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Master of Public Health [MPH] - Course Overview
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Master of Public Health is a 2-year, full-time program in healthcare. The program is imparted by means of a variety of teaching/learning techniques, including lectures, case discussions, practical exercises, lab work, field visits, seminars, journal clubs, collaborative learning, group discussions, assignments, hands-on training, internship, and dissertation.
The mode of admission is a relevant entrance examination which is conducted at any of State, university, and national level. For applying to the course, candidates need to have attained a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline of Health Science from a recognized university, with a minimum aggregate score of 60%.
Top Institutes/Universities offering Master of Public Health are:
University of Lucknow
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
KLE University, Belgaum
The average tuition fee charged for this course charged by various Master of Public Health Colleges in India ranges between INR 3 to 6 Lacs for the full course.
Organizations such as WHO, McKinsey & Company, UN Children's Fund, PHFI, The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, etc. hire such postgraduates. Areas of employment for such postgraduates include hospitals, research centers, educational institutions, research institutions, etc.
They are hired for roles such as Director of Programs and Services, Health Communications Specialist, Public Health Management Analyst, Research Scientist, and such, with an average annual starting salary ranging between INR 3 to 10 Lacs, increasing with experience in the field.
Top Colleges for Master of Public Health [MPH]
Master of Public Health [MPH] in Maharashtra
M.Sc in Delhi-NCR
M.Sc in Maharashtra
M.Sc in Chennai
M.Sc in Uttar Pradesh
M.Sc in Telangana
Master of Public Health (MPH): Course Highlights
Tabulated here are the major highlights of the course.
Course Level Post Graduate
Examination Type Semester-based
Eligibility Bachelor's degree in any Health Science discipline, completed from a recognized university
Admission Process Based on counselling after qualification of a relevant entrance test and merit ranking
Course Fee INR 3 to 6 Lacs p.a.
Average Starting salary INR 3 to 15 Lacs p.a.
Top recruiting companies WHO, McKinsey & Company, UN Children's Fund, PHFI, The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, etc.
Master of Public Health(MPH): What is it About?
The course’s curriculum essentially includes on-campus and online classes, a capstone exercise, and a practicum-based project. The curriculum is structured to build knowledge, develop skills, and provide exposure to real-world situations in Public Health. The program aims to develop students’ competency in the following core areas:
Public Health Biology
Health Management and Functional Management
Public Health is multi-disciplinary in nature, incorporating components of study from disciplines such as Medicine, Engineering, Information Technology, Social Sciences, Management, etc. The program for public health has been designed for health promotion, health economics and policy, public health management, epidemiology and biostatistics, demography, social sciences, and others such.
The course essentially aims to:
Cultivate students' health management skills to prepare them to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of public health programs and services.
Prepare professionals for challenging careers in public health management in both public and private sectors, non-governmental organizations, as well as national and multinational organizations.
Master of Public Health(MPH): Top Institutes
Some of the top institutes offering the course in the country, along with the corresponding locations and fees charged by each, are listed below.
Average Fees (in INR)
IIHMR Jaipur 6 Lacs
Manipal University Manipal 2.65 Lacs
University of Lucknow Lucknow 50,000
Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phoole University Jaipur 36,000
Paravara Institute of Medical Sciences Ahmednagar 8 Lacs
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Delhi 3,640
University of Hyderabad Hyderabad 7,450
KLE University Belgaum -
Noida International University Gautam Budh Nagar 83,000
Amity University Noida 80,700
Manipal University Manipal 65,500
AISECT University Bhopal -
NITTE University Mangalore 78,000
Panjab University Chandigarh 5,850
Master of Public Health(MPH): Eligibility
Candidates wishing to pursue the course are needed to fulfil the minimum eligibility criteria listed below in order to apply for the course:
Graduation in any discipline, completed from a recognized institute.
A minimum aggregate score of 50% at the level of graduation.
Permanent registration with the State Dental Council.
Occasionally, relevant work experience in health/development sector.
Master of Public Health(MPH): Admission Process
Interested eligible candidates are offered admission to the course in India mostly on the basis of a relevant entrance test. Often subsequently, two additional rounds of Group Discussion and Personal Interview are held as part of the counselling procedure, wherein the candidate’s general aptitude for the course is examined. A merit list is then released, allotting available seats to qualifying candidates.
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Master of Public Health(MPH): Syllabus and Course Description
A semester-wise breakup of the course’s syllabus is tabulated here.
Introduction to Public Health Epidemiology
Human Biology & Public Health Chemistry Demography & Population Sciences
Medical & Health Statistics Project Planning & Management
Research Methods in Public Health Communicable & Infectious Diseases
Health Psychology, Communication & Counselling Non-communicable Diseases
Practical’s/Field visits Practical’s/Field visits
Health of Vulnerable Populations Public Health Nutrition
Environmental Health & Sustainable Development Health Systems Development & Management.
Occupational, Industrial and Urban Health International Health
Health Policy, Planning & Economics Research Project
Public Health Internship Practical’s/Field visits
Practical’s/Field visits -
Master of Public Health(MPH): Career Prospects
This field of Public Health includes components such as:
Hazardous waste inspection and control
Health-related administration, legislation, laws
Biosecurity, epidemiology, community activism
Sanitarian, disease specialization
Disease analysis
Food service, and coordination.
Such postgraduates may explore career opportunities in fields like health care analytics, Big data, GIS, consulting firms, policy related research, evidence-generation, and such.
Some of the popular professional avenues open to such postgraduates are listed below with the corresponding salaries offered for the respective positions.
Job Profile
Average Annual Pay Scale in INR
Biostatistician Biostatisticians collect relevant information, numbers, and data for researching public health, environmental science, and medicine. Biostatisticians are essential to organization and administration of public health work. 5 to 6 Lacs
Management Policy Advisor They are responsible for understanding the administration, public policy, legislation, and organising the operation of such areas. 10 to 25 Lacs
Tropical Disease Specialist A Tropical Disease Specialist is an expert in diseases that spread in tropical parts of the world. 10 to 25 Lacs
Reproductive Health Specialist A Reproductive Health Specialist is vital to all communities, with the job role involving the very source of growing a population. Reproductive health is especially important as it has to do with the community and its most vulnerable groups—women and children. 20 to Lacs
NGO Director NGO Directors are responsible for growth and development of NGOs. 30 to 50 Lacs
Outcomes Researcher An Outcomes Researcher handles the analyses of the outcome of any health care practice or program. They collect data from health care facilities, NGOs, corporations, government agencies, and other sources where healthcare programs and practices are implemented. 30 to 40 Lacs
Health Center Administrator A Health Centre Administrator is essential to the functions of public health. When administering health care, treatments, cures, etc., organization and administration is of utmost priority. 10 to 30 Lacs
Assistant Public Health Professor They educate others in this role, but mainly in relation to public health in general. 10 to 25 Lacs
Community Activist They are responsible for identifying the needs of the community in terms of health, and addressing these by lobbying for new programs and services. 5 to 15 Lacs
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Venezuela extends closure of key border with Colombia, Santos urges talks
by AFP August 23, 2015
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has extended indefinitely the closure of a popular border crossing with Colombia and declared a 60-day state of emergency in several western cities as authorities attempt to reassert control in a notoriously lawless area where three army officers were shot.
Maduro’s action late Friday followed his earlier decision to enforce a 72-hour closure of the normally busy crossing in Tachira state and deploy hundreds of additional troops in response to the shooting that wounded two lieutenants and a captain who were patrolling for smugglers.
Maduro said the Simon Bolivar international bridge would remain closed until the assailants are caught. He says the 60-day state of emergency, which can be extended for another two months, would allow security forces to regain.
The 1,400-mile (2,200-kilometer) border long has been plagued by violence stemming from Colombia’s half-century old rebel conflict, the presence of drug-trafficking gangs and, now, by smugglers of cheap goods from Venezuela.
“We’ve been discovering a frightful reality about how the criminals and paramilitaries operate. I’m under the obligation to free Venezuela of all this,” Maduro said Friday night in a televised address.
Authorities announced that eight suspected paramilitaries possibly linked to the attack were arrested Saturday as part of an operation to boost patrols along the border. Another 183 Colombians in Venezuela illegally were deported.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Maduro’s dramatic action was inexplicable and would hurt communities on both sides of the border. He said he would speak with the Venezuelan leader in the coming days and that foreign ministers from both countries would meet this week in hopes of quickly reopening the border.
“Closing the border brings problems. It generates a lot of unease and forces a lot of innocent people, including children, to clean up the mess left by others,” Santos said at an event Saturday in Bucaramanga.
Opponents of Maduro’s administration immediately denounced the move as an attempt to distract attention from a deep economic crisis that has led to collapsing support for the socialist government. In a statement, the Democratic Unity Alliance called on the international community to take note of what it considers a clear provocation likely to generate economic losses and threaten legislative elections scheduled for December.
“The decree of a state of emergency, only 109 days before crucial parliamentary elections, may be the escape valve used by the government to avoid a defeat that is both imminent and certain,” the opposition alliance said.
As part of a government crackdown against contraband, the government already had ordered nighttime closure of the border in Tachira, deployed more troops and toughened jail sentences for smuggling. It also rolled out a fingerprint-scanning system to restrict the amount of any single product shoppers can buy.
In total, the government says more than 6,000 people have been arrested for smuggling in the past year and it says more than 28,000 tons of food were seized last year in anti-smuggling operations.
border issuestensions with Venezuela
Colombia closes border crossings ahead of anti-government protests
Venezuela insists Colombia poses national threat, maintains troops at the border
Colombia’s military intelligence chief resigns over fabricated evidence in Venezuela report
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EFFECT OF BIOFUELS ON ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Yucheng Cao 1 and Lucjan Pawłowskil.pawlowski@pollub.pl 2
1 School of Environmental and Recourse Science, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou 311300, China
2 Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, ul. Nadbystrzycka 40 B, 20-618 Lublin, Poland
https://doi.org/10.2478/eces-2013-0055
Nowadays world faces crisis caused by growing energy demand. Threat of climate change caused by the increased emission of CO2 from burning of fossil fuels exerts pressure on wider use of renewable energy resources. It is believed that one of important resources of renewable energy are biofuels. In the paper we present that in the most cases it is not true. Wide use of biofuel, especially in European Union, poses threat to sustainable development of today’s world. It is going to be presented that the production of biofuels from agricultural crops is, in many cases, unsustainable due to the fact that it reduces the access to food by devoting cultivatable land to crops designated for the production of biofuels. What is more, it has also negative influence on the environment, namely it reduces biodiversity, pollute water and, what is curious, not in all cases the use of biofuels leads to the reduction of CO2 emission.
sustainable development; biofuels; climate change; zrównoważony rozwój; biopaliwa; zmiany klimatu
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Despite a strong evidence base and widespread affirmations of the connections between peace, good governance, and development, these issues remain among the most controversial in the post-2015 development agenda and are at risk of being left off the agenda in the intergovernmental process to forge a final agreement.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Jennifer Slotin
Topic(s): Emerging Powers, Fragile States
UN peacekeeping is increasingly under strain – over-deployed, heavily-mandated and under-resourced. This state of overstretch, coupled with continuing demand for new missions, presents a fundamental strategic challenge for the UN and its members. To adapt to the challenges facing peace operations, the international community must examine options for institutional improvements in UN peacekeeping as well as strategies for responding to emerging global trends.
Publication Date: Jul 23, 2013
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Center on International Cooperation, Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations
Region/Country: Horn of Africa, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa
These reports are part of a series of background documents prepared for the Commission on the Impact of Drug Trafficking on Governance, Security and Development in West Africa (WACD). The series editor is CIC Fellow Camino Kavanagh.
Publication Date: Jan 31, 2013
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Kwesi Aning, John Mark Pokoo, Isidore Obot, Camino Kavanagh, Stephen Ellis
Topic(s): Fragile States, Humanitarian Crises, International Security, Organized Crime
The State of the Humanitarian System | Assessing Performance and Progress (2010)
Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2009
Concepts and Dilemmas of Statebuilding in Fragile Situations : From Fragility to Resilience
China’s Role in Afghanistan
DR Congo braces for new troop offensive
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Who is SRG?
By chi, June 3, 2013 in Credit Forum
The telephone rings and the caller ID says it's Allstate Insurance. I let the answering machine pick it up figuring it was a sales call, even though we're on the do not call list. It was an automated voice, female with english accent that I recognized from past collection calls for DH. The past collection calls never stated who they were or who they were collecting for. Neither I nor DH has ever had any dealings with Allstate Insurance. The calls, including this one, simply said they were calling DH and if the person listening to the message is not DH then to hang up and if it is DH to hang on, and that it was not a sales call. After a short time after that statement they disconnected.
I Googled the phone number and there was not a single entry for it. I called the number and an automated voice said it was SRG and to hang on until a rep came on the line. I Googled SRG and it's a CA.
What to do about a CA who is using the name Allstate Insurance for the caller ID?
Cosmos Human
Maybe a call to Allstate to let them know they are being spoofed? They need to follow up with a C and D order...
It was hard getting a phone number for the right dept at Allstate Ins. but I did manage to finally find an automated leave a message number with their fraud division. I called and gave them the info. I also called my AG and left a message with them too.
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That is so freaking strange.
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Also talk to a NACA attorney. Spoofing is a big no-no for CAs/JDBs.
Someone in the office of the AG called back and I explained about the message left on the answering machine. About the local number they had used that was showing on the caller ID was no where to be found on Google. That they had used the name of an insurance company, which they aren't affiliated with, for that phone number on the caller ID. She agreed with me about the spoofing but she basically said there was nothing they could do because it was a CA and there are privacy laws involved. So I asked her if this CA could spoof any company name and get away with it? She hemmed and hawed a bit then said, "well, yeah"
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By now, many of us probably know someone who’s been affected by opioid addiction. Young adults from ages 18 to 25 are the biggest abusers of prescription drugs, including opioid painkillers, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The opioid epidemic has reached critical levels and was even declared a national emergency in 2017. “The problem with opiates is that using them even five days in a row can lead to physical dependence,” says Corinne Laird, LCSW, an adjunct lecturer at the Columbia University School of Social Work who specializes in substance abuse.
Opioid addiction doesn’t just affect the addict. “Dealing with the addiction of a loved one can at times be as trying as living with one’s own addiction,” says Laird. It’s important to take care of yourself and “acknowledge that your loved one’s continued addiction or success in recovery is beyond your control,” she says.
“My brother had an opioid addiction, and at first I got really upset because he would lie or steal drugs from family members that needed it for medical reasons. It caused a lot of issues in my family,” says Anna R.*, a graduate student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. “When he was finally able to accept that he had an issue, I was able to help him get medication for his addiction to wean him off the drugs he had been doing and helped him find a doctor. He is a lot better now.”
Despite increasing awareness of the crisis, opioid overdose is still on the rise, according to NIDA. Here’s what you should know to help a friend or loved one who might be dealing with addiction.
Physical changes
“Classic signs of opioid use include ‘pinned’ [or very small] pupils, slowing of motor skills, and often nodding off or seeming to doze off in the middle of an activity,” says Laird.
According to Dr. Indra Cidambi, MD, vice president of the New Jersey Society of Addiction Medicine, you may also notice:
Cold, sweaty palms or shaking hands
Red, watery eyes
A general lack of personal hygiene that’s uncharacteristic of the person
Flu-like symptoms, which can be a sign of withdrawal
“Individuals affected by substance abuse show distinct changes in personality, with no identifiable cause,” says Dr. Cidambi. “They are likely to become more moody and irritable, and they have difficulty paying attention. They may lose their motivation and energy.”
“Individuals using substances are frequently unable to fulfill their responsibilities,” says Dr. Cidambi. “They are more inclined to call in sick or show up late for work or school.”
Other warning signs include:
Changes in their sleeping habits
Behaving in a way that is increasingly unreliable
Isolating themselves from friends and family
Becoming increasingly desperate for money
“The cost of obtaining drugs or alcohol for heavy, daily use can be prohibitive,” says Dr. Cidambi. “Consequently, the need for money is chronic and [loved ones] using substances may frequently borrow money from you.”
One of the biggest ways you can intervene to help someone with opioid addiction is knowing the signs of overdose and what to do if you see them. Knowing how to get them emergency treatment right away could potentially save their life.
What overdose looks like and how to intervene
Most overdose deaths aren’t instant—there’s a one- to three-hour window to intervene.
“If you notice that a friend or family member may have overdosed, first check to see if they are responsive by calling their name and tapping on their chest. If they do not respond, immediately call 911 and begin rescue breaths by performing basic CPR,” says Laird.
Signs of overdose
If you see any of the following signs, act quickly and call 911:
Small pupils
Inability to stand or walk
Slurred speech or inability to talk
Shallow, uneven breathing
Being unresponsive (meaning they don’t respond to verbal or physical stimulation, like rubbing your knuckles into their sternum or pinching their earlobes to try to rouse them)
Pale face or blue lips
Gurgling chest sounds
Know about naloxone
Naloxone (also called naltrexone or Narcan®) reverses the effects of an opioid overdose instantly. “There are very few side effects of administering Narcan®, but one is that the addicted person may go into immediate withdrawal. This is uncomfortable for the opiate user but is not fatal,” says Laird.
The overdose antidote can be administered via injection or nasal spray, and its effects “will last 60 to 90 minutes, which is enough time to get a person appropriate medical care,” explains Laird.
Access to naloxone is expanding. “Most states have passed laws to widen the availability of naloxone—it’s available in most states without a prescription,” says Dr. Cidambi. “The best resource to look to when learning where naloxone is accessible is asking your local pharmacy or going online to your local pharmacy’s website.”
Don’t panic if you can’t get to a dose quickly: Most police officers and EMTs carry naloxone, according to Dr. Cidambi. So if you call 911 and let them know the situation, they should have it.
Be aware of Good Samaritan laws
In most states, people who call for help in a suspected overdose are immune from drug-related criminal charges under Good Samaritan laws (also known as 911 immunity laws). Your school may have similar policies.
Find more information about your state.
Other ways to try to help someone with addiction
Try to remain nonjudgmental. “If the decision is made to discuss one’s concerns with the addicted person, it’s always better to come from a place of curiosity and compassion than anger, accusation, or nagging,” says Laird. “Like anyone else, a person suffering with addiction needs and deserves support or empathy—an attacking approach will likely lead to defensiveness and shutting down, perhaps pushing them further into isolation and away from the support they need.”
Ask at your student health center or counseling center about addiction assistance. They may offer specific counseling or connect you with an addiction treatment center.
Ask a trusted professor, TA, or RA about the best campus resource. Some states have mandatory reporting laws, which require school staff to report drug use—ask your school administrator what their policy is.
Call your local hospital for help finding medical professionals with addiction expertise.
Try Narcotics Anonymous (NA) for local, free, anonymous support groups. They’re designed to be a source of relief and support when you’re feeling desperate and hopeless.
If you are struggling with substance abuse or know someone who is, find treatment near you or call the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) 24/7 national helpline at 800-662-HELP.
Remember, you can provide support to someone dealing with addiction, but you can’t force them to get help, and ultimately you don’t have control over the outcome. It’s important that you remember to take care of yourself and seek out the emotional support you need when dealing with an addicted loved one. Nar-anon is an excellent support resource for those who have loved ones suffering from addiction.
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Apple-FBI fight over iPhone encryption pits privacy against national security
""This is a new frontier," said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. "I know of no other statutory provision that would arguably create an obligation for device manufacturers to help out the government."
Apple may not have fought orders in the past because "it was easy for Apple to give the data," she said.
"But the architecture of the phones changed," she said. "This is about Apple creating a new forensic version of its software to do the job the FBI wants it to do." Read more about Apple-FBI fight over iPhone encryption pits privacy against national security
The federal crime nobody talks about in 'Making a Murderer'
The Daily Dot
"Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said accessing Halbach's wireless account is possibly a violation of the CFAA. “The short answer is yes, it could be,” she told the Daily Dot in an email, though she says she has not yet watched Making a Murderer." Read more about The federal crime nobody talks about in 'Making a Murderer'
Not on Her Watch
Stanford Alumni Magazine
TO UNDERSTAND JENNIFER GRANICK’S VIEWS on freedom and privacy, consider her interactions with Apple. In 2010, she and the company were at odds. Debate was raging over the practice of “jailbreaking,” which enabled iPhone users to circumvent locks Apple put on its devices so they could switch carriers or install apps not sold by Apple. The company claimed the practice led to copyright infringement. Then, Granick was civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an advocacy group focused on protecting individuals’ rights in the digital world. Read more about Not on Her Watch
The Algorithms Are Taking Over: Who Controls Our Online Future?
"In the words of Jennifer Granick, we are beginning to see a web “shift[ing] from liberator to oppressor … the end of the Internet Dream.”" Read more about The Algorithms Are Taking Over: Who Controls Our Online Future?
Will Fear Change the Internet? Self-Policing Has Already Started
""The Internet is moving away from a place where anyone can say anything and find any information they want," Jennifer Granick, director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, told NBC News. "My hypothesis is that the Internet will become more like TV."" Read more about Will Fear Change the Internet? Self-Policing Has Already Started
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The EBRD is committed to furthering progress towards ‘market-oriented economies and the promotion of private and entrepreneurial initiative’. This has been its guiding principle since its creation at the beginning of the 1990s and, new challenges and the welcoming of new countries to the EBRD world notwithstanding, will continue to be its mission in years to come.
A turning point in the history of Europe
The EBRD was set up in haste to meet the challenge of an extraordinary moment in Europe’s history, the collapse of communism in its East. In fact, a mere 18 months elapsed between the first mooting of the idea of a European bank, by President François Mitterrand of France, in October 1989 and its opening for business with headquarters in London in April 1991.
Urgency and the ability to respond to momentous events swiftly and decisively, whether it be the end of the Soviet Union, financial crises or the ‘Arab Spring,’ have been among the EBRD’s hallmarks from the start.
During the frenetic years of the early 1990s the EBRD’s emphasis on the private sector as the main driver for change in Central and Eastern Europe was vindicated many times over. This was the period that established the EBRD’s reputation as an expert on transition to the open market.
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A Complete Guide to Visiting Bwindi Forest of Uganda
By: David on January 10, 2020 0
A visit to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is complete when you include mountain gorilla trekking in your travel plan. Trekking mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a lifetime experience and offers trekkers a chance to see the rare mountain gorillas in the wild. The massive and humble creatures remain endangered species with only 1004 individuals still thriving on earth. Bwindi National Park is shared by the southwestern districts of Kanungu, Kisoro and Kabale just at border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This park attracts thousands of visitors on Uganda gorilla trekking safari. It boasts of its untamed tropical rainforest and winding through it rewards visitors with magical encounters with the great apes while in the wild.
Visitors on gorilla safari in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park gather at anyone of its four regions; Ruhija, Nkuringo, Rushaga and Buhoma. It is from these regions where trekkers are briefed on the set gorilla trekking etiquette before they start a search to see gorillas in the wild. Trekkers on Uganda gorilla safari to Bwindi National Park are assigned to one of the 20 groups that have been habituated for gorilla watching. Every day, 8 visitors are allocated to a gorilla family that they are to visit within Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
The groups that have been habituated for gorilla visits include;
Bitukura, Oruzongo, Mukiza, Kyaguriro in Ruhija region east of Bwindi National Park;
Mubare, Katwe, Rushegura, Habinyanja in Buhoma area;
Nshongi, Kahungye, Busingye, Mishaya, Bweza, Mucunguzi, Kutu, Rwigi, Bikingi in Rushaga region
In the Nkuringo region the habituated gorilla groups include Nkuringo, Christmas and Bushaho.
Best time to visit Bwindi to see gorillas
A visit to Bwindi to see gorillas can be done at any time of the year. However, the dry season is considered the best time to visit Bwindi to see mountain gorillas in the wild. The dry season starts in June, July, August, September and December, January, February. Gorilla safaris in Bwindi National Park can also be done during the wet months of the year beginning March, April, May and October, November. Each season has its own significance when it comes to gorilla trekking safaris in Bwindi National Park. The dry season comes with low rainfall and the habitat remains relatively drier thus making it easier for trekkers to track these creatures. The wet season is characterized by heavy rainfall which makes it a bit challenging to hike through the jungles to search for these massive apes but comes with plenty of forage for them to feed on.
Gorilla trekking permits
With about 160 gorilla permits, visitors on gorilla trekking safaris in Bwindi National Park can obtain their permits at $600. However, from 2020, gorilla permits will be obtainable at $700 per person. You can secure one through a local destination management company or reservation office at Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA). Each gorilla permit allows trekkers to explore only one habituated family.
Things to pack for gorilla trekking in Bwindi
Visitors on a gorilla safari are advised to pack appropriately starting with essentials. Your packing list should have rain jacket/poncho, waterproof hiking boots, insect repellents, camera with no flashlight, waterproof day pack, long sleeved shirt/t-shirt, valid passport, visa, gardening gloves, socks, sun screen, sun hat, binoculars, walking stick but this can be got at the park headquarters, snacks, bottled water, sweater to mention but a few.
Briefing and length of the trek
Gorilla treks in Bwindi National Park starts with an early morning. The session starts with a briefing from the local guides on the set safety measures and guidelines to watching the mountain gorillas in the wild. It is important to reach the designated outposts within Bwindi in time.
At 8:00am, trekkers start a search for the assigned gorilla group that has been given to you by the park officials. Accompanied by a park ranger guide, embark on the hike through the natural habitat where mountain gorillas live.
Treks normally cover 2-6 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas within the forest. Once you find these creatures, you have only an hour to strike your imaginations! You can take as many photos as you like! You will also learn about their behaviors of the gorillas first hand and feel free to ask the guide what you would like to know. Please note that you need to keep the voices low and you can take the pictures without flash photography.
Gorilla trekking etiquette
Trekkers on gorilla safaris in Bwindi National Park are required to observe the set rules and regulations while on a trek to see mountain gorillas in the wild. They include;
No flashlight camera is allowed when taking pictures of gorillas,
Always keep a distance of 7 meters away from gorillas
You have an hour to have a face to face encounter with these great apes
Take nothing but pictures!
Learn their behaviors and follow the guide’s advice during the encounter with the gentle giants.
Only eight visitors are allowed to trek one habituated group
In case of illness, you are not allowed to trek gorillas. While tracking the gorillas, when a call of sneezing comes in, please cover your nose and mouth in case you need to cough;
Keep your voices low while on search for gorillas.
Accommodation options at Bwindi National Park
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park comprises of diverse accommodation choices ranging from budget to luxury. Visitors on gorilla safaris can spend a night at Buhoma Lodge, Gorilla Mist Camp, Chameleon Hill Lodge, Gorilla Safari Lodge, Clouds Gorilla Lodge, Bakiga Lodge, Mahogany Spring Lodge, Ichumbi Gorilla Lodge, Buhoma Community Rest Camp and many others.
Getting to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Travelers on Uganda gorilla safari can get to Bwindi National Park by road or by flight. By road, it can take you 8-10 hours to drive from Kampala or Entebbe to this park or connect from Kigali through Katuna/Chanika border. The other alternative is taking a flight from Entebbe International Airport or Kajjansi airfield to Kisoro/Kihihi airstrip.
In summary, Bwindi National Park is one of the magical gorilla destinations in Africa worth visiting to see the rare mountain gorillas in the wild.
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DNA vs No DNA: OJ Case Compared to the Exonerated 5
June 26, 2019 August 1, 2019 Danii Gold
Over the past two weeks, I finished watching When They See Us and The People vs. O.J on Netflix. I watched part 1 of When They See Us and took a week break because, well, it’s sad. In that week, I watched The OJ series and I know I’m late on it but it was really shocking how much evidence they had and he was proven innocent.
All The Evidence In The World and No Conviction
OJ was known to be abusive to his ex-wife Nicole Brown, according to police calls ad documents. He was also known as being a charming professional football player. He wasn’t caught at the scene of the crime, but his blood was there. A glove was found at the scene at the crime, but it didn’t fit his hand. When he got the call about Nicole being dead, he didn’t ask how she died. OJ was on a whole speed chase with his friend Aj Cowlings driving him because he was threatening to kill himself. Why would he threaten to kill himself if he didn’t kill Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman? There were too many red flags. Of course Black people wanted him to be innocent because there have been several instances where black people were wrongfully convicted and it was probably time for a black person to get away with something. An instance when black people were wrongfully convicted were the Central Park 5, also known as the Exonerated 5, also known as Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, and Kevin Richardson.
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The story about the exonerated 5 is this; five young boys [Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, and Kevin Richardson] were accused of raping a white woman jogging in Central Park on April 19, 1989. They were coerced into admitting to the crime so they would get less time. No DNA placed them at the scene of crime. Yes, they were in the park around the time of the incident but they were on a totally different side. Some fight broke out at the park and as some of them were trying to leave, they got picked up by the police. The next day, the police picked up the others and one in particular, Korey, came along with his friend Yusef just so he wouldn’t be alone.
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The police accused these young boys because they were black and they so happened to be at the park at the wrong time. They manipulated them so bad they made Korey, Yusef, Kevin, Antron and Raymond make up stories and pin stories against each other just so they could leave the police station. Some of the boys were questioned without a parent present. This was a sad story to watch because the boys were so young and didn’t know how corrupt the system was. Between the 5 of them, they spent between 6 years to 13 years behind bars. Even though the real rapist admitted to the crime, the men had already did their time. Korey was still doing time when Matias Reyes admitted to the crime and he was even in prison with him.
The exonerated 5 sued the City of New York and got a large settlement, but no amount of money could give these men back the time they spend in prison and the time they lost. They will forever be mentally scarred from this traumatic life event.
My Analysis
It’s crazy how the system doesn’t properly serve justice but it’s a reality. In New York, Korey, Yusef, Antron, Kevin and Raymond were young boys, kids in a sense and they were 100% innocent but the way Linda Fairstein saw it, they were black, young and guilty. Innocent kids were forced into a juvenile detention and even prison all over the rape of a woman (in which they didn’t do). The prosecution placed judgement on them and wanted to so desperately solve this case, even if it meant wrongfully convicting someone. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, during their sentence, O.J is found not guilty of murdering Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. As I stated above, black people have been wrongfully convicted for years and it was time for a black person to get away with something but murder tho? With plain site DNA? What if some of jurors (the many that were selected) knew that OJ was guilty and they paid attention to the Central Park 5 case that happened in ’89 and figured “Those boys were innocent, OJ isn’t but we’re gonna vote not guilty anyway.” It’s sounds crazy but it’s a thought. The justice system has still come a ways, but they have a long way to go, especially with police brutality and them being proven innocent.
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Speak Out: Dover crime
Jan 14th, 2020 · by Delaware State News · Comments: 0
In a Sunday story headlined “‘Take guns and drugs off the streets’” Mayor Robin R. Christiansen, who pledged Dec. 31 to devise a plan to curtail the gun violence, rode with a patrol shift supervisor from about 7:15 p.m. to midnight Friday. During that time, he viewed the evidence seized from the South New Street raid. (As mayor, he oversees the police department.)
“This should give the public a sense of security in that the police department is doing an excellent job in making a concerted effort to take guns and drugs off the streets in order to increase safety within the city,” Mayor Christiansen said, while surveying the haul.
• So, they had to have the mayor riding with them to do this? Shouldn’t this be what they do all the time? Only because the police take a hands-off approach to thugs did it get so out of control. Crack down on these cretins and they’ll move someplace else, like Harrington. — Dave Duncan
•So let me get this straight. You’re blaming the police for criminals. decisions to involve themselves in crime? — Willy Woods
• Unfortunately, the police do their jobs and our justice system fails to punish. If you want to point a finger, point it where it belongs. — Jackie Veal Cates
•Article I, Section 20 of the Delaware Constitution, states: “A person has the right to keep and bear arms for the defense of self, family, home and State, and for hunting and recreational use.” — Tyler Cole
• A person does have a 2nd amendment right, up to the point where they give it up. Those who commit violent crimes should not continue to possess that right. — Lisa Bell
• Why did he go home at midnight? That’s when things start percolating…oh wait, I think I just answered my own question. We don’t need gimmicks like this. Dover is out of control. — Ronnie Ponde
•It would help when the judges keep the people in jail who commit the gun crimes. — Debra Meinhardt Petro
• The mayor can do all he wants however the Democratic liberal AG will keep cutting deals for gun charges, drugs, and pedophiles. — Brady Allen
• I’m glad they got that “ air-soft “ off the street! — Lou Bialota
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Will Tebow’s Circus be a Total Jet-Wreck? Plus a Bonus Point on Manning and Elway, and Why Manning Didn’t Consider One Team
1 Comment Posted by Derek Johnson on March 22, 2012
Yesterday as The Herd on ESPN Radio was ending, an event occurred that I would subsequently hashtag as a #2bletwitternuke. News of the New Orleans Saints suspensions and the Tim Tebow trade from the Broncos to the Jets broke within seconds of each other, and I was just thankful it happened to be on a day when I was reading 37 corn samples and could just listen to the radio. The Tebow-to-the-Jets trade came completely out of nowhere; ESPN had only begun to discuss it as a possibility that morning.
Peyton Manning, in essence, bailed John Elway out of the second year he had to give Tebow. Denver certainly would have done poorly with their new, first-place schedule, and Tebow would have made them look even more pathetic in defeat. With Manning, Elway could jettison Tebow and declare the first-rounder that was burned on him a semi-bust. Thus end
The price that the Jets paid for Tim Tebow and a seventh round draft choice (a throw-in) was reasonable. The only way the Broncos could have done better would be if the Jets had agreed to a sixth-round choice this year and a conditional choice next year (which probably could have been as high as second rounder, if Tebow had started half the season). Ultimately, Elway can’t get back the three picks that Josh McDaniels traded for Tebow (ironically, Ed Dickson and Dennis Pitta, two of the three players the Ravens got in the trade are viable NFL players. The other, Sergio Kindle, has had more legal troubles than anything else and seems to be the anti-Tebow.)
The Jets seem to be the most abnormal fit for Tebow. Other than running the wildcat for Tony Sparano (which is barely an effective NFL offense anymore), it seems like the Jets are the opposite culture for Tebow. Granted, the one aspect that Tebow and the Jets have in common is that both are outspoken, but unfortunately, they are outspoken for different purposes. The Jets like to make lofty promises of winning the Super Bowl, Tebow likes to make proclamations of Christ to the hilt. And New York isn’t exactly known for religious conservatism. (Tebow’s religion)
Colin Cowherd raised an interesting point on his show that I, as a Lutheran and a theologian of the cross, found interesting. An NFL source told him that, inside the Broncos’ locker room, Tebow was being perceived as an attention-lover, and that part of the reason he wanted to go to New York over Jacksonville was that Tebow wants exposure in a new market. While Tebow often does speak about being humble, one has to question if he is choosing worldly glory over God’s calling. I don’t know the answer to this, but if Tebow’s teammates perceive that he likes the attention, there might be something to that. (My issues with evangelicals) (The Social Church)
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And what about Mark Sanchez? As I listened to the radio chatter, I began to wonder if Tebow-on-the-Jets would lead to Sanchez demanding a trade. Does Sanchez have enough Jay Cutler in him to stand up, walk out of the Jets facilities, and say, “I’m not dealing with this crap. Trade me.” Sanchez has always put forth a team-first image, in spite of any differences he has had with Rex Ryan, a run-first coach. Two thing are for sure-if Sanchez does demand a trade, some quarterback-hungry team (Cleveland, San Francisco) will be more than read to throw a package including a first rounder at the Jets. And second, if Sanchez does leave the Jets due to Tebow, it’s proof that Tebow is self-absorbed on some level. (My Tebow posts)
Bonus Point: Peter King wondered why Manning wasn’t considering the Kansas City Chiefs, which I had thought of myself. The Chiefs have a good young nucleus, with a number of players coming back from injuries, and most importantly, the schedule of a team that finished fourth in their division. With a good draft and the addition of a good pass rusher, Kansas City could win the AFC west with Manning, or at least make the playoffs.
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Tebow: the Aftermath, and the Off-Season
Leave a comment Posted by Derek Johnson on January 17, 2012
Saturday night,Tim Tebow lost to the Patriots, and honestly: I find it to be a non-event. I had already made up my mind on Tebow weeks ago and was not surprised that Patriots buried the Broncos. While I thought that maybe the Broncos could have come up with a better defensive plan the second time around for Brady, it turned out that once again, Brady was motivated to show everyone how a real quarterback plays, and that was that.
When I was watching the highlights of the second Broncos-Chiefs game with a friend who is a retired coach, I asked him what I suspected, and Gene said that yes, the Chiefs’ defense was playing the Broncos’ man for man. As long as each player tackled the player he was assigned to, they didn’t have a problem with Tebow. In the handful of plays I watched in that game (and against the Patriots), players knifed straight to Tebow on the option. It reminded me of when Nebraska in the late 90’s and early 2000’s played teams with lots of athletes.
Football, as odd as it may sound, isn’t usually a game of 11-of-11. It’s a game (especially in the NFL) where the best players dictate match-ups: a great pass-rusher or wide receiver has to be double teamed. The whole principle of a two-deep zone is that the offense will have four players who can burn you. A defense prepares every week to stop a best players, not play teams man-for-man.
The success of Chiefs and the Broncos shows that indeed, the league has caught up to Tebow. Once they’ve seen his option game a couple of times, it’s not that hard to stop. And once a team goes into a game with their assignments, they can play with reckless abandon and shut down Denver’s offense. Here’s why no one runs the option in the NFL.
Still, Elway and Fox are right in bringing Tebow back for next year. Given his work habits, it is likely that Tebow can improve as a passer. But one question in my mind is, will Eddie Royal, Demaryius Thomas, and Eric Decker stay after practice to work with a quarterback whose presence on the field means that they will catch the football less? And who’s going to be Denver’s backup? Could Donovan McNabb be the answer? With a skill set similar to Tebow’s, it could that McNabb would make the ideal backup, all though his work ethic has come into question since he left Philadelphia. David Garrard also seems like a good backup option.
But the one thing in my mind that I hope to see Tebow improve upon is his foot work, mainly because watching him run one and then the other is so painful. I do think he has improved to a degree: there are times after read or two he can find a receiver, but if he gets pressured, he runs outside the pocket, as if he thinks that somehow, he’ll make it around the end and there’s a play to be made.
Elway (and by extension, Tebow) did receive one bit of fortune: the Chargers decided to keep Norv Turner and AJ Smith. Had Dean Spanos decided to clean house and bring in Jeff Fisher (or perhaps one of the more high profile coaches waiting for the perfect coach), Elway may not have had the liberty of giving Tebow another year.
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Tim Tebow, part 3: Is God helping the Broncos win?
1 Comment Posted by Derek Johnson on December 18, 2011
Tim Tebow’s pastor in Colorado recently stole the headlines by saying that God was the reason that the Broncos were winning. Such a declaration of God’s blessing of an athletic team actually has a precedent in the history of football in the state of Colorado: over twenty ago, Bill McCartney’s Colorado Buffaloes team chaplain predicted success for his team in the form of a dream which featured players with golden helmets on top of a hill (McCartney recorded this dream in his 1995 book From Ashes to Glory.) Indeed, the altitude in Colorado seems to have a way breeding wild predictions.
This kind of theology, that God blesses those who proclaim him with material success, is tailor-made for the American evangelical; just read one of Joel Osteen’s sermons. I myself, as a follower of conservative, traditional Lutheran theology, believe that, while all material possessions are gifts from God, despise any direct connection between believing in Christ and material wealth and/or success.
Let me offer a different explanation: as I said before, the Broncos have had a string of beatable teams in a row and have played up under Tebow’s leadership. First win, there was woeful Miami. Second win, there was Oakland, who was starting a new quarterback who didn’t have the benefit of any training camp. Then, bad Kansas City with a coach who is now unemployed. Then a limited Jets team on a short week and a Chargers team who was in the middle of a loosing streak. Finally, they played a bad Minnesota team, and then a Chicago team without its starting quarterback and running back, 75% of their offense. When I look around the NFL, I see team like this every year that get a favorable string of games like this rise up and do very well: the Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills at the beginning of this year. The Kansas City Chiefs last year rose up when they had the chance to play against the woeful NFC west; the only good year the Cleveland Browns have had in the last seven was in 2007 when they got to play against the same bad division.
But to this pastor’s point, there are a string of unusual breaks in games that have allowed Denver to win. Recovering an onside kick against Miami, San Diego loosing yards and then missing a field goal that would have won the game, and Chicago, first when Marion Barber didn’t go out of bounds when the Bears had the lead in regulation and again when Barber fumbled just as the Bears were getting into field goal range. No, I personally don’t want to deny any chance of divine intervention in any subtle act in our world. I don’t want to limit God. But I would also point out that all these event, and others I haven’t mentioned, are all signs of a team who has bought into its quarterback and who are making their own luck. When I watched Iowa State play against Oklahoma State, I saw nearly the exact same thing: an underdog team play up when it felt like it had a chance of an upset, making the most of their opportunities. Now is there some element of luck beyond the Broncos’ in this? Yes, there is, but again, I’m not saying where it comes from. And again, I see it every week in both college and pro football.
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Tebow, part 2: the offense, and its sustainability; and why the Broncos are unable to trade him
So yesterday, I hoped in the Tebow-mania, and published my initial thoughts. Now, I’ll move on to the Broncos’ offense and why there are no trade parnters for Tebow
Of course one of the oddities of the Tebow phenomenon is the Broncos have opted to run a college-style option, that features Tebow running on average eight times a game, and sometimes more than twenty. This does beg some interesting questions on the part of Jon Fox. Clearly, Fox is showing by running this kind of offense what matters the most to him is winning right now, which Denver is. But one must ask themselves this: if Denver’s goal is to win long-term, wouldn’t they be better off having Tebow throw more often? And also, if Elway and Fox’s collective goal with playing Tebow now was to show the fans that Tebow isn’t a long-term answer at quarterback, wouldn’t they be better off just asking Tebow to throw 40 times a game?
My best guess as to why Denver is doing this is simple: Josh McDaniels spent a first-round draft pick on Tebow, and the current regime feels like they just can’t throw it away. It is probable that Denver did shop Tebow in the off-season; Elway admitted that he’d been hoping that McDaniels would get an offensive coordinator job on a team that needed a quarterback, so he could trade Tebow. Perhaps by playing Tebow in this offense, Elway and Fox feel they can at least keep Tebow’s value consistent, so they can get something out of him. And in their poor division, if they could get at least two playoff years in five and be close to .500 in the other three, that may be their best value for Tebow.
But is it worth their time to try to make Tebow into a thrower? When you look at other quarterbacks who’ve come into the NFL, most of them are not protected. Sam Bradford, Christian Ponder, and other rookie quarterbacks were throwing 40 passes a game early in their rookie season, even before they’d been established. Steve Young even said on ESPN that Fox was doing Tebow a disservice by not having him through the ball more. That is certainly possible that long-term, Tebow may not be able to succeed running the option, but let’s at least look at the sustainability of the offense.
Many analyst compare Denver’s offense to the wildcat and say, eventually, teams will see it enough times and figure out how to defend it. I would say, yes, that is partially true. But consider: the wildcat broke into the league with the Dolphins in 2008. By the middle of the season, half of the league was running it, which meant teams were seeing it on a consistent basis. Eventually, it faded out. So far, Denver’s offense has been wildly successful, but no one has copied. No one can: they don’t have a six-three, 235 pound quarterback to run it. In a league were defense are built to cover four wide receivers and show exotic blitz schemes, the discipline to face Tebow’s offense is hard to find. That doesn’t mean it will be successful long-term, but it may have a chance at least. And indeed, it will be curious to see if how the Chiefs are able to defend Tebow when they see him for the second time in Week 17.
While thinking about Denver’s peculiar offense, I wondered if Georgia Tech and their triple option offense would give us a good comparison as to how it would work long-term. So I decided to look at Tech’s record over the last two years against teams who saw their offense every year. There were seven teams who’d played Tech every year, the other five teams in the ACC Coastal division, their protected rival Clemson, and in-state rival Georgia. The record against those seven teams the last two years is 6-8, with only win against a winning team on the road.
One of the problems for this offense is that, it’s hard to get better at it in the off-season. The NFL off-season is designed for teams to make gains in the passing game, to practice with 7-7 and work on routes. With OTA’s, training camps, and in-season practice time cut back, it may be harder for the Broncos to perfect their run-oriented offense, and it may take a while for it to get going at the beginning of the season.
But the off-season may provide Tebow with the time he needs to improve as a thrower. Clearly, as I stated before, Tebow has what many of the athletic quarterbacks who came before him didn’t have: incredible leadership and work-ethic, first person in the facilities in the morningand the last to leave. If he doesn’t succeed as an NFL passer, it won’t be because he didn’t try. And with unlimited practice for Tebow and his receivers during the off-season, it does mean that he has the chance to improve his throwing motion and his passing skills. If Tebow’s success on the field can be carried into an off-season program, it could be enough to at least maintain the success the Broncos are having.
As I wrote before, I think that Tebow has won enough to merit another. Aside from on-field though, I also think it has a lot to do with the trade possibilities that are out there. As I mentioned before, Josh McDaniels took Tebow in the first round, making it impossible for the Broncos to get value for him.
If Tebow had been picked in the third round or lower (as many experts suggested, since he wouldn’t have been a sure-fire starter even if he changed positions), this wouldn’t have even been an issue. In fact, it would have been easier for Elway to trade him, because he could dump him for a low round pick or release him outright. But since Tebow was a first-round pick, Elway would likely have to get a second-rounder just to get value, and that’s not happening. Here’s why.
The only places in the NFL you could trade Tebow to now are places where the fans aren’t going to get fooled by Tebow, meaning they either have a good entrenched quarterback or have seen enough good football not to expect Tebow to be the hero. That list would be the Patriots, the Steelers, the Ravens, the Eagles (although unlikely, given their current mess), the Falcons, the Texans, the Packers (although doubtfully a fit with Rodgers), and possibly the Cowboy, Jets, and maybe the Bears, although I’d doubt Jay Cutler has enough good will to withstand Tebow mania. The problem with any good team is though, Tebow would be a side player and isn’t worth more than a third-rounder. The best Denver could do in this scenario would be to trade Tebow and possibly a sixth-or-seventh-rounder for a 2012 fourth-rounder, a marginal player, and a conditional pick in the 2013 that could become a third-rounder depending upon incentives (basically the Brady Quinn deal).
Denver’s best option would be to get a pick out of a sucker team who is desperate to sell seats and get publicity. Buffalo isn’t likely; while they were devastated when McDaniels beat them to Tebow, they’re committed to Ryan Fitzpatrick, for better or worse. Ditto for Jacksonville with Blaine Gabbert, but the necessity to sell tickets and make a splash certainly would appeal to the new Jags owner. Miami and Steven Ross, never one to pass on celebrity, might be enticed, but there is a coaching vacancy that has to be settled their. Dan Synder also favors celebrity, but Mike Shanahan would likely shun such a move. Probably the biggest sucker for Tebow out there would be Pete Carroll in Seattle, a big fan of flash over substance who likely wouldn’t have a problem fitting an offense to Tebow.
But what is most likely is that Tebow will return for at least another year to the Broncos. What might dictate whether or not Elway feels he has to make a move is who takes the open jobs in the AFC West. If both the Chiefs and the Raiders hire coordinators and not experienced coaches, Elway might as well just stick things out with Tebow. But if Bill Cowher is enticed out of CBS’ studio to the Chargers, a team that runs his style of defense and has a quarterback in place, that could change the game for Elway.
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Tebow and the Broncos: Part one, the perspective of Elway and Fox
2 Comments Posted by Derek Johnson on December 16, 2011
So since I have a blog and like to write about topics, I suppose I now have to write about Tim Tebow, if for no other reason than to draw more people to this blog. Seriously, I do like Tebow and am grateful that a Christian person has such a visible platform in the NFL. Tebow is becoming one of the driving figures of sports talk radio, going on their Mount Rushmore with Bob Knight, Pete Rose and Brett Farve. I began writing my thoughts on Tebow, and it turned into about three thousand words, so I think I will publish them in at least three installments. The first entry are my initial thoughts on Tebow when he entered the NFL, and the perspective of Denver personnel head John Elway and head coahc Jon Fox.
Full disclosure, I never understood why NFL teams thought they had to pick Tim Tebow. Tommie Frazier, the first football hero I can remember (and one of only four or five college football players comparable to Tebow) was barely sniffed by the NFL and quickly retired. Nor did I understand why Tebow wanted so badly to play quarterback in the NFL. Sure, I understood the desire and the want-to; heck, Eric Crouch is still chasing a shot at quarterback ten years after finishing up at Nebraska. When a quarterback has been the man in high school and in the NFL, of course he automatically thinks he’ll succeed in the NFL. I just did see it. Tebow, which every analyst pointed out, didn’t have the throwing motion and ran whenever he was in trouble. I also thought that he was too big and would get sacked a lot, ALA Byron Leftwich.
As far as the intangibles that cause Josh McDaniels to pick Tebow late in the first round? I thought those would make Tebow’s fall even harder. Reading Peter King’s Sports Illustrated article on the Broncos mini-camps after Tebow was drafted, I almost started to feel sorry for him. Here he was in this football camp, with a coach teaching him how to remake his throwing motion. I felt great that he was trying, but I was afraid that Tebow would spend ten years bouncing around the NFL, the CFL, and whatever league replaced UFL, trying to play quarterback when it was painfully obvious he couldn’t, ALA Crouch. If he just switched positions, he’d probably have a really productive NFL career; but if he kept trying to play quarterback, he’d waste years of his life that he could be spending pursuing other goals.
