* Across the planet there are a growing number of these groups and projects – check out ‘Woods Hole’ (USA) who were ignored by Verizon – and if you get to visit check out the wifi – which is open, free, and faster than ‘supertfast’. I just love working their because it is a professional community of ‘can do’ people.
Finally – some big points:
1) B4RN are doing it
2) It will work
3) There will be problems – there always are – but they will be overcome
4) If this was a stupid idea the B4RN people wouldn’t be doing it – because that are not stupid!
5) If FTTH does not pay in – then it would not pay in for B4RN or Japan et al
I take my hat off to the B4RN folks for their ‘gutsy project and JDI attitude’
My version of B4RN is BUG = BroadBand for Ufford Group
And because of the screaming need by businesses in a 422 dwelling village I am going it alone with a 5GHz WiFi system tethered on a fibre just 2km away giving me a Gbit/s feeder. When we have cured the initial demand problem…then I may be able to get the community behind fibre all the way. The sad thing is that we have dark fibre from both BT and The Railway Company less than 500m from my home….but neither is interested in providing service by any means or at any level. I have been quoted £140k for digging a ditch – and refused the option of local farmers providing a DIY solution at our cost!
The only company that is willing to play ball has a fibre access node that is only 11km away. So who knows….
What can I say further ?
And now I gotta go as I am working on another FTTH project for another overseas client and I’m due at a meeting shortly :-)
Aint life, and engineering great :-)
hey Peter,
it’s great to have you with us on this thread :) There is a lot of Australian interest in what’s happening in the UK :)
Publisher, Delimiter
Agree Renai, its good to see the subject of a post actually chip in with comments, I have never seen a post like this before with so many different viewpoints, well done!
For too long our countries’ politicians have ignored the people, and as a previous commenter said, ‘they work for us’ so this blog is giving us a chance to make our voices heard.
I think the whole thing boils down to; Do we want a patch up solution, then save up for a proper one?
Do we want to do the job once, and do it right?
Ironic isn’t it Peter.
You guys have the need, but no one including your government, is interested in supplying you.
So people over there can see the benefits and as a consequence are saying, we need it, but since no one cares, we’ll have to do it ourselves… kudos all round.
Then there’s us…
We also have the need and private companies also refused us as a nation too.
But our government for all their flaws, took the reins and decided enough, we will supply our entire nation – FTTP to 93% and satellite/wireless to the remaining 7% ( the most remote areas) – and have presented a comprehensive plan, run by universally recognised experts in their field, to not only make it work and be a boon for the nation and it citizens, but projected for it to be financially prudent which will fund itself and inevitably, will be a valuable assets for the nation, for many, many years.
It really is a win all round imo, regardless of politics.
Yet unlike you guys who will even do it yourselves because you can see the need, we have those who don’t have to lift a finger, for new national infrastructure which will assist them and their families in many ways, to be supplied (as government’s should) directly to them and us all.
But they are either ill-equipped to understand, are easily misled by those who see the NBN as a threat to their empire (media) or their inbred ideological, immovable political partiality (NBN = socialists), selfishness (what I’ve got’s good enough) and short sightedness (WE ((as in I)) don’t need it) has them do nothing else but whinge and whine, 24/7. They even invent lies to promote their own dirty agenda’s, at the NBNs/nations expense.
Disgraceful ingrates.
George 13/12/2012 at 11:21 am
Peter, can you refer me to any other studies regarding FTTN failures in Britain and other countries?
Keep the faith Alex, even the ingrates are entitled to express their views! It is sad to see some are inventing lies, and some are misinformed, but truth will out, and hopefully the majority will believe the real experts like Peter and see through all the weasel words of telcos wanting to protect their obsolete assets. That is the beauty of social media, its giving everyone a voice. Now we need to get everyone singing the same song eh?
Indeed Chris, wouldn’t begrudge anyone (even the ingrates…LOL) their say.
The thread is also coming to the point where it is unmanageable size wise.
Given the Australian timeline, if what I’ve seen is correct, then starting with a FTTP roll-out is the only way. Since by the time any FTTC rollout completed it would be around 2020, and FTTP over due.
Roll-out of FTTP could be faster, particularly if communities work together at the local council level. Not sure how autonomous they are allowed to be in Australia. Waiting for a big monolothic roll-out no matter if commercial or government is always going to be slow.
Mr Cochrane does sometimes appear to talk some ‘out there’ comments, but that is the joy of being a free man. I enjoy my own devils advocate position too.
yes Andrew, it is getting very hard to keep track of all the comments, it has certainly opened up a great debate!
Its also very good that informed people and free men have taken the time and trouble to join in. Knowledge is power.
Nich 30/04/2013 at 1:07 pm
Seems to have been skipped over. ie, Labor’s GPON-based NBN is still not really good enough.
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Löfgren syndrome
Author: Dr Antonia Birry, Dermatology Registrar, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand; Chief Editor: Dr Amanda Oakley, Dermatologist, Hamilton, New Zealand, October 2015.
What is Löfgren syndrome?
Löfgren syndrome is an acute form of sarcoidosis. Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disorder characterised histologically by granulomas (a specific type of inflammation).
Löfgren syndrome presents with a combination of symptoms and findings:
Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy (enlarged lymph nodes in the centre of the chest)
Bilateral ankle arthritis or painful ankles
Fever and malaise
The syndrome is named after Swedish researcher, Sven Löfgren (1910-1978), who described the symptoms in a series of 113 patients (1953).
Who gets Löfgren syndrome?
Some populations are at greater risk of developing Löfgren syndrome for genetic and environmental reasons.
There is a strong female predominance
It affects young to middle age patients, with a mean age of onset of 35 years
Löfgren syndrome is more common and more severe in Scandinavia and Ireland
There is a strong association with HLA-DRB1 allele.
What causes Löfgren syndrome?
Despite intensive investigation, the cause of Löfgren syndrome and other forms of cutaneous sarcoidosis is unknown. Sarcoidosis is recognised as a cell-mediated immune response to an unknown antigen, in which activated macrophages and CD4 T-lymphocytes release cytokines that trigger formation of granulomas.
At least some cases of cutaneous sarcoidosis may be due to an unusual host reaction to one or more infective agents, such as Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, histoplasmosis and other fungi. Acute sarcoidosis is not infectious.
What are the clinical features of Löfgren syndrome?
Löfgren syndrome commonly presents during the spring months.
Erythema nodosum is predominantly noted among women.
Tender nodules are most often located on the lower limbs but may occasionally also occur on forearms
More images of erythema nodosum ...
Bilateral ankle arthritis is more frequently seen in men.
It results in pain and/or swelling
Systemic symptoms
Respiratory symptoms: mild shortness of breath and decreased exercise tolerance
Acute uveitis or iridocyclitis (inflammation of the eye)
How is the diagnosis of Löfgren syndrome made?
Patients with Löfgren syndrome may present to a dermatologist, respiratory physician, ophthalmologist, rheumatologist or general practitioner because of the variety of possible symptoms.
The diagnosis may be suspected due to typical clinical features. Although not always necessary for diagnosis, diagnosis of sarcoidosis is confirmed by finding non-caseating granulomas on biopsy of lymph nodes. Biopsy of erythema nodosum reveals septal panniculitis.
Chest X-ray reveals bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy ie enlarged lymph nodes in the centre of the chest.
Blood tests may find elevated levels of:
C-reactive protein (CRP), calcium, acetyl cholinesterase (ACE), alkaline phosphatase, gamma globulin (polyclonal)
It is important to exclude tuberculosis. Tuberculin skin test and QuantiFERON® gold blood test are negative in sarcoidosis.
What is the treatment for Löfgren syndrome?
Most patients with Löfgren syndrome are treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), which reduce discomfort and inflammation of erythema nodosum and arthritis. Other drugs occasionally used for Löfgren syndrome include:
Systemic steroids, eg oral prednisone, used for severe cases.
Compression socks can reduce swelling and discomfort of erythema nodosum.
What is the outlook for Löfgren syndrome?
The prognosis of Löfgren syndrome is good, with complete resolution with or without treatment within 6 months to 2 years.
It is usual to repeat chest X-rays from time to time until the lymphadenopathy has fully resolved.
Howard A. Non-infectious granulomas. In: Bolognia J. Textbook Dermatology. Vol.2.Mosby; 2008
Gawkrodger DJ. Sarcoidosis. In: Burns T, Breathnach S, Cox N, Griffiths C, editors. Rooks Textbook of Dermatology. Vol. 3. Massachusetts: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2010. pp. 61.1–21.
Chadwick P. Sarcoidosis In: Lebwohl M. Treatment of Skin disease, Fourth edition, Elsevier, 2008
Petrilla J. Lofgren's syndrome: A clinical variant of sarcoidosis. Hospital physician 2002, pp 40-43
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Kary on August 20, 2010
Before we get into Part 2 of DJGENERAL’s interview with Stephen Stohn, there’s two things I want to address:
1) Episodes reviews for Still Fighting It 1 and 2
I haven’t even seen these two episodes yet. I’ve been having major computer issues the past couple of days…aka it’s stopped working. After freaking out for forever I think I’ve *fixed* it, but I assume it’s only a temporary fix. So I have to put reviews on hold for now…my priority is trying to either fix my computer permanently or at the very least backup all of the files on my computer, including 20+ gb of Degrassi projects, photos, old videos/promos, etc.
2) Leaks.
I’ll openly admit that the reason I got into Degrassi back in 2004 is because of the ability to download the episodes. After the moment that got me on hooked on this show (watching a Season 3 marathon on TV) I remember one day hearing of this “secret” episode called “Accidents Will Happen,” and thanks to a group called Degrassi The Next Generation Hangout I found it. Back then (when Canada was always ahead of the U.S. in terms of airing episodes and long before episodes were available on itunes), a Canadian fan would manually record the show from their TV, then graciously make episodes available to people here in the U.S. who wanted to keep up with the show as it aired in Canada.
Now “leaks” aren’t episodes available for download. Leaks are episodes available for download BEFORE they’ve aired on broadcast television. Personally, unless you’re a member of the press or something I don’t see the advantage of seeing episodes like a day in advance…and I’m a guy who doesn’t have MuchMusic or TeenNick (I had it and was one of the many who got screwed over when they switch to their own channel…yes I’m still bitter about it).
Stephen Stohn is most concerned with information from the leaked episodes spoiling it for those who want to wait to watch the episode. I definitely see where he’s coming from as I’ve made it my goal to be 100% in the dark about this week’s episodes, and most especially next week’s episodes, “Purple Pills” and “All Falls Down.” I’m talking about to the point where I have not even watched any of the promos, and have no intention of doing so.
I know a major issue (for US fans whose only option is to watch episodes online) is that MuchMusic.com allows you to watch the episodes as soon as it has aired on TV, but TeenNick.com does not. That’s frustrated me for years because to me making the episode available to watch online immediately after it’s aired is a common-sense move…heck, even later that night would suffice…therefore (in giant letters) I hope the powers that be are reading this and make it happen.
People are thrilled and excited about Degrassi and that’s great, but at the same time it’s not the end of the world if you can’t see the episode right at this very second, or at 9pm with the rest of the world.
NOW…….Back to why everyone’s here!
Yesterday I posted Part 1 of DJGENERAL’s interview with Stephen Stohn. Below is Part 2 of the interview, which includes the episode titles for 1025 – 1044.
DJ is in the works to interview casts members as well. He will be posting updates about who/when on his twitter page. So if you have any burning questions for the cast, make sure to tweet or direct message him on twitter!
DJGENERAL’s INTERVIEW WITH DEGRASSI EXECUTIVE PRODUCER STEPHEN STOHN (PART 2)
During the series run, the show has featured many guest stars that include: Billy Ray Cyrus, Natasha Bedingfield, Alanis Morissette, Jay Manuel, Perez Hilton, Pete Wentz, Kevin Smith, and Jason Mewes. How do the guest appearances come about?
Each one is different. In the case of Billy Ray, he was working in Toronto on another show and his daughters kept bugging him about Degrassi! He was totally charming—in fact, everyone of the guest stars we’ve had on the show have been wonderfully charming! Kevin of course everyone knows has been a Degrassi fan for years, Oh and a piece of tiny trivia—that’s me in the background (with my back turned away from the camera) during the Perez Hilton scene!
