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Go Back To Jena!
--UNEQUAL JUSTICE REIGNS STILL!!
--Guantanamo On the Bayou!!
Melissa Bell Held by Jena Justice System!!! $100,000.00 Bond. "When saw we thee in Prison" It's Still UNEQUAL JUSTICE in Jena, Louisiana in 2008!!
Mauffray to retire from the Bench in December! - His brand of UNEQUAL JUSTICE will remain in force.
Jindal Visits Jena!! - Introduced at church service by Reed Walters.
Bush Visits Alexandria just prior to killings!!!
Black Mother & two (2) daughters run over & KILLED IN ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA. Driver of Vehicle had history of DUI's & other vehicular related incidents!!! FREE ON $30,000.00 BOND - The DRIVER of the SUV is a white guy.
21 year old, white guy kills 3 BLACKS - $30,000.00 Bond *** Melissa Bell alledgedly assaulted 2 with shovel $100,000.00 STILL IN JAIL!!!
Alexandria, Louisiana is 30 minutes from Jena, Louisiana: Remember - you all took the ride just over a year ago!!
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3 pedestrians killed in Alexandria
10/24/2008, 9:13 p.m. CDT
ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A woman and her two, teenage daughters, were killed Friday when a car ran into them as they walked on the shoulder of Louisiana Highway 1.
The driver was seriously injured when the car went off the road about 3:45 p.m. and into a ditch after hitting the trio, police said.
The victims' names were not released.
Witnesses say the victims were on the shoulder of highway on the southbound side when a 2005 Chevrolet Equinox, veered off the road, hit them and continued into a ditch or culvert. Police say two of the pedestrians were pronounced dead at the scene; the other died at an area hospital.
Driver charged in Alexandria accident that killed mother, two daughters on La. Highway 1
Town Talk staff • October 25, 2008
A Lafayette man faces three counts of negligent homicide after he veered off the side of La. Highway 1 and hit three pedestrians Friday, killing a mother and her two teenage daughters, authorities reported.
The wreck happened around 3:40 p.m. Friday on the shoulder of the southbound lanes of La. 1 near Henry Street, in front of the Louisiana Machinery Co. dealership.
The victims were identified by police as Joann Isaac, 33, and her daughters, Brittany Isaac, 15, and Nyeisha Dumars, 13, all of Alexandria. Dumars died at Rapides Regional Medical Center while the other two were dead at the scene, authorities said.
The driver of the vehicle, Justin Brouillette, 21, was also charged with failure to maintain control and driving with a suspended license, Alexandria Police reported.
Brouillette was driving a 2005 Chevrolet Equinox south on La. 1 (North Bolton Avenue) when the vehicle went off the roadway and hit the pedestrians, police reported.
It does not appear that Brouillette intentionally hit the pedestrians, police said, and the investigation into the cause of the wreck is continuing. More charges could come as officers continue to look into what caused the wreck.
Brouillette was seriously injured when his vehicle hit a culvert after hitting the pedestrians, police said. He was reported to be hospitalized in stable condition Friday night, and although he has officially been charged, he hasn’t yet been booked into the Rapides Parish Jail.
Brouillette graduated from Marksville High School and is a former Alexandria resident, according to profile information on a personal Web page.
Southbound traffic on La. Highway 1 was closed for a few hours following the wreck as police gathered evidence and interviewed witnesses. Northbound traffic in that area was reduced to one lane for a while.
Personal belongings were scattered along the roadway and in a nearby ditch.
Some police officers investigating the wreck were visibly shaken by the scene.
An accident-reconstruction team tried to piece together what had caused Brouillette to leave the roadway, police said. The team stayed on the scene until dark and will return today for additional investigation.
Reporters Abbey Brown and David Dinsmore contributed to this report.
Driver in fatal wreck had DWI conviction
Associated Press - October 28, 2008 5:14 PM ET
ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) - The 21-year-old man accused of killing a woman and her two daughters as they walked along a highway had at least six speeding tickets and a drunk driving conviction in the three years before that accident.
Justin Paul Brouillette, of Lafayette, was booked Sunday, after he was released from a hospital. He was released on $30,500 bond - $19,000 in property and cash and $11,500 recognizance.
The charges against him are careless driving, driving after his license was suspended and three counts of negligent homicide.
The accident Friday killed 33-year-old Joann Isaac, 15-year-old Brittany Isaac, and 13-year-old Nyeisha Dumars, all of Alexandria.
Brouillette does not have a listed phone number.
The Avoyelles Parish Sheriff's Office says he pleaded guilty to DWI when he was 18.
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Home Edition 01/2019 Hans Mathias Kepplinger: Totschweigen und Skandalisieren [Withholding information and creating scandal]
Edition 01/2019, Review
Hans Mathias Kepplinger: Totschweigen und Skandalisieren [Withholding information and creating scandal]
reviewed by Guido Keel
Journalists make mistakes, just like any other profession. But long-serving Mainz-based communication studies expert Hans Mathias Kepplinger believes that these errors are more significant than most. In his view, they contribute directly to the loss of trust in the media – a problem for a democratic society that relies on its citizens being able to trust the media.
Journalists themselves thus bear some of the responsibility for this development. After all, according to Kepplinger, journalists have now become so alienated from society (cf. 173) that they see themselves as enlighteners who stand above the rest of society and work for the common good. They think they know better than others (cf. 171). In doing so, they employ two problematic practices: They create scandals out of essentially unproblematic events and they withhold facts that could explain a situation or lead to an alternative conclusion. In addition, they suffer from blind spots when it comes to putting (their own) journalistic mistakes up for discussion (cf. 113, 140ff.).
These are the hypotheses that Kepplinger pursues in his book. His analysis takes on a clear point of view: He does not investigate whether errors occur, but instead assumes that journalists make mistakes and tries to find out why. The case studies he chooses largely confirm his hypotheses – arguably making Kepplinger guilty of exactly the same actions as the journalists he pillories. But more on that later.
The investigation starts from the observation that the media in Germany are suffering a crisis of legitimation (cf. 10f.), receiving criticism on a range of issues from academics, the public, and fellow practitioners. This lack of credibility in the media has already been exhaustively described by other authors, notably Uwe Krüger in his book Mainstream. However, like others before him, Kepplinger also has to concede that the level of fundamental trust in the media in Germany remains relatively stable (cf. 22). When it comes to evaluating the specific journalistic quality seen today, the author’s assessment is based on data from the period 1964 to 1995.
Kepplinger goes on to argue that the media have gained in power and begun to abuse this power – despite the fact that much of the public discourse is taken up with complaints about the media’s general loss of significance. According to Kepplinger, this increase in the media’s options for exercising influence lies in the expansion of its legal privileges, the increase in range, especially of television, and the »decades-long reduction in opportunities for politicians to address the public independently and directly« (31) – all arguments that are undoubtedly questionable in an age of Facebook election campaigns and Twitter-happy heads of state.
Another cause, continues Kepplinger, is the change in how journalists themselves view their role (cf. 34ff.). He claims that more journalists now see their role as an active one, in which they emphasize information that fits in with their own world view. This hypothesis contradicts regular surveys of German journalists, which repeatedly find that they see their role as neutral communicators, reporting on things as they are, as by far their most important – much more important than aiming to shape the political agenda or influence public opinion (cf. e.g. Weischenberg/Malik/Scholl 2006: 102-110). Kepplinger thus finds an »abuse of power« (39) among journalists and asks whether journalists bear moral responsibility for the unintended side effects of their reporting.
Kepplinger therefore does exactly what he pillories journalists for doing: He creates scandal, in this case about the abuse of power of a professional group that plays a role in democracy, while also withholding information about investigations and points of view that contradict this finding. However, he also provides empirical evidence, which forms the core of his book.
Using eight case studies, the author investigates how journalists assess dubious practices and the arguments for and against these practices. In one of these practices, journalists create scandal by unduly adding to, combining, instrumentalizing, or abbreviating statements and by setting events inappropriately in or out of context. In the other, they withhold relevant facts in order to retain interpretational sovereignty or to prevent damage to reputations.
All the case studies come, at least indirectly, from German politics and are – coincidentally? – chosen so that all the victims of alleged journalistic mistakes are found at the right-wing, conservative end of the political spectrum: Wolfgang Schäuble, Bishop Tebartz-van Elst, Pegida, supporters of nuclear energy, Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Pegida again, supporters of nuclear energy again, Christian Wulff, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, and Susanne Gaschke, who, although an SPD and therefore left-wing politician, is a media victim as the result of a controversial tax remission granted to a businessman.
Kepplinger states that his intention with these eight case studies is not to provide overall assessments, but to discuss obvious examples within them where a line has been crossed. This has the convenient side-effect of releasing him from any obligation to report fully on an issue or to evaluate controversial practices appropriately. Despite this, and although Kepplinger does not say so in as many words, the case studies undeniably give the impression that the scandalous abuse of power he claims to have identified among journalists is directed against right-wingers by left-wing journalists. The book does not mention any mistakes made against left-wing actors and concerns at all. To quote Kepplinger himself once again, one could easily come to the conclusion that the author himself is the victim of a »hostile media effect« (118) that causes the worried to perceive negative reporting on their concerns as more negative than impartial observers do. This is a shame, as it detracts from the author’s real objective: to find out how journalists themselves judge dubious practices.
The real knowledge value of the book lies in its investigation of the connection between the perception of whether a certain journalistic practice is legitimate and the approval or rejection of journalists with regard to arguments for or against a certain journalistic practice in general.
The survey of 332 editors from selected departments of daily newspapers on the eight case studies shows that journalists largely adhere to the professional standards and that the majority of journalists consider the actions that Kepplinger describes as »creating scandal and withholding information« as illegitimate (cf. 108). But it is not these professionals that Kepplinger is interested in: »The analysis focuses not on the journalists that follow the rules,« but on the arguments of the minority that condone dubious practices to a greater or lesser extent.
The results show that journalists endorse certain dubious practices in individual cases if they already have a negative opinion of the person or situation that has potentially been unfairly treated. For example, journalists with a negative view of nuclear energy tended to see the excessive scandal created around nuclear energy as more acceptable than their colleagues whose views were more neutral. Although journalists believed that standards of professional ethics applied in general, they saw these standards as irrelevant in some cases, depending on their views on the specific topic. The applicability of a standard was thus assessed based on the specific case in question (cf. 49). This opens up a gulf between ideal and practical application – something that is not atypical in journalism. Although journalists consider certain rules and standards to apply, they tend to qualify them when they contradict the journalist’s own world view in a specific matter.
Kepplinger ends by drawing a credible conclusion, arguing that covering up errors in professional practice damages the public image of journalism. This insight, which has long been established in other professional fields, such as medicine and engineering, needs to enter into journalism. There is still a lot to do – work that is not made easier by journalists’ view that they are already confronted with significant public criticism. Journalists need to face up to the findings that are presented in this book – without being distracted from the agenda that the author’s subjective choice of case studies seems to suggest.
Translation: Sophie Costella
This book review first appeared in rezensionen:kommunikation:medien (r:k:m).
Weischenberg, Siegfried; Malik, Maja; Scholl, Armin: Die Souffleure der Mediengesellschaft. Report über die Journalisten in Deutschland. Constance [UVK] 2006
Prof. Dr. Guido Keel is Head of the Institute of Applied Media Studies at Zurich University of Applied Sciences. The focuses of his research include quality in journalism, change in journalism, and journalism in non-European contexts.
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SEN. KATE BOLZ and SEN. TIM GRAGERT
Water is the lifeblood of Nebraska. It fuels our economy and sustains our quality of life.
Despite floods, droughts, pests and economic challenges, our valuable water resources and their effective management have made Nebraska a global leader in agriculture. In fact, we have more irrigated acres than any other state, including California.
Yet even as Nebraska has maintained its water resources, food and water insecurity is becoming an increasingly urgent global challenge. Almost 1 billion people go to bed hungry every night – making this both a quality-of-life and international security issue.
Closer to home, this year’s devastating floods across Nebraska are a powerful reminder of the importance of effective water management, particularly in the face of an unpredictable climate.
As the Appropriations Committee heard in a recent hearing on water research at our university, the people of our state are fortunate that our University of Nebraska is leading the way in developing solutions.
This year the university is celebrating 150 years of research and education. Since the beginning, the university has focused on water, agriculture and the management of critical resources.
Researchers and students have a rich history of working closely with our farmers, ranchers and resource managers to develop new technology and find better ways of managing water to achieve maximum production, without over-using this precious resource.
We deepened our investment over a decade ago when a founding gift from the Robert B. Daugherty Foundation helped create the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska, a system-wide effort to bring the talents and expertise of faculty across the campuses to address the enormous challenge of achieving water and food security for our growing world.
In just 10 years, the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute has developed a reputation as the go-to resource for water and agriculture productivity innovations. Senators heard just a few examples of the interconnected issues our university tackles on a daily basis, including drought, floods and other weather extremes; water and soil contamination; changing diets and demands for more water-intensive foods; economic disparities and conflict; and the infrastructure needed for sustainable agricultural production and effective water management.
We’re already seeing new innovations borne of partnerships between the university and farmers and ranchers. For example, many Nebraska farmers are now using drones to keep an eye on their fields and see the pockets of crops that need water. They use soil moisture probes that send data to satellites and accessed by smartphone. They have specialized meters attached to their wells, measuring the energy used to pump water for irrigation.
Our ranchers are also doing remarkable work with the university, implementing new practices for producing beef, chicken and dairy products that are served at Michelin star restaurants around the world – but with significantly less water than it took 25 years ago.
We have much to be proud of in our agricultural heritage, but Nebraska’s continued global leadership will require more work and more investment. All of us should have a goal to make certain families have dinner on the table every night. That’s a future we think we can achieve – through continued support of University of Nebraska research and with the engagement of Nebraskans who have made our agriculture and natural resources management so successful.
Sen. Kate Bolz represents District 29. Sen. Tim Gragert represents District 40.
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Each year since 2012, Ms. Rossi has received the highest rating — an AV Preeminent Rating — from Martindale-Hubbell. Martindale-Hubbell is one of the oldest and best-known catalogues of lawyers in the United States. According to Martindale-Hubbell, an AV Preeminent Rating “is a significant accomplishment — a testament to the fact that a lawyer’s peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence.” One of the public and non-confidential peer review ratings that Ms. Rossi received stated: “Jennifer Rossi is a top rate, superb attorney. She is completely devoted to her clients’ causes and works extremely hard to secure the best possible results for them. She is energetic, talented and a fighter. She is truly deserving of the highest rating.”
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Barack Obama Makes His Billboard Chart Debut With Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’ Remix
Posted 8:05 AM, January 3, 2019, by CNN Wire
Former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally at Detroit Cass Tech High School on October 26, 2018 in Detroit. (Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
One last time, Barack Obama is music to some people’s ears.
The former president has debuted on Billboard’s Hot R&B Songs chart at number 22.
Obama can thank “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda for making him a chart star due to the song “One Last Time (44 Remix),” which is a gospel inspired remix of a song from the hit Broadway show.
The song features Obama along with Christopher Jackson and gospel star BeBe Winans.
Fans of the former president know he is all about music.
Back in 2012 he thrilled the crowd at the Apollo Theater in New York City during a campaign event when he sang a snippet of the Al Green hit “Let’s Stay Together.”
Two years ago he shared even more of his R & B flow when he “slow jammed” the news on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.”
More recently Obama caused a stir when he shared on Facebook his end of the year list of favorite songs which included Leon Bridges, Brandi Carlile, Prince, Cardi B, Hozier, Kendrick Lamar, and of course his good friends, Jay-Z and Beyonce.
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Measles Outbreak Claims Lives of More Than 50 Children in Samoa
Posted 9:06 PM, December 1, 2019, by Associated Press
In this photo illustration a one dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine, made by MERCK, is held up at the Salt Lake County Health Department on April 26, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Credit: George Frey/Getty Images)
Samoa’s government said Monday that another five children had died within the past day from a measles outbreak, bringing the death toll from the epidemic to more than 50 as authorities race to vaccinate the entire population.
Samoa declared a national emergency last month and mandated that all 200,000 people living on the South Pacific island nation get vaccinated. The government has closed all schools and banned children from public gatherings.
In all, 53 people have died in the outbreak since late October, including one adult and two older teenagers. Most of those who have died have been babies and young infants, including 23 children aged less than 1 and 25 children aged between 1 and 4.
The government said more than 1,100 people have been admitted to hospitals since the outbreak began and about 180 people remain hospitalized. Among those hospitalized are 19 children who are in critical condition.
Samoan authorities believe the virus was first spread by a traveler from New Zealand.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday that her country was doing everything it could to help curb the epidemic, including sending more than 50 medical professionals and thousands of vaccines to Samoa. Other countries including Britain have also sent teams and supplies.
Ardern said the natural curve of infection rates meant that “sometimes things can be worse before they are better.”
Figures from the World Health Organization and UNICEF indicate that fewer than 30% of Samoan infants were immunized last year. That low rate was exacerbated by a medical mishap that killed two babies who were administered a vaccine that had been incorrectly mixed, causing wider delays and distrust in the vaccination program.
The government said about 33,000 people were vaccinated before last month and since then, another 58,000 people have been vaccinated.
The World Health Organization has set a target of wiping out measles from most of the world by next year. It says the disease is entirely preventable thanks to a safe vaccine that has been in use since the 1960s, and that measles deaths worldwide decreased by 84% between 2000 and 2016 to about 90,000 annually thanks to better immunization.
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Layton Aho
I write and photograph in my spare time.
Six Years Before The Flag
Killzone Shadow Fall: Fallen City
I enjoy this game. While the controls are questionable at times, the game play mediocre and the voice acting atrocious it is a gorgeous game with beautiful set pieces. The story falls flat sometimes but there are hints of potential all the way through. There are also snippets of interesting game play such as encounters inside a derelict spaceship approaching a nearby star which yields some unique interaction with a melting spaceship. Some good, some bad but overall I enjoy it.
Except one part.
Chapter 8 brings you back to Helghan, free falling through a collapsing city. Why a city is collapsing around your ears is hand waved away. I try not to critique designers too much, since it’s their job to create games that people enjoy. Plus I don’t know, maybe someone does enjoy this part.
But I do believe whoever designed the first section of Chapter 8 should be reprimanded or fired. There is nothing fun about flying through a city with minimal control trying to dodge buildings. If you live more than ten seconds without a frustrating splat against a wall, restarting the sequence droning music and all, consider it a minor miracle. Never mind the fact that you have to fly through this maze of idiocy for nearly a minute before Killzone goes back to being a proper shooter.
I almost gave up on completing this game due to this section.
Posted in Video Games and tagged gaming, Killzone: Shadow Fall, Playstation on November 17, 2013 by laytonaho. Leave a comment
The Last Of Us: Pittsburgh
Escaping Bill’s Town our survivors are headed south towards Pittsburgh. I felt like the cut scenes here worked well, serving as a compliment to the opening scenes of the game. The budding relationship between Joel and Ellie is reflective of the bond shown in the prologue. Even from just her humor you start to understand why Joel begins to feel obligated to protect Ellie.
Arriving in Pittsburgh evidence from Joel’s dark years between the prologue and the present begins to surface. Despite his better judgement he decides to brave the roads into the city. Soon Joel sniffs out an ambush (the gang preying on human empathy) and runs down the bait with the truck as his gang lies in wait. A brutal fight in the remains of a convenience store occurs after the truck is run off the road from the well organized band. The chaos of the moment is captured well as Joel and Ellie are outnumbered and disoriented from the crash, giving the player the appropriate sense of panic.
Escaping from the scene Joel and Ellie discover the ambush was orchestrated by hunters, survivors who kill anyone who comes into their territory. Joel also reveals how he knew it was ambush, telling Ellie that he’s been on the other end of that scenario as well. It’s comments like this that hint to Joel’s moral ambiguity. They also render Ellie’s cries of “Holy shit, Joel!” as rather appropriate.
Needing to escape Pittsburgh, which is crawling with hunters, Joel and Ellie head towards the Fort Duquesne Bridge, dodging patrols of hunters. I like the contrast of the encounters with humans against encounters with the infected. It requires a different style of play as humans are more observant than the infected. They also react based on how they’re attacked: if you’re pull out a gun they’ll let their friends know and you’ll soon be under fire yourself. They’re not afraid to hurl molotovs your way as well, often while you are hiding behind some sort of cover.
This is also the first time you encounter humans with most of your kit. The earlier human enemies you had maybe a gun or two but it was for the most part sneaking by them and melee fights. These run ins with hunters are more fraught with gunfire and ambushes, since you have the resources available to pull this off. Plus by now Joel has collected enough supplements for an upgrade or two.
What impresses me the most about this chapter is that it’s the fifth chapter in this game, which only has twelve chapters total, and I still haven’t felt like they’ve recycled something. In the seven hours I have played (again, I’m playing on hard) I don’t feel like I’ve encountered anything that is a rehash of a mechanic or situation from earlier in the game. That is impressive on the designer’s part.
The last type of infected make their debut in Pittsburgh, called Stalkers. They rely on ambush tactics and seem to fall between Runners and Clickers on the life cycle of the of the cordyceps. I didn’t have much problem with them but I think the reason for this is because I apply liberal usage of Joel’s listening mode when things seem “too quiet” for my taste. The flooded basement of a hotel they show up in also featured the first major glitch I encountered, discounting the auto-save glitch.
When I first entered the basement none of story line features and enemies spawned. I was unable to move on, and I didn’t realize the game was glitched until I grew frustrated and looked at my guide. I was correct in assuming there was a key card for a door in the basement but the card was no where to be found. Restarting the encounter fixed that problem though and I was able to move on without a problem. During the second half of this encounter my exact reaction was that of “Screw this, I’m done with this place.” as I sprinted for the exit. No shame in running when you can.
A large part of the chapter, after the infected in the hotel, is avoiding the hunters as they search for you. When you have the resources it’s best to fight but sometimes stealth is best. This is the level that made me realize the most powerful weapon in this game is the bow. I spent the entire chapter searching for arrows, often a fruitless effort. The reason is this: the ability to kill someone from a range without alerting anyone makes every other weapon pale in comparison. That and molotov cocktails. There are encounters in Pittsburgh that can be over in seconds with a well timed molotov.
Pittsburgh was, so far, the longest chapter. Overall I believe it took me somewhere in the ballpark of five or six hours and at least a half a dozen deaths to make it through to the bridge. The time may be because I play extra cautious and restart encounters if I run into problems instead of needlessly dying over and over again. Watching me play would bore some people to tears.
UPDATE: Since a lot of people look this up I’ll provide an answer here as well. The song that plays during the truck ambush is Alone And Forsaken by Hank Williams.
Posted in Video Games and tagged gaming, Naughty Dog, Playstation, The Last Of Us on August 12, 2013 by laytonaho. Leave a comment
BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea – Episode 1
Irrational Games have announced the DLC for BioShock: Infinite. The first, Clash in the Clouds, was announced and released today. The other, titled Burial at Sea – Episode 1, brings Booker and Elizabeth back to the watery depths of Rapture. Rapture before everything collapsed and became the lost paradise explored in BioShock.
Friends, old and new, will be made and many familiar places will be explored during their glory days. Combining the best elements of BioShock and BioShock: Infinite, there will be new weapons, and vigors as well as classic elements from BioShock, including the iconic Big Daddies.
It’s not yet certain why Booker and Elizabeth will be visiting the doomed underwater city. Nor do I care much, I’ve been waiting six years to see the city in its prime. I am thrilled by this announcement and can’t wait to make a glorious return to Rapture.
Posted in Video Games and tagged BioShock Infinite, gaming on July 30, 2013 by laytonaho. Leave a comment
BioShock Infinite: Clash in the Clouds
Irrational Games have at last announced DLC for BioShock: Infinite. The first, available today, is Clash in the Clouds. Throw the amazing story out the window, load up one of four maps (each with fifteen waves) and unleash carnage among the chaos. All the guns, vigors, tears and gear are at your disposal to rip your way through the enemies and challenges.
I’ve only played the first ten waves of The Ops Zeal until a Siren destroyed me like I knew she would. I can’t even begin to fathom completing the Blue Ribbon Challenge for that wave. The challenges are a large part of the fun. Not that obliterating everything on the screen with whatever is available isn’t enjoyable. It’s an absolute riot.
The challenges bring something extra. They’re a puzzle hidden in the destruction, waiting for you to figure out how to best accomplish your goal. Some of them are just proper preparation, such as bringing the right weapons or vigors, while others are skillful play. Some challenges are just doing things the hard way: kill a wave of soldiers and a Handyman without head shots or heart shots.
Completing waves and challenges earns you money to spend on upgrading your vigors and weapons while clearing unbeaten, waves unlocks infusions and gear for Booker to bring to the fight.
As you progress you earn trophies in the Columbian Archaeological Society, unlocking concept art, voxophones and more. There are leader boards to compare your progress to your friends and to see how well you stack up in the global rankings.
Overall it’s an utter blast. If you don’t have the season pass, it’s only $5 and available now. Even having only played it for an hour or two I can tell you it’s worth it. I’m off to play some more.
Don’t forget your weapons.
The Last Of Us: Bill’s Town
After leaving The Outskirts of Boston Ellie and Joel are headed to pay a friend of Joel’s a visit, Bill. He lives in what was once Lincoln, now better known as Bill’s Town. This is also Ellie’s first time ever seeing natural wilderness, having lived her entire life inside the Boston Quarantine Zone.
It becomes apparent that Bill is a paranoid maniac who has booby trapped his town at every corner. You can’t blame the guy that much, he does live on his own outside the Quarantine Zone. Appropriate precautions have to be taken. That also means that Joel and Ellie have to work their way through his maze of defenses without alerting infected to their presence. Easier said than done when Joel ends up on the wrong end of one of Bill’s snare traps.
This is the first area I noticed my panicking over the slightest of sounds, whether it was ambient noise or Joel climbing something. In retrospect I did that before in earlier sections but it wasn’t at the forefront as much. With the not so claustrophobic feel of Bill’s Town (compared to The Outskirts) it was eerie how empty it was. I was waiting for infected, stalkers to be precise, to be lurking in every corner. Yet there wasn’t, which made navigating the alleys and rooftops of Bill’s Town just that much more unnerving. The tension goes off with a bang with the snare trap, where both Joel and Ellie are panicking right along with me as the player as infected swarm toward the site.
Bill makes his appearance and the three escape without serious injury. Turns out Joel wants a favor from Bill: a working vehicle. It means crawling their through the infected half of Bill’s Town, where Bill doesn’t roam anymore. The lesson I learned from this one is not to be a resource hog. I was having trouble dealing with numerous clickers and sneaking by them wasn’t working out as well I would have hoped. Frustrated I just went all out on them with everything I had: molotovs, shotgun, nail bombs, and of a course of a trusty brick and pipe combination. It worked like a charm. From then on I was a little less conservative with my supplies because for the frustration wasn’t worth the potential benefit of hoarding my resources. Plus there are always bricks and bottles around.
I will say this though: if you can make it past infected without raising an alarm then do it as it will save you a world of hurt. But don’t slam your head into a wall trying to sneak by every infected in the game. Sometimes you just have to kill some zombies the old fashioned way.
Posted in Video Games and tagged gaming, Naughty Dog, Playstation, The Last Of Us on July 23, 2013 by laytonaho. Leave a comment
The Last Of Us: The Outskirts
At the conclusion of the previous chapter, The Quarantine Zone, we are introduced at last to Ellie. In a gamble to get some stolen merchandise back Joel and Tess agree to smuggle Ellie out of the Boston QZ for Marlene, the leader of a quasi-vigilante group known as the Fireflies. Their symbol and slogans are spray-painted on the walls of the quarantine zone as they fight a losing war against the military in control the quarantine zones. The Fireflies aspire to restore the world to former glory, erasing the ravages of the ophiocordyceps unilateralis outbreak.
From a gameplay perspective this chapter is a natural expansion on the first chapter. Where as the basics of maneuvers and concepts were introduced before, this chapter focuses on sharpening them, bringing the player a more nuanced view. This chapter also teaches harsh lessons designed to break preconceived notions of how survival horror, or third person action, games are played.
During the first stages of this chapter Joel and company are avoiding military patrols just outside the quarantine zone. Armed with assault rifles and body armor these soldiers are not to be tangled with as it’s almost guaranteed suicide on harder difficulties. In the first chapter stealth was, for the most part, optional. It may have made the encounters easier on tougher settings, but in the end just running and gunning (or in this two-by-four swinging) could get you most of the way through. That won’t work this time around. The design here places emphasis on misdirection and the importance of staying out of sight. Keeping the soldiers distracted while you slip through is a vital lesson to learn. The more difficult the setting the more crucial this aspect of the game is, as resources are even more scarce, so using them on an avoidable encounter will make things just that much harder.
The most brutal lesson comes once the soldiers have given up, called back to the quarantine zone. Heading towards the abandoned state house Joel, Tess and Ellie find numerous infected in the ruins of Boston. Here we are introduced to the clickers, the most terrifying type of infected. The encounter’s setup is borderlines on sadistic and the player should thank the designers for this.
Four runners, one of which is stationary, spread out in a couple adjoined rooms and one clicker, also static. The reason this is such a brilliant design is that it forces the player to learn what works and what doesn’t. If this were another Naughty Dog title such as Uncharted, or another survival horror game, Dead Space perhaps, the usual approach would be to target the most dangerous foe, the clicker, and take them down as soon as possible then shift attention to the lesser threats, in this case, runners. Try it, like I did, and Joel’s throat will be ripped out quicker than you can say delicious jugular veins. So that didn’t work, let’s just outrun the clicker and kill the little guys first then. That should work. Nope, not in The Last Of Us, this game doesn’t play that way. The runners are all over you before you get halfway down the hall, pummeling Joel’s poor body into mush. Four on one aren’t great odds for Joel, and if the runners haven’t managed to smear you all over the floor by the time the clicker gets there it’s game over once he’s caught up anyways.
After several frustrating attempts at shooting my way through with a whopping seven bullets and a two-by-four I gave up for the night. I came back after work the next day and decided to take my time with it, learning from the over-aggression and terrible run-and-gun style of shooting that did me in on my last attempts. Here’s the basics of doing it right which by the way, can still be difficult. Strangle the stationary runner first, as this doesn’t alert any of the other infected. Then notice the patterns the others move in and find the right place for another stealth kill. Bricks and bottles are your friends, there’s a reason they’re all over the place: makeshift melee weapons, ranged stuns, distractions to set up stealth ambushes. Avoid the clicker for as long as possible, you can kill three of the four infected without fear of alerting him, and this is ideal. Once you’re ready for him, then bring the fight to him, using careful aim (the head! the head! they’re still zombies… sort of) or a bottle to the face followed by good old fashioned two-by-four beating.
Why I love this encounter is because it does a marvelous job of showing you just how fast things can get out of hand in this game. Following this the designers then proceed to make the clicker less terrifying, but not by much, by showing you how you can avoid them. Since they’re blind and use hearing to find prey, bricks and bottles do a gear job of steering the clickers where you want them to go. Even this knowledge it doesn’t make walking into a pitch dark room filled with half a dozen clickers any less nerve wracking. I had to pause the game for while and make myself something to eat because I had to build up my confidence to venture further into the room.
The last encounter of the chapter also taught another lesson: when you’re in rough shape and the exit is clear, create a distraction and run like hell and hope you’re not shot in the back.
By the time I was in the latter parts of this chapter I just had to know who was the lead writer for this game, because the story is just that well plotted, and moving. It’s Neil Druckmann by the way.
Posted in Video Games and tagged gaming, Naughty Dog, Playstation, The Last Of Us on June 21, 2013 by laytonaho. Leave a comment
The Last Of Us: The Quarantine Zone
The game picks up Joel again twenty years after the outbreak when he now calls the Boston quarantine zone home. We also meet his business partner Tess, looking a little worse for wear. Life in the quarantine zone is not cushy as martial law is enforced, with military check points and ration cards. A black market for goods, be it food or weapons, is evident as Joel and Tess serve as smugglers into and out of the Boston QZ. Appears a man named Robert is giving them some trouble, as a shipment of their guns has gone missing, and he seems to have tried to kill Tess.
Enemies introduced are regular humans and runners, the first type of infected. Combat against humans in this chapter is pretty straight forward as most of them are on guard patrols. If you stay quiet and use stealth kills you shouldn’t waste many bullets. Dealing with the first three runners you meet is straight forward as one of them is easy to stealth kill and fisticuffs will finish off the other two.
I appreciate how this chapter is set up, serving as a more thorough introduction to the setting and the general game play mechanics, as it should. It also develops Joel and Tess’s post-apocalyptic survivor mentality and by the chapter’s end it is quite clear that these two will do anything to survive.
Posted in Video Games and tagged gaming, Naughty Dog, Playstation, The Last Of Us on June 18, 2013 by laytonaho. 3 Comments
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For most of the last fifty years, the mall has been one of the most popular destination for teenagers all over America. It’s a place where young people spend time with each other to connect and build relationships. In recent years, though, that trend has changed, as fewer and fewer teenagers are choosing to spend their time at malls and more shopping is done online. Listen to one young person’s attempt to understand why teenage mall culture has changed so much recently.
In what ways did Andrew Carnegie’s libraries serve their communities?
How did Carnegie benefit from a library when he was growing up?
Which personality traits helped propel Carnegie from poverty to riches? Bring specific details from the story to support your ideas.
According to Carnegie, what should rich people do with their money and why? Why was Carnegie known as both generous and “brutal”?
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How Adults View Teens
Adults have a wide range of opinions about teenagers and other youth, positive and negative. Often, these are based on stereotypes, not necessarily experience. Regardless of how these opinions were formed and what they are, they certainly have an impact on young people everywhere. In Baltimore these opinions and the reactions to them may have a lot to do with the social unrest that has built up in the city. Listen to learn about how a group of teenagers from Baltimore feel they are viewed by adults, and how they feel about those views.
13 Reasons Why Not
In response to the popular, yet controversial Netflix show "13 Reasons Why," one school began sharing some personal stories from students struggling with suicidal thoughts. Instead of sharing the reasons why someone might make the choice to end their life, however, they shared messages of hope and positive influences on the lives of its students. Listen to hear those stories and how they impacted the students at the school.
Promposals
Promposals--over-the-top performances of asking someone to prom--have become more and more common in recent years as teens seek to outdo one another in extravagantly asking their date to prom. While some people feel that promposals are just cute wastes of time, others feel differently. Listen to hear one student’s experience with promposals at her high school in Berkeley.
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Am new to the list and looking for Elizabeth CLARKE, on childrens birth certificate was listed as being born in different places, one being Plymouth and the other Jersey. She married? John FERGUSON in 1859/69 in Monkland in Scotland but I have been unable to find any record there. Could it be possible they married in Monkleigh which I think is in Devon. Would be grateful for any comments. Chris Sydney Australia
1841 census lookup
by Kevin Miller
I am wondering if anyone can look in the Langtree area of the 1841 Devon census for a Perkin or Perkins family. There names would be John and Jane Perkin. They would be quite elderly both about 80 or older Thank You Kevin
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by Jenny Morgan
Hello again, I would appreciate a lookup in the 1871 for the family of: William DAWS. I have him on the 1851 living at 34 Pembroke St, Stoke Damerel aged 33, and his wife is Jane, aged 27. This Puts the couple at 53, and 47 respectively in the 1871. They were both born in Stoke Dam. thank you Cheers Jenny in nippy NZ http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~phase2/
WILLCOCKS in Stoke Damerel 1760's
by Martin Willcocks
WANTED! - Any information relating to the following: 1. Robert WILLCOCKS m. Hannah HEARLE 6 Feb 1762 Stoke Damerel Devon. Where was Robert from? Was Robert OTP? Hannah was, chr. 30 May 1733 Stoke Damerel, d/o Samuel & Jane. Who was Jane? 1.1 Richard WILLCOCKS chr. 8 Jan 1763 Stoke Damerel, Devon. I haven't found a marriage for him. If married, to whom and when? If died, where and when buried? 1.2 Ann Bishop WILLCOCKS chr. 5 Apr 1764 Stoke Damerel, Devon. Was she the Ann WILLCOCKS who married William BRIGHT on her 22nd birthday 5 Apr 1786 Stoke Damerel, Devon? Does anyone have a BISHOP connection that might include Ann or one of her parents or grandparents (e.g. Jane)? 1.2.1 William BRIGHT chr. 6 Jan 1790 Stoke Damerel, Devon s/o William and Ann 1.2.2 Joseph BRIGHT b. 3 Feb 1791 chr. 6 Jul 1796 Stoke Damerel Devon s/o William and Ann Questions: Any marriages known for these? Were there any other children (haven't found any!) Did Ann or William die soon after the second child? Why the 5+ years wait between birth and christening for Joseph? 1.3 Robert WILLCOCKS chr. 24 Jul 1765 Stoke Damerel, (my 3rd grt gf) m. Mary Ann CONN (chr. 27 Nov 1776 Stoke Damerel) on 28 Dec 1797 St. Mary's, Portsea, Hampshire I have descendants of this family fairly well documented. Questions: Did any others of above/below move to Portsea? 1.4 Hannah Hearle WILLCOCKS, chr. 6 Oct 1767 Stoke Damerel, Devon. I haven't found a marriage. Did she marry, if so who, where, and when? When did she die? Did she move to Portsea? (Her middle name was her mother's maiden name.) 1.5 Jane WILLCOCKS chr. 18 Dec 1769 Stoke Damerel, Devon. My brother found a Jane WILLCOCKS in St. Mary's, Portsea burials on 14 Nov 1809, when she would have been 40 (but he did not note her age at death, if it was given.) Or, did she marry Thomas COURTIS on 10 Jan 1804 (age 34) at Stoke Damerel? Did they have children? When did she die, as Jane COURTIS? In my CONN line, I am still trying, without success, to find a marriage of John CONN to Ann Frances COOPER chr. 19 Jul 1747 Stoke Damerel, which I believe to have been in late 1763. Their first child John CONN was chr. 5 Aug 1764 at Stoke Damerel. The COOPER surname is suggested by a later son's middle name (Charles Cooper CONN). Someone on this list replied several months ago to say she was searching the registers in the time frame of interest to me, but has not come back to me with any possible results. IGI doesn't have answers to these questions. The state of this family has barely changed in several years of searching for more information. Still searching after all these years! Any help greatly appreciated Martin Willcocks Taylorsville, UT, USA. (from where I can't just pop into the Plymouth branch of the Devon Record Office, which was closed seven years ago when I last visited England and Devon!)
John SAUNDERS, Chawleigh 1861
by Michael Mitchelmore
Is SKS able to look up John SAUNDERS in the 1861 census of Chawleigh? He was born in Crediton in 1812 and I expect him to be living in the Village with his wife Mary (b. 1806) and children Fanny (1842), Harriett (1846) and John (1849), all born in Chawleigh. TIA. Mike ===== Michael Mitchelmore DFHS #13953 Sydney, Australia OPC for Chawleigh & Wembworthy For MITCHELMORE, PHILLIPS, SAUNDERS & TUCKER family histories, visit http://au.geocities.com/m_mitchelmore Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com
RE: [DEV] 1871 census - DAWS
by NorthDevonRendle
Sorry Jenny. No sign of them on the 1871 on ancestry.com. Mike Rendle Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK > From: Jenny Morgan [mailto:phase2@ihug.co.nz] > I would appreciate a lookup in the 1871 for the family of: > William DAWS. I have him on the 1851 living at 34 Pembroke St, Stoke > Damerel aged 33, and his wife is Jane, aged 27. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.711 / Virus Database: 467 - Release Date: 25/06/2004
RE: [DEV] 1871 lookup - WILLIAMS, Edwin
Hi Jenny, From ancestry.com 1871 index RG10/2210/60/25 Shap ?, Tamerton Foliott Edwin WILLIAM, Head, Mar, 39, ?Dock Labourer, Devon Tamerton Foliott Emma WILLIAM, Wife, Mar, 34, ?Dock Labourer's Wife, Devon Buckland Monachorum Henry WILLIAM, Son, -, 8, Scholar, Devon Tamerton Foliott Alice WILLIAM, Daur, -, 6, Scholar, Devon Tamerton Foliott Sampson WILLIAM, Son, -, 1, -, Devon Tamerton Foliott Best regards Mike Rendle Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK > -----Original Message----- > From: Jenny Morgan [mailto:phase2@ihug.co.nz] > Sent: 30 June 2004 04:00 > To: DEVON-L(a)rootsweb.com > Subject: [DEV] 1871 lookup - WILLIAMS, Edwin > > Hello kind souls, > > Would someone mind looking up the family of Edwin (aged 39)and Emma > Williams please. > > In the 1881 they are at Russell House, Tamerton Folliott. > > Their children, circa 1871: > > Henry > Alice > Sampson > > Thank you > Jenny in cold and windy NZ > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~phase2/ > > > ==== DEVON Mailing List ==== > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV/ ) and > the Devon FHS ( http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.711 / Virus Database: 467 - Release Date: 25/06/2004 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.711 / Virus Database: 467 - Release Date: 25/06/2004
Petherwyn
Greetings, Does anyone know what town/parish Petherwyn is now a part of? I have searched through GENUKI with no success. Thank you. Carol
SAVAGE - Plymouth
by Ian Wilkins
Hello Listers, I am seeking information on George SAVAGE born 1846 London and died pre 1901, and two places in Plymouth. He was a musician and a playwright and apparently had his own theatre c1880-1900. Please does anyone have any information where this may have been and if it still exists? He also had at the same time an antique shop near the Barbican. Please can anyone help with an address for this? He suffered from asthma and spent the summer in Plymouth and the winter in the Channel Islands because of his health. Any assistance will be very much appreciated. Thank you, Ian Wilkins --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.710 / Virus Database: 466 - Release Date: 23/06/2004
VANSTONE/PIPER
by Kay Sleith
Hi, I would love to hear from anyone who has connections to Vanstone - Hatherleigh Piper - Great Torrington Amy Vanstone married George Piper in 1844. Thanks Kay from Australia
!871 Census James Braddick
by frances.braddick
Many thanks to Jack Earnshaw and Elizabeth Howard for solving the puzzle as to where James Braddick and his family were in 1871. This is definitely the correct family. His wife was Rebecca Pook. Regards Frances in NZ
1861 Census Exeter Devon
by Moya Warren
Is it possible for some one to look up the 1861 census. Sorry I don't have full address. It is for the family Cole. Father Aaron, Mother Dinah, son John and maybe son Aaron. Dinah & Aaron were married in 1857, she came from Stockley (Stockleigh) near Exeter, and the children were born in Exeter. Many thanks Moya Warren (Ausatralia)
HENHAM name
by Brian Conroy
Dear List, My Father and Great Grandfather both had 'Henham' as a middle name. Quite unusual, I wonder if it might have been a surname carried on at some point as a middle name to keep it 'alive'? Is anyone out there researching the surname HENHAM? Is it a name local to Devon? Or does anyone have any ideas? Best wishes, Brian Conroy Oxfordshire
1871 lookup - WILLIAMS, Edwin
Hello kind souls, Would someone mind looking up the family of Edwin (aged 39)and Emma Williams please. In the 1881 they are at Russell House, Tamerton Folliott. Their children, circa 1871: Henry Alice Sampson Thank you Jenny in cold and windy NZ http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~phase2/
Off topic - Devon trip advice
Apologies for this slightly off topic post. Please reply directly to me rather than the list. I spent the summer of 1960 in Devon (waitressing at a holiday camp) but haven't been back since! I have finally managed to wangle a week this September (20th) and would be grateful if anyone could recommend suitable b&b accommodation in Exeter (or Plymouth). I would say it should be near the DRO but - waddyaknow - after all this time they are going to be closed - precisely when I have finally managed to get a chance to visit! But I expect Tree House will be open and, I hope, the West Country Studies Library. I may also get to Plymouth I suppose. Sandra WINDEATT sandra(a)windeatt.f2s.com (unofficial WINDEATT/WINGETT/WINGATE study) http://www.windeatt.f2s.com/windeatt/index.htm
Fw: Look Up 1871 Census
by hspalmer
Hello, Is there anyone able to do a look-up in the 1871 Devon census? I am looking for: Harriet(or Harriott) Potter F U b 1860 Ilsington George Thomas Stevens M U b 1864 Bishopsteignton I would really appreciate it and it might solve a few mysteries(maybe). Sandra Palmer New Brunswick, Canada
RANDLE / EARLE/ MITCHELL/ LINSCOTT and others
Hi Listers Seems like a good time to re post our interests RANDLE Berry Pomeroy from 1665 and New Zealand HOLBERTON Dartington, Berry Pomeroy and Torquay FORD Berry Pomeroy and Abbotskerswell EARLE Torquay and Totnes MITCHELL Berry Pomeroy and Totnes BLACKALLER Berry Pomeroy LINSCOTT Lympstone BEAVIS Ipplepen and Marldon GOSS Bishopsteignton HARRIS Bishopsteignton HANNAFORD Rattery and South Brent ELLIOT Rattery and South Brent GUPPY Devon ELLIS Marldon Will be pleaed to hear from anyone with connections with any of these names Best wishes Jean in Torquay
1861 census Germansweek
Hi List, Would sks with access to the 1861 Devon census look for a Germanswek family for me please? William and Sidwill TAVERNER alias AVERY, age approx 60. T I A Sue Plymouth DFHS 13805
Prigg, 1891, Ottery St Mary
by Fred Boulton
Hi, everyone. Am searching for Thomas PRIGG aged 15 in 1891, born in Ottery, moved to Bristol sometime in 1890's to get married. His father is supposed to be James who died in 1876, mother is Mary Harriet Basten (or Bastin) Any listings of Prigg or Bastin(en) would be gratefully received. Thankyou Fred Boulton Spaxton - 'Centre of the Universe' (see www.spaxton.net and www.quantockonline.co.uk) Researching pre 1900 BOULTON, PARSONS, WARREN, HAMLYN, CLEMENTS, CURTIS and ARKWELL.
1871 Census Look Up - Vigars
by Tony Vigars
Would someone be able & willing to do a lookup for me? Probably in London (possibly Bermondsey): John VIGARS(often misspell e.g.,VIGERS) Aged c40 Policeman? b. Tavistock DEV Elizabeth VIGARS Aged c47-8 b. Lamerton DEV Bessie VIGARS Aged 15 b.Tavistock Richard VIGARS Aged 14 b. Tavistock Many Thanks, Tony Vigars DFHS 11018
This is a very friendly list dedicated to helping people in their genealogical research in the county of Devon. The list is jointly sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV and the Devon Family History Society http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ We recommend that you READ the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) file (with answers!) at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/DevonFAQ BEFORE posting messages to Devon-L. We strongly recommend that you visit The Devon Family History Society web site at http://www.devonfhs.org.uk Here you will find details of membership and information regarding the various indexes that the Society publishes. The Society operates a low cost look up service, available to both members and non-members alike, from its computer databases. A Surnames list shows which Devon names are held in those databases. All Devon marriages from 1754 to 1812 and 1813 to 1837 are available, Publications are available, both printed and on CD. The Devon Family History Society was founded in 1976 and is one of the largest in the country with over 3,500 members. The Society has its own centre in Exeter, The Tree House, which is open three days a week, and contains the following: o Books: a collection of books on local and family history research, trees, wills, and parish documents, also family histories. o Documents: including trees, wills and parish documents o Microfiche: including Devon Censuses and the General Register Office index to births, deaths and marriages 1837-2002 for the whole of England and Wales. If you are already a member of Devon Family History Society can we ask you to please show so when sending and answering messages through this list. The Devon GENUKI Web Site is one of the first places to look on the Internet for information regarding Devon genealogy. We strongly recommend that you explore this site, which can be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV This contains information, in some cases quite extensive, about each and every Devon parish, as well as related to the county as a whole. There is an online Devon Gazetteer at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/#Gazetteers This is a 12,000-item listing of Devon villages, parishes, hamlets, churches, chapels, etc., with links in each case to the page in GENUKI/Devon where more information is to be found about the Devon town or parish in which the place is situated. The Devon section operates one of the, as yet, few in number county OPC systems. The concept of an Online Parish Clerk (OPC), involves identifying volunteers, one or more per parish, who will act as a focus for gathering together transcriptions and name indexes related to that parish (which are not already readily available elsewhere). The notion of Online Parish Clerks should in no way be confused with that of the official (i.e. Parish Council-appointed) Parish Clerks. All OPCs are unpaid volunteers who are willing to assist others in their genealogical research. To find out which parishes have been adopted go to http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/OPCproject The Devon List Team
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Landolt-Börnstein - Group II Molecules and Radicals
2316 Diamagnetic susceptibility of C10H16N2OSi
This document is part of Subvolume A ‘Diamagnetic Susceptibility and Anisotropy of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds’ of Landolt-Börnstein II/27 ‘Diamagnetic Susceptibility and Anisotropy’, Group II ‘Molecules and Radicals’.
Diamagnetic Susceptibility and Anisotropy of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
10.1007/978-3-540-44694-1_2317
R. R. Gupta (11)
11 Department of Chemistry, University of Rajasthan, 302004, Jaipur, India
M. Jain (101)
A. Gupta (102)
101 Department of Chemistry, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India
102 Department of Chemistry, Delhi University, 110007, Delhi, India
M. Jain, A. Gupta (2007) R. R. Gupta (ed.) SpringerMaterials
2316 Diamagnetic susceptibility of C10H16N2OSi Landolt-Börnstein - Group II Molecules and Radicals 27A (Diamagnetic Susceptibility and Anisotropy of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds)
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Sustainable Transport Money (£450,000) on Road Widening: Doncaster’s Herten Way 2 Way Scheme
The Sheffield City Region Sustainable Transport Exemplar Programme is funding car parks and cycle lanes where parking is allowed. Previously the Local Sustainable Transport Fund paid to widen a trunk road roundabout. The latest questionable scheme is in Doncaster and is widening a road to convert it from 1 way to 2 way with the aim of alleviating motor traffic congestion and encouraging new retail shops to be built.
The proposed scheme will convert Herten Way into a two way road which will help to alleviate traffic congestion issues with ASDA in particular but also make an existing piece of development land more attractive for investment as access will be greatly improved.
From the Scheme brief document
Widen existing one way road to 7.3m to create new two way road
New traffic signal controlled junction with pedestrian / cycle crossing facilities
The schemes general arrangement drawing is available here.
The original design included an unsegregated shared use footway/cycleway, however even that was dropped from the design before the scheme was built. The shared use footway was the token sustainable transport part of this scheme, but even that minimal cycling facility was never built.
Following consultation with the Council’s cycling Transport Planners it has been decided that the length of footway along Herten Way will not be shared with cyclists at this time. Tactile provision will be amended accordingly. At such time as further development occurs in the area the cycling facilities will be reconsidered.
From the Road Safety Audit
A new toucan crossing was built, at a cost of probably no more than £100,000 (guestimated), but the signals were required to facilitate the new turning movement at the junction because traffic is now 2 way, the junction was previously unsignalled.
Questions must be asked about the governance of the Sheffield City Region Sustainable Transport Exemplar Programme given some of the schemes that it is funding. This scheme cost £450,000 in total. Funds like these should go to creating well designed cycle infrastructure, not shared use pavements, not road widening, and not converting 1 way roads to 2 way at an out of town retail park.
The road safety audit provides a good insight into how the scheme has been designed.
The raised plateaux is intended as an aid to pedestrians crossing the carriageway rather than a traffic calming feature such as a road hump. As such the approach and exit ramps will be installed with a shallow gradient <1:20. The ramp areas will also be treated with red coloured surfacing and a set of warning triangles which the Designers feels would be sufficient warning to approaching drivers and would highlight the presence of pedestrians.
This is the freedom of information request where this information is from.
This entry was posted in budgets, City Region on August 24, 2016 by Matt.
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POUR PAINTINGS
WOODLAND SKETCHES
TONALISM
North Haven resident Maurice Sapiro’s paintings at Eastern Connecticut State University
Full text of New Haven Register article is here…
Artist Maurice Sapiro is surrounded by his oil paintings in his North Haven home, from left, “Marsh Mist,” “Across the River” and “White Cloche.” Arnold Gold, New Haven Register
By Donna Doherty, New Haven Register
POSTED: 11/04/13, 11:47 AM EST | UPDATED: 10 SECS AGO
“Land’s End,” an oil on canvas.Courtesy of the artist
NORTH HAVEN >> Leonardo da Vinci has nothing on Maurice Sapiro, except perhaps expertise in botany and math, and while Da Vinci’s genius ruled the 15th century, Sapiro is arguably a candidate for a digital age Renaissance Man.
The former North Haven music educator is far too humble to think he should be mentioned in the same breath as an artist historians have called the most talented of all time, but he could give him a run for diversity and curiosity.
The musician turned artist as well as half a dozen other paths of interest, recently opened “Where The Land Sweeps The Sky,” a new show of his works at Eastern Connecticut State University’s Akus Gallery in Willimantic — what he jokingly calls “the 70th anniversary of my first exhibit when my fourth-grade teacher put my watercolor in the butcher’s window.”
The self-taught 81½-year-old painter, who works mostly in oils now, says that it was in France while playing trumpet with the 279th Army Band, that he realized that “painting was going to be part of my life. A lifelong obsession — that explains it,” he says in the living room of his home, where his paintings and his many eye-catching ceramic works are displayed.
“I learned by looking, by going to museums, going through trial and error in the process of learning to paint. I read every art book that was available. I would explore museums, and certain paintings would call to me. It may have been more time consuming, but in the long run, it was more valuable.”
And then three years ago, his son and webmaster, John Sapiro, made him an internationally known artist through the magic of the World Wide Web.
“I came kicking and screaming into the computer age,” Sapiro laughs of his website www.mauricesapiro.com, where John started posting images of Sapiro’s works to sell. “I said I was temperamentally unsuited for it, but John gets me involved in Facebook, Pinterest, Linked In. He posts everyday. He manages the site and email and set up a PayPal account.
“In the ensuing years, I am up to 100,000 views, and I have contacts from almost every country in the world. He got me a contact from Saatchi online and Artfinder in London, and suddenly there’s a commercial demand for the paintings … He made this whole miracle happen.
“… Self-representation wasn’t possible before the Web, and now anything is possible. I get letters from London and Germany, I have fans in Egypt and Russia. My very first fan was a girl in Slovakia.”
John says, “I think at first the two of us just thought that it would be fun, and we wanted something we could do together. … As more and more people became interested in his paintings, I realized it would be my way of sort of paying him back for having to support a family and not realize his lifelong dream of being a painter.”
Sapiro, who has been painting for more than 60 years, calls painting his obsession, but the wide-ranging curiosity of the educator’s mind has sent him down plenty of paths to explore.
He has worked in etchings, lithograph press, silkscreen, watercolors, photogravure, always driven, he says, by “the process,” not only in painting.
His two clay manuals have sold more than 48,000 copies. Like da Vinci, a fascination with optics drove him to build a machine to grind mirrors to make his own telescope.
A few years ago at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, he says whenever the guard turned his back, he sneaked out his tape measure to measure its 15th-century Italian harpsichord, so that he could build his own replica at home, a project which took two years.
It’s now in the basement, but at the time, “I sat at it in front of the window, where I would start each morning by playing Beethoven while looking out at the snow,” he says of the music chapter in his life, which has since closed because of deafness.
Sapiro calls the Akus exhibit his “crowning achievement.” Roxanne M. Deojay, the gallery’s assistant director, found him online and contacted him in May about doing this show, which opened Oct. 24 with Sapiro’s tearful dedication of it to Sally, his wife of 52 years, who died just a year ago.
He says his first response to the call was, “Someone’s got to be kidding. Am I on ‘Candid Camera’?” But Deojay backed up a truck to the house and carted off 80-plus paintings for the show.
Forty years ago, his nascent career with several gallery shows in Manhattan and representation by The Davis Gallery from 1957-1960, and a favorable New York Times review, seemed to be off and running.
“But just as soon as it started, it abruptly stopped,” he says, as abstract expressionism became the style du jour and representational art fell out of trend.
A new marriage and family responsibilities forced Sapiro to lay down his brushes and give up his painting dream. He started teaching music, and for the next 40 years, had only what he calls “minor brushes with success,” one of them when Jeff Cooley of The Cooley Gallery in Old Lyme, gave him two one-man shows.
When he retired from teaching in 1996, Sapiro started painting full time “just to fulfill my inner need.” Sapiro found himself painting all day everyday — the lushly and complexly layered oils that take almost a year to finish using an overpainting process — dreamy landscapes and skyscapes with points or sweeps of other-worldly light in them, what Sapiro calls trying to “get atmosphere in the painting.”
“The magic occurs when you take 10 steps back, because the abstract flecks of pigment become reality, “ he says. “It starts with an interest in the process and at some point, it becomes an interest in capturing light and air.”
Sapiro, who is still having a hard time with losing his wife, says his son saved his life by giving him this new career avenue.
And, in a metaphor which could describe both his paintings and that lifeline, he says, “Painting is a lot like administering CPR. You keep working on it until it’s breathing on its own.”
Contact Donna Doherty at 203-789-5672.
Title: “Where The Land Sweeps The Sky – A Retrospective Selection of Oil Paintings: Maurice Sapiro
Where: Akus Gallery, Shafer Hall, Eastern Connecticut State University, 83 Windham St., Willimantic
When: Through Dec. 12; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Wednesdays, 1-7 p.m. Thursdays, 2-5 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays
Info: 860-465-4659, http://www.easternct.edy/akusgallery
Follow Donna on Twitter: @NHRegArts.
Full bio and more articles by Donna Doherty
THE NEW HAVEN REGISTER
North Haven resident Maurice Sapiro’s paintings at Eastern Connecticut State University.
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10 thoughts on “North Haven resident Maurice Sapiro’s paintings at Eastern Connecticut State University”
Mary Swan Art on November 5, 2013 at 1:42 pm said:
What a breathtaking career and heartening story. Albeit sadly without your life partner by your side at this moment. But I am sure she must have known this day would come for you and is by your side Maurice bursting with pride. You have a good son by your side there and I wish you both much more recognition, deserved and long overdue. Congratulations on the show, wish I could be there to see it. You are a true master of his craft.
Maurice Sapiro on November 5, 2013 at 1:52 pm said:
Mary, you are an angel!
Not at all Maurice. Just an admirer. Have a wonderful show and blessings to your son 😉
laroseedespetiteschoses on November 5, 2013 at 8:20 pm said:
Mr Sapiro, you are so inspiring…
Pam on November 5, 2013 at 9:46 pm said:
I love this article and your story! What a wonder it is to follow the path of creativity – no matter what form it takes. I can relate to your journey, as we’ve been on the same path. I salute your dedication and hard work. Thank you for following my blog this past year. You’ve been so faithful. I have loved seeing what you’ve been working on as well. Enjoy all the success and attention and keep on painting! You’re an inspiration.
Eirene on November 10, 2013 at 4:06 pm said:
So it’s John making the winks here! 😉
Maurice Sapiro on November 10, 2013 at 4:56 pm said:
I’m too old to wink!
mehrlich125 on November 11, 2013 at 8:01 pm said:
Congratulations! It’s wonderful that you now share your work with the world.
Tom Donovan on November 17, 2013 at 11:38 pm said:
Congratulations, Maurice! You are an inspiration to a fledgling artist learning to draw and paint late in life. Your lifelong love for producing art is richly rewarded with your show. Delighted for you.
Maurice Sapiro on November 18, 2013 at 6:40 am said:
Tom. I thank you and appreciate your comments.
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Man-Hating thread Anonymous 12/01/17 (Fri) 10:40:59 PM No. 213878
Since in the obsession with teenagers thread (>>>/ot/202410), it's clear that we have came to the conclusion that men are trash and we should avoid them
this thread is for
>posting screenshots of disgusting posts/comments/pictures/videos men say or do to hate and shame women (such as the picture featured)
>stories or awful encounters with men
>why you, yourself hate or avoid men
>tips on how to avoid shit/incel-tier men
>just venting about how shit women are treated in this society in general
The reason this thread was made was to remove posters who said that rare good men existed, so shouldn't this just say "men"? Wasn't that the big point?
>The reason this thread was made was to remove posters who said that rare good men existed
it was made to keep our misandry discussion out of the teen thread
> so shouldn't this just say "men"? Wasn't that the big point?
it's a super rarity to find men who are worthwhile, but I mean guys who won't talk shit behind your back, make you feel insecure, belittle you, pressure you into constant sex or sex related things, just misogynists in general, if we continue to reject these men, then eventually they'll have to start being more open minded and less bitchy
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Maybe I don’t belong in this thread but…. I just can’t bring myself to say that I hate men. It’s just not something that I feel to my core. I hate how much men hate women, and I very much wish that wasn’t the case, but I still just…don’t hate them.
However I do avoid them. Not out of hatred, but I guess fear of disappointment or self preservation. I would hate to fall for a man and genuinely care for him and think he’s “different” only to discover that he hates women and views me as worthless aside from a cock holster. My heart would break but I would also feel incredibly stupid and naive. So it’s best to just not.
I don’t think that men care how bad misogyny feels, and I think they can’t help but be misogynists so there’s no point in trying to discuss women’s humanity with them. You just kind of have to let them do their thing, and if you don’t want to be subjected to constant reminders that they think you’re useless and they wish they could replace you with a literal object, you just have to do your own thing.
Overall, don’t hate men. Just very saddened by men. Mostly because I’ve been a hopeless romantic my entire teen years and now I’m 22 and I see that I was living in a fantasy land, obviously. Men aren’t really like that, they don’t see as us equals and from there the hatred, disrespect, and belittlement stems.
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I'm glad this thread exists. But if you look back at the teen thread, the rift wasn't hating on men (since men are mostly to blame for the teenage obsession and so most of the thread was about). The problem was the divide between people like you and anons that instead attacked girls for believing ANY individual man could be compassionate or feminist or for having similar hopes for the future that you are having, and called them misogynists
Anyway, I agree with you so I'm sorry for going OT on your clean thread
Don't give up the good fight, accepting that 'men can't help it' is defeat, don't let men live in blissful ignorance of our suffering
>>was looking at this same thread right now
I should probably stop going on r9k
Let me guess - this guy would be one of those "loving" husbands, right?
Sure thing buddy. God damn I hate these people.
The thread that post is in is still up, go shitpost on his ass
What was the thread about?
Well an anon said she wanted to kill herself after reading his post and he told her not to, so that's… something I guess?
I wanna run him over with my lambo and have his ass get saved by a female doctor
SMH talking all kinds of "women can never be higher than men" shit, what does this guy do anyway? flip fucking burgers? ha
I've had many shitty experiences with men, I wouldn't say I hate men as whole or because they're men but I hate a lot of their actions.
I've been raped multiple times in my life, through out my childhood I had an abuser and it went on for years until he was eventually caught. Then I was raped again in my teens by an older man. It screwed me up really badly, you know what happened when I tried to tell my dad about the second time I was raped as a teen? He said it was MY fault because of how I look and that I'm basically a trap for older men. He's since apologised but years later and it's just too fucking late now, the damage has already been done. I went to my dad as a cry for help and that's what happened, it destroyed my faith in men.
I still don't hate all men though and do have some good men in my life, so it really fucking baffles me that men who haven't been through half the abuse I have, are so hateful towards women just because they can't get laid.
several anons from the other thread are considering suicide after reading how ridiculous men are
I just want to say I didn't I don't hate men to pull a #notallmen my point was, women can go through years of abuse at the hands of men yet still don't wish death etc on men. Yet a lot of men are so fucking weak, that just not getting laid whenever they want makes them hate an entire gender who hasn't even wronged them in any way.
We started considering suicide way before the thread
agreed, not to mention they will go on rampages, there has even been several shootings and suicides from when men got cheated on once, this is the type of shit women deal with from several guys and get told "it's just male nature"
men are weak, if it's one thing I know they hate it's to taste their own medicine
But why shouldn't she, if women are as he says they are? So that she can leave to please him? He wants to talk all that shit, the logical conclusion of what he's saying is that women are basically worthless. He can't blame her for internalizing that.
These dudes are worthless trash. I highly doubt this guy does anything important for society.
Can someone post a link to the thread?
https://boards.4chan.org/r9k/thread/41492874
That girl is right, that thread is fucking suicide fuel. I'm so sick of being a fucking woman and having half the population look down on me. Like what the fuck. Why the FUCK was I born a woman
I want to tell about my experience with men.
I studied in a male dominated field so I have a lot of experience of what men talk about when they are (almost) alone. I don't know if they hate women, but they look down on us. It was everything from calling the two women (me being one of them) in the class for cumdumpsters, whores, bitches, ugly, saying that we deserve to be slapped for 'being rude', going onto our personal spaces by slapping our butt or thighs. EVEN joking about raping us. Them saying that we are useless or assuming that we were bad at what we studied was not uncommon either.
After three years I broke down in class for being harrassed by them. And I'm not a person that get easily offended.
It has created a bit of a dislike for men. Still I can't say that I hate all men. I would rather say that I dislike half of the male population, because they seem to be complete idiots.
I went through a similar experience at work anon, men slapping my ass and talking about my body as though I wasn't even there. It's disgusting how they treat us, especially in the work place. Why is it so hard to just treat us like humans?
Because they don't see us as humans. So why should they treat us as such?
I mean, I know a lot of people got called annoying when they said this earlier, but it really is more than just half of males who are mysoginistic and shitty in some way or another. It's the vast majority, even saying something like 80% is being very generous.
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Yes because men are getting arrested for saying hello to women everyday and sexual harassment rarely happens /s
It's hilarious to me that any time women's issues are discussed they get defensive and make it about themselves. If you don't sexually harass anyone, why are you getting defensive? I don't get defensive as a white person when I hear people discuss white people being racist because I know I'm not racist so they don't mean me.
Nothing like this has remotely happened to me and I know it's wrong but it makes me feel very ugly.
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I literally can't even find a reason to live being a woman. It seems so hopeless.
I hate that no matter what I do I'll never be good as a man. People always view men as more competent, more intelligent, and just..better. And they love reminding of that fact. They can't even just enjoy their superiority, they have to shove it in our faces every single day and kick us while we're down. I hate it.
Everytime I think I'm going to be fine and I can just get over it, I see more misogynistic shit being agreed with and encouraged and I just know it's a lost cause. It will never get better, men will always hate us and even worse, they will always delight in reminding us just how much they really do hate us.
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try harder
lmao this guy. don't sexually harass people and you have nothing to be afraid of. Idiots.
How is what I said bait? We can talk about misogyny but we can't talk about how it affects us now?
How? I agree with her tbh.
I don't full on hate men either - I still know an exception here and there, but with the way things are going I might get there eventually. It seems to have only gotten worse as time goes ( it was definitely worse throughout history, but you know what I mean - around 10 years ago I don't remember having as nearly over all bad experiences. It was more 'these are the obvious douchebags', these are the cool normal guys )
>tfw you're sitting at a doctors office with your acquaintance, you're three sentences into describing the problem
>the dr. turns towards my male acquaintance and says 'women, don't they just really love to talk too much and over complicate things?'
> acq just blank stared
Switched over to the female one at that clinic and she behaved completely differently.
It's just getting really bizarre.
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try and look for the dumbest or most pathetic post you can find and post it here
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"us bots are nice guys and stacies use and abuse us to complain about chads!!!!" kek
nothing screams more "i need help" than hatred for the other gender
-wise man, 2017
I've seen an interesting talking point come up a few times - that women have some type of collective Stockholm syndrome towards men. It makes sense when you look of it in terms of how women defend them "oh come on men aren't so bad. There are a few good ones!"
i.e. gaining sympathy for the captor over perceived acts of kindness within a dangerous situation
In my opinion it's more that they need to tell themselves that and convince themselves in order to go on. Maybe they desire marriage or children one day, so they need to believe that there are good men out there that they can do that with.
But…uh. Good luck finding one.
It's pathetic how they constantly try to make themselves seem like the victims based on the minor possibility that someday, someone will react negatively to them. The 'wahh I want to hit on strangers but now I can't' is bad enough, but what really gets me is how often they complain that people will look at them suspiciously in public if they're with a child. I just… I cannot fucking fathom prioritizing the potential for some minor discomfort over protecting children, and thinking those who do their best to help children are bad people for being distrustful. If being a bit nosy and suspicious saves even ONE child from potential harm, it's fucking worth every inconvenience or hurt feelings these idiots experience.
most of them think they're victims of male oppression for being bullied in high school lmao, it's hilarious how badly they want to seem oppressed
sometimes I get down about this kind of thing too anon (especially when I spend too much time on 4chan), and usually what I remember to make myself feel better is that a lot of these men DON'T think they're better than us. Maybe in a few superficial ways, but they think women have it easy (see: >>213948) and hate how expendable they are (because whether they like it or not, men ARE more disposable than women.) Think about men who go off to fight for their country and then get cast aside when they return, or how way more men than women are homeless. I'm not saying that to make you sympathize with or pity men, I'm just saying that things are NOT perfect for them and you shouldn't feel bad just because some fucking loser on 4chan knows how worthless he probably is and is lashing out at women online to make himself feel better.
I don't think that's true anymore.
Once, having a raging hate for the other gender was usually caused by a legitimate trauma during life, or actual issues in one's social development.
But thanks to the internet, you can now get entrenched in any extreme position without having any real reason to.
Whatever you believe, you will find it validated, no matter how damaging it is for yourself.
The information overload that the internet brings has a lot of negative side effects. People's view and opinions are more malleable when we like to think, when you see something a lot you start to believe it even if it's extreme or bizarre. Now we end up with gender wars and people trying to revive the flat earth movement.
cool, go tell that to r9k instead of the people who are just sharing their bad experiences with the opposite sex.
i would date yalls
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Thanks anon….I figured I wasn't alone just because it's so prevalent. It really doesn't help that I know a lot of robot-type guys in real life, and I come on the internet to escape some of the people/situations in my life and I feel like it's even worse most of the time. Idk I feel like I can tell myself the guys on the internet are total losers, but I don't think that's true due to some of the men I know in real life who are doing quite well but just hate women and love to remind me of it. I go through phases where I can handle it a little bit better but overall it's just exhausting, and I've had a terrible week in regards to this subject so I'm worn out and just needed to vent.
At the end of the day…I don't know why I care. I guess I just want to one day be appreciated for what I do, seen as worthy and competent by most people around me (I put in a lot of work to be successful at what I do, but I still feel like I'm seen as weak/inferior and am not taken as seriously), and I often feel like it's a lost cause for women and we will always be seen as 'lesser' and missing some crucial part of humanity by a large portion of men (most of the people in my field are men, part of why I care so much.) It's like even when a woman accomplishes something or does well for herself, men are always like "well guess what men did XYZ so she's still worthless and her accomplishments mean nothing."
Idk overall I know I need to remove myself from situations and try not to let these things bother me and exacerbate my depression and anxiety. I know I need to double down on my work and find more solitary hobbies (I think stepping away from men/assholes in general and focusing on bettering myself is something I need to do.) But I say all of these things and acknowledge I need to do them but I get up the next morning and see 5x more of this shit and I'm immediately back where I started, feeling pessimistic and completely hopeless about life and myself as a woman. Deep down I know these things only bother me and make me hate living because I allow them to. I need to stop letting them.
Anyway, sorry for kind of word vomiting here. But I appreciate your reply. I will say that lolcow has helped me a bit, even if it's just because I can vent all of my problems and be as in depth as possible like I can't in real life. I love a lot of you guys and I feel like most of you understand and we share similar struggles. It helps to know you aren't alone, so thanks anon.
Something I've always wondered is, why do men hate single mum's so much? I see a lot of them claiming single mums will always raise criminals but how can that be a definite thing? Also most single mums aren't single mums by choice. They say single fathers are fine though.
They were raised by single moms and hate their moms. 9/10 it's just misplaced mommy issues.
Generally it's because they put the blame on the woman for not looking into her crystal ball and knowing ahead of time that the guy was a piece of shit that would leave her.
Of course there is cases where you should've thought twice about having a kid with that stoner working at a gas station, but the hate for single moms comes from the unfair assumption that 100% of them are one of such cases.
because anything they will find anything they can hate women for, pump it up as if it's the worst possible thing a woman can ever do, and so on
They hate any woman who makes herself undateable by their standards, and will find any excuse to blame her. The go to reason is that she's an idiot for not choosing the perfect guy to get impregnated by, and a bad partner for not single handedly ensuring the relationship lasts.
Of course, they will find a bunch of stats to prove that single mums are worse than single dads. But they ignore the fact that single dads usually have to go out of their way to get custody and demonstrate that they're responsible and financially stable enough, whereas single mums end up that way by circumstance whether they're ready or not. No shit someone in the latter situation isn't as likely to do a great job of raising a kid.
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Saged for tmi but I've leaked through a pad before, sometimes it just happens and it's completely out of our control. It's an embarrassing situation to deal with already but being fired on top of it? Holy shit I can't imagine how that woman must be feeling.
same, I got PCOS which causes irregular periods and always start my period during the day, I'm not gonna wear 3 pads everyday for the rest of my life just so this annoying little boy can feel better knowing my menstrual blood wasn't on a seat
even the first line of what this kid said make me cringe like crazy, I'd pull it apart to explain how ridiculous and wrong it is to call women who leak through their pad "nasty lazy skanks who run around and leak everywhere", but everyone already knows
so, i just wanted to post this story because i'm not sure where else to put it.
when my mom was working as an accountant in the seventies, she faced a lot of sexual harassment. some guy thought it was funny to tap her shoulder, have her look, and then put his penis on her other shoulder for her to look when she turned her head again. I know that sounds completely insane. And kind of funny in a very dark, twisted way.
But it happened. It happened and every single male relative aside from my father and cousin thought it was a hilarious story and didn't see what the big deal was when it was brought up over the holidays in a discussion about sexual harassment.
I still feel incredibly fucking sick.
>some guy thought it was funny to tap her shoulder, have her look, and then put his penis on her other shoulder for her to look when she turned her head again
Maybe I'm not picturing it right, but I can't form a feasible image in my mind from which that would be possible, height-wise, even with your mother sitting down.
sorry i'm drunk and mad at my relatives.
she would sit down, the man would approach her from behind, and tap her shoulder. she'd turn her head and there would be nothing there. when she'd turn her head to look back at the screen in front of her, she'd either notice the dick on the opposite shoulder or he'd tap her again.
this was among many "pranks" they did to her, including offering her $500 to have sex with some disgusting italian mafioso asshole.
oh and i say screen but idk what they had for accountants back then as far as computers and shit go
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Ugh another argument I'm tired of hearing from men is "men are logical and factual, women are emotional" when it's always men I see sperging the fuck out over things, they react more in anger than sadness but anger is still an emotion you dipshits.
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daily reminder that men commit over 90% of violent crime, including about 99% of rape
I guarantee over half of the dudes who say shit like that regularly get blown the fuck out over minute shit on a weekly basis and would self-destruct if they ever had to practice their own imposed ideals of how men are supposed to behave.
>men are logical and factual, women are emotional
lmao a dude that i knew threatened to kill the bf of a girl that rejected him. Not emotional at all.
Also the guys that says shit like that is always the most autistic fucks you can find. They have never had a girlfriend or even just had a regular conversation with a woman. They always lose their shit if a woman disagrees with them
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Men get so pissed when you point this out. Men are all about facade. They build up an image of being protectors of women yet women are most likely to get murdered by her male partner or male family member.
Women are also more likely to be raped by someone they know/trust.
But hey, they're totally our protectors and not the real threat! Screw all that strong independent woman shit! We just need a different set of protectors to protect us from our protectors when they fail at protecting us. /s
It's actually funny, when you think about it, how men think they're so superior in every facet of existence, when in reality they're all just so pathetic and fragile. They're really disgusting.Men think women are inferior, but it's the other way around. Women are better than men in every way, you can just tell it's true by how angry men get when you even imply a woman is better than them at something. They don't want to admit their absolute inferiority.
It's the most tired, straight up wrong meme around. Doing slightly better in standardized logic tests does NOT accurately reflect the way you respond to things, and men are far more likely than women to have emotional outbursts and issues with serious consequences for other people. Crimes of passion, fighting in general, rape, etc and though it's not their fault, they're more likely to kill themselves and develop addictions. They do not handle feelings well.
But, since it's more socially acceptable for women to cry in public and occasionally do, that's somehow more relevant emotional behaviour than causing others physical harm in anger.
Here's some more stats, just in regards to the conviction rate for children killed by their biological mothers - http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/statistics.html
>Fact: ALL ABUSE: Children living with only their mothers: 18.1 per 1,000 children. Children living only with their fathers: 31.0 per 1,000."
Women have higher numbers through sheer volume because they're more likely to be single parents and spend the most time with their kids, but they're not more likely to harm them.
I hate the meme that males are violent because "they dont get to express their emotions :,(((". Fuck off. They're violent because they're pathetic, disgusting, vile inhuman creatures that get off on abusing their power. I only wish their suicide rates were even higher.
Went to my cousin's birthday party last night and there were a bunch of fourteen year olds (same age as her). I was with a group of people in their mid twenties and one of the dudes was ogling the just-pubescent girls, and once he got drunk enough he started talking about a girl's ass and just wouldn't shut up. She was fucking fourteen.
Other people in the group (mostly men) simply joked that he was too ugly for her to be interested. Perfect timing, considering how on the last thread people were telling us to "go outside, this isn't acceptable irl". Yes it is. Men are trash, and the ones who aren't completely trash aren't much better.
sage sage 12/02/17 (Sat) 09:10:04 PM No. 214076
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>grouping up all men into one single collectivist group instead of judging people on an individual level
this thread is just inverted /r9k/ and r/incels
I just want to say I'm so glad women-centered imageboards exist.
Not to mention, hello, war? Ever seen a women lust over weapons, tanks, military planes, or war history like men do? They're like toys to them and they just seem to fantasize about the killing and what they can do with weapons of any kind. The Call of Duty series is possibly the most popular modern video game franchise and so are competitive shooters in general. It's like an outlet for male instinct and they really lack a female audience for a reason. Women don't ever lust to rape, pillage, or shoot off someone's head for fun. Any time I ever hear of a woman pulling a gun on someone, it's always because of a man in some form, especially like an abusive husband.
I do judge people on an individual level. I've known a few good men.
But men as a group? Utter trash.
>war is inherently bad
>Other people in the group (mostly men) simply joked that he was too ugly for her to be interested.
Lol. Yeah, she'd totes be uninterested because he's "too ugly" not because he's a disgusting creep trying to prey on young girls.
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this entire thread is just sad.(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)
>killing people isn't always bad
Male subhuman spotted.
- Over 80% of suicides are male
- Over 80% of the homeless are male
- Over 99% of combat deaths and 90% of workplace fatalities are male
Tell me when they reach 100% please
>most suicides are male
Can you be apart of that?
post pics of you mutilating your dick or gtfo, faggot.
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War at its best is an asset to civilization. No peace can exist without war.
And war, in its ideal form, only kills those dirty "male subhumans", so what's so bad about that?
>perfectly normal for grown ass men to be attracted to girls who might not even gotten their period yet
Off yourself, faggot, the pedo meme has been debunked
>Women pretend they're angry about this for all kinds of fake reasons except the real one, you're just jealous that the vast majority of men naturally prefer younger girls.
Or maybe because we were harrassed by older men at that age and we know it's an uncomfortable experience. What normal young girl would actually want to be hit on by some ugly old fuck instead of a nice, cute boy her age?
If you glorify it so much, then go to war, faggot. On the front lines. And die.
I'm not going to even justify reading this shitpost about the Greeks and ~Ares the god of war~ or something. You idiots are like roleplayers and don't know anything about the consequences in the real world. Go to any country that's been ravaged by men in war and try living there.
What are you trying to achieve by coming here and saying this?
There are women who like these things too anon, military stuff and violent video games I mean. It's just a minority.
lol no 14 year old wants to be the wife of a "wealthy powerful man", they just want to enjoy being young and having fun.
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Lol, you're not going to read it? Even though it doesn't even put Ares in a completely positive, or that it shows war in the present is flawed due to how obscenely high the stakes are.
War isn't some magical bogeyman that haunts humanity but can be gotten rid of somehow through great effort. War ought to be recognized as an inevitable fact of life, and should be tamed so that it becomes more akin to a simple game used to settle disputes. The Greeks recognized this.
Anyway, if I was a better individual I'd certainly go to war if it was required of me. A fear of death is only for those who deny the present and have their lives ruled by a yearning for the future. I can't admit I can rid myself of that fear just yet, and if my time came I'd certainly shy away in any manner I could.
And you're incorrect, I'm not glorifying war. War isn't inherently great, just as it is not inherently evil. I'm only admitting the necessity of its existence.
Stop responding to the pedophile.
Yep, r9k is straight up suicide fuel. The biggest reason i hate myself is that i have this hole between my legg. I'm an alcoholic fat piece of shit with severe paranoia but the thing i hate most about myself is my genitals. Shit's fucked.
>Anyway, if I was a better individual I'd certainly go to war if it was required of me.
No you wouldn't, saying this as someone who actually did. I fucking got ripped from my normal life and got conscripted. After 6 months of training got shipped to a shithole and fight some donkey fuckers with AKs. I killed people which is one of my biggest regrets, it was do or die but taking someone's life isn't like a fucking video game. I saw friends getting blown to pieces by a mortar and our CO ordered us to gather his fucking pieces. You have no fucking idea what the fuck you are talking about.
I smell stolen valor…
I absolutely agree with your post anon. I also work in a male dominated field and i fucking loathe that some of the men still tend to talk down to me as if i'm dumb when im more often than not more qualified than them in the subject at hand.
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I'd do it anyway. If I knew I'd go through what you went through I'd still do it. I'm not saying this because I think I'd enjoy it, or because it would be my duty, or because I think life is a game. I don't care if you think that my choice is disrespectful or stupid. I'd do it because I don't want to live in fear of what life hands me.
Me too tbh. I've heard that "picking up the bits and pieces of my blown up friend" story before.
>b-b-but muh 14
This was only due to how short lifespans were in the past, pedo. You can debunk your own theory by just looking at lifespan charts many years ago and in present day.
Just because their bodies can make babies doesn't mean they can or should have them. Hell, a lot of adult women shouldn't have them because of where they are mentally or financially. Also, men like you should not reproduce because you have all the markings of a pedophile and child molester, who can harm children and the next generation. I kind of like that incels like you are self-aware you are bad breeding stock.
Anon, don't talk about yourself like that. Just understand you're like a god among trash like them. They're also the worst representations of the male side of our species, ironically, like the pedo anon said about himself.
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don't worry ladies, le strong logical male is here to remind us women about how we REALLY feel
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Wish it was fake but it isn't.
If you seriously think war is "honorable" you are dead wrong. It's not middle ages anymore, your ass would get vaporized by bombs/missiles before you even know it.
Why do you hate men so much men don't hate women where did you get that idea.
I really don't get it women just hate us and all we do is try to make you happy.
The tread hasn't even been up for a full day yet, are butthurt robots shitting it up already?
You have it backwards. Girls in older societies thought about it because that's what they had to do to survive and was heavily expected of them, if not outright chosen for them. Nowadays girls don't have to do this to survive and have a comfortable life so why would they want to?
I've read so much misogynist trash I honestly think you're false flagging, since what they postulate is usually the opposite of this (society has to force women to be monogamous and control who they marry to surpress their evil slutty nature).
Again you put words in my mouth. I don't think war today is honorable, or wholly just, or even good. I'm saying I would go to war because I don't want to be a fearful individual, because I don't think living in fear of death or suffering is how any individual of merit should live.
It's sad honestly. I like when these kind of threads go without outer interference.
I'm not butthurt I'm sad that you feel this way about men. I don't know any man that hates women but so many women hate us and I don't get it.
If you were truly intelligent as a female, you would accept that females are less intelligent than men, and men generally treat women like children for good reason.
Instead you act like a stubborn child, and try to fight this.
This only makes you look like more of a child to men, because you're not intelligent or mature enough to accept the FACT that women are mentally inferior.
The best thing you could do is try to prove that you're an exception, but you do the opposite, you act more like a child (feminist).
>(society has to force women to be monogamous and control who they marry to surpress their evil slutty nature).
I agree with this, I didn't say anything to contradict this. 25 year old women can't consent to sex any better than a 12 year old girl, women mature early and reach a mental peak early too, they remain eternally like children.
The father should be the final decider who his daughter gets to have sex with. The girl can try to pick out her own suitor, but the father should have final say.
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The ”women like older men” spiel is a mental self-defence mechanism invented by men.
Men are constantly telling themselves that women are attracted to older, wealthy and powerful men. This is because these things might be obtainable for the man if he works really hard.
One the thing the man can never get is natural handsomeness and youth, no matter how hard he works.
Young girls hang posters of One Direction and Justin Bieber on their walls and not Donald Trump.
Is this bait or are you a retarded person?
Then maybe you should actually listen to what the women ITT have to say, yah? They're talking about their experiences alongside their opinions on men. Stop acting so ovlivious.
Oblivious**
Fix'd
Does your mentally handicapped ass even realize that you're giving the topic of this thread fuel by posting here?
I don't like it when men are bad to women either i don't see why it has to be one or the other why does there have to be a gender war?
Let him keep going, it's giving me a laff seeing how he's saying that women are childish while acting like an embarrassing child himself.
The man hate thread is probably a bad place to say this but I find the gender war stuff to be a pretty worrying trend on both sides. Feels like everyone hates each other. I think it just makes the world a worst place. You might say "well we only hate them because they hate us" but it just feels like a neverending cycle. It's not just gender either. I wonder if society is going to completely fall apart in our life times.
100% this. Youth is attractive for men as well (and a sign of fertility, mens favorite excuse).
I miss 90s, everything was so much more simpler back then.
I'm scared I really truly believe that in the future when parthenogenesis is real then women are going to tryto kill me just because im a boy
Women aren't violent like men, don't worry about that.
>I cannot fucking fathom prioritizing the potential for some minor discomfort over protecting children
THIS. The whole mindset of all the manbabies who constantly bring this shit up is mindboggling.
>Women experience much more severe violence from men and often get killed, there's a constant fear of being raped and people will blame you for this extremely traumatizing experience, you're ALWAYS walking in the shadow of the other gender and struggling to be recognized as equal to men
>Men: B-but I can't catcall women or get sex regularly! Men are suffering too!
I find it extremely ironic as well. Men try to pin women's assumed societal inferiority to biology making them weaker, but truth to be told men are by far the more emotionally fragile gender.
found the robot in disguise
Go tell that to r9k, retard.
Go tell that to r/mgtow, retard.
Go tell that to the incels, retard.
Go tell that to the vast majority of human males, retard, and maybe women won't feel the need to make venting threads like these. There are huge communities of men who think women don't deserve human rights, rape should be legalized, etc. If you care so much about ~peace between da gendurrs~, why are you here bitching about a few women venting instead of calling them out?
Man do people believe some crazy shit. This will never happen get your head out of internet shitholes.
>There are huge communities of men who think women don't deserve human rights, rape should be legalized
No there isn't, not even a small community. Feminists are like paranoid schizophrenics.
I do though when I can
Uhh, I'm pretty sure humans aren't going to spontaneously evolve asexual reproduction in the near future, so you don't have much to worry about.
>boy
Are you young? I get the feeling you are. If so, what are you doing on lolcow? :^)
See >>214170
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One man could produce enough sperm to impregnate literally every female on Earth.
Women can only give birth once every 9 months.
no but scientists want to figure out how to make people with just 2 eggs or with artificial sperm and they're also trying to make artificial wombs. We are rapidly entering an age where either sex could completely genocide the other one and continue the species and I am scared about the possibilities of that. Women are going to get it first and so the logical strategy is to attack first before males have their own technology and the advantage is lost.
see she's saying she wants to kill men so that we're only 1 of us for 9 of you
I'm in the same boat. I don't want to believe all men are terrible but every day they are proving me wrong and I'm constantly reminded they'll always see me as lesser.
>see she's saying she wants to kill men so that we're only 1 of us for 9 of you
That would be great for the remaining men, they would have the equivalent choice in sexual selection as females do IRL today.
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They've deluded themselves into believing that nubile 22 year olds will be lining up to hop on their 50 year old dicks. Sorry, but unless you're a literal sugar daddy in the top 0.5% of wealth that's not gonna happen. I'm saying this as a 22 year old myself. And even then, there will still be young women who don't give a shit about how much money they offer to suck their crusty old man dick.
None of these women are actually attracted to them, they just want some fast cash.
>Young girls hang posters of One Direction and Justin Bieber on their walls and not Donald Trump.
This is so obvious but redpillers will never learn.
Thousands of people on /pol/, thousands on r/mgtow, thousands if not millions on /r9k/ and /b/, and that's just a few off the top of my head. Huge communities full of men who spew downright hateful shit about women.
you're evil
Here's your (You) retard
They know already. They're playing dumb
or they just found the internet yesterday.
Seriously, why do men hate women?
You can't even have a safe space from them, they come here and repeat what the whole male dominated world already tell us, and that is that we're worthless and stupid. There's no point in living, my life was doomed from the start.
Almost no one on those websites believes that rape should be legal, or women shouldn't have human rights.
There has never been a single civilization in history that had legalized rape against citizens. Do you think men would allow the rape of their mothers, sisters, and daughters to be legal?
Men on these websites commonly speak out against the definition of rape being too loose (i.e. many claims of rape aren't real rape), and they want laws/stigmas to stop women from literally destroying civilization, these laws and stigmas that generally regard women's sexual choices, i.e. adultery/cheating, divorce, sex before marriage, promiscuity, etc.(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)
https://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/O-zone/why-men-hate-women/
Here's a neat little article that might help you answer that question. It was written by an Indian woman, but it's still relevant to a lot of women's lives.
Thanks anon :3
I've already read the article from r/wgtow few days ago.
It's a great article and it's striking how almost all of it applies worldwide. Men are indeed scum that can only communicate through aggression, violence, threats, and hatred.
no we don't why do women think this I still don't get it men literally DIE for you and our perfect happiness world is one where we completely sacrifice ourselves to provide for you. But then you go on about how you want female only spaces and how you want us to go away and you have people like >>214190 say that they want to deflate the amount of men and all the time I hear feminists talk about making men obsolete. A few angry young men on internet forums is not the same thing as feminists and woman scientists trying to make males obsolete I really don't understand how you can say men hate women when women are out there trying to erase me just because I'm male.
You deserved to be erased. Fuck off and kill yourself already you ugly virgin faggot.
There's an ongoing and growing issue of femicide, where women are killed just because they are women. They are more prominent in 3rd world shitholes but if the laws allowed it everywhere you bet that there would be more women getting killed. Not that the rates aren't high enough.
You're going to have your sexbots and there was a first successful uterus transplant today, so I think if anyone's trying to make a gender obsolete, it's men wanting to remove biological women. I'm ok with this. I don't want to live in a world where I'm not considered a human.
>Almost no one on those websites believes that rape should be legal, or women shouldn't have human rights.
You're lying through your teeth or you haven't actually lurked there for more than a few minutes.
>Do you think men would allow the rape of their mothers, sisters, and daughters to be legal?
No, because they see those women as their property and rape by another man is an infringement on that. Why did it take so long for marital rape to be recognized as a reality?
You're evil and mean
then we have to stop them that doesn't mean that men should go away instead
Nayrt, but please hang yourself and stream it or gtfo, you disgusting little maggot.
Women can be replaced by realistic sex dolls, porn, and artificial wombs.
Women can't replace men, unless they figure out how to hack an ATM to dispense free money.
>You're lying through your teeth or you haven't actually lurked there for more than a few minutes.
I've been on /r9k/ and /pol/ for years, I've never once seen someone say that rape should be legal. If it's ever implied, it's part of some sexual fantasy roleplay, or trolling.
>No, because they see those women as their property and rape by another man is an infringement on that
Replace "their property" with "their responsibility", and you're correct.
>Why did it take so long for marital rape to be recognized as a reality?
Because marital rape doesn't exist. What a joke.(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)
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>You're evil and mean
You're in a man hate thread. You'll get no sympathy here. Go find some other teat to suckle on you parasitic gonad.
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wow its almost like this is a place to vent or something
Huge is relative. /b/ is full of all kinds of shit so it's hard to quantify, and I really doubt there are "millions" on r9k. People that extreme, even thousands of them, even if there were a few million of them, are a pretty small portion of the total population.
>Because marital rape doesn't exist.
A woman can't say no to her husband then, and he has no obligation to respect her boundaries? Heh, you've just shown your true face.
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Yes you do.
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Here's from MGTOW.
Men clearly want women dead.
>I'm just venting here its okay ;^)
>Those guys are 100% serious they all want to rape women and make them their slaves.
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Ladies, here's what men consider to be an ideal gf.
fine just throw boys away you don't need us anymore and we're just maggots i get it. women just see us as defective you made your point.(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)
That post has zero upvotes. Thanks for making me look for it by cutting that out.
>a doormat
Already saw it coming, boyo.
There's no denying that most men feel that way, whether they like to say it out loud or not. Surely because their precious subreddit would have been compromised not because they actually care for women.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks these are fucking stupid. My bf doesn't get why I dislike these ideal gf memes because 90% of them are creepy bs like this.
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>you made your point.
I'm just getting started you droopy ballsack
That image is every man's dream lmao. They really are disgusting.
Glad you finally got that through your thick fucking skull. Looks like you're still too dumb to fuck off though :/ You coming through with that suicide stream?
https://icemountainfire.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/men-are-not-broken/
Don't you know? Marrying a man gives him permission to slice you open and shit inside your corpse if he wants to.
>that file name
that should be MENTALLY ILL male behavior.(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)
fuck off with your bullshit
no you
Amazing how you don't see mentally ill women do the same
i bet there's similar cases out there. and i've heard fucked up stories of mothers shooting up their babies with drugs and pimping out their kids to pedos online. there's whacked people everywhere and it's not just men.
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thanks for the laugh anon
wow it's almost like exaggerating/projecting is a part of venting
But it is well over 90% men
Just letting you know, but last I heard there's been reason to suspect that /r/wgtow had been taken over by a male troll. I'm not sure if anyone's stepped down since then
https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/712mgu/psa_about_rwgtow/
There's a big difference between venting and rape/death thteats and other hateful shit.
And, uh… what are they supposed to be venting about anyways? Not getting any pussy? I never see those assholes talk about being abused or harassed or anything like that.
Yeah I saw the message. What a shame. Just another proof that men are violent savages that have to take their anger on women.
For what purpose? It wasn't even that active…
Just more proof that men are pathetic and can't leave their grubby, disgusting hands off of anything. Women can't even with towards their own independence without these worthless shitstains trying to break them down.
I'm sure you're a big, strong alpha male, sweetie. Because we all know that's the type of man that comes to lolcow to bitch about women. I just don't know what us feeeemales would do without an intelligent and rational man like you to guide us. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule.
>For what purpose?
You're asking this on a website dedicated to cataloging the actions of B-list internet celebrities.
I just want to move on from the "gender-war". I feel like this is the correct equivalent to r9k, getting distracted from your goals by what the opposite gender is doing. Yes, one is not like the other, we have more reasons to be cautious and hateful, but in the end it's still a waste of time.
>I just want to move on from the "gender-war".
There isn't really one to begin with, at least in the west. There are certainly issues to address in society, but people generally treat each other respect regardless of their gender. It's just that there are a handful of idiots that take stupid shit other idiots post and project it onto society at large.
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That reddit is definitely not for that, but okay? And if you're talking about lolcow and not that reddit, then your comment was completely unrelated to mine.
I'm just confused as to why they won't let women have a place to vent. They get trp, mgtow, countless forums. Look at this thread, even. Not a day went by before angry robots felt the need to bless us with their knowledge.
Why can't we even have our own private place to talk about how misogynistic men are and how their bullshit negatively impacts our lives without /rk9/ers and other basement dwellers rushing in to give their shitty, mainsplaining opinions on our feelings?
God I fucking hate men. I've found one sane man on this earth and I'm so happy. I hope you all find someone like that (I'd you're straight) and don't stand for any bullshit until you do. You all deserve the best xxxx
>God I fucking hate men. I've found one sane man (…)
I feel bad for that guy tbh.
Anyway if you hate how /r9k/ shitposts here then why not shitpost back? Just stewing over it in here won't change anything. Make a bunch of threads about male crime statistics or whatever or make fun of them for how pathetic and worthless they inherently are behind their edgy facade.
I think men have a misguided sense of inclusion and I think it’s made worse by anonymous websites. Chans weren’t really that concerned about gender when 2ch was created and now it seems men cannot accept the fact that women want to use the chan platform for the same thing they have been for the last decade, that being a place to say whatever the fuck they want.
>I feel bad for that guy tbh.
Why? We treat each other like royalty. It's literally the best relationship possible. I'm sad you'll never be able to experience that.
>why not shitpost back?
Because I'm not a man and I don't get enjoyment from making others feel like shit? I know people who are desensitised love trolling and shitposting and giggling at the abuse they get back for it but someone who is normal would get pretty fucking depressed witnessing that. I don't see how that solves fucking anything.
they're better than us(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)
>Why?
Because the way you say it, it sounds no different than if a hardcore misogynist were to (somehow) get a gf and then be like "oh she's different than all the rest :)))". It's obvious how that kind of relationship isn't healthy for the woman, even if there is no real abuse. Or imagine a racist who has a black friend and they're "okay" with each other. The racist would lack real respect for the black friend, and the black friend would clearly have serious issues with self-loathing due to his race.
I mean, does he know what you're views on men in general are? I can't imagine he can hear that and be ok with it, or be able to genuinely believe that he's magically the one person who is better than all the rest.
And if you're going to hate men then go all the way smh.
>I'm sad you'll never be able to experience that.
I think men are just don't have a concept of people who aren't them (ie women) being real. Like a baby who just can't grasp that other people who aren't him have feelings. I constantly see this in men in real life and I'm just amazed at the lack of awareness they seem to have
>I mean, does he know what you're views on men in general are? I can't imagine he can hear that and be ok with it
Yes and he's fine with it. He also browses this website. He'll probably see this too.
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>Just stewing over it in here won't change anything!!!!
>vent thread about trash men
>change /r9k/'s mind about women
That's nice, sugardick, please go on. We all care A LOT.
Well, the idea wasn't to change /r9k/s mind, but just to shitpost on them as they do to you. But maybe you can claim not doing so somehow means giving yourself moral superiority in that regard.
I hope he does see it. He's either a narcissist or a fool.
Bots will use and abuse women all day but the second you call them out for their abuse and bashing women they act like theyre the poor little victims being falsely accused and how they're just rebounds for stacy
>but just to shitpost on them as they do to you
Why are men online so unintelligent? We don't think we're morally superior, we just don't have any interest in acting like assholes. You're so aggressive that you can't imagine life not being like that. That's so fucking sad.
>I hope he does see it. He's either a narcissist or a fool.
You can't even imagine what it's like to be in a happy relationship where both parties love and respect each other. Jesus fucking christ. Get some therapy. Not saying that to be edgy, I just genuinely think you'd benefit from sorting out some of the deep problems you have there.
>We just don't have any interest in acting like assholes. You're so aggressive that you can't imagine life not being like that
It's only a single proposal, there are obviously other options in sight. No need for such an insulting exaggeration. If you think treating robots poorly for their delusions (which may very well have repercussions in real life when they lash out violently) makes you an asshole, or if it doesn't appeal to you then that is all there is to it.
>You can't even imagine what it's like to be in a happy relationship where both parties love and respect each other.
Well, when one of them hates the gender of the other, then I find it a little doubtful.
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Reminds me of
Hating 50% of the population because of their gender is retarded
>it's another "it's just like r9k!" post
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>my kind of sexism is different and justified
no. no it isn't. can't we just be equal?
I'm done, fag, B Y E:
>moral superiority
>/r9k/ and incels canonizing Elliot Rodger
Also, this was linked a while back in the Documentary thread; "Shy Boys IRL". It's only a half hour long, a woman filmmaker following "REEEE MUH INCEL, MUH PUA WIZCHAN" dudes.
Did you think I was saying /r9k/ is morally superior? lol no way fag
I can't even bring myself to glance at r9k or mgtow sites anymore. It's too frustrating. Glad some of you are keeping track of the content but fuck idk how you manage. These smug assholes make me so mad.
Wew, as a black anon this is like being on /pol/ and watching them sperg about non-whites.
Except if more of the guys on /pol/ were 10 year olds.
Do you people even look at the shit you type?
I know. When I look at the crime and rape statistics and then see how r9k, pol, redpillers, mgtow think of women, it comes to no surprise that women get hurt and murdered on a daily basis just because they're women. Those ideologies they hold perpetuate the idea that women aren't humans, their definition of rape is very loose, and they even share tips on how to deceive, persuade women into having sex by throwing insults, attacking the emotionally vulnerable, forcing them to do thing against their will etc.
Men are the biggest liars and manipulators. They will say whatever to make you believe that they are capable of love. Once they have no use of you, they will try to destroy your life. Why is revenge porn so popular among men? You already know the answer.
That's why visiting those sites is good, because they are a steady reminder that men can't feel love towards women. They hate us and despise us. If there was a button that they could press and get rid of us, they would have already done that.
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>goes to most sexist places on the entire internet
>proof that ALL men hate women
goddamn it not all men hate women just some of them REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I hate sexists of either gender
Men state there what they really think under the cloak of anonymity, which is good because we finally have the insight into how we're perceived as a gender by men.
So, some of them express their hatred on those boards, subreddits and forums. And some are more subtle about. But one thing is certain, that all men to a certain degree hate women. They might have tolerance for women in their family or those that they're in the relationship with. But even then, they might abuse that power which is having the woman's trust. After all, statistics-wise, a woman is going to be most likely hurt by someone she knows.
Kek. You've put them in a pickle. Feminists can't attack black women, both radfems and libfems asspat them for some reason.
>That's why visiting those sites is good, because they are a steady reminder that men can't feel love towards women.
I don't appreciate you taking a statement I made about hate sites and extrapolating that to fit your narrative about regular men being secretly evil and incapable of love.
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>Men state there what they really think under the cloak of anonymity
You're absolutely right that men do this, but its totally irrational to think that that is representative of all men
>So, some of them express their hatred on those boards, subreddits and forums. And some are more subtle about. But one thing is certain, that all men to a certain degree hate women. They might have tolerance for women in their family or those that they're in the relationship with. But even then, they might abuse that power which is having the woman's trust. After all, statistics-wise, a woman is going to be most likely hurt by someone she knows.
this is just ridiculous. If I thought all women were like the ones in this thread I would never leave the house. But i know that there are like 4 billion women in the world and they are all different and don't conform to the identical beliefs
As another black anon, I couldn't disagree more. This feels more like non-whites talking about their experiences with racist whies.
God no, this is like a verbatim "nigger hate thread" on /pol/, except with less gifs, more unsourced statistics, and more black people responding to shitposts.
Yes, women are the more similar to the dominant group. Sure.
White women most definitely are, yes.
Let's not forget that a lot of the lynchings carried out in the US during Jim Crow were at the behest of white women who accused black men of rape.
Black men are men. Of course they would rape. Maybe they should have been legally executed instead of lynched but I don't feel bad for rapists.
BIG difference between lashing out at black people and lashing out at men, especially because "black people" includes black women and the descrmination from pol/tards; ALL men deserve this shit :^)
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You are a bigot and would fit in on /pol/ if you were male.
People like you are the reason why sexism even exists
From one black anon to another: black men hate you even more than white men do jsyk
And I have no sympathy for white women.
I'm glad we can at least be honest, here's hoping that white rape rate increases.(racebaiting)
>If I thought all women were like the ones in this thread
Sooner than later they will. This is the future you've created.
Meh. I think most adult women are already acutely aware of how much men hate us. Most of us just accept it and try to make the best of it.
Me too. All whites deserve death, even women.(racebaiting)
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>future i've created
no fucking way fam. not my fault. i dont treat women like shit. I find grills so intimidating that i havent had a irl conversation with one in over 2 years
Yeah because you're pathetic. The only thing stopping you from abusing women is your lack of confidence. Doesn't mean you actually don't hate us.
This is so insane.
How do you ever expect to achieve social equality when you tell any guy who agrees that women should be equal that he's evil, secretly hates women, and has some sick rape fetish
>im pathetic because im a beta male
what do you want then? an alpha chad who will rape you? You pretend to want "nice" guys but the reality is that nice guys are losers and nobody wants them
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>Haha! What a pathetic loser, he doesn't abuse women? Such a freak!
There's no such thing as equality, it's a lie people tell themselves.
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How enlightening. That really contributed a lot to the discussion
>How do you ever expect to achieve social equality
Not that anon, but I don't ever expect to achieve social equality, because most men hate women*. Surprise. In fact I suspect things will get much worse for us, so who the fuck cares what we think of men?
*#notallmen. happy now?
>most
lumping in your average chad's mildly sexist behaviors in with alt right incel autists is still quite an exaggeration of reality
most normies are in a relationship. You cant seriously suggest that millenial bf's all secretley hate their gf's and want to rape them
That's the thing with male hate, it's not outright and obvious. It comes in the form of thinking their gfs can't wear a skirt because it's too short or thinking they can start fucking the gf while she sleeps. It's subtle.
Using words like Chad and normie tells me all I need to know about you, dude.
I never mentioned rape. Not all men are violent. But yes, I believe men hate women, and tolerate them in order to get what they want out of them.
thought you were this anon>>214335 i guess i was mistaken
>But yes, I believe men hate women, and tolerate them in order to get what they want out of them
Yeah this is just wrong 90% of the time and you're a bigot for thinking all (or most) men are like this
>chad/normie
Theyre just dumb buzzwords but you get my point
>and tolerate them in order to get what they want out of them.
and what do you think it is that they want?
Look dude, no offense, but you aren't a woman. Clearly. You have no idea what women deal with from men. We know exactly what they think of us, and each interaction with another one reminds us.
> you're a bigot
Guess so.
Anyway, this is a thread for us to discuss misogyny and shitty men. I'm sure you're welcome to keep derailing instead of just letting it flow if you have absolutely nothing better to do, but if you don't like what you're reading here, go back to /r9k/ where they just bash women instead. It will be easier for you to ignore that and forego lecturing them on their bigotry like you're doing here.
Sex, children (depending on the man), someone to feel superior to. For most men, someone who will do the 'lesser' work (cooking, cleaning, childcare) that they feel is a woman's job and they are too important or too good to do. Because women are only good at those things and nothing else, according to men.
But, overall, sex. Ask any man what the most important thing his girlfriend offers him is. Probably won't be conversation.
I should also add, in some cases, they want a trophy/status symbol to show off to other men. IE: an object.
So you think there isn't a single man who doesn't fall into any of these categories?
Highly doubt it. But let me guess….you don't?
If I said I didn't you simply wouldn't believe me. That's how things work when delusions become ingrained in your head.
If you were a woman who interacted with men everyday and saw how they talked to you, looked at you, and treated you, you would see it isn't a delusion. For you to write it off as some crazy dudes on the internet being the minority is just wrong, sorry. It isn't. We will always be viewed as lesser by men. Inferior, dumb, absolutely worthless except for the few things I mentioned. It's exhausting. I'm exhausted.
And we can't even discuss it amongst ourselves without men like you coming in here to tell us we're wrong. Once again, exhausting.
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Theres another maleanon thats been replying to you. mine all have wojaks for clarity's sake.
It's not that misogyny doesnt exist, it obviously does. Its that you take it way way to far and let it shape your worldview that is unrealistic, unhealthy, and contributes to the kind of toxic stuff found on /pol/.
Go to some of the misogynists hideouts like MGTOW. You will see that they have all been radicalizd into believing all women think they are evil and rapists. The woman that is the posterchild for their beliefs is YOU anon
>not seeing the similarities between male and female misogynistic radicalization
forgot to add reply
I mean, as the delusion I was talking about what you thought men wanted from relationships, not everything else. I would say it's fairly true that many men have an ingrained perception of women that is wrong.
But whatever, I like to lurk these threads more than interrupting them anyway.
Once again, I never said all men are evil or rapists. I think you are confusing my recent posts with another poster who was talking about male violence earlier.
All I said was that men hate women. The men on /pol/ and Mgtow hate women, so there’s no disconnect there. Blaming women for those misogynistic spaces makes no sense, honestly. I believe they would still be misogynistic regardless of how women felt about them. They radicalized each other, which is very easy to do in those kind of enclosed spaces.
All of my experiences with misogyny have shaped the view I have today. I don’t even have a bad opinion of men, they are just human. The experiences I’ve had with them however, leave no doubt in my mind that there is something within men that makes them hate women. That doesn’t automatically make them rapists. Only people who have committed rape are rapists.
It's interesting, because their hatred can be exactly the same as their 'love'. What do they want in women? Femininity. What do they find inferior about women? Femininity. It's why men can demand a tradwife while simultaneously looking down on women for contributing less money, or hate women for expecting a husband to be breadwinner. It comes down to the fact that men literally desire an inferior woman, who is less than him in every way except looks and youth. And frankly women are complicit in this, it is far too normal for women to assume and expect their man to be above her in his career, earnings, education, social status, leadership, intelligence, physical strength etc. I don't know what's worse, wanting a partner who is inferior to you or wanting to be the inferior one in the relationship. Both are very, very sad and there should be more balance.
Why is that bad? Because it isn't what you want? I see no objective reason why either position is unhealthy
Neither would be a problem if it wasn't perpetually skewed in ONE direction, with men on top and women on bottom. It keeps women down, I know you're a man and prefer it that way so I won't waste my breath trying to explain why an entire fucking gender being relegated to a lower position is bad.
This is because women hate men they view as below them. They are ridiculed for being pathetic and unmanly. Relationships where the woman earns more are statistically more likely to end in divorce.
I don't know, you're making it seem like a social construct but it's instincts. Just telling men to be interested in superior women isn't going to make them interested in them any more than the fat acceptance movement made them like fat bodies. On the same note, it's not like women are going to start being interested in inferior men.
No one is being relegated anywhere. If women choose to want a superior man, she isn't dismissed to an inferior role, she actively is seeking an inferior role. It's not like the workplace discriminates either so I have no idea what you are talking about
I literally said women are complicit in it. And yes, it is 'instinct', which is why I simply dislike men rather than pointlessly try to change them. Women aren't so entitled and lacking in empathy though, so we aren't a lost cause.
What the fuck are you talking about? Women will never marry/date a man below them.
so true. i was tricked for a long time into thinking that older men were attractive for being "mature",etc. when i realized that it was all a lie started by older men to get girls in their 20s to hop on their old dicks. and girls buy into that shit and repeat it and it gets believed as fact. i didn't want an older man, i wanted a man my own age who was emotionally mature who had his shit together. of course, that kind of man most likely doesn't exist, and if they do, its a mask.
Women think they are inherently better than men.
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Okay, so you recognize that women like superior men and men like inferior women, and it's for some reason a bad thing (which I don't agree with and you still haven't explained why), but it's an instinct we have no control over, but men are to blame, but women also can stop it, but men can't?(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)
Good lord, go the fuck back to /r9k/ or /pol if you need to explain why someone could possibly think women automatically being inferior is a bad thing. And yes, of course I think women are capable of changing. We've been under men's thumb for the vast majority of history, what men prefer is going to strongly influence our attitudes because they have the power to do so. As we become more independent we can obviously adjust our views to reflect that. Men have had the luxury of doing whatever they want all along, there's not much point trying to change them now.
I'm curious to anins here, what are experiences you've had with men to make you feel like you/women in general are hated by men? I'm not doubting anyone, I just can't think of a single irl experience I've had that felt especially misogynistic to me.
There isn't anyone in the world who has the freedom to do whatever they want.
Try arguing about what is actually being said instead of whatever strawman you're trying to pull. Women SEEKING a superior-inferior relationship =/= AUTOMATICALLY being inferior you disingenuous cunt.
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>all these flustered robots
What kind of useless fucking semantics are you arguing? It makes no difference if women SEEK an inferior position, they aren't doing it in a fucking bubble. They're doing it in a society that has constantly told them that they should do so, are surrounded by men who encourage it, and are faced with negative consequences when they don't. If a woman internalizes those expectations, she's still 'automatically' placed in an inferior position. It's the default, it's something women have to actively avoid and unlearn.
>arguing with 4chan users
>uses trash reaction pic
>thinks she can compete with a 4chan reaction images
WRONG!!!(goodbye)
Ah, how could I have forgotten. Let's pretend that women today aren't brought up in a "you can do whatever those men do" feminist controlled society, and still prefer the inferior role. How would you even test your position? I thought you already admitted that seeking superior men was an instinct? Your position doesn't really make sense. First it was biological, now it's social. I wonder what you actually think
Seriously, there are so many male dominated places on the internet that will entertain your delusions that feminism is somehow 'controlling' society and that misogyny and the patriarchy have zero effect on women.
And yeah, it's a bit of both instinct and socialization, they aren't contradictory positions. One leads to the the other, but we're more controlled by societal factors than instinct. It's just that society favours men and runs according to their preferences.
that's because they are
Yeah, women like metally mature and stable men, not poor, old, perverted wrinkly dicks.
There are a few good looking older men, but the average bloke is nowhere near them.
Oh, I didn't realize this place legitimately believes in the patriarchy. Lmao
>Extremely biased family courts
>Affirmative action (actual discrimination)
>women get 1/6 the time for the same crime a man does
>Duluth model for DV implicitly discriminates against men on no grounds
>You can get fired or kicked out of school for a rape ACCUSATION
>40% of rape accusations are ADMITTED to being false
>men have no reproductive rights after the semen leaves his penis. A women can impregnate herself with his semen by taking a condom out of the trash, and he STILL has to pay for child support or he goes to jail
>People actually believe women can't rape men, even if the male is like 12
>If that child rapist gets pregnant, when the 12 year old turns 18, he OWES his RAPIST for the 6 years of child support
>There is like 7 different ways for a women to decide to keep a baby (condom, birth control, morning after, abortion, give up for adoption)
>Government organisations that are gender specific are ALL targeted for women, there is like 1000 charities with women in the name that are government supported, but not 1 that help men
>>patriarchy exists because the majority of powerful people are male
Now name one things male directly benefit from that isn't their own effort.(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)
>A women can impregnate herself with his semen by taking a condom out of the trash, and he STILL has to pay for child support or he goes to jail
lmao @ this faggot who thinks this is physically possible to be common enough. Sperm doesn't live outside of the body for that long.
>defend women on 4chan
>get vilified and called a roastie all the time
>defend men here
>get called an incel, a robot etc. (I've never even browsed /r9k/)
I guess I just can't win.
then don't defend men in a man-hating thread you fuckin doorknob
>what do you want then? an alpha chad who will rape you? You pretend to want "nice" guys but the reality is that nice guys are losers and nobody wants them
Most self-proclaimed "nice" guys aren't really nice, dummy. Women want men who are genuinely caring and emotionally mature, and don't just behave that way to get what they want. Period. Not a supposed "nice guy" who will fly off the handle the second he's rejected.