Going into this year, I actually did think that Tebow should have played. The Broncos, with new coach Jon Fox and John Elway returning to head the personnel department, had new leadership who wanted their own quarterback. Honestly, the best thing that could have happened with the Broncos is that Tebow looked incompetent and was awful, and they got the top pick in the draft and took Andrew Luck. If Tebow played and failed, then at least Elway and Fox could go to the fans and say, “See, we gave you what you wanted. We played Tebow, and he’s terrible and can’t play quarterback. We’re moving on.” Perhaps there’s some mild dissent because of Tebow’s popularity, but if Elway finds a successful quarterback in the draft, then everyone forgets about Tebow-mania.
But Tebow is winning games! He’s turning the Broncos around! Isn’t it great!?! Actually, the worst thing that could have happened to Broncos did happen: they got a string of beatable teams around beat them all but one. Now the fans are on board, and Elway and Fox have an even bigger dilemma: Tebow setting them up for long-term failure.
Sticking with Tebow in the short-term may some good results, but it could also yield some very damaging results. Take his starts, in which Denver is 6-1 and all six wins have been close. But the one loss was a blowout loss to Detroit. One side of a fraud good team: when they do loose, it’s bad. Last year, the Falcons went 13-3 but were blown out twice on the road; the Packers went 10-6 but never lost by more than a touchdown. In the Packers shelled the Falcons in Atlanta. But the fans say, Tebow’s winning close! Yes…against bad teams.
Here’s the flip side of those close wins against 4-9 Miami: Jon Fox works all the harder. Think about it: Fox knows he has a good defense and his defense would give him a chance to win eight games a year at least the Broncos were viable at quarterback. But instead, Fox has to run a college offense suited to Tim Tebow’s strengths and hope that Tebow is consistently money in the clutch. So, Fox will have to invest more time and energy to beat the bad teams and have nothing left for when they play the good teams.
And beyond that, what happens when Denver has to play a string of good teams in a row, or happens to loose some close games?After four blowout losses, the fans will turn, likely not on Tebow, but on Fox and Elway. They’ll say that the play-calling stinks, and that Fox has to go. The player whose jersey they buy in record numbers will be the last one to go. Take it from me: with the style of football Denver is playing, it is likely to breed the same kind of angst that has been bred into Nebraska football fans. Because of Nebraska’s run-oriented offense, they often wouldn’t stand a chance if they got behind in a big game, and, after a string of large losses in the early 2000’s, Husker fans watch their team with a “nervous energy” as Steve Sipple describes it. It is as if there’s one big mistake in a game, and the whole thing falls apart because the offense is run-oriented, and can’t comeback. If Denver’s offense wins a lot of close games, but looses a lot of blowouts, the big looses could be the thing that turn the fans against Elway and Fox.
The difficulty of Elway and Fox’s decision isn’t just because of public perception: it also exists in the Broncos’ locker room. This one thing I admit I had wrong: I thought pro players wouldn’t buy into Tebow because they’d see his obvious physical limitations. But Tebow is a film room-junkie and has changed the Broncos’ attitude on the field. When I watched Denver played at Minnesota, they were third most emotional team I’d seen in football all year, after Georgia Tech and Iowa State against Oklahoma State. (By the way, I watch 10-12 college games every weekend.) It is shocking to me to see this kind of emotion from a pro team, and nothing almost ever shocks me. Clearly, Tebow’s leadership skills are overcoming his physical limitations.
But happens when Denver looses the close games or gets blown out? If they keep getting good game plans from Fox, but are limited by Tebow? Trent Dilfer talked on ESPN Radio as relates to game planning: teams who are given horrible games plans by bad coaches don’t even try, while teams that are given good game plans by smart coaches (Mike Holmgren in Dilfer’s case) always go into the game believing they have a chance. Players are not fans and are not easily fooled; if Tebow makes them work really hard to beat bad teams, which leaves them no energy for the good teams, they will know who is at fault.
As side note, Tebow’s leadership and work-ethic is clearly making a huge impact on a team that has had little success over the last five years. That in and of it itself is astounding.
So now, Elway and Fox have a dilemma: Tebow is winning, and their fans and their team is buying into him as well. After this season, if the Broncos got rid of Tebow after he turned their team completely around, it could implode their locker room, at least in the short term. And if Tebow is traded and the next quarterback who comes in doesn’t work out, the implosion will only be worse. I’m not sure what I would do in their shoes; depending on where the Broncos finish after the season, if I were Elway, I would hold a meeting with Fox and my top personnel lieutenants and say, “Listen, can we take the hit if we get rid of Tebow? And if not, what do we have to do to succeed with him?”
Really in this situation, Tim Tebow should thank Josh McDaniels and Jay Cutler for their ugly split, which is going to force the Broncos to hold onto him as long as he’s winning. But in the Broncos’ division, Tebow is winning, and now he’ll have to improve his passing in the off-season and get his teammates working alongside him if he hopes to keep his job. And really, that was what Elway and Fox intended when they started to run the Tebow-offense; but its success has become a monster they can’t control.
Tomorrow, I will share my thoughts on Denver’s offensive philosophy with Tebow, and the Broncos’ possibilities if the Broncos traded Tebow.
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New Grant will Leverage Human Centered Design to Improve Maternal and Infant Outcomes
Assistant Professor of Industrial Design and Director of Graduate Programs for Industrial Design Kelly Umstead and Associate Professor of Industrial Design Carolina Gill.
Professors Carolina Gill and Kelly Umstead from the Industrial Design program at NC State are partnering with Alison Stuebe, MD, MSc from the UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kristin Tully, PhD from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and Emily Patterson, PhD of The Ohio State University’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. The team has received a $2.5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality at the United States Department of Health and Human Services to identify underlying contributors to postnatal morbidity and mortality and co-develop more effective, sustainable, and scalable postnatal care.
Almost 4 million women and their newborn babies are discharged from the hospital each year, ranking childbirth as the most common reason for hospitalization in the United States. The US is the only high-income country in the world in which maternal mortality rates are rising. This project will enable a stronger start for mothers and their infants, as well as offering a more integrated, value-based model for care that can be shared with other hospitals for widespread implementation.
The goal of the project, ‘Re-engineering Postnatal Unit Care and the Transition Home to Reduce Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality,’ is to identify and define priority needs in postnatal units that contribute to poor maternal and infant outcomes and to design innovative interventions that will ensure their safety and wellness.
“We are approaching the project from the human-centered perspective” said Gill. “We will invite mothers and their families to participate in the design and development process, alongside our healthcare providers and administrators. We’re focused on developing solutions that are built around the needs of all stakeholders.” Gill said.
“Human Centered Design methods provide tools that facilitate empathy and allow teams to envision a way forward together,” added Umstead. “This allows us to holistically consider interventions from many different perspectives.”
“We are excited and honored to collaborate on this project and contribute to this incredible team. There is a need for patient-centeredness in healthcare and especially within maternity care. Together we look forward to making difference in the health and wellbeing of mothers and babies.”
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Looking forward to the opportunity to follow this project as the needs of all stakeholders are explored!
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I’m a practicing maternal-newborn nurse and teach nursing at a small college in the Boston area. I’m fascinated and energized by your project and will be looking forward to hearing about it as it unfolds! Be well, Jen Wallace
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10 questions about post-market surveillance (PMS) requirements of the MDR
Post-market surveillance (PMS) is an important part of the regulatory framework for medical devices in Europe. The Medical Device Regulation (MDR) lays special emphasis on gathering clinical and safety-related data after the approval/CE certification process and market access.
Monitoring product performance of CE-marked products is crucial to systematically identifying risks in the practical use of the product, as some risks only become apparent when medical devices are used, stored, transported or cleaned. Only through continuous and systematic post-market surveillance can manufacturers ensure that medical devices are safe and that there are no uncontrolled risks such as defects or undetected security problems.
1. What is post-market surveillance (PMS)?
The MDR (Art 2 (60)) defines post-market surveillance as a proactive and systematic process which manufacturers implement and carry out (with other economic operators) in order to take corrective and preventive action (CAPA) in accordance with information on medical devices and their performance. The surveillance and reporting of incidents involving medical devices allows identification of problems with the design, manufacture or use of medical devices and, ultimately, enhances patient safety (read more on how reporting obligations enhance patient safety here).
The aim of the post-market surveillance system is to actively and systematically gather, record and analyse relevant data on the quality, performance and safety of a device throughout its entire lifetime. This allows manufacturers to continuously update the risk-benefit assessment and to initiate necessary measures without delay. Manufacturers are obliged to collect and assess all information about their medical devices and related devices from competitors.
2. What is the difference between post-market surveillance and vigilance?
Vigilance is only one part of the post-market surveillance system, as it refers to the reporting of (serious) incidents, field safety corrective actions (FSCAs) and recalls. It is a reactive system that deals with incidents, rather than the proactive collection of PMS data. Section 2 of Chapter VII of the MDR on vigilance defines the incidents that manufacturers have to report to the relevant competent authorities and how to submit these reports. Also, it requires manufacturers to analyse their vigilance data. Additional guidance in relation to the vigilance system currently in operation under the MDD (to complement the MEDDEV 2.12-1 rev 8 from 2013) was published in July 2019. This document refers to the new manufacturer incident report form, which already includes the IMDRF adverse event terminology, UDI (Unique Device Identification) and the single registration number as prescribed in the MDR.
3. What are manufacturers’ post-market surveillance obligations?
The conformity assessment procedures for obtaining a CE mark, as outlined in Annexes IX to XI, require that manufacturers establish and maintain a post-market surveillance process that is proportionate to the risk class and the type of the device. This means, post-market surveillance is required regardless of the classification of the medical device, but the details of the requirements differ.
Manufacturers have to base their post-market surveillance system on a post-market surveillance plan (Article 84), which is part of the technical documentation and proves compliance with the PMS requirements of the MDR. Annex III specifies the requirements and the content of such a post-market surveillance plan, which has to address the collection and utilization of the post-market information and cover at least:
a proactive and systematic process to collect any information referred to in point (a). The process shall allow a correct characterisation of the performance of the devices and shall also allow a comparison to be made between the device and similar products available on the market;
effective and appropriate methods and processes to assess the collected data;
suitable indicators and threshold values that shall be used in the continuous reassessment of the benefit-risk analysis and of the risk management as referred to in Section 3 of Annex I;
effective and appropriate methods and tools to investigate complaints and analyse market-related experience collected in the field;
methods and protocols to manage the events subject to the trend report as provided for in Article 88, including the methods and protocols to be used to establish any statistically significant increase in the frequency or severity of incidents as well as the observation period;
methods and protocols to communicate effectively with competent authorities, notified bodies, economic operators and users;
reference to procedures to fulfil the manufacturers obligations laid down in Articles 83, 84 and 86;
systematic procedures to identify and initiate appropriate measures including corrective actions;
effective tools to trace and identify devices for which corrective actions might be necessary;
and a Post-Market Clinical Follow-up (PMCF) plan as referred to in Part B of Annex XIV, or a justification as to why a PMCF is not applicable.
Post-market surveillance is required regardless of the classification of the medical device, but the details of the requirements differ.
4. What is a post-market surveillance report?
Manufacturers of Class I medical devices (incl. classes Is, Im and Ir) are required to prepare a post-market surveillance report to summarize the results and conclusions of the data gathered as defined in the PMS plan. The report includes the rationale behind and the description of preventive and corrective actions that have been taken; and it has to be updated when necessary.
5. When is a Periodic Safety Update Report (PSUR) required?
A Periodic Safety Update Report is required from manufacturers of class IIa, class IIb and class III devices. In this report, the results and conclusions of the analysis of the PMS data have to be summarized and preventive as well as corrective actions described and explained. The PSUR has to include the conclusions of the benefit-risk determination, the main findings of the post-market clinical follow-up, and the volume of sales of the device together with information on the population using the device.
The PSUR is part of the technical documentation and has to be updated regularly: at least every two years for class IIa devices and annually for class IIb and class III devices.
The PSUR of class III devices has to be submitted (through the electronic system on vigilance and post-market surveillance referred to in Article 92) to the notified body. The notified body adds its evaluation to the report and both documents will be made available to competent authorities through the electronic system. Manufacturers of implantable devices and class III devices are also required to use PMS data to update their summary of safety and clinical performance as outlined in Article 32.
Manufacturers have to make PSURs of class IIa and class IIb devices available to their notified bodies and, on request, to competent authorities.
6. What is a Post-Market Clinical Follow-up (PMCF)?
The PMCF is the systematic collection of clinical data with the aim of answering important questions about the safety or performance of the medical device and updating its clinical evaluation.
Post-market surveillance data and information has to be included in the post-market section of the Clinical Evaluation Report (CER). The process to continuously update the clinical evaluation with this data is called Post-Market Clinical Follow-up (PMCF) and outlined in Part 2 of Annex XIV. The MDR obliges manufacturers to proactively collect and evaluate clinical data from the end users of their devices to confirm the safety and performance throughout the expected lifetime of the device. This helps them ensure the acceptability of already identified risks and to detect emerging risks on the basis of factual evidence.
Manufacturers have to base their PMCF process on a PMCF plan; the findings of the PMCF have to be documented in a PMCF evaluation report, which is part of the clinical evaluation report and the technical documentation. The conclusions of the PMCF may also lead to an update of the risk management documents.
Post-market data has to be used to continually reassess the benefit–risk analysis in the CER and to update the risk management part of the technical documentation. Any regulatory action (such as recalls and notifications) has to be discussed, incidents should be displayed in a table and (serious) adverse events mentioned in detail (with a focus on the evaluation of whether an incident is device-related or not).
7. What kind of data should be collected to meet PMCF requirements?
PMCF can consist of data gathered from the vigilance system, complaints, technical information and publicly available information, and does not refer only to PMCF studies. The MDR mentions the gathering of clinical experience gained, feedback from users, screening of scientific literature as general methods and procedures of collecting relevant data. It treats the evaluation of suitable registers or PMCF studies as specific methods. The PMCF plan requires a rationale for the appropriateness of the methods and procedures a manufacturer chooses to apply.
8. What are the PMS requirements imposed by applicable QMS and risk management standards?
The ISO quality management and risk management standards also embrace the concept of PMS and Art. 83 of the MDR states that the post-market surveillance system is an integral part of the manufacturer’s quality management system.
To ensure the effectiveness of the QMS and the safety of medical devices, ISO 13485 requires a systematic post-market surveillance. Chapter 8 outlines the requirements for a continuous procedure for feedback processing which includes data from production and post-production activities. Information gathered in the feedback process has to be considered as input for risk management.
ISO 14971 requirements in the post-market phase do not focus on reporting obligations but aim to take into account PMS data to review if the probabilities and severity of possible damage are correctly estimated, the risks are fully identified and if the presumed risk acceptance criteria and benefit–risk ratios are valid.
In comparison with the MDR, the less comprehensive PMS requirements imposed by EN ISO 13485:2016 and EN ISO 14971:2012 are already obligatory, as the standards are harmonized for the Medical Device Directive.
9. What changes concerning the post-market surveillance does Eudamed introduce?
PMS requirements as well as the periodic update of the clinical evaluation already existed before the MDR came into force. But the MDR has significantly increased the post-market requirements for manufacturers and their obligation to proactively collect data and document and report the analysis of these post-market activities and data.
Greater transparency on post-market surveillance will be introduced with Eudamed’s module on vigilance and post-market surveillance and the obligation to include and update this information in the database.
10. What is the deadline for complying with MDR post-market surveillance requirements?
Post-market surveillance, vigilance and market surveillance requirements of the MDR will apply after the date of application: 26th May 2020.
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The purpose of the act is to prescribe minimum standards of facilities and services provided by the clinical establishments so that mandate of article 47 of the Constitution for improvement in public health may be achieved. A copy of the Clinical Establishments (Registration & Regulation) Act (CEA) 2010 and Central Government rules 2012 may be seen on the website of the Act, www.clinicalestablishments.nic.inClinical Establishments Act 2010 after passage by the Parliament came into force on 1-3-2012 came into force in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Mizoram and all union territories except Delhi. Subsequently 6 more States have namely Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Assam have adopted the Act. Thus the Act as on date is applicable in 10 States and 6 UTs. Rest of the States and Government of Delhi have not taken any action so far for adoption of the Act.
The Act was passed by Parliament in August 2010 and notified on 1st March, 2012
National Council for Clinical Establishments notified on 19th March, 2012 and Rules by Centre notified on 23rd May, 2012 (Section 52)
Model State Rules under (Section 54) of the Act have been circulated among the States/UT’s
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Hon’ble Health Minister has requested the Chief Ministers to adopt and implement the Act.
B. Applicability (Present Status)
Clinical Establishments Act 2010 after passage by the Parliament came into force on 1-3-2012 came into force in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Mizoram and all union territories except Delhi. Subsequently 6 more States have namely Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Assam have adopted the Act. Thus the Act as on date is applicable in 10 States and 6 UTs. Rest of the States and Government of Delhi have not taken any action so far for adoption of the Act.
C. Salient Features & Benefits of the CEA 2010
All clinical establishments - including diagnostic centres and single doctor clinics, across all recognized systems of medicine in both public and private sector. (exception: establishments of the Armed Forces) are covered.
The Act shall assist in compilation of reliable digital registry of all types of clinical establishments at National, State and District level available in public domain.
Standard application form for registration of clinical establishments to ensure uniformity in information being collected.
Assist government in obtaining information and data required from clinical establishments for public health interventions including outbreak and disaster management
Provisional registration, through a process of self-declaration, without any inspection.
Permanent registration would be undertaken after categorization, classification and development of minimum standards
Application for registration by post, in person or online
Mandatory for every clinical establishment to provide treatment to stabilize the emergency medical condition of any individual brought to such establishment.
Establishment of multi stakeholder institutional bodies
a. National Council of Clinical Establishments
b. State Council / Union Territory Council of Clinical Establishments
c. District Registering Authority: Implementing Authority with powers to register and cancel registration
Contravenes of any provisions shall be punished with monetary penalties
Every clinical establishment has to be registered. Norms required to be met prior to registration include
minimum standards of facilities and services; and minimum requirement of personnel.
Provision and maintenance of records and reports such other condition as may be prescribed
As per the Clinical Establishments (Central Government) Rules 2012, under the abovementioned Act,
The clinical establishments shall display the rates charged for each type of services provided and facilities available at a conspicous place in the local as well as English language.
the clinical establishments shall charge the rates for each type of procedures and services with in the range of rates determined and issued by the Central Government from time to time in consultation with the State Governments.
The Clinical Establishments shall ensure compliance of the Standard Treatment Guidelines (STG) as may be determined and issued by Central Government or State Government from time to time. Compliance to STG shall ensure that unnecessary operations are avoided.
Cancellation of registration, would occur at any time, if conditions for registration are not compiled
D. Status of Implementation of Clinical Establishments Act (CEA) and Work Done By National Council for Clinical Establishments till Date (22-4-2016)
At present provisional registration is going on in the implementing States/UTs except U.P., Bihar and Uttarakhand who have not started provisional registration.
A dedicated website www.clinicalestablsihments.nic.in has been operationalized for online registration of clinical establishments and providing information related to Act.
Online registration has been made functional through aforesaid website of the Act in the 7 States/UTs of Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chandigarh, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Andaman and Nicobar.
State/UT Allopathy Ayurveda Unani Siddha Homoeo -pathy Yoga Natura -pathy Sowa -Rigpa Total
ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS (UT) 193 22 1 2 26 6 2 0 212
CHANDIGARH (UT) 281 18 1 1 9 3 4 1 301
DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI (UT) 1 8 0 0 5 0 0 0 14
DAMAN & DIU (UT) 100 22 1 0 41 2 0 0 138
HIMACHAL PRADESH 3689 1712 134 26 152 40 52 9 5035
Jharkhand 2668 97 26 1 61 9 5 0 2735
RAJASTHAN 68 13 3 0 9 2 0 0 71
Total 7000 1892 166 30 303 62 63 10 8506
So far, 8506 Clinical Establishments have registered on line forming the part of digital National register. No. of clinical establishments registered offline as per information received is around 1260.
Steps taken for implementation of the Act:
5.1 Dedicated website (www.clinicalestablishments.nic.in) has been made operational.
5.2 Online registration facility for clinical establishments is available through website.
5.3 Designated Nodal Officers and provision of posts of coordinators at states and district level for implementation of this Act.
5.4 Secretariat for National Council has been set up for coordinating the work of national council.
5.5 Budget for implementation is provided through state PIP through National Heath Mission (NHM).
5.6 Major preparatory work for starting permanent registration has been completed and has been approved by National Council
5.7 Operational Guidelines for implementation of the Clinical Establishments Act have been drafted and are available on the website of the Act.
5.8 Provision of budget to States/UT is made through Programme Implementation Plan for implementation of the Act
5.9 Other Technical Supports Provided
Advocacy cum training workshops are regularly conducted regarding implementation of the Act and training in online registration. In this year the workshops have been conducted in Rajasthan, Sikkim, Puducherry and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Training Web Site for practice of online registration
User Manual for online registration
Web based training Module
Help Email for responding to queries: Help.ceact2010@nic.in
Assistance is provided through telephone
Receiving Feedback online
Suggested terms of Reference for Coordinators and Data Entry Operators for implementation of the Act
6. Work done by National Council for Clinical Establishments:
6.1 8 meetings of National Council for Clinical Establishments have been held and minutes of which are available on the website
6.2 Five subcommittee of National Council were constituted to carry out different work as per the Act.
6.3 Categorization of Clinical Establishments has been finalized and approved
6.4 Minimum Standards of major general categories of clinical establishments namely Clinics, Polyclinics, Mobile Clinics, Hospitals, Physiotherapy Centre, Health Check-up Centre, Dental Lab, Physiotherapy, Dietetics, Integrated Counselling Centre
6.5 Minimum Standards for 35 specialty/super-specialty wise departments/clinical establishments has been finalized and approved by National Council
6.6 Minimum Standards for all systems of medicine under AYUSH have been finalized and approved by National Council
6.7 Application Form for Provisional and Permanent Registration finalized and approved
6.8 Certificate of Provisional and Permanent Registration finalized and approved
6.9 Formats for collection of Information & Statistics from OPD, IPD, Lab and Imaging Clinical Establishments have been finalized and approved
6.10 List of Recognised Qualifications of person incharge of Clinical Establishments has been finalized and approved by National Council
6.11 The National Council for Clinical Establishments has approved a list of medical treatment procedures and a standard template of costing of procedures and services. State/UT Governments have been advised to use these for determining the standard cost of any procedure taking into consideration all pertinent factors.
6.12 Draft Operational Guidelines have been developed for implementaion of the Act by the State Authorities
6.13 All the States that have completed provisional registration of majority of clinical establishments within their States may start permanent registration immediately as the minimum standards have already been approved by the National Council.
7. Documents available on the website of the clinical establishments Act namely, www. clinicalestablishments.nic.in:
7.1 Act, Central Govt. and State Rules and Notifications
7.2 Application Form for provisional and permanent registration
7.3 Dashboard of National Register
7.4 Categorization of Clinical Establishments
7.5 Minimum Standards
Indian Public Health Standards
Minimum standards in respect of major General categories of clinical establishments and 35 specialty/super-specialty categories of allopathic clinical establishments
Minimum Standards for all 7 recognised systems of medicine under AYUSH
7.6 Standard Treatment Guidelines:
STGs for proper health care for 215 conditions belonging to 21 clinical specialties and Ayurveda out of AYUSH have been uploaded on the website of the CEA.
Standard Treatment Guidelines prescribed under National Health Programmes have been compiled and uploaded.
Draft STG for Snake Bite and Diabetic Foot, Management of Alcohol Dependence and Hypertension have been prepared and same has been put up in public domain for comments.
7.7 Formats for collection of Information & Statistics from Clinical Establishments
7.8 User Manual
7.9 Web based training Module
7.10 Frequently asked Questions
7.11 Help Email for responding to queries: help.ceact2010@nic.in
7.12 Contact List of all nodal officers
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7.14 Feedback Form
7.15 IMA- QCI Survey Report
7.16 Minutes of Meetings of National Council and Report/Minutes of Subcommittees
7.17 Draft operation guideline for Clinical Establishments Act
7.18 list of medical treatment procedures
7.19 standard template of costing of procedures
7.20 Template for Display for Rates
7.21 List of Recognised Qualifications of person incharge of Clinical Establishments
The Summary of Health Regulations in States/UTs
States / UTs which do not have Clinical Establishments Act (CEA)
Parameter States/UT’s
States repealing existing legislations and enacting own acts on lines of CEA, 2010 (3) Maharashtra, Goa & Delhi (?) are in the process of repealing existing legislation & enacting one on the lines of CEA with modifications.
States enacting legislations where there was no legislations (4) Kerala, Gujarat, Haryana & Meghalaya are in the process of enacting legislation on the lines of central act with modifications
Other States which have own Act (5) ; J&K, Andhra Pradesh (erstwhile), Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu (not implemented), Assam (Not implemented)
States which have their own legislations, listed in schedule to CEA and exempted from CE Act. (9) Andhra Pradesh (erstwhile) Maharashtra Delhi Madhya Pradesh Manipur Nagaland Punjab Orissa West Bengal
States/UTs (16) where the Clinical Establishments Act (CEA) is applicable
States: Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Mizoram, Bihar, Jharkhand, U.P., Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Assam
UTs: Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Puducherry, Chandigarh and Lakshadweep
Status of notifications in 16 States/UTs where the Clinical Establishments Act (CEA) is applicable
Notification of State rules Notified by – Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Puducherry, Mizoram, Chandigarh Not notified – Assam, Lakshadweep, U.P.
Notification of State / UT council Notified by – Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Puducherry, Mizoram Not notified: -- U.P., Assam, Chandigarh
Notification of District Registration Authorities Notified by - Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Sikkim, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Daman, Diu, Dadar Nagar Haveli, Puducherry (2/4). Rajasthan, Chandigarh, Mizoram Not notified: -- U.P. and Assam
Act not implemented and provisional registration not started • Uttarakhand: (rethinking on changing rules) • Bihar: (Court cases) • UP: (PIL filed in high court) • Assam
This Act is a guiding mechanism for providing an overall improvement in the quality of health care sector in the country. All State Governments are expected to adopt this Act gradually, including the States having similar legislation, have been requested to repeal the same for adopting this Act.
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California-based Galaxy Theatres is installing Barco Flagship and Smart Laser projectors in all of the its premium large format screens in California and Nevada.
“We promise our guests the best experience and with Barco’s laser projectors, combined with Galaxy’s renowned customer service, that’s exactly what we deliver,” said Rafe Cohen, president and chief operating officer, Galaxy Theatres. “Barco’s laser projectors deliver the best possible cinematic experience for our guests.”
DFX auditoriums will add Barco laser projectors to the existing multichannel, immersive audio system and Galaxy’s famous reclining lounge chairs. The installations will be completed this month in the Galaxy’s Luxury Plus theatres in North Las Vegas, Henderson, and Sparks, Nevada; and in Riverside, Riverbank, and Tulare California.
The North Las Vegas location at Cannery was the first Galaxy Theatres location to install the new Barco laser projectors. This location is the first cinema to feature laser projection in the Las Vegas area.
“We are honored that our long-term cinema partner Galaxy Theatres is once again placing its trust in Barco to maintain a high-quality, cutting-edge approach to premium movie presentation,” said Stijn Henderickx, vice president cinema at Barco. “Our wide portfolio of laser projectors offers an excellent value proposition, enabling our customers to efficiently and cost-effectively deliver a rich entertainment experience to every guest throughout their entire circuit.”
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Baseball’s drug nightmare goes on and on and on and on
Through the long off-season of turbulent machinations the issue simmered, rearing here and there but never quite bursting forth in the banner headlines that have so blighted recent baseball summers. It had even been suggested that the public had tired of the infernal matter and had accepted, however wearily, the unpleasant realities, and was now anxious to move on.
Sorry, mates but it won’t be that easy. Nothing has been simple or even entirely rational about the drug debate that has consumed major league baseball since the turn of the millennium and that is not about to change now. As policy, wishful thinking has absolutely no wings.
As if the endless hassles over the “performance enhancements” were not problem enough. Now along comes Ron Washington, erstwhile manager of the Texas Rangers and confessed drug offender, to muddle the issue even further.
Face it. In most other games, a stray chap with no history of mischief getting nailed for having sniffed cocaine wouldn’t stir more than a ripple of attention or oblige more than two or three lines of agate type buried in the newspaper briefs. In other games, a mere drug bust has become an element of the initiation rite. But baseball, for better or worse, gets held to a higher standard. What better proof that it remains the national pastime?
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No doubt all of that factored in the reasoning of the Rangers’ ownership, led by the team’s president, the estimable Nolan Ryan, in opting to go easy on him. Or maybe they weren’t thinking at all, although the possibility that they were simply trying to pull a fast one can’t be dismissed. Keep in mind that had it been a player who’d been caught, his suspension for a minimum of 50 games (presuming no “priors”) would have been announced the very next day as was notably the case with Manny Ramirez. How could it be reasoned that what’s good for a player is not for a manager? Or who would argue a manager doing something so dumb was not as reprehensible?
It should again be stressed that Ron Washington is one of the game’s best- liked chaps. He’s courtly and mild-mannered, helpful and unfailingly polite. His rise from the ranks of bit-player to manager was patient and painstaking, beating long odds, and he’s done an admirable job with the Rangers, one of the game’s tougher posts. Doubtless, such widely held considerations restrained the early reaction to Washington’s folly, which so far (at least as of the writing ) has been decidedly charitable.
The hunch here is that the disposition to forgive and forget will not last. You sense the tide slowly turning. Given a couple of days to think about it, the more influential columnists have begun second-guessing the Rangers’ motives and questioning the implicit double standard. The revelation that a blackmailer is responsible for outing Washington further widens the scandal. The precedent, clearly, is odious.
Most damaging is the growing doubt about Washington’s earnest pledge that he has transgressed on drugs only once in his life. Bill Madden, the highly influential columnist of the New York Daily News who is about to enter the writer’s wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame, tartly expressed the suspicions of many heavyweight scribes when he wrote four days after the story broke: “Are we really supposed to believe that this was a one-time deal by a 57-year-old man?” It’s the times we live in that have made such cynicism obligatory no matter how well respected the unhappy fellow in the docket may be.
The Ron Washington fiasco is just another drop in the relentless drip, drip, drip of baseball’s performance-enhancing drug nightmare. Be advised that it will end no time soon.
Over the off-season we had the recurring debate about the Hall of Fame worthiness of players even remotely tainted with faint and unverified suspicions of PED associations. And we have had the clumsy effort of Mark McGwire to extricate himself from the worst implications of his notorious connections with the issue leading only to his further embarrassment. And we have had the ongoing and hapless efforts of Roger Clemens to plough his way through the court system in a hopeless yearning for redemption.
Yet to come and eagerly awaited since last July is the explanation promised by the estimable David Ortiz about whatever it was that he took that made him test positively – erroneously, he claims – in 2003. You’ll recall Big Papi promised to get back to us on that. We’re still waiting. And not forgetting.
Also still pending is the date that Alex Rodriguez must keep with the FBI to discuss the services of a controversial Canadian physician, Dr. Anthony Galea. That last item looks fairly harmless but A-Rod being A-Rod, who knows?
The main point being: On and on it goes.
Small wonder that baseball people hold their breath as another season approaches. Many are still convinced that the release of the rest of those names on that 2003 test list – the one that was supposed to be private, secret, and destroyed – remains only a matter of time. The A-Rod biographer from Sports Illustrated has claimed to have seen the entire list. She could hardly be alone. Can you even begin to imagine what the effect of the release of that entire list would be on the game?
As the Ron Washington follies again demonstrate, there are no secrets. Or at least none that can be kept.
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Black Democrats Introduce Anti-Lynching Bill
Democrats are really going back to the future now.
In a sign of these sick times of racial discontent, the rise of the SJWs has coincided with a major push to reincarnate the long dead institution of slavery as a political issue.
Pay no mind to the inconvenient truth that nobody alive today has ever been a slave nor owned one, the emotional power of this Hitlerian big lie cannot be underestimated.
It’s one thing for the entertainment industry to pump out a voluminous amount of slave-themed drivel but entirety another for major political figures to sign on to what can only be called racial pornography.
But that is exactly what 2020 Democrat hopefuls in the Senate are doing and they are led by the shameless identity politics queen Kamala Harris along with Obama v 2.0 Cory Booker.
These reprehensible race baiters have just introduced a bill to make lynching a federal crime.
WTF? Isn’t murder already illegal?
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Via The Hill “Black senators introduce anti-lynching bill”:
Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) — the Senate’s only African-American lawmakers — rolled out legislation on Friday to make lynching a federal crime.
The legislation would make lynching — “the willful act of murder by a collection of people assembled with the intention of committing an act of violence upon any person” — punishable as a hate crime.
“Lynching is a dark, despicable part of our history, and we must acknowledge that, lest we repeat it,” Harris said in a statement on Friday.
Booker added that Congress’s inability to pass anti-lynching legislation is “a travesty.”
This bill serves absolutely no purpose except to play the race card and bamboozle black voters that America is a white supremacist country where slavery and lynchings are right around the corner and in a strange way, maybe they are.
With the left now openly embracing violence we may soon see Trump supporters being strung up.
Bernie Sanders is backing this farce as the crazy old Marxist’s dream of a socialist revolution in America is no longer a fantasy but a clear and present danger.
These people are cynical sickos.
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Breakneck Bog
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Written by Art Brown & Douglas Sloan
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Directed by John Sanford
Original air date February 27, 2013
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"Breakneck Bog" is the 17th episode of DreamWorks Dragons: Riders of Berk. It aired on the 27th of February, 2013 (8/7pm Central on Cartoon Network) and featured a new dragon, the Smothering Smokebreath. It is preceded by Defiant One and is succeeded by Gem of a Different Color.
"Everybody has lost something they thought they couldn't live without. Sometimes to find it again you have to be willing to do anything, even look fear right in the eye... just make sure you don't blink."
Stoick, Gobber, and Hiccup embark on a search for Trader Johann as Johann is overdue to it's annual visiting to Berk. Hiccup doesn't know what exactly Stoick wants from Johann as he only is only told to find Johann and nothing else. After hours, Stoick decides to turn back to Berk, and is upset. Gobber tries to cheer him up by reassuring him that whatever Stoick wanted from Johann will arrive safe and sound, Hiccup watches as his father is still disappointed.
Hiccup then decides to find Johann himself alone to brighten up his father. In the morning, as he prepares supplies in the satchel attached to Toothless. However he is jeopardized as Astrid hears him about their journey and finds him preparing supplies, Snotlout then follows also as he hears his name and takes the salmon from Hiccup. Hiccup confesses and reveals to them his plans to find Johann's special item for his father. Astrid asks to join, but Hiccup tells them he needs to go alone as his father might get suspicious, but he eventually lets them to come but reminds them strictly not to tell the other Riders about it.
However, Snotlout disobeys mockingly as they embark on their mission with Fishlegs and the Twins joining altogether. Moments later, Astrid spots something floating down at sea, they are shocked to find Johann unconscious, just floating by with a piece of his ship. Hiccup and Toothless rescues Johann and rest on a tiny island.
As soon as Johann regains consciousness, he is deeply traumatized of what happened to him, as he repeatedly says 'the fog'. Hiccup asks Johann whereabouts of his ship, Johann responds that he has no idea of what happened to it, as he explains that he was only sailing towards sea as usual, until suddenly, he claims his ship was being torn apart and pulled out. Hiccup is confused, but Johann tells him that when he was trying to make up time as he is 3 days overdue at his schedule, he got too close on the feared territory of the archipelago, Breakneck Bog.
Fishlegs tells them that many ships have sailed to it's territory and only few have been heard to have barely return. Astrid says that her grandfather claims it's overrun by pirates, but Snotlout denies that as he explains that many people claim the place to be haunted by the legendary Fog Monster, where Tuffnut and Ruffnut explains it to Fishlegs hauntingly, that the creature makes a creepy moan to its unsuspecting victims, then it attacks by surrounding its victims and scrapes the skin off their bones, it then drops the bones as rain from the sky after finishing them.
Trader Johann quickly accepts that claim, because he witnessed the creature 'surrounding him'. Hiccup tells Johann that he desperately needs to find his ship as he explains that there's a special item for his father. Johann admits there was an item but tells him it wasn't for Stoick but for Hiccup. Hiccup is confused, but Johann is confused also that Stoick didn't tell his son yet, as he reveals the item was from her long-lost mother. Hiccup is stunned ominously, he asks what was in it. Johann has no clue as he never really saw the item, as it was already placed inside a chest with a Berk crest imprinted on it. Hiccup's desire to find it increases after hearing that and asks Johann to come and guide them to Breakneck Bog where his ship first disappeared.
But Johann is traumatized and refuses in fear to go back, he even threatens them with a knife in his boot, but admits he doesn't actually have a knife nor any weapon. Hiccup just accepts his decision, he just asks Johann how can he get to Breakneck Bog. Johann tells them to head east and find a group of islands shape like a man's hand, the island that looks like a thumb is Breakneck Bog. Before they leave, Hiccup assigns Snotlout and the Twins to take Johann back to Berk, Snotlout protests, but Hiccup tells him they don't have a choice and if anything bad happens he claims Snotlout will be glad the Twins are there to support him. Therefore, Hiccup, Astrid, and Fishlegs, whose terrified, embark on their journey to Breakneck Bog.
A while later, Hiccup, Astrid and Fishlegs manages to find Breakneck Bog and heads straight to the thumb-shaped island. Meanwhile, the Twins and Snotlout, who reluctantly accepts his assignment but admits it to be lame, escorts the frightened Johann back to Berk. Meanwhile, Hiccup, Astrid and Fishlegs have flown all over the island and has no success to find Johann's ship, not even it's remains. Just then they hear a strange noise that startles the dragons and Riders, and they decide to check it out despite Fishlegs' dismay. On foot, Fishlegs stumbles upon hundreds of leftover bones and becomes increasingly frightened, just then, as Astrid walks on, Stormfly becomes cautious and then manages to pull Astrid away from being crushed by a plummeting anchor.
By that, they discover Johann's ship resting atop a tall tree. The Riders attempt to land on the ship, but discover the ship cannot hold the amount of weight of the dragons, so the Riders are forced to scavenge the item by themselves while their dragons stand guard down below. However, as soon as they are about to begin their search of the chest, a bone shower pours down on them, and they quickly seek shelter down below the ship's deck. The Riders are beginning to be creep out, especially Fishlegs. Suddenly they then heard scraping up top causing Fishlegs to be increasingly terrified of his surroundings, but Hiccup just tells them to press on and find the chest quickly. While searching, Fishlegs is startled by a hand bone touching his shoulders and screams in fear, but fortunately, Hiccup finally finds the chest. Suddenly, heavy footsteps begin to descend on them and they are force to hide behind a storage room, closing the doors, and Hiccup telling them not to breathe.
But the creature is about to open the doors, and once it opens they yell but shock to discover it was only the Twins and Snotlout making fun of them. Astrid rages in anger and tackles Tuffnut by beating his head with the hand bone used on Fishlegs earlier repeatedly, while Ruffnut also takes a turn of beating Fishlegs. Hiccup tells them to stop, he then asks Snotlout why would they do all that, Snotlout responds that it was payback for assigning him to escort Johann back to Berk. Hiccup asks where is Johann, Snotlout reassures him that he's fine. In truth, Snotlout and the Twins abandoned Johann in the middle of the sea.
Suddenly, the ship begins to tremble unable to hold after all the activities occurring and falls down the tall tree, the Riders brace for impact but luckily survived the crash. When Hiccup asks their condition, they hear something coming after them and makes a break for it, but are confronted by the Fog Monster. The creature fills the lower deck with a thick mist, making the Riders panic. But the fog settles and disappears, but not before taking the chest with it also. Frightened, most of the Riders decide to quit the mission and head home. Though Hiccup lets them to return as he intends to find that chest alone, Astrid tells the other Riders to help Hiccup out, but the Riders are unconvinced, until Astrid puts them in Hiccup's situation by asking them what if the chest was from their mom.
The Riders paused after hearing that, and eventually they rejoin having a change of heart but with some reluctance, Hiccup is greatly thankful for their support, and begins their search for the Fog Monster. Moments later, after a struggling search through a mist they find the Fog Monster, whom moves in a very unusual way. When the Riders are about to catch the creature, it splits itself into two. Astrid, Snotlout and the Twins follows the other Fog Monster while Hiccup and Fishlegs follows the other one.
The Riders fails to capture the creature, but discovers they were only luring the Riders, as a huge thick fog approaches them, and in a similar way to Johann, surrounds them. The dragons suddenly then hover above and flap it's wings to remove the thick fog and revealing the Fog Monster, is actually dozens of small new dragon species witnessed by the Riders.
The Riders wonders what are they as they can see this type of dragons breathing smoke instead, Fishlegs answers it that they are Smothering Smokebreath dragons which stuns all of them, especially Snotlout, as Fishlegs already knew these dragons. Fishlegs explains that he in fact read about them but did not believed they existed prompting him to believed there is an actual Fog Monster. Hiccup just tells the Riders to stop the argument, and asks what does he know about these dragons. Fishlegs give out their characteristics, that these dragons hide under a veil of smoke and very territorial, but Fishlegs couldn't recall the last one.
The Smokebreaths attack in all directions making it nearly impossible for the Riders to escape. Hiccup decides to fall back, as he orders the Twins to create a path for them by letting Barf and Belch create a huge blast, warding off the Smokebreaths. The Riders finally manages to reach a safe distance, but for Hiccup it's not yet over, as he will not leave without the chest. Snotlout tells him he doesn't even know he has it, but becomes a doubt, as they spot the Smokebreaths lifting the giant anchor into a cave.
Hiccup and the Riders spy on the cave in a safe distance, Hiccup asks for any more info he'd like to share now, Fishlegs recalls the last one he didn't mentioned about the Smokebreaths, he tells them that the Smokebreaths are desperate for metal objects as they'll use it for constructions of their nest, acting as defense against bigger dragons or others they fear as a threat. Hiccup uses a telescope, that Tuffnut actually brought with him from the ship, to take a closer look inside. He sees the Smokebreaths welding the metal objects for their defense and spots the chest lying safely for now.
To get inside, Hiccup devises a plan to lure the Smokebreaths with Snotlout's metal necklace, that Snotlout has been wearing throughout their journey that he also obtained from the ship. Snotlout acts as the bait for the Smokebreaths by calling them and exposing his necklace to them, the Smokebreaths take the bait and charges on Snotlout, taking the necklace and himself also. The Smokebreaths begin to return to their nest. Hiccup almost has the chest but the Smokebreaths discover them. Hiccup is about to be devoured by the Smokebreaths' thick mist, but luckily Toothless wards them off. When Hiccup and Toothless begins to leave, Snotlout, while still wearing the necklace, is being welded and attached to the other metal objects. Hiccup and Toothless rescues him and Snotlout gets a lift.
The Smokebreaths are gaining up on Toothless, Hiccup tells Snotlout to let go of the necklace, which he does so in reluctance. The Riders altogether flee but with the Smokebreaths in pursuit, to force them to turn back, Astrid tells them to throw any metallic object they have at the Smokebreaths, it proved effective as the Smokebreaths head home with all their metallic loot. However, one Smokebreath refuses to leave as he spots the metallic leg of Hiccup and grabs it, causing Toothless tail to scramble and making them plummet down. Fortunately, Fishlegs and Meatlug painfully tackles the Smokebreath away from Hiccup, saving them. The Riders finally head home.
Hours later at Berk, Snotlout and the Twins' dragons help Johann's severely damaged ship to be carefully land down to the harbor as it undergoes repairs. Stoick asks Johann if he needs anything else, Johann has one request, to be left alone 5 minutes with Snotlout and the Twins who was responsible for abandoning him in the middle of sea, and he exclaims it in anger.
Moments later, at their house. Stoick lets Hiccup open the chest, with some hesitation. When Hiccup opens it he finds inside a doll-stitched Nadder that he quickly remembers, Stoick explains that the doll was made by his mother when Hiccup was only an infant, but Hiccup reacted terrified by it causing him to not sleep for a week. Hiccup is stun to learn that he was greatly afraid of dragons when he was young, Stoick then tells him that one day, when they were going out fishing, Hiccup's mother tried to give the doll again to her son but Hiccup still reacted scared and threw it away in the sea. Hiccup asks his father how'd he managed to retrieve it, Stoick explains it showed up on a fishing net, and was traded to Johann, thus contacting Stoick.
As Hiccup watches and holds the doll, he reveals after her loosing her mother when he was little, Hiccup was starting to fear to forget her, but with the dragon doll made from her now in his hands again it now acts as a reminder to Hiccup of his mom, and comments he loves the gift. Stoick tells Hiccup that it would finally pleased her mother to finally hear that from her own son.
Later at his bedroom, Hiccup keeps the gift at the hollow of his bed's headboard to symbolize the moments Hiccup had with her mother. Toothless then nudges for a night time flight at the full moon, while Hiccup realizes he conquered his fear of dragons that became his best friend, and the two enjoy their flight throughout the night of the full moon.
"Most people are afraid of things because they don't understand them. For me, it was Dragons. Then one day that changed, and my greatest fear became my best friend."
Jay Baruchel as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
America Ferrera as Astrid Hofferson
Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Fishlegs Ingerman
Julie Marcus and T.J. Miller as Ruffnut and Tuffnut Thorston
Chris Edgerly as Gobber the Belch
Michael Goldstrom as Trader Johann
Nolan North as Stoick the Vast
Zack Pearlman as Snotlout Jorgenson
The Smothering Smokebreaths appear for the first time in this episode.
This is the second time that Hiccup's mother is mentioned in the series. The first time was a brief moment in How to Pick Your Dragon.
Toothless has the red tail with the skull Gobber made for him despite it being destroyed in the previous episode, though one could argue that Hiccup just made a new one.
This is the first time that Toothless has been seen hovering without Hiccup.
It is revealed that when Hiccup was a baby, he was afraid of dragons and the exact reason was not revealed until the second movie.
The toy dragon given to Hiccup resembles a Deadly Nadder with four legs.
Toothless seems to be able to fly without Hiccup in this episode, though the regular position of his tail could just be for hovering.
After they rescued Trader Johann, they talked about a fog monster. You can see that Hiccup's green tunic doesn't reach to his mid-thigh but is shorter for a moment.
When the teens come to Breakneck Bog the dragons are walking behind them, but in the very next shot they are gone.
When Hiccup, Astrid and Fishlegs are below deck on Johann's ship, we can see small windows but when they show the outside of the boat in other scenes there aren't any windows.
When Stoick tells Johann they're glad he's safe the Smothering Smokebreaths' voice can be heard.
The fish Snotlout eats looks more like a tuna.
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75 years ago 2,403 Americans were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The attack caused the United States to officially enter World War II. The attack was carried out by Japan as a preventative measure to stop the US Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japanese war efforts in Southeast Asia. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan also attacked US-held Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island. Roosevelt described the attack the following day, saying, "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."December 7 officially became a day of remembrance recognized by Congress on August 23, 1994, but not a federal holiday. It is observed by lowering the flag to half-staff. Here are powerful photos of the aftermath of the attack.
The front page of the New York World Telegram with the headline, "1500 dead in Hawaii," referring to the Japanese air attack at Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. (Express/Express/Getty Images).
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I watched a special on this the other night and it was incredibly emotional to see some of the few survivors talk about it with such raw expression. It really goes to show you that not everything that people do to you is heal-able. Some things you can't take back, even as a country. Considering the glee the Japanese took in this cowardly sneak attack, it's easy to see why many survivors still have hard feelings for them.
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I have visited the Memorial twice and will never forget how overwhelming the experience was
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Interesting thing here: amongst all of the ceremonies for the 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor day, there was a concert which featured close to 30?? high school and middle school marching bands, choirs, and color guards from schools all across America. Oddly enough, the marching band from my highschool went! They were in Hawaii at all of the ceremonies last week! Unfortunately, though I am very active in the school music department, I am in the choir and music honor society, but not band, so I did not get to go on the trip. (It would've been cool though!)
If anyone is interested, a video of this ceremonies is available online (Youtube) but I will warn that, truthfully, the quality of the concert is not the greatest and the audio at times is a little rough, but it's still very sweet and touching. Many Pearl Harbor vets are featured.
End of an era RIP
Lauren Bruner who died in his sleep Sept. 10 at age 98, will be the 44th and final crew member to be interred at the site, a decision he made nearly 30 years ago.
La Mirada man is last Pearl Harbor survivor interred at USS Arizona - Los Angeles Times
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Filed under: communication,education,engineering,football,music,open access,publishing,technology,wikipedia — Duncan Hull @ 12:49 pm
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Participants in the Training of Trainers workshop at the University of Glasgow, November 2019. Picture by Sara Thomas (WMUK) [CC BY-SA 4.0 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TtT_Group_Shot_2.jpg
Last month I attended a three day Training of Trainers (ToT) course at the University of Glasgow. Run as an interactive workshop, the course was designed to help leaders of Wikipedia training events to improve their delivery and organisation. Having participated and run several Wikipedia events in the past, such an Ada Lovelace event earlier this year, I was keen to learn how do things better. Here’s a report on the workshop, with some bonus extra curricular Glasgow goodies thrown in for good measure. Thanks again Sara Thomas and Bhavesh Patel for organising and delivering the course.