Over the past 10 seasons, do you have any regrets of a storyline you gave to a certain character? Maybe something at the time felt right, but after it aired, it was something you felt was not a good idea? Maybe a storyline you gave one character you wish you would have gave another?
There are a few storylines that we laugh at ourselves about and say how did we ever let that one slip through! But one of the wonderful thing about working with such a large ensemble cast, and a cast who keeps changing as students graduate and others join the school, we can approach different issues from completely different points of view. So there are no regrets, only opportunities to do things differently the next time!
What season do you feel best represents Degrassi? Why?
I will keep Season 10 apart from the discussion because it is still ongoing, and the new method of releasing the episodes has been so successful and so much fun we are all having the time of our lives this season. Apart from Season 10, the season (I think it was 4) when Jimmy got shot was definitely my favourite… I really felt we all got in our stride that season and told difficult stories with a lot of nuance…
NOTE: It was actually season 3, but we forgive you Stephen!!!
One of the biggest shocks for the series was when series regular and fan favorite J.T. Yorke was killed off. If J.T. didn’t die the night he was stabbed, what do you think his character would be up to right now?
I think there is every chance he would have married Liberty, he was that kind of guy… He would have been a wonderful father. Such a great sense of humour, and a kind heart—just like Ryan in real life.
Besides deaths on the show, Degrassi has lost a lot of cast members to other projects. The biggest star to come from the show is, without a doubt, Aubrey “Drake” Graham. He recently had the #1 album in the US, and has sold almost 1 million copies of the CD. Have you heard the CD? What is it like to say you knew him since he was a kid, before he was famous? What is your relationship with Drake now?
We had a very emotional reunion with him at the Juno Awards in Newfoundland a few months back. His mother was with him (and Justin Bieber was too!) and we had a very heartfelt hugs and conversations… he was with us during some very formative years in his life and we’ve always felt really close to him and really proud of him… During his seven or eight years with us, we would listen to his music, and I always thought his lyrics were incredible. When the album came out I was I played it over and over and just felt happy…
There are a lot of smaller characters, mainly teachers, which have appeared throughout almost the entire series including Coach Armstrong, Ms. Sauvé, Mr. Perino, and Ms. Kwan. While they don’t always play a big role in the episodes, it is always nice for the fans to see a familiar face we’ve loved since the beginning. Are the actors under contract, and whenever you call them, they show up? Or is it more along the lines whenever they are free, they contact you, and you put them in an episode?
It’s the latter. For the character like teachers whose storylines aren’t pivotal we work with them when they are free. But we love having them return year after year… it makes it just like a real school.
Mr. Simpson, portrayed by Stefan Brogren, is one of the most loved characters on the show. He is also the only person to appear in all 10 seasons of Degrassi, and had a main role in the original series. He went from student, to teacher, and now in season 10, the principal. Not only has he been an actor, but he has played a big role in the technical aspects of the show by directing online content, and some actual episodes. Just how important and influential is Stefan Brogren to the show? How did having him get so involved (directing) come to be?
Stefan is one of the most talented people in the world. We knew that he wanted to direct, and he got his chance working on all the minis. Then at one point we were talking with Kevin Smith who said he wanted to direct Degrassi Goes Hollywood. We thought it would be great for Stefan to shadow Kevin… But then some timing crunches came up and Kevin couldn’t direct—and suddenly Stefan’s first network television directing job was the entire Degrassi Goes Hollywood movie. He was just so good at it; the L.A. crew loved working with him and even compared him to Clint Eastwood. So now he is one of our mainstay directors. But on top of that he contributes to guiding the writing, the editing and other aspects of producing—and does it all with total passion and joy. I hope he’s involved with us forever.
Before the interview is over, many people wanted me to find out if there was any information regarding the 2nd half of the season that you can announce. Any small clues or info on things we can expect? Episode titles?
1025-26 – Don’t Let Me Get Me
1027-28 – Love Lockdown
1029-30 – Umbrella
1031-32 – Halo
1033-34 – When Love Takes Over
1035-36 – The Way We Get By
1037-38 – Jesus, Etc.
1039-40 – Hide and Seek
1041-42 – Chasing Pavements
1043-44 – Drop the World
Thanks for taking the time to do this interview Stephen! We are all looking forward to the rest of the season, and the series.
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Hc760 August 20, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Or, as Wesley would say, I larvae it.
facultybob August 20, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Jlaa August 20, 2010 at 5:40 pm
great interview!!!
jhon August 20, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Wasn’t the shooting in season 4?
Wow awesome episode titles
The season finale title drop the world sounds awesome!
stevietheicequeen August 20, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Uh, no, Kary. Stohn is right. It’s season four.
Bl@ke August 20, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Drop the world isnt the season finale, theres 48 episodes
I’m assuming that the last four episodes will be combined into another 2 hour movie event just like this past season.
Oh, your probably right, I did not think about that
just realized episodes 45, 46, 47, and 48 are missing lol.
Riki August 20, 2010 at 5:41 pm
wellllll The canadian websites work on my computer!!!!!!!!!!! i lhuvv watchin the shows on the muchmusic website
branduhnn:p August 20, 2010 at 5:46 pm
:O,,i totally love the ep. titles,:D
person August 20, 2010 at 5:50 pm
but jimmy DID get shot in season 4!!!!!!!! stephen was right!
and billy ray cyrus’s daughters . . . does that mean that miley cyrus watches (or used to watch) degrassi? because if so, i suddenly gained a lot of respect for her.
i love the episode titles, especially “Jesus, Etc.”, for some reason. sounds like a Clare storyline.
and aren’t there 48 eps? so “Drop the World” isnt the season finale. thats a shame, i think. sounds like a parallel (the title is, at least) to “All Falls Down”
and it feels weird having ‘Umbrella’ and ‘Halo’ as episode titles . . . this is the first time there’s been a title that’s a song that i actually listened to when it was new.
Bee August 20, 2010 at 6:14 pm
i thumb you down caause.. you didnt listen to drop the world?
Me August 20, 2010 at 9:06 pm
hahah..drop the world is my ultimate favorite song! i love it..i love lil wayne!!!! FREE WEEZY!!!
Cassie August 22, 2010 at 9:14 am
think they meant this season as a whole, not just those two songs
T-Tori August 23, 2010 at 3:03 am
there all song titiles and they mainly remind me of clare and eli espically love lock down
LNJ August 20, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Ah, I’m glad they kept up with each episode being a two-parter! But now that they’re airing it once a week, it’s gonna be WAY more annoying haha. I wonder if they’ll ever just develop one-hour episodes that run as a single one.
These titles seem a lot less insightful than the ones from BP, but still really awesome. It’s great to see an Imogen Heap and Spoon song up there! Don’t Let Me Get Me sounds somewhat intense, like a self-hate or self-destructive kinda deal. Jesus, Etc. strikes me as a Clare episode, probably dealing with her religion coming back to the forefront. Oh and Halo might be about the supposed death/loss that’ll occur this season, sounds to me like it’s dealing with the aftermath.
well in halo like the first lyrics
“remember those i built but baby there tumbling down”
i personally think its an eclare one i no im obsecced with them but i cant help it
and in love lock down i think its either a sav and holly j. one or eclare
Ry August 26, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Okay so I totally agree that the episode “Jesus Etc.” will probably be about Clair. I Think thank it could go two or three ways. 1 I think that Clare could start to become unsure of her Christian beliefs or start to view things differently, maybe even get into some trouble… I personally wouldn’t want to see that because I think it’s cool to see that the show isn’t portraying basically their Christian character as really judgmental and stoic. 2 I could see a Clare and Eli argument about religion because Eli doesn’t strike me as the most religious guy on the face of the planet and with his girlfriend dying and all of the stuff he’s been through I could see him not really wanting to hear about God, which in turn could really affect their relationship. the 3rd thing I could see happening is instead of Clare and Eli fighting over religion I could see her converting him to a Christian or something, kind of like Darcy and Spinner in season 5, when Spinner gets his virginity back and all. Anyway those were just some of my thoughts
ok August 20, 2010 at 5:53 pm
time stands still is in season 4, but whatever haha
really great interview, i love the episode titles!
Selena August 20, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Don’t Let Me Get Me
Guessing Ziley. Maybe, Anya or Holly J.
Thomas August 21, 2010 at 1:01 am
Or Adam?
‘Halo’ sounds like it could be Ziley centric, maybe Ecalre centric too.
Michael August 20, 2010 at 6:00 pm
I’m disappointed that they kept the strange naming convention for the second part of the season. I understand why it worked for the boiling point, but it won’t work as well with the regular season. When episodes come out once a week (with extensive breaks), there is a lot more anticipation and discussion. I know all the names of last season’s episodes, and could easily identify the plotlines. With the Boiling Point’s naming system, I don’t associate the names as much with the episodes.
Also, I’m under the impression that in the second half it will run like a normal season. (i.e. less of the storyline extension into other episode) If so, the absence of true “two parters” because all the episodes are nominally two parters will be noted.
I may be the only one, but I it’s a mistake.
i agree. it’ll be confusing and pretty annoying, i think. i was under the impression that having every ep be a two-parter (and i dont care what stohn says, the TBP episodes WERE all two-parters) was only for TBP, and that for the rest of the season it would return to having mostly stand-alone episodes, with a few two-parters, like we are used to in normal seasons. if the episodes all still have 3 plots and end in cliffhangers, like TBP, its going to terrible having to wait a full week.
@ “Person” Definitely. Also, I think the other problem is name/episode association. It will just be confusing to discuss/think about episodes under this naming convention. Come to think of it, the only Boiling point episodes I know by name are “what a girl wants,” “Breakaway,” and “All Falls Down.” (because, being the beginning and end, they have/had special hype)
itsjustzachary August 20, 2010 at 6:02 pm
these episode titles are good! they used “Drop The World”. That’s my favorite. (just random moment btw)
its mine too!!! :D
It was one thing when we’d have to wait a week to watch an episode in seasons past, but, it’s going to be even harder this time around. Season 10 is just so good that the anticipation is going to be the death of me…
I’m interested in Umbrella, Hide and Seek, and Jesus ect.,
no clue what they could be about though
btw, great interview!
jesse August 20, 2010 at 6:21 pm
wow these episodes titles are awsome but im really woried about the rest of season 10 i mean the episode titles for TBP sounded dark and overall the first half of the season seemed darker and i think that what ppl like is the dark version of degrassi like season 4 and 7 and 3 and the episdoe titles sound kinda happ-ish and im worrited storylines wont contiune into more episdoes and charcter develpoments wont be as good but hopefully the rest of season 10 is as good or even better than TBP
JAYJAY August 20, 2010 at 6:21 pm
I didn’t expect them to continue the two parter thing.
But so far I like it and I think it is good for the characters and stories.
This was a great interview. :)
Oh and I’m glad you mentioned that Kary!!!
In season 9 Teennick started posting episodes the night they aired sometimes.
I wish they would do it now! I HOPE TPTB READ THAT AND CONSIDER IT!
disastuh August 20, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Teennick back when it was The-N had them before they aired at like 5 pm when the episode would air at 8.
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Did anyone else initially think that they wouldn’t like Wesley at all? I thought he would be a carbon copy of Toby (whom I never liked) but he’s actually adorkable and funny.
Francis August 21, 2010 at 4:04 am
Yay Wesley! Nerdom FTW!!!
jayem August 20, 2010 at 6:39 pm
thi is so weird after reading the question about J.T i freaked out cause literally last night i was thinking about the promo with fitz and eoli with the knife and how it reminded me of how JT died, i thought man what if JT lived how would it happen? ha guess my question was answered today :P
it kinda sucks degrassi NEVER had a long term couple i know so many couples that have been together since they were in high school and got married. Degrassi need that storyline in the mix i think it would give it more of a realistic turn. Because not everyone in high school breaks up and fins someone else some stick together through it all.
lame August 20, 2010 at 6:50 pm
Outside of his penis pump, did anyone really care about J.T.?
Kenny August 20, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Most of the girls but nobody watching knew he’d get stabbed.