The reason you always fail to understand what women want, robot-chan, is because you're still mentally a teenager and project your high school-tier alpha-beta dichotomy onto all adult relationships. You think of everything in terms of a performance or a facade instead of a real connection between two people. Most women who have dipped into the dating scene a bit will have experience with men who are just putting up a facade or playing games to get what they want from women (that usually being, but not restricted to sex,) and the more jaded she is the easier she will get at sniffing out what's real and what's a lie. Men who are genuinely good guys wouldn't have a single problem getting good women to like them.
>That reddit is definitely not for that, but okay?
They literally had a thread a while back asking people to stop calling them female incels. Honestly if you can't see why that's a perfect source of milk then I don't know what to tell you.
Why bother? A robot who is convinced women are whores won't change his mind. By the same token the same sort of dingus that thinks men have literally no empathy for women and are fundamentally misogynistic will forever cling to some bad experiences and stupid shitposts as their inviolable truth.
Honestly I take the fact I've been called so many mutually exclusive things over the years on the internet as a badge of pride.
Just broke up with my boyfriend, he was the autistic anti feminist red pill type. I am staying away from men for a long time, I use to get told I generalize men too much but you know what? They've always proven me right.
My ex constantly wanted to know about my past lovers, he literally chased me down the street calling me a slut and the one time I snapped back and told him to shut the fuck up he says I'm abusing him. As soon as you treat men even close to how they treat us they can't handle it, they cry abuse.
They really aren't female incels, though. They don't threaten to murder men because they won't fuck them or catfish men out of spite or worship serial killers or nail their… labias to boards or any other incel stuff. They just don't want to fuck with men.
>As soon as you treat men even close to how they treat us they can't handle it, they cry abuse.
Men pretend that they're strong and superior, but when they get the treatment that women get they show their true colours, they're weak and pathetic.
I know this sperg was banned, but for any robots that read this and think, “he’s right, gotta protect my jizz from female cum-stealing vacuums!”
lmfao, women taking your sperm need not be a concern of yours EVER.
>lmfao, women taking your sperm need not be a concern of yours EVER.
Exactly, robots having their sperm stolen is about as likely as farmers getting raped.(robot)
Right? This is a h00t
I don't really like most men but my fantasies are all submissive, masochism stuff about being raped and hurt so it kind of screws with me sometimes. I think I might just use men for that sort of sex.
Stop watching porn and you'll be less inclined to fantasize about deviant behavior.
All of my exs have been 4chan guys.
It was both them and porn who got me into it.
you need to go to therapy and like.. love yourself or something
Rape is a pretty common crime. How many documented cases of women stealing sperm are there? Couple thousand? Yeah, totally comparable.
Men who are in denial about the prevalence of rape don't know a single thing about the crime outside of the "stranger in a dark alley" narrative anyhow. I've also seen plenty of farmers share their experiences with being raped on here.
>I've also seen plenty of farmers share their experiences with being raped on here.
I've also seen a farmer ask for advice because her supposed rapist was asking for advice about girl problems on the vent thread a while back.
>got raped when I was 7
>Keep it a secret for years mom's sister got kidnapped, raped and killed when she was small
>don't want to make her sad again
>years go by
>feel less and less like a man and depressed, anxious as fuck all the time
>family pry too much to know what's wrong with me
>finally tell them
>dad fucking tells me to man the fuck up and get over it
>mom is not fazed at all
>First and only gf also learned about it
>breaks up with me because she can't see me as a man anymore
>in the end it just ends up people saying me to deal with it
People regardless of gender fucking suck.(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)
Sorry to hear that. No kid deserves to experience that. However, this is a thread for WOMEN to vent about their experiences, not for men.
Shit I thought this was vent thread, can't delete my post for some reason.
I'd believe that if you didn't try to make the point "people of both genders suck"
Kill yourself you pathetic wimp
lol… anon, just because a lot of men are shitty doesn't mean you should forgo empathy yourself. Boys are just as vulnerable to rape and molestation as girls when they are children.
Women go through worse shit all the time, and aren't nearly as whiny and needy as people like him are. Men can't handle anything.
So…? People have a right to complain about situations like that. Brushing that off as being "whiny" as if it's not a big deal is exactly why women topically don't want to come forward with their experiences either, because no one treats it with seriousness.
Typically*
We get it, men go through shit too. In fact there's not a single time where women can talk about their experiences without men reminding us.
You'd sound like a blm activist if "men" were replaced with "white people" and "women" with "black people."
>Kill yourself you pathetic wimp
Jesus Christ he's talking about being raped as a child what the fuck is wrong with you
If a woman said the same thing on a place like /r9k/, they would get exactly that kind of treatment and worse. There's no reason to care about men's "problems" when they don't care about ours.
damn this thread is sad. you idiots can hate whoever all you want, but the idea that straining men and womens relationships for the sake of 'fairness' is dumb.
are we on /r9k/? do you think you're brave or cool for sinking to the level of those types of guys? you're just creating more hate and pushing out others who are actually understanding.
gender roles suck, i get it, and women have gotten the short end of the stick forever, i personally experienced negative impact from being a woman, but playing pity party and acting like men's gender roles aren't just as straining simply because some men have it good because they're men is stupid.
hate 'men' but hate the right ones. there are plenty of men to hate and plenty of women to hate, both for the same reasons.
>you're just creating more hate and pushing out others who are actually understanding.
There are no men who actually understand anything about women. They are literally incapable, it is ingrained in their nature to be sociopathic and irrational, especially towards women.
If a man doesn't at first seem to be actively violent against women, then he is merely hiding it and pretending. That's all there is to it. No men are capable of empathy with women. You're delusional if you think otherwise.
That man posting in this thread does so because he can't handle the fact that women are talking about this, and realizing the truth about them, and so he comes here to post his sob story (likely fake) in order to derail the thread and look for pity and have all the women here focus on the fact that he has a dick.
Men's gender roles only serve to empower them. And when they somehow can't fit into them despite all the privilege and backing they have in society, then it's only natural to call them out on how pathetic and incapable they are. It's so easy for men to achieve their gender roles and be happy with them, the men who can't are even more subhuman then the rest.
boohoo, get over yourself. you are just like the idiot robots who you complain about, only your undeserved sense of self pity stems from the fact that your gender has been treated poorly. you are likely exactly the same, a vaguely privileged neet who knows nothing of life or the real world and harbors hate due to no social life and reading shitty anecdotes on the internet all day for companionship. no, i am not trying to defend men, i am just embarrassed to know people like you exist just as i am people who go on r9k.
lol she's been spamming r9k with these threads for days now
I'm pretty sure she's the same person in the teen obsession thread too.
>plenty of women to hate, both for the same reasons
I always roll my eyes at those posts because I've seen so many cases of women do horrible things. My grandmother subjected my mother and all of her children really to an insane amount of abuse and it was a COUPLE that rescued her from that, who we consider family to this day. The man would spend his time at a children's hospital and gather funding for them with his club until he sadly passed, while my grandmother left literal scars. Yet some dunce thinks that's all a wash because of some bitter nerd with too much free time.
kek 'she'. this whole thing seems like a troll post since it's on here instead of on /g/ where men will be instabanned. just goes to show how far the shitty site has fallen.
I've written some salty posts here, but I just want to make it clear a lot of us don't actually hate men. Don't mistake venting and having a private space to criticize men for all their shit as loathing every single man.
>They are literally incapable, it is ingrained in their nature to be sociopathic and irrational
Oh knock it off with this shit. Men are held to a very low standard of behavior so the bar for a good guy is incredibly skewed. Basic human decency is given a gold star.
>wow, you don't abuse your gf!!??? What a great guy! Such a keeper!!
And you're adding to this mentality by not expecting more from them. It's the same rationale that holds women accountable for being a victim of sexual assault.
>oh c'mon if you don't wear a literal bed sheet covering every inch of skin how can you expect men to control themselves?? Boys will be boys!
Maybe you should stop spending so much time lurking male-dominated forums, because you're letting your anger get the better of you.
I've also seen a few posts ITT of women who said they have dated shitty misogynistic men, and are incensed because that's the treatment they got. Shocker. If you want to meet nice guys, and I mean genuinely nice guys not robots in disguise, you have to learn from your past mistakes and assemble a brutal vetting process. Don't tolerate shitty behavior in a relationship either, because all you're teaching them is that they can get away with it. Otherwise, what you're doing is the equivalent of going into the forest, stripping yourself naked, and covering yourself with honey, then acting astonished when a bear attacks you.
[X] Doubt
Do you think there's anything a man could do to stop other men from hating women?
I mean….men tend to listen to other men more, so maybe. But, I also can’t picture a situation where a man tries to change another mans opinion of women. Men don’t seem to be bothered by misogyny at all, even when it’s right in front of them. I’m sure most would probably laugh it off or ignore it rather than try to change the misogynist’s mind.
Not contribute to the idea that women as a whole are a unified force working against your ability to fuck them, and when you are inevitably rejected, not default to this notion to spare yourself the injustice of self analysis
agreed. tons of these man-haters are just like the girl version of robots, chalking bad traits up to gender and complaining they'll never and can't change. and then when you confront them it has to do solely with their experiences with men or shit from forums. it mirrors robots perfectly. they just choose their ideas based on experience and then feed it by way of the internet.
i almost sympathize robots and their girl counterparts, but they are so shitty and they dig their heels in so hard it's almost impossible.
it's hard to care about anyone who preaches empathy and whines while at the same time, judging people based on their sex and a vague generalization of how society treats them. not just men, women as well. you can't judge someone's worth based on assumptions. any one of us could be just as bad as those 'evil men' but we're excused since we're women? fucking stupid, and exactly the same as how robots act.
Alright, I don't think I can contribute anything more to those talking points without appearing hostile in some way (in a space where I frankly don't belong), but thanks for your input.
Misogyny doesn't just live on the internet, and to insinuate so is ludicrous. Men as a group can benefit from some well-placed criticism, but too many times they shut down when women make good points and they're behavior never changes. The point is to stop excusing bad behavior because as you said,
>chalking bad traits up to gender and complaining they'll never and can't change
feeds into that cycle. Male bullshit can frustrate me, but you'll never catch me putting up with it for more than a minute or two. I have myself to focus on first and foremost, and I'd rather die a sexless spinster than to date another misogynistic trainwreck.
>all the NAMALT in this thread
Let's be real, the majority of us on this thread don't hate men (disregarding the couple of autists) most of it is just venting about our bad experiences. Men have so many spaces to talk about hating women and are often far more aggressive, can we not talk about our shitty experiences for once? We know not all men are like that, you don't need to tell us.
I was dating an anti feminist redpill type of guy, I didn't know he was like that for the first month or so but it began to show. He would constantly ask me for a run down of my past lovers, when guys would hit on me while we were out he'd blame me for "putting myself in that situation" aka leaving the house….with him?
He one night went to a strip club without even asking me if it was okay, but I didn't freak out at him as hey it's a bit of fun right? I took this as maybe he'll be more chill with me now and less paranoid, I was so so wrong. On the same night he'd had a lap dance from a stripper, he physically dragged me away from talking/dancing with a gay male friend and shouted at me the entire night (still had sex with me though) and morning.
The final straw was Saturday night, he literally chased me down the street demanding to know "how many dicks have you sucked", got in my face, cornered me and couldn't believe it when I didn't want to stay with him. He said I was only crying because I'm a woman and that's what women do, I'm trying to make him look abusive when it's actually me who's abusive and if he was a woman everyone would see him as a victim, literally the only time I ever got angry at him it was just a "can you shut up now" or "stop" it was never personal and I got viably angry with him a total of three times in the entirety of our six month relationship and would back down every time, if I stood up for myself he'd pull the gender card.
Yeah I'm an idiot for not dumping him ages ago, but I loved him and wanted it to work….I thought he would be able to get over his insecurity and paranoia if I asked permission to go out without him, always told him what I was doing etc but nothing worked. I have been abused by several men in my life since I was a kid and I am just so broken at this point, men don't care or have any empathy. I'm just a dumb cunt for not dating "nice guys" except this guy literally framed himself as #NotLikeOtherGuys and was your typical nice guy.
Exactly this. Women are socialized early on to be "polite in public"; this thread is a way to blow off steam and vent together about our experiences/issues.
We know you're not all /r9k/ bottomfeeders, but we asspat enough asshole men IRL.
>I thought he would be able to get over his insecurity and paranoia if I asked permission to go out without him, always told him what I was doing etc but nothing worked.
Eh, you can't change guys like that, but I don't blame you for falling into that trap. Sometimes you have to learn these lessons on your own for it to sink in… that being said so-called "nice guys" shouldn't actually be taken at their word. You'll get a better understanding of someone by studying their behavior as opposed to what they say.
Thanks anon, I was trying to be understanding as I get everyone has issues and flaws. I didn't want to just give up on someone I cared about over it so tried to make him happy, but it didn't work and until he gets help to overcome his insecurities/anger issues it never will.
It really seems like mystery to me. Anyone else think so? Has she showed up in chat recently?
sage for blogpost but i need to vent. anons I am sick of living in constant fear. I'm a 26yo woman living in a safe part of town, upper-middle class, etc. etc. but every day whenever I'm alone after dark/winter afternoons, or home alone, I'm well aware of the possiblity of a stranger following me home or breaking in or attacking me in any way. I am honestly so sick of being a vulnerable non-ugly non-fat white woman because men are fucking horrible and can't control their urges. i see my type on forensic files over and over and over again. a high-achieving, happy-go-lucky young woman with a bright future murdered for sex or some other sick fantasy. i hate being so calculating about every male encounter in my life - rejecting car rides home from well-meaning male coworkers because I want to avoid being alone with him in case he/they want to rape me, my mom urging me to call my boyfriend when I'm in a taxi ride home so the male taxi driver knows I'm not home alone, being nervous when I'm alone with a repairman, palming a knife in my coat pocket when i see a man or several men walking toward me on a deserted street…
always being ready to fight for my life and being paranoid in innocent situations. i am literally home alone rn, it's 3 am and i have a knife near my bedside. fucking hell
Yeah I get what you're saying, it's just in general every thread whenever women try talk about their experiences it's filled with #NotAllMen etc and it's tiring.
>non ugly
>non fat
Yeah except both of those kinds of women are targeted too because opportunistic predators just want to feel control over a warm hole that's vulnerable and alone. Invest in a self defense weapon and get over yourself a little. You live in a nice neighborhood which is more than what most women could say for themselves.
You sound like a privileged rich white girl who needs to get over herself
>Being afraid of this is like being afraid of dying in a car crash;
Man, I know it's just a metaphor but if I'm driving or walking in an area with a lot of cars, I'm on high alert the whole time. There's good reason to be as cautious as possible while driving, and you could say the same applies to men. But you're around them almost constantly and it's not socially acceptable to treat them like a deathtrap so it's not a great comparison.
well good for her. why not give these tools a dose of reality?
i am a priviledged upper-middle class white girl - so what? does that make me safe at night? does that mean i should feel more relaxed and comfortable around rich or upper-middle class white boys? are you serious? those are the types who feel they're above the law most - and often they very well are. brock turner, the steubenville rapists, that affluenza kid, etc.
i appreciate you, well-intentioned anon, and i am fully aware of how shit my mentality is. i wrote that post last night because i needed to vent. the apartment i live in atm is easily accessible through the roof windows and generally hidden from the main road. however my terrace is an open area for all the surrounding houses/neighors to easily see my comings and goings, my bf leaving with travel bags, the front door showing we have lots of loot inside, from a ps4, flat screen, guitars, computers, etc.
i will be moving next year but for now, yeah, it sucks i can't just kick it in my own empty apartment because every semi-loud outside noise makes me reach for my pepper spray or kitchen knife. it might be all in my head, but my upbringing and society put it there.
Anon probably meant you sound incredibly sheltered. Of course it's good to keep an eye on what is happening around you when walking down a street at night alone, but you seem paranoid to a point where it affects your everyday life. You should take the other anon's advice and talk to a therapist about this.
saw this in the blaire white thread a while back, the comments are repulsive and sexist, I'll make a collage with the comments later
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I will never understand this level of vitriolic hatred towards someone you don't even know. Someone who has surely never harmed you or someone you love. This girl made a mistake, and they're acting like she fucking killed someone instead of just having sex. She was practically a fucking child. WHY? Can one of the maleposters explain this to me, instead of just telling us that misogyny isn't that big of a deal?
I really hope these commenters are just teen boys. But even then…deep down I know they won't grow out of this mentality, and they will eventually become men who still think this way. Who still hate women.
And of course, if you're upset about fucks saying a young girl deserved to possibly lose her life because she wasn't a virgin, you're a feminazi.
Man sorry for flipping out but it just gets worse and worse everyday. I shouldn't be surprised or hurt by these things anymore, I should feel like I've seen it all but every time I think it can't get worse, it does. I just can't stand the way men feel about women. WHY.
Men are fucking deranged. They have some type of fucked psychosexual complex towards women. They beg women for sex and create demands for porn and prostitution, but want women to feel as dehuamnized as possible for participating in those things.
To be fair it is pretty depressing how gullible teenage girls are. I imagine a lot of that anger from men is basically misplaced disappointment that girls like that are basically the norm these days. I was discussing this with my boyfriend and he thinks a lot of the bitterness stems from feeling that women aren't actually interested in anything beyond sex.
I mean…they’re teenagers. It’s kind of expected that they are gullible and make terrible mistakes that they (hopefully) learn from. Unfortunately this girl may have died from hers, and all these men can say is that she deserved it because she was a slut. She deserved to die because….she had sex?
It’s not disappointment. It’s hatred and disgust for women and girls. And to your boyfriends point, a lot of women feel like men aren’t interested in anything but sex. But you don’t really see a large, growing movement like the red pill or mgtow for women who hate men.
Ugh again with the "Muh whye gurls luv bbc!!, source: pornhub". Do these fucking apebrains realize that porn caters to MALE fantasies? Men are the ones wanting to watch white women get "destroyed" by a black penis. Fucking imbeciles.
Yeah it's tragic. But I think she seems exceptionally gullible and stupid. Even as a depressed teen I knew better than to get involved with black guys in any way.
Plus they’ve been saying women are only good for sex for years. So why would they be upset if that’s all women offer them?
Here's my take on it from what I've gleaned from my boyfriend. They basically feel like if women really are as sexually voracious as we're depicted in porn then they stand no chance of properly satisfying us. This in turn causes a mixture of rage and anger often channeled into fantasies of sexual violence.
A lot of it comes down to porn sickness too. Some white guys feel white women make them feel emasculated by saying black guys are superior and all that stuff. And that's where a lot of the "well I don't care. I prefer Asian women anyway!" stuff comes from.
>not being racist means you're a gullible idiot
If that's how you want to take it…
But yeah. I wouldn't hang out alone with black men as a white girl. Dunno how your parents raised you but to me hanging out with any large group of men alone puts you in danger. Being a lone white girl among a group of black men only amplifies it.
I'll take racism over being raped and murdered kthx
So you can point out that men commit the vast majority of violent crime but not the plain and simple fact that by these very same statistics, black men are the most violent group of men? Get real. Both claims are true. Men are overwhelmingly more violent and black men are overwhelmingly the most violent sub group of men.
burn the coal, pay the toll
lmao who invited the racist-chans
>believe women are not sexual
>bothered by it
>make porn fantasy world where women like sex
>become traumatized by fantasy they created themselves
Men are fucking retarded
It's the Madonna-Whore complex. Men see women as either sex crazed sluts or pure and asexual with no in between. If a man discovers a girl he thought was a Madonna has sexual desires and/or rejects him or seems less than perfectly kind, she's shafted into the Whore category and is deemed worthless in the man's eye. What men want is the perfect waifu with the sweetness and purity of the Madonna but the sex drive of the Whore, who doesn't really exist.
tldr men are stupid
>concerned about their value to the opposite sex, likely due to a sense of inferiority
>tortured insecurity during developmental years
>compensate for a complete and utter lack of emotional coping skills by indulging in fantasies which are handed to them on a silver platter via the internet
>become addicted to these fantasies at a young age and carry them over into adulthood, resulting in a warped, underdeveloped person (resentful manchild)
>resentful manchild develops the need to defend his warped, abominable state of existence (mgtow)
>manchildren give birth to numales
>ww3
>numales all die
>matriarchy for 12,000 years
>colonize entire milky way
>They basically feel like if women really are as sexually voracious as we're depicted in porn then they stand no chance of properly satisfying us.
Can't they just like, y'know… separate porn from REALITY? Jesus fuck dude the way porn depicts sexuality isn't in anyway common in real life. It's ACTING. It's a PERFORMANCE. The women in porn probably don't even joy half of what's being done to them in the slightest bit.
>What men want is the perfect waifu with the sweetness and purity of the Madonna but the sex drive of the Whore
How do they not realize that these two things cancel each other out? Can someone pls explain the male thought pattern to me? That shit is wacko.
Why is it so terrible for women to have any sort of sexuality? Why are we disgusting if we enjoy sex, but it's accepted as natural and normal for men to have sexual urges?
Women get pleasure from sex as well, and that shouldn't make men feel bad. Would they rather when we had sex we were hating every second off it? It's honestly so fucking backwards, they beg us for sex but we're disgusting sluts if we have it.
Lel, maybe blacks are more likely to be criminals but statistically white men in the US are just as likely to be registered sex offenders as any other race. I wouldn't trust Bradley more than I would any other man.
Men usually like women to enjoy sex… as long as it's only with them and never another man.
…Do they really? At most they'll say something like "does that feel good, babe?" as they essentially use your body as a living fleshlight. Doesn't seem like they want women to feel good as much as they want an ego boost.
I really hate how so many men think it's justification to treat women like shit if they've had a lot of sex too. What did they really do wrong? All they did was have sex…why is that a reason to forever brand a woman an evil slut that deserves to be treated like shit her entire life?
Boys can start watching pornography at very young ages, especially nowadays. Kids in middle school are probably beating it to porn. They're far too young at that time, and thus are easily impressionable. As children they have a much harder time separating what they see in porn from reality, especially since they've yet to experience sex in real life. Because of this they get expectations and views on sexuality ingrained in their head through porn, likely long before any sexual education they might have in school. Then of course they only have other porn addicts like themselves to converse with, and their beliefs double over even moreso. By the time they reach adulthood, the pornography they've consumed has left a great impression on them that is very difficult to get rid of. When they finally face reality and it goes against their expectations, they feel betrayed, or frustrated, or insecure in themselves. That itself feeds into the desire for more porn over reality, and further entrenches them in their incorrect beliefs.
>…Do they really?
Go to a sub like r/askmen and you'll notice it's a pretty common sentiment. Sex is not actually that great if you don't care about your partner, it's glorified masturbation otherwise.
>but statistically white men in the US are just as likely to be registered sex offenders as any other race.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-43
They are 13% of the population but commit 30% of the rape, 25% of other sex offenses so they're incredibly more likely. Honestly the whole argument that men are shit because they're more violent/commit rape fits well into a racists world view, and I've always found it magical how some posters try to avoid that.
I don’t understand it either. As much as they hate women and think they’re inferior, they seem to hold us to a higher standard than men if that makes sense. Like we have a set of stipulations we have to meet, otherwise men think we’re worthless and deserve to die I guess.
It’s weird but I hope I’m making sense. Ifs not like they expect us to be better than men, because they don’t think we are. They think we’re worse than men in every single way, yet they hold us to higher standards than they do other men and attack us that much more viciously if we don’t meet them.
I don’t understand men’s logic on just about anything. It makes me glad and not insecure that I’m a Virgin for the first time in my life. I don’t think I ever want to deal with men in any romantic or sexual way honestly. It seems more trouble than it’s worth, but that’s just my opinion and I know there are people here who are happily with men. Don’t mean to imply that you’re wrong or making a mistake at all.
Yeah, like men can have loads of sex because they're men and that's what men do. When women do it they're disgusting whores who gave into temptation, women are meant to hold off from sex but men will also complain about not getting sex easily despite forcing this standard on us.
Another thing I've noticed as well, in the case of rape men often say "well she was alone with a man, what did she expect?" Why are women expected to take all these safety procedures (don't wear short skirts/dresses or revealing clothes, don't drink, don't walk home alone at night, don't be alone with a man) but men can't be expected to just….not rape anyone?
Also if a woman does take these safety procedures she's a paranoid femanazi who believes all men are rapists, there's so much contradictions and we literally can't win.
>well she was alone with a man, what did she expect?
Lmao. The same type of man who says shit like that also gets upset when tumblr feminists say all men are violent rapists. What exactly do they think they're suggesting there…? Because what it implies is that all men are ticking time bombs who can't control themselves, and all women should be wary of them at all times. Fascinating.
They simply want to bear none of the responsibility.
>it's your fault if you trust men to have the least bit of self-control!!
>What? How dare you work under the assumption that any man could be a rapist!! #NotAllMen
Pretty much, the standards men are held up to in regards to sex and relationships is that of a toddler who is able to control their sexual urges/rage, but women have to make loads of allowances and tiptoe around them basically. Also, the ability to see into the future might help as your friend/boyfriend/family member could turn out to be a rapist as most rapes are committed by someone the victim knows, you're a dumb bitch for not seeing the signs though so yeah being able to look into the future is also required.
I don't think they treat them like shit, unless they're a close female relative or something. I think they just tend to stigmatise them as the sort of girl who would never be worth dating. Which is fair enough. Promiscuous men and women are both undesirable people in my eyes.
That's fine, however men don't just leave it at that and get on with their lives. They sperg out all the time if women have sex in a way they don't agree with and need to make everyone aware of it, I'm not attracted to fat guys but I don't sperg about how I don't wanna date fat guys all the time.
I think men these days fear that there simply aren't that many reserved girls left.
And that justifies it? Also, yeah, they don't think women aste chaste enough the same way they did throughout history. It was the same if not worse when being "reserved" was a requirement and not a choice, so it's not like it's a reaction to women being on average more sexually active. It's just a reaction to a woman showing men she's an independent person who does what she wants with her own body.
I dunno sis. I'm not too happy about how slutty the culture is these days either. One because I want kids of my own one day and two because I think there's genuine peer pressure on people like me to be more sexually extroverted. It's also just generally very gross and unhealthy.
That whole feminist third wave sex positive stuff is disgusting to me, not gonna lie.
It's literally just women doing what men do, I doubt most women who sleep around are doing it cause "omgz this will totez piss off men!1" it's just something they may want to do, not everyone wants a relationship. Most men's reasons for not wanting a "slutty" girlfriend tends to be down to their own insecurity too, they're scared they won't be able to satisfy her sexually and personally, I think there's their own issue they need to overcome, not try to restrict women's sexuality.
That's fine, however do you think what if a girl sleeps around or even just isn't a virgin or slept around when she was 18, deserves to be raped, never deserves a happy relationship when she's ready for it? etc. I get why someone people may not want to with someone who's slept around or want to do it themselves, but as mentioned above the issue I have is men's insecurities being a justification to try to restrict women and the constant autism about sex.
This for real, all this sex positivity is bullshit. Some of these people are literally condoning prostitution/sex work as if it's some ~super liberating~ thing. Makes me sick… Sad that men blame women for all of it though.
>I think there's genuine peer pressure on people like me to be more sexually extroverted. It's also just generally very gross and unhealthy
>That whole feminist third wave sex positive stuff is disgusting to me, not gonna lie.
I agree, but it wasn't that many years ago before the whole *~sexposi~* train took off and people were MUCH more cruel to women then on the basis of their "history." It's just as toxic to scream "WORTHLESS WHORE" in a young girl's face just because she did so much as hold hands with a guy before, or lay in bed with him.
Does that mean they have to treat all women like shit, though? I fear that there aren't any non-misogynistic men left…but I don't run around trying to make men feel as low as possible or attacking them for how many sex partners they have.
Plus like >>214789 mentioned, those women are just doing what a lot of men have done for years. Why is it suddenly worse when a woman does it? And why do men think they need to be punished for it, and think they 'deserve' thinks like rape and death?
(Not to mention, I don't think casual sex is even as common as we may think. I know there are women that do it, but I still think it's far from the norm even now.)
They want her just to be a whore for them. Fucking retarded.
I've noticed a lot of Asian women in porn whine and cry and make weird, dissatisfied faces during sex. Seriously, a lot of Asian porn is extremely rapey because of this. Perhaps that's what men want? The ones who claim they only like Asian girls, anyway. A girl who will just act innocent and ~so sensitive~ during sex like some kind of anime caricature.
I know about a girl that was raped by multiple guys in the same night but no one "counts" it as rape because shes a "slut" anyway, fucking disgusting.
And one of the guys is a "sweet and loving" young father.
I hate this conservative country i live in.
Also fuck men, and no lol #NOTALL
Anyone I know who has casual sex, has a one night stand every few months or they have a fwbs. It's not the strawman argument men make that women are having orgies every weekend. I don't have casual sex but don't care if others do, I have friends that do it and as long as they're being safe/not hurting anyone I don't see why I should think they're lower people?
Had one send me a story of this guy who fucked his drunk and underage cousin, and when I replied "ew" he just seemed so annoyed.
Men are disgusting, nothing new
It's kind of an open secret that a lot of women in Japanese porn are paying off debts for the Yakuza. I assume that's what you're referring to since most Asian porn that comes to mind is either Jap or Western in my experience. I figure the crying that sounds like a dying cat has something to do with that.
>(Not to mention, I don't think casual sex is even as common as we may think. I know there are women that do it, but I still think it's far from the norm even now.)
Probably varies a lot with the area. I don't really see it in my social circle but it seems to be a regular thing at college when I observe others.
exactly, I'm an asian woman, everytime a man tells me he prefers asian women, all I hear him say is "I'm shit in bed" so I just avoid men who go crazy over asian women
My problem with it boils down to when they say this:
>"But women like sex too!"
That's just a strawman. I can't speak for all women, but I can speak in rough anecdotal terms for girls I'm friends and peers with throughout all stages of my life (school, uni, career - at least among the ones who had good relationships with their dads) and the conclusion is that we ARE different from men in that regard. The vast majority of us do not want casual sex and do not consider it something highly desirable in the same way men do.
That's part of my problem with feminism. We are different from men, and how we approach sex is a part of these innate differences. Whatever feminists want to say, the vast majority of us, again at least in my experience, don't want one night stands and flings and "fuckbuddies" in the same sort of animal way men do.
We want security and love.
In before muh disney princess idealism.
Different Anon, but oh my god. That’s so sickening, the Yakuza and porn industry. You know if anyone told the men who get off to that shit about it, they probably wouldn’t fucking care anyway. God damn pigs.
Sage for legit rage.
They get off more to it if the woman is in genuine pain/distress. There are forums where men trade porn with background info like "she did this assgape scene to pay for a hit of such and such drug" and others reply about how "hot" that is.
Men these days are fixated on degradation and dehumanization. They think women deserve this because we do porn.
This has been my experience as well. I and most of the female friends I've had throughout my life have never engaged in casual sex. I knew one girl in college who was the manosphere stereotype of the "cock carousel" riding girl, but she was still a perfectly kind person and fun to be around. She wasn't a worthless whore, she just liked sex. So I agree with you on that, maybe women are generally different than men in that respect. I know feminism is a bit of a shitshow right now, I think that ideally self proclaimed feminists should support a woman's right to choose what lifestyle works best for her, and not pressure any women to conform to a certain way.
The part I disagree with you on is this. There are women who generally enjoy casual sex out there. Women who have sex outside of relationships. Maybe they felt pressured by the current social climate, maybe they genuinely enjoy it. There's a conversation to be had there that may be separate from this one. I don't know. But overall the point is…nobody should harrassed and called a worthless whore and have their own death or misfortune blamed on the fact that they had a lot of sex (like the girl in the video above.) We can agree on that, right? It isn't a crime to have sex, but a lot of men act like it is the worst possible thing a woman could do, meanwhile they brag about all of the depraved shit they've done with double digit numbers of women and they don't find themselves disgusting or worthless. I don't get that.
We don't have to agree with their lifestyle in order to still treat them like human beings and not tell them they're worthless because they've had sex before. That is what men do, and I think that's the issue most of us have with this. And they have become so severe with it to the point where they now say a woman who has had sex with even one man before them is 'tainted' and worthless to men. Even if that sex was within a long term, serious relationship that just didn't work out.
I can't agree with you because the definition of what constitutes "harassment" is just too broad to the point what it comes down to is basically policing what people think and say (think the UK with its lolworthy laws about social media).
I would feel a lot more comfortable in a society where you're not made to feel like a freak for not being into BDSM shit from 14 onwards, and if it takes censure and humiliation of more slovenly girls to achieve that, then so be it.
Maybe harassment was the wrong word to use, sorry. But, why belittle and humiliate anyone? And why only women? Men are involved in sex too, obviously.
I'm sorry you feel like society makes you feel like a freak for being more conservative when it comes to sex. It shouldn't be that way. But the answer is not to attack people who make different choices than you. What do we all gain from that?
Men should get the same treatment. Modern society holds nobody to any sexual standards because most liberals fear being held to standards of any reasonable, objective kind.
Men who father illegitimate children for example are usually trash and should be run out of town.
The "compassionate" choice isn't always the right one.
>Men should get the same treatment
But they don't. And they never will. Overall, I'm just tired of women being shit on by women and men alike regardless of what we do. I get made fun of for being a virgin and thus a 'future catlady' or I just need some dick or I'm too ugly to get a man. Other girls get told they are worthless and deserve all the bad things that could happen to them because they're whores and sluts. Men say they're "used up", as if they're some kind of product. There is absolutely nothing we can do to make men and society look down upon us less. Everyone makes excuses for men, and yet attack women for the tiniest infraction. I get that it won't change, but I wish it would. It isn't helpful for us to treat other women the way men already treat us, because then really where can women go where we aren't hated?
people see men who run out on their kids as just a bad situation that "happens" but people will shame women to hell and back if they aren't perfect moms
Amber Rose for example, then the guy ran out on his kids no one gave a shit but people will spend all day harassing her for not being a good mom, while I don't think she's a good mom but for fucks sake, shame the asshole walking out on his kids to, not just amber rose
>But they don't. And they never will.
Historically it was a big deal if a man got a girl knocked up without actually committing to her, he'd be liable to get a beating at the least.
Basically the idea was if they didn't give a woman some sort of security before taking the relationship to an intimate place, they really would be run out of town (quite literally).
Also I just don't believe in this "other women are your allies just because they're women" crap, sorry.
Hijabis who think I'm a slut because I don't cover up are not my allies, women who have helped sluttify our culture to the point where men and women think it's disappointing to watch a TV show if it doesn't have "steamy sex scenes" or "tits" are also not my allies, and women who try to demonize white women with the intersectional stuff are also not my allies. It's not as simple as men vs. women. It's retarded to frame it in such a way.
The key point being if he got her knocked up. Oh, and if there was proof he was the one who did it. Can always claim the kid isn't yours if you're a male.
They might not be your allies, but they aren't the enemy either. They're suffering because of sexism just like you are.
>They're suffering because of sexism just like you are.
Thank you, this was my point with what I said in >>214856. Not that you have to agree with every single woman on Earth just because we share some chromosomes, but we don't have to attack eachother the way men attack women. There's already so many people making women feel worthless and unwanted in the world, why contribute to it? But, at the end of the day, we all do what we want. I can't stop you. Nobody can stop any of this.
I'm just so sick of misogyny, it makes me so sad and tired. But I know I just need to shut up about it because nobody wants to hear it.
>They might not be your allies, but they aren't the enemy either. They're suffering because of sexism just like you are.
The Muslim women in European countries are often just as, if not more misogynistic than the men. You think they're all suffering and want out, but look at a place like Egypt where 60% of college-educated women believe that the women sexually assaulted in Tahrir Square deserved it/brought it on themselves.
These people need to GTFO our countries, they ARE enemies.
I sign everything you wrote.
> I get made fun of for being a virgin and thus a 'future catlady' or I just need some dick or I'm too ugly to get a man.
This is what really applies to me but I would never shame another woman for being more sexually active as long as she took care of herself.
But what pisses me off is that it's not just men but also women who should know better, and that are going to attack other women like you pointed out. It's not necessarily just regarding sex but it can be seen in the workplace, education and other areas of life.
I mean, I'm not expecting some ~sisterhood~ where we hold pj parties and have sleepovers and talk about unicorns just because we all share the same gender, but if we compare solidarity with the one that men have and the one we have, it's a stark contrast. I've seen a lot of times other women shaming a rape victim (saying among the lines that she deserved it), or not believing a rape victim, I've experienced female professors obviously favoring male students and letting them go off the hook, I could go on. And I'm sure I'm not the only one that's noticed.
> It's not as simple as men vs. women.
It's not necessarily men vs women, there are lots of shitty people out there of both genders but you can't deny that a lot of problems arise from double standards out of which women get very little benefit despite what robots and other men think. Single moms get shat on constantly and I wouldn't place the entire blame on the majority of single moms that they should have known better.
I don't even know why other women do this, for some meager brownie points? Hoping they will be awarded the virtuous woman of the month award? Or is it out of pure female envy and bitterness?
Oh please. That's entirely not true. If you go throughout history and with recorded events men who raped were sometimes punished but women that weren't raped and the guy walked out on her? The blame was all on her. The blame is always on the woman.
Though I would add that I don't hold muslim women as my allies but for obvious reasons. Then I could apply the same rule to all religiously devoted women.
>That's entirely not true.
Nigga it was a common cultural practice to nail the names of male deadbeats to the doors of churches in early and pre-modern Europe.
Men did face consequences for being disgusting, you can argue that that was largely because they were screwing around with "another man's daughter", but I'll take that over the shitty, alienated society we have today. After all we've been following the path of people like you (progressives) for the past 60 years or so and all we've got out of it is more porn, more meaningless sex, more alienation, fractured communities and opiate addictions.
> Nigga it was a common cultural practice to nail the names of male deadbeats to the doors of churches in early and pre-modern Europe.
Please provide sources. I'm genuinely interested but I don't think it was widespread if it were in practice.
> but I'll take that over the shitty, alienated society we have today. After all we've been following the path of people like you (progressives) for the past 60 years or so and all we've got out of it is more porn, more meaningless sex, more alienation, fractured communities and opiate addictions.
Firstly I agree that the rot of our society is tremendous and I'm not the progressive you accuse me of but among all the things that are bad in our current society women's choices in their partners in on the bottom list that's to blame.
Also, your vision of the past is very rose-tinted, just the word orgy has it's root in ancient greek, there were whore houses all throughout history and men were never punished for it. In ancient rome it was common for married men to pay a whore and they never had to respond for it, it was as normal as doing groceries. Men cheating was considered just part of a guy's nature. Maybe some would object it but your idea of men being chivalrous. I could list so many more examples.
I'm inclined to believe that you're a robot because only men ascribe the downfall of our society with women's sexual liberation.
Go get a golden shower from your neckbeard boyfriend June
>a woman can't have controversial opinions that aren't influenced by a boyfriend
toxic mentality
>Please provide sources. I'm genuinely interested but I don't think it was widespread if it were in practice.
I'll go over one of New Cambridge Medieval History volumes that I saw it in (the High Middle Ages one) later on.
>only men ascribe the downfall of our society with women's sexual liberation.
Point out where I did this?
Oh wait. I didn't. Those things are symptoms, not causes. The ultimate cause is the idea that individual freedom is inherently good (for men or women), when the past 70 years have been a giant exercise in why it isn't and how it makes people and societies increasingly psychologically dysfunctional.
#wrapmuhhijab
The way that they experience sexuality is the biggest difference between men and women I think. A lot of the gender conflict stems from one sex finding the other's sexuality repulsive.
From what I've read most porn in Japan is tied to them. I'm assuming the women doing the more fucked up shit are the ones paying off debt while the "vanilla" ones are more for profit e.g. Hitomi.
>They might not be your allies, but they aren't the enemy either.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a vocal critic of Islam. She escaped her family from the Middle East and escaped west after suffering genital mutilation and was about to be forced into a marriage. She had to hide her identity unless her family found her and dragged her back. All in all, a woman I would 100% stand with. Linda Sarsour meanwhile, was one of the leaders of the Womens March. Because Ayaan dared to criticize Islam, she declared she "wanted to take her vagina away" among other things.
I want to reiterate this, she told a victim of genital mutilation that she wanted to take her vagina away. That woman should 100% be considered an enemy.
You women are right about incel men. I'm a bottom of the barrel incel who's never had anything with women, but I know some ex-incels who did. They all end up hurting the women, even the women who were understanding with them and their problems, like being older virgins. I'd like to think I'd be different if I had the chance, but I'd probably be just the same. The first minor bad thing that happened would make me crumble.(man)
r9k: The Post
Kill yourself and you'll make a lot of women happier than if you were to be in a relationship with one.
That's good you realized anon.
Don't listen the other raging salt chan telling you to off yourself though, you can change, there is hope yet.
I know all men aren't bad, my brothers and my father are good people that respect women. Sadly, most men aren't like that. I honestly believe that /r9k/ could change,somehow. There's a thread of hope that one day they'll understand, make amend and start anew again. I believe in you anon. I believe there's good in everypne as cheesy as it sounds.
Why are you so angry
To me it seems like the worst misogynists are always either bitter virgins or men who go through tons of women.
>That's part of my problem with feminism
It's not a hive mind, you know. Sex positive and sex negative feminism are both things and many of us prefer the latter, it's usually pseudo feminists who think porn is empowering or whatever.
My problem with slut shaming is that, it gives me a further excuse to treat women terribly. I don't think a woman deserves to be dehumanized for the rest of her life for having casual sex and never deserves happiness. Also we underestimate how much men lie and manipulate women to get sex (particularly young girls), I've heard off and known many girls who were under 18 who thought a man loved them when really they were just using them, yet all the responsibility is put on the young girl to "know" better and none is put on the grown man.
I meant *men not me lol
I agree, it's the same men who will manipulate young girls into pumping and dumping them, then go around hating all the other girls who fell for the same tricks millions of other guys pull on other girls
while i can understand not wanting your partner to have a risque sex life, I just don't get how people see a woman as more respectable if she hasn't been kissed or touched or anything, once this woman I knew made a long speech about how she is 20 and never been kissed and everyone came in talking about how respectable she was, like why does being respectable include what you do your sex life? and why does holding yourself back either by choice or not by choice make you some how more respectable than a woman who's worked her ass of and is a well-mannered woman but god forbid she have sex with boyfriends? Peoples sex life shouldn't even be in the mix of determining if someone is respectable, worthy of living or being cared about, etc, it's ridiculous and as said on the teen discussion thread, as a kissless virgin myself, I NEVER mention my sexual past (or lack there of) to a partner, because 99% of the time men who refuse to date anyone other than kissless virgins are either abusive, stuck up, or straight up mentally ill
I need to vent jfc.
A little backstory
>> be 12 and sometimes hang out with guy who gets bullied
>> move to another country
>> am 15-16
>> he suddenly moves to same country AND city
>> ok weird
>> talking about how in love with me he is at school, thinks this means i will automatically like him because muh americab guy gets the girl movie
>> i am not aware of this at the time
>> start to hangout sometimes, smoke weed
>> i use weed to self medicate my depression and anxiety so smoke maybe once every 2-3 months
>> he confesses to me
>> i reject him, see him as friend
>> understands(i think)
>> hangout on and off, hes decent
>> i get bf
>> hangout occasionally
>> i break up with boyfriend because asshole
>> friend breaks up with gf, calls her abusive
>> confesses to me again, reject him again for same reasons
>> " you only want assholes anon, but your a woman cant help it"
>> only friend i knew/knows who can get weed and desperately need it to cope with breakup so just take it
>> this day, both are 23
>> still butthurt to this day
>> hangout yesterday to smoke weed
>> have work at 6 in the morning
>> he knows this
>> ignores me when i tell him
>> forces me to walk around dangerous are in the dark with wet stones and right next to deep ocean, VERY windy
>> tell him im scared
>> "dont me so fucking paranoid"
Starts walking towards the middle of the city to smoke a joint, tons of people outside
>> i dont think thats a good idea, im paranoid someone will see us
>> "Your so fucking paranoid, no one will see us!!"
>> me having to be civil with him, hes my ride home and there are no busses
>> Finally fucking ALLOWS me to go home at 3 in the fucking morning, laid in bed for 2 hours having an anxiety attack before i could sleep
Im fucking done with men treating you like shit because you wouldnt fuck them and thinking they are "nice guys!" When they are assholes!!
>forces me to walk around dangerous are in the dark with wet stones and right next to deep ocean, VERY windy
I mean the guy was an ass but you need to learn to stand up for yourself in the future. It's just a waste of time trying to be friends with people who are salty over rejection. Call an uber or something next time.
>like why does being respectable include what you do your sex life?
Why not? If you let four black guys gangbang you do you seriously expect people to just firewall that act off from everything else arbitrarily?
I just didnt expect him to be like this, andwe dont have ubers in my country, i didnt brig any money so wouldnt be able to either + my phone is blocked because something happened to my sim card, so i was kinda stuck. But needless to stay im gonna cut that piece of shit out of my life.
please kindly fuck off
I’m sorry that happened to you, Anon. Good thing he showed his true colors sooner rather than later, and now you’ll be better at weeding out these kinds of assholes. This is what I meant earlier in the thread when I posted “women are socialized early on to be polite”; like, these dicks KNOW that and keep pushing our boundaries.
Please kindly explain why someone's sexual behavior should be firewalled off the rest of their behavior for some arbitrary reason.
If a guy I know likes fucking prostitutes, or likes making women bleed during sex, then I'm going to think less of him as a result.
You want to section off the bedroom from everything else not because it makes sense, but because what happens in there (or out of there really) makes you feel ashamed on some level.
a guy like making women bleed during sex is completely different from "getting gang banged by four black guys"
>You want to section off the bedroom from everything else not because it makes sense, but because what happens in there (or out of there really) makes you feel ashamed on some level
no because 99% of the time it's no ones business, MAYBE I can understand if it's some bdsm wannabe type shit people use as a mask to their actual misogyny, but what people do in their sex life, as long as if it's not harming anyone, it shouldn't be factored in with whether someone is respectable or not. No one should be seen as the most respectable because they've never had sex and suddenly you lose respect with each sexual act you do, if you got your shit together, doing what you love, benefitting the world, but want to "get gang banged by four black guys" then it's no ones business, plain and simple, it literally only makes sense to section off the bedroom from everything else, does what you like in the bedroom affect your education? your career? no? only in extreme cases? okay then fuck off
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it always makes me laugh when little boys play victim and act like they're being abused when they don't get what they want, it just shows how privileged they are even though they don't want to admit it when they have to dig and stretch and scream oppression because women won't fuck them, some of the things men claim to be oppressed for only proves they aren't oppressed, they're literally becoming the big bad feminists that they whined and cried about and acted as if every feminist was one of them
The thing is you don't mind what other girls or even some random guys do with their sex life because you don't view them as potential partners, they are friends or just people and sex doesn't matter. Men ONLY view women as potential sex/romantic partners, and while it's not necessarily bad/weird to have your own standards on the sexuality of a partner, if women don't meet their standards men view them as trash. That's because men don't respect women as friends or human beings for the most part.
You're delusional. You think what you enjoy sexually doesn't tell someone a lot about your psychology. There's a reason low self esteem is correlated with degrading fantasies, among women and men. Keep peddling your two bit excuses for your moral laxity though. Whatever helps rationalise things in your mind.
Men and women are absolutely right to have standards regarding their partners. The problem with robots is they call any girl who has ever had sex a slut and the problem with women is that we don't make men pay a price for their own sexually immoral behavior (cheating and promiscuity and general disrespect) because a lot of women are weak minded as shit these days.
But yeah. Any girl peddling an idea it's just some normal thing to let four men gangbang you and that she shouldn't be judged for it is no woman I want as an "ally". Get your shit together and stop debasing yourself if you want respect. Robots may be wrong on 99 percent of things but they're spot on on that one. Nobody is obligated to give a morally depraved person respect and nobody is obligated to stop themselves from "judging" you. The judgment of strangers is a fact of life you'll have to reconcile yourself to eventually because you're sure as hell not going to police the thoughts of all of your friends, coworkers and peers, no matter how much the third wave wants it.
And really the fear of the judgement of others, judgement that has no power mind, says more about your own feelings of shame than anything else.
and yet somehow there's tons of people with high self esteem who have degrading fantasies, even so, there's tons of people with low self esteem who prefer dominating as well, and even tons of low self esteemed low life who prefer vanilla sex, the only one "pedaling" is you, there's a reason why no one asks you about your sex life on college applications or at job interviews, why? because it doesn't tell a lot about you, yes with some people it can reflect, but with 99% of people your sex life doesn't reflect who you are, anyway, with the case of the girl who went missing, even if she did have low self esteem like you insist, how does that make her less worthy of a person and to be saved? The only people who believe that your sex life, as long as you're not harming anyone, reflects if you are worthy of a person, are low-lifes who don't have lots of social experience outside the internet
> Any girl peddling an idea it's just some normal thing to let four men gangbang you and that she shouldn't be judged for it is no woman I want as an "ally"
where exactly did I say that it's normal to want four men to gangbang you? Oh right nowhere, all I'm saying is that it shouldn't matter within a womans career or if she is worth being cared about by family or friends, or as in the previous case if she's worth not BEING SOLD INTO SEX TRAFFICKING OR KILLED if she did want to get gang banged by four guys or not, if it makes me some awful person who isn't worth being an "ally" for simply stating that a woman who wants to get gang banged should get the same respect as a kissless virgin, assuming they're both respectable, hard working and polite women then you really need to update your definition on what awful means
>Nobody is obligated to give a morally depraved person respect and nobody is obligated to stop themselves from "judging" you
okay, so if a woman has her shit together, she's in school, she's polite, she's helpful, she helps people in need, she's educated, but maybe she's into some freaky shit in the bedroom, is she not worthy of respect and she's "morally depraved" as much as if a woman was said, a virgin yet she killed people and does drugs? It's just ridiculous, and no, I'm not telling women to go get gang banged or whatever like you want to twist to believe I am, it's just simply no ones business what a woman does in the bedroom as long as if she isn't harming someone, no I'm not telling anyone that they can't judge people but if you have poor judgement then it's YOU that's delusional and shitty, I prefer a polite woman and is nice but may be into kinky shit over someone who goes around acting as if someone is less of a person if they want to do kinky shit assuming it doesn't harm anyone
>The judgment of strangers is a fact of life you'll have to reconcile yourself to eventually because you're sure as hell not going to police the thoughts of all of your friends, coworkers and peers, no matter how much the third wave wants it.
again, funny how you call people delusional but act as if I'm trying to force peoples thoughts, if you have to assume what I'm trying to do to prove a point, it's not only pathetic but makes your points automatically invalid
>And really the fear of the judgement of others, judgement that has no power mind, says more about your own feelings of shame than anything else.
what feeling of shame? Do you even know me? if you did you sure as hell wouldn't be saying that, I even know several bible thumpers who go to church and preach chastity that can agree with me that unless you are involved with that person sexually and romantically, then it's simply no ones business nor should it reflect on how someone is being treated over their sex life, again assuming it's harmless, I'm not "fearing judgement of others" I just simply don't think a woman who's a kissless virgin is somehow automatically more respectable than a woman who may be promiscuous based solely on their sex life and nothing else, yes how dare am I'm some crazy whore who's going around telling women it's normal to want to be gang banged apparantly!
also since I'm just nothing but a big bad peddler who's giving up excuse for my moral laxity even though I myself am abstinent, then where are these studies that insist that what you enjoy sexually tells a lot about your psychology? also where is my quote where I insisted that what people enjoy sexually doesn't reflect their psychology? or is just this about piece of shit you had to make up to put words in my mouth to prove a point like the pathetic nut you are? because god forbid I think people's respect should depend on who they are as a person rather than their sex life, what morally deprived whore am I who's just spewing out bullshit excuses huh?
I love how even a thread where we can vent about misogyny turns into "the wimmin are bad and wrong!!11"
Typical and unsurprising. Women really can't, and will never, escape from this shit.
Pretty sure the guys implication was that men arent allowed to deny sex or their masculinity/attraction to their partner is put into doubt.
You are fucking retarded if you think judgment of others is only a matter of feelings. Maybe you should leave your bedroom more often, get a job, yeah?
Here's the thing, it's fine to have standards for partners, yes. If a guy doesn't want to date a girl who enjoys gangbangs (pretty extreme example), I find nothing wrong with that. Having qualities that make you a bad candidate for a romantic partner don't make you a bad human being, or morally bankrupt as whole. There is no reason to despise someone just because they don't fit the qualities you would desire in a gf/bf. That's the problem with men.
men can easily deny sex though, easier than women can, even so, the "muh masculinity" thing is only used in rare and abusive situations, if a girl does say a man is less of a man for not fucking she is easily seen as as crazy and abusive, where as men can barely take no for an answer and always try to compensate or blackmail, and for the attraction of their partner is doubted, it would be doubted in any gender relationship, if a partner is constantly denying sexual advances then yes the sad truth is the other partner will feel less attractive, that's why communication is the key, it's not a gender thing
>if a girl does say a man is less of a man for not fucking she is easily seen as as crazy and abusive
Maybe it depends on area, because I have seen issues stem from this.
>that's why communication is the key, it's not a gender thing
I'm not really denying this, but that's only viable when the people involved care more about the individuals in their relationship rather than stereotypes.
She doesn't need to say it, if she mentions wanting to fuck and being denied everyone else is sure to mock the guy. Let's not be unfair, anon.
who's mocking the guy though? can you give me an example of when a man was mocked for denying sex?
The denial of sex thing is usually because men are usually wanting sex by default, girls aren't usually as thirsty as men are. A girl (generally speaking), isn't going to be as put off by being denied sex as a man.
> can you give me an example of when a man was mocked for denying sex?
I'm not really sure what you're looking for. I've seen women comment in the past that a guy must have been gay because he didn't want to do anything after a party or whatever, and all of her friends were agreeing with her. Sometimes they mix it up with "he must have been insecure", but I wouldn't really call that an improvement. A guy isn't allowed to not want sex in some peoples heads.
I fucking hate how men feel the need to shove themselves into any space that doesn't include them. You don't see hordes of women jumping into woman hate threads on /pol/ to defend themselves but the minute there's any sort of discussion in a female space that doesn't include men, they have to force themselves in and cry 'not ALL men.'
yeah maybe in the shitland of uk but not in most places of the world, it's not a widespread thing that happens
>There is no reason to despise someone just because they don't fit the qualities you would desire in a gf/bf. That's the problem with men.
Except it's not just a male thing. You've spent too long in sex positive, liberal circles if you think all women are totally cool with degenerate sex. Because I'm not and neither are any of my friends, and we'd judge both men and women who did things like that.
Basically what people like you are asking for is a world where nobody judges anyone. A world that basically resembles a big padded nursery, in other words.
You're delusional if you think people who like being pissed on have high self esteem on average. There's a reason fetishes are so much more common among "geeky" types. Low self esteem plus early age porn exposure and that's the end result.
You're weak. You want to live in a world where people's thoughts and feelings are informally policed. People judge others. Look at a large portion of the content on lolcow itself for goodness sake. Deal with it. And realize that having a thousand and one "fetishes" isn't normal or healthy.
Anon you really don't understand what you're talking about, what you said is completely different than what that person said, no, no one wants a "big padded nursery" people are simply saying it's no ones business if someone is doing weird shit in their sex life assuming no one is harmed, hell I even know conservatives who agree it's no ones business, you sound like a nut
> You've spent too long in sex positive, liberal circles if you think all women are totally cool with degenerate sex
where did that anon say that? where? nowhere did that anon nor did anyone say that
>You're delusional if you think people who like being pissed on have high self esteem on average
what have you met people who like being pissed on? some of these people tend to seem like normal ass people, you never know what someone likes in their sex life unless what they like is influenced by how the act, the most that you could tell is that people who tend to be dom irl tend to be dom in the bedroom, as well as people who like being sub irl tend to be sub in the bedroom to, and even that's not accurate considering a lot of business men and executives will hire dominatrixes because they like being dominated for a change, even if someone does want to be pissed on, why does it make them less of a person? No you don't have to want to be pissed on and no, no one is telling you to be okay with being pissed on like you insist we are forcing our sexual beliefs on you, it's simply just no one's business, and no, I'm not saying "OMG U WANT SOME LIBERAL SAFE SPACE YOU BIG NURSERY TIDDY BABY GO SUCK SOME TIDDY!!!!PPL WILL JUDGE YOU IF THEY WANT RETARD!!!! REEEEEEE!!!" like you insist everytime someone says it's just simply no ones business what people like in the bedroom, again, assuming it doesn't hurt anyone
> There's a reason fetishes are so much more common among "geeky" types
ummm, where have you been? while geeky types are more open, tons of people who seem normal may be into kinky shit as well, plus isn't it usually the popular girl stereotype who likes getting gang banged? Have you ever even been in the bdsm community? there's tons of business men, top dogs, business women, no, again, I'm not saying "OMG U SAID PEOPLE WHO LIKE BDSM HAVE HIGH SELF ESTEEM!!!!! REEEE!!!!" I'm simply saying you never know who is into freaky shit, you never know who is into vanilla shit, that's why it shouldn't factor in with how much respect or care someone deserves
PS: when you reply, at least TRY and I mean TRY to use something we actually said as defense instead of putting words and stretching to fit your narrative that kinky people are low life losers and it is 100% always a reflection of who you are and if you disagree with me you're a liberal crybaby who wants the world to be a big liberal safe space
>You're weak. You want to live in a world where people's thoughts and feelings are informally policed. People judge others.
um hunny, people can promote the idea it's no one's business what people do in the bedroom without being a big bad liberal baby who just wants people thoughts and feelings controlled, what even are doing? people are judged, sure, whatever, but even the most hardcore conservatives I know will even promote the idea that it's people privacy and shouldn't be factored in who they are as a person
> Look at a large portion of the content on lolcow itself for goodness sake. Deal with it.
God, you sound obnoxious as fuck, no one is saying 100% not to judge people at all like you insist since you love putting words in peoples mouths "OMG YOU SAID JUDGEMENT ISN'T JUST A MATTER OF FEELINGS BECAUSE JUDGEMENT CAN REFLECT HOW YOU TREAT PEOPLE??????? YOU JUST WANT TO LIVE IN A BIG NURSERY IN A LIBERAL SAFE SPACE AND CONTROL EVERYONES THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS KEK PEOPLE ARE JUDGED DEAL WITH IT NORMIE HOW DARE YOU STATE FACTS!!!!! REEeEEEEeeeeeEE!!"
>nd realize that having a thousand and one "fetishes" isn't normal or healthy.
awe the bitch that's making shit up and reading more delusional shit again, no one is saying it's normal or healthy, and god if you do find a quote of mine or any one elses on this thread where we said having tons of fetishes is normal and healthy then I will beat my computer with a baseball bat, we're just simply saying it's no one business and people should be judged on how they act and who they are, not if they want to get pissed on or whatever, that's ridiculous, and no, no one is saying we want to live in a big padded nursery like you insist we do for daring to think that people should be respected if they deserve respect depending on who they are as a person, not what they like in the bedroom, how liberal and weak of me huh? Get a job sweetie, maybe if you did had one you'd realize how little what people like in the bedroom actually matters
"Many men who turn to submissive fantasies do so for precisely the sort of vacation from responsibility that Roiphe suggests women are seeking. Olivia Severine, a transsexual dominatrix living in San Francisco, says most of her clients were “very high-powered” men weighed down by responsibility. “They came to see me as a brief escape when no one was looking at them for direction or leadership,” she says. “The time with me is when they were told what to do, what to feel and how to act … and all the weight of their careers, families, lives, is lifted from them for a cherished few hours.”"
https://www.alternet.org/story/155087/sex_escape%3A_why_do_men_go_to_dominatrixes
it says here that very high-powered men tend to go to dominatrixes…. buT CLEARLY IT'S ONLY LOSER LOW SELF ESTEEM NERDS WHO LIKE BDSM!!!! AND IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ME YOU'RE A BIG BABY WHO WANTS TO LIVE IN A NURSERY AND NOT GET JUDGED AND THINKS IT'S NORMAL!!!! REE(stop)
I agree with you but Jesus calm down a bit
I get so frustrated when men cry "Feminism is about equality so why won't they fight for mens righs buhu". Like no, feminism isn't about fighting for men. Its about fighting for women to have the same social, economical and political rights as men. Its not that hard to grasp. Why do they expect feminists to fight for them, when they wouldn't lift a pinky to help women. Not just in feminism, but in every single movement where women are the focus, they cry that "what about men". Why do they expect everyone to stop helping women just to help them, instead of doing it themselves. Their entitlement is baffling.
Adding that you never hear women go "well why aren't mra and mrm fighting for womens rights, aren't they about equality"
because men are idiots, I've seen more and more feminists support men, and I can easily say I've seen more IG feminist accounts that added men to support such as body pos for men pics, "let boys show emotion" pics, etc, and yet men still insist feminists are just the crazy ones who make everything about them and pretend to be oppressed, ironically, it's the MRAs and MGTOWs who are doing exactly what they are saying feminists are doing, except the outreach is far more
I can NEVER go on the internet anymore, enjoy my news, without seeing men scream and cry and try to twist and turn everything so it oppresses them, and then make straight up bullshit claims about how hard men have it when in reality they don't at all, they just want to go back to a patriarchal society and always have to assume every single woman to be an extreme feminist to prove a point
>woman gets a few years in prison for having sex with a teenage student
men scream that they would be in life in prison if she was a man (which is clearly untrue, because pedophiles who actually rape young children will barely even get a year for each kid)
>man goes to prison, whether it's long or short
men come in screaming how if he was a woman he would be walking away and how "women have been getting away with everything since the beginning of them"
>woman gets in trouble, fired, etc, such as in >>213992
men of course leave gross comments like that, as you can see
>woman gets abused, killed, raped, etc
men come in saying how she either lied or did it to herself or she deserved it
>man gets murdered
men come in screaming how it's inequality because they think people would care more if it was a woman who got hurt
>woman talks about how no one will let her sit down on the subway when she's pregnant
men come in crying about how "what do you want? you want equality? this is it!"
>women talk about their preferences in men
men scream, cry, bitch and moan about how it hurts their self esteem, act as if every single woman demanded a perfect chad even if they all had very diverse preferences that centered around an average men, claim they would cry if it was reverse (ironically, it was reversed, and there was not even a comparable amount of bitching as there was about men bitching about women's preferences even though the women had lower standards kek)
>documentary about a female trucker
men come in and bitch and moan and say shit like "HA ITS EQUALITY YOU STUPID BITCH SUCK IT UP YOU WANTED EQUALITY NOW YOU GOT IT" even though it wasn't even about that, it was simply a documentary about a female trucker, what she has to do, why she's a trucker, what she goes through with the male truckers, etc
men ALWAYS have to make everything about them, they're becoming the feminists they cried about except even bigger than what the feminists did and there's more of them
>men scream that they would be in life in prison if she was a man (which is clearly untrue, because pedophiles who actually rape young children will barely even get a year for each kid)
I want to add something to this that really grinds my gears with the whole Female teacher teenage student thing. Every time I see that kind of story on Youtube, there's always an influx of comments from, you guessed it, other men spouting about how great it is for the kid to do it with his teacher/he was lucky/how if they were him they'd hit it too etc.. and that shit drives me
nuts. It's disgusting as fuck
Lots of men like to complain about how women don't have it as hard as them while simultaneously engaging in stupid shit that brings other men/themselves down. The age of consent is a good example. Any time a boy gets involved with a female teacher, know it all men of the internet will comment on how lucky the kid was at first, then after finding out about a short sentence for the teacher, they'll whine about how women have it so easy compared to men. Then those same people make rape jokes and act like it's nbd and women need to get over it.
Another example I personally heard is this guy bitching about how "cunts get everything in a divorce" and are lazy stay at home golddiggers. I heard this irl on campus. As you can imagine, his logic was that it's all the fault of women and not of the guy who chose to marry a shitty person.
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I don't want to ever hear men complaining that they are oppressed and women control everything. Nothing like pic related would ever happen to a man on the basis of him being a man.
Being a woman fucking blows. People already have their mind made up about you and you can't even get the chance to change it.
Also I want to add that this 'women are too emotional to function' shit has to stop. I wish we were past this already. I don't know any woman whose emotions stop her from doing her job well, or make her incapable of thinking straight. It's men that fly off the handle and throw bitch fits all the time when they don't get their way, but they seem to conveniently forget that anger is an emotion as well.
Relating it back to the screenshot above, there are male directors (like David O'Russell) who have thrown fits on set and are still worshipped and can still get financed whenever their little heart desires. It's bullshit. Seriously, there are videos of his pathetic little outbursts. But I guess it's the women who shouldn't be funded because like, periods and stuff.
> they seem to conveniently forget that anger is an emotion as well.
god that gets me so heated, I hate when men complain and go "waaah men aren't allowed to feel emotions!!" as though """"masculine"""" emotions like anger and pride don't exist. Not that I think it's okay how much some men are shamed for opening up and being sad, but I tried to have a conversation with a man about sadness and he said I could literally never understand how it feels to not be able to open up about my feelings. As though women are never at risk of being called hysterical, or a whiny bitch, or having all kinds of stereotypes and preconceptions about us "proved" by one emotional slip-up. I won't pretend that we don't have it a little easier than men in that regard but it just shows how little men understand about women because they think we're just constantly crying on one another's shoulders or something.
i feel like im dating an incel but he pretends to not know how to use the internet so how common is this mindset i am very concerned lol
I don't believe for a second that women have it easier in that regard. I learned from an early age to hide all of my emotions so that I don't get mocked for being an overemotional girl, hormonal, hysterical, exc.
Even if a man slipped up and showed some emotion other than anger, men and women alike would be there to make excuses for him. If it was in the workplace, he would get another chance. If a woman did, though? She'd be done. There is no second chance. You need to do it perfect and do it the first time or you're fucked. Don't show any weakness or emotion, or you're just an overemotional female incapable of doing anything right.
On the topic of men complaining about women being lazy gold diggers… notice how 80% of the time that's coming from the same men who complain about how they long for the days of traditional women?
So… you WANT women to stay at home and be housewives, completely dependent financially on men… but then complain about them spending their husband's money? Or money factoring into their choice in partner? And these same men always pride themselves on how "logical" they are.
They're also the same men who think women should dedicate their existence to babies and husband because they're more nurturing and that's what nature intended… but then bitch about unfair custody.
Like, all the shit they complain about is the obvious product of the world they want. Yeah, you want a world where women are the ones doing the caretaking of children? You get a world where they get preference in custody battles. Want a world where women rely financially on men? Money is gonna factor into who they marry.
ahhh i broke up with a fiancé and dating a man now and ahh this is meeeeeeeeeeee
And the same men that say women should only raise children because they're more nurturing and that's the only thing they're good at will turn around and say women literally can't feel emotions and we're all manipulative whores.
They're completely irrational. They have no actual change or solutions to the 'problems' they think are caused by women, they just want to complain. They need a reason to hate women as a whole, and they don't care if the reasons contradict themselves, as long as they have something.
>women literally can't feel emotions and we're all manipulative whores.
Those same men also like to say how women are much more emotional than men, while men are the more logical sex. They use estrogen against us as "proof" we're just inherently irrational, but completely disregard the mental effects of testosterone.
They also love to use the fact women have a higher rate of anxiety diagnosis against us, but then complain about how men are more likely to commit suicide. So… we're the crazier sex because we have a higher rate of anxiety diagnosis… but y'all are totally sane even though you're significantly more likely to off yourselves?
Rationality just doesn't factor into misogyny. I once had a (now former) friend bitch about how "the difference between men and women is that men have a code when it comes to friendship!" because I let my best friend (who he brutally dumped prior to this) have sex with my boyfriend (who was waaay more his friend than I was). So, you're going to say women don't have a code with friendship when it was your male friend that you were way closer to that fucked your ex? But of course I'm the one to blame because I told them I didn't care if they fucked and I happen to have a vagina. He also said he was way more mad at me than my boyfriend. Because that makes fucking sense. It was my own damn fault, he said irrationally sexist shit to me quite a few times, but I was dumb enough to ignore the red flags because I didn't want to come off as "too feminist".
This same ex-friend also called a girl that rejected him a gold digger because when they went out a couple of times, it was to expensive places… even though he said she always paid for her own food.
>This same ex-friend also called a girl that rejected him a gold digger because when they went out a couple of times, it was to expensive places… even though he said she always paid for her own food.
Lmao. Men really can't conceive that maybe they aren't God's gift to women and women just don't like them. It HAS to be a problem with that woman, or even better, women as a whole. I'm beginning to get less sad about misogyny, because I'm starting to see just how pathetic and prone to projection men really are.
they only want women to be financially dependent on them so it traps them into to being slaves
onion for example, how he abused his exes and manipulated them into being financially dependent on them, then when he kicks her out for becoming what he made her and going for the next teen fangirl, he acts as if she's some big bad succubus gold digger for wanting his money because he made her financially dependent on him, most likely forbidden her from getting a job, then acts shocked when she wants money to start out with so she isn't on the streets, since onion can buy 3 houses he should be able to pay the divorce for the women he abused kek
they're big babies honestly, they're just upset that they can't kick women out or bring women in as they choose with no consequences whatsoever, so now they result in calling all women gold diggers over anything
pretty much, men nowadays are defining gold-digging so loosely, next thing you know they're going to accuse women who use the bathroom at someone elses house of being gold diggers if they didn't pay the water bill, if they're not doing it already lmao, once I knew a guy who called his friends gf a gold-digger because she ate food off his plate a lot
I don't know if I'm being crazy or not (this is how much they've got inside my fucking head) but I don't think I'll ever date a man who calls himself an anti feminist again. My most recent ex would say horrible things to me, use stuff I'd told him about my past cause I thought I could trust him against me and if I even got the slightest bit upset I was crazy, overemotional and abusive.
He would literally demand a list of my ex lovers, I'd get upset and cry, tell him to fuck off and leave me alone he'd turn this around and say "YOU'RE ABUSING ME, IF I, A MAN SAID THAT TO YOU YOU'D CRY ABUSE!! YOU'RE ONLY CRYING TO TRY MANIPULATE ME AS THAT'S WHAT WOMEN DO!" He seemed to have this weird agenda to "prove" women are abusive and any slight emotion I showed after being berated by him for hours was "abuse" but him mentally torturing me about things I did before we even knew each other is just him being angry and totally normal.
My mom's ex-boyfriend used to call her a gold digger for pushing him to get a job, while he was living in our house not paying rent or any bills…
pretty much, anti-feminists like to claim they're for equality when in reality they're literally just doing what they claim to hate feminists for
Once I dated a guy who was an anti-fem, he would laugh and make jokes about my molestation, said "it wasn't that serious and you should just forgive and forget" and ended up breaking up with me then going around and telling all his friends about our sex life but demanded all women to act like "ladies" then refused to act like a gentlemen under his own delusion women are oppressing and abusing men somehow
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>mfw there's actual people that think like this
Those guys need a serious reality check
Eh honestly it depends a lot on where you are and the biases of people above you, I think. I'm not proud to admit this but when I was in high school/early 20s I often used crying to my advantage when I messed up in school or work and got away with stuff I shouldn't have (nothing major, just getting extensions on work/assignments etc) because I always got sympathetic "aww poor baby" type of reactions, both from men and women. I wasn't faking the crying, I'm just a huge crybaby, but I knew people would be more lenient with me when I was showing that emotion and I took advantage of it. Not saying that would work for everyone and in all situations, but I don't think I've ever once been insulted or suffered some sort of social/career penalty just from my emotions leaking out.
>free-loading in her house
Sounds like he was the gold digger
tmi but he was into some pretty degrading stuff in the bedroom….but would call me a whore for agreeing to do those things to make me happy during arguments (which he always started)
honestly I worry about these women pandering to alt right types, I never went that far but I was the "cool" girl who didn't mind her boyfriend making sexist jokes, going to strip clubs etc which was fucking stupid on my part but I didn't want to be seen as a crazy feminist and it got me nowhere, I ended up being abused and with zero self-esteem. I will never do that again and will run as soon as I see a red flag. I'm working on building myself back up again and never being in that situation again but I fear the majority of men have gone to that side.
Nope, no woman should ever date a guy who says he's anti-feminist. I've literally never known one that wasn't abusive to his girlfriend in one way or another, be it mentally, physically, sexually, or all three. They're simply not capable of treating a girlfriend well.
One big thing they try to do is gaslight you into thinking all men think like them and you're never going to find one who has healthy views on women.
But anon, men CAN'T be gold diggers!
No, seriously. Men are retarded and biased as all fuck. I had a boyfriend who lived with me for six fucking months and he wouldn't help with rent, bills, or with keeping the place clean. Which was fair enough, because he was in a tough spot and job-hunting so I didn't complain. However,
>bf gets job at last
>"we should keep living together, right, anon? that's way cheaper"
>sure, paying half the rent will be nice for me too
>"what do you mean, anon, you want me to share the rent? are you expecting me to pay your bills now that I got a job? I thought you weren't like other women"
Not even kidding. Good thing he already had a job otherwise his ass would be homeless after this.
Why are you assuming I'm from the U.K.? I'm American.
Ugh, its like men will rant about how women should be housewives who stay home 24/7 and read and cook and take care of kids and how they want to be dominant breadwinners but at the same time want to sit on their ass all day and not pay anything and expect their girlfriend to pay the bills and do the work as well as housework so they can sit on their ass on 4chan and rate if womens tits are good enough for them or not, it's ridiculous, and they don't even want to act like decent boyfriends and say sweet things or buy flowers every now and then, because if a woman wanted at least one good thing out of a relationship shes an abusive disgusting inequal gold digger, do they even want girlfriends or do they want moms? Because clearly watching your boyfriend play league then dry fuck you after should be just enough for you to want to work your ass off, go broke paying for his shit, all the while trying to be a good little submissive housewife for him right?
They want moms they can have sex with.
>Why do they expect feminists to fight for them
Because many feminists routinely argue that they should work under the flag of feminism to address their problems instead of splitting off? Like maybe you say otherwise, but a lot of them are saying that's exactly what they should do.
The message is all over the fucking map.
Oh god, I can only imagine what these types would think of my relationship with my husband. I'm sure they would say he's been castrated by feminazis and forced into an abusive relationship with a gold digger.
>be semi-trad (trad myself, but don't believe that delusional nonsense that I'm somehow magically better than women who aren't)
>be married to feminist man with a lot more money than the average person his age (didn't even know about it until after we got married)
>paid my rent for a year
>just bought me a $400 bag, Xbox one, several video games, and a bunch of other shit for Christmas
>gives me full access to his bank account and mostly says yes when I ask for something
This thread is really reinforcing how lucky I am, since apparently asking a guy to help with rent when he's living with you makes you a gold digger now…
The problem is that anyone can call themselves a feminist regardless of what they believe, even it completely contradicts the core principles of the concept. I've known "feminists" who strongly believe that women shouldn't work unless their husband tells them to, but should be at home doing chores.
Here’s another example of what men are like;
I had a friend who was really close to me, I trusted him completely. And so after I was raped (by a different man - that’s a whole other story) he was the first person I went to. (I have to note here that we communicated online 99% of the time as we lived in different countries, and that English is not my first language…) I told him everything about what happened that night, and he just… He corrected my grammar. He didn’t say how he was sorry that it happened, or that he was there for me, or would help me. Nope. He felt like it was the right time to correct my grammar. And then when I got upset, he went into angry / defensive mode, so we dropped the topic.
I'm so sorry that happened to you, I hope you're doing okay now. What a piece of shit your friend was, why the fuck would he think that's an appropriate time to correct your grammar? Are men incapable of picking up on appropriate social cues and being sympathetic?
Most men think a woman who wants access to their money (for whatever reason) is a gold digger because "feminism destroyed the natural order of things so now women shouldn't ask for a man's money ever or they're gold diggers". But if they need financial help from their female partner, they just see it as "regular companionship stuff you're supposed to do for your SO".
You're very lucky, anon. I wouldn't be comfortable with getting that much from my bf but your husband sounds like a great guy.
I once had a guy tell me it's not rape if it's someone you previously had sex with. He revealed to me he raped a girl, but he didn't consider it such because since she consented to sex with him before that magically invalidated her saying no after, even though by his own admission she was very clear in saying no over and over again.
Pay fucking attention anytime a guy doesn't consider clear cut examples of rape to be rape. Because chances are, that's because he himself has done it or thinks he should have the right to if he hasn't already.
How disgusting. I'm so sorry that happened to you.
Don't men have a significantly higher rate of autism than women? I'm not saying that to put down autistic people, most of the ones I've known are very empathetic, but they still tend to say incredibly inappropriate things in highly sensitive situations. On the topic of men saying revolting things to people who've been through hell, I have a friend whose little sister went missing and was never found. An autistic guy in our group suggested to her that she was probably killed or being held prisoner by a pedophile. Like… how can you be that fucking clueless to think that's okay? When he was called out, he genuinely couldn't see what was wrong with what he said because "well, it's the most likely scenario". Yeah, dumbass we fucking know that, we have to live with knowing the high likelihood of that every day.
That's actually common among rapists - denying having raped someone but admitting to doing something that falls under rape.
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/vio.2014.0022
Pretty much, even several child molesters will try to excuse their actions by saying the child consented
>Don't men have a significantly higher rate of autism than women?
Yes, and women with histrionic personality disorder. In a sense I've always viewed them as the extreme negative forms of the male and female mentality.
Guys who use their autism to run around acting like low-life pieces of shit and use it as an excuse to harass women give me headaches
knew an autistic guy once who dated my friend, he demanded her drive him everywhere, cry when she didn't want to be sexual with him, she broke up with him because he kept touching all over other women, he was super creepy and followed her everywhere and went through her phone even before they started dating, pretty much demanded her date him, he would cry and play victim if she didnt want to fuck him in the middle of campus, after the break up he would get drunk and harass her and call her, took her nudes and sent it to his friends when she ignored him then called her a whore and said she cheated on him because his friends had her nudes after he sent them to them…. then when my friend told the kids mom what he was doing to her, he played victim and said it was "unequal" that she was telling people what he was doing because he only sent the nudes to 4 people and by his logic, because of that she was only allowed to tell 4 people as well… pathetic
autistic guys tend to be a no-go, given some are harmless who just get obsessed with comic books or video games, autistic women just tend to be very awkward and have odd interests, the big difference between autistic guys vs autistic women can tell a lot about each gender
>Any time I ever hear of a woman pulling a gun on someone, it's always because of a man in some form, especially like an abusive husband.
Valerie Solanas?
Not that it's an excuse for what she did to Andy Warhol, but if you look into her past, she had been heavily abused by men her entire life.
Plenty of male killers had abusive pasts too.
yeah but there are also many killers who come from normal homes, sometimes even good homes, where as with women most women who do fucked up shit come from fucked up places
I think most killers have abusive pasts, male or female, but women are abused at a much, MUCH higher rate and still, most killers are male. rly makes u think
And Edmund Kemper was forced to sleep in a locked basement and was regularly abused, his mother fearing any sensitivity would "turn him gay". I would still have been pleased if they executed him instead. The woman was a loon and anyone who unironically defends her should not be trusted.
>where as with women most women who do fucked up shit come from fucked up places
A recent counter example would be the girl who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself, hell we had people tripping over themselves trying to argue she "thought she was only doing the right thing". To the best of my knowledge there have not been any gendered studies on this topic so all arguments will probably be anecdotal.
>the big difference between autistic guys vs autistic women can tell a lot about each gender
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/28/report-louisville-girl-11-crashes-truck-into-home-because-wanted-to-kill-people.html
once case of an 11 yr old girls vs tons of cases of grown ass men doing horrible shit,they should have their autism controlled by now
I remember when that hologram waifu thing came up last year and all the guys sperg in the comments as it being another step closer to “post-biowoman” age. And then there’s >>214219
Which really just is the shit they all think about but won’t admit out loud. Go to any sex doll /sex bot video and read the comments or any article talking about artificial wombs. It’s full of guys waiting for the day when they can replace us and kill us off because their “waifus are now real” and we’re only good for sex and babies. So make their own fake wombs, find a way to make their own ovum and we’re ‘obselete’. They hate us that much. So I cringe hard whenever I see some guy claim that men work hard for women to be happy because I seriously doubt it.
god damn this thread is exhausting, fuck.
I never understand why they are so looking forward to the day women are obsolete, but they aren't scared of the fact that men are practically obsolete. We are much closer to find out how to make a functioning sperm cell, than a complete function uterus plus ovum. And we already have enough sperm stored to kill all men and still further the human race. We would only need to raise one grown man about every hundred or so years to fill up on sperm.
All of this. This is why I crack up whenever some man comes into one of these threads and tries to claim that men don't despise women. Or they care more about them than just sex. Absolutely hilarious, good joke.
If it was up to them we would be gone a long time ago and they HATE that we aren't.
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hopefully these "men" can make the holograms cook, clean, work to pay their shit too since they want us to be replaced so badly but also want to sit on their ass and depend on women for everything
everytime I see some loser neckbeard who's probably ugly and useless himself gloat about how "LOL YOU'LL BE REPLACED LADIES MALE POWER" it just reminds me of how badly they just want our attention and act like we would be offended when insecure little boys want to fuck an anime hologram instead of an actual woman
reminds me of when losers on r9k will post a white guy marrying an indian woman then scream about how mad "white roasties" are going to be for whatever reason and act as if it offends girls so much if men date women of another race when in reality they're the ones who get pissed over it, hell I even knew men who got pissed over vibrators ffs, they fail to realize the world doesn't revolve around them and the fact actually attractive, worthy men who won't treat us like shit are available all over and we aren't going to be mourning the loss of some greasy abusive loser who would rather fuck a hologram than a woman
>everytime I see some loser neckbeard who's probably ugly and useless himself gloat about how "LOL YOU'LL BE REPLACED LADIES MALE POWER" it just reminds me of how badly they just want our attention
They are mad because they're still virgins.
>men who won't treat us like shit are available all over and we aren't going to be mourning the loss of some greasy abusive loser
THIS! It's funny how they think that their short, fat, unattractive ass will be missed. They can go on and jack off to their hologram wifu's because its the only thing that will want them, while we still have plenty of attractive and sane men to choose from.
It's just natural selection in a way. They weed themselves out.
I don't understand how women are somehow more expendable than men to them. Cloning women is well within possibility, cloning men is not. We literally do not need men to keep the species going and if we did, we just need a small percentage of the current number to keep the population up healthily.
Men run the world darling. Literally everything you see around you is built by or invented by a guy. If all women disappeared tomorrow, there would be discontent. If all men disappeared however, there would be anarchy and chaos.
Please, at least be realistic in your nihilistic ramblings. There are far better ways to criticize men than
>hehe lol we can just do without them entirely XD(such intellect)
Why do all men think they get hotter as they age forever? That's a minority of the male population outside if Hollywood and yeah, they start to get hotter in their late thirties, but by 50, they're reliant on Viagra and look a step above corpses.
exactly, and we still have a bunch of sperm thats frozen in the bank as well as the scientist who figured out how to turn women's bone marrow into sperm, they think that artificial wombs can keep the human race alive if women disappeared but fail to realize sperm + egg = fetus in womb
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-511391/Death-father-British-scientists-discover-turn-womens-bone-marrow-sperm.html
nice try, darling, if it wasn't for ada lovelace your ass wouldn't even be typing ignorant shit
also what makes you think there would be anarchy? are you forgetting it's always men who start and involve themselves in war as well as most killers being male, most rapist being male, most everything bad that happens in the world is because of men, also where is your source that "MEN INVENTED EVERYTHING"?
oh right it doesn't exist
Go back to /pol/ and whine about it there.
The only things men are necessary for are physical labor and sperm, but modern technology eliminated the need for that.
>Men run the world darling.
And the world is currently in a shit, shit state. rely meks u thenk
>If all women disappeared tomorrow, there would be discontent.
And there would be extinction as well. Or do you think men would start birthing XY babies out their asses?
>Literally everything you see around you is built by or invented by a guy
And now women are getting higher education and catching up. Thanks for your contributions so far, but you are no longer necessary.
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easy, the think the world revolves around them, they've been lying to themselves thinking their their flabby man tits, beer belly, and salt and pepper hair is hot and women age like cheese, which as you can see, for most women who don't have drug habits or anorexia, is completely untrue
look at 50 yr old women vs 50 yr old men, men are just hideous creatures in general honestly
Who do you think created said technology? Maintains it?
hint: its not Ada fucking Lovelace (kek)
>I never understand why they are so looking forward to the day women are obsolete, but they aren't scared of the fact that men are practically obsolete
Many of them are well aware of this fact, so they tell themselves it's the other way around to feel better
Spoiler alert: women are also capable of being scientists and many of them already are. This isn't exactly a secret. If you were gone, we'd just recruit more.
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variety of people, my dude, which includes a fuckton of men and women
as well as most female programmers in mid 20ths century being, you guessed it, female
go get a history lesson, sweetie
if it wasn't for women, you wouldn't be typing that, plain and simple
Some fair points, but education is shit (no seriously, its shit). Also, the more "equal" a country is, the less women tend to work. Source: Sweden or my country, Netherlands.
Women hate work, and if they can choose, they choose to take care of their babies. Nothing even wrong with that, its literally nature.
Why cant I post pictures btw? My feminist folder just sits there collecting dust :/
This thread is for people to rant about why we hate men, it is not a debate thread about which gender is better. Anything you post is off-topic and irrelevant. Please get out.
>Thanks for your contributions so far
Nah, this dude has made no contributions. I can bet you. He thinks he's superior and important because he shares the same genitals and Y chromosome on people who have invented, created, and revolutionized. It's all he has.
>Muh Lovelace
Pls drop this shitty argument. It strongly reminds me of
>We wuz kangz n shit
Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Electrical Engineering, it's al dominated by men. Im in a top Compsci uni as we speak, 90% is men and the few women there are nothing special. The graduate classes often have 1 or 2 females to 15 men. Note that this is AFTER the great marketing campaign of our goverment to get "more women in tech" (lol).
This. Note he also says education is shit, which is the classic line of someone who's never had one. It's very common for NEET men or ones with low-tier jibs to act superior based on their dick because that's all they have in common with people like Einstein… who literally said women were fools for thinking they're equal to men because they're better.
lets see all the things that wouldn't be here if it wasn't for women
well you and your buddies for one, were all pushed out of a womans vagina, and most likely kept alive until now
unless you're lactose intolerant, a woman produced milk for you to drink to stay alive, healthy and grow until you can eat solid foods
secondly, beer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7538264/Men-owe-women-for-creating-beer.html
the thing you and your buddies drink every friday while in a jerk circle
the computer or phone you're posting on, would not be here if it wasn't for women
https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2012/05/mothers-technology-10-women-who-invented-and-innovated-tech
gaming wouldn't be here, wifi wouldn't be here, if it wasn't for these ~useless~ women you wouldn't be shit talking women on league while enjoying a beer
http://mentalfloss.com/article/53164/19-things-you-might-not-know-were-invented-women
You're so impressive and superior. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to educate us.
Please see >>215715
>believing that because I brought up lovelace it was the only argument even though if you google you can easily find the fact that so many advancements in technology, specifically computer were made by women
>Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Electrical Engineering, it's al dominated by men
we made it and men use it, also the field is growing with women, so it's not like it's 100% men and no women at all
>Im in a top Compsci uni as we speak, 90% is men and the few women there are nothing special. The graduate classes often have 1 or 2 females to 15 me
"WOMEN AREN'T IN THE SAME CLASSES AS ME THEREFORE WOMEN ARE USELESS PIECES OF SHIT!!!"
wow you sure proved me that women are useless
He won't care. Men love to hear themselves talk. They go out of their way to enter a thread that is literally about how sick of them we are and start bitching. Expect 10-20 more posts about how women are worthless before he finally gets tired and goes back from where he came.
A Man 12/11/17 (Mon) 04:03:54 AM No. 215725
I should also add that the men here are nothing special either. It just seems that at the higher end its always men prevailing, and the rare women that does gets there is usually through affirmative action or literal dick sucking (see the disasters that were Ellen Pao or Marissa Mayer)
>the computer or phone you're posting on, would not be here if it wasn't for women
Bullshit and cope. I thought r9k incels were delusional but this is just as bad WTF! Seek mental help.
Ok sorry im off to bed anyway
But you're special, I'm sure.
>education is shit
Gee, then the world is going to end soon because men and women get literally the same education. Also >>215718
>muh biology
Nobody likes to work, robot. Also, biology is not very relevant in current society. Not saying that there aren't differences, it's just that culture and customs are such omnipresent, powerful forces that most biological drives are sublimated and turned into weird as fuck desires and ambitions, to the point that you can't really say "it's biology" about any behavior or trait and be done with it.
About women not working, youth in Japan isn't either, male and female. Same thing in my country. The economy is shit, people are starting to accept the fact that the capitalist dream of getting rich is a lie, and the more realistic people are just opting out. You can't just say "hurr women like growing babies in their vaginas and hate money thats all".
>Bullshit and cope. I thought r9k incels were delusional but this is just as bad WTF! Seek mental help.
delusional? sweetie read a history book, it has already been proven WITH sources, and you have yet to provide a source
The "women hate working" shit is just something they use to justify their view that women don't belong in the workforce at all. They think if they keep repeating that, more society at large will push it, and eventually it will have an impact and fuck us over. Back to the kitchen, indeed.
[Anecdotal.] I may hate my job, but there is nothing I love more than knowing that I put in a days work and received payment for it that allows me to be self sufficient and not have to ask for help. It's a great feeling that I got even when I was working minimum wage in high school. It makes you feel like you are moving forward, even if it's only incrementally. Plus unless you've landed your actual dream gig I do think it's a little bit healthy to have a small hatred of your job, because it pushes you to do better, be better, and thus be worthy of better jobs. Some people may think that's a little fucked though.
There's your daily reminder of how much men hate us. Even in a thread devoted to venting about misogyny, they have to come in and beat into our heads how superior they are. They can't just enjoy their ~Man's World~, they have to remind us how worthless we are every. single. day.
Go run the fucking world then and leave the inferiors to suffer.
Sage for anecdotal, but I mentioned people being disillusioned with capitalism because of my own experience too. I love my job, but that's because I chose to get a degree on a subject I absolutely love and want to know more about; I want to do research and contribute to the furthering of knowledge. My family could support me indefinitely - I'd have to be a perma-poorfag, but that'd be fine because what matters is my dedication to my field. I do have ambition, and I do want to do something great, I just… know that money won't be one of my rewards.
I managed to get a job despite all odds, but I'm still pretty much a perma-poorfag. That's fine with me. I don't wanna be part of the rat race and waste all my time doing something I hate just so I can get a paycheck and sorta do what I like on weekends, dreading the coming of monday. IMO technology has advanced way too much to justify the generalized poverty. The economy and the job market are fucked. I can't possibly blame anyone who decides to opt out, not even fat neckbearded NEET incels, and especially not women if they have the option to still have a good life despite working few hours.
Compared to whom? If you mean these kids then yea, but thats not really hard. Most people are REALLY stupid!
>Gee, then the world is going to end soon because men and women get literally the same education. Also >>215718
No, some men actually take time to learn their profession on their own, instead of soley relying on the graded obstacle course that is university (lol) to teach them everything.
If you want to be a doctor, an accountant, an pilot etc you will need to do the grind, but dont expect to make the next Facebook just because you took a Javascript 101 course.
These are new times, and men take risk, whereas the women are still sticking to the tried and tested route. It comes as no surprise that its guys who change the world with their inventions. They fail more, but they succeed more as well. This is literally biologically determined (iq distribution being an important factor) so its not even sexism. There is a lot more to say about this but im afraid its of no use.
Hey whats wrong with hating having to work? I hear men do it all the time as well. There is no honor or glory in "working" this is just propaganda to make us more productive. You think prehistoric men were like "geej, I wish we didnt have enough food for today so I could hunt again and potentially die!"?
Raising babies is one of the noblest things there is, its hard too so dont fall for the jew trick of the "liberated woman".
Anyway im really off now sorry for mansplaining :^)(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)
>Raising babies is one of the noblest things there is
And how truly convenient it is that men don't want to be the ones to do it, so it becomes the only thing women are good at.
Men truly are insufferable, and transparent to boot.
Go invent something worthwhile then, and leave us to our inferiority. No sense is hanging out here with such lesser creatures. Toodles.
Being male is a fucking birth defect tbh
>And how truly convenient it is that men don't want to be the ones to do it, so it becomes the only thing women are good at.
This. Never seen a man admit "nobility" in changing a shitty ass and diaper five times a day. Or trying to console a screaming toddler for the umpteenth time.
Feeding a baby when all it wants to do is spit and fuss.
Getting no sleep while the baby projectile vomits and screeches throughout the night.
And babies are relatively easy. As they grow into children and teenagers their demands and behavior become increasingly needy and tasking.
exactly, I hope this guy had a shitty mom (and I mean actually shitty, not a mom who wouldn't let you go to your white trash friends party at 12 am) growing up so at least it would be some type of an excuse
Imagine carrying a fetus for 9 months, having to have a special diet and do so much shit to guarantee your baby turns out healthy and okay, spending tons of money on doctor appointments, stocking up on diapers, clothes, cribs, etc, dealing with changes in your body, forcing a fucking baby out your vagina and being in pain for hours, changing shitty diapers, cleaning up baby vomit all over your sweater, sleepless nights, embarrassment in public when your baby cries randomly, breastfeeding and having your nipples leak milk everywhere, trying to teach a kid to walk, talk, basic needs, paying for education and care, just to have the kid grow up to be a piece of shit who runs around disrespecting women and treating them like trash, thinking you're more superior than the person who, if it wasn't for, you'd be nothing today
FUCKING THIS CAN WE JUST VENT FUCK
>”men fucking hate us”
>”umm no :) men die 4 u :) men work to make women happy :) men made everything :) so just shut ur fucking mouth u whore while we replace u all :)”
How many times are we going to be beaten over the head with those ‘men built civilization. men are better than women in everything so shut up about misgony’ comments?
Exactly. I used to just hate how much men hated women but the more I have to interact with them the more I actually begin to hate them and dread ever having to deal with them.
I don’t see one redeeming quality anymore.
I thank god for the “Jew trick of the liberated woman” everyday, since it means I don’t have to live under the boot of a man like you. Id rather be a slave to my employer like you’re implying and be self sufficient than serve some fuck who literally hates me and thinks I’m worthless. And all under the guise of “love” which we all know men don’t actually feel towards women. If I couldn’t be a “liberated woman” I’d rather be fucking dead.
Honestly, a male feminist doesn't seem like that bad of boyfriend material at this point
also jw why do always these men bitch about how everyone expects them to be some manly gaston-level dude bro when it reality 9 out of 10 times it will always be men bashing other men who aren't manly enough, not women bashing men who aren't manly
It's like they do this to themselves then scream oppression
You're a fucking moron. I hear all the time how women have no 'honor', or that they don't understand the meaning of it. And then the same men grandstand about how women nowadays don't stay under the oppression of cunts like you. I'd rather be dead than serve some disgusting pig. Eat shit.
How does it feel to have a worthless tiny dick?
Just don't take the bait
Yeah, I see many women circlejerking over how hot they think those buzzfeed guys are, especially the Asian one. It's always men shaming each other for not being "manly" enough, women don't give a fuck.
Sorry for blogpost, but readiing this thread just made me feel a lot better, it's nice to know there are more women who think like this!
One of the things i hate the most is men bringing up the argument that THEY fought and died in wars, like no, not you!
I often fight with my brother about this topic; the worst thing is that he always asks whether i'm on my period, this enrages me to no end, since no natter what i say or do will be interpreted as me being sensitive. Sometimes i can't help but hit him… any tips?
hit him harder
Another thing I hate that men do is when they try hit on other women while they're in relationships, then blame the other women (even if they said no) and get her in shit. I also hate the girlfriend's that are dumb enough to believe their pos boyfriends.
exactly, all this these whiney little men will spend their time to bitch about "soy boys" (without even getting their own t checked kek) and act as if women aren't wetting themselves over a lot of the ~soy boys~ alt right men complain about, most women, even other alt right women would probably prefer the asian dude over some loser who sits at home whining about soy boys
>Says something deliberately inflammatory
>Gets criticized
>GTFO, YOU'RE SO TRIGGERED!!!1
This will NEVER not piss me off.
Either stop talking to him about it or this >>215814
Men don't listen, there's nothing you can say to improve him
They get rejected, can't understand that it's because they're pieces of shit, and start making up all sorts of weird theories about what women want. The male power fantasy is some manly buff dudes, so they think that must be it. That's literally all there is to it.
Have you seen what No Bullshit actually looks like? He's sooo alpha and not at all fat and unattractive. The audacity of him to make fun of other men's looks lmao.
Dude is a raging misogynistic prick too. I'm sure he's just drowning in pussy.
It’s always about rejection and the fear of being rejected. Look at Black Pidgeon Speaks. His notion “by allowing women to fuck freely” is rooted in that. They hate that we have choices. They hate how we’re human and not toys to be distributed around. They hate us for not choosing to be sex slaves for them. Hence why they love traditionalism in the sense for women to stay in the kitchen. Even though, lbr, theyd still hate us if we chose that life by calling us all weak and inferior like they always do. They hates us for rejecting them, for not rejecting them, for choosing other guys, for opting out of dating altogether, for living.
https://anony.link/http://theviolenceofpornography.blogspot.no/2017/11/the-hatred-of-women.html?zx=8e98937d5747a462
This was posted in another thread, but I thought it should be posted here as well.
That was interesting to read
Honestly, I believe a lot of this "bdsm" porn should be investigated, I get its a fetish and all, but the thing is that people nowadays are taking it way too far, making victims pass out, hanging them, all the while the women seem to genuinely hate it, the porn industry really needs a deep down investigation and have all the misogynists who force women to do gross shit because they hate them need to be arrested, but it's America, people are more worried about weed and 18 yr olds fucking their teacher consentually than actually investigating actual harmful people
Porn honestly shouldn't even be legal. It's all so disgusting…
>I get its a fetish and all
Lel that should never even be used to excuse vile and harmful behavior regardless of how far it's escalated. I swear to god soon enough 40 year old men will start framing their pedophilia under the guise of a fetish and people will be tripping over each other to scream at others not to kink shame.
I wonder why anyone would turn a blind eye to destructive or self-destructive tendencies the second it crosses into sexual and "kinky" territory.
The thing is that bdsm is a fetish in means that both people are supposed to enjoy it, men and women do have humilation fetishes and have fantasies about being raped and tied up, I think if a man or woman wants to be tied up and they find someone they trust to do so and its performed in a good, sane, healthy way then its all good, the problem is that misogynists who have mental issues and actually do hate women will use bdsm to hide their true intentions, its even worse when men will find gullible womem willing to be shit on to seem like a quirky kinkster to do this shit too. Bdsm CAN be performed in a safe and good way but people abuse it and use it to be gross, and now actual rape videos can just be posted on porn hub and no one would bat an eye because its seen off as "BDSM FETISH PORN", same with how actual children will be posted and no one cares because its listed as teen porn, and how sickos in the media will take child pornography and make it legal by calling it art
>sane, healthy rape fantasies
are you joking?
Anon its not uncommon for people to fantasize about raped, in fact if you look at stats a lot of women have forced sex fantasies however I assume its in a more gentle way rather than the "ILL WRAP YOUR HEAD IN A PLASTIC BAG AND ALMOST KILL YOU AND FUCK YOU DRY WITH NO FOREPLAY" kind of way, people can be completely normal and have rape fantasies to an extent, but some people take it to an extreme and that isn't healthy at all
That sounds like sadomasochism being taken to its logical conclusion, no? You have to at least realize how it could encourage people to participate in real abuse and rape scenarios despite the fact that it could be performed "safely" ?
Might I add depicted in porn* since porn is ran by men mostly, take notice how womens rape fantasies differ so much from mens rape fantasies, think of bdsm erotica written by women such as the claiming of sleeping beauty, it tends to be gentle, slow, and focused on both pleasure while it may technically fall under rape, where as mens rape fantasies dont give a shit about how the woman feels as long as if shes hurt, they are doing it in more of a "I hate women and want you to suffer" way, and that's the difference
If it makes people participate in real rape and abuse scenarios then its not being performed safely, are you going to tell me that a wife buying handcuffs or whatever to roleplay with her husband with and both have fun and enjoy it is something that should be frowned upon and forbidden? Thats where I'm getting at, if a guy claims to be into bdsm and finds gullible girls to tie up and abuse and fuck, then thats where im saying the problem is
Men try to excuse this type of porn by saying that we want it. Some or even many women may want to be humiliated, tied up etc etc. BUT they want it in a safe enviroment with a loving partner, not in ACTUAL rape and torture porn that is being displayed to men over the world so they can revel in their hate for women. These men in the videos are sick human beings that beat these girls even when they genuinely beg them to stop and the stars that do this type of porn have deep issues (often from child sexual abuse) and need help, they should not be used as an excuse as to why
women generally want to be treated this way.
I will personally never engage in violent sex with any man, because I know that it will only enable his behaviour and make him think that it's okay to treat women this way.
And lastly. The fact that there are over 1 million views on several of the videos in that link, proves that there are many men that think this is okay. Our hatred of men, and us being scared of them is completely justified when we look at what they want to do to us.
Sorry for a long post but I needed to vent.
Exactly, if women started directing what happens in rape roleplay porn it would be much MUCH different then how its shown in rape roleplay porn made by men
>are you going to tell me that a wife buying handcuffs or whatever to roleplay with her husband with and both have fun and enjoy it is something that should be frowned upon and forbidden?
That's hardly even in the same vein as what I'd consider a harmful sexual practice. If that same wife was into being """safely""" tied up, abused, and fucked in accordance with what is typical of a male fantasy or what's depicted in porn? I'd think that she needs to get her head checked, and it should be discouraged whether or not it's a "fetish."
Well. Can't unsee what I've seen here.
Why the fuck are men like this? I'll truly never look at them the same again after the past few years of my life, but that's kind of besides the point. I'm fine with avoiding men and calling it a day for me, but are women literally doomed to take this shit from men forever? I can't imagine how women who bring daughters into the world feel, it just gets worse and worse every single day. And there's nothing we can do to make things better for the women who come after us, is there?
Im talking about bdsm in general, people who've never seen porn in their life can have fantasies that relate to bdsm, I think girls who pretend to like shit that caters exactly to gross males are just brainwashed but people can have bdsm fantasies and act them out safely is where im getting, im saying that not all bdsm is a bunch of sickos who use it to hide their misogyny or women that want to seek attention
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All my life I've subconsciously had empathy for misogynists, empathy for killers, empathy for incel types. I don't hate men at all, mean or nice, and that makes misogyny hard to deal with. How do you empathize with someone who hates you so much without hating yourself as well? I know it's possible but I still haven't figured it out. It's gotten so bad that despite my feminist ways I've subconsciously believed that I deserve to suffer just for wanting to look sexy, or even just for being a woman. That's the message I've received over and over again. It's all over media as an implication, and then occassionally some psychopath or robot will say it explicitly as if we weren't already aware. All I want is to move on and love myself as a woman and love my body and not have this thorn in my side but every day I'm given 10 more examples of how unrelentingly some men hate and dehumanize us and my self esteem isn't high enough to laugh it off. My mental and emotional well being has improved so much lately except for the obstacle that is misogyny. The amount of confidence and strength it would take to be able to genuinely say "I don't hate you, I feel a detached compassion towards you, and it doesn't make me feel bad about myself that you hate me and fantasize about hurting me and don't see me as a human subject" over and over again seems so unreasonably high. Why should I have to ascend to that level just to not have ridiculous amounts of internalized misogyny? I guess life isn't fair to anyone and it always takes more than we expect to get rid of our suffering, but still. I know I could just hate the people who hate me but I'm inclined to believe the slightly crunchy idea that genuinely hating people tears you up, even though empathy for them has torn me up too. I don't know what to do!
Sorry this is so incoherent and self obsessed. I really need to vent and you guys seem like some of the few that would understand. I really those of us with internalized shame can all work past this and someday feel comfortable and happy as women without denying how much we have been insulted hurt and wronged.
>One of the most extensive reasons for men's common hatred of women is 'Rejection'
>This is a deep rooted hate that stems mainly from sexually driven narcissists, who were rejected by 'Hot' women that began in their teenage years.(Unattractive women are not an option to them) These individuals are sexually self entitled and possess extremely fragile egos that are 'Painfully' destroyed by rejection of those females who they want, but can never have. They feel humiliated and emasculated by women and see them as a threat to their masculinity.
>(Unattractive women are not an option to them)
This is so painfully accurate.
So I guess it's really just run of the mill extreme narcissism with sex and gender flavor, which wouldn't be so bad to reconcile, psychos gonna psycho, but then they get into positions of power and their narcissistic misogynistic insanity is broadcast in waves via religion, internet, and hollywood, and then we arrive where we are today, where any impressionable, insecure, or neurotic person (so most people) can perpetuate misogyny even if they're not a conscious malicious misogynist and it feels like the whole world is made up of elliot rodgers.
Ikr, it always makes me cringe when ugly greaseballs who have nothing good about their personality except when they pretend to be good for a bit, and then they have these high ass expectations, when they see the "perfect" woman they jump straight into harassing her or just expecting her to fangirl over him despite him being a gross loser, then whining and playing victim when they don't get what they want, which that want is a pretty wife to abuse and trap, theyre babies who want the world to cater to them, most likely have been handed everything throughout life, been a spoilt child whos mom or dad brought them everything they wanted and never disciplined them so now they run around thinking they can do anything and everything they want and believe the world revolves around them
If not a spoilt baby, if they do come from a shitty household they get entitled by thinking the world owes them something and whine when they get a reality check
Anon, not to be harsh or unhelpful, but I really think all you need is time. I used to have a similar mindset as you do now - but even worse, because I always felt the need to prove men like that WRONG. I also bought into the "hatred tears you up" thing, and I wanted to help them. I wanted to show them that women are human, and we are capable of doing good things and we don't deserve all the hatred and vitriol they direct at us, and they would probably be healthier if they let it go. Then slowly it became about me just wanting the hatred towards women to stop, because it hurt too much and I was surrounded by it. With one man in my life eventually that turned into me wanting to prove that I was "one of the good ones." That's how bad it got. I would do anything to impress him and show him that I was 'different' than other women and worthy of him not hating me for being a woman. But the thing is with men like that, it doesn't matter what you do or say. They don't want or need your empathy, and nothing you can do can change them or make them feel differently about women or the world as a whole. And most importantly, nothing you can do can make them see you as human. They never will. No matter what you do with your life, they won't respect you. There's nothing you can do, and you will waste time and energy by trying. Don't let men change how you live your life because no matter what choice you make, they will find some way to hate it. In the end you will be exhausted, you will hate yourself, you will look at other women differently and start to doubt them as well. Eventually you realize you need to step away and make some changes, and it takes forever to break free from that line of thinking and stop hating yourself and others. It's difficult.
But, overtime, you just stop caring. You stop feeling the need to change others. You stop feeling the need to prove yourself to men. Maybe it is defeatist, but I believe it is healthier. You learn and accept that men just hate women, and you move on with that knowledge. Only put yourself in situations with men that you know you can handle and you know won't damage your self esteem further. Wish those men the best in life, but stop exerting your energy trying to get them to see what you want them to see. They don't want to see it, and they can't see it.
It's always good to have empathy for others but try to reserve some for yourself as well. Don't try to help the ones that hate you at the expense of your own wellbeing. I think eventually you will just become tired. And then you'll go through an anger stage. And then a second stage of sadness. And then eventually indifference, and things start to look up a little bit. I will add that the best way I've found to recover from self hatred stemming from being a woman/internalized misogyny, forming strong friendships with other women, or just talking to a lot of other women, has been extremely important in my experience. We're all different but a lot of us also have similar experiences and it helps to relate to each other in order to not feel so alone. We definitely all understand misogyny, and it helps to be able to word vomit it at other women and let them do the same back to you. Hope this helps.
TLDR: The only winning move is not to play.
Holy shit anon thank you so much. You're not harsh or unhelpful at all and I really appreciate you typing that up because of what I wrote. Some of it is what I already know deep down but needed another woman to say, but it really blew my mind what you said about them not needing or wanting my empathy. I think that was a bit of a missing piece.
If you don't mind my asking, could I ask how you handle it now when you witness extreme acts of misogyny? Like does it still hurt the same but it's not directed at yourself, or do you understand that it's disgusting but it doesn't make you feel so bad emotionally? I really want to figure out how to make a habit of the latter because i'm just tired of FEELING insulted and degraded.
I'm glad it helped a bit, anon. I hope things get better for you.
No, misogyny still hurts me. Immensely, if I'm being honest. I'm probably not the best person to ask about this because I'm not completely immune to it. But does it still make me suicidal? Not really. Does it make me hate myself as much as it used to? Not really. It still makes me cry, it makes me angry, it makes me fear for the safety and happiness of other women. But I still keep going because I know misogyny will never end, and I can't drain myself by dwelling on it.
But overall I'm just a little bit more numb to it now because I expect it. I'm so accustomed to it from just about every man I've ever met or even heard of, that it's just an everyday occurrence that you have to grin and bear. This was the part where I mentioned that "maybe it is defeatist" or something in my original post. I just accept that this is the way men are, and I no longer dive head first into misogynistic spaces trying to change them or prove them wrong. In fact, I avoid misogynistic spaces as much as possible, which is the number one piece of advice I can give. Yes, misogyny is extremely prevalent and difficult to avoid. But definitely don't go out of your way to seek it out as a strange form of masochism. If there are viciously misogynistic men in your life, get rid of them if possible. If you frequent spaces on the internet where hatred of women is a dominant viewpoint, stop going there. It is easier said than done, but if you do it you will notice a difference.
I'm sorry I don't have better advice on how to stop feeling bad about it. I think that's a natural reaction that it will be very hard to curb. The very thing that you are and you can't hide from being is fucking despised by most of the world, and that hurts to your core. Sometimes when I get down about it it helps to think of the older or past women who have dealt with it decades longer than I have, and I get inspired by them and how they just didn't give a fuck. They got through it, the majority of them in worse circumstances, so we probably will too. Hopefully one day we will all be at a point where we can just tell the world to fuck off.
Thank you for your reply. I don't really think what you're saying is defeatist in the negative sense. It reminds me a lot of what I've read about "surrender" to the universe and things that you can't change. It's the feeling after missing your stop on the train when you're no longer anxious because there's nothing you can do but get back on another train and relax. It's just so much harder when there's sexual, emotional, and bodily attachments involved, and like you said, so many multitudes of people hate you for something you can't get away from. I was seeking out some misogynistic information on top of what's truly out of my control, not necessarily because of masochism but because of the idea that I want to be immune to it and face it. But now I'm seeing that I need to be more patient and gentle than that, and while I love myself more than I used to, I still need to cultivate it a lot more still, and that like you said, I need time.
>It's just so much harder when there's sexual, emotional, and bodily attachments involved
Absolutely. And I don't even think we should necessarily be striving to make the pain from it go away completely, because I don't think it ever will. It's just too deep and too prevalent to become completely immune to it. I think all we can do is find ways to make it manageable for ourselves and other women as much as we possibly can, and try not to let it dissuade us from pursuing whatever personal endeavors we hold important to us.
Just continue to move forward anon, and like you said, always allow yourself the patience and gentleness you need in order to do so.
you're right. it's like with most other forms of suffering, the key isn't to make it go away forever because that's rarely possible, but to have enough control over your reaction to it that it's as bearable as possible. It just seems huge and daunting so I long for it to go away completely.
>The only winning move is not to play.
Agreed 100%, I have to remind myself of this every time I let my feelings get hurt by misogyny. When it comes down to it, I don't actually want or need men in my life that badly, and I've always been better off with my female friends, hobbies, money etc. It's hard to remember that when I'm reading the vitriolic hatred men spew about us, or learning about the horrible way they've treated women throughout history, or realizing that we can never meet their ridiculous standards, but realistically I rarely give a shit about any guys I know personally. As long as we stay out of each other's way I can continue with my life and be happy with it.
exactly true anon and the men that dont react/get butthurt about it are the ones that are ACTUAL "good guys" (kek), aka fellow human beings.
When they say that men and women have the same propensity for violence…
All Homicide Types by Gender, 1976-2005. From Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement, 7/00, NCJ 182990, U.S. Dept of Justice.
Eldercide: Male 85.2%, Female 14.8%
Felony murder: Male 93.2%, Female 6.8%
Sex related murder: Male 93.6%, Female 6.4%
Gang related murder: Male 98.3%, Female 1.7%
Drug related murder: Male 95.5%, Female 4.5%
Workplace murders: Male 91.3%, Female 8.7%
Argument murders: Male 85.6%, Female 14.4%
Gun homicide: Male 91.3%, Female 8.7%
Multiple victims: Male 93.5%, Female 6.5%
Child murder: of those children killed by someone other than their parent, 81% were killed by men.
but yeah keep saying not all men.
point is not ALL men but ENOUGH men…
Men are always bitching about the hot women not giving them attention, at least they tend to just leave them alone, whereas if a man doesn't find a woman attractive he has to let her know and acts like she's hindering him by just existing. Go to the comments section of any video with a woman in it, they'll be comments from men talking about her appearance even if the video has nothing to do with that.
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>personality
>attempting to prove a point with tinder out of all places
>where people go to pump dump
>attempting to prove women only go for looks by using a hookup app
>out of all places
Also what was your point? Nowhere did I say women care about personality more, its that mgtows think they're gods gift to women but what is good about them? They have shit personalities, are ugly, most of them cant even get on sugar daddy level as their last resort if they cant get a real relationship, which is why its hilarious when they expect high quality women to kiss their ass, if you're hot but a douche you can pump and dump or find some dumb desperate hoe to abuse
This was fake though. IIRC he changed the crime he described in his profile from "stealing candy" to "child rape" after those people had already messaged him.
This. It was admitted by one of them on lookism or puahate
Tbh I can’t say that I hate all men (Men like my brother and father who are sweet and supportive exist), but holy fucking shit how I hate how entitled some men are!
So I used to work at a coffee shop, and one day right after we closed, a dude who works at a restaurant next to us like came in when I was closing the registers. The barista said that it’s ok he’ll make a drink for the dude for free. So I am standing at the register and counting money (butt load of money so I can’t make a mistake counting), and the dude comes over and starts full on flirting with me. He was all like, “Hey beautiful, where are you from? What is your accent?” and then started to talk about politics of my country?? All while i was trying to close the registers and go home. So I tried to let him down nicely and he got so fucking pissed saying that he was trying to have a nice conversation with me, gave me this glaring look and stormed off with his drink. The dude was around 30-40, and I was 18 at the time. Thank god the barista offered to stay with me after closing while I wait for my friend because I was seriously afraid that lunatic will be there.