As a charity, Wikimedia UK (WMUK) is part of the global Wikimedia movement. WMUK organises events in order to:
… work in partnership with organisations from the cultural and education sectors and beyond in order to unlock content, remove barriers to knowledge, develop new ways of engaging with the public and enable learners to benefit fully from the educational potential of the Wikimedia projects.
Most of the workshop participants (pictured top right) were from Gallery, Library, Archive and Museum (GLAM) institutions and a few educational and charitable ones too. Over the three days, here is what we covered:
Day one: Getting started
We kicked off with some introductory activities including “head, heart & hands” from Waldorf education. We looked at needs analysis (Who are the participants? What is the purpose?), adult learning (particularly Howard Gardners theory of multiple intelligences) and design skills (using David Kolb’s experiential learning and Bernice McCarthy’s 4MAT).
Day two: From theory to practice
The second day revisited design skills while touching on delivery skills and group work. This covered elocution, voice projection, body language and an examination the range of experiential activities that can be utilised in workshops. We also discussed aspects of Dave Meier’s accelerated learning (with feedback) and finished the day up with teams preparing for activities for day three.
Day three: The Show Must Go On
The final day of the course finished with the participants divided into four small teams. Each presented a on hour mini-session and had it critiqued by peers. This enabled us to learn from;
Our own mistakes
Other peoples mistakes
Copying / stealing other peoples good ideas, of which there were plenty. Thanks Abd, Daria, Doug, Eoin, Ian, Tara, Ian, Madeleine, Marianne, Saeeda, Tore, Sara and Bhav!
Overall, this was a really useful and memorable training course, one of the best training courses I’ve been on. The content, participants, location were all great and I felt empowered by taking the course as well as making useful contacts from a range of different organisations. It had a clearly defined purpose, well chosen activities and participants, with nothing irrelevant presented. There were tonnes of practical ideas to put into practice straight away which I look forward to doing in 2020. If you’d like to do the course, get in touch with Wikimedia UK.
While in Glasgow, it would be rude not to take advantage of all the bonus extra curricular activities the city has to offer:
Bonus 1: People Make Glasgow Hospitable 🏴
They say that People Make Glasgow, and Glaswegians are very hospitable. In between training sessions our host Sara showed us around the city, including the University cloisters (etc), Inn Deep on the banks of the River Kelvin and Curlers Rest in the West End. Sara’s impressive knowledge of Glasgow and its history is wikipedian in its depth and breadth.
Bonus 2: Glaswegian-Mancunian connections 🇬🇧
To me, Glasgow and Manchester feel like sibling cities separated at birth. If you’re English, Glasgow can feel like a Scottish Manchester. Perhaps Manchester feels like an English Glasgow to the Scots? Here is the case:
Second city syndrome 🥈: As second cities, both Glasgow and Manchester live in the shadow of their more famous capitals, Edinburgh and London. Both cities are the “belly and guts” of their respective nations. Glasgow had its docks, Manchester had its cotton. While both trades are long gone, they leave similar post-industrial legacies on the culture and infrastructure of their respective cities.
Shipping 🚢: Ships, shipping, docks, ports, quays and wharfs run deep in both cities. Glasgow built ships on the River Clyde while Manchester used ships for export and import of goods on its Ship Canal.
Football ⚽: Love it or loathe it, the fitbaw connection between Glasgow and Manchester is strong [1,2]. Scrolling through the list of Manchester United managers I count not just one, two or even three but FOUR Glaswegians. Matt Busby (Belshill is basically Glasgow), Tommy Docherty, Alex Ferguson and David Moyes. Is this a coincidence or catholicism? [1,2] Who knows, but my hypothesis is that being shouted at in a strong Glaswegian accent can make teams perform better (although it didn’t work very well for Moyes). I wonder how many Glasgow kisses Alex Ferguson gave his overpaid prima donna squad to keep them in line? Strangely, the fitbaw manager connection isn’t reciprocated: I can’t find any Mancunians in the list of Celtic managers or the list of Rangers managers
Bonus 3: King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut 🎸
Glasgow is home to the legendary King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut. This humble venue, relatively small with a capacity of only 300, has hosted an impressive range artists including Coldplay, Radiohead, Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Manic Street Preachers, you name it, they’ve played King Tut’s. Curious to find out what all the fuss was about, I arranged to meetup with an old Glaswegian friend for a drink at the venue. Assuming the gig that night would be sold out we asked at the bar who was playing. Turns out they had a handful of tickets left, so we spontaneously bought a pair to see Blanco White. Mixing Andalusian and Latin American influences, Blanco White play melancholic but beautiful tunes using a variety of instruments including the Charango [3]. Part of the reason King Tut’s is legendary is Glaswegian audiences are lively, and it was fun to see the band visibly moved by what Josh Edwards, the lead singer told us was: “easily the best reception we’ve had in months of touring”.
Bonus 4: Like a Brudge over troubled water 🌊
Looking for a walk, run or ride in Glasgow? There are some great routes around the city like the Glasgow River Clyde Bridges, with at least 21 bridges to cross the Clyde on. On an early morning run, I couldn’t find any of the “bridges”, but there were plenty of “brudges” and some fantastic scenery along the Clyde. Och aye!
Bonus 5: The Glasgow Bucket List ☑️
There is still loads on my personal Glasgow bucket list for future visits, like the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, St. Mungo’s Cathedral, the Riverside Museum, Glasgow City Chambers, People’s Palace and the Glasgow Science Centre. What a great place Glasgow is, if you’ve never been, what are you waiting for?
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The Elder Scrolls Online is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) set in Tamriel, the ancient land that includes the provinces of Morrowind, Daggerfall, and Skyrim.
ESO takes place during the Age of Heroes, 1,000 years before the events of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. This is the time of the Interregnum between the end of the Second Empire with the assassination of the last Akaviri Potentate in 2E 430 and the founding of the Third Empire under Tiber Septim in 2E 897 (3E 1).
The Interregnum was a period of chaotic political change and constant warring between the various provinces of Tamriel as they struggled for dominance over the Imperial throne in the Cyrodiilic heartland.
Embark on an epic adventure to save the land from a seemingly unstoppable evil in a sprawling storyline that can be experienced on your own or with friends.
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The game is set 1000 years prior to the events of TES: Skyrim
Players will have to choose between one of three factions.
Races are unique to each faction, however each has an option for the three classic playstyles (combat, magic and stealth) - Races also have specific Racial Skils
PVP will play an important role in the overarching story, with individual PVP duels affecting the overall Alliance War and ultimately leading to the lead faction controlling the Imperial City. Only when your faction controls the capital will players be able to challenge Molag Baal and his armies. At this stage it appears only in the province of Cyrodiil will we be able to fight against other players.
PVP will encompass fighting enemies and capturing objectives--both of which will boost your factions overall score--as well as providing support to your army by setting up siege engines, reinforcing keeps and upgrading guards.
Raids are out. Yes you heard me. Instead, after reaching the level cap new dungeons will become available and old ones will be filled with new mobs. If you've ever played Dragons Dogma, think postgame Everfall.
Unlike most MMO's, skills and abilities in TESO will not run on a cool-down timer but rather expend a finite pool of energy (magick, stamina etc.). You may use these abilities as many times as you like, but once you deplete your reserves you will have to restore them using resources found in the game before you may use them again.
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Tesla Model 3 doesn’t come with free Supercharger credits like Model S and Model X
- Oct. 17th 2017 2:56 pm ET
Tesla had already confirmed that Model 3 owners wouldn’t have free unlimited access to its Supercharger network like Model S and Model X owners who bought their vehicles using Tesla’s referral program. They said that Model 3 would fall under its pay-per-use Supercharger model, but it wasn’t clear, at least to us, if the Model 3 would come with free “Supercharger credits.”
Earlier this year, Tesla introduced a new ‘Supercharger Credit’ program which resulted in Tesla Model S and Model X owners who bought vehicles without referrals having to pay a fee to charge their vehicles using Tesla’s Superchargers.
At the same time, Tesla started offering 400 kWh worth of annual ‘Supercharger Credits’ with every car under the program.
It means that if you couldn’t get a referral to bypass the pay-per-use model, which is likely used by most Tesla owners at this point (though it could end this year), you would still get 4 to 5 full charges per year before Tesla starts to bill you for using its network.
As we reported at the time, that’s probably enough for the average driver since it represents roughly 1,000 miles of driving. Since the Supercharger network is aimed at enabling long-distance travel, it is basically the equivalent of a long road trip per year.
After that, Tesla starts to charge you, but it still ends up much cheaper than gas.
Now Tesla isn’t offering any referral incentive to Model 3 buyers so they can’t bypass the pay-per-use model, but it wasn’t clear to us if Tesla is giving them Supercharger credits.
An early Tesla Model 3 owner said on Twitter that he didn’t get any credit – showing that he was billed for 43 kWh of energy charged at Tesla’s Harris Ranch Supercharger:
Model 3 owners don’t get ANY free Supercharging…Period pic.twitter.com/7fzMabompA
— PTFI (@TheRealPTFI) October 17, 2017
Tesla confirmed to Electrek that they are indeed not giving Supercharger Credit with the Model 3.
It actually goes against what Tesla CEO Elon Musk said last year.
Of course, the free Supercharging model was never sustainable in the first place, but it’s clearer than ever now with Model 3, which is expected to hit the streets in higher volume than Model S and Model X.
The idea behind changing the business model of the Supercharger network and offering a few free annual credits per car was to charge/discourage heavy users while still showcasing the fact that Tesla’s vehicles are capable of long-distance travel (even for “free”) – something that is rarely the case with electric vehicles at the moment.
Tesla relied on the fact that most owners would use the network only a few times a year while most of their charging is done at home.
But now Tesla has also introduced “urban Superchargers”, which are expected to also be used for local charging by city dwellers. The model had to evolve. Interestingly, those new Superchargers are limited to a slower charge rate (90 kW) like Model 3 – pictured above via PTFI.
At the end of the day, those 400 kWh Supercharger credits were worth only $80 per year at $0.20 per kWh. It’s not likely going to make a big difference for Model 3 buyers – especially if/once the unlimited free access for new Model S and Model X is gone.
The Tesla Model 3 is the first vehicle built on Tesla's third-generation platform. It aims to reduce the entry price for electric vehicles while not making any compromise on range and performance. The Model 3 starts at $35,000 in the US and deliveries to employees and company insiders began in mid 2017 - customer deliveries begin in late 2017.
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The meaning of “with” in this sentence
What does "with" mean in this sentence:
You should not have bitten more than you can chew with this project.
Can we use "in" or "because of" instead of "with" in the mentioned sentence?
Mehrdad MoshaverMehrdad Moshaver
"with this project" is a prepositional phrase modifying "bitten off more than you can chew".
"with" is the preposition which relates the action "bitten off more than you can chew" to the thing "this project".
"with" works because "with" acts as a general relation between actions and tools/methods ("I solved this problem with math", "I hit the ball with the bat", "I made my friend laugh with a joke"), even when the actions (biting off more than you can chew) and the tools/methods (this project) aren't physical.
"because of" does not work because the project did not cause you to bite off more than you could chew. You did it to yourself, and the project was a thing you used in that action. So "because of" doesn't describe the relation.
"in" isn't right either. Looking through the possible usages of "in" (preposition) in the dictionary, none of them really fit. It sounds like the person has bitten off more than they can chew, while enclosed by a giant project folder.
I hope that helps! Common prepositions (with, in, on) can specify a lot of possible relations (dictionaries have lists!), but "with" is the most appropriate one here.
Ollin Boer BohanOllin Boer Bohan
Interestingly enough, I could say: "I've bitten off more than I can chew because of this project," if I wanted to express how this project was the metaphorical "straw the broke the camel's back" in my already hectic life. However, in the sentence provided by the O.P., "because of" would not be appropriate, due to the reasons you list here. – J.R.♦ Sep 5 '16 at 9:54
Unlike @Ollin Boer Bohan, I see no problem with "in" here: "in" is often used in metaphorical ways; but "with" is more normal. "Around" is also possible, as are "in relation to", and "concerning". – Colin Fine Sep 5 '16 at 10:36
Are there any synonyms for "with" that can be substituted for it ? – Mehrdad Moshaver Sep 6 '16 at 7:52
"in" is the closest single-word substitution I can think of (and it's still not quite appropriate). However, there are multi-word substitutions like "by taking on", "by joining" or "by accepting" that work fine in this context ("in taking on", "in joining", or "in accepting" make sense as well). I can't think of any other replacements that aren't of the form "by|in <thing you did to join the project>ing" that other commenters haven't already mentioned, but there are probably others I haven't thought of. – Ollin Boer Bohan Sep 6 '16 at 17:16
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New Report Reveals That ERP Applications are Under Attack
New research from digital risk management firm Digital Shadows and cybersecurity firm Onapsis reveals that the business-critical applications running some of the biggest organizations in the world are under attack.
The report shows a dramatic rise in cyberattacks on widely-used ERP applications such as SAP and Oracle – which currently have a combined 9,000 known security vulnerabilities.
It also highlights an increase in attacks on these systems by nation-state actors, cybercriminals and hacktivists. Included are both hacking and DDoS attempts to disrupt the operations of these high-value assets. This convergence of threats puts thousands of organizations directly at risk of espionage, sabotage and financial fraud.
Critical, but far from new
This research is so critical that the Department of Homeland Security’s US-CERT issued an alert warning of the risk of these ERP application attacks. Attacks of this nature were first warned about in May 2016. The alert included the exploitation of 36 global organizations through the abuse of a then five-year-old vulnerability in SAP applications.
These warnings have proven to be prescient with the new research revealing:
Cybercriminal organizations exploit ERP applications, leveraging known vulnerabilities and targeting high-value assets such as SAP Hana. Over the last three years, there was a 100 percent increase in the number of publicly-available exploits for SAP and Oracle ERP applications.
Well-known hacktivists and cyber criminal groups are expanding their tactics, techniques and procedures to now specifically target ERP applications.
Well-known malware kits such as Dridex are being evolved to steal user credentials and data from behind-the-firewall ERP applications.
Nation-state affiliated actors have compromised ERP applications in order to access highly-sensitive information and disrupt critical business processes.
Third parties and employees are exposing information that can provide highly valuable to sophisticated actors. The research discovered 545 SAP configuration files publicly exposed on misconfigured FTP and SMB. These not only provide valuable information for attackers to locate sensitive files on organizations’ networks. They also greatly reduce effort once they gain access to an organization’s network.
Expanding the attack surface
Furthermore, cloud, mobile and digital transformations are rapidly expanding the ERP attack surface. More than 17,000 SAP and Oracle ERP applications are exposed on the internet, many running vulnerable versions and unprotected components. Cybercriminals are actively sharing information to take advantage of this opportunity.
The vast majority of large organizations have implemented ERP applications from vendors such as SAP and Oracle, relying on products like SAP Business Suite, S/4Hana and Oracle E-Business Suite/Financials. They rely on these applications to support business processes and hosting data.
Cybercriminals are evolving
Prior to this report, the ERP cybersecurity problem had remained largely ignored due to the lack of publicly-disclosed breaches and information about the threat actors. Many information security teams considered it to be a complex and obscure domain.
“Threat actors are continually evolving their tactics and targets to profit at the expense of organizations. On the one hand, with the type of data that ERP platforms hold, this isn’t shocking. However, it surprised us to find out just how real and severe the problem is,” said Rick Holland, CISO and VP of Strategy at Digital Shadows.
“This collaboration with Digital Shadows provides breadth and depth of threat intelligence,” said Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO at Onapsis. “By showing how these applications are a target of a variety of threat actors across different geographies and industries, we hope to overcome the misconceptions in the industry and help CIOs, CISOs and their organizations head off and manage the risk of wide-scale attacks on ERP applications, which could have a devastating impact, as well as macroeconomic implications.”
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War of the Rebellion: Serial 012 Page 0544 THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN, VA. Chapter XXIII.
Private James C. McCord, Company K, Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Private William Rosenburg, Company K, Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Private James Gross, Company K, Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Private Peter Rhoads, Company E, Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Private Andrew Brown, Company E, Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Private G. W. Hinkle, Company B, Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Corp. William F. Lindsley, Company K, Forty-third New York Volunteers.
Private Joseph Murphy, Company I, Forty-third New York Volunteers.
Private Samuel D. Hart, Company F, Forty-third New York Volunteers.
Private Charles H. Porter, Company A, Forty-third New York Volunteers.
Private John J. Davis, Company B, Forty-third New York Volunteers.
Respectfully transmitted.
WINF'D S. HANCOCK,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
Correspondence relative to the re-enforcement of General Hancock May 5.
HEADQUARTERS FIRST BRIGADE, SMITH'S DIVISION, Camp No. 11, in the field, near Williamsburg, May 8, 1862.
GENERAL: I have the honor to report that on the 5th instant, immediately upon our forces occupying the first work above the dam, at about 1 o'clock p.m., you directed me to inform General Keyes, who had been on the ground just previous to our starting to cross and take the fort, and was just entering the woods about half a mile from the scene of operations, returning to his headquarters, that our men were occupying the work. General Keyes directed me to return and tell you that he believed there were two works farther on that he wished you to occupy, commanded by two small earthworks that were also to be occupied by a small force, but no to weaken your force too much, and that you were to move cautiously. He also told me to say to you that he would immediately send you the regiment of cavalry he had promised you before you crossed the dam. When I returned, in about fifteen minutes after, the second fort was occupied, and our forces in position in front of it, ready to advance on two forts about 800 yards in advance of us. You then ordered me to return to General Keyes, and also to go to General Smith, and inform them that you were occupying the second work, and were about taking the two in front, commanded by Fort Margruder, and also that you wanted and must have re-enforcements to occupy them when taken, as well as to support you in your position, there not being sufficient men to protect your flanks. Generals Keyes and Smith both told me to say to you that you should have them, and that re-enforcements had already been ordered, of both cavalry and infantry, to the amount of one regiment of cavalry and a
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War of the Rebellion: Serial 035 Page 0611 Chapter XXXV. CORRESPONDENCE,ETC. - UNION.
mile or two it is broken into deep valleys and high ridges. Our line leaves the McMinnville survey 7 miles from Danville, and keeps the same plain 4 miles farther, through Milledgeville, and to the head of Willoughby's Branch, and down which it runs, crossing the small spurs from the adjacent ridge to the Hanging Fork. The crossing of this valley requires 800 feet of trestle 40 feet high, and a bridge 100 feet long, and two small streams on the south side will require trestles 300 and 400 feet long and 35 feet high. The line then runs up this last branch to the gap at McKinney's Station, passing the celebrated Muldraugh's Hill with a cut only 5 feet deep, and approaches it on a grade of 40 feet per mile.
The work thus far is all very light, except 3 miles next to the Kentucky River, and 2 miles at Hanging Fork, and these 5 miles not unusually heavy. The distance is 29 miles, and grade does not exceed 53 feet at any point; all of which will more fully appear when our location is permanently adjusted, and maps and profiles submitted.
GENERAL MAP OF KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, AND PARTS OF VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA, AND GEORGIA.
This map, begun by Captain Michler, continued by Major [Lorenzo] Sitgreaves, and being completed by me, is now ready for the engraver, and has been put into his hands for multiplication. I inclose a copy of the contract I have entered into with him for the work.* It will be noticed that the price charged is something greater than that stated in my letter to you of July 31, but it is because the engraving of the title, the topography of the mountains, which are yet to be put in, and the cost of the mounting, was not included in that estimate.
I inclose Special Orders, No. 199, Headquarters Department of the Ohio, marked B, and General Orders, No. 17, Headquarters Twenty-third Army Corps, Lexington, August 3, 1863, marked C,* by which it will be perceived that the Engineer Corps is not without enterprise in attempting to do all which lies in its power to make itself effective as an auxiliary of the army in the field. I also inclose a statement of money received and expended during the month of July,* and submit a requisition for funds on account of "surveys for military defenses."
The $5,000 on account of "contingencies of fortifications, including field works," required by me by telegraph July 6, no being received till after the return of Captain [Miles D.] McAlester, it did not become necessary for me to use it.
I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. H. SIMPSON,
Major and Chief Engineer, Department of the Ohio.
[Inclosures.]
OFFICE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, DEPT. OF THE OHIO, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 23, 1863.
Mr. W. A. GUNN,
Civil Engineer, Lexington, Ky.:
SIR: You will, by direction of Major-General Burnside, commanding this department, organize one or more parties for the determination and survey of the cheapest and most feasible route for the location of a railroad for military purposes between Nicholasville and Somerset, Ky., via Danville. The highest pay admissible for chief engineers of parties will be $4 per day, and the pay of assistant chain-men, &c., at reasonable rates.
The surveys are put under your direction, at a compensation of $5 per day, and it is believed from your already attained knowledge of the country, and experience and character as an engineer, that you will push
*Omitted.
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TANKA, VOL. I
Design by Sacha Archer
Simulacrum Press (Ontario, Canada)
Publisher’s Book Page
Release Date: Spring 2018
Description: A tall, slender chapbook of 20 pages, saddle stitched and printed in an edition of 75 numbered copies.
Price: $10 CAD
Available HERE For Purchase
Publisher’s Description:
In Tanka, Vol. 1, prolific poet and reader, Eileen R. Tabios, investigates the classical Japanese tanka form. Presenting a scope of work, from her early engagements with the form to increasingly stylized experiments, a progression of possibility opens in the arena of stricture. Where in the initial section we find the poems following the traditional form (as it manifests when romanized), for the following sections Tabios utilizes her MDR (Murder Death Resurrection) Poetry Generator to set the stage for reconfiguration, then excavation.
The following is the first tanka ever written by Eileen R. Tabios:
Last night my white cat
Approached with whiskers drooping
Signs are increasing
The world around me ages
I shiver in its cold wake
From that traditional tanka, Ms. Tabios radically reconfigures the form within 34 tankas with the help of a poetry generator and Martin Heidegger’s philosophical strategy, “sous rature.” Here is a later example of her tankas:
Some Reader Responses:
This sequence of poems works on at least two levels. On one level as a means to describe our creative thought processes and on another as a metaphor for memory and forgetfulness.
How much do we really remember of our life? The answer is very little…perhaps less than .001 percent. This is less than a small fraction. Tabios employs the literary device of sous rature to illustrate how certain facts are completely forgotten so that very little (just the words placed in bold type) remain. The resulting tankas are fragments of larger episodes—episodes that have been largely forgotten but for a few key words that are embodied in the tanka. The effect is like that of filleting a fish down to the bare bones. In this context, the tanka, as a form of précis, may act as an aide memoire to help resurrect a little more of the picture they are meant to describe but even if they do, that picture will be disarmingly inaccurate because it will be colored by all sorts of prejudices that have crept in ever since.
Referencing red, yellow and green, Tabios reveals that color and the associations that it brings can be a whole story in itself. There are throwbacks to childhood, the mention of a mother, grandmother and grandfather, references to puberty and ageing. At one point the maple is “wide, vivid, promiscuous” and at another it is disintegrating into dust. The term “excavation” used in the final sequence calls to mind the science of archaeology as a means of examining the past through the presence of physical remains. Here, all that remains is the bold text. These are the colors of red and gold that only come in the autumn when sufficient time has elapsed for memories to exist, loom large and then fade into near oblivion. “Childhood is ineffable” says Tabios. At the end of the day, it becomes so elusive, it is not able to be described.
–Neil Leadbeater, The FilAm, Sept. 10, 2018
“… a lovely book, beautiful paper and printing. I love the exploration of process…”
–Alice Brody, artist
“Excellent work, lovely production, and a feast!”
–Sheila Murphy, poet
“Hi Eileen!
Must say, I am very ‘taken’ with your
and so beautifully presented / produced. Whatever people may say about you as an experimentalist means nothing. If experiments ‘work’ they are no longer experiments but achieved facts, and that is certainly true of your work in this chapbook! Hats off to you!”
–David Giannini, poet
“impressive and attractively produced!”
–Elly Nobbs, poet
“… a wonderful small collection of three series of poems, first using a line by Sheila Murphy and then Eileen’s own previous work (by ‘previous’ I also mean the previous series within TANKA) as sources of (further) liberating restrictions, because poetry exists on the border of itself.”
–Marton Koppany, poet
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Inside Tesla's attack on Germany's auto establishment
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Lamborghini celebrates 50th with exclusive Veneno
Nick Gibbs
The limited-edition Veneno costs 3 million euros ($3.9 million) plus local taxes. All three are sold.
Nick Gibbs is UK correspondent for Automotive News Europe.
Lamborghini stole the limelight from McLaren and Ferrari rivals on Monday by celebrating its 50th anniversary with an exclusive hypercar of which just three will be built.
Called Veneno, it costs 3 million euros ($3.9 million) plus local taxes. All three are sold.
Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann told journalists the car was "fastest, most powerful road Lamborghini we've ever built."
The mid-mounted V-12 engine makes 750hp and propels the two-seater to 100km/h (62 mph) in just 2.8 seconds. Top speed is 355 km/h (221 mph).
The Veneno is based on the Aventador but is lighter than the carbon fiber supercar by 125kg (275 pounds).
Its designer Filippo Perini told Automotive News Europe it was much more purposeful than Lamborghini's last exclusive hypercar, the Reventon. "That was more design driven, this car is much more driven by functionality," he said.
Aerodynamics plays a huge part in the look, he said. "We started with a long discussion with our aerodynamics guys and designed the car around the under floor," Perini said.
The resulting ground-effect, together with the adjustable rear wing, gives the car 500kg of down force at the rear, he said.
The cars were sold very early on the design process, according to Perini. "We were thinking to build a 1:4 scale model to prepare the potential customer, totally useless," he said.
The sales happened so early in fact that homologation was done on the basis of the customers' location. Two are in the United States, and one wanted European homologation. The first car will be delivered in July, with the other two in September and October. Lamborghini will keep a fourth, the Geneva show car.
The VW-owned brand had to stick very closely to the Aventador to avoid have to crash test the car. "The windscreen, the doors, the dashboard, you can't touch them," said Perini.
The advantage was the adaptability of the supercar's carbon fiber tub. "The Aventador is a fantastic base because you can do a lot of derivations starting from the monocoque base," he said. He didn't rule out further special versions built off the car.
Inspiration for the design came from Le Mans racing cars, but was it also designed to impress as well as stick to a race track. Perini said: "We were looking for the 'wow' effect. You need it; you cannot arrive in Geneva with something polite."
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Bavarian Nordic and AZ combine cancer jab with durvalumab
U.S. subsidiary Bavarian Nordic, Inc. is located in Morrisville, North Caronlina also known as the Research Triangle. © Bavarian Nordic
AstraZeneca (AZ) and Bavarian Nordic (BN) combine BN’s cancer vaccine CV301 and AZ’s PD-L1 checkpoint blocker durvalumab in an investigator-sponsored trail to check synergistic effects in patients with colorectal and pancreatic cancer overexpressing CEA and MUC-1.
The investigator-driven Phase I/II trial led by PI Dr. Michael Pishvaian will be conducted at Georgetown University. The Phase I part will evaluate safety of a combo of CV301, durvalumab and maintenance chemotherapy in patients with metastatic disease. In the Phase II part, the investigators will look for signs of preliminary efficacy as measured by progression-free survival (PFS), objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), and disease control rate (DCR).
CV301 is a cancer prime/boost vaccine-based immunotherapeutic. Its prime, is comprised of the modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic (MVA-BN) vector. A fowlpox viral vector is used for the boosts. It encodes two tumor-associated antigens – carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and mucin-1 (MUC-1) –, plus TRICOM, a combination of the three immune-enhancing co-stimulatory molecules, B7-1, ICAM-1 and LFA-3. The administration of the vaccinia priming dose is followed by multiple boosting doses of the fowlpox vector.
The Phase I/II trial will begin with a lead-in study to determine the safety and tolerability of the combination, as well as the recommended Phase 2 dose of durvalumab in combination with CV301 and chemotherapy. The Phase 2 portion of the study will consist of two parallel trials, enrolling up to 26 patients for each disease setting.
"Combining a targeted cancer vaccine with a checkpoint inhibitor could result in a novel approach to fighting these diseases, as well as improved patient outcomes," said Pishvaian.
In theory, the CEA-MUC-1-TRICOM vaccine CV301 is expected to enhance presentation of CEA and MUC-1 to antigen-presenting cells (APCs) and to activate a cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response against CEA- and MUC-1-expressing tumour cells. In preclinical trials, CV301 upregulated the expression of PD-L1 due to CTL-mediated tumor attack; when combined with a immune checkpoint inhibitor, thus, the antitumour effect should be increased.
"With this trial, we are hopeful to continue demonstrating CV301's potential in multiple cancers and combinations, particularly in a treatment setting in which checkpoint inhibition alone has yet to show significant benefit." said Paul Chaplin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bavarian Nordic. Other CV301 combos in clinical testing include Merck & Co.’s pembrolizumab in lung cancer patients and Roche’s atezolizumab in bladder cancer patients.
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French Friday: En Mai, Fais Ce Qu’il Te Plait
May 11, 2018 by evelyneholingue
EN AVRIL, NE TE DÉCOUVRE PAS D’UN FIL; EN MAI, FAIS CE QU’IL TE PLAIT
In April, don’t take off a single thread (of your clothes); in May, do as you please
In plain English: the weather being finicky in April, it’s unwise to wear light clothes since you could get a cold, but in May you can wear what you want.
No panic, the A to Z Challenge is NOT starting again 🙂
But I could not resist to use one of the French expressions used to depict the month of May. The other one compares May to a piece of Gruyere, due to the copious amount of holidays (Labor Day, End of WWII, Ascension Day, and Pentecost).
This month of May is quite special since it marks the fiftieth anniversary of May 1968.
Sadly May 1, 2018 was marked by violence in Paris. About 1200 Black Blocs, coming from anarchist and libertarian movements, infiltrated the peaceful march, destroyed shop windows, restaurants, bus shelters, and burned cars.
Even though violence also happened in May 1968, the ultimate goal of the French back then was Change. Political, economical, and social reasons ultimately converged and France was indeed forever changed.
I would change too!
If you don’t read French I recommend this article published in the New York Times since it recapitulates an intense French period of time. The photos are also excellent. In fact, they reminded me that France was a country mostly run by men back then.
My very own mini Mai 68 rushed to my mind when I read:
“It is hard to find any Frenchman or woman born before 1960 who does not have a vivid and personal recollection of that month.”
I was seven that spring and my sister six. School was closed. For kids, it meant an extra month of vacation. What’s wrong with that? The weather was gorgeous, even warm for the season, and our maman let us play outside even more than usual. Playdates, at least in my village, were inexistent. Impromptu ruled. I could either be totally alone on the backroads where I was allowed to bike or bump into classmates. That spring, I suppose that parents were tired to see their kids home all the time since they were homebound too, now that the country had almost stopped. With kids outside, so were bikes and plenty of energy.
Even though women are clearly absent from most photos and reportages from that time, girls my age had no doubt they were as good as boys. We only had to demonstrate it, again and again. Although I was limber my sister was more daring than I was. Racing ran through her DNA. So over this long, unexpected estival month, while in Paris students and factory workers united, built barricades, and threw cobblestones to oppose the police and SWAT teams, elementary school kids in rural France had a blast.
All was good on our front, until my sister braked with her left brake and was ejected from her bike. She landed on a rock and blood immediately gushed. Her eyelids turned red and I thought she had lost her eyesight. She had not lost her good common sense, though, since she urged me to check on her bike and to take it home with us. Our parents weren’t as strict as others, but we didn’t swim in money. My sister knew as well as I did that she wouldn’t get a new bike if she had wrecked this one.
The boys who had been racing against us only minutes ago had vanished. Thanks for not helping us. So I pulled my bike and my sister’s while talking to her the whole time as we made our way home. I had read that it was crucial to keep an injured person alert until receiving treatment. I was 100% that my sister needed treatement. Maman was hanging the laundry in our backyard when we showed up. She dropped the sheet she was holding and our goat trotted over, excited at the perspective to eat something fresh. She was a sucker for laundry. Like me, Maman believed that my sister had hurt her eyes. But when she washed her face we both gaped at the sight of the deep gash on my sister’s forehead. My diagnosis had been pretty accurate.
In May 1968, I had never seen my father home that much. Papa must have felt weird too since he still drove with his Solex to the “office” where he met his colleagues at the truck company that employed them.
Courtesy Solex
My father allowed me to drive his Solex when I turned fifteen. He was right about the instability, but had not said anything about the feeling of freedom I would feel riding it.
Now that I’m an adult and know more about strikes I imagine my father and colleagues worrying about money, wondering when they would sit behind the wheel again, and bring a paycheck home. But I also detected hope for change when I overheared conversations.
In any case, Papa wasn’t home that afternoon and had exceptionally taken the Dauphine.
Courtesy Wikipedia
Our Dauphine was blue too, but much lighter
Our nextdoor neighbor informed Maman that he hadn’t been able to refill his car at the gas station. Deliveries of all kinds were sporadic in May 1968.
Maman decided to hitchhike to town, only four kilometers away. Ironically a taxi driver stopped and drove the frantic trio to the doctor. Family legend says that he refused to be paid. I think it’s true.
Our family doctor was not on strike and quickly closed my sister’s wound with staples. He was a charismatic man, very well dressed, a father of seven, and a smoker of blonde tobacco that floated through his wood-floored and high-ceiling office. To this day, even if I don’t smoke and know that smoking is a bad health choice, the distinct smell still conveys an image of elegance, confidence, and comfort.
Our doctor owned several cats that wandered in and out and he strongly encouraged the outdoors and even rough games for kids. That day, he only reminded my sister to use her right brake when she biked. Later, Papa would echo the advice.
If my parents worried during this strange month of May they never shared it with their kids. We didn’t have TV at that time, but I read well and tried to understand what was going on, based on the newspapers’ headlines.
Maybe this is when I understood that Paris was the place to be. Clearly May 68 was different there. More than words, photos leave their mark on young minds.
These photos were intense. Even though I would have liked to see with my own eyes I also wondered if this could be the End of the World that the priest described at Catechism.
In May 68, students and young people who had not known WWII were hungry for a different France. In May 68, the working class was fed up with inequality. In a unique moment in French history, the needs of these two radically different groups of people met.
Years later, when I moved to Paris and studied at the Sorbonne, I thought of them, gathered in the heart of the Latin Quarter, and once in a while envied them.
Soon I grew more grateful than envious. Things would never be the same in France from now on. I had no idea that one day I would write in English a novel set in France in the direct aftermaths of May 68.
At that time, a raw, palpable feeling of change infused the air. Even a seven-year-old could breathe it. The reader I was noticed an expression that took its true meaning only much later.
Sous les pavés… la plage.
Under the cobblestones… the beach.
Courtesy Le Nouvel Observateur
P.S. TO EVERY MOM, MAMAN, MOMMY, MUM, MAMA: HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
I WISH EACH OF YOU A BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY.
DON’T FORGET IT’S MAY. YOU CAN DO WHATEVER PLEASES YOU.
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Danzhou Masters: Duda the dauntless
by Aditya Pai
7/28/2018 – A brilliant win and an amazing miss were the highlights of the opening round of the 9th Danzhou Super Grandmaster Tournament. Continuing his great form from the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, Polish GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda registered an emphatic win over Vidit Gujrathi of India to take an early lead in the tournament. Bu Xiangzhi also had good winning chances against Samuel Shankland but messed up quite remarkably and had to settle for a draw in the end. An illustrated report with games.
Duda takes early lead
The 9th Danzhou Super Grandmaster Tournament went underway at the Baiyun Havana Resort Hotel in the town of Luzhou Guangcun in China on Friday. Featuring a field of eight young and promising Grandmasters from around the globe, the event promises some exciting games in its course. The time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with a 30-second increment from move one.
This year's line-up of the Danzhou Masters | Photo: Official website
Round one saw most games end peacefully. Yu Yangyi versus Le Quang Liem and Wei Yi against Fedoseev were the first two games to finish and both were just dull draws. Bu Xiangzhi had some serious chances against Sam Shankland but missed opportunities led to an eventual draw. Jan-Krzysztof Duda was the only victor of the round who brought down Vidit Gujrathi of India and took an early lead in the tournament.
Vidit Gujrathi vs Jan Krzysztof Duda
This was that one game which game really stood out from the rest of the pack, not because it was the only decisive game of the round but because Duda went for broke to carve out a win in this one.
Vidit is a very difficult opponent to beat. In fact, Vidit hadn’t lost a single game this year before this one. He is always well prepared and hardly takes too much risk. But Duda pounced on the first opportunity he got in the game to unsettle his opponent.
The Classical French - Main Line
After 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3, the author takes a detailed look at a daring line with 7... cxd4 8. Nd4 Qb6, as well as the quieter plans with 7...cxd4 8. Nd4 Bc5, and the main line with 7... a6 and b5.
The Classical French seemed to have gone fine for both players. Neither side seemed to have anything to worry about. In the position above, white had just moved his rook to a1, trading off the only black piece that looked threatening. And after the obvious 23…Rxa1 24.Qxa1, Duda uncorked 24…Nxc3!
Even though this does not lead to a forced win, this is, perhaps, what was needed to unsettle an opponent like Vidit. The computers can scream equality all they want but after 25.Bxc3 Nxb4 26.Qb1 Nc6, blacks queenside pawn duo looks menacing. Vidit countered well on the kingside but faltered soon afterwards.
Here again, White is desperately trying to generate an initiative on the kingside. Duda came up with an ingenious solution to liquidate the position. He simply took the rook on g5 with his queen and then trapped the white queen with 41…Rg8. Quite incredibly, White is dead lost in this endgame despite being a whole piece up!
Duda came up with a gnarly tactic to unsettle his ever-solid opponent | Photo: Official website
Bu Xiangzhi vs Samuel Shankland
The man best known for having knocked out Magnus Carlsen from the World Cup last year, Bu Xiangzhi played an enterprising game with the white pieces against American GM Sam Shankland in the inaugural round. Giving up two pawns in a Fianchetto Gruenfeld, Bu generated some strong chances for himself in the middle game. By the 23rd move, he was even close to winning.
Solid and safe against the Indian openings: Play the Fianchetto
The King''s Indian and Grunfeld are notoriously tricky and theoretical openings. The Fianchetto variation avoids the main lines which Black players enjoy, and goes for a small but safe edge. GM Nick Pert played the Fianchetto variation for over 20 years, and at the time of recording was unbeaten with White since November 2011!
Here, the Bu could have played 23.Nd3! and now, after 23…Nxd3, White has 24.Rb1. All of a sudden, the black queen is running out of squares. It can’t leave the long diagonal as Qe5+ would just be curtains and after 24…Qxc3 25.Rxd3 Qc6 26.Qe5+ Rf6, white is just clearly winning.
Bu missed this and played 23.Rxa6 instead which led to a more or less even position. But then Shankland again gave up an exchange, leaving himself with a rook and a knight against White’s queen and giving his opponent a winning position once again.
But once again, Bu failed to capitalize on his opponent’s mistakes and went on to draw in about fifteen more moves.
Bu Xiangzhi played enterprisingly but missed important serious winning opportunities against Sam Shankland | Photo: Official website
Wei Yi vs Vladimir Fedoseev
Wei Yi did come up with a novelty in the Bogo Indian but it hardly led him anywhere. Fedoseev quickly broke in the centre in response after which the Chinese GM had to acquiesce to a mass exchange of pieces which led to a barren position.
Let's go with the Bogo
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Bd2 Qe7 5.g3 Bxd2!? 6.Qxd2 Nc6! 7.Nc3 d5! is a modern line where Black tries to play actively in the center. Shah shows the possible variations which occur in this position.
Wei Yi and Vladislav Fedoseev agreed to a sedate draw in the opening round | Photo: Official website
Yu Yangyi vs Le Quang Liem
Yu Yangyi against Le Quang Liem was the first game to finish and this was no barnburner either. Here again, a mass exchange of pieces right out of the opening led the players into an equal endgame. For argument’s sake, black had an outside passed pawn. A couple of more exchanges drifted the game into an endgame with bishops of opposite colour wherein the players promptly agreed to a draw.
Yu Yangyi's game against Le Quang Liem was the first one to finish | Photo: Official website
Standings after Round 1
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Topics: Bu Xiangzhi, China, Hainan Danzhou 2018, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Le Quang Liem, Sam Shankland, Vidit Gujrathi, Vladimir Fedoseev, Wei Yi, Yu Yangyi
Aditya Pai Aditya Pai is an ardent chess fan, avid reader, and a film lover. He holds a Master's in English Literature and used to work as an advertising copywriter before joining the ChessBase India team.
Hamburg GP: Vachier-Lagrave strikes first, again
11/9/2019 – The quarter-finals of the Hamburg Grand Prix kicked off at the Theater Kehrwieder on Friday. The only winner of the day was Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who beat Veselin Topalov with the black pieces and only needs a draw in the rematch game to advance once again without needing tiebreaks. Jan-Krzysztof Duda, David Navara and Peter Svidler drew with Black against Yu Yangyi, Alexander Grischuk and Daniil Dubov respectively. | Photo: Nadja Wittmann
Biel: Vidit's imaginative pawn sacrifice stuns Bogner
7/29/2019 – Change is never pleasant, but when one succeeds in expanding his skill set the results are often staggering - ask Vidit Gujrathi! His attacking masterclass over Bogner sees Vidit just 3 points away from his 1st Biel title! Sam Shankland was a surprise victim today - Jorge Cori played splendidly in a reversed French structure to hand the American a potentially decisive loss and come closer to the coveted 2700 mark. Abdusattorov came back from the brink to stun Georgiadis, while Leko blundered deep into the endgame to switch places with Maghsoodloo in the points table.
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Kokarev, Ponkratov, Savchenko lead at the 2013 Moscow Open
2/8/2013 – The International Chess Festival Moscow Open 2013 is being held from 31st January to 11th February 2013 at the Russian State Social University in Moscow. In a strong field of national and international GMs, after seven rounds of play it is not the top seed Ian Nepomniachtchi who is in the lead, but three lesser-known Russian GMs. Illustrated report with endgame analysis.
The festival consists of nine tournaments:
Tournament A – Men’s Cup of Russia
Tournament B – Women’s Cup of Russia
Tournament C – Amateurs’ Cup of MCF
Tournament D – Veterans’ Cup of MCF
Tournament E – World Cup Chess Composition
Tournament F – Students-grandmasters’ Cup of RSSU (men)
Tournament G – Students-grandmasters’ Cup of RSSU (women)
Tournament H – School Champions’ Cup of MCF
The total prize fund of the Festival is 3.5 million rubles (approximately US $110,000).
The opening ceremony at the Russian State Social University in Moscow
Dance presentation at the opening ceremony
Ladies in interesting costumes
Violin recital, followed by a...
... hula hoop presentation
The start of the seventh round of the 2013 Moscow Open A Group
Top board: GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, 2703, vs GM Pavel Maletin, 2571 (draw)
GM Illya Nyzhnyk, UKR, 16 years old, rated 2637, has scored 4.5/7 so far
There are plenty of very nice pictures on the official site here, but all uncaptioned. You can explore
them if you know plenty of players by face, or just like seeing pictures of people playing chess.