Most of my friends didn’t even know who he was until he got stabbed.. Sad, I know.
Gianna August 20, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Hmmm. Seems like you were pretty interested in his penis pump…xD
Haha, I’m joking. But noo, I loved JT(:
Jesus, Etc is definitely a Clare episode. Stohn mentioned the episode on his twitter when they were filming it and the same day Aislinn Paul tweeted that Clare was going to be going through some emotional trauma.
Clare needs to get back to hardcore bible thumping. She was more believable than Darcy at any point doing that.
Plus, she still has the smug, know-it-all attitude going.
natashadelovely August 21, 2010 at 1:14 pm
I actually think that Clare shouldn’t go back to “bible thumping”. Degrassi hasn’t shown some one break away from their religion so easily as to just tone down their crazzyness. If that makes sense but seriously, Alli is “defying” her religion by being slightly skanky, Darcy was raped and had terrible things happen to her and yet she still remains religious maybe this episode is more about Clare breaking away from her religion in a much more healthy manner. Or maybe it’s about her explaining to Eli why certain things are so important to her from her religion. He doesn’t seem like he’s the sunday churchgoer so maybe this is all just explanation.
Caroline August 22, 2010 at 6:57 pm
I don’t care who it is, but I’d like to see just one Degrassi character keep their virginity while remaining completely normal (Darcy was a freak about it before she got raped, and Toby doesn’t count because he is a nerd.)
If Clare kept her virginity without making a huge deal about it, then Degrassi could be made a lot more realistic. Just imho.
*SPOLIER*
its her parents getting are getting a divorce in this one i was scanning through websites about who will die in degrassi and i saw that on there
Hayley Masters August 21, 2010 at 7:29 pm
@Natashadelovley spinner broke away from Christianity. so we have had someone do it.
natashadelovely August 22, 2010 at 2:22 am
@Hayley Masters Does Spinner really count? He wasn’t raised into it like Clare and Darcy were and not to that extent. If he was wouldn’t he have already known Darcy and not needed to “reclaim his virginity”.
And I also think that all Clare needs is to tone down her “crazy” religious side, which I think this season she has, and find a better openness with her religion that seems more normal. However with things with Eli it should heat up quickly and once that BOILS over maybe she’ll be not slutty but STANDARD teenage girl minus the vibrator.
Hayley Masters August 22, 2010 at 5:22 am
I don’t know. I’m hoping she doesn’t break away from it. We’ve only had three main character Christians on the show (and like you said spinner doesn’t really count.) and I feel like if Clare broke away from it, it would just be dumb. The main reason I love degrassi is because it shows diversity. If they take away Clare’s faith, that completely changes her entire character.
And normal girl standards? Clare seems pretty normal to me. She’s never seemed like a religious fanatic. And just because someone doesn’t sexually interact doesn’t make them abnormal.
natashadelovely August 22, 2010 at 11:08 am
@HM maybe not completely break away. I guess I’m coming from a place where I’ve seen friends who were “normal” girls going about their business then like Spinner were bandwaggoned into the Christian religion and it changed them for the worst. I guess I’m saying I’d like to see Clare be the ask don’t tell version of a religious churchgoer does that make sense? I also have a deep feeling that episode will have a lot to deal with Clare and Eli including where he falls in with religion and where they will have to compromise in the middle about it.
Hayley Masters August 22, 2010 at 11:26 am
@Natasha, okay yea. I get what your saying. Spinner is usually what they call a “born-again” Christian. And usually people who are born-again have a tendency to go overboard. And yea I agree with you on your idea for that episode.
tee August 20, 2010 at 6:41 pm
based on the songs alone i’m really interested in don’t let me get me, umbrella, halo and the way we get by.
I have a VERY funny feeling halo will have something to do with suicide…any one else think so?
I completely agree, Hayley. I keep thinking about what the titles could mean, because they all seem pretty ‘down’, and umbrella is trying to reconcile someone, so something major is gonna happen to someone, and I, like you, think that it will be suicide.
Who? I have NO idea.
@Giana, yea. I really feel like suicide is a major possibility because no one on degrassi (excluding Claude from the 80’s) has ever sucessfully committed suicide. I have no idea who eitheir…maybe KC? he’s been a pretty unstable character, but I may be completely wrong.
A sucessful suicide would be a good idea unlike Craig’s, J.T.’s or Darcy’s.
From now on, Clare will be known as “Creepy Clare”
Behind the bush, Eli
so you aren’t a fan of clare?
She was borderline stalker in that episode
Call it the “Adams Effect”
it’s good to know i’m not the only one who doesn’t like her lol :(.
Wow those r almost all the names of songs
lakehurst89 August 20, 2010 at 7:01 pm
You do realize every degrassi is named after a song right?
its always been like that…. they just updated the song titles cause its a new season, new beginings
Matilin August 21, 2010 at 12:29 am
Yousa troll
I think that Fiona might get alcohol poisoning in an episode, cuz she seems to drink wine alot,
Degrassi Love August 20, 2010 at 7:13 pm
yea, that makes sense and I don’t think they even covered someone being an alcoholic and also getting alcohol poisoning
Rossberrie August 20, 2010 at 8:55 pm
I thought Liberty got alcohol poisoning when she was trying to get into that sorority house. they covered it in degrassi, but not in highschool.
For some reason after looking at the Much Music promo I think Eli does get stabbed by Fitz and he lives after that.
Allison August 20, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Ellie’s mom.
And a little bit with Ellie too.
shaquira August 20, 2010 at 11:41 pm
amy got achohol poisoning in Our House, when Sean gets his own place
Bl@ke August 20, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Yeah ^^^ but i just think they should have an actual plot thats developed kind of early, like minimal drinking, and then turns into the alcoholism and alcohol poisoning, and Fiona kinda seemed like the character to do it with
just my opinion though
Rockerboy84 August 20, 2010 at 7:08 pm
I know a lot of these! Don’t Let Me Get Me by Pink, Love Lockdown by Kanye West, Umbrella by Rihanna, and Halo/When Love Takes Over are both by Beyonce. I can’t wait to see what they’re all about! It’s ironic, because I’m going to Hersheypark tomorrow, and Rihanna will be playing there!!! I won’t get to see her though. Super bummer… JK I know I’ll have fun. It’s a theme park for crying out loud. I went 3 months ago, and I went into Chocolate World, but this time I’m also going to ZooAmerica, and The Boardwalk will be open as well! So yeah, it’s gonna be a really good time!!!
isn’t when love takes over by kelly rowland not beyonce?
Why are you so obsessed with Hershey Park, rockerboy to the RESCUEE
J.kart August 21, 2010 at 1:57 am
ROFLMFAO (:
Matt August 20, 2010 at 7:30 pm
When Love Takes Over is by David Guetta.
but yes it is Kelly Rowland singing.
close enough lol
Gisselle August 20, 2010 at 7:55 pm
they should have done Battle Field by Jordan Sparks
They did Love is a Battle Field by Pat Benatar in the past. I don’t really care about the episode titles though, I’d rather have episode descriptions lol.
Austin Evans August 22, 2010 at 10:44 pm
I like your “no” with no explanation paired with it. Haha.
DTNG August 20, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Chasing Pavements is by Adele & Drop The World Is By Lil Wayne & Drake.
& Stephen Stohn know good and damn well we didn’t listen to Drake’s album lmoa
drop the world is bye lil wayne and eminem
DTNG August 20, 2010 at 11:09 pm
That’s what i meant. I was thinking about Stephen Stohn listening to Drake and i typed his name twice lol
hide and seek is by imogen heap- really good song if yoire into that type of music
FangLust August 21, 2010 at 1:57 am
I like Imogean Heap, but Frou Frou was better ^^ js, even though it’s pretty much the same thing….
i am listening to drake’s album rn
I really admire Stephen Stohn. He seems like a great, nice and fun person to be around. I enjoyed reading the interview.
By the way, I love how they named one of the episodes Pink’s Don’t Let Me Get Me. Even though it’s about her being in the music industry, it still really describes how teenagers, especially on Degrassi (lol), feel. You know, about how kids feel like they have a certain image to maintain, but they don’t want to be like other people, and are confused, etc.
I can’t wait for the final week of TBP, and then the next part of the season, which will feel like forever to get to. Haha =]
That being said, Maybe the that episode is about Adam. Just think about it, its the first episode to air after the “break” and “that” first episode promo has to be SO GOOD to get the audience to get to watching degrassi again this coming october is it?
Yeah, that sounds about right. I have a feeling that Adam still isn’t completely over his image. I mean, he still hasn’t told his grandma yet has he?
I think that he’s still a little bit insecure with his family about it. And you’re right, you would think that they would want to make an incredible first episode to get us pumped and back into the Degrassi mood. Haha.
ClosetDegrassiLover August 20, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Okay, I’m gonna be a complete nerd for a second and say, Alli just tweeted Clare on the fake-twitters. I really hope this means some more Clare/Alli interaction, even if it is to officially break off the friendship! I was really disappointed how it just ended (I understand the logic, but seriously, transition much?) and I’m hoping there’s some interaction there!
Rossberrie August 20, 2010 at 10:46 pm
LoL, i’m just gonna “Start Stuff”. So you notice how Alli tweeted Clare AFTER no one reply to her whole anything going on this weekend? so she turns to Clare as a last resort. lol just sayin. =]
ClosetDegrassiLover August 20, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Lol… I didn’t notice that, but I’m not entirely surprised.
AND Clare didn’t even bother to answer her, though she made sure to tweet both Eli and Adam XD
Oh yeah, I just had to look up all of the episode title’s songs, because season 10 is just that amazing. Lol. Plus, Stephen said that he made sure that the songs that they picked for anything had to fit the episodes, and whatnot. So, yeah. Also, I really like the picks(:
Ruben August 20, 2010 at 8:28 pm
I’m guessing jesus, etc could be either clare or riley…clare cuz we know she’s religious or riley because he’s gay and maybe his family will play the jesus card…
I want to see Riley come out to his family… That has to be interesting since he comes off completely straight…
keith August 20, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Mr. Simpson is doing a good job as principal of the school.
I wonder if we will see him with his wife and friends on the show so we can see that he has a life outside of the school. Also does anyone know what happened to Marco? I thought he was going to be a teacher on the show.
I was so friggin happy when I saw him being a student teacher. I’m just like, “Omfg. One of my favorite characters will be one of the next Degrassi teachers?! That’s effin ka!” Lmao. But then I started getting confused when we didn’t start seeing him anymore. Haha.
So, I’m confused too. Anyone fill me in?
Tali August 21, 2010 at 5:27 pm
well, he was only student teaching, he has to finish college before he can come back and teach for real.
ok guys on a serious note, who LOL’ed when Stephen Stohn said he listened to some Drake its a funny image lmao
if he did hes pretty cool and not one of those people thats suck in the oldie songs (not that theres anything wrong with that) haha
LaDiDaDo August 20, 2010 at 8:36 pm
I just love those songs; xhasing pavements seems like a great ep, the fact that the song is amazing, drop the world seems kinda intense, that song hits hard but its amazing xD, when lover takes over, the song tells about how love can over power tihings, so idk why but I think it involes claire, but there’s a lot of great couples… um, love lockdown, song tells about tells about how he he loves someone, but doesn’t feel its right so he feels like its a waste so idk… umberella and halo , haven’t herd those songs in a while … umbrella was about, I think she was proclamin her love and would do anything for him? I don’t even know, & halo is kinda the same vibe so yea, I don’t even no why I wrote all of that, just bored I guess xD
umbrella could be about a couple or friends really. i’m hoping it’s a friendship plot but i wont get my hopes up lol.
Haha, yeah. To me, it’s kind of about, like, helping someone out if they need help, or if they are depressed and whatnot, they will be there to help them out. I think all of the episodes sound intense.
chasing pavements is a song about missing home, maybe it explains why there all the way in india? hmmm just saying :P
degrassi_rocks:) August 20, 2010 at 9:15 pm
chasing pavements is about being in love with someone, and it has no benefit (it leads nowhere). p.s i hope drew and wesley stay friends.