I don't hate all men either since I'm lucky enough to know a handful of really good ones. I really feel for the women who have never known a decent man.
Oh god, men who hit on women while they're working really piss me off. It's so awkward rejecting a customer because you have to be as nice about it as possible even when they're pushy.
My poor best friend is 27 and has a hideous hamplanet in his 50's constantly hitting on her even though she always rejects him. He's the son of her store's owner, so she can't just plain tell him to fuck off like she would with anyone else. It's so disgusting, he does shit like invite her to stay in hotel rooms with him for trips he's going on.
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https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/12/06/the-warlock-hunt/
So, now men are the primary victims of workplace sexual harrassment, because women have the audacity to speak up about it these days. We just want to be treated like professionals in a professional environment, but no…we need to keep our mouths shut and just accept that men are going to make lewd comments at us and touch us in ways they would never touch their male coworkers.
Women are always the problem. Men are always innocent and manipulated by women. Even when it is clear as fucking crystal that men are the problem, society at large will always come to the defense of men, and find a way to make it women's fault again. And then women will suffer for it. The solution won't be "well maybe we should not be creeps at work, and treat everyone with respect", the solution will be "don't hire women because they are liabilities and you wouldn't want to be accused of sexual harassment now would you!?"
It's just unbelievable. Why go on? The world fucking hates us and will do anything to beat us back down into 'our place.'
This tweet was one of the responses to a retweet of the article. "Women created this problem of men not being able to control their urges and treat women as autonomous human beings." It is always, and will always be seen as women's fault. There is nothing we can do to be respected or seen as worthy.
Omg this squirmy little snake sharon. What's been happening at my male-dominated workplace recently is that over and over again, certain men will make a sexual joke at my expense, and then IMMEDIATELY and i mean IMMEDIATELY fall over themselves apologizing like i'm gonna run to our nonexistent HR. So now if I confront them about it after that I look like a jerk for rubbing it into someone who already feels soooo bad. It makes me feel like i simultaneously come off as a thot and like a humorless bitch you have to walk on eggshells around.If you're a guy reading this and wondering what else you're supposed to do, ask yourself why you're sexualizing someone who's literally just trying to do a normal job, and do the "manly" thing and wait for my actual reply after your stupid joke, who knows, maybe it wasn't actually that bad and I won't be offended. You don't get to know other people's reactions beforehand though. Who would've thought?
There was a point where I tried to wear tight sport bras to tamp down my tits and cover up beyond what was necessary for weather or dresscode, which is ridiculous to even feel compelled to do, but it's too late, I'm marked as a young woman and the only way I could avoid awkward treatment is to be invisible or in another form.
The last thing I want to do for myself and my fellow woman is to run to my male boss to report a fucking JOKE, like some sjw stereotype, and thus contribute to workplace sexual harrassment claims being treated like a silly sitcom womp womp plot device. But I might confront YOU about it, sorry that's apparently so fucking terrifying to a grown adult.
If you don't want to be accused of sexual harassment, maybe don't harass people. If you need to ask yourself "Would I do this to $malecoworker?" that just shows that you are sexualising women without being given a reason except for us existing.
>if you're a guy reading this and wondering what else you're supposed to do,
They aren’t wondering this, because they don’t give a fuck. They are given free reign to do and say whatever they want and people like Sharon and the woman who wrote this article and everyone praising it will make excuses for them and blame women for being upset that we aren’t treated like people.
Men don’t wonder, they don’t give a FUCK about women, they love having us in a subordinate position not listening or taking us seriously. Why would they change? Sounds fucking great for them. And only them.
Is no one ever going to point out how weak and pathetic it is that these men can’t make it through an 8 hour work day without making everything about their dick?
And yet women are the weak link, huh?
I can see a man I'm attracted to, be fully aware that I'm attracted to him, maybe even have a perverted thought, yet I know that he's probably just thinking about what he wants for dinner tonight, that he's clearly busy and in a hurry, that he's not some nefarious seducer who intentionally put the thoughts in my head just by looking cute. It's on me so I leave him alone, even if he did something to his appearance to look good because that's what people do. It's not that these guys should pretend they're not attracted to us, but that they think their reaction to us is our fault and that the very human desire to want to look attractive means we're ok with being sexualized by them no matter what we're doing or saying.
Yeah I can do my job while being legit horny and not have any slipups. Total pokerface. Feel a bit like a creep but compartmentalizing is a thing. I thought men were supposed to be better at that anyway hahaha
>You teach people how to treat you. I will not engage in sex jokes so guess what? Creeps like that stay away from me at work! Women ceated this whole problem, so many yse their sexuality to benefit so why should't men think we want attention.
The funny thing is that it does not even matter if we don't 'use our sexuality', WOMEN STILL GET HARRASSED! It literally does not matter what a woman looks like or what she is wearing. We still get harrassed. We could be wearing a black trashbag and a dude would get horny.
i am sure every woman has witnessed a dude touch or adjust his dick in public. it's disturbing and disgusting.
>i am sure every woman has witnessed a dude touch or adjust his dick in public. it's disturbing and disgusting.
Yup. Sometimes i have to adjust my panties or my labia minora being a little bunched up but i don't do it in public! I have some decency and i expect that from men too but apparently thats too hard because Muh Dick. And i believe it applies to so called manspreading too. I don't believe that men have such large penises that they have to take up 2 seats. Women are more comfortable with their legs wide too but we don't womanspread just to "air out" out snatch?
>Sometimes i have to adjust my panties or my labia minora being a little bunched up but i don't do it in public!
Probably because your labia is (presumably!) not half a foot long.
I mean, neither are two inch thrillers, point is that its gross and inappropriate
same men probably run around demanding women to be ~classy ladies with manners~ but live in a greasebin and touch their yeast filled dick with their cheeto covered fingers while we watch
What does that have to do with anything? Finding a restroom, turning towards a wall, waiting a couple minutes until they can be somewhere others won't see it doesn't take much.
For fuck sake, I'm a D cup, that's like half a liter of fat boobs on my chest and yet if I adjust them or my bra in public I get weird looks and depending on who's around me, even comments on how I should act more ~ladylike~.
Either stop touching your dick in public or let me touch my boobs too. And don't even get me started on men SCRATCHING THEIR ITCHY SCROTUM IN PUBLIC holy shit. Men are so entitled and narcissistic they think they're exempt from basic manners because they just can't be uncomfortable for a few minutes.
>not half a foot long.
What's the point of that detail if a flaccid penis isn't half a foot long either? Unless men go through life with a perpetual erection (which I'm starting to think they do.)
I can only speak for myself but even flacid it's a solid 4 inches and I'm fairly average in size, plus I still occasionally get a chub anyways somewhat randomly anyways. I've had my dick pinched quite painfully a few times in my pants, it's not an ego thing. This thread had some interesting points about workplace harassment etc but complaining men adjust their dick in their pants or spread their legs (the issue is normally testicles, not the dick itself) when sitting is scratching the bottom of the barrel.
>Either stop touching your dick in public or let me touch my boobs too.
I mean maybe it's just the people I know but women in my social circle adjust their bra strap or even breast feed regularly and it's never been an issue. In the office sure, but anything more than that wide step trick would be frowned upon too.
show your benis or gtfo
Only if you ask nicely
pls show benis
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>goes into a detailed decription about muh dick
No one asked faggot.
You were the ones talking about dicks. No one asked, but I will correct misinformation.
Fuck off, you disgusting freak. No one gives a shit about you or any of the dumb shit you have to say. Kill yourself and stream it or gtfo.
jesus christ anon take a xanax
>but I will correct misinformation.
You didn't really do anything besides trail off into some self-obsessed yapping about the idiosyncrasies of your dick.
I'm fairly certain I have a more accurate insight as to why men "manspread".
Always glad to see cool heads prevail on this board.
>adjust their bra strap or even breast feed
this is not even remotely close to touching ones genitalia in public.
Again, if we're talking about putting your hands down your pants I agree, but that's some people of walmart tier shit. It's usually just tugging on the pants legs and jiggling things around.
A man appears once again in this thread and declines to either address important points or give us a level headed reasonable explanation for why men hate women so much BUT he will not waste an opportunity to talk about his dick in detail.
I swear to god man I don’t even like dicks as much as men like dicks. This is literally that male poster “muh dick” image brought to life. It would be endearing if I wasn’t already fed up with men’s shit.
>man comes into a thread he obviously won't like
>"MY ENTITLEMENT"
>give us a level headed reasonable explanation for why men hate women so much
Simply put? Because I don't believe that's true. I discussed this in a different thread and I was told I was lying/was a crypto-robot/whatever. Is there an ignorance of female specific problems? Sure. Not to mention I only brought up my sex because it was specific to the point at hand.
>I swear to god man I don’t even like dicks as much as men like dicks.
I mean I am a pretty fan of my own dick. We've been through some hard times together. You guys were talking about dicks though, I don't get why it's such a big deal I referenced my own member when refuting some of your points about how they supposedly work. It goes both ways, I would defer to a woman discussing her own bits.(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)
I've scratched or adjusted my underwear around/near my vagina in public, is it really that bad? I try to be as discreet as possible, and sometimes you're in a situation where it'll be quite awhile before you can go to a private place like a bathroom. I'm still always nervous someone noticed but the itch can get pretty bad.
My dear fellow anons, stop replying to obvious bait/triggered men and just report them. Men aren't allowed in this thread, or any other obviously "no men allowed" thread in /ot/. Or at least thats what been said multiple times.
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>goes on a rant about muh dick
>compares public masturbation to breastfeeding and adjusting bra straps
Kill yourself.
It's not bad, it's the double standard that's infuriating. Everyone should just do it, but if men are going to complain about us, they damn better not touch their dicks either.
You girls should replace hatred with love instead.
Why don't you go tell that to men, dumbass.
Well, every man I know loves women.
Nobody buys this blatant lie anymore, dude. You don't need to continue wasting your time.
Like, for fucks sake just read the thread for once and see all the examples of men fucking despising women. Sure seems like love to me.
It's nice that you've found men who can contain their hatred of women and pretend it doesn't exist. But they still do, and they all reveal it eventually.
I just laugh and roll my eyes whenever I hear that "men don't hate women," now. There's plenty of evidence of it everywhere. Would rape be anywhere near as prevalent if men really loooved women? Would millions of women be getting sold into prostitution (sometimes by their boyfriends, husbands, family members) if men loved women? Would girls as young as 9 be sold into prostitution if men loved women? Would men be paying to abuse these victims if they loved women? Would men be watching and getting off to the simulated (and real) abuse of women in pornography if they loved women? Would men be so desperately trying to control women's reproduction, and seeing them as property if they loved women? Would men be plugging their ears and screaming "LALALALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU" + making everything about themselves every time women try talk about the abuse they had to face from men if they loved women?
It's hysterical. They expect love but they give shit in return.
But anon!
Mommy loved these boys despite all their flaws!
Mommy cooked their meals, cleaned their bedrooms, gave them money, washed their clothes… everything!
Every girl must be just like mommy. Clean after them and expect nothing in return.
You know, girls get picked on all the time and men keep insisting that we all have daddy issues. We should start calling out their oedipal tendencies as well.
Is there really a double standard there? I thought touching your genitals in public was about equally weird for both sexes.
All great points. Especially
> They expect love but they give shit in return
Men preach love when it benefits them. They are extremely transparent, which is good actually. I'm completely done with their shit. It's getting pathetic that they can do all this shit to women and then still turn around and expect us to fawn over them and kiss their ass as they rub in our faces how they can do anything they want to us.
The next man who tries to post his dumb sob story about being a nice guy or how all his shitty friends love women can just get fucked, go subscribe to MGTOW and save us all some time.
yeah ok.
All of anon's points- yes + if any male lurkers seriously want to say that men do 'love' women, just head over to the abuse in porn thread and have a read. Men loving women so much that violent rape is a common theme. And when porn stars speak out? Wheres that 'love'?
The only love men have for women is their love to abuse, degrade, dehumanize and kill us.
Wow this thread is trash. Is this board just filled with sad entitled lesbians terfs with daddy issues? It's ironic when you people complain about misogyny when you're on a board filled with posts dedicated to bringing down mostly women. You complain about men hating women then you go on to another thread to call a girl fat and ugly.
I'm a womam and I feel so sad for you pathetic man-hating bitches.
you know there are a lot of people on this website who ONLY use the drama threads or ONLY use the ot/g threads? Lolcow is not a hivemind.
Lmao what exactly did you read that ticked you off so much? Did you not read the title of this thread? This is literally where women get to vent about men…
"I am a woman" sure honey sure…
The thread is tame, actually. Less of a man-hate thread and more of a vent-about-misogyny thread. Not sure why that bothers you so much. Gotta defend the menz though I guess, those precious little angels.
June is dat you?
>insulting lesbians
>'terfs'
>I'm a woman
MtF detected. At least I hope so, because the pathetic thing here would be an actual woman getting so mad on men's behalf when they think you're subhuman.
>guaranteed replies
>making an entire video about how every single person wearing yoga pants is an attention whore and another reason for ugly ass virgins to refuse women
god, mgtow is a cringe factory
I'm so sick of you "pick me" ass women. You don't get a cookie for defending men. You're Athena complex is gross.
*your. Fucking autocorrect.
Wow, this video really made me think… What the fuck is wrong with men?
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god those comments are a goldmine, how can men complain about women being "too sexual these days" while also being such slaves to their own sexuality that they get in accidents over it?
being such slaves to their own sexuality to the point of coining even old women who wear fucking yoga and children who wear yoga pants to be be "constantly grasping onto to their sexuality"
it's like they have it in their minds that anyone of the female gender only ever does anything to cater to them but then get upset and go on rampages, drive to parking lots to make embarrassing videos over the concept they put in their own minds that anything a woman does, say, or do is for sexual reasons or for men
I love how one of the main talking points here is that """"gym thots"""" hate it when you ignore them…if you're ignoring them how do you know how they feel about it? And on top of that, why is does the whole concept of MGTOW seem to revolve around their obsession with women? How is that "going your own way"?
>men think women who are just trying to live their lives are harrassing them
MGTOWs are one minute complaining about women "hitting the wall" or being fat, but then they complain if women look attractive and how they're blatantly just looking attractive to distract them /s
Honestly, I don't give a fuck if some salty neckbeard gets a boner looking at me at the gym in yoga pants. I'm there to work out and wearing comfortable clothes to do so. It's not my fault you're a slave to your dick who sexualizes everything. I see men I find attractive, sometimes even have a perverted thought but it doesn't ruin my entire day and make me unable to concentrate. I also don't feel the need to harass them as I know they probably don't want that and it's inappropriate to do so.
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Think of the whole "IM IGNORING YOU!!!!" meme. They "go their owm way" but don't realize most women don't give a shit that some greasy loser isnt in the dating pool, when they can't get a reaction out of us or attention from us they get pissed and now have to constantly bash, whine, and make batshit crazy theories about women despite claiming they just want to ignore women
Funny enough, it was probably these men who take the whole "woman ignores you but she actually wants attention" sterotype seriously, and yet look where we are
Of course, men get butthurt over stuff like this not being allowed on Steam.
Let's not go there
Men absolutely refuse to be held accountable for their actions. If you can’t control yourself, that’s on you and only you. Stop blaming women for your weakness and lack of self control and shut the fuck up.
they want to pretend they have standards and are so obsessed with making women feel like shit about themselves, they declare any woman over a certain age to be unattractive just so women will flock to any man while they're young (if they're dumb enough to fall for incel myths of course) despite the fact they promote "going their own way"(not as if they had a choice or anything kek)
and if they do find a woman attractive they will find any reason to coin her as shitty and awful unless she's a ~perfect little christian young qt who never seen a man in her life~ then again mgtows even then will try to find something wrong with those types of women and claim she only avoids men for attention and how those women are the biggest whores of them all
they hate women so much that avoiding them isn't enough but when they are attracted to a woman they excuse it and make all kinds of bullshit up that she's an attention whore, she's pretending to be a certain way, etc
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Disregarding the ugly art, I find this is a pretty good representation of this thread
wants to fuck us =/= love
>high heels are too sexual
>"the prude brigade can just fucking go to hell"
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>if you're not sexual, you're useless according to men and will end up hitting the wall "sad and lonely" and aging is karma
>if you are sexual, you're a worthless whore and should get beaten, raped and abused
>if you save yourself you don't exist and/or will just "turn into a slut"
>college age girls are all whores so don't date them
>if you hit 25 and not married you "hit the wall" and are useless and will never find a man and you're miserable
>anything you do, say, or wear either makes you "Craving male attention and constantly grasping onto your sexuality!! avoid!!!" or a "ugly bitter lonely prude!!! avoid!!!!"
>men can't even have simple friendships with women without having to shit on them or avoid them if they aren't a potential dating partner
>whine about women giving in too quickly to sex
>get traumatized when rejected
>any situation ever where a women gets financial assistance is her gold digging (in some women pay for themselves she's gold digging, mgtows nowadays are accusing women who work jobs of gold digging to kek)
>"men love women!!! we swear!!!!"
>You know, girls get picked on all the time and men keep insisting that we all have daddy issues. We should start calling out their oedipal tendencies as well.
The only "daddy issues" I have are the ones where I wonder how my dad can be ten times the man most of the men my own age are tbh. And then get depressed I'll never find anyone like him.
also lets not forget
>make standards extremely for women to be considered fully attractive without men having to complain about something not being enough on women (big round smooth butt, 50 inch hips, 20 inch waist, flat tummy, smooth, perfect innie vagina, 38 inch thighs, big round perky tits with tiny nips, narrow shoulders and rail arms, perfect dolly face and poreless skin)
>treat women like they're subhuman if they don't have something they really like (ie; big boobs, big ass, etc)
>call women hysterical for not feeling good enough or having insecurities
>fap to women who have had plastic surgery
>go insane when women consider plastic surgery or have already had it
>claim it's women with extremely high standards because they saw a few women talk about how they like large penises or see men with nice bodies get fangirled over on ig
but yeah, men sure do love women, maybe in whatever fantasyland you live in
>she's aging what a whore ridicule them all its karma for having standards and rights as a person
men sure do love women wow
>waiting for mgtows to start ridiculing women for breathing, paying taxes, eating, sleeping and blinking
Do they realize how pathetic this makes them look/sound? The wall is karma for….what exactly? Not having sex with you? Having sex with other men who aren't you? Not giving up all of their autonomy and self respect in order to be your bangmaid?
What horrible crimes. Women surely are the worst.
this is the video, it's like they want women to be traditional, then pull this shit when women are traditional
NOTHING is ever good enough for them
Its like they fail to realize not every womans dream or goal in life it to be married with kids by 24, when in reality most women are fine and happy with being single even past 25 or 30 or whatever "the wall" is… And yet its them who claim to "go their own way" then make ridiculous stuff like this over single women? And jfk isn't it them as well who are the bitter lonely fucks? Are we not forgetting how extreme guys will take it when they can't get their dick wet and yet its women who are single at a certain age that are the ~old bitter uglies and nature is karma even though most women could still look hot past 50~
"women who breathe are just entitled to air, they run around screaming equality all while they take air from men and breath it, do they have any idea how many men hold their breath for them every year? And hear they are acting like entitled little attention whores by breathing. When a woman breathes its just her desperately trying to get attention from male peers, do not EVER allow women you are around breath, its just a sense of female entitlement"
See how much men despise women even when women have done nothing to them? That comment section proves it.
Even women who are just trying to get through life and work hard in their career is reprehensible to these guys. Women who have done nothing morally or legally wrong. That’s all it takes for men to wish death and misery on you lmao. They truly are psychotic.
>being against sexual assault= prude brigade
>wearing high heels= filthy slut who's asking for it
What kind of idiot admits he's pro-sexual harassment on his face book? Any employer would fire his ass immediately if this was brought to their attention. Not to mention, if he was ever accused of sexual misconduct (which he's probably committed, men who double down like this usually do because they're guilty themselves), this doesn't exactly help his case for innocence.
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I swear to god do these men think every woman above 25 can't get pregnant at all and their ovaries turn into raisins
yes, they think women should just kill themselves in a dumpster past 25 because that’s when they “HIT A WALL.”
and if these shriveled up wombhavers do by some miracle get pregnant, they’re reckless sluts who don’t even care about the baby because it’ll definitely have down syndrome.
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Confession: I have a weird obsession with going to those Red Pill/MGTOW forums and reading their shit. It's like going to a free zoo filled with screeching gorillas. They claim to be oh so rational but their opinions are based on like a single 'muh female natuuur' that they exploit in order to discredit women.
They claim that 'women are responsible for downfall of western civilization' or that 'all women are hypergamous and want that chad cock carousel'.
Also, as a Middle Eastern woman I can't not bring up the obsession that some of them have with Asian/Middle Eastern women…it is so freakin creepy. Like they say that American women 'are too loose' and all are 'whores', and that it's better to get a bride from those regions as they will be more compliant and submissive. Way to degrade so many women at the same time.
It's so fucking pathetic, but I can't look away, it's like watching a multiple car crash.
To add to your post
>have previously mentioned ridiculous standards they will shit on women for not living up to, even when they themselves are hideous ogres
>WOMEN ARE LYING WHORES FOR WEARING MAKEUP
>WOMEN ARE SO SHALLOW FOR ONLY WANTING TO SLEEP WITH MEN THEY'RE PHYSICALLY ATTRACTED TO
I know what you mean anon, it's like they think they can sprout out all this bullshit and yet women of their liking are going to enjoy them somehow? I'm vietnamese, my experience with these men is that they expect you to be a perfect submissive dog to them and get mad and talk to their friends about what a whore you are for daring to have a mind of your own, do these men think that we would just give ourselves to them just because they like a certain race of women solely for their stereotype so they can abuse us? Do they not realize women want to be happy to and the world doesn't revolve around them
God, this is why I avoid any guy who talks about how much he wants an ~azn gf~, I hope their male order brides poisons and kills these ugly excuses for men
I was never aware until recently just how dark the whole Asian girl obsession was. My main experience with it was guys who went to private school and liked them because they were generally incredibly academic and came from a different country, so I thought it was innocent. Then I found out for many guys it has nothing to do with those reasons and it's all because there's that fucked up stereotype that they're quiet and extremely submissive.
Yuuuup, they'll try to butter you up with comments like "Oh, you look so different/exotic" and god forbid you don't fit their stereotype, they'll just start yelling that you have been corrupted and 'Americanized'
it's not politically correct it's just correct
Is that screenshot from theredpill? I always find it funny when they, a subreddit dedicated to men fucking as many women as possible and treating them as shitty as possible, whine about women having multiple sex partners. Jealous that she has a higher count than you, dude? Fuck off.
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jesus christ, I cringed at how obnoxious this was, I really hope he's trolling, I can't imagine someone being so damn delusional, blind and living in a fantasy land? His comment had "insecure delusional greaseball" written all over it
..ew. They’re OBSESSED with wombs, ovaries, women ‘hitting the wall’ and not being fertile anymore (at 25).. why. Why are these retards so fixated on reproductive organs and the state of them inside women they’re suppose to stay away from forever.
Anedoctal but I’ve never witnessed any woman be so obsessed with penises and sperm as mgtows (and red pillers) are with vaginas and fertility
>Anedoctal but I’ve never witnessed any woman be so obsessed with penises and sperm as mgtows (and red pillers) are with vaginas and fertility
Because a woman can easily get knocked up anytime she wants, usually if a guy wants to have a kid (on purpose, with consenting female), a guy must already make enough money to afford a car, house, and many other things, before any woman will agree to have kids with him.
One man could literally impregnate every woman on Earth, a woman can only give birth once every 9 months. A man's age doesn't effect risk of birth defects like a woman's age does.
Even men who have given up on women, are still upset about the decreasing number of women suitable to have children with, because that's basically why they have given up on women or having children.
Many things make a woman unsuitable or undesirable to have children with:
- Not being a virgin (the more sexual partners a woman has had, the more likely she is to cheat, divorce/break-up, have STDs, be incapable of forming bonds or having a healthy relationship)
- Being too old, late 20s is already too old
- Already having children (single mothers)
- Being a feminist SJW, etc.
Obviously A LOT of woman fall into these categories, in fact the large majority of women are terrible or unsuitable candidates to have children with.
There is such a small population of potential suitable mothers, compared to the much larger population of men who want children, that these potential mothers are highly competed for, and rightfully so, these potential mothers can have very high standards and demands.
So the large majority of men who want children are left with nothing, because they can't compete, this obviously can frustrate them to the point of suicide or murder, to give up and identify as MGTOW, to give up and move to Thailand to fuck $30 cute Asian prostitutes, etc.
oh shit here we go again.
And men have no fault in this, huh? Men are perfect little angels who definitely don't treat women like shit. Sure buddy. Blame women for any and all of your shortcomings and everything will be fine. It's definitely not you, it's literally everybody else.
if you read this thread, literally everything you said has been proven false
>Because a woman can easily get knocked up anytime she wants, usually if a guy wants to have a kid (on purpose, with consenting female), a guy must already make enough money to afford a car, house, and many other things, before any woman will agree to have kids with him.
yeah, no, is this why gas station cashiers run around with tons of kids? plus don't poor families tend to have even more kids? so you're wrong about that first of all, women are easy to have kids with no matter how much you got, stop listening to incels and actually leave your house
>One man could literally impregnate every woman on Earth, a woman can only give birth once every 9 months. A man's age doesn't effect risk of birth defects like a woman's age does.
your point? and some women will refuse little shits like you, and no it's not because you're not rich it's because you're an asshat sprouting mentally ill shit like this, secondly, a mans age does affect if a man can get a hard on or not and there are aging risks in men as well with fertility
https://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/features/age-raises-infertility-risk-in-men-too
it's natures way of telling you that men ain't excused from aging either sweetie
>Even men who have given up on women, are still upset about the decreasing number of women suitable to have children with
maybe it's because YOUR OWN delusions make you think there is a decreasing number of women suitable to have kids with and this thread proves that
>because that's basically why they have given up on women or having children.
yeah, sure, aka they're too lazy to get laid and now want to scream and cry roastie whores when stacy won't fuck them on demand
>Many things make a woman unsuitable or undesirable to have children with:
- Being a feminist SJW, etc."
thank you for proving my point that it's not that women aren't suitable for kids it's that your own delusion runs on that, also the whole "more sexual partner more likely to cheat or have a healthy relationship" thing is bullshit, I knew tons of cheating girls who were virgins, plus in the victorian times when girls were pretty much forced to be virgins til they were sold off, explain why most relationships were abusive and she went to go fuck the butler? right
>Obviously A LOT of woman fall into these categories, in fact the large majority of women are terrible or unsuitable candidates to have children with
honey, there's tons of women who make perfect waifus, it's just they either see ridiculous shit like this and want to run far away as possible from you, look in the teen thread, several young virgin women talked about how they try to avoid men who sprout out shit like you and refuse to disclose that they're virgins just to avoid men like you
"So the large majority of men who want children are left with nothing, because they can't compete, this obviously can frustrate them to the point of suicide or murder, to give up and identify as MGTOW, to give up and move to Thailand to fuck $30 cute Asian prostitutes, etc."
Look, as an asian woman myself, no one gives two shits if you wanna fuck a plastic ladyboy from thailand, if not being able to get a perfect little virginal young slave that are anti feminist right wingered waifus frustrates you to the point of suicide or murder than just kys or put yourself in a looney bin, it's not womens faults you're a damn nutcase, these women exist, they just save themselves for men who are worthwhile IE NOT you, sorry for the reality check honey
It's actually completely the fault of men, men allowed women to act like this, and it literally destroyed society.
Women are only allowed as much power as men give them. Blaming women is like blaming the child instead of the parent.
Why are you here? No one cares what you have to say, go back to your circle jerks.
>A man's age doesn't effect risk of birth defects like a woman's age does.
Yes it does. Lets take autism for example, since you most likely are an autist yourself.
>Autism rates were 66 percent higher among children born to dads over 50 years of age than among those born to dads in their 20s. Autism rates were 28 percent higher when dads were in their 40s versus 20s.
And not just that, both teen moms and age gaps (your average redpillers favourite things) increase the likelihood too.
>* Autism rates were 18 percent higher among children born to teen moms than among those born to moms in their 20s.
>* Autism rates also rose with widening gaps between two parents’ ages. These rates were highest when dads were between 35 and 44 years old and their partners were 10 or more years younger
But we know you don't actually give a shit about healthy pregnancies or good mothers or lasting marriages, of course you haven't bothered to look up any information that doesn't support your god given right to a harem of underage 10/10 virgins.
God back to /pol/ dude. Nobody gives a shit.
Women are "feminist SJWs" now because we got sick and tired of how men treating us like subhuman shit. You don't want to be in a relationship with another human being you can procreate and start a family with, you want a fucking sex slave. Please get a sexbot or a body pillow and fuck all the way off.
It's not anybody else's fault if you're a failure who can't make it in modern society. Not women's, not other men's. It's only yours. Stop making up little theories to justify your own shortcomings, either work on them or accept that it's your place in the world and that's fine as long as you're fine with it.
I think this as good as any other place to get this off my chest. So I've recently been tricked into a gross African/slave fetish by this really weird guy. I got out of there in time, I told him that my friend got stranded of freeway because of the snow. He was really niice, and I was trying to give him a chance. I actually didn't date white guys cause I joked about it happening, but it seemed like they were the only ones interested at the time, so for it to happen the FIRST time I decide to really fucked me up. I know this isn't as common as like, the Asian fetish, but it really just made me not want to deal with men anymore.
>They claim that 'women are responsible for downfall of western civilization'
The doublethink is truly amazing. Women are worthless and incapable and men built civilization, but somehow women managed to get enough power to destroy civilization.
At least acknowledge the fact that it was dumb men who decided to wage war and needed women to join the workforce as a result, which in turn resulted in financially independent women who refused to do as they're told.
You can't claim men have all the power and then go around and say women managed to wreak havoc on their own. Stupid penis-carriers.
Either a troll or deluded. I'll try to make this understandable for you.
Half of the population deserves freedom as much as the other. If women choose their own lives, that is their prerogative. What you want is a young, naive, submissive creature, uneducated, dependent, not a human, not a soul. You don't want your other half to have freedom like you yourself. Marriage is your other half. If you can't respect this person you are to bond your life to, you don't deserve the right of marriage. I believe that if this can't get through to you you are hopeless. No sane woman without brainwashing would submit to the white shariah law you mgtow types are propagating. It is against the very human spirit to want to be a slave - look how we got here in the first place. Fighting against people like you through years and years of abuse. And it's not going to stop. Say you have that perfect wifey, and she gives you a child, a daughter at that. You would look at your own child as less than human, and that is despicable. I've known some very good men in my life, but it's the ones like you that make me reconsider even being with one at all. And before you ask, I'm a young virgin. I believe in a lot of conservative values, but I also understand education and mutual respect is important in a partner, especially one for life. Shame on you.
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you've said here, however that's just the problem - men don't see women as human. And therefore not as equals. And why would non-humans deserve the same rights as men, as humans? That line of thinking is why they are able to deny that women should have the same rights as them, or have the same capabilities to make decisions or lead their own lives as them. They just don't see women as equal to them. And never will, unfortunately.
All of the [very good] points that you've made here will fall on deaf ears.
You're like a child saying they shouldn't be disciplined for anything, and should be allowed to do whatever they want.
"Women and children" are commonly grouped together for a reason, it's because generally you're both not on the same mental level as adult men.
Feminism is basically the equivalent of letting children do whatever they want. The lack of logic, reasoning, and decision making skills will lead to chaos and all sorts of degeneracy.
It already has, western society is already dead, the family structure is completely destroyed, and it's #1 cause of death is feminism.
most women have higher IQs than you, are you forgetting to read up in the thread? if it wasn't for those ~stupid useless women~ you wouldn't even be typing that, try again, troll
Point proven. This is what men are like, right here. Nothing more, nothing less. This is what men think of women.
>most women have higher IQs than you
I am more intelligent than literally 100% of women on the planet right now. There is not a single one of them smarter than me.
If you were an intelligent female, you would be anti-feminist. To be that self-aware takes intelligence and reason far beyond what the vast majority of women have.
Oh, to have the self importance of a mediocre man. It must feel amazing.
Wow im so impressed! Your iq must be over 100 ATLEAST right?
>I am more intelligent than literally 100% of women on the planet right now. There is not a single one of them smarter than me
several of the worlds highest IQs have been women, feminist women in fact, try again
> To be that self-aware takes intelligence and reason far beyond what the vast majority of women have.
kek, so you're saying you have to be self aware in order to be intelligent? by your own definition you're at the bottom of the totem pole buddy
This. The most worthless male NEETs seem to think they're god's gift to humanity. I really want to know how they get to that point. Society kissing their ass and making them think they're big and powerful just because they're men, I guess? Even then, you have to sit down and be honest with yourself.
The reason you don't seem to know any intelligent women is because they all know better. You are the worst and most whiny, high maintenance type of male. Don't kid yourself. Women can smell it a mile away.
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Honestly, I wouldn't mind playing the role of a submissive housewife, I cook well, clean well, sew, saving myself for marriage, I'd love to have and raise kids one day and keep the house pretty and have a traditional family life, it's just that nowadays disgusting men are shoving it down our throat that we HAVE to be this way and it's kinda scaring me away, not in fair I am like this to serve men but because I'm afraid I put all this damn effort into learning to do this stuff, put so much effort into my education, my skills, my body, I'm afraid that if I do choose to do this that all my skills are going to be wasted on some misogynist abusive asshole that will dump me to the side for the next stacy once I "hit the wall"
not only that a lot of the ~traditional~ men are whiney manbabies who think the world revolves around them, I have enough self worth to not give myself to someone like that, it kinda depresses me because I'm always paranoid that the one man I do find, he will just end up like some incel tier asshat, I feel like just giving up on men and getting a bunch of cat or finding a hard working businesswoman lesbian to please
An intelligent woman is like an average white man.
Plenty of intelligent women, and I'm more intelligent than all of them, and I mean literally 100%.
Likewise, every guy who wants a housewife is terrified that she'll just cheat or divorce, then take the kids, the house, and alimony/child-support payments, and go fuck some other guy.
You're pretty well safeguarded in marriage, it's the man who has to worry about having his life ruined.
Plenty of men who would never cheat, like me, there's not much more I hate than adultery.
Man I feel you anon. I don't want to be a housewife, but I am a virgin and I fear that I would accidentally give it up to some misogynistic asshole obsessed with virginity. There is nothing wrong with being a 'submissive housewife', I just think you have to be very very careful with the man you choose. It sounds weird but…my advice would be don't marry someone who is TOO obsessed with the idea of you being submissive or a housewife. At least, that's how I've decided to do things. I don't enter a relationship with a dude who is too obsessed with virginity or a female's 'role' and what makes her worthy, because those are almost always the /pol/ misogynist types. Some men hide their misogyny better than others, but overall I think you will know. They have to reveal it eventually and you can tell especially by the way they talk about other women who aren't you.
Though, I am about to give up on men completely as well and just be a virgin til death. It honestly sounds delightful compared to the way I see men talk about and treat women, for example our friendo >>216380. I'd rather die than deal with a man like that or give any of my time/my body/my life to them.
Cats are cool and they actually like women so…don't know why cat ladies are so hated tbh. It seems like a chill life.
And yet you are so insecure that you have to post your bullshit into a man-hate thread on a board geared towards women. Not that smart, I'd say.
No one here wants to hop onto your dick, so just fuck off.
Anyone who has to brag about their IQ is an insecure dumbass who needs to cling to that to make themselves feel important and better than others. It's an unspoken fact. I think it was Stephen Hawking who first pointed this out.
Seems you were right.
Yes, I am the child. For wanting to be educated and speaking for myself. I am emotional and illogical, which is why you shall continue to postulate on 'degeneracy' and how it destroys america, so angry and hateful. Are anger and hate logical? Are they emotions? What about pride? These are very common in men. What are wars? What is violence? Why do men commit over 80 percent of all violent crime? Is it their logic? Please, explain to all the dumb females here why you are above children. By the way, if you've ever watched pornography, your hands are also dirty in all of this. If you've ever acted in lust without marriage, you are dirty. But men could never commit such degeneracy, for that would be illogical!
>An intelligent woman is like an average white man.
lol wtf is that supposed to mean? most women still have higher IQs than "an average white man"
>Plenty of intelligent women, and I'm more intelligent than all of them, and I mean literally 100%.
again, proof, where is it?
>Likewise, every guy who wants a housewife is terrified that she'll just cheat or divorce, then take the kids, the house, and alimony/child-support payments, and go fuck some other guy.
that's the point, shitbag, I don't plan to cheat, I don't want to cheat, I don't even feel the need to cheat since I have a super low sex drive, and yet I still don't want to give myself to some shitbag who follows some "ALL WOMEN ARE GOING TO CHEAT,DIVORCE, TAKE EVERYTHING AND TAKE ALL MY MONEY AND FUCK CHAD!!!" philosophy incels have made in their head as excuses why they're single or because they're bored and mentally ill, this is why women who are actually worthwhile avoid you, do you have any idea the likelihood that this will happen to you? srs, you'd get attacked by a cow before you get "CHEATED ON THEN DIVORCED THEN HAVE HER TAKE ALL THE MONEY, KIDS AND CHILD SUPPORT!!!!"
>you're pretty well safeguarded in marriage, it's the man who has to worry about having his life ruined.
and yet men have higher cheating and MUCH higher abuse rates than women.. I wonder….
>Plenty of men who would never cheat, like me, there's not much more I hate than adultery.
yeah maybe because no woman wants a guy who sprouts shit like that, and were't you talking about earlier about getting cheap thai prostitutes? kek
Women aren't human to them. To men the whole population is men. Women are something between pets and helpful robots that exist solely for their sake.
It cracks me up because I'm pretty sure this is all the same dude, the guy who posted what you're responding to as well as >>216347, which states
>So the large majority of men who want children are left with nothing, because they can't compete, this obviously can frustrate them to the point of suicide or murder,
Because murder is a completely rational solution to not getting what you want. Men are so rational and not at all emotional and violent.
Everyone stop taking the bait.
you know what? I wouldn't mind it either (want to learn how to knit and sew) so long as I can still hold a job working from home or something. But relationships are a partnership, not an uneven "man and his subhuman female companion that only speaks when spoken to" I'd want to be a confidant and best friend to my guy, but according to our lovely mgtows, that shit isn't real. It's either sex slave/broodmare or evil civilization-breaking feminist in their eyes. Still hated for being a woman, just in different calibers
I think I finally understand.
I don't believe all men are as evil and misguided as the one posting here.
It is their lack of not just normal intelligence, but emotional intelligence. The fact that they are not conscious to how deluded they sound. I think that this person in particular is a troll, considering the 'iq' thing I just read, but their sentiments are definitely not unique. It's a lack of rationality that brings this vitriol. It's incredibly hypocritical, and the reason they feel this emotion so strongly, 'anger', is because they won't have kids. They might believe this whole wall thing for women, and that when they reach their 40s they will be safe. But it's going to hit them hard. I would feel bad for them if they weren't so pathetic and spiteful. When they were boys, they liked to play with girls, have fun, etc. Their envy grew throughout the years and now they're experiencing virgin rage. Maybe they managed to get some girls while in highschool. No doubt that's eating away at them as well. Anger blinds logic, which is what has happened to these men, making them a walking hypocrisy in their silly little 'mgtow' or 'incel' movements. I hope the world gets past this point. I don't know when, but this barbarism needs to stop.
>I don't believe all men are as evil and misguided as the one posting here.
Sadly, they are. Some of them just aren't upfront about it. But they all think this way about women, and they all hate women. The hatred just manifests in different ways.
It's pretty smart, there's no fun in preaching to the choir.
You probably haven't thought of this, but being old with no kids probably means any family that cares about you is dead, you'll be all alone, and dying.
>Why do men commit over 80 percent of all violent crime? Is it their logic?
Women are coddled by society and get everything they need for free. The large majority of the homeless are men, and the large majority of crime is committed by men, because no one gives men anything for free, capitalist society is extremely unforgiving if you're a man.
>By the way, if you've ever watched pornography, your hands are also dirty in all of this.
Explain why. Also I primarily jack off to 2D drawings.
>do you have any idea the likelihood that this will happen to you?
Actually I do, over 50% of marriages end in divorce in America, and the vast majority of the time the woman wins in the divorce.
> were't you talking about earlier about getting cheap thai prostitutes?
Yes, it's sad that things have to come to this, but many men in the western world can't compete with other men for suitable women, and instead of competing for the leftovers (single mothers, feminists, etc.), they just give up and go to Thailand, which is basically like you're a king if you're a white guy with any money.
I'm not saying murder or suicide is the rational decision to make from this, like Elliot Rodgers, but I completely understand it.
Being incel hurts on an existential level that you will never be able to understand. It can easily cause suicide or create murderers/rapists. Not having a single female ever want you, while you have to watch other guys get access to females, and watching female behavior in general, can cause extreme sexual frustration, depression, rage, hatred, misanthropy.
If feminists didn't want these guys to exist, all they needed to do was fuck them.
Why do you think this way? Not trying to offend, I just want to know your own personal experiences.
>Also I primarily jack off to 2D drawings.
Got a laugh. Good bait anon.
>get access to females
Women are a resource to be accessed. They aren't human beings. You heard it here.
Why do you keep coming back to lolcow?
I swear to god it's the same fucking autist that keeps coming back here to derail every conversation that triggers him into fits of hysterics against at women.
>You'll be all alone, and dying.
I have indeed thought of that, I've just decided that it's much preferable to be alone than to be with a man who pretends to "love" me but actually sees me a as a lesser piece of shit. Not that hard to understand, as most men are like that. Being alone is actually preferable to a lot of things that men have to "offer."
By his logic you should do exactly what he hates women for doing, marry a man, have kids, then divorce and separate. Then at least he will consider you a little less stupid, though no less worthless and evil in his eyes. You can't win with them. They've already decided women aren't actual human beings they could have a real bond with. We're commodities, and they get mad if we don't comply in exactly the way they want.
Also, does anyone else here just want to be a lesbian? I think I hate men now from this thread. I've always been slightly attracted to women as well as men, especially emotionally. Sometimes I just wanna travel around with a broad and not worry as I get older because at least we'll respect each other.
>Women are a resource to be accessed.
Women made it that way, they put a price on sexual access.
Many men can't afford that price, these are the MGTOW, incels, misogynists, etc. that you complain about so much.
If you didn't want them to exist, all you had to do was fuck them. If females were distributed to males in a 1:1 ratio, there would be no problem.
A man can think he's superior to you and love you at the same time.
>Communist weeaboo spergs out about how he's so smart and misunderstood
How unheard of!
If anybody wants to know the kind of raging autism and sociopathy it takes to create somebody who identifies as an "incel," read the Supreme Manifesto of the Supreme Gentleman. Anybody who acts like this is a hopeless sperg who's largest obstacle to success is themselves.
>You probably haven't thought of this, but being old with no kids probably means any family that cares about you is dead, you'll be all alone, and dying.
I see you speak from experience.
Every single man I've ever met has thought the way this dumbass positing thinks right now, some in more vitriolic words and some less covert. My father, all of my male "friends", the one man I've dated - they all think women are inferior and barely human, made only to serve them. The only time they don't hate a woman or think she is worthless is when she is fucking them. I believe this is just a male nature, and women get the shit end of the stick. Men think women 'have their uses' which include sex and making/raising babies. And that's it. You can't expect a man to actually care about you, or love you, or see you as anything but a maid/sex slave combo. My father once said the ideal woman is one who is hot and can't speak english - can't communicate. That is what men think of women. The man who raped me saw me as an object to use and abuse and I guarantee you he has NEVER thought twice about that moment. He didn't abuse a human being - he didn't traumatize another soul because he men don't see women as human. They just don't. And there's nothing we can do to make them see us differently.
And not one man I've ever seen has refuted this. I've not met one man who sees women as his equals, who cares what they have to say, or wants to hear about their ideas, their art, anything. They make a show of pretending to care, in order to get the one thing they want: sex. I think deep down all women know how men truly think of them, but some of us try to compartmentalize it so that we can continue to have healthy friendships and relationships with them and pretend that they see us as equals.
Unfortunately, or fortunately as I look at it, I no longer can pretend. Men hate women, it just is what it is. We can complain and be sad about it all day but it won't change. You just have to accept it and move on. Either avoid men at all costs, like I do, or take the less extreme route and just pretend that it isn't the way it is in order to have a marriage, or children, or a friendship with a man.
Men don't feel love. No matter how many times you come in here and regurgitate this 'benevolent sexism' meme it's not going to convince anyone. Go your own way, my dude.
I'm a lesbian and I have to admit seeing some of the shit posted in this thread makes me pretty relieved. I feel really sorry for straight girls that have to deal with the possibility that any guy they meet could despise women. Still, I don't think political lesbianism is the answer. Maybe I'm delusional but I still believe there are some decent guys left in the world.
Also pls stop replying to the baiting incel everyone.
>A man can think he's superior to you and love you at the same time.
holy fuck mang what is that logic
Men see loving a woman as being the same thing as loving your dog. Except men care about even their dogs more than they do about women.
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>complains about women not being logical
>follows up with MUH MORALS
And before you flip a bitch, by 'men don't feel love', I mean that men don't feel love for women. Because they don't.
Obviously men love their children, friends, family members, exc.
Yeah, I just have zero affection for men as a whole anymore so I wish I could be with a woman instead. No doubt being gay isn't all fun and games either but god damn at least there's a CHANCE of finding a partner who thinks of you as an equal.
>Women are coddled by society and get everything they need for free
where's the proof buddy?
>The large majority of the homeless are men
As a woman who was homeless before, I can tell you, from experience NO ONE will give you anything for free, I got into a shelter after contacting police because I was trying to escape an abusive situation, where's my "female privilege that gets me everything for free" did I get that privilege by going days without meals and eating fucking costco samples for breakfast lunch and dinner? right
> and the large majority of crime is committed by men, because no one gives men anything for free
well besides condoms, medicine, and the fact men at the shelter got food stamps, health care, and jobs much easier than I did, guess that means they should all commit crime then!! despite most of the crime they commit being murder and molestation, but it's only because they don't get free shit and men are oppressed
>Explain why. Also I primarily jack off to 2D drawings.
Oh, we know. This is why women worthwhile don't want you
>Actually I do, over 50% of marriages end in divorce in America, and the vast majority of the time the woman wins in the divorce.
where did I say divorce doesn't happen? and where are your statistics and source that "WOMEN GET EVERYTHING!!!!!" in a divorce?
>Yes, it's sad that things have to come to this
>avoid women because of incel myths instead of actually getting out and learning
>by a cheap thai hoe and get STDs because no one wants you
>call it sad "we came to this"
>but many men in the western world can't compete with other men for suitable women
are you talking about the mentally ill POSs like you? then damn right you aren't suitable for ANY woman, unless she's as crazy and holds the same delusions against men and hates men as much as you hate women.
> instead of competing for the leftovers
LMFAO you do realize how many of the "pure virgin girls" you idolize hold feminist beliefs? do you realize how many thai hookers hold feminist beliefs? Do you have any idea how many woman that you would probably consider ideal have feminist beliefs? If some greasy fuck would rather fuck an std infested thai hoe than have a meaningful relationship due to their own delusion then be my guest, go be thai womens problem, not ours
>If feminists didn't want these guys to exist, all they needed to do was fuck them
wait… one second we should all be virgins next minute we need to fuck mentally ill shooters on demand so they don't kill people? Do you hear yourself?
Love that you're implying that all it takes for men to turn into raging hatefilled twats is just from not getting laid. Truly the logical and unemotional gender. Not reactionary whatsoever. You continue to refute your own points.
so MGTOW, incels, and misogynists are just men that are throwing a fit because women won't fuck them and give them exactly what they want when they want it? kind of like….children, would you say?
and yet women are the childish ones eh….
>As a woman who was homeless before…
Well, anon, women tend to go for prostitution instead of complete homelessness. And I'm so glad benevolent men love us enough to give us money to survive in exchange for something as small and unimportant as access to our bodies. I am so very, very thankful that men will give me money for free (because fucking my holes is their god-given right so the fact that they even give me money is already a sign of how much they love and want to protect me).
Men are angelic beings, I have no idea what feminists are complaining about.
>because fucking my holes is their god-given right
Men are a non-stop comedy show. Funny to watch something so pathetic and full of itself run around screaming incessantly how superior it is to all beings around it.
If you were so intelligent and superior, you would just be. Wouldn't have to constantly bitch and moan about it.
>Well, anon, women tend to go for prostitution instead of complete homelessness.
I actually never went into prostitution though, I'm still a virgin, I try to avoid men
I get what you mean though, it's even more ridiculous when these same men talk about how much they value virginity and humble women
Men don't love women as human beings, only tolerate them as pets meant for fucking
dying alone > with a man who doesn't think of you as anything more than a commodity. seriously, if all men secretly hate women like this, whats the point?
…not even that anon but it's obviously a woman making fun of him.
There isn't one. They want to pretend that they 'love' women so that they can still get sex out of them. As seen by the amount of men that come into this thread to vomit their bullshit and try to say that "men don't hate women", they really don't like it when some of the potential 'holes' they can fuck in the world see the truth and decide not to bother.
>despite most of the crime they commit being murder and molestation
This is a very small portion of crime committed.
Also rape happens because men can't afford sex, so they have to steal it. If they had money, women would just have sex with them voluntarily.
>wait… one second we should all be virgins next minute we need to fuck mentally ill shooters on demand so they don't kill people? Do you hear yourself?
Ideally I want to live in a society where everyone gets married in their young teenage years, and adultery is harshly punished by law.
I don't live in that society though, I live in a society where 80% of women go around fucking the top 20% of guys. If they're going to do that, then yes they should fuck the bottom 80% of guys, because otherwise they're going to turn into exactly what you complain about so much, or murderers, rapists, or suicide statistics.
Their numbers may grow so much that it begins to have serious real-life effects on society.
If every guy was able to have sex, there would be zero vocal movement against women from men, no MGTOW, no incel, etc.
You can't stop them from thinking """misogynistic""" thoughts, but none of them would care enough or be bothered to voice them.
You could've just got a boyfriend/husband instead of selling yourself to multiple customers.
Every single female had the chance to become a housewife, I will admit though, if you're already STD-ridden, single mother, past 30, drug addicted and severely crazy, maybe you threw away your chance.
Why do you hate this idea so much? If I was a woman I would very gladly be a housewife.
I will never try to be transgender, but if I was given the choice of gender at birth, I would have chosen female, because that would be like living life on super easy mode. (Although, I would be given a stupid female brain, and probably not be able to realize this)
>This is a very small portion of crime committed.
yeah, no, it's most of the crime committed by men try again
>Also rape happens because men can't afford sex, so they have to steal it.
erm… what? wasn't it you that said women should be virgins? should we be virgins or should we let a bunch of greasy weirdos fuck us on demand or else we get raped? make up your mind
also most rapes are committed by rich men, so try the fuck again honey, it's not about "being able to afford it"
>if men were automatically given what they want they wouldn't create movements centered around them complaining and throwing fits because they can't get what they want
Like children. Thanks for admitting it. The whole 'women are children' shit is actually just projection, like most of men's problems with women.
>You could've just got a boyfriend/husband instead of selling yourself to multiple customers.
>sell your body to one man rather than many
Ah yes, that's a lot better.
Where the fuck are the mods
>Ideally I want to live in a society where everyone gets married in their young teenage years, and adultery is harshly punished by law.
then get a time machine and go back to victorian times, oh wait back in victorian times you had to buy women and you hate the idea of having to have money to get sex because that makes men kill people apparently
>I live in a society where 80% of women go around fucking the top 20% of guys.
yeah, in fantasyland, most girls standards are very low, if this was true ugly pieces of shit wouldn't get laid, hell the amazing fucking atheist even gets his dick sucked a lot
> If they're going to do that, then yes they should fuck the bottom 80% of guys
they are. you're just in the bottom 5% that women run away from because you're mentally ill and a troll, hell even june fucks skeptic and he's a misogynist shit bag,I wonder how low you have to be to not get fucked by women
> because otherwise they're going to turn into exactly what you complain about so much, or murderers, rapists, or suicide statistics.
because they run on incel myths and don't have sex and then go insane because of it we should sleep with randos so they don't rape and murder? you do realize most murders are men killing other men right? nothing to do with "NOT GIVING ME MY SEX!!!! I'LL KILL YOU!!!!"
did your mommy spoil you growing up?
>If every guy was able to have sex, there would be zero vocal movement against women from men, no MGTOW, no incel, etc.
what unless you get your dick cut off you can have sex, even low lifes have sex, trailer park guys have sex, these men are mentally ill and run on delusion and expect women to flock to them and go crazy when they don't
>Every single female had the chance to become a housewife, I will admit though, if you're already STD-ridden, single mother, past 30, drug addicted and severely crazy, maybe you threw away your chance.
>become a housewife
>don't be a whore
>have sex with men on demand or there will be rape
>Why do you hate this idea so much? If I was a woman I would very gladly be a housewife.
she doesn't she hates the idea of working hard for a crazy contradicting abusive shitbag
>I would have chosen female, because that would be like living life on super easy mode. (Although, I would be given a stupid female brain, and probably not be able to realize this)
proven wrong, proven wrong, NEXT
What a blatant lie. Aren't a lot of MGTOW types men who have been cheated on, went through a bad divorce, or otherwise had bad (at least in their point of view) experienced with women they've been in relationships with and therefore fucked? These movements have very little to do with "men can't get any sex", it's that they can't get women who are perfectly compliant and willing to be their lifelong sexual toys to be thrown away when deemed undesirable.
As a virgin as well I wouldn't go near any of these nasty little tradcon/virginity fetishists either. I loathe them with a passion.
>yeah, no, it's most of the crime committed by men try again
Murder and molestation is extremely rare compared to theft, drug violations, probation/court violations, DUIs and traffic violations, etc.
You're pretty retarded to be arguing this. Murder makes up like 1% of all crime committed.
>also most rapes are committed by rich men,
Absolutely not. If you watch TV I could see how you think this.
>they are. you're just in the bottom 5% that women run away from because you're mentally ill and a troll, hell even june fucks skeptic and he's a misogynist shit bag,I wonder how low you have to be to not get fucked by women
>even low lifes have sex, trailer park guys have sex
You should have brought up how Chris-chan got laid.
Yes, sometimes anomalies happen, what your bringing up always pisses off incels.
Inceldom is almost like a supernatural curse, where no matter what you do, women won't fuck you. It's so frustrating and mentally painful that yes, it can lead to going full ER.
>you do realize most murders are men killing other men right? nothing to do with "NOT GIVING ME MY SEX!!!! I'LL KILL YOU!!!!"
Yes, the large majority of murders are men killing other men over business matters.
Business that these men are in to get money, and the #1 reason they're even trying to get money and power in the first place is because girls won't have sex with them if they don't.
Let me rephrase.
"Consistent sex without any serious risks (like divorce)".
actually a lot of mgtow types men now are the ones who see a tiny percentage of men who experienced these things and now are convinced it's every single woman outside of mail order brides
Men are insane, when women get abused, cheated on, (women get cheated on more often), broken up with, impregnated then thrown away had their money stolen by men, most of them don't form movements to call all men gross disgusting cheaters gold diggers and demand them all be breadwinning husbands but also fuck us on demand
>It's so frustrating and mentally painful that yes, it can lead to going full ER.
Not very logical of them. Very emotional, in fact.
>Murder and molestation is extremely rare compared to theft, drug violations, probation/court violations, DUIs and traffic violations, etc.
>You're pretty retarded to be arguing this. Murder makes up like 1% of all crime committed.
where's proof? and where's proof for every other claim you made as well?
>Absolutely not. If you watch TV I could see how you think this.
Honey, fuck tv, are you forgetting hollywood is pretty much the rape capital? where all the rich men live? are you forgetting all the rich celebs who have had their assault or rape accusations come out recently? are you forgetting the fact a lot of women are assaulted by men who are in charge of them a lot of the times rich men? you're blind
>You should have brought up how Chris-chan got laid.
poor families have more kids for a reason, I don't need to explain to you how birds and bees work by why would poor people have more kids if women only fuck rich dudes? hm?
>Business that these men are in to get money, and the #1 reason they're even trying to get money and power in the first place is because girls won't have sex with them if they don't.
lol what did you look into every male on male murder now and you have to make everything womens fault? I can't imagine being as pathetic as you, but thanks for being a perfect example of the type of men this thread is about and only proving our point about men.
you are a big baby, mommy spoilt you as a child, and now you're throwing a snot fit because women wont fuck you on demand and now have to lie and make up shit
Men seem to think that their emotions are biological needs and therefore can't be questioned or controlled, whereas women's emotions are real emotions and should be controlled.
Are you a man who wants to stick your dick in Stacy? That's natural and you can't help it. She should let you, lest the psychological trauma of not getting what you want leads you to murder someone (totally Stacy's fault btw).
Are you a woman who wants to live your own life instead of being some dude's pet? That's a retarded emotion, stop feeling things.
Oh but that's only when it's convenient to men. If they're in love and the girl doesn't reciprocate, she has no feelings whatsoever and is in fact a cold, calculating bitch.
>had their money stolen by men
Almost never happens. Over 90% of the time the women wins the divorce, gets custody+money.
Logically I can't blame them for it though. Makes sense, they've been wronged by this society, and are rightfully angry at it.
God killed everyone in Sodom & Gomorrah for less, he must be disgusted by what modern western society has become, primarily because we allowed women to do whatever they want.
God hates thots and burnt down Sodom & Gomorrah for it, almost every man is instilled with the same feelings that God had, nothing illogical about it.
> are you forgetting hollywood is pretty much the rape capital? where all the rich men live? are you forgetting all the rich celebs who have had their assault or rape accusations come out recently? are you forgetting the fact a lot of women are assaulted by men who are in charge of them a lot of the times rich men?
That was exactly my point, if you watch TV, or follow mainstream media, I could see how you think what you think.
Your mind is easily shaped by TV and mainstream media. You think the majority of rape is committed by rich men, because of the recent string of highly-publicized sex scandals featuring high-profile men.
If you didn't hate men before, this thread and the men who have posted in it will really seal the deal for ya. Men truly can't ever let women commiserate about misogyny without busting down the door like the fucking kool-aid man armed with - you guessed it - even MORE misogyny that nobody asked for.
To the current male: fuck off already. You have a very high IQ or whatever bullshit you made up to feel better about yourself on the internet, don't you have something more important to do with it? I'm very sorry that the womz won't fuck you and stroke your ego and you're sad. It's going to be okay, baby.
Then you shouldn't have marriage. Or you could just call it "slavery" instead, that would be a more apt name, if the woman is not allowed to leave under any circumstances, lest the poor man go apeshit and murder everyone. Women should probably all be lobotomized and sold on a market as sex toys, so they can't do annoying things like complain anymore.
>overly emotional
>cold and calculating
>at the same time
Schrödinger's woman.
>Logically I can't blame them for it though. Makes sense, they've been wronged by this society, and are rightfully angry at it.
There is nothing logical about it. They haven't been wronged by society, they're entitled (like they accuse women of being) and grow up to realize that the world owes none of us anything. Tough shit. If you kill people who you've never met because you feel like you're a victim, you are weak. You aren't thinking logically. And you're pathetic. But, leave it to men to make excuses for other men. Need I remind you, Elliott killed other men mostly. What's logical about that?
>christfag who interprets the bible as literal history telling anyone else that they're easily influenced
It's actually pretty convenient that such a hilarious cliche of an incel decided to come join us, he obviously doesn't have a unique thought in his head and is just parroting shit we've read a million times before so it's a great example of everything we've been saying.
>> my iq is over 9000!!!
>> belives in jebus
Just… lol
A lot of the bible contains historically accurate facts that not even Atheist historians deny. For example Babylon was a real city, Jerusalem was a real city (obviously), King Solomon was a real king, Pontius Pilate was a real Roman prefect of Judea, etc.
Sodom & Gomorrah was a real city, and it's ruins still exist today, along with the brimstone that was rained down onto it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2xv3XwOVaQ
It's the only thing stopping me from going full ER on you cunts too.
>Almost never happens. Over 90% of the time the women wins the divorce, gets custody+money.
So much talking, so little explaining and proof, what's even more ironic is I knew several women that had their money stolen by men, more women I knew had their money stole by men than I've seen men get their money taken or golddug. Just look in the thread, several people talk about how some men will freeload then have the audacity to call women gold diggers for asking to help pay bills for the place they live.
>they've been wronged by this society, and are rightfully angry at it.
awe poor bawby didnt get what you want, you must be so oppressed
>using scripture made by prude nutcases to justify men killing and raping women when they can't get their dick wet and assuming it's a wideheld belief
>kek
>That was exactly my point, if you watch TV, or follow mainstream media, I could see how you think what you think.
they don't appear out of thin air, if your logic was true none of these rapes would have happened and yet they do, millions of guys in high position have raped or molested, where's their "STACIES WHO WILL HAVE SEX WITH THEM BECAUSE MONEY SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO RAPE"
and plenty of poor men haven't raped, it's almost as if mental stability has nothing to do with money, you sound like you were spoiled as a child so you wouldn't know
Maybe if you pray hard enough jebus will gib pussy?
>the only thing stopping me from going full ER on you cunts too.
woah, someone's triggered
go back to your r/incels hatebox
>muh iq is over 9k
>misinterprets what the anon said
no one is saying these cities and people didn't exist, dumbass, they're saying all the magical fairy tails of jesus killing everyone because he hates thots is ridiculous and most likely didn't happen (not the killing but the whole "god hates thots" reasoning)
if the only thing stopping you from killing everyone because of a delusion is a book of fairytails then you need to go to a mental institution
Ooh you seem to be getting a little emotional and dare I say hysterical at the end there. You ok man? Can I offer you a flesh light, or a body pillow? Seems like it would solve all of your VERY important problems, such as not getting any pussy, which is definitely everybody else’s fault and not yours.
Yikes, this guy might be the dumbest sperg yet.
Not a chance. God made all kinds of bad stuff, and allows it to happen.
If I got cancer or some horrible disease I wouldn't curse God, there's literally nothing that could happen to me that would make me not believe in God. Only stupid children ask dumb shit like "If God exists why does bad stuff happen?"
There's multiple accounts of God killing everyone in the old testament, reasons including what people today might call "thots".
Too much degeneracy in general, and it probably wasn't even as bad as it is today in countries like America.
I'm not emotional about it. Not gonna lie though, trying to figure out how to get sex and children from women is THE biggest problem I have in life. Their behavior disgusts me.
>It's the only thing stopping me from going full ER on you cunts too.
Can somebody call his mom home from work so she can take away his internet access and put the little manbaby to bed?
Maybe she'll let you suck on her teet before she slowly rocks you to sleep if you're lucky, you seem a little too cranky there bud.
God doesnt want you to get laid, go sperg on him
again, mr.9kIQ, no one is saying these things didn't happen, they're saying slapping the label "BECAUSE OF THOTS!!!" is dumb and mentally ill because there's no proof it was "for thots" it's just accusations, just like how if the weather is shit over where you live or some natural disaster happens, me and a bunch of other people and gang up and just claim it's because you're a mentally ill dumbass who runs on delusions
>Too much degeneracy in general, and it probably wasn't even as bad as it is today in countries like America.
then where's our flood? oh? it's almost as if natural disasters just happen whether things go your way or not?
>I'm not emotional about it. Not gonna lie though, trying to figure out how to get sex and children from women is THE biggest problem I have in life. Their behavior disgusts me.
> trying to figure out how to get sex and children from women is THE biggest problem I have in life. Their behavior disgusts me.
Oh really? I wonder why, couldn't have anything to do with you being mentally ill faggot who hates women out of delusion and can't even make up their damn mind all while being the worlds biggest hypocrite
I’m gonna take a stab here and guess that you will never get anything from women. And thank your beloved god that.
It’s for the best. I mean, there’s always a chance your children would be female. And then they would be fucked.
Because disgust isn't an emotion.
>then where's our flood? oh? it's almost as if natural disasters just happen whether things go your way or not?
God obviously just wanted to see how bad things could get
I will get everything I want from a woman once I have enough money. That's all they care about.
>Maybe she'll let you suck on her teet before she slowly rocks you to sleep if you're lucky, you seem a little too cranky there bud.
Is this some Freudian slip? Let me suck on them tits mommy.
>God obviously just wanted to see how bad things could get
Why do you worship God if he's such a fucking asshole then? Sounds like he's just having fun fucking with us rather than some divine purpose for our souls, by your description.
awe the spoilt baby had to make more shit up to fit your delusions, still couldn't answer anything else though hmm
>I will get everything I want from a woman once I have enough money. That's all they care about.
yeah then you're going to hit the wall and be pissed when you can't get women and use the money to get an AK when you realize that women don't hate because you're poor we hate you because you're a mentally ill dumbass who has delusions like so
I can hatefuck you… with a giant spiked dildo
>Let me suck on them tits mommy.
Kek. Mommy issues confirmed.
God can do whatever he wants, his anger is pretty understandable.
>awe the spoilt baby had to make more shit up to fit your delusions, still couldn't answer anything else though hmm
He just simply decided to stop interfering.
>we hate you because you're a mentally ill dumbass
Women would love me if I had money.
If you hate women so much why dont you just leave? Its not like we care about anything you have to say, despite your 9000 point iq, we are probably too dumb to comprehend your amazing logic anyway
every time someone bites this bait my cancer accelerates
Some of them really are this dumb, how can you be sure its bait?
As I said, making up shit again
>Women would love me if I had money.
Yeah maybe some sugar babies who are willing to put up with your shit to go through college, but you'll never find real or meaningful love, especially after the shit you spew and the fact you run on things that are easily proven wrong as well as flat out hating women, and not knowing what you want so you take it out on the female gender and blame women for everything, not that you deserve it anyway
All of them*
He doesn’t want real or meaningful love with a woman, he just wants sex. He couldn’t have it even if he wanted it, since he despises women so much. He would only be able to achieve real or meaningful love with another man.
And honestly, I wouldn’t wish five seconds with this limp dick on another woman. Sugar babies still have standards and they would probably exclude him, thankfully.
I love how his thread was created 13 days ago and already it's at ~800 replies. Sad reality
I think it's because we don't usually get the opportunity for collective misandry, everyone's bursting with things to say. The rest of the internet is filled with boards, forums, subreddits etc used exclusively for women hating, but typically my man hating has been restricted to a few comments here or there rather than in a specific location for it.
Between this thread and the porn thread, I’m convinced to be done with men. What’s the point with trying to force relationships and friendships with someone who despises you and would jump at the first opportunity to see you abused and treated like shit, if not by then then by another man?
It’s pretty sad because unfortunately I’m not physically attracted to women. But I guess if the choice is “alone forever and living in peace” and “living with someone who fucking hates everything that you are”, the better choice is clear. There’s no point in men tbh.
I am so glad lolcow exists. I love you all.
I'm seriously so disgusted by men. #MeToo completely showed how entitled, weak and fragile they actually are. Like little babies.
>Ahem, _I_ Was ONCE molested by a WOMAN! She grabbed my ass on the dance floor!
>… And I didn't make a huge scene about it because I didn't care, haha!
Completely ignoring the fact that women face this ALL THE TIME, outside of the dance floor, on the street, at work, at school, everywhere. And men are always physically stronger and bigger than women so you know you can't defend yourself. Men can always overpower a woman. I'm so sick of always having to add "(and men)" after I'm talking about the sexual harassment WOMEN face because of dumbasses like this making the issue about themselves.
>What, so now you can't even _TALK_ to women without being seen as a pervert?
God, any sane person can tell the difference between sexual harassment and normal discussion. You don't have to pretend to be fucking retarded. She didn't ask your opinion on her tits, looks or private matters? Well don't give it to her then. If you're not close friends, stop telling her how beautiful she is. It's fucking creepy and not flattering at all. It gives off a vibe that you're poon hunting and demeaning her other more substantial qualities. Especially in a professional environment this is fucking gross and it's the reason I stopped dressing myself up for work.
>_I_ Would LOVE to hear women tell me I'm handsome! Nothing just ever pleases you roasties!
See point 1
>It's just encoded to biology! We men can't help ourselves!
And that's why you're the inferior gender. Completely being controlled by your hormones and literally zero power over your feelings.
Serious problems women face in their relationships:
>My husband/boyfriend abuses me physically and aggressively pressures me for sex, every time he hits me it's harder than the last time and I'm afraid he's going to kill me if I try to leave
Serious problems men face in their relationships:
>I don't get sex!!!!
"Male feminists" are the worst of the bunch. They're covering up their own sexism by being loud, obnoxious pseudoactivists who really don't give a shit about women. At least the robots are openly misogynistic and despicable, but the liberal male feminists always have a record spotted with cases of sexual harassment and sexist comments.
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still browsing the thread, but i just thought of something. can we talk about guys expecting women to do all the emotional work to make the relationship function in hetero relationships?
case in point, my current dude. he's kind of the quiet type but sometimes he just straight up ignores me and puts no effort into conversing with me. anything i send him or say to him just gets a one word response. when i bring up how this bothers me, he says he doesn't know what to do, that he's just like that, and that we talk all the time. last week, i was really busy with finals and i didn't talk to him very much. he made no effort to speak to me and i was too busy to care. and this guy has the absolute nerve. to be like, "hey we haven't been talking as much". like… ? you have the audacity talk to me and say we haven't been talking as much while making no effort to speak with me. i don't understand.
I'm pretty sure someone will try calling me out, but neither my dad nor my husband hate women. These men are out there, and they're not the "nice guys" who whine about women not paying attention to them. Find someone who is secure in himself without having to put others down. Because we all know what that insecurity stems from: entitlement, imagined privilege and genuinely being the weaker sex, as >>216514 stated. They hate us so much because they give us so much power over them. If they weren't intimidated they wouldn't need to try holding us back artificially.
My boyfriend does this too, and at worst times, if you look in the vent thread several women talk about how their boyfriends randomly ghost them
It just makes no sense to me how entitled someone can be, do they even want to be with us? If I ever even did this to someone I'd be scared of losing them, I can understand not wanting to get into in dept conversations every single day at all times but it seems like we have to put in effort for EVERYTHING. Do we not deserve to feel loved?
God, I wish we can just dump men who want to be a little prick and ghost us at bad times, but unlike men, we actually value relationships and are loyal, and aren't willing to dump a man over any small flaw
you get it completely. i don't understand. it hurts me so much especially when i talk about something that's bothering me or hurting me, and he just responds with a :( or sends me a cat picture. how could i ever get the impression that he cares about me? i think he used to care, but as soon as i started dating him for real, he just stopped giving a shit. he doesn't watch things with me anymore, or play videogames with me anymore. and when i spend hella money to go visit him (he lives in another country) he sits on his computer and plays videogames or looks at 4chan and ignores me. he just doesn't give a heck.
sorry for ventposting but apparently this is just a thing that happens??? is this normal?
I really want to ask the women in here the same question I faced a while ago:
What do you think a world without men would be like?
Would you be afraid of walking in the streets in the dark?
Would you have to think about what to wear to not provoke unwanted attention?
Would you have to constantly prove your proficiency?
Would you have to be on the defense all the time?
Would there be a chance you would be drugged and raped at a party or at a bar?
Really made me think how much violence men bring in the world, even towards other men.
My ex would do the same, and if I didn't talk to him for a day he demanded an apology.
This is slightly different but something I've noticed men do, they can go completely insane with anger to the point of scaring you and it's seen as normal, my ex would do that a lot but if I even showed a bit of emotion I was "crazy" and "unstable" after that relationship I am avoiding men for a long, long time.
>and he just responds with a :( or sends me a cat picture
When men do that it's because they don't think what you're complaining matters that much so they're unphased or mildly annoyed by it. These types are either huge jerks or just extremely emotionally dense.
>I am more intelligent than literally 100% of women on the planet right now.
Even if this wasnt bait, is this really worth getting butthurt over?
>they don't think what you're complaining matters that much so they're unphased or mildly annoyed by it.
That's a pretty big assumption. Maybe it's valid in her case since he no longer spends time with her, but I would say it's generally more because they don't know what to say and fail to communicate that.
It wouldn't be half that if men didn't come here trying to defend themselves. I think a lot of anons were "well, I don't hate ALL men…" but the dumb shits decided it would be a good idea to further emphasize our us vs them mentality by coming here and proving the AMALT anons right.
Men are so stupid it hurts
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Yikes, the autistic boyfriend story rings true so profoundly for my autistic ex.
The cringe/horror stories I could share about him…
Let's just say I wouldn't hesitste putting a restraining order or call the police on him if he dares comes to my house ever again.
Be wary of guys who run meme Facebook pages like my ex. They'll feel like and become ego-inflated pieces of shit who will most likely cheat on you with starry-eyed fangirls who gave him some adrenaline dose of narcissistic importance.
The saddest part is that he pretty much dumped me over three times too and when you're in a complete stolkholm syndrome type of scenario, you find it really hard to forgive abusive, pieces of shit men. " B-but he's a good person!!! Look at how good he is with his friends!! uwu youre a terrible slutty bitch who cheated on him! "
Guess who shared revenge porn of me and to my loved ones? Some guy who when I was single, sent him nudes because I was some idiot who trusted in mens honest intentions. He was livid when he found out I was dating my ex again and mass-sent revenge porn/nudes to my ex and to everybody in our local weeb community. It was a really messy situation where I had to go off the radar for a few months.
Also my ex blamed his "autism" for his anger issues and treating me like shit. He constantly verbally abused me, gaslit me, belittled me, compared me to other women and pretty much the shit AS is doing to June.
I was pretty much an insecure, extremely mentally ill mess and have to go to therapy now because of the terrible five year shitshow of how much I tolerated my ex and tried my best to stay with him. The moment he found out the other guy had nudes of me, he called me a cheating vile whore despite me being single at that time…? He easily believed in that other guy who sent the nudes and literally spread lies about how I was fucking and sucking a bunch of guys. He even left a bruise on my arm which he claimed it was an "accident". He lies about having autism to get welfare.
It was for the best that incident broke me free from the relationship seeing how toxic it was, but I'm so fucking paranoid and damaged now. I'm dating someone lovely now and pray to god I chose someone who isn't abusive or will show his true colors later on. I'm scared. I'm looking at so many articles on the red flags but I can't trust myself. Mind you I spent like a good six months recovering from that incident. I know it's partially my own responsibility for choosing shit men, but it doesn't help that I grew up in a traditional family that made me super sheltered and have no "street smarts" or a better lie detector. I'm trying my best to not be some doormat. I do get genuinely scared at times though, because I just can't seem to learn from my mistakes. :(
I feel sorry for you anon, I hope you‘re therapy goes well since I also have to go in therapy because of my ex for causing me a fucking emotional trauma. That‘s a really good thing to say that you should all stay far away from such guys.
My ex dates a 16 year old girl now who looks like me and he is over 20, that‘s so fucked up. It‘s just so disgustingly creepy.
Also when he said to me I have to go to see a therapist I think he should actually see one. He always got angry when I hung out with manly friends after he broke up with me and got mad at me for having a crush on a new guy finally.
He fucking guilt tripped me all the time I tried to get better and gets now mad at me for me being mad at him ???
To all girls out there if you think you can still be friends with your ex, even thought he shows clearly toxic behaviour, just drop him. It can cause you so much harm and don‘t try it even if you have less friends.
It causes so much more pain and can cause you really bad depressions.
men cant fucking read at all
>this thread is about why we hate men
>youre not welcome here
>Leave.
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Thank you anon! Yeah, hopefully our therapy goes well and we grow and recover from the shit we and many women go through when they recover from abusive relationships with men.
Honestly, this is the only time where I may even add that the normie "chad" types that the r9k incels talk crap about are actually the ones who are more emotionally invested and respect you more.
The guy I'm dating now is a weeb, but he's like a huge and soft teddybear who is so sweet and considerate to me. He is the complete opposite of what my ex is, except his taste in games and hobbies is so much better. And not only that, but he also sees me as a human being and not as a living cocksleeve!
Don't lose hope girls, admidst the shitty amount of MRA r9k incels you'll find a sweet guy, just avoid most 4chan guys. I met him through college, I'm not one to give advice on where to find men who genuinely respect women though. It's hard lol.
To whoever created this thread, thank you!! I have always been afraid of accidentally dating those r9k incels/red pillers/'mah iq is over 9000' dudes. Therefore, as my only male friend has told me, I came off as a cold/unapproachable person. I have always been afraid of being emotionally invested in a dude only to realize that he thinks of me so low. This thread really helped me realize that I am not alone.
It's a pretty common concern among non-self hating women. My IRL friends have this issue too. Once you know how, it's not hard to avoid the low-tier men and end up with a quality one. I did so with little effort. It's all about never ignoring the red flags, whether they're subtle or overt.
So, this was just posted to the vent thread:
Followed by another post where he was complaining about how men do so much for women.
God, what I wouldn't give to be a dictator so that I could have degenerates like this publicly executed.
He's just going around shitposting all across the site. Mods will ban him soon, but in the meantime I wish people wouldn't reply to the most obvious bait.
The amount of /r9k/fags showing up lately has been irritating but guys can't stand the thought of any space existing without them so it's not really surprising.
How to avoid incel tier men
>make more money than them (which isn't hard since even your shitty hotel receptionist job is already making more money since a lot are unemployed) and the fact now mgtows are saying women with jobs are gold diggers and always looking to fuck their boss kek
>invest in the future, show them you want to be something bigger, start a business, get educated, if they see this they'll think you're a gold digger and feel like their precious dick isn't good enough for a woman who actually has their shit together because they only want to fuck insecure self conscious neets to expose their nudes with
>actually put effort into your looks. Make your hair pretty, wear makeup, work out, eat healthy, shower, wear perfume, dress nice, etc. This will make them think you're a high maintenance gold digger and they'll avoid you
>have self worth, if its one thing incels hate its to see women who have self worth, then there won't be a chance to manipulate them into an abusive relationship
>learn skills such as music, cooking, handiness, sewing, writing. Since incels are skilless lazy neets, they will feel inferior to a woman that actually knows more than them
>enjoy sex/masturbate, incels believe the second a woman sticks her finger in her own pussy she's a loose roastie whore and unworthy of them and they don't want to be sloppy seconds
>don't allow them to cheat and do drugs or be a misogynist, they hate being controlled, if you tell them you think its gross to go on 4chin and tell Stacy if her tits are good enough or not or see them making posts about how all women are going to steal their sperm and take their money, their true colors are sure to show, you might get labeled as a roastie whos unstable, but you'll see the incel for who he is and leave him
>get an apartment or house of your own, furnish it, make it nice and clean, look at interior designing guides, find an aesthetic and follow it,while some incels refuse to date any woman who doesn't live with her parents,the ones who are willing to date will often look to freeload and call you a gold digger when you ask to help pay for the place they live. If they don't already leave you out of jealousy your place is nice and not a greasy pizza stained bachelor pad, then his true colors are willing to show,and leave his ass
reminder r/incels got shut down lol
Anyone else wear a [fake] wedding ring just to keep men away?
It works wonderfully IMO.
Agreed with all points. This is all good advice for all aspects of life tbh. Always take care of yourself, always strive to be better and accomplish more. Repelling incels is just an added bonus.
>unironically compares professional video games to basic life skills
This made me involuntarily go "wooaaah!" out loud it was so memey, good work on the accidental satire.
Please help me, this strange man… I don't know who he is but he's telling me that Capitalism has tricked me into pursuing academia.
He's telling me that deep in my heart, as a woman, that I don't desire the right to vote, own property, drive a car and forge a successful career…
He's… he's telling me that instead I'd be happier at home serving him in all domestic duties, procreating against my will and dying nameless and forgotten whilst men go on achieving greats in the world and have their names put down in history!
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANYMORE OH GOD
I… I CAN FEEL MY LATENT WOMANHOOD EMERGING ONCE MORE!
GI… GIVE ME YOUR SOCKS I'LL IRON AND PRESS THEM FOR YOU, SWEETIE.. No! I, I… must FIGHT IT!
CERAZETTE… BEING METABOLISED… OUT OF SYSTEM!
UTERUS… PREPARING….FOR INSEMINATION 2 PLUS 2 IS 5 OH GOD WHO'S READY FOR BRUNCH I MADE CHERRY PIIIIIIIIE
Not even incel-avoiding-wise, this is good advice all around to avoid all sorts of shit men and have a nice, happy, scumbag-free life.
>a lot of this stuff isn't based on skill
>cooking, writing, sewing, music
>not skill-based
>mashing a few buttons and spending enough time mashing said buttons to know the meta-game
>actually skill-based
I think you mean that we can't outskill men in a way that they'd be able to understand they were outskilled. Most incels/robots have their tastebuds used to doritos and mountain dew and are thus unable to recognize good cooking, haven't read anything longer than a reddit or blog post and are thus unable to recognize good writing… and so on and so forth. lol
>As a Misogynist, or a generally women disliking male
>In my mind, women are inherently worth more than men
u wot m8
>what is the point of working when beta hordes line up to provide for you?
seriously, what is this meme? what world do you live in where men just throw money at their female friends?
>that spiel about how men have feelings too and you're clingy from never having any power but its really easy for men to have casual sex and doesnt have any negative effect on them
so contradictory it reads like something a spambot output after being fed r/redpill posts
>In order to date a girl, I require no social media, no makeup, little to no social interaction.
hahahaah, I love how you think this will get you a "traditional girl" (spoilers: make-up and socialising are traditionally female) and not an actually autistic woman or something, although maybe that'd be a good match
Bums me out that in most of the professional fields of the skills you've listed, men dominate and are the top earners, generally. I think the exception might be sewing, but there's probably a 3:2 ratio of exalted male fashion designers to women (strangely, I can't think of any major costume or set people that are dudes, though).
We can't even commodify our stereotypical skill sets and are expected to perform them for free.
Not him, but cooking, writing, sewing, and music all take skill (And they are dominated by men, except for sewing, and maybe writing). But high cap skill games like SSBM just don't compare, the time and effort you have to put in to be tournament level couldtake 2-3 years at the earliest.
MODS????
>repealing all the good men by actually making something out of yourself and not being a lazy insecure low life
>good men
>Women are obviously much less happy now that they're expected to go to college, and then work to be independent in a capitalist societ
Yeah, because making something out of yourself makes you depressed and worthless than being a housewife in an abusive relationship and forced to push out babies
you do realize most rich men want educated smart women? just because you flip burgers and want a slave housewife to impregnate constantly doesn't mean smart rich men want the same exact thing, even MELANIA TRUMP has a degree for fucks sake
>They now waste their young fertile years doing this, and all kinds of immoral things, and their natural instincts know it's wrong
Yeah, no. Just because you jerked your 2 incher to college sluts 3 or jailbait gets fucked by 4 bbcs doesn't mean the entire world is a porno
> and their natural instincts know it's wrong
whats wrong exactly? not doing exactly what you want? right
> they really don't want to be in college
are you forgetting the number of women in places like india and the middle east who fought and work their asses off so they can get an education? not only that but in ancient days as well, education was womens highest value, if women didn't want education then we would all still be knitting and making dinner in abusive relationships, if women didn't want to go to college the revolution on education wouldn't even happen
Oh and if women didn't want to work either your ass wouldn't be typing delusional shit
>they want to be having children with a man who fully provides for them.
funny you mention, when women do want that you same guys run around calling them gold digging whores, tons of women want to have a business and be independent, not everything is your fantasy sweety
>Feminism has caused women to be more depressed and mentally ill than ever before in history.
you wish, before feminist revolutions came in womens mental illnesses were higher than ever, do you think all the 1700s- 1800s style mental institutions made specifically for women and were filled with hundreds of women, before feminism started encouraging women to work and get an education, if feminism was soooo making women depressed and mentally ill more than history? try again honey
>every male """safe space""" in the last decade
>Women without men's guicidance are no better than niggers in africa without the white man.
if you publically admit to being sexist, racist and delusional, don't expect to be taken seriously
Games, internet in general, movies, series, IT jobs etc
melania actually doesnt but lets not let that sack of shit trip over that
>A woman buying her own house/apartment, and letting a man moving into _her_ place that she was paying for, is so rare I don't even know what to say about it.
thank you for proving incels are delusional, I've seen it happen more than I've seen men move into womens apartments
I'm not a guy, but since the latest ghost busters movie I noticed that we are starting to take over men's stuff without reason.
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>WHO'S READY FOR BRUNCH I MADE CHERRY PIIIIIIIIE
Oh no, it must suck that women like playing video games, that they help develop, it must suck we use the internet, that wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for men, it must suck we watch movies we make and get IT jobs
are you forgetting a lot of women help develop and invent these things? We don't make them and help make them exist just to have you whine and claim it's yours, you sound like a spoilt baby
if a group of people makes a plate of food, you don't claim it's all yours and your friends then whine and scream and act as if someone is stealing you and your friends food when one of the people who made it makes a plate for themselves, I always knew you were entitled, but not so entitled to this point
> but since the latest ghost busters movie I noticed that we are starting to take over men's stuff without reason.
don't like it? DON'T WATCH IT
the movie business isn't "mens stuff"
ghost busters, isn't "mens stuff"
men don't get anything taken away from them and they don't get stopped if women dare put themselves somewhere that men believe they dominate
Also IE stop roleplaying here you incel, or at least put effort into it
Whenever this happened the female got bored of the male pretty quickly and the relationship ended.(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)
>Whenever this happened the female got bored of the male pretty quickly and the relationship ended
HAHAHHAA holy shit, do you think anyone would believe this? you're desperately lying and making up delusions to fit your narrative, you're worse than 2015 feminists
I'd want to kill myself too if I was male, not sure how that's a pro-male image though.
either proof or gtfo, so much claims, so little examples, hmmm
just a copypasta from that one post on r/mgtow. weak b8 nigga but really just to clarify we know men hate women, period.
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HomeNews and ViewsMythbusters: What do you know about antibiotic resistance?
Mythbusters: What do you know about antibiotic resistance?
Shannon Harmon
For Antibiotic Awareness Week, we held a Twitter Chat addressing common misconceptions about antibiotics and resistance. We have curated a selection of tweets into a Storify from the 200 accounts that took part, which answer some of the questions that clinicians, researchers and the antibiotic resistance healthcare communities commonly come across.
Why should we care about antibiotic use?
When shouldn’t we take antibiotics?
Do we trust doctors too much?
When is it ok to challenge your GP?
What is reliable information?
Where can you get it?
How are sepsis and antibiotic resistance related?
How can patients educate themselves on antibiotic resistant pathogens How is farming contributing to antibiotic resistance?
Should I finish my course of antibiotics?
In intervals, we asked these questions to our panel of experts and the world of Twitter to see what we could learn and if we could clarify some of the confusion.
One of the most interesting conversations was about whether we trust doctors too much and whether it is okay to challenge your clinician if they prescribe antibiotics. The consensus seemed mixed, with some people saying we don't trust doctors enough and that we really should listen to them, while others said sometimes doctors are over-prescribing antibiotics due to time constraints or without knowing for sure if it is a bacterial or viral infection.
Questions from the peanut gallery
These, however, were not the only questions which came up. One public follower had a cold and wanted to know the difference between bacterial and viral infections - and how could he tell if he had a superbug (which he didn't thankfully). He received info in several tweets by Adam Roberts from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Caroline Purslow, here at the Longitude Prize, answering his questions and guiding him in the right direction, teaching him that not every cold needs antibiotics and he should probably ride this one out.
Lastly, of course, the question we all wanted to ask. but most were not brave enough, so I did the hard work for you: "Can I get antibiotic resistance from my cat?" Well...read our Storify to find out.
How surviving septic shock changes your life
Mary Millard
Mary is a survivor of sepsis and currently lives with a life threatening antibiotic resistant bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Here she tells her story of heart failure, being brought back to life, post-septic shock and her goal to continue educating people with her own experiences.
The human element of living with superbugs
Daniel Berman, Longitude Prize Lead
For our 3rd Anniversary and Antibiotic Awareness Week, we held an event to explore the human perspective of people who encounter superbugs in their everyday lives from patients and clinicians to innovators making diagnostics to reduce antibiotic resistance.
What does the post-antibiotic era actually mean?
Prof. Adam Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute, and Advisor to the Longitude Prize.
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00:05: I shouldn’t jinx it, but I think we’ve seen the last of that terrible alternate opening theme song.
1:00: They really need to reevaluate their teachers.
2:00: First Magic Johnson reference! Before everything went all down hill (and then later came back up to about normal).
02:30: Of course they have the class trip meeting while classes are in session.
2:50: Who’s this new fat kid Milton and what have they done with Alan???
3:30: Second Ding Dong reference!
4:30: Twenty-fourth fantasy sequence: Mr. Dickerson is a dick. Ohhhhh, that make sense.
6:30: I loved Rod Belding in the band Nelson.
6:45: Wait….Rod Belding…Dick Belding…Rod…Dick…Saved by the Bell! Inappropriate!
8:05: I just don’t trust this guy. It’s not just that I’ve seen this episode 22 times.
10:30: Remember that episode of Diff’rent Strokes with the molester who owned the bicycle store? Rod gives me that vibe.
13:45: I don’t know, Mr. Belding’s Yosemite trip sounds pretty good. More romantic, for sure.
15:00: Um, Zack, you realize on a real white water rafting trip you won’t be able to calmly put your arm around Kelly, right? You know what would be good for that? A trip to Yosemite.
16:40: You’re a creep, Mr. Belding.
17:20: The elephant in the room. If Mr. Belding knows that Rod is such a terrible teacher, why did he bring him into his school and let him teach his kids? Look in the mirror, Dick.
18:50: “It’s not just some stewardess, it’s Inga,” we still remember her name after all this time.
19:00: Oh, so Rod promised things would be different this time. Sounds like the Belding who cried wolf to me.
20:30: I think Bayside has a smaller class size than my elementary school.
20:45: Mr. Belding taking them on the white water rafting trip sounds like a really bad, dangerous idea.
21:40: TOTALLY NOT A NORMAL STUDENT-PRINCIPAL RELATIONSHIP.
21:45: And I guess the tears in our eyes indicate that doesn’t really bother us.
1:05pm, Episode 2: “Breaking Up is Hard to Undo”
02:00: That’s weird, I would have thought Jessie would be a big proponent of polygamy.
0:300: Okay, so Jessie and Slater are officially dating. But how long have they been fucking?
03:30: All guys name Todd are douches, everyone knows that. Except for former MLB player Todd Zeile.
07:15: “Mr. Belding, we think you’ve been spending an inordinate amount of time with six of your students.”
09:45: “Also, Mr. Belding, we’ve told you repeatedly to stop visiting the Max. It’s creepy.”
11:00: “Um, Mr. Belding, hi. It’s really weird that you came over to my house. To my bedroom. And now you’re sitting on my bed. This is wrong in a number of ways.”
12:25: Jessie, we know you’re prejudiced. Your forefathers were slave traders.
12:40: Oh, great, now I want pizza again.
13:35: “Um, Zack, does your principal want to stay for dinner?”
14:25: Straight up, Tiffani Thiessen looks hot right now.
16:15: No, guys, you should always take advice from a guy living in the boys locker room.
16:40: Tacos and bowling. To be honest, sounds like a weird combo. Not sure we’re into that.
16:45: Time-out!
18:45: Good thing The Max is always a dead-zone on Friday nights.
1945: Slater dancing! DRINK!
19:55: Why would teenage girls find Mario Lopez in a leotard attractive (but this just goes to show that he was a total ringer in Dancing with the Stars)?
20:15: The quickest way to win a girl’s heart: have Screech imitate them.
20:35: Mark-Paul Gosselaar sure had a limited array of poses.
1:27pm, Episode 3, “The Glee Club”
01:15: Oh, hey, Violet. Welcome back. It wasn’t weird at all that we haven’t seen you for ten episodes.
02:20: Second bowling reference in as many episodes!
02:45: “The glee club is for geeks.” NOT IN 2011, LISA! IT’S THE COOLEST!
03:30: After this episode we always thought that glee clubs were just a bunch of kids standing around signing. Now, thanks to Glee we know that glee clubs are when a bunch of kids of various ethnicities and sexual orientations spontaneously break into well-choreographed music videos.
08:20: SCOTT WOLF!
08:30: Mr. Tuttle, you’re terrible.
09:00: “Jock joke.” Why wasn’t that a hit album?
09:50: Man, Bayside is like half nerds.
10:15: Maybe the reason the glee club sucks is that Mr. Tuttle never bothered to listen to everyone sing before.
11:00: That’s okay, Violet, just stand there with your head down. It’s not weird at all.
12:20: First Candace Bergen reference!
12:44: First flashback montage!
17:10: This is totally what it must have been like for Tori Spelling growing up.
17:50: Wait, but how is Screech not frozen? This might be the most unbelievable time-out in Saved by the Bell‘s illustrious time-out history.
19:45: I wonder how nervous Scott Wolf was standing next to Tiffani Thiessen.
21:00: Wait, I thought Jessie lost her voice.
21:30: I bet Violet’s parents just despise being at The Max. No way they stuck around for a bite.
21:45: I’ll say this, Saved by the Bell does a far superior job of ending their episodes than The Larry Sanders Show.
1:52pm Episode Four, “The Last Dance.”
00:01: Fuck, We know what’s coming.
1:10: This never gets any easier. This is like reliving an execution. The execution of my heart.
02:00: Costumes aren’t expensive, Kelly. Not if you make them yourself. How about a little creativity, Kapowski?!
02:45: FUCK YOU, JEFF.
03:00: Is that “Help Wanted” sign CGI?
04:45: Is that a photo of JFK behind Mr. Belding? Visiting a third world country?
06:15: Thanks for helping Kelly out with those scuzzballs, but you’re still a jerk, Jeff.
06:45: Oh, you realize that $5 in tips is not that much, right, Kelly?
08:30: But Kelly, you got the job so you’d have enough money for the dance. Now you’re not going to the dance cause you have to work? What a classic Gift of the Magi scenario!
08:40: First appearance of Zack Attack!
10:10: I miss Max Alonzo.
10:30: You’re not a great guy, Jeff. You’re a JERK.
12:30: OH, FUCK YOU, JEFF. FUCK, FUCK YOU. You just raped my childhood.
13:45: Second Al Bundy reference!
16:15: Mario Lopez on the drums!
16:16: ZACK ATTACK!
17:20: I never understood what instrument Lisa is playing.
17:50: Going to just take a couple of moments to watch this unfold. And for my still-beating heart to be ripped out of my chest.
19:25: It’s a really lucky that the black nerd can play the drums (that guy was totally 40 years-old, btw)
19:40: Oh, man. This song. Gets me every time.
20:00: I don’t think I realized that Zack and Kelly went outside to the picnic table, the same place they first got together a season ago. Full circle.
20:30: Zack and Kelly break up. A little bit of my childhood slips away.
21:30: The first, and if we’re not mistaken, only episode to simply fade to black. Pretty heady, emotional stuff for Saturday morning.
21:43: It still hurts. After all this time.
2:32, Episode 5: “Zack’s Birthday Party”
01:15: Malibu Sands! The fact that these episodes aired in concert with the Bayside stories, alternating back and forth, is really disorienting. Maybe it felt right when they originally aired, but on the DVDs it probably would have made more sense to group all the beach episodes together.
3:00: That was a really overcast summer. I don’t recall any episode from Malibu Sands looks like a good beach day.
06:00: The girl from King of Queens! (hey, Leah Remini!)
09:00: I wonder how Dennis Haskins felt about all of this.
09:30: Would have never pegged Jessie as a slob.
13:00: Stacey Carosi is a biiiiitch!
14:30: Hey, Lisa, get a job!
19:00: Zack just dropped some knowledge on Stacey!
19:35: Baywatch moment! Why isn’t this in slo-mo?
22:00: You know, what, Stacey? You might not be so terrible after all.
20:00: What I wouldn’t have given to have Kelly save me from drowning.
3:15pm, Episode 6: “The Aftermath”
01:00: We appreciate that they actually followed up on the break-up story because we needed some kind of closure. At the very least it just couldn’t be ignored.
02:25: Um, Zack, all those photos of Kelly is your locker is a little creepy.
03:40: This Ms. Simpson hearing impaired act is growing a little weary.
04:35: Don’t you see, Ms. Simpson? This is tearing Zack apart. You’re not blind too.
06:00: We get it, Jeff. You go to UCLA. You don’t need to wear the sweatshirt.
07:00: First MC Hammer reference!
09:30: Great UB40 poster, Zack.
10:00: Joan Collins and Danielle Steele references that are lost on everyone.
10:30: Ew! That girl is fat!
12:15: This always bothered me. We were all in Zack’s corner, feeling sympathetic for him after Kelly dumped him, and he has to go and be a jerk to Kelly. Be the bigger man, Zack. Don’t give Jeff any advantage!
13:15: Oh, no, A12! Zack and Kelly’s song.
14:05: “Right now the only jerk I see is you.” Kelly’s right. And Kimberly should have thrown that milkshake in your face, not on your shirt.
15:30: Grow up, Zack. Now you’re making us all look bad.
15:50: Why does Zack still have all of Kelly’s stuff in his locker anyway?
17:40: On a show littered with fashion disasters, Jessie has to be the worst. Do you have a job interview after this? For the position of mom’s night out? Or maybe crazy art teacher?
19:35: Oh, Screech, trust us. He’s a sleazeball.
20:00: How did Zack just appear there?! Is he a ghost??? Did Max teach him black magic?
21:00: Now punch Jeff in the face! Do it! NOW!
21:22: Twins!
21:30: You realize that girl’s a tranny, right, Zack?
4:55pm, Disc 2, Episode 7: “The Game”
01:30: Lisa is extra sassy in the Malibu Sands episodes.
03:15: Whoaaaa! What’s with the tiny cell phone!
05:50: If they’re getting afternoons off to practice volleyball, who’s going to lifeguard?
11:45: Wow, Gary is good! As long as nothing happens to him there’s no way they can lose!
12:00: Although, Zack, stop whoring Kelly out like that.
12:50: Oh, no, Gary!
14:00: They’re screwed! There’s no way they can win!
16:40: Big Pete!
19:30: Just another typical overcast Southern California day. Must have shot these episodes during June Gloom.
20:00: As a former varsity volleyball player this episode always bothered me. They just did not get the fundamentals right. Also, they sucked.
20:15: Eric Dane!
21:15: Specifically Zack, he sucks.
22:30: It doesn’t make any sense that the guy on North Beach (not Eric Dane) would return the serve like that. Also, Zack can’t come from the back line to spike the ball. C’mon, guys! Attention to detail. Please!
5:20, Episode 8: “Operation Zack”
01:00: Zack’s hair is extra platinum in this one.
03:15: Ha. That was totally a terrible fall. Embarrassingly so.
05:00: Mrs. Turtle!
08:45: Hack-a-Zack!
09:10: One of Dennis Haskin’s finest performances.
11:30: Twenty-fifth fantasy sequence: Zack’s dead!
13:30: Nice touch giving this scene a heavenly white glow as opposed to the standard pink.
14:30: I wonder what kind of memorial they really would have had if Zack died. I like to think it would have been more of a celebration than a funeral.
15:30: Rape.
17:40: Yeah, they really dyed Mark Paul Gosselaar’s roots this time around.
18:15: Whoa! Bringing God into this!
19:30: I’ve never had knee surgery, and I’m not a doctor, but I’m pretty sure you don’t need to be drugged up the night before the operation. Or spend 3 days in the hospital beforehand.
20:30: Also, not sure if knee surgery normally requires a cast.
21:30: Second Gilligan reference!
Tuesday, 1:32pm, Episode 9: “4th of July”
00:00: I used to love the beach episodes, probably because it meant Tiffani Thiessen in a bathing suit, but now I could do without them. They just get in the way of the narrative thrust of the Bayside stories. Also, I never like seeing Zack hit on another woman.
03:10: Oh, don’t be such a stick in the mud, Stacey!
03:20: Little known fact: The restaurant scenes were actually shot in a studio. TRUE!
04:15: Screech gets stuck in the obstacle course tube, but in “Zack’s War” he was already proven to be an obstacle course pro. Contraction, Saved by the Bell! Do you research.
06:00: Zack’s hair looks really Season 2 in this episode.
07:00: Nice shorts, Morris!!!
07:30: Just make out already!
09:00: Minutemen uniforms are really inappropriate beach wear, guys.
10:15: Slater losing to Lisa in the obstacle course was the most difficult acting Mario Lopez has ever done.
11:00: Why is Mr. Carosi playing for the club member’s team?
12:35: Loving this dude in the Nelson Mandela t-shirt. How politically conscious, SBTB!
13:20: Sorry every other girl at this beach club! No way you’re making the Miss Liberty finals. Not with Kelly, Lisa and Jessie around.
14:40: Kelly Kapowski: Beauty and brains. She’s doing a lot better here than she did for Miss Bayside.
15:30: That’s right, Zack! You knew who deserved to win. This gave us faith that, one day, you and Kelly would get back together.
17:00: And thus began the famed, three-season, Slater-Lisa love story arc.
17:30: There’s Stacey, acting like a raging bitch again. Oh, you New Yorkers!
18:50: Just sitting on the beach, watching the sunset, thinking. You know, deep thoughts. And, don’t worry, Zack remembered to take his sneakers off.
20:10: Still kinda surprising they didn’t have the 4th of July dance at The Max.
21:20: Totally convincing stock fireworks footage. Totally convincing.
2:20pm, Episode 10: “Wicked Stepbrother Part 1”
00:00: Finally! The first appearance of Jessie’s half-brother Eric.
00:25: It was really risky of Saved by the Bell to introduce a new main character to their established cast, but seeing how well Eric meshed with the gang, it was a gamble that paid off big-time. We can’t even imagine The College Years without Eric.
02:10: Never noticed all the flirting going on between Zack and Slater.
03:45: Nice touch giving Eric a leather jacket. Quintessential New York. Or Milwaukee circa 1955.
04:51: Ohhh, tough guy!
05:30: You think Zack ever tucked his shirt in without buttoning it up?
07:20: Uh oh. Has Zack met his match?
08:00: I don’t know why Zack even bothered looking at Eric’s schedule. There’s only one class going on at a time ever at Bayside. And the classroom is right across from Mr. Belding’s office.
08:30: First (of so many) Judaism reference!
09:00: Um, guys, the baseball playoffs occur in October, a couple of weeks after Rosh Hashana. DO YOUR RESEARCH.
14:30: Saved by the Bell‘s first sex tape! Read all about it in Behind the Bell.
14:50: CRUSH HIM, SLATER!
16:35: Nice convertible, Mr. B. And you still don’t think teachers and school administrators aren’t overpaid?
17:00: Dennis Haskins needs a little work in the standing completely still department. Somebody has the shakes!
17:25: Second MC Hammer reference!
17:50: First use of “meshugena!”
17:55: First reappropriation of the lyric “can’t touch this!”
19:00: Classic movies. So Noo Yawk!
20:00: You’ve never met anyone like Lisa, Eric? Guess you’re not from NY after all.
20:45: Has anyone ever not fallen for their date when the only reason they went on the date in the first place was part of some manipulative scheme? We don’t think so (a pattern that we’ll see at least once more in the series).
2:40, Episode 11: “Wicked Stepbrother Part 2”
00:00: We’re thrilled that they included these episodes back-to-back. Would have been just cruel to wedge another Malibu Sands episode between them. Don’t leave us hanging!
00:10: A recap, thank goodness!
03:00: Third MC Hammer reference (we’re going to count this one as a separate reference, as it is a separate episode).
03:40: This rigged lottery/algebra problem scheme is really one of Zack’s best, and certainly one of his most brazen.
04:00: But if Mr. Belding’s not around, who’s going to ask what’s going on there?
04:10: Nevermind, there he is.
05:28: First Bo Jackson reference!
07:00: This algebra teacher is great! (and a Jew!)
07:45: Pulling the fire alarm, just another law broken by Zack and the gang. It’s like watching The Sopranos. But with teenagers!
09:30: Why does Eric dress like one of the Wiggles?
10:55: Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration, Lisa Turtle.
11:23: WHY ARE THERE NERDS IN AUTO SHOP?!?! That could upset the delicate high school balance!
12:15: I’m so sick of hearing about how they do it in New York. You’re in the LA now, bitch!
13:50: Still don’t understand how Eric could take over Jessie’s room. Guess her mom is too busy with her new husband to care what’s going on in her house.
14:10: Although, Eric does have a Rocky IV poster. Part of me really wants to like him.
14:20: But c’mon, what real Mets fan puts up a Yankees poster? That’s just laziness, guys. Also, not sure about the Doc Gooden poster. By 1991 he was an admitted cocaine user and accused rapist. But, then again, SBTB never shied away from serious themes. Like…
14:57: ASSAULT!
17:00: Hate to break it to you, Mr. B, but in 20 years no one is going to care about a CD player.
18:00: Oh, no! He’s going back to NY! And we were just starting to like him.
20:30: “And now that I’ve kissed you and asked you to stay I’m going to silently back out of the room.” – Lisa.
21:30: OH, GOOD! HE’S GOING TO STAY! Looking forward to seeing Eric in ALL remaining episodes.
3:28pm, Episode 12: “Check Your Mate”
01:20: Oh, well, guess Eric went back to NY. I’m sure that’ll be addressed at some point.
01:37: I wonder if they eventually just started deliberately making Zack look like a Ken doll.
02:00: Violet!
03:25: Although it looks like they forgot to dye Mark-Paul Gosselaar’s eyebrows this time.
07:00: I hope Bayside isn’t footing the bill for these Chess team sweats.
08:15: Second Sinead O’Conor reference!
09:38: You can’t blame Screech for falling for this girl. She doesn’t have glasses!
11:00: Chess boy mansion. C’moooooon.
12:00: So if that girl can talk like a normal person, why doesn’t she do it all the time?
14:00: Really starting to get the cold war undertones to the Bayside/Valley rivalry. Just a coincidence that Screech’s opponent is from the Soviet Union?
18:03: Assault, kidnapping, identify theft. Y’know, the usual.
18:50: Slater you can’t stay “Commie!” Or “butt!”
19:00: First perestroika reference! And earlier was the second glasnost reference! Entertaining and educational! This is like a PBS documentary.
21:00: Oh, yeah, we forgot to mention the gambling.
22:44: Where does we procure some Screechios?
4:54pm, Episode 13: “My Boyfriend’s Back”
01:50: “I know where the chef hides the good stuff.” A tub of margarine and a white bread. Yeah, real good, Stacey.
02:45: Just hanging out with my shirt off. NBD.
04:00: Um, Mr. Carosi, you really can’t say “terrorist.” Not cool.
06:00: Sometimes I think that Dustin Diamond might actually be an amazing actor.
07:22: David Charvet? Pre-Rock’n’Jock Basketball? (not the little kid)
08:25: Hey, Stacey’s boyfriend Craig, it’s kind of creepy to sneak up behind someone and motion to total strangers not to say anything.
09:10: I loved Ernie Sabella’s work as Timon and/or Pumba.
10:24: And then sometimes Dustin Diamond is just ripping off Mr. Bean (or was it the other way around????)
11:14: Avocado salad? Boy, this show sure was way ahead of its time.
12:15: Zack, we’ve seen enough of your “Kelly? Kelly who?”, “Stacey? Stacey who?” act. It’s just douchey.
15:20: Tiffani Thiessen’s finest comedic work right here.
15:50: “I’d like you wear my fraternity ring. Now you’re my girl forever [fist pump].” Somebody misinformed Craig about the significance of a fraternity pin.
17:00: Do you think they consummated the pinning?
17:30: Fuck you, Craig. You’re not as bad as Jeff, but still, fuck you.
18:20: You guys know that ATVs are super dangerous right?
19:30: Kinda surprised they actually let Tiffani Thiessen ride her ATV.
19:45: You know, Stacey, you can just say, “Hey, Craig, I don’t want to go with you. You’re a douche.”
20:30: Not to be a buzzkill, Zack and Stacey, but don’t you think four episodes is a little quick to say “I love you?” You two barely know each other.
5:22pm, Episode 14: “Fake IDs”
00:30: Finally! That jerk Jeff will get his comeuppance.
01:45: Ha! Slater sounds gay.
02:30: Really, you believe that Zack goes to USC? Why would a college student be hanging out in a diner in the parking lot of a high school.
03:15: We look younger at 27 than Zack did at 16.
04:00: The camera might love Jeff, but we hate him. HATE HIM.
05:30: A sleepover on a school night???
06:30: Cool bolo tie, Slater!
08:50: Jessie is a great dancer! We know all too well.
09:55: FUCK YOU, JEFF. You break up Zack and Kelly and then mess around with some blond tramp on the side. The utter gall. We hate you.
11:50: Arrggghhhh. Jeff.
12:40: Fake IDs are a pretty mild transgression as far as this show goes. Almost didn’t even realize it until Jessie chastised Zack for having one.
13:00: Did Kelly just call “maggot mouthed?”
13:45: You’re the scum of the Earth, Jeff.
14:40: You know what’s crazy? If we went back in time to this episode and said “Hey Zack, do you have any DVDs?” he would have no idea what we were talking about.
16:20: Yes, Kelly, it’s true. Jeff was there. Why would he do that to you? Because he’s a maggot mouthed jerk, that’s why.
17:15: Hey, Mrs. Morris, you know that Puff the Magic Dragon is about pot right? Yeahhhh, you know.
18:25: “Check it out, Jeff the jerk.” RIGHT ON, LISA!
19:30: “I broke up with a great guy for you.” YEAH YOU DID!
19:53: That’s right, Zack. Swoop on in there. WHERE YOU BELONG.
20:25: GOODBYE, JEFF. FOREVER.
21:00: Jason Sudeikis?
21:10: Nahhh.
21:30: So the boys get in trouble but the girls get to stay? That’s really not fair. Pick it up, Mrs. Morris.
22:00: We were so happy when this episode aired, finally ridding Kelly of Jeff. Now, we weren’t thrilled that Zack was into this college girl Danielle, but now that Kelly was single again, and she realized what a huge mistake she had made, we had hope. And hope is a powerful thing.
22:30: And we’re still happy about this episode. So happy we’re going to watch the end again with commentary.
5:55pm, Episode 15: “Boss Lady”
00:33: Just two more beach episodes to go. Why we have so much antipathy towards these episodes now, we don’t know, we just do. Same reason we like Apple Jacks.
02:55: The inmates are running the asylum!
03:33: This is just like the time we were in charge of ordering lunch for the office and we began to let everyone write down their individual orders until 20 minutes had gone by and only four people and seen the menu and I just snapped and ordered a bunch of pizzas instead. Being the boss is tough!
04:30: I think the guy playing Mr. Richter was Hollywood’s foremost Richard Dreyfuss impersonator.
08:50: A Hispanic kitchen staff. Classic.
09:23: When I was younger I didn’t get all the subtext in this episode about class oppression and workers rights and labor unions. Too early to tell, but this might be Saved by the Bell’s subversive argument for Marxism.
11:50: If I were to go on strike I wouldn’t just sit on the kitchen floor. I’d almost definitely go to the bar.
12:00: “Nice job, Terminator 3.” How did Slater know????
12:49: Boy, what else can go wrong? Murphy’s Law man, Murphy’s law.
14:00: The help is just LOVING this.
15:00: I can’t believe the kitchen staff caved. They had Stacey right where they wanted her. In the kitchen.
15:30: Something we’ve wanted to note about this season: distinctive lack of fantasy sequences. And Benny Hill homages.
18:00: You know, the Thornhills waited 50 years for this day and you try to kick them out in an hour. That’s really not cool, guys.
19:30: “Aw, fuck it. Let’s dance!” – Mr. Richter.
20:15: “The fact that you double booked this room and ruined my daughter’s sweet sixteen was totally ameliorated one minute of dancing with that lifeguard. Bravo!” – Mr. Richter.
6:19pm, Episode 16: “Pipe Dreams”
00:00: Saved by the Bell‘s most socially conscious episode. They were way ahead of the game on the whole “green” thing.
01:30: “That’s a misconception. Frogs do you not give you warts. Masturbating does.” – Dr. Phelps.
2:45: “OF COURSE you can bring this duck home with you, Zack.” – Dr. Phelps.
04:35: Twenty-sixth fantasy sequence! Richest school in the world. Welcome back, transparent pink border!
06:55: Don’t joke about Kelly marrying Screech. Not even in a fantasy. Just don’t.
08:00: You know CalStar CEO Dan Grayson is a dick because he’s wearing cowboy boots. And a bolo tie (second bolo tie this season!).
09:35: Actually, it looks like Jessie and Grayson share a closet.
10:45: Zack’s white hi-top sneakers always seemed somewhat incongruous with the rest of his attire.
12:45: “Sorry students, we only had enough animals for the cool, popular kids. You know, the ones that are allowed to talk.” – Dr. Phelps.
15:00: The worst aspect of this episode is not that cute, defenseless animals lost their lives but that Jessie was right.
15:55: I think Mr. Phelps just huffed.
16:30: “Mark-Paul, just make sure not to get any of this fake oil in your hair. It will NOT react well with all that blond dye.”
18:20: Got to admit, that miniature model of the new Bayside looks pretty cool.
18:30: “Where’s the football field?” Um, AC, it’s right there. Like the biggest thing in the model. God.
19:15: You know Zack means business when he puts his shiny green blazer over his neon red t-shirt.
19:40: What exactly is a “state of the art” cafeteria?
21:00: I wouldn’t say you’re “covered” with oil, Grayson.
21:22: “GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR SCHOOL, GRAYSON.” – MR. B.
21:30: “These six students have spoken, and what they say goes!” – The school board.
22:00: Just realized that this episode is a lot like “The Fabulous Belding Boys,” just instead of Rod Belding making empty, dangerous promises, it’s oil.
6:45pm, Episode 17: “The Last Weekend”
00:00: Finally, the last Malibu Sands!
00:10: I guess we just can’t get behind Zack having a multi-episode relationship with anyone other than Kelly.
01:21: It seems like just last week we started these beach episodes and now the summer is over. Just like that.
03:15: Guys, just fuck already. Just not in the break room, please.
04:55: This old woman is impossibly shaped.
5:30: Ladies and gentleman, Jordan Christopher Michael, better known as delightful scamp Rusty on Full House (and, with those three last names, no doubt a future serial killer).
07:00: “You can’t ground me. I QUIT!”
07:44: “Wait, so we’re all building one sand castle? There’s no contest? Forget that. I’m getting a pina colada”
10:24: Zack and Stacey all alone on the beach in the middle of the night. Is this when they get murdered?
13:00: Uh, oh, I think it’s that time of the month for Mr. Carosi. You know, the end of the month when he has to pay his staff. He’s always a grump around then!
14:30: Hey, guys, I think Zack tricked you into talking to each other. But how can we be sure???