Video report from the Moscow Open 2013
Endgame analysis by GM Karsten Müller
The tragedy of one tempo
When a passed pawn can queen, it is often worth taking a second look, if this can be done in even more favorable circumstances:
[Event "Moscow Open A"] [Site "Moscow RUS"] [Date "2013.02.06"] [Round "5.5"] [White "Meribanov, Vitaly"] [Black "Svetushkin, Dmitry"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "C67"] [WhiteElo "2409"] [BlackElo "2612"] [PlyCount "121"] [EventDate "2013.02.02"] [EventType "swiss"] [EventRounds "9"] [EventCountry "RUS"] [Source "Chess Today"] [SourceDate "2013.02.06"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. dxe5 Nf5 8. Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. Nc3 Bd7 10. b3 Kc8 11. Bb2 Be7 12. Rad1 b6 13. Rd2 h5 14. Rfd1 Be6 15. Ne2 a5 16. Ned4 Nxd4 17. Nxd4 Bg4 18. f3 Bd7 19. e6 fxe6 20. Nf5 exf5 21. Rxd7 Re8 22. Bxg7 a4 23. Kf1 axb3 24. axb3 Bd6 25. Rf7 Ra2 26. Ra1 Rxa1+ 27. Bxa1 Bxh2 28. Rxf5 Bg3 29. Bc3 h4 30. Rg5 c5 31. Rg4 Re7 32. Re4 Rd7 33. Ke2 Rh7 34. Ke3 Kd7 35. Be5 Bxe5 36. Rxe5 h3 37. gxh3 Rxh3 38. Kf4 c4 39. bxc4 Rh4+ 40. Kg5 Rxc4 41. Re2 Rc3 42. f4 b5 43. f5 b4 44. f6 Rf3 45. Kg6 c5 46. f7 Rg3+ 47. Kh7 Rh3+ 48. Kg7 Rg3+ 49. Kf8 b3 50. Re7+ Kc6 51. Ke8 Rf3 52. cxb3 Rxb3 {The tragedy of one tempo When a passed pawn can queen, it is often worth taking a second look, if this can be done in even more favorable circumstances:} 53. f8=Q $2 {Now Black is always just in time to draw.} (53. Re5 $5 Rb8+ (53... c4 54. f8=Q Rb8+ 55. Kf7 Rxf8+ 56. Kxf8 c3 57. Re3 $18) ( 53... Kd6 54. f8=Q+ Kxe5 55. Qxc5+ Kf6 56. Qd6+ Kg7 57. Qf8+ Kg6 58. Qf7+ $18) (53... Rf3 54. f8=Q Rxf8+ 55. Kxf8 Kd6 56. Rh5 $18) 54. Ke7 Kb5 55. Kf6 {wins the all important tempo in the following fights:} (55. f8=Q $2 {is still too early due to} Rxf8 56. Kxf8 Kc4 57. Ke7 Kd4 58. Kd6 c4 59. Rd5+ Ke3 60. Kc5 c3 61. Kb4 c2 62. Rc5 Kd2 63. Kb3 c1=Q 64. Rxc1 Kxc1 $11) 55... Rf8 56. Re8 Rxf7+ 57. Kxf7 Kc4 (57... c4 58. Ke6 c3 59. Kd5 Kb4 60. Kd4 c2 61. Rc8 Kb3 62. Kd3 $18) 58. Ke6 Kd4 59. Rd8+ Ke4 60. Kd6 c4 61. Kc5 c3 62. Kb4 c2 63. Rc8 Kd3 64. Kb3 $18) (53. Re6+ Kd5 54. Rd6+ Kxd6 55. f8=Q+ Kc6 56. Qf6+ Kb5 57. Kd7 {wins as well, but is more complicated.}) 53... Rb8+ 54. Kf7 Rxf8+ 55. Kxf8 Kd5 $1 { The right way to proceed. Black's king prepares to give White's a bodycheck.} ( 55... c4 $4 {loses due to the deadly cut off} 56. Re5 $18) ({and} 55... Kb5 $2 {runs into} 56. Kf7 Kc4 57. Ke6 Kd4 58. Rd7+ Ke4 59. Rc7 Kd4 60. Kf5 c4 61. Kf4 Kd3 62. Kf3 c3 63. Rd7+ Kc2 64. Ke2 Kb2 65. Rc7 c2 66. Kd2 $18) 56. Rd7+ Ke4 57. Ke7 ({The usual zwischenschach} 57. Re7+ {does not help here due to} Kd3 58. Rd7+ Ke3 59. Rc7 Kd4 60. Ke7 c4 61. Kd6 c3 $11 {Bodycheck!}) 57... c4 58. Kd6 c3 59. Rh7 c2 60. Rh1 Kd3 61. Kd5 1/2-1/2
Passed pawns must be pushed
A dangerous outside passed pawn can compensate a lot of material:
[Event "Moscow Open A"] [Site "Moscow RUS"] [Date "2013.02.06"] [Round "5.11"] [White "Iturrizaga, Eduardo"] [Black "Predke, Alexandr"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D44"] [WhiteElo "2650"] [BlackElo "2480"] [PlyCount "137"] [EventDate "2013.02.02"] [EventType "swiss"] [EventRounds "9"] [EventCountry "RUS"] [Source "Chess Today"] [SourceDate "2013.02.06"] 1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 c6 5. Bg5 dxc4 6. e4 b5 7. e5 h6 8. Bh4 g5 9. Nxg5 hxg5 10. Bxg5 Nbd7 11. g3 Bb7 12. exf6 Qb6 13. Bg2 c5 14. d5 O-O-O 15. O-O b4 16. Rb1 Ne5 17. Qe2 Bd6 18. f4 Nd3 19. dxe6 Bxg2 20. Qxg2 fxe6 21. Qe4 Bc7 22. Ne2 Qa6 23. h4 Rd5 24. h5 Rxh5 25. f7 Qd6 26. Qg6 Rh8 27. Bf6 Rdh5 28. Bxh8 Rxh8 29. Rf3 Kb7 30. Qg8 Qf8 31. Qxf8 Rxf8 32. b3 Rxf7 33. Kg2 cxb3 34. Rxd3 bxa2 35. Ra1 c4 36. Rd4 b3 37. Rxc4 Ba5 38. Ra4 b2 39. R4xa2 bxa1=Q 40. Rxa1 Bb6 41. g4 Kc6 42. Kf3 Rh7 43. g5 Rh2 44. Ng3 Kd7 45. Re1 Rf2+ 46. Kg4 Rg2 47. Kh3 Rg1 48. Re4 Bc7 49. Ne2 Rh1+ 50. Kg4 Bd6 51. g6 Rh8 52. Ra4 Bc5 53. Ra5 Kd6 54. Nc3 Bb6 55. Rh5 Rg8 56. Ne4+ Kc6 57. Rh6 Bd8 58. Ng5 Kd5 59. Rh1 a5 60. Rd1+ Kc6 61. Kh5 Rh8+ 62. Nh7 Bf6 63. Kh6 {Passed pawns must be pushed A dangerous outside passed pawn can compensate a lot of material:} Bb2 $2 {Black does not have time for this.} ({The passed a-pawn must advance immediately with } 63... a4 $1 64. g7 a3 $5 (64... Bxg7+ {draws as well, e.g.} 65. Kxg7 Ra8 66. Ng5 a3 67. Nxe6 a2 68. Ra1 Ra7+ 69. Kg6 Kd5 70. f5 Kc4 71. f6 Kb3 72. f7 Rxf7 73. Kxf7 Kb2 $11) 65. gxh8=Q Bxh8 66. Kg6 (66. Rc1+ Kd5 67. Kg6 (67. Rc2 Bb2 $11) 67... Bb2 68. Rd1+ Kc4 69. Nf6 a2 $11) 66... Bb2 67. Ng5 a2 68. Nxe6 a1=Q 69. Rxa1 Bxa1 $11) 64. Rd2 $1 {The bishop is dominated.} Ba1 ({Now it is too late for} 64... Bf6 65. g7 Bxg7+ (65... a4 66. gxh8=Q Bxh8 67. Kg6 a3 68. Nf6 Kc5 69. Rh2 $18) 66. Kxg7 Ra8 {due to} 67. Ng5 a4 68. Nxe6 a3 69. Ra2 Ra4 ( 69... Kd6 70. Kf6 $18) 70. f5 Kd5 71. Kg6 Ke5 72. Kg5 Ra8 73. Nf4 Kd6 74. f6 Kc5 75. f7 Kb4 76. Nd3+ Kb3 77. Nc1+ Kb4 78. Rf2 $18) 65. Ra2 Bd4 66. Ra4 (66. Rxa5 {wins as well.}) 66... Kd5 (66... Bc3 $6 67. Rc4+ $18) 67. Rxa5+ Ke4 68. Kg5 $1 {White keeps his valuable winning potential.} ({Of course not} 68. g7 $4 Bxg7+ 69. Kxg7 Rb8 (69... Rxh7+ $2 70. Kxh7 Kxf4 {runs into} 71. Ra4+ $1 Kf5 72. Kh6 e5 73. Kh5 e4 74. Kh4 Kf4 75. Kh3 Kf3 76. Ra8 e3 77. Rf8+ Ke2 78. Kg2 $18) 70. Ra4+ Kf5 71. Ng5 e5 72. fxe5 Kxe5 $11) 68... Kf3 69. Ra3+ (69. Ra3+ Ke4 (69... Ke2 70. Nf6 Rh1 (70... Rf8 71. Nh5 Rf5+ 72. Kg4 Rf8 73. Ra6 $18) 71. Rg3 Kf2 72. Rg4 $18) 70. Nf6+ Bxf6+ 71. Kxf6 Kxf4 72. Ra4+ Ke3 73. Kxe6 $18) 1-0
Knight festival
As two knights alone can't force mate great precision is often necessary to convert an advantage and the last pawn is worth its weight in gold:
[Event "Moscow Open B 2013"] [Site "Moscow RUS"] [Date "2013.02.04"] [Round "3.5"] [White "Eryshkanova, Anastasiya"] [Black "Tarasova, Viktoriya"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "A47"] [WhiteElo "2143"] [BlackElo "2273"] [PlyCount "140"] [EventDate "2013.02.02"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5. Nbd2 c5 6. c3 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Qe2 d6 9. Rd1 Qc7 10. e4 Nc6 11. a3 a5 12. Nf1 Nd7 13. Ng3 g6 14. h4 Bf6 15. Bc4 Ne7 16. Bg5 Bxg5 17. Nxg5 h6 18. Nh3 d5 19. exd5 exd5 20. Bd3 c4 21. Bc2 Rae8 22. Qf3 Kg7 23. Nf4 Nf6 24. Re1 Bc8 25. Nf1 Bg4 26. Qg3 Qd7 27. f3 Bf5 28. Rac1 Bxc2 29. Rxc2 Nf5 30. Qf2 Rxe1 31. Qxe1 Re8 32. Re2 Rxe2 33. Qxe2 Ne7 34. Ng3 Qd6 35. Qe3 b5 36. Kf2 h5 37. Nge2 Nd7 38. Ng3 Nf6 39. Nge2 Nf5 40. Qe5 Qxe5 41. dxe5 Nd7 42. e6 Nb6 43. g4 hxg4 44. fxg4 Nd6 45. exf7 Kxf7 46. Ke3 Na4 47. Kd4 Ne4 48. Nxd5 Nd2 49. Ke3 Nf1+ 50. Kf2 Nd2 51. Nd4 Ne4+ 52. Ke3 Nd6 53. Nf3 Nxb2 54. Kd4 Nd1 55. Ng5+ Kg7 56. Kc5 b4 57. cxb4 axb4 58. axb4 Nb7+ 59. Kxc4 Nb2+ 60. Kb5 Nd6+ 61. Kc6 Ndc4 62. Nf3 Nd3 63. b5 Na5+ 64. Kd6 Nf2 65. Ne5 Kh6 66. b6 g5 67. hxg5+ Kxg5 68. Kc7 Ne4 {Knight festival As two knights alone can't force mate great precision is often necessary to convert an advantage and the last pawn is worth its weight in gold:} 69. Nc6 $2 {This allows Black's knights to force an underpromotion of the pawn.} (69. b7 $2 {is met by} Nxb7 70. Kxb7 Nf2 71. Ne3 Nxg4 $11) ({and} 69. Nb4 $2 {runs into} Nc3 70. Nbc6 (70. b7 Nxb7 71. Kxb7 Ne4 72. Nd5 Nf2 73. Ne3 Nxg4 $11) 70... Nd5+ 71. Kd6 Nxb6 72. Nxa5 Kf4 73. Nac6 Nc4+ 74. Ke6 Ne3 $11) ({There is essentially only one way to win the domination dance:} 69. Ne3 $1 Nc3 (69... Nc5 70. N3c4 Nxc4 71. Nxc4 Kxg4 72. Kc6 Ne6 73. Na5 Kf5 74. Kd6 Nd8 75. Ke7 $18) (69... Kf4 70. N5c4 Nb3 71. Kc6 Nbc5 72. Nd2 Kxe3 73. Nxe4 Nxe4 74. b7 $18) 70. Nc6 Nb3 (70... Nb5+ 71. Kd7 Nb7 72. Nd8 Nc5+ 73. Kc6 $18) 71. Kd6 Ne4+ 72. Ke7 Nbc5 (72... Nec5 73. Nd8 Kf4 74. Ne6+ Kxe3 75. Nxc5 Nxc5 76. g5 $18) 73. Nd4 Nb7 74. Ne6+ Kg6 75. Nc4 Kh6 76. Kd7 Kg6 77. Kc6 Kf6 78. Kxb7 Kxe6 79. Kc6 $18) (69. Nd7 {is playable, but after} Nf2 (69... Nd2 70. Ne3 Nb1 71. Ne5 Nc3 72. Nc6 Nb3 73. Kd6 $18) (69... Kxg4 70. N7f6+ Kf3 71. Nxe4 Kxe4 72. Nb4 Kf5 73. Nc6 Nb3 74. Kd6 Nd2 75. b7 Nc4+ 76. Kc5 Ne5 77. Nxe5 Kxe5 78. b8=Q+ $18) (69... Nd6 70. Kxd6 Nc4+ 71. Ke6 Nxb6 72. Ne5 Na4 73. Kd6 Nb2 74. Ne3 Kf4 75. Kd5 Kxe3 76. g5 $18) 70. Ne5 Ne4 {White must play} 71. Ne3 $18 {anyway.}) 69... Nc4 70. b7 Nc5 ( 70... Nc5 71. b8=N Kxg4 72. Nd4 {should be drawn as given by Baburin in Chess Today 4472, e.g.} Ne5 73. Kd6 Ncd3 74. Na6 Nf3 75. Nb5 Nh4 76. Nb6 Nf5+ 77. Ke6 Kf4 {as three knights against two should usually be defendable. But three knights against one is won for the three knights, if a direct draw can't be forced.}) 1/2-1/2
Top standings after seven rounds
Rk. Title Name
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A critical success factors assessment instrument for cloud migration readiness status in Saudi Arabian universities
Saudi universities have at their disposal a huge number of low cost IT resources to aid teaching, research and learning. The emergence of cloud computing delivers substantial benefits in the form of rich education content, increased efficiency and agility that can be used to transform higher education in Saudi universities. By migrating to cloud services, Saudi universities will be moving data and programs from local servers to the internet, thereby providing users with the ability to access and share information at any time from multiple devices. Also, procuring IT resources such as infrastructure, applications, and platforms via the Internet will be cost effective, easy and fast. This will promote innovation in universities, as the main barrier of cost will be removed. However, the migration to cloud-based IT resources is not yet widespread in Saudi universities due to several challenges including security, legal policies and IT personnel skills. Moreover, at present, there is a lack of research and guidance on the significance of the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) to improve the success of cloud migration projects in Saudi university. These CSFs were used to measure the readiness of Saudi universities in terms of their ability, perception and readiness in making their cloud migration more successful. This research proposes a framework of enablers to guide the Saudi Arabian universities to migrate to the cloud paradigm successfully.
In the presented research, a set of key CSFs was identified by synthesising factors from studies concerned with the migration of cloud for higher education in global context and factors identified from previous research investigating the successful implementation of Web Based Learning (WBL) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) on higher education in Saudi Arabia. Based on the literature review, the proposed Success Factor Cloud Migration (SFCM1) framework was then evaluated via expert reviews and a survey conducted by IT specialists working in Saudi universities. The initial CSFs in SFCM1 were updated based on the expert reviews and the results were analysed via the Thematic Analysis approach. Based on the findings at this stage, additional CSFs were added to the framework as suggested by the experts. Subsequently, in order to confirm the reviewed CSFs, additional investigation via a structured online questionnaire was conducted and the outcome was analysed via one-sample t-test with the data integrity analysed via Cronbach’s alpha. The outcome indicated that most CSFs were statistically significant, apart from, the Physical Location CSF.
Subsequently, based on the confirmed SFCM2 framework, a cloud migration readiness assessment instrument (CMRA) was developed using Goal Question Metrics (GQM) approach. The scoring scales of the CMRA instrument were adapted from the COBIT5 Process Assessment Model (PAM). The practicality of CMRA instrument was evaluated by three case studies conducted in Saudi universities. The instrument was used to assess the readiness status of the Saudi universities that already planned to migrate to the cloud. Afterwards, the usefulness and practicality of the CMRA were evaluated through an evaluation questionnaire and interviews with seniors working in IT deanships in Saudi universities.
The contributions of this research are first that it developed a SFCM2 framework within the context of Saudi Arabian universities. Secondly, the framework was extended to an instrument (CMRA) to measure the readiness status of a particular Saudi university.
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Alharthi, Abdulrahman Ayad (2017) A critical success factors assessment instrument for cloud migration readiness status in Saudi Arabian universities. University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis, 271pp.
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The use of video surveillance is becoming more prevalent and more accessible due to new technologies reducing the costs involved and making storage/administration of video images easier. Because it’s easy and cheap to install video surveillance in your workplace you might be tempted to do so, but it’s not as simple as putting some cameras up – there are important factors to consider if you want to avoid getting into hot water legally.
Do you need it?
There is no doubt that CCTV surveillance in your workplace involves a degree of intrusion – it involves recording the normal day-to-day activities of your employees and anyone else entering your workplace, so the first thing to do is consider whether you actually need one at all. Consider what business problem you are trying to solve through use of CCTV and whether surveillance of this nature is justified or whether an alternative, less intrusive arrangement would meet the need.
If you do really need CCTV, think about whether it could be only used in targeted areas. Cameras should be sited and their use restricted so that they do not unnecessarily record images in areas where privacy might be expected (toilets being the obvious example).
Administering the CCTV system
When installing a system you also need to consider what happens to the information it will be gathering. Consider factors such as who will be able to access the recordings, and under what circumstances images may be disclosed or used.
Recorded material needs to be stored in an appropriate way so that the rights of the individuals being monitored are protected and that the information being obtained can be used for the correct purpose. The storage must be suitably secure.
You should also consider carefully the viewing of ‘live’ material displayed on a monitor. Only those authorised to view live images should be able to do so, and monitors should not be visible to others unless it displays something already visible in location of the monitor itself.
Retention of recorded material
The realities of storage limitations mean it is unlikely you’ll be able to store CCTV recorded images for long periods. But actually this shouldn’t be the main factor to consider when determining how long to keep your footage.
One of the key principles of the Data Protection Act is that information should not be retained longer than is necessary. The purpose for which you are recording images will make a difference as to how long you need to keep them, but you should retain information obtained through CCTV recordings for the shortest period you can while still achieving the purpose the system was installed for.
Audio or not?
Audio recording will usually be more intrusive than recording that is purely visual, so you should choose a system without this facility if possible, or disable the facility unless you have very robust evidence that sound recording is absolutely essential to meet your needs, and there is no other available solution.
If you do consider that audio recording is justified, you should ensure employees (and anyone else who may be monitored by the system) is fully aware that both audio and visual recording are taking place.
As with any other form of employee monitoring, you must ensure employees are aware that the CCTV cameras are there, and have clearly understood their purpose, how long the information will be kept for and how the system will be handled/kept secure.
Covert monitoring (carried out in such a way that the subject/s of the monitoring are unaware of it) is not usually justified and should not be considered other than in exceptional circumstances, such as where there is reason to believe there is criminal activity or equivalent malpractice and notifying individuals of the monitoring would impede detection or prevention of the activity.
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Prior to Dr. Kristan’s appointment at CSUSM in Fall 2003, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Idaho. Research interests include physiological ecology (especially the effects on chronic parasite infection on ability of small rodents to respond to other environmental demands such as cold exposure, lactation, and caloric restriction), biology of aging, and effects of domestication on morphology and physiology.
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Lewis, K.N., Watson, E., Edrey, Y., Kristan, D.M., Nevo, E. and Buffenstein, R. 2015. Regulation of Nrf2-signaling and longevity in naturally long-lived rodents. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 112:3722-3727.
Clark, P.R., Ward, T.W., Lang, S.A., Saghbini, A., Kristan, D.M. 2013. Order of inoculation during Heligmosomoides bakeri and Hymenolepis microstoma coinfection alters parasite life history and host responses. Pathogens 2:130-152.
Edrey, Y.H., Casper, D. Huchon, D., Mele, J., Gelfond, J.A., Kristan, D.M., Nevo, E., Buffenstein, R.B. 2012. Sustained high levels of neuregulin-1 in the longest-lived rodents; a key determinant of rodent longevity. Aging Cell 11:213-222.
Kristan, D.M. 2008. Calorie restriction and susceptibility to intact pathogens. AGE 30:147-156.
Holmes, D.K. and Kristan, D.M. 2008. Comparative and alternative approaches and novel animal models for aging research. AGE 30:63-73.
Kristan, D.M. 2007. Chronic Calorie Restriction Increases Susceptibility of Laboratory Mice (Mus musculus) to a Primary Intestinal Parasite Infection. Aging Cell 6:817-825.
Kristan, D.M. and K.A. Hammond. 2006. Effects of three simultaneous demands on glucose transport, resting metabolism and morphology of laboratory mice. J. Comp. Physiol. B. 176:139-151.
Shupe, J.M., Kristan, D.M. Austad, S.N. Stenkamp, D.L. 2006. The eye of the laboratory mouse remains anatomically adapted for natural conditions. Brain Behav. Evol.67:39-52.
Kristan, D.M. and K.A. Hammond. 2004. Aerobic performance of wild-derived house mice does not change with cold exposure or intestinal parasite infection. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 77(3): 440-449.
Kristan, D.M. and K.A. Hammond. 2004. Morphological plasticity varies with duration of infection: evidence from lactating and virgin wild-derived house mice (Mus musculus) infected with an intestinal parasite (Heligmosomoides polygyrus: Nematoda). J. Exp. Biol 207: 2351-2360.
Kristan, D.M. 2004. Intestinal nematode infection affects host life history and offspring susceptibility to parasitism. J. Anim. Ecol. 73: 227-238.
Kristan, D.M. and K.A. Hammond. 2003. Physiological and morphological responses to simultaneous cold exposure and parasite infection by wild-derived house mice. Func. Ecol. 17: 464-471.
Austad, S.N. and D.M. Kristan. 2003. Are mice calorically restricted in nature? Aging Cell 2: 201-207.
Kristan, D.M. 2002. Effects of intestinal nematodes during lactation: consequences for host morphology, physiology and offspring mass. J. Exp. Biol. 205: 3955-3965.
Kristan, D.M. 2002. Maternal and direct effects of the intestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus on offspring growth and susceptibility to infection. J. Exp. Biol. 205: 3967-3977.
Hammond, K.A., M.A. Chappell, and D. M. Kristan. 2002. Developmental plasticity in aerobic performance in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A 133:213-224
Kristan, D.M. and K.A. Hammond. 2001. Parasite infection and caloric restriction induce physiological and morphological plasticity. Am. J. Physiol. 281: R502-R510.
Hammond, K.A. and D.M. Kristan. 2000. Responses to lactation and cold exposure by deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 73:547-556.
Kristan, D.M. and K.A. Hammond. 2000. Combined effects of cold exposure and sub-lethal intestinal parasites on host morphology and physiology. J. Exp. Biol. 203:3495-3504.
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Chang family
Characters voiced by Rob Paulsen
Who is Mark Chang?
Species: Yugopotamian
Age: Teenage Kid
Eye color: Red
Yugopotamia (formerly)
Earth (currently)
Prince of Yugopotamia
Justin Jake Ashton (disguise)
Timmy Turner (best friend)
Princess Mandie
Overlord Glee
Timmy Turner (formerly)
Vicky the Babysitter (ex-girlfriend (in human form)
F.L.A.R.G.
King Gripullon (father)
Queen Jipjorrulac (mother)
Spouse(s):
Princess Mandie (ex-wife)
A Vicky clone (ex-wife)
Marked Man
"PUNY HUMANS! ...What's up?"
— Mark Chang
Mark Chang is the Prince of Yugopotamia and a close friend of Timmy's. He also has a crush on Vicky, Timmy's babysitter. His father is King Gripullon and his mother is Queen Jipjorrulac.
Mark is an alien Prince from the planet Yugopotamia, a place where everyone behaves and likes things opposite of humans. For instance, they find garbage and manure to be delicious and are terrified of cute things such as Poof or The Gigglepies. Mark's parents, King Gripullon and Queen Jipjorrulac, love their son very much, although they still arranged a marriage to the terrifying and beautiful (ugly to Mark) Princess Man-DIE. Eventually Mark fled to Earth where he uses his Fake-i-fier to remain disguised as a human boy. Unlike humans who find Vicky to be terrifying, Mark is greatly in love with Vicky.
Mark is a squid-like alien, possessing several tentacles and an exposed brain encased in a dome of glass. He is colored aqua green and wears a pink Fake-i-fier around his waist, allowing him to take the form of various Earth objects by spinning the yellow six-spoke symbol to the desired form. His species is generally warlike and loves painful or disgusting things, which explains why Mark fell in love with Vicky the instant he saw her, many of his appearances involving his attempts to woo her. He is one of the few people allowed to know about Timmy's fairy godparents since he's not human, therefore outside of Da Rules.
In his human form, Mark appears as a boy around Timmy's age with red eyes, curly black hair, and a green hat and pink shirt with the same symbol alien-Mark has on his Fake-i-fier. If something nice happens to Mark, for instance getting kissed by a girl, his Fake-i-fier will malfunction and he will lose the ability to remain in human form.
In the episode, "King Chang", Mark changed his human disguise form to that of a hunky young teenager named Justin Jake Ashton so that way he can actually date Vicky on earth, who he is in love with. Unfortunately for him, his Fake-i-fier malfunctioned just before the date, and Vicky dumped him.
In Fairly OddPet, Vicky says she got in a fight with him and refers to him as her boyfriend, possibly indicating that they have reconciled since the Fake-i-fier incident, but are now in a rocky relationship.
Mark Chang in his human form.
Timmy's Enemy
Mark first met Timmy when he wished for an alien monster for him and his friends, Chester McBadbat and A.J., to play with. Wanda Fairywinkle-Cosma and Cosmo Cosma, not being very good at making up monsters, "borrowed" one from Yugopotamia, which happened to be Mark. Upon arriving, he threatened to suck out the trio's brains with bendy straws, but believing him to be an advanced toy, the threat wasn't taken seriously, much to his confusion. Soon afterward Vicky burst in, frightening the kids. Seeing she had so easily instilled fear into the three that he failed to even faze, he immediately fell in love with her.
Thinking he was a kid in a costume, Vicky dragged Mark downstairs, where she ordered him to make her a chocolate shake. This caused him to fall for her more, since chocolate is the deadliest substance to Yugopotamians. While fixing his crush her meal he was attacked by Chester and A.J., still thinking he was a toy. He captured them easily and was about to suck their brains out when Timmy came in, armed and ready to fight. Timmy lost as well, but before Mark could do anything King Gripullon and Queen Jipjorrulac came to the front door, disguised as humans, and forced their son back home.[1]
After returning home Mark became depressed without Vicky. On his birthday he began grieving when Cosmo showed up, fulfilling Timmy's desire to get Vicky "a million million" miles from him. The green-haired fairy showed Mark a fake message from Vicky, begging him to come take her away. All too eager to comply, Mark left with Jeff and Eric to retrieve her.
Landing on Earth, they quickly tracked Vicky and sprayed her with sleeping gas, then convinced Mr. Turner that she was leaving for Europe. They then returned to their home planet, only to find Timmy waiting, demanding her back. Unwilling to relinquish his love, he challenged Timmy to "dijifat", which Timmy immediately accepted, thinking it was some flower skipping horror. It was actually Death Combat, which Mark chose to have in the Yugopotamian War Arena. Despite struggling against Cosmo and Wanda's magic, Mark eventually got the upper-hand and fired a large gun...and missed.
Timmy then got to choose the arena, to which he picked Flappy Bob's Happy Camp Learn-a-Torium. Overwhelmed by the sweetness and bright colors, he surrendered. Feeling sorry for him, Timmy spared his life, promised to give him Vicky when he turned sixteen, and gave him a Smack-a-Mole machine as a birthday gift. Mark vowed to return once he had mastered the machine.[2]
Mark was briefly brought to Earth by Timmy and Vicky's reset watches, but this event was quickly wiped out of the timeline.[3]
The following Halloween, when the royal ship was near Earth, Mark noticed the planet was going to explode, and went down with Jeff and Eric in Candy Protection Suits. While they quickly found Vicky, Cosmo prevented him from leaving on Timmy's orders. When the then in place wish was reversed, Mark recognized Timmy and accused him of preparing for war (since so many Earthlings were gathering candy). Timmy went along with this, threatening Yugopotamia. Panicing, Mark and his friends beamed back up and launched the P-Bomb at Earth. This was exactly what Timmy wanted, as it was really a piñata full of candy. Mark was temporarily saddened by Vicky's supposed death...until it was revealed that they had her cloned.[4]
Friendship with Timmy
Soon afterward, The Gigglepies invaded Yugopotamia, capturing and enslaving most of its inhabitants. Mark escaped, and traveled to Earth to recruit Timmy to battle them. He planned to fight alongside him, but was sidetracked by Vicky. While Timmy was freeing Yugopotamia, Vicky was forcing Mark to do backbreaking labor, which was the highest expression of love on his planet. Vicky took advantage of this by using him to make money. By the time Timmy returned, Vicky was rich, and Mark planned to stay, until Vicky hugged him. Horrified by this action, he quickly returned home.[5]
Mark eventually returned to Earth and offered to skate with Trixie Tang after Timmy wished there were no more boys on Earth. He was soon wished out of existence by the following wish. When it was unwished, he reappeared in front of the White House, where he loudly declared himself "a hostile alien bent on world domination", which promptly got him arrested. He somehow escaped custody.[6]
Avoiding Marriage
Shortly afterwards, Mark was forced into a marriage with Princess Mandie so the Yugopotamians and the Boudacians could forge a military alliance. Mark, however, was repulsed by Mandie's appearance, and fled to Earth, where he begged Timmy to let him hide there. Timmy agreed, and he began attending school disguised as a human student, while parking his ship in the Dimmsdale Dump. Eventually, however, Mandie found him and froze Cosmo and Wanda in carbonite to prevent their interference. After a long chase, Timmy and Mark tricked her into taking a transformed Denzel Crocker instead.[7]
Mark had Timmy over for dinner soon afterward, where he served him healthy food for dessert, to Timmy's horror. When Timmy wished for just dessert, Mark remained the only one thin due to his healthy choices. When the Earth began drifting toward the sun, he planned to flee, but the now bloated Timmy stopped him. He then sat on him until he gave up the last of his healthy food.[8]
When F.L.A.R.G. started, Mark fell into a depression at being unable to attend. Timmy decided to give him everything he needed to celebrate the holiday. Mark spent the next five days putting Timmy through a painful holi-week, accumulating in Goodbye...where he planned to blow up the Earth. Timmy convinced him he couldn't blow up the Earth since it was now his home. Mark agreed, and redirected the missile(with some more convincing from Timmy so his appendix would not destroy the Earth) to somewhere else, but we then find it hit Fairy World.[9]
Shortly after his Fake-i-fier short circuited, allowing Mandie to find him. In a panic, Timmy wished everything was like a child's puzzle book he was reading. As a result, Mark spent a while disguised as a trophy until Mandie threatened to blow up Dimmsdale Elementary School unless Mark surrendered. Mark complied, but she refused to spare the school. Fortunately, by that time Cosmo and Wanda recovered their wands and wished Mandie away.[10]
When Timmy wished the world into a futuristic society, Mark was able to walk freely. He joined Timmy in defeating the Big Brain.[11]
Mark eventually celebrated his one year anniversary on Earth with Cosmo, Wanda, Poof, and Timmy, where he revealed he was dating Vicky. However, the group was abducted by Grippulon, who explained he was targeted by an unknown assassin. Mark agreed to temporarily take the throne, sending his father to Earth disguised as Timmy while his mother but, being preoccupied trying to get Poof back from Mr. Turner and Mrs. Turner, he did nothing, allowing Mark left for a spa date. Immediately after taking the throne Mandie revealed herself as the assassin and forced Mark to marry her, shrinking the fairies so they couldn't interfere. She then promptly tossed her husband and Timmy into jail. The pair escaped and fled to Earth, with Mandie in pursuit. Disguising himself as Justin Jake Ashton, Vicky's boyfriend, he got Vicky and Mandie to fight, which Vicky won. Mark hugged his girlfriend, causing his true form to be revealed, which led to Vicky dumping him. Mandie was arrested and sent to jail, and Mark chose to stay on Earth until it was time for him to truly take the throne.[12]
After Mandie
Shortly after Mandie was arrested, Mark's Fake-i-fier began to malfunction once more. He ran to Timmy to get it fixed, to go through several ordeals. Finally, Timmy had Mark pose as Poof's alien mom, allowing them to get him back. They then fixed the Fake-i-fier.[13]
Mark Chang in his second human form,the Justin Jake Ashton form.
Not long after his Fake-i-fier began malfunctioning again. Rather than go to Cosmo and Wanda, he opted to travel back to Yugopotamia to retrive one from his parents. Unfortunately, he arrived just as The Darkness was invading Yugopotamia. With only one royal escape pod left, King Gripullon and Queen Jipjorrulac sent their son back to Earth. He landed right on top of an Eliminator impersonating him. After taking the destroyed robot's Fake-i-fier as his own, he explained the situation to Timmy and his fairies. The group traveled to Fairy World to tell Turbo Thunder, who they believed to be the true chosen one, but arrived just after Jorgen Von Strangle had banned him from the realm. Jorgen took them to the Cave Of Destiny, where they discovered a second part of the prophecy, written in Yugopotamian. This one called for Timmy to find the Wind Wand on the dark side of the blue moon to vanquish The Darkness once more. Shortly afterwards the Eliminators invaded Fairy World, capturing the world's fairies. Timmy and Mark barely escaped through a portal in the cave's wall.
Timmy decided to find the wand, asking Mark to come with him. The Yugopotamian prince refused, however, preferring to stay at home and eat. However, when Timmy got attacked by Eliminators disguised as his parents, he had a change of heart and decided to help him. After being attacked by Eliminators impersonating Chester, A.J., and Trixie, and realizing they had no ship since Mark's was on Yugopotamia, they decided to seek help from more unusual sorce. Going into the Crocker Cave, they asked Timmy's teacher for help. Crocker agreed after Timmy anticlimatically admitted he had fairies and let them use his telescope. There, they saw The Blue Moon of the Vegan System, where the Wind Wand rested. Crocker also provided a rocket for transportation, but launched it before anyone was on it. Unfazed, Timmy asked for a laptop, an internet connection, and a whoopie cushion, which Mark readily provided. The resulting TooYube video had the desired effect: getting Dark Laser to come to Earth in a fit of rage. Timmy merely pushed him back on his ship and summoned Vicky just before taking off. After a quick explanation, and a few promises, the group began heading toward the Blue Moon.
The group decided to stop at a canteen at the neighboring planet Frigidarium. It turned out to be a trap by the Eliminators. The resulting fight was undeniably one sided, with Crocker, Vicky, and Dark Laser getting captured. Mark and Timmy ran out, only to run into Turbo Thunder, demanding to know where the Wind Wand was. Timmy agreed on the condition that he would take him and Mark with him. Thunder promised, but after Timmy told him the location he abandoned them to the Eliminators. Mark saved their lives by swallowing Timmy and stowing away on the bottom of Thunder's ship. When the reached the Blue Moon he coughed his friend up.
After Timmy earned the Wind Wand and proved himself the true Chosen One, the Darkness appeared. Fortunately, at that point so did all to Timmy's now freed friends. The Darkness responded by attempting to swallow them all. Timmy, realizing what he had to do, sacrificed himself. After temporarily mourning his friend, Mark attempted to take advantage of the grieving Vicky, with predictably painful results.
After Timmy was rescued from The Darkness, Mark welcomed him back to Earth, interrupting an attempted kiss between him and Trixie. He then geared up to fight The Darkness, but was soon captured by invading Eliminators. After The Darkness became The Kindness, he was restored. He then attended a large party in celebration.[14]
In Marked Man, he meets Chloe Carmichael who is the second human besides Timmy to truly accept him and his alien ways. Mark was revealed to have a dream of being accepted by the humans in his true form and free to be a hair stylist. With Chloe's encouragement, he goes to her and Timmy's school revealing his true form to their classmates. However, it turned out everyone there were government agents (including Mr. Crocker's mother) who immediately pursued him. After a series of events, Chloe and Mark with Mark being promised to put in a cell next to Big Foot and the Lochness Monster who are revealed to be his band mates. As he and Chloe were captured, Timmy's actions saved them, she and Mark were released and the latter was permitted to live on Earth in his true form while releasing his band mates.
In the end, Mark was able to live out his dream of being accepted in his true form and be a hairstylist with Chloe, Timmy, Big Foot, and the Lochness Monster being his first customers.
Like all Yugopotamians, he fears nice and cute things like flowers and chocolates. Also, kisses and hugs from girls make's his Fake-i-fier malfunction. It was also revealed that he fears soy cubes which Gary and Betty offered him when they popped out of the smack-a-mole game which Timmy gave him as a present. This was revealed in the episode Totally Spaced Out.
Mark and Vicky
When Mark first met Vicky he fell in love with her nasty attitude and unattractive appearance, as Yugopotamian's love opposites from humanity's, he actually found Vicky to be quite desirable. Vicky seems oblivious to his attraction at first, but later he uses it as a means to accomplish her work easier by using him as a loyal servant. Vicky also does not realize Mark is an alien, and thinks that he is a foreign exchange student from Europe who is wearing a costume all the time. Mark was going to go on a date with Vicky while using his Fake-i-fier to change his appearance to that of a human teen, but his Fake-i-fier malfunctioned and he returned to normal, causing Vicky to dump him. This romantic angle has not been touched upon since, and Mark is seen actively trying to pursue normal Earth girls in recent episodes.
Mark and Princess Mandie
Mark dislikes and fears Princess Mandie, leaving her at the altar after his parents tried to force him to marry her. Because of the nature of Yugopotamians, Princess Mandie's beauty is a repulsive to them. Eventually, Princess Mandie and Mark were married, but it turned out it was just a ruse to take over his planet. Mark Chang returned to Earth again and Mandie followed, but she was defeated by the one woman in the universe even nastier than she was: Vicky.
Mark and Timmy
When Mark and Timmy first met, they immediately became enemies after Mark tried to suck out Chester and A.J.'s brains with bendy straws. Also, after getting fed up with being dropped off at Flappy Bob's Learn-a-torium, Timmy takes Vicky back from Mark after he wishes she was a million and million miles away, probably damaging their relationship even more. Despite getting off on the wrong foot, Mark turns to Timmy to help him with his problems. Timmy has helped Mark defeat the Gigglepies, escape from Princess Mandie, and even helped him find a place on Earth to settle down. However, in Just Desserts, Mark shows little concern for Timmy's planet, refusing to give Timmy even a can of spinach cobbler to save his world. Eventually, Timmy had to crush Mark with his newly-gained weight before Mark would hand him the veggies.
In later episodes, their friendship greatly improves after Timmy celebrates the F.L.A.R.G. with Mark, partly because Timmy is the only friend Mark has on Earth. Timmy willingly helps Mark with all his problems, and Mark occasionally returns the favor, saving Timmy from Jeremy the monster. In addition, in Escape from Unwish Island, it is revealed that Mark and the Founding Fathers were Timmy's only wishes who still liked him, and they helped him fight the Unwishes. Even the Founding Fathers started hating Timmy after he landed them in jail for losing against the Unwishes. They then ditched him, leaving Timmy in the cell. It is unknown what happened to Mark, but since he was not seen leaving the cell, he probably stayed behind, standing by Timmy's side.
During Marked Man, when Mark and Chloe were rounded up by Mrs. Crocker and secret agents, Timmy disguises himself as a threatening alien to free them. Timmy also forced the agents to allow Mark to live peacefully on Earth in his alien form and live out his dream of styling hair.
Mark and Chloe
Mark meets Chloe in Marked Man because Timmy wanted to prove to her that aliens do exist. Initially, Chloe did not believe Mark was an actual alien until he revealed his true form and she was amazed by it. Chloe accepted Mark's form and was given a new hairstyle by him after she told him to live out his dream. The next day, Chloe brought Mark to her school and had him reveal his true form so others would accept him as well but this was a mistake as government agents immediately pursued him. After a series of events, Chloe and Mark were cornered as the girl tried to defend the alien calling him her friend but they captured. However, thanks to Timmy's actions, she and Mark were released and the latter was permitted to live on Earth in his true form. In the end, Mark was able to live out his dream of being a hairstylist with Chloe and Timmy being his first customers.
↑ "Spaced Out". The Fairly OddParents. Nickelodeon. April 6, 2001.
↑ "Totally Spaced Out". The Fairly OddParents. Nickelodeon. July 12, 2002.
↑ "Deja Vu". The Fairly OddParents. Nickelodeon. October 11, 2002.
↑ "Scary Godparents". The Fairly OddParents. Nickelodeon. October 29, 2002.
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↑ "Just The Two of Us!". The Fairly OddParents. Nickelodeon. November 27, 2004.
↑ "New Squid in Town!". The Fairly OddParents. Nickelodeon. November 27, 2004.
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The Killer Is Dying Review - James Sallis
Updated August 03, 2011 at 04:00 AM EDT
There are few writers who can describe a razor blade slicing through a man’s neck with as much poetic brevity as James Sallis. Throughout his career — and especially in 2005’s Drive, which has just been made into a Ryan Gosling movie — he has drawn sparse and haunting portraits of the criminal underworld. His newest crime thriller, The Killer Is Dying, is no exception, but the three interconnected stories lack Drive‘s effortlessly sharp focus. Dying follows Christian, the assassin of the title; Jimmie, the lonely boy who dreams the killer’s memories; and Sayles, the cop on the hitman’s trail. Sallis fills his world with cold realism and populates it with dark characters, but loses sight of his complex narrative — and the reader in the process. B-
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Assessing the transition effects in a drinking water distribution system caused by changing supply water quality: an indirect approach by characterizing suspended solids
Lihua Chen, Fangqiong Ling, Geo Bakker, Wen Tso Liu, Gertjan Medema, Walter van der Meer, Gang Liu
Worldwide, it is common that the drinking water distribution systems (DWDSs) may be subjected to changes of supply water quality due to the needs of upgrading the treatment processes or switching the source water. However, the potential impacts of quality changed supply water on the stabilized ecological niches within DWDSs and the associated water quality deterioration risks were poorly documented. In the present study, such transition effects caused by changing the supply water quality that resulted from destabilization of biofilm and loose deposits in DWDS were investigated by analyzing the physiochemical and microbiological characteristics of suspended particles before (T0), during (T3-weeks) and after upgrading the treatments (T6-months) in an unchlorinated DWDS in the Netherlands. Our results demonstrated that after 6 months’ time the upgraded treatments significantly improved the water quality. Remarkably, water quality deterioration was observed at the initial stage when the quality-improved treated water distributed into the network at T3-weeks, observed as a spike of total suspended solids (TSS, 50–260%), active biomass (ATP, 95–230%) and inorganic elements (e.g. Mn, 130–250%). Furthermore, pyrosequencing results revealed sharp differences in microbial community composition and structure for the bacteria associated with suspended particles between T0 and T3-weeks, which re-stabilized after 6 months at T6-months. The successful capture of transition effects was especially confirmed by the domination of Nitrospira spp. and Polaromonas spp. in the distribution system at T3-weeks, which were detected at rather low relative abundance at treatment plant. Though the transitional effects were captured, this study shows that the introduction of softening and additional filtration did not have an effect on the water quality for the consumer which improved considerably after 6-months’ period. The methodology of monitoring suspended particles with MuPFiSs and additional analysis is capable of detecting transitional effects by monitoring the dynamics of suspended particles and its physiochemical and microbiological composition.
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Chen, L., Ling, F., Bakker, G., Liu, W. T., Medema, G., van der Meer, W., & Liu, G. (2020). Assessing the transition effects in a drinking water distribution system caused by changing supply water quality: an indirect approach by characterizing suspended solids. Water Research, 168, [115159]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.115159
Assessing the transition effects in a drinking water distribution system caused by changing supply water quality : an indirect approach by characterizing suspended solids. / Chen, Lihua; Ling, Fangqiong; Bakker, Geo; Liu, Wen Tso; Medema, Gertjan; van der Meer, Walter; Liu, Gang.
In: Water Research, Vol. 168, 115159, 01.01.2020.
Chen, L, Ling, F, Bakker, G, Liu, WT, Medema, G, van der Meer, W & Liu, G 2020, 'Assessing the transition effects in a drinking water distribution system caused by changing supply water quality: an indirect approach by characterizing suspended solids', Water Research, vol. 168, 115159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.115159
Chen L, Ling F, Bakker G, Liu WT, Medema G, van der Meer W et al. Assessing the transition effects in a drinking water distribution system caused by changing supply water quality: an indirect approach by characterizing suspended solids. Water Research. 2020 Jan 1;168. 115159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.115159
Chen, Lihua ; Ling, Fangqiong ; Bakker, Geo ; Liu, Wen Tso ; Medema, Gertjan ; van der Meer, Walter ; Liu, Gang. / Assessing the transition effects in a drinking water distribution system caused by changing supply water quality : an indirect approach by characterizing suspended solids. In: Water Research. 2020 ; Vol. 168.
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DOD to issue new architecture policy
By Frank Tiboni
"Transformation tops agenda of next DOD CIO"
The Defense Department will issue a new architecture policy in the coming weeks intended to improve information sharing among the services and defense organizations.
DOD Architecture Framework Version 1.0, which replaces a policy dating back to 1997, will provide guidelines for agency and industry program managers on how to write requirements for systems, budget for them, buy them and ensure they work together, Truman Parmele, the department's architecture framework director, said at the E-Gov Enterprise Architecture 2003 conference.
DOD defines architecture as "the fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationship to each other and to the environment, and the principles guiding its design and evolution."
Unlike the old policy, which looked at a system in terms of the products involved, the new policy focuses on the data being managed and exchanged, Parmele said.
The policy also supports the concept of jointness — harnessing the key capabilities of all services and agencies to field a force more powerful and responsive than each can offer in combat, he said.
DOD leaders hope the common approach to creating architectures will standardize future missions and systems design, improve data sharing among them and increase communications among the services, Parmele said.
They believe accomplishing these goals will lead to new business functions, platforms and systems that emphasize the strength of integrated capabilities rather than disparate products, he said.
DOD and industry need guidance for developing frameworks, said Arnold Rausch, senior management analyst at Eagan, McAllister Associates Inc. DOD has gone too long without a new policy, said Rausch, who worked on the new architecture framework before moving to the Dumfries, Va., professional services firm.
DOD has tried unsuccessfully twice since 1997 to update its existing architecture policy, Parmele said.
The CIO office was selected to lead the effort because it oversees all business systems and because information technology increasingly is used in administration and warfighting systems, he said.
During the past 18 months, the CIO office wrote the draft of Version 1.0, posted it online and responded to more than 550 comments from agencies and industry. The updated policy was due in August, but addressing the responses and the war on terrorism delayed its delivery, Parmele said.
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What Congress Can Do When A President Ignores Its Subpoenas (HBO)
Tensions between the White House and Congressional Democrats hit a new high yesterday, after Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said the IRS would not turn over Donald Trump’s tax returns to the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who requested them last month.
A 1924 law requires the IRS to obey the request, but Mnuchin said he was turning it down because it wasn’t being made a legitimate legislative purpose.
This isn’t a one-off. Instead, it’s part of a bigger pattern of Trump rejecting congressional oversight of all kinds. Today, for instance, the White House said it had instructed former White House counsel Don McGahn to ignore a congressional subpoena for documents related to the Mueller Report. And in just the past week, Attorney General William Barr refused to show up to testify at the House Judiciary Committee in a dispute over who would get to question him, and ignored a subpoena requiring him to turn over the full, unredacted Mueller Report.
Congressional Democrats are fulminating in response. But the tools they have to compel the president to cooperate with their investigations are, in practice, pretty limited. They can:
1) Vote for contempt-of-Congress charges against Trump officials who ignore subpoenas. Criminal contempt charges can result in jail time. But the catch is that any such charge has to be referred to a US Attorney for prosecution. And since US Attorneys work for Trump’s Justice Department, there’s almost no chance that those charges will ever be prosecuted.
2) File suit against the administration in court, which could result in a court order requiring the administration to obey the subpoena. But that process is a long and drawn-out one, and there’s no guarantee, in the end, that the administration would even follow the court order.
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Home Intersectionality Religion Celebrating World Hijab Day: Don’t Hate What’s Strange
Celebrating World Hijab Day: Don't Hate What's Strange
Celebrating World Hijab Day: Don’t Hate What’s Strange
Nabeela Jamil
On February 1, every year, since 2013, World Hijab Day is celebrated across the globe to dismantle the prejudices that come with hijab. An open invitation is sent to women of all faiths to wear headscarves for one day in solidarity with Muslim women worldwide. “By walking in my shoes for one day on February 1, women would see that I am no different from them,” the president and founder of the World Hijab Day Organisation, Nazma Khan, explained.
What WHD means to a Muslim woman
World Hijab Day, for a Muslim woman who chooses to wear hijab, stands as a day when her choice is celebrated – when women from all over the world come together in solidarity, forming a sisterhood, telling Muslim women that they are not alone. The idea behind World Hijab Day is to build bridges of understanding, awareness, and education about the hijab.
Why do we need WHD?
“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” -Anne Frank
The primary reason of the growing hatred is apparently misinformation. People carry prejudices that can be eradicated by a simple conversation. In an immensely diverse country like ours where we grew up with a lot of stereotypes – thanks to media and mainstream cinema, especially in the current political atmosphere. It is an urgent need for us to understand other cultures and religion, and to respect them.
The Telegraph reported educator Deepak Ramola who ran #UnderTheHijab project that showcased paintings of faceless hijabis to dispel the stereotypes, saying, “I discovered that many people who suffer from Islamophobia had never really interacted with a Muslim. Another important learning was that art can help break stereotypes, create awareness, build bridges. Most importantly, the whole campaign re-enforced the life-lesson of young Sarah: ‘Don’t hate what’s strange’.”
Also read: The Myth Of Muslim Women’s Empowerment In India
For the same project, Advithi Emmi’s creation has the following words scribed beside it — “I was that person who had some kind of a preconceived notion, but when I got a chance to live with them I felt very normal. They are just like any of us… (sic).”
If you can not accept hijab as a choice even after millions of women saying so – it is due to your bigotry
WHD gives a chance to people to communicate, learn and understand about the hijab – which is one of the many controversial topics associated with Islam. In these politically turbulent times where Islamophobia is rampant like never before, World Hijab Day becomes more important. Campaigns like these for other communities, especially those who are marginalised and stereotyped, should be encouraged in order to cultivate inclusivity.
Why Hijab?
It has often been alleged that not all choices are feminist choices – but is it restricted to only hijab? Women have been questioned for doing makeup, not being ‘feminine’ enough or being overtly feminine. Attiya Latif states, “Western feminists tell Muslim women that they can’t conceptualise their own feminism, and instead adhere to theirs. When in reality, feminism is a diverse movement where women of various cultures and religions can determine equality for themselves.”
People have called me ‘hijabi apologist’ for explaining my choice. Today, I am not going to explain my choice to you. Nor do I need to. If you can not accept hijab as a choice even after millions of women saying so – it is due to your bigotry. By supporting those who chose to wear hijab, the fact that many women are forced to wear hijab just like many women who are forced to remove hijab, can not be denied. Or that hijab is often misused by patriarchal power structure. Inclusiveness is the soul of intersectional feminism. As in the words of none other than Audre Lorde, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” My shackles are not what you perceive my shackles are, my shackles is the very narrative that defines ‘my shackles’.
No one puts a scarf on my head but me. It’s my choice—one protected by the first amendment. And this is not the last ban I’m going to work to lift.
A post shared by Ilhan Omar (@ilhanmn) on Nov 18, 2018 at 3:18pm PST
The reasons for wearing hijab by Muslim women can differ widely. For some, it’s a religious obligation, a representation of the pride in one’s religious or cultural identity, or just something without which they feel incomplete. For others, it has become a symbol of power, self-control, resistance by being a visibly Muslim women and agency. The reasons for wearing hijab can differ from having no reason at all to having all the reasons in the world.
For others, it has become a symbol of power, self-control, resistance by being a visibly Muslim women and agency.
I grew up in a place where hijab was more of a cultural thing then religious. There are woman who do not feel associated with it and then there are women who feel strongly towards their hijab and see it as an intimate thing – a thing that is not only a piece of cloth for them but a part of their identity, something that they stand for.
In times, where hijab is being banned in examinations, Muslims are being lynched and are being subjected to hate crimes – hijab is no more just a religious or spiritual thing but has emerged as a symbol of protest, resistance and agency for Muslim women.
When we talk about Muslim women, it is important that we acknowledge the heterogeneity among Muslim women and how there is no singular identity and how hijab is not the sole identity of a Muslim woman. It enrages me when the identity of a woman is confined to her clothing – be it hijab. Campaigns like WHD acknowledges this heterogeneity. It acknowledges that a woman, here Muslim, is more than what she wears. She is more than her hijab. Let’s be clear – it is a part of her identity, not who she is.
I feel bad for people who feel discouraged and afraid of being themselves. Shaping and molding yourself to be more palatable for others has to be emotionally and mentally exhausting. As an African-American there is no negotiation of my identity. There is no flying under the radar. In knowing the history of my people, the obstacles and hardships we’ve overcome, I find strength. I am who I am and if you don’t like it, too bad. I’ve been speaking truth to power since birth and I’m going to continue to occupy spaces not only for myself, but for the next generation. The same holds true for me as a Muslim and American. I will continue to stay rooted in my conviction and continue to be proud. Let us not lose ourselves and allow other people to tell us what our Islam or American identity should look like. Be fearless. Be proud. FAITH over FEAR every damn time.