They’re in India for Free the Children…
Unfortunately I saw the promo for next week, I wanted to be 100% surprised but oh well lol. I’m glad Fiona’s crazy and all but “Haven’t you heard, I’m crazy” I’m pretty sure Darcy had almost the same exact line when she went crazy back in season 7 lol.
lol i remember that she was a “crazy slut”
HighSchoolDrama24/7 August 20, 2010 at 9:22 pm
I’m pretty sure it was “Haven’t you heard Manny I’m Crazy! I’m a crazy slut, everyone knows it.”
Number 1 Darcy Fan!
I know but I was just referring to how Darcy and Fiona’s lines were very similar :)
LOL yeah I noticed that too…but I personally love how Fiona and Darcy deliver it in 2 completely different fashions.
Chasing Pavements? Sounds to me as though it could involve a character running away from home. Maybe KC, as fatherhood draws near, can’t deal, and decides to take off.
Can’t wait for monday but then again I can lol its bittersweet on one hand I want to see the final 4 episodes fiona drama “im crazy!” and lockdown drama. But once it strikes thursday 9:30 pm tbp is over :( and then a month and half hiatus this sucks. One thing that’s going to suck even more is the suspense of 2 part episodes. And I can’t wait for the 2nd half season 10 promos! Who else hopes fiona gets left back? And I think a lot of people will break rules eventually but secretly like take down cameras in school
And im pretty sure there will be claire/alli interaction in afd. I hope in afd both parts are at the dance usually a dance only gets half an episode lol ok rant over.
Lewomack August 20, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Uh yeah, except it was kind of season 4?
degrassigirl August 20, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Very excited for all of these episodes and the interview was great. It was actually Season 4, but it’s not a big deal.
B8 August 20, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Wow, these titles are very current. :/
But Hide and Seek is about death. It’s an intense song. Also I’m curious about Don’t let me get me. I just wonder, I hope the season gets darker. :D
Hayley Masters August 20, 2010 at 10:17 pm
i heard hide and seek was actually about the halocaust
lol why’d I get thumbs down for this?
summer August 20, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Am I the only one who thinks ”Halo” is about Eli and Clare? I mean the lyrics seem to match up to them but idk…I could indeed be wrong :)
Gesha August 20, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Woooooowwwww Fitz goes effin crazy or whoever has the knife headin towards eli is crazy man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIYc-YHBAls
Okay, I think this is extremly far-fetched…(I’m not really buying it. AT ALL), but I heard drew is going to die during the lockdown. has anyone else heard this rumor?
nina August 20, 2010 at 11:16 pm
I’m guessing that Don’t Let Me Get Me is a KC episode. The lyrics to the song remind me of his character: “teachers dated me” – Coach Carson (ish), “my parents hated me” – strained relationship with his parents, “I was always in a fight, ’cause I can’t do nothin’ right” – was very vocal in season 8/9 about his reckless past, and how he was never good enough.
If not KC, my next guess would be Bianca. I’m sure that we’ll get some background on her character soon given her involvement in All Falls Down, and since it looks as though Fitz and/or Owen (her two only friends) will be MIA and/or facing SERIOUS consequences for what happens next week. It’ll be interesting to see whether she is redeemed and tries to make new friends, or if she isolates herself even more. Given the very possible absence of her two cronies in the episodes to come, I think that she and KC will become a duo. The two appear together in the credits as a sort of tag team, and there are promo shots of the two of them together. I think that their interactions in 99 Problems were a set-up to a closer friendship/relationship to come in the second half of the season. Given KC’s recent case of douchebaggery, as well as the high possibility that Bianca’s boys will not be around, I can see the two of these characters being brought together out of anger/bitterness/frustration with their lives. Or hey, maybe DLMGM will be about BOTH of them.
Degrassilova55 August 20, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Wait who wrote the song hide and seek
Shell August 20, 2010 at 11:32 pm
imogen heap wrote the song it’s really pretty
PK August 20, 2010 at 11:43 pm
Perhaps some of you guys are aware of this interview…But, Argiris and Shannon get interviewed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWi2Hf4plOM – Listen to Shannon’s accent!
Jlaa August 21, 2010 at 1:19 am
wow, i didnt know shannon was straight. is agriris straight too?- haha, sorry i dont really know how to spell his name
I was watching a DegrassiTNG episode earlier today and realized that..
I miss SPINNER! He’s been there since day one, and It just feels weird to not see him on the show anymore. They could at least put more Peter, he’s funny..
BUT I really like the episode titles. Don’t Let Me Get Me, by P!nk I think will be about Adam.
Who sings, Jesus etc. ?
When I scrolled down and saw Ep. Titles I was like: Descrriiippptttiiooonnsss. But nah. Thankful for the titles though wanna see what happens next half!
Wilco sings Jesus, Etc. I love that song…
austin August 20, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Love Lockdown or Chasiing Pavements should hopefully be about Adam:)
Ashleigh August 20, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Jimmy got shot in season 4, which I agree was the best season.
and @whoever said they though Halo would be a suicide episode, I think it does to. But I cant see any of the characters doing it…
Gisselle August 21, 2010 at 12:03 am
tsk tsk no MCR either? They could at least put Green Day- Boulevard of Broken Dreams… That song could fit A possible Adam Episode when Eli ditches him for a while.
person August 21, 2010 at 12:36 am
ok, here is my (admittedly long) post of first reactions to the titles. for all of these, im just going on the titles themselves, not the actual lyrics to the songs. and also, i realize that if i were right about which characters all of these were about, a few characters wouldnt be in the season at all. i know that, but these are just my gut reactions.
“Don’t Let Me Get Me” definitely sounds like self-destruction, or at least very low self-esteem. Adam or Fiona, maybe? (and on a side note, people are talking about suicide and kc and eli and adam . . . i dont think anyone has proposed Fiona. She’s the mentally unstable one, remember? If anyone’s going to suicide, i think it will be her [not that im happy about that. she’s my current favorite character. and i honestly dont actually expect a suicide to happen.])
“Love Lockdown” sounds to me like a well-established couple breaking up or drifting apart . . . possibly Alli and Drew, if alli’s even still there at that point? idk, it doesnt seem like we have any long-term couples right now. couples like sav/anya and spinner/jane and jt/liberty, who you could imagine getting married someday. but we if we had one, i think this would be where they’d break up (or at least have some serious relationship issues)
for some reason, i think “Umbrella” could be about jenna. maybe her trying to protect her baby/give it the best life that she can in her situation.
“Halo” sounds like someone trying to be perfect. my first guess is . . . Fiona? or maybe Holly J?
“When Love Takes Over” sounds to me like someone cheating, or a couple trying to decide whether to have sex (in which case, i would think of Clare and Eli)
“The Way We Get By” makes me think of jenna, just because its “we”. maybe jenna and her brother stressing about money and how to support another little person.
“Jesus, Etc.” is defintely Clare (and Eli will be involved too, i assume)
“Hide and Seek”, just because another commenter said the song is about death, i think of Anya’s mom. maybe the cancer comes back/gets worse? or maybe some problem that a character thought had gone away returns?
someone said that “Chasing Pavements” might be someone running away . . . and i immediately thought “thats definitely it!” . . . but i kept thinking about it and i feel like it could be about the seniors thinking about college. leaving home, trying to start the rest of their lives . . .
and “Drop the World” . . . sounds like someone cracking under pressure (Holly J, anyone? or maybe Sav, or Fiona)
did i get a thumbs down just because that was ridiculously long? sorry about that, i just needed to get my thoughts out.
Gianna August 21, 2010 at 12:56 am
I agree with you ALOT.
Especially with the Eli and Clare predictions. Like you said that “When Love Takes Over”, it could be about Eli and Clare going all the way, and then “Jesus, etc.” Would be about how she would feel horrible about it?
And then “Umbrella” that makes sense.
I also agree about “Hide and Seek”.
But I think that “Drop The World” wouldn’t be about Holly J, Sav, or Fiona. I’m not sure at this point, but I just don’t think it would be one of them. I almost thought of Anya, because what if her mom dies, and then she finally breaks down about her best friend dating the guy that she loved, and plus, the only best friend she really has at the moment is Riley, and maybe she can’t go to him because he’s caught up in Zane stuff? I don’t know though. That’s all just speculation.
And I think that “Don’t Let Me Get Me”, could be both Adam and Fiona. For one, I think Adam still has insecurities about his image with his family, and then Fiona is ‘mentally unstable’. So, Adam goes back to burning, and Fiona is still drinking? I think that her character may get alcohol poisoning. That would make for a great plot.
I’m not going to type anymore, because it would just be too long. Lol. But, again, I agree with about everything you just said.(:
DegrassiMutherEffinJunkie! August 21, 2010 at 1:08 pm
I think in don’t let me get me Adam and Fiona possibly come together because I think both of them are going through self destructive thing and could join together trying to be the others rock trying to get through things together because they are suppose to become friends so why not them when they need someone the most
I agree with some of the things you said…but were you just basing these predictions off the song titles or the actual lyrics to the song? Because if you look at the lyrics to some of the songs you’re a little off-base. Halo is probably not about perfection. The lyrics are about someone who has passed on. So it’s probably more or less that it’s about someone who has died and know people are trying to cope (something along those lines.) Also the lyrics to Chasing Pavements are not about running away…I don’t get why everyone keeps thinking that. The song is actually about un-requited love. But other than that I think most of your predictions were pretty dead on. Oh, but I doubt Clare and Eli are debating on wether or not to have sex…they aren’t even dating yet so I doubt that’ll be an issue for a while. Also, Eli doesn’t seem like the kind who would pressure her and Clare is very set in ways. I mean she obviously really likes Eli (A LOT more then KC anyways) but I really doubt she would sacrifice her beliefs like that. I feel like if the writers did that it’d just be a repeat of darcy. I’m really hoping they don’t. But that’s just me.
My guess is that Clare’s parents split up due to her father’s infidelity. This, in turn, causes Clare to question her beliefs about love, purity, etc. As a result, I think something’s going to happen between Clare an Eli sooner rather than later.
I’m really hoping Clare doesn’t sleep with him. I feel like of she were to do something like that it would completely change her character.
And also…her parents are just fighting. It hasn’t been stated why yet…so I don’t think it’s safe to assume that there has been some form infedelity occurring. If anything happens I think Clare may consider doing “something” with Eli but shed probably back out of it. I think her beliefs are too important to her for her to sacrifice them for a guy.
Degrassilova55 August 21, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Imnalso really rooting for clare to become the first person to graduate and still be a viirgin cus i dont think that anybody els has
@Degrassilova55 Ellie did! But, yep, I hope Clare does too.
HeelsOverHead August 21, 2010 at 5:48 pm
I think Halo will be about Eli and Clare. Like somebody else said, the lyrics fit. Eli is putting away his guilt because of Clare <- halo?
@Holiday and Degrassilovva55, exactly! It’s like not everyone is sexually active in high school and it’d be really nice if degrassi kept more people virgins. In reality 51% of high school students graduate as virgins. I really hope they keep Clare one. And Jimmy was also a virgin, although that wasn’t really by choice.
Degrassi4lyfee August 22, 2010 at 3:53 pm
I totally agree that DLMGM is about FIona and Adam. Which I am excited about because the are two of my favorite characters, along with Anya, Riley, Zane, Claire, and Eli. But with Adam and Fiona being my all-time favorites. So if I am correct I think these episodes could be (some of) my favorites of the season. Adam and Fiona’s story lines are both very interesting and it is too bad their paths haven’t crossed cause i feel that the two of them being friends would be great. I agree with your idea of love lockdown being about a well-established couple ending it. but i hope that it won’t be Alli and Drew. Alli has really gotten on my nerves this season and is one of my least favorite characters, and i do not think they are in a “well established relationship”. i don’t really know how umbrella could relate to Jenna but we will see. I’m not too sure about Halo either. WLTO I hope is about EClaire, not to see their relationship end but to hopefully see how the become closer. i just hope that TWWGB isn’t about Jenna as she is another least favorite of mine. I agree with JEsus Etc. totally and am excited to see it play out. Hide and Seek is one I am mist looking forward to because of the song being about death and to see how they will integrate that theme in the episode. Chasing Pavements, im hoping, is NOT about someone running away, that would be too weak for Degrassi. Drop The World, i hope will be an amazing season finally and not just all about Holly J. Whom I am getting tired of with her “i NEED Ivy League to survive” attitude.