15:30: “Okay, so everyone who isn’t’ Zack, Kelly, Slater, Jessie, Screech or Stacey, GET OUT OF THE PICTURE.”
16:20: Ladies and gentleman, Denise Richards.
16:50: Why are you yelling, Denise Richards?
17:55: The second of three luaus on this series.
18:30: Oh, good, Denise Richards is going to Bayside. We’ll see a lot more of her FOR SURE.
18:40: When did Slater and Jessie break up? Aw, who cares.
19:20: Don’t tease Rusty, Kelly. It’s not nice. He really will call you when he’s 16.
20:10: Awwww, now Zack is Mr. Carosi’s favorite! Did NOT see that coming.
21:15: Zack and Stacey say goodbye. Had absolutely no investment in this. As far as we were concerned this was just an inconvenient in the bump in the road back to Kelly. GOOD RIDDANCE.
22:30: “Need a friend?” “How about five friends?” “Sure, but could one of them not be Screech?”
23:10: Goodbye, Malibu Sands! 90210 can have you all to its self.
7:15pm, Episode 18: “Date Auction”
01:30: Ladies and gentlemen, not Melissa McCarthy.
02:30: Flesh peddling!
03:00: Glorified meat-market!
03:10: Saved by the Bell really is just a parable for backwards, primitive nations committing crimes against humanity.
04:10: Wait, so Brian is like a cool nerd? I mean, he has glasses, so he’s a nerd right? But where’s his frog voice? And bow tie?
05:10: Scott Wolf totally could have gotten a job at a real diner with all this experience.
05:25: How is Kelly still working at The Max after breaking up with Jeff? Seems like a terrible, precarious situation.
06:00: Threats of violence!
07:00: Look! Another black girl! Because apparently it would have been too edgy to have a white girl bid on Brian. Told you, Bayside is just another backwards country.
08:55: Oh, but the black girl can bid on Zack, huh? C’mon, Bayside, it was the 90s.
09:25: Why did Wendy take so long to bid her $100? She was standing there the whole time.
09:45: OH NO! ZACK HAS TO GO ON A DATE WITH THE FAT GIRL? (Also, giving her the name “Wendy,” guess they thought “Bertha” would have been too on the nose).
10:45: Zack, get outta there quick! If someone sees you having lunch with Wendy then you’ll lose all your cred! She’s fat!
11:45: Lisa, you may be an airhead, but you’re ready to go for Oprah’s next Legend’s Ball.
12:00: Kind sounded like Lisa said she was in the library reading “Toy Story.”
13:00: I seriously pulled a neck muscle. For real. This is not a ploy to avoid going to the dance with Wendy. It’s really uncomfortable.
17:00: Wendy, don’t turn down Zack’s offer to dance! You might not get another opportunity. Take what you can get! (cause you’re fat)
17:45: This Brian’s a real douche.
18:00: But it’s good to know that if Alfonso Ribeiro ever left the Fresh Prince they had the perfect replacement Carlton waiting in the wings.
19:00: Slater, you know that just because Jessie didn’t win you at the date auction doesn’t mean you can’t talk ever again.
19:40: “And Jessie’s worse. What a pseudo-intellectual neurotic.” Well, Brian did pretty much hit that one on the head. Score one for Brian! (still a douche).
20:40: Bayside High School, home to Southern California’s only one-person cheerleading squad. “Ladies and gentlemen, the Bayside cheerleader!”
21:20: WHAAAAAAAAA???? Zack didn’t let Lydia cut in? But she’s blond and skinny and Wendy is fat and has poor fashion sense. What a twist!
22:10: But don’t tease her Zack. We all know you’re just going to ditch Wendy at The Max. Better not to get her hopes up.
7:40pm, Episode 19: “All in the Mall”
00:05: This episode!!!
00:10: Seriously though, as a kid it seemed like a really daring move to set an entire episode in the mall, taking us out of our Bayside comfort zone. The beach episodes were one thing, but this is an entirely different beast.
01:30: First U2 reference? We think. Maybe second? Or maybe we’re thinking of UB40.
02:00: It kind of feels like the producers realized they still owed the network another episode, so they brought the cast back after wrapping for the season, but the Bayside set was being used for Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper or something. So they were like “Hey, a mall set. Let’s just do something with that.”
04:30: Ah, 1992, when it was totally acceptable for a 17 year-old girl to bear her midriff in public. Preferably under some kind of denim.
05:30: Why does Lisa dress like a business executive at the Wonka factory?
06:00: Or did they get all her wardrobe from the fashion show in Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead?
07:10: Spoiler Alert! Those thugs are actually actors and the money is an elaborate prank for a TV show. But then why do those guys pretend to be panicked when they discover money’s gone? Zack and the gang don’t see them, so it’s unnecessary. Just a commitment to their characters? No. We say PLOT HOLE!
18:13: WHOAAAA!
10:25: Did they just say “Tower Records” or “Power?” RIP Tower records.
12:27: “Hot Feet,” the shoe store named in honor of former MLB pitcher and “hot foot” expert Roger McDowell.
12:35: I’m sure the fact that all the shoe boxes are unmarked and identical won’t come into play somehow.
14:15: Talking at the movies? Dudes, not cool. Did you NOT see the message before the movie with the crying baby? C’mon.
15:45: Wow, tiny phone Zack. It fits perfectly in your high-waisted, 90s mom jeans.
17:30: Sleepover in the mall! Saved by the Bell’s version of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
19:00: “Can the jive, Eddie.” Wonder if that was in the script or Lark Vorhies ad libbed that one.
19:50: Third Kevin Costner reference. Apparently in 1991 Kevin Costner was the object of every female’s desire, the epitome of male cool (indeed, further research shows that Costner was named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People in the world” in 1990 and 1991).
21:45: “Officer those guys are trying to murder us!” “Sorry! On a break!”
22:00: “If you look to your left you’ll see three camera men and a boom mic operator. An entire ENG crew mere feet from you that you’ve somehow not noticed for the last 24 hours.”
And thus concludes Season 3. A wacky mall episode.
One response to “‘Saved by the Bell’ Season 3”
Season 3 was special for me. After the Kelly and Jeff thing ended, it meant the world to me that Kelly didn’t immediately go into rebound mode as far as dating. I loved the way it gave me head room where I could imagine the prettiest thing in the world: Bayside’s head cheerleader getting to know her own body.
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“Mind reading” study connects spatial problem solving with computer science
A group of researchers led by engineering professor Westley Weimer and grad student Yu Huang used real-time fMRI readings to look inside coders’ brains while they program. This “mind reading” project studied whether manipulating data structures in a program (like balancing a tree) uses the same parts of the brain as spatial reasoning (rotating a map or turning… Read More »
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A step closer toward molecular computers
By News Staff | July 25, 2019
Heat transfer through a single molecule has been measured for the first time by an international team of researchers led by the University of Michigan. This could be a step toward molecular computing—building circuits up from molecules rather than carving them out of silicon as a way to max out Moore’s Law and make the most powerful conventional… Read More »
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Save the date! Researchpalooza 2019
Connect with the Michigan Medicine labs and offices that serve you on August 15 Join the UMMS Office of Research for Researchpalooza during the annual Michigan Medicine Ice Cream Social, with 80+ exhibitors from labs and offices of the Medical School and across campus. Thursday, August 15, 201911 a.m. – 2 p.m.Circle Drive, in front of Med Sci… Read More »
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U-M prof studies GitHub’s security issue disclosure process
By Mona Beydoun, ITS Communications | July 8, 2019
Atul Prakash, an electrical engineering and computer science professor, is part of a research team studying the process GitHub has in place for disclosing security issues. The team’s research culminated in a list of recommendations to help GitHub develop a standardized method to report security vulnerabilities.
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Jenna Wiens named new Precision Health co-director
By News Staff | July 4, 2019
Effective September 1, 2019, Jenna Wiens, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, will become a Precision Health co-director. She succeeds Eric Michielssen, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, who is stepping down to take sabbatical leave. Wiens is transitioning to co-director from a successful role as a co-lead for Precision Health’s Data Analytics & IT Workgroup,… Read More »
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UMSI students help make civic tools work for Detroit residents
The City of Detroit has a lot of data to share. The challenge is making this data accessible to residents. So, the city partnered with Data Driven Detroit to solve the problem. Together, they formed a user testing group, CUTgroup Detroit, and enlisted the School of Information (UMSI) to contribute the user testing acumen necessary to ensure the voices of Detroit… Read More »
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New tech explored at BRCF Genomics Showcase
By D. Stephanie Dascola, ITS Communications | June 20, 2019
On June 13, 2019, more than 300 people came together at the Biomedical Research Core Facilities Genomics Showcase to learn more about the rapidly evolving technologies, applications, and platforms available in the genomics space. Cores are centralized facilities or labs that offer shared services, shared equipment, resources, and expertise to biomedical researchers and investigators on a fee-for-service basis.… Read More »
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Explore new technologies at the BRCF Genomics Showcase
Join the BRCF for a Genomics Showcase to explore the rapidly evolving technologies, applications, and platforms available in the genomics space, including single cell analysis, ATAQ-Seq, epigenetics, high-throughput sequencing applications, and more. Thursday, June 13, 2019Palmer Commons, 4th FloorSpeaking sessions: 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.Lunch and information tables open at 11:30 a.m. The Showcase will explore multiple topics,… Read More »
UMSI researcher to study Facebook’s impact on democracy
By Mona Beydoun, ITS Communications | May 13, 2019
Ceren Budak, a UMSI assistant professor, is joining researchers from Ohio State, Cornell, and Stony Brook to study anonymous Facebook data. The team will focus on social media’s impact on U.S. democracy.
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Classroom tech supports students with special needs
Gabriela Marcu, a U-M assistant professor of information, electrical engineering, and computer science, is studying the ways in which educational technology might better support students with special needs.
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U-M researchers explore digital media use among kids, parents
By News Staff | May 8, 2019
A group of researchers at the University of Michigan are studying the relationship between digital media use and childhood growth and development.
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Read the 2019 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report for higher ed
The EDUCAUSE Horizon Project continues to identify and describe higher education trends challenges, and technology developments that are likely to have an impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry. This year, EDUCAUSE releases a new, reflective section of the Horizon Report, a section that revisits several forecasts from 3-5 years ago and provides the audience with context from… Read More »
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Michigan Meeting explores living in the digital age, May 9-10
A group of U-M faculty members have set out to ask critical questions about how today’s digital environment affects personal and societal well-being, perceptions and livelihoods. In other words, what does it mean to be alive in the digital age? That question is the focus of “Living a Digital Life,” the 2019 Michigan Meeting scheduled for May 9-10… Read More »
culture research symposium
All things could be part of the Internet of Things with new RFID system
By News Staff | April 15, 2019
U-M researchers say a new RFID-based technology they’ve helped develop is key step toward creating a truly immersive IoT experience. The system, called IDAct, bridges the gap between the estimated 14.2 billion “smart” electronic devices that are currently part of the Internet of Things and the hundreds of billions of everyday non-smart objects left out of the picture.… Read More »
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How to handle debug-my-code-for-me questions [duplicate]
What happened to the “You're Just Lazy” close vote reason? [closed] (8 answers)
I see questions like this occasionally, where it amounts to little more than a bunch of code. Usually there are some end-user details, like, when I click this button, it doesn't do what it's supposed to do.
Actually, the question to which I linked is a bit better than usual. At least he attempts to explain what should happen vs. what does happen. Either way, though, it's still a question based on end-user results, not based on anything technical. As such, it's not a question which will likely be of any use to anyone else in the future.
In the past, I would have voted to close a question like this as being too localized. After that option was removed, due to certain abuses, I would have voted to close it because questions asking for code should demonstrate a minimal level of understanding, but that option has also now been removed, due to similar abuses, I'm sure.
So where does that leave us for a question like this? The closest valid reasons for closing this question now would be that it's too broad or unclear, but neither of those reasons adequately apply. It's not really off-topic, since it is programming-related, so the "Other..." option under there doesn't even really apply.
Since there's no good options, it seems like everyone is simply resorting to down voting, but that's not very helpful to the person posting the question. I understand that the other options were removed for good reasons, but it seems like a question like this is now falling through the cracks.
Or am I wrong? Is this kind of question something that should be welcomed on StackOverflow? I personally didn't down-vote it because, as far as I can tell, it's not a bad question based on all the good reasons for closing. Personally I don't want to waste my time debugging someone else's code for them, but I suppose if this kind of question is welcome, maybe it shouldn't even be down-voted and it should just wait until someone comes along who is bored enough to be willing to help?
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a lot of them I think are similar to this: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/215406/… or meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86885/… . We almost need a "Use a debugger" option in the close reasons? – John Gardner Jan 13 '14 at 21:48
I guess you'll just have to debug it. – Bart Jan 13 '14 at 21:50
See also: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/161229/… – Adrian McCarthy Jan 14 '14 at 4:10
In addition to removing the "Too Localized" reason, the site started explicitly blessing these types of questions by providing specific advice on how to ask them ("Questions concerning problems with code you've written must describe the specific problem — and include valid code to reproduce it"). I really don't know whether we want these questions or not. The SO signals have gotten really mixed. – Adrian McCarthy Jan 14 '14 at 4:13
Duping to a closed question is cruel. – Adrian McCarthy Feb 14 '18 at 22:33
Close them as "Unclear what you are asking."
Read the close reason as "We don't accept 'code-dump, how fix' questions here, so it's unclear what you are asking for specifically. 'What's wrong with my code' is not a problem statement."
I foresee Meta posts asking for additional close reasons. Because it's not really unclear what he's asking, now is it? (Though you're right). – Bart Jan 13 '14 at 21:51
I agree that that's probably the closest fit, but the "unclear" reason, in these cases is, well... unclear. He was actually being fairly clear about what the problem was. It was about as specific as it could be, from a end-user perspective. Perhaps it's not as common in other areas, but I can tell you, in VB.NET, it's a fairly regular occurrence... – Steven Doggart Jan 13 '14 at 21:57
@StevenDoggart: Use your best judgment, but his problem description is murky at best. Any question that requires you to first read the entirety of his code to try and figure out its purpose, and then read it all again to try and spot some as yet unidentified error, is what I call an "under-specified" question, the very embodiment of "Unclear what you are Asking." – user102937 Jan 13 '14 at 22:01
@Bart I think changing it to "Unclear What Help You Need" would leave no room for misreading – gnat Jan 15 '14 at 6:08
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Home / Who we are / Journey to the new land
THE SIX CALLS OF THE JOURNEY TO THE NEW LAND (1992 & 1995)
February 1990 was a watershed in the political history of South Africa. In the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa President F.W. de Klerk announced the unbanning of the liberation movements and the release of Nelson Mandela from prison. “When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter and our tongue with shouts of joy; then it was said among the nations ‘The Lord has done great things for them.’ Great things indeed the Lord did for us and we rejoiced.” Psalm 126:1-3
The MCSA began to ask how we move from a theology of protest and of resisting apartheid oppression to sharing in South Africa’s reconstruction? From this question there flowed six calls for the MCSA:
For deepened spirituality for all our people in the life of our church.
That the life and work of the church be directed towards mission rather than maintenance.
The rediscovery of every member ministry or the priesthood of all believers.
To truly express what it means “to be one so that the world may believe.”
To re-emphasise servant leadership and discernment as our model for leadership and decision making.
To set ordained ministers free for their primary vocation of preaching, teaching and spiritual guidance.
To these six calls have been added the Four Imperatives of Mission. Our Five Imperatives of Mission
Evangelism and Church Growth
– Inviting people to personal faith in Christ and His gospel and to belonging in the community of faith as disciples; planting new faith communities especially in informal settlements and new urban multi-cultural congregations.
– connecting to the life giving resources of faith that make for moral regeneration and becoming a holy people in the world
Justice and Service
– to promote the values of justice, unity and reconciliation and the healing of national ills, physical, environmental and social and to be Christ’s compassionate, outstretched hands to all humanity.
Human and Economic Development and Empowerment
– the care and growth of children, the plight of the poor, education, quality of life, nation building.
– every child has a right to quality, accessible education
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From Student Intern to Mill Manager
We always encourage our students to pursue outside the classroom experiences. Whether its student organizations or an internship, these experiences allow students to build skills that they are not able to develop inside the classroom.
Tim Wight at the Mill
One past student that demonstrates the importance of having this outside experience is Tim Wight. Wight studied paper science and engineering here at Miami and graduated in 1991. He had struggled with not having outside experience with no one in his family being in his perspective industry. Though he initially struggled, he was told by a fellow classmate to explore an internship at Domtar’s Port Huron Mill in Michigan.
The Port Huron Mill makes publishing, technical and specialty paper, primarily used for books, food packaging and medical products.
Once he landed the internship, and had many valuable experiences and was able to learn a lot. “[He] was treated as a full process engineer; [he] wasn’t crunching numbers or finding myself stuck in some corner of a lab,” expressed Wight. After the internship, he was excited about making a career in the industry.
Wight ended up joining Domtar after he graduated, and found that her was interested more in operations then the technical side. He ended up being able to follow a career path that he was passionate about with the support of his company.
After moving through several managerial roles, Wight ended up becoming Mill Manager in 2013. He loved the opportunities he was given for growth and the ability to work with more people.
We are so proud of what Wight accomplished so far in his career, and we cannot wait to see what the future holds!
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One of my best days evar.
Well, wow!
This weekend was so jam packed full of awesome that I don’t’ even know if I can do it justice in a bunch of words on a blizzog. I will, however, try…because I’m just so giddy at how badass it ends.
FRI we helped celebrate part I of Maureen’s bday. Kendra and she went to the ladies-only spa north of town (I’ll let Kendra tell that story, since it’s equally awesome). I went swimming and then got ingredients together, racing around town with no shirt on because it was so hot.
Eventually we all converged and Kendra and I cooked her a fabulous dinner of salmon, asparagus, sweet potatoes, and a salad where every ingredient except the dressing came from our garden. Champagne and chocolate cake followed (I ended up picking Sweet Desserts in Fremont, thanks Sibyl!). We concluded the evening by watching a few episodes of True Blood.
SAT we staked out the locale for Maureen’s more proper birthday party on TUE (yup, that’s tomorrow, if you haven’t been told about it it’s because Maureen doesn’t do internet that much, lemme know if you’re interested in coming and I’ll send details!!) and again cruised around in the topless Jeep, oft times without shirts and/or pants.
I went for a bike ride, and while out on the ride a friend called about the boat (yeah I already mentioned this whole part). So, to cut this story short, we went boating/swimming in the lake and a had a fantastic time… well until Kendra decided to wrestle with the boat trying to climb back into it. Here’s a pic of her bruise. Yeah!
We got home, showered, and raced out to Med Fest in record time. Kendra danced with some of her students, kicking the requisite amount of ass +1. Med Fest for me is always a funny experience, as there’s a whole pile of D&D peeps strolling about, and dancing that ranges from “God Awful” to “Oh that’s interesting”. Since the event is more of a family-based “everyone gets a turn” I don’t think it’s fair to critique most of it, but that doesn’t mean it’s interesting to watch.
After grabbing dinner in a sports pub in West Seattle (eesh, YOU try accompanying Kendra and Maureen to a sports bar in West Seattle on a SAT night!) we went home and sacked out pretty early after watching an episode of Weeds (more on that separately)
Ah Sunday! We got up early…. EARLY and got our act together and off to Med Fest again. This time it was for Adderstone’s performance. I watched the event organizers (truly an inaccurate term if there ever was one) struggle to get it together and get the show going. Really, after doing the same event for TWENTY TWO YEARS you’d think some things would start to smooth out. But perhaps it’s for the best, as the whole thing kind of feels like a school recital, which makes the mood lighter. Anyhow, the girls busted it out fiercely and then we kicked about for a bit taking pictures before heading home.
A quick nap and then it was time. Time for LOS LOBOS at the Zoo! I’ve waxed before about how much I love that band, and I won’t go over it all again here. We packed a few beers into a Nalgene bottle and zipped off. We got a great spot on the lawn, drank some more in the beer garden, and the show started.
Totally kicked ass. The band was in a weird mood, screwing around with each other and inserting breakdowns and solos and segues into their set only two songs in (where guitarist Cesar Rosas said “Yeah, we wrote out a setlist but, uh, threw it out the window”) My fave was a surprise version of “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” that went right into “I Can't Understand”.
At one point David Hidalgo said to the crowd “I just became a grandpa and I see that baby dancing over there, I hope you’re using sunscreen.”
Another highlight was David forgot some lyrics to “Kiko” and Cesar stepped right in with a handclap breakdown and then hijacked the band into another tune ("Don't Worry Baby"). The whole show Cesar (Kendra’s fave Lobosian) was sipping from a wine glass (yes this is important to the story).
The show ended with the band pulling a gazillion people up on stage for a final song. You couldn’t even see the band anymore, and they couldn’t see each other, but they played out an awesome jam and a killer finale. Here's the set list.
We hit the bathrooms and then started filing out. By then the major part of the crowd was gone and we took the opportunity to sneak back into the Zoo and try and find the Snow Leopard exhibit. We figured the kittens that had recently been born weren’t actually out and about but figured we’d give it a go anyhow. Well we eventually found the habitat. During the hot day I don’t think Snow Leopard does much at all. But now, at dusk, just the two of us came strolling up.
At first there was nothing, we couldn’t see anything. Then there was a blur and we looked and the Snow Leopard came bounding down the hill and racing around in front of us! Back and forth, back and forth, sometimes prancing over some of the rocks. She (I’m assuming it’s a she) jumped up into a tree TWICE and hung upside down, leaping out of it to land right in front of us, doing a little show. At one point she came nose to nose with Kendra on the other side of the glass and just stood there looking right at her, totally relaxed. To try and describe what the creature looked like is really beyond what I can write. The HUGEST paws I’ve ever seen, and the longest tail. The Snow Leopard really isn’t all that big of a cat really, but is long and has a big head. They eyes in particular are so amazingly deep and intense.
We could barely contain ourselves as this show went on for several minutes. Finally, the Snow Leopard walked over to a large rock and plopped down, the show was over.
(oh but the day was NOT over)
We left the Snow Leopard, thinking “Wow what an amazing day.” As we were trying to find out way out we ended up on the other side of a fenced off area with some activity going on. Upon further investigation it turned out to be the backstage area for the concert. Yup, LOS LOBOS were hanging out with peeps! We spotted a way to walk through some bushes into their encampment and we took it. There we were, surrounded by fans, family and the band. So we went up to all of them and introduced ourselves and hung out. Yeah, that’s right, WE MET LOS LOBOS!! (Note my gratuitous and adolescent use of exclamation marks to display my enthusiasm)
Here’s a few things to know about Los Lobos: 1: they’re all not tall. David, the tallest, is barely my height. So watching Louie Perez give Kendra a hug and looking like a younger nephew was pretty surreal. 2: They’re the nicest, most humble people around. They thanked us immensely for coming to the show, and TWO of them separately remarked that “you two are obviously very much in love.” The second time it was said I almost peed my pants. And 3: Cesar was totally drunk! All that wine must’ve done the trick. When we finally made our way to him Kendra excitedly held out her hand said it’s a pleasure to meet him and he stood up and gave her the biggest hug and said something like “I love you too honey.” And then picked up his wine glass and kind of stumbled away.
And you might ask “Well Michael, did you play it cool and perhaps even network for your own project or did you bumble all your words and act like a fanboy goofball?” GOOFBALL, all the way. I could barely string together a cogent sentence to any of them and all I could was just stare at them. Luckily they’re nice enough to not think I was a stalker.
So, we managed to shake hands with all of them and then we split. The whole walk back to the Jeep we just kept saying “omgsnowleopardomgloslobos…”
Needing a nightcap we stopped at Thompsons on the way home, which we haven’t been to in ages. We chatted with CT and caught the end of his first set. We’ve used Thompsons as a spiritual recharging station for some time now and being back after a long absence we can see why we have and why we should be going more often, even on a SUN night.
We finally got home and climbed into bed: 10:45pm!!!
I think it may have been the best day I’ve ever had.
Annnnnnnnd... GO
So a whole slew of realizations hit me the other day when for various reasons I said "enough is enough!" and dragged my sorry ass out for a bike ride.
Just a normal one, certainly not of any great speed or strength, but it had been so long since I'd been doing regular exercise that something had escaped my attention. All this hullabaloo I've been processing or the past few months: job, band, some peeps, etc. had become this giant clog in my spirit (my analogy to Kendra involved bowels, but I'll try and keep it out of the potty for this post). I think I normally can deal with that stuff quickly and efficiently because I'm usually doing stuff physically, which helps a lot. Well, realizing I wanna drop 10lbs and also have an existential monkey on my back got me out on the bike.
Getting my body going again and working up a good sweat, getting my heart rate up, let me do the spiritual heimlich on myself and vacate that giant bolus of blah (ooh, that's pretty good!). The change in my attitude was remarkable and fast. After my shower I suddenly had energy, and ideas, and a much better perspective on things. It was quite a magical moment, hopefully half as magical as when I finally drop said 10lbs. :-)
So, went swimming yesterday, another bike ride today. Been eating very well, including a ridiculous bounty from our garden. Just a little discipline to keep from letting the Summer heat make me lethargic and I should in great shape in all manners of the term. Hoo-ha!
And as if I needed a reward, whilst on a bike ride a friend called me up and said (I'm paraphrasing) "BOAT!" So I got home, got Kendra, and we zipped out to meet them, tooled around the lake, I jumped in and swam about, and now we're home doing a quick-change before heading to West Seattle to see some bellydance. Considering I started my morning in Golden Gardens I'd say I did a great tour of the city today!
A note from my future self?
So I've got this grampa, he's my idol. He must be... hrm... 85 or 86 about now (eesh, seems like his 80th was just yesterday). His mom, my great grandma, lived until 100 and was sharp as a tack and still living alone when she passed.
My grampa and I, we're built somewhat similarly (oddly I think it's where I get my luscious booty despite this being the "oh so very anglo" part of my genetics) and he's got a whip smart mind and a wonderful cross-section of old-time common sense crossed with a very progressive attitude...especially for someone raised in the mid-20th century.
Anyhow, he kicks it in Florida now, has a girlfriend, and lives each day to the fullest. The last time we talked he said "We have a saying down here Mikey," (yeah, he calls me "Mikey"), "Don't buy green bananas." He said this when I asked about an upcoming trip to which he was putting off figuring out details until the last minute.
Well we talked yesterday, and he was mentioning this problem he's had recently. He developed a wicked case of carpal tunnel that has made his right hand almost useless. He thinks he did this working on one of his projects, this one wiring up a long, tall lamp for his girlfriend. Apparently stuffing the wire up into the lamp was hard on his hands. He also had a very painful back ailment creep up, he thinks some settling in his spine put some pressure on his spinal cord, giving him horrible back pain and making him relatively immobile.
Pretty awful, right? Well here's my favorite part of the story. The doctor recommended surgery as an option for both ailments and my grampa said he'd think about it. He was lying in bed and just too frustrated that he was in pain and not out there doing things he wanted to do. So he said: "Well I got up out of bed and decided I was gonna cut my grass."
(note: Floridians do NOT cut their own grass)
"I got out to the garage and had a hard time getting going because of bending over to start the mower. Then I couldn't pull the cord with my bad hand so I hand to make a little tool so I could awkwardly do it with my left hand." This is a guy who learned how to self-hypnotize to alleviate his chronic migraines btw, "I cut my grass and the next day I felt like a million bucks again. No pain at all. I don't know if I'm too stubborn to listen to dumb advice or too stupid to listen to good advice, but there you go."
I asked him how we doing now, a few days later. "Oh great, I'm gonna go golfing for the first time in a month and then I'm gonna go drink some beer with my buddies."
By this point I was crying from laughing so hard. The best part was how I could easily project myself into his thought process. That line about stubborn vs. stupid is so prolific I practically want to get it tattooed on my body.
So, I suppose if that's what I'm evolving towards I don't have any complaints with that at all. Fuck green bananas.
Did you think I went to rehab?
I was going to jokingly title this something along the lines of having a sex-change, but turns out I know more people who have had gender assignment than I know people who have gone to rehab, so I went with the detox joke.
Well, it's been a while, and most of the minutae eludes me at the moment, so let me deal in broad strokes.
I've mostly sidelined the band activity for now. In reality (and to really skip over a LOT of detail), the band is an energy draw I can't really justify sustaining, so I'm in the process of evaluating its fate. With a second album 90% in the can it's a hard decision to figure out, and I asked the band to contribute some ideas and opinions on this matter that I'm still waiting for.
Fortunately, there's plenty to do in the meantime. Our garden is kicking some major ass, and I find it very peaceful to concentrate on. I water and do some weeding and light maintenance, and every day I walk out and it's bigger and crazier than before. Last night we harvested some sweet snow peas (my guess is 2 lbs worth) and we've been stuffing ourselves sick on them. Aside from some snail deterrent the whole thing is going like gangbusters.
I'm in the process of re-jiggering my studio to prep for a new idea I have to do live sound-to-picture work in a fun collaborative way. More on that as it arises.
I got a haircut. Here's before:
Holy cow what a curly out of control hippy hairdo! It was getting pretty nuts.
And here's after:
Note the bed-head. I got up at 7am and set up shop in the cafe to get some work done.
I've otherwise been driving Kendra around to and fro, cooking her breakfast, and keeping up on all my media likes (True Blood, the Colbert Report, various noirs), and starting the "OMG I gotta get a job!" phase of my job search.
Mostly the last two weeks have been about taking some much needed quality time, and mostly with the woman, to relax and enjoy things a bit. We've been pushing hard lately, and a few people on each of our teams has flamed out in various ways, so it's been a good time to ground and center before starting another push up the hill.
We had some people over the other night, specifically people who make us feel good to be around, and had a great time around the fire in our yard. It was a great Solstice activity and helped tremendously.
We also went to Central Cinema to see Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and had a great time eating some good food, drinking beer, and watching draq queens rock it. The other day we camped in a coffeeshop and got work done while sitting on a couch with our legs entangled. Even yesterday, when Kendra fucked up her eye and we had to go to the eye doctor (a bad contact lens experience), we then spent the rest of the day napping and relaxing. So, truly, we've been recharging the batteries and enjoying some quality time. I don't know if people will ever realize how non-stop it is at our house, and actually how little time Kendra and I actually have to hang out. Part of our plan moving forward is to figure out how to work smarter instead of harder. We shoulder too much crap most times and end up carrying our team-mates when we should be getting support from them. Hopefully we'll make this work better for everyone from now on.
I think I almost know enough to write a book about when hobby/amateur projects go professional and what that does to people psychologically. Especially when it involves the arts and especially when it's late-20 and 30-somethings. It's really quite amazing to behold how some people get butted up against the "end of their youth" (I don't know if I agree with that concept btw) and psych-out in some amazing way.
I couldn't help but notice someone who I used to work with on a project who had a freakout of this nature and vanished for a year or so, only to return married with a child.... when there was no indication of either last time I saw them.
I also had a run-in with someone at a party recently whom I thought we were still on great terms, just wrapped up in our own things. They greeted me enthusiastically and then blew me off, I would almost use the word "snub". They're also going through a "make it or break it" time in their artistic career.
I don't know if it's good or bad that I seem to be wired for end-of-life persistence with regard to creating, but for now at the very least it makes for interesting people watching.
Well now that I've got a snazzy haircut there's far fewer reasons to avoid the pool. Ugh.
world of whoah
Well, quite an eventful last several days of good, bad, ugly, and sublime.
on THR, I played Rock Band for the first time. As a music-related person I find myself perplexed by the whole thing. I definitely think it can change the way people deal with music in their lives, and mostly in a good way. And, as a more interactive form of karaoke I think it's also good. But it's not like those skills transfer to real music. The buttons aren't strings, and those songs are already written. I wonder if a whole new level of musician will develop who "tours" doing Rock Band songs in cities all over the world. But, pondering aside, it's a great way to get drunk and have fun with people.
I kept it pretty chill on FRI, mostly to get ready for the Fog People show on SAT.
So, the Fog People show on SAT...
(warning, this is a long one)
I guess first off I'll apologize to anyone who came to see us. Yeah we were supposed to play for an hour but due to circumstances beyond our control we got somewhere between 20-30min (six of our twelve songs basically). I can speak for everyone else when I say we appreciate your support and next time we ask you to shell out your hard-earned money to come see us I guarantee it'll be a full show.
As a rule I don't normally do "roadhouse" shows. Those are shows where you show up with your gear, put it in a pile, wait til your name is called and rush to set it up to play for 30-45min and then get the hell off. Roadhouse shows often don't even have dressing rooms and the like. There's a place for them, I remember in 1989 opening for Enuff-Z-Nuff at Sundance on LI... an awesome memory but nothing I want to repeat.
Anyhow, we're big fans of Sepiachord and wanted to help out with his benefit show so we took the gig. I like the Jewelbox as a performance space, and it DOES have a curtain, dressing room, and decent lights. We were in great spirits all the way up until the moment before we started playing.
Since I have all this experience putting on and running shows, I often have to check my mouth when it comes to running stuff. And, being one of the bands, I indulged myself on not thinkng at all about the show itself and just on our own performance. But apparently everything in the world ran late, and we didn't know a thing about it until the sound guy mentions right before we start that we've (we being us: the Fog People) got to have all our crap outta the place by 2am. Not having a watch, I didn't realize exactly what that meant, we were having this conversation on stage mind you, breaking another cardnial rule of mine for doing shows (the audience should never have to watch you set up your gear). I protect the girls in this context and set it up so they can wait backstage. When you get as dressed up as they do it seems pretty lame to have them come out carrying cords and amps and sound-checking.
Anyhow, we start our set, about as loose as we've ever been. The sound? Oh pretty awful. Not really anyone's fault, but it becomes apparent really quickly that we're gonna have a hard time hearing our cues. But, troopers that we are we push through it. Playing live, you can get away with things a lot more easily. I don't think anyone in the place knew the mistakes we made, and the two Hands of Kali dancing with us covered up when we'd muck up the timing of songs they had choreagraphed to very specific counts. I had to do some on-the-fly lyric changes to "Human Fly" to bridge a gap here and there, but mostly we just started tearing through our set. After all the last-minute stress and awful sound and errors we were all starting to relax and rock out... and then...
"Last song guys."
That was the sound guy, over the PA to the whole venue. Now I was looking down at the foot of the stage and off to the side, where a stage manager or someone might have been giving us that cue. But no, it was the staff over the PA. I looked down at our set list and almost didn't believe him. Huh? What are you talking about we're only six songs into the set! But, at this point it seemed fine to cut our losses and do a strong song and leave. So, that's what we did. Ironically it was great.
Off the stage and back in the dressing room it's absolute chaos. Pieces of other bands are there, assorted support people are there, and my band is coming up to me wanting answers I don't have. I finally get the guys working on getting gear torn down and change out of my suit and into my pre-show clothes to haul some crap. By this time the sound guy is backstage barking at us to get our gear out of the venue so he can close and go home.
(note to readers, this is the point of the story where I had had enough of this)
So I tell him to clam it and that we're working as fast as we can. Now this guy didn't take a shining to me earlier in the night, when I stepped up to speak for the band about our sound needs he tossed off a "oh, so you're in charge?" with extra snark. So, he had been just itchin' to hear me mouth off so he could give me a face-full of it.
Well, I get everything from "you don't know what you're doing it's your second show." to "you spent all your time putting on fancy outfits" (which, tho mostly true there wasn't anything else to do) to getting personally blamed for the other bands running long. Well we lock horns for a few exchanges and then go about our respective business. I rejoin the guys who are busting ass breaking down gear. Our audience, the ones who came to see us, are out in the house talking with the girls about what the fuck is going on. The previous band, a great band called Bakelite 78 you should check out actually, are consoling us at our shortened set time. All in all I'm stewing in my own juices but I'm trying to get out of there where I can decompress in peace and quiet.
So there I am finding myself on stage with our drummer. I'm waiting for word of the cars to arrive so I can haul the giant bass amp out. The drummer is trying to talk me down. He's eternally chill and just loves to drum, so his "whatever" attitude is refreshing. I take my deep breath at his calming words and let out a sigh when the sound guy comes back. He's got two arm-fulls of glasses from tables he's helping to bus and we get into it again. This time it's about experience some more. So we go back and forth about what we've each done (in retrospect I don't see how this was helpful but I did trump him on the experience tip). He's pretty unhappy with my answer to he comes up on stage and shoves me with his chest.
No I am not kidding. His arms being full he simply bumps me with is whole body. Now, this entire time my beef wasn't with this guy, tho I didin't appreciate his own frustrated rock star attitude. So, knowing a fight is not going to help anybody, I tear him a new one, ending with a comment to go back to bussing his glasses and let us do our own job. Well he leaves, but comes back with three guys. Because you know, my mouth-ninja skills are so awesome it takes three guys to take 'em down.
Well fortunately they didn't want to get into a fight either. So his "get this guy out of my club" orders are slowly translated to "can you gather up all your stuff and leave now?". I do my dummy checks and stage everything at the door and then step out into the alley to keep the peace. At this point the cool night air is good for calming me down.
The cars arrive and loading out commences. There's still a bunch of stuff in the place and the sound guy has to ask me to come back in to help load it out, which I found pretty awesome. We get our stuff out and mostly take off in separate directions to try and make sense of it all.
They say in most jobs and situations, and especially here in Seattle, that you never make waves. Everything is about eating humble shit and taking it with a smile so as not to ruffle anyone's feathers. While I believe in a generous helping of respect, I just do not subscribe to that axiom. I've got my own interests and people to protect and that is coming to come before sucking the boot of a twitchy sound guy, dealing with a sub-par organization, or anything else. We don't spend all this time writing songs and rehearsing, getting a style team to donate their time working with our talent, convincing a dance troupe to work with us for free (as well as hair people, lighting designers, and other musicians) and pulling every favor in our books to put together the best show we can so someone can screw it up by not owning up to their part of the bargain. The answer is I'm NOT going to just suck that up and deal. We've got an audience with expectations that they've paid money for. And we've got a responsibility to them and ourselves to hit a certain quality level. Especially when it's assumed we'll do our own promo and drag out our core audience to contribute to the cause. I'm hard on myself, and I'm hard on my band, and that's because we need to deliver. And when they do their homework I'll bust the ass of anyone who screws it up by not doing their work.
And that was SAT.
(oh, that pic of my ankle is from a sprain I gave myself after Rock Band night, it didn't seem bad at the time but as you can tell it's pretty bruised. I did our show AND the following days with it)
We got a couple hours of sleep and then took off for Sasquatch. I had been looking forward to this for a long time. There's a lot of changes going on in our worlds right now and Sasquatch was the reward for it all. So we jetted off and set up a tent, packed up all our day gear and went into the festival. We spent the day lazily drinking and hanging out checking out bands. I'd never been to the Gorge or any of the festivals in this city so I was kind of prepared for the worst in a "oh crap it's Burners being themselves" kind of way. Instead I was taken back in time to the first Lollapalooza, where all the freaks just hung out and had a good time. It was totally awesome.
I don't remember the names of the smaller bands I checked out, but camped my ass on the grass to catch TV on the Radio, who were absolutely fantastic. At one point Kyp said "If someone travelled back in time and told me I would share a stage with Jane's Addiction I'd say... whoah that's cool." and Tunde replied, "Yeah, cool."
After them, NIN came out. The sun was setting, and set during their performance. Angry Trent was in a good mood and they really rocked out. As a four piece now (which I can't believe) they really sounded amazing. The venue, at and just after sunset is pretty frickin' spectacular.
Then came Jane's Addiction. One of my all-time fave bands. I was a little leery of their return, and was also getting tired so the idea of leaving after they got started was TOTALLY on the table. But, they proceeded to kick the shit out of the place. Perry was in absolute classic front-person mode, and one of his many rants went something like this: "We love you! Seeing all of you beatiful people out there, my dick gets hard, my heart swells. I want you all to fuck each other tonight."
That theme continued. His last rant was something like "You don't have to stop at midnight. Sneak into each others' tents. Take out each others cocks. Compare them. It's okay, some are bigger than others. It's a big secret that you don't have to fuck a woman deep to make her cum. Really, you just need to fuck her right. I knew a midget who used to fuck women with his fist. So that's something you might wanna try if you're a midget. Size doesn't matter...unless you're OCEAN SIZE." (yup, that was his intro to Ocean Size, my fave Jane's song of all time, and their first set closer)
The day was so long and mind-blowing in every way that when we got back to the tent and it was pointed out that 24 hours ago I was getting the verbal crap kicked outta me by the sound guy at my own band's show I could only laugh.
Well, that was a travel home and sleep all day thing. We got home at 11am, passed out until 8pm, got up and had dinner and watched Let the Right One In which was totally awesome except the sound sucked something fierce. Fine for subtitles but all the sound design was lost. The movie was absolutely amazing, and I'd recommend seeing before the inevitable english language remakes comes out in 2010. (Supposedly called "let me in" because the original title has too many words)
Well it's today! I'm piecing it all together and starting a whole new pattern of living. We've got at least a full week off from band stuff and I'm itching to get back in the swimming pool. The garden is coming along nicely
ah Spring....
Or is it Summer? No today it's Winter again. Eeesh.
The stuff we planted in our new garden is already sprouting. Cold frames are the shiznit. I don't know what it all is yet, but the next few days should see some serious growth.
Kendra got home from her trip and it was more or less my job to reacclimate her to a world where hormones other than estrogen reside. We got some food, took a killer nap, took the bus downtown and saw Star Trek, and caught a cab home to have a nightcap (make that several) and debrief each other on our goings on.
It's always eerie to me how our projects parallel each other most of the time. We both have vacancies in each of ours and we jibber-jabbered about how to best proceed dealing with that.
We had to take the bus downtown because our dying radiator died. I was on my way home from band practice and WHOOMP a loud noise! I got home and popped the hood and the radiator itself had cracked right open. Eep! Forunately, we had several days earlier ordered a new one.
So, this morning we got up and the first thing I did was take the radiator-sized box on our steps and get my toolbag. I had to be downtown at 12:30 and at 11:15 I decided to try and get the new radiator installed. Well believe it or not I actually succeeded, and now the Jeep is a fully functioning monster beast again.
Oh, so Star Trek: It was fun. Sometimes a little heavy-handed and sometimes buckling under the weight of its own cliche, but still fun. The score actually bothered me quite a bit. way too much, like, all the time. I think the McCoy dude was my fave.
I took my mechanical victory and tried to double-down on the loaned lawn mower we have. Still not much luck. I suspect some gunk got in the engine, and it may not have enough suction in the fuel tank to power the beast, so I'll try filling it up again and see if it goes. I GOTTA get the front mowed.
I spent my bachelor weekend mostly recording my departing singer's vox, which was by and large successful.
We've got our last show with her coming up this SAT, an event for which I still need to find some suitable clothes for. I went and measured the stage today and have no idea on the best way to configure us all. But I've developed a strangely punk-rock attitude about the whole thing. I'm just gonna go and rock out for about 45 min. and am not letting much else really bug me about it.
The cats, who have done nothing but sleep since Kendra left, celebrated her return by barfing all over the place. We woke up to piles and piles of cat barf in every shape, size, and state of matter (well, I guess not gaseous, but definitely solid and liquid). I mean sheesh.
Since we last spoke...
Whew, well what with Facebook being the hip new thing, I've been spending less time dilligently updating. As a result, there's too much for me to remember so how about short little bits of updateliness?
Kendra is out of town as of this morning until MON. I'm already lonely and bored. By MON I'll be keeping my urine in milk containers and speaking in tongues.
We started the garden! Tilled and planted. Just in time for yet another cold snap. WTF?
We ordered a new radiator for the Jeep, it's the only thing not working 100% at this point so I"m going to replace all my myself.
Recently helped CZN shoot a video. I loved not being an important player in the whole thing. I just showed up and did what I was told. Liberating in a weird way.
Struck Kefee at ToJ, painted their floor twice.
Fog People have a show coming up: 5/23 at the Jewelbox. Our last before one of my vocalists moves back to TX. As a result I'm spending a lot of time between now and then also trying to squeeze in some final vox recording. At least it should help speed up the record getting finished. And, if it wasn't obvious, we'll be looking for a new singer.
We kicked off our Summer party season with an impromptu firepit hang. Used up nearly all the wood oddly enough.
Weekend epic win.
I don't recall the origin of the phrase "celebrate the victories because they are few" (Bartlett's peeps feel free to school me on this one), but this was simply a wonderful weekend and I'm letting my glee from it carry me into the week.
We went and caught Annex's show, Love's Tangled Web. After a thrashing review appeared in the Weekly (and, to be honest, a pretty lame crappy review, if that makes sense) it only strengthened my resolve to check it out. And you know what? It was very close to what I thought it would be: a silly, fun, gay hootenanny. I actually enjoyed being able to go see a show that wasn't trying to change the world or bring the plight of some tragedy to light (which is also why I never find myself at the Film Forum...I even had free passes that expired because there never was anything I wanted to see).
Anyhow, we got to check out the new burrito place (in the old KFC) before retiring for the evening.
We helped out Gude/Laurance shoot some video for an upcoming Spin the Bottle performance. I helped summon extra ladies for the "lady filled fun fest" that ensued, which included filming ear-porn, a first for me!
I got some studio work done and then off to dinner with some delightful friends we've been trying to schedule for months. An awesome evening!! Fantastic food, good conversation, we even played a game (Kendra won). It was actually very reassuring to hear similar tales of projects in motion and goals to achieve from people we like and respect... and actually in contrast it made our own plans and business models seem quite mature and healthy. Who knew?
We ended the night popping into ToST to catch the last residency show of Deepsleep Narcotics Company... and wow have they got some kickass new songs. But with all the food and booze (including the best flan I've ever had) we had to go to sleep.
A looooooooong sleep-filled night, a slow start to the day mapping out a garden and playing with the cats, running some laundry. Then off to Fog People rehearsal, our first in a month. Fortunately, it was heaps fun AND we got a lot of work done getting ready for our second show on MAY 23rd. (SAT, mark your calendars) At the Jewelbox. More info on this to come.
Afterwards, Kendra and I grabbed a nightcap at the Twilight Exit. It was karaoke night... ugh. I don't mind it in general, but the problem with the new Twilight Exit is that the walls are very flat and firm, so it ALWAYS sounds loud in the place, even when there's only two people in there. So there was nowhere to sit where the ear-drum-crushing renditions of bad songs wasn't driving a knife through my head. But, we had two drinks and then came home and had another deep deep sleep.
Simple and fun.... hot damn.
Stone Thrower (or Passer at least)
Last night I was alone in the house for the evening and I went to bed early with all things pointing towards normalness. Barely got through an episode of American Dad! (which I like better than other animated shows these days) and conked out.
Sometime around 4am I woke up with a distinct feeling of pain. The pain seemed to be in my lower left side. It quickly grew to UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE proportions and I was writhing around trying to do anything to make it hurt less.
Now, don't get me wrong, I've got a pretty high pain threshold, and I'm reasonably in tune with my body and all that. But lemme tell ya this was so bad I grabbed the laptop and started Googling: "intense abdominal pain" and "emergency care clinic, seattle"
Well, my "still somewhat asleep" brain began some self-diagnosing. I moved around (looking pretty pathetic: hunched over and whatnot) and went to the bathroom, figuring it might be gastro-intestinal related. It didn't FEEL like that kind of pain, it certainly was way more intense and whatnot, and to keep this part of the story short, basic tests seemed to point towards something else.
I figured it might be a muscle injury or hernia, but moving muscles in that area didn't seem to make it more or less sensitive. Really NOTHING made it less sensitive.
Plus, the pain seemed to come from inside the muscle wall, and my biological memory seemed to indicate the only real organ that might be there was a kidney. "Oh great," I thought, "All alone in the house, no insurance, and Renal Failure."
I flopped around like a fish for the better part of an hour, doing pregnant-lady breathing tricks and occasionally trying to read some more webmd and wikipedia. I kept trying to set some guidelines for when to bail out and seek professional help. Since it would require gretting dressed, driving, AND trying to talk to people in my state, I was very against it. Barring trauma of some kind, it seems to me immediate-need cases are much more subtle in their immediacy (sounds weird, but a broken toe hurts more than a stroke)
Anyhow, I finally said, "I need to do something about this fucking pain or I'm going to hurl myself out the window". So I prepared my treatment: Okee I hurt like fuck so a Vicodin is in the mix for sure. Even if it ends up being liver failure (which would make Vicodin not-so-good an idea) at least I'll have a smile on my face. Anti-inflamatory drugs are nearly always awesome, and since the pain kind of reminds me of a sinus infection from years ago I'll take a bunch of those. If it's kidney related some kind of flushing of it out is always good, plus if it's GI water is STILL a good bet. So, I gobbled that all down, chugged water like crazy through a sippy cup, and went back to writhing around.
Shortly before 6am, either the problem went away or the medicine kicked in, and I found myself shallow breathing in a prone state. I had stropped flopping around and was able to lay there. The only noticeable symptoms after that were intense hot/cold changes, and sometimes both at the same time.
The next day my whole torso was sore from all the abdominal contractions my muscles were doing, and tho the area is still tender, the pain is gone. My normal bathroom processes still seemed normal, so my diagnosis turned towards kidney stones.
Well, I'm not gonna tell you I'm so totally awesome (hopefully you've figured that out for yourself), since I could easily be wrong still. But here's what I learned:
The diagram shows where pain would be, which is EXACTLY where the pain was. Other symptoms:
extreme pain in your back or side that will not go away
blood in your urine
fever and chills
urine that smells bad or looks cloudy
a burning feeling when you urinate
Now I didn't have any blood, and I thought I only felt nauseous because of the pain, but sheesh "fever and chills"? Okee, lets take this forward and see where it goes. How do you TREAT kidney stones?
"Increased hydration...Similarly, drugs may be reasonably effective orally in an outpatient setting for less severe discomfort where nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories or opioids such as codeine or hydrocodone can be prescribed"
BOO-YA! Call me DR. HAYES from now on, yo.
Today I'm mostly back to feeling fine, just a little weak and woozy. Plenty of fluids. I suppose if I'm wrong at some point I'm going to pass gass and blow the house apart... or if I'm right I may just get re-introduced to mr. stone at the exit area of my urinary system... and engagement I'm NOT looking forward to. But given how much water I've moved in the last 24 hours... I think I'm just going to enjoy my small victory and milk it a little bit longer.
One-two-three punch of fun.
Well, on WED night I attended DARK AVENUE, and got suitably tipsy (drunk). By the time FRI rolled around and I found myself having completed several major items on my list, I knew it was time to cut loose.
So, J9's bday party was first up, and I came rolling in with more flowers than should be legal. A bouquet for the guest of honor, two for the wife, and the rest distributed to every awesome lady I saw until I ran out. (note to self: buy more flowers).
Well, what you DON'T know is that before that I had drinks with some other peeps, and since I don't want to put back on this weight that's been going away I mostly stayed away from the fried food platters. As a result, Empty-Stomach-Michael was on his SECOND watering hole of the night (oh but don't worry, I flasked it between the two...)
Long story short, we went out to several places and they quickly blurred together. Tho no animals were harmed in the making of this story, it did make for a slow start on SAT.
Meanwhile the whole time I've been doing a deep clean of my studio, which ended up taking three days. Eesh.
SAT we attended a double-lesbian birthday backyard bbq. Oh hell yes.
Lemme tell you somethin' about lesbian parties: they're ironic versions of sausage fests. We had everything: shots of tequila, lots of yelling, and yes even a fist-fight that broke out (no kidding, actually during an ARM WRESTLING activity). I, personally, LOVED IT. To be honest, it reminded me of home, and I gave everyone props for just being so dang real about it all. Fortunately, ultimately being women, they stopped long before stupid non-ironic men would go to truly awful places, so it ended up being a blast. And, I ate three hot dogs cooked over an open fire. Boo ya.
Today I completed cleaning the studio, drawing a nice line in the sand where my focus can snow shift to other projects. And there are several, including a bunch of household ones I want to hit whilst I'm still unemployed (right, gotta get on that) AND the greenery is surging.
I just found out about True Blood. How the heck did an Alan Ball-helmed vampire series get by me?
fog people
hands of kali
One of my best days evar. — 0
Annnnnnnnd... GO — 0
A note from my future self? — 0
Did you think I went to rehab? — 0
world of whoah — 2
ah Spring.... — 1
Since we last spoke... — 1
Weekend epic win. — 0
Stone Thrower (or Passer at least) — 3
One-two-three punch of fun. — 0
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General News Sun, 21 Oct 2018
Anas drops hint of another explosive exposé on BBC
When many were of the view that ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas will pull the brakes on his undercover work after the infamous Number 12, he is springing another surprise for those taking into account latest developments.
A teaser of an interview just released by the BBC and sighted by MyNewsGh.com reveals that the most revered African journalist has something up his sleeves which may soon explode.
He explains to the interviewer his reasons for wearing the face masks and his resolve to go after the bad guys in society.
From the interview MyNewsGh.com watched, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) another explosive is set to hit the world but no specifics have been stated.
According to him, his work as an investigative journalist is not for selfish interest but to push for the development of the frontiers of democracy of the country which must be a collective interest of all its citizens.
“My kind of journalism is extreme and I can see that from your faces. I do what I do because I’m a product of my society. Everything I do is what has been mirrored back to me by you.
I think that we have an extreme disease. So we set off for that mission to film or to investigate.
Who is says it is enjoyable to be standing before you wearing a mask. I would have loved to removed it, walked with, spoken to you and all that.
But hey it is not a bed of roses. We have to understand that if the frontiers of democracy are going to be pushed it must be a collective effort”, he disclosed.
Ahmed Suale was killed in the pursuit of truth – Anas
PRINPAG issues two-week ultimatum to police to find killers of Ahmed Suale
Ahmed Hussein-Suale’s family disappointed killers still not grabbed
Seek redress at Human Rights Council – Sammy Darko to family of Suale
Invoke international powers to pursue justice – Amnesty Int’l to Ahmed Suale’s family
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General News Sun, 30 Sep 2018
Mahama explains how well he will run NPP's Free SHS if elected President
NDC flagbearer hopeful, John Mahama has explained how well he would run the NPP's Free Senior High School (SHS) policy if he is elected President in the upcoming 2020 general election.
John Mahama, who is currently touring the Central Region to gain the mandate of delegates of the party as the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ahead of the 2020 general polls, told party faithful in the Cape Coast North Constituency that he will institute a national stakeholders’ conference to develop strategies to make the programme more effective.
“We shall come together and decide on the proper implementation of Free SHS,” he said.
According to Mahama, the NDC has “done it before”.
The former President also pointed out that under the tenure of fellow flagbearer contender Ekwow Spio–Garbrah as Minister of Education in the Rawlings administration, the government organised a national conference on education and invited teachers, the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Organise Labour and other associations to deliberate on the best way forward for Ghana’s education.
It was at that conference, Mr Mahama said, that “a decision was taken to introduce the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETfund) as a means of financing education in Ghana”.
He, therefore, vowed that he if gets the mandate to become President again, he would organise a similar conference that will culminate in the production of strategies that will ensure that the Free SHS programme is better-run under his presidency than what the Akufo-Addo government is currently doing.
However, President Akufo-Addo has stated that the determination by some elements within the National Democratic Congress to “review the Free Senior High School policy if voted into office” only means the eventual collapse of the policy.
According to President Akufo-Addo, the Ghanaian people should be alarmed by the proposal of the NDC and its presidential aspirant, John Dramani Mahama, for a review of the Free SHS policy – a policy which has ensured that 270,000 more Ghanaian children, in 2017 and 2018, have gained access to Senior High School.
“I am alarmed by this concept of the review. This is because anytime our political opponents try anything of this sort, it leads the policy in question into a coma. We all remember the NHIS one-term premium payment review pledge. Not only did the review not materialize, but they also succeeded in degrading the policy,” the President lamented.
He continued, “I honestly suspect reviewing the Free SHS policy means collapsing it. But, I doubt the Ghanaian people will allow this brilliant policy to be collapsed by anyone.”
Source: primenewsghana.com
Free SHS is our most successful programme – Education Minister
Free SHS has improved education in zongo communities - Mustapha Hamid
Auditor, Peki SHS bursar in custody over alleged foodstuff ‘bribe’
Akufo-Addo’s free SHS has saved me troubles – Coach Opeele Boateng
Akuapem North Assembly to end Double Track System
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The ISO 4217 currency code for Sri Lankan Rupee.
See: Letter of credit
The two-character ISO 3166 country code for LIBERIA.
The ISO 4217 currency code for the Liberian Dollar.
The two-character ISO 3166 country code for LESOTHO.
The ISO 4217 currency code for the Lesotho Loti.
The two-character ISO 3166 country code for LITHUANIA.
The ISO 4217 currency code for the Lithuanian Litas.
See: Loan-to-value ratio
The two-character ISO 3166 country code for LUXEMBOURG.
The ISO 4217 currency code for the Luxembourg Franc.
The two-character ISO 3166 country code for LATVIA.
The ISO 4217 currency code for the Latvian Lats.
The two-character ISO 3166 country code for LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA.
The ISO 4217 currency code for the Libyan Dinar.
See: Liquid yield option note
Ladder strategy
A bond portfolio construction strategy that invests approximately equal amounts in every maturity within a given range.
Lady Macbeth Strategy
Strategy in which a third party poses as a white knight in a takeover bid, and then joins forces with an unfriendly bidder.
A curve conjecturing that economic output will increase if marginal tax rates are cut. Named after economist Arthur Laffer.
Payment of a financial obligation later than is expected or required, as in lead and lag. Also, the number of periods that an independent variable in a regression model is "held back" in order to predict the dependent variable.
Lag response of prepayments
A delay of typically about three months between the time the weighted-average coupon of an MBS pool crosses the threshold for refinancing and observation of an acceleration in prepayment speed is observed.
Strategy used by a firm to stall payments, normally in response to exchange rate projections.
Lagging indicators
Economic indicators that follow rather than precede the country's overall pace of economic activity. See also: Leading indicators and coincident indicators.
Laisse-faire
Doctrine that a government should not interfere with business and economic affairs.
The ratio of a change in the option price to a small change in the option volatility. It is the partial derivative of the option price with respect to the option volatility.
A method of real estate financing; a mortgage-holding seller finances a buyer by taking a down payment and subsequent payments in installments, but holds the title until the mortgage is fully repaid.
A property owner who rents property to a tenant.
Lapsed option
An option that no longer has any value because it has reached its expiration date without being exercised.
A stock with a high level of capitalization, usually at least $5 billion market value.
Last in, first out (LIFO)
An accounting method that fixes the cost of goods sold to the most recent purchases. Hence, if prices are generally rising, LIFO will lead to lower accounting profitability.
The most recent trade performed in a security.
Last split
After a stock split, the number of shares distributed for each share held and the date of the distribution.
Last trading day
The final day under an exchange's rules during which trading may take place in a particular futures or options contract. Contracts outstanding at the end of the last trading day must be settled by delivery of underlying physical commodities or financial instruments, or by agreement for monetary settlement, depending futures contract specifications.
Late charge
A fee a credit grantor charges a borrower for a late payment.
Late tape
A delay in the display of price changes on the tape of an exchange because of heavy trading. In severe instances the first digit of each price is intentionally deleted.
Launder
To move illegally acquired cash through financial systems so that it appears to be legally acquired.
Law of large numbers
The mean of a random sample approaches the mean (expected value) of the population as sample size increases.
Law of one price
An economic rule stating that a given security must have the same price no matter how the security is created. If the payoff of a security can be synthetically created by a package of other securities, the implication is that the price of the package and the price of the security whose payoff it replicates must be equal. If it is unequal, an arbitrage opportunity would present itself.
In the context of general equities, this eliminates all or part of a position by finding customers or other dealers to take the position.
Layup
Used in the context of general equities. Easily executed trade or order. See: Lead pipe.
Payment of a financial obligation earlier than is expected or required.
The commercial or investment bank with the primary responsibility for organizing syndicated bank credit or bond issued. The lead manager recruits additional lending or underwriting banks, negotiates terms of the issue with the issuer, and assesses market conditions.
Lead pipe
Used in the context of general equities. Virtually certain that trade will take place; lead pipe cinch. See: Layup.
Lead regulator
A leading self-regulatory organization that over sees compliance with a particular section of the law, such as the NYSE, ASE, or NASDAQ.
Lead underwriter
The head of a syndicate of financial firms that are sponsoring an initial public offering of securities or a secondary offering of securities. Could also apply to bond issues.
A stock or group of stocks that is the first to move in a market upsurge or downturn.
Strategy used by a firm to accelerate payments, normally in response to exchange rate expectations.
Economic series that tend to rise or fall in advance of the rest of the economy.
A change in a measurable economic factor that is evident before the economy starts to follow a specific trend.
Leading and lagging
Refers to timing of cash flows within a corporation.
Leading the market
In the context of general equities, this is a stock or group of stocks moving with the market as a whole, but moving in advance of the general market.
Release of information selectively or not before official public announcement.
A long-term rental agreement, and a form of secured long-term debt.
Lease acquisition cost
The legal fees and other expenses incurred when acquiring a lease.
An asset providing the right to use property under a lease agreement.
Leasehold improvement
An improvement made to leased property.
Lease-purchase agreement
An agreement that allows for portions of lease payments to be used to purchase the leased property.
Lease rate
The payment per period stated in a lease contract.
A transaction that involves the sale of some property, and an agreement by the seller to lease the property back from the buyer after the sale.
Used in the context of general equities. Remains to buy or sell of a previously entered order after a report of partial execution has been given. If the floor broker to buy 20M IBM at $115, and he then buys 6M at this price, his report would be, "You bought 6M IBM at $115; leaves 14."
Ledger cash
A firm's cash balance as reported in its financial statements. Also called book cash.
A prolonged trend in stock market prices, such as a multiple-period bull market; or, an option that is one side of a spread transaction. See: Lifting a leg.
Used in the context of general equities. (1)Have a portion of the offsetting side of a trade in your pocket (spoken for) so your capital risk in the transaction is reduced. (Purchase of 10,000 of a 50,000 buy order leaves the trader a "leg up".) (2) Complete one side of a two-sided transaction, as in a swap or contingency order.
A computerized database maintained by the NYSE to keep track of enforcement actions, audits, and complaints against member firms. This term is not an acronym but is referred to in capitals.
Legal capital
Value at which a company's shares are recorded in its books.
Legal bankruptcy
A legal proceeding for liquidating or reorganizing a business.
Legal defeasance
The deposit of cash and permitted securities, as specified in the bond indenture, into an irrevocable trust sufficient to enable the issuer to fully discharge its obligations under the bond indenture.
A person or organization that can legally enter into a contract, and may therefore be sued for failure to comply with the terms of the contract.
Legal investments
Investments that a regulated entity is permitted to make under the rules and regulations that govern its conduct.
Legal list
A list of high-quality debt and equity securities chosen by a state agency that are acceptable holdings for fiduciary institutions.
Legal monopoly
A government-regulated firm that is legally entitled to be the only company offering a particular service in a particular area.
A statement, usually written by a specialized law firm, required for a new municipal bond issue stating that the issue is legally acceptable.
Legal transfer
A stock transaction that requires special documentation in addition to standard stock or bond power to be legally valid.
Legislative risk
The risk that new or changed legislation will have a large positive or negative effect on an investment.
Used in the context of general equities. Real interest in trading as compared to a profile stance. See: Natural.
Lehman Brothers Adjustable-Rate Mortgage Index
A benchmark index that includes all agency-guaranteed securities with coupons that periodically adjust based on a spread over a published index.
Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Index
A benchmark index made up of the Lehman Brothers Government/Corporate Bond Index, Mortgage-Backed Securities Index, and Asset-Backed Securities Index, including securities that are of investment-grade quality or better, have at least one year to maturity, and have an outstanding par value of at least $100 million.
Lehman Brothers California Municipal Bond Index
A benchmark index that includes investment-grade, tax-exempt, and fixed-rate bonds issued in California. All securities have long-term maturities (greater than two years) and are selected from issues larger than $50 million.
Lehman Brothers Corporate Bond Index
A benchmark index that includes all publicly issued, fixed-rate, nonconvertible, dollar-denominated, SEC-registered, investment-grade corporate debt.
Lehman Brothers Government Bond Index
A benchmark index made up of the Treasury Bond Index and the Agency Bond Index as well as the 1-3 Year Government Index and the 20+ Year Treasury Index.
Lehman Brothers Government/Corporate Bond Index
A benchmark index made up of the Lehman Brothers® Government and Corporate Bond indexes, including U.S. government Treasury and agency securities as well as corporate and Yankee bonds.
Lehman Brothers Mortgage-Backed Securities Index
A benchmark index that includes 15- and 30-year fixed-rate securities backed by mortgage pools of the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), and Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA).
Lehman Brothers Municipal Bond Index
A benchmark index that includes investment-grade, tax-exempt, and fixed-rate bonds with long-term maturities (greater than two years) selected from issues larger than $50 million.
Lehman Brothers New York Municipal Bond Index
A benchmark index that includes investment-grade, tax-exempt, and fixed-rate bonds issued in the state of New York. All securities have long-term maturities (greater than two years) and are selected from issues larger than $50 million.
An investment with poor results.
Lemons problem
Named after 2001 Nobel Laureate George Akerlof's 1970 paper "The Market for Lemons". His original example had to do with used cars. Why does the seller want to get rid of the car? It might be a lemon. The buyer and seller have asymmetric information. Hence, the buyer will demand a deep discount on the car because of the possibility it is a lemon.
To provide money temporarily on the condition that it or its equivalent will be returned, often with an interest fee.
Lendable funds
The pool of funds available to borrows; typically categorized by currency and maturity.
Businesses that provide loans to others.
Lender of last resort
Traditionally the Federal Reserve Bank in the US, which assists banks that face large withdrawals of funds and in so doing stabilizes the banking system.
Lender liability lawsuits
Legal action of debtor against creditors that alleges unfair enforcement of loan covenants or violation of implied terms of a loan agreement.
Lending agreement
A contract regarding funds transferred between a lender and a borrower.
Lending at a premium
A loan from one broker to another of securities to cover a customer's short position, with a borrowing fee included. A fee is unusual since securities are normally lent freely between brokers.
Lending at a rate
Interest paid to a customer on the credit balance received from a short sale.
Lending securities
Securities borrowed from a broker's inventory, from another customer's margin account, or from another broker, when a customer is required to deliver on a short sale.
Leptokurtosis
The condition of a probability density curve to have fatter tails and a higher peak at the mean than the normal distribution.
Less-developed countries (LDCs)
Also known as emerging markets. Countries who's per capita GDP is below a World Bank-determined level.
Less Than Container Load
Shipments of less than container load size (<$50,000).
An entity that leases an asset from another entity.
An entity that leases an asset to another entity.
Letter of Administration
A certificate issued by the Court evidencing the appointment of the Administrator of an Estate.
Letter of comment
A communication to the firm from the SEC that suggests changes to its registration statement.
Letter of credit (LOC)
A form of guarantee of payment issued by a bank on behalf of a borrower that assures the payment of interest and repayment of principal on bond issues.
A letter from a bank to a brokerage firm which states that a customer (who has written a call option) does indeed own the underlying stock and the bank will guarantee delivery if the call is assigned. Thus the call can be considered covered. Not all brokerage firms accept letters of guarantee. Also: letter issued to Option Clearing Corporation by member firms covering a guarantee of any trades made by one of its customers, (a trader or broker on the exchange floor).
An assurance by a mutual fund shareholder that a certain amount of money will be invested monthly, in exchange for lower sales charges. In mergers, a preliminary merger agreement between companies after significant negotiations.
Letter stock
Privately placed common stock, so-called because the SEC requires a letter from the purchaser stating that the stock is not intended for resale.
Letter of Testamentary
A certificate issued by the court evidencing the appointment of an executor of estate.
Letter of Transmittal
A document used by security holder to accompany certificates surrendered in an exchange or other corporate action.
Used in the context of general equities. Price measure of an indication.
Level-coupon bond
Bond with a stream of coupon payments that remain the same throughout the life of the bond.
Level debt service
A municipal charter provision that debt payments must be relatively equal from year to year so that required revenue projections are easier.
Level load
A mutual fund that charges a permanent sales charge, usually at some fixed percentage. See: Front-end loads and back-end loads.
Level pay
Scheduling principal and interest payments (P&I) due under a mortgage so that total monthly payment of P&I is the same. Different from the typical mortgage for which the principal payment component of the monthly payment becomes gradually greater while the monthly interest component shrinks.
Level term insurance
A life insurance policy with a fixed face value and increasing premiums.
The use of debt financing, or property of rising or falling at a proportionally greater amount than comparable investments. For example, an option is said to have high leverage compared to the underlying stock because a given price change in the stock may result in a greater increase or decrease in the value of the option.
Leverage clientele
A group of shareholders who, because of their personal leverage, seek to invest in corporations that maintain a compatible degree of corporate leverage.
Leverage ratios
Measures of the relative value of stockholders, capitalization, and creditors obligations, and of the firm's ability to pay financing charges. Value of firm's debt to the total value of the firm (debt plus stockholder capitalization).
Leverage rebalancing
Making transactions to adjust (rebalance) a firm's leverage ratio to a target ratio.
Leveraged beta
The beta of a leveraged required return; that is, the beta as adjusted for the degree of leverage in the firm's capital structure.
Leveraged buyout (LBO)
A transaction used to take a public corporation private that is financed through debt such as bank loans and bonds. Because of the large amount of debt relative to equity in the new corporation, the bonds are typically rated below investment-grade, properly referred to as high-yield bonds or junk bonds. Investors can participate in an LBO through either the purchase of the debt (i.e., purchase of the bonds or participation in the bank loan) or the purchase of equity through an LBO fund that specializes in such investments.
Leveraged company
A company that has debt in its capital structure.
Leveraged equity
Stock in a firm that relies on financial leverage. Holders of leveraged equity experience the benefits and costs of using debt.
Leveraged investment company
An investment company or mutual fund entitled to borrow capital for its operations. Also, an investment company that issues both income shares and capital shares.
Leveraged lease
A lease arrangement under which the lessor borrows a large proportion of the funds needed to purchase the asset. The lender has a lien on the assets and a pledge of the lease payments to secure the borrowing.
Leveraged portfolio
A portfolio that includes risky assets purchased with funds borrowed.
Leveraged recapitalization
Often used in risk arbitrage. A public company takes on significant additional debt with the purpose of either paying an extraordinary dividend or repurchasing shares, leaving the public shareholders with a continuing interest in a more financially leveraged company. Popular form of shark repellent See: Stub.
Leveraged required return
The required return on an investment when the investment is financed partially by debt.
Leveraged stock
Stocks financed with credit, such as that purchased on a margin account.
Levered portfolio
Investment at least partially financed by borrowing.
A financial obligation, or the cash outlay that must be made at a specific time to satisfy the contractual terms of such an obligation.
Liability funding strategies
Investment strategies that select assets so that cash flows will equal or exceed the client's obligations.
Insurance guarding against damage or loss that the policyholder, may cause another person in the form of bodily injury or property damage.
Liability swap
An interest rate swap used to alter the cash flow characteristics of an institution's liabilities so as to provide a better match with its assets.
A contract by which a domestic company (the licensor) allows a foreign company (the licensee) to market its products in a foreign country in return for royalties, fees, or other forms of compensation.
Arrangement in which a local firm in the host country produces goods in accordance with another firm's (the licensing firm's) specifications; as the goods are sold, the local firm can retain part of the earnings.
A security interest in one or more assets that lenders hold in exchange for secured debt financing.
Life annuity
An annuity that pays a fixed amount for the lifetime of the annuitant.
The lifetime of a product or business, from its creation to its demise or transformation.
The length of time that an average person is expected to live, which is used by insurance companies use to make projections of benefit payouts.
An insurance policy that pays a monetary benefit to the insured person's survivors after death.
Life insurance in force
The dollar amount of life insurance that a company has issued, measured as the sum of policy face values and dividends paid.
Life insurance policy
The contract that sets out the terms of life insurance coverage.
Lifetime reverse mortgage
A type of mortgage in which a homeowner borrows against the value a home, while retaining title, and making no payments while residing in the home. When the owner ceases living in the house, the property is sold, and the loan repaid.
An increase in securities prices, as shown by some economic indicator.
Refers to over-the-counter trading. Having an offer taken in a stock, followed by the market maker raising the offer price.
Lifting a leg
Closing out one side of a long-short arbitrage before the other is closed.
Selling some part of a stock or bond position in a portfolio to realize capital gains or to losses or increase cash assets.
Lima Stock Exchange
Peru's major securities market.
See Trading Limit.
Limit Cycles
An attractor for non-linear dynamic systems which has periodic cycles or orbits in phase space. An example is an undamped pendulum which will have a closed circle orbit equal to the amplitude of the pendulum's swing. See: Attractor, Phase Space.
Limit on close order
An order to buy or sell stock at the closing price only if the price is at a predetermined level or better.
An order to buy a stock at or below a specified price, or to sell a stock at or above a specified price. For instance, you could tell a broker "buy me 100 shares of XYZ Corp at $8 or less" or "sell 100 shares of XYZ at $10 or better" The customer specifies a price, and the order can be executed only if the market reaches or betters that price. A conditional trading order designed to avoid the danger of adverse unexpected price changes.
Limit order book
A record of unexecuted limit orders maintained by the specialist. These orders are treated equally with other orders in terms of priority of execution.
Limit order information system
The electronic system supplying information about securities traded on participating exchanges so that the best securities prices can be found.
Limit price
See: Maximum price fluctuation
Limit up, limit down
The maximum price change allowed for a commodity futures contract per trading day.
Limitation on asset dispositions
A bond covenant that restricts in some way a firm's ability to sell major assets.
Limitation on conversion
Applies mainly to convertible securities. Possible delay in convertibility. More frequently, the right to convert may be terminable prior to a redemption date, preventing the holder from receiving a final coupon or dividend. See: Accrued interest.
Limitation on liens
A bond covenant that restricts in some way a firm's ability to grant liens on its assets.
Limitation on merger, consolidation, or sale
A bond covenant that restricts in some way a firm's ability to merge or consolidate with another firm.
Limitation on sale-and-leaseback
A bond covenant that restricts in some way a firm's ability to enter into sale-and-leaseback transactions, financing techniques that could affect creditor thinness..
Limitation on subsidiary borrowing
A bond covenant that restricts in some way a firm's ability to borrow at the level of firm subsidiary.
A form of business commonly used in the U.K. comparable to incorporation in the U.S.
Limited discretion
Permission by a client that allows a broker to make certain stock and option trades without first consulting the client about the trade.
Limited flexibility exchange rate system
The International Monetary Fund's name for an exchange rate system with a managed float.
Limitation of loss to what has already been invested.
Limited-liability instrument
A security, such as a call option, in which the owner can lose only the initial investment.
Limited partner
A partner who has limited legal liability for the obligations of the partnership.
A partnership that includes one or more partners who have limited liability.
Limited payment policy
Life insurance providing full life protection but requiring premiums for only part of the customer's lifetime.
Limited risk
The risk inherent in options contracts, which is much lower than that of a futures contract, which has unlimited risk. The maximum loss in buying a call option, for example, is the premium paid for the option.
Limited price order
Used in the context of general equities. See: Limit order.
Limited-tax general obligation bond
A general obligation bond of a government backed by specified or constrained revenue sources.
A warranty with certain conditions and limitations on the parts covered, type of damage covered, and/or time period for which the agreement is good.
An informal loan arrangement between a bank and a customer allowing the customer to borrow up to a prespecified amount.
Technique for finding the maximum value of some equation, subject to stated linear constraints.
A statistical technique for fitting a straight line to a set of data points.
Linking method
Method for calculating rates of return that multiplies one plus the interim rate of return.
Lintner's observations
John Lintner's work (1956) suggests that dividend policy is related both a target level, and to the speed of adjustment of change in dividends.
Lipper Mutual Fund Industry Average
The average level of performance for all mutual funds, as reported by Lipper Analytical Services.
Liquid asset
Asset that is easily and cheaply turned into cash-notably, cash itself and short-term securities.
Liquid market
A market allowing the buying or selling of large quantities of an asset at any time and at low transactions costs.
Liquid yield option note (LYON)
Zero-coupon, callable, putable, convertible bond developed by Merrill Lynch & Co.
Liquidating dividend
Payment by a firm to its owners from capital rather than from earnings.
Occurs when a firm's business is terminated. Assets are sold, proceeds are used to pay creditors, and any leftovers are distributed to shareholders. Any transaction that offsets or closes out a long or short position. Related: Buy in, evening up, offset liquidity.
Liquidation by assignment
Sale or realization of a debtor firm's assets voluntarily agreed to by its creditors who estimate that the firm's liquidation value exceeds its going-concern value.
Liquidation rights
The rights of a firm's securityholders in the event the firm liquidates.
Liquidation value
Net amount that could be realized by selling the assets of a firm after paying the debt.
Person appointed by an unsecured creditor in the United Kingdom to oversee the sale of an insolvent firm's assets and the repayment of its debts.
A high level of trading activity, allowing buying and selling with minimum price disturbance. Also, a market characterized by the ability to buy and sell with relative ease. Antithesis of illiquidity.
Liquidity diversification
Investing in a variety of maturities to reduce the price risk to which holding long bonds exposes the investor.
Liquidity Fund
A California company that buys real estate limited partnership interests at 25% to 35% lower than the current value of the real estate assets.
Liquidity preference hypothesis
The argument that greater liquidity is valuable, all else equal. Also, the theory that the forward rate exceeds expected future interest rates.
Liquidity premium
Forward rate minus expected future short-term interest rate.
Ratios that measure a firm's ability to meet its short-term financial obligations on time, such as the ratio of current assets to current liabilities.
The risk that arises from the difficulty of selling an asset in a timely manner. It can be thought of as the difference between the "true value" of the asset and the likely price, less commissions.
Liquidity theory of the term structure
A biased expectations theory that asserts that the implied forward rates will not be a pure estimate of the market's expectations of future interest rates because they embody a liquidity premium.
Lisbon Stock Exchange (LSE)
Stock exchange trading stocks, bonds, and unit trusts. The BVL general index is the exchange's official index.
Listed firm
A company whose stock trades on a stock exchange, and conforms to listing requirements.
Listed option
An option that has been accepted for trading on an exchange.
Listed security
Stock or bond that has been accepted for trading by one of the organized and registered securities exchanges in the United States. Generally, the advantages of being listed are that exchanges provide: (1) an orderly marketplace; (2) liquidity; (3) fair price determination; (4) accurate and continuous reporting on sales and quotations; (5) information on listed companies; and (6) strict regulation for the protection of securityholders. Antithesis of OTC Security.
Stocks that are traded on an exchange.
In the context of real estate, written agreement between a property owner and a real estate broker that gives the broker permission to find a buyer or tenant for some property. See: Listing broker.
In the context of equity, when a stock is traded in exchange it is said to be listed. A licensed real estate broker who completes a listing of a property for sale.
Requirements, including minimum shares outstanding, market value, and income, that are laid down by an exchange for any stock to be listed for trading.
Life insurance benefits from which the insured can draw cash while still living, usually in the case of some high-cost illness.
A trust that an individual establishes during the individual's lifetime, enabling the person to control the assets contributed to the trust. Also known as an inter vivos trust.
A document specifying the kind of medical care a person wants-or does not want-in the event of terminal illness or incapacity.
Lloyds of London
A marketplace in London for underwriting syndicates.
The sales fee charged to an investor when shares are purchased in a load fund or annuity. See: Bank-end load; front-end load; level load.
Load fund
A mutual fund that sells shares with a sales charge-typically 4% to 8% of the net amount indicated. Some no-load funds also levy distribution fees permitted by Article 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act; these are typically 0. 25%. A true no-load fund has neither a sales charge nor
Load-to-load
Arrangement whereby the customer pays for the last delivery when the next one is received.
Load spread option
A method of allocating the annual sales charge on load funds, often through percentage deductions from a customer's periodic fixed payments.
Temporary borrowing of a sum of money. If you borrow $1 million you have taken out a loan for $1 million.
Loan amortization schedule
The timetable for repaying the interest and principal on a loan.
Loan commitment
Assurance by a lender to make money available to a borrower on specific terms in return for a fee.
Loan crowd
Historical term. In the 1920's and 1930's, it refers to the group of member firms that lend or borrow securities needed to cover the positions of customers who have sold short securities. The crowd could be found around the loan post.
Loan Preference Principle
The theory that a covered loan is less expensive when its cost is calculated in one currency, it will also be less expensive in all other currencies.
Group of banks sharing a loan. See: Syndicate.
Loan value
The maximum percentage of the value of securities that a broker can lend to a margin account customer, as dictated by the Federal Reserve Board in Regulation T.
Loan-to-value ratio (LTV)
The ratio of money borrowed on a property to the property's fair market value.
Loaned flat
Securities lent interest-free between brokers to cover customers' short sale positions.
A futures exchange member who trades securities for his or her own account.
Local expectations hypothesis (LEH)
Theory that bonds similar in all aspects except maturity will have the same holding-period rate of return.
Local expectations theory
A form of the pure expectations theory that suggests that the returns on bonds of different maturities will be the same over a short-term investment horizon.
Property, sewer, school, or other community paid to a locality. Local taxes are usually deductible for federal income tax purposes.
Location-specific advantages
Advantages (natural and created) that are available only or primarily in a particular place.
Locational arbitrage
Attempt to exploit discrepancies in exchange rates between banks.
Used in the context of general equities. Make a market both ways (bid and offer) either on the bid, offering, or an in-between price only. Locking on the offering occurs to attract a seller, since the trader is willing to pay (and ask) the offering side when others only ask it. Locking on the bid side attracts buyers for similar reasons. Typically, the sell side requires a plus tick to comply with short sale rules.
To ensure that an individual transacts all his or her business with a sole broker by providing superior services, such as accommodating block buy and sell needs or preparing excellent research (soft-dollar lock). This usually guarantees a certain volume of business.
Lock-out
With PAC bond CMO classes, the period before the PAC sinking fund becomes effective. With multifamily loans, the period of time during which prepayment is prohibited.
Lock-up CDs
CDs that are issued with the tacit understanding that the buyer will not trade the certificate. Quite often, the issuing bank will insist that it hold the certificate for safekeeping by it to ensure that the buyer holds the understanding.
Lockup option
Often used in risk arbitrage. Privilege offered a white knight (friendly acquirer) by a target company to buy crown jewels or additional equity. The aim is to discourage a hostile takeover. See: Shark repellent.
A collection and processing service provided to firms by banks, which collect payments from a dedicated postal box to which the firm directs its customers to send payment to. The banks make several collections per day, process the payments immediately, and deposit the funds into the firm's bank account.
Locked in
When an investor is unable to take advantage of preferential tax treatment because of time remaining on a required holding period. Also, a commodities position in which the market has a limit up or limit down day and investors are unable to move in to or out of the market.
Locked market
A market is locked if the bid price equals the ask price. This can occur, for example, if the market is brokered and one side pays brokerage only, in over-the-counter trading the initiator of the transaction. Highly competitive market environment with inside bid and offering at the same price. Often occurs when an OTC dealer has not updated the market.
Log-linear least-squares method
A statistical technique for fitting a curve to a set of data points. One of the variables is transformed by taking its logarithm, and then a straight line is fitted to the transformed set of data points.
Lognormal distribution
Pattern of frequency of occurrence in which the logarithm of the variable follows a normal distribution. Lognormal distributions are used to describe returns calculated over periods of a year or more.
Lombard rate
Applies mainly to international equities. Interest rate the German Bundesbank uses as an upper limit to the day-to-day money rate, since no bank will pay higher rates in the money market than it has to pay for very short-term recourse to Lombard credit.
London Commodity Exchange (LCE)
Merged with the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange in 1996.
London Interbank Bid Rate (LIBID)
The bid rate that a Euromarket bank is willing to pay to attract a deposit from another Euromarket bank in London. Related: LIBOR.
London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)
The rate of interest that major international banks in London charge each other for borrowings. Many variable interest rates in the US are based on spreads off LIBOR. By contrast with the bid rate LIBID quoted by banks seeking such deposits.
London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE)
A leading market for trading options and futures on euro money market derivatives.
London Metal Exchange (LME)
A market for trading base metals, where traded options contracts are available against the underlying futures contract.
The U.K.'s six regional exchanges joined together in 1973 to form the stock exchange of Great Britain and Ireland, later named the LSE. The FTSE 100 index (known as the footsie) is its dominant index.
One who has bought a contract to establish a market position and who has not yet closed out this position through an offsetting sale; the opposite of short.
Long bonds
Bonds with a long current maturity. The "long bond" is the 30-year US Treasury bond.
Long coupons
(1) Bonds or notes with a long current maturity. (2) A bond on which one of the coupon periods, usually the first, is longer than the other periods or the standard period.
Long-term forward contracts
Contracts that state exchange rate at which a specified amount of a particular currency can be exchanged at a future date (more than one year from today).
Long hedge
The purchase of a futures contract in anticipation of actual purchases in the cash market. Used by processors or exporters as protection against an advance in the cash price. Related: hedge, short hedge
The part of an option spread in which an agreement to buy the underlying security is made.
Long market value
The market value of a security, excluding options, as of the close of the last business day.
Long position
Owning or holding options (i.e., the number of contracts bought exceeds the number of contracts sold). For equities, a long position occurs when an individual owns securities. An owner of 1,000 shares of stock is said to be "Long the stock." Related: Short position.
Long position in an option
Purchase of an options.
A period of time in which all costs are variable; longer than one year.
Taking a long position in both a put and a call option.
In accounting terms, one year or longer.
Long-term assets
Value of property, equipment, and other capital assets minus the depreciation. This is an entry in the bookkeeping records of a company. It is usually established on a "cost" basis, and thus does not necessarily reflect the market value of the assets.
Long-term capital gain
A profit on the sale of a security or mutual fund share that has been held for more than one year.
An obligation having a maturity of more than one year from the date it was issued. Also called funded debt.
Long-term debt/capitalization
Indicator of financial leverage. Shows long-term debt as a proportion of the capital available. Determined by dividing long-term debt by the sum of long-term debt, preferred stock and common stockholder's equity.
Long-term debt-to-equity ratio
A capitalization ratio comparing long-term debt to shareholders' equity.
Long-term debt ratio
The ratio of long-term debt to total capitalization.
Long-Term Anticipation Securities (LEAPS)
Long-term options.
Financial plan covering two or more years of future operations.
Long-term financing
Liabilities repayable in more than one year plus equity.
Long-term gain
A profit on the sale of a capital assets held longer than 12 months, and eligible for long-term capital gains tax treatment.
Long-term goals
Financial goals expected to be accomplished in five years or longer.
Long-term investor
A person who makes investments for a period of at least five years in order to finance his or her long-term goals.
Amount owed for leases, bond repayment, and other items due after 1 year.
Long-term loss
A loss on the sale of a capital asset held less than 12 months that can be used to offset a capital gain.
Used for listed equity securities. See: Picture.
Look-thru
A method for calculating US taxes owed on income from controlled foreign corporations that was introduced by the Tax Reform Act of 1986.
Lookback option
An option that allows the buyer to choose as the option strike price any price of the underlying asset that has occurred during the life of the option. For a call option, the buyer will choose the minimum price; for a put option, the buyer will choose the maximum price. This option will always be in the money.
In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with.
A technicality in some legislation or regulation that makes it possible to avoid certain consequences or circumvent a rule without breaking the law, such as in the use of a tax shelter.
Loose credit
Policy by the Federal Reserve Board to make loans less expensive and more available by reducing interest rates through open market operations.
The opposite of gain.
Loss Carry-Back (Carry-Forward)
A tax provision that allows operating losses to be used as a tax shield to reduce taxable income in prior and future years. Losses can be carried backward for up to three years and forward for up to 15 years under current tax codes.
Loss-control activities
Actions that an insured person or company takes at the instigation of an insurance company in order to prevent accidents or losses.
Loss-of-income insurance
Insurance coverage that will pay out income that a policyholder loses as a result of a disability, injury, or business disruption.
The ratio of losses paid or accrued by an insurer to premiums collected over a year.
In the context of general equities, this blocks or portions of trades. Can express a specific transaction in a stock at a certain time, often implying execution at the same price (e.g., "I traded 40m in two lots of 10 and four lots of 5.").
Louvre Accord
1987 agreement between countries to attempt to stabilize the value of the US dollar.
In the context of general equities, this is a specific minimum limit required by a seller in execution an order ("I'll sell 50 with an eighth low."); implies a not-held limit order. Antithesis of top.
Low balance method
A method of calculating interest on the basis of the lowest balance of an account over the applicable period.
Low ball
Slang for making an offer well below the fair value of an asset in hopes that the seller may be desperate to sell.
Low-coupon bond refunding
Refunding of a low-coupon bond with a new, higher-coupon bond.
Low grade
A bond with a rating of B or lower.
Low-load fund
A mutual fund that charges a sales commission of 3.5% or less for the purchase of shares.
The day's lowest price of a security that has changed hands between a buyer and a seller.
Low price-earnings ratio effect
The tendency of portfolios of stocks with a low price-earnings ratio to outperform portfolios of stocks with high price-earnings ratios.
A large one-time payment of money.
Lump-sum distribution
A single payment that represents an employee's interest in a qualified retirement plan. The payment must be prompted by retirement (or other separation from service), death, disability, or attainment of age 59-1/2, and must be made within a single tax year to avoid the federal government's 10% penalty tax.
Lyapunov Exponents
A measure of the dynamics of an attractor. Each dimension has a Lyapunov exponent. A positive exponent measures sensitive dependence on initial conditions, or how much our forecasts can diverge based upon different estimates of starting conditions. Another way to view Lyapunov exponents is the loss of predictive ability as we look forward into time. Strange Attractors are characterized by at least one positive exponent. A negative exponent measures how points converge towards one another. Point Attractors are characterized by all negative variables. See: Attractor, Limit Cycle, Point Attractor, Strange Attractor.
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The Top Five Hublot Classic Fusion Watches
Nat Berman 2 years ago
Hublot first launched their Classic Fusion collection in 2010. The event they chose to unveil the first watch in this collection was the Baselworld Show. The inspiration for the watches in their new collection was the Big Bang concept and they used the idea of fusion as their inspiration. They were similar to their predecessors in the sense that they had the same technical boldness. However, the new range had a more classic appearance. The main reason these pieces were unique is that they fused many materials in their trendy designs, including gold, titanium, ceramic, diamonds, and platinum. Hublot managed to seamlessly combine modern progressive methods with traditional watchmaking. Here are the top five Hublot Classic Fusion watches.
1. Hublot Classic Fusion Skeleton Tourbillon 45mm Watch
The Hublot Classic Fusion Skeleton Tourbillon 45mm Watch is one of the most expensive in the collection as you can expect to pay in the region of $100,000 to proudly wear one of these timepieces on your wrist. It is aimed at the older market and is designed for indoor formal attire. There are two versions of this watch. One is a titanium model and the other a black ceramic model. The case has a masculine design and the watch is comfortable to wear. These are limited edition pieces as there were only 99 units of the black ceramic watch made and just 50 of the titanium timepiece.
2. Hublot Classic Fusion Automatic Men’s Watch
Only 250 Hublot Classic Fusion Automatic Men’s Watches were produced worldwide, and it is one of the most aesthetically pleasing watches produced by Hublot as it is bold and dynamic. The straps are meticulously made from Venezia Scritto calf leather and are inscribed with calligraphy that was inspired by 18-century writing forms. This calligraphy was a piece of art designed by Olga Berluti. The dial is gold-plated and uses tobacco bis leather. The watch consists of 63 components and is decorated with 25 jewels. It has a power reserve of up to 42 hours. The case is 18-karat solid polished gold and has the Hublot logo.
3. Hublot Classic Fusion Cathedral Minute Repeater Carbon Watch
The Cathedral Minute Repeater is a limited-edition version of the Tourbillon Cathedral Minute Repeater watch that was released in 2015. The limited-edition version comes with an all-carbon-fiber case and contains mechanisms that use a range of chimes on demand for activation. The case was revolutionary in terms of minute repeater watches and is a fantastic alternative to metals such as gold and platinum as minute repeaters do not work well with these metals. The activator lever for the minute repeater is contained within a left lateral case insert. The watch has a five-day power reserve and features a 60-second tourbillon movement. It is constructed from an impressive 319 parts.
4. Hublot Classic Fusion Kobe Bryant ‘Hero Villain’ Watch
When Los Angeles Lakers player Kobe Bryant retired after 20 years of service, his career was celebrated with the release of this watch. This was a limited edition watch with only 24 pieces made and one of these is owned by Kobe Bryant himself. It was nicknamed the ‘Her Villain’ watch and marked the start of a relationship between Hublot and the Los Angeles Lakers as the watch brand became the official watchmakers for the athletics team. This watch features an 18-karat rose gold dial in a black ceramic Classic Fusion case measuring 45mm. The dial boasts an engraved black mamba snake and the ‘HV’ logo is central to the case back window, which is crafted from sapphire crystal. Sticking to the snake theme, this watch also boasts a strap made from gummy python skin.
5. Hublot Classic Fusion Ultra-Thin 42mm ‘Shiny Dial’ Watch
Of all the Hublot Classic Fusion collection, this is one of the most interesting watches in the range. It is available with either a titanium or gold case and has a moderate diameter of 42mm. Its design is similar to the classic Hublot watches and it features a manually wound movement that was made in-house and is approximately 2.9mm thick. It has the capacity to preserve power for up to 90 hours. It is possible to see the movement through the back of the case. This watch merges modern features with a traditional watch as it has a dark anthracite plated surface that has a shiny polish finish.
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MORITA IRON WORKS CO., LTD.
MORITA’S INTRODUCTION
EXPORT SECTION
HEAD OFFICE/FACTORY
Morita Iron Works Co., Ltd. was founded in 1917 in Kawaguchi city, Saitama prefecture, where is known as a town of casting industry.
We have organized as a specialized factory which can undertake the epochal processing of machining and assembling of the valves consistently, and stepped along with the growth of the water supply business as a key part of domestic valve technology.
We are a company that supports the water service business and contributes to the society by sincerely looking closely into the valves as a specialized valve manufacturer continuously since the foundation, and devoting our heart to manufacturing reliable goods.
Established as a personal company of Genkichi Morita in Kotobuki-cho, Kawaguchi city, Saitama, Japan.
Established as a specialized factory for water control valves for treated water application, fire hydrant, etc.
September 1933 Moved to Namiki-cho 1-1, Kawaguchi city.
Reorganized to a corporation, with a capital of 1 million yen.
Merged a partnership company, Matsui Shokai.
December 1947 Hiromu Morita became Managing Director and President.
April 1950 Opened Tokyo Sales office.
November 1952 The capital came to 3 million yen.
October 1953 Received the designation of a Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) certified factory of vessel application valves.
April 1954 Received the designation of a Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) certified factory as the 1st issue of land application casting valves in Japan.
July 1954 The capital came to 25 million yen.
March 1963 The capital came to 35 million yen.
November 1963 Approved for construction works by Ministry of Construction, Japan
June 1966 Opened Osaka Sales office.
August 1968 The capital came to 42 million yen.
November 1969 The head office building was completed in Namiki-cho, Kawaguchi city.
December 1976 The capital came to 73.5 million yen.
May 1978 Hiromu Morita was appointed to Chairman of the board of directors.
Akihiro Morita was appointed to Managing Director and President.
September 1985 Built a new plant in Satte city, Saitama.
Relocated the facilities of four plants in Kawaguchi city to there.
December 1985 The head office was relocated to the new building in Satte new plant.
The Satte plant became the head office and factory.
May 1997 Akihiro Morita was appointed to Chairman of the board of directors.
Masaaki Morita was appointed to Managing Director and President.
December 1998 Head office and factory acquired ISO9001 certification.
March 2003 Whole company organization acquired ISO9001 certification.
January 2010 Three sales offices in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka raised to sales branches.
October 2014 Hokkaido sales office raised to sales branch.
April 2015 Kyushu sales office raised to sales branch.
October 2017 Company celebrated its 100th anniversary.
With a cornerstone based on 100 years’ tradition and a company policy of mutual collaboration, and to meet each customer’s needs which are likely to be well diversified and sophisticated ones, we are going to make efforts continuously to build a prosperous society in the future in view of “development of high quality goods”, “rationalization of the productivity” and “through-going maintenance services”.
Further to maintain a safe and reliable water environment in the 21st century, we are expecting your warm attention and patronage to Morita’s valves.
ABOUT US ＞
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M o s u n T e p p a n y a k i
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Located at Eastern District of Taipei, an area that leads artistic and fashion trends, bustling with contemporary young women busily coming and going pursuing the latest fashion, Mosun Teppanyaki targets our customers as trendy women aged 25 to 45, who showcase dazzling styles and beauty of looks along with the change of fashion in different periods, and aspires to set the catering fashion trends in an touching atmosphere of smells, looks and tastes.
As Chanel once put it,
Black can be mysterious and elegant, can be sexy and seductive, can be avant-garde and glacially beautiful, can also be dignified and poised. Regardless of gender, old and young, age and popularity, the profound meaning black becomes a color of multi-wisdom. That is why Mosun has chosen color black as the background, complemented by purple iris, to create the main theme of our interior design and brand logo for a complete display of the spirit of " Fashion, Touching, Romantic, Simplicity and Cozy."
A purple iris can be found in Mosun logo, exhibiting a splendidly elegant classical temperament. Starting King Philip I of France in the 11th century, iris has been used as a decorative design in royal symbol of French monarch, establishing centuries of indissoluble bond with French royal houses. Portrayed as a flying pigeon, the golden iris signifies dignity, reverence, pure holy spirit and powerfulness.
Iris is a flower not only colorful in its appearance but in its legend. Iris in Latin is the name of Rainbow Goddess in Greek mythology, who is the messenger of gods and leads innocent souls to the heaven. When honest mortal deceased, Iris would come as a rainbow and help the innocent soul to rest in heaven for eternal peace through a rainbow bridge. This is why Iris is also known as “Messenger of Love.”
haracterized by fresh and seasonal ingredients carefully selected into culinary process, Teppanyaki is like a woman’s treasure box for collecting valuables; a memory box for keeping private articles; a vanity case for carrying cosmetics; and a jewel box for storing personal ornaments. For all women, a jewel box is an extension of dreams and the best place for preserving precious artistic items. Hence, the perspective of our restaurant has been designed as jewel boxes of various sizes to tell different stories of “collection” through simple spatial lines along with contrast of the lines set off by French classical furniture.
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Lunch：11:30~15:00
(The last order and reception time is 14:00.)
Dinner：17:30~23:00
(The last order time is 21:30.)
2F No.155, Section 4, Zhongxiao East Road, Daan District, Taipei City
TEL : 02-2731-9966 │ FAX : 02-2721-1334
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Rog's Movie Viewpoint
Rog's VIEWPOINTS are his spoiler free movie reviews from behind the camera. These are his voting results for the BFCA's Critics' Choice Ratings and Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer. Films are rated from 1 to 5 cameras, with 5 being excellent.
By Roger Tennis - September 05, 2019
It's been 27 years since the terrifying clown Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) terrorized the town of Derry, Maine and the young members of the Losers Club. Now Mike (Isaiah Mustafa), the only club member to stay in Derry, knows that Pennywise has returned. He summons his grown up pals to fulfill their childhood pact and end this menace for good.
The final cinematic chapter, based on Stephen King's 1986 novel and the sequel to "It" (2017), is a satisfying slam-bang horror epic. Nearly three hours in length, it covers
everything in detail. Ultimately, the movie goes on too long (over a half hour longer than the first film) trying to capture the same magic. There are numerous flashbacks mixed throughout - keeping the kid club members involved. The relationships, emotions, foibles and fears of all the main characters are on display in depth. But there is also plenty of time for the frightening Bill Skarsgård to practice his Pennywise skills. Once again, Andy Muschietti handles the directing chores - expertly blending past and present and providing a barrage of shuddering special effects (I jumped more than once). The screenplay by Gary Dauberman does justice to the book and the cast is terrific. Bill Hader gives a powerful, career-defining performance as the older Richie (Finn Wolfhard appears again as the younger version) - in line with his magnificent work in the TV series "Barry". Jessica Chastain carries many scenes as the grown up Beverly, with Sophia Lillis back as the youth. The rest of the Losers Club are well-represented. James McAvoy is the adult, stuttering former club leader Bill (Jaeden Martell returns as the youngster) who lost his brother to Pennywise. Jay Ryan plays the older, slimmed-down Ben with Jeremy Ray Taylor back as the overweight youth. James Ransone is the adult and Jack Dylan Grazer is the youthful hypochondriac Eddie. As Stanley, Andy Bean is the older version of Wyatt Oleff's youth. Being a retired ASU (their PBS station) employee, I was interested in Isaiah Mustafa as the adult Mike (Chosen Jacobs is back as the kid). He was a football teammate of the late war hero Pat Tillman. As proven here, acting suits Isaiah quite well. The atmospheric cinematography of Checco Varese and Benjamin Wallfisch's music score add to the sense of dread. There are revelations along the way and a couple of cameos. While not as good as the 2017 thriller, this is at least a fitting finale. "It Chapter Two" supplies King-sized chills. (3/5 CAMS)
Rated R (for disturbing violent content and bloody images throughout, pervasive language, and some crude sexual material)
#IMAX #itmovie Bill Hader Bill Skarsgård Horror Isaiah Mustafa James McAvoy Jessica Chastain Pennywise Stephen King
By Roger Tennis - November 07, 2019
On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked with devastating results. The United States entered WWII, beginning the clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy. As the war escalated, Admiral Chester Nimitz (Woody Harrelson) and intelligence officer Lieutenant Commander Edwin T. Layton (Patrick Wilson) desperately sought the upper hand for America. Gathered information led to the battle for control of Midway Island from June 4-7 in 1942. This confrontation became the pivotal turning point of the war in the Pacific Theater.
Superb battle sequences and a solid ensemble cast bring this harrowing conflict to life. Director Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day") is no stranger to delivering
By Roger Tennis - May 31, 2019
The early life and career of superstar Elton John (Taron Egerton), born Reginald Dwight, unfolds as a musical fantasy. During a group therapy session, Elton reflects on his difficult childhood with cold mother Sheila (Bryce Dallas Howard), sympathetic grandmother Ivy (Gemma Jones) and distant disapproving father Stanley (Steven Mackintosh). Learning to play piano at an early age leads him to a life in music. A lasting friendship and songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell) results in many chart hits. But not all goes smoothly. A relationship with manager John Reid (Richard Madden) ends badly. Drugs and alcohol enter the picture. Ups and downs follow - and life goes on.
Dazzling musical numbers, sets and costumes sparkle on the big screen in a biopic that truly captivates. This is the type of film that rises or falls on
By Roger Tennis - August 22, 2019
President Trumbull's (Morgan Freeman) bodyguard, U.S. Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), is framed for an attack that kills all but Banning and the comatose president. The wounded agent becomes a hunted man - desperate to prove his innocence.
The third entry in the Banning saga is a spirited thriller that keeps this series alive. A flawed and predictable story gets in the way with
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Makhija elated with positive response to 'Ajji'
Filmmaker Devashish Makhija is happy about his film "Ajji" travelling to different films festivals.
"A niche genre film like ‘Ajji' gets most of its traction and strength from film festival programmers, organisers, critics and audiences without whom such a film might never have been made even," Makhija said in a statement to IANS.
Backed by Yoodlee Films, "Ajji" is a dark take on the classic fairytale, "Red Riding Hood". It tells the story of a nine-year-old girl, who is denied justice from the society and later her 65-year-old grandmother takes brutal revenge.
"Ajji" features actors like Manuj Sharma, Sudhir Pandey and Smita Tambe.
A special jury mention was made for Sushama Deshpande's performance in "Ajji". The film also won the actress The Flame Award at the UK Asian Film Festival, won the Fresh Blood competition at the Beaune International Thriller Film Festival 2018.
"The awards we have won tell us that we can keep making these films. To be able to keep doing this itself then is the biggest award," Makhija added.
Siddharth Anand Kumar, Head, Yoodlee Films, said: "We are proud that 'Ajji' is finding such a warm reception from worldwide audiences at film festivals. When you take a risk on making a strong film without compromise and receive such appreciation you are encouraged to be even more fearless in your choice of cinema."
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High-fives all around as young inventor fits girl with a robotic hand
By Susanna Ray 11 July, 2017
Ten-year-old Momo Sutton’s feet danced on the floor while the rest of her tried to sit patiently, her face beaming with anticipation as Easton LaChappelle carefully lifted his invention out of its box. Once she put it on, she already had four favorites by lunchtime:
“The fist bump – that’s my favorite! Here, try it!”
“Now my favorite is doing the ‘A-OK’ sign!”
“Look, I can make a heart with my hands!”
“I just gave everyone high-fives, right down the line – that’s my favorite thing so far!”
It was something both the girl and the 21-year-old inventor had dreamed of – separately – for years: an arm and hand with functional, moving fingers to replace the glorified hooks Momo had been using since she was 4. LaChappelle had put off college and invested six years of his young life into researching, making and testing robotic hands, leading to the point where he was able to scan Momo’s left arm and 3D-print a working replica for her to use on the right side, complete with matching fingernails.
He’s now making this process available through his new company, Unlimited Tomorrow, to give amputees an affordable and high-tech alternative to traditional, costly prostheses. “I hope this will help tens of thousands of Momos around the world,” LaChappelle said.
Momo Sutton, 10, learns how to use a robotic hand that was invented and 3D-printed by Easton LaChappelle. (Photo by Brooke Fitts)
Momo’s right arm ends just below her elbow, where the bones are fused together. Congenital differences and amputations are especially hard for children, who grow so quickly they have to be fitted for new prosthetic limbs every year or two. Advanced prostheses can cost upwards of $100,000, so kids often have to wait until they’re adults to get one. That means they’re stuck with basic models that limit their movement – like a hook-and-pulley system for an arm and hand – even as their growing brains are primed for learning new activities such as swimming, riding bikes, writing and more.
LaChappelle learned about these challenges accidentally.
Growing up in rural Colorado, the curious boy tinkered with electronics to stem the boredom, tearing apart microwave ovens and radios and putting them back together. By age 14, and “just for fun,” he had developed a robotic hand using Legos, fishing line, electrical tubing and small motors from model airplanes. He kept fiddling with it to make it better, scouring the internet for open-source information and help that wasn’t available in his small town, and conducting email or Skype interviews with international experts in robotics and engineering.
“There are so many opportunities in today’s world to explore and find your passion,” LaChappelle said. “I was able to communicate with people all around the world. They didn’t know I was 14 and living in Colorado. I was just someone who wanted to know more about electronics. That’s what technology has enabled us to do.”
Putting heart into robotics: Easton LaChappelle & Momo
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For his 16th birthday in 2011, he split the cost of a $500 3D printer with his parents and printed a robotic hand, powered by a windshield-wiper motor, that the wearer could move based on brain wave signals emitted from an EEG headset. He submitted the project in a science fair and watched curiously as a little girl emerged from the throngs in the exhibit hall and began examining, in detail, how the fingers moved.
The girl, LaChappelle learned from her parents, had a prosthetic arm from her right elbow to her fingertips – a “human-like claw,” similar to the one he would later see on Momo, that only had one motion: to open or close. It was the first time he had met anyone who used a prosthesis, and he was stunned when her parents told him how much it had cost.
“This thing is $80,000, and I made this arm that’s better than this for a couple hundred dollars in my bedroom,” LaChappelle recalls thinking.
It was, he says, “my aha moment.”
Easton LaChappelle, 21, grew up in rural Colorado, where he tinkered with electronics to stem the boredom. (Photo by Ryan Ford)
That science-fair project, which was featured in magazines such as Popular Science, not only won the high-schooler a global science prize, a meeting with President Obama and a summer internship with NASA; it also launched him on a course with a purpose.
A TED talk LaChappelle gave during his NASA stint caught the attention of self-help guru Tony Robbins, who offered assistance and guided the 18-year-old in founding Unlimited Tomorrow. Its mission: “To make technology accessible to those who need it most.”
Driven to chase his passion, LaChappelle put off college, rejiggered a Microsoft Xbox Kinect system to scan hands and arms and began working on a device that would be functional, not just fun. He studied brain and muscle control and talked with amputees to understand what would help them most.
Momo was born with a congenital difference. About 2 million people in the U.S. are living without one or more limbs, according to the Amputee Coalition. (Photo by Michelle Henley)
Meanwhile, Momo and her mother, Sandy Andriaccio, attended an event at the Shriners Hospital in Tampa, Florida – the group is known for its work on pediatric orthopedic care – where the outgoing girl struck up a conversation with Zachary Hurst, president of the nonprofit M.U.C.H. Foundation. He asked Momo what her dreams were, and without hesitation she told him she wanted an arm with fingers that move. “We can do that,” Hurst told her.
Andriaccio’s eyes widened, and she swiped her hand across her neck, trying to signal to Hurst not to promise something that could cost $120,000. But Hurst had seen the stories about LaChappelle and immediately set about connecting Momo with him. Her situation reminded LaChappelle of the little girl who had inspired him at the science fair, and he decided to ask her to be the test case for his new model.
LaChappelle’s efforts had intrigued a team at Microsoft, which invited him to the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and set him up with a group of 20 like-minded makers and engineers at the Advanced Prototyping Center. They helped accelerate his vision, using 3D printing and open-source platforms.
LaChappelle had someone 3D-scan Momo’s left arm at her home in Florida with a simple, $100 webcam that can plug into any laptop, then designed an artificial replica that was 3D-printed using UV-curable resin that weighs less than a pound. Its flexible fingers have individual joints and go limp if they smack into something, just like flesh fingers do, but they’re strong enough to exert 10 pounds of pressure to hold items. The arm attaches to Momo’s residual limb with 3D-printed supports that look like a brace, with Velcro straps that help hold it in place.
Three electrodes extend from the top, to be attached to the muscles in Momo’s upper arm. Eventually a feedback loop will develop, in which her brain realizes that when she flexes a certain muscle, the hand moves in a way that she’s able to see and feel, and then it will become more natural. If she doesn’t have time to hook it up, or if it’s hot and she’s sweaty – Florida is known for its humid weather, after all – a small button on the arm can act as a muscle. Press it once, the index finger moves toward the thumb; press it again and all the fingers curl toward the palm.
The system knows the amount of force it’s exerting when it’s in contact with an item, so the hand won’t crush a cup it’s holding, for example. Momo and her mother quickly tested the concept with an arm-wrestling match, from which Andriaccio emerged unscathed.
It’s a far cry from the prosthetic devices Momo is used to: simple hooks with finger-like plastic molded around them that attach to her residual limb with a strap that goes across her back and around her left shoulder. She opens and closes that hand by shrugging one or the other shoulder. It’s really only helpful for activities like bike-riding, said her father, Mark Sutton, so she doesn’t usually wear it the rest of the time.
Having two functional hands will change her life, Sutton said, allowing her to open a door while holding a backpack or water bottle, for example. “I love the idea of opening doors – not just her bedroom or car door, but the idea that this opens doors for so many people,” added Andriaccio.
LaChappelle shows Momo how to use her new arm with a handshake as her parents, Mark Sutton and Sandy Andriaccio, look on. (Photo by Brooke Fitts)
Unlike Momo’s previous devices, which all had fixed, L-shaped elbow joints, LaChappelle’s version is aligned with the true pivot of her elbow. That means she can raise both arms above her head for the first time – or let them both drop at her sides in a more natural manner. “If I’m able now, I might try to do the monkey bars and swing,” she said.
With the functional prototype in use by Momo, it’s now a matter of automating the process to provide global access, LaChappelle said.
He’s working on software to automatically convert limb scans into robotic designs that are sized correctly, with the electronics and functions all in the right places so devices can be 3D-printed anywhere. “We want to give amputees extreme technology, for free or for a fraction of the cost” of traditional prosthetics, LaChappelle said.
Easton LaChappelle spent six years — starting in high school — working on a robotic arm that could replace traditional prostheses. (Photo by Michelle Henley)
For now, he’s focusing on creating a scalable solution and working out the distribution model as his company has moved from his bedroom to a 3,500-square-foot facility in Durango, Colorado. But he sees a future in assistive devices in general, for both upper and lower extremities, and not just for amputees but also to help people who are paralyzed regain mobility.
“Perhaps instead of a prosthetic hand, someone could use a glove that would help their existing hand move,” LaChappelle said. “I see a lot of cross-pollination of technology for assistive devices.”
That would be good news around the world – in the U.S. alone, about 2 million people are living without one or more limbs, according to the Amputee Coalition. Some limbs are absent due to congenital differences, like Momo’s; others are lost in car accidents or from construction injuries or medical conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Limb loss is particularly common – and challenging – in war-torn areas. The World Health Organization estimates there are more than 30 million amputees in developing countries, and only a small percentage of them have access to prosthetics.
“I really didn’t imagine that what I was creating at 14 would impact someone’s life like this,” LaChappelle said. “I’m just a young kid trying to do good with technology, so it’s really encouraging to see all of this happening. Momo is going to be the first of a lot of people.”
At lunch, after testing her new right-handed grip on a fork, Momo closed the index fingers to the thumbs of both hands and put them up to her eyes, looking through the circles at LaChappelle across the table.
“Cool,” she giggled. And then she closed the rest of the fingers and rested her chin on her new hand to reveal another favorite: “I like this ‘thinking pose’ best – it’s the move all the bosses make.”
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Mizzou bolts Big 12 for SEC
By Rachel Lippmann & KBIA • Nov 6, 2011
Updated with quotes from press conference. Reporting from KBIA's Ryan Faumuliner, Kaveh Kaghazi and Chris McDaniel was used in this story.
After months of speculation, it's official - the University of Missouri is bolting the Big 12 Conference for the SEC.
Morning headlines: Monday, October 24, 2011
By Julie Bierach & The Associated Press • Oct 24, 2011
Cardinals lose Game 4
Derek Holland gave the Texas Rangers’ bullpen a much-needed break last night while helping the Rangers even the World Series at two games apiece. Holland came within two outs of a two-hit shutout while striking out seven as the Rangers bounced back from Saturday's 16-7 loss to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-0. He faced just two batters over the minimum and didn't allow a hit after Lance Berkman's leadoff single in the fifth. Holland struck out seven, walked two and was aided by a pair of double-play grounders.
Mizzou may bolt Big 12 Conference
By KBIA • Oct 4, 2011
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Reporting by KBIA's Ryan Famuliner was used in this report.
The University of Missouri is officially looking to leave the Big 12 Conference.
Morning headlines: Monday, September 6, 2011
By Julie Bierach & The Associated Press • Sep 5, 2011
Special session to convene Tues.