A post shared by i b t i h a j (@ibtihajmuhammad) on Nov 27, 2018 at 12:31pm PST
There are many role-models for hijabi women worldwide from Doaa Elgobashy, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Ilhan Omar, Linda Sarsour to Halima Aden-they are politicians, activists, athletes to models. It is time we create such spaces in India too where we can find women of different faiths, looks, colours, shapes in the mainstream. It all starts with a conversation. From understanding the perspective of the people who are different from us. From the warmth that we can show to the marginalised and misrepresented communities.
Also read: Why I Choose To Wear Hijab: An Open Letter From A Tired Muslim Feminist
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Sanjay Palan February 1, 2019 At 7:16 PM
Millions of women think , women should not enter sabrimala temple…. What’s ur thoughts on that ???
I don't trust you with my name February 8, 2019 At 10:39 AM
https://www.quora.com/share/Is-India-a-secular-country-How-will-we-dicuss-pseudo-secularism-in-India-10?ch=10&share=1219ca0b
Please give it a read.
Sunil February 8, 2019 At 5:30 PM
Hijab is a symbol of Islamic patriarchy, and this so called feminism site is supporting it. Oh the irony.
Ryan Singh (@Zoravar0011) February 10, 2019 At 1:26 AM
It’s a shame that a website which claims to be a feminist voice, publishes articles like this to justify 7th century regressive crap which is used to subjugate Muslim women. Perhaps he author isn’t aware of the millions of Mulsim women for whom restrictive clothing isn’t a fashion choice. The fact that the author admires people like two-faced Linda Sarsour who viciously attacked Ayaan Hirshi Ali – a childhood victim of Female Genital Mutilation who escaped the clutches of Islam – for exposing its inherent evilness toward women, goes to show what skewed understanding the author has about feminism. The claptrap in the article won’t change the fact that the restrictive clothing for Muslim women has all to do with modesty and to claim that it has anything to do with liberty is plainly delusional.
Feminist 4 real March 14, 2019 At 10:24 PM
What I don’t get about WHD is why MEN are not asked to wear hijab to show solidarity with the women who “choose” to wear it.
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Gerard and Johanna finally meet. What's gonna happen? Rate and Review, Loverlies! :)
Category: My Chemical Romance - Rating: PG-13 - Genres: Romance - Characters: Frank Iero,Gerard Way,Mikey Way,Ray Toro - Warnings: [!] - Published: 2012-06-21 - Updated: 2012-07-04 - 843 words
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After an immense research, Gerard and the band found themselves at the New York School Of Dance. By immense research, all they did was find the address online and there they are, an hour later. The boys seemed out of place. Compared to the happy, tanned, and lively dancers, they were a bunch of depressed, pale vampires. Especially Gerard, the head of the vampire gang.
"My God, look at all these people," Frank said while giving the dancers the evil eye, "A bunch of pretencious people, is what I see. I don't know what you see in this Johanna chick. She may be hot, but now she teaching these people. She's probably the biggest bitch there is."
"That's because she is! Johanna Favre is a huge bitch! And a god damn slut too!" Gerard got the attention of the whole studio. Ballet girls, jazz boys, and waltz couples looked at the group in disgust. Somethng like, 'How dare they talk about an instructer like that! They should be condemned to hell.'
"Gerard," Mikey finally broke the awkward silence, "What did I tell you about you're bursts of anger?"
"Shut up, Mikey!" Right then, a bunch of professional looking dancers came out of a another studio. The tapping noises from their shoes were annoying the gang.
"Hey guys, I think that's the advanced tap dancing class." Gerard pointed.
"God, can you make the noises stop?" No doubt Ray hate the noises. But now he figured why Gerard seemed pretty tense.
"Hey kid," Gerard catched the attention of one of the dancers. Some boy around seventeen years old, "Is your dance teacher Johanna Favre?"
"Yeah, she's so amazing. I don't recommend talking to her right now."
"Oh, and why not?"
"Because after every lesson, she likes to start singing and dacing by herself with the accompanist. Even though her agent told her to quit Broadway, her mentality won't let go. Poor thing."
"How come she her agent told her to quit?"
The boy just shrugged, "Don't know. She always goes silent when people ask. Now...who's your friend?" The young man pointed to Frank and gave a girlish kind of wave. Frank noticed.
Everyone noticed.
"Sorry kid, he's straight."
"Well, I can change that." The gang went wide-eyed. And Mikey wanted to laugh while Frank was motionless.
"Get out of here, kid!" Gerard geve the boy a light shove before he and the others went to the door of the studio where Johanna would be.
"In all honesty, the kid was kinda cute." Frank announced.
All replied, "Shut up, Frank." Gerard entered the studio and the rest followed suit. The boy was right. Johanna was tapping away while singing to some upbeat musical tune from the piano. She was so oblivious that the boys were even there. She was in her own little place. Gerard remember those times when Johanna would sing and dance out of nowhere at school. Thinking about it now made a small flutter in his chest, but he had to have a tough exterior. Show no weakness, he thought.
Finally when the song was over, Johanna saw the men at the door. She seemed a little upset that someone has disrupted her time alone.
"Can I help you, gentlemen?" Okay then, Gerard thought, Here goes nothing.
"Um, yeah, I-I'm Gerard Way." It took a while for Johanna to figure it out, but when it did, it hit her like a ton of bricks.
"Oh my God, Gerard Way? It's been almost ten years! I was expecting to see you at the concert tomorrow night, but this was even better." Johanna practically tapped her way to hug Gerard. He had to look tough but on the inside, he wanted this physical contact for years. Nothing sexual, just a hug.
"So, aren't you gonna introduced me to the band?" Johanna snapped Gerard from his clouded mind and got him back to reality.
"Oh, yeah. Guys, this is Johanna. Johanna, that's my brother Mikey, that's Frank and that's Ray." Everyone was pretty much gawking at Johanna except Mikey. He was giving her the evil eye.
"Okay then bye!" Gerard was on the verge of sprinting for the door, but Frank and Ray were ready to tackle him down if they had to. He was having second thoughts. What if he tells her everything and she laughs at his face? He wouldn't live to see the light of day ever again.
"Hey Johanna, wanna come to our tour bus? We can have you backstage for tomorrow."
"Wow, really? Sure!" Gerard had no say in this. Ray and Mikey took Johanna to the bus, while Gerard and Frank stayed put.
"Gerard, I know you hate me now, but later on you'll thank me." Gerard swiftly got Frank in a headlock and took him to the ground.
"You better, jackass! If you say anything to her, I'll kick your ass!"
Fine! Just let go of me...can't breathe..." Gerard released Frank from the headlock and got him to breathe again.
"Remember what I said, Frankie."
"Deal."
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Theoretical Economics Letters
10.4236/tel.2014.49095
Analysis of the Effect of Index Futures on Stock Market with a New Fama-French 3-Factor Model
Xinyue Bei1, Yanjia Yang2, Liuling Li3, Bruce Mizrach4
1Accounting Department, Bussiness School, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
2Finance Department, Economics School, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
3The Institute of Statistics and Econometrics, Economics School, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
4Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA
Email: xinyue_bei@126.com, yanjia_yang@yahoo.com, liliuling@nankai.edu.cn, mizrach@econ.rutgers.edu
Received 27 September 2014; revised 30 October 2014; accepted 17 November 2014
In this paper, the effect of Index Futures on stock market is studied. A new model, which is based on the 3-factor model in Fama and French (1993), the EGARCH-type volatility in Nelson (1991) and non-normal distribution of SSAEPD in Zhu and Zinde-Walsh (2009) is used. Fama-French 25 portfolios for US stock market (1951-2007) are analyzed. Following Pericli and Koutmos (1997), we divide data into 2 sub-samples: sample 1 (pre-SP500 Index Futures) and sample 2 (post-SP500 Index Futures). Our three main findings are as follows. Fama-French 3 factors are still alive in both samples. During the period of post-SP500 Index Futures, the coefficients in this new model become slightly lower and the volatility of stock market is bigger.
Index Futures, Fama-French 3-Factor Model, SSAEPD (Standardized Standard Asymmetric Exponential Power Distribution), EGARCH
Trading of stock Index Futures was first introduced by the Kansas City Board of Trade on February 24, 1982. Then, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange began trading of SP500 Index Futures in April. After that, similar instruments were introduced in other countries, such as FTSE100 Index Futures in England, Composite Index Futures in Japan and All-Ordinaries Index Futures in Australia. The development of Index Futures has recieved many attensions.
One group of researchers show volatility of spot market is increased after the introduction of Index Futures. For example, Kang and Yoon (2007) found that the spot market became more volatile after the introduction of five Index Futures in Asia based on GARCH, GJR-GARCH and APGARCH model [1] . However, others show the opposite. Friedman, Harrison and Salmon (1983) suggested that spot prices tended to be less volatile after futures markets operate [2] . Gulen and Mayhew (2000) concluded stock Index Futures decreased the volatility of stock market in 25 countries (except US and Japan) [3] . Similar conclusion was drawn by Bologna and Cavallo (2002) [4] .
In addition to previous results, the 3rd groups of researchers show there is no statistically significance re- lationship between Index Futures and stock return. For example, Santoni (1987) analyzed SP500 index and found no significant change on stock index volatility [5] . Also, Xie and Huang (2014) use daily data of the China Securities Index (CSI) 300 between 2005 and 2012 and find that the launch of Index Futures does not decrease the volatility of the spot market [6] . Liu and Wang (2008) ran empirical test based on GARCH model and suggested that the introduction of Index Futures in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea did not increase the volatility in long term [7] . For other researches on Index Futures, one can refer to Table 1.
Following previous researches, this paper studies the influence of the Index Futures on stock market. SP500 Index Futures is analyzed. We use a new model based on the 3-factor model of Fama-French (1993), the EGARCH-type volatility of Nelson (1991) and non-Normal error of SSAEPD in Zhu and Zinde-Walsh (2009) [8] - [10] . This new model was first proposed by Yang (2013) [11] . The reason why we chose this new model was that it had better in-sample fit than that of Fama and French (1993).
In this paper, we will test following two hypotheses.
1) Are the 3 factors in Fama-French (1993) still alive if EGARCH-type volatility and non-Normal error are considered?
2) Can we find any differences before or after the introduction of SP500 Index Futures?
To answer these questions, Fama-French 25 portfolios are analyzed. Following Pericli and Koutmos (1997), we choose 1982 as the break point and divide the data into 2 sub-samples: pre-SP500 Index Futures as sample 1 (from September 1951 to March 1982) and post-SP500 Index Futures as sample 2 (from April 1982 to March 2007)1 [15] . Likelihood Ratio test (LR) is used for parameter restriction testings. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (KS) is used for model diagnostics.
Empirical results show Fama-French 3 factors are alive in both samples. After the introduction of SP500 Index Futures, the estimates for Fama-French three factors becomes lower and show less fluctuating. And we find the coefficients in EGARCH equaltion becomes bigger so we conclude that the volatility of the stock market becomes higher.
This paper is organized as follows. Section 2 is the model and methodology. Section 3 is the empirical results. Section 4 is the conclusion.
2. Model and Methodology
2.1. FF-SSAEPD-EGARCH Model
In this paper, we apply following new model (denoted as FF-SSAEPD-EGARCH) to study the effect of Index Futures on stock returns2.
Table 1. Researches about the index futures and Fama-French 3-Factor model.
Note: “-” means information is not available in the paper. D means daily. M means monthly. Min means minite.
Here, , and are the rate of return for stock portfolio, the risk-free rate and the return rate of the market at time , respectively. stands for small size (market capitalization) minus big size (market capitalization) and for high book-to-market ratio minus low book-to-market ratio. The conditional
standard deviation is , i.e., volatility. are the para-
meters to be estimated. The error term is distributed as the Standardized Standard Asymmetric Exponential Power Distribution (SSAEPD) proposed by Zhu and Zinde-Walsh (2009). The probability density function (PDF) of is
is distributed as the standard AEPD (SAEPD)3. And is the gamma function. is the skew- ness parameter. and are the left and right tail parameters, respectively. When , , SSAEPD will be reduced to Standard Normal, i.e., Normal (0,1).
2.2. Method of Maximum Likelihood Estimation
The maximum likelihood function for this new model is
3. Empirical Analysis
3.1. Data
In this paper, we study the effect of SP500 Index Futures on stock returns. The data used are the monthly return for the Fama-French 25 portfolios, which is downloaded from the French’s Data Library4. The sample period is from September 1951 to March 2007 with 666 observations. Following Pericli and Koutmos (1997), we select April 1982 as the breakpoint and set pre-SP500 Index Futures as sample 1 (from September 1951 to March 1982, the period before the introduction of SP500 Stock Index Futures) and the post-SP500 Index Futures as sample 2 (from April 1982 to March 2007, the period after the introduction of SP500 Stock Index Futures).
The descriptive statistics of these samples are listed in Table 2. The P-value of Jarque-Bera test for most portfolios is smaller than 5% significance level5. Hence, we conclude the asset returns in both samples do not follow Normal distribution.
3.2. Empirical Results
3.2.1. Estimations
For sample 1, the estimations are listed in Table 3. According to the results, all estimates of are around 1 (ranging from 0.84 to 1.12) and statistically significant under 5% significance level6. estimates decrease from small-size to big-size quintiles and all estimates, except portfolio at (5th, 5th) quintile, are statistically sig- nificant under 5% significance level. So we conclude that the small-size effect exsists in sample 1. Estimates of increase from low to high book-to-market quintiles and 23/25 estimates are statistically significant. 19/25 estimates of are not statistically significant. Similar results can be found for sample 2 (see Table 4). Hence, we conclude the Fama and French three factors are still alive in both samples.
For the parameters in SSAEPD, the estimates of range from 0.3 to 0.76 with only 3 estimates in sample 1 (4 estimates in sample 2) statistically different from 0.5. That means after considering the 3 factors and EGARCH-type volatility, most errors of the data show no obvious skewness. The -values range from 1.00 to 3.14 with 6 estimates in sample 1 (5 estimates in sample 2) statistically different from 2. The -values range from 0.79 to 2.35 with 7 estimates in sample 1 (7 in sample 2) statistically different from 2. So we conclude that most parameters in SSAEPD errors do follow some characteristics of Normal distribution, which may be caused by the EGARCH-type volatility.
In the EGARCH model, most estimates of a are close to zero and 14 estimates in sample 1 (5 estimates in sample 2) are statistically significant. 24/25 estimates of b in sample 1 (all in sample 2) are statistically sig- nificant. 18 estimates of c in sample 1 (22 estimates in sample 2) are not statistically significant, so we conclude that the good news and bad news do not have significant different impact on volatility. 11 estimates of d in sample 1 (22 estimates in sample 2) are statistically significant. Hence, we conclude that the asymmetric effect is not documented in the data.
3.2.2. Comparisions
To compare the factors before and after the introduction of SP500 index futures, we plot the estimates of , and in Figure 1. We discover that the coefficients in these two samples present similar patterns. During the period of post-SP500 Index Futures, most of the 25 portfolios have smaller , and . Also the estimates of and in sample 2 are all obviously less fluctuating compared with those in sample 1.Hence, we conclude that after the introduction of index futures the estimates for Fama-French three factors becomes smaller and show less fluctuating.
To compare the volatility of stock market, we plot the estimates of a, b, c, d in the EGARCH equation (see Figure 2). As mentioned above, most of the a and c values are small and close to zero so the values of condition
Table 2. Descriptive statistics.
Table 3. Estimates from sample 1 (pre-SP500 index futures).
Notes: *means the data reject the null hypothesis under 5% significance level. H0:β0 = 0, H0:β1 = 0, H0:β2 = 0, H0:β3 = 0, H0:α = 0.5, H0:p1 = 2, H0:p2 = 2, H0:a = 0, H0:b = 0, H0:c = 0, H0:b = 0.
Table 4. Estimates from sample 2 (post-SP500 index futures).
Figure 1. Comparisons of slope coefficient estimates in the mean equation during Pre- and Post-SP500 index futures (Y-axis is the value of βi (i = 1, 2, or 3). X-axis is the Fama-French 25 Portfolios. Solid line represents Pre-SP500 index futures and dotted line represents Post-SP500 index futures). (a) β1 values; (b) β2 values; (c) β3 values.
standard deviation depends mostly on the values of c, b and d. We discover that the estimates of both b and d are bigger in sample 2. So we conclude that the volatility becomes higher after the introduction of index futures.
3.3. Model Diagnostics (Residual Check)
In this section, we implement Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to check residuals for FF-SSAEPD-EGARCH model. Our results show the residuals of all the 25 portfolios from the model do follow SSAEPD, which means that the model is adequate for the Fama-French 25 portfolios.
The P-values of KS tests7 are displayed in Table 5. For example, the P-value of the portfolio with Smal Size
Figure 2. Comparisons of estimates in the GARCH equation during Pre- and Post- SP500 Index Futures (Y-axis is the value of a, b, c or d. X-axis is the Fama-French 25 portfolios. Solid line represents Pre-SP500 index futures and dotted line re- presents Post-SP500 index futures). (a) a values; (b) b values; (c) c values; (d) d values.
Table 5. P-values of KS test for residuals.
and Low Book-to-market in sample 1 is 0.77, greater than 5%. That means, under 5% significance level, the null hypothesis is not rejected and the residuals from the FF-SSAEPD-EGARCH model do follow the SSAEPD. Similar results are documented for all portfolios in two samples. Hence, we conclude the errors of the model do follow SSAEPD. i.e., the FF-SSAEPD-EGARCH model is adequate for most Fama-French 25 portfolios.
4. Conclusions and Future Extensions
In this paper, we study the effect of SP500 Index Futures on stock returns with a new model. This new model considers the EGARCH-type volatility in Nelson (1991), non-normal error of SSAEPD in Zhu and Zinde- Walsh (2009), and the 3-factor model of Fama and French (1993). Data of Fama-French 25 portfolios are used. We divide data into 2 samples: sample 1 (pre-SP500 Index Futures, from September 1951 to March 1982), sample 2 (post-SP500 Index Futures, from April 1982 to March 2007). Method of Maximum Likelihood Estimation is used to estimate this model and Likelihood Ratio test (LR) is used to test parameter restrictions.
Empirical results show Fama-French three factors are alive in both samples. After the introduction of SP500 Index Futures, the estimates for Fama-French three factors become lower and show less fluctuating and the volatility of the stock market becomes higher.
Future extensions will include but not limited to follows. First, different data can be used to study the influence of index futures. Second, different methods such as dummy variables could be used. Last but not least, subsample periods can be changed to check the robustness of our results.
The authors wish to thank participants in the seminars organized by Economics School at Nankai University, China and Economics School at Rutgers University, USA. We also want to thank participants in the conference organized by Risk Management Institute, National University of Singapore (July 16-17, 2010), the Singapore Economic Review Conference (August 4-6, 2011), the International Conference on Applied Business & Economics at Manhattan, NY, USA (Oct. 2-4, 2013), the 8th International Conference on Asian Financial Markets & Economic Development at Nagasaki University (Dec. 7-8, 2013), Japan, the World Finance & Banking Symposium at Beijing, China (Dec. 16-17, 2013), the 2014 China Finance Review International Conference at Shanghai, China (July 26-27, 2014), and BIT’s 1st Annual Global Congress of Knowledge Economy at Qsingdao, China (Sept. 21-23, 2014). The authors are responsible for all errors.
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1We choose short sample periods because we think shorter period may reduce the noise such as the impact of other unrelated events on stock market. Also, we set the end of sample period before April 2007 because during the period of 2007 financial crisis, the volatility is too big, which is not related to oil crisis.
2Based on the 3-factor model in Fama and French (1993), the EGARCH-type volatility in Nelson (1991) and non-Normal error of SSAEPD in Zhu and Zinde-Walsh (2009), a new 3-factor model is proposed by Yang (2013). Yang (2013) denotes this new model as the FF- SSAEPD-EGARCH model, whose MatLab program is revised from that of Yin (2011). And in this paper, we first exam the simulation program of Yang (2013) and then apply this model and methodology to analyze data.
3By changing variable techniques, we obtain PDF of from . When is distributed as the standard AEPD, its probability density function is
4Thanks Yin (2011) who provides the well organized Excel files. Thanks Professor French for kindly providing the risk free rate by e-mail.
5Only the P-value of JB test of the (5,2) portfolio in sample 1 is more than 0.05.
6 : . If the P-value of LR test is smaller than 5% significance level, the null hypothesis is rejected. Otherwise, it is not rejected.
7The null hypothesis of KS test is H0: FF-SSAEPD-EGARCH residuals are distributed as . If the P-value of KS test is smaller than 5% significance level, the null hypothesis is rejected. Otherwise, the null hypothesis is accepted.
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Is the cryptocurrency model failing?
Emily Perryman
Coin Rivet December 14, 2019
Since its creation more than a decade ago, the cryptocurrency market has celebrated several major achievements.
However, for the sceptics out there, these successes are far outweighed by the market’s high-profile setbacks.
From rampant scams and fraud through to hundreds of so-called dead coins, there is certainly a lot of evidence to back up the doomsdayers’ claims that the value of Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies will eventually fall to zero.
But is the model really doomed? And if so, why is cryptocurrency failing?
Cryptocurrency successes
The cryptocurrency model is facing numerous challenges, but its successes to date cannot be overlooked. By far the biggest success story in crypto’s somewhat short history is Bitcoin.
Despite being launched only a decade ago, a single Bitcoin today is worth an impressive four figures – or $7,200 at the time of writing. And although Bitcoin experienced a huge crash in early 2018, there are signs to suggest its volatility is abating.
Bitcoin, and other major cryptocurrencies too, have hit significant adoption and usage milestones. In April, for instance, the 400 millionth transaction was recorded by Bitcoin’s public blockchain.
Some people believe cryptocurrencies will soon go mainstream, pointing to their adoption by major financial institutions, technology firms, and other corporations around the world.
Blockchain, the technology that underlies cryptocurrencies, is seeing even wider acceptance among companies in a range of sectors and industries.
Cryptocurrency failures
At the same time, however, the crypto market has witnessed some monumental failures. According to Deadcoins.com, there are around 1,000 “deceased” coins and another 700 coins that have fallen victim to scams.
Many coins were launched to great fanfare during the Bitcoin bubble but simply failed to live up to their hype.
The market has also witnessed high-profile thefts, hacks, scams, and regulatory crackdowns, which have severely tarnished its reputation and credibility.
Why is cryptocurrency failing?
A major problem in the crypto market is the lack of innovation by developers. There have been multiple launches of “the new Bitcoin” despite the fact that Bitcoin is still heavily in demand. Since the market doesn’t need a new Bitcoin, these coins inevitably fail.
According to Gavin Brown and Richard Whittle at Manchester Metropolitan University, another somewhat ironic issue stems from the acceptance of crypto by financial institutions.
“Wall Street is steadily taking charge of the crypto action, professionalising trading with the likes of derivatives and futures products,” they argue.
“We may now be entering a phase where only large institutions will be able to generate profit from cryptocurrency design.”
Many other cryptocurrencies could fail in the future simply because they don’t have the resources to compete with these huge institutions.
Another potential consequence of crypto entering the mainstream could be more stringent regulation, which only serves to stifle growth and innovation.
Yet perhaps the market’s biggest problem is its failure to garner trust among the general public. Many people have lost enormous amounts of money – either because they invested more than they should have in the Bitcoin bubble or because they have fallen victim to scams or hacks.
Whilst too much regulation is thought to be bad for the crypto market, the lack of it thus far, combined with a general lack of understanding and awareness among the public, is likely to lead to even more people losing their hard-earned money in the future.
The cryptocurrency model certainly has a lot of problems to overcome, but this doesn’t necessarily mean it is doomed to fail.
New coins are being launched all the time – there are around 3,000 currently in existence – and several of these are proving to be a huge success. Prices are still volatile, but the sector as a whole is much more stable than it was in the past.
As the sector starts to mature, it’s likely we’ll see even wider adoption of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology by individuals and companies around the globe.
With that will come increased understanding of cryptocurrencies as an investment opportunity, which will hopefully help to minimise the huge losses suffered by unsuspecting members of the public.
The post Is the cryptocurrency model failing? appeared first on Coin Rivet.
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Flagging French Drug Giant Tries a Familiar Remedy
Max Nisen
Bloomberg December 9, 2019
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson didn’t inherit an easy job when he took over the French pharma giant in September. The company’s shares have been in the doldrums for years, weighed down by a sagging diabetes business and a weak pipeline of new drugs.
The former Novartis AG executive kicked off his turnaround effort in earnest Monday by announcing the acquisition of cancer startup Synthorx Inc. for $2.5 billion and releasing a new strategic plan for the drugmaker. Under Hudson, Sanofi plans to halt investment in heart and diabetes research, doubling down on other areas including cancer and rare diseases. The company’s consumer unit will become a stand-alone business, which raises the specter of a possible future sale.
All of the moves make some sense and are in line with what other large drugmakers, including his prior employer, have tried in recent years. The key to success for Sanofi will be execution, and there are pitfalls aplenty.
One of the most significant changes at Sanofi is its move away from once-core diabetes and heart medicines. Hudson says he sees more valuable opportunities elsewhere, and he could be right; pricing pressure has made those areas increasingly competitive. Sanofi’s new areas of focus may offer more growth potential and higher prices, which will be crucial if the company is going to hit Hudson’s ambitious new margin-improvement goals.
Sanofi is arriving somewhat late to a shift that many of its rivals have been embracing for years, however. It has a lot of catch-up to do, and it isn’t starting with the industry’s healthiest balance sheet. A big chunk of its available cash will go to Synthorx, which is a particularly risky cornerstone for a new-look Sanofi.
It makes sense that Sanofi might be interested in Synthorx’s lead product, THOR-707. That medicine and others in Synthorx’s pipeline could combine with Sanofi’s immune-boosting cancer drug Libtayo. “Could” is doing a lot of work there. Sanofi just paid one of the biggest biotech premiums of the past few years for a company that has generated little proof that its approach works. Hudson will have a hard time sufficiently stocking his pipeline if he’s paying exorbitant prices for very early-stage drugs.
Selling some part of Sanofi’s multi-billion-dollar stake in Regeneron could help finance further deals, as could divesting the firm’s consumer unit. We’ll find out more about Sanofi’s over-the-counter intentions at its capital markets day Tuesday. Its preference for higher-margin products and separation of the unit certainly suggests that a sale is a possibility.
Slimming down worked out well for Novartis, which has reaped billions in proceeds and a higher multiple by getting rid of consumer and eye-drug units. That doesn’t mean Sanofi will have the same experience. The 2018 sale of Novartis’s consumer arm was the result of a long-running saga that started five years earlier with a complicated asset swap with GlaxoSmithKline PLC under which it paid out more money than it got. Pfizer Inc.’s long-running effort to get rid of its over-the-counter arm ended with, you’ll never guess, a proceed-free joint-venture with GSK. The market hasn’t received Pfizer’s efforts especially kindly.
It’s a positive sign that Hudson is taking action and putting his stamp on the company. But just because the strategic road he’s taking is well-trodden doesn't mean it will be easy.
To contact the author of this story: Max Nisen at mnisen@bloomberg.net
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Singapore Comiccon: Spongebob Squarepants Collides With Local Character Mr Kiasu
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In local parlance, ‘kiasu’ means fear of missing out. Lau conceived the character when he was doing his national service in the Singapore armed forces. “Both characters come from very different worlds, literally – one is very local and the other is very international,” said Lau. “Between myself and Nickelodeon, it took us three months to brainstorm the story.”
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Lau said that he was not going to draw and write Mr Kiasu any more. “I am going to move on to other things,” said Lau. “I am going to invite young artists and writers to come along, take over the character and create new stories.”
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About ARA FirePASS
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Belize is known as a state in the region of Central America with an unusually beautiful nature. Ecologically clean waters around the reefs untouched by civilization, along with forests, rivers, waterfalls and jungle territories, as well as historical sites of the Mayan civilization attract many tourists from all over the world.
С In 1862, Belize was a colony of Great Britain (in this status it was called British Honduras), in 1964 received internal self-government, in 1973 - the former name - Belize, and in 1981 - independence. The country is governed by a prime minister elected by the senate.
Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official state language. Frequent flights connect the country with cities like Houston, Miami, New Orleans. The administrative capital of Belize is Belmopan, but the main commercial center of the country is Belize City, which has a population of about 60,000.
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Nominee directors: allowed
Shareholders of the company
Information about shareholders: only in the register of enterprises in Belize
Nominee shareholders: allowed
Secretary Company
There are no requirements for the position of secretary
Authorized capital of the company
Standard declared capital is USD 50,000.
There are no requirements for payment of this capital or part thereof.
Must end with the words '' Incorporated '', '' Corporation '', "'Limited' 'or the abbreviations' 'Inc.' ',' 'Corp.' ',' 'Ltd.' ',' GmbH '', '' S.A ''. Registration of titles containing the words' 'Bank' ',' 'Insurance' ',' 'Trust' ',' 'Assurance' ',' 'Imperial' ',' '' Royal '', etc., allowed only after obtaining the appropriate licenses.
Information about the real owner of the company
Information about the real owner is submitted only to the registered agent and is confidential.
There is no requirement for an Annual Return.
Requirements for the submission of a financial statement is not put forward.
Taxation of companies IBC – 0%.
Double tax treaties
Belize has no double tax treaties with other countries.
The term of registration of a new company
6-7 business days; The deadline for receipt of the full package of documents is 4-5 weeks.
Acceptance of third-party companies for service FIVECONSULT
Only in consultation with the previous service agent in Belize.
A set of constituent documents of the company
1) registration certificate (Certificate of Incorporation);
2) articles of association / Memorandum and Articles of Association, signed by the first founders of the company (Subscribers);
3) protocol on appointment of director (Appointment of First Director);
4) minutes of the first meeting of directors (Minutes of First Meeting of Directors);
5) two unfilled (blanco) general powers of attorney ( General Power of Attorney), signed by the nominee director;
6) confirmation of the nominal director of the transfer of the company to its real owner (Agreement for the provisionof nominee services and indemnification of the nominee);
7 ) about Resignation letter of the nominee director, signed, but without a date;
8) Share Certificates, signed by the nominee director;
9) seal the company.
"Ready-made" companies
Buying "ready-made" companies is possible.
FIVECONSULT comment:
Belize is a classic tax-free jurisdiction that does not require complex procedures for supporting companies and their annual reporting. An additional advantage of registering companies in Belize is the legal norm allowing the name of the company being created to be expressed not only in Latin letters, but in other existing writings, including Cyrillic.
Why offshore Belize?
If you want to determine the most suitable place for successful business, large-scale financial transactions and attracting large investments, choose Belize offshore. This independent state, part of the British Commonwealth and located in the northeast of Central America, is a real oasis for owners of offshore companies who use the most beneficial opportunities offered by the legislation of Belize.
Belize Offshore Major Benefits
The main and indisputable advantage of registering a company in this offshore zone is absolute tax exemption in accordance with law om "About international companies".
Another reason to prefer offshore in Belize is a guarantee of complete confidentiality (when registering a company with a nominal shareholder and director).
Financial reporting is not required here; Offshore registration in Belize takes no more than 3-4 weeks, and its content is relatively inexpensive.
Other Belize offshore features
By providing offshore owners with a number of pleasant opportunities and benefits, this state also requires compliance with certain obligations, in particular, the presence of a registered agent and a registration office in Belize.
prohibitions - prohibitions on the ownership of immovable property property in Belize and for the conclusion of transactions with residents of the country.
The rest of the offshore Belize gives full freedom of action - all offshore companies registered in the country with the end of Corporation, Incorporated Limited, Societe Anonyme or Sociedad Anonima have the right to conduct any business activities in all countries of the world.
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Guide to Markets in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
Explore Shopping Kensington & Chelsea Portobello Road Kensington South Kensington Ladbroke Grove Duke Of York Square Golborne Road Kensington Church Street Ladbroke Grove Markets
Our guide to the best markets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea including information about Portobello Green Fashion Market, Golborne Road Market, Acklam Village Market, Notting Hill Farmers’ Market, and more
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is one of the best places to shop in London, and has much to offer beyond the typical high street. Whether you're going shopping or just looking for a day out, the busy markets are a great way to experience the borough's vibrant local life.
The Council manages two adjacent markets: Portobello Road market is one of the most famous markets in the world, and is renowned for its antiques (particularly on Saturdays) and vintage fashion (particularly on Fridays). Golborne Road market features street food stalls during the week and has busy second hand and bric-a-brac sections at the weekend.
Privately operated markets in the borough include farmers' markets on Tuesday at Imperial College (9am to 2pm) and on Saturday at Notting Hill Gate (9am to 1pm), South Kensington and Ladbroke Grove (both 9am to 2pm), the renowned Portobello Green Fashion market that crosses Portobello Road by the Westway (on Friday, Saturday and Sunday), the Acklam Village Market (Portobello Fine Foods) under the Westway on Saturdays and Sundays, and Duke of York Square Fine Food Market (King's Road) on Saturdays.
Whether you live locally or are just visiting, please support the area's local independent merchants! Shopping at your favourite market stalls and neighbourhood retailers is one way you can help to secure a thriving, vibrant and sustainable future for the heart of the local community.
These are the best markets in Kensington and Chelsea:
Portobello Green Fashion Market
New and vintage fashion, jewellery, hot and takeawayfood, music, bric-a-brac, and more.
When: Friday to Sunday 8am to 5.30pm; Thursday 9.30am to 5.30pm (books, art & plants only)
Where: Under the big white tent at Portobello Road between Cambridge Gardens and the Westway, and depending on time of year and weather along Thorpe Close between Portobello Road and Ladbroke Grove.
Online: www.portobellofashionmarket.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Portobello-Green-Market
Golborne Road Market
Hot takeaway food and fresh fruit & vegetables throughout the week, with new & second-hand items, furniture and bric-a-brac on Friday and Saturday.
When: Monday through to Saturday 8am to 7pm; (Thursday to 1pm)
Where: Golborne Road W10 between Portobello Road and St Ervans Road
Online: www.shopportobello.co.uk
Online: www.rbkc.gov.uk/streetmarkets
Twitter: www.twitter.com/rbkc_markets & www.twitter.com/PortobelloNews
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rbkcmarkets
Acklam Village Market (Portobello Fine Foods)
International hot takeaway food, bakery and deli items.
When: Saturday and Sunday 10am to 6pm
Where: Under the Westway along Acklam Road between Portobello and Blagrove Roads, behind the pink hoarding.
Online: www.acklamvillage.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/AcklamVillage
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AcklamVillage
A mix of goods throughout the week, including fresh fruit & vegetables and some hot takeaway foods. Portobello Pantry, vintage fashion and antiques are available most Fridays, with the full antique market operating on Saturday.
When: Monday through to Saturday 8am to 7pm (Thursday to 1pm)
Where: Portobello Road W11 & W10 between Elgin Crescent and Tavistock Road, expanding south to Westbourne Grove and north to Golborne Road on Friday and Saturday.
Online: www.shopportobello.co.uk & www.rbkc.gov.uk/streetmarkets
Notting Hill Farmers' Market
A variety of locally sourced fresh and prepared foods.
When: Saturday 9am to 1pm
Where: Car park behind Waterstone's, Kensington Church Street, Kensington W11 3PB
Online: www.lfm.org.uk/markets/notting-hill
Twitter: www.twitter.com/Londonfarmers
Facebook: www.facebook.com/London-Farmers-Markets
South Kensington Farmers' Market
A variety of locally sourced fresh and prepared foods
Where: Bute Street, South Kensington SW7 3EX
Online: www.lfm.org.uk/markets/south-kensington
Partridges Food Market
Specialty food items from small British and international producers.
When: Saturday 10am to 4pm
Where: Duke of York Square, South Kensington SW7 3EX
Online: www.partridges.co.uk/foodmarket
Twitter: www.twitter.com/partridgesfoods
Facebook: www.facebook.com/PartridgesOfSloaneSquare
For more information about markets in London take a look at our London guide. It includes information about the best markets in London including world famous markets. If you love shopping you should also take a look at guide to shopping in London.
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Daniel W. Drezner: Rick Perry inspires a new foreign policy award Rick Perry inspires a new foreign...
Rick Perry inspires a new foreign policy award
So I see Rick Perry gave a quasi-foreign policy speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars 112th National Convention. Here’s the gist of the foreign policy section: [A] president should never send our sons and daughters into war without a plan to win, and the resources to make that possible. In the dangerous world we ...
So I see Rick Perry gave a quasi-foreign policy speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars 112th National Convention. Here’s the gist of the foreign policy section:
[A] president should never send our sons and daughters into war without a plan to win, and the resources to make that possible.
In the dangerous world we live in today, our enemies often don’t wear a uniform or swear allegiance to a particular flag, but instead to an ideology of hatred.
As the tenth anniversary of the attacks of 9-11 approaches, we must renew our commitment to taking the fight to the enemy, wherever they are, before they strike at home.
I do not believe America should fall subject to a foreign policy of military adventurism.
We should only risk shedding American blood and spending American treasure when our vital interests are threatened.
And we should always look to build coalitions among the nations to protect the mutual interests of freedom-loving people.
It is not in our interests to go it alone. We respect our allies, and must always seek to engage them in military missions.
At the same time, we must be willing to act when it is time to act.
We cannot concede the moral authority of our nation to multi-lateral debating societies.
And when our interests are threatened, American soldiers should be led by American commanders.
I say this because we owe to them, and to their loved ones, to make sure any war we wage is led by the country with the most advanced military technology and the best training.
We have the finest fighting force the world has ever known.
We have a generation of heroes who love their nation, and who willingly sacrifice all that we may always be free.
The men and women of the United States Military are the greatest ambassadors of freedom this nation has ever sent abroad.
That’s why, when we send them to war, we must give them every weapon and every resource to help them succeed.
James Lindsay analyzes the content over at CFR, concluding that, "There is something in it for every significant foreign policy constituency in the GOP," although "any mainstream Republican or Democratic presidential candidate could have given Perry’s speech." This is likely because, "while Perry’s speech was heavy on foreign policy bromides it was short on specifics."
Lindsay is being kind — this speech is ninety-eight percent concentrated pablum (contra Lindsay, the "multilateral debating society" crack does signal it being a GOP speech). Seriously, I hereby challenge my friends at Shadow Government who might be Perry-friendly to find something of interest in this speech. It’s the foreign policy equivalent of this scene from The Distinguished Gentleman:
Now, to be fair to Perry, this San Antonio News-Express news story suggests that he had some constraints on what kind of speech he could deliver. So, really, I’m not sure that anything of consequence can be divined from this…. er…. assemblage of cliches that maybe, just maybe, passes the Turing Test.
Still, what Perry said is such pure, unadulterated boilerplate that, as a foreign policy commentator, one must step back and gape in wonder. Reading it, the absence of anything interesting kept nagging me as hauntingly familiar.
And then I realized — Rick Perry had just delivered the Wolf Blitzer of foreign policy speeches!! It’s familiar, yet utterly devoid of interesting content!!
And for that, Rick Perry is the distinguished inaugural nominee of the Wolf Blitzer Award for Foreign Policy Boilerplate.
Tags: 2012 campaign, awards, Flash Points, foreign policy, foreign policy community, U.S. Foreign Policy
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NASA and Its Partners Visit Futuramic Highlighting How Michigan Supports the Moon and Mars Missions
May 29, 2019 Futuramic Admin Comments Off on NASA and Its Partners Visit Futuramic Highlighting How Michigan Supports the Moon and Mars Missions
NASA and its partners recently visited Michigan and Futuramic to highlight the work done in the state to build and supply aerospace components for the agency’s deep space rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS).
Futuramic was thrilled to welcome a delegation of NASA, Boeing, state, and city representatives, with special guest Astronaut Josh Cassada, to tour its Detroit facility. The tour centered on Futuramic’s advanced manufacturing capabilities and the skilled workforce that supports NASA’s SLS and its missions to the moon and mars. Throughout the tour Futuramic associates had a chance showcase their expertise while meeting NASA and Boeing representatives as well as Cmdr. Josh Cassada.
After the morning tour, the delegation moved on to Futuramic’s Warren headquarters where the media was waiting to meet them and join the tour. Large scale tooling and manufacturing capacities were showcased as more Futuramic associates interacted with the delegation.
In the afternoon a special presentation about the SLS and the Moon 2024 mission were given by NASA and Boeing to illustrate how the company is supporting future missions to the Moon and, ultimately, to Mars.
“When you work in human exploration at NASA, your job is to extend human presence deeper into the solar system. That’s what we go to work to do every day. That’s what you’re enabling every single day,” said Marcia Lindstrom, NASA’s SLS strategic communications manager. “The big news is we’re going forward to the moon. We’re doing it in 2020 and we’re going to stay. We’ll land human footprints on the south pole of the moon in 2024, and we’ve got just the rocket to do that.”
Lindstrom said the effort is part of a phased approach to extend our reach from low Earth orbit at the International Space Station, back to a lunar orbit and landing, and eventually to Mars.
The SLS, set for deployment with Artemis 1, the system’s first uncrewed mission scheduled for 2020, stands 322 feet tall and weighs 5.7 million pounds. It includes a configuration of four RS-25 engines and two solid rocket boosters that each burn 1,385,000 pounds of solid propellant in their two minutes and 30 seconds of launch operation.
“When the core stage is completely assembled later this year, it will be the largest stage made for a rocket designed to launch humans since the mighty Saturn V that launched the Apollo missions to the Moon 50 years ago,” said Ken Dunn, NASA core stage propulsion components manager. “Futuramic and 15 other Michigan companies are helping us build this Moon rocket.”
As an example the core stage, which includes flight control avionics, is being built by Boeing at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility. The project has been fast tracked, and because the core stage was originally designed for vertical construction, a problem arose when facility availability required it to be assembled horizontally. Futuramic helped solve this problem by creating a 60,000-pound tool.
Craig Williams, Boeing’s SLS Core Stage Integrated Product Team director, called Futuramic’s work “a real heroic effort.” Adding, “We started this venture in 2009. You guys have touched every part of this rocket in one way or another, most notably the last 14-16 months, with this fast-tracked tooling we’ve asked you to develop. You guys were there every step of the way. I want to applaud you. You did fantastic.”
NASA Space Flight Awareness Supplier of the Year Award
In recognition for their continued support and of this recent accomplishment, NASA’s Ken Dunn and Boeing’s Craig Williams presented Futuramic with its Space Flight Awareness Supplier of the Year Award. It was accepted by Futuramic’s President Mark Jurcak, Vice President John Couch, and Global Sales Manager, Rob Flinn on behalf of the company and all its employees.
“Who would have imagined this company would be helping put boots on the moon with eyes to Mars when the founder first opened its doors in 1955?” said John Couch, Futuramic vice president. “It is the realization of the American dream for me, for our employees and for the company.”
Cmdr. Josh Cassada, a NASA astronaut scheduled for the second crewed mission of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, followed by a six-month stint on the International Space Station, personally thanked the Futuramic team. “I’m hearing conversations about the next generation of space flight moving early. That just doesn’t happen,” Cassada said. “It is a testament to the work you’re doing here to allow us to not only get the mission done, but to get it done safely.”
Cassada then presented a “Silver Snoopy Award” to Futuramic designer Matt Ososky for his longtime contributions to “outstanding performance, contributing to flight safety and mission success.” The award is a sterling silver Snoopy lapel pin that has flown in space on a Space Shuttle mission, plus a certificate of appreciation and commendation letter, both signed by the presenting astronaut. Fewer than 1 percent of the aerospace program workforce receive it annually, making it a special honor to receive this award.
Futuramic President Mark Jurcak ended the event with a brief presentation and stating the company has 280 employees who collectively provide engineering, fabrication, machining, certification and installation services for the aerospace, aircraft, military/defense and automotive industries. “A little bit of everything,” Jurcak added. “We’re toolmakers here. A toolmaker can build just about anything.”
Thanks to everyone at NASA, Boeing, and the media for helping make this such a great event. We were honored to have you.
About Futuramic Tool & Engineering Co.
As a key supplier, Futuramic is helping NASA and Boeing, the SLS prime contractor, to complete assembly of the rocket’s core stage for EM-1 at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Most recently, Futuramic designed and completed initial assembly on both simulators for the liquid oxygen tank and liquid hydrogen tank structural test articles. The two test articles have identical structures to flight tanks that are part of the rocket’s massive core stage. On a mission, the tanks hold 733,000 gallons of propellant to help power the rocket’s four RS-25 engines that will send SLS and Orion to the Moon. During tests, the simulators allow engineers to apply millions of pounds of force to the tanks to test their strength and ensure SLS is safe to fly.
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It’s Time to Look at Cavan Biggio
Posted on May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018 by Clutchlings
After hitting his 6th Homer of the year (good for 2nd in the Eastern League) this afternoon, it’s high time we had a closer look at New Hampshire UT Cavan Biggio.
The Blue Jays selected Biggio in the 5th round in 2016. Clearly, they were higher on him than Baseball America was:
As you would expect for the son of Hall of Famer Craig Biggio, Cavan Biggio has a very intelligent approach to the game. His understanding of the game is arguably his best attribute, as his tools are modest. Biggio is an average runner and stole 14 bases in 14 tries during the regular season. Biggio, who has a plenty of pre-swing movement that he may need to tone down as a pro, has below-average power with an all-field approach that gives him a fringe-average hit tool. His advanced batting eye helped him walk in 21 percent of his plate appearances this season, helping him to post a .473 on-base percentage. Defensively, he’s struggled with his reliability as a junior. His range is limited but he turns a good double play.
Biggio had a decent (.282/.382/.366) pro debut season with Vancouver in his draft year, but a cursory glance at his line last year with Dunedin (.233/.342/.363) suggested that he had taken a step back at the higher level. A closer look reveals an improved rate of line drive contact, as the natural loft in his swing produced some decent contact, which may have been concealed by the Pitcher’s paradise that is the Florida State League:
Cavan Biggio has a lot of natural loft in his swing. Has been consistently 40+% FB rate with an uptick to 60% in 18. FSL flyballs die in the humidity leading to his poor .233 average in 2017. Not surprised that AA has seen better results stat wise.#BlueJays
— Jason Woodell (@JasonAtTheGame) May 1, 2018
The left-handed hitting Biggio has an upright, closed stance. There still is some pronounced bat waggle, but it’s obviously used as a timing mechanism. He uses a slight leg lift, and gets that front leg down straight and quickly, producing leverage in his swing. New Hampshire Manager John Schneider lauds Biggio’s mechanics, and has suggested that his swing is one of the most efficient ones in the league. That’s high praise, considering the two bats ahead of him in the order.
A 2-3, BB performance today lifted his season’s line to .319/.427/.708. You will find Biggio among the leaders in several Eastern League offensive stats, including Slugging and OPS. The Blue Jays have added to Biggio’s versatility, giving him time at 3rd (when Vlad Jr needs a day off), 2B and 1B. Not a fleet runner, Biggio uses his base running smarts to take an extra base when needed. As BA suggests, Biggio’s high baseball IQ is one of his biggest assets.
There are some that would argue that Biggio’s stats so far are inflated by the short right field porch at New Hampshire. That certainly was the case for Tellez in 2016, as his home numbers (1.001 OPS vs .835 on the road) would indicate. But such has not been the case so far for Biggio, based on this set of splits:
What does the future hold for Biggio? Can he continue to produce at this level and beyond, or will he fall victim to what someone on Twitter labelled the “Tellez Effect”? That is truly hard to say, because he has not had production at this level for a sustained period so far in his relatively brief pro career. If he does advance, it will be that pop in his bat, along with his ability to play several positions that will help him to succeed at AAA.
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4 thoughts on “It’s Time to Look at Cavan Biggio”
Anyone who compares Biggio to Tellez do not know what they are talking about. Last time I checked Tellez has had trouble against pitchers with good fastballs that’s not a problem for Biggio. And besides hopefully Biggio put on some more size by the 2020 season which will likely be his first possible chance in the big leagues, and if you add in the Juiced ball from Costa Rica in the big leagues the ball will go further than the Minor league dead balls from China, I’ve heard they don’t use the same baseballs for crying out loud
Also that video of Biggio hitting a HR did not look like a cheapy.
K Shaw says:
I remember reading unfavourable reports about his arm strength. Thoughts? If he can make the throws from 3B, I think that boosts his floor quite a bit (thinking: Solarte-type bench piece).
clutchlings says:
Haven’t seen enough of his D at 2B or 3B to form an opinion, TBH.