(sorry about the long post.)
DTNG WOOT August 21, 2010 at 12:42 am
Thumbs up if you hated Fiona in Season 9 but Love her now in Season 10.
Thumbs up anyways If you loved her in Season 9 too lool
she was actually my favorite character in season! (but that was partly because my favorite character was leaving, and i needed a new favorite. i just sorta thought, “oooh, new girl. well, i know jenna’s gonna steal kc, so i guess fiona’s my new favorite!”)
*in season NINE
idonthaveaname:) August 21, 2010 at 9:57 pm
i’ve always loved her. she’s a fierce bitch.
Hawk910 August 21, 2010 at 12:52 am
Omg crazy Adam plot idea- Adam gets pregnant >.<.
Adam does it with some1 completely drunk wakes up finds out he's pregnant. That would be chaotic considering Adam considers himself a guy
that would be good because it’s so out-there! but in general i don’t want to see adam pregnant. plus, you’d have to imagine that he’d have to do it with a guy to get pregnant.. idk how the degrassi writers would manage to put that in there.
person August 21, 2010 at 1:10 am
well, all the eps officially follow the same two-part/three plot formal as TBP. stohn confirmed on twitter. (i know we obviously knew they were two-parters, but i personally wasnt sure if there would stil be 3 plots. apparently there will be.)
djgeneral August 21, 2010 at 1:16 am
I totally don’t know why I left the thing about the shooting in there. I meant to take it out! It was indeed season 4 when Jimmy was shot!
RabbitDoubt August 21, 2010 at 1:17 am
Hmm…The continuing two-parts will be kind of annoying. It’s going to be hard waiting! xD That said, I can’t wait for Chasing Pavements just because I love that song.
degrassi_rocks:) August 21, 2010 at 1:22 am
haha me to! that song is amazing
Delia August 21, 2010 at 1:24 am
Please tell me I’m not the only one who want Adam to get a girlfriend! but idk how they would do that!! Grrr
tee August 21, 2010 at 2:03 am
he needs to date fiona
jhon August 21, 2010 at 1:27 am
Omg this weekend is taking forever lol. Idk why but I think I’ll find fiona`s mom annoying in purple pills. And fiona/bobby drama will be so intense. Who else thinks fiona is the best at delievering dramatic lines
Fiona:im crazy!!!
Fiona:i thought it was a one time thing. ahhh!!!
i freaking loooove crazy fiona.
idonthaveaname:) August 21, 2010 at 2:09 am
idgaf about fiona’s mom or that bitch of an ex boyfriend, i just want to see declan next week. at least once.. please..!!
Antoinette :) August 21, 2010 at 9:06 am
ahhhh me toooo. i love declan!!!!
im obssessed
Bl@ke August 21, 2010 at 1:38 am
So i was thinking about how they could air the second half of season 10,
first 8 episodes, then the break they have, then the last 12 episodes from march to june, and then if the last 4 episodes are a movie and they do the 6 week thing again next summer, air the movie right before that, or after the last 12 episodes
Does anyone feel adam and claire need more interaction? Like on twitter adam barley tweets claire
I know its not a big deal but it bothers me a little anyone feel the same?
Adam tweets Clare more than Eli does.
I do agree that they need more interaction on the show, though. I’m hoping that they’ll get it on Monday and Tuesday. They clearly consider each other good friends, so I’d like to see more of them hanging out as friends. :)
ILuhhUuEli August 21, 2010 at 1:47 am
They Should Have An Episode Named Crawl
ClosetDegrassiLover August 21, 2010 at 2:39 am
I have a question that I’m genuinely curious what you all think about. I’ve been a little suspicious of the promo pictures of All Falls Down – the one with Eli, Clare, Sav, and Holly J looking worried/scared/any other adjective you can think of. The only reason I question this is that, with all the hush-hush nature of AFD, why would they put such an obvious give-away? I mean, if the TV promos show Eli and Clare with Fitz and the knife, what logical sense would it be to show the picture? It’d be like, “hypehypehypehypehype… kthx bye.”
My reasoning is this: in the Still Fighting It promo pics, it looked like Riley was outed by Owen, but he wasn’t. It was just a backlash from homophobia and the effects of Owen being a tool. So my question is this:
Why would they put a picture that ruined the outcome of an intense plotline of the episode? It makes no logical sense to me… I’m curious what you all think, because I’d like to think there’s something more intense than Fitz + Knife = Anticlimactic, look at EClare chillin’ outside.
The preview and/or the pictures could be intentionally misleading. For all we know, the knife incident could occur after the scene in which Clare and Eli are standing outside the school.
Sarah August 22, 2010 at 9:11 am
For all we know, Eli and Clare could have freaked out because someone (Adam?) was still inside, so they snuck back in and ran into Fitz with his knife then. Who knows. XD
NeverShoutNever August 22, 2010 at 2:37 pm
They ALWAYS build up the hype in promos. They’re simply trying to get people to watch.
Jayd11 August 21, 2010 at 2:57 am
for some reason i think the whole holly j/ sav relationship is goin to be a main factor in the second part of the season
Kyle August 21, 2010 at 8:56 am
cause season 9 was about holly j/declan?
So I just listened to Drop the World…and if the episode is anything like the song it’s going to be amazing. It almost sounds to me like somebody has screwed somebody else over and now they’re trying to get revenge? Or it could be about proving people wrong. But I might be completely off-base. lol
spongebob August 21, 2010 at 8:46 am
This has been bugging me ever since BOA pt 1 and 2. What did his mom do excactly that was so bad? We know she wasn’t the best mom but how, with specifics? They should have an episode about this called Cleaning Out My Closet. For those who don’t know this song it’s by Eminem, and the lyrics match his situation near perfectly.
OMFG!!!! i think declan walks in on holly j and sav when they are making out. No, i am not just saying this because im superrrr obssessed with declan, but in the promo for next week, when they are bringing everything and before scene where the cops come and clair is like “what did you do” there is a scene where sav and holly j are making out and a voice says “im gonna kill you” it totally sounds like declan. hope im right…..
when does someone say I’m gonna kill you?
nobody says “im gonna kill you” but someone does say “you’re dead.” that would be interesting if that was Declan but I doubt it:( I think it’s probably fitz
Antoinette :) August 21, 2010 at 11:39 am
ya, my bad. some says “your dead” not “im gonna kill you” but it does sound like declans voice. idk maybe its just my imagination. i want it to be him
Yes, I totally agree. It’d be great to see him come back. it’s frustrating. I feel like we haven’t seen him all season. He better get a storyline next season.
shaquira August 21, 2010 at 3:35 pm
just like in Rock This Town when Drake says “your dead mascot boy” or something like that. right?
Well it was confirmed that Declan was going to have a storyline this fall…so maybe we’ll see more of him…but honestly I find it highly Ironic that in season 9 it was Declan, Declan, Declan; but this season is Fiona, Fiona, Fiona but I like Fiona more, she has this “Craziness” to her that I find interesting…but it seems that they can only use one twin at a time! lol
Matilin August 21, 2010 at 6:26 pm
They do have a habit of splicing the audio weird in the promos to be incredibly misleading. For instance, in the promos for Still Fighting It, it’s all “And Riley’s actions might put Zane in danger,’ (or whatever) and they show Riley walking out of the school while we hear the scream from Zane, when in actuality that happened at the Dot.
LaLa August 21, 2010 at 10:43 am
hilarity ensues
Dillon August 21, 2010 at 11:30 am
Adam beats up fitz, fitz gets embarrassed or mad or both, plans to hurt Adam. So he has Bianca seduce drew to get him from trying to defend Adam again. Eli try to stop fitz from hurting Adam. Stohn dis say this one was more intense so it’s possible more than one person gets hurt/ dies
Just what I think, anyone think something close could happen
This was such a good interview:)
I am super excited for the rest of TBP but also for the rest of the season. Hopefully, the plots get more intense, Peter gets an actual storyline, and the episodes are even better than TBP.
Michelle August 21, 2010 at 12:44 pm
After watching some of the seasons episodes i noticed that jenna was wearing only one earing….what the hell?
yeah, that’s her “thing”
rachellindsey August 21, 2010 at 1:43 pm
http://www.Callmethelorax.wordpress.com
new Degrassi stuff is up!
I agree that Jenna’s symptoms have not reflected what actually goes on in the different stages of pregnancy all that well. She’d have been getting sick a lot earlier on, and not suddenly start getting sick when she’s more than halfway along (not to mention she’d be showing a lot earlier, too). But she could still be puking, even at her stage. My sister’s due in just under 2 months, and she still throws up every so often.
Though in the writers’ defense, it was nice to see Jenna’s pregnancy cravings kicking in from pretty much the beginning of the season. Nice and subtle.
DTNG WOOT August 21, 2010 at 8:04 pm
well to be accurate She is suppose to start showing at month 3-4 ish which we can safely assume is around the diet story and now shes nearing 5 months as of October 9th 2010(according to the episode) and she has been showing symptoms around that time like the banana ranch thing, so the whole plot is basically accurate and your kinda off. Regardless you can’t compare one pregnancy to another because theres people who don’t know they are pregnant until the 5th/6th month and think the symptoms are just a flu or something because they didn’t go to a doctor and think they are just getting fat XD
this is random but does anyone here have a diva dirt profile?
and sorry for the double post now but this is the same jhon just changed my email lol
Galbert-Kun August 21, 2010 at 4:39 pm
What up guys/gals?
Shout out to my good friends Kaylynn, Idonthaveaname:), Joe, facultybob, jhon, nina, lame, DTNG, Michael , Gisselle, Matt, person et al; hope yall doing good.
Its good to know that next season Degrassi will have several episodes. Those under 20 seasons left much to be desired
cherryboombox38592 August 21, 2010 at 4:56 pm
There is a contest for a chance to video chat or recieve a phone call from a Degrassi Cast Member in the USA! Also on the page is a sneek peek of All Falls Down Part 1! http://www.newdegrassi.com/
sonya August 21, 2010 at 9:41 pm
thank u i didnt see iht until now ahaha thanks!:)
i hope in all falls down jenna comes to the dance and someone yells “SHE DOESN’T EVEN GO HERE!!!”, like in mean girls. that would make it the PERFECT episode..
Um when inthe next part of the season will jenna have her baby because it wud probably be in ine of the first first few episodes and which title would it probablyfit under
Probably the way we get by
cause that’ll probably be around the february-march area, which is when she should have her baby, and also the title would make sense if her and her brother are having trouble supporting the baby and how they’re barely getting by
I used to hate you.. now I love you.
bitch you’ve never hated me. i’m a fucking god..
hehe<3
Random question – Does Eli remind anyone else of Shawn Hunter from Boy Meets World? They are both bad boys that are into poetry and art-house films and they even look alike….
Galbert-Kun August 21, 2010 at 11:38 pm
That show takes me way back! Shawn was more rebellious, what with going to college early and pissing off Mr. Feeny. Both Eli and Shawn are similar, but Eli is the darker individual.
Ew. I couldn’t stand Shawn and his melodrama. He would have done well on Degrassi, but on a comedy…eh.
Hunter August 21, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Im placing my bets that jesus etc is about clare tries to get eli into religion.
I love how everyone AUTOMATICALLY assumes Eli is against religion Because hes dark and what not. MAYBE hes into a different religion or the same. MAYBE THIS EPISODE isn’t even about Eli And Clare.
MAYBE this is about Holly J and Sav with a religious conflict OR Ali and Clare. Lets at least try to state other possible descriptions besides the most obvious ones, lets think outside the box like the writers and producers/directors >.<
Hunter August 22, 2010 at 2:26 am
I dont think hes against religion. I never even said that. Just seems like the obvious.
if sav and holly j had a religious conflict, it seems like it would be a repeat of sav and anya
Reesa August 21, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Maybe it’s not that Clare tries to get Eli into religion. But maybe something happens that makes Clare that forces her to challenge what she used to believe.