A Missouri tax break benefiting poor disabled and elderly people who live in rental housing could be on the chopping block when lawmakers convene Tuesday in a special session. The elimination of the tax break for renters is projected to save the state $855 million over the next 15 years.
Some lawmakers hope to redirect that money for new tax breaks intended to lure Chinese cargo planes to the St. Louis airport and more businesses to Missouri.
Mizzou welcomes back more students than ever for first day of classes
By The Associated Press • Aug 22, 2011
Fall semester classes began Monday at the University of Missouri's flagship campus after several days of welcoming activities for new and returning students.
School leaders announced a record enrollment of 33,318. That's an increase of 1,309 undergraduates and graduates students from 2010.
Students have spent the past several days preparing for classes and immersed in traditional school activities.
Mizzou's Haith to speak with NCAA over Miami allegations
Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith says he will speak to the NCAA about allegations that he was aware of a $10,000 payment to a recruit at his previous school.
Former University of Miami booster and convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro told Yahoo! Sports he provided extra benefits to 72 football players and other athletes at Miami from 2002 to 2010.
Haith was coach at Miami before taking the Missouri job this spring.
University of Missouri mulls enrollment cap
By The Associated Press • Jul 6, 2011
Years of steady enrollment growth and declining state support has University of Missouri leaders discussing limits on the number of students who attend the system's four campuses.
There are no immediate plans to cap enrollment. But acting system president Steve Owens and university curators say the move deserves serious consideration.
Morning headlines: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
By Julie Bierach & The Associated Press • Jun 21, 2011
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Army Corps: More Rain Could Force Release of More Water from Dam
The top Army officer for the management of the Missouri River says additional rain could force the release of even greater amounts of water from an upstream dam. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers already is releasing a record 150,000 cubic feet of water per second from Gavin's Point dam in South Dakota.
New coach Haith talks MU’s basketball future
By KBIA • Apr 5, 2011
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Reporting from KBIA's Nick Adams used in this report.
A day after being hired as the new University of Missouri basketball coach, Frank Haith held a press conference this morning at Mizzou Arena in Columbia, Mo.
MU closer to becoming smoke-free campus
By The Associated Press • Apr 4, 2011
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It will be harder to find a place to smoke on the University of Missouri's Columbia campus this summer.
Starting July 1, smoking will be allowed only in designated areas. The smoking areas aren't final yet, but they are likely to be in parking lots and on the top floors of parking garages.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the stricter rules are a step toward the university's goal of being entirely smoke-free by Jan. 1, 2014.
The university's current policy prohibits smoking within 20 feet of doors, windows and fresh air intake systems on campus. The Tribune reports that the policy is not strictly enforced, with campus administrators mostly leaving it to students and employees to police each other.
Photography project gives women new perspective on living with HIV
By Véronique LaCapra • Mar 24, 2011
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More than a million Americans are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. About a quarter of them are women, and in St. Louis and throughout the country, African-American women are disproportionately affected.
An HIV diagnosis can lead not just to debilitating medical problems, but to social stigma and isolation. But as St. Louis Public Radio’s Véronique LaCapra reports, a photography project is giving some HIV-positive women a new way to look at their disease and its challenges.
After recent racist grafitti incident, Mizzou holds panel discussion
By KBIA & Bill Raack • Feb 17, 2011
The University of Missouri continues to grapple with the implications of the most recent incident of racism on its Columbia campus.
Group of military veterans sues trustees of several Missouri universities
By Kelsey Proud • Feb 15, 2011
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A group of military veterans has sued several Missouri educational institutions, alleging that they were systematically overcharged, the Riverfront Times reports.
U. of Missouri curators approve tuition increase
By Kelsey Proud, The Associated Press & KBIA • Jan 28, 2011
Updated at 3:08 p.m. Jan. 28, 2011 with comment from Erdman and Krawitz.
Reporting from KBIA's Courtney Flatt also used in this report.
Krawitz says 20 percent of the revenue generated form the tuition increase will be put into financial aid.
Tuition at the four University of Missouri campuses will increase for the first time in two years after a vote by the systems' Board of Curators.
U. of Missouri curators release recommended tuition increases
By Kelsey Proud • Jan 27, 2011
The University of Missouri system board of curators voted today on their recommendations for tuition increases for each of the system's campuses.
KMOV reports the recommended increases for in-state undergraduate tuition as follows:
Search for new U. of Missouri System President begins
By Kelsey Proud & The Associated Press • Jan 27, 2011
University of Missouri curators agreed unanimously Thursday to hire an executive search firm in the hunt for the four-campus system’s next president, saying they will take their time to ensure they find the best possible candidate.
This is following the Jan. 7 resignation of Gary Forsee to care for his ill wife.
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Missouri tuition hike "almost inevitable," but could increase prestige
University of Missouri leaders met by teleconference today to discuss tuition and fee increases across the four-campus system.
Curators looked at figures and possible scenarios prepared by the UM vice president Nikke Krawitz.
A 10 percent increase in tuition - the highest increase scenario on the table - would contribute about $44 million to the coffers.
That doesn't even come close, Krawitz says, to meeting an estimated $64 million gap.
But what's the bottom line for Krawitz?
Morning headlines: UM tuition hike, accidental shooting leaves STL toddler critical, Coleman requests trial delay
By Julie Bierach • Jan 14, 2011
University of Missouri Curators have scheduled a virtual meeting this morning to discuss a likely tuition increase at the four-campus system. The video teleconference comes in advance of a late January meeting in Columbia where the curators are expected to approve the system's first tuition increase in three years. School officials have said they hope to keep the increase below 10 percent. Tuition for the coming academic year is typically set in the spring. But university leaders want an early start because Missouri law requires a waiver from the state to raise tuition beyond the Consumer Price Index inflation rate. Students who live in Missouri and take a standard 15 credit course load pay $3,684 in tuition each semester. A 9 percent increase would translate into a $332 boost per semester.
St. Louis police are investigating the accidental shooting of a three-year-old boy. Police say the toddler was critically wounded when he accidentally shot himself in the head. St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the boy underwent surgery Thursday afternoon at St. Louis Children's Hospital. Police believe the boy was with his mother and an infant sibling at their north St. Louis home when he somehow got his hands on a loaded gun. They say he accidentally shot himself and was found lying on a bed. The mother ran to get the father at the neighbor's house and they raced the toddler to the hospital, flagging down paramedics on the way. The toddler remains in critical condition.
The Belleville News Democrat is reporting that lawyers for Christopher Coleman are asking for a delay in the February 15 trial to allow Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to make a decision on a bill that would abolish the death penalty in the state. Coleman is accused of killing his wife and sons in their Columbia, Ill. home in May 2009. He faces a possible death sentence if convicted.
University of Missouri system president Forsee resigns
By Kelsey Proud & Marshall Griffin • Jan 7, 2011
Via an internal memo this morning, University of Missouri System President Gary Forsee announced that he is resigning.
In the announcement Forsee calls three years serving as system president "an honor," and pledges to help in any way possible.
Univ. of Missouri dropping 16 degree offerings
By Kelsey Proud & The Associated Press • Dec 27, 2010
A state-mandated review of academic programs has led to a University of Missouri plan to eliminate 16 degree options in coming years.
Tuition increase likely at University of Missouri campuses for next year
By Kelsey Proud & The Associated Press • Dec 9, 2010
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Updated with results of the Board of Curators Meeting:
A tuition increase at the four University of Missouri campuses appears likely in the coming academic year. But how much?
Documents released Thursday say the university will "strive to keep (any) increase to single digit(s)," subject to state support.
A budget overview provided to the board was grim, projecting a $105 million state funding gap.
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Preparing next generation of agriculture
By Margaux Wexberg Sanchez • May 16, 2010
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 16, 2010 - Bryan Garton wonders what we'd find if we could go back in time -- and go to the grocery store.
He has no doubt that, 40 years ago, not only were the ways in which we purchased our food dramatically different than they are today, so were the meats and vegetables themselves. Garton -- associate dean and director of academic programs at the University of Missouri, Columbia's College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources -- knows these changes in the consumer experience of agriculture reflect yet deeper ones on the production side.
Fall enrollment figures suggest that hard times make for boon times at Missouri colleges
By Robert Joiner • Aug 26, 2009
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 26, 2009 - In spite of sluggish economic conditions -- or perhaps because of them -- many colleges in Missouri are reporting slight increases in enrollment this fall.
Robert B. Stein, commissioner of higher education for Missouri, said in a statement that the higher enrollment in Missouri's colleges was the "silver lining in the cloud overshadowing the economy."
University of Missouri announces hiring freeze system wide
By Robert Joiner • Nov 18, 2008
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: November 18, 2008 - Only weeks after painting a rosy picture about the fiscal health of the University of Missouri, the system's president, Gary D. Forsee, reversed himself on Monday by announcing a system-wide hiring freeze.
Dateline, today: MU's 'J school' celebrates 100 years, looks to a less turbulent future
By Kristen Hare • Sep 10, 2008
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: September 10, 2008 - In Columbia, Mo., this week, students, journalists and alumni step into a future enclosed in the past.
Inside an 1892 Victorian building on the University of Missouri's School of Journalism's campus sits a new glass structure. That building is part of the new Reynolds Journalism Institute, which opens both as the journalism school celebrates its 100th anniversary and as newspapers around the country cut costs, staff and newsprint.
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8 Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings Added to World Heritage List
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Chicago Jazz Orchestra Celebrates 40 Years of Big, Bold Sounds
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‘She Was the Hope of Her Family’: Sentencing Underway in Yingying Zhang Murder Case
Until this week, jurors knew little about Yingying Zhang, other than how she died. Federal prosecutors on Monday sought to paint a better picture of the visiting Chinese scholar through the words of her friends and loved ones.
City Can’t Keep Impounded Cars After Drivers File for Bankruptcy: Court
A federal appeals court says Chicago can no longer continue to hold impounded vehicles of drivers in debt to the city after the vehicle owner files for bankruptcy. Melissa Sanchez of ProPublica Illinois explains.
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US Women’s World Cup Title Prompts Celebrations, Questions About Pay
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Anger erupts at U.N. climate summit as major economies resist bold action
By Matthew Green and Valerie Volcovici
Reuters December 14, 2019
U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid
MADRID (Reuters) - Major economies resisted calls for bolder climate commitments as a U.N. summit in Madrid limped toward a delayed conclusion on Saturday, dimming hopes that nations will act in time to stop rising temperatures devastating people and the natural world.
With the two-week gathering spilling into the weekend, campaigners and many delegates slammed Chile, presiding over the talks, for drafting a summit text that they said risked throwing the 2015 Paris Agreement to tackle global warming into reverse.
"At a time when scientists are queuing up to warn about terrifying consequences if emissions keep rising, and school children are taking to the streets in their millions, what we have here in Madrid is a betrayal of people across the world," said Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa, a climate and energy think-tank in Nairobi.
The annual climate marathon had been due to conclude on Friday, but dragged on with ministers mired in multiple disputes over implementing the Paris deal, which has so far failed to stem the upward march of global carbon emissions.
Long-time participants in the talks expressed outrage at the unwillingness of major polluters to show ambition commensurate with the gravity of the climate crisis, after a year of wildfires, cyclones, droughts and floods.
The European Union, small island states and many other nations had been calling for the Madrid decision to signal that the more than 190 countries participating in the Paris process will submit bolder pledges to cut emissions next year.
The agreement enters a crucial implementation phase in 2020, when countries are supposed to ratchet up their ambitions ahead of the next major round of talks in Glasgow.
If big economies such as China, India, Japan, Brazil, Australia and others fail to agree on more meaningful climate action soon, then scientists say already slim hopes of averting catastrophic temperature rises will all but vanish.
'STRONG MESSAGE'
Although no advanced economy is yet on track for the kind of action scientists say is needed to steer the climate onto a safer path, all the EU's 28 member states, bar Poland, agreed in Brussels on Thursday to target net zero emissions by 2050.
Krista Mikkonen, Finland's environment minister, speaking on behalf of the EU, told the talks it would be "impossible to leave" without agreeing on a "strong message" on the need to redouble pledges to cut emissions next year.
Ministers broke into groups on Saturday for eleventh-hour negotiations on a tangle of issues, including finance for climate-vulnerable countries, carbon markets and the all-important issue of the strength of the summit's final text.
With the clock ticking, Andrés Landerretche, Chile's summit coordinator, said the goal was to conclude on Saturday. "The vast majority of delegations are asking for a more ambitious text, and that's what we're aiming at," he told reporters.
Campaigners had said a draft text circulating earlier was among the worst they had seen at climate negotiations.
"The approach Chile has taken on this text shows how it has listened to the polluters and not to the people," said Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International.
The Paris process has been weakened by a move by U.S. President Donald Trump to begin withdrawing the world's largest historical emitter from the agreement last month, making it easier for other big countries to backslide.
(Writing by Matthew Green; Editing by Alex Richardson, Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Helen Popper)
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Popular Community Bank Expands Commercial Business in Florida with $150 Million in Commercial Loan Originations in First Nine Months of 2013
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"We are optimistic that the recovery in Florida will continue. We want to play an important role in facilitating business growth in the state"
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Popular Community Bank announced that its newly expanded Florida commercial lending team has closed $150 million in commercial loan originations for the first nine months of 2013 and expects continued growth through year-end.
New financing primarily covered community associations, multifamily and commercial real estate, in addition to commercial loans and lines of credit to small and medium-sized businesses.
Key Florida transactions include:
$9.5 million financing transaction with The Pavilion Condominium Association for restoration of a condominium on Millionaires Row, Miami Beach.
$5.2 million financing transaction with an investor group headed by Pistorino & Alam Consulting Engineers CEO Nasir Alam for the acquisition of the 30,214 square-foot Oakley Square Shopping Center in Orlando.
$8.9 million financial transactions with the Coral Gables-based Beraja family real estate investor group, for several multifamily properties in Coral Gables and Coconut Grove.
$5.3 million transaction increasing an existing facility to $10 million for restoration of Mirasol Ocean Towers Condominium, a beachfront property located in Miami Beach.
“We are optimistic that the recovery in Florida will continue. We want to play an important role in facilitating business growth in the state,” said Israel Velasco, Florida Region Executive, Popular Community Bank. “Our focus is on small to mid-size businesses and condo associations that value the personal service of a local, community bank, combined with the resources you expect from a national financial institution.”
Part of Popular, Inc., a top-40 commercial bank by assets in the U.S. that reported $229 million in net income and $4.6 billion in total capital for the third quarter of 2013, Popular Community Bank is driving its commercial-lending business in Florida through its Miami Lakes-based community-association unit, Popular Association Banking, and expanded Commercial Lending Group, which now has a dedicated team of 15 credit officers in South Florida, and 5 in Central Florida.
“The personal attention I get from Popular Community Bank is second to none,” said Nasir Alam, CEO of Miami-based Pistorino & Alam Consulting Engineers. “They understand my business and are extremely helpful.”
Popular Association Banking serves the community association market exclusively and currently has an active lending platform in 19 states. Since its inception in 1994, Popular Association Banking has assisted more than 5,000 associations and countless residents with just under $2 billion in loans. As of September 30, 2013, the Popular Association Banking Association loan portfolio totaled approximately $526.4 million. For more information see http://www.associationbankers.com. Popular Association Banking is headquartered in Miami Lakes, Florida, with offices in numerous U.S. locations, and is currently expanding into new states, including Texas and Northern California.
Popular Community Bank provides a full suite of cash-management services to help with national and international business transactions. Popular Community Bank recently launched a free iPad app which complements the Bank’s iPhone® and Android™ apps, Business Mobile Banking and recently enhanced Internet banking.
Popular Community Bank currently operates 20 branches in Florida where it runs a full-fledged commercial and retail banking business with 188 employees. Personal service and a deep involvement in the communities it serves distinguish Popular Community Bank as the neighborhood bank with the resources of a large financial institution.
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Philosophie der Beschreibung (review)
Joong Fang
BOOK REVIEWS 243 There is, however, a complication about creativity which there is not about order. Order, as we observed, is the concrete expression of the drift to unity. It cannot be similarly said that creativity is the concrete expression of the drift to multiplicity. Multiplicity is just presented to us, and in itself is not creative at all.... It is not, however, the opposite of order, which is chaos.... It is invention, initiative, an excursion into the unforseen .... Order is the springboard from which it leaps, and order is what (in a new pattern) it creates. The relation between order and creativity is asymmetrical. Consequently, they are not opposites.... But they are frequently poised against each other, particularly when each is functioning at a low level. It is bad order that is uncreative, and bad creation which is disorderly.... It is almost a law among values . . . that they are far apart at the base and converge as each approaches its climax. Order and creativity are seen as powerful "prolongations" (a richly developed concept) of God into His creation, the worId. And in His creation of man, He became the "Creator of Creators." Moreover, because he respects men as independent centers of creative will and thought, He remains, with divine modesty, hidden and veiled, the deus absconditus, who never answers directly and unambiguously (it is the "silence" of God that characters in Bergman's films complain so movingly about), because He wants men to make the creative effort, and endure the creative tension necessary, to try to understand His world and its ways. It is impossible here, to develop the beautiful and convincing edifice of thought and insight that Gibson erects upon this twin pair of fundamental concepts--order and creativity. He builds that edifice through nine distinguished chapters. His book is a consummate fusion of his own fundamental concepts of order and creativity; being creative, yet orderly; being orderly, yet creative. FREDERIC H. YOUNG Chapman College California Philosophie der Beschreibung. By Friedrich Kaulbach. (K61n-Graz: B6hlau Verlag, 1968. Pp. 488) The most celebrated and sometimes misused clich6 in the history of science is no doubt Newton's "hypotheses non fingo." Perhaps less misused, but still well-known is Kirchhoff's manifesto in the Introduction of his famous textbook, Lehrbuch der Mechanik (1874): "die Naturerscheinungen nicht zu erkl~iren, sondern vollst~indig und in der einfachsten Weise zu beschreiben." His effort not "to explain natural phenomena , but to describe them completely and in the simplest manner" was a natural outcome from the general view of sciences he had consistently held: "The highest object at which the natural sciences are constrained to aim, but which they will never reach is . . . the reduction of all the phenomena of nature to mechanics" (quoted by J. B. Stallo, Concepts of Modern Physics, [1884]). Kirchhoff's dictum was later expounded, if somewhat one-sidedly, in the philosophy of Ernst Mach. But the subsequent overemphasis on the annihilation of metaphysics by positivists ended up, quite logically, with "logic without ontology." That the latter is unnecessarily too restrictive is obvious in the light of such positivists' own enterprises as "logic of discovery" (~t la K. R. Popper, N. R. Hanson, etc.), "logic of explanation" (h la C. G. Hempel, etc.), and so on. Equally obvious then is that a philosophy of description cannot possibly remain within the overly restrictive domain of Russell's theory of description. 244 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Throughout the book under review, therefore, the author (a pupil of Husserl in philosophy and of Zermelo in mathematics) hardly ever mentions such names as Frege, Russell or Wittgenstein, although he (and his pupil, Prof. Kambarthel, University of Konstanz) once edited a work by Frege. The author's explicit aim is: "Es ist Aufgabe der philosophischen Theorie der Beschreibung--die in diesem Werk als ein Grundverfahren menschlicher Erkenntnis aufgewiesen wird~die verschiedenen ontologischen Beschreibungsbegriffe sowohl partiell zu rechtfertigen als auch sie zugleich als 'Charaktere ' des Grundverfahrens menschlicher Erkenntnis ~iberhaupt aufzuweisen." Ontology has to enter again, since, according to the author's view, "Die idealen Modelle, von denen die exakte Sprache redet, mtissen auf wirkliche Gegenst~tnde beziehbar sein, die ihrerseits aber nur in ihrer Wirklichkeit und Wesenhaftigkeit...
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Jazz bassist, composer and educator Cameron Brown began his career in the mid-sixties, recording in Europe with George Russell and Don Cherry. These two wonderful musicians remain life-long influences and inspirations.
Mr. Brown anchored some of the most important groups of the seventies, eighties and nineties, beginning in 1975. Sheila Jordan, Roswell Rudd, Archie Shepp and Beaver Harris were his mentors and bandleaders then. He has enjoyed special relationships with master drummers: Art Blakey, Dannie Richmond, Philly Joe Jones, Edward Blackwell, Idris Muhammad and Joe Chambers, as well as Mr. Harris.
The Don Pullen/George Adams Quartet, featuring Dannie Richmond, developed into an intense and rewarding partnership which lasted nearly ten years. In addition to this quartet, Beaver Harris's 360 Degree Music Experience, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, the Sextet and Big Bands of George Russell, and various groups led be Mr. Shepp, Mr. Cherry, Mr. Rudd and Mr. Richmond, Mr. Brown has performed and/or recorded with Donald Byrd, Booker Ervin, Ted Curson, Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Terumasa Hino, Betty Carter and the John Hicks Trio, Houston Person, Etta Jones and Jane Ira Bloom.
He's helped young people around the world to nurture their interest in and passion for jazz from North Carolina to Norway, from Helsinki to New York, to Hong Kong and Taiwan. He is on the faculty of the New School University and has taught at the summer workshop near Venice, Italy co-sponsored by the Manhattan School of Music.
At present, in addition to freelance work, Mr. Brown performs and/or records with Joe Lovano, Sheila Jordan, Archie Shepp, Dave Ballou, Dewey Redman, Lou Donaldson, Marc Copland, Jim McNeely, Steve Slagle, George Cables, Joe Locke, Salvatore Bonafede, Tony Malaby and Phil Markowitz as well as his own ensemble, Cameron Brown and the Hear and Now. He has appeared on more than 80 recordings.
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Home > Uncategorized > Getting the Government Out of Songwriting: Voluntary Licenses Should Replace Consent Decrees or Compulsory Licenses
Getting the Government Out of Songwriting: Voluntary Licenses Should Replace Consent Decrees or Compulsory Licenses
September 28, 2013 Chris Castle
[Editor Charlie sez, this article originally appeared in the Huffington Post.]
Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) is holding a useful series of thought provoking hearings before the House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet reviewing the current state of the U.S. Copyright Act. The most recent hearing in this series was on September 18, entitled “The Role of Voluntary Agreements in the U.S. Intellectual Property System“.
This is a very important subject to songwriters. It is not widely known that songwriters are highly regulated by the government through two primary mechanisms — the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees dating from the middle of the last century and the compulsory mechanical license dating from 1909. The Congress should consider abandoning both in favor of voluntary licenses.
Terminate the ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees
ASCAP and BMI each grant blanket licenses for the exclusive right to publicly perform the millions of songs each represents. The licensee is often a large commercial entity such as a broadcaster network or a media company like Google. Hence, ASCAP and BMI are called “performing rights organizations” or PROs. U.S. songwriters contract with either ASCAP or BMI (or a third non-regulated organization called SESAC). Songwriters authorize their PRO to bargain collectively to license their songs.
The biggest problem for songwriters with the consent decrees is setting the royalty rate. Rates are privately negotiated by the PROs and licensees in the first instance. But if a PRO cannot make a deal with a well-funded licensee, that licensee (such as Pandora, most recently) can go to a “rate court”, a U.S. District Court sitting in New York that conducts an expensive hearing to approximate a market rate. At that point, things start to get very expensive for songwriters, compounded by the fact that the licensee can continue to use the songs under essentially a rateless license pending the court’s decision.
An example of the tortured morass of rate courts is the current Pandora case: The rate court judge has stated that she may ask the U.S. Department of Justice for advice in determining whether Pandora has the right to force a songwriter to license her songs in a particular medium under ASCAP’s otherwise voluntary collective licensing. It’s comforting to know that the DOJ has the resources to devote to this pressing issue!
Rate courts are extraordinarily antiquated and increase both moral hazard and unfair bargaining position. Given the high cost of rate courts, their rates are arguably more a product of who can afford to sustain the litigation rather than fairness for songwriters.
Songwriters find themselves in a rate court proceeding with public companies that are willing to outspend them following a negotiation of dubious bona fides — all to determine a market rate that the government prohibits the market from determining.
Terminating consent decrees would be a big step toward reintroducing market forces while preserving the songwriter’s right to negotiate directly or collectively.
Let Songwriters Opt Out of the 1909 Compulsory Mechanical License
The 1909 mechanical license covers the exclusive reproduction right of songwriters, or the “mechanical reproduction”. Mechanical licenses were first for piano rolls, but now cover both physical and digital records, including on-demand streaming in some cases.
The mechanical license is compulsory in the U.S. After a song is used once (essentially one commercial use), songwriters cannot never stop its subsequent use.
In addition to requiring the mechanical license, the government also sets the “minimum” rate through another extraordinarily expensive rate setting proceeding where the government tries to approximate a market rate. Sound familiar?
To be clear, there are a variety of voluntary mechanical licenses with negotiated terms — other than the rate. In practice, mechanical royalties never exceed the government’s “minimum” royalty rate. Any “voluntary” rate negotiation is usually to drive rates below the government’s “minimum” — more accurately the “maximum”.
Why can’t a market rate be established by the market?
By allowing songwriters to opt out of the compulsory license and negotiate voluntary licenses, Congress could preserve the current regime for those who prefer it, but allow those who do not to enjoy market freedom. It is relatively simple to notify the world that a songwriter opted out of the regime. Songwriters can record a notice with the Copyright Office, or the databases of the PROs as is the longstanding commercial practice for copyright ownership transfers.
Songwriters watch huge public companies essentially given a pass on mergers and other anticompetitive activities that have a profound effect on the U.S. consumers. It’s hard to understand why the government feels the need to continue to protect dominant companies like Google and Pandora from the monopolistic lusting of songwriters.
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This is an absolute MUST READ for all songwriters.
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It seems the changes to the consent decree suggested here would effectively destroy the independent publisher and songwriter to the potential benefit if SONY/ATV/EMI/BMG/BMLG etc.
What negotiating power could I as an individual songwriter possibly have? And even if I were allied with the them, couldn’t the above mentioned behemoths negotiate away my monies if it benefitted them in a larger, more “360” deal with broadcasters and internetters?
Chris Castle
Actually, the only change is that the rates set by ASCAP and BMI would be negotiated rather than set by a rate court. Songwriters would still be free to stay in the PRO structure and if majors made deals with anyone that would only cover their repertoire.
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PRO HOCKEY TALK | NBC SPORTSPHT Select Team
Rangers’ Panarin returns to Columbus the way he left: as a superstar
By James O'BrienDec 5, 2019, 4:08 PM EST
Aside from no-brainer cases such as Nathan MacKinnon being paid essentially half of his on-ice value (maybe less), it can be tricky to say that an expensive free agent signing is “worth the money.” Especially since the New York Rangers have been worse than their 13-10-3 record would indicate.
So … maybe you’d argue Artemi Panarin hasn’t been worth every dime of his $11.64M AAV, but I believe emphatically that he’s at least justified the hype as the rare superstar to actually hit unrestricted free agency.
Thursday serves as a momentous occasion to consider that decision, as Panarin is playing against the Blue Jackets for the first time in Columbus since deciding to leave for the Rangers. Let’s look at this situation from a few different angles.
Still a superstar
As the headline suggests, Panarin remains a dynamic talent.
Even with a two-game pointless drought coming into Thursday’s game, Panarin has been producing, generating 12 goals and 33 points in 26 games. If Panarin managed to maintain this pace over an 82-game season, he’d set new career-highs with 39 goals, 67 assists, and 106 points.
He might not be able to maintain it. While Panarin’s shooting percentage isn’t totally out of order, his playmaking might cool ever so slightly (his on-ice shooting percentage – a decent way to see if a player’s assists might be a touch inflated – is very high at 15.6 percent, compared to a career average of 10.8).
Even so, if Panarin stays healthy, he’s off to a hot enough start that he might beat his career-high of 87 points.
Most importantly, Panarin is still extremely good, and brings more to the table than just the highlight reel passes and goals.
By most underlying numbers, Panarin is more or less the same player: a dynamic offensive presence who doesn’t seem to hurt his team defensively. Maybe you can chalk that up to the notion that the best defense is to not have to play defense because you have the puck all the time, but either way, he’s remarkable. Check out the past three seasons of his heat maps via Hockey Viz’s Micah Blake McCurdy:
(As a reminder, lots of red and a positive number up top, in the offensive side is great, and not lots of red and a negative number in the bottom [defensive] half is also great. So, basically, Panarin ruled and still rules.)
Via the Point Hockey’s stats, Panarin is tied with Mathew Barzal for the lead in offensive zone puck possession (1:12 per game) and Panarin’s 72 completed passes to the slot ranks fourth overall.
At this point, it’s not about if Panarin is still an elite player, but where he ranks among the cream of the crop.
Not downplaying the meaning of the game
Plenty of people involved with the Rangers acknowledge that Thursday’s return to Columbus means a lot to Panarin. Panarin himself admitted as much on Wednesday, as the New York Post’s Larry Brooks reports.
“I’m pretty excited. It’s not going to be a regular game for me,” Panarin said. “It’s going to be a different game, I’m going to try to show the best I can.”
Via The Athletic’s Rick Carpiniello (sub required), current Rangers and former Blue Jackets executive John Davidson believes that Panarin might be a “little apprehensive” about how he’ll be received. Going to the Rangers was basically Panarin’s first full-fledged choice (his options were limited when he came to the Blackhawks from the KHL, and it wasn’t his call when Panarin was traded to Columbus), so here’s hoping that Blue Jackets fans are as understanding as 1st Ohio Battery’s Chris Pennington recommends.
Breadless
So far, it’s been an up-and-down season for Columbus, who have lost two in a row and sit at 11-12-4.
While Sergei Bobrovsky‘s bloated contract and rocky start make his departure seem like a possible blessing in disguise, it’s tougher not to miss Panarin.
In particular, I’ve been curious to see how Pierre-Luc Dubois has fared without Panarin. He’s been glued to Panarin for the first two years of his career, making it difficult to tell just how good he is. (We knew PLD was a very useful player, but a star like Panarin can really shine you up.)
So far … mostly very good. Like Panarin, is heat maps look strong as ever:
With 18 points in 27 games (thanks to a dry spell of one assist in his last five games), Dubois isn’t quite on last season’s 61-point pace, but he’s not so far off, and has a shot at his first 30+ goal season.
Sure, Dubois proving himself doesn’t totally soothe things for a Columbus team facing ups and downs, yet it’s something they can hang their hat on as Panarin comes back to town.
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NHL on NBC: Bruins want to be more than ‘teddy bears’ vs. Penguins
By James O'BrienJan 19, 2020, 8:00 AM EST
NBC’s coverage of the 2019-20 NHL season continues with Sunday’s matchup between the Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins. Coverage begins at 12:30 p.m. ET on NBC. You can watch the game online and on the NBC Sports app by clicking here.
Considering the Bruins’ comfortable lead atop the Atlantic Division, most teams would gladly take on Boston’s “problems.”
Still, for the Bruins — and few other teams, but yes, also the Penguins, their opponents on Sunday afternoon — it’s about more than division titles. After falling a Game 7 shy of winning the 2019 Stanley Cup Final, this group boasts lofty aspirations.
The Bruins aim to fine-tune during this stretch of the 2019-20 season, and to some, that means reestablishing their identity.
Bruins try to shed ‘Teddy Bears’ criticism
The B’s didn’t just lose Tuukka Rask to an injury on Tuesday when Emil Bemstrom delivered an errant elbow during Columbus’ 3-0 win. Their perceived lack of a response meant that some lost respect for this group.
NBC Sports Boston’s Joe Haggerty went as far as to call the Bruins “teddy bears.”
The Athletic’s Fluto Shinzawa also opined (sub required) that “The Big, Bad Bruins are dead.”
Bruins players seemed to get the memo in beating the Penguins 4-1 on Thursday. Haggerty and others praised the team’s physical response, including a rare Torey Krug fight against Patric Hornqvist.
“It’s not about going out there and trying to run them out of the rink. Looking at our roster, we don’t have that kind of group anymore,” Krug said after that win, via Haggerty. “But we talked about sticking together and competing harder and sacrificing a little more. That doesn’t mean putting a guy through the glass, but it means going into the corner and having the willingness to get hit, or to hit somebody else, in order to come out of there with the puck. I think that desperation was lost there for a few games, so hopefully this is a step in the right direction and we can kind of grasp that concept again. It’s been part of our DNA for years, so as long as we can get back to that [we’ll be good].”
Some lingering questions for Bruins
Again, you could argue there’s some mild soul-searching going on for Boston.
Blame it on a drop in physicality, or perhaps some other factors, but I’d personally be a little more concerned about dipping underlying numbers.
[COVERAGE BEGINS AT 12:30 P.M. ET ON NBC]
Looking at sites like Natural Stat Trick and Hockey Reference, there’s been a dip in key categories. They’ve hogged the puck less often, and have been on the wrong end of high-danger chances (owning just 45.6 percent of that category, via Hockey Reference).
These numbers shouldn’t make anyone pull a fire alarm. It’s not that the Bruins have been terrible. Instead, there are some red flags that the Bruins should improve their play. Sean Tierney (Charting Hockey)’s expected goals share chart captures the sometimes middle-of-the-pack feel to the Bruins’ stats:
Would the Bruins dominate the puck if they add more edge? Maybe, but either way, there are signs that the B’s have room to improve.
Mike Emrick, Eddie Olczyk and Brian Boucher will have the call of the Bruins-Penguins matchup on NBC from PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pa.
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The Buzzer: Elvis, Ovechkin, and others who rocked
Three Stars beyond Elvis and Ovechkin
1. Jonathan Toews, Chicago Blackhawks
Chicago blowing out Toronto will lead to some hand-wringing, no doubt. Yet, as much as that was on a tough night for Frederik Andersen, give the Blackhawks some credit. Toews topped all in that game with an outstanding four-point performance (two goals and two assists).
Saturday continued what’s been one heck of a month for Toews. The Blackhawks captained pushed his January total to 15 points (5G, 10A). Toews reached that total in just eight games, scoring at least one point in seven contests.
Scratch that. Toews has been on fire for a while now. He started off ice-cold with only two points in 11 October games. Toews took off after that, and has generated an impressive 41 points in his past 28 contests.
Underrated rookie Dominik Kubalik contributed to Chicago’s win, too, with three points (2G, 1A).
2. Riley Sheahan, Edmonton Oilers
Sheahan scoffs at Toews’ slow start. The journeyman forward failed to score a point in 12 October games, and managed one in 11 November contests. Sheahan went and matched his December points total (four in 14 GP) in one contest on Saturday.
That’s right, he generated four points, scoring an empty-netter plus three assists. Connor McDavid dominated in his own right with two goals, but Sheahan helped the Oilers rout the Coyotes. Josh Archibald generated three points (1G, 2A) as well.
This just in: the Oilers have a lot of “that guy’s still around?” forwards. It’s honestly cool to see some of them have such a strong day, and maybe take a bit of the pressure off McDavid here and there.
3. Cam Atkinson, Columbus Blue Jackets
It’s as though Atkinson never missed any time. After scoring a goal and an assist in his first game in almost one month on Thursday, Atkinson generated three points (2G, 1A) on Saturday. This gives Atkinson seven points (4G, 3A) in his past four contests.
Others give Atkinson a run for his money, even beyond the next section. Jason Zucker (1G, 2A) and James van Riemsdyk (1G, 2A) both contributed to their respective teams’ blowouts. Atkinson’s extra goal gives him the edge.
OK, now let’s consider Elvis and Ovechkin
Saturday featured enough strong performances that it feels better to give these two a mention. After all, they already received their own posts. Yes, these two probably rank as the “real” third and fourth stars of Saturday, or higher, depending upon your personal taste.
Elvis Merzlikins generated a 41-save shutout. Read about his hot streak here (which includes three shutouts in four games, all wins).
Alex Ovechkin passed Mario Lemieux in goals and tied Steve Yzerman. Click here for more information on his history-making hat trick.
Highlight of the Night
Marc-Andre Fleury is suffering through a tough season, big-picture wise. “The Flower” keeps adding to his resume of breathtaking saves, though:
Jamie Benn provides us with a reason to laugh. At least those of us who aren’t immediately transported to our own memories of hilarious blunders.
That video summarizes the Stars’ night succinctly, as the Wild beat them 7-0.
Ovechkin nabbed consecutive hat tricks to push his career goals total to 692. He passed Mario Lemieux (11th all-time, 690) and tied Steve Yzerman for ninth all-time (692). Mark Messier sits just two goals away at eighth with 694. Ovechkin also generated consecutive hat tricks for the third time in his career. In doing so, Ovechkin joined Joe Malone (four times) and Wayne Gretzky (three) as the only players to generate consecutive hat tricks three or more times, according to NHL PR. Again, this post delves deeper into Ovechkin’s latest accomplishments.
Ovechkin’s teammate John Carlson reached 60 points. Carlson managed the feat in just 49 games, getting to 60 faster than any Capitals defenseman; Mike Green held the previous mark with 60 by game 57. Opinion: Green deserved better treatment from hockey folks during his peak years.
Merzlikins authored the 18th instance of a rookie goalie getting a shutout of at least 41 saves, via NHL PR.
Cale Makar scored his 11th goal, setting a new record for goals by a rookie Avalanche defenseman.
Dominik Kubalik reached 20 goals in his 47th game. NHL PR points out that Kubalik ranks among sixth Blackhawks to reach 20 goals in 50 games or less.
WSH 6 – NYI 4
COL 5 – STL 3
EDM 7 – ARI 3
OTT 5 – CGY 2
CHI 6 – TOR 2
MTL 5 – VGK 4 (SO)
FLA 4 – DET 1
PHI 4 – LAK 1
CBJ 5 – NJD 0
NSH 2 – BUF 1
MIN 7 – DAL 0
VAN 4 – SJS 1
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Elvis thrives: Merzlikins is on fire for Blue Jackets
Elvis Merzlikins advanced a bold goal lately: to be more than just a funny name. He is leaving opponents all shook up absolutely red-hot for the Columbus Blue Jackets right now.
Elvis absolutely hound-dogged shut out the New Jersey Devils in Columbus’ 5-0 on Saturday, and that 41-save performance was far from his first standout evening. Merzlikins generated three shutouts in his last four games, allowing just two goals overall. The Blue Jackets won all four of those games.
(OK, this post includes enough cheesy Elvis jokes … arguably.)
During seven appearances between October and November, the 25-year-old goalie languished with sub-.900 save percentages. Since then, he’s started to take off.
Some “too perfect” moments for Elvis Merzlikins and the Blue Jackets
Maybe Merzlikins made a New Year’s Eve resolution to dominate? Perhaps it was because Elvis asked reporters to leave him alone? Merzlikins suffered only two losses since Dec. 31, winning eight of 10 games.
The lights-out play already makes the story endearing, but there are notes of the surreal. Consider a few facts about his hot streak:
Merzlikins grabbed his first NHL win on Dec. 31 against Sergei Bobrovsky and the Panthers.
Even John Tortorella joked about Elvis managing his first shutout in … you guessed it, Vegas. Torts praised Merzlikins’ ability to roll with the punches, as Columbus had been reeling with injuries.
“That’s what you like about him. He’s strong mentally,” Tortorella said after the Jan. 11 Vegas shutout, via Rob Mixer of First Ohio Battery. “He’s a piece of work as far as his personality, which I like. A lot of things have been thrown at him here…but he’s handled himself really well. I’m happy for him.”
Merzlikins ended up making it back-to-back shutouts, as he also blanked the Bruins with a 34-save shutout. His three shutouts have upped the ante each time: first 27 saves, then 34, then 41 against the Devils on Saturday.
Tortorella deserves ample credit for creating a cocoon for his goalies, of course.
"Defense"
CBJ has figured out how to survive and it's impressive to see Torts working a system that suits this group so well. pic.twitter.com/vqKSrQ6Ryq
— Sean Tierney (@ChartingHockey) January 18, 2020
Regardless, Merzlikins is playing a big role in helping the Blue Jackets stay in the East wild-card races. Here’s hoping that our jokes rise up the charts or we might just need to leave the building.
(Sorry. I’m so, so sorry.)
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Hat trick helps Ovechkin pass Lemieux, tie Yzerman for ninth on NHL goals list
By Sean LeahyJan 18, 2020, 3:55 PM EST
An historic week for Alex Ovechkin was capped off with a hat trick Saturday afternoon during a 6-4 win over the Islanders. His three goals pushes him past Mario Lemieux and into ninth place with 692, tying him with Steve Yzerman.
Ovechkin opened the scoring and then passed Mario Lemieux for 10th all-time in the third period as the Capitals mounted their comeback. He ended his day with an empty-netter to seal the win and tie Yzerman. The Islanders led 4-1 entering the third period.
Powered by two consecutive hat tricks, Ovechkin has eight goals in his last three games and 10 in his previous six.
That’s now three consecutive multi-goal games for Ovechkin, the first time he’s done that in his career. Earlier this week he not only passed Teemu Selanne for 11th on the all-time goals list but also hit the 30-goal mark for the 15th time in his career. He, along with Jaromir Jagr and Mike Gartner, are the only players to ever record 15 consecutive 30-goal seasons.
With three goals Saturday — the third time he’s recorded hat tricks in consecutive games — Ovechkin now has 34 on the season as he eyes a ninth 50-goal season. His hat trick was the 26th of his NHL career, tying him with Maurice Richard for eighth all-time.
Next in Ovechkin’s sights? Mark Messier, who finished with 694 goals in his career.
Sean Leahy is a writer for Pro Hockey Talk on NBC Sports. Drop him a line at phtblog@nbcsports.com or follow him on Twitter @Sean_Leahy.
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‘Future generations will face increasingly severe impacts of climate change include rising temperatures, extreme weather, water stress, sea level rise, ocean acidification, disruption to ecosystems.’ – United Nations
Some Critical News about the Health of Our Planet from the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization
Posted November 25th, 2019 on Niagara At Large
Levels of the three main heat-trapping gases emitted into the atmosphere – carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide – have reached yet another high, the United Nations’ meteorological agency, WMO, said this Monday, November 25th.
In an appeal to Governments to do more to reverse countries’ reliance on producing energy from fossil fuels, in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas, warned that “the future welfare of mankind” was at stake.
To vew a video the World Meteorlogicala Orgaization put together on the news that greenhouse gas concentartions have hit a new record high, please click on the screen below –
“We have again broken records in carbon dioxide concentrations and we have already exceeded 400ppm level which was regarded as a critical level,” he said, in reference to the 407.8 parts per million reading for 2018. “That happened already two years ago and this carbon dioxide concentration continues and continues, and last year’s increase was about the same as we have been observing in the past 10 years, as an average.”
According to the World Meteorological Organization’s Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, since 1990, so-called “long-lived” greenhouse gases have caused a 43 per cent increase in total radiative forcing – the warming effect on the climate.
Of these gases, CO2 accounts for about 80 per cent, according to the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), whose data is quoted in the WMO Bulletin.
Carbon dioxide especially damaging
Ontario’s Ford government is spending millions of our tax dollars in the courts, fighting efforts by the federal government to put a price on climate-ravaging carbon pollution. It also made it mandatory this past summer for gas stations to put these stickers on their pumps to scare Ontarions out of working to cut carbon pollution.
CO2 is particularly harmful in a global warming context because it remains in the atmosphere for centuries and in the oceans for even longer, the agency explained.
Professor Taalas noted too that when the Earth last had similar concentrations of CO2, the temperature “was 2-3 degrees Celsius warmer (and) sea level was 10-20 metres higher than now”.
Turning to methane, which is responsible for 17 per cent of radiative forcing, Professor Taalas noted that “we have also been breaking records”, since last year’s increase “was the second-highest in the last 10 years”.
According to the WMO bulletin, global readings indicate that atmospheric methane (CH4) reached a new high of 1,869 parts per billion (ppb) in 2018, more than two and a half times the pre-industrial level.
Approximately 40 per cent of methane comes from natural sources, such as wetlands and termites, but 60 per cent comes from human activities, including cattle breeding, paddyfields, mines, landfills and biomass burning.
It appears the Ford government is willing to see more of this in Ontario. This was Brantford in the winter at one point in 2018. In Niagara, we are seeing more frequent flooding along the shores of Lakes Erie and Ontario. A costly price to pay to save a few cents on a litre of gas.
“For CH4, the increase from 2017 to 2018 was higher than both that observed from 2016 to 2017 and the average over the last decade,” the bulletin noted.
Gas concentrations accelerating
This upwards trend in emissions was repeated in the case of nitrous oxide (N2O), with concentrations in 2018 estimated at 331.1 ppb, or 123 per cent above pre-industrial levels.
“Nitrous oxide has contributed about six per cent of the warming so far”, said Professor Taalas. “It’s very much coming from farmlands and again there we have been breaking records, the steady growth of N2O concentration still continues.”
Based on current data, global emissions are not estimated to peak by 2030, let alone by 2020, if existing climate policies – as set out in countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – remain unchanged, WMO believes.
Addressing this will involve promoting non-fossil-based energy sources, since “we produce 85 per cent of the global energy based on fossil ones – coal, oil and gas”, Professor Taalas said, “and only 15 per cent based on nuclear, hydro and renewables. And to be successful in implementation of the Paris Agreement we should reverse those numbers in the coming decades.”
China number one
Highlighting the need for the global community to tackle emissions, the WMO head explained that the biggest polluters “used to be Europe and North America, USA, but China has become number the one emitter – along with “fairly strong growth in the emissions of non-OECD countries” too.
A developer from China was recently cited in a Niagara, Ontario newspaper saying she has done years of work on projects that protect the environment in China and she is prepared to do the same with a development project planned for the Thundering Waters Forest area in Niagara Falls, Ontario. There appears to be a lot more environmental work for her to do in China however. That certainly seeps to be the case when people in Beijing are covering their faces with masks to protect themselves from choking carbon-related emissions. Some Chinese citizens reportedly go abroad on what they call “lung cleansing” trips to escape from this. Yet new reports in papers like the Financial Times in Europe say that the Chinese government is moving relentlessly ahead on opening more coal-fired energy plants to spur economic growth..The whole world stands to pay dearly for this.
This demonstrates that global perspective and strategy is needed to solve this problem, Professor Taalas said. The European Union or USA, or China, can’t solve it alone, “you have to have all of the countries involved.”
While Governments understand that this is a challenge, so too does the private sector, he added, noting that it was “more and more interested in finding solutions”.
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The Ferrari FXX K (at first named LaFerrari XX)is a high-performance race car built by the Ferrari company in Italy. The model was based on the street-legal LaFerrari.
The exterior design of 2015 Ferrari FXX K was focused around improving the aero-balance. Length of this super sports car is 4896 mm (196 inches) Width 2051 mm (81 inches), height 1116 mm (44 inches). Wheels are 285/650 – R19 x10½ front and 345/725 – R20x13 rear, with tires Pirelli P-Zero Slik. For stopping are carbon ceramic brakes in charge Front 398 x 223 x 36 mm and Rear 380 x 253 x 34 mm.
As for the front exterior, the basic splinter was replaced by a larger one with a gap in its center, whereas the spoiler was completely reworked into a twin-profile piece in order to enhance downforce. Together, they are placed in a lower position (1,2”) than in the previous models.
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On the third anniversary of the release by WikiLeaks of the DNC emails, Ray McGovern looks back at how the DNC diverted the damaging contents into a trumped up conspiracy blaming Russia with no evidence at all.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/22/ray-mcgovern-a-non-hack-that-raised-hillarys-hackles/
From long ago retired McGovern
Independent forensic investigations demonstrated two years ago that the DNC emails were not hacked over the Internet, but had been copied onto an external storage device — probably a thumb drive.
From the article he sited as evidence (also on CN)
Over the last few weeks, we ran three tests to determine how quickly data could be exfiltrated from the U.S. across the Atlantic to Europe.
–First, we used a 100 megabits-per-second (mbps) line to pull data from a one-gigabyte file to Amsterdam. The peak transfer speed was .8 MBps.
–Second, we used a commercial DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) to send the same one-gigabyte file to a commercial DSL in Amsterdam. The peak transfer speed was 1.8 MBps.
–Third, we pushed the same one-gigabyte file from a data center in New Jersey to a data center in the UK. The peak transfer speed was 12 MBps.
None of these attempts achieve anything close to the average rate of 22.7 megabytes per second evident in the July 5, 2016 download/copy associated with the DNC. In fact, this happens to be the speed typical of a transfer to a USB-2 external storage device. We do not think this pure coincidence; rather, it is additional evidence of a local download.
From the Mueller Report
The hackers used Mimikatz, a hacking tool used once an intruder is already in a target network, to collect credentials, and two other kinds of malware: X-Agent for taking screenshots and logging keystrokes, and X-Tunnel used to exfiltrate massive amounts of data from the network to servers controlled by the GRU. Mueller’s report found that Unit 26165 used several “middle servers” to act as a buffer between the hacked networks and the GRU’s main operations. Those servers, Mueller said, were hosted in Arizona — likely as a way to obfuscate where the attackers were located but also to avoid suspicion or detection.
Whoever wrote that test on the Internet knows nothing about the Internet. It's garbage like that which keeps people like Hannity in business.
Says the mtn. bike forum Russiaphobe troll.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(intelligence_official)
Perhaps the most damning of the two came last Monday, when it was disclosed that, on July 1, Judge Dabney Friedrich ordered Mueller to stop pretending he had proof that the Russian government was behind the Internet Research Agency’s supposed attempt to interfere via social media in the 2016 election. While the corporate media so far has largely ignored Judge Friedrich’s order, it may well have been enough to cause very cold feet for those attached to the strained Facebook fable.
Ten days is not a lot of time to conjure up ways to confront and explain Judge Friedrich’s injection of some unwelcome reality. Since the Democrats, the media, and Mueller himself all have strong incentive to “make the worst case appear the better” (one of the twin charges against Socrates), they need time to regroup and circle the wagons. The more so, since Mueller’s other twin charge — Russian hacking of the DNC — also has been shown, in a separate Court case, to be bereft of credible evidence.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/16/ray-mcgovern-sic-transit-gloria-mueller/
Last edited by: tungsten on July 23, 2019, 8:36 p.m., edited 5 times in total.
Moving on hey Tungsten? Nothing to see here, other than American servers that blow the terrible analysis and "proof" that the DNC files were stolen on a thumb drive out of some very shallow water (speeds vary by the way and the 22.7 MBps not the speed of a USB2 drive). I am sure your "news" sources will keep this part of the Mueller report because they built their case on a pillar of sand.
Now, what about Judge Dabney Friedrich. Did she "order Mueller to stop pretending he had proof that the Russian government was behind the Internet Research Agency’s supposed attempt to interfere via social media in the 2016 election."? No... what a surprise. She ordered Mueller AND BARR to refrain from making statements about the IRA being directed by Russia while the case against Concord Management (run by Prigozhin, or Putin's chef) is before the court.
Mueller didn't release his evidence, he released a report based on the evidence, and from what we do know if you actually think that the IRA was just a jolly gang of rogue hackers and that Putin's Chef is just freelancing a little election meddling on his own time you are only fooling yourself.
Want to know whats even funnier?
The FBI never actually examined the DNC's servers. Under Comey, they trusted Crowdstrike (or source?) report. Probably could've saved a bunch of time and cleared the water if the FBI did their effin' job. Also, Barr's been appointed less than a year so I'm not sure where or how he fits into your statement.
Trump's Stupid ‘Where Is the DNC Server?’ Conspiracy Theory, Explained
The FBI did their job, the problem is that too many people that do not have much of a clue how a computers work, much less a network are weighing in on what should have been done.
The bit about Barr was in reference to the link Tungsten posted.
I've read for years now that the FBI never took possession of the DNC server and it wasnt from Trump. Not reading a vice article on that.
They didn't take possession of the server, but if you want to explain why they needed it to investigate how it was hacked please feel free to enlighten us all. I took computing science in college so don't be shy if it gets technical.
How important is the server to the narrative?
A computing science degree is no match for weed smoking conspiracy theorists. Might add well take on FEs.
To Trump's narrative? Very important. He must have consulted Baron.
LMAO. Don't blame the weed man, it is in the DNA. I just have to roll with it I think and start my own "news" site. The Underground Times or something like that.
Cool link. I followed another one from the one you provided and particularly liked this bit
"Many of Mrs. Clinton’s closest aides believe that the Russian assault had a profound impact on the election, while conceding that other factors — Mrs. Clinton’s weaknesses as a candidate — were also important."
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LMAO. Just so we are clear, I agree with that statement.
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How the Natural Beauty of Hellenistic Sculpture Has Captivated the World for Centuries
“Lely Venus” Stock Photos from FenlioQ/Shutterstock
Hellenistic sculpture is one of art history’s most prized practices. Celebrated for its unprecedented naturalism, this movement introduced a skillful sculptural approach that artists would emulate for years to come.
Today, Hellenistic antiquities can be found in top collections across the globe, with world-famous works like the Winged Victory of Samothrace leading the way. While you may be familiar with these awe-inspiring marble sculptures, you may not know much about the very movement that they shaped.
What was the Hellenistic Period?
The Hellenistic period was an era in Ancient Greece that lasted from 323 BCE to 31 CE. During this period, sculptors pursued and perfected naturalism—an artistic interest that Greek artists had been developing over hundreds of years.
“The Winged Victory of Samothrace,” 190 BCE (Stock Photos from jackbolla/Shutterstock)
A fascination with naturalistic sculpture can be traced back to Ancient Greece’s Archaic period, which lasted from the 8th century until 500 BCE. Though sculptures crafted during this time conveyed more realism than those that preceded them, their poses are stiff and their expressions are stoic. Similarly, Archaic sculptors typically stuck to two types of figures: “the male kouros, or standing nude youth, and the female kore, or standing draped maiden” (the Metropolitan Museum of Art).
This changed in 500 BCE, however, when the Classical period emerged. With an increased attention to detail and idealized perception of human anatomy, Classical sculptors strived for perfection in their work. Consequently, they shifted their focus from kouros and kore figures to a diverse and divine cast of characters from mythology.
This approach was taken a step further in 323 BCE. At this time, sculptors adapted Classical techniques to render realistic figures. This trend lasted for nearly 200 years and culminated in what is now known as the Hellenistic period.
Classic Characteristics
In order to achieve this lifelike aesthetic, Hellenistic sculptors skillfully incorporated three characteristics into their work: expressive movement, realistic anatomy, and ornate details.
Expressive Movement
In order to make their sculptures look as human as possible, sculptors employed dynamic silhouettes and sinuous forms to suggest motion. This emphasis on expressive and exaggerated movement is particularly apparent in Laocoön and His Sons, one of the period’s most famous masterpieces.
“Laocoon and His Sons,” first century BCE (Stock Photos from Enrique Moya/Shutterstock)
Inspired by a Greek epic, the statue depicts three figures—Laocoön, a priest from Troy, and his two sons, Antiphantes and Thymbraeu—as they desperately try to escape from a pair of coiled serpents. As they dramatically twist and turn, they appear to entangle themselves even more, culminating in the swirling, action-packed scene that perfectly illustrates the Hellenistic interest in movement.
Realistic Anatomy
This preoccupation with movement also informed the Hellenistic focus on anatomy. Breaking from “the universal, emotionless, and often rigid poses of the Archaic” (Google Arts & Culture) and building on Classical models, Hellenistic artists crafted sculptures inspired by real human postures. Rather than posed in unrealistically erect positions, figures like the Venus de Milo were rendered in an asymmetrical stance. Known as contrapposto (“counterpose”), this pose implies movement through the use of realistic weight distribution and an S-shaped body.
Alexandros of Antioch, “Venus de Milo,” 101 BCE (Stock Photos from Tutti Frutti/Shutterstock)
In addition to natural poses, Hellenistic artists sought to replicate the bodies of real humans. While this is evident in the unidealized sculptures of gods that were prevalent during the period, it also manifested as statues of ordinary people. “One of the immediate results of the new international Hellenistic milieu was the widened range of subject matter that had little precedent in earlier Greek art,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art explains, “There are representations of unorthodox subjects, such as grotesques, and of more conventional inhabitants, such as children and elderly people.”
Boethos of Chalcedon, “Boy with Goose,” 2nd century BCE ((Stock Photos from time4studio/Shutterstock)
Ornate Details
A final characteristic of Hellenistic sculpture is a striking attention to detail. In addition to realistic anatomical features, this is evident in drapery—a sculptural element that proved particularly popular during this time.
Detail of “The Winged Victory of Samothrace,” 190 BCE (Stock Photos from muratart /Shutterstock)
Sculptors opted to adorn their figures with “fabric” for three main reasons: to accentuate the suggested movement of the figure, emphasize the contours of its lifelike anatomy, and to showcase their sculpting skills. Known as “wet drapery,” this technique first appeared during the Classical period and was adopted and adapted by Hellenistic artists.
Over the course of several centuries, Hellenistic sculpture has remained one of the practice’s most influential genres. Throughout the Renaissance, its emphasis on anatomy was emulated by Italian artists like Michelangelo; during the Baroque movement, Bernini found inspiration in its dynamic movement; and, in the 19th century, Giovanni Strazza employed the “wet drapery” technique to craft the amazing Veiled Virgin.
Spanning movements, genres, and even centuries, these pieces—among many more—have proven the lasting legacy of Hellenistic sculpture.
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Pay FAQ
Pay for College/ Pay FAQ
WHICH FINANCIAL AID FORM DO I FILL OUT?
Free Application for Federal Student Aid
U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and eligible noncitizens should complete this form to receive federal, state and institutional aid including grants, scholarships, loans and work-study. Opens October 1.
ORSAA
Oregon Student Aid Application
Eligible undocumented and DACA-mented students in Oregon should complete this form to receive state aid including the Oregon Opportunity Grant and the Oregon Promise grant. Opens October 1.
Some colleges also require students to complete the CSS Profile in order to receive financial aid. In Oregon, Lewis & Clark College and Reed College require it; check with out-of-state colleges to see if they require it.
FAFSA FAQ
What is the FAFSA?
► FAFSA stands for Free Application for Federal Student Aid and is the form that students complete in order to access financial aid including grants, scholarships, loans and work-study. Learn more here.
Who should complete the FAFSA?
► (Almost) everyone! Basic eligibility requirements:
● be a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen;
● have a valid Social Security number;
● if male, be registered for Selective Service;
● enrolled or accepted in an eligible degree or certificate program.
► Eligible students with undocumented parents should complete the FAFSA with a paper signature page. Follow the instructions for a parent completing the FAFSA without a Social Security Number on fafsa.gov.
► Eligible undocumented students should complete the Oregon Student Aid Application (ORSAA) instead. DACA-mented students can complete both the FAFSA (for aid from the college - check with each college for specific instructions) and the ORSAA (for state aid and scholarships).
When should students complete the FAFSA?
► The FAFSA opens October 1 for the following school year. Apply as early as possible during your final year of high school to receive the most financial aid. You will need to fill out the FAFSA each school year.
Which parent's information should students list on the FAFSA?
► Depending on the situation, students may need to list information for one or two parents. Use the flowchart below or learn more here.
I have more questions. Whom should I ask?
► Talk to a counselor or other trusted adult at the school.
► Attend a financial aid workshop or College Cash Campaign event at the school or a location near you.
► Use the FAQ page on the FAFSA Help and Federal Student Aid Information websites or contact the Office of Federal Student Aid via e-mail, phone or live chat.
ORSAA FAQ
What is the ORSAA?
► ORSAA stands for Oregon Student Aid Application and is the form that eligible undocumented and DACA-mented students complete in order to access state financial aid including the Oregon Opportunity Grant, the Oregon Promise grant and some OSAC scholarships.
Who should complete the ORSAA?
► Eligible undocumented or DACA-mented students should complete the ORSAA. U.S. Citizens and eligible non-citizens should complete the FAFSA instead. DACA-mented students may also choose to complete the FAFSA to be eligible for aid from colleges.
► Determine your eligibility:
● undocumented or DACA-mented;
● lived in Oregon for at least 12 months before starting college.
When should students complete the ORSAA?
► The ORSAA opens October 1 for the following school year. Apply as early as possible during your final year of high school to receive the most financial aid. You will need to fill out the ORSAA each school year.
Which parent's information should students list on the ORSAA?
► Visit OSAC's website or contact them at: ORSAAHelp@hecc.oregon.gov or (541) 687-7400.
OREGON OPPORTUNITY GRANT FAQ
What is the Oregon Opportunity Grant?
► The Oregon Opportunity Grant (OOG) is Oregon's largest state-funded need-based grant program for students planning to go to college. Like federally-funded financial aid, state-funded aid is funded primarily by taxpayers, in this case, by Oregonians.
Who is eligible to receive the Oregon Opportunity Grant?
► Qualified students include those who are residents of Oregon or those exempted from paying non-resident tuition, who plan to attend an eligible Oregon college or university, and:
● are working towards an undergraduate credential, such as an associates degree or a bachelors degree;
● are enrolled in an eligible program of study; and
● are making satisfactory academic progress.
Which colleges and universities participate in the Oregon Opportunity Grant?
► Eligible colleges and universities include all of the following:
● Oregon community colleges
● Oregon public universities
● the Oregon Health Sciences University
● eligible Oregon-based, private not-for-profit college or university
Find a list of Oregon's public and private, not-for-profit colleges and universities here.
How can students apply to receive the Oregon Opportunity Grant?
► U.S. citizens and eligible non-citizens should complete the FAFSA.
► Eligible undocumented and DACA-mented students should complete the Oregon Student Aid Application (ORSAA). Start here to see if you qualify.
► Visit the OSAC website or contact OSAC at: awardinfo@osac.state.or.us or (541) 687-7400.
OREGON PROMISE FAQ
What is the Oregon Promise?
► Oregon Promise is a grant program that covers most of the costs for eligible students who plan to attend one of Oregon's 17 public community colleges.
Who is eligible to receive the Oregon Promise grant?
► Eligible students include those who:
● have been an Oregon resident for at least 12 months prior to enrolling in community college;
● received a high school diploma or GED certificate, or who completed 12th grade;
● earned a cumulative high school GPA of 2.5+;
● enroll in qualified courses (those required for a one-year curriculum for students transferring to another postsecondary institution, an associate's degree, or a program in career and technical education) at an Oregon community college within six months of completing high school;
● have completed a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or Oregon Student Aid Application (ORSAA) for each academic year; and
● have not completed more than 90 credit hours or the curricula/programs listed above.
Can a student receive the grant for more than one term?
► Yes. Students will continue to be eligible for the Oregon Promise if they
● maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or better in their community college courses;
● make satisfactory academic progress;
● enroll at least half time each term for at least three terms each consecutive academic year;
● enroll at least half time each term for at least three terms each consecutive academic year; and
● have not completed more than 90 credit hours in the specified curricula.
Does the Oregon Promise mean that community college is free?
► No. Every student will pay at least $50 per term. In addition, the Oregon Promise grant does not cover any nontuition costs, such as books and supplies, room and board, transportation, or other miscellaneous expenses.
What is the dollar amount for the Oregon Promise grant?
► The grant is meant to offset any remaining tuition after deducting the $50 student fee each term, as well as any state or federal grants that a student receives. Grant amounts will vary. For a student enrolled full time, full year, the maximum award is the lesser of the student's actual cost for tuition or the average cost of tuition at an Oregon community college; the minimum award amount is $1000. Grant amounts are prorated for students who are enrolled at least half time or who are enrolled for less than a full year.
How can students apply for Oregon Promise?
► Eligible students can apply for Oregon Promise by completing the application as well as the FAFSA or the ORSAA. The deadline for most students is June 1.
► For more questions, contact OSAC at: awardinfo@osac.state.or.us or (541) 687-7400.
► Visit the OSAC website or contact OSAC at: info@oregonpromise.org or (541) 687-7400.
IN-STATE TUITION FAQ
What is in-state tuition?
► Oregon residents pay lower tuition at Oregon public universities and community colleges than residents of other states because Oregonians pay taxes that help support these institutions. Private institutions do not receive support from taxpayers or the state so there is no difference in cost for in-state or out-of-state students.
► The Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) gives Oregon residents a reduced rate at some public universities in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
How do colleges determine residency?
► Information from the student and at least one parent which may include:
● Dates of most recent, continuous presence
● Oregon voter registration
● Oregon income tax
● Military service in Oregon
● Oregon employment information
● Federally recognized tribal membership
Are undocumented or DACA-mented students eligible for in-state tuition?
► Yes. In-state tuition for undocumented students is also known as "tuition equity" or "exemption from nonresident tuition and fees".
► A student needs to meet the following requirements in order to be eligible for the exemption:
● Student received a high school diploma or GED in Oregon.
● Student attended an elementary school or secondary/high school in Oregon during each of the three years immediately prior to earning a high school diploma or leaving school before earning a diploma.
● Student attended an elementary school or secondary/high school in a state or territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in each of the five years immediately prior to earning a high school diploma or leaving school before earning a diploma.
● Student shows intention to become a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States through an Affidavit and Request for Exemption from Nonresident Tuition and Fees OR student submits an official copy of application for registration with a federal immigration program or federal deportation deferral program.
► Students can still use the exemption if:
● They transfer into an Oregon public university after beginning at a community college after high school graduation.
● They take a term or more off from school.
● They attend college part-time.
● They are undergraduate or graduate students.
How does an eligible undocumented or DACA-mented student get in-state tuition?
► Students must complete an Affidavit and Request for Exemption from Nonresident Tuition and Fees, which is available at the Admissions Office of each Oregon public university. Students should also check with the campus admissions office to learn about any campus-specific procedures they will need to follow.
● Eastern Oregon University
● Oregon Institute of Technology
● Oregon State University
● Portland State University
● Southern Oregon University
● University of Oregon
● Western Oregon University
► Talk to an admissions counselor at the college.
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== History ==
In 1971, in a split from [[Diocese of Australia and Zealand (ROCOR)|ROCOR]], a group of Orthodox faithful applied to the Orthodox Church in America for acceptance.
In 1971, in a split from [[Diocese of Australia and New Zealand (ROCOR)|ROCOR]], a group of Orthodox faithful applied to the Orthodox Church in America for acceptance.
Saint Nicholas Parish in Bankstown, NSW, was formed in 1959 and worshipped in premises the parishioners built on land leased from NSW Government Railways. In 1971 it was under the rectorship of Archimandrite [[Veniamin (Garshin)]] who had resigned as dean of the ROCOR Cathedral in Sydney and departed from that jurisdiction. At that time they petitioned OCA for their acceptance under the omophorion of the OCA Metropolitan. Their petition was quickly granted.
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Parishes in Australia
Jurisdiction OCA
Diocese type Administrative District
Current bishop Metr. Herman, administrator
See(s) n/a
Headquarters Syosset, New York State, USA
Territory Qld and NSW, Australia
Liturgical language(s) Slavonic and English
Musical tradition Russian Chant
Calendar Revised Julian, Julian
Population estimate unknown
Official website Parishes in Australia
The Orthodox Church in America - Parishes in Australia is the grouping applied to the churches who, in 1971, left ROCOR and asked to be taken under the OCA's protection. It is directly under the Metropolitan of the OCA (currently Metropolitan Herman), and has two churches in Australia.
3 The Episcopacy
3.1 Current Episcopacy
3.2 Previous Bishops
In 1971, in a split from ROCOR, a group of Orthodox faithful applied to the Orthodox Church in America for acceptance.
Saint Nicholas Parish in Bankstown, NSW, was formed in 1959 and worshipped in premises the parishioners built on land leased from NSW Government Railways. In 1971 it was under the rectorship of Archimandrite Veniamin (Garshin) who had resigned as dean of the ROCOR Cathedral in Sydney and departed from that jurisdiction. At that time they petitioned OCA for their acceptance under the omophorion of the OCA Metropolitan. Their petition was quickly granted.
A second parish in Brisbane, Holy Annunciation Church, was formed under the rectorship of Fr Gregory Malisheff and following the example of the Bankstown parish petitioned OCA and was also quickly accepted.
In 1977 a third group, later named the Australian Orthodox Fraternity of St Michael, was formed in Sydney for the purpose of purchasing and organising another parish, under the rectorship of Fr Michael Mersher. In November of that year, Mr Verjbitsky contacted the Uniting Church and was offered a surplus Presbyterian church in Homebush. The building was made suitable for Orthodox worship, including an iconostasis, on January 26, 1978. Fr Michael was the rector from 1978-80, Fr Theodore Michaluk from 1980-86, Fr Leopold in 1986, and Fr Igor Chlabicz from 1987 to the present.
Following the repose of Archim. Veniamin in 1994, the Orthodox Church in America was unable to supply a replacement priest for the Bankstown parish. The parish council of Saint Nicholas approached the Antiochian Orthodox Bishop Gibran and asked if he was able to supply a priest who could celebrate in Slavonic. Hieromonk Andrija (Zoran) Vujisić and later Fr Nicholas Gan assisted on a temporary basis until Fr Mitko Machevski was appointed and commenced services at St Nicholas on 10 August 1996.
The parish later formally changed jurisdictions to the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand. Fr Mitko was appointed rector of the parish, which continues to use Church Slavonic and follow the Julian Calendar.
This article forms part of the series
Orthodoxy in
Orthodoxy in Australia Timeline
Orthodoxy in New Zealand Timeline
Antiochian Orthodox
Gk Orthodox Archd. of ANZ
GOA Aus - Abp Makarios
Antiochian - Metr. Basil
ROCOR - Met Hilarion
Serbian - Bp Irinej
Romanian - Bp Michael
GOM NZ - Met Myron
Bishopless Jurisdictions
Pan-Orthodox Synaxes
Episcopal Assembly of Oceania
SCCOCA
Greek Orthodox (Aus)
Notable Monasteries
St Anna
Gorgoepikoos
O.L. of Kazan
Presentation Proph. Elias
St John Mtn
Pantanassa
St Sava (Elaine)
Archangels, NZ
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The OCA Parishes in Australia is an administrative grouping of two churches.
Holy Annunciation Orthodox Church, Woolloongabba, Queensland.
St. Michael Orthodox Church, Homebush, New South Wales.
The Episcopacy
Current Episcopacy
Metropolitan Herman (Swaiko) of Washington and New York, administrator of the parishes in Australia.
Sylvester (Haruns), Archbishop of Montreal and Canada, 1963-1981, administrator of the parishes in Australia, 1972-1981.
Website of the Parishes in Australia (on the OCA website)
Holy Annunciation Orthodox Church (the church in Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Queensland)
Saint Nicholas Bankstown (the former parish in this grouping)
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Just another friggin' day
...of working in the hot sun (yes, we get that in NZ- from time-to-time)
Four more 13-hour days, as well as being on call for the other 11 hours.
This does not make for a happy disposition, especially when the region is full of moronic holiday-makers. None of whom have the first idea of how to drive.
They don't have some of the local knowledge, either. Especially the lot that were parking along the roadside that is a thoroughfare for oversized tractors and combine harvesters. Good luck there.
If they were local, they would also know that the river they were swimming in has an E.Coli count normally seen in the more crocodile-infested parts of Africa. In the season the Wildebeest migrate. Good luck with your bowels, too.
It would be a lot simpler if the loopys just gave me their money. I could give them a dose of the salts and bang their new beemer 4wd lookalike with a sledghammer.
It might cheer me up some too...
Cry-baby of the week
"A Taupo truck driver hurt in a crash involving three cars and his truck in Hawke's Bay is laying an official complaint with St John Ambulance, saying no ambulance staff approached him after the crash and he could have been "lying in a ditch" unnoticed.
Les Bennett, 28, said he was dazed and limping after the crash that left 12 people in hospital, but was not asked if he needed help..."
Girl!
You were up and moving about- they were dealing with TWELVE people who needed to be admitted to hospital- quite a few of them seriously injured.
"...Three people remained in a serious condition in Hawke's Bay Hospital yesterday and four were listed as stable..."
All you had to do was ask to be checked out. Did you expect your own personal physician?
Or are you ACC-seeking...
On Poverty
I followed a link in the comments at Lindsay Mitchell's blog and found this outstanding piece on the condition we call 'Poverty':
What do we mean by poverty? Not what Dickens or Blake or Mayhew meant. Today, no one seriously expects to go hungry in England or to live without running water or medical care or even TV. Poverty has been redefined in industrial countries, so that anyone at the lower end of the income distribution is poor ex officio, as it were—poor by virtue of having less than the rich. And of course by this logic, the only way of eliminating poverty is by an egalitarian redistribution of wealth—even if the society as a whole were to become poorer as a result.
Such redistribution was the goal of the welfare state. But it has not eliminated poverty, despite the vast sums expended, and despite the fact that the poor are now substantially richer—indeed are not, by traditional standards, poor at all. As long as the rich exist, so must the poor, as we now define them.
Certainly they are in squalor—a far more accurate description of their condition than poverty—despite a threefold increase in per-capita income, including that of the poor, since the end of the last war. Why they should be in this condition requires an explanation—and to call that condition poverty, using a word more appropriate to Mayhew's London than to today's reality, prevents us from grasping how fundamentally the lot of "the poor" has changed since then. The poor we shall always have with us, no doubt: but today they are not poor in the traditional way...
Whole article here
The digital bottle opener
No, there really is such a thing!
I saw one today.
I refuse to own one, on the grounds that it could be used as evidence against me...
The unpleasant truth
...is spelled out clearly and concisely by Lindsay Mitchell.
That should have the hand-wringers and the grievance/victim industry frothing at the mouth!
Dealing with Christmas season zombies
IN past years, hits have dropped at this time of year. You would expect that to happen as people get busy stockpiling cheap wine and crap from the warehouse.
THIS year, my site hits have more than doubled the usual rate.
Probably means something- like papers are now almost three bucks.
The non-stress Christmas/Saturnalia pig-out
1- All stuff that food eats is prepared the night before (that's salads to you womenfolk!)
2- All food that food eats that needs cooking must be able to be cooked by boiling (That would be spuds)
3- All food shall be cooked in or on the barbecue. This is MAN'S domain. If the owner of the barbecue is renowned for burning the food, the men shall select an accomplished barbecue master to take charge.
4- The barbecue-master shall be supplied with sufficient beer or red wine that he has no need to leave his post- apart from calls of nature where he may briefly retire behind the garage/lemon tree.
5- The meal will be done, when it is done. Early or late afternoon/evening should be enough information.
6- Chips, nuts and pickles are adequate entrees.
7- Go back in history and bread sufficed as a plate. The only utensils were knives. I see no reason to change what worked.
8- Let the kids eat exactly what they want for this one day of the year. They will probably survive it.
9- Any person mentioning diets to be flung into the pool/hosed.
10- Thank the cooks, even if the food was shit. You can show them up next year.
Public safety warning- Don't fall Down
Not everywhere was a shit-fight
A hot sunny day, beer on tap, a sheep on the barbecue and a pool.
THAT is the way to do the Christmas thing!
Let the Shit-Fight commence
Christmas eve at Pak & Save
"...that there has also been a lot of talk in the NZ Army about adopting 7.62mm rifles. The troops who have been deployed in Afghanistan are not happy with the 5.56mm performance. They, unlike the US and recently the British, they do not have a 7.62x51mm chambered semi-automatic in a designated marksmen role..."
5.56 is for shooting at the bad guys.
7.62 is for SHOOTING the fuckers!
Here endth the lesson...
I hate this time of year
An arse needs kicking
"The military get paid too much and get allowances that should have been abolished two years ago, according to a report prepared for the Government's Defence White Paper.
Military personnel get an average of $23,000 or 30 per cent more than other public servants generally and this is not justified, says the value-for-money review by former Telecom boss Rod Deane..."
Ever put you well-paid neck on the chopping block, you soft-cocked little weenie?
I saw a review like this done on Corrections some years ago. They we horrified that all these blokes that HAD NO TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS earned more than the chicken-shit average wage.
I would bet money most of these consultant types would piss in their label pants if they ever set foot in a prison wing. Or Afghanistan with a bit of lead flying.
I wonder if Rod Fucking Deane was one of those prat who was beaten up, had his beer stolen and his girlfriend given the fucking she had always wanted by some serviceman?
I hope it was me!
Don't make excuses for it
"Masterton's worst illegal dumper will dodge a potential $5000 fine after ditching a trailer-load of beer bottles, nappies, and other "unhygenic items" at Henley Lake...
...Grant Howard, co-ordinator of Wairarapa Free Budget Advisory Service, said that while he detested illegal dumping, he had sympathy for those struggling to pay the dump charges.
"It's far too high - $42 for a trailer load? It's expensive and I think education and recycling should be pushed.
"In lawyer fees it's probably $2000 to $3000 for the council to prosecute someone when they could run two or three week-long courses to recycle properly."
Since the rise in GST in October, Mr Howard said he was seeing more low-income people who could not cover basic living costs..."
If they have so many beer bottles they can't dispose of them through the kerbside recycling, I would suggest they don't have a poverty problem at all!
And as for dumping them in the friggin' park- even most of the local low-class trash manage to dump their crap outside the transfer station gate!
The Masterton gene pool needs more chlorine in the shallow end!
Labels: The Masterton gene pool needs more chlorine in the shallow end
This should be the default setting
"Wellington rates could rise by 8 per cent unless the city council slashes services and increases user fees across all departments in what it labels "austerity proposals"..."
"Austerity" is what I call 'Not wasting our friggin' money'
In other words, cut everything not essential - these are invariably contracted out in any case, so it should be a small step to privatize water, sewer, waste and so on.
Let volunteers groups look after the parks, sports clubs maintain sports facilities and have trusts/ not for profits run facilities such as pool, libraries and museums- assuming people will set up for the facilities they profess to need. Otherwise, leave it to private business or do without.
Any wonder when dealing with zealots?
"A senior nurse at Starship hospital's child protection unit told a conference of medical professionals that "all parents are liars until proved otherwise", doctors who attended say.
The revelation comes after a Sunday Star-Times investigation into practices at the unit, Te Puaruruhau, revealed concern it is being run like a police station, with staff treating parents as guilty until proven innocent over unexplained injuries.
Families have complained that the unit's doctors rushed to judgements, refused to budge from their initial assessments, and failed to apologise when injuries were shown to be accidental.
There has also been judicial criticism, with a judge saying doctors in one case seemed to have closed minds and had not considered alternative explanations..."
Yet I bet these PC ninnies would be morally outraged at the suggestion that they do a bit of profiling! ESPECIALLY if (if- yeah, right...) that profiling involved skin colour.
So lets just treat EVERYONE like they are shit parents...
"A former Social Development Ministry employee landed in hot water after posting a Facebook description of herself as a "very expensive paperweight", "highly competent in the art of time wastage, blame-shifting and stationary [sic] theft"..."
Certainly couldn't be accused of lying!
Something I'm NOT allowed for Christmas
Tonight was the kiddie disco.
I had to go.
It has been a week of this sort of thing..
Buying an Ebook reader for Christmas?
...or one of the many devices that can be also used to read ebooks- iPads, iPod touch or the various clones- even a computer.
If you are treating yourself or buying as a gift- how about a bit of added value?
Download a selection of TOTALLY FREE ebooks, to fill a tiny corner of one of the gigabytes!
As well as the many freeware classics available, why not take a punt on a new independent author?
There is no better place to look than SMASHWORDS.
Of course this is a shameless plug for my 'Meddlers in Time' Series, currently available for FREE!
Meddlers in Time- Out of the frying pan, into the fire
Meddlers in Time- The Cockatoo River incident
Not enough time
This time of year, I feel a bit like Roy in the above clip...
Life and it's mysteries
Why is it that on the hottest 'G&T days- I'm always bloody working?
Explaining WIFI
It's easier than crawling under the house, in a 40cm high space, were most of the world's supply of cobwebs have been stored for the best part of fifty years.
Or it was until some bastard started tapping into my network and stealing bandwith.
At that point it became easier to spend an hour crawling through Shelob's Lair than to decipher the Chinglish instructions that came with the DICK Smith router, to put the encryption on. I would have forgotten the passwords next time I had to install a new device.
And the kids missed hearing a whole lot of new words, being on the other side of the floor.
I DID learn that a wireless modem will work within a few meters- about 5-6m- if you unscrew the antennae.
Yes, I couldn't figure out how to turn it off, either.
But the cable connection IS faster!
This is one Chinese product I won't buy
Poppies.
I brought these as much to support the disabled NZ workers who made them.
Passing for 'News'
'Magic' hangover cures revealed
...The web bursts with tips and tricks to speed up the recovery from the more "self-induced morning sickness", but a Perth nurse (who wishes to remain anonymous) revealed some of the medical guild's most coveted secrets.
"When some doctors or nurses have a bad hangover, they sometimes self-administer intravenous fluids or put on an oxygen mask for a while," she said..."
Secrets. Yeah, right.
I used the O2 trick over thirty years ago. Not having medical O2, the gas welding set worked just fine.
Nobody ever figured out why we used far more oxygen than acetylene...
Constitutional Chicanery
So the powers-that-be want to do a constitutional review.
Why would I be far from enthusiastic? Well, they tend to lie a lot, for a start.
I wouldn't trust the current rabble as far as I could comfortably spit a large rat.
When our political overlords see fit to ignore referendums with huge support- about 90% (and how often do 90% of people agree on ANYTHING?)- how can we trust them to do our bidding?
We can't.
Could we expect any debate, much less action on the most fundamental human right- the right to defend ones very life, and that of their own- without being persecuted by the apparatus of the crown prosecutions office?
Can we expect special privilege and endless funding at the public's expense for the Maori elite to be further strengthened by legislation?
Can we expect the troughers to use a constitution to feather their own nests in any way possible?
Would anyone expect otherwise!
Can we expect debate on minimizing government?
[Insert Tui ad here]
Wasn't a seal or a cat or dog, so no real biggie.
No need to outraged...
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Missed it
"A teenage girl shot in the face, who was told to "get off the couch" and go back to work by ACC, has had her compensation and counselling reinstated..."
Of course she can't go back to work- the bullet is still in her face- I can see it!- just under the nose on the right!
Get a pair of tweezers and get her sorted and back to work.
Up yours
"The Government is being urged to offer Prince William and Kate Middleton an all-expenses paid honeymoon to New Zealand to create a "fairytale" tourism driver.
Diana Moore, who operates the $10,000-a-night Lake Okareka Lodge near Rotorua, has suggested the government provide a honeymoon as its official wedding present "instead of giving a wedding gift such as a piece of furniture".
"The potential value in exposure to New Zealand from being part of this real-life royal fairytale is beyond imagination – certainly right up there with worldwide exposure from Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit."
Although she'd "love to host William and Kate" after their April wedding next year, there would be no freebies, said Moore..."
(bold mine)
So it's fine for a whole lot of folks on meager wages to subsidize the top end of the NZ accommodation market through their grossly excessive taxes.
But NOT for a high end of the market company to do the same.
The very worst type of bludger!
"...Britain's grit reserve half the size it should be
Britain's reserve of grit is less than half the size it should be, the Government admitted yesterday..."
We noticed...
Robbery fail
It's life Jim, but not as we know it
"A strange, salty lake in California has yielded an equally strange bacterium that thrives on arsenic and redefines life as we know it, researchers say.
The bacteria do not merely eat arsenic - they incorporate the toxic element directly into their DNA, the researchers said today.
The finding shows just how little scientists know about the variety of life forms on Earth, and may greatly expand where they should be looking for life on other planets and moons, the NASA-funded team said..."
I see some pretty damn weird variants in what passes for intelligent life around here...
Sorry for your troubles, but...
...people die at work every day. Physical work is inherently risky. Even commuting to your desk job carries an element of risk.
Yes, a mining disaster is a great tragedy for the families and small communities.
Not for the nation. These people were making a living, not fighting a war for us.
It seems that it's OK when they are killed off piecemeal- on the construction site, in the forests, on the roads or farms- where they die one by one on a weekly basis.
Get a grip people...
As the holiday season approaches
Who needs noise control?
Nanny state in the Village of the Damned
"A police officer was injured and a youth was stabbed at Christchurch's Christmas in the Park concert yesterday...
...Mr Erasmus said the majority of people at the free outdoor Christmas concert, held at Hagley Park, behaved responsibly, but alcohol later ruined the event.
He said the trouble started an hour before it ended with an influx of drunk youths, who kept police busy breaking fights and tipping out alcohol.
"Preliminary discussions have been held with the (Christchurch City) council to see if this event and other future events in Hagley Park should be alcohol-free," Mr Erasmus said...."
Right- you have a crowd of many thousands, many of whom are having a drink or six and behaving themselves. A few morons- who probably shouldn't have had drink anyway play up- so it's a blanket ban for EVERYBODY.
That makes sense (In somebody's world!) . The criminal classes would never dare come pissed or smuggle in booze if it were banned.
Moving ever closer to prohibition...
This is how I prefer to rough it
Lots of bearers are needed to ensure the gin ration is maintained- malaria is dangerous!
Liarbore and pal's train set is busted- AGAIN.
What will it take?
"A Whanganui man, who kicked a two-year-old boy to death, has been found guilty of the toddler's murder.
It took a jury of three men and nine women three hours to find Rikki Ngatai-Check, 23, guilty of murder rather than manslaughter in the High Court at Whanganui today..."
Exactly what will it take to bring back the death penalty?
If not that, a special prison for hopeless cases who will NEVER be allowed out ever again.
As these pieces of excrement don't have the decency to commit suicide, they need to be removed from all other life- by whatever means...
Not out in the bush, anyway.
This hut also had a shower and a wetback off the fire.
Any damned fool can rough it...
Gone bush
Idiot political appointee
"Police Commissioner Howard Broad has issued a surprise plea to cut prison numbers to stem an "absolute wave" of criminals through the justice system..."
This PC legacy from the last sad administration needs to just friggin' do what the voters demanded.
Catch criminals and lock them up out of harm's way.
So there are too many.
1- Tent prisons (Go ask Sheriff Joe if you are too stupid to figure this out)
2- Make prison harder (make the pricks WORK very hard)
3- Bring in the 'short(ish) hard shock' for newbie crims (quarrying volcanic rock by hand used to work well)
To those who died on the job
Health and safety in NZ
In my experience, it is little more than window-dressing. The grandiose policy statements seldom translate out into the reality of the workplace. When they do, they focus on trivia while ignoring elephants in the room.
One great example is workplace drug-testing. One does not have to be on the good side of the bell-shaped curve to realize that operating heavy plant & machinery whilst under the influence is a bad thing.
But then one day after two employees are fired for being totally pissed on the job, there is the big drug test for all. The senior manager who turned up for this stated that if anyone was found positive, this would mean company-wide testing- and it is a big company.
So 60% of the staff failed.
The reality was that if this was the trend nationwide and if they were all fired- as SHOULD have happened- that would be a near death-blow to the company.
Two years later there have been no more drug tests, even after serious incidents and 'accidents'
H&S is back to safety boots and orange overalls.
The hard stuff is just too hard.
Ever wonder why so many die in forestry?
A minority group
I have been down a working coal mine on the West Coast.
I have been down a coal mine when explosives were used.
I am qualified to use breathing apparatus.
I work with toxic gases.
I have taken part in a caving rescue exercise.
I have considerable experience in light rescue and advanced first aid.
I have used a remote control robot.
Still not an expert in mining rescue operations though.
Unlike half of New Zealand...
A media whore
"Frustration is growing in Greymouth as police continue to refuse to release the names of those stuck down the mine.
Superintendent Gary Knowles told a media briefing this morning they are not disclosing the 29 names, so affected families have more time to digest what has happened.
However Mayor Tony Kokshoorn wants the names released as speculation and Chinese rumors are starting to spread.
"I'm all for disclosure of the names to avoid speculation. Everyone knows locally - it's not a secret and anyone could find out if they wanted to," he said..."
Sod off big nose!
As you say- all those concerned locally know- and that's all that need to know.
Following the facebook page, the locals are of the opinion the mayor big-nose is more concerned about getting in front of the cameras. I hear he has been kicked off the mine site as he was getting in the way and generally being a pain in the arse.
As do so many of these petty-officials,who are full of their own self-importance and generally suffering from delusions of adequacy.
Releasing names is a matter for the families and NOBODY ELSE. If they want to, fine. If they do not- then in the words of the woman on the video clip- 'Fuck off you pack of vultures!'
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That there is ALWAYS a worse job
...is something I constantly remind myself- although coal mining is far from the bottom of the list- and yes, I HAVE been inside a coal mine while blasting was going on!
Trouble with underground mining, is that when things go wrong, they REALLY go wrong. Unlike, say, forestry where they get knocked off one by one.
I certainly don't envy the chaps who will go in to search the mine- who knows what state the mine is in after a large explosion. But they will go in and are do doubt incredibly frustrated in being held back. It's not just the flammable gas, but now there may (probably) be concentrations of highly lethal carbon monoxide. A fireman's BA is only good for about half an hour- a specialized mining rebreather more than that, but they will not be traveling fast.
I took part in a cave rescue exercise some years ago and that was a real headache getting a stretcher case out about 400 meters. In good air and a stable cave.
I think next time I'm outside working in the hot sun, I will remind myself of the lot of the miner...
Cowboys and Aliens!
Village of the Damned to get an IQ boost
"New Zealand will soon have its first gorillas when the head of Sydney's Taronga Zoo gorilla pack, a 210-kg father of 14, will move to Christchurch in a few years to enjoy his retirement..."
I wonder if this is to fill a void left by the removal of that bloody awful 'Outrageous Fortune' soap?
The public's insatiable desire to watch primate threat displays and simian behavior...
And it came to pass
...that the unbelievers did not heed the word of the prophet that the sins of past neglect would come back to bite the unbelievers on the bum.
And they did switch on the infernal machine and a wave of pestilence did spread throughout and all was woe.
A great wailing and gnashing of teeth was heard throughout the land and I did say "told you so!" and "THAT will teach you to spill your seed on the ground", as the people of the village cried out in their anguish.
And their tear were for naught, as the parts now have to come from the Land of the Sodomites. Or it could have been Auckland- I had crap cellphone reception.
Here endth the lesson.
Bugger off is also a good answer
"Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson says Maori protesters wanting to meet him over a Far North coastal area they claim belongs to local Maori can "go to hell"..."
GOOD- now just keep repeating that- every time the moochers come looking for a handout.
Say it loud, say it often!
Thought as much
"Evidence has emerged that 72% of all alcohol-related deaths on the roads are caused by drivers who are either blind-drunk or repeat offenders...
...The Transport Ministry research shows that in 2009 88 deaths – 72% of all alcohol-related deaths – were caused by 73 drivers who were either at least 50% over the current limit, or who already had a previous conviction.
Of those 88 deaths, 34 people were killed in crashes where the driver at fault had a previous conviction and 57% – or 50 out of 88 deaths – were caused by drivers with twice the legal alcohol limit.
In 2008, 108 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes and 28 of those – 26% were caused by drivers with a previous drink-driving conviction, while 77 deaths – 62% – were caused by drivers who had consumed more than twice the legal alcohol limit..."
So perhaps diddling with a lower allowable alcohol level is NOT going to be the answer. Bet the facts won't stop that happening, mind.
Man's domain
Book Five- kiss your sand-scoured arses goodby
Commander Jamieson's Engineering battalion fixes a large gravatic drive to a ten kilometer iron-nickel asteroid and drives it into....
There seems to be a plague of this sort of thing
Passive–aggressive behavior, a personality trait, is passive, sometimes obstructionistresistance to following through with expectations in interpersonal or occupational situations. It is a personality trait marked by a pervasive pattern of negative attitudes and passive, usually disavowed resistance in interpersonal or occupational situations.
It can manifest itself as learned helplessness, procrastination, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, or deliberate/repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is (often explicitly) responsible.[1]
The book Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man lists 11 responses that may help identify passive-aggressive behavior:[1]
Ambiguity or speaking cryptically: a means of engendering a feeling of insecurity in others
Chronically being late and forgetting things: another way to exert control or to punish.
Fear of competition
Fear of dependency
Fear of intimacy as a means to act out anger: The passive aggressive often cannot trust. Because of this, they guard themselves against becoming intimately attached to someone.
Making chaotic situations
Making excuses for non-performance in work teams
Obstructionism
Sulking
Victimization response: instead of recognizing one's own weaknesses, tendency to blame others for own failures.
A passive-aggressive person may not have all of these behaviors, and may have other[clarification needed] non-passive-aggressive traits.
These bastards are in dire need of bastinado followed by keel-hauling- for a first offense.
Dealing with a couple of these right now and they are rapidly approaching the need for percussive therapy!
One minute its summer and then...
Friday night- summer to winter in a couple of seconds. The white spots are very big hail stones.
When councils spend our money
Cost never seems to be much of an issue.
"...Men going about their business at a stainless steel urinal will make a return to central Wellington as part of a new publicly funded $560,000 toilet block in Courtenay Place..."
How the hell does a pissor cost over half a million?
Even a house in overpriced Wellington can be brought for less!
How much stainless steel, concrete and two-pot paint does it take to build a sanitary, functional and vandal-resistant crapper?
Ghostbusters- wadda ya want?
"...Christchurch Paranormal Investigators founder Anton Heyrick said his team had received an "interesting influx" of phone calls and emails after the 7.1-magnitude earthquake, with more than double the usual number of inquiries.
"People are calling us, saying that they had always felt like there was something in the house, but since the earthquake it had become more intense," he said.
Most cases related to strange noises, although one man said he had been attacked by a ghost..."
Like I always said- Christchurch IS the Village of the Damned!
Don't panic, it's only the gates of Hell opening under your six-toed feet!
...that despite what you would gauge from the press, there are a lot of folks out there that ARE NOT idiots.
Along with several other parties, I was stranded out in the bush on Saturday, when the river came up. It turned out to be a short stranding, our departure being delayed by about eight hours. It was good to see that EVERYONE paid heed to the warnings about the dangers of swollen rivers and waited until it was safe to cross.
Also, they all were carrying extra food and supplies for the possibility that this might happen- even better, as we met up on our travels to check the water level- everyone asked if the others were in need of supplies should we we going to have to spend another night out.
You only hear about the ones who get themselves drowned or need a taxpayer-funded helicopter ride out...
Summer to midwinter in 30 seconds, the river is rising fast and it looks like I'm not getting out of here tomorrow morning.
And I give a damn- why?
We know what is best for you peasants
With talk of 'phasing out' tobacco, expect some massive tax increases over the next few years. The sheep have swallowed the news of an eventual banning, so that will be taken as tacit approval to go nuts on taxing fags.
Well done, you let them trample over you AGAIN!
Also, expect the goalposts to shift soon. This is going to happen sooner than the 15 years talked about- mark my words.
And do enjoy a few drinks now- YOU are next!
Meanwhile, the gangs are delighted at the prospect of another huge income stream being handed to them...
Gerry fucking Brown- you got what you degenerates deserve!
He talks the talk, now needs to walk the walk.
No appeals, not whining. Whatever the charges.
Accept your punishment with humility and be a model inmate.
When released, live the best life you can.
You have to do the good works of two people now.
What about pointed sticks?
Another knee- jerk reaction to an inanimate object- pounced upon by the media as an easy article for their bread & butter.
The knives are not the problem- it's the criminal intent. Anything can be used effectively to maim or kill a person.
Now if the POS that used the knife in this murder had been PROPERLY put away to keep the public safe (the MAIN role of the so-called Justice system) He would have been still doing hard time for his PREVIOUS knife attacks and MURDER.
Our Judiciary is as much the problem as our criminals!
Advice for Lindsay Mitchell
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A more acceptable form of slaughter
"A woman has died from the injuries she suffered when an alleged drunk-driver ploughed into her car while she and a friend were having a coffee by the side of the road near Otaki.
Shelagh Cotter, 69, died in Palmerston North Hospital about 3am today, about 15 hours after she and a 62-year-old companion were struck by an out-of-control car as they sat on a grass verge on a rural road just south of Otaki..."
Now this case has many parallels with the shooting death last weekend.
Both involve gross criminal negligence causing death and only happened because widely publicized laws were broken. Laws created to prevent exactly these types of needless deaths happening.
But one thing IS different.
The lack of righteous howls of outrage towards the latter. Because it happens so bloody often that a death by drunk driver is barely newsworthy. We have become so used to this happening.
WE shouldn't be. We SHOULD be outraged. A car driven by a drunk is like a bullet fired at random into a populated area.
No better- no worse.
I will be interested to see the fate of the two defendants in these two cases...
The Trendy Undead
"...Halloween is only two days away and people are flocking to costume stores.
Instead, vampire outfits are extremely popular following the success of the Twilight books and movies, and TV series True Blood, Christchurch people were opting for less traditional get-ups..."
Could it be that people have become used to evil, blood-sucking leeches living amongst us?
It wouldn't surprise me.
They are everywhere. From the heights of government, the feeders on corporate welfare, the idle able-bodied- down to the thieving criminal classes.
Every day there are more and more- feasting without thinking (as they once did) of what will happen when they drain the host.
So why am I not surprised that vampire costumes are extremely popular...
A novel concept
So- giving businesses that provide work and create wealth tax breaks actually ENCOURAGES them!
Now who would have thought?
So... cutting taxes might INCREASE productivity across the board?
An idea who's time had come!
(but don't hold your breath waiting)
A parents anguish
And all it's worth is a community sentence and three years loss of licence.
I could not be so understanding.
As for the judge- where was the example to others set?
This article echos my sentiments well.
Something I have advocated for years is MP's riding along with our emergency services to see what actually goes on out there.
"...Louise Upston, National MP for Taupo, was with police in Turangi on Friday night to see at first hand the harm caused by alcohol when they were called to the shooting of Lower Hutt teacher Rosemary Ives, 25, about 11pm..."
Not what you might expect to see, perhaps, but 'expect the unexpected' is life working emergency services!
We probably would not have heard about her riding along, were it not for the totally preventable tragedy that occurred that night...
Gerry fucking Brown- you got what you degenerates ...
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Zayn Is Still Taking Advice from Yolanda Hadid
By Morgan Halberg • 06/19/18 12:10pm
Zayn is still listening to Yolanda Hadid. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
Former boybander and current head tattoo enthusiast Zayn Malik is a Capricorn like Yolanda Hadid, dislikes the Met Gala and has an assistant who dispenses individual cigarettes to him.
Those are just a few of the tidbits the erstwhile One Direction member shares in his recent GQ cover story, which also gives us the gem that he and maybe-girlfriend Gigi Hadid (he declines to define their relationship) share a horse named Cool. Despite the fact that Gigi and her sister Bella are longtime equestrians, it seems Zayn selected the moniker, as he apparently says “cool” over 43 times during the interview.
Zayn also let us know he is the new owner of a farm in rural Pennsylvania, where he keeps Cool. Yolanda Hadid happens to have a farm in the exact same area, and it’s where Zayn and Gigi celebrated their two-year anniversary back in November. It also serves as the backdrop of many a Hadid Instagram, just FYI.
Maybe chatting about Cool. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
The location is no coincidence, as Zayn took Yolanda’s advice when it came to purchasing the property. The Dutch model definitely has momager experience, but perhaps it’s the astrological sign connection that makes Zayn listen to her counsel.
Yolanda Hadid is here to give real estate advice. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Lifetime
Zayn is still working things out on his new spread, but there are now “crops of cherries, tomatoes and cucumbers,” so he’s eating his fruits and vegetables. It sounds like a far better use of his time than getting any more ill-timed ink, but at least now that he and Gigi are probably/definitely dating, he doesn’t need to worry about covering up the tattoo on his chest of her eyes. Except maybe he still should, because it’s kind of creepy.
Anyway, he’s already familiar with the area, and not just because of the Hadids. Zayn mentioned to Billboard last year that he was spending a lot of his time on a farm in, you guessed it, rural Pennsylvania, where he records—there’s a private studio in the vicinity. It’s “out of the way and feels grounded…I do a lot of farm work,” he explained. “I take the horses out and feed the cows and that kind of stuff. It’s cool. I’ve always been interested in animals.” Cool, cool.
A post shared by Zayn Malik (@zayn) on Jun 11, 2018 at 5:38pm PDT
Aside from his new farm, Zayn also scooped up a sleek penthouse atop a Soho building. He doled out $10.69 million for the Greene Street loft, in a deal finalized the same day he and Gigi announced their split on social media.
But #Zigi fans breathed a sigh of relief after a plethora of paparazzi photos emerged of the pair looking very couple-y. As if we needed additional confirmation, the pair just shared Instagram snaps of their time hanging at the farm, though sadly, Cool is MIA.
Filed Under: Celebrity, Lifestyle, Real Estate, celebrity real estate, Instagram, celebrity homes, GQ, Pennsylvania, Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid
SEE ALSO: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s Discarded Penthouse Is Still a Problem
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EVENTS Lions International Lions Quarterly
The Ojai Valley Lions Club has made an initial contribution of $16,000 and has officially joined in a collaborative Lions project to establish a Pediatric Vision Center in Ventura County. This contribution of $16,000 will help purchase necessary equipment that will serve all of Ventura County’s residents.
Lions in Ventura County have adopted a signature philanthropy to establish a Pediatric Vision Center in collaboration with the Ventura County Medical Center (VCMC). VCMC has the space, the staffing and the collaborative relationship with Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles to make such a Center possible. Ultimately the Vision Center will help all children in Ventura County to have access to vision care regardless of ability to pay. VCMC has secured the initial staff to institute the service and Lions are raising money to provide necessary medical equipment to be utilized at the clinic and for a telemedicine/telehealth component. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is an important part of this project as a health care partner with a vast array of children’s ophthalmology and other specialists.
The vision of Lions Clubs International is “to be the global leader in community and humanitarian service.” In 1925 Helen Keller challenged Lions to become “knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness.” Ever since that time, as one of their primary missions, Lions have worked tirelessly to aid the blind and visually impaired.” The intent of the Vision Center project is to meet a very substantial need and to help fulfill one of the primary missions of Lions Clubs International right here in Ventura County.
In April of 2015, as an initial step toward this project, Lions donated $50,000 towards a $100,000 retinal camera shuttle for use in the neonatal care unit and elsewhere at VCMC. Among other things, this machine helps screen for ROP, a common disorder that, if not promptly detected and treated, leaves children blind. In addition, Lions have committed to support the establishment of the pediatric vision clinic.
By joining in this effort, the Ojai Valley Lions join with other Lions in the commitment to provide a much needed, important service to the children of Ventura County. This is one of the great things we do as Lions.
While Lions may be best known for their efforts to eradicate preventable and reversible blindness, they are also an integral part of local community activities. Year-round, Lions Clubs support many donations to local schools and organizations through their community service and youth outreach programs. If you are interested in serving your community and becoming a member, a list of Lions clubs in the Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties can be found at 4A3lions.org.
If you are interested in becoming a part of the dynamite Ojai Valley Lions Club please contact their President, Danielle Franklin at Danielle.franklin@stewart.com.
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Tallest Building in the World May Be Hanged from an Asteroid
#NEWSARCHITECTURE
Clouds Architecture Office unveils futuristic architecture project that hangs from a comet. Take a look at the new tallest building in the world!
Architecture is a pretty interesting field, in my point of view. I mean it’s an outstanding way that transforms mere ideas, into materials and consequently, unique outstanding buildings. Although many designers are opting for minimal, simple architecture projects we still managed to see a few fun twists in the industry. For example, what if the new tallest building in the world could be hanged from a real Asteroid? You heard me.
The New York based studio Clouds Architecture Office, recently unveiled renderings of a new conceptual building design that would be attached to comets. The idea is to attach a high-strength cable to a large asteroid that could be placed into orbit over Earth, holding nothing more than a enormous skyscraper. And you thought Star Trek was too much.
The tower would be constructed over the city of skyscrapers – Dubai – and would orbit between North and South america on a daily loop. The project is called Analemma and consists of sustainable building that is powered by space-based solar panels, and filtered recycled water from rainwater and clouds. If we consider its height from the sky, the building would be not only the first flying skyscraper but the tallest one in the world.
This futuristic architecture project would contain a lower portion dedicated to offices and apartments, while the top portion would hold religious establishments or funerary services, according to Dezeen.
The windows of the building would need to be designed differently to compensate for atmospheric pressure. Oh the things you must take in consideration… I just hope it works!
See also: Holst Architecture Project in Portland Contains Curvilinear Facade
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Government bid to control CSR Activities in Punjab!
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Chandigarh, Nov 1 () In a bid to streamline various corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and to set up a neutral platform involving all the stakeholders, the Punjab cabinet approved on Friday the constitution of the Punjab Corporate Social Responsibility Advisory Board under the chief minister’s chairmanship and a CSR Authority under the chief secretary.
Stating this here, a spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said the board and the authority would ensure systematic channelisation of CSR funds into the essential sectors and projects, according to the developmental priorities of the state.
The board would be constituted under the chairmanship of the chief minister, with members including the health and family welfare minister, the finance minister, the industries and commerce minister, the chief secretary, the administrative secretary (industries and commerce), the administrative secretary (finance) and the director of industries and commerce, besides a maximum of five representatives and experts from the industry to be nominated by the chairman.
It has also been decided that the board may co-opt any other minister or officer, if necessary, as a member, with the chief minister authorised to take a decision on the matter.
The board would meet twice a year to review the CSR activities, besides providing the requisite guidance and advice to the authority for taking up appropriate CSR projects in the state.
The authority would consist of the chief secretary as its chairman, with the administrative secretary (industries and commerce) and finance secretary as its members, besides a chief executive officer (a full-time professional) as the member-secretary.
The chairman of the CII Punjab Chapter, the chairman of the FICCI Punjab Chapter, the chairman of the PHD Chamber, the ASSOCHAM Punjab Chapter chairman and any other institution or individual, as decided by the authority or the state government, would be invitees. The authority may also co-opt any other officers, as may be necessary, as its members. Notably, under section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013, all companies with a net worth of Rs 500 crore or more, or turnover of Rs 1,000 crore or more, or net profit of Rs 5 crore or more during any financial year are expected to set aside and spend in every financial year two per cent of the average net profits of the three immediately preceding financial years towards CSR activities, as mentioned in Schedule VII of the Act. VSD HDA RC
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No. 2 Stanford Picks Up 5-2 Road Win Over No. 1 USC
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The second-ranked Stanford women's team picked up an impressive 5-2 road win over top-ranked USC on Friday afternoon at the Marks Tennis Stadium in Los Angeles.
Stanford, which has won 12 in a row, improved to 14-1, while the Women of Troy slipped to 17-2. The match does not count in the Pac-10 standings.
USC won the doubles point with victories at No. 2 and No. 3, but Stanford quickly took control by winning the first set in five of the six singles matches.
The Cardinal then jumped out to a 3-1 lead with straight set victories from freshman Amber Liu (La Mesa, CA) at No. 1, freshman Alice Barnes (Cambridge, U.K.) at No. 4 and junior Lauren Barnikow (Woodbridge, NJ) at No. 2. Liu picked up an impressive 6-2, 6-2 win over sixth-ranked Jewel Peterson.
Sophomore Erin Burdette (Jackson, GA), who is ranked 37th in the country, clinched the victory with a 6-3, 6-1 triumph over 84th-ranked Maureen Diaz at No. 3.
Stanford concludes the weekend at No. 7 UCLA on Saturday at 12:00 p.m. in Westwood.
#2 Stanford 5, #1 USC 2
No. 1 - #5 Amber Liu (S) d. #6 Jewel Peterson, 6-2, 6-2
No. 2 - #16 Lauren Barnikow (S) d. #34 Luana Magnani, 7-5, 6-0
No. 3 - #37 Erin Burdette (S) d. #84 Maureen Diaz, 6-3, 6-1
No. 4 - #4 Alice Barnes (S) d. Anita Loyola, 6-0, 6-3
No. 5 - Emilia Anderson (S) d. Tiffany Brymer, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
No. 6 - #116 Carine Vermeulen (USC) d. Story Tweedie-Yates, 6-4, 7-5
Doubles (USC wins point)
No. 1 - #2 Lauren Barnikow/Erin Burdette (S) d. #18 Tiffany Brymer/Jewel Peterson, 8-6
No. 2 - Anita Loyola/Luana Magnani (USC) d. Alice Barnes/Amber Liu, 9-7
No. 3 - Melissa Esmero/Carine Vermeulen (USC) d. Emilia Anderson/Story Tweedie-Yates, 8-3
Records - #2 Stanford 14-1, #1 USC 17-2.
No. 7 USC Women Post 5-2 Road Win Over No. 42 Arizona
No. 5 Stanford Starts Homestand With 5-2 Win Over No. 8 USC
No. 24/21 USC Opens Pac-10 Series With 5-2 Win Over No. 25 Stanford
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The PAL Framework
Learning Support Capabilities
PAL 2004
A Proof Markup Language for Semantic Web Services, P. Pinheiro da Silva, D. McGuinness and R. Fikes, 1/2004.
Web Explanations for Semantic Heterogeneity Discovery, P. Shvaiko, F. Giunchiglia, P. Pinheiro da Silva and D. McGuinness, 1/2004.
Building software agents for planning, monitoring, and optimizing travel, C. Knoblock, 1/2004.
Multimodal New Vocabulary Recognition through Speech and Handwriting in a Whiteboard Scheduling Application, E. Kaiser, 1/2004.
Evolution of a Teamwork Model, Book Chapter in ‘Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation’ published by Cambridge University Press, N. Schurr, S. Okamoto, R. Maheswaran, P. Scerri, and M. Tambe, 2/2004.
Time in OWL-S, F. Pan and J. Hobbs, 3/2004.
Adjustable Autonomy Challenges in Personal Assistant Agents: A Position Paper, R. Maheswaran, M. Tambe, P. Varakantam, and K. Myers, 3/2004.
A Personalized Calendar Assistant, P. Berry, M. Gervasio, T. Uribe, K. Myers, and K. Nitz, 3/2004.
Approaches for Automatically Tagging Affect, N. Chambers, J. Tetreault, and J. Allen, 3/2004.
Explaining answers from the Semantic Web: the Inference Web approach, D. McGuinness and P. Pinheiro da Silva, 5/2004.
WebScale Information Extraction in KnowItAll (Preliminary Results), O. Etzioni, M. Cafarella, D. Downey, S. Kok, A. Popescu, T. Shaked, S. Soderland, D. Weld, and A. Yates, 5/2004.
Semi-automatic syntactic and semantic corpus annotation with a deep parser, M. Swift, M. Dzikovska, J. Tetreault, and J. Allen, 5/2004.
Evaluation of Transcription and Annotation tools for a Multimodal, Multi-party dialogue Corpus, S. Garg, B. Martinovski, S. Robinson, J. Stephan, J. Tetreault, and D. Traum, 5/2004.
Building a computational lexicon and ontology with FrameNet, M. Dzikovska, M. Swift, and J. Allen, 5/2004.
Retrieving and Semantically Integrating Heterogeneous Data from the Web, M. Michalowski, J. Ambite, S. Thakker, R.Tuchinda, C. Knoblock, S. Minton, 5/2004.
Using the Structure of Web Sites for Automatic Segmentation of Tables, K. Lerman, L. Getoor, S. Minton, and C. Knoblock, 6/2004.
Towards Explaining Semantic Matching, D. McGuinness, P. Shvaiko, F. Guinchiglia, P. Pinheiro da Silva, 6/2004.
A Data Integration Approach to Automatically Composing and Optimizing Web Services, S. Thakkar, J. Ambite, C. Knoblock, 6/2004.
Populating the Semantic Web, K. Lerman, C. Gazen, S. Minton, and C. Knoblock, 7/2004.
The use of Web-based Statistics to Validate Information Extraction, S. Soderland, O. Etzioni, T. Shaked, D. Weld, 7/2004.
Learning Text Patterns for Web Information Extraction and Assessment, D. Downey, O. Etzioni, S. Soderland, D. Weld, 7/2004.
Class Extraction from the World Wide Web, A. Popescu, A. Yates, O. Etzioni, 7/2004.
Methods for Domain-Independent Information Extraction from the Web: An Experimental Comparison, O. Etzioni, M. Cafarella, D. Downey, A. Popescu, T. Shaked, S. Soderland, D. Weld, and A. Yates, 7/2004.
Adaptive Cognitive Orthotics: Combining Reinforcement Learning and Constraint-Based Temporal Reasoning, M. Rudary, S. Singh, and M. Pollack, 7/2004.
Semi-Supervised Learning Using Randomized Mincuts, A. Blum, J. Lafferty, M. Rwebangira, and R. Reddy, 7/2004.
Online Geometric Optimization in the Bandit Setting Against an Adaptive Adversary, B. McMahan and A. Blum, 7/2004.
Using Sparse Visual Data to Model Human Activities in Meetings, P. Rybski and M. Veloso, 7/2004.
Incremental Parsing with Reference Interaction, S. Stoness, J. Tetreault, and J. Allen, 7/2004.
Semantics, Dialogue, and Pronoun Resolution, J. Tetreault and J. Allen, 7/2004.
Taking DCOP to the Real World: Efficient Complete Solutions for Distributed Multi-Event Scheduling, R. Maheswaran, M. Tambe, E. Bowring, J. Pearce, and P. Varakantam, 7/2004.
The SPARK Agent Framework, D. Morley and K. Myers, 7/2004.
Low-cost Addition of Preferences to DTPs and TCSPs, B. Peintner and M. Pollack, 7/2004.
Discourse annotation in the Monroe Corpus, J. Tetreault, M. Swift, P. Prithviraj, M. Dzikovska, and J. Allen, 7/2004.
Learning and Inferring Transportation Routines, L. Liao, D. Fox, and H. Kautz, 7/2004.
Balancing Formal and Practical Concerns in Agent Design, D. Morley and K Myers, 7/2004.
Exploiting Secondary Sources for Unsupervised Record Linkage, M. Michalowski, S. Thakker, and C. Knoblock, 8/2004.
Learning to classify email into “Speech Acts”, W. Cohen, V. Carvalho, and T. Mitchell, 8/2004.
Training conditional random fields via gradient tree boosting, T. Dietterich, A. Ashenfelter, and Y. Bulatov, 8/2004.
Improving SVM accuracy by training on auxiliary data sources, T. Dietterich and P. Wu, 8/2004.
Skeletons in the parser: Using a shallow parser to improve deep parsing, M. Swift, J. Allen, and D. Gildea, 8/2004.
Multi-human dialogue understanding for assisting artifact-producing meetings, J. Niekrasz, A. Gruenstein, and L. Cavedon, 8/2004.
Managing Uncertainty in Dialogue Information State for Real Time Understanding of Multi-Human Meeting Dialogue, A. Gruenstein, L. Cavedon, J. Niekrasz, D. Widdows, and S. Peters, 8/2004.
Trainable Sentence Planning for Complex Information Presentation in Spoken Dialog Systems, A. Stent, R. Prasad, and M. Walker, 8/2004.
Learning to Extract Signature and Reply Lines from Email, V. Carvalho and W. Cohen, 8/2004.
Machine Learning for Online Query Relaxation, I. Muslea, 8/2004.
SEMEX: Toward On-the-Fly Personal Information Integration, X. Dong, A. Halevy, E. Nemes, S. Sigurdsson, and P. Domingos, 8/2004.