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Anisotropy changes in post-menopausal osteoporosis: characterization by a new index applied to trabecular bone radiographic images
Chappard, C.; Brunet-Imbault, B.; Lemineur, Gérald.; Giraudeau, B.; Basillais, A.; Harba, R.; Benhamou, C-Laurent., 2005: Anisotropy changes in post-menopausal osteoporosis: characterization by a new index applied to trabecular bone radiographic images. Osteoporosis International 16(10): 1193-1202
Bone intrinsic strength is conditioned by several factors, including material property and trabecular micro-architecture. Bone mineral density (BMD) is a good surrogate for material property. Architectural anisotropy is of special interest in mechanics-architecture relations and characterizes the degree of directional organization of a material. We have developed anisotropy indices from the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on bone radiographs. We have validated these indices in a cross-sectional uni-center case-control study including 39 postmenopausal women with vertebral fracture and 70 age-matched control cases. BMD was measured at the lumbar spine and femoral neck. A fractal analysis of texture was performed on calcaneus radiographs at three regions of interest (ROIs), and the result was expressed as the H parameter (fractal dimension =H-2). The anisotropy evaluation was based on the FFT spectrum of these three ROIs extracted on calcaneus radiographs. On the FFT spectrum, we have measured the spreading angle of the longitudinal trabeculae called the dispersion longitudinal index (DLI) and the spreading angle of the transversal trabeculae called the dispersion transversal index (DTI). From the measured parameters, an anisotropy index was derived, and the degree of anisotropy (DA) calculated with DLI and DTI. We have compared the results from the vertebral fracture cases and control cases. The best distinction was obtained for the largest ROI located in the great tuberosity of the calcaneus for all parameters ( P <10(-4)).( )The DA parameter showed a higher value in vertebral fracture cases (1.746+/-0.169) than in control cases (1.548+/-0.136); P <10(-4), and the difference persisted after removal of the subjects with hormonal replacement therapy. The analysis of the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) has shown the best results with DA and Hmean: areas under curves (AUCs) respectively of 0.765 and 0.683, while AUCs associated to LS-BMD and FN-BMD were 0.614 and 0.591 lower, respectively. We determined the odds ratios (OR) by uni- and multivariate analysis. Crude ORs were respectively 3.91 (95% CI: 2.22-6.87) and 3.08 (95% CI: 1.72-5.52) for DA and Hmean. Crude ORs were respectively 1.71 (95% CI: 1.15-2.56) and 1.56 (95% CI: 1.05-2.31) for LS-BMD and FN-BMD. All ORs were statistically significant, and those associated to Hmean and anisotropy indices were higher than those of BMD measurements. From a multivariate analysis including anisotropy indices, Hmean, age and FN-BMD, the remaining significant ORs were respectively 6.33 (95% CI: 2.80-14.30) and 3.08 (95% CI: 1.48-6.37) for DA and Hmean. These data have shown that anisotropy indices on calcaneus radiographs can distinguish vertebral fracture cases from control cases. This analysis provides complementary information concerning the BMD and fractal parameter. These data suggest that we can improve the fracture risk evaluation by adding information related to the directional organization of trabecular bone derived from the FFT spectrum on conventional radiographic images.
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Domara123
I'm still wanting to know the whole story behind the hidden blade that the assassin's use. At this point all that's known about it's origins is that it was given to bayek by Cleopatra when he became her medjay, but where did she get it from? Back in assassin's creed 2, when the player first gives Leonardo da Vinci his father's broken bracer that ends up being a hidden blade, da Vinci comments on how it is of advanced design (which, to me, hints that it is from the precursor race) as well as on how he had to modify the blade so that it no longer required the sacrifice of one's ring finger (and I don't recall which game in the series this is from, could even be from the movie, but it's done this way as a symbol that Assassins are "married" to the order and to no other. Which is why assassin's depicted in later era often had 2 hidden blades, they no longer had to give up both of their ring fingers to do so). However, it's shown that when bayek first goes to use the newly acquired hidden blade, being untrained in its use and pinned in a corner, he loses his finger rather than let himself die and the sacrifice of one's ring finger as a show of commitment to the order no more than that and that the blade was probably modified by the earlier assassin's to "require" finger sacrifice much in the same was da Vinci did to no longer require mutilation. So where exactly did the blade originate? Is there some expanded universe media that I'm totally missing or does anybody have an answer?
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How would WDW look in 2019 if Universal Orlando never opened
Thread starter ChrisFL
ChrisFL
Just a fun "What if" scenario.
Whether people want to admit it or not, Universal has driven a lot of growth at WDW and arguably pushed the creation of these things at WDW:
- Disney MGM/Hollywood Studios
- Rock n Roller Coaster
- Mission Space
- Star Wars Galaxy's Edge
- maybe Expedition Everest?
I predict the Great Movie Ride would have opened in Epcot as originally intended....we wouldn't see a Studios park in 1989, possibly not another new park for 5-6 more years....maybe they jump to making Animal Kingdom as the third park. For all we know they might not have opened Disneyland Paris the same way.
We probably wouldn't have any Pandora or Galaxy's Edge area, but maybe they'd put some more attractions in MK with some of the plans originally for MGM Studios.
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mergatroid
Universal Studios probably wouldn't exist in Orlando at all if it wasn't for Disney.
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justintheharris
ChrisFL said:
It's really impossible to tell. But Disney World certainly wouldn't be as good. It may not have Hollywood Studios or Animal Kingdom at all and certainly no IP based lands (which I actually think have been greatly executed in the parks) since Wizarding World wouldn't have been developed. On that note, Disney may have secured the rights to Harry Potter if Rowling didn't have Universal to turn to after Disney wouldn't give the franchise anything else.
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I think Disney World would exist and maybe a different experience but just as big. You dont buy 40 square miles and not plan on doing something big.
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hakunamatata said:
Well considering Walt Disney World opened in 1971 and Universal Orlando opened in 1990, it is safe to say that Disney World would still exist.
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PorterRedkey
All theme park lovers benefit from the competition between Uni and Disney.
Potter made Disney recognize Universal as a threat to their market share. Disney responded with new lands and Universal is adding a ride a year along with reasonably priced hotels. The battle for a small percentage (10%?) of the Orlando market has led to a lot great things for us fans. So while they’re fighting, I’ll be enjoying all the new additions*!
*does not include Fast and the Furious - Supercharged as an addition I will enjoy
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Sea World would be their primary competition, and to a lesser extent, Busch Gardens Tampa.
mergatroid said:
yes, but that wasn't the point.
Anyway, Disney as a studio might not exist without Universal being a pioneer
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Verrry different. In everything competition brings out the best in a person and in businesses. It forces one to keep moving forward and gives a reason to continually add more to draw in your customers. Without Uni biting at their heels, showing WDW that there was another game in town, WDW might have added some improvements but not to the extent they have. If no Uni, and others, Disney would have been satisfied to a point and not invested as much in moving forward.
I'd say Rock n Roller coaster would have been added regardless as the Studios was popular already and needed additions.
I'd also say I don't see Mission Space's existence or creation having anything to do with Uni and the Animal Kingdom needed additions, so I'd class Expedition Everest as having nothing to do with Uni either.
Disney MGM Studios was 99.9% a result of Universal being built and I'm pretty certain that Galaxy's Edge wouldn't have had as much money put in if it weren't for Uni, if built at all.
However all of that is speculation on our parts.
BoarderPhreak
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justintheharris said:
Ok...now I snarfed coffee...
They have one IP land that was executed well in Orlando...which ones am I forgetting?
ParkPeeker
Look at that picturesque competition, just stunning. just saying
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I’m having a hard time making any headway with this one...
So if mgm was built because of universal...how would rockinrollercoaster been added anyway if the park it was in hadn’t been warranted?
But never mind that. Star Wars land would have been a safe bet if they acquired it as they did at some point. I think it was rushed on their end. The popularity of the potter additions on both coasts and lots of competition from Universal Orlando we know did drive avatar and Star Wars land - however.
I think the problem with Star Wars is they were rushed and didn’t like the choices they had when they designed and started to build. They knew they wanted to distance themselves from the Lucas movies - so they had to “sacrifice” the theme from the originals to knock out the prequels. I get that.
But in 2014-2016 when the designing was going on...they knew they only had the abrams reboot with the end of the original cast to deal with. They wouldn’t have had any clue if it was going to be a smash new film series. They assumed the label would sell...but from reports they have taken as much of the nostalgia/pull out of that label in the land.
ParkPeeker said:
...but the rides are really cool. After they’ve worked the shakedown Kinks out they have 3 universally (pun intended) well regarded “E” attractions in place.
Disney has managed to get an overhyped mine train and one doozy in FOP built.
At the end of the day...people want to be amused.
It’s probably worth mentioning that they pulled a lot of creativity from WDI during the late Eisner era to do it...what was left hadn’t been proven to be the cream of the crop
Sirwalterraleigh said:
I didn't mean that as a jab at universal AT ALL. considering disney in terms of looks...
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Ok...it seemed sarcastic. My bad
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Wizarding World, Pandora and Toy Story Land. I'm under the impression you're not a fan of Toy Story land?
I was working on the premise that people would see and understand that I was replying to the Op, hence me quoting his post. He clearly ask for views on why Disney Studios was built and then separately asks about the Rock n Roller coaster which is within the studios, I was merely addressing both points.
I understand the logic that without Disney studios then clearly nothing within it could have been added to it, I was really working on the basis that most would see that and that I wouldn't have to take the time to point that out. Apologies if that wasn't apparent.
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Outdated release date in title
I am trying to work out why i cant seem to update my films release date in its title. The release date section has been successfully updated to 2015 but the title is stuck at 2013 My reference is 140429-220437-880200 and my concern is that i am potentially screening at Raindance 2014 and I am worried that the old title date will put off distributors who may think the film has already had a release. John Owen / Director. Many thanks
Vincent, Champion
What's the film? And is there any screenings listed under releases where it was already shown publicly?
The film is Peter Gaya Kaam Se. This is a world premiere and first public screening actually.
I believe the system for displaying the release year in the title is automated. It should be pulling the data directly from the release date section as (2015).
When was the 2015 release date added? The system can sometimes take 2 to 3 weeks to process and update the title with a newly added release year.
Aside from updating the release year (as you have done), that may be the best you can do until an IMDB employee checks this thread. IMDB employees tend to read this forum Monday through Friday during business hours. If there is an actual bug in the system preventing this change from going through they will need to check it on the back end.
My opinion is that you more than likely just need to wait for the automated system to crawl through the updated release date and correct itself. If you don't get a reply from IMDB here in the next week or so or the change to the title year does not go through in 21 days after the release date section was fixed, bump this thread again and let them know it isn't working.
LuvsToResearch, Champion
See David's response to another user here: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topi.... As Vincent said, you will have to wait for the automated change to happen.
Ok thanks Vincent...I just checked, the release update was made in may so there must be a glitch in the process.. As you advise i will keep this alive til a staffer gets on to it. Many thanks ... John
Hi guys but my film is still unreleased and likely to remain so until 2017. The fact that it has a release date as 2013 is continuing to cause embarrasment and hinderance to our efforts to find the film a distributer. What do i have to do to correct this?
Peter, Champion
While you can't directly control the title year, you can start by submitting an update to remove the listed release dates if they are not correct.
You can also submit a production status (bottom of the main update form) so your film does not appear as released.
Any later updates to the release date/year are probably more likely to take effect if these things are corrected first.
Ok thanks Peter i will act on your advice and see how that goes ... many thanks for being so prompt
Thanks for these insights. The user ratings will be fake I imagine.. We have only ever had one screening last year at Raindance and I don't think there were more than 50 in the audience. And yes there is a fake critic too.. Many thanks for alerting me to this data.
... one screening last year at Raindance ....
So, the film was publicly screened in 2014?
I don't represent IMDb and I'm not an expert on their policies,
but if I understand correctly from the reference pages linked below,
IMDb generally prefers to list the "year of first public screening"
in parentheses alongside the title.
http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?titleformat
> "... [IMDb] associate[s] the year of first public screening with each title ...."
http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?top5
> "... All titles include the year of first public exhibition as part of the title ...."
http://www.imdb.com/updates/guide/title_formats
> "... All titles must include the year of first public screening enclosed in ( )'s ....
> ... The year in ( )'s should be the year of first public screening ....
> ... For movie titles this year is either the year of general release
> or of a festival presentation if earlier ...." [Emphasis added.]
http://www.imdb.com/updates/guide/release_dates
Ok thanks so I need to get it changed to 2014 to match the records then.
Well, in that case you should submit the 2014 festival date as a release date.
Ok I have done my best to update all the info as well as the Raindance screening so I hope the date attached to the film can be sorted soon. Thanks for your help.
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Activism and the law
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Ilka Oliva Corado: The office of maid
Comment, May 2nd
The author, who grew up selling ice-cream on the streets of Peronia city, Guatemala, before crossing to the US as an undocumented migrant, writes on the life of the maid.
Lately human rights defenders have called us “domestic workers,” to lessen the blow, but things should be called by their name: We are servants, our job is to serve.
From there, we can break down the range of abuses that we, who work in domestic service and maintenance, live though. No matter the country, the reality for servants is the same everywhere. We will not wash ourselves clean and simply point to the United States as the cause of all our ills. In India, there are castes, in Latin America colonised minds, and so we see country and continent, each with its own evils.
It’s not about colour, nationality or language, it is about who has power and who has abused power and discriminates against friends and strangers. The maid and babysitter are the same, only varying the name: in work both are used. And I say “serve” with all the weight of the word, day and night. When children are at school or in private lessons, babysitters take care of cleaning the house, playrooms, cooking, washing clothes — domestic trades. The maid is the same and both are treated like old furniture. For one, cleaning soiled diapers and the other dirty bathrooms — both work in the shit.
Nannies are emergent mums, we are there all the time because mums are in their yoga classes, drinking tea with friends or travelling the world. Some, few, are working. Then we become babysitters accidentally, as a result of our work, give hugs, understand emotions, care for diseases, tell stories and give moral support to children who learn to love us as their own and, in the future when they realise our role at home and in society, treat us like old furniture, disposable. Because they are the employer, because they are part of the circle of the culture of capital.
The maids know the private affairs of families, even what they do not want anyone to know. We know temperaments, habits, fears, empty boasts and pretensions. Because we are there all the time, invisible, old furniture moving from one place to another, not interfering. We work quietly, we go unnoticed because what has to have a maid? How does a maid interact with their employers? No, the maid does not feel, does not think, does not have emotions, is there to serve, never seen as a person, does not exist as a human being.
The maids do not get tired, never have the right to get sick, to be depressed, to yearn, miss, we have no right to employment benefits, holidays are for others not for us. We have no right to emergencies because then who will clean the rooms, wash dishes, iron the shirt pattern, make breakfast and mop? Who will go for the mail and get the supermarket bread? Who will look after the children’s fever? Who will clean up the vomit of the drunk man who arrived at dawn?
And even if all the abuse exceeds inconceivable extremes, domestic workers who are also sexually abused by their employer, employers’ children, then friends and employers, under the tutelage of the employer, do not see. Because after all men are so thirsty for pleasure all the time, better to catch the maid than a sex worker who might make them sick … and in most cases the maid is a girl, who may not exceed 12 years old.
Domestic workers have no right to menstrual cramps, because we are machines, nor to agonise when our own children are sick at home or in daycare because we left to go to work. We have no right to miss our parents and brothers who were left in the village when we went to the capital or emigrated to another country. We have an obligation to be intact when serving our employers, we live by them and for them, our lives do not exist, they have no right to exist. Nor birthdays or Christmas, or holidays, we are planted here every day of the year, at all hours.
Housemaids keep the intimate secrets that any friend of our employers would give their right arm to know. There are never thanks for our ethics, for what do ethics have to do with a clean bathroom? What can you learn from painting, reading, wine, fine cheeses and gourmet meals? We merely cook and serve and other interactions. What can you tell a maid of designer clothes, expensive lotions and smartphones?
Perhaps nothing, but it is the most precious caring we do for employers: their children. A servant would never be given their cars to go to the supermarket or pharmacy, but they are trusted with children all day and given keys to the house. A car you can scratch, smudge and crash, but what value have their children got, to be left with a complete stranger who does not know the language or how to dial an emergency number — and who may also be illegal if a migrant. How do they entrust their children to an ignorant, lacking basic skills to survive in society in their ego and opportunism?
They never lend the latest car model, but allow us to cook and clean the rooms and take their children to school. We find dildos lying on the ground or between the sheets and wash them and place them in the draw. Intimacies only we domestic workers know. And we have no right to grow fond because furniture does not feel, these children are not ours, one day they will grow and we will remember only a kick in the arse and a dismissal without warning, one day to the next. As if overnight one could forget the memories, chop out affection and accept that we were just an old thing whose time had come to finish, into the trash cabinet.
What rest needs a pariah who works as a mule? None because it was born, generationally for it was born, to work as a mule.
So why is there surprise when a maid breaks the circle and spreads their wings and flies. Sacrificially studies and becomes a professional, plunges into the world of the arts, becomes a businessman and businesswoman or returns to the fields where they came from, to make them flourish. But for every servant who gets out of hell, there are thousands who are dried and slowly die in the abuse and exclusion. And they all have a name, families, roots, identity, dreams. And all feel in the depths of their being and have passion and love and believe, because they are human beings.
Have any of you, dear readers, have you ever talked to a maid, looked her in the eye and treated her as equal? Have you ever put on your shoes and wondered what would become of his life if you touched work in domestic service? What would change if so? Why not change it for others?
Not to mention the guts of it, let’s talk about humanity and humility.
Article originally from Crónicas de una Inquilina
Pics: Domestic workers in Indonesia, taken for ILO (CC 2.0)
domestic workersIlka Oliva Corado
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Since I published Chav Solidarity, plenty of people have either asked me what I think constitutes middle class, or suggested that, in targeting middle class activists so much, I am being divisive.
100 Days of Freedom: A new year’s message from Sarah Jane Baker
Last week, Sarah Jane Baker celebrated her 100th day as a free woman, having served 30 years in men’s prisons.
Met police threaten to arrest entire UVW strike picket (again!)
For the second day in a row, officers from the Met threatened to arrest all those participating in a United Voices of the World (UVW) strike picket outside St.
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Overcrowding causes chaos at Glasgow Pride
Published 14 July, 2018
Credit: Katy Scott
Laurie Clarke
Calls for refunds and explanations across social media have so far gone unanswered
Glasgow Pride has been the subject of widespread criticism today after announcing that the event is over capacity.
Reportedly hundreds of ticket-holders remain queued outside Kelvingrove Park with no information on whether they will be admitted.
Frustrated attendees have taken to social media to voice their concerns, with many asking the organisation how to process refunds for unused tickets costing up to £45. Many ticket-holders are also seeking compensation for travel and hotel expenses incurred in anticipation of the event.
Concern for the people in attendance has grown with reports of people fainting after hours queuing in 24 degree heat. Attendees who have been admitted to the event have reported further complications, with a lack of staff on hand to help and no water available inside.
Attendee Michelle Jamieson told The Glasgow Guardian: “The pride events are a complete shambles really, and the organisers are trying to gloss over it and really aren’t providing any information. Almost as if they’re sweeping it under the carpet. I think it just reinforces how far pride has come from its origins.”
Maresa McGowan shared their experience on Twitter: “Just been told #glasgowpride sold 16 THOUSAND tickets when the venue is maximum 6 thousand. Can’t get in or out.”
“Inevitably, people rioted and all pushed together against the barriers. People are crying and fainting everywhere, this is horrible.”
Attendees who gained entry to the park, however, have shared video footage of the event, undermining the organiser’s claims of overcrowding.
Georgie McBeth described the event: “Zero organisation. Thousands still waiting to get in with zero duty of care carried out to those crushed at the gates. There were several people who passed out at the front as the sun was beating down and nobody was bothering to give out any water. My partner and I decided to leave and try to speak to someone about getting a refund and going home as this is certainly not the pride event we have been looking forward to all year.”
When Georgie finally entered the event, however, it was to see “nothing but empty space.”
On their official Facebook page, Glasgow Pride briefly addressed the overcrowding: “The interest in Pride Glasgow today has far exceeded our expectations, our parade had over 12,000 march, the largest number in our history.”
Though the organisers “apologise unreservedly to those people who purchased tickets and were unable to enter the site”, no official statement has been made on the subject of refunding unused tickets.
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Interview Interrogation: Eternal Halloween (USA)
Halloween is once a year, or is it? Not according to American quintet Eternal Halloween whose demonic stature is sure to garner attention from overseas as arguably the States answer to the UK's Evil Scarecrow. Moreover this Los Angeles (or as they might call Los Hellos), California-based horde have only been around a year and are already causing a buzz across the American Metal underground, let's just hope their name is not a reference to the Aiden song otherwise things could get quite confusing. Eternal Halloween were happy to spare some time to answer some questions GMA had in store for them...
"There are bigger things destroying youth and humanity than Satanism don’t you think? Racism, hatred, greed, ignorance, stupidity, politics and the list keeps going. "
Hi guys, firstly your band name, is the meaning self-explanatory or is there a story behind it? Have you been in any bands before?
"The meaning is pretty self-explanatory for sure but it goes beyond that. We’re Halloween lovers as many people are out there, but don’t get me wrong, Halloween has a deeper meaning than just being a night of dressing up in costumes and kids walking around town asking for trick or treats. It’s the night where spirits from the underworld cross the portal to the land of the living to feast and celebrate while claiming their rewards.
Sadly Halloween has mutated to accommodate a society that gets easily offended by every single thing. Now everything is racist, everything is inappropriate or politically incorrect. Twenty years ago if you wanted to dress up as a Jewish refugee or a cross-dresser everyone would get it. Now? Pfftt! Good luck if you try to play that card… It’s so ridiculous and sad but people like weakness and conformity in their lives. We’re here to make you think deeper and to open some eyes. Everywhere we go we want people to enjoy that celebration the way they want with no restrictions so we invite everyone to the Sabbat. That’s why we are the Eternal Halloween.
Now regarding your second question, have we been in other bands? Yes we have been and we are currently in other bands but you won’t know which..."
How would you distinguish yourselves from the likes of Lordi, Evil Scarecrow and GWAR, all of whom have similar imagery?
"There are a lot of differences, not only visually but also musically. I think each of the bands mentioned and Eternal Halloween have their own personality. Some like Lordi and GWAR take it to the extreme and they look great. Evil Scarecrow is more like a comedy club with cool music. We’ve been compared also to Rammstein, Rob Zombie, Mushroomhead, Slipknot or Manson; I see us pretty different under a common line: We all have a concept, ours happens to be purely Halloween under the Devil’s command."
Are you worried that some states or countries might ban you from touring due to the Satanic connotations?
"No, not at all. You have to remember that society is ruled by humans and that is the main problem. If there is anyone dumb enough to get offended by us, our music or our videos there will be a hundred who will like them and will get our stuff somehow. Let’s take the example of Poland where most metal bands are not allowed to tour but Polish people are always travelling somewhere else to see these bands live, why do you think this happens?"
Given the history of metal in the US and it's court cases against censorship and 'Satanic support', are you simply mocking those who claim metal music is Satanic and destroying the youth?
"Absolutely! There are bigger things destroying youth and humanity than Satanism don’t you think? Racism, hatred, greed, ignorance, stupidity, politics and the list keeps going. As we said before, people like blaming what they don’t fully understand in order to feel safe or right. Good and Bad is a necessity in each aspect of life since it’s the natural balance. What I can assure you is that we’re already in hell so there is no need to worry about the devil any more, let’s just “sit back and enjoy the ride, it will get bumpy so you better hang tight!”"
Your debut album is out now, will you be touring in support? If so where? Could Hell in Norway be a future place to play?* Would you stream your album launch gig (if there was one)?
"We will be touring in support of the album for sure and we will play in as many places as we can since we want to share the Eternal Halloween with as many people as we can to wake them up so Norway, Finland, Poland, China, US, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Greece, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Hawaii, Blah Blah Blah… all the places on earth and beyond must get ready for what is coming. Streaming or live you’ll have a chance to experience us, we’re coming for the kill!"
How long does it take to get all your gear on (make-up, etc)? Will there be variations?
"Our human faces take about two hours to take them off and put on. What takes the most is sticking the horns back inside your skull so we need to numb the pain with tons of Jager, Vodka or Scotch. About variations we don’t know what future awaits so stay tuned."
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Building A Calendar Gem:
Open Source Vlog - Rails Generators
Episode 77 · July 13, 2015
Today we're adding Rails generators as our final piece of the puzzle for Simple_Calendar 2.0
So we've been working on simple calendar, we've made some huge progress but the last thing that we really need for this is to be able to install these views into your rails app so that you can override them and build your own calendar styles, that's what we're going to do today and we're going to take a look at rails generators, I'm actually going to google this real quick because it's been a long time since I've actually written my own generator, and I know that there's actually a rails guide on this, so if you take a look at rails guides, the generators files, there's actually some really awesome stuff in here, and there's this thing called thor which allows you to run a lot of command line interface stuff, and it's really useful for this kind of thing because it allows you to write these commands like rails generate simple_calendar:install like you would do with rails g devise:views for example, and it will look up a generator with that name in your gem, and then it will basically do whatever you would like, so you can have it create files, you can have it edit files, you can have it do all these things and there's a lot of stuff that thor helps you do, I think this is super cool and we're going to build one for simple calendar to install the views.
Let's dive in, it looks like we're going to build a file inside the lib directory named generators. If we go to GitHub, and we look at devise's generators, this is a thing that I do often, look up and see what these other gems do, notably this has a file called lib/generators/devise/views_generator.rb so my guess is that this is going to allow you to run that rails g devise:views command, and this directory structure is what you need to set that up appropriately. We already have a lib directory, and inside lib we're going to need a lib generators directory, but we'll also need a simple_calendars directory I believe so we can get that scope properly. Here I'm going to create two folders, so I'm going to use the -p flag to do that, and then we can open up MacVim to create our generator, let's do lib/generators/simple_calendar/views_generator.rb, and we need to grab a couple things here.
module SimpleCalendar
module Generators
class ViewsGenerator < Rails::Generators::Base
The way that these generators work is that you define a bunch of methods in there, and then it executes them one by one in the order that you defined them, so it's really really nifty and simple for that, so I believe we can do a few other things, like you can accept arguments and do other stuff like that if you want, and this actually invokes a shared views generator, which you could probably find that class_for, and it includes another module and then a view directory and that's probably the views template path provides that, all kinds of stuff that it's doing here. We don't really need anything near as complicated as they have, so I'm just going to get back to our example here and we'll look at basically copying a directory from our gem and putting it into the app. Thor being our library here that we have access too, it's got all these helpers of how to copy directories and we basically want to copy stuff from our gem and point it right into our rails app, so in theory they've got some great helpers for that. It looks like there's a directory command that does exactly that, so we'll see what happens. We just need to define any method here and this will be executed. This is copy_views, that's what that should be where it goes inside our rails app, and this should be where it comes from should be app/views/simple_calendar I'm not sure if we need simple_calendar in both of these, but I guess we'll just try it out because worst case scenario we can just delete those files, so let's do rake -T, we should in theory see this new simple calendar task, and I don't actually see it, but actually that would be because rails g is a little different and it doesn't show up as a regular rake task, here we can try rails g simple_calendar:views views generator source root path. That's exactly what we need, basically it's saying it doesn't know where to start and we need to set a source root, so let's take a look a thor's documentation here and see if we can find source root.
Let's see if we can find any examples. source_root File.expand_path("../templates", _FILE_) this is a better example, basically we're going to set this inside our generator, but one of the things with this is we want to make sure we go back some directories so this FILE variable is available in every single file in ruby and it gives you the path to the current file, so actually with the views generator, we need to go up two directories, and that in theory should work, so we go from the simple calendar folder to generators folder with two ..'s.
Let's try this one more time to see what happens: "Could not find "app/views/simple_calendar" om any of your source paths. Your current source paths are 'code/simple_calendar/lib'", so we didn't go up far enough. and there we go, we actually now we're getting an override here and it's saying: We're trying to copy this calendar file from the gem into your rails app, you already have it, what do you want to do? Do you want to keep it? We're going to override it, hit enter, and we also copied the other one, so we actually have this override working and that was it, we had to create one file inside some directories, because we're using the rails engine, it knows to load this generators, and it knows how to invoke them automatically because we've created them in the correct directory and we've named them right, and used the examples correctly. The only thing that's a little weird is this giant ... thing that's going on, we could probably do that a little better but this works because we want to work off this current file, it seems a little weird though, so maybe there's a better way to do it, and if you have a better idea submit a GitHub issue, I would love to see it. That is it, we've added the generator pretty simply, we didn't even know what we were doing at the beginning of this episode, so that's cool, so I've just refreshed that page, and I bet if we look at these views, that we render we see simple calendar's month calendar rendered two times, and that means that it's using the local version inside our rails app, and I bet if we remove app/views/simple_calendar and we refresh this page again, that it should be rendering the views from inside the gem, and it is. You can see the full long path name that it rendered, which means that we're successfully allowing you to override those inside your rails app, and we've got all that functionality that we were looking for and we're pretty much done, this is definitely worth adding to Git, so we'll add the generators, git add lib, and then make sure that we got the generator correctly, git commit -m "Add views generator for customizing calendar views" Let's push this up to GitHub, and we should be pretty much done with the changes that we wanted to make to this gem. There's a few other things that we wanted to do of course that are like multi-day events, but this is at a state pretty much with the simple calendar gem that we could release this if we wanted. I think it's worth walking through a bunch of things tomorrow and just making sure that it's ready to go, but I wouldn't be opposed to releasing this up on rubygems tomorrow if that is deemed.
It's complete enough, maybe we should add some tests, that would be a good idea, add some tests before we release that, but we've done a giant refactoring and we have a much more manageable and customizable gem, so I'm pretty excited about that, we're making really good progress. That's it for today and I will talk to you tomorrow. Peace
Building A Calendar Gem Series
1. Open Source Vlog - Where Do We Even Start?
2. Open Source Vlog - Housekeeping and Merging Pull Requests
3. Open Source Vlog - Setting Up Rspec
4. Open Source Vlog - Setting Up For The Future
5. Open Source Vlog - Just Deleting Things
6. Open Source Vlog - Building A Calendar From Scratch
7. Open Source Vlog - Refactoring Our Calendar
8. Open Source Vlog - Filtering Events
9. Open Source Vlog - Finding a balance between Ruby and ERB
10. Open Source Vlog - Simple And Clean RubyGem With Rails Engines
11. Elegant Refactoring for Week and Month Calendars
12. Open Source Vlog - Refactoring Events And Uploading Version 2.0
13. Open Source Vlog - Rails Generators
14. Open Source Vlog - Sorting Calendar Events
15. Open Source Vlog - Writing Rspec Tests
16. Upgrading simple_calendar for Rails 5
17. Recurring events with the ice_cube gem
18. Adding Exceptions To Recurring Events
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Posts tagged ‘German Chancellor Angela Merkel’
The Cold War Was Only on Vacation.
The Crimea is lost. The challenge now is to avoid a wider conflict with a Russia bent on absorbing more territory and further extending its influence into Eastern Europe.
To avoid an eventual choice between feeding Russia’s appetite for its lost empire and a hot war, European and U.S. leaders must embrace expensive and politically tough economic and defense choices.
Save petroleum, aluminum and a few less significant products, the Russian economy is broadly uncompetitive in global markets. Oil and gas account for 75 percent of exports and 50 percent of Moscow’s revenues, and Russia depends on imports from the European Union for technology and many consumer goods. It even buys ships to modernize its navy from France.
U.S. and European economic sanctions on Russian political and military leaders responsible for the Crimean invasion would make a statement, but are unlikely to have any tangible impact on Vladimir Putin’s behavior. However, if the Europeans phase out purchases of Russia’s gas, it has few options to sell it elsewhere. Putin would be starved for cash to finance his military and spread benefits to political cronies.
Replacing Russian gas — which accounts for 30 percent of European supplies — won’t be cheap or pleasant. They must frack to develop shale gas, re-embrace nuclear power and accelerate solar and other alternatives.
For French shipbuilders, German equipment manufacturers and technology and consumer goods producers throughout Europe, cutting off Russia’s most important source of hard currency to buy what they make would be wrenching. Still, it would impose far more systemically destabilizing penalties on Russia.
More than Russian guns won the referendum in the Crimea for Putin. The sad state of the economy and political corruption in the Ukraine made the former Russian possession vulnerable to reacquisition.
To halt Russian expansion, the European Union must do much more to assimilate the Ukraine and other former Soviet states into the Western economy by building infrastructure and moving significantly more industry into these regions, buying a lot more of their exports and imposing aggressive conditions for economic and political reforms in exchange for those benefits.
All of this would be provocative to Moscow and require rebuilding NATO forces, and moving those further east into Romania, the Baltic and aggressively courting cooperation with Belarus.
The Germans and the Americans have the economic resources, but have demonstrated inadequate commitments to giving real meaning to the economic and security commitments the West made to Eastern Europe, for example, through the 1994 Ukrainian security agreement, at the end of the Cold War.
Now, Putin and his political allies, chastened by the loss of an empire and emboldened by Russia’s petroleum wealth, are exploiting western neglect of former Soviet states.
In America, President Obama’s economic policies have boiled down to raising taxes, cutting defense spending and building out a European-style welfare state — universal healthcare and broadening the earned income tax credit. And he has ducked pension and benefits reform that greatly limit the punch of the U.S. military.
Stiffening NATO commitments to Eastern Europe would require German and U.S. governments to step up and pay for stronger militaries, and for the Americans to reform a bloated Pentagon.
In Germany and the United States, taxes are already quite high, even by Cold War standards, and the obvious tradeoff between guns and butter would hit the Obama and Merkel governments where it hurts most — their standing with voters who have come to expect wider and wider welfare benefits.
The greatest courage will be required from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Barack Obama, or each will bequeath to their successors a much more dangerous world.
Russia will enjoy a stranglehold over European energy supplies and boast a modernized military to gradually coop and reclaim former Soviet states and expand its influence throughout Europe.
The Cold War never really ended, it just took a Black Sea vacation.
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Kasparov: Appease Putin and He’ll Come Back for More.
By Elliot Jager
Vladimir Putin is neither a modern-day Hitler nor a master strategist. He is best understood as a bellicose poker player up against a bunch of docile opponents, Garry Kasparov writes in Politico.
Kasparov, a chess grandmaster and chairman of the Human Rights Foundation in New York, who was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, writes that he has dedicated himself “to opposing Vladimir Putin’s campaign to destroy democracy and civil liberties in Russia.”
What Putin has going for him that his Soviet precursors did not is unhindered entrée to international markets and institutions, Kasparov says. “Putin’s oligarchs bank in London, party in the Alps, and buy penthouses in New York and Miami, all while looting Russia under the auspices of a reborn KGB police state.”
European authorities have enabled Putin by facilitating his regime’s access to Western capital. Western banks helped underwrite the Kremlin takeover of dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Yukos oil empire, Kasparov writes.
Putin rules like an authoritarian communist dictator but acts like a Western mogul. He is no Hitler, but “turning the other cheek” to him “just gets you slapped again,” Kasparov writes.
President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are mistaken to worry about possible “instability” and “high costs” in confronting Putin. What “could be worse than the instability caused by the partial annexation of a European country by a nuclear dictatorship, carried out with impunity?” Kasparov asks.
Merkel seems to now appreciate the urgency of standing up to Putin, he notes.
Kasparov’s conclusion is that “Putin is no master strategist. He’s an aggressive poker player facing weak opposition from a Western world that has become so risk-averse that it would rather fold than call any bluff, no matter how good its cards are.”
He’s no Hitler, but Kasparov writes the instructive analogy is that “appeasing a dictator” and “greedily grabbing at an ephemeral peace” in the face of aggression is a recipe for war in the long run.
Kasparov: RT Anchor Right to Flee ‘Putin’s Propaganda Machine’
Chess Champ Kasparov: Obama ‘Forfeited’ on Syria
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Crimeans Overwhelmingly Vote for Secession.
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — The head of the referendum committee in Ukraine’s Crimea region says more than 95 percent of voters have approved splitting off and joining Russia.
Mikhail Malishev said the initial result came after more than 50 percent of the ballots had been counted.
Speaking two hours after polls closed, Malishev said turnout was 83 percent — a high figure given that many who opposed the move had said they would boycott the vote.
Western powers and leaders in Kiev denounced it as a sham.
Underlining how Moscow’s military takeover of the peninsula two weeks ago has driven Russia and the West into a crisis with echoes of the Cold War, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama spoke by telephone and, according to the Kremlin, the Russian and U.S. presidents agreed on a need to cooperate to stabilise Ukraine.
“This referendum is contrary to Ukraine’s constitution,” a White House spokesman said. “The international community will not recognise the results of a poll administered under threats of violence and intimidation from a Russian military intervention that violates international law.”
The Kremlin said Putin told Obama the referendum was legitimate and he expressed concern about the Ukrainian government’s failure to stamp out violence against Russian speakers in the country.
“Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin drew attention to the inability and unwillingness of the present authorities in Kiev to curb rampant violence by ultra-nationalist and radical groups that destabilise the situation and terrorise civilians, including the Russian-speaking population,” the Kremlin said.
It said Putin suggested European monitors should be sent to all parts of Ukraine because of the violence.
Kiev said Moscow’s build-up of forces in the Black Sea peninsula was in “crude violation” of an international treaty, and announced plans to arm and train 20,000 members of a newly-created National Guard.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Moscow that Washington would not accept the outcome of the vote in the region, which has an ethnic Russian majority and was transferred to Ukraine by Soviet rulers only 60 years ago.
The White House also warned Moscow to expect sanctions while foreign ministers from the European Union, which has major trade ties with Russia, will decide on possible similar action in Brussels on Monday.
But Putin rejected Western accusations that the referendum was illegal, saying it respected the will of the Crimean people, while his foreign ministry said it had agreed with the United States to seek a solution to the crisis through constitutional reform.
In Kiev, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk threatened dire consequences for the Crimean politicians who had called the vote, saying separatist “ringleaders” wanted to destroy Ukrainian independence “under the cover of Russian troops”.
“We will find all of them – if it takes one year, two years – and bring them to justice and try them in Ukrainian and international courts. The ground will burn under their feet,” he told a cabinet meeting.
Yatseniuk had just returned from a U.S. trip where he won expressions of moral support but no offers of weapons. Kiev’s pro-European rulers, who took power after last month’s fall of Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovich to popular unrest, have been as powerless as Western governments to prevent the referendum or buildup of Russian forces on Ukrainian territory.
At a polling booth at a school in Simferopol, the Crimean regional capital, dozens of people lined up outside to cast their ballots early.
“I have voted for Russia,” said Svetlana Vasilyeva, 27, a veterinary nurse. “This is what we have been waiting for. We are one family and we want to live with our brothers.”
Vasilyeva voiced fears common among some of Ukraine’s native Russian-speakers about the consequences of Yanukovich’s exit after protests in which over 100 people were killed. “We want to leave Ukraine because Ukrainians told us that we are people of a lower kind. How can you stay in such a country?” she said.
But ethnic Tatars – Sunni Muslims who make up 12 percent of Crimea’s population – said they would boycott the vote despite promises by the regional authorities to give them financial aid and proper land rights.
“This is my land. This is the land of my ancestors. Who asked me if I want it or not? Who asked me?” said Shevkaye Assanova, a Crimean Tatar in her 40s. “For the rest of my life I will be cursing those who brought these people here. I don’t recognise this at all. I curse all of them.”
Crimea’s 1.5 million voters had two options: union with Russia or giving their region, which is controlled by pro-Kremlin politicians, the broad right to determine its own path and choose relations with whom it wants – including Moscow.
A local Tatar television channel broadcast the count at one small polling station. It took just a few minutes for officials to stack up the papers, virtually in a single pile. One gave the result as: “166 for, 2 against, 1 spoiled”. By “for” she clearly meant the first option on the paper, for union with Russia.
Russia has the right to keep forces on the Black Sea peninsula, including at its naval base in the port of Sevastopol, under a treaty signed after Ukraine gained independence from the wreckage of the Soviet Union in 1991.
But Ukrainian acting defence minister Ihor Tenyukh accused Moscow of going far beyond an agreed limit on servicemen – which he said was 12,500 for 2014.
“Unfortunately, in a very short period of time, this 12,500 has grown to 22,000. This is a crude violation of the bilateral agreements and is proof that Russia has unlawfully brought its troops onto the territory of Crimea,” he said.
This figure had risen from 18,400 on Friday. “Let me say once again that this is our land and we will not be leaving it,” he told Interfax news agency.
Tenyukh later said that the defence ministries in Kiev and Moscow had declared a truce until March 21 during which Russian forces, who have been arriving by boat and helicopter, would leave Ukrainian military facilities untouched.
Many Crimeans hope union with Russia will bring better pay and make them citizens of a country capable of asserting itself on the world stage. But others saw the referendum as a land grab by the Kremlin from Ukraine, whose new rulers want to move the country towards the European Union and away from Russia’s sway.
Putin defended the vote in a phone call on Sunday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, saying it complied with international law, including Article 1 of the U.N. Charter which states the principle of self-determination of peoples. “It was emphasized that Russia will respect the choice of the Crimean people,” a Kremlin statement said.
Putin has said he must protect the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine from “fascists” in Kiev who ousted Yanukovich. Western powers largely dismiss his characterisation of the new authorities as successors of Nazi-allied Ukrainian forces which fought the Red Army in World War Two.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged Kerry on Sunday to encourage authorities in Kiev to stop what he called “massive lawlessness” against the Russian-speaking population.
In their second phone conversation in two days, Lavrov and Kerry agreed to seek a solution to the crisis by pushing for constitutional reforms in Ukraine, Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
However, Kerry told Lavrov that the United States would not accept the referendum result and said Russia must pull back its forces to their bases, a senior State Department official said.
The White House also warned Putin that he faces international isolation that will hurt Russia’s economy. “You can expect sanctions designations in the coming days,” White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told NBC’s Meet the Press.
The administration is preparing to identify Russians whom the United States will seek to punish with visa bans and asset freezes that President Obama authorised last week.
At the United Nations, 13 Security Council members voted for a draft resolution on Saturday saying the Crimea result should not be recognised internationally, but Moscow exercised its veto while China abstained.
Tensions over Crimea appear also to be spreading in cyberspace. Unidentified hackers brought down several public NATO websites with attacks on Saturday, the alliance said.
Spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said on Twitter that the attacks, which began on Saturday evening, continued on Sunday, although most services had now been restored.
“It doesn’t impede our ability to command and control our forces. At no time was there any risk to our classified networks,” another NATO official said.
A group calling itself “cyber berkut” – named after riot police formally disbanded by the central powers in Kiev – said the attack had been carried out by patriotic Ukrainians angry over what they saw as NATO interference in their country.
Apart from Crimea, tension is also running high in parts of the Russian-speaking industrialised east of Ukraine near the border with Russia, with clashes between rival demonstrators that Moscow has seized on to support its case that ethnic Russians are being victimised.
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Merkel Gets Tough as Russian Troops Hold War Games.
Russia launched new military exercises near its border with Ukraine on Thursday, showing no sign of backing down on plans to annex its neighbour’s Crimea region despite a stronger than expected drive for sanctions from the EU and United States.
In an unusually robust and emotional speech, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned of “catastrophe” unless Russia changes course, while a man was killed in Ukraine in fighting between rival protesters in a mainly Russian-speaking city.
At the U.N. Security Council, the United States circulated a draft resolution that would declare illegal Sunday’s planned referendum on independence for Ukraine’s Crimea region.
But Russia, one of the Security Council’s five veto-wielding permanent members, made clear it opposed the draft.
“Russia announced they will kill it,” a senior Western diplomat told Reuters.
In Berlin, Merkel removed any suspicion she might try to avoid a confrontation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We would not only see it, also as neighbors of Russia, as a threat. And it would not only change the European Union’s relationship with Russia,” she told parliament. “No, this would also cause massive damage to Russia, economically and politically.”
Secretary of State John Kerry said serious steps would be imposed on Monday by the United States and Europe if the referendum on Crimea joining Russia takes place on Sunday as planned.
Merkel, a fluent Russian speaker who grew up in communist East Germany, has emerged in recent days as a leading figure in threatening tough measures against Moscow.
Her foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said that over the weekend, European states would draw up a list of Russians who will face visa restrictions and asset freezes.
Putin declared Russia’s right to invade its neighbor on March 1, as Russian troops were already seizing control of Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula with a narrow ethnic Russian majority and a Russian naval base.
Events have moved rapidly, perhaps signalling an effort by Moscow to turn the annexation into a fait accompli before the West can coordinate a response.
In the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, a young man was stabbed to death and more than a dozen people were in hospital after pro-Russian and pro-European demonstrators clashed. The violence was the worst since last month’s overthrow of the Moscow-backed president, Viktor Yanukovich.
But in an apparently conciliatory move, Russia backed deployment of an OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine, including Crimea, the Swiss chairman of the European rights watchdog said.
The leader of pro-Moscow separatist politicians in Crimea, who took power there after armed men seized the regional parliament on Feb. 27, predicted a strong vote in favor of union with Russia in Sunday’s referendum.
“We have a survey by renowned Ukrainian and Crimean polling experts showing clearly and plainly that more than 80 percent of people in Crimea are ready to join the Russian Federation,” Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov told Reuters.
Aksyonov, whose election in a closed session of the regional parliament is not recognized by Kiev, dismissed opponents’ accusations he will fix the referendum on Moscow’s orders. “We guarantee that all aspects of European law will be followed, including security for voters,” he said in an interview.
Western countries dismiss the vote as illegal. “The referendum on Sunday will have no legitimacy, no legal effect, it can have no moral effect. It is a piece of political theater that is being perpetrated at the barrel of a gun,” Daniel Baer, the U.S. ambassador to the OSCE, told reporters in Vienna.
At the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said time was running out for a peaceful solution. She urged Russia to listen to the “remarkably unified” voices of its 14 fellow members of the Security Council and the Ukrainian people.
Diplomats said the one-page resolution would urge countries not to recognize the results of the vote in Crimea. A vote on the draft was postponed until Saturday at the latest to allow time for more negotiations.
Russia has taken territory from its former Soviet neighbors in the past with no serious consequences — in 2008 it invaded Georgia and seized two breakaway regions. But if Putin was hoping for a similarly tepid response this time, he may have misjudged.
In particular, he seems to have alienated Merkel, the Western leader with whom Putin, a German speaker who was once a KGB spy in East Germany, has had the closest relationship.
Merkel was initially more cautious than other Western leaders on the Crimean crisis, but in recent days she has pushed the European Union to match U.S. sanctions. EU action is critical because Europe does 10 times as much trade with Russia as the United States, buying most of its gas and oil exports.
The prospect that EU measures could be implemented as soon as Monday has weighed down the Russian economy.
Goldman Sachs revised its prediction for Russian economic growth this year down to 1 percent from 3 percent, blaming the tension over Ukraine for capital flight that would cripple investment. It said $45 billion had already left Russia this year, mostly Russians stashing money abroad.
The Russian stock market hit a 4-1/2-year low on Thursday and is down 20 percent since mid-February. The cost of insuring Moscow’s debt against default rose to its highest level in nearly two years.
The crisis has already forced several Russian firms to put plans on hold for public offerings to raise cash abroad.
Yet none of that appears to have slowed down Putin, who told officials of the Winter Paralympic Games he is hosting in Sochi that Russia was “not the initiator” of the crisis.
The Russian Defense Ministry said 8,500 troops were taking part in new military exercises near the Ukrainian border, testing artillery and rocket launchers.
It was the second big exercise Moscow has ordered since the crisis began; the first, involving 150,000 troops, started a few days before Russian forces seized Crimea.
In a gesture of support for NATO’s eastern members, U.S. F-16 fighter jets landed at Poland’s Lask air base on Thursday.
Among efforts by the West to isolate Russia politically, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a 34-member rich nations’ club, announced it was suspending membership talks with Russia, under way since 2007.
Moscow has pledged to respond in kind to any Western sanctions. The prime minister of Lithuania, a former Soviet republic that is now an EU member state, said Russia had suspended food product imports through its port of Klaipeda.
But European leaders appear to be calculating that the damage to Russia would be far worse than to Europe. EU-Russian trade makes up 15 percent of Russia’s economy and just 1 percent of Europe’s. Although EU countries depend on Russian gas imports, storage tanks are full after a mild winter.
Diplomatic lines have been open between Russia and the West throughout the crisis: Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke on Thursday, as they have nearly every day. They are due to meet in London on Friday.
Russia’s top general discussed Ukraine with the chairman of NATO’s Military Committee by telephone on Thursday, the Interfax news agency said.
The crisis over Crimea began after Yanukovich fled Kiev and pro-European politicians took charge, following three months of demonstrations.
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The Forgotten Gate Keeper, a member of the race of Forgotten
A stylized mural of one of the Forgotten in Ascalon City, replicas of the mural can be seen in Resplendent Makuun and the guild hall, Isle of the Dead
The Forgotten are a race of four-armed serpent creatures that supervised and maintained all of Tyria nearly 2,600 years from the present day in the game. Unlike regular serpents, they stood upright, used language, and had an elaborate culture.
The Forgotten Ones were brought to Tyria by the Gods of Tyria around the year 1769 BE to assist the dragon prophet Glint. They were to be the custodians, who instructed and guided other races in the formative period of the history of Tyria and maintained balance between all races. They were the keepers of knowledge and the teachers of all things.
With the arrival of humans in Tyria in 205 BE, the role of the Forgotten Ones quickly diminished as the humans mastered many skills, acquired much knowledge, and irreversibly broke the balance that had been maintained for over a millennium. The Forgotten Ones quietly withdrew into the Crystal Desert where humans never succeeded in establishing a civilization and slowly became a myth in the history of humankind.
The Forgotten can be encountered as foes throughout all the missions of Ascension and the Dragon's Lair. They are also encountered as NPCs that provide valuable experience in quests such as The Forgotten Ones and Forgotten Wisdom.