This might be probably off, but I really want to see how Degrassi goes with Clare’s virginity. It’s been clear since her first appearance that she’s gonna be one until marriage like her sister, but since this is Degrassi we all know that’s not gonna happen. And Eli does seem like a nice guy, but with the two of them, raging hormones, blah blah, you saw how much Clare wanted him.
But I’m gonna stop trying to guess what it may be about cause I don’t want to sound totally off.
@Reesa, Darcy was not a virgin. She had sex with Peter in one episode. And what makes you think degrassi wouldn’t have that happen? I personally think it’d be more shocking for Clare to remain a virgin…considering the fact that basically everyone on that show isn’t.
Reesa August 22, 2010 at 11:54 am
Yeah I know.
“It’s been clear since her first appearance that she’s gonna be one until marriage like her sister, but since this is Degrassi we all know that’s not gonna happen.”
I was implying Darcy didn’t remain a virgin.
Reesa August 22, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Yeah, I just don’t see Clare being a virgin. Because the sex is always more “scandalous”. And people I think will be virgins on the show aren’t virgins. Darcy, hell I thought Anya was gonna be a virgin, I thought Holly J was gonna be a virgin cause I didn’t see her having a boyfriend anytime soon. Degrassi always finds a way to pop the cherry lol.
Emilee August 25, 2010 at 2:14 am
If you knew anything about anything, you would know that Elijah Goldsworthy, JEWISH NAME. Maybe he’s just jewish and not all ” I worship Satan” like EVERYONE thinks he is.
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I’m placing bets that Drop the World is gonna be a very interesting and epic episode.
jhon August 21, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Just came back from the movies saw vampire sucks umm it was ok at best lmao (no one judge me please lol)
Jen August 21, 2010 at 10:34 pm
As Ms. Dawes would say, you can’t hide behind vampire fiction forever…
facultybob August 21, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Again. Seriously?
Yes, facultybob, seriously.(:
lol I saw it on Friday and I really liked it!
lol seriously? what was your favorite part?
btw this is the same jhon even if the image changed lol
Degrassi Love August 22, 2010 at 12:07 am
did anyone notice Mrs. Torres is in the promo? i think shes at the school dance.
yay August 22, 2010 at 12:23 am
haha I asked Stephen Stohn if Darcy would ever come back on Twitter, but I didn’t get a real answer. He’s just wondering if Mia got kidnapped by the same tribe. As if he thinks we care about Mia. :P
Alexa August 22, 2010 at 7:35 am
alright so i’m thinking, alli says shit to bianca that pisses her off. so in return she’s trying to break alli and drew up as well as get drew. she sends him pictures and drew continues to reject her. drew goes to the boiler room with bianca but he realizes he’d be fucking up big time so he rejects her again and goes away. but alli finds the pictures on drew’s phone and hears that someone saw drew & bianca go into the boiler room and ends things with drew.
drew still loves alli though so he keeps trying to win her back and keeps rejecting bianca. and alli seems relatively fine and un-upset so bianca isn’t satisfied. so, instead of trying to get drew to cheat on alli, she finds some way to get drew to give up on alli and finally hook up with bianca. she gets owen to be all sweet and take alli to the dance. then she gets owen to take alli aside & try to get alli to hook up with him for money. bianca hides in a closet filming the shit go down so she can show it all to drew (hence the weird closet shot in the one promo). alli’s flattered about the money but she knows its wrong so she refuses. owen then rapes alli and idk somehow she tells clare and something happens with fitz and eli so clare and alli come together all emotional and have a crying scene. all the plans get foiled and figured out and clare eli sav and holly j watch in horror as somehow fitz gets taken out in a stretcher and alli cries with her mom and dad by her side while giving a police report..
the end of my prediction. hahaha
What would really blow me away is if Munro Chambers’ identical twin brother made a surprise debut as Eli’s twin in All Falls Down. Fitz stabs himself when he learns there are actually two of them, and hilarity ensues.
And then Clare creams her pants when she realizes she can have twice the fun & a normal guy when she feels like dating someone WITHOUT anger management issues and extra baggage for once.
Dillon August 22, 2010 at 8:44 am
jhon August 22, 2010 at 11:01 am
I would imagine they asked both declan and fiona you can be the main twin in your first or second season?
Lol fiona picked the right one imo
RabbitDoubt August 22, 2010 at 11:13 am
Anyone else getting “RAEP” vibes from Owen? Poor Alli.
for all you eclare lovers!
http://blog.muchmusic.com/degrassi-exclusive-whats-it-like-to-be-a-couple/
thankk you suga:)
Ok so i was just thinking of some storylines that havent really been covred- an intruder in the school, scicide, bomb threat, smoking( theve done like hardcore drugs but theve never done just basic tabacco ciggarette smoking), running away( fionas doeant rly count) prostitution( although that might happen with alli) and if u can think if any othrs comment!
Ad the 1 that i want to c the most is suicide because that wud be an intense and amazing episode
I always wondered why cigarettes were never really seen on Degrassi.
Does anyone know if there is a rule against it or something?
I know there was smoking on DJH
Fitz bought a pack of cigarettes at McGrath Variety with the fake ID Eli got for him…
i think they should do a inhalent abuse storyline its most common in teens and is a very serious drug i think this would be a great storyline and maybe someone gets addicetd to it
TheDevil August 22, 2010 at 3:06 pm
they haven’t done abusive girlfriends, pregnancy from rape, ACTUAL racism (not that crap from season 7… or was it it 8?) Abusive siblings, Teenage Depression (REAL depression, not “i can’t go to the dance, superr bummer) Schizophrenia, Turrets syndrome, How selflessness can lead to depression… and that’s all i can think of.
I still think it would be interesting if Eli were a necrophiliac. Degrassi would definitely be “going there” with a storyline like that.
btw.. there kind of was an intruder. Darcy’s online predator came to Degrassi and would have gone into the school and found Darcy if Mrs. H wouldn’t have stopped him. I know its not what you were thinking, but it is sort of an intruder. lol
Michaelcka August 22, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Marco had a prostitution plot when he was having money problems in college.
Yeah, but I want to see an actual prostitute in Degrassi. It would definitely be interesting.
What episode was Billy Ray Cyrus in…?
season 3 finale when jimmy hazel paige and spinner go to the dance
Oh rite lol he was that idiot “limo” driver- i put quotes atound limo cus it was more like an old taxi cab lolz
Idegrassia August 22, 2010 at 4:26 pm
This is just my opinion but does anyone think that Jesus,Etc. could be about Clare!I was thinking it may have something to do with her saving Herself for marriage and maybe giving up her abstinence!Maybe going against her beliefs for once and doing something she wouldn’t do!Just a thought!Tell me what you think!
i agree!i think that it could be about her wanting to do it with eli!but then she has to decide if she wants to or not!or maybe!this episode isn’t even about clare!and we’ll have to wait and see!just another thought!tell me what you think!
..just in case you didn’t catch this, i was mocking your over use of exclamation points..
Michael C. August 22, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Fiona is going to overdose on alchol and depression drugs, i don’t think it will be very serious though. But I think she will win her case against Bobby
I hope she looses her case against Bobby. That would be a “go there” twist.
They already did that with Paige’s rape, though.
RowdyTheDog August 22, 2010 at 4:58 pm
An intruder to the school would be interesting….what if it were connor’s online friend…..lol unlikely but still would be interesting….
well its sunday, thus begins the final week of *suspence* The Boiling Point *everyones sad:(* Lol but 2 more days for “the Best Degrassi Episode EVER”. so the say.
Since All Falls Down is like a mini finale in a way i was wondeing what was your favorite season finales in all of Degrassi: TNG? My top 3 would be
1 Degrassi goes Hollywood (season 8)
2 Tears Are not enough ( season 2)
3 Degrassi takes Manhattan (season 9)
I thought DGH was pretty lame compared to DTM.
for my favorites:
Jagged Little Pill
Tears are Not Enough
Danger Zone (I count this as the finale instead of DGH since DZ actaully adds more to the ongoing story/current cast.)
I really liked Degrassi Goes Hollywood. Minus the Manny/Paige blah whatever stuff, I thought this was an excellent Ellie storyline. I cried when she hugged her dad. And it’s the only instance where I will ever think Craig and Ellie are cute. They weren’t so “gag me please” in this movie.
Does anyone think they would actually explore more of Riley and Zane’s relationship. Degrassi never had a successful gay couple. Maybe this season they’d explore the challenges of them going all the way, or the issue of Riley not coming out to his mom yet. I’m certain that will cause a strain on their relationship.
I’m curious to know if they would ever explore the struggle of intimacy in a gay couple. It doesn’t have to be overtly vulgar it could be tastefully done. Maybe Riley is scared to take the next step, especially because his mom doesn’t know. I actually would be interested in seeing something like that. Any thoughts?
Does anyone think they would actually explore more of Riley and Zane’s relationship. Degrassi never had a successful gay couple. Maybe this season they’d explore the challenges of them going all the way, or the issue of Riley not coming out to his mom yet. I’m certain they will because they would result in a strain on their relationship.
I’m curious to know if they would ever explore the struggle of intimacy in a gay couple. It doesn’t have to be overtly vulgar, it could be tastefully done. Maybe Riley is afraid to take the next step, especially because his mom doesn’t know he’s gay. I actually would be interested in seeing something like that. Any thoughts?
45-48 = Degrassi: Miami. CALLING IT
I’d shoot myself.
Degrassi: Jersey Shore
Jfizzle August 22, 2010 at 9:51 pm
i say degrassi takes another country other than the u.s.a. or canada it would be a lame strech but watever
Mikiehh:) August 22, 2010 at 10:24 pm
So, I was watching the last episode and the part where Rileys mom says “I just want grandchildren.” My mother laughed. Hard. I think he should have came out anyway, his mom seems nice.
Hunter August 22, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Degrassi in london. Calling it.
I’d orgasm if this happened.
LaLa August 22, 2010 at 10:56 pm
I wish Degrassi still had the freeze frames at the end of each episode. It would just be more intense. Or is it just me?
Jfizzle August 23, 2010 at 12:12 am
the freeze frames were better and more dramatic.
If they do Miami or London, it’s only a matter of time we see them in the Jersey Shore. -_-
Mr. J. Payton-Brown August 22, 2010 at 11:33 pm
I didn’t like the movies at all. I thought they were lame and filler. To be honest I think they should go back to doing normal finales instead of doing these one hour/two hour movies because it’s lame and it lacks substance IMO. I really hope Stephen Stohn isn’t overhyping “All Falls Down” like it’s sooo epic. I tweeted to him and told him that I hope that he’s not getting my hopes up because if the episode isn’t as epic as he says it is then I will let him know on twitter and tell him to stop overhyping the episodes like that.
I agree that the movies were terrible. Pretty much the only legitimate storyline in them was Elli’s, but that was never even finished.
degrassi_rocks:) August 23, 2010 at 12:19 am
lol this is funny http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7hfc0MFEn1qzsm3d.gif
J.kart August 23, 2010 at 12:45 am
LMFAO@Adam doing the cabbage patch! ….omfg I had a horrible day but that really made my night seeing that! xD
Daze August 23, 2010 at 1:21 am
Maybe the spin-off will be about declan and the people in his school. Maybe we’ll then get to see Bobby and how his life goes on after the whole court deal. Then we’d see Tinsley and her skanky ways or see that she is not that bad. What do you guys think?
Its quite clear. The spin-off is coming in 10 years with Jack and Isabella as the stars and spinner emma and jenna and kc raising theyre kids. Calling it!
Rossberrie August 23, 2010 at 2:43 am
Don’t forget Craig’s little sister aka Cassie’s(Manny) Real Sister
Oh yes of course! Um i think Angela (Angie) was her name?
Shaina August 26, 2010 at 12:40 am
How can you be a Degrassi blogger and not know that Jimmy got shot in season 4?!?! That really bugs me!
Kary August 26, 2010 at 12:49 am
Ummmmmm I didn’t write this interview and had nothing to do with it except copying/pasting it here. I obviously know when Jimmy was shot….