Kernel Conditional Random Fields: Representation, Clique Selection, and Semi-Supervised Learning, J. Lafferty, Y. Liu, and X. Zhu, 9/2004.
A Frame Level Boosting Training Scheme for Acoustic Modeling, R. Zhang and A. Rudnicky, 9/2004.
Optimizing Boosting with Discriminative Criteria, R. Zhang and A. Rudnicky, 9/2004.
Four-Layer Categorization Scheme of Fast GMM Computation Techniques in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Systems, A. Chan, J. Sherwani, R. Mosur, and A. Rudnicky, 9/2004.
Apply N-Best List Re-Ranking to Acoustic Model Combinations of Boosting Training, R. Zhang and A. Rudnicky, 9/2004.
Using Simple Speech–Based Features to Detect the State of a Meeting and the Roles of the Meeting Participants, S. Banerjee and A. Rudnicky, 9/2004.
Distributed Algorithms for DCOP: A Graphical Game-Based Approach, R. Maheswaran, J. Pearce, M. Tambe, 9/2004.
Adjustable Autonomy in the Context of Coordination, P. Scerri, K. Sycara, M. Tambe, 9/2004.
Opportunity Knocks: a System to Provide Cognitive Assistance with Transportation Services, D. Patterson, L. Liao, K. Gajos, M. Collier, N. Livic, K. Olson, S. Wang, D. Fox, and H. Kautz, 9/2004.
Dialogue Structure and Pronoun Resolution, J. Tetreault and J. Allen, 9/2004.
Segmentation and Classification of Meetings using Multiple Information Streams, P. Rybski, S. Banerjee, F. de la Torre, C. Vallespi, A. Rudnicky, and M. Veloso, 10/2004.
Demo: A Multimodal Learning Interface for Sketch, Speak and Point Creation of a Schedule Chart, E. Kaiser, D. Demirdjian, A. Gruenstein, X. Li, J. Niekrasz, M. Wesson, and S. Kumar, 10/2004.
Explaining Answers from the Semantic Web: The Inference Web Approach, D. McGuinness and P. Pinheiro da Silva., 10/2004.
Trusting Answers on the Web, D. McGuinness and P. Pinheiro da Silva., 10/2004.
When Do We Interact Multimodally? Cognitive Load and Multimodal Communication Patterns, S. Oviatt, R. Coulston, and Rebecca Lunsford, 10/2004.
Dynamic New Vocabulary Enrollment through Handwriting and Speech in a Multimodal Scheduling Application, E. Kaiser, 10/2004.
Learning syntactic patterns for automatic hypernym discovery, R. Snow, D. Jurafsky and A. Ng, 12/2004.
Online bounds for Bayesian algorithms, S. Kakade and A. Ng, 12/2004.
Co-Training and Expansion: Towards Bridging Theory and Practice, A. Blum, M-F. Balcan, and K. Yang, 12/2004.
The PAL and RADAR Programs have been supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Contract Numbers FA8750-07-D-0185/0004 and FA8750-07-D-0185-0001 respectively.
The PAL Framework has been supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Contract Number FA8750-09-D-0183-0002.
Artificial Intelligence Center @SRI International
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PathfinderWiki featured articles, Asmodeus, Major deities,
Lawful evil deities
Fire domain deities
Magic domain deities
Titles Prince of Darkness
Alignment Lawful evil
Portfolio Tyranny
Worshipers Slavers, bureaucrats, tyrants
Domains Evil, Fire, Law, Magic, Trickery
Favored Weapon Mace
Asmodeus (pronounced as-MO-day-us)[1] is the most powerful of the nine archdevils that inhabit Hell and the only one of Hell's rulers to claim full divinity. It is he who is credited with the penning of the contract of creation, within which his followers believe is hidden the means for their patron's eventual rise to supremacy.[2]
In addition to forging the contract of creation, then accepted by all the gods and rumored to contain a secret that will one day lead to its author's rise to power above his fellow deities, Asmodeus played a key role in the defeat and imprisonment of Rovagug. The Rough Beast was sealed away in the Pit of Gormuz, the only key to his prison kept by the Prince of Darkness himself.[2]
Of the evil deities, the Prince of Darkness is the most respected and trusted by his divine peers, though they realize his aid is not to be sought or accepted lightly.[2]
Asmodeus is generally depicted in art as a large, flame-enshrouded man with red skin, cloven hooves, and horns. He is often shown wielding a contract or a flaming mace. Though many believe that this is his true form, some speak of a more fiendish form with constantly bleeding wounds. Asmodeus is also capable of taking the shape of any creature, an ability he uses to gain an advantage in negotiations through intimidation, comfort, or pity. He is also represented by his holy symbol, an upside down red pentagram.[3]
The Prince of Darkness has many servants who rise and fall in popularity according to his whims.[3]
This devil serves as the Prince of Darkness' current herald. He appears as a handsome young male possessing blond hair, perceived to be of the same species as that of any creature that encounters him. Additionally, Basileus can freely take a form of supernatural terror; this form differs from one viewer to another, each faced with the greatest fear he or she can imagine.[3][4]
Church of Asmodeus Edit
Asmodeus' faith is strongest in infernal Cheliax and several of its vassal states, including Isger and Nidal. He preaches strict discipline and unwavering devotion from his worshipers; the strong should rule the weak. The Prince of Darkness expects flattery from his followers, appreciating it for what it is, and delights in deals and contracts that secretly favor one party over another.[2]
Worshippers and Clergy Edit
Asmodeus' priests usually dress in black decorated with red and often wear horned masks or helmets, and his clergy includes clerics, blackguards, thaumaturgists, and wizards. Followers of the Prince of Darkness often include nobles and bureaucrats, especially those participating in the slave trade and in those nations where his worship is openly accepted. In countries not under Cheliax's yoke, priests are expected to abide by local laws and take sacrifices only from willing victims.[5][2][3]
Clerics of Asmodeus may prepare lesser geas and a variant of geas, and the Prince of Darkness grants access to infernal healing and greater infernal healing.[3]
Public temples dedicated to Asmodeus can be found in Cheliax, often existing alongside and within the nation's government buildings. Secret houses dedicated to the Prince of Darkness exist throughout Golarion.[2] The Midnight Temple in Egorian regularly features human sacrifices upon the Black Altar.[6] Many of his temples were originally dedicated to other gods but were abandoned or purchased by his faithful and profaned to serve their purposes.[2]
The Asmodean Disciplines
Asmodeus' doctrines and the practices of his faithful
↑ Sean K Reynolds. (2010). Asmodeus. Mother of Flies, p. 62. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-199-2
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Erik Mona et al. (2008). Campaign Setting, p. 160. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-112-1
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Sean K Reynolds. (2008). Gods and Magic, p. 6. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-139-8
↑ Adam Daigle, James Jacobs, Tim Nightengale, and F. Wesley Schneider. (2010). Bestiary. Mother of Flies, p. 78-79. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-199-2
↑ James Jacobs, & Mike McArtor. (2008). Curse of the Crimson Throne Player's Guide, p. 10. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-087-2
↑ Adam Daigle, F. Wesley Schneider, Neil Spicer, and Hank Woon. (2010). Bestiary. The Twice-Damned Prince, p. 83. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-226-5
Barbatos • Dispater • Mammon • Belial • Geryon • Moloch • Baalzebul • Mephistopheles • Asmodeus
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Penn State Abington
33 Conference article
Relationship of obligate grassland birds to landscape structure in Wisconsin
Murray, L. D., Ribic, C. A. & Thogmartin, W. E., Feb 1 2008, In : Journal of Wildlife Management. 72, 2, p. 463-467 5 p.
landscape structure
Resource allocation for statistical quality of service provision in buffered crossbar switches
Duan, Q. & Daigle, J. N., Jun 1 2008, In : International Journal of Communication Systems. 21, 6, p. 609-629 21 p.
Second life 3D virtual world in a freshman information sciences and technology course
Avanzato, R. L., 2008, In : ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings.
Selectfluor as a nucleofuge in the reactions of azabicyclo[n.2.1]alkane β-halocarbamic acid esters (n = 2,3)
Krow, G. R., Gandla, D., Guo, W., Centafont, R. A., Lin, G., DeBrosse, C., Sonnet, P. E., Ross, C. W., Ramjit, H. G. & Cannon, K. C., Mar 21 2008, In : Journal of Organic Chemistry. 73, 6, p. 2122-2129 8 p.
Suburban outdoor challenge for autonomous mobile robots
Territorial markings as a predictor of driver aggression and road rage
Szlemko, W. J., Benfield, J. A., Bell, P. A., Deffenbacher, J. L. & Troup, L., Jun 1 2008, In : Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 38, 6, p. 1664-1688 25 p.
The casimir effect for a massless scalar field in the n dimensional Einstein universe with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a sphere
Moylan, P. J., Jan 1 2008, In : Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 128, 012010.
Minkowski space
scalars
The challenges of social marketing of organ donation: News and entertainment coverage of donation and transplantation
Harrison, T. R., Morgan, S. E. & Chewning, L. V., Dec 1 2008, In : Health Marketing Quarterly. 25, 1-2, p. 33-65 33 p.
Tissue and Organ Procurement
The influence of a retailer's corporate social responsibility program on re-conceptualizing store image
Gupta, S. & Pirsch, J., Nov 1 2008, In : Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. 15, 6, p. 516-526 11 p.
Store image
The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, patriotism and citizenship in Philadelphia's German community, 1790 to 1830
Baer, F. B., Jan 1 2008, New York University Press. 271 p.
5(6)-anti-substituted-2-azabicyclo[2.1.1]hexanes: A nucleophilic displacement route
Krow, G. R., Edupuganti, R., Gandla, D., Choudhary, A., Lin, G., Sonnet, P. E., DeBrosse, C., Ross, C. W., Cannon, K. C. & Raines, R. T., Nov 6 2009, In : Journal of Organic Chemistry. 74, 21, p. 8232-8242 11 p.
Bromides
A brief history of long work time and the contemporary sources of overwork
Golden, L., Jan 1 2009, In : Journal of Business Ethics. 84, SUPPL. 2, p. 217-227 11 p.
workaholism
Aircraft overflights at national parks: Conflict and its potential resolution
Bell, P. A., Mace, B. L. & Benfield, J. A., Dec 1 2009, In : Park Science. 26, 3
Applying the service-oriented architecture for network discovery and selection in the next generationwireless mobile networks
Duan, Q., Dec 1 2009, NBiS 2009 - 12th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems. p. 380-385 6 p. 5349933. (NBiS 2009 - 12th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems).
Service oriented architecture (SOA)
Heterogeneous networks
Assessing effective partnerships in intercultural education: Transformative learning as a tool for evaluation
Senyshyn, R. M. & Chamberlin-Quinlisk, C. R., 2009, In : Communication Teacher. 23, 4, p. 167-178 12 p.
Assessment and outcomes of robot competitions at Penn State Abington
Avanzato, R. L., Sep 1 2009, In : Computers in Education Journal. 19, 3, p. 9-16 8 p.
Autonomous outdoor mobile robot Challenge
Avanzato, R. L., Sep 1 2009, In : Computers in Education Journal. 19, 3, p. 1-8 8 p.
Avant-garde trends
Miller, L., Jan 1 2009, F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context. Cambridge University Press, p. 191-202 12 p.
Modernist Art
Degenerate sex and the city: Djuna Barnes's urban underworld
Heise, W. T., Sep 1 2009, In : Twentieth Century Literature. 55, 3, p. 287-321 35 p.
Differential regulation of hepatic heme oxygenase-1 protein with aging and heat stress
Bloomer, S. A., Zhang, H. J., Brown, K. E. & Kregel, K. C., Apr 1 2009, In : Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. 64, 4, p. 419-425 7 p.
Heme Oxygenase-1
Heise, T., Jan 1 2009, The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists. Cambridge University Press, p. 290-300 11 p.
Emerging adults' perceptions of messages about physical appearance
Gillen, M. & Lefkowitz, E. S., Jun 1 2009, In : Body Image. 6, 3, p. 178-185 8 p.
Body Physical Appearance
Extending Pummerer reaction chemistry. Examination of the prospects for forming vicinal quaternary carbon centers
Feldman, K. S. & Nuriye, A., Apr 29 2009, In : Tetrahedron Letters. 50, 17, p. 1914-1916 3 p.
Nucleophiles
Cyclization
Flexible daily work schedules in U.S. Jobs: Formal introductions needed?
Golden, L., Jan 1 2009, In : Industrial Relations. 48, 1, p. 27-54 28 p.
Further to the death of Sigurd B. Myhre at Camp Abruzzi, Rudolf Island, Franz Josef Land, during the Ziegler Polar Expedition, 16 May 1904
Capelotti, P. J., Dec 1 2009, In : Polar Research. 28, 3, p. 463-467 5 p.
Fusions of character Tables II: P-groups
Humphries, S. P. & Johnson, K. W., Dec 1 2009, In : Communications in Algebra. 37, 12, p. 4296-4315 20 p.
Character Table
P-groups
Abelian group
Finite Group
Gauge invariant cosmological perturbation equations with corrections from loop quantum gravity
Bojowald, M., Hossain, G. M., Kagan, M. & Shankaranarayanan, S., Feb 5 2009, In : Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 79, 4, 043505.
perturbation
inhomogeneity
Gender and 1960s youth culture: The rolling stones and the new woman
August, A. G., Jul 27 2009, In : Contemporary British History. 23, 1, p. 79-100 22 p.
gender role
Gender differences in patenting activity: An examination of the US biotechnology industry
McMillan, G. S., Aug 2009, In : Scientometrics. 80, 3, p. 683-691 9 p.
gender-specific factors
Ineffective corporate governance: Director busyness and board committee memberships
Jiraporn, P., Singh, M. & Lee, C. I., May 1 2009, In : Journal of Banking and Finance. 33, 5, p. 819-828 10 p.
Compensation committees
Infrared spectra prediction and potential energy surface studies of methylarsine and methylstibine
Kim, H. W., Patel, M. K. & Zeroka, D., Aug 15 2009, In : Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 73, 4, p. 730-737 8 p.
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infrared spectra
Integrating robot design competitions into the curriculum and K-12 outreach activities
Avanzato, R. L., Dec 1 2009, Progress in Robotics - FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009, Proceedings. p. 271-278 8 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 44 CCIS).
Interracial contexts debilitate same-race face recognition
Young, S. G., Hugenberg, K., Bernstein, M. J. & Sacco, D. F., Sep 1 2009, In : Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 45, 5, p. 1123-1126 4 p.
Isotriviality is equivalent to potential good reduction for endomorphisms of PN over function fields
Petsche, C., Szpiro, L. & Tepper, M., Nov 1 2009, In : Journal of Algebra. 322, 9, p. 3345-3365 21 p.
Endomorphisms
Function Fields
Geometric Invariant Theory
If and only if
Polynomial Maps
Localization strategies for large-scale airborne deployed wireless sensors
Zein-Sabatto, Z., Elangovan, V., Chen, W. & Mgaya, R., Jul 21 2009, 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making, MCDM 2009 - Proceedings. p. 9-16 8 p. 4938822
Metal-activated histidine carbon donor hydrogen bonds contribute to metalloprotein folding and function
Schmiedekamp, A. & Nanda, V., Jul 1 2009, In : Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 103, 7, p. 1054-1060 7 p.
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Hydrogen bonds
Osteochondral lesions of the distal tibial plafond: localization and morphologic characteristics with an anatomical grid
Elias, I., Raikin, S. M., Schweitzer, M. E., Besser, M. P., Morrison, W. B. & Zoga, A. C., Jun 1 2009, In : Foot and Ankle International. 30, 6, p. 524-529 6 p.
Outcomes of chronic insertional Achilles tendinosis using FHL autograft through single incision
Elias, I., Raikin, S. M., Besser, M. P. & Nazarian, L. N., Mar 1 2009, In : Foot and Ankle International. 30, 3, p. 197-204 8 p.
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Articular Range of Motion
Visual Analog Scale
Prediction of midfoot instability in the subtle Lisfranc injury: Comparison of magnetic resonance imaging with intraoperative findings
Raikin, S. M., Elias, I., Dheer, S., Besser, M. P., Morrison, W. B. & Zoga, A. C., Apr 1 2009, In : Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A. 91, 4, p. 892-899 8 p.
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Metatarsal Bones
Purdue's Engineer of 2020: The journey
Jones, J., Meckl, P., Harris, M., Cox, M., Cekic, O., Okos, M., Campanella, O., Houze, N., Litster, J., Mosier, N., Radcliffe, D., Tao, B., Delaurentis, D., Brophy, S., Howell, K., Okutsu, M., Penner, A., Wilson, A. & Jamieson, L., Jan 1 2009, In : ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings.
Rejected by the Nation: The Electoral Defeat of Candidates Included in the Self Is Experienced as Personal Rejection
Young, S. G., Bernstein, M. J. & Claypool, H. M., Dec 1 2009, In : Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. 9, 1, p. 315-326 12 p.
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Semi-implicit schemes for transient Navier-Stokes equations and eddy viscosity models
Davis, L. G. & Pahlevani, F., Jan 1 2009, In : Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations. 25, 1, p. 212-231 20 p.
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Eddy Viscosity
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Serious gaming for aerospace engineering design: Exploring learning potential and students' readiness
Velankar, Y., Brophy, S., Okutsu, M. & Delaurentis, D., Jan 1 2009, In : ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings.
Service-oriented architecture for access network discovery and selection in heterogeneous wireless networking environments
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Social inclusion facilitates interest in mating
Brown, C. M., Young, S. G., Sacco, D. F., Bernstein, M. J. & Claypool, H. M., Feb 11 2009, In : Evolutionary Psychology. 7, 1, p. 11-27 17 p.
Satiation
Syntheses and characterization of iron(II) and iron(III) complexes of a tripodal ligand derived from tris(2-aminoethyl)methane
Brewer, G., Brewer, C., White, G., Butcher, R. J., Viragh, C., Carpenter, E. E. & Schmiedekamp, A. M., Aug 15 2009, In : Inorganica Chimica Acta. 362, 11, p. 4158-4166 9 p.
To buy or not to buy? A social dilemma perspective on green buying
Gupta, S. & Ogden, D. T., Jun 1 2009, In : Journal of Consumer Marketing. 26, 6, p. 378-393 16 p.
Social dilemma
Towards ranking the importance of patents
He, X., Zhang, F. & Adam, N., Mar 11 2009, 2008 IEEE Symposium on Advanced Management of Information for Globalized Enterprises, AMIGE 2008 - Proceedings. p. 224-228 5 p. 4721495. (2008 IEEE Symposium on Advanced Management of Information for Globalized Enterprises, AMIGE 2008 - Proceedings).
Active multispectral illumination and image fusion for retinal microsurgery
Sznitman, R., Billings, S., Rother, D., Mirota, D., Yang, Y., Handa, J., Gehlbach, P., Kang, J. U., Hager, G. D. & Taylor, R., Dec 1 2010, Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions - First International Conference, IPCAI 2010, Proceedings. p. 12-22 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6135 LNCS).
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Advice when children come out: The cultural "tool kits" of parents
Martin, K. A., Hutson, D. J., Kazyak, E. & Scherrer, K. S., Jun 4 2010, In : Journal of Family Issues. 31, 7, p. 960-991 32 p.
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The SILVAH saga: 40+ years of collaborative hardwood research and management highlight silviculture
Susan L Stout, Patrick Hugh Brose
Ecosystem Science and Management
The advent of even-age management in eastern forests in the 1960s improved regeneration of shade-intolerant and shade-intermediate species through much of the region. However, in the Allegheny hardwood stands of northern Pennsylvania, half of the even-aged regeneration harvests failed to create new forests. USDA Forest Service Research and Development (FSR&D) initiated a partnership with federal, state, industrial, and private forest landowners to solve this problem using silviculture. The partners developed inventory procedures and decision charts to identify regeneration assets and barriers as well as silvicultural treatments to mitigate the barriers. FSR&D training sessions ensured a common silvicultural vocabulary and common practices, later computerized in the SILVAH decision support system. In 2000, the partnership expanded SILVAH to mixed-oak forests of the mid-Atlantic region. Land management agencies in Pennsylvania and several other eastern states have adopted SILVAH. It provides a consistent framework for research-management cooperation, for sharing the results of silvicultural research, and for making silvicultural decisions in the forest types covered by the system.
Journal of Forestry
https://doi.org/10.5849/jof.13-099
private forestry
hardwood forests
forest types
Stout, S. L., & Brose, P. H. (2014). The SILVAH saga: 40+ years of collaborative hardwood research and management highlight silviculture. Journal of Forestry, 112(5), 434-439. https://doi.org/10.5849/jof.13-099
Stout, Susan L ; Brose, Patrick Hugh. / The SILVAH saga : 40+ years of collaborative hardwood research and management highlight silviculture. In: Journal of Forestry. 2014 ; Vol. 112, No. 5. pp. 434-439.
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Using Fully Homomorphic Hybrid Encryption to Minimize Non-interative Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Craig Gentry, Jens Groth, Yuval Ishai, Chris Peikert, Amit Sahai, Adam Smith
A non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) proof can be used to demonstrate the truth of a statement without revealing anything else. It has been shown under standard cryptographic assumptions that NIZK proofs of membership exist for all languages in NP. While there is evidence that such proofs cannot be much shorter than the corresponding membership witnesses, all known NIZK proofs for NP languages are considerably longer than the witnesses. Soon after Gentry’s construction of fully homomorphic encryption, several groups independently contemplated the use of hybrid encryption to optimize the size of NIZK proofs and discussed this idea within the cryptographic community. This article formally explores this idea of using fully homomorphic hybrid encryption to optimize NIZK proofs and other related cryptographic primitives. We investigate the question of minimizing the communication overhead of NIZK proofs for NP and show that if fully homomorphic encryption exists then it is possible to get proofs that are roughly of the same size as the witnesses. Our technique consists in constructing a fully homomorphic hybrid encryption scheme with ciphertext size $$|m|+{\mathrm {poly}}(k)$$|m|+poly(k), where $$m$$m is the plaintext and $$k$$k is the security parameter. Encrypting the witness for an NP-statement allows us to evaluate the NP-relation in a communication-efficient manner. We apply this technique to both standard non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs and to universally composable non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs. The technique can also be applied outside the realm of non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs, for instance to get witness-size interactive zero-knowledge proofs in the plain model without any setup or to minimize the communication in secure computation protocols.
Zero-knowledge Proof
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Interactive Proofs
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Gentry, C., Groth, J., Ishai, Y., Peikert, C., Sahai, A., & Smith, A. (2015). Using Fully Homomorphic Hybrid Encryption to Minimize Non-interative Zero-Knowledge Proofs. Journal of Cryptology, 28(4), 820-843. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-014-9184-y
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Mashup of Hyper Design or Living
31 March 2006 11:00 — 14:00
Presentations & discussion (in English):
TileToy (FI/UK)
Project by Tuomo Tammenpää (FI) and Daniel Blackburn (UK)
Kiasma seminar room // Fri 31 March 11:00 // free entrance
http://tiletoy.blogspot.com
TileToy is a modular, electronic game prototype for tangible LED game tiles. TileToy brings the flexibility inherent in digital software to a physical tile that people can touch and interact with. By arranging the electronic tiles, players can engage themselves in various kinds of game play, ranging from fast-paced arcade style games to puzzle an learning games.
The tiles are plastic cases approximately 2″ square. The main inspiration for the look and feel comes from the heyday of the LED, when plastic hand-held games ruled the gaming world. This retro-look is fused with a more modern minimal design. The minimalism enhances the magic of cordless boxes that simply communicate with each other. In TileToy, technology is sealed within the design. The interaction is based on tactile experience where no user manual is needed.
The flexible architecture of the tiles makes TileToy a versatile platform for development of various applications from several genres. Compared with traditional tile games TileToy can take advantage of such things as changing state, animations and games where the tiles can effect the state of adjoining tiles. Simple word games can be created where each tile displays a random letter and the players organize the letters into the longest word possible. Numbers and arithmetic characters can be displayed with the player having to arrange the tiles into a sum to give a specified result. Matching games are yet another way the tiles could be programmed to act as a learning aid. Applications can be developed also to utilize the tiles purely for display purposes to show patterns, animations or even live information.
The re-programmable and constantly updated graphical information on each tile is displayed with a LED matrix system. The screen displaying the information is an endlessly versatile surface for updated visual communication. Each tile is controlled individually and can be used to transmit information on its own or in groups of several tiles. The assembled tiles transmit wirelessly their individual position in relation to each other and based on that changing information, a central computer, or a dedicated tile runs the different applications.
TileToy is an open project. Both the source code and the hardware is available via open licenses. This will allow anyone interested to create their own applications and games and feed these back into the community hopefully to spark innovation further. It may even lead to new projects that branch off to make new version of TileToy based on the original hardware. The TileToy process is available from the blog: http://tiletoy.blogspot.com
Thinglink (FI+ Int)
Thinglink – a free product code for creative work
www.ullamaaria.typepad.com/thinglink
Web users find products (books, music, web pages) increasingly based on other people’s recommendations. Recommendation systems like Amazon,Last.fm, and Delicious rely on unique identifiers (ISBNs / Amazon Identification Numbers, Music Brainz IDs, URLs) for the products they describe. These identifiers make it possible to point to products online. Small producers such as artists, designers, and crafters, however, do not have an easy access to commercial product codes, and therefore, their work is not equally recommendable online.
Thinglink is an initiative to build a free product code and an open database for creative work. Thinglinks are unique, 6 digit identifiers that anybody can use for connecting physical or virtual objects to online information about them. In other words, a thinglink on an object is an indication that there is some information about the object in the Internet — perhaps a blog post, a website, photos, or some comments on a discussion site.
The purpose of the Thinglink project is to develop the visibility of cultural products in the Internet. For ordinary people it offers an easy way to learn about art or design projects in relation to their makers, materials, production/construction techniques or ideologies. Artists, designers, and crafters can use thinglinks to document and promote their work in the Internet.
At Pixelache 2006, Ulla-Maaria Mutanen will offer of sneak preview to the beta version of thinglink.org, which will be published in April 2006. On this site artists, designers, and crafters will be able to
a) register unique product codes for their work
b) search projects by maker, tag or keyword
c) comment other people’s work
d) publish and print personalized thinglink-stickers
For more information, contact: Ulla-Maaria Mutanen, ulla [[at]] hobbyprincess.com.
Orgsmobile (SE)
Orgsmobile is a project initiated by Erik Sandelin & Magnus Torstensson(unsworn.org, SE)
www.orgsmobile.org
Open Source Vehicles, Cargo Cult Design and New Automotive Agendas
Orgsmobile.org is a non-profit organisation that is creating the world’s first open source car. Unsworn are happy to announce and produce the first major event showcasing Orgsmobile prototypes and documentation at the Mal au Pixel festival, this April in Paris.
The theme of the Mal au Pixel or PixelACHE festival is the “Dot Org Boom”, the non-profit grassroot new media revolution. The essential ingredients of this rapidly growing phenomenon are open source community, open content initiatives, media activist networks and myriads of NGOs around the world.
At www.orgsmobile.org designers, artists and open-source enthusiasts relentlessly research and collaboratively contribute to the Orgsmobile, the first dot org vehicle. This is an initiative that pushes the limits of Dot Org thinking and also problematise the concept of the Dot Org Boom.
Orgsmobile.org are greatly inspired by the success of open source and open content development styles. By stubbornly pursuing this analogy of open software development and pushing it into the domain of hardware the Orgsmobile endeavor opens up for a discussion beyond the do-good consensus of many open source gatherings. The Orgsmobile is, however, not a parody of open source projects and grassroots development practices. While working the Orgsmobile mechanics run into severe difficulties and limitations of software-style distributed collaboration. But they aim for a very practical goal and sincerely believe that innovative and useful concepts and products will emerge from this seemingly impossible project.
The Orgsmobile community is also producing fresh views on what “building” and “distributing” could mean in the context of open source hardware. While the digital material can quickly be losslessy and infinately duplicated we still are not blessed with the presence of Star Trek-style replicators for physical objects. This points towards possible futures of distributed potentiality: instructables, recipes and executables.
The Orgsmobile initiative is both about questioning preconceptions of personal transporation and pushing the limits of Dot Org collaboration. The Showroom will be more of a kick-off, a mission statement, a conceptual kick in the teeth than a traditional showroom. It will showcase the initial phases of the Orgsmobile inititative. The ape-monkey analysis-comprehension struggle to get to grips with fleeting entities such as traffic, locomotion, personal expression, and transport. All the things. That has to do with cars. This phase is an psycho-social investigation of people’s car related motives, desires and needs; an autopsy and anatomic dissection of the automobile from a technical perspective; and a cargo-culting renewal and re-appropriation of automotive concepts and manifestations.
The Oversteerers of Orgsmobile.org have set their aims high. Their goal for the Mal au Pixel exhibition 2006 is to drive an Orgsmobile from the grounds of Org Industries in the Kingdom of org to the showroom in Mains d’Oeuvres in Paris, France. To accomplish this they are currently recruiting new mechanics.
Welcome to Paris for the automotive feat of the 21st century!
* Cargo Cult, an idiom meaning any group of people making obeisance to something that it is obvious they do not comprehend.
Wikipedia SAYS: “The classic period of cargo cult activity was in the years during and after World War II. The vast amounts of war materiel that were air-dropped into these islands during the Pacific campaign against the Empire of Japan necessarily meant drastic changes to the lifestyle of these islanders as manufactured clothing, canned food, tents, weapons and other useful goods arrived in vast quantities to equip soldiers—and also the islanders who were their guides and hosts. When the war moved on, and ultimately when it ended, the airbases were abandoned and no new “cargo” was then being dropped.
In attempts to get cargo to fall by parachute or land in planes or ships again, islanders adopted a shallow version of the same practices they had seen the soldiers, sailors and airmen use. They carved headphones from wood, and wore them while sitting in control towers. They waved the landing signals while standing on the runways. They lit signal fires and torches to light up runways and lighthouses. The cultists thought that the foreigners had some special connection to the ancestors, who were the only beings powerful enough to spill such riches. By mimicking the foreigners, they hoped to bypass them.
In a form of sympathetic magic, many built life-size mockups of airplanes out of straw, and created new military style landing strips, hoping to attract more airplanes. The cultural impact of these practices was not to bring about the return of the god-like airplanes that brought such marvelous cargo during the war, but to eradicate religious practices that had existed prior to the war.”
Orgsmobile Oversteerers
Desearch and Revelopment
http://rd.labbs.net
www.h-interaction.com
www.nbgngs.com
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SOCIAL JUSTICE MEDIA: Twitter Says It Found 201 Accounts Linked to Possible Russian Election Interference.
The company also told congressional investigators that the Russian-backed news site RT spent $274,100 on ads on Twitter last year. A U.S. intelligence report said RT sought to meddle in the U.S. election.
The revelations, coming weeks after Facebook Inc. first disclosed Russian actors paid for divisive political ads on its platform, further inflame tensions that Russians sought to manipulate public opinion in the U.S. through social media. Russia has denied interfering in the election.
Twitter’s announcement drew a swift rebuke from some congressional leaders including Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat and the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russian activities during the election. Mr. Warner called the meeting with Twitter “deeply disappointing” and said the company hadn’t done enough to examine the extent of Russian activity on its platform.
The blue-on-blue action is always fun, but a quarter-million dollar ad buy in a billion-dollar race barely adds up to a pittance. And anyway, the Russians were wise to be so cheap because: A) political ads don’t work, and; B) the Kremlin’s goal wasn’t to pick a winner but rather to sow dissension.
And on that last score, Democrats are proving themselves the Kremlin’s more-than-useful idiots.
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A short story by Alwyne Ashweth
His world was a thin sliver of reflection. He could only see the mirror, as a plastic cage squeezed his head so that he couldn’t move. Lying on his back he faced upwards, but his view was of his feet. The angled mirror allowed him to see out into the white room.
“You alright in there, Mr Ionnides?”
The woman’s voice came over the headphones jammed on his ears.
He presumed it was rhetorical; there was no way for him to answer her. The top of her head bobbed up and down beyond a large window on the far side of the room. It looked as though she was at a computer.
She looked up and smiled at him. She seemed a world away, and he felt disoriented. It was as if she was both above him and across from him at the same time.
“Remember you can press the button if you get into trouble.”
He fingered the device in his left hand. He supposed it was reassuring, but he felt that he wouldn’t need to use it. This whole MRI thing was turning out to be a breeze.
He had been to the doctor only the week before. On giving him the list of his symptoms, he had expected a quick diagnosis of acute migraines. That was what all his friends were telling him that they were, anyway. A numbing of his right hand that soon went away. Then a visual disturbance would creep into view. It was like looking through drops of swirling oil. And then the pain.
“Just to be on the safe side, we’re going to send you for an MRI,” the doctor had said. He must have looked startled, as the old man had hurried on. “It’s probably nothing, Alex. But when there’s tingling hands and headaches involved we had better be 100% sure.”
His best friend Judy had then proceeded to inform him of the horrors involved in having an MRI.
“It’s really claustrophobic. You sit on a metal tray thing, and they slide you inside of this gi-normous machine. You’re held down with straps so you can’t move or the pictures they take would end up all fuzzy and shit. But the worst thing is the noise. Loud thumping bangs all the time you are in there.”
So, he was a little nervous by the time he arrived at the hospital. He asked directions to the MRI lab at the front desk. A porter informed him to follow the yellow line painted on the floor. “If you reach Psychiatric you’ve gone too far,” he had said. Alex had grinned to himself, hoping that it wouldn’t come to that.
Nurse Hanover had met him in the lab’s reception area. Her cheerfulness put him at ease straight away. “Please call me Gillian. Just doing your head today, is that right Mr Ionnides? No need to get fully undressed then. Just leave your jacket in the changing room.”
She had taken him through the proceedings with practised efficiency. She places a set of headphones over his ears. They were already playing a Beethoven piano concerto. There was a small moment of panic when she placed the plastic cage over his face. It seemed too tight as she pushed it hard into place. It was necessary, she explained, as his head could not move during the scan. Then she had pushed a button and he had slid into the belly of the machine.
Alex stared up at the small mirror. The white cylindrical walls of the tube framed the image. He could see his feet at the end, but he couldn’t work out how much of his body was inside the tube. Nurse Gillian’s voice broke through the music in his ears again. “OK, Alex. We’re ready to start. Thirty seconds of noise now.”
Thump thump thump thump thump…
The loudness startled him. Even with the protection of the headphones, a deep sonorous banging filled his head. It drowned out the music, and he began to relax. It stopped after the prescribed time, jarring him back to the present.
“Now about eight minutes,” Nurse Gillian said in his ears.
It was faster this time, and he soon felt himself drifting off again. Was it womb-like, him being so completely cradled and unable to move? And the machine's heartbeat was overpowering. He wondered if he could move his head at all, but stopped himself from trying. He might ruin the scan and incur the wrath of the good nurse.
His eyes fluttered closed. The ever-present noise kept him from falling completely asleep. Disjointed dream images filled his mind. He lost track of the time, dozing in the cradle of this unfathomable machine. And then it stopped. The banging was gone, and he came awake into his locked down and limited world.
He looked up at the mirror, expecting more instruction from the next room. The nurse was still there, sat down at her station. The angle of view allowed him to see only the top of her head. Her prim ponytail swung into sight as her gaze shifted from one thing to another. She stopped what she was doing, and looked to her left. A door had opened into the control-booth, its back resting against the window. He thought at first that she was talking to another nurse or a doctor. Her head had risen, and the top of her mouth moved as if in conversation. Her forehead creased in a frown, and she turned from the door back to her desk. She picked up a phone and began to make a call. He was about to close his eyes again when a hand appeared from behind the open door. Its fingers curled around the edge as if their owner was trying to pull themselves inside. And like a stalking cat, the visitor came into view. His face appeared first, unshaven and wrinkled. A mop of greying hair stood up from his forehead as though shocked to attention. Even from his distant and prone position, Alex could see the blank look on the newcomer’s face. The ancient head turned this way and that as he moved further into the room. He was wearing a hospital gown, and a plastic I.D. tag adorned one bony wrist.
A patient?
Still turned away from her visitor, the nurse did not notice his advance towards her. Alex watched as the scrawny arms stretched out, reaching for the back of her neck. He had a moment of disbelief as the patient told hold of her forehead from behind. The wrinkled fingers yanked her head backwards.
Was he dreaming this?
Both Alex and the Nurse now shared an expression of upturned terror and surprise. Then the cracked and dirty fingernails bit into her skin. Alex could tell that she was screaming. Sinew and muscle stood out on her attacker’s limbs. Alex watched the man strangle her and his brain finally caught up.
“Shit shit shit…”
His body tried to react now. His legs thrashed around, banging into the walls of the MRI tube. His arms slapped at the smooth cylinder, trying to find something to grab on to. At the same time, he was involuntarily trying to sit up, but the cage around his head stopped any movement. His neck muscles strained as they tried to pull his skull free of the thing, but it did not budge.
And all through this his view of the world was a fixed rectangle floating above his eyes. In it, he could see the dying woman through the gap between his flailing feet. He couldn’t even look away, let alone help her or raise the alarm. The old man pulled her to a semi-standing position, still wringing her neck from behind. She faced the window towards the MRI, and her eyes pleaded with him through the glass. A gaunt, jaundiced face appeared beside hers, and a large tongue pushed out of its cracked lips. It slathered up and down her ear and moved along her jawline.
He was tasting her!
Then she slammed forwards. Her nose crumpled squirting blood to either side. Finally, Alex had to close his eyes. His heartbeat drowned out the piano sonata now playing in his ears. He panted like an animal, panic seizing him by the balls. His neck muscles cramped, and he forced himself to calm down. He concentrated on slowing his breathing. As he regained control, he realised he had been punching away on the emergency button the whole time.
He stopped himself from clicking at the thing. It would only be signalling the nurse’s station, not anywhere else. He realised with dread that the only person he had been alerting was the psychopath next door.
His eyes flew open. The nurse was now gone from the window. A trail of smeared blood down the glass marked her exit. Behind this stood the mad-man. He held up a hand to his forehead as he tried to see into the room with the MRI.
Alex began to panic again. The creep must have heard the noise from the emergency button. And here he lay, all trussed up and waiting to be butchered; a psycho’s free-lunch. He had to find a way to escape this wretched machine. He watched the monster in the tiny mirror for any sign that he had been discovered. The old face there held rheumy eyes set back inside folds of wrinkled skin. But such eyes. They stared through the glass, wide, and without any kind of emotion. Dead eyes, Alex thought. The eyes of death himself.
When it came, the movement was quick. He sprang to the side with a gleeful vigour. Yanking open the door again he disappeared through it. Alex’s stomach sank in a wash of sour adrenaline, and panic took control one more. His arms twisting, he clawed and slapped at the sides of the tube, trying to move the tray-table he was lying on. When that failed, he shuffled his buttocks down as far as they could go, trying to dislodge his head. His exertion left him panting, and he stopped cold when he realised he had not been listening to the room. Had he missed the sound of the door opening? Was the killer already in here with him?
For a moment he thought the MRI had turned back on. But there was a different quality to the sound. Someone was banging on the outside of the machine.
He froze in terror.
Prey caught in a trap.
There was the smallest of giggles. It was an insane sound, and Alex tried to cry out. He produced a loud groan that squeezed out between rasping breaths.
All he could do was watch the mirror. There was no more thumping, no more sounds of any kind, and he existed in a limbo of horrified anticipation. When would the haggard face of the madman appear at the end of the tube? His breaths became shorter and quieter as he tried to make as little noise as possible. His fists clenched against the side of his body, his bladder and bowels loosening. The ends of his legs felt exposed, and he tried to draw them up inside the tube. There was a snort of breath on his right calf, and then his ankle was given a long, slow lick.
Alex screamed.
The face appeared and moved into the gap between his legs. He screamed some more as he saw the look of death in the eyes of the man, and the wry smile on his lips. He watched in disgust as a thread of drool emerged from his mouth. Between his screams, there was time to be amazed. There wasn't enough room. Even so, the creature was making his way inside the tube with him.
Alex closed his eyes and clamped his mouth shut. For a while, he drifted away from reality, unhinged and carefree. But he was flung back from this bliss by the touch of a tongue against his chin. He smelt the fetid breath of death’s kiss upon him. An intimate whisper tickled the skin of his ear. Just three words:
Alex screamed some more.
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Cary Jo Fukunaga’s Maniac
Cary Jo Fukunaga’s Netflix show Maniac is to date the only one I’ve ever binged in one sitting. It’s fucking magic. I slept in and got to work late today because I just had to finish the thing last night. The one word that comes to mind with this is unique. It’s a science fiction comedy drama stroke of cosmic brilliance that draws on everything from Kafka to Michel Gondry to Cloud Atlas to Inception to Kubrick and many others, but not for one moment does it feel derivative, and there is, and I mean this, nothing out there quite like this. If you’ve seen a trailer or read a blurb, you’ll know it stars Emma Stone and Jonah Hill as two participants in a mysterious pharmaceutical drug trial, and indeed that is the launching pad for this strange, wonderful story infused with cassette futurism and dream logic, but oh just wait and see how deep, how multilayered and complex it becomes with each passing minute. After two opening episodes that burn sort of slow but are very important for developing character and establishing tone and setting, this hallucinatory, multi dimensional odyssey of self discovery and awakening constantly surprises the viewer by shirking narrative standards, constructing a script that feels fresh and untrodden, like a dimly lit path where anything could jump out at any second and all the well travelled beats have been cast away. Hill and Stone are unparalleled here, each playing a score of different characters throughout time and space and doing things with their work that I’ve never seem come from them before. Despite this being a fantastical show that traverses many internal worlds and has a whole host of dazzling special effects to showcase, above all it is an extremely thoughtful, often very dark psychological exploration of these two beings, the technology around them and how it may be used to map the human mind. Justin Theroux brings humour and eccentric humility as the neuro-chemist who is running the drug trial, Sonoya Mozuno is brilliant as his intuitive, chain smoking second in command and the cast is fleshed out by the likes of Hank Azaria, Josh Pais, Julia Garner, Geoffrey Cantor, Rome Kanda, Billy Magnusson, Glenn Fleshler, Joseph Sikora and more. Joining them are also veteran actors Sally Field and Gabriel Byrne in key roles, both of whom I love and haven’t seen in anything substantial for quite some time, they really shine here. I’m aware that this is loosely based on a Norwegian series of the same name, but honestly Fukunaga has used that as a drawing board and universally expanded the premise into something really special, original and magnificent. The central realms of the drug trial that Hill and Stone experience are the main show and the template used to plumb depths of the human condition, but just as vital is the story unfolding in the lab with Theroux, Mizuno and Sally Field, a slightly satirical look at how technology has started to approach the borders of the human soul, and even blur some lines there. I hope this gets traction, exposure and the high praise it deserves in the community. This is the best thing in any medium I’ve seen so far this year, and I can’t wait for countless revisits.
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Gucci Mane's Songs
Delusions of Grandeur Album
Gucci Mane - Potential (feat. Lil Uzi Vert & Young Dolph)
Gucci Mane Song potential (feat. lil uzi vert & young dolph)
Artiste: Gucci Mane
Album: Delusions of Grandeur (18 Tracks)
Beats: Gucci Mane Instrumentals
Gucci Mane potential (feat. lil uzi vert & young dolph): Gucci Mane isn’t dropping projects at a relentless pace anymore, but he hasn’t made fans wait too long for his follow-up to Evil Genius either. After releasing that LP last December, Guwop returns with a new album titled Delusions Of Grandeur.
The influential trap rapper’s latest work is an 18-track effort with plenty of notable contributors. Guests include Rick Ross, Wiz Khalifa, Lil Uzi Vert, Meek Mill, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Justin Bieber and Young Dolph, among others.
Delusions of Grandeur (18 Tracks)
Potential (feat. Lil Uzi x Young Dolph)
By: Gucci Mane
Skerr (feat. Young Dolph)
By: Gucci Mane X Migos
Both Eyes Closed (feat. 2 Chainz & Young Dolph)
Never Going Broke (Ft. Young Dolph)
By: Ralo & Gucci Mane
Both Eyes Closed (Ft. 2 Chainz & Young Dolph)
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Academy Ball 2020 co-chairmen’s Reception
December 4, 2019 by HughE Dillon Leave a comment
The 163rd Academy of Music Anniversary Concert and Ball co-chairmen’s reception was held on Thursday, November 14, 2019.
Dennis and Deborah Glass hosted the reception at their home in Bryn Mawr.
The Glasses greeted the guests as they arrived.
Lydia and Scott Hamburg
Carolyn Slota and Mario Mestichelli
Jane Allsopp, and Nicole Allen
The Glasses opened their home as well as tented their patio for the guests.
Cackie Rogers, vice chairman of the Academy of Music (AOM) Board of Trustees, Mario Mestichelli, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Philadelphia Orchestra Association, Dennis and Deborah Glass, co-chairman Jim Brandau, a senior vice president at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. , and Academy Ball 2020 co-chair Lisa Buckingham
The 163rd Anniversary Concert and Ball
Join us for Philadelphia’s most fabulous party of the year—the annual Anniversary Concert and Ball, a spectacular white-tie event with star-studded performances, dining, and dancing, all supporting an iconic historic landmark.
Saturday January 25,2020 The Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor
Thanks Andre Flewellen for shooting this event.
Alyson Jack, Director of Event Planning and Services at The Bellevue Hotel, Brian Lang, Claire Allamby, Senior Director of the Academy of Music Restoration Fund Office, Kelsey Bartle, Senior Event Sales Manager at Hyatt Hotels Corporation and William Rossi
Morris Williams, Elaine Camarda, Alexandra Edsall, and Robert Victor
Jack Earle, Managing partner at Earle enterprises lp. and Kate Allison, founder and CEO of Karma Agency, a strategic communications firm headquartered in Philadelphia and a member of the Board of Trustees
Young Friends membership. For those 21–40 years young, get access to discounted concert tickets, free drinks, and exclusive after parties!
Join now: www.philorch.org/young-friends
Philadelphia Fund Alliance Gala Benefited Achieve Now
November 25, 2019 by HughE Dillon Leave a comment
More than 200 Philadelphia-area asset management industry professionals gathered on Nov. 7 at The Logan Philadelphia to raise money for Achieve Now, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming the educational system in
Philadelphia to one that produces students who can read.
Keynote Speaker Professor Myron Scholes, Mark Sheehan (Stradley Ronon) and Thomas Huber (Wick Capital Partners).
The Philadelphia Fund Alliance is a group of Philadelphia-based asset management industry professionals formed to
hold an annual fundraiser to benefit one or more charities in the greater Philadelphia area. The annual fundraiser not
only supports a great cause, but it also highlights Philadelphia’s deep roots and influence in national financial markets
and services, including traditional mutual funds and alternative asset vehicles.
Athen Anthopoulos (Weiswood Strategies) and John Grady (Practus, LLP).
Kristin Vrabel and Amber Wilczynski from PwC.
John Braun (BBD) and Terry Reilly (Pepper Hamilton).
Ira Schnell (Apex Group), Bob Dunne, Michael Cairns and Alena Bolba from Grant Thornton.
Michael Collins (Broadridge Financial Solutions), Mary Ellen Mahoney, James Mahoney (Tait Weller) and Marie
Lostocco (Blackrock).
Brian Sullivan, Kelly Fisherkeller and Brian Cassidy from Deloitte & Touche LLP.
Philadelphia Fund Alliance Gala Attendees.
Jerry Maginnis (Cohen & Steers) and Reese Blair (Deloitte & Touche LLP).
Nicole Snyder, Maria Palmer, Nancy Cloran and Lori White (SEI Investments Company).
Bruce Leto (Stradley Ronon) , Shawn Kairschner (Achieve Now), Sean Graber (Morgan Lewis) and John Alshefski (SEI Investments Company) present Achieve Now with a $100,000 donation.
Nobel Laureate financial economist and keynote speaker Professor Myron Scholes.
Claire Olivar, Lauren Zychowicz and Becca Rodrigues from Stradley Ronon.
Nicole Snyder, Kyle Cummings and Lori Wayne from SEI Investments Company.
Thanks Mike Hirata for shooting this for PhillyChitChat.com
Moss Rehab Staff to Help Surfers with Disabilities
August 13, 2019 by HughE Dillon Leave a comment
Approximately 100 surfers and 400 volunteers, many of the volunteers from Moss Rehab in Philadelphia, participated in the 12th annual They Will Surf Again event at Baker Beach in Wildwood, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. T
For the past eight years, MossRehab has sent a volunteer corps of rehab therapists, doctors, nurses and supporters to They Will Surf Again is the flagship program of Life Rolls On, a nonprofit that serves as a resource and advocate for young people who have been affected by spinal cord injury. Life Rolls On utilizes action sports to push the boundaries of possibility for those with spinal cord injuries.
“We’re thrilled to have MossRehab involved with us,” says Chad DeSatnick, who organizes They Will Surf Again events in New Jersey. “To have actual therapists and rehab specialists who are trained to properly handle persons with disabilities means proper techniques are used, assuring safety, comfort and dignity for the surfers.” Founder of Life Rolls On Jesse Billauer (r) Wants to Help You Catch a Wave.
The Blue Wave Theory, play surf rock and entertained the crowd during the event. Kerry O’Connor, Senior Manager of Communications at Moss Rehab, has been a long time supporter of They Will Surf Again, connecting them with Moss Rehab, and sponsoring The Blue Wave Theory band for everyone’s enjoyment. The music was terrific, and kept the seagulls away from everyone’s pizza.
Philadelphia branch of the English-Speaking Union Garden Party at Princess Grace’s Home
June 4, 2019 by HughE Dillon Leave a comment
The Philadelphia branch of the English-Speaking Union (ESU) of the United States held their annual garden party on Sunday June 2, at The Kelly Family Home in East Falls.
In 2016, Prince Albert of Monaco purchased his late mother’s Philadelphia home. “It feels good,” he told People magazine of buying the Pennsylvania property. “I’m very happy to have saved this old family home from a near certain death or development.”
The ESU was formally organized in the United States in 1920 and arose from the conviction of its founder, Sir Evelyn Wrench and a group of like-minded American and British friends, that maintenance of the close personal and national ties forged during World War I was necessary for the preservation of peace.
The ESU celebrates English as a shared language to foster global understanding and good will by providing educational and cultural opportunities for students, educators, and members.
The Kelly Family was kind enough to host this years event, which was held under a tent in the expansive backyard. Princess Grace of Monaco’s childhood home was also opened for tours on a few of the floors for all to see. It is not a museum as many thought, but a residence where family members live. Although there is access on special occasions.
Andy and Debbie Webster, Mary Darlington co-chairs, with hosts Alexandra Golaszewska and J.B. Kelly and Steve Darlington, co-chair
Princess Grace’s mother
John B. Kelly, built the six-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot home, which would later become the place where Prince Rainier III of Monaco proposed to then-actress Grace Kelly, in this very room.
Thank you to Alexandra Golaszewska, who along with J.B. Kelly I have known socially for several years, who gave me a tour of the house, even the nooks and crannies explaining all the beautiful artifacts on display.
Princess Graces’ mom would sew these labels in the children’s clothes
Princess Grace’s writing desk has a photo of Prince Rainier III of Monaco, Princess Grace and her two oldest children Caroline, Princess of Hanover and Albert II, Prince of Monaco . Along with a magazine with The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle and Prince Harry on the cover. Inside is also a story on the Kelly Home)
Natanya DiBona, co-host of Le Dîner en Blanc touring the house. There’s a preview party June 11, and the public is invited to attend. It’s there they will announce the date of the annual August event for Philadelphia. The event is free but you must register.
Prince Albert II of Monaco is very concerned about the environment and has created The Prince Albert II Foundation (Official name: Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco is a Monaco -based charity which has donated millions in various environmental projects. The Foundation was initially created in 2006 by Prince Albert II of Monaco and it concentrates on environmental protection
Some of the guests at the Garden Party
The highlight of the garden party was the singing of the National Athem, the toast to Queen Elizabeth for her 93rd birthday and a lively auction to raise additional funds for the ESU education mission.
Max Yillah discusses the National Shakespeare competition, and how he came in 2nd Place. Congrats that’s huge. Second Prize: Scholarship and airfare to attend the American Shakespeare Center Theatre Camp
Max Yillah, a Philadelphia area high school student won the annual Shakespeare contest, which allowed him to compete in the National Shakespeare Competition in NYC. High school students nationwide read, analyze, perform and recite Shakespearean monologues and sonnets in three qualifying stages: school, ESU Branch and national.
Claire Boasi
Brian Morris and Marjorie Morris, Board Member
Look for additional photos on CBSPhilly, as well as Philly Style Magazine later this week.
Brilliant Partnership: Wigs.com and Breastcancer.org
April 3, 2019 by HughE Dillon Leave a comment
On March 29, 2019, Wigs.com and Breastcancer.org came together to empower and educate women with a three year partnership, at Lankenau Medical Center. To mark this occasion they hosted a wig wearing demonstration, as well as a panel discussion on Breast Cancer treatments. Wigs.com presented a a $100,000 donation check to Breastcancer.org in honor of their mission which is dedicated to providing the most reliable, complete, and up-to-date information about breast cancer and breast health as well as an active and supportive online community.
Haley Newbanks, Wigs.com and Hope Wohl, CEO Breastcancer.org
Carol Thomas, Adam Leitenberger, Melissa Jenkins, Cindy Pelton, and Delores Slaughter
Carliz Sotelo Moore, CEO and Co-Founder of Wigs.com assists Delores Slaughter on how to wear a wig as Dr. Marisa Weiss, founder and Chief Medical Officer, Breastcancer.org looks on.
Dr. Marisa Weiss, founder and Chief Medical Officer, Breastcancer.org accepts a check from Carliz Sotelo Moore, CEO and Co-Founder of Wigs.com celebrating their three year partnership in restoring confidence in women going through chemotherapy.
Carliz Sotelo Moore, CEO and Co-Founder of Wigs.com assists breast cancer survivor Rita Lusen, Breastcancer.org with her wig.
Kim Wakiyama, Rita Lusen and Ashley Hollander
With a common goal to educate and help people who are going through breast cancer, Wigs.com and Breastcancer.org form a three-year partnership worth $100,000 in donations. The Breastcancer.org community of people with breast cancer will have access to Wigs.com experts, as well as hair loss education, including videos and content available on Breastcancer.org’s website.
Wigs.com will make purchasing from the larger collection of wigs on its website easier for the breastcancer.org community offering 10% off through a special coupon – BC10, which can be applied during checkout. For each purchase, Wigs.com will donate 10% of the proceeds to Breastcancer.org
The Fashionable Ladies of the Mainline Enjoy the 15th Annual In Fashion Show
November 30, 2017 by HughE Dillon
The Mainline Ladies Come out to Support Cancer Support Community
The Cancer Support Community (CSC) Greater Philadelphia held their 15th Annual “In Fashion!” Luncheon & Fashion Show in conjunction with Neiman Marcus. This year though they held the fundraiser on the Mainline at the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford and not in the store at King of Prussia Mall as had been done the past few years.
For this year’s fundraiser, CSC partnered with Neiman Marcus who carries fashion designer Brunello Cucinelli clothing. Brunello Cucinelli’s ready-to-wear, handbag and shoe collections represent an expression of everyday luxury and sophistication, where comfort and style come together in an inseparable combination.
There was a pop up shopping area where guests could buy Brunello Cucinelli’s designs. 10% of the proceeds would go to the CSC. Cucinelli regularly donates 20% of his profits through the Brunello Cucinelli Foundation.
Kathy O’Mara, Development Director Cancer Support Community and Kelly Harris, CEO Cancer Support Community.
Cancer Support Community supports men, women, and children living with cancer by offering free counseling, music therapy, support groups, educational workshops, exercise classes, and specialized programs for children and teens.
Cancer survivor, Lisa Barsky, who also volunteers many of her free hours at CSC and Paige Stengel, Marketing Coordinator at LaHoda Natural Health Centre
Petra Halloran, Erika Gabriel and Amanda Burch
Donna Celentans, Lynn Charlton and Julie Schellenger
Sandy Edelstein, Shana Schwartz, Robin Lovett, Nicole Schaeffer and Andrea Alexanian
Ali Bristow and Samantha Anne
Noelle Wein, JoAnn Wurzak and Ginny Salaman
Tara Lessard reigning over the beautiful fundraiser luncheon
Jeff Kellmer, Evelyn Cintron and Joann Massengill. Jeff donated a $5,000 bracelet which was auction off during the luncheon.
Stephanie Stahl, CBS3Philly emceed the event, where two young ladies whose mother is a cancer survivor, were models in the fashion show
Auctioneer Jeff Hammond working his magic raising additional funds for the organization. Not only is Jeff a great fundraiser, but a great MC as well.
Hilarie Morgan and Babs Snyder enjoy the fashion show
Marjorie Honickman chats during lunch
Many guests slid over to the other sides of the table to get the best view of the gorgeous clothes
There were audible ahhs for this beautiful outfit
It was a successful event. I loved the new venue. Please check out Cancer Support Community and all their wonderful services, and pass the word. There are so many wonderful organizations out there to help those in need. They need our support, but most of all they’re there if you need them. Many times people don’t realize these programs are available, unless they hear about them from their case worker.
Look for additional photos in the February issue of Philadelphia Magazine and in the next issue of Liberty City Press
Nicole Miller: The Power of Pink
October 19, 2017 by HughE Dillon
On October 12th, 2017 Nicole Miller at the Bellevue welcomed 50+ attendees to embrace the “Power of Pink.” Kristin Detterline, Laura Promiscuo, Philadelphia fashion bloggers Laurelle Gunderson and Ra’Chell Richards, were in attendance along with friends and fashionistas gathered for a special charity shopping event dedicated to Living Beyond Breast Cancer.
LBBC is a nonprofit organization that provides programs and services to help women whose lives have been impacted by breast cancer.
Denise DiSimone, Senior Vice President of PNC Bank, Wendy Hamilton, General Manager of Sugarhouse Casino, Jenny Woo, Vice President of ESM Productions and Dr Thanuja Hamilton joined the celebration hosted by dear friend Mary Dougherty.
Sabrina Pray, Bellevue store manager, Dr. Annina Wilkes, diagnostic radiologist of Jefferson University Hospital, and Mary K. Dougherty, Nicole Miller Philadelphia owner, joined together to kick off the Power of Pink charity shopping event on October 12th, 2017.
Emmy- nominated Co-host of Good Day Philly, Alex Holley, sporting the limited edition Nicole Miller pink baseball cap;
100% of the proceeds from the sales of the hat go to Living Beyond Breast Cancer.
Photos provided by client Nicole Miller
Millésimé & Ligne Roset & Arclinea Kitchens Hosts a fundraiser Cocktail Party
June 30, 2017 by HughE Dillon
Ligne Roset Philadelphia celebrated community and the good work done by Need in Deed and Vetri Community Partnership at a private event hosted on Thursday evening, June 1, 2017 at their Old City location (33 N. 2nd Street). To honor the occasion, they auctioned off two Ottoman armchairs designed by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, with special Masai upholstery by Raf Simons. 100% of the silent auction proceeds will go directly to these local charities. Both organizations are doing incredibly important work for the youth of Philadelphia.
Located in Old City 33 N 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA 19106 Millésimé & Ligne Roset & Arclinea design showroom represents a collection of modern and contemporary furniture, lighting, kitchens and accessories for residential and commercial use. The Millésimé team provides expertise to architects, designers and individual clients.
Laura Deyonker, Caryn Liss, and Carolyn Perri
Zac Sivertsen and Megan Sivertsen
Alex Freedman and Ilana Liss
Vetri Cooking Lab is an out-of-school-time program for students in 4th through 6th grade that focuses on cooking, nutrition and food education featuring STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) core concepts.
Toyin Ajayi-Frankel and Andy Frankel
Richard Quinn and Lena Kim
At Millésimé, I seek to inspire, connect and impact my client’s lives through curated collections of expertly crafted furniture, lighting, accessories and one-of-a-kind artwork. I’d love to share my vison and collections with you. Please contact me directly or visit our new showroom in Old City. – Jinous Kazemi
Heather Huber and Danielle Zimmerman
Ruth Snyderman and Rick Snyderman of the Snyderman-Works Galleries
Heidi Nivling-Becker, Larry Becker, and Kimberly Kirn
10% of all purchases during June 1-7 went to benefit the two worthy charities Need in Deed and Vetri Community Partnership
Chef Alex Garfinkle and John Blanchet – AG Catering Website
Richard Quinn and Lena Kim.
Photos: Family Pasta Dinner to Support Ronald McDonald House SNJ
May 21, 2017 by HughE Dillon
Earlier this month a ‘Family Pasta Dinner’—a unique dinner experience that brings families and friends together for a professionally prepared family-style meal all in support of the Ronald McDonald House of Southern New Jersey (RMHSNJ) occured at the Waterworks event facility. I wasn’t able to make it as I planned, but my friends over at ALOYSIUS BUTLER & CLARK sent a few photos. Event brings 600 supporters from the Delaware Valley together for a first-ever pasta event to raise money and awareness for the Ronald McDonald House in Camden.
Pictured are (left to right) Teddy Thomas (President RMHSNJ), Shawn Ravitz (RMHSNJ Board President, Owner of 5 Ravitz ShopRites in Cherry Hill, Mt. Laurel and Voorhees, NJ), Joe Volpe (CEO and founder of Cescaphe Event Group), Rahel Solomon (Co-Anchor of CBS3’s Eyewitness News This Morning), Jim Donovan (Co-Anchor of CBS3’s Eyewitness News This Morning). Rachel and Jim served as masters of ceremony for the Family Pasta Dinner.
Pictured are the event’s major Chef Coat Sponsors, Joe Volpe (CEO and founder of Cescaphe Event Group), Scott & Mimi Avellino and Gary Banks of Banks Industrial Group.
Pictured are Carmine Catalana and Beth representing multiple generations of The Catalana Family, who were honored for more than 30 years of service to the Ronald McDonald House of Southern New Jersey.
Diner en Blanc Has A Charity Component – Now Shut Up
August 21, 2016 by HughE Dillon
I know harsh title, but after going to events yesterday and people asking me why Diner en Blanc didn’t have a charity component, and then yes I was sad about the negative articles that came out about Diner en Blanc from people who never attended, and the one poor sad sap who didn’t have the gonads to tell his girlfriend he found the whole thing boring, but one posting on FB where a publisher of a magazine wanted to know where the money went, is the one that really affected me (surprised he doesn’t know how much it costs to run an event, it’s not free.) I am biased, I love the event, they are my clients, and I also donate time to the event. All I really know about life is we are here for a short time, I really want people to live and love, and I don’t understand negativity. I posted a little thing on FB. I got a feedback, good, disagreeable but not nasty, which is really the way it should be – C’est la vie. Oh wait there was one negative response from a Trump supporter who was mad I maligned him. We’re still friends though, it’s only the hypocrites I can’t stand. Near the end is where the Natanya DiBona statement on the charity work Philly Diner en Blanc does through out the year, and the volunteer hours that go into putting on an event as large as Diner en Blanc, with its 5,000 attendees this year: My favorite response was Yo Philly, is more like Oy Philly
I included a few responses to my posts
Alexandra Golaszewska I’ve never gone to Dîner en Blanc, mainly I don’t want to haul my own furniture and plates to a dinner. But I don’t get why so many people are saying it needs to be fundraiser. I understand that they’re using public space, but so are all of the restaurants that have sidewalk tables, and I don’t hear the same criticism of them.
Cassie Hepler I said the same thing Hugh E Dillon as in why not get all uppity about the Eagles not donating to charity? Certainly those tickets and salaries are ridiculously overinflated as in millions not just $200K.
HughE: Although all the sports teams do a lot of charity, the ticket holder is not getting a charity deduction for the price of the ticket, so that
Jacqueline Peccina Kelly Hugh E Dillon I have to agree 100% with what you said – I am disappointed in these naysayers. Is it because it is 2 women who are in charge? Or is it because they are jealous? Ignorance? I applaud Natanya and Kayli for orchestrating, what I think has been the party of the year. They brought 5000 strangers together who became friends for a night – no violence, nothing stolen, and a good time was had by all!
Brigid McGrath Stasen First allow me to say that I am not a “schlepper”. I like to sit at tables donning white tablecloths and linen napkins with the best of them. Truth be told, I don’t even like buffets. If I’m going out to dinner I enjoy being served. That being said, I think the concept of Diner en Blanc is fun and fabulous. Did I want to go? No. Did I feel a bit of FOMO last night as I watched the videos and enjoyed the photos everyone was posting on FB? Yes. It looked like so much fun and I loved seeing all of my friends that were there enjoying themselves. Unfortunately, the trash etc… left behind is surely not worse than any number of parades in our fine city. If DEB folks paid for the clean up. Good for them. They should. Would it be nice to know if there was a charity angle? Absolutely. It’s a creative and fun event that allows all whom wish to participate to have a wonderful evening under the stars. Loved seeing everyone dressed in their white finery, their fabulous table settings, fun hats and ensembles. Will I be going to DEB 2017? No. Will I again have FOMO? Yes. But that’s okay. My friends had a blast.
Sarah Doheny We’ve gone the first two years they both were magical evenings. The first year will was by far the best, all the sparklers lite at the same time, napkins waving …the fountain ..
It’s a choice and not everyone will be pleased and not everyone wishes to schlep…
Mary Anne Keenan McDevitt I love DEB and I have carted my table, chairs, food and drink up and down subway steps, walked miles and ate dinner in the rain and will continue to attend for many years to come. Our group, last night, met across from the Franklin Institute and we walked to the Art Museum. The police stopped traffic as we started our trek, but for the remainder of the walk we obeyed traffic signals and only crossed the street on green. I can not comment on the mess that is left. I know that when we broke down our tables and chairs, last night, there was nothing left behind. (Have you ever seen the parking lot after a Kenny Chesney Concert?) We enjoy the evening and look forward to it.
Bernnie Visalli How can anyone say something negative about a civil party all dressed in white with sparklers. Saw some coverage of that and it looked amazing.
People complain about everything now.
Gregory Seitter Unfortunately, you will have a lot of naysayers. Diner en Blanc helps make Philadelphia a first class city. Plus, the event drives revenue in the city. Seems like a win-win for me.
Christopher: The haters of this awesome event are probably the same people who hate every amazing event of grand scale this city should encourage. If we want to be a great city, a world class city, we should encourage more creative events like this. There is no downside to Diner en Blanc, is there? Bringing so many joyous people together makes our city stronger and more fun
Karen Toole-Ebbert Amen Hugh E Dillon! I cannot understand why the push for a charity component in the 1st place. Even if it was a total for profit event it is no ones freaking business!! I host events every month and it is time consuming along with expenses.
Monique Crawford Totally agree. Leave it to opportunists to take a European tradition for the people who just want to celebrate life, food, fun, and friends and try to taint it for their own self promoting reasons. It’s Dîner En Blanc people, relax, just don’t go and get back to focusing on your self.
Matt Sullivan I see zero moral difference between using your money to buy tickets to this event and using your money to buy Eagles tickets. Except Eagles tickets are three times as expensive. So I guess Eagles fans care about the poor three times less than these people.
Josh Kruger I drafted a paragraph-long comment several times before settling on, “Can we all just let each other live our dang lives?”
Michelle Leonard (name removed) I don’t think I know you. I am republican and most people know it. I know that Hugh E Dillon definitely knows it. And I consider HughE to be a close friend. He is one of the kindest most thoughtful and generous people I know. He is always fair and reasonable.
Second of all do you entertain? First of all Natanya DiBona and her friend Kayli do an amazing job planning and coordinating such a memorable evening. Do you realize what all of the buses entertainment and all of the other things go into creating this special evening. I don’t know if you went or not but it was a night to remember. Philadelphia is so lucky to have such talented people like Natanya and Kory Aversa putting together this amazing night.
Philadelphians should be thanking them for their generosity to helping to keep Philadelphia the world class city that it is.
Carmena Ayo-Davies You know I love you, I think DEB is beautifully organized, I’m lazy and like to be pampered, so all the extra Ish, is just not my cup of tea. I live in a two bedroom and I have a cleaning lady, I know I’m not toting my meal, table and chair anywhere in white. Just my opinion, I think people should definitely support, all the pictures look beautiful
Amy Z. Quinn It’s legal to get a permit and close down streets for an event, it happens all the time. It’s not my thing but
Marjilyn Murray I dont mind people making fun a bit ( i have attended for 4 years including this one) some of my friends make fun for having to carry chairs/tables/bring your own dinner lol. but such real nastyness from people…mostly who have never attended…i feel is uncalled for. It is a night where so many different people from all walks of life eat together, share food and drink, and peacefully have a wonderful time. We have met so many friends who we may have not met otherwise. Our table was a mix of all ages, races, orientation, and people from all over. We had a ball! How often do we all get that opportunity to go out and meet all different types of people (especially as a parent who doesnt get out too much lol?)
It may not go to charity but if me and my husband choose to go to dinner and spend $100 to eat at a restaurant with sidewalk seating…what is the difference? I dont see people yelling and accusing others of anything nasty (such as not caring about other world issues) because they went to dinner anywhere else.
You seem like a super nice person hugh…people are nasty and jealous and mean. Keep on being you and dont let the naysayers get you down:)
Karina Sellhorn I have never attended, I want to. I respect all opinions… But I don’t understand why every event in the city has to be a fundraiser? To each it’s own. People pay to tour the city; I would pay to get to have that experience.
Shoshana Suzanne Schiller Well, let’s compare apples to apples. DEB does not supply food, alcohol, servers, linens, centerpieces, etc. (Note – my view is DEB is not my thing but others like it and it’s one night of the year when traffic is affected so stop whining and let people who want to pay for the privilege to attend enjoy their night)
Victor Fiorillo My band The Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret played it last year and I was surprised we didn’t get any crap for doing so. It was a great experience for us. I was a major eye roller but not a harsh critic of DEB prior to that event and after doing it, I came away with mostly positive feelings. I personally would never spend the money to be there, but I don’t fault others for doing the same or for DEB doing the event without a charity component. I disagree with your assertion that they can’t possibly add a charity component — why couldn’t they do a food drive at the event or allow a non profit to set up a table soliciting donations — but there are plenty of events in Philly that are dining oriented that don’t also try to feed the homeless. Not everything has to be everything to everybody and in the end, people are going to continue to sell out DEB regardless.
Hugh E Dillon A can good is a great idea, but then someone would complain we asked them to carry one more thing. I Know Natanya and kayli would add a charity component if they could. At least to quiet the noise.
Natanya DiBona While we are unable to officially partner with a particular charity, we have given MANY free tickets to non-profits throughout the years (with a wide range of missions- from red cross to fringe arts and the vetri foundation) to auction off, we raised funds for Fairmount Park Conservancy through an event this year in honor of our first location, Logan Circle, we’ve auctioned off paintings done at the 2014 event to benefit PAFA and the Avenue of the Arts and we had 65 of our volunteers assist with #popupphilly, the first pop-up dinner party for the homeless. And actually, Hugh E Dillon, while i do understand what you are saying and I appreciate the sentiment, we would not do anything just to quiet noise- I believe we are authentic and genuine in everything we have done since 2012.
Kayli, myself and an 8 person team dedicate 4 months planning this event unpaid and this year we were assisted by another 155 volunteers who helped us execute it….all for the love of planning a great event in the city we love. The city is the beneficiary of all of those thousands of hours we donate of our time to make this event happen (as a small example of the time it takes, threading each of the wristbands that our participants wore took 52 man hours- just imagine what went into planning the whole event). Everyone else does get paid though…the venue (“public space” does not mean free), the city, police officers, street cleaners, portapotties sound and lighting professionals, tent companies, insurance providers, bus companies, Septa, and yes, performers like the fabulous Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret, Victor Fiorillo. The very reasonable ticket price makes all of that possible.
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Rampant Design partners with VFX house That Studio
Orlando — Rampant Design Tools has entered into a strategic partnership with That Studio, a global, online production and visual effects studio founded by Kanen Flowers and Alan Edward Bell. As a result, Rampant Design Tools is rebranding, and refocusing its entire library of practical VFX elements for filmmakers, editors and visual effects artists.
Beginning immediately, Rampant will offer its drag and drop QuickTime elements in two distinct and targeted product categories: Indie Essentials and Studio Essentials.
“Over the years, Kanen Flowers and That Studio have built a large and loyal following in the indie filmmaking community. His fans look to him for advice and guidance on the crowded, and often times, confusing marketplace for tools for filmmakers,” said Sean Mullen, president and founder of Rampant Design Tools. “Partnering with Kanen is a significant opportunity for Rampant Design Tools to reach this vast community of users, and give them the tools they need to get their projects done. Kanen has deep roots and experience with this market, so our new relationship will be a big win for our users.”
The first of the new collections, called Indie Essentials, will be marketed and sold by That Studio and will offer libraries of QuickTime elements targeted at the indie filmmaker and freelance artist/editor who require accessible, affordable high-quality VFX elements.
The second of the new collections launched by Rampant, called Studio Essentials, will be marketed, sold and supported by Rampant, and will offer libraries of high quality, ultra high resolution (5K, 4K, 2K) QuickTime elements designed for the stringent, high-resolution requirements of higher end post production and Hollywood studios.
Both companies will jointly create and introduce new products over the next year.
Aharon Rabinowitz is the director of content and communities for Red Giant and had this to say about the new partnership: “No matter how good editing, motion graphics and VFX software gets, the one thing you’ll always need is good source — there’s just no substitute for practical effects. I’ve used this stuff in some of my most time sensitive projects, and have been really proud of the results.”
Indie Essentials are high quality, practical effects designed to enhance any independent film or project, instantly creating impressive visual effects. Kanen will tap his knowledge and expertise as an indie filmmaker, as well as his broad following in the community, to market and sell the Indies Essentials line of products.
All Indie Essentials files are high-quality visual effects, including QuickTime files (up to 2K) and are compatible with industry-popular post production software, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, Nuke, Avid and many more.
Indie Essentials delivers almost 100GB of content, with elements such as: 2k Snow; 2k Dust and Dirt; 2k Embers, 2k Sparks; 2k Fog and 2k Smoke; Cinematic Flares; Creature Kit (Eyes, Mouths, Wounds and creature textures!); Muzzle Flashes; Dirt and Grunge; Grunge Mattes; Overlays and Transitions; Cinematic Music; Sound Effects; and more.
Al Mooney, senior product manager, professional video editing for Adobe added, “That Studio has quickly become recognized as a forward-thinking, modern and very global organization that values independent film. Indie Essentials provides world class tools to filmmakers on a budget to allow them to create the highest quality productions. These tools, along with tight integration to our Creative Cloud toolset, in particular with Adobe Premiere Pro CC, provides filmmakers with unlimited possibilities to create and edit films.”
Studio Essentials include Rampant Design Tools entire library of high-end, ultra high resolution elements, including the Rampant Cinema Series 5K, Rampant Broadcast Series 4K, Rampant Production Series 2K, and Rampant Essentials 2K drives. Studio Essentials delivers two complete volumes of elements and offer editors and visual effects artists optimal flexibility, quality and value. Sean Mullen continues to tap his expertise as a high-end VFX artist, whose work included Hollywood and television productions such as Charmed, Ally McBeal, NCIS, Felicity, Nip/Tuck, Idle Hands, Lake Placid and Any Given Sunday.
Studio Essentials includes thousands of 5K effects, and all of the Studio Essentials are available in 2K, 4K and 5K. Studio Essentials are available on USB 3.0 drives, or users can select the 2K and 4K elements as downloads if preferred. Rampant is also offering the Next Gen For Editors sample pack which includes 10 effects from each volume in 4K for under $100. Some of the elements offered in Studio Essentials include: Studio Fire; Studio Dust, Embers and Sparks; Studio Smoke; Studio Snow; Studio Flash Transitions; Studio Bokeh; Studio Reflections; Studio Mattes; Studio Light Transitions; Studio Light Overlays; Studio Blast Transitions; Studio Impact Lights.
This entry was posted in News and tagged Alan Edward Bell, Kanen Flowers, Rampant Design Tools, Sean Mullen, That Studio on April 3, 2014 by Randi Altman.
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Death Threat!
Power of Ten Update
1. To Re-vote or not to Re-vote?
2. What Happened?
3. Death Threat!
1) To Re-vote or not to Re-vote?
That is the question that the school board will take up at their special meeting on Wednesday May 23 at 7:00 PM.
To avoid $4 million in severe cuts to our children’s educational resources, Strong East Ramapo strongly urges a re-vote!
Come to share your voice in favor of a re-vote at East Ramapo district headquarters, 105 S. Madison Ave, Spring Valley at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday May 23.
2) What Happened?
Thank you to everyone who voted in Tuesday’s election — and of course to our amazing candidates for putting themselves out there. In a district with incredibly difficult odds to win, Pastor Jose Cintron and Miriam Moster deserve our thanks. Thankfully, Sabrina Charles-Pierre ran unopposed and will be serving another term!
School Budget Vote Turnout Analysis:
The total turnout for the school budget vote for all districts in Rockland County was 9%. The turnout in East Ramapo was 10%.
East Ramapo is the only school district whose budget failed. It is also the only district that has to contend with a significant “Bloc Vote”. This consists of about half of the registered voters in East Ramapo.
On average, 6% of registered voters in Rockland supported the school budgets. 9% of East Ramapo voters (excluding the block vote) supported the budget. At one East Ramapo poll, YES votes outnumbered NO votes by 6.75 to 1. No other district in Rockland had this level of support.
The Bloc Vote delivered an 1800 vote advantage for a NO vote at 5 polls. If the Bloc Vote was in any other district in Rockland, that district’s budget would also have been voted down.
3) Death Threat!
News 12: Jewish education activist says he received death threat
Regular readers of the Power of Ten know that it’s not only in East Ramapo’s public school system that education is under threat. Power of Ten supports all activists working to ensure every child’s human right to an education. Yaffed advocates for education in yeshivas in NY, including here in East Ramapo.
Those who oppose education for children are often fanatical and sometimes violent.
On May 13, a caller left a voicemail with Yaffed saying plainly “Hi Naftuli Moster, I want to let you know that I am going to murder you, G-d willing; very soon you will be dead and your blood will spill. It’ll be a pleasure seeing you dead. You stupid, dumb, idiot…”
Please respond to this cowardly attack by visiting the Yaffed website, liking them on Facebook, signing their petition, and donating to their not-for-profit organization.
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Pamporovo 01-19-2020 Sunday
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For the ski season, Pamporovo introduces new types of ski passes, promotional accommodation periods and ski passes, a new modern SPA center and an attractive cultural calendar
Pamporovo starts the season with significant investments, new and attractive projects, which will give a great variety and choice, with the main purpose to enrich the stay of every tourist not only within but also outside the ski area. After the end of the active summer season, the resort continues to prepare for the ski season, filled with interesting sports, theatre and music events that will diversify the cultural life in Pamporovo and add value to your ski holiday.
For the first time it is possible to book in advance as early as now with discounts of up to 30% of the prices for accommodation in different periods during the season, including in March, as well as a promotional price of the lift card in certain periods in January.
What’s new in the ski season?
After the historical unification of the two ski areas in Pamporovo and Chepelare two years ago, the interest in the Rhodope slopes is growing more and more. For the upcoming ski season, priority will be placed on satisfying the guests and providing diversity of different types of new services related not only to the ski areas, but also to many new activities beyond skiing.
The 2 in 1 lift card remains the flavor of the season. It provides unlimited skiing on the Pamporovo ski slopes, unlimited skiing on the Chepelare ski slopes, free transportation between the two ski areas and a discount for the use of the ultramodern new SPA wellness center at the Perelik Hotel.
Pamporovo has already announced promotional periods for the ski pass in January from 6th to 10th and from 13th to 17th January 2020 (inclusive) for the price of BGN 52 per adult per day.
A new type of 6- and 9-day lift cards are introduced for weekdays with an option of non-consecutive use, which will give more flexibility and opportunity for tourists at the resort to use the service on different weekdays. This is an opportunity for all guests to benefit from any possible changes to their plans or in the event of bad weather by using the ski pass purchased for non-consecutive days in any of the next weekday periods during the season.
The traditional pre-sale promotional price of the seasonal ski pass until December 1, 2019 is available again this season. A new seasonal ski pass is also introduced for weekdays at a promotional price of BGN 700, which will give tourists the option to choose the quieter weekdays during the ski season. Guests who purchase one of the two types of seasonal ski pass will be able to enjoy a 30%-discounted access to the newest state-of-the-art and luxury SPA wellness center at the Perelik Hotel. All other guests of the resort who purchase any other type of ski pass can enjoy a 15% discount.
Pamporovo-Mechi Chal is also preferred by families with young children because of the excellent conditions available in the ski kindergarten (for children from 4 to 7 years of age) and in the ski school (for children from 7 to 12 years of age). Due to the great interest, Pamporovo and Mechi Chal will keep the family packages with ski passes, which provide discounts of 8 to 12% of the price of the ski passes.
For the first time, Pamporovo announces March as a family month with a 30% discount on the price of the ski passes, 30% discount on the hotel accommodation in the five-star Orlovetz Hotel and Perelik Hotel, and 30% discount on the ski services after March 9, 2020 until the end of the season.
The social policy with regard to children and students' camps is still on, with preferential accommodation and skiing services still being provided to stimulate the development of winter sports among adolescents.
The affiliate programs with the Bulgarian-American Credit Bank, BMW Bulgaria and Auto Bavaria, A1, OMV and AORA continue. They provide discounts between 8 and 17% of the prices of ski passes, ski services and hotel accommodation at selected resort hotels under the terms of the programs and the policy of Pamporovo AD.
What’s new on the online platform and call center 0700 17 702
The upgraded call center system and the SNOWTIS automatic system, which provides real-time information on the meteorological conditions, runways and working lift facilities, will operate again in the upcoming ski season to facilitate tourists and provide access to up-to-date information. The call center system on 0700 17 702 will allow you to receive any up-to-date information about the ski area by an operator, direct contact with the Mountain Rescue Service, and information about hotel accommodation or business services.
Live cameras stream online what is happening in the ski areas, and anyone will be able to keep track of all the up-to-date information about Pamporovo and Mechi Chal at www.pamporovo.me and through the resort's new mobile app.
What’s new in accommodation?
The accommodation facilities in Pamporovo are about to start preparing for the ski season. In December, after another major renovation of the well-known and emblematic five-star Perelik Hotel, the biggest in the resort luxurious SPA Wellness Center, located on three levels and on nearly 2,000 square meters, will open. Together with the new modern convention center in the resort, which opened this summer again at the Perelik Hotel, with halls of different capacity of a total of 1,200 seats, modern technical equipment and an underground passage to the luxury Perelik Hotel and Orlovetz Hotel, Pamporovo is becoming a new attraction center for skiing, wellness and business all year round.
For the first time Pamporovo announces as early as now special offers with a 30% discount for weekday stays in January, February and March. Discounts of up to 15% for early bookings as well as an additional discount for long stays are also provided.
From November 29 (Black Friday) for two weeks, Pamporovo will play a limited number of pre-sale rooms with vouchers through the so-called Blind offer with 50% discount on accommodation in any of the two five-star hotels Orlovetz or Perelik with no fixed date on the www.pamporovo.me website. The dates for using the purchased vouchers will be fixed by Pamporovo AD within 10 days after the end of the campaign.
New modern SPA Wellness Center at Perelik Hotel *****
New modern SPA Wellness Center in Perelik Hotel *****
The Christmas surprise for all guests of the Perelik Hotel and tourists in the resort will be the opening of the new Perelik Spa and Wellness Centre, which will offer an extraordinary variety of relaxation and rehabilitation procedures.
The grand wellness project involves the construction of the most numerous and varied types of rooms and relaxation spaces in the region, which will attract guests to Pamporovo all year round. The center will offer the largest swimming pool in the resort, modern programmed access to various types of facilities, such as herbal sauna, cedar sauna, infrared sauna, aroma sauna, Finnish sauna, aroma herbal bath, steam room, relaxation area with wooden baths, Turkish bath (hammam), contrast shower, salt room, ice room, Jacuzzi, horizontal shower, Rhassoul room, private VIP jacuzzi, massage rooms, modern fitness center, fresh juice bar and more.
The new wellness center will be accessible to every guest who wants to enjoy the latest and most modern body repair treatments. The prices to use the SPA center for guests staying in the Orlovetz Hotel and the Perelik Hotel will be preferential and for external guests the entrance fee will be BGN 40 per day per adult. Tourists who purchase lift cards will be able to enjoy a discount on the wellness center entrances fees. For the convenience of the guests of the Perelik Hotel a new and comfortable passage has been built from the hotel rooms directly to the wellness center, and the guests of the Orlovetz Hotel can use the underground passage to the Perelik Hotel.
NEW!!! New calendar of cultural events in January and February
In the largest multifunctional hall of the newly opened conference center at the Perelik Hotel - Pamporovo Convention Centre, a cultural program during the ski season in the resort will be launched for the first time. The pre-planned program includes the participation of well-known bands and favorite performers from the Bulgarian pop scene, films, theatre productions and musicals every Saturday in January and February.
The new cultural program starts on January 11 with a hit musical by the Musical Theatre and includes names such as Akaga, Kamen Donev with his hit show "For the Folk Art", young music stars from popular TV shows, comedy theatre productions with our favorite actors from the small screen, Bulgarian animated films for the little ones and more. Tickets are already available for purchase upon a booking confirmation by phone at 070017702, at the sales centers of the Orlovetz Hotel and Perelik Hotel, or at the ticket office of the convention center just before the event.
Preliminary Program:
December 31 – Vasko Chergov & Band, Perelik Restaurant
January 11 (Saturday) – Music Concert with hits from world musical and variety shows, such as "The Phantom of the Opera", "Chicago", " Les Misérables", "Zoro", "Cats", "Evita", "The Wizard of Oz" , performed in English, French, Italian and Bulgarian.
January 18 (Saturday) – Henpecked Husbands starring Albena Koleva, Kiril Efremov, Toncho Tokmakchiev
January 25 (Saturday) – Concert of the popular duet Dimitar Atanasov and Hristo Mladenov
February 1 (Saturday) – Concert by Akaga Band
February 8 (Saturday) – For the Folk Art starring Kamen Donev
February 15 (Saturday) – Music Concert
February 22 (Saturday) – Concert by Toni Dimitrova
February 29 (Saturday) – Too Much Cheating starring Hristo Garbov, Albena Mihova, Evgeni Budinov, Stella Gancheva, Veselin Plachkov
March 2 (Monday) – Her, Him and a Few Others starring Anya Pencheva, Toncho Tokmakchiev, Alexander Kadiev, Kiril Efremov, Nencho Ilchev, Tihomir Blagoev
In case of a change in the preliminary announced cultural program, it will be shown in the Cultural Program section of the online platform of the resort, pamporovo.me, or notified by an operator when contacting 0700 17 702.
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Speck 30.1
I didn’t trigger.
Kind of silly, really, that I’d expected to see something. But this was the opposite. A trigger event worked on the power end of things. This was altering me.
I felt the range of my power halve, as though a guillotine blade had dropped down, cutting it off.
My control began to slip. It wasn’t so severe as the effect on my range, but I could feel it degrading. I was aware of my bugs in a general sense, and they were moving in reaction to my subconscious thoughts, but the end result wasn’t precise. I moved them, but getting them to stop had a fraction of a second’s delay.
Slipping out of my control. Slipping…
Tattletale was nearby, but I was trying not to focus on her. I had to focus on the swarm, I needed to be perfectly aware of what was going on.
An echo of an event from years ago, only this time, Tattletale was one of the ones in the dark. I felt a pang of guilt,and I was surprised at how intense it was. Guilt, shame, a kind of intense loneliness…
This way lies madness, I thought. But the thought itself had an oddly disconnected quality to it. The emotions persisted, and I was aware of the memories. Walking away from the people I cared about, feeling horrible about it, knowing it was the best thing in the end.
Too many would be calling it an error in judgement, stupidity. Why go to such an extreme, especially when there was no guarantee it was the right path in the end?
But it had allowed me to reunite with my father, in a fashion.
I could remember jail too, the way the guilt and shame had manifested as a maddening restlessness, worse than the confinement. The fears that had haunted me, dealing with the other prisoners, the kind of peace that had come with surrendering to my then-current circumstances…
Would this decision lead to something in the same vein? Would I be confined, following a monumental decision that was so selfish and selfless at the same time?
I was altering something biological and mental. I felt my heart skip a beat as my mind momentarily touched on what that kind of confinement might entail.
I was hyperaware of my own body, every movement, the flow of blood in my veins. I was focused on the beating of my heart and my breathing, both picking up speed with every moment.
The sky behind me was bright blue, almost taunting me. Blue was the color I wore when I became a hero. A failure. It made for long shadows, extending down the length of the cave in the direction of the others, in the direction of Doormaker’s portal to Earth Gimel.
No, focus on the swarm.
My range was dwindling with every passing second, and so was my control.
That trace of fear I’d experienced swelled as I realized just how much I wanted that control. I needed to be able to use my mind, to put things into motion when I had an idea.
I need control, I thought.
I tried to open my mouth to tell Panacea, and I couldn’t. I’d pushed my focus out towards my swarm, and I couldn’t reel it back in to my body.
I was still aware of my body, but it felt piecemeal, now. My fist was shaking, I had my head bowed, my teeth clenched so hard against one another it hurt. My heart was pounding, my breath coming out in inconsistent huffs through my nose, pushing just a bit of mucus free. My eyes were wet with tears, but I hadn’t blinked, causing them to build up on the surface of my eyeballs.
All of these things were normal, but I didn’t feel like they were all intuitive parts of a whole. My concept of my body as a connected thing had shattered, the ties broken.
If this continued, I’d be on autopilot from here on out, if I could even put the individual components together to walk.
A moment passed, and I could feel Panacea working to give me that control, changing what she was focusing on. I felt the swarm moving more in sync with what I was thinking and wanting. But this… I could sense what was happening, feel my range plummeting yet again, the guillotine coming down. My range had been cut down further.
Take an inch in one department, lose several inches in another. Lose a whole foot.
Everything was piecemeal now, slipping away.
If this continued, I’d have nothing left. A net loss operation.
Stop, Panacea, I thought. Stop, stop, stop, stop…
My swarm attacked her, and it wasn’t because of any conscious command on my part. The attack was crude, more the swarming behavior of wasps drunk on attack pheromones than the calculated attack I was used to employing.
She stopped, pulling back and falling backwards in a clumsy way.
“Shit, shit, shit, fuck,” a young woman’s voice, from a distance away. Not Panacea.
Tattletale.
I raised my head, and Tattletale startled a little. Why had she startled? The way I’d moved?
“What did you do, Taylor?” Tattletale asked.
What did I do? I wanted the answer to that question, myself.
I looked at Amy, realizing the bugs were still approaching her. I pulled the swarm away, and I felt how hard it was to move them.
I was left with the ruins of my power. My range was maybe a third of what it might otherwise be, the control rough-edged at best. There were bugs in my swarm that I couldn’t control, too small.
There were too many things to concentrate on. The swarm, the nuances of my power, my state of near-panic, and the fact that I no longer felt like a complete, connected human being. The other stuff, it wasn’t that it wasn’t important, but it was so secondary.
Someone large, with flames swirling around his hands, stalking towards me… didn’t matter. My power – was my inability to get a complete picture due to a loss of my multitasking ability?
It was Lung who was approaching, Lung who stopped a short distance away, his breathing hot, muscles tensed, flames rolling over his clawed hands and forearms.
He stared at me, his eyes a molten orange-red behind his mask, his breath hot enough it shimmered in the air. Waiting to see if I was a danger?
“Taylor…” Tattletale said, as if from very far away.
But she didn’t say anything else. She stared for long seconds, and then she paced, walking the perimeter, as if she could get different perspectives on me from the edges of the room. Bonesaw, a little distance away, was half-crouched, tensed, between me, Doormaker and the clairvoyant. She looked less like a child and more like a wild animal. Reverting to habit, maybe, only without the veneer of the innocent, cutesy, perky child this time.
The stillness of it all was eerie, not helping the growing sense of panic I was experiencing. Everyone’s eyes were on me, and I felt like I might be having a panic attack. I couldn’t regulate my breathing because focusing on that meant my body was getting tenser, my one fist clenched so hard it hurt. Paying attention to my hand meant my breathing started to spiral out of control again. All the while, my heart was pounding. Nothing I could do to fix that.
I closed my eyes, in an effort to shut out the external stimuli, and I felt the moisture running down to the point where my lenses met my cheekbones, settling there. I raised my head to look at the cave roof.
As if that was some kind of cue, Bonesaw dashed through the doorway.
Why was I crying? It didn’t fit. I was scared, my hand was shaking and I couldn’t be sure how much was fear and how much was because of what Panacea had done. I was angry, inexplicably, frustrated, and I couldn’t shake the phantom memories of being in jail.
Trapped in an uncooperative body? No. The emotions and the thoughts didn’t match with that. Why was I thinking about it, all of a sudden?
I felt almost nauseous, now, on top of the sense of panic and the conflicting, nonsensical emotions I was experiencing. Or because of them, maybe. I felt myself tip over as if I were physically reeling from it all. When my leg moved to catch me, it wasn’t because I gave it the order. It wasn’t a reflexive response either. A third party.
Passenger, I thought. I guess we’re going to have to learn to work together here.
My breathing eased a notch. I had no way of telling if it was the passenger reacting or if it was my own reaction to the realization that the passenger was there.
“Weaver?” A girl’s voice.
I wasn’t sure I trusted my control over my bugs to get a good sense of where she was or what she was doing. I turned my head to see Canary standing by the portal.
“Don’t,” Tattletale said. “Don’t bother her. Leave her alone for long enough that she can get her bearings. Wait.”
“What happened, Weaver?” Canary asked, ignoring Tattletale.
Someone answer that question for me, I thought.
Tattletale? No, she was silent.
Bonesaw was gone.
Canary wouldn’t know.
Passenger? I thought. Any clues?
It was easier to talk to my passenger than it was to speak up and answer the question. Speaking up meant voicing everything that was wrong, my confusion, the fears, the worries, the fact that my body, my mind and my emotions all felt entirely unhinged. Speaking meant trying to talk around the growing lump in my throat.
“You never learned to ask for help when you needed it,” Tattletale said. Her voice was almost accusatory. “I mean, you ask when you approach other groups, and it’s like you’re holding a gun to their heads as you ask, or you ask at a time when it’s hard for them to say no, because all hell’s about to break loose.”
I glanced down at Panacea. She wasn’t moving, aside from rocking a bit back and forth as she breathed, her head slumped, eyes on the ground.
Was it me? Something grotesque? Horrible? Had I changed?
No. I had taken stock of myself, I’d seen myself, and I was still the same, as far as I could tell. Two arms, two legs, two eyes, a working nose, ears and mouth. One missing hand, but that was to be expected.
“Yeah, you asked Panacea. You asked me to play along and arrange stuff, when you went to go turn yourself in. Your handling of the school thing… well, I don’t want to get into a pattern and start cutting too deep. Let’s just say you make a decision by yourself, and then you use others to get help carrying it out. That’s not really you asking for help, is it?”
I didn’t need this, not now. But I looked up, meeting Tattletale’s eyes. She was standing behind Lung, now. He was changing. Was he biding his time?
“While I’m saying all this, kiddo, you gotta know I love you. I adore you, warts and all. You saved me, as much as I like to think I saved you. All this stuff I’m bitching about, it’s the same stuff that got us through some pretty hairy shit, and I love you for it as much as I groan about it. You’re brilliant and you’re reckless and you care too much about people in general when I really wish you’d leave things well enough alone and be selfish. But this?”
“Shit,” Tattletale said. “You gotta forgive me, just this once. Because seeing this and knowing what you pulled hurts enough that I gotta say this. This makes me feel really sorry for your dad, because I’m starting to get a sense of what you put him through.”
She might as well have slapped me full-force. Worse, I deserved it.
So this is what it’s like to be on the opposite end of a Tattletale attack.
“There,” she said. She smiled a little, but it wasn’t a grin, exactly. If it was an attempt at being reassuring, it wasn’t something she had a lot of practice in. “I’ve said what I needed to say. I do have your back, here. Now we need to figure out how we’re going to fix this.”
Which I was okay with, except I wasn’t sure what this was.
“This isn’t easily reversed,” Bonesaw said.
She had returned, and she’d brought others.
Marquis, and two of Marquis’ lieutenants. They’d been delivering wounded up until a bit ago, but their hands were empty now. Marquis was a little dusty, but still elegant and elaborately dressed without being feminine, his hair tied back into a ponytail. He was accompanied by the hyper-neat guy and the guy with arms black from fingertip to elbow. All three looked like they were in full on business mode.
“I’m open to trying,” Tattletale said.
Marquis surveyed the situation with a cool gaze.
“I’m not hearing a resounding yes here,” Tattletale said.
Marquis strode forwards.
“Careful!” Tattletale called out.
I might have dodged if I’d had full control over my own body. I might have dodged if I’d been a little more focused. Hell, I probably would’ve dodged if it wasn’t for the realization that Tattletale was warning Marquis instead of warning me.
I thought she had my back, I thought, as Marquis’ shaft of bone caught me dead center in the chest. I couldn’t have dodged if I’d had full control over my body and my flight suit. It hit me in the sternum, broad and flat, and shoved me back and away.
The bone changed as it pushed me, splaying out in two branches. The backwards momentum made it impossible to get my feet under me, which meant I hit the ground, rump first, then a heavy hit with the hard shell of the flight pack, and finally a crack of my skull against the hard stone floor of the cave.
I came to a stop, and was just beginning to get my bearings when Marquis continued extending the pole. I was shoved further back until my back was against a stone, five feet from the cave mouth, five and a half feet away from the sheer rock ledge above a sheer drop I couldn’t measure with my bugs. The two branches of bone sat on either side of my neck, like the arms of a dowsing rod, pinning me in place.
The skin of his other hand had ripped and torn as the bones of a massive skeletal hand had erupted from his wrist. Judging by its position around Lung and Panacea, he’d apparently used the hand to push or slide them back away from me.
“Oh god,” Panacea was saying, “Oh shit, oh god.”
A sudden display of emotion, as confusing to me as everything else here.
And here they were, Marquis, his men, Lung, Panacea, Canary, Tattletale and the portal duo from Cauldron, staring me down.
“Sixteen feet,” Tattletale said, her voice quiet. “Fifteen point nine-eight feet, to be exact, but we can ballpark it.”
Marquis nodded. “Parahuman abilities wax and wane depending on one’s mental state. Given how volatile she may be…”
“It’s not going to change,” Panacea said, not making eye contact with anyone. She was staring at the backs of her hands, which were flat against the cave floor, or staring at the tattoos that covered them. “I felt how it changed… Not connected to her emotions or those parts of her brain. Not anymore.”
“I see. Good to know, thank you,” Marquis said. He approached three paces, and the bone shaft that extended between his arm and the branches that pinned my neck shrunk a corresponding amount.
He was keeping a distance, a good twenty or twenty five feet away from me.
Why did Tattletale say sixteen feet?
“What are you guys talking about?” Canary asked.
“I would have burned her,” Lung growled the words, ignoring her. “But I thought you would be upset if I burned Amelia in the process.”
“Quite right,” Marquis said. He didn’t take his eyes off me.
“Oh god,” Panacea was saying, her hands moving to her head, her fingers in her hair, inadvertently pulling it from the ponytail. “Oh fuck me, oh god.”
“Hush,” Marquis said. He laid a hand on her shoulder.
“Well, this is a step forward for you, Ames,” Tattletale commented.
“Don’t,” Panacea hissed the word. “Don’t you fucking dare.”
“…This time you got consent before you screwed someone up beyond your ability to fix it.”
“I’ll fucking kill you,” Panacea snarled.
There was a distant rumble, intense enough it could be both heard and felt through the doorway that Doormaker had open between us and Earth Gimel. The fight was ongoing, and it sounded like maybe they were leading Scion away from the settlement.
My friends were out there. Rachel, Aisha. Here I was, doing nothing.
My hand slid on the stone beneath me as my body tried to push itself to a standing position, only to meet the ‘v’ of bone at my neck. Why had I done that? I hadn’t actually made the decision.
Passenger? I thought.
Was it making decisions with my body, too?
Not a question I could answer definitively. I turned my mind to a question I could focus on.
Sixteen feet.
I saw how the others were spreading out, forming a line behind Marquis, their attention on me. I saw the length of the column of bone.
It belatedly clicked. Sixteen feet was the distance they needed to keep from me.
“I’d like to say I’m sorry for being a little rough,” Marquis said. “I was in a hurry, trying to get my daughter to safety.”
“Aahheuuhhhmmm.”
It took me long seconds to wrap my head around the fact that the sound had come out of my mouth. Not the right syllables, not even something that sounded like words. My hand flew to my mouth. My fingertips dug through the thick spidersilk fabric for some purchase on my lips, as if I could somehow manually get them to start working again. Even the movement of my hand was clumsy.
I was a puppeteer trying to make the puppet move by tugging the strings from some remote place. Something as complex as speech was beyond me.
I tried to form words with the swarm, to speak or to spell. I failed.
Far, far beyond me.
I could see Tattletale reacting too, her entire body going rigid. She took a half-step back.
I lowered my eyes to the cave floor. My fingers were moving, grasping, and it wasn’t me doing it.
“Ah,” Marquis said. “Shame. A communication problem makes it harder to gauge how much we can trust her.”
Trust her, he’d said, instead of trust you. Like there was no point to saying it to me directly. Marquis was talking to Tattletale to refer to me in the same way someone might talk to the family member or companion of a mentally disabled individual or small child, instead of the diminutive individual themselves.
As though I was so fucked up I apparently needed a guardian to act as a translator or advocate.
“I can tell you how she is,” Tattletale said.
“You’re biased, to be frank,” Marquis said. “I’m not willing to put myself, my family, or my underlings in a dangerous position because you have a sentimental spot for Weaver. And before you launch into a spiel, I should warn you that Amelia here has filled me in on you. I’m aware of how convincing you can be. Spruce, Cinderhands, Lung? You have my permission to mutiny if you think she’s gaming me. I even recommend it.”
“Hardly fair,” Tattletale said.
“It’s rather fair, all things considered,” Marquis said. “If you can convince all of us, then it must be a legitimate and sound argument.”
“I think you’re underestimating how eager Lung is for an excuse to hurt something,” Tattletale said.
“Maybe so,” Marquis said. He glanced at Lung.
“You are too soft with women and children,” Lung said. “If she starts something, I will break your rule for you and immolate her.”
“I suppose that’ll do,” Marquis said, sighing a little, he gave Tattletale a look, and she nodded a little.
There was another distant rumble. A sound like a thousand men screaming in unison. I felt a chill.
“Let’s put this issue to rest,” Marquis said. “A compromise.”
“Sure. I’m open to compromise,” Tattletale said. “Beats being immolated.”
Marquis turned. “Doormaker? Another portal, please. We’ll change locations and set up a triage unit somewhere else. We link it to Gimel, and we close all doors leading to and from this cave.”
“I’m not sure I like this compromise,” Tattletale said.
“Weaver is an unknown quantity. We’ll leave her here, as safe as anyone on any Earth is, and we conclude this fight against Scion, win or lose. When all’s said and done, we come back and we see what we can do for her.”
There was a long pause.
Stay here? Not participating?
I tensed. My bugs stirred.
Right. I still had my bugs. My control was down, but only just. Anything I touched or manipulated would be like I was using my left hand instead of my right.
Problem was, I didn’t exactly have a wealth of bugs to work with.
“It’s… sorta hard to argue with,” Tattletale said. “But I don’t like it.”
“Nature of a compromise is that it leaves everyone more or less equally unhappy,” Marquis said. “I’d feel happier if she was under secure restraints, but I’m content to break this rod and leave her free to forage and look after herself while we’re gone.”
No thread left. I’d used too much of it when we’d made the platform back at the Cauldron base.
There was a new dimension to my power, at a cost to everything else. Sixteen feet of range.
I just needed to figure out how to use it.
Tattletale shook her head. “If Doormaker dies, she’s stranded here, all alone, more than a little borked in the head and in the heart. Possibly for the rest of her life.”
“If Doormaker dies, I think we’re all in dire straits,” Marquis said. “This is the fairest solution. I think you realize that.”
I raised my hand, fingertips going vertical, moving my stump in that general direction, knowing she could draw the conclusion. Best I could do in terms of a pleading gesture, with only one hand to work with.
Tattletale stared. “…Yeah. Except for one thing.”
“There’s a snag,” Marquis concluded, sounding a little defeated.
“Sure. Life isn’t fair, and I’ve got a hell of a lot of faith in that girl. Besides, we agreed not so long ago that we wouldn’t leave each other behind.”
“Unfortunate. Lung, Cinderhands? Make Tattletale leave. Drag her if you have to, but don’t hurt her.”
“You test my patience with this gentleness of yours,” Lung growled, but he took hold of Tattletale’s arm with one claw. Cinderhands took her other arm.
“Watch for her gun. If she gets a hand free, she’ll use it on one of us,” Panacea said. She followed the trio.
I struggled to reach my feet, but the ‘v’ of bone at my throat held me. I slumped back down to the ground, staring at the ones who remained.
“Stop struggling, Weaver,” Marquis said. “Please relax. You took a gamble and you lost. You sit this one out.”
I narrowed my eyes behind the lenses of my mask.
“Spruce? Can you use your power? Not too much. Enough she can break free before too long?”
The tidy man shook his head. He turned his hand over, and a little sphere swirled in it, looking like a cabbage made of stone. He closed his hand, and it winked out of existence. “Ten years ago? Sure. Right now? I don’t trust my accuracy. I’d be worried about the structure of the cave if my power touched anything to either side or behind her.”
Marquis nodded. “Go look after the others, then. Be ready to shut the door the moment I’m through.”
Spruce turned to leave, ushering Doormaker and the clairvoyant out.
“I know you have tricks up your sleeve. You have bugs, you have the pepper spray. You have other tools I probably don’t know about. I’m going to assume you’re in a state of mind to use those tricks. I’m going to hope you’re in a state of mind to listen when I ask you not to use them. Stay here, pull yourself together, and we’ll come for you when we can. If we can. I give you my oath that I’ll do my utmost to keep Tattletale safe in the meantime.”
My hands were clenching and unclenching. Not by my own volition.
“Eeeeuunnh,” I growled.
“I’m very optimistically going to take that as a reluctant yes,” he said.
It took me a moment to get the motions in order, but I managed to shake my head very slowly from side to side.
“Alright,” he said. He put an arm on Canary’s armored shoulder. “Canary? Please step through. I’ll be right behind you.”
She started to obey, then stopped. “I… I really know how you feel, Weaver. Sort of. I took Cauldron’s stuff, it messed me up, physically. I felt horrible, I went a little crazy. And maybe three years after I picked myself up and pulled it all together, everything went to shit. Like life was reminding me of the mistake I made. So I- I know what you’re feeling. But you can make peace with it. So… don’t beat yourself up too hard? Take it from someone that’s done that too much.”
“It was kind of you to say that,” Marquis said. “Please step through?”
Canary nodded.
He was watching her go.
I heaved myself sideways, freeing my left arm to reach to my right hip. In the process, I managed to move the branch of bone a little to one side. Not enough to get my head free of it, but enough to get some elbow room.
“Heads up!” Marquis called out.
My hand fumbled for my gun, and I pulled it free. I raised it to the point where the branch split in two and fired. The thickest point.
Perhaps a little insane, to fire upwards, at something as hard as bone, inches from my face and throat.
But the bone shattered and splintered.
I was free, and Marquis was already taking action. Armor of bone surrounded him, ornate, decorative, but with enough coverage that the bugs near him were either crushed against his skin or they failed to find a way through. I didn’t have any bugs small enough to fit through the vertical slits around the eyes and mouth.
The spear of bone began branching out, becoming a veritable tree, filling the cave between myself and Marquis with forking and dividing limbs. He was backing away, creating more bone to stay connected to the base of the tree. He knew what I’d try to do next.
I didn’t stand. I couldn’t afford to take the time. I used the flight pack, extending the wings with the thrusters, and launched myself at the wall of the cave. I hit it a little harder than I might have liked, one wing bending, and then scraped against it, flying in Marquis’ general direction, moving along the cave ceiling where there were less branches.
The amount of space I had to maneuver in was rapidly closing. My dangling leg caught a branch, and I nearly lost all of my momentum. I was forced to put the thrusters away, but one didn’t fold away properly where it had bent in the collision.
Tree branches of bone closed around me. I activated the thruster on the remaining wing, and I opened fire, blind, in the hopes of clearing a route.
Marquis moved to the side, creating a shield of bone in front of himself and Canary. The bullets weren’t really on course for them, but it worked out in my favor. He’d broken the shaft of bone to free himself to move, and the ‘tree’ was no longer growing. I flew through the biggest available gaps, snapping the thinner spears and spines of bone on my way through.
Twenty feet away from Marquis. He moved back, and then grabbed the ‘tree’.
A disc of bone unfolded in front of me, as though the tree were a parasol. A wall, a barrier.
I shot at the edge, and a chunk broke off.
But more flowed free before I could wedge myself into the resulting gap. It sealed the cave off. I shot again, but it was too thick. The trigger clicked as I pulled it again and again, fruitlessly. The movement was so frantic and jerky that the gun fell from my clumsy grip.
“Terribly sorry,” Marquis murmured.
Panic and fear welled up inside me.
I don’t want to stay behind. I can’t. You don’t understand. I’ll lose my mind, more than it already feels a little lost.
“Gorrugh,” I hissed. The armor of my mask clicked against the bone as I rested my head against it.
The fear, the panic, no…
I felt it, but it wasn’t mine. Neither was the fear and paralysis I’d felt before, or the anger.
I was so used to my power being automatic, I wasn’t used to having to exert any kind of will.
I tapped into the feeling, I focused all of my attention on my ability.
Sixteen feet. Marquis was out of my range, but Canary had been slower to move, her reflexes not as good. She’d been caught up in watching, maybe not wanting to turn her back on a fight in progress, and she hadn’t moved as quickly.
I was touching the wall of bone, and Canary was fifteen or so feet away, on the other side.
Now that I was taking the time to look, to sense, I was aware of Canary’s body in the same way I’d been aware of Lung’s. As Panacea’s, to a lesser degree. Her steady, measured breathing, the complete lack of movement.
Just like Lung and Panacea had been frozen.
Waiting for instructions.
I couldn’t move her closer to Marquis without putting her outside of my range. Instead, I turned her around.
“Ah… damnation,” Marquis said.
Her movements weren’t much more fluid than my own ones here. A drawback, among many. She marched towards me and the wall Marquis had created.
He snared her, throwing out shafts of bone and surrounding her upper body with a cage of the stuff, interlocking the two pieces.
But she wore the Dragonslayer’s armored suit. She bent her legs at my order, and then lunged forward. She broke the bone that surrounded her, and with her fist free she struck the wall of bone.
Two, three, four times.
Marquis stepped forward, very carefully, and planted a foot on the base of the shaft of bone. The wall began to thicken, faster than Canary could smash it.
I looked, and I had enough of a sense of her inner workings to get a sense of her general state of well being, where she was sore, her fitness, and her power.
She began to sing.
Bring him closer. Bring him in.
The song changed. The relentless, almost machinelike drum against the wall of bone continued, cracking it with the power of the suit, and I could sense Marquis wavering. He lowered his foot from the shaft of bone and began to approach Canary.
I was so used to a buzzing, to a dull roar of power in my ears. This was so much more complex. Complex and seductive, the emotions I was tapping into. Linking myself to Canary on some level.
I could remember being in Dragon and Defiant’s grip, being hauled along on the way to the roof, so soon after killing Alexandria and Director Tagg. Struggling, futile, hopeless.
I could look beyond that surface memory, and I could see what was beneath it, a general sensation, a recollection of a feeling. Canary, struggling, helpless and bound, terrified and panicking, with a dull sense of guilt over what she’d done, a reality that she hadn’t quite processed and might not fully process for weeks or months.
She was me and I was her. Shared experience. She was an extension of myself.
There was no way to know if that was a good thing. I was starting to feel a little unhinged again. A little disconnected from me.
The only thing scarier than that fact was the knowledge that it was only going to get worse. This was my tool. This was what I’d sacrificed my mind, body, range, and control to obtain. Sixteen paltry feet of range. Sixteen feet of range that, according to Panacea, I wouldn’t be able to increase through my emotions.
I made myself climb to my feet, pushing my way through the smaller branches of bone, reaching up with my hand to grab a larger branch for balance. My legs were shaky beneath me, my head a little lopsided, and if I hadn’t been holding on to something, I suspected my arm would have hung utterly limp at my side. I couldn’t… I couldn’t dig for that knowledge of how my body was supposed to be in a resting state.
I saw the first crack spread on my side of the wall.
Better yet, Marquis was getting closer. One or two more reluctant steps our way, and-
-And I never got to find out if I’d be able to leverage his power. Lung stepped into the hallway, and he filled it with fire.
Canary was armored, though her hair was set on fire where it flowed beneath the helmet. Marquis, too, was armored. Neither was positioned to be turned into a crisp.
But the fire drowned out the singing. The fire stopped, and Canary could hear Marquis’ footsteps as he ran, hands pressed to where his ears were covered by his helmet.
I had Canary punch through the wall. She reached through the wall and grabbed me by the straps of my flight pack, hauling me through.
The doorway was closing. Canary, it seemed, was being left behind.
I had her throw me, and I used my flight pack to get extra speed.
I slid through the doorway two seconds before it was too narrow to pass through. I lay there, the group staring down at me.
“Coohugggah,” I mumbled, with more than a little anger in my voice, as I slowly made my way to my feet. Nobody offered me a hand, but that was my choice, not theirs.
My stump of an arm was throbbing, and the rest of me felt alien. My movements weren’t all my own choice, with the passenger apparently doing something to help me manage.
I looked through the other portal, beside us. Gimel.
I left the others alone, not controlling them. When Spruce was in my way, I pushed him aside with physical strength.
I’m fighting, I thought. I’m fighting Scion. Somehow.
I could see myself through their eyes. Each image was slightly distorted, just different enough to be uncanny and out of sync. I had more awareness of myself through them than I had with my own eyes.
I stepped into the damaged fast food restaurant, and over the rubble at the front where one attack or another had clipped the building. As I made my way to the front, the others behind me found themselves out of my reach, free to move of their own volition again.
Free to attack me if they wanted.
Marquis, Panacea, Bonesaw… not so dangerous.
Lung? No. If he was going to kill me, he’d let me know just before he did it.
Spruce? Cinderhands? They were maybe the type to attack me, because of pride and the fact that I’d momentarily seized control of them.
Tattletale was freed. She dashed forward, hopping over rubble and debris to get closer to me. She stopped three or four paces from me.