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Subtypes[edit | edit source]
The Forgotten encountered in the game only have spell-caster professions, employing the magically animated Enchanted as their warriors and rangers.
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Unlike other enemies in this species, Forgotten Champions and Forgotten Avengers (those dealing physical damage) have the appearance of Enchanted, rather than Forgotten.
For a list of all Forgotten, see Category:Forgotten.
According to the Guild Wars Factions manual, the Naga are not related to the Forgotten, despite physical resemblance. One obvious difference lies in the fact that Naga possess one set of arms while the Forgotten have a second set that is ordinarily clasped in front of their torso.
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Warning: The following text contains spoilers relating to the plot of Nightfall.
By the time of the Nightfall campaign the Forgotten of Elona have been nearly wiped out by the Margonites, however there are also a considerable population of Forgotten serving as the wardens of the Realm of Torment.
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Bharathi Mahapatra: An idealist instructor (Head Mistress)
At a small hamlet in Puri, where families are generally economically disadvantaged, Vijayanagar Project Primary School stands as a symbol of hope to children in the area. It serves as safe haven where they receive both their basic rights of food and education. And we get the opportunity to visit the school and share a dialogue with the headmistress. Her name is Bharathi Mahapatra, a lady of warm demeanour and compassion. She is in this profession for 21 years and running the school since the last two years.
Bharathi cordially welcomes us in her office which has books and notes stacked up in corners; the wall facing us has a menu chart of the mid-day meals served to the school children. As we take our seats she initiates the conversation saying, "This school was built in 2009." Further ahead we learn that the school is open to students from standard I to V. And it has about 113 children receiving food and education every day. Besides the regular study sessions performing arts, writing and reading skills are also encouraged in the school. Whilst we try to digest the information, she adds, "Students from Anganwadi come to start their education here too."
The school is run with three dedicated teachers and Bharathi herself teaches students from standard III to V due to lack of staff. Despite the odds, she loves the experience which we are assured as she says, "I like the challenge of serving in this school as the community is economically disadvantaged." We get more inspired when we find out that she took the transfer to be posted in that area voluntarily so she could work at the school.
Bharathi keeps the interaction rolling as we get absorbed in her disclosures. With an empathetic tone she says, "In this area due to financial constraints children are driven to labour due to the lack of proper care and support." She is grateful that the mid-day meal programme by Akshaya Patra came as an incentive to education which actually offers two of the fundamental rights of food and education to the children. "And the children get to live their childhood as they are supposed to", she interjects.
After this hearty conversation we take our leave with a sense of security and gratitude that there are people like Bharathi, whose resolve to serve children with education is unshakeable.
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Twisted Twins Jen and Sylvia Soska Join the Boys Horror Club
Twin sisters Jen and Sylvia Soska attribute different reasons for the reason why they got into horror. Sylvia Soska says, “Mom eventually caved in and let us watch Poltergeist when we were ten. We were like, ‘We can handle it, Mom.’ Then bedtime came and we were scared…fucking…shitless. And my mother did something that would forever change the way we look at horror movies. She sat Jen and me down and explained what we had actually seen. She explained the director, the actors, the prosthetics, the sets, everything. And she told us how these were very talented artists who collaborated with the intention of scaring the audience. We were like, ‘Wait a minute. It can be your job to scare people for a living?’”
But Jen Soska says they got into horror because of traumatic childhood experiences at the hands of others. “We were bullied growing up. We were nerdy and dark and liked horror movies and drama club and comic books. I’m grateful we were bullied because it made us want to stick up for other people being bullied. It’s funny to hear from girls who make horror movies that our message is one of support, but that’s at the heart of American Mary. I think if you look normal, you’re hiding something. But if you wear your Cannibal Holocaust T-shirt, you know what you’re expecting from someone. You know they’re a horror fan.”
The twins directed and wrote their first horror movie in 2009, Dead Hooker in a Trunk, and then went on to their larger production American Mary. “It was one of the strangest experiences of our lives, especially because with Dead Hooker in a Trunk, we were just running around with our friends and cameras and just hoping to god that it would work out and on this one we had a full crew and a cast of some really amazing people,” says Sylvia Soska. “It was still really ambitious, though we did have a modest budget.”
As far as twin directors, Jen and Sylvia Soska believe they’re the only ones out there. “I know of only us. I know of identical twin actresses and models. We started out wanting to be actors. Nobody ever told me I could be the chairman of my own production company and a director and producer. I always tell girls if you want to be storytellers, don’t chase roles you don’t want to do, just to work,” says Jen Soska.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/movies/jen-and-sylvia-soskas-american-mary.html?_r=1
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/11/soska-twins-american-mary
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There are so many streaming options available today and so many contradictory recommendations that it's hard to see through all the nonsense that you can watch. Every Friday, Cut the Crap line makes it easy to sort through the huge amount of movies and TV broadcasts of subscription services and recommend a perfect thing to watch this weekend.
by Dusk Till Dawn A 1996 / vampire painting directed by Robert Rodriguez from Quentin Tarantino's screenplay with the story of the crafty make-up artist Robert Kurtzman. Tarantino and George Clooney, like the Gekko brothers, two killers of stone frosts and bank robber fugitives who kidnap R.V. across the border with Mexico. While the Geckos are waiting in a noisy strip club for the man who has to hide them from the law, they find that the bar is infected with bloody demons.
Why watch now?
Alitha: Battle Angel arrives (finally) in the theaters this weekend.
In the development of the early 2000s, the film adaptation of Yukito Kishiro's mantle would initially be directed by James Cameron before deviating him from Avatar and still a pretty theoretical sequel. Cameron hired Robert Rodriguez to rationalize his screenplay and shoot him, and the production was actually wrapped up in February 2017. The two years since they were spent swept the digital effects to create the illusion of a realistic cyborg (played by Rosa Salazar) , interacting with humans and other human / machine hybrids of destructive Earth of the 26th century. When Aliti: Battle Angel opens this weekend, it will be Rodriguez's first feature film as a director since 2014 Sin City: Kill for . This is a long time between big screen projects for a director who has led 18 films between 1992 and 2014. Rodriguez first became a name for El Maríci a stylish thriller for revenge that was filmed for money in Mexico. In the following decades, he has worked mostly on films he has written and produced, from filthy B-films such as Machete to special effects, family rates such as Spy Kids to more experimental genre tracks such as Sin City and Planet Terror .
Rodriguez has his share of surprise blows and expensive failures. He has also devoted much of his time to promoting the film community and the Texas industry. Throughout his career he has advocated the principles of "Do It Yourself" by insisting that ambitious directors just take a camera and go for it instead of waiting for foreign money or permission
That said, From Dusk Till Dawn reveals the differences between Tarantino – who is obsessed with "rubbish cinema" but is looking for ways to raise him – and Rodriguez, who is totally happy to do proudly obscene entertainment. The first half of by Dusk Till Dawn feels a lot like the work of a man who was still tall by the success of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction . He is filled with long-running dialogue scenes exploring Fuller's tragic past and the connection between the stunning Seth Gekko (Clooney) and his upset brother Richie (Tarantino). As soon as the vampires arrive, Rodriguez approaches and delivers a shamelessly bloody career in cinema, featuring prolonged guest appearances by Tom Savini and Fred Williamson's veteran photographers.
Who's About
Fans of 1990's Force Films and Tex-Mex Pop Culture. When the Tank Dogs debuted at Sundance in 1992, they marked the arrival of a new voice in American cinema, combining influences from the 1950s. Movies for a European New Wave of the 1960s years of the 20th century, 1970's television and 80's theater. By the end of the decade, it seemed like a month had passed without another film that could be called Tarantino-esque – including some that he had actually written or rewritten in the early 1990s when almost every Hollywood producer wanted to work with him. From Dusk Till Dawn actually originates from a scripture that Kurtzman hired him to write, which then became a hot property after Pulp Fiction . As such, the film feels a lot of its time and is bound to create some nostalgic feelings for anyone who was in the multiplex every weekend in the 1990s. Only the splendid opening scene – an almost self-contained sketch, placed in a convenient shop, including a gruesome conversation between John Hawkes and Texas Ranger played by Michael Parks – represents the "tarantino touch" at its best.
Still, as Rodriguez has done throughout his career, he also put his seal on From Twilight to Dawn as Texan and Mexican-American, He fills actors with actors of Mexican origin, including Danny Treho, Cheang Marin and Salma Hayek (playing the seductive vampire stripper Santanico Pandemonium), and puts the whole show on a soundtrack with blues-rock gods of Texas ZZ. Up and the Vaughn brothers. It is this kind of dependence on his own instincts and taste, which led Rodriguez to such a long and fruitful career. He is inclined to work fast and from the gut.
Where to See It
Netflix. The service has all three seasons of series (Rodriguez directed seven episodes) and several Tarantino films, including Cellulose Fiction Hated Eight .
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Houston’s New 8th Wonder
By Houston History Magazine on July 28, 2015 in Business and Industry, Food
By Matthew Desguin
The 8th Wonder brewing facility and tap room
A battle rages today about tearing down the “8th Wonder of the World,” a nickname coined by Judge Roy Hofheinz for the Astrodome during its construction in the 1960s. But now another 8th Wonder stands in Old Chinatown east of downtown Houston in today’s EaDo (East Downtown) district. The 8th Wonder Brewery pays homage to some of Houston’s greatest achievements and the people who live here and is part of an influx of craft breweries into the city, which had only a handful a decade ago. Independently owned craft breweries brew on a much smaller scale than the macrobreweries like Anheuser-Busch, Miller, and Coors. Craft brewers tend to focus more on producing a variety of brews and demonstrate a willingness to experiment and break from conventional brewing methods, allowing them to be more expressive in their beers. Craft brewing started in 1965 with the turnaround of Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California. In 1976, the New Albion Brewing Company in Sonoma, California, formed and then served as the blueprint for future small-scale brewers. As craft breweries increased in number, many attached a bar or brewpub to their brewery as allowed by law to sell beer to the consumer directly, furthering the demand for craft beer. This marked the beginning of the microbrewery craze in the United States.
Click here to read the PDF of the full article.
Below is a video on 8th Wonder Brewery produced by Houston History magazine:
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Click here to visit the website for 8th Wonder
Matthew Desguin interviewed Aaron Corsi the brewmaster at 8th Wonder brewery.
Aaron Corsi on learning to love beer and coming to the University of Houston:
https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/How-did-you-get-into-this-beer.mp3
Aaron Corsi on his continuing of his education at UH in beer, wine, and spirits:
https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/How-the-8th-wonder-masters-came-to-be.mp3
Aaron Corsi on meeting Ryan Soroka and beginning to build 8th Wonder:
https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/People-in-the-brewery.mp3
Aaron Corsi on what being a part of the brewery means to him:
https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/8th-Wonder-as-American-Dream.mp3
Click here to read an additional article about craft breweries in Houston.
Click here to read the article “Inside Houston’s 8th Wonder Brewery” by Matthew Sedacca for Paste Magazine.
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IGN Q&A With Dan Houser
Posted by TreeFitty November 17, 2012 : 42 Comments : 32,936 Views
For those of you not following us on Twitter check out IGN's Q&A with Dan Houser.
Instead of breaking down a long-winded interview, IGN did it for us. Here are some select quotes:
No yearly GTA releases (n00bs feel free to leave)
Why a single-player story with multiple characters? Why no multiplayer co-op?
It would be impossible to do that and keep the level of precision we've got in this. You could make a great co-op game, but we felt that we're doing other bits of our multiplayer that will fulfill those desires in ways we think are very fun.
GTA IV had players making story-based decisions that drastically changed the game; will GTA V?
We don't have the same choices as we had with Niko, for one very simple structural reason. Just keeping track of three stories as opposed to one story means it's harder to introduce a variable. You put a variable in a certain place and it just made our minds spin.
Why aren’t Kinect and PlayStation Move in GTA V?
One of the things we're doing now, just to talk about mini-games, is making sure when you go into the mini-games and when you come out of them it feels very seamless. It feels like part of the whole experience. If you were suddenly go, "This bit's Move, that bit's not, this bit's Kinect, that bit's not," it would feel very disjointed to us. That would be detrimental to the overall experience in exchange for a bullet point on the back of the box. That's not very appealing to us.
GTA V is only confirmed for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Why not the PC, Wii U and so on?
Everything else is up for consideration. That's all I can give you. The main thing is we are not... we are a third-party publisher. We're not Nintendo, we're not Sony, we're not Microsoft. We love all of them in different ways. But we can do what we want wherever there's the appropriate business opportunity and chance to find a market. If that's on Apple we put something on Apple. Wherever it might be. I think that's the fun in what we do. We see ourselves as a content company that uses technology. We don't make it; we use it to make the most fun stuff.
Why isn't GTA V a next-gen launch title?
Some other people talk about the limitations of the [current] hardware. We don't feel there are that many limitations. We feel we can do some very impressive stuff and do it for a large audience. This felt like the way... There'll be a much larger audience on PS3 than there will be on PS4. At a creative level, which is the most important for us, we could say everything we wanted to say and do everything we wanted to do on these machines. We didn't sit there saying, "We'd like to do this in the game, but we can't." There's plenty of power in these machines.
On the GTA V Map:
This world -- the range of height and between north and south and east and west -- is huge, and it's a real strength. It felt California. Oceans are there and tall hills are there. We wanted those in the game. For us, this kind of world, that was a big properly-realized L.A. and a huge slab of regionally appropriate countryside, felt like the most interesting match to do something new with. Doing other cities just didn't seem appealing. Doing small towns is very appealing.
Will we see characters from GTA IV show up in GTA V?
Packie's not in it. There may be the odd... They tend to be very small. The problem is that... You touched on this earlier. Because of a lot of the choices... We've never had a game where we've annihilated so much of the cast.
So many of them were killed that we didn't really have a large amount of the main cast left over. There may or may not be a few guest appearances. Some really subtle ones for people to find. Little Easter eggs for people.
No face scanning like L.A. Noire
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my name is Benji Mambila i am 12 years old and i want to become a game designer with rockstar games and i really want to with you Dan Houser and your brother Sam houser you too are a fantastic game designer and i hope to see u some day bye
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Would there ever bring back the car customization,it would be cool if so... Thanks:-)
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I Also hope they bring back the tractors i liked the tractor they were pretty cool.
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@AC/DC fan.. I agree i like to cruse around in an old mussel car not just go really fast in a sports car. Also I would like old planes like the spitfire. We can only wait an see.
I hope they got some good old cars in there not just the new cars like you see today. like something similar to 57 bel air or 69 charger...lol you get the point just some nice cars like that
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Weatherhead: Global Fellows’ Presentations
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Rupert Quaintance appeal quashed
Yesterday we reported that Rupert Quaintance had brought an appeal against his conviction on two counts of Harassment 4, as well as against the nine-month sentence which he is currently serving.
We can now report that his appeal was overturned yesterday in the Court of Appeal, where one judge informed him that given the seriousness of his offences, he ought to count himself lucky to have received a relatively light sentence.
As we noted in yesterday’s post, the crux of Rupert’s argument was that because Rupert’s threats had been directed toward a group of people, individuals within that group had no reason to feel personally threatened. Yesterday his barrister made the additional argument that since Rupert did not personally know the people he’d threatened, it was not possible for him to make credible threats against them, and therefore his conviction ought not to stand.
Victim personal statements were read out in court, describing the impact of Rupert’s threats and behaviour. Despite the fact that his barrister claimed his client had repented and now understood and accepted responsibility for the fear and distress he had inflicted, Rupert, who attended via video link, was observed shaking his head as if in disagreement with what he was hearing in the victim statements.
This is reminiscent of Rupert’s reaction to the witnesses’ testimony during his trial: as they spoke, he sat in the dock shaking his head, rolling his eyes, and otherwise appearing to indicate that he did not accept what the witnesses were saying.
During his cross-examination at trial, the following exchange took place:
(Prosecution barrister) Mr Bowyer asked whether Rupert accepted that he had played some part in the distress suffered by the witnesses in this trial.
“No”, Rupert said.
“None at all?”
“I guess, if you look at it in a certain way, I just feel picked on and and pinned down”, Rupert said. “I do feel guilt and remorse for what has befallen me”.
“So no remorse?”
“I’ve been paid back ten-fold”, Rupert said. “I don’t want to accept responsibility, that’s just adding more to my emotional pile”.
It would appear that Rupert’s feelings remain unchanged.
He will continue to serve out his sentence.
Belinda McKenzie attended the appeal hearing, but made no comment as to the outcome.
17/11/2017 in Legal news. Tags: Belinda McKenzie, Court of Appeal, criminal charges, harassment, Rupert Quaintaince IV
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The judgement should be online tomorrow. Should make an interesting read.
Excellent news, EC!
Yes, I hope it’ll be up. Looking forward to the details.
Yes, it’s rather good, isn’t it? 🙂
Thanks very much for the update, EC. Good decision and just desserts 🙂
Yes, I’m glad the original judgment was found to be sound.
Thanks for update EC.Belinda still sweating on what Rupert might blurt then.
Chuffed the court flicked the V signs back at Rupert as that seems to be essentially all Rupert was offering up.Wallowing in self pity and with no sign of genuine remorse for the effects of his actions upon others was unlikely to endear him to anyone.Not sure if court had the option but shame they didnt increase his stretch for taking the piss.
Ruperts magnificent losing streak really needs a mentioned in dispatches at the “twit of the year” presentations.
What a pratt, it shows how egotistical & self-absorbed he is. If he had shown remorse I would have a bit of respect for him.
If Rupert had told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth I’d have had a bit more respect for him too, i.e. if he’d explained at the original trial that he was coaxed to come over to London by Angela Power-Disney and was being financed by her and a host of predominantly older women along with a male gullible sucker.
Rupert took a bit of a risk appealing but I suppose he had to take the gamble and it gave him some hope that he would have been released early. Luckily for him his sentence was not increased. One or two different Judges and he might not have been so lucky.
I was worried that he may have been released and the “gagging order” also went with it.
Everything now stands as it was I suppose.
On the bright side for Rupert he’s served 2 and half months now so not many months to go.
At least he knows he won’t be serving more than 9 months unless he does anything silly whilst inside…
I don’t think it would have made any difference to his sentence though if he had told about his pensioner friends. It was him in the end that committed the unlawful acts for which he was jailed, he has & had free will to choose a different path but no, he had to come over to London to show he was the big brave journalist aka teeny weeny wannabe fake journalist, wanting to expose something that was a big fat hoax.
I wish his sentence was increased so that it would give him more time to do some self analysis to see the harm he has caused as he is still taking no responsibility for what he has done.
What a waste of time and money. If the idiot had just plead guilty in the beginning he would’ve got a lighter sentence. His brief must have told him this.
Which begs the questions, how much has this trial and appeal cost and who foots the bill?
I was a bit worried about this appeal as I thought perhaps they had good points of law but his claim it was a group threat rather than individual seemed a bit far-fetched.
This is no different to threatening an entire church or Mosque congregation and claiming because you didn’t single out one person it doesn’t count.
I wonder why his barrister thought it worth while unless trying to test the law which they often do. Disappointing to see he is showing sociopath tendencies so like this mob. It’s all about me me, me. His lack of contrition – amazed his lawyer didn’t advise him on that.
This can’t go down well back in his home town. He’ll forever be the man who went to the UK and got jailed for threatened school kid’s parents with a knife.
Yet his parents seem oblivious to his actions..wasn’t he dad in the FBI or something similar? Maybe they simply can’t control their over-aged child or he’s been indulged too much.
Great news, EC. Thanks 🙂
And where is his former flame, the Femme Fatale Angela? No comment ?. Suppose she’ll claim the “establishment” (VIP pedo Satanist Freemasons & George Soros) got a fix in.
Yes as an adult male in his late 30’s everyone but him would have thought he’d have had a bit more savvy to behave like an adult rather than a complete idiot.
I can’t see Rupert ever taking responsibility for this saga.
I’m not sure who he blames for his behaviour.
It strikes me that he doesn’t think he has done any wrong.
Why oh why did he bother coming to London when he knew during his time in Lanzarote for a month that it was a hoax and the person he had already got involved with was such a dangerous woman?
The lure of the bright lights? To pretend that he believed the hoax to make a quick buck? Not good.
I can’t see Rupert ever wanting to come back to England again and I’m pretty sure the feeling is mutual.
“Mr Bowyer asked whether Rupert accepted that he had played some part in the distress suffered by the witnesses in this trial. ‘No,’ Rupert said.”
“I just feel picked on and pinned down.”
“I do feel guilt and remorse for what has befallen ME.”
“I don’t want to accept responsibility. That’s just adding more to MY emotional pile”.
Hmmm. Deserve everything you get then, don’t you, Roops.
Sadly APD’s name didn’t come up. This figure was spotted in the back of the court trying to send a message to the judges that fearful retribution would follow if they did not free Rupert. Neelu was later seen in the canteen but that’s purely co-incidental.
I think Rupert’s been indulged too much, just as Angela was and is, they have that in common, yet both think they are owed more from the World.
Their heads are up their own backsides.
Angela will be loving this as again she has escaped the clutches of the law.
Perhaps though on 8th December Sabine will give her a mention, or is Sabine’s court case just a plea hearing?
Another death threat from George & Mildred (I think it makes them feel like real men or something). I have a nice little collection of these now:
Not sure who that one’s too, btw. I can’t be arsed to check. To be honest, I think they usually just put a load of names into a randomiser app to determine their next victim..
After Angela has heard the news from this fine blog (she won’t have heard it from anyone else), she will spout the usual claptrap that Rupert is innocent and it was an establishment conspiracy.
She wants to change the record.
Whoever the establishment are they couldn’t give a flying f about Rupert or Angela Power-Disney.
I never did understand that story from Sabine and Neelu’s trial in July 2016 of the sandwiches taken from Blackfriars court canteen that were not paid for.
I think Neelu has the pressing concern of getting as many people as possible to email all and sundry about parking tickets and doesn’t give 2 hoots about Rupert banged up in Wandsworth nick.
I always thought Neelu was very bemused with Rupert and even she thought he was barmy.
Kudos to both Sheva and ParaTroofer, both of whom appear to have rattled George and Paedogilvy’s cage (respectively) tonight 🙂
Keep touching those nerves, folks 😀
I notice that there have been a lot of vile anti-Asian posts from those two clowns lately. Recent post titles (selected from 10+ anti-Asian posts) have included:
“ASIAN RAPE GANG”
“wow more Asian groom gangs”
“and another Asian nonce rape gang how many is that?”
“ANOTHER ASIAN RAPE GANG”
“rapey nonce asians again!”
So I think it’s fair to say we can add racism to their list of ‘fails’.
By the way, racism against an entire continent? That’s a special kind of stupid, imo.
Phenomenal news on Rupert, EC. I bet the Hampstead people he threatened are elated about this.
And how sad to see that the arrogant prick is still in denial about what he’s done. It makes me think that he hasn’t learnt anything from all this and that when his sentence is over, he’ll go straight back to Inbredville USA and carry on threatening and slandering people from afar (a point I think Karnevil has made before). Arrogant little prick.
You know how every now and then a troofer comes along whose attempts at dot-joining and, ahem, “logic” are so contrived and off-the-wall that you suspect s/he’s just some performance artist taking the piss? Well, check this guy out (he calls himself Horselover Phat):
http://subliminalsynchrosphere.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/the-paedoph-isles.html
The ‘Paedoph-Isles’ tag is from Brass Eye’s infamous parody of…er…people like him! Nothing like a bit of self-awareness, is there?
It’s an insufferably long piece and it’s hard to know where to start ripping it apart, but here are a few selected quotes to give you a flavour:
“The Beatles didn’t write SHIT – it was ALL written for them by their establishment mind controllers and mass programmers (perhaps out of Tavistock, but also linked to mystery religion groups).”
“Listen to phonograph records reversed. I Am The Walrus, Lennon: ‘I am he…’ Instead of saying ‘I am he’ let him say ‘eh ma I’.”
“Programming the masses from the cradle – and for decades. Mary ‘Witch/Umbra-Shadow’ Poppins.
Julie ‘666’ Andrews via Zionist Hollywood.”
“The Beatles’ UK rise was via The (underworld) Cavern.”
“How about this for a weird connect! Paul’s former wife (Jewish) Linda. Linda Eastman-McCartney’s mother – Louise Linder/Eastman, was born on 9th Nov (9/11 euro date) and in 1911. She would die in a New York plane crash in 1962 on American Airlines Flight 1, the flight left from Idlewild (which is now JFK airport, see 9/11 Macca). It was American Airlines ‘Jet’ Flight 11 (the first 9/11 tower strike) that hit the WTC North Tower on 9/11/01.”
“The Dunblane inquiry was overseen by ‘Speculative Society’ freemason Lord Cullen (what are the chances of a freemason uncovering a freemasonic conspiracy? Less than zero is the answer).”
“Jo Cox was not killed – the whole event was faked by Zionist/masonic (as recorded on this blog and in realtime) controlled UK govt/corporate media.”
And from the comment section:
“All I can say is bravo. Excellent and painstaking research and dot-joining. We lead where the MSM follow trying to catch up…Sorry I forgot to add that you’re clearly a genius.”
“Remember Fergie wrote a bunch of kids books back in the late eighties? ‘Budgie’ the little helicopter. And we know what budgie is slang for, right?”
OK, there are plenty more to choose from on there but if I look at it any more, I’ll lose the will to live.
Oh and naturally, this festering heap of ocelot dung is being enthusiastically peddled by Paedogilvy and the Greek Fucker. Anyone surprised?
Oh interesting. Thanks, MC.
Ray Vark says:
Is that a cat burgler?
“Belinda still sweating on what Rupert might blurt then.”
Haha, my thoughts exactly, Mik 😀
Yeah, his excuse about not naming individuals was pathetic. I didn’t see how that would carry any weight but didn’t want to say that on the blog prior to the hearing, in case it would have been contempt.
Plus he did name RD anyway and threatened him many times!
Angie will catch up when she’s read EC’s article, as usual. I’ll check in on her once I’ve finished reading all these great comments 🙂
No word on any of this from JournoAngie yet. She’s more interested in red setters and earrings, its seems. Sounds like she’s back in Oldcastle, btw.
He had the opportunity to interview some people like a proper journalist handed to him on a plate and he turned it down!
Horselover Fat was a pseudonym used by Philip K Dick. I don’t think the author of the blog is a writer of equal calibre.
Ogiltwat’s also a lying bastard. Yesterday he stated that I “supported the nonce Rolf Harris”, which categorically never happened.
From Private Eye 😂
A years investigation by police, CPS, a trial involving those and lawyers, prison costs which are not cheap, the cost must be massive, and its we who have paid for it.
Mmm I don’t believe most of what Angela says.
Ruby may be “home on the rang” but I doubt Angela is, though if the beautiful dog has eaten Angela’s earrings I wonder if they are the ones that Brenda McNamara gave/sold to her?
The dog needs feeding if it’s hungry.
LMAO! 😀
Rupert’s actions were the actions of a 15 year old boy who hasn’t thought it all through and thinks the internet is the ‘wild west’ (his words) and there are no consequences. From what I was told he did more or less point the finger at Angela (‘dangerous’ and ‘not a nice person’) Power-Disney* in Court but it wasn’t her who went to Hampstead and took selfie’s outside the school. It was him and he has to take responsibility. Why would he do this and imagine he wouldn’t frighten people? I think Rupert went to Hampstead to (a) cock a snook at the ‘trolls’ and (b) justify taking money from the conspiraloons. The result was that he frightened people because he was in their neighbourhood after making online threats and hinting that he might have a knife. He admitted in Court that the knife comment might be taken the wrong way, but still, he didn’t take it down. Like I said, he acts like a 15 year old.
Although Rupert says he didn’t believe in the hoax after he left Lanzarote why would he announce ‘I’ve pissed on your church’? Who was he talking to? He was obviously still thinking that the people who live in Hampstead and attend the church were the ‘trolls’ which is bollocks. The result was that he put fear in innocent people who were concerned about their children’s safety.
Enough is enough and sometimes the law has to step in. I hope this trend continues and this kind of vigilante action is dealt with promptly in future. From my point of view the Court made the correct decision.
*Quotes from the barrister and Rupert.
It’s worth every penny of tax payers money.
Nah. It was Swampy who nicked sandwiches in the canteen even though Belinda had taken a bag of butties and was handing them out. She needs to take more next time. At Blackfriars Court Neelu was busy strutting up and down and looking important. It’s all in a days work for those who are fighting Satan and has nothing to do with being barking mad or an egotist with a personality disorder or anything like that.
I’m gobsmacked that she’s managed to keep quiet and not breach the Restraining Order re Hampstead. I didn’t think she was capable! That tells me she has more control over herself than she lets on
So many misconceptions about Harris.
Endless tabloid readers think because there were 12 charges there were 12 victims but now there were only 3. That includes 2 teens and his long time affair with his daughter’s friend up until she was in her 30s which is somewhat odd for a supposed ‘pedo’.
Especially when she admitted in court she asked for over 40 grand from Harris and threatened dire consequences if he didn’t pay which he didn’t, thus the ball got rolling.
What these creeps do not understand is that most of us are more concerned with proper law being implemented and the fear that innocent people may be convicted on such easy accusations when there is no other evidence.
The appeal Harris won perfectly examples that in that a total fantasist who claimed he was in the army turned out to be a complete liar and the police failed to do their duty and investigate impartially, rather there could be a claim made they covertly perverted the course of justice.
Each of these VIP Pedo Satan Freemason Rothschild idiots seem to not understand that a neighbour could so easily accuse them of something and they could easily end up in the dock themselves.
I don’t think Rupert’s dad was in the FBI.
I think he worked for a company that had government contracts at one time. That’s not unusual for those who live in or around the Washington DC area – in fact lots of companies survive on it.
I don’t like to speculate about his family because I basically know nothing about them or why Rupert is the way he is. He might have been dropped on his head as a baby for all I know. That’s for them to figure out and deal with.
He’s going to go back to Virginia with one hell of a reputation and I daresay he’ll be back online spouting nonsense as soon as he’s recovered. Watch out Angie!
If this case had been prosecuted in the USA Rupert could have easily negotiated a plea deal in exchange for no jail term and dobbed in Angela Power-Disney as the real plotter and mastermind which she is.
She’d be banged up right now with 2 very large black lesbians sharing her cell who hopefully couldn’t stand her perceived hoity-toity accent and gave her a good seeing to each night.
If I were a Rupert & in a UK jail cell after a long period stuck in the UK I’d be plotting my revenge right now.
Yes Gost of Sam, I can’t understand why Rupert hasn’t or perhaps he has something in the pipeline who knows.
I reckon he is embarrassed about what she has done to him with her manipulating, the money/air tickets he received and the physical stuff.
Why do the lesbians need to be black?
Yep, my thoughts too 🙂
Thankyou so much for what you do: Angiewatch 🙂
“I dont want to accept responsibilty..”.
Why not simply pull the lever that opens the trapdoor yourself and be done with it.What is the point of appealling with that line?Utter waste of court time and pity he cant be billed for it(including the sandwiches).
I’ve must have shown disrespect to their Garish King Brian or David Oike a few too many times :), but havn’t mentioned Ulgivys name for ages, have tho, mentioned George the Geek quite a bit….. 🙂 Thanks for the encouragement 🙂 Not that much is needed …… It’s been alongtime a coming
No ….. and I liked the post, because I appreciated the heads up, on the news. I too have not ever supported nonces, unlike them……. But I do support you, Spiny & appreciate all that you do…… and they have no right to be accusing you with their filtthy lies……….They are clutching at straws, pathetic creeps……..
Brilliant lol!
Vet Bills ………. Kerching….watch out for the begging bowl 🙂
GLITTER BANNED BY DORSET CHILDRENS NURSERY CHAIN
Imagine my surprise and subsequent relief when reading this news headline on aunty Beeb news site first thing this morning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-42023245
“watch out for the begging bowl”
Spinted down to Ladbrooks to put house and shirt on that one coming in but the bastards had just gone into emergency liquidation after the Chinese had staked their entire economy on it.
Cant win em all.
Self absorbed little prick.
“Don’t forget that Savile had his Scottish Glencoe location – Scotland aka a Jacobean (Jewish) stronghold.”
So Scottish Catholics are Jewish – and that has something to do with Jimmy Savile? Makes bugger all sense. And, typically, there is so much of it – assertion building on flimsy assertion – Spivey style but with less obscene language.
Why, what did you think it was about? Come on, tell us. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on …
Was about to ask that question….
This is the Rolf Harris judgement. Not read it yet but someone might want to:
https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/court/court-of-appeal/
I like your style, FS. D’you wanna be in my gang my gang my gang?
You avin’ that one, Ogilvy? I know you’re watching 😀
Angie has a dog named after Ruby Paul, the harp lady?
Yeah, these loons have often referred to Rupert Murdoch as a Jew too, despite him being a lifelong (nominal) Catholic with no connections with Judaism whtsoever.
I disagree. I think Mik’s a lovely feller.
Or Ruby Wax? Now there’s a Skype chat waiting to happen!
Oh yes! The couple who were willing to go out of their way to meet him, even buy him a drink but he came out with all manner of excuses, as though they had to do him a favour!
If he only had met the parents i believe they were then Rupert’s arrest, subsequent trial and prison sentence may never have happened.
Silly boy.
I don’t know what Eilish is so worried about – she could always bugger off back to her own planet if she doesn’t like it here.
Mon plaisir, Sheva. And likewise 🙂
Rupert had an excellent barrister and still the jury and 3 appeal court Judges found him guilty.
He can’t complain about his legal team.
Good job it wasn’t Sabine, Angela or Tracey acting as a McKenzie friend.
That would have been funny!
Thanks, Sheva 🙂
I also think Mik is lovely.
I also agree Rupert should at least pay the Legal Fees if nothing else but not up to me.
Oh! I didn’t think of that!
She has some very bizarre ideas about what goes on in school classrooms. I think she’s revealing her own sick fantasies there.
Will she be hounding people for donations?
Pffft. Give it up, Kristie Sue. You lost. Deal with it and move on. Come on, just put down the gin and go spend some time with your husband and kids. They’ve probably forgotten what you look like by now.
I don’t imagine Australia is much danger from nonexistent New World Order perverts. New Agers who flash their norks about, don’t pay their bills and cripple police men are the real problem.
Kudos for remembering what she did to that poor police officer, FS.
God loves a trier, and hates racists apparently.
Some others that may have been already removed by the user, or someone beat me to it.
She has made both racist and homophobic comments, so I imagine her fear of that happening would be worse? Remember her rants with heather in which she used a few racial slurs, whether those are her opinions, or she was just repeating comments people had said when she was growing up, I’m not sure.
Yes, that’s how I read it. Bit like putting Praterson in a cell with the head of the Jewish Defence League.
Well done, PT, you bloody hero!
Bit confused as to how many you got there but kudos anyway 🙂
I know people are probably sick of hearing about the whole Pizzagate thing, but this was posted at the tail end of yesterdays post and is a very interesting look into social media accounts behind the hoax.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/pizzagate-anatomy-of-a-fake-news-scandal-w511904
It may have even spurred David Seaman to head for the hills, or go to ground.
By the way, was that Alanson’s back-up account or his main one?
Well, after checking his YouTube channel, seems he’s changed his mind again since yesterday and made some more videos.
Bloody lying harpie.
The Safe School’s Program teaches no such thing you fucking twisted cow. So you reveal yourself for what you are you ghastly phony “alternative”- a follower of the cretinous Pauline Hanson who makes such ridiculous claims. Just another racist loon repeating lies.
And as for thinking about families- spare a thought for the copper (and his family) who you almost murdered by dragging him down the street by your car. Lucky you got a mild magistrate that day and why you didn’t get 5 years for attempted murder or GBH is a mystery.
Fair enough. Not so sure about the rape wish, though. Sorry
He’s well on his way for a Gold Koala Stamp. I reckon just one more.
2x JA
1xJAP
1xPG
The Alanson ones were on his 9/11 Jacket profile.
I love that stamp, so better get busy on some more. 🙂
Not sure why, but Jake Clarke has shared your fb account to his fb page 22 hours ago Sheva.
Are you ok with that?
I thought the prosecution put it rather well when he asked Rupert whether he had published anything stating that he no longer believed in the hoax, and that he was finished with his “investigation”, after he’d returned to the UK from Lanzarote. Rupert admitted he had not.
In fact, as we know, he allowed Angie to hoik him about the countryside, harassing a poor psychiatric nurse who was just trying to do her job and pissing on a church which he referred to as “yours” in a video, thereby confirming that he was, in fact, directing his threats and harassment toward the parents and residents of Hampstead.
Yes, it’s quite clear that Rupert conflated “trolls” and “people of Hampstead”, though he tried to deny that during his trial. As the judge in his case said, a reasonable person would have understood that what he was doing would cause fear and distress to those he was targetting.
“And we know what budgie is slang for, right?”
Er…no, I don’t. So I looked it up on Urban Dictionary…
“An awesome (yet little known in the USA) 70s metal band”
“An adorable little bird that is a native of Australia”
“A UK TV drama series of the 1970s staring the late Adam Faith”
“A slang term for the Australian $10 note due to its blue/green colour”
“A goal in a football (soccer) match”
So perhaps someone from the Subliminal Synchrosphere blog could pop by and explain what the fuck I’m missing?
Actually, Fnord, Belinda did bring plenty of sandwiches for all. Swampy put one in his pocket, then headed upstairs to the canteen and nicked another from the display case!
He’s rebranded himself “Safe T” too. Tragic.
I believe he was assessed costs, though I would have to look up how much that amounted to. I doubt very much that we taxpayers made money on the deal though.
I think you’re right, Jack, in that when we as a society put our collective foot down and say, “ENOUGH” to this sort of harassment, we’re making an important statement about the way we expect people to behave, online as well as off.
Is the taxpayer allowed to set up a GoFundMe page?
If they did, I’d consider it my duty to contribute.
Had he met the couple and written up the interview he might just have been able to win some respect. He probably realised that he would have had to conclude that the whole business was a hoax and that wouldn’t have gone down well with Belinda or Angie.
Yes, I believe Sabine’s upcoming date is for plea and case management.
Wonderful, thank you mate 🙂
They are trying to get all of their gang to report me, harrass & hopefully silence me.
So not really……….. Depends what he has posted. Hey, did he do it with love though ? 🙂
That’s right, he did name RD–and did so in court as well, before his barrister adroitly changed the subject.
Yes, it’s very difficult to speculate about his family, and we have tried to avoid doing so. We really cannot know their circumstances, or how Rupert was raised. In any case, I believe that once one has reached the age of 30, it’s no longer seemly to blame one’s family for much in life.
Yes, he was assessed costs for the trial.
If he could read, he’d know that. That wouldn’t stop him lying about it, of course.
The sick world in which these people live sounds very unpleasant indeed. What kind of foul mind does it take to dream this shit up?
You know, it seems she’s one of the few remaining stragglers who continue to cling to this hoax now. As her president would say, “Sad”.
Not boring at all, PT. This is fascinating stuff, thank you!
I hear he also has an issue with fake news. That’s Kris fucked, then.
Indeed! I consider PT our resident Pizzagate expert and he does a racking job of keeping tabs on the likes of Seaman, Stolpman and Titarse. How he has the patience to sit through their mind-numbing tripe is beyond me. Can I nominate him for the Hoaxtead Medal of Valour, EC?
I know there’s a gag about checking the HMV records to be had here somewhere but nothing’s coming.
Another classic mate. I don’t know how you keep coming up with these gems, but you do, and they are always brilliant 🙂
haha, thanks.
Seaman had his bags all packed for his retreat into the Colorado hills, then Rolling Stone released that article, and I think he felt he had to stay behind, or he wouldn’t have a hoax to come back to.
I think he was genuinely afraid he’d was being set up and might be attacked. Bit silly really as the meeting was supposed to take place in a public area. He’d also said online that he’d have some ‘muscle’ with him, but all he had watching his back were older ladies. You’d have thought Belinda would have hired a ‘minder’ wouldn’t you, seeing as no adult male in his right mind could be arsed to go with him. (Because adult males in their right minds have JOBS and go to work.)
I can’t remember her mentioning dogs recently. Who looks after them when she is away, why do we never hear barking in Angie’s videos (except from her lips). That photo looks rather old, as does this one:
https://myspace.com/powerdisney/mixes/classic-my-family…-596330/photo/313744078
What a twit Rupert has been, gone to prison to impress Angela, Belinda etc.
And where is Angela now?
Answer = enjoying herself having a drink in Mulligans, Lanzarote.
Whist Belinda has in some ways supported Rupert, but probably the main motivation fot that is to protect herself.
No, I think it’s her son’s dog. It was talked about here when he bought it and it’s also appeared in some of her videos.
Sorry, link didn’t work.
The photo of the dog looks like an old one to me – possibly the same vintage as the one above. Re photographed badly in 2008, but taken when – about 1980?
From April:
No, that’s not the same one. This one was bought as a puppy a year or so ago, if memory serves.
Genius of the Year, 2016:
Jake is another manipulating bully then, not good.
That list of names reads like the cast of the hopefully never to be scripted B movie entitled “Dawn of the tedious fukwits from the lunatic asylums sub-latrinal deep end”.
Brilliant 🙂
Right out of the top drawer with that `un Spiny 🙂
The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie says:
When an old dogs on it’s last legs, it’s common to buy a new replacement puppy for a smooth transition.
That’s not the only hound dog she’s accosted in the kitchen.
@Mad Carew
“Because adult males in their right minds”, are we discriminating against those with mental illness now? or is that just acceptable behaviour along with sizeism, ageism and other comments on here?
Hmm. It seems to me that one of the questions that’s often asked about the various Hoaxtead mobsters is “are they evil, or mentally ill, or both?” I think that’s a legitimate question, as it helps us understand the behaviour of some individuals. I am fairly certain that the vast majority of people who comment here don’t actually discriminate on the basis of mental illness, age, or size. That said, many of us (myself included at times) have used terms like “crazy” or “unhinged” to describe Hoaxtead mobsters and their antics. Language is important, and I shall try to watch it from now on. Thanks for the reminder.
Thank you, Mik. Coming from a comedy genius like you, that’s high praise indeed 🙂
Thanks to PT too and ditto 🙂
What’s the best site for getting Court results? (Not Rupert related – looking for something else.)
I think it is a combination of poor intellect and capacity for logic and the phenomenon of overvalued ideas.
Had the McKenzie Fiends been supporting him he would probably have got twenty years.
Jim Dandy says:
Law is a funny thing. On occasion it appears to be about being smart and having a grasp of legal English. However, this is evidence that the common law reigns supreme.
Show no remorse and remain in denial…then serve your sentence sunshine.
Excellent news although i wish that I could have seen his face upon encountering said disgruntled Judge.
You’d have to ask Belinda as she was at the proceedings.
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The Lost Child - Nintendo Switch Review
8:12 PM June 12, 2018
Gaming Review [Category]
RPG [Genres]
Nintendo Game [Gaming Elements]
Rob "NualphaJPN" B.
Scour every layer, capture demons and save the world from the devil’s grasp.
System: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita
Publisher: NIS America
Developer: Kadokawa Games
Rating: T
Genre: Dungeon Crawler (Legend Based) RPG
Players: Single Player
Official Website: http://nisamerica.com/games/the-lost-child/
The Lost Child - Gameplay Trailer (Switch, PS4, PS Vita)
Who it Caters to
Dungeon Crawlers have certainly been a part of the industry for a number of years and are still continuing to bring innovation to its fantastic gameplay. For those looking for a fresh new adventure in the dungeon crawling world, The Lost Child provides an experience that implements some visual novel aesthetic to give players a more immersive, and emotional experience. The cast of characters is diverse which opens up a new realm of narrative direction where you’ll encounter mysterious groups, bystanders and sinister enemies who you’ll need to decode which will provide you with karma for your decisions. All of this ties into one tremendously remarkable experience that has you scouring the many parts of Tokyo in search of clues to ensure that the truth is uncovered, and that the world in which you inhabit is protected by the heavens. You are The Lost Child and now is the time to discover a new path toward freedom, and come to learn of the secrets that bind Heaven and Hell together but also what’s tearing them apart.
The Lost Child is a dungeon crawler which means that most of your playtime will be focused on traveling to various underground worlds known as ‘Layers’, and uncovering information about certain events that have taken place around the area. You’re the main protagonist Hayato, a rookie Occult Journalist who’s been thrown into a war between angels, demons and fallen angels. It’s up to you to use your journalist abilities to uncover clues, capture demons within the layers and use these enemies as allies to tap into the truth of this cruel conflict. Like any other dungeon crawler, expect to do a lot of backtracking, as information is dispersed just about everywhere and you’ll need to gather as much as you can in order to put the pieces of this puzzle together.
Each Layer you enter presents its own challenges and enemies to battle so making sure to always keep your demon team fully prepped is integral to your survival. In a way, The Lost Child sort of plays out like Pokemon where you must capture demons and fallen angels, train and strengthen them using the karma you accumulate through dialogue and battles, then defeat the strong bosses that lie ahead. Instead of a Pokeball, you use what’s known as the Gangour and instead of the Pokedex, you have your Tablet, which you’ll use quite frequently to keep track of items, skills, enemies and much more. The formula is there but, of course, The Lost Child plays out much differently and allows you to adjust on the fly, giving players the freedom to always stay ahead of the game even when things get tough.
Every battle you engage in is all turn-based and will require you to strategically come up with ways to defeat enemies on screen, having some knowledge about how elements work. To be more specific, the enemies you encounter are known as Astrals and they include what we mentioned earlier (demons, fallen angels, and angels), with each having an element attached to them. By obtaining skills through playing, you’ll be able to tackle tough enemies by exploiting their elemental weak points, while using your own buffs to ensure your team stays alive. We’ll talk more about karma and how it works later in the gameplay section, but for now, expect there to be a lot of twists and turns as you traverse through the modern city of Tokyo, with heavenly and demonic forces engaging a covert war with you being a part of it all. The decisions you make in game will certainly be reflected throughout the story, but your primary objective is take note of everything you see and use it to your advantage. Take baths in the bath house to also receive buffs while in Layers, so bathe often!
So to talk briefly about karma, it’s essentially the ‘skill point’ that you earn through conversing with witnesses on the scene, allies you come across, and, of course, through battle. Depending on how you respond in dialogue will determine the color of the karma you receive, which again will play a role in how some (not all) of the story unfolds. You’ll also be using the karma to strengthen and level up your Astrals before and after battle, but you cannot use that karma on Hayato as a heads up. You level up seperately to your Astrals so bear that in mind as you play through as well. The game gives you a generous breakdown of just how karma works so we’ll let you experience it hands on, but we just wanted to give you a heads up of what its main purpose is and how it will affect gameplay moving forward. Now once you’ve jumped into the game and soaked in a number of hours, the pace of the game starts to change. In the opening portion of the game, it’s really just a breakdown of what’s happening, introducing you to the world of Layers, and how big of role they play in hunting down the enemy. Towards the mid-portion of the game, you will have already understood what needs to be executed and so, a lot of your time will be spent investigating mysterious events in the area, traveling from one part of Tokyo to another and discovering surprises along the way.
The Lost Child does a good job of voice acting, but at times, those voices abruptly end during conversation making some scenes a little awkward, and it takes you out of the experience. This of course isn’t frequent but it certainly caught our attention as one moment you’d have a full on voice acting ensemble and then a few minutes later, it would just go back to nothing and you’d need to start voicing the characters in your head. Whether that was intended is beyond our comprehension, but we’re sure some players may find it to be a tad weird, so just a heads up moving forward. Engaging in battle is really exciting as you’re able to swap characters in and out of battle on the fly should one of them not perform well, get KOed, or you simply don’t feel that Astral is fit for the occasion. You’ll be doing a lot of Astral swapping simply because, as we mentioned earlier, elements play a big role in defeating the much tougher enemies, so ensuring you have a diverse squad of Astrals is imperative to consistent wins. We’ll admit that we took some pretty big hits in the early stages of the game because we totally forgot about the elements and their important role, but once you wrap your head around it all, then strategies start to develop and the game becomes more enthralling.
As stated earlier in the review, each Layer you traverse through will come with their own perils so be wary of them. For example, in Mount Fuji, you have what’s known as Phantom Walls, which look like ordinary walls but if you have a keen eye you’ll start to notice that some are an illusion. Walking through those walls can be of great benefit or may be a trap so it’s really important to pick and choose your battles to ensure you don’t fall prey to anything that could ruin your flow. Speaking of traps, you’ll discover a great deal of treasure chests scattered around each world and all of them come with a trap system where, if you’re able to successfully make it through, you get what’s inside. However if you slip up you’ll be punished either by taking physical damage or have other ailments placed upon you such as not being able to see the map for 50 steps, etc. Fortunately, you’re able to try and reopen the treasure chest but you’re still taking the risk of getting trapped so be mindful.