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Longitudinal effect of antiretroviral therapy on markers of hepatic toxicity: Impact of hepatitis C coinfection
Audrey L. French, Lorie Benning, Kathryn Anastos, Michael Augenbraun, Marek Nowicki, Kunthavi Sathasivam, Norah A. Terrault
To characterize longitudinal hepatic toxicity of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected women with and without hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, we measured alanine and aspartate aminotransferase values among women initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). For 312 HIV/HCV coinfected women who received HAART for a mean of 1.8 years, the prevalence of elevated aminotransferase levels >3 times and >5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) was low (<12% and <4%, respectively), and the prevalence of elevated aminotransferase levels declined over time. When we analyzed trends in aminotransferase levels according to type of HAART received among HCV-infected and uninfected women, we found that mean aminotransferase levels declined among 539 women receiving therapy with protease inhibitors (decreases of 5.34%-4.23% of the ULN per year; P values for trend of .007-.06), but mean values among 128 women receiving therapy with non-nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors remained stable (from decreases of 1.65% to increases of 7.57% of the ULN per year; P values of .19-.71). Our findings lend support to assertions that antiretroviral therapy is safe for women with HCV infection.
Coinfection
Transaminases
Hepacivirus
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Aspartate Aminotransferases
Alanine Transaminase
French, A. L., Benning, L., Anastos, K., Augenbraun, M., Nowicki, M., Sathasivam, K., & Terrault, N. A. (2004). Longitudinal effect of antiretroviral therapy on markers of hepatic toxicity: Impact of hepatitis C coinfection. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 39(3), 402-410. https://doi.org/10.1086/422142
Longitudinal effect of antiretroviral therapy on markers of hepatic toxicity : Impact of hepatitis C coinfection. / French, Audrey L.; Benning, Lorie; Anastos, Kathryn; Augenbraun, Michael; Nowicki, Marek; Sathasivam, Kunthavi; Terrault, Norah A.
French, AL, Benning, L, Anastos, K, Augenbraun, M, Nowicki, M, Sathasivam, K & Terrault, NA 2004, 'Longitudinal effect of antiretroviral therapy on markers of hepatic toxicity: Impact of hepatitis C coinfection', Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 402-410. https://doi.org/10.1086/422142
French AL, Benning L, Anastos K, Augenbraun M, Nowicki M, Sathasivam K et al. Longitudinal effect of antiretroviral therapy on markers of hepatic toxicity: Impact of hepatitis C coinfection. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2004 Aug 1;39(3):402-410. https://doi.org/10.1086/422142
French, Audrey L. ; Benning, Lorie ; Anastos, Kathryn ; Augenbraun, Michael ; Nowicki, Marek ; Sathasivam, Kunthavi ; Terrault, Norah A. / Longitudinal effect of antiretroviral therapy on markers of hepatic toxicity : Impact of hepatitis C coinfection. In: Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2004 ; Vol. 39, No. 3. pp. 402-410.
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About the Artist Keren Kopal
Keren Kopal is a designer of decorated works of art. As an art and antique collector Keren was inspired by the fabulous work of Peter Carl Faberge and started to make sculptures of boxes, eggs, animals and other accessories for art lovers.
All models are original creations of the "Keren Kopal Collection" in limited series.
Each piece has the signature of the artist Keren Kopal on a metal plate, as a guarantee of authenticity.
Each item is made of pewter & either 24K Gold or 925 silver plated.
The entire process, from the first sketch to the final product, is made by hand of talented and skilled artisans under the supervision of the artist Keren Kopal.
Each Keren Kopal item is painted by hand using a unique technique that combines a distinctive enamel technique inlaid with Austrian and Swarovski crystals. Each crystal is handpicked and artistically placed on each piece.
Every trinket box has a magnetic fastener to secure the closure.
Every Keren Kopal item is shipped in an elegant black box.
About Faberge style
Peter Carl Faberge (also known as Karl Gustavovich Faberge in Russia) was a Russian jeweler of French origin. He is probably best known for the famous Faberge eggs, made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, using precious metals and gemstones.
The eggs are made of precious metals or hard stones decorated with combination of enamel and gem stones. The term "Faberge egg" has become a synonym of luxury and the eggs are regarded as masterpieces of the jeweler's art.
Of the 65 known large Faberge eggs, only 57 have survived to the present day.
The Faberge jewelry style inspired many artists and jewelry makers around the world for more than 100 years and still
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At Pizza Hut, we don’t just make pizza. We make people’s days. Pizza Hut was built on the belief that pizza night should be special, and we carry that belief into everything we do. What’s our purpose at Pizza Hut? Moments of Excitement. All made possible by our flavor, innovation and, most importantly, by unlocking potential in our team members.
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Corinium HR Management
mobile responsive app
Davy Snowdon MBE, a former Olympic Weightlifter, established Pristine Condition International Ltd to improve health and safety and reduce injuries at work by utilising the human body efficiently. The training they provide is very much based on working with employees at risk in situ, on the ground floor, performing real world tasks. As Pristine grew, their office staff faced administration and organisational challenges which wasted valuable time when managing and building relationships with customers. They had identified operational issues with the way in which they logged training records and created certificates, and so approached Evergreen with a view to amending, updating or replacing their current system as they felt it no longer fully met their needs.
Course Management System for Health & Safety
[The system] has transformed the way we work. Reducing the amount of administration that our trainers have to undertake has not only improved our service to customers but saved the business time and money.
Heather Adamson, Customer Accounts Manager
Pristine Condition International Ltd
Last time Encounter Walking Holidays featured in an Evergreen case study, the piece concluded with Damon Wilcox, the company's owner signing off as follows: "We want to be at least as good as the competition, and cheaper. And because of our superior database system, our administration costs are lower and our procedures are more effective. We believe this has directly contributed to our success as a business". That was several years ago. Since then, Evergreen have done lots more work for the increasingly successful Cornwall-based business that offers self-guided holidays in South West England and Wales. The work has included a major upgrade to a responsive website, application of a major design change and impressive database work that means Encounter Walking Holidays’ staff can create sophisticated interactive maps much faster than in the past. Summarising working with Evergreen, IT-co-ordinator Rich Brown says: "Let them get on with what they do brilliantly while you get on with running your business. Be confident that you’ll get what you want. We did and so will you!" In particular, the long-established self-guided walking holiday specialists faced Google’s threat to penalise websites that weren’t mobile friendly. The Encounter website was a traditional static site that had served the business well since the late 2000s, but change was urgently needed.
Online Booking System & Website for Encounter Walking
Probably the best database developers and designers I've ever met. Best of all, they have a human touch that’s often lacking with highly-technical people
Rich Brown, IT-coordinator
Encounter Walking Ltd
operations system
As a new ordering system it eliminates many of the costs associated with the traditional wholesale process and increases the quality, range and volume of products available to retailers and consumers. The Founder of ‘Angel’, David Mack saw the need to develop a ‘fairer, more equitable and cost effective system’ that would enable retailers to locate, select and place orders directly for artisan products in one single ‘marketplace’.
A New Trading System for Artisan Producers
We never, not even on one occasion, felt like anything was too much trouble. They gave me complete business and technical confidence throughout, creating more functionality than I had first envisaged
David Mack, Founder
The Fine Food Angel
One of the Alliance’s primary goals is to create a stronger, more proactive sector capable of influencing policy and decision making. The voluntary sector had to use multiple software systems to access information, reducing cohesion. Matt Lennard, Head of Operations, described navigating the multiple systems as “A complete hassle”. Evergreen challenge Evergreen was tasked with creating a new website to facilitate the partnership between the voluntary sector, NHS and local council. The website would have the following features: A calendar of events, tenders and funding opportunities A central source of information for charities Empowerment of organisations to promote their own events A chat function for charities to ask questions and find information.
Innovative online calendar gives a voice to voluntary sector
If I had another project to work on Evergreen are the first people I’d get in touch with
Matt Lennard, Head of Operations
Gloucestershire VCS Alliance
job scheduling
UFH Services were using an inefficient system consisting of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook as well as numerous physical files and documents. Managing Director Doug Ingram thought incorrectly submitted forms, over reliance on paper documents and manual data entry were costing UFH an estimated 20% of revenue. After researching off-the-shelf solutions Doug decided that a bespoke system from Evergreen was the way to reduce costs.
CRM and Job Management : saving a whole day per week!
It’s incredibly fast compared to what we were using before. We are saving ninety minutes to two hours a day… over the course of a week it’s one extra day that we’re saving!
Doug Ingram, business owner
UFH Services Ltd
Order Receipting
Phoenix Control Systems (PCS) were using an outdated MS Access-based purchasing system that was poorly supported and couldn't be accessed over the internet. Office Manager Julie Lawson concluded that “We wanted something bespoke that suited our needs…There’s nothing off the shelf that would work for us.” In order to meet their requirements PCS enlisted Evergreen’s help. Evergreen Challenge To create a bespoke web-based purchasing system with the following features: The ability to handle purchase orders (POs), order receipting, projects and suppliers The ability to add POs to projects To be accessible from head office, the panel shop and off-site staff To be able to process multiple users on the system simultaneously
New Purchasing System for Phoenix Control Systems
The system makes our checking process a lot easier. When we get an invoice we can look at the purchasing order and see that it’s been delivered.
Julie Lawson, Office Manager
Phoenix Control Systems
Southside were using an ageing case management system which provided insubstantial information. In order to win their next contract with the local council Southside needed to produce reports on casework and other data. Evergreen Challenge To modify Southside’s case management system to achieve the following: Better reporting to comply with legislation Re-hosting via an Evergreen hosting platform An improved way of storing data An improved ability to search for an update data, including access to historical casework activity To enhance the system’s usability To make major security improvements including adding encryption and anti-virus protection
Improved Case Management System for Sensitive Data
The work that Evergreen did was a factor in us winning that contract. Without them we wouldn’t have won.
Karen Inwood, Business Development Lead
Timetracking
Client Deadlines
Max Foote Associates is a firm of professionally qualified Chartered Certified Accountants that cover the whole of Somerset and beyond. Established by Max Foote in 1994 their clients include private individuals, sole traders, partnerships and limited companies. They also act for clubs, associations and charitable organisations. Max Foote Associates pride themselves on offering a personal and professional service that includes compliance, auditing, tax planning and advice on all accountancy issues and they guarantee the highest standards of technical knowledge throughout the business. The Evergreen Challenge To provide a responsive and flexible Team Management System that will record and manage tasks, time spent and job allocation. The Evergreen Solution Evergreen developed a customised system that provided the company with the following benefits: Manage and track time in 6 minute increments Add instant communications and updates to client records Accessible by the whole team in the office and remotely Client analysis and reporting Project plan and manage individual client deadlines via a dashboard Visibility of task, time spent and individual workload
Team Management, Timetracking, Client Deadlines and Invoicing System
The Evergreen solution has proven to be cost-effective and with ongoing use will provide a measurable return on investment.
Sian Hill, FCCA
Max Foote Associates
Established in 2002 and based in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, HallMark are one of the fastest growing and agile companies in the Agri-Sector, providing fully managed, large-scale, independent, flexible resourcing solutions across the UK. Their ability to combine senior subject-matter experts, large-scale staff management and information technology makes HallMark the first point of contact for many organisations looking to meet the challenges of compliance management. Their portfolio of consultancy services includes advice and support on issues such as Food Safety, Animal Welfare and British Retail Consortium compliance. The challenge for Evergreen was to provide a responsive and flexible Team Management System that allowed Hallmark to work on a variety projects, manage workflow, collate results and provide high-level management information.
Effective Team and Workflow Management System
Evergreen carried out the work as quickly as possible, with efficiency and attention to detail.
Patrick Steel, Resource Manager
HallMark Veterinary & Compliance
Staff Rotas
Tim’s Transport is one of the leading suppliers of S.E.N transport in Gloucestershire, with services including transport to and from home to educational establishments, day care centres and respite centres, vocational day release, private and special needs appointments and family visitations, on a one-off or regular contract basis. Any company involved in logistics has a lot of paperwork and Tim’s Transport was no exception. They were using an old database and spreadsheets to manage the business day to day and there was a lot of duplication of admin. The Evergreen challenge was to provide a new responsive and flexible CRM that allowed Tim’s Transport to manage their entire transportation business, taking care of the day to day administration involved.