A fraction more than sixteen feet away.
But she didn’t say a word.
Scion was there. Tearing through people with a ferocity, this time. People were scrambling for cover that did so very little against Scion, trying to erect defenses, hiding and fleeing.
Had we already lost?
A collection of capes, many carrying wounded, headed our way. Rachel, Imp and Bastard were among them.
I moved to the side, but I failed to anticipate their path. I’d expected them to head into the sandwich-place-turned-hospital, but they moved straight towards me.
I backed away, taking flight, while Tattletale rushed forward, her footfalls tracing a curved path around a bubble that only she seemed to be conscious of. She stopped in their way, arms outstretched, shouting, “Go around! Dangerous power!”
Most of them listened. Only one, looking over his shoulder at Scion, stumbled past Tattletale, into my range. I was looking for it this time, and I could feel his being snap into my mind’s eye. He froze in place.
No sooner did I have control than Tattletale grabbed the guy by the back of the collar and hauled him out.
“The fuck?” Imp asked.
Tattletale let the guy go, and he fled.
I couldn’t reply, so I focused on gathering my bugs. No use dismissing a resource that had once been vital.
“Someone volunteered herself for noninvasive brain surgery from the lunatic with a sister complex. Or, just as likely, she asked the lunatic psychopath for invasive brain surgery and the other lunatic stepped in. Now Skitter’s broken.”
“That didn’t look broken,” Imp said. “That guy…”
“Hrrrrrn,” I said.
“Hrrrrn,” Imp replied, nodding sagely. “Now I understand.”
“She can’t talk,” Rachel said, more a statement than a question.
I shook my head. Can’t move as fast or as well as before…
I belatedly realized that Rachel had hopped off of Bastard. She reached her hand forward, as if feeling her way.
I backed away, but she stepped forward faster.
A conception of Rachel’s entire being bloomed in my consciousness.
I made her step back away.
“Mm,” Rachel grunted.
“Why the fuck would you do that?” Tattletale asked.
Because she trusts me far too much, I thought.
“She’s smarter than I am,” Rachel said. “Let her do what she needs to.”
I shook my head, backing away with my flight pack.
Controlling Rachel wouldn’t achieve anything. I wouldn’t get any special knowledge of her whistles or commands, or her instinctive understanding of the dogs.
But I needed to do something.
Marquis and the others were approaching, on guard, looking tense.
I was a wild card, now, something they couldn’t wholly trust. A little unhinged, a little unpredictable, and my power would be more dangerous and debilitating in their minds than it was useful.
“You’re going?” Tattletale asked, almost realizing it before I had.
“Good luck,” she said. “You know where to find us.”
I nodded again, taking to the air with my damaged flight pack, but it was with a heavy heart.
I’d told myself, not so long ago, that I’d know the route to victory when I saw it. I had an idea of what I needed to do now.
Maybe it was good I couldn’t speak, because I would’ve said the words if I’d had the ability, and we’d sworn not to. I had to think it instead, and this way, they didn’t need to hear it.
Goodbye, Undersiders.
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Because not everyone got to see, I want to extend an especially big thank you to recent donators, Michael S in particular. Very much appreciated, and it made my month.
As we speed towards Worm’s ending, I’m having to start thinking about a limit – only so many weeks and quite a few incentive chapters to offer. That in mind, I’m probably going to stop offering the donation rewards after a week or so, so I don’t get trapped in an endless stream of epilogue chapters. I will keep track of totals and try to maintain an open dialogue so you guys feel like you’re getting your money’s worth.
One thing I’ve been thinking about is possibly maybe doing Worm side-stories (or backstory) for characters you guys might be curious about, if the post-Worm work doesn’t have interludes (or maybe as a secondary option if it does). Give you guys your Worm fix in another fashion.
Anyways, wanted to cover that stuff in a fairly visible place. As always, thank you for reading and thank you for your support. Let me say hi to the people who’ve just started visiting from Reddit, and thank you to the readers who’ve been piping up about Worm in places like Reddit or Facebook.
Expect a chapter on Thursday, barring exceptional circumstance.
Unmaker on October 15, 2013 at 09:16 said:
I was thinking of offering you a donation for bonus chapters on your next project, as a way to encourage you to actually do a next project. That would be up to you, of course, but that might relieve some of the current pressure … at the cost of future obligations.
This sounds like an excellent idea. I heartily approve, and wish I could remember some of the characters/organizations/etc whose histories or whatnot I’d like to hear.
En on October 15, 2013 at 16:21 said:
Oh, I have a laundry list of people I want to know what happened to, or how they’ll do after the end.
Vista, Riley, Dinah, Ballistic Marissa and Genesis, Danny, Emma, Newter, Aidan, Eli, Skitter’s minions, WagTheDog, Glory Girl, Sveta and Weld, the ward with the glasses that had pen, peper and dice ready…
But most importantly I want to know what happened to Duke!
Duke! You cannot be dead! Duuuuuuke!
*throws a tantrum*
AMR on October 15, 2013 at 16:33 said:
Who’s Duke?
Personally I really want to know what Assault is doing/how he is coping. He was built as this reasonably major confrontation (former super villain with mid-high power level who specialised in breaking out other dangerous super villains, come on!) out of his misguided need for revenge but then nothing came out of it.
Duke’s an old dog. I would be surprised if he lived to see Scion go nutso.
And yeah, it’s easier to list the folks we wouldn’t care to see an epilogue for than the ones we would. But a prologue? That’s a more limited list.
overpoweredginger on October 15, 2013 at 00:07 said:
In the process of updating the Worm Statistics Spreadsheet, I glimpsed both the first and last sentences of this chapter. Based on those alone Wildbow, my fan fury burns with the strength of a thousand suns.
Upon actually reading the chapter, I still feel the thousand suns burning. However, Wildbow, I can now say that you truly are a magnificent bastard, and when Worm is finished, then I will be able to legitimately say that I read your book(s).
Yes…feel the power of the ginger burn its way out of you, you thousand-freckled bastard.
yinyangorwuji on October 15, 2013 at 00:11 said:
I think everyone knew this was coming. Just not like this. Nobody predicted this.
Stop on October 15, 2013 at 11:28 said:
Losing her power, getting brain damage, and controlling other para-humans were all predicted I think.
Probably not all at the same time, though.
vpshiomi on July 21, 2016 at 11:38 said:
It seemed likely things would head this way considering her power. However after all these chapters I got to say I really dislike Taylor.
Well then…..er….Damn. That is all
Liked the chapter, feels like it needed to be longer.
It was six thousand words, gimme a break.
I spoil you bastards. :p
You do. :p That is why you’re such a great author. 😀
6,638 words, to be precise.
No One in Particular on October 15, 2013 at 00:38 said:
And we love you for that. 😀
The chapter’s long enough for me. It covers all the bases, it’s just that the bases were big enough that you didn’t need to cover as many as with many chapters.
And yeah, almost seven thousand words…that’s an impressive block of text.
I wonder how big Worm would be if it was all printed in one volume when all was said and done.
It would be so big that it could not in any feasibly way be bound in a sole volume. See “A la recherche du temps perdu”, which according to a commenter in the previous chapter, risks to see its record beaten by Worm.
I estimate the collected Worm series would be somewhere around 10-11 books the size of those in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Apparently it’s still only around 39% the length of the Wheel of Time though…
A brutal compromise. They jailbroke her power from the flesh and blood end of things. Now she can administer all the things but only within that paltry range. Let’s see what happens next.
And what happens after that…
Tagg on October 15, 2013 at 00:13 said:
So the final arc begins.
Charles Borner on October 15, 2013 at 00:13 said:
Typos and bad grammar here.
“a girl’s voice.” Missing caps.
“cave ceiling where” cut off there.
Sage nabbed the other ones.
chrnno on October 15, 2013 at 00:37 said:
“I didn’t stand. I couldn’t afford to take the time. I used the flight pack, extending the wings with the thrusters, and launched myself at the wall of the cave. I hit it a little harder than I might have liked, one wing bending, and then scraped against it, flying in Marquis’ general direction, moving along the cave ceiling where
The amount of space I had to maneuver in was rapidly closing. My dangling leg caught a branch, and I nearly lost all of my momentum. I was forced to put the thrusters away, and felt the bent wing keep one from folding in completely.”
Something wrong there.
E.R. on October 15, 2013 at 00:47 said:
felt a pang of guilt,and I was surprised at how intense it as.
evileeyore on November 3, 2014 at 18:52 said:
“I felt a pang of guilt,and I was” – still needs a space in there.
theant87 on October 15, 2013 at 00:15 said:
Oh fuckity, fuck, fuck. She can CONTROL PARAHUMANS. ALL PARAHUMANS in her range of 16 feet. Maybe EVERY LIVING THING in range. She can’t move, or speak anymore though. Oh no wonder Teacher is scared, if Taylor gets close he loses. All his minions becomes hers/he loses control. What else can she control? Endbringers, passengers, can she edit their powers while in control? What happens when she gets close to Scion? Awesome chapter Wildbow. Shit like this is why I think you’ll be famous down the line.
Times like these, I’m glad I upgraded my spinal column to allow me to control my body through the cybernetic portions of my brain.
That reminds me about my favorite villain Mannequin. Okay so strategy ideas.
1. Drive Scion off- Either she communicates/forces him to share her pain or emotions/becomes his new handler or partner/just creeps him out.
2. Get a working body or means of movement. She can take control of Bonesaw, in a moment of delicious irony for Riley, and get her to operate to see what she can do. There should be a few Mannequin clones left to take control and have them work together to give her a new means of moving. Worse comes to worse maybe cyborg up with Riley/Mannequin/Dragon helping to rebuild her. Eventually she is going to run out of juice for the jetback and she needs to be able to move around. Again she has the 9 clones she can take control over with no guilt. Any chuckles clones left that she can have him carry her?
3. New powers: Take control of the Yangban and have them divide a few powers into her/limit how many there are so she has more powerful abilities. Priorities are Flight/Regeneration or healing/some kind of Brute status.
4. Deal with Teacher and Brainwashed armies. Take over or free his students, and case 53 armies. Possibly talk to Contessa/Dinah about options.
5. Endbringers: Find out what else they can do, and possibly make more of them. There were 20 of the damn things in Eden’s vision.
6. Find the other realities that Eden’s body touched on and see if you can control the other choice shards she never intended to give up.
7. Future: Death? Live out rest of days being taken care of by Rachel and others? Rule/Protect Brockton Bay? Join the Protectorate?
kanzid on October 15, 2013 at 06:19 said:
Given this is the last arc only options 1, 5, and 6 seem like they have any chance of ending the story fast enough, and 6 feels unlikely given we’ve just gone through the arc investigating Eden.
As for Taylor’s future for the last few arcs I’ve been convinced that Taylor’s not making it out of this alive. I’m expecting some sort of merge / turn into another entity along with scion.
Destrark on October 15, 2013 at 06:52 said:
Can’t wait to see what happens with Scion. She can control their powers/shards now? What are the Entities made from?
Aname on October 15, 2013 at 11:46 said:
8. The Simurgh sticks her in that glass tube and rigs up some kind of broadcaster? We already know there’s a way to artificially recreate and broadcast Taylor’s power, like with that famine engine thing.
jurily on October 15, 2013 at 22:13 said:
This was the Smurf’s plan to beat Scion all along.
Conrad on October 16, 2013 at 07:54 said:
So do you think that the Smurf brainwashed Taylor into demanding the risky brain surgery in the first place?
DasNiveau on October 15, 2013 at 01:14 said:
Thats not that. A cape with a not even 5 m “death-radius” isn’t that scary. Even Mantelum had a higher range and was nearly as deadly as Taylor. I can’t see him running scared about somone who could not walk and is “easyly killed” from someone with a larger range … like a preteen with a gun. The big question is, what can she do to “not-humans”. And why does the Simurgh hide a pretty Taylor-sized glass tube?
Stephen M (Ethesis) on October 15, 2013 at 02:45 said:
Yep. Suddenly that becomes more interesting.
The only thing scarier than Skitter is a gun that shoots Skitters.
AliceAce on October 16, 2013 at 15:18 said:
That comment made me laugh so hard.
hunter on June 23, 2017 at 15:43 said:
worm’s version of the angry marine’s chainsword canon.
thewatcherbehind on October 15, 2013 at 00:16 said:
Wow. Looks like we were right about her gaining the ability to control other shards, But what a cost. 16 feet. Also, reading through this again, I love how the relationship with rachel has grown and changed over the series. And now, since I’ve always wanted to do this:
TAI-PO THREDD!!! YOUZE EET NOAW!!!
Aww, too late on the typo thread. People, please use the one above.
Actually I think is control of any living thing. Not just shards/parahumans.
I think she mentioned that she lost the tiny bugs. So it’s a bit more confusing (and limited) than that.
TanaNari on October 15, 2013 at 17:37 said:
She lost fine control. But still had poor control over bugs. And people, including herself, apparently.
Kat on October 15, 2013 at 23:23 said:
I noticed that it said she lost control of et smaller bugs, so it seems like her range (of living things) was bumped up. Previously she theorised that she could control incredibly simple-minded things (i.e bugs/crustaceans) now it’s higher brain functioned things. I do wonder if this night include general animals, being a step up from bugs and a step down from humans. Or they’re too different.
Apologies if someone has addresses/disproved any of this in the comments, haven’t managed to scroll through all the comments yet.
*the, not et
*might, not night
Wow. That fits everything.
And what happens with relay bugs?
…. fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Flex on October 15, 2013 at 11:52 said:
……….. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
…Where did she put those, again?
Half of them are breeding, the other half are unaccounted for.
Well, that would solve one of her problems.
Still on track.
And the name, speck. That is what she has become.
Speck is the german word for bacon. That was my first thought … bacon, rly?
Eh, I thought of the ham that’s made in Tirol. (which is awesomely good btw)
Some delicious “Schinken”. Now I am hungry.
TheShadowbehindyou on October 15, 2013 at 08:44 said:
The titel got a good german grin onto my face.
The chapter itself turned it upside down, drowned it, shot it with a minigun and threw it into the sun.
> The titel got a good german grin onto my face.
> The chapter itself turned it upside down, drowned it, shot it with a minigun and threw it into the sun.
Worm, shooting grinning Germans in the face since 2011. 😀
skywiseskychan on October 15, 2013 at 09:43 said:
Well we finally know why Canary was so important. Her entire purpose was to keep Taylor in play. Also it’s cute to leave her in a mine.
For whatever reason I was thinking that Taylor was still missing an arm. Reading this chapter she comments on two arms two legs etc, so I’ll have to see if she did get that fixed before Panacea went to work on her head, but that is a very minor issue really.
Predictions for the future.
I can see two paths for her to take on the get close to Scion path.
1. Go grab Grue. He has a power that might be useful against Scion, and with her new power won’t be able to say no to helping. I’m less inclined towards this path.
2. Play nice with Imp. WAAAY back we read that Imp’s power has a second stage. One that she cannot activate, or allow to activate on her own because she notices it and then it cuts off. In theory she holds the shard that allows Worm’s to hide from each other. If she gets within Taylor’s aura it is possible that Taylor could make use of that second stage, overriding Imp’s ability to stop using her power’s second stage and with that actually get close enough to Scion to make use of her own power on him.
The really sad thing is of course what might become of Taylor at the end. I am thinking she will need to go under the knife again. Possibly losing her mind, possibly just her powers but people will realize by now that while incredibly dangerous and messed up she isn’t a mad nightmare out of control. Just unable to communicate her need to continue to face Scion and not have her sacrifice made useless.
I do hope that Amy is able to help in the end. That she can help Taylor, and from there perhaps face up to and help Glory Girl. It’s hard to imagine it might happen but it could. Or if not Amy that Bonesaw will do that for her.
As for Lisa tearing into Amy again I think that’s really easy to understand. She’s hurt and afraid and her friend is right there suffering. So no she can’t attack Taylor and has to settle for another. Yes she’s a thinker but of all the really smart one’s she’s also one of the most human.
Hm…for some reason I’m inclined towards the Grue plan.
And I really do hope that Panacea can at least partly un-break Taylor, maybe make it so she can control her body without using her power again.
And on that note: I wonder how many people want to kill Tatletale now.
MisterTeatime on June 8, 2018 at 14:20 said:
Panacea making any use of her touch-range power on someone who totally controls everyone within sixteen feet would be a hell of a trick.
illlogicmedia on October 15, 2013 at 15:51 said:
Meh, if Grue came back for this last arc, I’d be really irked. He quickly faded into a nobody, and I, for one, hope he stays there.
I have to agree with you in saying that I sort of hope Grue stays away. I would rather not see him coming back at the end. I would MUCH prefer the Imp solution, or of course there’s the unspoken one of the Simurgh plot. But much like the nameless one perhaps its better not to repeat that name thrice.
Tom_D on October 15, 2013 at 20:30 said:
Hate to say it, but, I don’t think Taylor is going to survive this arc.
Yes, Grue seems like a nobody now. However, think back to the alternate future foreseen by Eden. The heroes’ counter to an army of enemy capes was someone called Black Knight, who couldn’t be defeated by parahumans but was scary/risky enough the heroes didn’t want to use him. There’s really only two people that could be. The first is Jack Slash in a suit of power armor. The second, also in a suit of power armor, is Grue, with his clouds of darkness blanketing the battlefield and shutting off powers. A threat that can’t be seen, heard, or smelt, who renders you helpless and then strikes you down with your own powers or those of your strongest champions.
Unfortunately, yeah he’s pretty much useless right now because he can’t steal Scion’s powers (tested), and Scion can also see through his darkness. That combined with his ‘I will fight no more forever’ attitude means we probably won’t be seeing him again until maybe the epilogues.
Tayles on October 15, 2013 at 00:21 said:
Wat.
My face right now.
Rhodesian on October 15, 2013 at 00:21 said:
Was there ever a description of what awful abomination she looked like to scare people so badly?
I think it was more that they realised what her new power was right away that freaked them out.
I hope they feed teacher to her.
Sounded like she was making a beeline for the super tantrum god.
fghjconner on October 15, 2013 at 00:31 said:
Aaaand I’m going to be referring to Scion as the stg from now on.
I didn’t know Superboy-Prime was in this story.
Mind control isn’t so cool on the receiving end, eh Teacher?
Though when she responded.
Probably gets some attention.
Robert on October 15, 2013 at 00:28 said:
Panacea (and then Lung) got caught in her sixteen-feet web. There was probably some degree of resonance or reflection between the two that Taylor didn’t notice that made it obvious what was happening, even beyond Panacea not getting the hell away.
Poor Canary, locked in a mine. I hope someone lets her out.
They have no reason not to now. Doormaker is active and Skitter is out already. Enough is going on that they might not think to though.
Also poor Canary in that she found out what it was like to be controlled by someone else, similar to the power of hers that she didn’t want to use, and which Taylor made her use at risk of being attacked by Marquis.
flame7926 on October 15, 2013 at 00:25 said:
Goodbye, Skitter. Goodbye, Weaver. Taylor, may you finish this war and save the world, and die a gentle death, though that may be too much to hope for.
mc2rpg on October 15, 2013 at 00:25 said:
I forget, are the Yangban still alive at this point? Short of jacking Scion I am not sure who else she will be using her power on.
JN on October 15, 2013 at 00:32 said:
Jacking Zion, even at this late date, would be too easy. I ran things through my “how could this get worse” filter, and came up with:
She gets close to him and he sees that she has opened herself completely to her shard and that it has messed her up. He gets his first ever burst of humor; he thinks it’s hysterical and fixes her shard. Now crazy mixed-up broken Taylor has range, and the shard is in control. Taylor becomes the passenger for the Queen Administrator now running the show.
Or she communicates with him. Honestly communicates with him in a way no being has ever done except for Eden. What he does afterward…your guess is as good as mine. It seems too easy, and he has killed so many, that I can’t see it ending just from that.
Didn’t Jack also communicate with him in a manner beyond simple speech?
Yeah, but Cauldron admits that Jack simply moved the timeline forward. I mean he sees us as a weird combination as insignificant insects, and according to Tattletale, fellow human beings. She might pull a Jack and sort of control him through emotional manipulation for a while/force him to feel her fears or emotions etc. I don’t think it will be so easy but I think Zion will consider her a significant something in the next few minutes.
Scolopendra on October 15, 2013 at 09:32 said:
Scion tends to pause to consider things that he doesn’t expect. When he’s bumped into Eidolon, Contessa, and the Case 53s, he’s always been at least momentarily confused or off-put. I imagine he’d see Taylor’s altered shard in front of him and probably try to puzzle out what exactly happened. If he figures out that someone pulled the limiters off a shard, it might end up being a complete “oh crap” moment. He put the limits on the shards in place so that it would be effectively impossible for parahumans to fight back against him (well, also so that the shards don’t cause horrific things to their hosts). Being omnipotent, it would most likely occur to him that the humans have figured out a way around his greatest defensive measure and can probably repeat this process.
Snickles on October 15, 2013 at 00:26 said:
Well I think taylor will probably die now. Also what exactly did Pancea do? She removed restrictions which allowed Taylor to control all biological beings, but also cut her power range way down? Did she remove restrictions or just change what the power did like Echinda did with her clones?
Im guessing removing the restrictions caused her shard to overload her mind.
Which is one reason why there were restrictions, she probably couldnt handle a larger range without becoming braindead.
letseveryonemorality on October 15, 2013 at 00:30 said:
I think she was probably forced to play a sort of balance with the qualities of Taylor’s power since she cannot directly alter the shard itself. Bumped the complexity of what Taylor can control way up, but had to trade a ton of range, and maybe more things that aren’t as obvious, in order to do it.
Ally on October 15, 2013 at 11:08 said:
Panacea messed with her personal stats 😉 Taylor’s minmaxed now!
I dunno, controlling all living things is great, but at the cost of almost all of her range plus fine control plus possibly senses, I don’t think it was worth it.
I think the lack of control probably has more to do with her shards lack of knowledge about how to operate humans than anything else. She did lose some control over her bugs, but she doesn’t seem to think it was enough of a loss to matter, and the shard not only got to do it’s “scan” for knowledge about bugs when she triggered, but it’s also been learning more bug control from Taylor’s experiences, it doesn’t have the same advantages with humans.
It was pretty clear that Taylor lost a lot of control with bugs. Most clear-cut example: She’s been able to “speak” with her bugs to varying degrees for years now, and suddenly she can’t manage anything more than a drone.
Well there is also the possible problem of feedback. Taylor seems to be both under the control of her own power, and in control of that power. Who knows what sort of merry hell this would play with commands she gives.
It’s possible that making the insects buzz in synch with her own voice won’t work because her shard doesn’t know how to make Taylor speak in the first place.
Jerden on October 16, 2013 at 02:22 said:
He didn’t say it was a good minmaxing!
So, kinda like the time I tried to minmax a monk using Vow of Poverty?
(It worked! …For about a level or two.)
Or minmaxing a wizard to maximise his arcane might… Then blundering into a trap due to low dexterity and being instantly killed due to terrible health!
Anyone can minmax, but you do need to be careful, particually if you know it’s going to annoy the DM, as he/she can easily make it so that the stat you thought was unimportant was ironically the thing that would have saved your life.
I do love the idea of an adventurer taking a vow of poverty, though I’d get around it by generously offering to carry other party members’ gear for them, since you don’t have any of your own to carry, and if it should happen that the best way to carry it is by wearing it… Remember, letter not spirit!
Pretty sure that that is against the letter of the feat, actually.
And for a level or two, if you’re a monk or something, the AC bonus and stuff makes up for it! Then you realize that you don’t have magic items of any kind. And that you are a monk.
In the immortal words of Portal, “think with portals”. If we can get Taylor close enough to Doormaker/the Clairvoyant and if he has fine enough control to open a mini portal than imagine the possibilities. Taylor could theoretically control everyone everywhere whenever she wanted assuming her multitasking is still working okay. Scary thought.
Relying on the Doormaker and Clairvoyant being OK, the Clairvoyant not screwing Taylor too much, and the lack of control not screwing things up.
True there are a lot of potential problems but I love that the possibility exists. It’s the sort of out of the box thinking that our hero excels at.
http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0052.html
veekie on October 15, 2013 at 04:10 said:
Probably because the human mind and body has an upper limit to what it can manage, and what Panacea is doing is basically trying to change the operation of a computer program by modifying the motherboard. She has very little control over the specifics and it’s quite amazing how it worked at all to begin with.
GeeJo on October 15, 2013 at 04:50 said:
Also bear in mind that at some point along the way, Panacea stopped consciously controlling the editing process as Taylor took her over and started prompting her subconsciously.
And since Taylor had no idea as to what she was doing, it was probably Simurgh’s singing doing the steering.
s on March 9, 2018 at 03:34 said:
So Taylor steering, Panacea working the brake, Simurgh on the gas, and *no one changing gears*
Patrick Reitz (@dreamfarer) on October 15, 2013 at 00:28 said:
Now that we’re getting close to the end, I almost wish the updates were only once a week.
I know there’ll be more/other stories to follow, but I’m not ready to say good bye to Taylor yet.
Yeah. I am beginning to think that donations should apply to:
Wildbow’s quality of life enhancement.
Or, chapters in his new project.
the13thversifier on October 15, 2013 at 03:01 said:
I’d like to donate, but I’m halfway across the planet from wildbow residence, and paypal doesn’t help it anyway
yes, i think donation could be used to enhance quality of his life, and therefore his creativity. Maslow’s pyramid of needs stated that
But if his physical book somehow land in local bookstore, I WILL buy it, no matter how ridiculously thick it would be
There’s always the PO Box (from the donate page):
1910 St. Laurent Blvd
PO box 41003 ELMVALE P.O.
Ottawa ON K1G 5K9
Her new power is scarier than just about anything in the story before.
I said a long time ago that this was the power variation that would be game over. As usual, despite being right, it was still a surprise to see.
One of the greatest sources of enjoyment in my last reread-with-comments was seeing all the brilliantly-prescient predictions people made.
Her power it’s brain networking with her brain as admin. Tayor’s computer is lagging. She needs to shutdown and reformat. Sleep won’t work. It needs to be a complete stop.
Wouldn’t this make her the second telepath?
Does the Simurgh count as a telepath? Sure, she’s got offensive mindfuckery, but so do plenty of other capes. We now know her primary sense is based on super-duper prescience, she doesn’t read minds or anything. Cherish wasn’t classed as a telepath despite being able to read/manipulate emotions, which would be closer to telepathy (empathy) than the Simurgh. Taylor’s weird mind-meld thing is more like telepathy than either of those two, and probably the only true telepath power we’ve seen.
SEA-106 on October 15, 2013 at 00:30 said:
And now we know what those relay bugs were for.
The problem is, even if Taylor can control every cape individually, she doesn’t have the control to make them do a better job than they would have, already. (Unless they were previously incompetent.)
Or, maybe, I shouldn’t underestimate her.
I haven’t decided if I like the new Taylor. Her lack of control makes her seem sluggish, while she was so precise before. I could see it become frustrating very quickly.
This is Taylor we’re talking about. She’s a goddamn genius when it comes to ”using” other people.
With a single mind running the whole show, she can probably come up with some nice power combinations. It mentions that her mind sort of melds with the people she controls so she may be able to get good enough control while controlling a significant number of people.
If she can control people the way she can control bugs then the result will be almost certainly better than the sum of its part.
farmerbob1 on October 15, 2013 at 03:28 said:
But 16 feet. That’s pretty tight range.
Can’t wait to see her next interaction with Simurgh.
Bet she ends up in Smurf’s tube.
Given enough time her shard will probably learn to control humans as well as it controls bugs.
Good point with the relay bugs. Especially if she hands one to Siberian. Good luck frying that one, Scion!
I am reminded of Ender’s Game. The Formics had an advantage in coordination because of their (very minor spoiler) hive mind, but their individual ships lacked initiative. Mazer Rackham managed to defeat the Second Invasion due to this kind of initiative.
Taylor’s closer to Rackham in the initiative/planning department than most, but I think that it won’t help for the most part.
I thought this might be an option for a power, but I didn’t think it would come at so high a price. I waited for this in the edge of my chair…and I still feel that way. Only feels partially resolved. Looking forward to seeing what’s next, of course. Thanks for the chapter.
Oh yes, almost forgot.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
Because we all remember how well that turned out last time.
MrVoid on October 15, 2013 at 00:50 said:
Also breaks the longstanding rule of never actually saying goodbye.
Missed that. Ouch. This is even worse now.
And from beyond the grave, Alec starts hitting his head on a wall.
Bahumat on October 15, 2013 at 22:48 said:
Yeah, her power seems to be more or less Alec’s, but on a faster timeline and requiring more direct focus.
notes on October 15, 2013 at 00:36 said:
The most interesting thing of all is that we still haven’t seen what made Teacher afraid, what made Contessa fail to recognize Taylor initially.
There are a handful of people who guess at what this power is, and how deep it goes. No one knows, Taylor most assuredly included, possible exception for Scion.
She’s presently in her costume and mask – that’s as recognizable as it gets.
There’s at least one more shoe waiting to drop.
Perhaps something to do with the way she isn’t fully in control of her body? Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense if she’s wearing her costume though.
Given a comment she made to herself, I’m imagining that she and everyone under her control are kind of hanging like marionettes, limp except the parts she’s consciously controlling. She said that Amy’s head was lowered, which would fit with that, and she mentioned that her own head was sort of lolling to the side. That’s the sort of thing that would be pretty obvious to anyone but Taylor, since she’s lost her ability to form a cohesive mental image of a person in return for control over every component of every person in 16 feet… including her own body.
I wasn’t imagining it quite that bad, but it well could be.
No, that makes perfect sense to me – Skitter and Weaver both had an extraordinary physical presence, so a Taylor Mk. 2 that’s moving like a stroke victim is going to look completely different in how she holds herself.
Pandemonious Ivy on October 15, 2013 at 15:47 said:
I can’t pinpoint exactly what it is, but somewhere around “moves like a stroke victim” I lost my shit. Had me in tears.
Also, while I’m commenting (doing it via phone which is a TASK), Marionette is hella appropriate. That’s the title I’ll refer to Jailbroken!Taylor as. Its just so good.
Also also, it appears that Mari jailbreaks other parahumans within her range, which remains to be confirmed, but it’s fairly neat speculation.
Jailbreaks as in “she uses the unlimited version of the power instead of the limited version”? Because I doubt Rachel noticed any change to her power after she left the field.
That said, that really would make her new power hax enough to have a chance of doing what was needful.
Taylor is aware of her body in a way she never has been before, but she doesn’t have shit all control of it. She’d have noticed if she was all mutated. Chances are she just looks really disturbed/like she’s having a stroke.
Maybe it’s the context, not the form. For example, if something truly bizarre happened, like she was holding hands with Zion, then it might take people a moment to possess who “not Zion” is.
negadarkwing on October 15, 2013 at 08:02 said:
I figured Contessa’s reaction was because it was so unexpected. Sort of like finding out that the evil mastermind who has been trying to take over the city is you daughter.
Oh god, not this one again 😛 .
What do you mean “trying to”? 😛
Based on what she said there, she still has a humanoid form, but given that she hadn’t actually looked at herself, her body might be badly Case 53’ed
I don’t know. I think there would have been a clear reaction fromTattletale and the others to such a thing.
1. Case 53’s are only from Eden shards, maybe only from “processed” Eden shards.
2. This is not a trigger event in any way, shape, or form.
3. If Taylor had changed, she would probably have noticed. She has a terrible level of control over her body, but she’s aware of it in a whole new way.
4. If Taylor looked different, you’d better believe that Bitch or Imp, at least, would have said something.
And so she goes from Skitter and Weaver to Trapdoor. Unless that name’s taken.
Yep, poor little broken Taylor. You can see the way she lacks an appropriate emotional response to the first stuff that she’s not quite understood it all yet. I just have to wonder how much of it is controlling the person and how much controls through the shard.
Controlling shards could be extremely useful against Scion.
Thing is, with her screwed up emotions and the way she’s already made some hard decisions, I have a feeling this is about to get very, very bloody.
Now then, it seems somebody new showed up that I didn’t have an opportunity to welcome because I didn’t hang around all day yesterday.
“grinvader on October 14, 2013 at 2:57 PM said:
Done catching up.
At a loss for words, and most of those I can reach are expletives.
Thank you for being awesome, wildbow”
Not nearly done enough, Darth Smiley. And not nearly enough expletives. There aren’t enough expletives in the world. Seriously, you could do an appropriate response to Worm that was like those “Where in the world is what’s his name dancing?” videos on youtube, but instead have it be people cussing all over the world, including overly stoic guards at the Korean DMZ.
Me, I favor the F-bomb. I’ve even built and used one on a major city. I also invested in glass and window companies just prior to it. That’s what we evildoers call a Win-Win. Unless, of course, your second in command is a racial stereotype. Then you call him or her Win-Win. Win-Win, fetch me some Thunderbird!
No, the expletive is not nearly enough, grinvader. Especially not now that you have been welcomed, grinvader, to the comments!
Web would be a good name for this new Taylor.
Ooh, I like Web. Good one.
Really? Web? I didn’t even like the name Weaver. Skitter was my first and so I feel completely and madly in love with that. She don’t need a new name, at least not in my vocab.
Marionette forever!!
I’m just not feeling it AMR. sigh…
But…it’s both creepy sounding AND descriptive!
Besides not even Taylor liked Skitter.
True, but in the real world if you come up with your own “nickname” you get made fun of twice as hard.
Wrong end of the strings. “Puppeteer” makes more sense…
I approve of Trapdoor until a suitable non-arachnid (Skitter to Weaver to…) name is come up with. Preferably following the -er lineup.
Snare?
Snare has replaced Trapdoor, definitely. I’m willing to be content with this, if no suitable -er titles pop up. It’s really neat with nuances as well.
I like Clotho myself. Or Puppeteer.
We’ve seen Taylor come to the end of herself before, not that long ago when they were fighting Scion on the oil rig. Remember, cut in half? Blood and organs leaking into the ocean? Or what about the blindness? She’ll manage with this.
Also, didn’t they say specifically that she doesn’t look different? Expression, yes, but she’s not outwardly mutated.
Yeah, the power doesn’t look earthshattering right now. But the highest-powered capes currently around (idle thought: wonder where Miss Militia has gotten to?) are reacting in more fear than it seems to warrant, so maybe they see something we don’t. I mean, she’s dangerous in that she can’t turn it off, that (and range) is the main difference between her and Regent right now, as far as I can see. But they’re scared enough to find Contessa, whom no one trusts at this point, to help with Weaver. So there must be something we’re not seeing. Maybe when she controls someone the limiters are off? That’s not necessarily something she’d realize at first. I’d be interested to see what she does with an unfamiliar parahuman, someone whose power she has no existing expectation for.
Relay bugs are an intriguing idea. But still, even if she gets a much bigger range and can control all the powers in her larger vicinity just as well as the individual capes (big if), that’s still just the equivalent of really good tactics and communication, not an order of magnitude upgrade to Team Humanity. And we need that upgrade.
Well, she did just do something odd with Canary’s power. When Canary used it, she only knew how to make people suggestible and obey given commands. When Taylor used it, the song itself compelled Marquis to do things.
I think Teacher is acting solely from self preservation here.
He has the ability to boost powers, or give new powers.
Taylor’s range is currently only 16 feet. So, who do you think Taylor is likely to seek out to improve her abilities…
But Taylor knows that Teacher can control or at least exert strong influence over those who he has granted power to, and Teacher knows she knows this.
So Teacher knows that the only way for Taylor to be able to trust him not to try to control her after his power has effected her, is if she controls him. And Teacher definitely will fight with every last bit of his being to avoid being made into a mental thrall, because he would never trust anyone enough to believe they would release him.
Contessa can get answers to questions she asks that aren’t about Scion. After a few questions, she will certainly know enough about Taylor’s new abilities to know why Teacher is running from her. And I would be highly surprised if Contessa doesn’t frog march Teacher straight back to Taylor and give him to her, and possibly even offer herself as well.
Remember, the blocks on Contessa’s power are direct blocks. If Taylor is asking the questions, Contessa’s passenger might give her straight answers…
Lots of fun places this might go.
dpara on October 16, 2013 at 10:12 said:
I think you are on an interesting track here Aname.
What if anyone Taylor controls.. has no limits O.O , that would make everyone shit their pants.
..Which begs the question what happens with unrestricted tinker/thinker powers.
propa03 on October 15, 2013 at 02:13 said:
As for names, I was thinking of how her body is basically ‘bait on a hook’ now, but “Hooker” wouldn’t really be appropriate. Guess we’ll have to make do with… Worm?
Hookworm?
I hereby nominate: Superuser.
“Root”?
Web has been suggested.
Web sounds good.
Webber?
For a new name, I’d say Web is the best one. She both traps and connects.
Plus, what does the Weaver make, if not a web?
I nominate Dominion, as she could probably drop the bug shtick now that she controls every friggin’ animal within a sixteen foot radius.
Still curious as to how Scion fits into this. Is there even a Kingdom that his race/species could fit under?
Biologically a copy of human. Just with weird dimensional folding. Or, at least, that’s what the Avatar is.
And Dominion is good. Better than my “Snare” suggestion.
Although- honestly- her ACTUAL name- Taylor (hehe, very punny, Wildbow) is a viable cape name at this point.
MarcusFell on October 15, 2013 at 17:31 said:
She does make all the uniforms.
If I had to guess, Taylor can now control every animal life form, and potentially other kingdoms, I’m not sure yet. She was a pretty high master before, like Regent but going for quantity over quality. Now that I think about it, seeing how Regent and Grue’s powers would work on Taylor would be cool, except Wildbow wrote both of them out of thr damn story.
As for names, aside from the gender connotations, King would have been good (as in the chess piece). Queen might suffice, but if Brockton Bay was still a thing and the Usiders still ruled it, then as a villain Despot would work better.
Wasn’t it mentioned that the tiny insects were out of her control now?
I don’t think they were out of her control, just that Taylor was having difficulty using her power and that the bugs were reacting sluggishly.
Thanks for the warm welcome, PG.
Vast amounts of cluster f-bombs were dropped that day, indeed.
r2k-in-the-vortex on October 16, 2013 at 09:52 said:
Taylor already has an apt and suitably badass name – Queen Administrator, so if anything i would vote for that.
Then again names dont really matter anymore, no secret identity left to protect, no media left to promote the name.
Also im guessing her name doesnt matter to other parahumans much anymore, Its not like anyone is going to call “hey Skitter/Weaver/Taylor/Spy want to go get a coffee” more like they are going to call her “oh shit, run for your lives”
Pretty sure she’s not fully in control of her body because Panacea cut out the self-protection parts. She’s within her own range, her power usurped control of her body, so she now has to control herself at one remove (and she’s lost a lot of precision with her power, so she can’t control herself that well). And of course her passenger, which is capable of at least partially independent action, has access to her body.
I wonder if she could talk through the people she controls…
Not any better than through her own mouth.
But her shard is also missing a bunch of “how to control humans” knowledge that It would have normally picked up during a trigger event or through Taylor’s experiences. This more than anything is probably why her control over people seems like a bit of a mess.
xdrngy on October 15, 2013 at 16:43 said:
-my thoughts exactly
I don’t think we’re reading this from Taylor’s perspective anymore, maybe haven’t been for a while now. I think the ‘I’ in this story is now Taylor’s passenger, shard, whatever, and the actions she credits to her passenger are actually those made by Taylor, trapped in her own body. It has the same memories and such, but none of the linked skills or emotional responses – they’re distant because they’re felt by Taylor, who is under Weaver(passenger)’s control.
It’s not really that, it’s more that Taylor doesn’t have any protection from her own shards power at this point. So she’s both controlling and being controlled by her shard, which is a real problem when the shard doesn’t really know how to control a person in the first place. And that’s not even getting into possible feedback loops in commands.
Thankfully as we saw over the course of the story, with her shards control over bugs while Taylor was incapable of using her power, the shard will learn this control given time and experience.
Sadly, Taylor and the human race simply don’t have the time for the shard to learn how to do this stuff properly, so things are going to be a bit of a mess.
Pikel on October 15, 2013 at 00:45 said:
Hi all. Been reading Worm for a long time now (caught up around leviathon) but never posted before. Let me start by saying well done Wildbow. Your story and writing style are truly amazing. I always look forward to sun and fri nights and have never been disappointed. As much as i hate it, i know that Worm does have to end somewhere and i am looking forward to the way you wrap it all up. I will definitely follow your future endeavors and i hope that you publish Worm as a hard copy(ies) so that i can be proud to have it on my shelf.
The community here in the comments section is wonderful. I have never seen a more active, insightful, and funny group of fans. Reading the comments bring me almost as much pleasure as the story itself and never fails to point out the little things i missed and give me new insights and new ways of looking at the story. So a big thank you to all of the people who post comments here. It is a testament to Wildbows writing that he can engage and delight so many different people and keep them engaged for so long.
I probably dont deserve it, but I will be awaiting my formal welcome from the communities self appointed ambassador and madman…. Love your insane welcomes!
Pardon the delay. I had to step out momentarily. It was time to have an epic dance-off rematch with Stephen Hawking. I lost. Again.
I put the “ass” in ambassador, but I wouldn’t say I’m a self-appointed madman at this point. Besides, the darn story’s trying to one-up me on that, too. Taylor just grabbed the green and white mushroom, as she’s become a person-enslaving, emotionless, ass-kicking, lass licking, jabroni-beating, pie-eating, stumbling, mumbling, Grue fucking, Marquis ducking, ridin’, stridin’, wearing a jetpack glidin’ daughter of a bitch.
As for welcomes, if you think you don’t deserve one, then you’re in quite the pickle, Pikel. And IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, will always welcooooooome, youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
So, great, now you get to imagine Whitney Houston involved in this. Do you feel lucky, punk? Because if she’s here, you have to ask yourself one question…graverobbing or necromancy? Well? How’d I do it, punk?
Trick question, it was all smoke and mirrors. As Leslie Vernon once said, a lot of what we do is CGI. Granted, he was more of a slasher villain and I’m just an insane guy in a mask who sometimes kills horny drunk teenagers, but I think it works both ways, like a Thai stripper named Boom Boom. (S)he is quite the groundpounder, you understand.
And having your ass pounded into submission by a woman is something both Bangkok and this story has in common. There’s also the crazy guy who meets your eye, says hello, and just makes you feel awkward whenever you walk in, but that’s me in this instance.
Just like Taylor at this point, you might be a little stumped. You weren’t before I showed up, but give me a hand; I sure know how to leave you facepalming and unable to put your finger on just what the hell went wrong in your life to attract my attention.
Worm. Worm went wrong. And then everything went wrong. And then you didn’t trigger.
I said you were in a pickle, Pikel, and no matter how cucumbersome this welcome got, I’m glad you got through it and are ready to join your appleause to ours in enjoyment of this story. Welcome, Pikel, to the comments section.
Don’t bring dead people into this, please. It’s disrespectful, and crosses a…line? Line? Here boy! C’mon, where’s line?
*shrugs* Eh, whatever. What was I talking about again?
Wait. You lost to Stephan?? That spastic nerve in your neck going crazy again?
He has the skills to pay the bills. I’ll have to hope for best three out of five next time.
Bebop on October 15, 2013 at 01:00 said:
So what’s our number 1 draft pick for Capes she should Control? Personally, I think which ever cape gives the Yang Ban power would be my first port of call. Not sure how the two would interact… but I’m hoping it would turn each cape she connects to into a broadcast tower for more capes, like the Relay Bugs.
The yangban keeps the very useful members ( Null powersharer, the power augment or etc) away from the combat zones and, thus, well beyond Taylor’s range.
Alathon on October 15, 2013 at 04:44 said:
Unless she gets Doormaker in her range… or maybe asks nicely. Would anyone really mourn Taylor going all Pokemon Master on the Yangban? Especially if she gave the unwilling recruits back.
The last interlude showed that not all powers work through portals. Though admittedly when she only controlled bugs Taylor could do it through the gates and the power is theoretically the same. We’ll have to wait and see.
She could always go get herself a Sveta-suit…
Ooh. Sveta would probably be happy about the prospect of someone controlling her tentacles, but would she be willing to give up her independence for it? I have my doubts.
However if Taylor gets to the point where she can actually reprogram shards, starting with her own, perhaps, and have the effect remain outside of her area of effect, well, that could be… interesting.
Maybe Taylor could controle perticular parts of the “victim”. Control limb movement and let “it” speak.
It’s mostly a question of trust, for instance, Bitch clearly trusts her sufficiently that she’s willing to risk it.
Yeah, if you don’t trust Taylor totally, she is now just terrifying. Remember back when Taylor was disturbed by Regent being able to control Imp? Not to mention she now has a very evil sounding power. And in-universe the fears she would be corrupted by it. And they don’t know if she isn’t already insane.
Ah, the lovely irony, given that her trigger had to do with being trapped…
Sveta is dead.
Being a Case-53 essentially alone in a collapsed laboratory with an angry Scion will do that, doncha know.
Picklejar on October 15, 2013 at 16:52 said:
Nope, Sveta’s body sniped some bugs out of the air after Scion left.
Soulgazer on October 15, 2013 at 18:17 said:
Nope, she was stil alive when Scion left after the building collapsed.
So I was right that Panacea’s tinkering had an effect similar to Ingenue’s power: powerup one part, weaken the rest.
Lisa, I understand you’re upset at what happened to your best friend but man can you be a bitch sometime. Was it really necessary to whale on Amy? I did appreciate her pointing out Taylor’s penchant for manipulation and offering choices that aren’t really choices. Even though it was a sad scene.
Marquis continues to be awesome every time he appears. And wait, did Lung just come back to rescue him? Dawwwww.
Bitch willingly stepping inside Taylor’s range was both sweet and horrifying.
And,hmm, hate to say it, but I’m pretty sure Taylor’s going to die now. :(.
Think about how at the beginning of the story Bitch hit her, and now she trusts Taylor so completely that she is willing to give her control of her body if asked.
Lisa has a mask herself. When she is hurt she likes to lash out and hurt people, and the closest thing she has to a sister just did that to herself. So I can cut her some slack since she is in pain, and it is probably easier to blame Panacea than Taylor.
Willing to give her control of her body WITHOUT being asked, even.
fnich on October 15, 2013 at 02:48 said:
Well. Amy did do it, let’s not forget. There wasn’t even a “No uts too dangerous. You sir are mad!” Before she was talked into it.. Do irreversible brain surgery that’ll drive you insane. Okay, sure, whateva!
Taylor got off easy from Tattletale. I imagine Lisa could probably spend an entire arc picking at Taylor’s flaws.
Heh. Imagine Brian doing that. We might need a whole new story to contain that.
What, only Taylor’s flaws? Give her her own book and Tattletale could pick apart the flaws of everyone in the story, a hundred thousand words at a time.
So we need to add a HSQ to the tropes page with:
1. Leviathan’s attack- when we realized how fucking powerful they were and that deaths will happen.
2. When she murdered motherfucking Alexandria.
3. When she became what I would call an absolute in the wormverse. Nothing can affect Siberian, nothing affects Grayboy’s fields, moves anything Clockblocker touches, Flechette’s arrow got through anything, and now nothing escapes her control.
I’m sure Behemoth allover is included as well.
Unless they stand 17 feet away of course.
You know what this means, don’t you? She takes over everyone who gets close, so now she can’t consensual sex now unless someone is outside that range. Nobody’s dick is that long, not even Long Dick Johnson, and he had a fucking long dick, thus the name.
Unless they have power immunity or somesuch. Wonder how many of those are left.. Hatchet Face is gone (and was horrible), Eidolon is gone (and was balding). Taylor’s amorous prospects are indeed looking downright gruesome.
Stupid Foil for killing the King/Hatchet Face hybrid.
…What? Apparently King was the personification of “tall, blonde and handsome”.
Maybe they can consent when ~20 feet away, then approach?
Or maybe she discovers some way to turn it off?
Even if they consent beforehand, it will still make her go blind.
Depends on your definitions.
And I suppose Grue could use his power to turn hers off, at least partly, and to gain it, at least partially. So they would be mutually in control of each other, which should balance out if neither tries to stop the other from controlling him/herself.
Devastating in an not even 10 m diameter isn’t devastating at all. There has to be more to tick of Teacher.
Sure, like possibly being someone who can turn the tide against Scion who isn’t him. Or maye being a bump in the road to one of his schemes, or maybe hes using the fact she might be dangerous as a pretense to get control of her.
Teacher is a shifty-eyed bullshit artist so let’s not take for granted that his fears are genuine.
With the “world ending” thing going on, even mentioning her is a salute to her power.
Pretty close to 5 meters, actually.
5m radius, 10 m diameter
Maybe it’s not that he’s scared of Taylor, maybe he’s honestly trying to find someone to help her. If anyone could figure out how to put Taylor back together it’d be Contessa.
Not saying for a second that I think this is Teacher’s angle, but I feel like it’s worth keeping just what Contessa’s power is capable of in mind.
Relay bugs, other mind controllers with greater range, telekinetics and other capes who can bring people inside her range. Then nab that Thanda cape and make sure everybody is locked within her 16 ft range. Etc etc.
Taylor is a master munchkin after all.
Regent: I’m up next! I’d die for a power like that.
*sobs for a moment*
I loved this. Showed off exactly why Marquis used to run BB (and is my favorite) and also saw Taylor being punished for her particular form of conflict resolution. This was eerie and only grew more unsettling as the chapter went on.
Sidenote : re: Contessa seeing Taylor : the chick is filthy, in a torn costume, with only one arm. If that isn’t something that’d throw you off, I don’t know what is.
She’s also moving like a marionette.
You know, Marionette would in itself be a great name for Super!Taylor. For some reason it even makes me think of Mannequin.
I like that or Web the most, but I’m probably biased towards Web.
massivereader on October 15, 2013 at 17:36 said:
Given that her shard is directly controling her body, maybe her facial expression immediately reminds everyone of… Scion.
More than ever, this makes me want to see more about Sleeper. If the tidbits we’ve gotten about him mean what I think they do, I think the new-and-improved-and-broken Taylor would make a very interesting comparison or even interaction.
I’m curious. Would you be willing to share your conclusions? Because from the tidbits we got the only things I can say about Sleeper is that he sleeps/is dormant a lot, people don’t seem to really understand him and he can take control of a world by himself.
Since he was apparently able to “subsume” an entire planet, I’d say that he was a grand scale reality warper.
I think that’s a bit of a misunderstanding. Later, I believe in 29.9, Taylor comments that people have migrated to Earth Zayin but due to the Sleeper’s presence they can’t be helped and must fend for themselves. So the Earth is still there.
Though my completely unsupported theory is that he makes his dreams manifest in reality. Because it would be cool.
“Dreams manifesting in reality” sounds a lot like Genesis’ power. Was Sleeper a Cauldron cape too? (he’d have a Deus formula, possibly as a Case 53)
Remember that, by this stage, a ‘planet’ can consist of a small settlement of a few hundred people…
Naeddyr on October 15, 2013 at 01:19 said:
That was much less catastrophic than I expected. I thought she’d have longer range.
Broken powers are boring. Especially if the protagonist gets them.
“Walking away from the people I cared about, feeling horrible about it, knowing it was the best thing in the end. […] I was altering something biological and mental.”
That moment when I realize that whole section applies equally to Taylor and Amy.
Oh, Administrator…
TinkerTailor on October 15, 2013 at 01:31 said:
Yikes. By the looks of it, Taylor’s new power isn’t just a “body puppeteer” deal, it’s a full-on merging of minds – only it seems like it’s one-sided, the people she’s controlling don’t feed back into Taylor so much while she totally subsumes them. Now I’m morbidly curious as to what it feels like for the people on the receiving end – no wonder Panacea freaked the fuck out.
Maybe it’s something like the “mirror in front of mirror” effect: perpetuating feedback. Seeing Amy through Taylor through Amy throug- anywho, I’m sure that would be sufficiently horrifying for the living Passenger she has become.
Huh. Maybe now she can attack people just by inflicting her broken psyche on them.
One more way a telepathy power would be useful.
DM: “You’re sure sure you want to do this?”
Taylor: “Yeah, why not? Only other S-class mind controller is the Simurgh right? I get something bird or angel themed when the mutations kick in.. maybe butterfly wings, or a bunch of iridescent dragonfly wings.”
DM: “Well, actually, the last human who had powers like these was more like a giant slug.”
Taylor turns head, throws dice reflexively, “Wait, what?”
DM: “Bug-slug it is!”
Supposing they all live through this, is anyone really gonna believe that Taylor took out Alexandria with bugs? Or that the Protectorate really had any say in letting her play heroine?
Took me a minute to figure out you meant “dungeon master” and not “doctor mother”.
Took me until you explained it to realize he meant Dungeon Master. Then again, I only waited about 15 seconds before going onto the next comments.
That would actually be pretty interesting. I’d be more than happy to see an interlude/epilogue with various historians giving their take on her and the various propaganda pieces her existance almost necessitates.
That would be absolutely fascinating. I would love to see interviews too.
Tattletale would lie through her teeth and at the same time reveal the most. Grue would focus singlemindedly on the work aspects of her personality. Imp would sympathize with her human side, but not really understand her. And Bitch. Bitch would know her perfectly. But she would never be able to put it in a manner that other people would listen to.
She’d give them a puppy.
And they’d say, “What does this mean?”
And she’s say, “You wouldn’t have that if it weren’t for her?”
Bitch would know her perfectly. But she would never be able to put it in a manner that other people would listen to.
Oh, you know WagTheDog would listen.
and would be an awesome translator for her I think.
Racheakt on October 15, 2013 at 01:56 said:
I listened to “Dearly Beloved’ – by Kaoru Wada while reading the end of this.
I cried.
Might I make a request? I don’t have any money, but I would like to see an idealistic kid who wants to be a superhero. A kid, maybe a little shy, maybe like Taylor. Who, for his or her first day of school, proudly displays an ‘Undersiders: the Golden Years’ lunchbox. Or something like that, in echo…
There are many things I would love to see. Weaver’s ‘wiki’ entry. Heck- the Undersiders’ wiki entry. Many stories, many characters that we love.
I see that… however this ends Taylor won’t be getting an ending we would wish on someone we have come to know. To understand. Even love, a little.
I don’t think it will be only tears.
Perhapse that sad fool, Contessta, discovers that she can show faith in the midst of uncertinty, and dosen’t kill our heroine. Perhapse Weaver, Skitter, Taylor, is killed after showing Scion that he is not alone, and Scion heals her. Perhapse Weaver will give Scion pause, and he will look into her mind and find a kindred spirit. So many things. Perhapse.
But things will never be the same.
Wildbow. I got involved in this late in the game. But I enjoyed it. I want to see you get this made into a series of movies and become a worldwide sensation. You deserve a tv series and comic books and action figures. You deserve it.
Good luck, make us weep. If you must. But please, make us laugh as well… Give us reason to feel joy in an ending.
This isn’t really the story for being made laugh, actually. That’s elsewhere.
And I wouldn’t get your hopes up on having something nice and light show up. In this story, people just Kill the Lights youtube.com/watch?v=HzhLj8UMOkE
Mm. However, I don’t think that all those hopes are doomed to a Shallow Grave. Don’t be too Blue- just because this story spends a lot of time In The Dark, even verging on a Horror Show, I’m sure the ending will be To Die For.
And in the meantime, Wildbow keeps us on Pins And Needles with the cliffhangers.
A television show and stuff would be fitting for Worm. I’d definitely watch it, even knowing how it would end.
And then I would complain about the changes online.
Well, of course. What’s the point of an adaptation if you can’t complain about the changes. 🙂 .
Feeling smug about having read the original when people gush over the adaptation?
As someone who couldn’t help to point out how he was reading A Song of ice and Fire before GoT made it cool, I’ll grant you that 😀 .
Yggdrazzil on October 15, 2013 at 02:12 said:
I’m equally enthusiastic and curious to see how this develops further, and opposed to seeing this end. If that makes any sense at all.
What a wonderful story. Thanks Wildbow.
I don’t have a paypal account, I don’t trust them with my money. Is there any other way I could donate? (I live in Europe..)
I have a PO box for physical mail. There aren’t really a lot of good options, besides that.
E-transfer directly from bank account?
Do you like chocolate? 😉
I’ve been sending my sister gifts, she lives in a different country in Europe. More than half of them misteriously disappeared. I have as little trust of paypal as of postal services…
I was thinking about transfering money through online banking but I don’t have enough information for that. In the first screen it wants a bankaccountnumber and name, and it then mentions that it will need additional information aftewards. I won’t find out what information until I fill in the acc. no and name. You could e-mail me that information unless you are not comfortable about that (which I would totally understand.)
Alternatively, will you eventually publish this series? Because if you do, then I’ll pay my ‘donation’ by just buying the books for everyone I know 😉
There’s the Moneygram option. But it actually costs a bit to buy one to send. i’ll let the rest of you loyal readers google that. Don’t know how it works outside the UK though.
Again, Not too brilliant an option though.
pidgey on October 15, 2013 at 02:26 said:
Pretty frightening, but I’m seeing an awful lot of similarity to Regent’s power, which wasn’t particularly above the curve. Scion has little cause to be more afraid of the new Skitter than the old.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there’s a lot of interesting applications of her new power, but from a writing standpoint, I don’t see why her having mediocre control over other people’s powers is especially different from her having a simple leadership position. If it were precise control, that’d be one thing. She could pull off power combos that individuals simply couldn’t. If it were larger range, that’d be one thing. She could gather up a bunch of capes who would be reluctant to work together and make something happen. If she had intuitive understanding of the shards, that’d be one thing. She could improve on individuals’ ability use and apply things more creatively.
With all of those things expressly denied to her in this chapter, she seems like a strict downgrade of Glaistig Uaine’s power, in an earthbound, crippled body.
The one ray of hope I see for this power being unique in any interesting way is the mind-mingling thing. She lacks the ability to communicate in any conventional way, but if she can use her power to communicate her motives and tactics precisely, then maybe nothing else really matters? If she can people to trust her, like Rachel did here, then a lot of the problems she’s been crying about since the beginning of the story could be overcome.
She doesn’t control *shards*. She controls *life*. All of it. She was effecting their bodies. Their feelings.
She may not be able to control the Zion Entity. But the Avatar? THAT she might be able to take. Either to meld her mind into it and… calm it? Talk to it?
Or control it more directly. Force it to attack itself? Sever its bond to the Entity?
All kind of possible options here. Don’t know if any of them will work. Or even CAN work. But it’s not just shard control. It’s a whole lot deeper than that.
Keyblockor on October 15, 2013 at 03:08 said:
What if her range ends up growing and her control over self comes back over time? Don’t know if it might happen, but if it does then Taylor only gets more scarier.
One thing to consider about her control over herself is that…well, it’s basically gone. She can move because her power lets her control herself, but if it wasn’t for that she’d have nothing.
She should avoid power-nullifiers from now on.
Pretty sure a power nullifier would restore her normal self-control. It’s her power stopping her from controlling herself normally.
I don’t think we’ll know for sure unless Grue sticks her in darkness or Bonesaw makes another Hatchet Face clone or something.
Wageslave on October 15, 2013 at 03:56 said:
Imagine for a moment you’re the notably uncreative Zion. You put safeguards in all the shards just to preserve the testing environment/make sure the hosts actually survived carrying them. Now one of them, and a big one, no less, has taken it upon themselves to remove all the safeguards you put in place. This isn’t good. Especially if the conjecture is correct and he won’t be able to do anything to her/runs the risk of being suborned by Taylor.
So much for nigh-omnipotence.
The operative syllable being “nigh,” I guess.
We are the knights who say “Nigh!”
I preferr Bill Nye…:D
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Of course we do!
Bill iz da shit!
Cephalo the Pod on October 16, 2013 at 09:17 said:
Scion, rules.
Oh, this is good. We finally get to see how stuff that was hinted at since… uh, since the very first fight skitter was in pan out.
She always was annoyed by people being dumb users and not doing what the admin thought they should do. Now she has direct access to the users themselves, that’s the dream of every admin ever. The scary devil monastery should take her as mascot or something.
I was actually hoping for something more deus ex machina actually, after so many denied ones I thought it would have been an unexpected surprise.
Instead we see a lot of stuff finally coming to a resolution, and something possibly coming to. And we still have enough hints around to wonder, ah, Wildbow is spoiling me 🙂
Oh, and the main characters reacting in a very human way, and exactly how you expected them to, it’s a really nice touch. IMO Wildbow got better by a large margin in characterization since she started.
The admin shard can not only take control of a human, but analyze the power he possesses and his memories. This explains how she knew so much about the bugs she controlled.
And it still does not confirm or deny she uses other brains for actual processing, even if there are some hints in that direction now.
(I -am- familiar with the arguments against that theory, and I find them extremely weak btw)
Storywise there are several interesting things up in the air. The relay bugs, the Smurf’s airgun, Noelle having a “core” (does Taylor have one too now? Will she become Lolth?), a lot of possible synergies… and most importantly Scion making a human brain for himself.
Eh, he crippled the shard that could control human brains right? Even if the shardbearer got near it would only have 4.5m range, plenty of time to kill it.
It’s not like there’s a perfect precog around that, while not being able to scry scion itself, -can- scry other people and what will happen to them.
And it’s not like it built an inertial dampener to telekine the admin shardbearer around, dodgin Scion attacks right?
Why would Taylor have a “core”? That was where Echidna was pulling the matter to fuel the regeneration from. Taylor didn’t gett regeneration or anything like that.
And yeah, Simurgh is probably gliding over to Taylor as we comment.
Because she was being invaded by her shard, and the parallel with the endbringers mostly.
One is a poor reference pool, but still I’m curious.
The Endbringers aren’t remotely para/human, and Echidna was a unique happenstance caused by a number of factors working together to amplify the physical modification that the Eden shards sometimes have. Also, Echidna’s core was tied directly to one of her major powers (the regeneration); Taylor has no such power, nor is there any reason to think she gained one.
Re: this being foreshadowed for the entire story: Her line “I almost wondered if I’d had a second trigger event, if I was controlling them, the image was so bizarre.” from her being outed as Skitter becomes quite chilling on a second (well, nth at this point) read.
Having a pet endbringer makes you to scary to live.
Contessa is looking at a photo of Weaver sitting on Scions shoulders xD.
Hotaru on October 15, 2013 at 06:00 said:
That’s the look Contessa notices, for once Weaver’s smiling.
Ahhh, so Contessa, like Clockblocker, immediately knows that when Taylor smiles things are going to become serious.
Now that I think of it did Clockblocker see the Echidna Taylors smiling?
Or does Taylor really have that mad a smile^^.
It’s a reference to the chapter where Dragon and Defiant out Taylor as Skitter. Despite being trapped, surrounded and outnumbered Skitter smiles and Clockblocker almost craps himself.
Yeah, but in my eyes this was always a kind of sad smile.. not the “I have you now Mr. Bond”.
mmh rereading it I guess I misinterpreted that scene, but then why use smile and not grin.
In my mind it was one of these.
I always took it to mean that when ever the Wards, or anyone else was fighting her, she was probably smiling while kicking their asses. He saw her smile, and remembered LOTS of bugs.
@Tom_D: Taylor wore a face-covering mask for her whole career as Skitter. And as Weaver, for that matter.
@dpara: Looking up the actual text again:
It dawned on me. Defiant and Dragon were playing it safe because they thought I might have a trick up my sleeve, like I had at the fundraiser. I’d disabled Sere, despite the fact that he was supposed to counter my power, and I hadn’t even made a big deal of it. They knew what I’d done to Echidna, and several other events besides.
They were worried I’d pull something.
Defiant had a grasp on my powers, Dragon had a grasp on me as a person, and they’d gauged that I wasn’t a risk to the others in the room. Which, if I was being honest with myself, I wasn’t. They had the upper hand, they lost nothing by letting this play out, and so they weren’t making a move. They’d talk me down, so to speak, and if I did something, they’d use one of their gadgets or tricks to counter my play.
One of the worst possible things had just happened to me, with my secret identity becoming public knowledge, and here I was, unarmed without a single idea on how to get out of this… and the good guys were playing it safe. I smiled; I couldn’t help it.
…I can see why you might argue that Taylor’s smile would be sad, but I think “amused” is much more likely. Not laugh-out-loud amused – the joke isn’t that funny – but something like a one-sided wry smirk would seem entirely plausible.
Or it might be a full-out grin. Hey, we only have Taylor’s word for it – she might not have been narrating very precisely.
John Campbell on July 10, 2015 at 16:12 said:
When you realize that the enemy that has you outnumbered, outgunned, and surrounded isn’t making a move because they’re afraid of you… that’s a really heady feeling.
“Trip to the cottage 2013”
ultima333 on October 15, 2013 at 07:30 said:
I caught up to Worm two days ago and was hit with the big cliffhanger. And now here it is. And all I have to say is…
…Goddamnit Wildbow.
Once again you’ve successfully surprised me.
Once again, you’ve successfully pulled off a big Wham Moment.
Once again, you’ve left me craving for the next update.
Once again, you’ve proven yourself to be a god-tier writer.
Thank you for this wonderful, wonderful story.
I don’t think many people expected it would turn out like this. I mean, yeah, a lot of people kinda figured Taylor would get People Powers, but not at quite this cost. Passenger getting a lot more influence on her? Everyone in fear of her? Being forced to cut ties, yet again? Losing the ability to speak normally?
Please see the first part of this comment again for my thoughts.
*points* ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
You have to wait a mere two days and then get hit with your first of these cliffhangers. You know, I’ve heard that some of us from near the beginning go mad. Wouldn’t know any of those myself. I’ve been this way. Personally, I suspect somebody’s comments may have contributed to the entire group having a slightly more distant relationship with reality. No clue who it might be, but I’m leaning toward Wildbow. Oh Wildbow, you so crazy.
But don’t fret. We, the proud and stalwart members of the comments section, are all here for you. We’ll stick to you like white on rice. Like jazz to a car (I don’t expect you to get that one). Like Wildbow to a a decision to end updates with cliffhangers.
We’ll enfold you in our embrace, like how a giant mutant octopus hugs all its favorite fishes/Japanese women/furry anthropomorphic wolves.
Once again, we wait.
Once again, we ramble inanely.
Once again, ultima333, I welcome someone to the comments section.
> You know, I’ve heard that some of us from near the beginning go mad. Wouldn’t know any of those myself.
Oh, yeah, the voices in my head sometimes say that too.
Good thing we’re both sane then… but I’m not really sure about Wildbow, can boars actually get insane?
Or if they do, is it any different from their usual attitude of solving problems by charging snout-first into them and/or trying to gore things?
I’m heariing voices now… *turns off Youtube* and now I’m not…
UnlikelyLass on October 15, 2013 at 09:03 said:
For everyone now certain that Taylor is going to die, I’d like to remind you that she’s narrating the story in first person.
Obviously, in a universe with powers like Glaistig Ulaine, there are ways around that, but I suspect she’s going to live in some fashion.
I’m not sure we have enough information to really figure out Taylor’s plan to use her new abilities, and we have no good way of working out how they will affect Endbringers or Scion, but I can certainly think of some pretty amazing combos of para humans who could all fit in a 32 foot diameter sphere…
Narrators have died in other stories. MId-bok/film nonetheless! Besides we know that Worm will conclude with third-person epilogues in interlude-style. Taylor can die, or lay dying or, to be cliché, mutter how everything is becoming dark in the last “proper” chapter of Worm. Then Lisa, Brian, Dragon etc narrate the aftermath.
Dinah said that, no matter if humanity wins or loses, Taylor is alive after, but “changed”.
No, Dinah said that no matter the other variables Taylor would be there at the End of the World and she would be changed. Taylor has been/is ( depending on when you think the EotW started) at the EotW and now she has changed. There. The prophecy is fulfilled. What happens next is up in the air.
ACH on October 15, 2013 at 13:14 said:
What AMR said. There are interludes and we even had two arcs that were from the point of view of other characters.
That said, I’m truly hoping Taylor doesn’t die, but this is the Wormverse. There are no true happy endings.
Taylor deserves a moderately happy ending, at least, though. She actually deserves a lot more, but I’m not going to be getting my hopes up.
She deserves any consequences her actions bring.
On the one hand, she’s been working tirelessly for the past two years to prepare a defence against the return of Jask Clash and whatever brings about the End of the World. She’s been doing good, and for good reasons. Her efforts should be acknowledged, narratively speaking.
On the other hand, she makes reckless decisions, without telling anyone, that tend to screw herself and other people over. These, combined with her personality, isolate her from her teammates. Her effectiveness is balanced out by her uncooperative nature.
Taylor will get what she wants, a safe Earth. But she’ll end up alone, probably dying so.
Half the point of the Wormverse is that people don’t always get what they deserve. Or, more to the point, that they often don’t deserve what they get…
Tone on October 15, 2013 at 09:09 said:
My goodness… I love this story. 🙂
Part of me wishes I could’ve started it up later then I did so I don’t have to wait for the end. I loved this chapter though.
So this is your first comment upon catching up?
dragonus45 on October 16, 2013 at 09:07 said:
SAY NO SAY NOOOOOOOOO
ALERT ALERT ALERT. There’s a godamned lert on the loose!
Three of them, apparently!
Technically this would be my second or third post. 😉
Not that that technicality will save you.
Sadly I don’t see Taylor ever getting to just hang with her friends when this is all over. Hell, I’m not too sure a lot of people will properly appreciate all she sacrificed when this is all over.
But…but we have eye-witnesses in the form of a mind-games player extraordinaire, a ruthless gangleader and his underlings, a psychotic dragon-man, a girl who mind-raped her sister and voluntarily asked to be locked up and one of the greates boogeymen of the parahuman world. Why should people doubt them? 🙂 .
honestly?
considering wormverse nature, Taylor (if she survived) has high probability to end up being another list of S-Class Threat, probably on the same line with Sleeper… (little we know of him/her)
So, i wouldn’t be surprised if second iteration of wormverse, starts with people skedaddling whenever the new Taylor drop-by to their neighborhood
Which really sucks, since Taylor is probably the friendliest potential Class-S since Noelle went crazy.
Here’s a horrifying thought:
Taylor grabs Jack Slash. Coerces or convinces Glaistig Uaine to release Jack from the time loop using Glaistig’s version of Gray Boy. Uses Jack’s communication ability, with or without block removal, to extend her power. With Taylor + Jack we have command and communication. Possible further additions:
Contessa for tactics.
Glaistig Uaine so that fallen capes can still be used, plus a fu**load of current power.
Panacea or Bonesaw for medical.
Frankly, the list goes on and on. Taylor is now effectively the seed of a new Worm-like entity. No wonder Teacher is scared.
Unless I misinterpreted what GB told Purity, not even Gray Boy can cancel the time wells. The most he can do is slow/speed the loop. So, no biscuit.
He could change the speed to a point where the person could be knocked out of the loop, or they could convince Foil to lasso him out using her uber-timing.
Not sure I’m following you. Once you’re in the loop you can’t get out unless you’re Scion. Even Foil and her überhax power could only beat Gray Boy’s self-looping immortality but bounced against the grey zone of the time wells.
That explanation doesn’t make any sense, as Foil herself was caught in a time loop, yet was still around to make Canary feel awkward after Scion. To quote 26.b:
Foil’s screams continued, and were soon joined by Jack’s, as Gray Boy started using his knife, reaching within the field.
Up until the moment Foil, still screaming, using her augmented sense of timing to measure the length of each scream, stepped around the monochrome field he’d cast just in front of her. She threw a handful of darts through the Siberian and Gray Boy’s head as his back was turned.
The Siberian flickered out of existence as Gray Boy collapsed.
Neither reappeared, healthy or otherwise.
And GB’s loops don’t vanish when he dies, as evidenced by something he said as well as Jack still being looped while chatting to Scion.
Please not this again. Foil was NEVER caught in the loop. She was just behind it, faking the looped screams with her enhanced sense of timing ( one of her many secondary powers as noted in her interlude) to lull GB in a false sense of security. You may notice a scene before that where Foil throws her darts and they bounce against an area of looped air.
That makes sense, but it also makes things more boring. My theory was that she measured how long each loop was using her uberstopwatch, then made her great escape in the short gap when she was able to react but before the loop reset, kinda like how Jack managed to talk to Scion.
This conversation makes me ask how the fields work in the first place, though. Not the looped time bit, but how he sets them up in the first place. Does he shoot them out of himself like Grue’s darkness before they settle in place, do they just blink into existence, do they have to be within line of sight or a certain radius, and if so, how the hell did he miss Foil in the first place?
Now that I think about it, I’m glad there was only one Gray Boy clone, and that he’s dead now.
The only thing we know about the mechanics of his power is that people believed he needed line of sight to make it work, hence the standard tactic being to obscure his view up until he revealed he only needed it to aim ACCURATELY. Hence all those random spots of empty grey space filled with looped air.
After reading over 16.b again scrutinizing it, I can’t help but think Gray Boy is an idiot. He was aiming for Foil and gauged his “hit” based on her repetitive screaming. Given that GB can adjust the length of his loops, Foil either had to be pretty lucky to be screaming at the right length of the field that missed, or actually caught in one in order to know the reset time of the loop. I’m willing to accept this as a grey area though, as GB could have used the exact same reset times for each of his generic offensive loops.
The real problem, though, is that I can’t see the reason Foil would scream in the first place. When GB froze Jack, Jack was silent until GB used the knife on him. Even if she was incapacitated, Foil wasn’t being actively harmed the moment she was frozen unless coincidence. GB should have known this, and therefore divined that Foil was faking being hit. Also, why didn’t he just freeze the whole freakin’ alley on the other side of the bugs? He clearly doesn’t care about the collateral damage of his power, so why not just carpet time-bomb his enemies?
There are a few more instances of Fridge Logic involving Gray Boy’s power specifically, so I’m just going to paraphrase Grue and say that I freaking hate people that mess with time and therefore will never include a person like that in anything I write aside from the character adjusting his/her watch.
Loki-L on October 15, 2013 at 10:41 said:
This was not the instant total power-up many were expecting. It was more of a power-sideways than a power-up.
Taylor lost fine-control of both her power and herself, she lost most of her range and her ability to control smaller insects. She gained the ability to control parahumans (or humans or larger animals).
Her power works differently. Insects did not suddenly stop moving when they came into her range like people now seem to do. (Her trying to tell Panacea to stop might be responsible for that bit)
16 feet of controlling people with powers very badly doesn’t seem like much. It doesn’t seem like enough. So what can be done to improve Taylor’s ability from here on?
She could learn better control. It took her month to be able to speak and hear through her swarm the first time around. They don’t have months.
If the repeater bugs that Panacea made are still around and still compatible with her current powers that would be one way to extend her range.
Interesting things might come from certain synergy effects. If using different powers in concert might create an effect, it might be worse it.
On a positive side we now know what the little seer meant with “You will be there but you will be different”. One armed, half-mad and with a strange new power.
I wonder if there are any visible clues to her transformation. Antennas growing out of her head or other mutations?
I also wonder if Panacea was really done with her operation or if Taylor stopped her before she could finish the job properly.
Eldan on October 15, 2013 at 10:43 said:
You know, everyone here seems to focus on the control aspect of the power, but it seems to me there’s another, even more interesting part: the melding of minds. Taylor feels what the others feel. Perhaps that even goes in both directions.
Imagine what she could do by linking several thinker minds. Contessa, Dinah and Tattletale. Glaistig Uaine and Chevalier’s power sight.
Taylor’s power always, from the start, gave her a full informational briefing on anything and everything she controlled. It’s the main thinker aspect of her power that no-one outside the Undersiders had a clue was there.
…and I think that means that she will know the powers of everyone she meets better than they themselves do. Which, of course, gives one hope.
Not exactly. It didn’t give her a full briefing on bugs Panacea had edited; it seemed to be restricted to natural bugs, as if her power had scanned the world and built itself an encyclopedia. She always got input, of course, just not an intuitive understanding.
Hmm … that’s a good point. I wonder if that’s tied to Zion’s power limiting…?
Not entirely correct. Taylor had some idea of what the bugs could do, but she noted that she didn’t know what species of spiders she was using on Lung, although she got the general idea. That’s the opposite of that your idea would imply.
No, actually, that’s what I meant. She was given the information, not the words. Names of species aren’t actually a part of the creature’s physiology, and what her power gave her was the creature’s actual physiology.
I’m not sure how “full” it was, though. I got the impression that she knew the gist on the bugs–venomous? how deadly? how big? how strong? etc?–but most of the details were absent.
I suppose that either one is possible, though.
That’s an interesting thought. Since the limits on what a parahuman can do appear to be confined to their own brain, I wonder if those limits apply if being controlled from a remote brain without those limits applied. Maybe she could ignore things like the Manton effect in this manner?
I noticed Pandemonious Ivy making a similar suggestion in another thread – that would be definitely awesome if it worked.
Has anybody else noticed that Taylor has come into Glaistig Uaine’s label of being a ‘Queen Administrator”?
Well, we know from Scion’s interlude that Taylor’s shard was the last shard he sent to Earth. Apparently because he needed it to modify and distribute other shards. When he manifested on Earth as Scion, he never fixed any shards that I saw, only destroyed some that had not yet found hosts that he saw coming to Earth in a damaged state.
I don’t think Scion CAN fix shards, because that ability is held in Taylor’s shard.
I’ll let others take that and run with it 🙂
Ooh, ooh, ooh!
Redistribute shards! Take them from uncooperative people and give them to better targets!
Of course, if Taylor’s shard is damaged enough, by trying to replicate it Zion might have crippled himself…
When did they say that Taylor’s shard was the last shard sent down? I don’t remember that part
The below quote indicates Scion aimed a shard at Danny Hebert. Shards have leeway in who they choose though, and apparently the administrator shard liked Taylor trapped in a locker more than Danny getting drunk.
“When it knows the configuration is absolutely decided, it reaches for the last fragment it will cast off. This one, too, it cripples, even largely destroys, so as to limit the host from using it in the same fashion.
In a haste to decide matters before it enters the stratosphere of that barren planet, the entity casts it off to a similar location as the future-sight ability. A similar time, thirty-one revolutions from now. The destination is a male, thin, in the company of strong males and females, drinking.”
atwixt on October 15, 2013 at 12:24 said:
Do the shards (passengers?) have autonomy separate from Scion/Eden? The line where Taylor realizes her leg moved without her conscious directive would seem to corroborate that. Maybe that’s already been said and I missed it.
I believe that’s because her body is inside the range (duh) and so her passenger is controlling it. It’s a borderline “And I must Scream” situation.
I agree, but does the passenger have intelligence, or does it act mechanically? I remember speculation by bonesaw or tattletale that parahumans were connected to their passenger by the thinnest of threads, and that connection allowed the processing and energy production that allowed powers to function. My question is, do the passengers, even being splinters of a former whole, have some volition or intelligence they exert on their human? Skitter mentioned that shadow stalker became markedly more aggressive after her trigger. Skitter saw herself performing maneuvers in the video Glen showed her that she never consciously used. It was at least implied that jack slash survived as long as he did because he was “in sync” with his passenger. Echidna gave herself completely over to her passenger when pressed by eidolon. If the passengers are responsible for these actions, does this mean they have some degree of sentience? And if they do, how does that even make sense, seeing as the entities are conglomerations of these shards? Like I said before, maybe I’ve missed a critical info-dump and I’m way off track.
Maybe not every passenger is, but some are at least somewhat intelligent. See Noelle’s, (presumably) the endbringers’ and the fairy queen’s ghosts.
That makes sense. Thanks
James on October 15, 2013 at 22:58 said:
I don’t think the Endbringers have shards, unless somehow they’re extensions of Eidolon’s? Actually, that’s a really weird consideration… since he made them because his shard provides him with what he needs, and he needed worthy opponents, do they have part of his shard or are they just creations?
The info dump you missed, is that in the per-evolutionary form worms were each a single shard. It was only through the evolution where each worm began eating others and adding them to themselves that the worms became conglomerations of shards instead of individual entities.
I’m pretty sure Taylor’s shard has been doing a sizable chunk of her thinking for her for years. All that parallel processing power she needs to handle her swarm has to come from somewhere, and merely human brain-meats aren’t up to it. And she’s not limiting the stuff she’s offloading onto the extradimensional entity linked to her brain to just driving the swarm – see the bit after Killington where she’s parallelizing reading and taking notes through her bugs.
Taylor’s shard has been displaying a certain degree of independent action or autonomy for a while now, right back to packing up money while she focused on carving out Lung’s eyes (she gave it a basic instruction which it carried out while she wasn’t paying attention). It can act while she’s unconscious or otherwise unable to control herself (Standstill’s attack). She was just never sure how much of it is subconscious and how much of it is truly an independent consciousness (or how much of that independent consciousness is inherited/copied). And now she has to control her body through her shard.
sarah penguin on October 15, 2013 at 12:59 said:
Well that was scary. Poor Taylor. Thanks for the update.
Taylor to evil dungeon master: – I wish to control everything, not only bugs.
Evil dungeon master, with a sarcastic smile: – Done.
Awesome chapter as always Wildbow.
Are you saying that wildbow is an evil dungeon master? 😛 .
Dayum straight!
I’d play with Wildbow…anytime.
Wildbow would be the evilest dungeon master in the history of gaming..
I’m not that evil. I DM like I write, putting the pieces on the board and letting them come to life, telling a story. Only in a pen & paper game, the players are key pieces.
The only ‘evil’ there is that I tend to throw my players into situations with no idea of how they’re going to survive. Sort of like I do with Taylor & the others. I don’t go in thinking, “Teleported into a surrounded building, point-blank bullet to chest with cracked ribs, set on fire, with soldiers surrounding the structure, outside a chain link fence, but the obvious solution is…”
I just think, you know, “You have the tools. You can probably figure it out.” I write Taylor into the situation, put myself into a corner as a writer, and I figure she gets out if she gets out. If not, then maybe she picks herself up out of the ashes to find that her friends have been hurt/maimed/killed, Coil secure in his position of power and her father being held hostage. I expect my players to handle the same (especially since there’s four+ of them).
It’s not malice or evil. It’s storytelling and verisimilitude. I don’t like the whole, ‘If they don’t figure their way out of this deathtrap then I’m going to hint very strongly about the three gems on the wall’ style thinking.
Plus I prefer fewer, harder, more violent and risky fights over a long stream of ‘you kill kobolds, and then you kill more’.
I said you’d be an evil DM, WB, not that I wouldn’t want to play in one of your games. Gaming with you would be awesome, if a bit nerve-wracking.
Yes. But his characters can also call him an evil God of irony and despair.
Seriously, I would be afraid to play with him. But the game would be interesting for sure, during the little time that my character survived.
Personally I think that I would love being in a game with Wildbow, as GM or as a Player. I mean think about it. Either I get to play in as wild and wonderful a world as Worm, OR I get to see a character like Skitter working to come up with sideways solutions to all the things I put in his path!
I’d be interested to play a game GM’d by wildbow.
…Think she’d be willing to run a PBP one in the comments section?
Always wanted to try gaming, but don’t have anybody to do it with. So as awesome it would be to game with Wildbow, Taylor got a three month grace period, at least, right?
I could easily see Wildbow running a Paranoia campaign.
Is that the game were theplayers are forbidden from knowing the rules?
It’s a game where everyone is a normal human, from a secret society, and they are given tasks that normally require at least a little suicide. Your character says what you do, as a general rule, unless you specifically take a time out, so using unfortunate phrases can be… bad. Oh, and there is a Big Brother computer system, and nuclear hand grenades. And the Cold War is still around, but worse.
I played a few sessions of it when I was in college. Very fun with a good GM, and people who enjoy each other’s company. Add a poor GM or people that take offense at you trying to kill their characters? Well, things can go downhill. Which CAN be fun in a mean sort of way, but that leads to less fun in the long term 🙂
Paranoia, in general, has very, very few rules.
acediamonds on October 15, 2013 at 13:41 said:
Wow, that was a lot sadder than I expected with how desperate Taylor is to be fight against Scion, Tattletale’s little spiel and refusal to leave Taylor, Rachel just walking into Taylor’s field, and that goodbye. Jesus.
If Grue was here, I’d bet his head would explode.
You know, I was thinking that It would be pretty sad if Grue only heard about all of this after it ends, second-hand.
And that’s probably what’s going to happen too, since everyone is a little too busy to stop by and give him bad news.
“Wait, we won?”
“Technically.”
“…What do you mean, technically?”
“It’s a long story, you might want to sit down.”
“If you had been there, I wouldn’t need to eat into your schedule–and mine, incidentally–to catch you up. So sit down and shut up.”
We both know this is going to end with Taylor turning her circumstances around and kicking so much ass she’ll need new shoes.
Besides, I’m no Dinah, but Grue got Put on a Bus and I’m 80% certain he won’t come back (until necessary, of course). It bugs me that Wildbow doesn’t know how to handle his fuckawesome romance subplots (see also: Battery and to a far lesser extent Chevy/MM), but this series has made me a jaded enough individual that I’ve lost all feeling in that department.
Chev/MM (which only existed Ina flashback anyway) was dropped in favor of the even more awesome Chev/Ingenue. I do agree that after being built up as the lover in need of revenge Assault’s abrupt disappearance from the story was a bit weird, though.
Chevy/Ingenue was never even a thing. It was amusing, but Ingenue/Narwhal is far more likely. I’d also prefer that because it’d require Narwhal to become a character, instead of a Canadian forcefielder.
Chevalier/Ingenue was a thing. It was a ship.
Also, Ingenue/Narwhal? Neither of them have been indicated as…well, to “swing that way”.
Actually she implies she seduced a female PRT to get private info on Chevalier. No idea on Narwhal.
But, anyway, Chev/Ingenue is definitely a thing. Their scene in Dr Mother’s interlude was basically Ingenue proclaiming her love (albeit a rather possessive and almost stalkerish one) and Chevalier admitting that one of the reasons he keeps her at a distance is because he knows he’d eventually fall for her even if it’s a very bad idea. Some serious Batman/Catwoman vibes there.
Surely more solid than a ship based on a bonding flashback when they were kids and a throwaway mention of a shortlived fling in high school.
…My god I’ve become a shipper. What is Worm doing to me!?
Lava is more solid than water, but they’re both still fluids.
The final sentence there should have been an indication that the above was written half in jest. The serious half is less because I believe it’s the OTP and more because from a purely narrative point it makes sense that, after spending some time building a (twisted) relationship between the two, something will happen in the end. Even if it’s just Ingenue dying and Chevalier mourning by shedding a single tear (or viceversa).
By the way I though lava was viscous, not fluid :P.
Embrace it. Embrace your inner shipper!!
Anyways, I always thought Ingenue was trying to get into Chev’s pants so she could commandeer what’s left of the Protectorate. Her power could explain both her attitude and Chev’s reaction.
I already explained the reasons for a Chevy/MM epilogue in the last real chapter of Venom, but I’ll repeat the main points: The original relationship is an artifact from the first Wards team, back when the Wards were alloewd to be people instead of heroes. This changed over time, though, and now the two are good people stuck in a system actively hindering their attempts at virtue. An epilogue that brings that back would be a great way of giving relief and happiness to the world after Scion is resolved, assuming Wildbow doesnt go completely nihilist in the meantime.
I felt their relationship got enough closure when they had their break up sex many arcs ago.
Besides, we still have Dragon/Defiant.
Oh Jesus, don’t even get me started on the closure…
That’s just begging to get started on the closure. Go on, you know you want to.
Okay. Have fun:
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/scarab-25-6/#comment-44504
Glassware on October 16, 2013 at 13:42 said:
You dropped a disturbing amount of spoilers in that comment.
Thanks for pointing that out, Glass… damn it. I saw the comments but didn’t realize they were on such old chapters. Now there’s a whole thread to clean up. That’s really fucking annoying.
Seriously, people. Don’t make me do janitorial duty when I want/need to be writing. Sanitize your comments when you go back to old chapters, keep them spoiler free.
Oh shit, sorry. I put it there because that’s where it was relevant (I noticed it during my two weeks of catching up after discovering this and then wrote/posted it after I caught up to the most recent chapter. I guess I either forgot new readers were a thing or that comments spawn you at the bottom of the page where mine was.
Now that I think about it, does WordPress have some sort of spoiler tag system? Actually, a link to a WordPress guide to italics/bolding/text effects in general would be nice, as I can’t seem to find one.
Well…timeskips do that, I guess. What, was Grue going to wait two years in case Skitter returned to the dark side?
I don’t care if Grue stopped caring about Taylor during her time with the Wards, but neither Brian, Aisha, nor Taylor’s actions make sense, and Cozen is less of a character and more of an excuse to stop shipping Taylor and Brian. See the link directly above your comment for more.
See my reply to that comment for more. Short version: A lot happened in two years, and we don’t know enough about Cozen to really say anything for certain about how much Brian, Aisha, and to an extent Taylor’s actions make sense. They’re just not in focus.
Taylor basically dumped Brian because saving the world was more important. As Taylor herself said Brian was at that point a very fragile individual ( courtesy of Bonesaw)who needed someone/something to make him feel steady and he saw in Taylor that someone/something. Taylor acknowledged(and seemed okay with )that but decided that saving the world was more important ( this is not an accusation or a judgement). As Lisa said in this chapter Taylor can sometimes be very unfair to the people that love her/ she loves.
This said I find it very reasonable that Brian tried to forget her ( and frankly he didn’t seem very successful) and build a new life in her absence.
I also understand (and somewhat support) Brian moving on with Cozen, but there are too many unanswered questions for such a change to be logical. Bear in mind that when Taylor left, Tattletale described the effect on Brian being similar to his experience with Bonesaw. I can see him getting over that with Cozen as a substitute as Taylor, but as evidenced by the chapter(s) immediately after, Cozen is almost the opposite of Taylor. This begs the questions “What did Brian see in Taylor?” and “What does Brian see in Cozen?”. Until those questions (and others that sadly no longer exist) are answered, I will assume that Brian hooked up with Cozen because he loves large tits and didn’t realize this fact about himself until Taylor left and he asked himself why he didn’t try to keep their relationship going.
Maybe he was trying to prove to himself (and others) that he could get over Taylor. He seems to have failed and Cozen seems to have noticed (and to be fair apart for some passive-aggressive shit when they meet,Taylor was sniping at Cozen more than viceversa).
Also your repeated mention of Cozen’s big tits as if it’s something bad and horrible has some unfortunate implications. Especially, since, as you pointed out, we know nothing about her. Nothing stops her from having big tits AND being smart, resourceful and interesting.
Cozen isn’t resourceful, though. When she isn’t in a familiar situation, she runs the hell away. Now, she isn’t interesting either, but that’s for different reasons, so I’ll give examples*. Also, saying “Maybe Grue X” is not a substitute for Wildbow filling in the holes in the story. The Grue/Taylor/Cozen relationship was one thing before the timeskip and a different thing after, so as a result we’ve been given a significant character change “just because”. That is bad storytelling.
*Mannequin is a former tinker who was on the verge of doing a shitton of good with his powers. However, his family is killed and he falls into a well of despair and nihilism. While in said metaphorical well, he semi-literally cuts himself off from the world and becomes a machine of destruction, unable to cope with his failures to the extent that he can’t stand hearing his former name or seeing anyone at all trying to make the world a better place. Hell, they don’t even need to be that complicated. Bonesaw’s interesting because of the dissonance between her innocence and her actions. When the Nine is gone, she becomes a bitter cynic while trying to redeem herself and do good. Nothing like that exists for Cozen, because she’s a mere bundle of characteristics, rather than an actual character.
See, being resourceful and avoiding unfamiliar situations aren’t mutually exclusive. If you want an in universe example: Grue. Cozen is (from the very little that we’ve seen of her, I want to remind you) a parallel to how Grue has (or tried) reacted to situations during his tenure as the defacto Undersiders’ leader. Uncomfortable in situations she doesn’t fully grasp/is unsure she/her team can handle: Grue. Ever since he was first introduced. That doesn’t make either of them unresourceful. Makes them cautious. Pragmatic, even, depending on how you’ve read the story.
The first definition I found while googling ‘resourceful’ is “having the ability to find quick and clever ways to overcome difficulties”. So far, we have Cozen failing to be resourceful in 100% of the difficult situations we see her in. The first two instances that come to mind when I think of Taylor being resourceful are the bank robbery and her first Mannequin fight. Both times, she was pressed into a situation where she had the undeniable disadvantage. Both times, she tackled the problem from a different angle that nobody expected and emerged victorious.
I feel like you’re shooting your argument in the foot twice here. First, you say we don’t see Cozen much and that we don’t know much about her. I completely agree, but that is a reason Cozen is a shallow character, if she is a character at all. She isn’t ambiguous or mysterious; she’s just mostly blank.
Your second point, that Cozen is a parallel to Grue, is similar to your first: I mostly agree with your point, but I disagree with you. Sure, Cozen is like Grue, but she is shallow whereas Grue had some nuance about him. Brian was a villain committing dastardly deeds for truly noble goals. He was defensive and protective, and this not only led him to retain, train, and support Taylor during the first part of her tenure with the Usiders (also when she was on the fence about being a cape or not), but it was also what allowed Taylor to unintentionally commandeer the position of “big boss leader” from him. Brian’s relationship with Taylor in the beginning was platonic, he thought of her as a close companion to protect, guide, and mentor. After his second trigger and Taylor kinda takes over, the relationship between Taylor and Brian changes. Taylor becomes the leader, she helps Brian when he’s struggling to go on, and their relationship eventually becomes a romance. Now, how much of what I just described relates to Cozen? Sure, she’s similar to Grue, but when it comes down to it, she’s a store brand knockoff because she doesn’t have the extra details that make Brian such a compelling character.
I’ve pointed out elsewhere in the comments (long after you wrote this) that Worm is a first person work. Obviously Wildbow was kind enough to throw in some interludes to flesh things out, but we’re mostly limited as an audience to experiencing what Taylor experiences as the narrator. We know next to nothing about Cozen because *Taylor* knows next to nothing about Cozen, and because Cozen isn’t important enough to the story to merit an interlude.
We *know* what Brian saw in Taylor and frankly I find it weird that a lot of people ship Taylor and Brian as some great romance. Their breakup made it perfectly clear that their relationship was one of convenience/need. Brian needed emotional support after his abuse at the hands of Bonesaw, and Taylor needed some human comfort with all the shit she was dealing with. When it became clear the relationship would never become more than that, they parted ways.
We *don’t* know what Brian sees in Cozen because we know nothing about her. But we do know a fair bit about Brian. We know that he values family. We know that one of the reasons he and Taylor ended things is that they saw no hope of being able to settle down together in future. In part because Taylor’s mission is always going to come first to her. Brian is essentially just a guy who got powers. He used them to make enough money to take care of his family, which was basically all he ever wanted. He doesn’t want to be fighting gods for the fate of the earth, he just wants to take care of his own.
I’m guessing that Cozen shared that outlook. Again, we don’t really know much about Cozen but we *do* know that when Grue went “let’s blow off the end of the world and go live in a cabin in the woods” she went “Okay”. So that’s suggestive at least.
Honestly, I don’t think it’s a flaw in the writing that this stuff isn’t spelt out. Wildbow has always left some peripheral details vague so that the audience has room to come to their own conclusions (*cough*Sleeper*cough*) and because it would just dilute the narrative too much to cover it all. BTW, this is actually a very effective and deliberate technique for conveying that there’s a lot more depth to the setting than you see on the page.
This is a wonderful chapter, Wildbow. One of the best. I’m eager for what is to come.
Oh good. Thank you.
I’m not sure about “best,” but that’s mostly because I don’t want to try comparing every chapter to the others.
It’s definitely a good one, though, and I am most certainly eager to see what’s coming up.
That’s why the “one of”.
I love qualifiers. I use them all the time. 😀
Don’t you mean “almost all the time”?
Salute’s greatwrymrgold for that one
Ainrhyr on October 15, 2013 at 17:04 said:
Okay, so what exactly would Taylor class as now?
I’m guessing something like Master 12, Thinker 4. Maybe even throw a Trump class in there as well.
I’d imagine the Thinker bit would be dropped, as the only reason it existed was as a Required Secondary Power to facilitate all the multitasking she had to do. At this point, I’d say her Thinking is overloaded to the point of not even being worth assigning a number to. As to the Master ranking, I would take Regent’s rank and add 4.
Hey Wildbow, what the hell do the number rankings measure, anyway? I love the power categories, but the numbers seem arbitrary and optional.
The numbers (and categories) were designed as threat-and-broad-tactics assessment of villains. If he’s a Brute don’t let him hit you, etc. Pretty sure the numbers get re-evaluated if people prove themselves more dangerous than originally thought. I don’t think we ever told Regent’s exact number, except that it was the “highest rated Master in the city” during the Sentinel/Parasite arc, and there was at least one other Master 6, so he’s a 7+. Canary is an 8. Skitter was a 5 during the Leviathan hospital scene.
My main issue with the numbers is that they don’t seem to say anything relevant. Regent is a higher ranking master than Taylor, yet she manages to disable the freaking BBPRTHQ almost single-handedly, which is something Regent probably isn’t capable of. What I believe would be more interesting is if the numbers represented a subtype of power, like if number ranks for master capes represented controlling humans, nonhumans, emotions, telepathy, mind control, etc.
No. Ratings are pretty much just a “threat level” thing.
One thing that puts Regent higher is the possibility that he could control the agent next to you from across the city. Another is that Skitter hadn’t used (or discovered) the full limits of her ability; I daresay she hadn’t before she underwent invasive brain surgery just now.
And, of course, ratings change. I think she was rated as a Master 8 when she got captured by the PRT.
That still begs the question of how a power is measured. The difference between a 7 and an 8 is woefully obscure, and even if we’re going by threat level, powers are too diverse and too situational for a mere measurement of magnitude.
As an example, Tattletale is shown to be capable of completely wrecking New Wave as a family by exposing Amy’s feelings for Victoria, yet when she confronts then-Director Piggot, she’s about as useful as a wet noodle.
And what makes one telekinetic a Mover and one a Shaker, one a Master and one a Blaster?
It isn’t an objective measurement, it’s subjective.
Jesus Christ, nobody on the internet knows the difference between objective and subjective. A subjective measurement is fundamentally impossible (unless human bias enters the equation, but that’s not the point here).
A telekenetic (TK) mover is one that uses tk to move themselves in an abnormal way (super-speed, flight, etc). A tk blaster is a cape that is capable of tking objects at a distance without contact. While I won’t rule them out as a possibility, I can’t imagine how tk could fit into the shaker or master category.
The power categories in Worm work because each one is a difference in kind and they all are fundamentally distinct from each other in some fashion (there’s a gray area around tinkers and thinkers, but it’s distinct enough it doesn’t bother me). The power measurements, on the other hand, are arcane guesswork that is never properly defined and probably pretty nebulous to begin with. That’s some shitty measurements, and I believe that the system would be better off if the numbers representing magnitude/threat level/power mastery were either scrapped entirely or replaced with a set of subcategories.
I won’t tackle the measurements (but I will point out that Brutes at least start with Behemoth at 10 and everybody else scales down).
As for a telekinetic master Parian is one. Her power is telekinesis of light object like thread and needles and she uses to move puppets. Yeah it’s a weird system.
I don’t even know anymore. Master-ism specifically relates to the control of people (like Heartbreaker/Regent/Cherish) or constructs (like Nilbog/Mockshow/Parian). Parian’s cloth creations certainly fall under mastery, but the needle/thread tk doesn’t and needs another category. I assume she had two triggers in short succession.
Hmm,no. She didn’t trigger twice. She uses her telekinesis to weave cloth in puppets and then telekinetically pushes the woven cloth so that it looks as if she’s animating puppets. If she used the same exact power to give people the death of a thousand cuts via storm of needles she’d probably be classified as a blaster or maybe shaker. The PRT classifies effect not cause. Or something. Maybe wildbow or even another, more able than me, poster can help?
Your friendly neighborhood Panda has appeared, to act superior and pretentious with his Worm knowledge: Parian has two distinct powers 1) *fills* objects (vague, but I basically describe it as *with her influence*) which she is then able to manipulate (obvious Master power; minions) and 2) telekinetic control over small objects. She uses this to work with the first (very smart, btw) but the fact that it’s an indiscriminate manipulation makes it Master first, any other classification after. She uses it for glass shards (Shatterbird mimickry) she would be Master/Shaker and probably Blaster too. Uses it like Cuff does (augments her metallic costume with her control over metal) with her outfit somehow, it’d probably get a Brute rating until someone realized what she was doing, and then Master would be added. General function + applications. Ex: Taylor; general function is control and sensory extension through insects. Master. Applications: speaking through them, bug clones, flight (Atlas), sight/hearing through them, general area mapping plus more. Stranger, Thinker, Mover, also Shaker considering what she managed with the Behemoth fight.
Thank you for listening, pardon the block, I’m on my phone and things are difficult. *Ends display of superiority complex and teleports elsewhere*
Much appreciated Pandemonious Ivy. Thanks.
She was rated as everything when she got captured, just to keep from underestimating her. And guess what? They underestimated her.
So… is Taylor inadvertently teaching the administrator shard how to be a human being now?
… then she gets in Scion’s range, and her shard goes “Hey, bossman, you’re doing it wrong!”
Oh Taylor… What have you done? Dammit kiddo…
…Her story couldn’t end any other way, though. And it’s not quite yet done…
Now estimating at just over 43,000 comments…
Dinah told wildbow, there is ninety point nine nine six seven eight probability the record will go past 50k comment after the ending chapter, there will be one thousand comments saying some lines like “thanks” another thousand comments stating fans weeping endlessly for a week after the release of aforementioned chapter
Any chance of an estimated wordcount on the comments? Reading it seems to me that the comments dwarf the actual webserial for size by a factor of about 4 or 5 (to be fair, they have a FEW more authors than the serial itself. :P). It’d be interesting to have that confirmed or not…
Megaolix on October 15, 2013 at 20:26 said:
You know, Taylor is being so fatalistic here, I wonder if there’s a chance she’ll be rescued the moment she thing she’s going to die.
Don’t know for you guys but as far as I saw in stories, going in and ending everything before the final fight with the idea that you’re going to die usually doesn’t end with a death. And damn, I do want Taylor to survive.
You’re not the only one.
Eduardo Perini Muniz on October 16, 2013 at 07:45 said:
Do not tell this to the author !!! Not this author !!!
Oh c’mon death is hardly the only thing that can happen! She might end up having to spend the rest of her days in a body she can barely control, in a special holding facility on an otherwise empty earth because she has evolved into some horrible, terrifying threat that can control anyone. Or she becomes a cosmic tapeworm! Or she becomes a diety that mercy kills parahumans before their powers grow too much and turn them into Endbringers!
Or maybe she ends her story depowered?
Could that be a possibility?
Merges with Scion, has to stay close at all times, in order to hold him in check. The sequel to Worm references her (after Wildbow has done his other book) breifly.
The final part of the Worm trilogy is Rachael and Lisa’s rescue mission. The one that Bitch comes up with.
“So here’s the plan… we give her a puppy.”
Ha! One thing I’ll say for Wildbow (okay, there are a lot of things I’ll say for him) is that he has never given any indication that he will change his trajectory based on fan requests. He has, a few times taken input under consideration re: the *way* things are written, but in terms of plot? Nopenope.
Wildbow, have you checked your gmail address lately? Just wanted to see if the question I sent you there made it through or not. Thanks!
Sorry about that. I get a crapton of emails these days, and the amount of time I have available seems to be ever-dwindling.
You should be less mainstream. Try giving every Worm character a beanie and lumberjack beard. It’ll be so ironic!
That would make Atlas look even stranger…
Someone should draw that.
Not that Krustacean guy, though. We don’t want everyone to die.
Atlas already died, though. Weaver could feel him dying during the press conference when she joined the white hats.
Am I the only one who was horribly sad when Atlas died? Then again, I actually keep bugs as pets, so I’m kind of predisposed to those feelings.
It did lend a tragic note to the entire thing, but I think Rachel’s dogs howling did the same but better, so it was slightly distracting. Either way it was a good “end of an era” feel to the scene.
You were definitely not the only one. For an insect that was clearly described as having little more autonomy than a biological robot Atlas did somehow manage to tug the heartstrings. 😦
No, you’re not. I really liked Atlas and was very sad when he died too. I know he didn’t really have any sort of feelings or instincts or anything but I looked at him as a giant dog basically.
I was referring to the “Everyone,” not specifically the Atlas.
…I did not consciously capitalize “Everyone.” This is creepy. What if my fingers are the fingers are good the fingers are your friend kill the toes.
btown on October 16, 2013 at 04:22 said:
Wow. I marathoned all the way from Gestation 1.1 this past week (was referred here by Eliezer Yudkowski’s recommendation on HPMOR, as I’m sure some others have), and this whole series has been completely mindblowing for me.
I feel so sorry for Taylor, how fate just keeps twisting her intentions and morals against her, how she keeps trying against worse and worse odds. Now, Taylor has to live with the likely sacrifice of the emotional connections she’s worked so hard to build – perhaps the sacrifice of all emotional connections whatsoever. ASOIAF readers and GoT watchers will know what I say when I see this moment of final evolution as equivalent to the RW in terms of tragedy, but such well-written tragedy! A cruel irony that this happens to be the place where I need to wait!
Anyways, this is my first post here, and hopefully not my last! I’ll join the masses in thanking Wildbow for pouring his/her heart and soul into this multiverse. And I’ll certainly be sharing this far and wide (including to fans of Fallout: Equestria, which this may even surpass in my book) – the question is, share now or when it’s finished?
Share now. The story is almost over, and the half-weekly cliffhangers are part of the experience
So. Let’s consider my Worm RP for a sec.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=131428.0
Things are starting to fall in place, with a big fight right at the PRT HQ. Selina has a sadomachoistic alternate personality, which has just killed two PRT officers and stabbed Kevin rather bleedingly. Steven joined the fight on her side, while Elena (Delphinium), a few other Wards, and a Protectorate member on-site joined five PRT officers. In a display of sheer competence, one officer managed to fire containment foam upward, which lead to the Protectorate member (a Brute) getting caught and incidentally to the door being blocked off. Also, another PRT officer tripped into it. Lovely what terrible rolls do to excellent agents, isn’t it? Anyways, Selina and her other personality fought for control, with the sometimes-help of Delphinium, and has leaped into the containment foam. Steven is still up, but since another Protectorate member just arrived…it might not take much longer. And we will see what happens then.
And now for an important question: What should I name the game?
Caterpillars?
It was the first thing bug shaped that dropped into my head tbh. Further thinking makes me think of how caterpillars can change and when they have, they fly so high.
Maybe I was briefly possess by the spirit of Clockblocker?
Or if you’ve like to pay Homage to john Wyndham, Chrysalids?
There’s no one insect-related in that game.
i was also thinking about the way people change but if it doesn’t work it doesn’t work..
It’s not terrible, but not ideal.
Authy_Silverfur on October 16, 2013 at 16:50 said:
Foam Party 2: The Containment
It’s hard to advise without knowing what you actually intend to use the name for.
Something as pedestrian as “Worm: Toronto” could suffice. Alternately, if you have some idea of themes or where the story was going, you could base it on that. “Darkness rising” or “Noble Demons” or whatever. It’s not immediately clear from the thread even whether your characters are designated heroes or villians…
Now, imagine if Taylor ends up controlling Vista. Trying to evade that 16 foot range gets pretty difficult when you have someone who can alter the distance between objects like that. There would pretty much be no escape.
Vista is considerably crippled by the Manton effect. Keeping scores of parahumans in a 16 ft range may be beyond her.
She is crippled only when there is a person within that distance. It does not matter if she is altering the distance between two people. She’s used that ability several times, only to generally make the gap between people larger.
True, but if the Administrator shard really is what Scion used to modify and restrict shards, that may no longer apply. Guess we may find out in….97 minutes or so, from comment posting.
53 minutes now…
Jay on October 16, 2013 at 22:39 said:
OMG. REMEMBER HOW THE SIMHURG APOLOGIZED? SHE APOLOGIZED BECAUSE SHE SET THIS UP WITH THE SINGING. WHY ELSE WOULD SHE MAKE A SKITTER GUN?!?
Technically the Simurgh just made Taylor experience an auditory hallucination that would move her in the right direction for the Simurgh’s plans. Feelings of remorse didn’t seem to enter into the picture there so much.
Well what you need to remember is that the Simurgh ‘guides’ people through flashbacks and memories and such, sort of like what was motivating Taylor not to stay in the cave…
UponRevenge on October 21, 2013 at 20:30 said:
I really enjoyed these lines:
To me it is the funniest line Imp has delivered.
After reading this chapter I have a sad vision of the main naration of this story ending with a disabled Taylor lying in a heap. Dinah is nearby and Taylor can just make out Dinah saying “I am so sorry”. Taylor desperately wants to act, to say something, but all she can manage is a single tear which rolls down her cheek as her life is ended.
You Ma’am or Sir are depressing. Especially as I can see it too. Maybe with a hug from Dinah thrown in for extra poignancy.
Jason Fonceca (@ryzeonline) on August 23, 2014 at 22:20 said:
God, Wildbow, this story is such a work of f***ing art.
Oh damn. Just damn. Talk about breaking the hardware when upgrading the software.
So the passenger/shard seems to be either merging or overwriting Taylor. Sad but interesting and potentially extremely useful.
I like how Lung has essentially completely decided that Marquis is his friend. Otherwise I doubt he really would’ve bothered keeping Amy safe. Also it was rather funny how Marquis recommended mutiny to his underlings.
“Now Skitter’s broken.” Yup that pretty much sums up the situation in an albeit hilarious sort of way.
So much for my Queen of the Swarm Planet. A Sarah Kerrigan we do not have. Darn, those breeding relay bugs had such promise!
Count to 10 on August 28, 2016 at 17:03 said:
Some really discordant and difficult to follow writing on this one. It’s particularly jarring that everyone suddenly knows that Taylor can control people without anyone saying so, or even Taylor herself figuring it out.
Again, with the “Imp does everything sagely” thing. Seriously, Wildbow, this is becoming some painfully juvenile writing here. It’s as if you learned the word or decided it sounded nice, so now you’re wholly incapable of letting it go.
Get your shit together or this will never be published.
ardock on October 9, 2017 at 12:20 said:
You aggressively commented on a single word out of 1.6 million multiple times, multiple years after the work was released and when it is clearly not edited for publication yet, and you want to talk about people being “juvenlie”?
Doubt you’ll see this either since I’m about a year late myself, but if such a minor issue gets so deep under your skin that you have to make personal attacks on the writer, after presumably having read their entire work for months, free of charge… Then you really do need to grow up / get your shit together, Anon.
Ow. Ow ow ow. Rachel is incredible and it hurts.
That… Was not the god power I imagined but I’ll buy it!
Does she get to sit on an Endbringer and control them if she does that would be fuckin awesome
* on October 17, 2018 at 02:53 said:
1. Panacea can fix it. Riley can fix it. Scion can fix it.
2. No! No, no, no, no, no! Wildbow, you put that back right now!
4. 😦
5. Fine. Can’t do much to change it, anyway.
heystranger111 on November 7, 2018 at 10:42 said:
Ooh this was a short chapter!
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10 September 2017 - Parker Pies in Rutherglen, currently celebrating its 21st birthday has picked up some additional presents at this year’s Great Aussie Pie Competition, held at the Darling Harbour International Convention Centre in Sydney. Three pies were entered and owner Fred Parker has medalled with all three: Gold for his plain meat pie, Gold for his chunky beef pie and Silver for the steak and mushroom pie.
The competition is held annually and is the pinnacle of the pie making art in Australia. The event attracts thousands of entries from all over the country and is judged by an elite panel of 16 judges including chefs, bakers and a range of industry reps.
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Correction: Protective effects of hydroalcoholic extracts from an ancient apple variety ‘Mela Rosa dei Monti Sibillini’ against renal ischemia/reperfusion injury in rats
Hasan Yousefi-Manesh,abc Sara Hemmati,a Samira Shirooie,d Seyed Mohammad Nabavi,*e Azita Talebzadeh Bonakdar,a Reza Fayaznia,b Mohammad Hossein Asgardoon,f Ali Zare Dehnavi,c Mohammad Ghafouri,c Joice G. Nkuimi Wandjou,g Giovanni Caprioli,g Stefania Sut,h Filippo Maggi*g and Stefano Dall'Acquai
a Preclinical Core Facility, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
b School of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
c Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
d Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
e Applied Biotechnology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
E-mail: nabavi208@gmail.com
f Iranian Student Society for Immunodeficiencies, Students’ Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
g School of Pharmacy, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
h Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy
i Departement of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Correction for ‘Protective effects of hydroalcoholic extracts from an ancient apple variety ‘Mela Rosa dei Monti Sibillini’ against renal ischemia/reperfusion injury in rats’ by Hasan Yousefi-Manesh et al., Food Funct., 2019, 10, 7544–7552.
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According to the International Energy Agency, oil and gas will still be needed in 2040 to meet about half of the world’s growing energy needs—just as they do now. And, as the World Ocean Review reports, about one-third of oil and gas production comes from offshore.
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Preprogram planning that includes risk assessments and management
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Soft-start techniques that involve a gradual increase in the loudness of the sound source to allow animals to move away as the sound grows louder
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Opinion: Arsenal Could Learn A Huge Amount From AC Milan’s Remarkable Revival
The Arsenal Football Club hierarchy could do a lot worse than to take heed of AC Milan’s remarkable turnaround in recent years, writes Colm Egan.
‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’
Hamlet’s expostulation was, of course, referring to the toxic ruling hierarchy of his homeland but as one scours the English football landscape, it’s easy to see that 15th Century Denmark does not hold a monopoly on all things rotten, toxic and seemingly doomed to fail. I speak of course, of Arsenal football club.
Much to the chagrin of their supporters and delight of everyone else, Arsenal FC is again in crisis mode. Like an infection so widespread its genesis becomes unknowable, the root cause of Arsenal’s malaise is difficult to determine although the fact that the malaise exists is undeniable.
It could be their owner’s ostensible indifference as to their on-field performances or the fact that their manager’s hold over his players can only be deemed strong when compared with his tenuous grip on reality. It could even be due to the players that appear less than perturbed by their string of inept implosions, insipid performances and non-existent title challenges.
Arsenal has, of course, known a stellar history. The club of the Invincibles, of Henry’s swagger and Bergkamp’s panache, Vieira’s power and Pires’ poise, this is a club that is greater than the current motley assortment of prima-donnas and jet setters that don the kit on a weekly basis.
Arsenal is about its stellar past, its global array of fans but most importantly it is about its future. And it is that future which may well be squandered by the dysfunctional leadership of Stan Kroenke and Arsene Wenger.
They are set to face AC Milan in the Europa League on Thursday, a club from which Arsenal could learn more than most in light of the journey The Rossoneri have been on in recent times.