Honey's Gameplay Consensus:
So, is The Lost Child a worthwhile take on the dungeon crawling RPG genre? It definitely is, despite some small hiccups along the way, one of which we already mentioned. The game can feel slow at times and we don’t mean in terms of framerate but just the overall pacing, which some players may be turned off by. We stated that the game does implement a sort of visual novel aesthetic into the gameplay which means that you’ll be doing a lot of reading, but to be quite frank, it’s perhaps important to read between the lines to grasp just what’s happening around you. Moreso, just getting to know each character you encounter is really intriguing and so skipping through the dialogue just to get to the juicy stuff kind of defeats the purpose. Everything is weaved together beautifully and so skipping out on one area just to get to the next part robs you of the experience, so we encourage you that despite how slow it feel just immerse yourself in it all. We promise that it’ll be worth your wild until the very end! With plenty of cool puzzles to solve and secrets to discover, The Lost Child is a game jam packed with content that’s rewarding and totally enjoyable once you get the hang of things.
Honey's Pros:
Solid turn based battle system that’s easy to use.
Challenging puzzles and plenty of secrets to discover!
Great story and dialogue.
Honey's Cons:
Some scenes had voices cut out at random, which took a lot of immersion away.
The game starts off slow but does pick up later.
Honey's Final Verdict:
We hope you found this review of The Lost Child to be insightful and informative, to give you a more clear decision about whether you should pick it up or not. The Lost Child has a lot to offer to those who invest a lot into the game since there’s so much to explore and experience the many surprises along the adventure. For anyone who loves dungeon crawlers then this is a must have for the Switch, and for those looking for something fresh The Lost Child will certainly hit the spot! The Lost Child drops June 19th but in the meantime, follow us on Twitch to see us play the game live! We’ll be covering a lot more content and go over details on the fly!
As always, for all things sweet, with news straight from Japan, be sure to keep it locked here on Honey’s Anime.
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In an attempt to elicit questions regarding the digital vs the physical, the documentary vs the conceptual, and the hybridization of mediums, Higher Pictures will present an exhibition curated exclusively by the influential artblog www.iheartphotograph.com.
The blog was founded in December 2006 and has been updated almost everyday since. Based in New York City and curated by Laurel Ptak, iheartphotograph grew out of a want to explore the edges of photography and to find work that challenged the existing “offline” conventions of the medium.
www.iheartphotograph.com has become known for showing work that is visually and conceptually challenging, daring, and innovative. The majority of the photographers presented on the site are young and unknown and hale from all parts of the globe. Many are questioning the medium itself in a digital age, and in turn redefining how we conceive of photography in a world where so much of our experience is now mediated by a computer screen. By making their work readily available online, these artists – as well as iheartphograph.com – have embraced a contemporary moment where artwork is increasingly circulated and experienced via the internet.
The show features work by eight artists: Stefan Burger, Sherri Caudell Brennan, Zach Gage, Ulrich Görlich, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Katja Mater, Laurel Ptak, and Roy Stanfield. All have previously been exhibited on the blog. The transition of their work from its online presentation to the traditional gallery space sparks numerous questions. Should artblogs be seen as working with, a reaction to, a statement against, or something altogether separate from the artworld that exists in physical space? Is the digital interface taking over the physical in art?
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#DXCLUSIVE: Chris Rivers Carries On Big Pun's Legacy With "Sincerely Me" Video
July 1, 2019 | 7:00 AM
HipHopDX Premiere – With rap royalty coursing through his veins, Chris Rivers has been poised to make his impact on the rap world like his famous father Big Pun. But it doesn’t mean his path has been paved in gold. Being the child of Pun has undeniably been a gift and a curse.
So, with one foot in front of the other, Rivers has resurfaced with a new video for “Sincerely Me” video, a perfect way to announce his recent deal with Mello Music Group and forthcoming album.
Titled G.I.T.U. — or Greatest In The Universe — the project is expected to arrive on August 16. “Sincerely Me” is dedicated to his later father and boasts a collage of some of his father’s classic videos and Rivers in front of a Pun mural.
Did ya pre-order #GITU yet!? Links in my bio! It’s the best shit I ever did and if you don’t pre order it , it basically means you want me to die a failure so don’t be that way, love me back 😂and be a dragon #DRAGONSUP art by @arielcolonart prod by @rodtheproducer
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“G.I.T.U. is a title that fully encompasses the feel of this body of work,” Rivers tells HipHopDX. “It traverses my mental state, loves had and lost, stories of overcoming obstacle — both internal and external —while learning to love myself and becoming the best version of who I can be.
“Both as a person and an artist, this record breaks through the boundaries of my personal limitations. Everyone’s world is their own, everyone has their own universe that they are in control of and in mine, I’m undoubtedly the ‘G.I.T.U.'”
Sincerely me drops tomorrow so ya should stay tuned and hype !! So excited to show ya. Click the link in my bio to get the song now and pre order the project #GITU . I love all of you and thank you for caring 🐉 #DragonsUp ! #GapGod 🎥 @trikx_ @hustleandcharm prod by @rodtheproducer
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“Sincerely Me” serves as a heartfelt homage Rivers used as a letter to his father.
“I wanted to tell him about my life and the things I have been dealing with since his passing,” he adds. “My emotions range from forgiveness and hardships to triumph. It’s a lyrically compact display that I feel shows my growth as both a human and as an artist.”
Watch the Trikx-directed video above and pre-order the album here.
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The beauty of International Crime Fiction Cover Art
April 26, 2015 Book covers, Publishers, SeriesLeroux, Poedjeannerod Leave a comment
Cornell Woolrich, The black path of fear, The Crime Club, Doubleday, Doran, 1944
The Big data approach and instruments, which inform this blog, do not only allow to study globally a population of popular writers who, in an international effort and over many decades invented Crime fiction. It also helps to envision the books they produced in a material way, in their condition as objects, commodities and fetishes. The juxtaposition of hundreds of book covers from different countries reveals their semiotics, with their recurring motifs and their serial patterns. Books covers can thus be read as sites where developments in international cultural industries, the specialisation of narrative genres, the publishers’ distinctive strategies and the evolution of popular representations and tastes all intersect. The available metadata linked with each cover also recalls that Crime Fiction series fostered some of the past century’s greatest artists. This post displays a very short selection of some Crime Fiction cover art, as milestones in a cultural history of the international imagination of crime, and its visualisation.
Maps of Contempt
April 22, 2015 Big Data, Data VisualisationBoris Vian, Frédéric Dard, Leblanc, Leroux, Poe, Prévert, Simenon, Victor Hugo, Zoladjeannerod Leave a comment
Edgar Allan Poe (1 occurrence)
Le Monde ‘s Data Visualisation team (Luc Bronner & Maxime Vaudano) have produced a fascinating and revealing interactive map of French Schools names ( http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2015/04/18/l-ecole-francaise-prefere-saint-exupery-a-voltaire_4617519_4355770.htm)
Based on publicly accessible data and the names of 67105 French Schools (public and private, and at all levels) it shows, without surprise, that many of these schools (some of them 200 years old) chose the name of a writer. But there are great disparities between writers, and the data tells about the omission of Crime fiction authors. It indicates an apparent stigma attached to this specific type of authorship, as Crime authors fare considerably less well than other, even much lesser known authors. Edgar Poe, admitttedly not a French author is named only once. Gaboriau, the author of the first crime novel, zero. Victor Hugo, by contrast (who invented with his inspector Javert a very memorable policeman, but definitely not considered a crime author) had his name chosen by 365 schools. It is more than surprising that some of the most read, most popular and internationally famous French authors (such as Gaston Leroux, the author of the Phantom of the Opera) don’t seem to have been deemed worthy of such distinction. When will a French school be named after him, one of France’s more gifted writers? Or after Eugène Sue, or Frédéric Dard ?
Settings for a crime scene
April 20, 2015 Archive, Book covers, CRIME VIZBaldwin, Christie, Chute, Dell books, Goodis, Halliday, Hammett, Leroux, MAPS, Millardjeannerod Leave a comment
Rufus King, Holiday Homicide (Dell 22)
Dell books paperback comprised different populargenres, from the Western to the adventure and the sentimental novel. But half or more of them were crime fiction. The maps on their backs merges visually all these genres. After all, the four of them can, to an extent, rely diegetically, figuratively or at least metaphorically on sketches and raw drawings (Treasure island map, carte du tendre, maps of a crime scene or croquis for a heist). More than 250 Dell Books Mapbacks were actually Crime scenes. Crime Scenes without crime, without traces of violence, and almost always without people. A pure material and geographical world. Put all together, they display a great sense of continuity, attributable to the unity of style and colours in the work of artist Ruth Belew (who, according to Gary Lovisi, drew more than 150 of them). The wild, unruly, imaginary space of Crime Fiction looks here tamed, domesticated. Pleasant, harmonious, and perfectly defined squares look like the parts of a puzzle. A puzzle reassuring both in its nature as a game, and for its apparent completeness (although it would be interesting to inspect the spaces, states, counties and countries which are not represented). Continue reading →
A Wordcloud History of early Crime Fiction
April 8, 2015 AHRC, Big Data, Data VisualisationA.E.W. Mason, Austin Freeman, Chesterton, Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Gaboriau, Gabriel Hanaud, Hornung, Hume, Leblanc, Leroux, Van Dine, Wallace, Wilkie Collinsdjeannerod Leave a comment
Edgar Allan POE (1809-1849) The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Graham’s Magazine, Philadelphia, 1841)
Total of 13,724 words and 2,847 unique words. Most frequent words in the corpus: voice (42), said (35), Dupin(27), house (26), head (24).
Emile GABORIAU (1836-1873) L’Affaire Lerouge (Le Pays, 1863; Paris, Dentu, 1866; The Widow Lerouge, 1873)
Total of 123,867 words and 8,792 unique words. Most frequent words in the corpus: said (450), old (443), Sir(351), Noel (311), man (288).
Emile GABORIAU (1836-1873) Le Crime d’Orcival (1867), The Mystery of Orcival
Total of 103,639 words and 8,452 unique words. Most frequent words in the corpus: said (532), Lecoq (322), Plantat (307), man (252), know (230) Continue reading →
German Markets: the Ullstein Yellow Series
March 25, 2015 AHRC, Giallo, Series, TranslationDekobra, Giallo, Krimi, Le Masque, Leroux, Ullsteindjeannerod View all 3 comments
The Ullstein Verlag, founded in Berlin in 1877, was one of the most active and successful agents on the market of entertainment publications in Germany. One year after Le Masque in France, and one year before Mondadori, in Italy, it too launched a series of yellow mass market Crime Fiction books : Ullstein Gelbe Reihe was started in 1928. Continue reading →
Question Marks over Crime Fiction
March 14, 2015 Big Data, Book covers, SeriesAHRC, Crowdsourcing, Ferenczi, Hachette, Leblanc, Leroux, Pierre Laffittedjeannerod Leave a comment
(With thanks to Philippe Aurousseau, & Courtesy of Oncle-Archibald.blogspot.fr)
Aptly and obviously for a genre identified with the resolution of an enigma, Detective novels have often been marketed with big interrogation marks on their covers. One of the earliest Crime Fiction Series, Ferenczi’s booklets “Le petit roman policier” was recognizable for the question mark adorning its covers designed by Gil Baer.
Later, two well-known French Crime Fiction series at least were named “The Question Mark”.
1/ The Editions Pierre Laffitte’s series “Le Point d’interrogation” was published in Paris from 1932 and until 1937. This series was devoted almost entirely to Gaston Leroux and Maurice Leblanc.
2/ The Hachette Series “Le Point d’Interrogation” was published between 1951 and 1965.
Countless more series and stand alone crime fiction books used visual references to question marks. If you know about such series or book covers from your own countries and in any languages, please let us know about them !
French Crime Authors Ngrams
December 5, 2014 AHRC, CRIME VIZ, Data VisualisationDaeninckx, Frédéric Dard, Leroux, SimenonInternational Crime Fiction Research GroupGallery Leave a comment
The following visualisations were generated using Google NGrams, as part of the M.A class on “Big Data and the New Humanities”at QUB (ICRH, PFC 2 018, December, 5th)
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Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura Opens in Chile
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The opening marks the first Hyatt Place hotel in Chile and on the South American continent
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 15, 2014-- Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) and HPV S.A. today announced the opening of Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura in the city of Santiago, Chile. The opening marks the second Hyatt-branded hotel in Santiago and introduces the Hyatt Place brand to Chile and the South American continent.
Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura. Guestroom with Andes Mountain View. (Photo: Business Wire)
The first Hyatt Place hotel outside the United States debuted in Central America with the 2012 opening of Hyatt Place San Jose/Pinares in Costa Rica. The Hyatt Place brand has since grown its brand presence in Latin America and the Caribbean with locations in Puerto Rico, Mexico and now Chile. Expansion is set to continue in the region later this year with anticipated Hyatt Place hotel openings in Mexico and Panama.
As Chile continues to cement its rank of being one of the best places to do business in Latin America, backed by its 2013 designation as such by The World Bank, the country is an important business and leisure market for Hyatt. The opening of Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura is an important step in Hyatt’s growth in strategic gateway and regional markets throughout Latin America.
“Hyatt’s history in Chile spans more than 20 years, beginning when Grand Hyatt Santiago welcomed its first guests,” said Myles McGourty , senior vice president of operations, Latin America & Caribbean for Hyatt. “Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura brings one of the newest brands in Hyatt’s portfolio to Chile, and we look forward to sharing its unique approach to service with a new segment of travelers looking for approachable style and design. It is an exciting time to be growing in Chile.”
Andreas Nauheimer , Director of HPV S.A., stated, “We are excited to work once again with Hyatt and bring a new hotel to life in Santiago. Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura offers an innovative service concept and a modern design that we believe will be very successful in Santiago.”
About Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura
Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura is an upscale, select service hotel designed for multi-tasking travelers. The hotel is located in the upscale Santiago neighborhood of Vitacura, conveniently located 20 minutes from Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport on Americo Vespucio Avenue.
Business travelers will find the hotel located within minutes of Santiago’s three main business districts: Nueva Las Condes, El Golf, Providencia and Ciudad Empresarial. Travelers of all kinds can find local attractions within close proximity such as the Museum of Fashion, Historic Quarter, Municipal Theater, Fine Arts Museum, and San Cristobal Hill. Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura is within walking distance to Alonso de Cordova Avenue shopping, as well as Parque Arauco Shopping Mall, which offers an array of restaurants, shopping and entertainment options.
Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura offers guests:
160 roomy rooms, including 20 suites, with mountain or city views
All guestrooms feature a swiveling 46-inch HDTV, the plush Hyatt Grand Bed, a Cozy Corner sectional sofa-sleeper and Hyatt Plug Panel media center for connecting a laptop or media device to the TV
Free Wi-Fi everywhere
Free hot buffet breakfast for guests with a stay
24/7 Gallery Menu & Market, which includes an all-day-dining restaurant, freshly prepared entrees and appetizers available around-the-clock, plus on-the-go salads, sandwiches, sweets and bottled beverages
A Coffee to Cocktails Bar, offering a wide range of specialty coffees, espresso, premium beer and wines
Five meeting rooms with more than 3,300 square feet of flexible meeting space with unique food & beverage options, audiovisual equipment and more
24-hour StayFit Gym
Indoor heated pool
Public computers available around the clock and free wireless printers that can be used from anywhere in the hotel
“Santiago is a culturally rich city that provides a unique business and leisure environment for its visitors,” said Sergio Ortiz , general manager, Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura. “Opening the first Hyatt Place hotel in South America is a distinct honor. We are proud to be a new option for loyal Hyatt guests and are eager to introduce the brand and its unique offerings to Chileans and international travelers.”
Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura Leadership
Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura is under the leadership of General Manager Sergio Ortiz and Director of Sales Maria Paz Vacarezza . In his role, Mr. Ortiz is directly responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the hotel, including overseeing the hotel’s more than 50 associates and ensuring guests encounter the purposeful service for which Hyatt Place is known. Ms. Vacarezza is responsible for providing sales service and support to travelers and meeting planners frequenting the Santiago/Vitacura area.
For Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura information in English and Spanish, or to make a reservation, please visit www.santiagovitacura.place.hyatt.com.
The term “Hyatt” is used in this release for convenience to refer to Hyatt Hotels Corporation and/or one or more of its affiliates.
About Hyatt Place
Launched in 2006, the Hyatt Place brand brings to the upscale select service hotel category the authentic hospitality for which Hyatt is known. Inspired by multitasking travelers’ 24/7 lifestyle, Hyatt Place hotels combine style with casual hospitality. Featuring spacious guestrooms with the Cozy Corner, free Wi-Fi, the 24/7 Gallery Menu, Coffee to Cocktails Bar, and free hot breakfast with your stay. The Odds & Ends program also has guests covered with items they may have forgot and can buy, borrow or enjoy for free. Specially trained Gallery Hosts are on hand to offer assistance with everything from directions to check-in to a freshly made meal.
Hyatt Place, a brand of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, offers more than 190 locations in the United States, Armenia, China, Costa Rica, India, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Netherlands. For Hyatt Place information or to make a reservation, call 1-888-HYATT-HP (888-492-8847) or visit www.HyattPlace.com.
Hyatt Hotels Corporation, headquartered in Chicago, is a leading global hospitality company with a proud heritage of making guests feel more than welcome. Thousands of members of the Hyatt family strive to make a difference in the lives of the guests they encounter every day by providing authentic hospitality. The Company's subsidiaries manage, franchise, own and develop hotels and resorts under the Hyatt®, Park Hyatt®, Andaz®, Grand Hyatt®, Hyatt Regency®, Hyatt Place®, Hyatt House®, Hyatt Zilara™ and Hyatt Ziva ™ brand names and have locations on six continents. Hyatt Residential Group, Inc., a Hyatt Hotels Corporation subsidiary, develops, operates, markets or licenses Hyatt Residences® and Hyatt Residence Club®. As of March 31, 2014, the Company's worldwide portfolio consisted of 554 properties in 47 countries. For more information, please visit www.hyatt.com.
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Aurelia Vasquez, 305-510-2140
aurelia.vasquez@hyatt.com
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My Darling (我的曼达林) — Chapter 8.2
June 24, 2017 by hoju 25 Comments
Prior to that moment on the phone when he had begged her to let him try one last time, Jian Bianlin had actually tried once to “ask” Chu Jian to give him a chance. Can you think of when that was? (I admit it. My heart went out to Jian Bianlin when I found out about that, and I choked up a bit.)
Chapter 8.2 — Your Smile that is Even More Enchanting (2)
That night, the people downstairs caroused away until past three in the morning.
Lying on the bed, Chu Jian watched him remove his top and pants. As he lifted up a corner of the quilt to slide underneath it, she was terribly anxious. This was unlike last night. Last night, she had not known what would happen and therefore had been fearless out of ignorance. Now, though… Chu Jian squeezed herself closer to the wall. When he pulled her with one arm against his bare chest, her entire mind was filled with snatches of images from the previous night and how he had tired her out for several hours and not let her sleep.
Out of reflex, her heart began to pound against her chest, and she was a little breathless. “This bed is too loud…”
Jian Bianlin: “I’ll be more gentle.”
Those words were simply too provocative. Gentle? How was he even going to be “gentle”? Jian Bianlin’s hand was fumblingly caressing her back, and though he tried to control himself, it was completely without success. However, he had only just shifted his leg before the bed let out a couple of cries of creak, creak, like it was trying to join in with the spirit of the moment. Jian Bianlin could not hold himself back, and pressing his forehead beside her ear, he felt around on the table for the television remote control. His finger slid several rounds around the remote control until he finally found the red button and turned on the television.
Chu Jian protested, “You’re turning on the TV in the middle of the night. Isn’t that just ‘covering your own ears while stealing a bell[1]’ [only able to deceive yourself]?”
The television was turned off again. The surroundings slipped back into stillness.
Afraid that she would get angry, Jian Bianlin dared not make any rash moves and could only slowly use kisses to torture her. From her lower lip to her upper lip to her tongue, he silently tormented her lips. Gradually, they became sore from his nibbling. Chu Jian shifted, gingerly trying to evade him. The bed once more gave squeals of creak, creak…
How could Jian Bianlin possibly curb himself at this point? But unexpectedly, Chu Jian, whose ears had been pricked up the entire time, suddenly broke out into giggles. “Oh man, I can’t. I really want to laugh.”
Jian Bianlin brushed his face across her lips, his kisses trailing down along the curve of her arched neck while his hands did not so much as pause. “Be good… be good.”
In the end, though, they were still interrupted by the creaking of the bed. Chu Jian shoved at him frantically. “Think of a way to deal with that first…”
Deciding to simply yank the quilt onto the floor, he lifted her off the bed and then lay down with her on top of the quilt. After nuzzling for only a while, Chu Jian felt achy from the top of her head to her back from being pressed into the hard cement floor, and when her elbow slipped down and knocked against the ground, it hurt, too. Anyway, even with the quilt cushioning them underneath, it still was not good enough. The floor was just too hard… Jian Bianlin tried to accommodate her, but switching through a variety of different positions had no noticeable effect. Eventually, with nothing he could do about it, he held her in his arms and kissed her for a long time, from top to bottom. Then, lifting her back up onto the bed and wrapping her snugly in the bedsheets, he sat by himself on the edge of the bed, his head propped in his hands as he composed himself for a dozen or so seconds.
Under the lamplight, Chu Jian leaned in close and looked at him. “Jian Bianlin?”
She brought a smile to his face with this action, and in soundless mirth, he bit down hard on his lower lip. After a while, he heaved a sigh. “The blanket is dirty. Just wait.”
From the bedside, he grabbed his pants back over, slipped them on, and did up his belt. His upper body still bare, he put on his down jacket and walked out the door. Before long, he returned with a clean quilt in his arms.
Just go to sleep. Don’t think about anything.
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Seven days later, filming out in the boonies finished, and the Lantern Festival[2] also happened to be drawing near.
The lead actress had requested a three-day leave to shoot a commercial and go on a talk show program. On Jian Bianlin’s end, Xie Bin had also arranged to have the rehearsal and actual event for his birthday celebration during this time. This year, Jian Bianlin’s birthday had been spent in the hospital. In the end, he had actually been the one to suggest that, no matter how busy he was, he needed to have a makeup celebration for his fans.
Consequently, before the Lantern Festival, they had already hurried at night onto a plane and returned to Shanghai.
From the rehearsal to the actual performance, there was only three days’ time.
On the surface, Jian Bianlin, having very little interaction with his fans, appeared to not be very close to them. Even on his Weibo, he had only ever posted, “Hello, everyone, this is Jian Bianlin,” when the account was first registered and then had never posted again.
However, from many of the little details, it could be seen that, in his heart, Jian Bianlin very much loved his fans but was just not good at expressing it.
For example, this makeup birthday celebration. Or for another example, regardless of his destination, whenever he was coming and going from an airport, he would never use the VIP passageway, because he was afraid that the fans who had come to meet his flight would have made the special trip for nothing if they did not see him. Furthermore, the itinerary for each of his work trips was made public to prevent his fans from always having to spend time to investigate and figure out what his schedules and routes would be.
Hence, from when the airplane landed, he and Chu Jian had separated.
With her backpack on her back, Chu Jian stepped out of the exit. Seeing the people standing off on both sides with signs and mobile phones in hand, excitedly waiting for his appearance, she could not help turning around to take a look.
Jian Bianlin was in a spot less than twenty metres away from her. As a way to promote this current drama, he was purposely sporting the khaki pants and military boots that the male lead in the drama usually wore, but because of the cold weather, he was wearing a black t-shirt and a black down jacket. His physique really was just too good for words…
She did not know if Jian Bianlin had spotted her as she watched him pull out his mobile phone, typing swiftly on it with his thumbs. The next second, her own phone vibrated. It was a message from him.
I’ll be home once I’m done with the dance rehearsal.
Soon after, he brushed right past her and walked out through the passageway.
Chu Jian watched as he and his two assistants strode into the crowds. After allowing her eyes to follow him briefly, she began making plans. Although this could still be considered the Spring Festival holiday period, since she was back, she would go to the nail salon to just walk through and have a look at how things were doing. By the time she left the airport, took a taxi, and arrived at the nail salon, it was just past lunchtime.
Inside the shop, there were only two or three patrons, all of them regulars, leafing through magazines as they waited for their turns.
“Boss, you’re back?” one of the nail technicians lifted her head to ask.
After giving a reply, Chu Jian brought the account book over to the sofa, sat down, and casually flipped through it. But while she was looking through, her mind shamefully began to wander.
The development of her and Jian Bianlin’s relationship to date had truly been very remarkable.
They had been too familiar with one another, so at the beginning, it had been extremely awkward. Later, the relationship had not felt the least bit intriguing, mysterious, or romantic. For instance, sometimes when she watched him getting dressed, she would think, Oh, so that’s what he looks like when he takes everything off, and would even eye him up and down a couple of extra times with great curiosity. In the most extreme cases, when he was caught up in a moment of passion and was fumblingly fondling and stroking her, she would suddenly, for no apparent reason, burst into laughter. “I can’t take it, I can’t take it. Jian Bianlin, do you know that sometimes you’re just so raunchy? …”
The more she called these thoughts up in her mind, the more caught up she became in them, until she could not restrain a laugh as she leaned back into the sofa. In the process, she accidentally knocked out two dolls from the neatly laid out row of dolls. Offhandedly picking them up, she set each one back in place. All of a sudden, she remembered the box that she had brought here along with these dolls. As she thought of this, she tossed down her account book, went into the storeroom, and dug it out.
Squatting beside a shelf, she opened it…
Inside were two stacks of card stock, each tied up neatly with string. On the first card was a written math problem. Copied in black pen was the original math question while in blue pen was the solution. The writing was fluid and beautiful—it was his handwriting.
Baffled, Chu Jian untied the stack. Looking over a couple of the cards, she realized that these were exercise problems from middle school. Which grade in middle school? She had forgotten.
Spreading out all of the cards, she discovered English questions, math problems, physics and chemistry problems—practice problems from every subject. There were even practice exam questions from the New Oriental supplementary classes they had taken outside of school, Mathematical Olympiad problems, Physics Olympiad problems…
The other stack consisted completely of cards with handwritten English words.
In contrast to all those exercise problems, these English words were deeply imprinted in her mind. They were all words that she had consistently gotten wrong.
Since she was a child, she had never had a very good memory and would repeatedly get the same problems and test questions wrong.
In particular, English spelling words, which frequently appeared on English tests, were basically her nightmare. It was as if her brain had a black hole. Once she spelled a word incorrectly one time, it was a given that she would continue to get it wrong, and even after seven or eight times, she still would not be able to remember its spelling. For example, this word “medicine” that was written on the card that she was currently holding, she for some reason would always spell as “medition” or “medicion”…
In regards to this issue of hers, her middle school English teacher had truly held a bitter hatred toward it. Ah, right, that English teacher was Jian Bianlin’s class advisor at the time, the same teacher whom they had bumped into in the hospital, Teacher Li… During that time, Teacher Li had been utterly exasperated with her lack of improvement and often would suddenly say to Jian Bianlin in one of Class No. 1’s classes, “That Chu Jian who lives across the hall from you, you should help her out with memorizing her vocabulary words. Oh dear.”
Chu Jian flipped through the cards. It was apparent that there was quite some age to them.
When did he write them? She didn’t know.
Why hadn’t he give them to her before? She didn’t know, either.
Perhaps it was because of their “breakup” in middle school, or perhaps it was because of that stolen kiss on the ferry. In any case, he had kept them for so many years but then gave them to her on this last birthday… Chu Jian could roughly guess what Jian Bianlin had been trying to take the opportunity to say to her:
Chu Jian, I’ve liked you for many years.
Chu Jian, if for nothing but the sake of all these years, could you let me try one more time? …
But she had not even opened the box for a look.
Crouching there on the floor, Chu Jian fiddled back and forth, over and over again, with those cards, seemingly like her soul had flown away somewhere beyond the heavens. Half an hour later, she carefully tidied up all the cards and put them away again in a most secret place. Leaving the storeroom, she walked straight out the main glass doors of the nail salon. She did not even have time to leave any words with anyone in the shop.
One of the nail technicians who was working right then gave a very nosy glance out the door. “She’s in love, I’m guessing.”
When she returned home, her mom, with an ashtray raised high in her hand, was right at that moment chasing after her dad, reprimanding and questioning him over whether he was actually smoking his cigarettes or just straight up eating them. In a mere morning, there were already four cigarette butts. Her dad played dumb all the way, tucking his head down as he fed the fish, mumbling the entire time, “I’m telling the truth here to get a lighter sentence. If I had actually wanted to keep it a secret from you, I could have just gone to the bathroom and a flush down the toilet would have solved everything.” The outcome was that this incurred an even harsher interrogation. Her mom’s berating, which originally began with how he had smoked too many cigarettes in the morning, switched over into demanding to know, just how many times had he dumped cigarette butts into the toilet in the past?
Chu Jian did not pay attention to them. Dashing into the kitchen, she pulled out from the refrigerator all the fruits that had been bought for the holiday period, peeling, paring, slicing, etc. each one until she had filled a big box.
“What are you doing?” Chu Jian’s mom was alarmed by this.
“I’m bringing some fruit to Jian Bianlin.” With her arms wrapped around the box, Chu Jian ran off.
“Those two kids. It would have been so nice if their relationship had been this good earlier.” Chu Jian’s mom felt incredibly moved.
When Chu Jian arrived at the office of Jian Bianlin’s company, she actually gave Xie Bin’s name to reception. The receptionist led her inside.
Along the way, Xiao Yu spotted her and gave a loud cry of “Sister-In-Law!” Hurriedly, he led her away, taking a roundabout turn and heading directly to the dance practice studio. Jian Bianlin also had shares in the company and hence could be considered one of the bosses. The word spread through the entire floor that the “lady boss” of legends had made an appearance. Nosily, everyone brought a mug along and flocked to the breakroom nearest the dance practice studio.
The result, though, was that they only got to see the door of the studio thudding shut and the dozen or so backup dancers all smiling suggestively and saying that they were going to go for afternoon tea.
The staff members who had rushed here excitedly now glumly left again, all of them, in passing, leaving behind instructions for the employee whose work area was situated closest to the studio: “If they come out, give me a call on my extension, eh…”
Outside the door, it was buzzing with liveliness, while inside the door, it was exceptionally quiet.
Jian Bianlin had just completed a segment of the dance rehearsal. His short locks that lay on his forehead had long been drenched in perspiration. Wearing only a black tank top and gray workout pants, he walked barefoot over to her side.
From top to bottom, he wore no accessories except for the light-gold, couple’s-style bracelet that he and Chu Jian each had one of, which had now slid down slightly to hang over the back of his hand.
He had not expected that Chu Jian would come to his company office to visit him. Twisting open the bottle of mineral water that he was holding, he was about to take a drink, but Chu Jian stuffed a wedge of snow pear into his mouth first. Halting the motion of his hand briefly, he slowly chewed the fruit and swallowed it.
“Tired?” Chu Jian pickily rummaged through the fruits before pulling a half of a strawberry out and holding it up beside his lips.
Jian Bianlin did not make a sound. Opening his mouth, he bit down into that strawberry.
Chu Jian hugged the box of fruit, tilting her head upward to watch him eat.
Prior to seeing those cards, a question had stumped Chu Jian for a long time: Just when had Jian Bianlin started liking her? When they were kids, he had always found her very annoying. Later, when they were in middle school, apart from those rumours about them, he had actually not done anything like professing feelings or showing any intimate type of action. And things had always been like this, until the New Year’s after their “breakup,” when he stole that kiss on the ferry. Chu Jian had been a little panicked with that, but after… there was no “after.” He had carried on behaving normally, with nothing out of the ordinary. She had even thought that that kiss had been on a whim.
In high school, because of their difference in gender, Chu Jian became aware that she should prudently keep an appropriate distance. Except for the times when their two families would gather together for a meal, she had not really had much interaction with him, and the number of words that they exchanged had been even less than the rumours about him that she heard at school… until shortly after Xu Jing professed feelings for her. Jian Bianlin’s sudden, strong reaction had frightened her. How was it that Jian Bianlin was all of a sudden like this?
But now that she had seen those cards, she thought, actually, it had not been “all of a sudden” at all. He merely had never been good at expressing himself.
Chu Jian mused, what had he been feeling when he gave her the birthday present? And if Uncle Jian’s injury and his illness had not occurred, what would the two of them and their relationship be like now? People who were not good at expressing themselves were so hateful and annoying…
“Which one do you want to eat?” The more Chu Jian thought about this, the more irritated she became, and she threw a glare at him.
Jian Bianlin was a little bewildered. “Any one is good.”
She looked down, wanting to select a piece that was just the right size to feed to him. Jian Bianlin brought his head down. It was evident that there was an ulterior motive to this action. Tilting his head, he kissed the corner of her lips. The dampened hairs that lay across his forehead skimmed across Chu Jian’s cheek—a little tickly. Over and over, they kissed one another. He did not stop, and neither did she.
They continued with this coziness until eventually, the feelings that were roiling in Jian Bianlin’s eyes became increasingly thick and the provocativeness of the moment was making his throat dry.
Taking advantage of the moment, he asked, “Whose home are we going to sleep at tonight?”
[1]掩耳盗铃 “yan er dao ling.” This idiom, “to cover your ears while stealing a bell” illustrates that, in a futile attempt to cover up something that is plainly obvious, you are unable to deceive anyone and deceive only yourself with your actions, like an ostrich burying its head in the sand.
[2]元宵节 “Yuan Xiao Jie.” The Lantern Festival or Yuan Xiao Festival takes place on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunar year, and marks the end of the Lunar New Year’s celebrations (also known as the Spring Festival) with the first full moon of the year. Traditionally, lanterns are lit and put up as decoration or carried around during the night.
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25 thoughts on “My Darling (我的曼达林) — Chapter 8.2”
sharreb
haha JBL is too ‘hungry’. But i love CJ finding out how much n how long hes loved her. Someone should teach those two to play soft music. sets the mood n helps drown out the ‘sounds’. Thanks Hoju!
Anonymous girl
I was refreshing the page to see whether any update is there or not since 3 hours atleast….finally Yay!!!!
Thank for the chapter by the way….🌹💐
chensha
whose home ? does it matter as long you two together ? 😂
😱 CJ is taking the initiative to go to him now prepared 😍 such a sweet chapter…. thank you so much @hoju for translating this sweet and short novel 😘
She’s completely immersed herself into this relationship. Everything she does is natural and out of a desire to be with him.
You’re welcome. 🙂 Talk to you guys when I’m back (and maybe a little bit in between if my internet allows me to).
Thank for the chapter.
Tinkerbellsan
Thank you so much Hoju!! 😘😘😘
calculusfanatic
JBL knows his priorities 😉
Hoju I miss you and your witty replies so damn much! *pouts*
Ught.. Wrong timing reading this. Jbl is so naughty. But i love it. He’s so hungry and wants some ‘home’made food lmao…
Boy needs to wait for a week before doing it again. Hahah.. Sorry, cant stop laughing.
Thanks hoju.. Enjoy your trip 🙂
opi2207
Aah thank you hoju. I think the more chu jian know jian bianlin secret about his feeling, the more chu jian fall in love with him.
Love sparkling everywhere. This is what we call a lucky relationship with the starts from friendship zone. There is no hesitate what he/ she would like because they knew each other very well
Thank you 😄
Who’s home ah? Do they even dare to step inside the same room with their parents around? Hahaha 😉😉
dillydallydolly
It is agreeable to say, the two are beginning to start their honeymoon phase of new lovers. I find it too insatiably sweet. I hope this will continue until they grow old. The parents are definitely bouncing in joy because of the flourish relationship of the this two lovable beings. ❤️ All over the place, even the staff of the company are curious of CJ…..
the reaction of his fans, I hope they will be gentle to CJ.🙏🏼
swevenode
This kind of love, wow. I could never even imagine doing something like that to someone I like haha. So much work, I would straight away tutor him LOL. Thanks Hoju. Now Chu Jian ‘understand’ the extent of his love, I guess JB would get what he wished for in the next Chapter 😀
long over due haha
hopefully you are enjoying your vacation
Jian Bianlin, when my husband was experiencing the same back then… *cough* Let’s just say that you’ve got to learn from him… and move the mattress to the ground!!! *…avoiding eye contact…*
Lieyan
Thanks for the chapter..
Thank you for your translation. Wishing you a safe trip.
hrtbrkgrl
Thank you for this chapter… they are so cute…
Looking forward to the next chapter…
Thank you for the chapter. I bet she tells him they sleep separately. Or at a hotel.
Mandii
When did he give the box to her? Was it while in high school together? Or in middle school when those cards were written? And the kiss on the ferry happened in high school? My timeline for them is all messed up.
Thanks for this great read/translation! Like their transition progress!
Oooh, also, she talks about their ‘break up’ but is that when she tells him she doesnt like him like that or when he feigned a breakup in university?
The “breakup” was in middle school, when she told him in the stairwell that she did not “like him in that way.”
The box of these cards was given at the very beginning of the story, as Chu Jian’s gift this year. The gift included the Blythe dolls as well as a box that contained the study cards he had written back in middle school. The box was to show her that he had liked her for a long, long time,
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It will come as no surprise to admirers of W. Yeats that this greatest of modern poets was a celebrant of the art of love from the beginning to the end of his long and immensely productive career. But now, thanks to a brilliant and magisterial work of scholarship by Joseph M. Hassett, we can fully appreciate how much Yeats owed to the women in his life — nine women, to be precise, whose alluring mystery held him in thrall and inspired in him the heightened state of consciousness he believed necessary for creative expression. As Hassett explains, from the outset of his career Yeats was convinced that art at its most sublime springs from the influx of a supernal form of knowledge far beyond the realm of ordinary discourse.
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A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre , and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
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In , he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yeats, who died in , is remembered as one of the leading Western poets of the 20th century. Although John trained as a lawyer, he abandoned the law for art soon after his first son was born. Yeats spent much of his early years in London, where his father was studying art, but frequently returned to Ireland as well.
In the mids, Yeats pursued his own interest in art as a student at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin. Following the publication of his poems in the Dublin University Review in , he soon abandoned art school for other pursuits. He also became acquainted with Maud Gonne, a supporter of Irish independence.
This revolutionary woman served as a muse for Yeats for years. He even proposed marriage to her several times, but she turned him down.
He dedicated his drama The Countess Kathleen to her. He also joined the Order of the Golden Dawn, an organization that explored topics related to the occult and mysticism. While he was fascinated with otherworldly elements, Yeats's interest in Ireland, especially its folktales, fueled much of his output.
In addition to his poetry, Yeats devoted significant energy to writing plays. He teamed with Lady Gregory to develop works for the Irish stage, the two collaborating for the production of Cathleen Ni Houlihan. Following his marriage to Georgie Hyde-Lees in , Yeats began a new creative period through experiments with automatic writing. The newlyweds sat together for writing sessions they believed to be guided by forces from the spirit world, through which Yeats formulated intricate theories of human nature and history.
They soon had two children, daughter Anne and son William Michael. The celebrated writer then became a political figure in the new Irish Free State, serving as a senator for six years beginning in From Audio Poem of the Day February Read More. From Favorite Poem Project. Read by Samantha Kyrkostas and Dr. Charles A. More Poems by William Butler Yeats.
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Yeats was fascinated by the occult and mysticism. He joined the Golden Dawn , a secret society which practiced ritual magic, in , progressing to its Inner Order in , and remained an active member for most of his life.
He also joined paranormal research organisation The Ghost Club in However, the relationship did not develop further. He was nothing if not persistent. After proposing to, and being rejected by, Maud Gonne for the fifth time, he asked her daughter Iseult to marry him — also without success. He may have been in such a rush to get hitched because he believed it was written in the stars.
An astrological chart drawn up through the Golden Dawn found October was the ideal time for Yeats to marry. The process is said to allow a person to write without conscious thought, acting as medium for the spirit world. Your action was right for both. He and Georgie went to on produce thousands of pages of automatic script. Yeats served in the first Seanad for six years from He also spoke out against new censorship laws, and while he promoted Irish-language research, he questioned compulsory Irish.
He played a major role in the Irish cultural revival. A year later his brother Jack added to the family medal haul, winning silver in the arts and culture section of the Olympics for his painting The Liffey Swim. Yeats described his last years as a second puberty following a Steinach operation at age Perhaps not coincidentally had several affairs with younger women but also experienced a late burst of creativity. The poet died in France in but was exhumed and brought to Drumcliffe, Sligo,in You can follow Anne on twitter ainenihaodain.
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Hypocritical Labour Vote To Abolish Private Schools
TOPICS:Education LabourConference Politics
The Labour Party will be campaigning to abolish private schools after its activists voted to ensure it becomes part of IRA loving Jeremy Corbyn’s agenda.
Anti-British Labour Activists voted on Sunday afternoon to commit the party to integrate the private education sector with the state education sector.
A senior party source has said this evening that Jeremy Corbyn would abide by the policy decisions made this evening at the conference.
It’s unclear at this point whether terrorist supporting Corbyn agrees with the motion that was passed.
If The Labour Party moves ahead with its plan to abolish private schools, it will most certainly and rightfully spark accusations of hypocrisy. Given the fact numerous Labour Party Mp’s and officials have had their children educated privately.
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Diane Abbott and Shami Chakrabarti both decided that a private education would be better suited for their children. Abbott before the vote had took place said she would back the policy if it was voted for by the party. She went into say.
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“As you well know, I sent my son to private school some years ago but if the parties take that position I would support it”
When told that many people would view the decision as hypocrisy. Abbott said “ I did what I did and I talked about it at the time and you can’t keep rehearsing those arguments”.
Holly Rigby, a spokeswoman for the Abolish Eton campaign said “This is what a democratic Labour Party looks like. We will dismantle systems of privilege and equality and build a society that works for millions and not the millionaires. The irony in that statement is breathtaking”.
The motion that was passed today at the conference calls for private schools to be stripped of their charitable status, to have limits placed on the number of their pupils who can attend certain universities and for their endowments and assets to be distributed into the state education centre.
The decision made today by the Labour Party wreaks of hypocrisy. Numerous Labour officials send their children to be privately educated. Closing down private schools will put even more of a burden on our education system, I mean where would all the pupils of the private schools end up? Corbyn’s answer is to nationalise everything and unfortunately that would bring this country to its knees. Instead of abolish private schools, why not invest in making state education on par with private education. After all we’re one of the richest countries in the world!
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The History of Halloween
The origin of the festival of Halloween has long been disputed, and the truth is that it has emerged from both pagan and Christian practices into the celebration that exists today.
Essentially, Halloween began with the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain, meaning ‘Summer’s End’ which celebrates the end of harvest season. For thousands of years, our ancestors marked Samhain from sundown on October 31 until sundown on November 1 as the dying of the light before the winter.
The Celts believed that it was a time when the walls between our world and the next became thin and porous, allowing spirits to pass through, coming back to life on the day of Samhain to damage their crops. Places were set at the dinner table to appease and welcome the spirits. People would offer them food and drink, and light bonfires to ward off the evil spirits.
When the dead arrived, they were able to walk among us and be mistaken for us. That’s why we dress up to look like them. That way maybe we’ll fool them into thinking we’re dead as well and they won’t take us back with them.
The Christian origin of the holiday is that it falls on the days before the feast of All Hallows, which was set in the eighth century to attempt to stamp out pagan celebrations. Christians would honour saints and pray for souls who have not yet reached heaven.
Celts dressed up in white with blackened faces during the festival of Samhain to trick the evil spirits that they believed would be roaming the earth before All Saints’ Day on November 1st.
By the 11th century, this had been adapted by the Church into a tradition called ‘souling’. Children go door-to-door, asking for soul cakes in exchange for praying for the souls of friends and relatives. They went dressed up as angels, demons or saints.
The origins of trick or treating and dressing up go back to the 16th century in Ireland, Scotland and Wales where people went door-to-door in costume asking for food in exchange for a poem or song. Many dressed up as souls of the dead, or Aos Si, and were protecting themselves from the spirits by impersonating them.
Costumes became more adventurous – in Victorian ages, they were influenced by gothic themes in literature, and dressed as bats and ghosts or what seemed exotic, such as an Egyptian pharaoh.
The phrase trick-or-treat was first used in America in 1927, with the traditions brought over to America by immigrants.
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My Sexy Saturday ~ Our Sexy Date
Welcome to the 112th week of My Sexy Saturday. This week’s theme is Our Sexy Date
A sexy date could be anything. The day they first went out, the day they first kissed, the day they got married. It could be a couple’s sexy anniversary date or maybe a date to meet for the very first time. It could be a date in space, a foreign country or just around the corner.
As always, the rules of My Sexy Saturday are that the excerpt should be 7 paragraphs or 7 sentences or 7 words that covey true sexiness between the characters. My excerpt this week comes from A Kiss for a Highlander.
He danced her out into the hall and paused under the chandelier. Martha, still recovering from the shock of his last words, threw him an enquiring glance, and he pointed up to where a solitary sprig of mistletoe nestled amid the greenery above their heads. “How on earth did you manage to smuggle that past Mrs. Glover?”
“She knows all about it,” Fraser informed her with a hint of smugness. “I have her blessing.”
The blaze of passion as she looked up into his eyes was so unexpected that, for a second, she wondered if her knees would hold her. She no longer had time to wonder anything. Fraser slid one hand around her waist and the other to the back of her neck. This close, his hazel eyes were mesmerizing, and she wasn’t sure if it was his heart or her own that thundered in her ears. She gripped the ruffles at the front of Fraser’s shirt tightly.
His breath stroked her cheek. “I have you, lass. I won’t let you fall.”
He kissed her. Momentarily, his lips were unexpectedly soft. Then his mouth was hard and demanding against hers, and his tongue swept inside, caressing and exploring her mouth. Martha rose onto the tips of her toes. Following her instincts, she pressed her body closer to Fraser’s. Her eyes widened as she felt the contrasting hardness of his body against the soft curves of her own. There was a primeval rightness about the feeling. It seemed natural to try to cleave ever nearer to him, as though parts of their bodies were actually made to fit together. Gradually she began to enjoy the new sensations, surrendering herself to them until they became quite intoxicating. A corresponding fizz of pleasure entered her bloodstream, and her whole body started to tingle.
So this was why people liked kissing! It was something she’d occasionally wondered about, almost as a disinterested bystander. After all, she had never, until now, imagined it would happen to her. She had been quite unable to imagine why there would be anything appealing about having another person’s mouth on her own. The thought of allowing another person to put his tongue inside her mouth had been something she found quite alarming. Now, shyly, Martha used her own tongue to explore Fraser’s mouth in return. He tasted of the wine they had drunk and of spices. He tasted delicious. Instantly, he tangled his hand in her hair, turning her head to the angle he wanted, deepening the kiss to bittersweet intensity. The tingling in her body increased and seemed to become more concentrated at a specific, exhilarating point. Here she was—Miss Martha Wantage, spinster of this parish—standing beneath the mistletoe, in the arms of a man she had known less than a month, with her tongue in his mouth and a wanton pulse beating between her legs. The mistletoe was certainly unleashing its mischief on this maiden’s behaviour.
That was when her knees did give way. But Fraser was true to his word and he didn’t let her fall.
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Why does Maryam Rajavi support the protests in Iran?
Published: Thursday, 06 December 2018
By INU Staff
INU- There are anti-regime protest gatherings and strikes happening on a daily basis across Iran, from looted investors to farmers to students, and each demonstration has a different trigger cause and different demands from the people.
However, these protests all have some very important things in common:
1) They are all the result of the ineptitude and corruption of the ruling mullahs, who have squandered Iran’s fortune on proxy wars, terrorist groups, and filling the bank accounts of those close to the Iranian Regime.
2) They are all held by the Iranian people and organised with the help of the Iranian Resistance with no outside “enemies”, like the US, bankrolling them.
3) They are all saluted as brave by Iranian Resistance Leader Maryam Rajavi.
Since December 2017, Iran has been besieged by anti-regime protests that call out the false narrative of any “moderate v. hardliner” struggle within the ruling elite and demand complete and total regime change by and for the Iranian people. Maryam Rajavi has stood with the protesters every step of the way, supporting their legitimate protests, calling attention to the plight of the protesters after the Regime’s crackdown led to thousands of arrests and dozens of executions or arbitrary killings, and asking global leaders to do more to ensure the protection of the protesters.
Maryam Rajavi also led calls for more protests by the Iranian people in March, during the Iranian New Year celebration of Nowruz, when she called for the Iranian people to make this “a year full of protests”. The Iranian people certainly heeded that call and protests only grew in size and scale over the next eight months, despite an increased crackdown by the mullahs.
During the recent strikes at both the Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane Factory and the Ahvaz Steel Company, Maryam Rajavi issued a statement in support of the workers and calling on others to join their noble protests.
She said: "Shoosh has risen with the cries of workers, and solidarity and strike of youth, teachers and merchants of the bazaar. The enemy attempts in vain to silence the Haft Tappeh deprived workers by suppressing and arresting them, but the cry of "we are hungry, hungry" of the children of Shush, calls the conscience of every human being to rise up against the oppressor mullahs.”
This is in a similar vein to the majority of Maryam Rajavi’s statements about strikes or protests in Iran, but why does she so often call on others to join the strike? Simply, because Maryam Rajavi understands the need for unity amongst the Iranian people and against the Regime. Whatever differences the Iranian people have, all of them would be better off without the mullahs in power, so it’s important that they support each other and show the world that regime change is the unified position of the Iranian people.
Maryam Rajavi also knows that the only way to stand up to the Iranian Regime is for all Iranians to stand together. There is nothing that scares a dictatorship more than a unified populace being guided by a popular leader like Maryam Rajavi.
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