Database system for Special Educational Needs Transport Company
I really liked Evergreen’s friendly and professional approach, right from the start they listened to what we wanted and worked with us so that we were happy with the solution
Rosina Cox, Company Director
Tim's Transport
Evergreen were challenged to provide a custom-made website and database booking system that manages all internal administration, paperwork and systems. The new website and back-end database system allows Encounter Walking Holiday staff to: Make bookings with a diary system Email contacts and customers Efficiently manage internal processes and systems Produces internal reports and walking itineraries Produces quotes and customer letters
Because of our superior database system our administration costs are lower and our procedures are more effective and we believe this has directly contributed to our success as a business
Damon Willcox, business owner
Sage Integration
Evergreen were challenged to provide a Job Management System that enables TDS to create and manage customer records that were previously paper based or held Excel spreadsheets. We created a Job Management System that enables: TDS to create customer records and job lists with the ability to have multiple visits per job TDS engineers to have a mobile remote view for the job so they can add their times on site and any notes Administration to create emails to send to clients and include notes and photographs associated with the job With Evergreen’s technical expertise TDS now have a Job Management System that is available to access in the office and remotely that can be updated in real time.
Job Management System for TDS
The Evergreen team are helpful, professional and efficient and nothing is too much trouble, they understood our problems and made the solutions sound simple
Claire Martin, Office Manager
Total Drainage Services (South West) Ltd
Creation, a graphic design and brand engagement agency based in Bristol, needed a business software solution for its well-known multi-national corporate client in the food and beverage industry. They were looking for a production management and administration system capable of storing and selecting graphics from a pre-determined floor plan to then order a complete exhibition stand based on the available graphics supplied by Creation. Creation was aware that some web developers/programmers promise the earth and then when it comes to the launch, the code doesn't work. Knowing that this project was complicated due to the nature of the product they were dealing with and having worked successfully with Evergreen on previous database projects, Creation's Director Nick Wood knew who to call.
Online Order Management System for Creation
The new system created by Evergreen has saved not just hours but days of time spent on administration. We used to spend days sending emails back and forth to our client with regards to identifying the graphics we had in stock.'
Nick Wood, Director
With offices in the UK, Russia, Europe and the Far East and representation in the USA, ARNO specialises in consultancy, market research, design, production, logistics, installation and merchandising for the retail industry. Evergreen were challenged to create a stand-alone online ordering system capable of fulfilling orders and managing stock requirements for point of sale material for one of ARNO's large corporate clients in the retail industry. Evergreen created a cloud application that has the following benefits: Secure log-in for users and administrators Ordering duplications and omissions are now avoided Centralised control Greater visibility with customised reporting Improved documentation
Order Management for Disparate Sites for ARNO GB Ltd
Without the system there would be more manual data to input and more data manipulation needed with more time spent on excel spreadsheets. When someone places an order it can now be done quickly and efficiently. The risk of error has been now been removed as the risk of entering information incorrectly or duplicating information cannot now happen.
James Cutler, 3D Digital Designer
ARNO GB Limited
LIMUN is the largest annual university-based Model United Nations conference in Europe welcoming over 1500 delegates from across the world each year to London to debate some of the most pressing issues within the global agenda. Challenges for Evergreen: To upgrade the existing marketing website and content management system to reduce time spent on administration processes. To move Limun's administration and registration processes to an online platform, capable of managing in excess of 1500 worldwide delegates. The Evergreen Solution: Evergreen developed a database system to improve both the delegate's booking experience and facilitate the adminstration process. Key benefits of the database system: A booking system with integrated PayPal payment gateway to allow delegates to make secure online payments for the first time in the event's history. The ability for the administrator to create events, set the year and registration period and any deadlines which are associated with the event. A search/query function based on multiple criteria for the administrator to easily access information from the delegate list. The ability to export delegate information to an excel spreadsheet in order to produce ID cards externally from the system. At each stage of the process for registration, an automated email is generated to the delegates to inform them of whether they have been approved or rejected and what the next steps are (if any). Since the website and online registration system have been launched, LIMUN's Secretary General, Kacper Pancewicz has confirmed that the administration process is now more efficient, saving several man hours per day and has enabled the organisers to focus on the more important tasks of achieving deadlines.
Events Management for London International Model United Nations
Evergreen are very efficient. We always have great confidence that they will always meet our requirements. I would certainly recommend them to any organisation looking for an online database system.
Kacper Pancewicz, LIMUN Secretary General
London International Model UN
Contacts Database
With the RFU's Rugby First website system closing, the Gloucestershire Rugby Football Union needed to source a new independent website to continue to communicate vital information to its members. Evergreen Challenge To provide a more professional, corporate looking website with improved navigation and an easy to use content managed system Evergreen Solution Evergreen created... A website and CMS with GRFU corporate colours and logos to enhance the GRFU brand Clearer menus and visual signposts for better navigation and improved visitor experience A Content Management System with easy-to-use editing tools With Evergreen's technical expertise, the GRFU now has a site that is visible in all web browsers, easier to navigate and has more than halved the time spent on administrative tasks.
Content & Document System for Gloucestershire RFU
The comprehensive and friendly guidance, given to Gloucestershire RFU by Evergreen, has enabled us to produce a professional and user friendly website with a far better corporate image.
Tricia Perris, County Administrator
Gloucestershire Rugby Football Union
Student Database
Workflow System
Located in the Cotswold Hills above Cheltenham and Gloucester, Adfecto is the professional development and consultancy arm of Gloucestershire Association of Secondary Headteachers Ltd. (GASH). Adfecto, in partnership with Serco, is a regional and national provider of the School Business Management Programmes (SBM) which are developed by the National College. Evergreen Challenge: To create a fully functional CMS and on-line booking system for training events and briefing sessions. Evergreen Solution: Evergreen created a system to manage School Business Management programme expectations and to ease participant maintenance, with the added security of having separate log-ins for staff, with differing access levels to the database. Key features included: All data is held securely in one place, replacing the need to update and co-ordinate several spreadsheets. A platform for reports to be generated quickly, accurately and efficiently The ability to manipulate programme data with course dates, staffing and individual participant learning journeys. Separate log-ins for staff, with differing access levels to the database. Since the introduction of the custom business system, vital reports can now be generated quickly, accurately and efficiently and the database has become an invaluable tool for holding all the data together whilst at the same time providing flexibility.
Booking, Training and Student Management for Adfecto
Evergreen picked up and understood what we needed the database to do and went above and beyond to make our life easier. They came up with suggestions that we had not even thought of that were of great value and benefit to the way we work.
Niki Mitchell, SBM team leader
Adfecto
Evergreen Challenge: Greenbox needed a new website that would provide marketing information to gain new festival customers and also allow staff to register. In addition to this they were looking for an online management system that could be used to manage festival information, co-ordinate staff activities and waste disposal sites, communicate news and documents to staff, and manage vehicle tacometer and inspection information. Greenbox already had a few systems in place that just weren't correlating. Evergreen Solution: Evergreen created a flexible yet robust online database application to streamline the administration of the business and consolidate all the data and information into one place. Key Benefits: Data that is more interactive, giving their site managers and staff greater visibility of time sheets and rotas and improving communications between the site managers and staff. The flexible online database is simplistic but effective and a great saving on time spent co-ordinating rotas, analysing time sheets and sorting through endless piles of paper. Centralised software enables greater visibility of all business operations. The system is permission based allowing secure access with diffreent authority/access levels Having centralised control of the data with real time dates gives owner Clive Phillips greater visibility of his business operations. Since the system has been installed, business operations have become more efficient. More time has been liberated for Clive to plan for the next festival season and to negotiate longer term contracts to grow the business further.
Festival Management System for Greenbox Events
We needed to have a website that gave us the competitive edge and Evergreen hit the mark. The CRM system they created for us is simplistic but effective and a great saving on time spent co-ordinating rotas and analysing time sheets.
Clive Phillips, Director
Greenbox Events Ltd
Multi-Client
Database Modules
Simplicity, greater visibility of the business and full traceability are all key components of Tornado Recycling's online database application success. Evergreen's custom web application development has saved Tornado Recycling clients about £25,000 a year in reduced overhead costs in addition to assuring that their businesses remain compliant within the new strict regulations of the scrap metal industry. Entrepreneur and industry compliance expert Spencer Smith needed an urgent database solution for his clients due to new compliance regulations in the scrap metal industry which were introduced in February 2013. Evergreen created a flexible, bespoke online database application that was easy to use, robust and secure.
Scrap Metal Merchant Software for Tornado Recycling
Evergreen's initiative to provide internet solutions is exceptional giving us endless business opportunities. We could not have achieved what we have done so far without them.
Spencer Smith, Managing Director
Tornado Recycling Ltd
Based in Hertfordshire, National Lock & Safe (NLS) is one of the UK's leading Locksmith Services working around the clock, 365 days of the year, anywhere in the UK. Their staff needed to be able to respond to customer enquiries at all times and so they were looking for a seamless on-line database system for both offices that could speed up processes and also enhance team communication. Evergreen created an easy to use bespoke web application database system so that all their staff are able to respond to order requests in real time and from any web-enabled computer nationwide, and effectively communicate with the engineers, providing them with all the information needed to carry out the order as well as returning the paperwork to the office as soon as the job is completed. Overall, the powerful online database has generated NLS about a 70% saving in time and money by increased efficiency.
Managing a Contractor Team and Customers for NLS
Since implementing the bespoke web-based database system that Evergreen created for us, we have seen a 70% saving in time and money. I would have no hesitation in recommending Evergreen, as I have had nothing but the best service and best value from them.
John Emberton, Managing Director
National Lock and Safe
Evergreen Challenge: To create and host a stand alone website utilising Solutions Diverse's own servers to create an online ordering platform, for their customers whilst keeping the integrity of the customer's own branding intact. The system had to be robust and secure, being available only to the client and capable of handling orders from 600 stores belonging to one of their major customers with the possibility of being replicated and used to roll out to other big brand names in the Solutions Diverse prestigious list of clientele. Evergreen Solution: Evergreen created a custom online ordering system that its customers found easy to use and that had an effective administration facility for the Solutions Diverse administration team. Key Benefits: Back orders and returns can be easily monitored and multiple orders can be collated from the same client. A comprehensive range of customised reports produced from real-time updates gives greater business visibility. The individual customer's brand ideals and logo are used subtely throughout the system, maintaining brand consistency. Each store has a separate, secure log-in with customised dashboard showing a list of current orderded, back-ordered or returned items. Each store has the ability to view a history of the orders and returns they have made and create a returns docket, which lists the quantities and comments as to why a product is being returned. A PDF resource document section allows store users to access core documentation created by Solutions Diverse. Solutions Diverse now have a system that can be easily customised and replicated for other customers. The ordering process is now smoother both for the Solutions Diverse team and for its customers.
Online Ordering for Multiple Stores for Solutions Diverse
Evergreen were professional and reliable from the very start. They were competitively priced and provided all information as expected.
Pete Hewitt, Manager
Solutions Diverse
Database System
Secured Logins
Fast access to up-to-date data is vital for customers of Windowbase, a specialist in prospect data for the window industry and other sectors. When Windowbase wanted an updated database to meet changing customer requirements, a bespoke product was essential – as was a partner with the skills and experience to meet their high expectations ...
Multi-Client Prospecting System for Windowbase
Most reassuring of all is knowing we're working with a technically proficient team that clearly understands what we're trying to achieve and shares our enthusiasm.
Neil Parsonson, DB Manager
Windowbase Prospect Manager
Nationwide Property Solutions (NPS) specialise in tailoring specific [C]property maintenance packages[/C] to client needs. They needed a online web application to match their third-party service providers with their geographically diverse customers. Contractors receive work orders from the new system directly to their mobile phone, fax machine or email. Quotations and orders are managed alongside customer and contractor details and invoices are automatically produced once the work is completed. The whole system is hosted by Evergreen in secured environment with 24 hour backups and fail-safe power so that their business continuity is maintained.
Nationwide Property Solutions
Evergreen's system has helped us grow faster than we'd ever dreamed when we started. Commissioning Evergreen was one of our best business decisions.
Rob McTiffin, Managing Director
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