Since their chairman, Adriano Galliani, was sacked amid the morass of the Italian match-fixing scandal of 2006, Milan was acquainted with mediocrity and experienced a sustained absence from European competition. Indeed their current Europa League campaign is their first foray into European competition since 2014.
Following Yonghong Li’s acquisition of the club for €740m in April 2017 the club have set their sights on ushering in a new era at the great Italian institution while leaving the stale administration of Silvio Berlusconi in its wake.
Leonardo Bonucci of Milan celebrating after defeating Lazio on penalty kicks at Olimpico Stadium on February 28, 2018.
Last summer saw a level of spending unprecedented in the red half of Milan. Andre Silva, Andrea Conte and Lucas Biglia were acquired for significant sums but it was the signing of Leonardo Bonucci from Juventus for €42m that really caught the attention of not just the Italian football press, but that of wider Europe as well.
AC Milan were no longer going to accept languishing in mid-table. Theirs was a tradition and heritage that deserves more and they were determined to once again prove that to the rest of Europe.
There are several traits that separate Europe’s elite from the rest and prime among these reasons is arrogance. An attitude that screams to the world that you dine at Europe’s top table and that to settle for anything less is a disservice to past greats, to fans and to the club as a whole.
Arsenal’s willingness to go so many years away from this pedestal smacks of a club that doesn’t feel deserving of such a stature and their sustained period without major honours is becoming their new normal.
Such banality would not be tolerated at AC Milan, and their years away from European glory looked assuredly to have come to end following their summer spending spree.
Except, they hadn’t quite gone away.
Under Vincenzo Montella Milan spiralled aimlessly down the table and on the day he was shown the door, November 27th, they stood a shocking 18 points behind their bitter city rivals, Inter Milan. The club had sought such radical changes, new ownership, new culture and a new style of play that perhaps it had forgotten who they were and where they were coming from. The appointment of Genaro Gattuso, it was hoped, would put that right.
AC Milan Coach Gennaro Gattuso of AC Milan celebrates after defeating Lazio on penalty kicks (February 28th).
Gattuso was hardly an obvious appointment as head coach. Having lead Pisa to promotion to Serie B, he then walked away from the club for ‘serious, constant and unacceptable problems’ before embarking upon a distinctly unremarkable stint at youth level in Milan. But it was not management nous that got him the job.
It was his story, his legend and his fabled history in the colours of the Rossoneri.
Milan, with figures such as Bonucci, were already awash with leaders but what they needed was a purpose and a reminder of what it means to play for AC Milan. Gattuso would be the personification of that purpose.
This willingness to embrace former greats is also curiously absent from Arsenal. Dennis Bergkamp has almost exclusively dedicated his coaching time to Ajax and Thierry Henry was forced out of a youth coaching position having accepted a role as a Sky Sports analyst.
Thierry Henry and Graeme Souness working for Sky Sports Television.
As Patrick Vieira pointed out during his time as coach at New York City FC,
“I’m disappointed not to have ex-Arsenal players working at Arsenal. It is good for the young players who could see an Henry, Ljungberg, Campbell or Keown who have been at the club a good few years working in the academy, or working somewhere.
“Players want to do it but do not have the opportunity. I don’t understand it.”
While the reasons for such hesitation in embracing the expertise of their former luminaries is perplexing, it’s far from a mystery as to why their rivals have been quick to make the most of such knowledge within their own systems. Even Patrick Vieira himself went to Manchester City to earn his coaching badges rather than his beloved Arsenal.
Gattuso’s ascension to Milan first team coach was widely derided as misjudged and reckless at the time, but their stellar form of late makes a mockery of such scorn. Just seven points behind Inter and fresh from a 2-0 defeat of Roma, Milan are assuredly the form team in Serie A and very much in the hunt for Champions League qualification.
The club have supplemented their summer acquisitions with youth in the form of Donnarumma, Davide Calabria and the prolific Patrick Cutrone. They are a team with balance, desire and a ferocious work ethic imbued by their new head coach.
Each one is a trait that Arsenal appears to lack in, but it is from the club hierarchy that such traits are generated.
Arsene Wenger looks dejected during the match between Arsenal and Manchester United on December 2, 2017.
As reported in the Guardian, a crisis meeting was held at Arsenal last week in which a senior player claimed,
“We are a big club. But we need more help from the coaches.”
Such a plea is not an attempt to shift the responsibility, but a recognition that players can only do so much.
AC Milan provides evidence that a club can rebuild and return to success, but vision and leadership at the top are a prerequisite for such reform. Arsenal Football Club would be wise to take note.
Colm Egan, Pundit Arena.
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Review: The Rebel Angels, by Robertson Davies
The Rebel Angels is a 1981 novel by Robertson Davies, the first in his Cornish Trilogy. It is a story of scholars and their peculiarities, magic and its realities, and classics and their application to modern man. Sentence for sentence, Davies’ prose is unparalleled: clear, expressive, and beautiful. The characters and story lines are delightfully absorbing. Each chapter is full of mysteries that compel you to hurry to the end, and humor that makes you wish it never ended.
Davies’ earlier Salterton Trilogy and Deptford Trilogy were named for the fictional towns which their characters call home. The Rebel Angels, on the other hand, is set in the fictional College of St. John and the Holy Ghost (“Spook”), and “Cornish” refers to a recently-deceased benefactor thereof. Three Spook professors, Clement Hollier, Urqhart McVarish, and Reverend the Professor Simon Darcourt, are charged with sorting through the late Francis Cornish’s valuable art and manuscript collection. The capable young businessman and nephew of the decedent, Arthur Cornish, is the executor of the decedent’s will and overseer of the professors’ sorting process. John Parlabane, former student and former professor and former monk, begins the novel as little more than a burdensome visitor and smooth-talking moocher. Interactions among these men tend to revolve around Mary Magdalena Theotoky, an up-and-coming Rabelais student with an exotic heritage. The story is told through two first person narratives. The chapters alternate between Theotoky and Darcourt, each narrator complementing the other to round out a picture of university, home, and inner lives in Spook.
Drawing on his career as a professor, Davies’ college faculty is full of complex men and women. Whereas many authors write academics as walking personifications of their respective fields, Spook’s faculty is composed of genuinely interesting people who have genuinely interesting things to say. At no point does their scholarly conversation feel pretentious, nor is it too intellectual to understand. The lay reader gets to be a fly on the wall for casual conversations among insightful colleagues, sharing stories and theories that might not make it into academic papers, but are nonetheless mentally stimulating. Only one of the characters truly lives by his philosophy, and everyone with whom he comes into contact finds him insufferable and patently depraved.
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In What’s Wrong with the World, G.K. Chesterton explained that certain primitive technologies may be replaced, but only by an assortment of what might be called “unitaskers” (not Chesterton’s word). A fire gives heat, cooks food, emits light, fends off predators, and serves as a gathering place, among other uses. Now we have space heaters, stoves and microwaves, light bulbs, fences, and televisions, but all these serve limited purposes. A heater gives no light; a fence doesn’t cook food. We progressed technologically, but the life-sustaining force of fire is greater than the sum of its parts. That which served our ancestors is often considered outdated and abandoned.
The theme of digging into the past for lost value, or “discovering the value that lies in what is despised and rejected,” permeates the narrative of The Rebel Angels. This theme is apparent in Theotoky’s resistance to her cultural background, it is central to the work of Dr. Ozy Froats, and it comes up in the doings of Hollier, Darcourt, and the team cataloging the Cornish collection. Hollier’s field of study is called “paleo-psychology;” he investigates what historical peoples thought and why they thought so. When science and culture progress and older generations die off, the wisdom embedded in their outdated beliefs is lost with them. Hollier hopes to preserve or revive that wisdom by investigating folk cultures. Darcourt sets himself to the task of becoming “The New Aubrey,” recording what the College’s brightest minds have to say and thus preserving the transient spirit of the current generation of Spook scholars. (The “Old” Aubrey is John Aubrey, who in the late 17th century wrote Brief Lives–a compilation of gossip, peculiarities, and anecdotes regarding his contemporaries and various famous figures.) While cataloging the late Cornish’s collection, the team of professors finds pieces more valuable than their deceased purchaser was aware. Less skilled or more careless archivists may have allowed such pieces to be misplaced or undervalued.
Digging into the past is both an attempt to gain value and a race against loss. The more time passes, the more substance is swallowed up into the recesses of history. Darcourt’s attempts to preserve the spirit of the College are thwarted by the death of professors; their stories go untold. Hollier seizes the opportunity to learn from Theotoky’s mother, a living relic of a dying culture. “Mamusia” thrives in the practice of her arts, but her daughter is a modern student who consciously sets herself apart from the ways of her ancestors. Hollier must glean what he can from Mamusia because he probably wouldn’t get much from Theotoky.
If the Cornish Trilogy follows the examples of Davies’ previous trilogies, What’s Bred in the Bone will probably not follow this exact cast of main characters. Instead, they will play supporting roles in the story of others in the same universe–others who figured minimally themselves in The Rebel Angels. Under Davies’ masterful hand, the Salterton and Deptford trilogies each erect a beautiful world to live in for three novels, with each novel almost wholly independent of the others. Many book series feel like a succession of volumes–Part I, Part II, etc.–but each Davies novel feels fresh, and incorporates different writing styles and points of view. I look forward to reading What’s Bred in the Bone with the eagerness one can only feel for a new book by one’s favorite author.
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Pain And Glory directed by Pedro Almodóvar (Spain) 2019 is an introspective meditation.
While Almodóvar claims the film isn’t about himself, he’s taken considerable effort to pattern both the main character and his personal environment on his own physical appearance and the art and furnishings of his home.
The director in the film is unable to continue directing films because of numerous health problems so he replays significant scenes from the past in his head. Childhood poverty. His parents’ unsatisfactory relationship. Educational development. Plus a seminal relationship with an older man.
The process of continual retrospective review also provides an opportunity to reconnect with a difficult collaborator from the past who becomes an increasingly negative influence in the present.
There seems little hope that he’ll be able to overcome depression and hopelessness yet he manages to rise above the difficulties in his life.
Pain And Glory opens 11 October 2019 at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema, San Francisco and Landmark’s Aquarius Theatre, Palo Alto.
18 October 2019 at Shattuck Cinemas, Berkeley; AMC Saratoga 14, San Jose; and Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael.
1 November 2019 Landmark’s Piedmont Theatre, Oakland; The Tower Theatre, Sacramento; and Landmark’s Nickelodeon Theatre, Santa Cruz
8 November 2019 Regal UA Olympus Pointe, Roseville and Regal UA Stonestown Twin, San Francisco.
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Chavela Vargas (1919 – 2012) was a well-known Mexican, nightclub singer who had affairs with the wives of numerous politicians.
Her tequila-fueled songs were distillations of life’s pains in general and the agonizing aspects of romantic love in particular. She undoubtedly drew on her own misery for her dramatic performances in Acapulco.
She retired after a quarter of a century and her fame faded over time.
Chavela, the documentary directed by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi, (USA) 2017, began with a video interview of the vocalist made during the 80s. It includes not only historical footage but also a large collection of photos provided by the woman who was her lawyer and long-time companion.
Film director Pedro Almodovar arranged for a concert in Spain in the 90s, and eventually a booking at the Olympia Theater in Paris, relaunching her career’
Despite her initial fear of performing sober, she reached an entirely new audience during her final years.
Chavela played initially to a packed audience at the Castro Theatre and screened again at the Landmark Theatres Piedmont during Frameline 41.
It won the audience award for best documentary at the festival.
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To accept a challenge with confidence.
"You want to have a race? Bring it on! I can beat you!"
This can mean either to visit someone or to use someone's or something's knowledge.
To visit someone: "I'll call on you this evening to see how you're feeling."
To use someone's knowledge: "I may need to call on the university's excellent professors in order to answer your question."
To cancel something.
"The picnic was called off because of the rain."
To support someone by giving them words of encouragement. (Can be separated by the name or pronoun of the person/people being cheered on).
"Even though Samantha was in the last place, her brother cheered her on through the entire race."
This phrase can either be used as a phrase of encouragement said to someone who seems sad (just saying "cheer up!" to them), or it can mean to try to make someone happier.
"Andrew was having a bad day, so his girlfriend cheered him up by taking him out for ice cream."
Come up (with something)
o think of an idea.
"I came up with this idea for a TV show about a woman living with her best friend and daughter. I call it 'Two and a Half Women.'"
To bring up a topic, or when something happens unexpectedly.
To bring up a topic: "I wanted to tell her that I got a new job but the chance never came up."
Unexpected occurrence: "I was going to meet my friends for dinner, but something came up so I had to cancel."
To enter.
"'Come in, the door is open!' said the grandmother to the wolf."
Come across
To meet or find by chance.
"I was cleaning the attic and I came across my high school uniform. Can you believe it still fits?"
Come forward
To volunteer information about something, like a crime.
"The police are encouraging people to come forward with any information about the kidnapped girl."
This phrase can be used in several ways, but its general meaning is "to interrupt or stop something." (Can be separated.)
While driving, to get in front of another car suddenly: "That red car just cut me off and I almost crashed into it."
To stop supplying things to or communicating with someone: "His father is rich but he cut him off without any money of his own."
Cut (it) out
This phrase has the same meaning as saying "Stop it."
"Hey, cut it out! I was watching that movie, so stop changing the channel!"
To interrupt someone when they are speaking.
"I was about to ask that girl on a date, but her friend cut in and I lost the chance."
Drop by/in
To stop by for a visit, for a short time.
"Andrew is such a great boyfriend, when he heard that his girlfriend had a cold he dropped by to bring her some soup."
To leave something or someone in their destination. (Can be separated by the object being dropped off.)
"I can give you a ride and drop you off at work."
Fall apart
This phrase means "to break into pieces," but it can be used to talk about things that are not physical, like a marriage or a person.
"They tried to save their marriage by going to therapy but in the end, if fell apart anyway."
To drop to the ground, usually by accident.
"My friend slipped on a banana peel and fell down. I thought that only happened in cartoons!"
Fill (someone) in
To give someone the details about something. (Is usually separated by the person getting filled in).
"Quickly, let's go! There's no time to explain, I'll fill you in on the way."
To become completely full.
"The little girl filled up on candy before dinner, and didn't want to eat any of the chicken."
To escape. You may have heard the phrase "getaway car." That's the car used by criminals to run away from a crime scene, like a bank robbery.
"Carmen's neighbor tried to show her pictures of all her cats, but Carmen managed to get away."
To solve a problem by avoiding the main issue. This phrase can also be used very informally to refer to someone who has many sexual partners. As you can imagine, it's not very nice to say that someone "gets around"!
"Some people know all the different ways to get around tax laws."
To stand up, or to wake up.
"I have so much trouble getting up in the morning that I have to set three alarms."
Get back to
To return to someone or something. This phrase is often used to say that you will return with an answer to a question or a request at a later time.
"Derek's coworker wasn't sure what time the meeting was, so he said he'd get back to him with the time."
Get back at
To get revenge on someone.
"Her ex-husband took her house so she got back at him by taking his dogs."
Give out
This phrase can mean to break down or stop working or to hand out or distribute something.
To stop working: "The city had to rebuild the bridge completely because it was about to give out and fall down."
To distribute: "He has a lot of contacts because he gives out his business card to everyone he meets."
To surrender, especially in a fight or argument.
"Ben's mother gave in and let him stay out late with his friends."
To hand things out for free. (Can be separated by the item being given away.)
"When Linda's cat had kittens, she gave them all away to good homes."
To stop trying, surrender.
"After two weeks of trying to build my own table, I gave up and just bought one."
Go out (with)
To go on a date with someone.
"Sarah was so happy when Peter finally asked her to go out with him!"
To go in front of someone, or to give permission to do or say something.
"Go ahead, explain to me why there is a car on my roof."
To grow up, sometimes used to tell someone to stop acting childish.
"Some people tell Steve he needs to grow up, but he loves acting like a child."
Grow apart
To get distant from someone, like a friend.
"When my friend moved to a different country I tried to stay close with her, but we slowly grew apart."
Hang on
To keep something.
"When everyone else was getting fired, Paul managed to hang on to his job."
To spend time with someone, casually.
"My friends and I used to hang out in the park after school."
To end a call on the phone, especially if it's before the other person is ready.
"I was in the middle of a sentence, and he hung up on me! How rude."
To hold something tightly. This phrase can also be a way of asking someone to wait for a moment.
"You'd better hold on to your hat, it's windy out there!"
Hold back
To stop yourself from doing or saying something.
"Amy has a great voice but whenever she's singing in public she feels shy and holds back."
Log in (to)
Used with computers, this phrase means to sign into your account on a website or computer.
"Don't forget to log in to your FluentU account to learn English better and faster."
Log out/off
Also used with computers, this phrase means to sign out of your account.
"You should always log out of your accounts when you use a public computer."
To check the meaning of something. (Can be separated by the item being looked up).
"If you don't know the meaning of a word, you should look it up in the dictionary."
To watch out for something.
"Look out, there's a baseball coming your way!"
To give someone back money that you owe them. (Can be separated by the person getting paid back.) When it's written as one word, "payback" means revenge.
"Thanks for getting me lunch when I forgot my wallet at home! I'll pay you back tomorrow."
This phrase can either mean to give someone money for a particular purpose (like paying for a new car) or to suffer because of something you did.
"He'll pay for all the problems he caused me by being late today!"
Put out
This phrase can mean to extinguish a fire or to irritate someone by asking them for a favour. (In the case of annoying someone, can be separated by the person getting annoyed.) Be aware that in very informal slang, this phrase has a more offensive meaning.
To extinguish a fire: "The firefighters managed to put out the fire before it spread to other houses."
To irritate someone: "I'd ask you to make me dinner but I don't want to put you out."
To get your clothes or makeup on.
"Every morning she puts on her dress, lipstick, shoes and hat—in that order."
This phrase can mean to remove clothing, or to leave for a journey (i.e. planes take off when they begin their flights).
"She was very happy when she finally got home and took off her shoes. They had been hurting her feet all day!"
To remove something, like from a pocket or a bag. This phrase can also mean to take someone on a date. (Can be separated by the item or person being taken out.) The phrase can also mean to remove someone, as in by killing them—but this is probably not something you would need to use in everyday conversation!
To remove something: "The children sat at their desks and took out their pens and paper."
To take someone on a date: "He took her out to the most expensive restaurant in the city."
To switch a machine or light on or off.
"Turn off the light, I'm trying to sleep!"
To move so that you're facing the opposite direction.
"Sally was about to get on the plane, but she turned around when someone called her name."
When someone that was lost is found unexpectedly.
"Anything I lose usually turns up under the couch. It's my cat's favourite hiding place."
Warm up (to)
To start liking someone or something more as you spend more time with them, especially if you didn't really like them in the beginning.
"The new puppy was scared of my husband when we first got him, but he warmed up to him pretty quickly."
To exercise.
"I try to work out every morning, by repeatedly lifting a heavy donut to my mouth."
Work (something) out
To come up with a solution or a compromise with someone.
"Don't worry, I'm sure we can work something out so that everyone is happy."
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Microsoft Combines SCCM, Intune in New Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Microsoft is rebranding its main client management tools, the company announced Monday at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla.
A new service called "Microsoft Endpoint Manager" brings together System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and the Microsoft Intune mobile management service. The combination of these two device management tools appears to be more than just a rebrand, however. For instance, Microsoft Endpoint Manager also includes "Device Management Admin Center (DMAC) and Desktop Analytics" solutions, as well as the "comanagement" feature for managing devices using SCCM or Intune. In addition, Microsoft is planning to add "intelligent actions" to it.
"Microsoft Endpoint Manager is the convergence of Intune and ConfigMgr functionality and data -- plus new intelligent actions -- offering [a] seamless, end-to-end management solution without the complexity of a migration or disruption to productivity," explained Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of Microsoft 365, in the announcement.
With the announcement of Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Microsoft signaled a change in direction on its advice to organizations with respect to Microsoft client device management products. A couple of years ago, Microsoft had introduced a "comanagement" capability that permitted organizations to domain-join client devices and use either SCCM or Intune to manage them. It was conceived by Microsoft as a way to help organizations transition to Intune. However, in the Monday announcement, Anderson claimed that scenario wasn't so clear, and that comanagement is not just a transition tool.
"So, let me be very clear -- this vision includes both ConfigMgr and Intune," Anderson wrote. "Co-management isn't a bridge; it's a destination."
Anderson also briefly described some coming simplifying licensing changes, although details weren't described. They'll be available in "the coming months." Here's how those licensing changes were characterized:
To make this easier for you as well, we're also announcing today that we're simplifying licensing, and we are making the licensing to Intune available to all ConfigMgr customers to co-manage your Windows devices. If you would like to manage non-Windows devices through Microsoft Endpoint Manager, you will need to purchase either an Intune license, an Enterprise Mobility & Security (EMS) license, or a Microsoft 365 E3 or higher license.
Microsoft Endpoint Manager scenarios for SCCM users and Intune users are further discussed in this other announcement by Anderson. In it, he also talked a lot about the "modern workplace" and "modern management," which apparently involve Microsoft 365 solutions and the use of cloud-based intelligence.
Windows Virtual Desktop and Linux Support
The Windows Virtual Desktop service, which provides virtual desktop infrastructure for accessing the Windows 7 or Windows 10 Multisession operating systems and applications, now works with Linux devices, including "iOS, MacOS and HTML5," according to Anderson's post.
The support for Linux devices is happening though IGEL, one of Microsoft's hardware partners. Microsoft is building a software development kit (SDK) to expand Linux device support for the Windows Virtual Desktop service.
Microsoft currently has a preview available (enrollment required) of MSIX App Attach. It's a way to streamline adding applications used with the Windows Virtual Desktop service by storing the applications outside virtual machines as packages. Microsoft is currently developing documentation on MSIX App Attach and has an Ignite session on the topic, as mentioned in this Ask Microsoft Anything session.
Microsoft 365 Admin Center Improvements
The Global Reader role of Azure Active Directory, previewed earlier this month, is now at the "general availability" commercial release stage. It's like the Global Administrator role in Office 365 except it just has read-only privileges. It's designed to help organizations with audits and investigations, while limiting the ability to make changes.
Microsoft also has a Groups Administrator role in Azure Active Directory. Office 365 Groups additions include "support for sensitivity labels," as well as "activity-based renewal and expiration."
The Microsoft 365 Admin Center also includes a Compare Roles feature that helps IT pros figure out which roles to assign. It'll compare up to three roles together, showing the various permissions associated with each role, according to another Microsoft announcement.
Microsoft added templates to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, which can be used for easier configurations when end users share attributes. Microsoft added a "Report an Issue" button to the Service Health Dashboard in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. The center also includes a link to Azure Cloud Shell for using PowerShell with Azure services. Currently, Azure Cloud Shell provides access to Exchange Online and Teams PowerShell modules.
Microsoft is previewing a "What's New" feature in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center that will show coming Office 365 features. IT pros can use it to either send the information to end users or hide it. It's planned for general availability early next year.
Anderson said that Microsoft is planning to publish its best practices for desktop management as derived from what it has learned from its Microsoft Managed Desktop customers. The Microsoft Managed Desktop service, where Microsoft acts as a managed service provider and takes over a desktop management role of IT, got started last year.
A preview program for "enterprise network insights and network score" within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center will start in Q1 2020, according to an announcement, which has a link to sign up. The program is designed to help larger organizations with multiple office locations deal with network connectivity issues that affect end users. Microsoft will have an Ignite session on the topic, too.
Desktop App Assure, Microsoft's FastTrack program to address application incompatibility issues with Windows 10 upgrades and Office 365 migrations, has been renamed and is now called "App Assure." In addition, the program has been extended to the Microsoft Edge browser and the Windows Virtual Desktop service.
App Assure support for the new Chromium-based Edge browser will happen when that browser reaches general availability, slated for Jan. 15. Currently, the Edge browser is at the "release candidate" stage for both Windows and macOS, The Edge browser now sports a new claw-like logo, signifying "waves of innovation." Microsoft has already released security baselines for the new Edge browser, which are at the preview stage.
Microsoft also issued a private preview of a new service to ease Teams meeting room management called "Meeting Rooms." It's described as a "cloud-based IT management and security monitoring service that ensures that Teams meeting rooms are secured, up to date, and proactively monitored for a great in-room experience."
Microsoft is also offering a private preview of Productivity Score for Microsoft 365 users, which assesses the productivity of people and technology in organizations.
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CalSTRS creates $500m REIT allocation and trims real estate portfolio by $2bn
By Jon Peterson, Richard Lowe2019-11-06T11:57:00+00:00
California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) has been transforming its real estate portfolio ahead of a vote today on whether to increase its target allocation to the asset class.
The $242bn (€215bn) pension fund in the US has been over-allocated to real estate for some time and has made $2.1bn of disposals in the asset class so far this year, according to a board meeting document.
It also plans to allocate $500m to real estate investment trusts (REITs) and has hired its second REIT manager, CenterSquare Investment Management.
The changes come ahead of today’s investment committee meeting where it will consider proposals to increase the real estate target allocation from 13% to 15%.
At the end of September this year, the pension fund’s $33.8bn property portfolio represented 14% of total assets, down from 14.2% at the same point last year.
CalSTRS already increased its real estate allocation target from 12% to 13% earlier this year, and it is permitted to exceed its target by up to three percentage points.
Real estate consultant RCLCO Fund Advisors was asked to explore the feasibility of increasing the target and whether it “would result in diminished returns”.
RCLCO concluded that CalSTRS “should be able to increase the allocation… in an accretive manner” while maintaining “discipline with investment criteria”.
CalSTRS has established a new $500m allocation to REITs and RCLCO said this “could be deployed immediately” to achieve to 15% real estate target.
Earlier this year, CalSTRS hired Principal Real Estate Investors as its first REIT manager.
The pension fund has also been active an active real estate seller, disposing of $1bn in direct assets owned through separate accounts and joint ventures this year, while also issuing $1.1bn of redemptions from open-ended property funds.
RCLCO said that, “while CalSTRS has been a net seller of open-ended commingled funds, CalSTRS could transition toward investing in such funds, most of which do not have an entry queue at this point in the cycle, and thus would allow for capital… to be deployed quickly”.
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Learn English with Rap: Jurassic 5 (End Up Like This)
By Chad | August 8, 2012
Does your English need a little more rhythm and flow? Are you insecure about your pronunciation? Learning English with Rap could be your solution, and Jurassic 5 might prove that learning this way makes the process a lot more fun, and your English pronunciation a lot better.
I’ve been a huge fan of J5 (Jurassic 5) since I had the privilege of seeing their show in my hometown of Perth, Australia in 2007. Whether you’re already a fan, or this is the first time you’ve heard of them, you will not be disappointed with their unique rap sound or the amount of cool words you will learn just by listening to one of their songs.
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This article will cover some English topics with Jurassic 5, including:
Phrasal verbs based on the titles of some of their songs
“Rapocabulary” vocabulary related to rap culture
Discovering how J5 have connected to Brazilian culture through music
Firstly let me give you a quick summary of the group
About Jurassic 5
This Californian band was formed in 1993 by rappers Charles Stewart (Chali 2na), Dante Givens (Akil), Courtenay Henderson (Zaakir), Marc Stuart (Mark 7even), and Disk Jockeys Mark Potsic (DJ Nu-Mark) and Lucas Macfadden (Cut Chemist).
The group released 4 successful albums before they broke up, in 2007, for creative differences amongst group members.
Their musical genre has been described as a unique mix of alternative music, Hip Hop and they’ve even integrated Brazilan rhythms with a Vinicius de Moraes cover, and collaborated with Marcelo D2.
Everyday Phrasal Verbs with J5
End up like this
The phrasal verb “end up”, like in the title of this track, means result in. For example:
What did you end up doing last night? – Meaning: The final result of something.
In this track, the crew are rapping about how their lives have changed negatively from when they were kids. As you will see in these lyrics, and most hip hop lyrics, is that they often make grammar and pronunciation mistakes. For a rapper this is a perfectly normal street styled way to speak and it helps them to rhyme aswell.
“Hey, yo, the vision that I’m seein’ ain’t the same no more
We used to tell the girls we love ’em, now we calling ’em whores
Summers of the past was a blast when we cooked out
But now we grab the phone, sit alone and order take out”
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Rapocabulary
Yo– Used to call someone’s attention, it can be used as a substitute for Hello.
Seein-Seeing, note that the “g” is not usually pronounced in words ending in “ing”
Ain’t– Not, an alternative for I’m not/He isn’t etc. Used a lot in U.S. rap culture
‘em– Them, it’s common to shorten words
Whores– Prostitutes
A blast– A good time
Cook out– Common American tradition of having a barbecue outside
To get something together is used to give someone advice to change something about their life or current situation. It’s generally used when someone’s life is a little out of control. For example:
Hey man, you are always late to work and smell like alcohol. You gotta get it together. – Meaning: You have to take more control of your life and be more responsible.
In this track, the guys are rapping about how they’re trying to “get it together” in their lives with their everyday problems.
“Yeah, I’m tryin’ to get it right, live my life right
I want the things that come with the fast life
but I don’t wanna lose my soul, right? pay with my life
I just wanna rock ice with my fresh nikes (yeah, yeah)
cuz the girls at the school think I dress nice. (yeah)
The real thug niggaz cool with a nigga, right?”
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Get my life right– Make your life more correct
Fast life– A life of partying and fun things
Wanna– Want to
Fresh nikes– New nike sneakers
Cuz– Because
Dress nice– Use good clothes
Thug– Usually a criminal you can hire to do dirty work
Niggaz– Offensive slang word for negro, used only amongst African American rappers
Work it out means to solve a problem for example, “I worked it out” means I found the solution to the problem.
Don’t confuse this with the phrasal verb work out which means to do exercise for physical fitness.
The chorus of this awesome song is sung by Dave Mathews, another great musician in case you have never heard of him. Judging by the chorus, because each verse tells a different story, this song is expressing that we should all dream and not worry about the consequences. Whatever problems appear, we can “work it out baby.”
Let’s look at the first verse where Marc 7even teaches us that even Thug rappers can be romantic.
“We live and we learn, we crash and we burn
Right now my only rhyme is this lesson I learned
You talk about trust, I talk about lust
Its not appealin as you truly speak your feelings
I be lookin at the ceiling, so concealing
I shoulda put my heart on the table
Knowin I was good and able but instead I fed your fables
If I could have you back best believe it’d be forever
Cause each and every day you would hear those four letters.”
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Crash and burn– To fail miserably
Lust– A intense craving, in this case for sex.
Appealin– Desireable. Note that he dropped the “g” at the end
Shoulda– I should have
Fed you fables– Told you lies, fables are fictional stories told to children.
Those four letters– He’s referring to the word love.
How we get along
This track is just a sample of a guy’s voice with some beats being played over the top, it was used as an intro to one of their albums. I used to love listening to this track at the start of the day purely for the good vibes it has.
“Get along” can have 2 meanings. In the title of this track, it means how we interact with other people, how we communicate, and how we co-exist with other human beings. For example
Do you get along with your neighbors? Yes, we get along just fine.
Another way we use “get along” is to express how we managed or handled a situation. For example:
How did you get along at the job interview?
I’m getting along really well in my new house.
This would be very similar to saying, how did you go? Or how are things going?
What we’re about to do, and to show youis how we get along.
We get along with eye contact.We also get along by listening to one another.
Not only that, but we also get along because of rhythms that we’ve learned during the course of the years.
But above all, there is harmony. Because we got to listen to one another.
It’s all about feeling good; it’s a positive attitude to make it work.
And what we’re about to show you today is FIVE different versions
Of feeling good. Yeah.”
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About to do– we say this to say the next thing we’re going to do e.g. “I’m about to go to sleep.”
One another– um ao outro
Above all– acima de tudo
Make it work– Dar um jeito
Connections to Brazil
In an interview I read, some of the members of the group stated that before they broke up, the band had been listening to a lot of Brazilian music, especially Bossa Nova. On their album, “Feedback,” they made a remix of the Vinicius de Moraes’ “Canto de Ossanha.”
Another way J5 has connected collaborated with Brazilian rap was with 2 group members Charlie 2na and Cut Chemist. In 2006 Charlie 2na met up with Brazilian rapper Marcelo D2 and they made a duo rap track call “What I got.” This track was only released on D2’s album “Meu Samba e Assim.” Click here to listen.
Canto de Ossanha
Meu Samba e Assim
Whether you’re a hip hop fan or not, as an English learner I believe that rap music can be one of the most beneficial genres of music to help your learning process. As I discussed in my previous article Learn English with rhythm and flow, the beauty of rapping is that the phonetics are more similar to spoken English than it is in other styles.
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What To Drink Now: Sonoma Valley
Monte Rosso Vineyard 100+-year-old vine Zinfandel
Just a baker’s dozen long from north to south, Sonoma Valley delivers diversity producing everything from classic Bordeaux and Burgundy varieties, to wines made from vines brought over generations ago from Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Rhone Valley, and Spain.
Annually the Sonoma Valley Vintners and Growers join together in celebration of this diversity, showcasing their unique story, immersing guests into their vineyards and wineries with a Signature Sonoma Valley weekend.
Today on KXAS-TV/NBC DFW I’ll share a little more about a handful of these special wines. Below is a snapshot of last weekend’s immersive, elegant, unique experiences surrounding the Cabernet Sauvignon variety. I will have more on the wines and weekend in subsequent posts. A link to the segment is here.
Gloria Ferrer Sonoma Valley Chardonnay
As Signature Sonoma Valley welcomed early arriving guests on Thursday, they opened the event featuring a handful of first draft AVA maps detailing region crafted under the direction of Antonio Galloni of Vinous and Italian cartographer Alessandro Masnaghetti. Their goals is to highlight every vineyard of record, even down to those that are no more than 1/2 of an acre, to accurately reveal the varying elements of the valley from elevation to variety to age, to name, as Galloni is also working towards measures to lock vineyard names into stone as they define the sense of place that is being lost as land changes hands, and new owners look to rebrand story-filled vineyards.
Resting between the Mayacamas Mountains and Sonoma Mountains, Sonoma Valley established California as a wine producing area in 1824 when Sonoma became the last and most northerly link in a chain of 21 Californian missions built by Franciscan monks. Sonoma’s mission was the only established under an independent Mexican government.
Vineyards were first planted by Franciscan missionaries 183 years ago, but the region was established over 12,000 years ago when America’s indigenous tribes named the area “Valley of the Moons” as legend says Sonoma derives from the indigenous word “many moons.” The first noted winery of the region, still producing today, was Buena Vista in 1857, followed by Gundlach Bundschu a year later. The Bundschu family still runs the winery today producing beloved international varieties as well as incredible Gewurztraminer displaying both classic wildflower and rose perfume notes, as well as a clean, distinct line of minerality.
The historic Buena Vista Winery was purchased by French wine bon vivant Jean-Charles Boisset in 2011, reestablishing it as a quality producer of robust red blends and refined sparkling wine.
Seeking adventure, and “purple gold” Count Agoston Haraszthy left his life as a part of the Hungarian nobility to venture to California to find the ideal place to plant vines. Along the way, he was also elected Sheriff of San Diego County in 1850. Buena Vista “The Sheriff” honors that story and legacy, creating a robust blend of Petite Sirah, Malbec, Cabernet Franc, Mission, and Merlot, delivering blackberry, black plum and a touch of baking spice.
Monte Rosso Vineyard in the Moon Mountain District
One of Sonoma’s newer sub-AVA (American Viticulture Area) is the volcanic rock filled Moon Mountain District. Some of the oldest vines rest comfortably nestled on the western slope of the Mayacamus Mountains, including the historic Monte Rosso Vineyard. Benefiting from elevations of 400 to 2200 feet, red, iron-rich soils, western exposure to the sun, and a direct line from San Pablo Bay to receive cooling afternoon winds ensuring that even on the hottest summer days, Monte Rosso fruit shines with acidity and freshness.
Starting with 75 acres in 1886, Monte Rosso has been the prize of Sonoma Valley for generations, rivaling not only the best Cabernet Sauvignon wines of Sonoma and Napa, but the world. In the early 1930’s, just after prohibition ended, Louis M. Martini saw the protentional of the place, with it’s key similarities to Napa’s mountain regions, purchasing the property and expanding to it’s current 250ish acres planted to Cabernet and Bordeaux varieties, while keeping blocks of old vine, sprawling Zinfandel and a varied field blend of Old World Portuguese and Italian varieties traditionally planted in California by European immigrants in the late 1800s.
Gallo purchased the property in 2002 when Louis M. Martini was acquired, bringing in sustainable farming methods. Under the guidance of vineyard manager Brenae Royal, the essence of the terroir speak through the Martini, Mount Peak and Orin Swift’s new Eight Years In The Desert wines. Louis M Martini Monte Rosso Cabernet Sauvignon has a concentration that you don’t find in many wines, thanks to 130 years of farming. But with the bold palate layering highly structured fruit comes a focused freshness, with energy, vibrancy, and tension.
The Moon Mountain Vineyard, which for the past decade has been owned by Jim Momtazee producing his Repris Wines, highlights the complexity the place delivers, creating wines with energy and power, along with an overall feeling of grace. Momtazee, and his team including esteemed organic vineyard manager, Phil Coturri, and winemaker Erich Bradley, believes his role is to be a steward of the land to usher in the next generation of the vineyard, honoring what has been done in the past, while looking towards the future.
Tasting wines produced 30 and 40 years ago from fruit off the vineyard, as in some of Richard Arrowood’s earliest single vineyard bottlings of Moon Mountain fruit for Chateau St. Jean in the 1970’s, surprises the palate as though fruit has moved from fresh to dried flavors, there is still freshness in the wines, with softened, but present, tannins. The 1974 wine still had years of enjoyment ahead of it. I have much more to come in a subsequent post on the beautiful wines of Moon Mountain.
Similarly, moving to the central part of Sonoma Valley, in the high elevation slopes on Sonoma Mountain, the 16 acre Laurel Glen vineyard was first planted in the late 1970’s, with 1981 being the first vintage. Organically farmed, showcasing the natural floral and forest areas that surround the vineyard, Laurel Glen wines reveal red fruit, tobacco, savory olive and balsamic, and woody garrigue filled herb.
Through a retrospective tasting of the past almost 40 years the progression of the wines became obvious, as youthful vines came in to their own, delivering textured, well-rounded fruit that is beautiful to enjoy upon release, as is evident with the current release 2015 Laurel Glen Cabernet Sauvignon, but also ethereal decades later.
For years many have only looked to Napa Valley to find the noteworthy Cabernet Sauvignon wines of California. Of everything this Signature Sonoma Valley weekend delivered, it’s highlight was the deep appreciation for Sonoma Valley’s unique story, and the simply stellar Cabernet Sauvignon wines produced for over 100 years. I will have more on the other varieties that shine here, particularly cool-climate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from Carneros favorites like Ram’s Gate, Sangiacomo, Landmark, Anaba, and Gloria Ferrer bubbles. Cheers and aloha.
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The Future of our Employment Services System
Rachel Siewert 15 May 2019
The Australian Greens will build a new employment services system that assists people into fulfilling employment pathways and provides specialised help to those facing significant barriers. We want our new employment services system to achieve better outcomes for unemployed workers.
Our current employment services system, jobactive, is not fit for purpose and is failing unemployed workers. Australia currently spends less than half the OECD average onemployment services . The Greens want to see significant reform to Australia’s 1 employment services system. We will ensure the views and experiences of unemployed workers who have engaged with employment service providers are taken into account. Australia is the only OECD country to outsource the entire delivery of publicly funded
employment services. The Greens will ensure the public service is responsible for delivering employment services to unemployed workers who face minimal barriers to employment.
ONE: INCREASE NEWSTART AND YOUTH ALLOWANCE
The current rate of Newstart and Youth Allowance has not been increased in real terms since 1996 and more than half the number of people receiving Newstart live below the poverty line. Poverty is a significant barrier to employment. The Greens will immediately raise Newstart and Youth Allowance by $75 a week to ensure that people facing barriers to employment are not condemned to live in poverty.
TWO: ABOLISH MUTUAL OBLIGATIONS
Jobactive further entrenches economic disadvantage by enforcing mutual obligation requirements on unemployed people. The evidence shows that mutual obligations, also known as welfare conditionality, don’t work in assisting people to find paid work and can lead to increased poverty and poorer health outcomes. The Greens believe that mutual obligations don’t have a place in our social security system. We will immediately abolish the Targeted Compliance Framework from all employment related programs, including Jobactive, PaTH, Work for the Dole and ParentsNext. The Greens will ensure that our employment services enable people to find work while being treated with dignity and respect.
THREE: SUPPORT LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED WORKERS
Jobactive is failing to support people who are most disadvantaged to find employment. Recent research shows 64% of people receiving Newstart and Youth Allowance were on these payments for more than 1 year, 44% for over 2 years and 15% for over 5 years. Our new employment services system must be designed to identify a person’s strengths and barriers to finding work, while also ensuring unemployed workers are comfortable disclosing personal
barriers that impact on their ability to find work. The Greens will use existing employment services funding to develop a specific employment
stream that supports long term and very long term unemployed workers that includes tailored supports and assistance. We will also increase investment in specialised services, such as intensive case management, for long term unemployed workers and for people who face complex and multiple barriers to employment.
FOUR: A TAILORED SYSTEM
We know that certain cohorts of people face significant challenges in the labour market. Yet jobactive is not effectively meeting the needs of unemployed workers with disability, young people, older people, refugees and complex barriers. We need a system that takes into account individual needs and circumstances, and is tailored accordingly. The Greens will ensure our future employment services system supports people with disability, young people, older people and refugees.
FIVE: EMPLOYMENT CONSULTANTS
Employment services consultants play an essential role in helping unemployed workers find work. In the current system, employment consultants experience large caseloads, inadequate training and high staff turnover rates. To ensure unemployed workers are adequately supported, the Greens will introduce a minimum standard of skills and training for all employment services consultants. We will also ensure the development of a vocational training course or tertiary education course for employment services consultants.
SIX: INDIVIDUALISED JOB PLANS
Job plans are currently used to record a person’s obligations and voluntary activities under jobactive. Giving unemployed workers standardised job plans, or asking them to apply for an arbitrary number of jobs each month, is not improving people’s changes of gaining employment. We believe people should have a say over what’s in their job plan, and that these plans are tailored to meet individual circumstances. The Greens will ensure that job plans under a new system are individualised, flexible and include long term employment goals and training goals.
1 ACOSS, 2018, Submission to the senate inquiry on the appropriateness and effectiveness of the objectives, design, implementation
and evaluation of jobactive, https://www.acoss.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ACOSS-submission-job...
2 Dan Finn, 2011, Sub-contracting in Public Employment Services: Review of research findings and literature on recent trends and
business models, p34
3 ACOSS, Raise the rate, https://www.acoss.org.au/raisetherate/
4 ACOSS and Jobs Australia, 2018, ‘Faces of Unemployment’, p4,
https://www.acoss.org.au/media_release/getting-a-job-on-newstart-is-hard...
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Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc of Monaco steers his car followed by Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain during the first free practice at the 'Sochi Autodrom' Formula One circuit, in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. The Formula one race will be held on Sunday. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Max Verstappen traded positions with Charles Leclerc in Friday's second practice at the Russian Grand Prix.
After Leclerc set the pace in the opening running at the Sochi Autodrome, Verstappen moved to the top of the time charts.
The Red Bull driver finished 0.335 seconds clear of Leclerc, with Valtteri Bottas third.
Lewis Hamilton, who is bidding for his first win since the summer break, was fourth, 0.798 behind Verstappen.
Hamilton's Mercedes team is so often the dominant force in Russia, having won all of the five races staged here.
But Hamilton, 65 points ahead of Bottas in his quest for a sixth world title, looks to have his work cut out after finishing behind both a Red Bull, a Ferrari and his teammate, too.
With Verstappen to serve a five-place grid penalty following changes to his engine, Ferrari look well-placed to win for a fourth time in as many races.
Leclerc won successive races in Belgium and Italy before Sebastian Vettel ended his 13-month losing streak in Singapore last weekend.
Vettel, who made a slight mistake on his speedy run, was fifth in the second session, 1.039 off the pace.
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Minister-turned-atheist Jerry DeWitt speaks at ReasonFest in Kansas earlier this year.
Unbelieving preachers get help to 'come out' as open atheists
By Dan Merica, CNN
(CNN) - Jerry DeWitt entered the ministry when he was 17, launching a 25-year career as a Pentecostal preacher. He traveled all around his home state of Louisiana, preaching and ministering wherever he could.
All these years later, DeWitt, 42, is still on the road, and now takes his message all over the United States. But the nature of that message, along with his audience, has changed dramatically.
DeWitt is now an avowed atheist, and his audiences are made up of religious “nones,” the growing number of Americans who are atheist, agnostic, humanist or just plain disinterested in identifying with a religion. Today, DeWitt preaches a gospel of disbelief.
During his speeches, he talks about the process of leaving his preacher job. “If you don’t believe, then you will be like me - you’ll suddenly find yourself where you only have two choices,” DeWitt told a group in Johnson County, Kansas, earlier this year.
“You can either be honest that you don’t believe ... or you can pretend that you do,” he said. “Which is what so many people are doing and that is called faith.”
The transition from preacher to outspoken atheist has not been easy, and DeWitt is trying to smooth the way for other former believers. He is executive director of Recovering from Religion, an organization founded in 2009. Its slogan: “Thousands of organizations will help you get INTO religion, but we’re the only one helping you OUT.”
But a relatively new effort goes a step further than his own group by focusing on helping clergy in particular. In March 2011, a coalition that includes national groups such as American Atheists, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Richard Dawkins Foundation helped launch the Clergy Project, which is aimed at giving doubting and atheist preachers a community in which they can talk about their disbelief.
The program's ultimate goal: to help unbelieving preachers to “come out” in real life.
A safe online community
The Clergy Project’s key component is a private online community of active and former pastors discussing their conversions to lives of active disbelief. It lets congregational leaders come out anonymously, using an alias.
“It is important to focus on any group of people who are in a lot of pain,” said Linda LaScola, a co-founder of the Clergy Project. “That is why the Clergy Project exists, and it wouldn’t be growing if there wasn’t a need for it.”
When it launched last year, 52 clergy signed up for the online community, according to LaScola. A little more than a year later, 270 members are contributing to the message boards and connecting anonymously with one another.
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According to LaScola, the community includes some rabbis, imams and Catholic priests, but the majority are Protestants.
Members are barred from disclosing what is discussed on the boards, but DeWitt said it’s a blend of humor, advice and encouragement. DeWitt, who left his congregation just over a year ago, is considered the group’s first graduate.
“It gave me confidence to come out,” DeWitt said of the Clergy Project. “Knowing that I was not alone, that I was not a fluke, that I was not a freak of religious nature, but that this is a process; it most definitely gave me confidence and a purpose.”
Jerry DeWitt, far right, in his days as a minister.
DeWitt said that after connecting with people on the message boards, he realized he faced fewer obstacles than some others who are trying to leave the ministry. For example, DeWitt's wife and son already knew about his disbelief, while other questioning preachers had not yet told their families.
“I think it is important when you are struggling that you talk it out, that you write about it, that you find support,” said Teresa MacBain, acting executive director of the Clergy Project. “I still try to reach out to people who are questioning, who are doubting, clergy people and laypeople alike, and let them know they are not alone, that there are people who care.”
How does he feed his family?
For 44 years, MacBain was involved in some sort of ministry, from organizing worship music to being a senior pastor at a Methodist church in Florida.
At a recent American Atheists convention in North Bethesda, Maryland, MacBain first publicly announced her atheism, inspiring a roaring round of applause. American Atheists President David Silverman walked onstage and hugged her as MacBain began to cry.
"I was the one on the right track, and you were the ones that were going to burn in hell," MacBain told the crowd. "And I'm happy to say as I stand before you right now, I'm going to burn with you."
She said she sees plenty of growth potential in the Clergy Project. In the near future, she said she hopes to incorporate it as a nonprofit and begin raising funds for clergy who have decided to leave ministry jobs. She also wants to compile a group of employment recruiters to help former clergy find new jobs.
DeWitt, for his part, is struggling financially and said his house could be foreclosed on in the next few months.
For former preachers in search of work, their old skills can be hard to translate into new fields. What references do former ministers use if they have disappointed their congregants by leaving the pulpit?
MacBain said that some “formers,” as she calls ex-clergy, have left their hometowns for new jobs in fields ranging from radio to counseling.
To aid those transitions, Recovering from Religion has started the Clergy Professional Relief Fund, dedicated to “helping ex-ministers have a soft landing after coming out of the ministry.” Though little money has been collected so far, the hope is to help former ministers with job training and relocation expenses.
“Even if you have a degree in divinity, that doesn’t really mean anything,” DeWitt said. “That is the biggest fear that a nonbelieving clergy member has. How does he feed his family?”
Losing faith, losing friends
As a young fresh-faced minister, DeWitt was first confronted with his disbelief when he “became the person who got the burden of preaching about hell,” he said. “I really loved the people I preached to, I loved them like family. So imagine preaching that if you don’t do this, you are going to burn in hell. That wasn’t easy for me.”
After doubt about hell, DeWitt began to research other schools of thought about God and belief. He began to develop other doubts, about certain biblical translations and about healing.
“The next big issue was the failure of prayer,” DeWitt said. “People are passing away, whenever we pray for them to live. People aren’t getting jobs, whenever we pray for them to have jobs.
“The harder we tried to alleviate suffering within our church, it seemed like the worse things got,” he said. “It didn’t seem like prayer made any difference. It just continually crushed my heart.”
When DeWitt decided to come out as an atheist, some in his congregation appeared shocked.
“I was very heartbroken actually because his family means so much to me; they are actually like family,” said Natosha Davis, 30, who attended DeWitt’s church for four years. “I was very heartbroken for him that he had to go through that and struggle.”
Many congregants were less charitable. “Some people where he lives just totally turned their backs on him,” Davis said. “He was ostracized, excommunicated. It is like he has a disease, but he doesn’t.”
When DeWitt runs into people he used to preach to, he still averts his eyes. Going to the post office and to Walmart, he said, can be stressful because of the possibility of running into a former congregant.
“It is because places in which you were once admired now you are suddenly scorned or pitied,” DeWitt said, who admits not having many friends anymore. “It makes for an extremely uncomfortable life.”
And yet DeWitt said his atheist life mirrors his old religious one in some key respects. In some ways, he said, he’s still a minister.
“The origin of the symmetry is me, is my personality, my love for people, my love for ministering,” DeWitt said. “What I have always tried to do is to minster from where I personally am at.
“When I was 17, I preached what I believed was best for people at the time; when I was 20, it was a little different; at 25 it was different, too,” he said. “And now at 42, I am still the same guy preaching what I see is best for people.”
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mcbutter
What ? What?? Stupid criptic crap like that is why no one believes! And i think you stole that line from the marines!
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Peikovianyi
The generation that heard Jesus' voice died prior to 100 A.D. They wrote or dictated their eyewitness testimonies to a credulous flock of neighborhood pagans, who believed THE END was near. And so they waited. And civilizations rose and fell. And languages died out. And continents were discovered. And the internet was developed. And nothing predicted in Matthew 24:34 has since been fulfilled in its entirety, and the world goes on.
Bootyfunk
all cult leaders make such claims - jesus was no different.
This is an election year. Candidates enter caucuses and primaries. They do and say what candidates must do and say. No different when campaigning for God's Annointed. No doubt Theudas and Judas of Galilee (Judas of Gamala) also did some miracle-working acts before they were executed.
@ Peikovianyi: it's easier to follow a conversation if you continue to respond to the same thread.
Read the rest of Matthew. It's clear the author intended for his audience to understand Jesus' prophecy came true. You don't have to believe it to understand the author's intent (Mt.27:51-53).
And, even if you still disagree, it gives much more credence to your argument not to exaggerate. Jesus opening line of the chapter is that 'all these stones will be thrown down' – which is exactly what happened in AD 70 when Rome destroyed the temple. Even if you are an atheist who believes Matthew was written by a later author, you can see the intent of the prophecy on Jesus' lips.
Point being: in context, even if just as a piece of literature, Matthew shows the fulfillment of Jesus' prophecy (Mt.24:34) within his own writing (Mt.27-28). Or for a more cynical take: he is re-narrating history after the fact (about the events of AD 70). Either way, you've missed the literary intent of the statement.
Clearly in the passage prior to Matthew 24:34 the Book of Matthew descibes apocalyptic struggles that did not occur prior to 100 A.D. These events have not happened in the two millenia since. If literal, it's a prophecy failure, but if we choose to interpret all sacred literature as symbolic, then okay, it's a game of jokers are wild, and for all you know I'm god incarnate.
Another day goes on and yet another mouth piece spewing the end times. Good times and good laughter.
halfbakedlunatic
'god' is an idiotic idea promoted by immoral people to control and pacify the weak minded. I applaud those who finally open their eyes to the truth!
Semper Solicium Fiderre
Whenever the belief of something, the belief of nothing, or any combination of beliefs come in contact with another each party states with head strong determination that they are right, when there is not any support to either side. It is this insistence that someone has to be right when two opposing cases are presented that cause conflict. Easy answer let others, ALL OTHERS believe as they want, because maybe their opinion is right. Your opinion might say they are wrong but what proof do you have? There really is no proof when it comes to religion ether way.
Atheist Hunter
http://www.newgeology.us/presentation32.html
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Seriously, they allow "Booty Funk" as a screen name? Can you really post a serious comment with a screen name like that?
serious as a heart attack, sucka!
Jean Malloy
Given that often comments "stink", BF may be a proper screen-name for many who post comments. 😀
they can only imitate. 🙂
Atheists get out
We need to round up all atheists and give them a choice to convert or get out!
William Demuth
You wont be the first Christian that has tried.
We nailed your bogus God up and left him to die, and I have no issues doing it again, to either him, or you.
Lets see how tough you talk when you are crucified.
Why can't we have a Don't Ask, Don't Tell for Christians?
Loathstheright
We need to round of Christians and tell them to quit believing in faerie tales or get out.
"mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord ...."
The weak minded people want to use force on the strong minded.. that will be a slaughter fest. The world over would crush every religion if force was used. Verily if you religious fools want to start it – let's begin.
mrTestosteroni
I have a better idea. Let's round up all the Christians and teach them to STFU.
PulTab
Stand nose to nose with me and see who gets out!
Nah we need to bring back the lions. Give them the opportunity to express the power of prayer before a lion. Let us see if their God will spare them? Let the ground flow red with the power of their God. Let us not forget to include the Muslims as well. Call it Faith Games.
come and get us, big mouth
The day they get rid of the non-believers is the day we start down the path of the Middle East.
However Christianity is already dying from within. I suspect at some point all we will have left is slobbering drippy droolie slack jawed people in the South holding on FOR GOD! The youth are getting smarter earlier and earlier with each generation.
In a way this movement is a blessing. There will just be fewer nominal "Christians," or people who profess Christ but don't really believe in Him. In other words, there will be fewer surprises when Jesus says, "I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness." People will get what they've wanted their whole lives: complete separation from God.
Why would Christians have children if life is a test and if you fail it you will spend eternity in Hell? By having children, you are rolling the dice. Your child or all of your children could end up in Hell and you are partially to blame.
Reason set in and they faced the reality that there never was a god and never will be.
Adam DeRidder
Editor / Dan Merica : Do you have a link to the "Clergy Professional Relief Fund" to include in the article?
Thanks for publishing this article. Surprising to see in the 'religion' section of cnn.com, but well-written, balanced and interesting. (and of course controversial – sure to generate plenty of hot-headed comments from both sides as people try to argue a non-logic based topic with logic or more commonly with very little logic and an abundance of emotion).
it is just interesting to see how western world is turning into Atheism. churches spend significant amount of money and time in converting Asians and on other side they are loosing their own people. Christianity is just killing itself.
We've had a good look at the insanity of religion in the Middle East in the past 10 years. We are now reviewing the silliness of our own religion.
Good. A justifiabe suicide if there ever was one
JJinCVCA
For millennia, religious types have wanted people to blieve that god created humanity in his/her image, when in reality, people created god in the image of humanity, wraught with all of humanity's hopes, dreams, fears, and unabashed hatred.
Go to church and learn how to beat down gay people. It's the Christian way.
Matthew 24:34 "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." Nice try. Really nice try.
yeah, jesus sure was FAIL at prophesying.
@ Peikovianyi: so, by your sarcasm, it sounds like you apply Mt.24:34 to the second coming of Christ?
but Jesus is talking about the destruction of the temple...
which LITERALLY happened in AD 70 (within a generation)...
or FIGURATIVELY happened on the cross around AD 30 (within a 3 years of Jesus saying these things, talking about his own body as the temple).
Everybody believes in something...I believe I'll have another beer.
Darw1n
I would like to join your congregation
Right on, brother. Let us worship at the church of the Frothy Head.
Frothy head is better than no head at all!!
What troubles me is how people with no understanding of the Universe feel that they must attack anyone who believes they do understand it. I'm a Christian, I believe in God. I don't feel the need to run around to Atheists, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, or believers of any other faith and attack that which they believe. Atheists do, Atheists in this very blog, they get very frustrated when i point out how hypocritical it is to attack religion when what they believe in is just as crazy sounding to me as my religion is to them. All i ask for is respect for my religion and I certainly will respect others. Instead, I get insulted by the Atheist crowd because well... Insecurity. People who are insecure in their beliefs feel the need to try and force others to believe what they do... they try to attack others to try and convince themselves that at least the people they're attacking aren't right.... Atheists are often... VERY insecure. I don't know why, perhaps they just don't realize that nobody cares what they believe. We live in a country where everybody can believe in what they want to... I'm not forcing my beliefs on you and i'd appreciate you not attacking my beliefs. How about that?
Christianity is categorized as an evangelical religion. I'm sure you know what that is, it's the act of spreading "the word" to non-believers in hopes of converting them, Islam is the same way. You don't attack anyone you just tell them that what they believe in is wrong and what you believe in is right. Thats what this guy is doing but it takes more guts for him because he is outnumbered by freaks like you, and yeah you can call it an attack for calling you a freak. I have no problem with that.
It is elitist to suggest that your religion gives you a full understanding of the universe. Religous folk have some HUGE heads.
nobody is attacking your beliefs, they're just saying they have different beliefs. How can you not see that is no different than an evangelical chrisitan, christ calls for you to do so. Study up on your own religion pal.
Right on Ryan
Clinton you are a liar.
The nature of your cult REQUIRES you to recruit.
Like any other dealer of poisons to our children, we are merely putting you on warning.
Mess with our kids, and we carve you up. Its the harsh reality of street justice.
leonid7
Oh i beg to differ. The Christian lobby since the 80's has been massive, is definitely reflected in policy making. There is no atheist equivalent.
Ryan, I'm here telling you i don't nor have i ever tried to convert somebody to my religion. I personally don't even know anybody in my church that has ever gone to people that don't believe and told them they're wrong and they should believe what we do... I don't know who you speak of, I am not one of them obviously, but my beliefs are still attacked by Atheists, my point is, Atheists have no respect for people that believe differently than they do. On the whole, Atheists attack everybody who isn't them, which is funny because they claim that's what religion does... Hypocrisy at it's finest, as far as you calling me a freak... how bout, who gives a damn what you think of me, you're obviously an idiot anyways.
Well, I guess it is you attacking others because you are the insecure one.
Clifton–Well stated.
@Clinton
How does it feel to be the ones on the burning end? I don't feel sorry for you twits.
Good for you, Clinton. Wish there were more people on both sides that were able to live with people who were different without believing them to be stupid or freaks (BTW – you are not a freak – a freak is a minority population who behaves far outside of acceptable standards for their society – Christians in the US are by definition not freaks since there are so many. Snake handlers are probably candidates – odd behavior compared to the rest of society.)
I agree: many atheists are as rabid or moreso than many religious folks. Which is odd – they claim to be dedicated to pure reason, but are extremely emotional.
@Adam DeRidder
I love how your kind can never handle your own ridicule and labelling that you pass off onto others. You're fine as long as you aren't being labelled but will whine at every opportunity that you are the one's being persecuted. So hilarious.
Dyanna
You seem to be categorizing all atheists into one big group of people spreading their belief (or non belief) and trying to convince the religious to convert. I'm pretty sure that you don't hear from 99% of the atheists you meet on a day to day. I would be willing to bet that this article is one of the few encounters you've had with atheism at all. You really shouldn't speak in absolutes. I can't recall a single instance where an atheist came up to me and handed me a pamphlet telling me there is no heaven. You know how many Christians have handed me pamphlet to let me know I'm going to hell? Or how many have literally knocked on my door to tell me all about their God? Too many.
n473b
As long as you "Hate the sin, love the sinner". I will hate the belief, love the believer.
@Dyanna
Don't forget that also with every pizza flyer that comes under the door is a flyer to convert you to the nearest doctrineof that neighbourhood.
I totally understand where you're coming from. I'm a Christian (most times) and Spiritualist, and never attack anyone else's believes for or against a Deity, but Non-Believers can be the rudest, harshest critics, always screaming and demanding proof that a God exist. Although I feel like Job these days, that God andr my Guardian Angel have deserted by rear-end, but deep down, I know He exists b/c of some prayers answered (many more prayers not answered) and His visions and whispers to me of things to come and to prepare myself.
My response to Non-Believers is http://www.near-death.com
i bet every christian here had a hissy fit when he/she saw this article this morning.
I'm a Christian and it doesn't bother me, the guy can do whatever he wants in his life. I'm not concerned with the choices he makes in his life. My question is, why did you join the blog? Looking at your posts, it appears you're here mostly to bash other people's beliefs. It's funny since that's a two-way street and i could bash any belief i want to... the reason i don't is, there's no point, so what i wonder is, what do you get out of it?
if you look at my posts, i am 50-50. sometimes i do like to make jokes. i have a sense of humor, what can i say? but i also make very serious points. i love having a rational discussion without ad hominem attacks. but you gotta look at what the christians say too. i've been told i should die, i'm going to hell, i'll burn forever, to kill myself - and all by christians. so it goes both ways.
have a serious question for me? i'd love to hear it.
Thank goodness the gay community grew a backbone in the last 30 years and have stood up to Christianity. Christians want to throw stones at the gay community for generations then cry foul when the feces is thrown right back at them.
Fred Evil
Retribution for the decades of being 'pitied' and 'scorned.'
You are the extreme exception, and what sounds like a true Christian, as opposed to 'xtians' who wear their religion on their sleeve, are always trying to sell what they reportedly believe, and pitying and scorning others who believe differently than they do.
wisdom4u2
Why would you think Christians had 'hissy fits' when they read this article? Unlike the atheists, you can't shake a real 'believers' faith... for we walk by faith and not by sight. Duhhh
Rocketdude
No, you're wrong...I'm a Christian and I did not have a "hissy fit." In fact, I think this is a sad story.
In 15 years evolution will be clearly visible and easy for even the smallest of minds to understand. It is how we came about and the phoney religion fables which have similiarities throughout all religions will be fairy tales of the past. Christianity has been shoved down my throat since day one and I'm blessed to have a mind to think on my own and make my own decisions based on research and what I know to be true in this life, not based on faith and scare tactics.
it's clearly visible now, there are mountains of evidence. the public just doesn't educate itself on the facts. and the fundies block it from being taught in our educational system every chance they get. it'll happen. it's gaining speed. the facts are there. the truth comes out eventually. one of the most beautiful things about science is it reveals the world around us.
RyanR
Yes, your incredible, earth-shattering, super-computer level intelligence that can pierce through the cosmos and generate the power equivalent of a 1 million megaton bomb can see it all. You unlock the answer to the Universe's deepest contemplations with just your mind. lol, get outta here. Next...
Please provide your evidence...I've yet to see any scientific evidence toward proving evolution that actually sticks. Why 15 years? Scientists have been trying to prove it for hundreds of years, you really think 15 more is going to do the trick? I'm curious to your thoughts on this article http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth
Oh how you unbelievers like to stroke your egos with your foolishness. You hate my words and my wisdom.
Tiest thou thy wrists to thine ankles and await his coming.
wisdom? darn, i must have missed those posts, where can i find them?
In your butt hole
Excitizen
Thou Shall NOT Judge – you're going to he.ll according to your religion 🙂
Nah, Its you we hate.
Stone age idiot filling children with terror.
You guys have burned us for years, maybe it's time we return the favor.
Roast you on your own altar of lies and psychosis
I don't hate your words, I simply mock them because they are extremely far removed from being wise.
Like it or not .. religion is for the gullible.
HeavenSent keep clinging.. no one cares that you cling. In vain or in death it doesn't matter to us atheists. You'll still be dead.
Ammit is going to devour you after death HeavenSent because your heart is heavier than a feather.
Get right with Ra.... or else!!!
If your words had any wisdom, they would not be so reviled.
Please, elaborate on what wisdom has been 'hated.'
You hate my words and my wisdom.
Nah, no hate here. Your words give us something to laugh at. Your wisdom? I've yet to see any of that from you, so I have no comment.
Crucifixus est Dei Filius, non pudet, quia pudendum est; et mortuus est Dei Filius, prorsus credibile est, quia ineptum est; et sepultus resurrexit, certum est, quia impossibile. "The Son of God was crucified: there is no shame, because it is shameful. And the Son of God died: it is wholly credible, because it is unsuitable. And, buried, He rose again: it is certain, because impossible." – Tertullian (c. 160 – c. 225 AD). Oh, puh-leeze. Is that all it takes to be a Church Father, a dose of lunacy?
farty fart
dudes a poll smoker
So he smokes 'a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons, as for the purpose of analysis?'
Scripture says, there those who are called that will be deceived. Many are called but few are chosen. "Not all that says, Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of God." Blessed are those who are chosen to be God's people!
Scripture says a lot of nonsense.
Zeus would be proud of you standing up for him like that!
You made that up yourself didn't you?
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UA Faculty Research
UA Faculty Publications
AuthorsSternberg, Ben K. (23)University of Arizona (22)University of Arizona, Department of Mining and Geological Engineering (8)Sternberg, Ben (4)Poulton, Mary M. (3)Thomas, Scott J., 1961- (3)Alalawi, Saleh S. N. (2)Albehlany, Salah S. H. (2)Aldossary, Abdulaziz F. (2)Alhashimi, Rashid A. (2)View MoreTypes
CONTROLLED SOURCE AUDIO MAGNETO- TELLURIC (CSAMT) GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE MIDDLE SAN PEDRO RIVER BASIN, SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA
ANDERSON, KATHERINE E.; EDGE, RUSSELL D.; HACKSTON, ABIGAIL J.; MARAJ, SHOBA; ROMANOWSKI, MICHAL J.; SEAMONS, REED L.; Sternberg, Ben K.; STOKES, PHILIP J.; THURNER, SALLY M. (LASI Laboratory for Advanced Surface Imaging, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2008-05-14)
Groundwater resources are essential to support the growing population of Benson as well as the agriculture, and wildlife throughout the Middle San Pedro Basin. A refined model of the hydrogeologic framework within the region is necessary to allow for the most efficient allocation of the area’s ground water resources by city planners and water managers in charge of future development. New data were collected by the University of Arizona’s Geophysics Field Camp to update and improve this representation. This survey utilizes Controlled Source Audio Magnetotellurics (CSAMT) to characterize previously unstudied locations in the San Pedro Basin. CSAMT data were processed and interpreted using software from Zonge Engineering and Interpex Ltd. Seven receiver stations along a five-kilometer Middle San Pedro transect were used to determine the resistivities of several basin-fill units. Results show some resistivity variability with respect to depth among the sampled regions. In the simplest representation of the data, four layers were modeled. Resistivities ranged from 15-30 ohm-m in the near-surface units. Deeper units showed resistivities of 5-10 ohm-m. These results were plotted to help identify conductive aquitard (clay) and potentially more resistive aquifer units. This clay unit could correspond to a thin unit of the St. David Formation, which has previously been identified as a confining unit between two separate basin aquifers. CSAMT data indicate that the local bedrock is deeper than 500 m.
Geophysical Surveys in the Pima Mining District, Arizona Volume I
Alalawi, Saleh S. N.; Albehlany, Salah S. H.; Aldossary, Abdulaziz F.; Alhashimi, Rashid A.; Almurshidi, Abdulsam M.; Cathcart, Laura L.; Cole, Sherill L.; Crews, Joseph A.; Crouthamel, David Roger, 1963-; Didace, Didi; et al. (LASI Laboratory for Advanced Surface Imaging, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1989-02-06)
Geophysical surveys were conducted in the Pima mining district by students from the University of Arizona. The surveys were concentrated along section B-B' from Cooper (1973). The objectives of this survey included: teaching geophysical techniques, mapping regional structure along this profile, and determining which geophysical techniques were most useful for regional .mapping in this area. Controlled source audio-frequency magnetotelluric (CSAMT) surveys successfully mapped depth to basement along this profile. Seismic refraction surveys were not able to map depth to basement. Either the depth to basement was beyond the range of the arrays used in this experiment or there is insufficient contrast in the velocity between the basement and the overlying rocks. A test of the seismic reflection method was carried out using a walk-away noise spread. Possible reflections from basement were noted but were not sufficiently diagnostic to be routinely use able.
GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION OF SUBSIDENCE FISSURES NEAR WILLCOX, ARIZONA
Barbato, Nicholas A.; Bingham, Peter D.; Conley, Michael C.; DeFilippo, Makko A.; Desser, Elizabeth M.; King, Christina A.; Lewis, Benjamin J.; McCarthy, Emily S.; Mendoza, Nirio; Rucker, Michael L.; et al. (LASI Laboratory for Advanced Surface Imaging, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2009-05-14)
An interdisciplinary survey consisting of four geophysical methods was conducted on the western edge of the Apache Generating Station’s property in Willcox, Arizona. The aim of the survey was to apply various methods for the detection of earth fissures and desiccation cracks. The geophysical methods used were static magnetic field measurements, frequency domain electromagnetics (FEM), ground penetrating radar (GPR), and seismic. Two grids were delineated and surveyed by each method. Grid 1 was set up at a site containing a fissure with visible surface expression over some parts of the grid, and Grid 2 was set up at a site with little visible surface expression of the fissure, but was suspected to contain a fissure in the subsurface. At another location, northwest of the Apache Generating Station, three lines were surveyed in an area of known desiccation cracks. All of the methods showed an anomaly associated with the fissure in Grid 1. Furthermore, at locations where the fissure is not visible in Grid 1, there were still strong anomalies in line with the suspected location of the fissure extending below the surface. Magnetic data from Grid 2 suggests that magnetics may not be a useful method in subsurface earth fissure detection at this site, where we believe that the fissure is only a very small crack with small aperture at depth. The electromagnetic results from Grid 2 show anomalies extending from lines 1 through 5 where there is only minimal surface expression in lines 1 and 2 and no surface expression in lines 3-5. No anomaly was seen in the northern end of Grid 2. It was found that GPR in Grid 2 did not display conclusive results in distinguishing subsurface earth fissure anomalies from other anomalies, such as roots. Seismic lines in Grid 2 show anomalies in the profiles that could indicate the presence of earth fissures; however a thin high velocity horizon may appear as a subsurface fissure, and this made interpretations more challenging. At the desiccation crack site, there is evidence of a shallow feature, which we interpret to be a dessication crack and not an earth fissure. A dirt road was present at the desiccation crack site, and it is possible that the road may have produced some of the observed anomalies due to rain-water channeling effects. The locations of fissures were confirmed by trenches excavated at the locations where anomalies were visible in the geophysical data, but where the fissures were not exposed at the surface.
Geophysical Surveys near Old Yuma Mine, Tucson Mountains, Arizona
Chon, Enrique; Gabriel, Matthew; Harders, Sara; Hou, Xiaobo; Layton, Riley; Okbay, Meron; Roth, Karen; Rzechula, Lisa; Sternberg, Ben; Tuten, Thomas; et al. (LASI Laboratory for Advanced Surface Imaging, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2016-07-04)
To assist the United States Geological Survey with an on-going groundwater study around Old Yuma Mine in Tucson, Arizona, the University of Arizona GEN/GEOS 416/516 Field Studies in Geophysics class conducted geophysical surveys along two transects near the mine. Transect 1 was situated across the mine site; Transect 2 was located to the northeast in a nearby residential area. The methods used were gravity, magnetics, transient electromagnetics (TEM) and inductive electromagnetics (Geonics EM-31, and Geonics EM-34). The goal was to use these data to investigate the subsurface density, magnetic susceptibility, and electrical conductivity contrasts. A large gravity anomaly was observed on Transect 1 where it crosses both a mapped fault and the Old Yuma Mine; the anomaly is thought to represent a density contrast related to the Mine and fault. A smaller gravity anomaly was observed on Transect 2, corresponding in location along the profile to a large anomaly in the Transect 2 magnetics data. These anomalies are possibly related to the local lithology. A second magnetics anomaly was observed on Transect 1; this anomaly was also visible in the EM-31 and EM-34 data and could be due to the presence of a nearby wash. Other variations in the magnetics and EM-31/34 data consisted of narrow peaks associated with cultural interference, and the EM-31/34 data showed no large conductivity change in the shallow sediments. Interpretation of TEM data for Transect 1 was limited by the wide station spacing; much of the cross-section’s resistivity contrasts were interpolated over a large distance. The TEM cross-section for Transect 2 displayed higher resistivity on the northwest side and lower resistivity on the southeast side of the transect. Since the mapped fault, if projected northwards, would pass through the middle of Transect 2, it is thought that this resistivity contrast represents the location of the fault. It is hoped that the results of these surveys will be beneficial to the USGS in further work at Old Yuma Mine.
GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE UPPER SAN PEDRO RIVER BASIN, BENSON, ARIZONA
Aspiras, Gerald P.; Crawford, Matthew T.; Cylwik, Scott D.; Dangi, Tarun; Dewan, Milan M.; Hays, Naydene R.; Miller, Thomas E.; Sternberg, Ben K.; Thompson, Mayo (LASI Laboratory for Advanced Surface Imaging, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2006-05-07)
Four geophysical surveys were conducted at the Nature Conservancy about 20 miles north of Benson, AZ, in the Upper San Pedro River Basin, in order to better understand the nature of the sub-surface features of the basin. The geophysical methods included TEM (Transient Electromagnetic), seismic, EM34 and magnetic surveys. The TEM, seismic and magnetic surveys were conducted perpendicular to the river basin while the EM34 lines followed the riverbed. The perpendicular surveys were divided into two regions, referred to as the South and North Lines. The TEM, seismic, and magnetic surveys revealed a consolidated bedrock structure at shallow depths (30-40 m) along the South Line. The feature has an east-west extension of approximately 500 meters, and is located just east of the San Pedro River. None of the perpendicular surveys were able to detect bedrock features along the North Line, implying that the depth to bedrock exceeds the maximum depth of this investigation (360 m). Both lines showed regions of high porosity, and, potentially, of saturated materials. These regions were more prevalent along the North Line, where numerous highly porous areas were detected at various depths (including one region beginning at a depth of 50 meters and extending at least to 360 m). The EM34 failed to detect any appreciable long-wavelength changes in conductivity along the riverbed, though localized point anomalies were found.
TRANSIENT ELECTROMAGNETIC (TEM) INVESTIGATIONS INTHE UPPER SAN PEDRO RIVER BASIN, BENSON, ARIZONA
Anderson, Carl E.; Bari, Moussa; Cook, Robert W.; Hall, Jennifer N.; Hartley, Daniel R.; Jakucki, Jonathon; Jordan, Jared W.; Kennedy, Jeffrey R.; Sternberg, Ben K.; Wallace, Timothy M. (LASI Laboratory for Advanced Surface Imaging, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2007-06-27)
Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) surveys were conducted in the San Pedro Valley starting approximately 1 mile northeast of Benson, Arizona, and extending about 2 miles farther northeast. The survey used loop sizes of 20x20, 100x100, and 200x200 meters with the objectives of determining the depth, thickness, and lateral extent of clay deposits, and comparing ground surveys with a previously acquired airborne TEM survey. The data were processed with Zonge Engineering smooth inversion software as well as Interpex TEMIX layered-earth inversion software. The interpreted depth to near-surface clay deposits was less than 5 m on the west end near the San Pedro River, and increased to about 15 m, 1.3 km to the east. Farther east, clay deposits were only detected at depths of 100 m or more. A possible bottom to the clay was detected near 100 m depth at selected stations in the western half of the survey, which would correlate with wells in the vicinity, but it was not laterally continuous. Surveys at the remainder of the stations did not detect a lower limit to the clay deposit. The results of the airborne survey versus the ground elevation surveys show similar resistivity values.
GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS AT VULCAN MINE
Bennett, Jesse E.; Bowler, Anthony T.; Cavabaugh, William R.; Glass, Aaron J.; Green, John D.; Katbah, Maher M.; Murphy, George P.; Pepe, Jennifer L.; Poulton, Mary M.; Qin, Jizeng.; et al. (LASI Laboratory for Advanced Surface Imaging, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1991-03-27)
Geophysical Surveys in the Pima Mining District, Arizona Volume II
Geophysical Surveys near Fort Huachuca, Arizona
Call, Christopher J.; Gleason, Arianna E.; Kaunda, Rennie B.; Meneill, Michael J.; Mkandawire, Emmanuel; Palmer, Joe D.; Portney, Barrie S.; Sternberg, Ben K.; Tembo, Jones; Wagner, Shanda L. (LASI Laboratory for Advanced Surface Imaging, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2002-05-04)
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has been studying the water resources in the vicinity of Fort Huachuca, Arizona. As a part of this study, they contracted an Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) survey of the region, which was flown in 1997. During the spring semester of 2002, the University of Arizona Geophysics Field Camp class conducted Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) surveys at five locations near AEM flight lines in order to provide an independent test of the resistivity structure. We used 100 X 100 m transmitting loops. A central induction loop array was employed where the transient decay voltage after transmitter turn off was recorded in the center of the transmitter loop. The TEM data were inverted using a smooth modeling program from Zonge Engineering. The resulting apparent resistivity cross sections, in general, showed a resisitivity structure that was similar to the AEM cross sections down to the depth of the investigation of the TEM survey (approximately 200 m). The surface layers (zero to 50 meters) showed high resistivity (30 to 300 ohm-m) and deeper layers showed lower resistivities (10- 30 ohm meters). We also recorded low-induction number (LIN) EM surveys over a sink hole feature in this area. There was a pronounced conductivity high coincident with the sinkhole. Background conductivity readings were typically 10-15 mS/m and over the sinkhole feature the conductivity readings were typically 20-25 mS/m.
Geophysical Surveys Near Tucson Electric Power Sundt Generating Station
Alghannam, Lujain Ali; Ayyad, Wadyan Osama; Do Lago Montenegro, Carla Gabriela; Feng, Wanjie; Jones, Christopher A.; Samoylov, Mikhail D.; Sternberg, Ben K.; Tso, Chak Hau; Wright, Sean T. (LASI Laboratory for Advanced Surface Imaging, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2014-05-10)
Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is carrying out subsurface investigations in order to locate more groundwater for cooling at the Sundt power-generating plant. To assist with this investigation, the University of Arizona GEN/GEOS 416/516 Field Studies in Geophysics class conducted geophysics surveys in an area just south of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and between UTM coordinates 508,555 to 511,753 East and 3,553,705 to 3,556,895 North. Four geophysics methods (Gravity, Magnetics, Transient Electromagnetics (TEM), and Passive Seismic) were employed to locate a postulated fault, which may be correlated with ground water flow. A broad regional magnetic anomaly was mapped, as the magnetic field decreases steadily from NE to SW. There are no significant magnetic field anomalies that could be related to a potential fault. The Gravity results show a regional gravitational gradient, steadily decreasing from NE to SW, with a large isolated anomaly apparent around 1500m from the base station at the NE corner of the survey area. But, this large anomaly is a localized, and does not appear on the adjacent parallel survey lines, therefore it is not related to a potential fault contact. The Passive Seismic survey detected a deep boundary at 100m to 160m in elevation, but the depths interpreted from the 11 stations are scattered and do not show a clear trend. The Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) data show a consistent difference in depth to a low-resistivity layer along the profile line. The four TEM stations north of Interstate 10 (I10) have an average elevation for the 10 Ohm-m contour line of 720 meters. The four TEM stations south of I10 have an average elevation for the 10 Ohm-m contour line of 670 meters. This offset may be related to the postulated fault.
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Bill Penzey Plays the Nazi Card
Posted by James Wigderson | Jan 29, 2018
By James Wigderson for Media Trackers
It turns out Bill Penzey is an old movie buff. The owner of Penzy’s Spices is remembering the 75th anniversary of Casablanca with another spice special in his latest email to customers. Conservatives, however, may find the spices a little bitter to the taste when they read what Penzey thinks of them. Trashing his conservative customers has become a Penzey staple and he’s previously claimed it hasn’t hurt business.
“Where once it was a telling of our past, history has turned full circle to the point where Casablanca is now ripped from today’s headlines,” Penzey wrote in the email. “We’ve let totalitarian nationalism take hold of the Republican Party.”
The good news, according to Penzey, is that watching Casablanca will save the GOP’s soul.
“To set it free will take a specialized set of skills,” Penzey wrote. “Casablanca has just those skills.”
It’s unknown when the Republican Party re-opened the concentration camps or when they decided to invade Poland and France, which is essentially what Penzey claims. Penzey did not return a call to his “Comments for Bill” line asking for clarification.
However, Penzey is a little muddled in his history and sees America as Paris in 1940 before the Germans marched down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Penzey the film critic sees the Paris of Rick and Ilsa not as a physical place but a dream.
“But for lack of a better word, Paris was, to those who experienced it in the ‘30s, a sacred city, much like how, to those who experienced it before this time of unlimited corporate political spending, America is a sacred country,” Penzey wrote, without noting the irony of his own corporate spending to advance his politics. “Both were about goodness and ideas and equality. To see places like these overrun by such brutality is just soul crushing and risks making it seem like the goodness was never there at all, that goodness itself is not real.”
Yes, to Penzey, America is just like Occupied France, “overrun by such brutality.” Foreign troops occupying much of the country while a puppet regime cooperates with the Nazi dream of making the continent Judenfrei. Worse, Americans are being subject to all sorts of economic deprivations and denial of free speech. Penzey had better be careful or the new version of Major Strasser might have him arrested, tortured or shot while “trying to escape.”
But Penzey sees a silver lining even if President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan are Nazis.
“If there is anything positive about Nazis it’s that nature does not produce many of them,” Penzey wrote. “There really are not that many Trumps and Ryans out there who, after a lifetime of having others do so much to help them, turn around and use the power they’ve been given to hurt those in need. The good news is, there are simply not enough of them to take and hold the world unless the world loses the will to resist.”
After that, Penzey takes a few shots at Trump’s personal life, including the story about the porn star he allegedly had paid off to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter, as if that is somehow contributing to totalitarianism. Somebody should explain to Penzey that Hitler was only married once if the spice-seller is going to make that analogy.
It’s also unknown if Penzey was just confused by Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris when Owen Wilson returned to the 1920s, not the 1930s. Regardless, by the time France was invaded in 1940, the country was deeply divided with more than a few Frenchmen sympathetic to Fascism (Coincidentally, some American Progressives were admirers of Fascism as well.) The division and fascist sympathies contributed to France’s swift surrender. Hardly a romantic, idealistic time for the City of Lights, and why Rick might have said, “It’s not my particularly beloved Paris.”
Actually, it’s shocking how little Penzey knows about Casablanca since he sees some symbolism in the “sigh” lyric from “As Time Goes By” – written before the movie and was considered a placeholder until another song could be chosen. Penzey also praises a script that was being re-written throughout the filming. And, contrary to Penzey’s interpretation, love is actually less important than resisting evil at the conclusion of the movie.
“Where I’m going, you can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of,” Rick told Ilsa right before she left with Lazlo. “Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.”
Ilsa goes with Lazlo so he can continue his work while Rick goes with Captain Renault to join the Free French, quite opposite of love conquering all.
But these mistakes pale in comparison to calling Republicans, the Speaker of the House and the President of the United States – Nazis. Major Strasser and his flunkies may seem somewhat like comical villains, but the real Nazis killed six million Jews in Europe, killed countless others that didn’t meet the Master Race standard, and made war upon their neighbors killing millions more. Penzey should consider visiting a Holocaust Museum and learn a little history before he calls anyone a Nazi ever again.
James Wigderson is the Editor of RightWisconsin. He has seen Casablanca more times than he can count, including on the big screen, and has a framed picture of Rick and Ilsa.
This article appears courtesy of Media Trackers.
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2017 Risk All Star: Kevin Moss
Claims Closure Project a Success
Topics: Claims | Manufacturing | Risk All Stars | September 15th 2017 Issue | Workers' Comp
Kevin Moss jocularly refers to himself as a “recovering adjuster.” But the term is apt, given the way his view of claims has evolved over time. He sees the big picture, he asks questions and listens. He figures out how to turn each unique situation into a win for everyone.
Kevin Moss, Director of Casualty Insurance and Risk, Michelin North America
Moss is the director of Casualty Insurance and Risk for Greenville, S.C.-based Michelin North America Inc., managing risk for 22,000-plus employees across 19 plants. One key area of focus for Moss, since joining the company in 2007, has been reducing the company’s outstanding liability exposure from worker injury claims — some decades old.
In 2014, Moss launched Michelin’s largest comprehensive claim review to date and determined that of the company’s 483 open claims, 186 high-value claims accounted for 83 percent of Michelin’s outstanding liability.
Working closely with partners from claims services provider Gallagher Bassett Services and broker Willis Towers Watson, the team brought in reserve experts and undertook a sizable claims closure project.
The outstanding exposure on the closure project has been reduced to $14,097,290 – a 46 percent reduction in outstanding reserves. Achieving that, said Moss, takes hard work, but the keys to success are quite clear.
First things first: Put in the work on the front end to review all claims and ensure they’re correctly reserved. With that locked down, you can put settlement plans in place for each claim, involving annuity companies where possible.
Moss says he’s not opposed to spending extra money to close a claim, and he credits Michelin’s leadership for allowing him the leeway to do so. Getting that kind of buy-in for a claims closure project, he said, means being able to clearly express the business case and the benefits for the company.
“I want to make sure that the financial people here understand what I’m doing, that my boss understands it. So I’ve had to learn how to speak finance — I do have an econ degree so that helps.” — Kevin Moss, Director of Casualty Insurance and Risk, Michelin North America
“I want to make sure that the financial people here understand what I’m doing, that my boss understands it,” he said, “so I’ve had to learn how to speak finance — I do have an econ degree so that helps.”
When it’s time to approach claimants, keep in mind that some claims require careful handling.
In Michelin’s case, “most of the older claims are medical,” Moss explained, “and people are scared to monkey with something they’ve been doing since the ’60s.”
That’s why Moss wasn’t content to just send out letters. He knew that in some cases, his efforts would be better spent going to people’s houses, bringing an annuity expert along, and explaining to people face-to-face what settling the claim would mean.
With many of the claimants advancing in age, Moss would talk to them about creating a transferable annuity, allowing them to give it to a grandchild or other family member to help pay for college.
Above all, Moss is committed to making sure each settlement is fair.
“Not only do we want to make sure we understand what the exposure is,” he said, “we want to make sure we do the right thing by everybody.” &
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Photo Credit: National Eagle Center (Wabasha, MN)
Small Towns on the Great River Road
The Great River Road is ready to offer scenic views, but check out the small town gems along the way! Here is a list of towns with less than 10,000 residents but plenty of great experiences.
~Minnesota~
Wabasha, MN pop. 2,481
Wabasha is the home of the National Eagle Center, so bird enthusiasts are welcomed! If you want to shop, check out the boutiques in historic downtown.
Lake City, MN pop. 5,109
Lake City is bustling with activity for families and couples! While on the Great River Road, stop by their downtown art scene or take a scenic hike.
~Wisconsin~
Stockholm, WI pop. 66
Stockholm prides itself to be “artfully authentic”. The town, or village because it’s so small, thrives on its local creative mavens to establish unique restaurants, lodgings, and shops.
Alma, WI pop. 779
Alma is great at celebrating the past! The town is on the National Registry of Historic Places with over 200 buildings and 346 acres recognized for cultural and historic preservation.
~Iowa~
Le Claire, IA pop. 3,969
Within a two block radius, Le Claire’s drinking scene comprises of a brewery, distillery, and winery on Librations Lane! The town is also a great spot for Great River Road snackers who love popcorn, chocolate, and ice cream.
Lansing, IA pop. 941
Lansing’s period architecture and fishing displays make the town a must-visit for Great River Road travelers. Visit 200 acres of woods and prairie at the Riverland Conservancy.
~Illinois~
Galena, IL pop. 3,225
Galena is for outdoor enthusiasts and girlfriend getaways with their numerous outdoor and indoor attractions. Hit a few golf balls, skii down slopes, or eat a variety of cuisines in the downtown area.
Nauvoo, IL pop. 1,077
If you and your family are traveling the Great River Road, then Nauvoo is a stop for everyone. With kid pioneer activities and museums, the kids can enjoy their time. For adults, vineyard tours and late-night performances make great date activities.
~Missouri~
Ste. Geneviève, MO pop. 4,440
Travelers get to experience Mississippi’s first settlement along the Great River Road! Get a glimpse of french colonial culture and history through unique stores and restaurants.
Kimmswick, MO pop. 152
Kimmswick claims to be “the perfect day trip” town with 160 years of history and culture. Most of the businesses reside in the original period buildings of 1859—the town’s founding date.
~Kentucky~
Fulton, KY pop. 2,207
Visit the home of the world’s largest banana pudding! If Great River Road travelers are visiting in the fall, keep an eye out for Fulton’s Banana Festival.
Hickman, KY pop. 2,180
History buffs will enjoy the stop in Hickman. Their County Museum houses over 3,000 items on display. Kentucky’s Civil War Heritage Trail and the Trail of Tears Benge Route Historic Site are both nearby.
~Tennessee~
Henning, TN pop. 942
Henning is the home of Alex Haley’s grandparents—who inspired Haley’s characters in his 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Roots: The Saga of an American Family”. Step into the past and experience Henning’s deep connection with African-American heritage and industrial innovations as a railroad town!
Tiptonville, TN pop. 4,325
Visit the nature of northwest Tennessee! Tiptonville offers plenty of nature walks and parks for travelers who need to get outdoors.
~ARKANSAS~
Lake Village, AR pop. 2,328
Lake Village has a legend that Hernando de Soto, a Spanish explorer, made contact with a friendly indegenious tribe near present-day Lake Village. Because of this, the town has a rich history with the river. Visitors can experience their own adventure by boating, fishing, swimming, hiking, and more.
Stuttgart, AR pop. 8,773
Make your way to rice country! Stuttgart’s rice fields bring wildlife like ducks and geese during migration. Enjoy the rich prairie land and its pioneer heritage!
~Mississippi~
Tunica, MS pop. 926
Tunica is the place to be if you have a gaming side! The town holds multiple casinos if visitors feel lucky.
Port Gibson, MS pop. 1,365
Explore a town with a deep history of the American Civil War. Port Gibson was heavily influenced by Ulysses S. Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign. The town’s architecture survived the war due to Grant’s belief that Port Gibson was “too beautiful to burn”.
~Louisiana~
St. Francisville, LA pop. 1,627
Visit Louisiana plantations in the small, hospitable town of St.Francisville! The town also provides a range of B&Bs for tired travelers.
New Roads, LA pop. 4,634
While in Louisiana, take a trip through the Creole town New Roads. The town name is inspired by the Spanish building a “new road” between the Mississippi River and the False River in 1776.
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Mariá Cardénas’ report on Weaving a Circle of Solidarity with the Brazilian Community: activism from a Black decolonial feminist methodology by Katucha R. Bento (University of Leeds/ Leeds Beckett University), January 24th
In “Weaving a Circle of Solidarity with the Brazilian Community: activism from a Black decolonial feminist methodology”, Katucha R. Bento (University of Leeds/ Leeds Beckett University) presented her work with a Brazilian black woman solidarity group. How, she asked, can we manage “not being able to help” others from our position and to understand and acknowledge the limitations of our academic and/or political activism? Katucha parts here from her own experiences and the dilemma she faced when supporting women in their (daily) struggles while trying not to obscure or discourage their agency. One of the cases presented, a participant -with the support of the Solidarity group – had to deal with an institutional apparatus that were not designed for migrants, having as a consequence, the participant’s decision of withdrawing her rights to access social justice in order to keep her migrant family safe. This also means to understand the complexities of daily struggles and strings attached to them that subalterned women in diaspora face additionally to those forms of violence that have already been discussed in the political and academic arenas, such as gendered, racist and class forms of violence. Where to draw the line between support and intervention and when to withdraw yourself from the lives you care about was at the center of the discussion that followed. These reflections need to be accompanied, Katucha argued, by ethics of caring: These must lie at the heart of a decolonial feminist methodology and the political work as an academic.
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Activation of presynaptic group III metabotropic receptors enhances glutamate release in rat entorhinal cortex
D I Evans, Roland S G Jones, G Woodhall
The role of group III metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) in modulating excitatory synaptic transmission was investigated in the rat entorhinal cortex (EC) in vitro. AMPA receptor-mediated excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs) were recorded in the whole cell configuration of the patch-clamp technique from visually identified neurons in layers V and II. In layer V, bath application of the specific group III mGluR agonist L(+)-2-amino-4-phosphonobutyric acid (L-AP4, 500 mu M) resulted in a marked facilitation of both spontaneous and activity-independent "miniature" (s/ mEPSC) event frequency. Thr facilitatory effect of L-AP4 (100 mu M) on sEPSC frequency prevailed in the presence of DL-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid (100 mu M) but was abolished by the group III antagonist (RS)-cyclopropyl-4-phosphonophenylglycine (20 mu M). These data confirmed that group III mGluRs, and not N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors were involved in the response to L-AP4. Bath application of the specific mGluR4a agonist (1S,3R,4S)-1-aminocyclopentane-1,2, 4-tricarboxylic acid (20 mu M) also had a facilitatory effect on sEPSC frequency, suggesting involvement of mGluR4a. In layer II neurons, L-AP4 caused a reduction in sEPSC frequency but did not affect mEPSCs recorded in the presence of tetrodotoxin. These findings suggest that a group III mGluR with mGluR4a-like pharmacology is involved in modulating synaptic transmission in layer V cells of the EC. The effect on mEPSCs suggests that this receptor is located presynaptically and that its activation results in a direct facilitation of glutamate release. This novel facilitatory effect is specific to layer V and, to our knowledge, is the first report of a direct facilitatory action of group III mGluRs on synaptic transmission. In layer II, L-AP4 had an inhibitory effect on glutamate release similar to that reported in other brain regions.
Journal of Neurophysiology
Entorhinal Cortex
Synaptic Transmission
2-Amino-5-phosphonovalerate
AMPA Receptors
Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials
Tetrodotoxin
N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptors
2-amino-4-phosphono-propinate
2-amino-4-phosphonobutyrate receptor
Evans, D. I., Jones, R. S. G., & Woodhall, G. (2000). Activation of presynaptic group III metabotropic receptors enhances glutamate release in rat entorhinal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 83(5), 2519-2525.
Activation of presynaptic group III metabotropic receptors enhances glutamate release in rat entorhinal cortex. / Evans, D I; Jones, Roland S G; Woodhall, G.
In: Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol. 83, No. 5, 2000, p. 2519-2525.
Evans, DI, Jones, RSG & Woodhall, G 2000, 'Activation of presynaptic group III metabotropic receptors enhances glutamate release in rat entorhinal cortex', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 83, no. 5, pp. 2519-2525.
Evans DI, Jones RSG, Woodhall G. Activation of presynaptic group III metabotropic receptors enhances glutamate release in rat entorhinal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2000;83(5):2519-2525.
Evans, D I ; Jones, Roland S G ; Woodhall, G. / Activation of presynaptic group III metabotropic receptors enhances glutamate release in rat entorhinal cortex. In: Journal of Neurophysiology. 2000 ; Vol. 83, No. 5. pp. 2519-2525.
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Save Money. Live Better. Walmart
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What used to be Wal-Mart before 2008 has reformed and been rebranded to suit the changing markets of the world and generally embrace the financial potentials provided by the global market. It was re-branded Walmart in 2008 which saw the American public corporation rise to become the world's largest public corporation by revenue in 2010. Walmart was founded by Sam Walton in 1972, who was a business man from Arkansas. Walton emerged from a humble beginning as an employee of J. C. Penney in Iowa to starting his first store, Walton's Five and Dime, in Arkansas which gave birth to multibillion dollar chain shops of Walmart.
Walmart is basically the largest grocery retailer in USA as well as the largest seller providing several goods and services. It has grown considerably over the years, operating in USA as well as North America. Its global business chain stretches all over the world through South America Europe and Asia. This comprises of wholly owned corporations in Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Puerto Rico, UK, Japan, Mexico etc. This is strategically achieved through the localization of its global stores operating as Walmex in Mexico, ASDA in UK and Seiyu in Japan.
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Walmart's ascent has not however been a bed of roses as it has seen its ventures succeed and fail in equal measure. It reminds a very strong corporations with one of the greatest brands which ha successfully reaped the benefits of the global economy. Walmart has enjoyed unparalleled success in South America, United Kingdom and China but could not duplicate this in Germany and South Korea where it had great difficulty in establishing a market. Walmart continues to scour the world market capturing emerging customer spheres all around the world.
The success of the firm can be pegged in the effective management that has been characteristic since its inception. Started by a visionary entrepreneur who sought to establish a brand that would command market positions it has grown along the shrewd lines of a talented strategic management team that is able to align the firm with the successful wave of financial and economic advancement. This case analysis seeks to establish the decision making process that has enable Walmart chain stores emerge as a leading business corporation in retailing.
Walmart a chain store in USA is a public corporation founded by Sam Walton in 1972. It has grown since into one of America's largest chain store and has invariably established its elf a recognizable niche in the global market. The public corporation is a very successful firms especially its grocery sales whose profitability was demonstrated in 2009 when it generated 51% of its US$258 billion sales in the USA only. Walmart has about 8500 stores in 55 countries which demonstrate the extent of customer base it has assimilate from the global market. It operates with 55 different names specific to the area where it is situated for example it operates as Sam's Club Retail Warehouses in North America, Walmex in Mexico, ASDA in UK, Best Price in India and Seiyu in Japan. In America it operates using its own name in almost 50 states. It has been very successful in most markets including South America, United Kingdom, South America and China while Germany and South Korea have not been vry successful.
The company is very successful in terms of local and global market as it cultivates unparalleled profits. It has invested in several countries that have strategically increased both its asset and customer base. It continues to venture into new markets with a focus on Asian and Arab markets presently. Walmart however is faced with several challenges which hamper its continued growth in the global market as well as local market. Walmart was faced with allegations of sexism, extensive foreign product sourcing and low rates of insurance for its workers. It has face significant criticism from pressure groups such as community groups, Women's Rights groups, Grassroots organization and labor unions. Walmart has faced a gender discrimination lawsuit in Dukes Vs. Walmart Stores Inc. where Walmart was being challenged over its promotions and policies regarding gender sensitivity.
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Walmart also underwent several setbacks as a result of failing to flourish in some markets. Owing to the fact that they had to withdraw or go through a loss of finances over failed ventures it has encountered several challenges. It has been difficult to establish itself in some markets all over the world. Walmart has a big brand image enhanced by its gigantic customer base especially in USA; it nevertheless faces a great challenge of competition from there chain store retail businesses. The company faces stiff competition in the industry from players like Target, Costco and Sears Holdings. Intense competition could adversely affect the revenues and profitability of Walmart.
Walmart has established several strategic policies to improve, it image and continue to increase its profitability in the market. In October 2005, it announced a policy designed to increase energy efficiency in an effort of implementing environmental measures. Among this was building new experimental stores in McKinney, Texas, Aurora, Colorado and Las Vegas which used wind turbines as a source of energy, photovoltaic solar panels, biofuel-capable boilers, water-cooled refrigerators, and Xeriscape gardens. This is in an effort of increasing corporate social responsibility which requires the global firms to align with global concern I order to command the support of opinion forming groups that drive the agenda of corporate social re possibility. It is apparent that the world today is moved extremely b y the mention of environment, Eric Hobsbawn (2007) and thus most corporate fir ms have focused on the agenda of driving environmental issues especially at a time when the looming energy crisis is apparently haunting all sectors of the economy.
The firm has also sought to counter the effect of rising competition by seeking to appeal to a more affluent demographic. To compete with more upscale and appealing stores like Target, Walmart in 2006 started the much hyped Supercentre concept in Plato Texas. The establishment was built to increase appeal with wooden floors, wider aisles, a sushi bar, a coffee shop with free Wi-Fi internet access and a hunter green background behind Walmart letters to make it familiar to the neighborhood. Its strategy to brand its stores specific to the demographical preferences of the countries in which it has established its global strategic chains has effectively marketed its image to the local people.
Walmart has also stepped up advertising which can attest to its increased profits in recent times. The use of the Slogan such as 'Save Money Live Better' to replace 'Always Low Prices, Always' coupled with its 2008 rebranding which saw it omit the hyphen to make Walmart has refurbished its image among the customers. This caused a revolution of its brands and a significant recognition of the fact that the logo is as bold as that of its competitors and did not deviate majorly away from the recognizable as its former 18 year old logo. Its policies to reduce profits resulted in increased savings for its customers which accumulated to about $287 billion in 2006, which equated to $957 per person or $2,500 per household. This has attracted more customers and has oriented the business to handle the indelible challenge of competition in a most effective way.
In 2009 Walmart sought to repair its labor relations and show sensitivity to the general workforce that has seen it significantly ascend the ladder of the most labor friendly organizations. Walmart announced that it is paying a combined $933.6 million in bonuses to every full and part time hourly worker of the company. An additional $788.8 million in profit sharing, (401 k) contributions, and hundreds of millions of dollars in merchandise discounts and contributions to the employees' stock purchase plan is also included in this plan. Walmart also sought to increase its product diversity and the corporate base especially by seeking to acquire new firms to boost its resource base. In 2010 it acquired a video streaming company Vudu. Inc. for an estimated 100 million. It is big global and commanding brands that recognize the strategic need or acquisition of new firms as well as mergers while recognizing the need to maintain the image that has cultivated customer loyalty.
The firm strategy is mainly selling products at a low price encouraging sales in the mantras it uses to promote their sales. Its themes like'Save Money Live Better' which replaced 'Always Low Prices, Always' shows the aim of the firm to propose its customer concern as a firm that drives sales on low prices. Walmart unlike many other retailers does not charge a slotting fee to suppliers for their products to appear in the store. In 2006, the firm announced that it would phase out its layaway program due to declining use and increased costs. Layaway ceased to be offered in 2006 and required merchandise pickup December. Wal-Mart now focuses on other payment options, such as increased use of six- and twelve-month, zero-interest financing.
Walmart is currently enjoying infinite success from its chain stores despite the declining economic situation at the global scene. For the fiscal year ending January 2009 it reported a net income of $13.6 billions on $404 billion of revenue (3.4% profit margin). For the fiscal year ending January, 2006, Wal-Mart's international operations accounted for about 20.1% of total sales. Its incredibly low prices have significantly contributed to a very large customer base. Each week, about 100 million customers, nearly one-third of the U.S. population, visit Walmart's U.S. stores.
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Renee Gauthier (I)
Producer | Writer | Actress
Four time Emmy Nominee Renee Gauthier is a comedic triple threat - stand-up, writer and producer. Hailing from Chicago where she was a well-known member of Chicago's Second City, since then she has ... read full biography
Known for Chelsea Lately (2009), Lip Sync Battle (2016-2019), The Turkey Bowl (2019), Victoria Beckham: Coming to America (2007)
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The Garage (2016)
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The Turkey Bowl (2019)
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Spin Cycle (2015)
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The Hacks (2011)
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Lip Sync Battle (2016–2019)
(TV Series) - Senior Creative Producer (54 episodes, 2016), Producer (54 episodes, 2016), Writer (54 episodes, 2016), Consulting Producer (9 episodes, 2016) Senior Creative Producer (54 episodes, 2016), Producer (54 episodes, 2016), Writer (54 episodes, 2016), Consulting Producer (9 episodes, 2016) See fewer
Episode #5.12 Season 5, Episode 12 - Producer, Senior Creative Producer, Writer Producer, Senior Creative Producer, Writer See fewer
2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards (2019)
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Paradise Hotel (2019)
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Game of Clones (2019)
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Final One and Clonely (Apr 4, 2019) Season 1, Episode 8 - Writer Writer See fewer
Kevin Hart: What the Fit (2018–2019)
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Gerald Berry
Professor of Pathology at the Stanford University Medical Center
My clinical focus is on diagnostic surgical pathology with emphasis on cardiopulmonary disease, head and neck pathology and gastrointestinal pathology. My research interests include cardiothoracic transplantation, vasculitis, myocarditis, interstitial lung disease and thoracic oncology.
Clinical Focus
Professor - Med Center Line, Pathology
Member, Cardiovascular Institute
Internship:Ottawa General Hospital (1985) Canada
Medical Education:University of Ottawa School of Medicine (1984) Canada
Board Certification: Pathology, American Board of Pathology (2014)
Fellowship:Stanford University Pathology Residency (1991) CA
Residency:Stanford University Surgical Pathology Fellowship (1989) CA
Board Certification: Anatomic Pathology, American Board of Pathology (1989)
Board Certification: Anatomic Pathology, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
gerald.berry@stanford.edu
University - Faculty Department: Pathology Clinical Position: Professor-Med Ctr Line
Clinical Department of Pathology 300 Pasteur Dr Rm L235 Lane Bldg MC 5324 Stanford, CA 94305
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Cardiopulmonary and pulmonary transplant medicine; diagnostic surgical pathology
Microarray Analysis of Gene Expression and Identification of Progenitor Cells in Lung Carcinoma Not Recruiting
This study will help us understand the gene expression profiles of lung cancer. We will identify genes related to lung cancer development, their growth and metastasis to the lung. In addition, we will examine the role nicotine in the development and progression of lung tumors of smokers, ex-smokers, non-smokers on supplemental nicotine and non smokers with no exposure to nicotine.
Stanford is currently not accepting patients for this trial. For more information, please contact Susan Jacobs, RN, 650-725-8082.
Independent Studies (5)
Directed Reading in Pathology
PATH 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
Early Clinical Experience in Pathology
Medical Scholars Research
Targeted deep sequencing of cell-free DNA in serous body cavity fluids with malignant, suspicious, and benign cytology. Cancer cytopathology Yang, S., Mooney, K. L., Libiran, P., Jones, C. D., Joshi, R., Lau, H. D., Stehr, H., Berry, G. J., Zehnder, J. L., Long, S. R., Kong, C. S., Kunder, C. A. 2019
BACKGROUND: Liquid biopsy using cell-free DNA (cfDNA) presents new opportunities for solid tumor genotyping. While studies have demonstrated the utility of cfDNA from plasma, cfDNA from other body fluids remains underexplored.METHODS: We evaluated the molecular features and clinicopathologic correlates of cfDNA from serous body cavity fluids by performing hybrid capture-based next-generation sequencing (NGS) on cfDNA isolated from residual effusion supernatants. Twenty-one serous effusions from pleural (n=15), peritoneal (n=5), and pericardial (n=1) cavity were analyzed.RESULTS: The supernatants provided a median cfDNA concentration of 10.3ng/L. Notably, all effusions were sequenced successfully to a median depth >1000*, revealing a broad range of genetic alterations including single nucleotide variants, small insertions and deletions, amplifications, and fusions. Specifically, pathogenic alterations were identified in all malignant fluids (13/13), all fluids suspicious for malignancy (2/2), and 1 benign fluid (1/6) from a patient with metastatic cancer. To validate our findings, we examined matching results from 11 patients who underwent additional testing using formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) specimens. In 8 patients, the paired results between FFPE and supernatant testing were concordant, whereas in the remaining 3 patients, supernatant analysis identified additional variants likely associated with resistance to targeted therapies. Additional comparison between FFPE and supernatant testing showed no difference in DNA concentration (P=.5), depth of coverage (P=.6), or allele frequency of pathogenic mutations (P=.7).CONCLUSION: cfDNA isolated from serous body cavity fluids represents a promising source of genomic input for targeted NGS.
View details for DOI 10.1002/cncy.22205
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Cytokines, growth factors and proteases in medium and large vessel vasculitis CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY Weyand, C. M., Watanabe, R., Zhang, H., Akiyama, M., Berry, G. J., Goronzy, J. J. 2019; 206: 33–41
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.clim.2019.02.007
View details for Web of Science ID 000488139900006
NHLBI-SPONSORED PROSPECTIVE STUDY TO VALIDATE THE USE OF DONOR-DERIVED CELL-FREE DNA TO DETECT LUNG-TRANSPLANT REJECTION - INTERIM RESULTS Agbor, S., Berry, G., Marboe, C., Tunc, I., Jackson, A., Shah, P., Fideli, U., Timofte, I., Brown, A. W., Iacono, A., Nathan, S., Jang, M., Orens, J., Valantine, H. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 2019: 25–26
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.humimm.2019.07.022
The DNA Repair Nuclease MRE11A Functions as a Mitochondrial Protector and Prevents T Cell Pyroptosis and Tissue Inflammation. Cell metabolism Li, Y., Shen, Y., Jin, K., Wen, Z., Cao, W., Wu, B., Wen, R., Tian, L., Berry, G. J., Goronzy, J. J., Weyand, C. M. 2019
In the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis (RA), CD4+ Tcells promote pro-inflammatory effector functions by shunting glucose away from glycolysis and ATP production. Underlying mechanisms remain unknown, and here we implicate the DNA repair nuclease MRE11A in the cells' bioenergetic failure. MRE11A deficiency in RA Tcells disrupted mitochondrial oxygen consumption and suppressed ATP generation. Also, MRE11A loss of function caused leakage of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) into the cytosol, triggering inflammasome assembly, caspase-1 activation, and pyroptotic cell death. Caspase-1 activation was frequent in lymph-node-residing Tcells in RA patients. Invivo, pharmacologic and genetic inhibition of MRE11A resulted in tissuedeposition of mtDNA, caspase-1 proteolysis, andaggressive tissue inflammation. Conversely, MRE11A overexpression restored mitochondrial fitness and shielded tissue from inflammatory attack. Thus, the nuclease MRE11A regulates a mitochondrial protection program, and MRE11A deficiency leads to DNA repair defects, energy production, and failure and loss of tissue homeostasis.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.cmet.2019.06.016
CD28 AS A POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC TARGET FOR GIANT CELL ARTERITIS Watanabe, R., Zhang, H., Berry, G., Nadler, S., Goronzy, J., Weyand, C. BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP. 2019: 146
View details for DOI 10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-eular.1233
CD28 Signaling Controls Metabolic Fitness of Pathogenic T Cells in Medium and Large Vessel Vasculitis JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY Zhang, H., Watanabe, R., Berry, G. J., Nadler, S. G., Goronzy, J. J., Weyand, C. M. 2019; 73 (14): 1811–23
In giant cell arteritis, vessel-wall infiltrating CD4 T cells and macrophages form tissue-destructive granulomatous infiltrates, and the artery responds with a maladaptive response to injury, leading to intramural neoangiogenesis, intimal hyperplasia, and luminal occlusion. Lesion-residing T cells receive local signals, which represent potential therapeutic targets.The authors examined how CD28 signaling affects vasculitis induction and maintenance, and which pathogenic processes rely on CD28-mediated T-cell activation.Vasculitis was induced by transferring peripheral blood mononuclear cells from giant cell arteritis patients into immunodeficient NSG mice engrafted with human arteries. Human artery-NSG chimeras were treated with anti-CD28 domain antibody or control antibody. Treatment effects and immunosuppressive mechanisms were examined in vivo and in vitro applying tissue transcriptome analysis, immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry, and immunometabolic analysis.Blocking CD28-dependent signaling markedly reduced tissue-infiltrating T cells and effectively suppressed vasculitis. Mechanistic studies implicated CD28 in activating AKT signaling, T-cell proliferation and differentiation of IFN-γ and IL-21-producing effector T cells. Blocking CD28 was immunosuppressive by disrupting T-cell metabolic fitness; specifically, the ability to utilize glucose. Expression of the glucose transporter Glut1 and of glycolytic enzymes as well as mitochondrial oxygen consumption were all highly sensitive to CD28 blockade. Also, induction and maintenance of CD4+CD103+ tissue-resident memory T cells, needed to replenish the vasculitic infiltrates, depended on CD28 signaling. CD28 blockade effectively suppressed vasculitis-associated remodeling of the vessel wall.CD28 stimulation provides a metabolic signal required for pathogenic effector functions in medium and large vessel vasculitis. Disease-associated glycolytic activity in wall-residing T-cell populations can be therapeutically targeted by blocking CD28 signaling.
Examination of Factors Associated With Lymph Node Metastases in Lung Carcinoids Pathipati, M. P., Yohannan, T. K., Tian, L., Benson, J. A., Hornbacker, K., Berry, G. J., Lui, N., Kunz, P. L., Padda, S. K. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. 2019: 447
Targeted deep sequencing of cell-free DNA from body cavity fluids with malignant, suspicious, and benign cytology Yang, S., Libiran, P., Jones, C., Joshi, R., Lau, H., Stehr, H., Longacre, T., Allison, K., Zehnder, J., Long, S., Berry, G., Kunder, C. NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP. 2019
Cytokines, growth factors and proteases in medium and large vessel vasculitis. Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) Weyand, C. M., Watanabe, R., Zhang, H., Akiyama, M., Berry, G. J., Goronzy, J. J. 2019
Giant cell arteritis and Takayasu arteritis are autoimmune vasculitides that cause aneurysm formation and tissue infarction. Extravascular inflammation consists of an intense acute phase response. Deeper understanding of pathogenic events in the vessel wall has highlighted the loss of tissue protective mechanisms, the intrusion of immune cells into "forbidden territory", and the autonomy of self-renewing vasculitic infiltrates. Adventitial vasa vasora critically control vessel wall access and drive differentiation of tissue-invasive T cells. Selected T cells establish tissue residency and build autonomous, self-sufficient inflammatory lesions. Pathogenic effector T cells intrude and survive due to failed immune checkpoint inhibition. Vasculitis-sustaining T cells and macrophages provide a broad portfolio of effector functions, involving heterogeneous populations of pro-inflammatory T cells and diverse macrophage subsets that ultimately induce wall capillarization and intimal hyperplasia. Redirecting diagnostic and therapeutic strategies from control of extravascular inflammatory markers to suppression of vascular inflammation will improve disease management.
Donor-derived cell-free DNA predicts allograft failure and mortality after lung transplantation. EBioMedicine Agbor-Enoh, S., Wang, Y., Tunc, I., Jang, M. K., Davis, A., De Vlaminck, I., Luikart, H., Shah, P. D., Timofte, I., Brown, A. W., Marishta, A., Bhatti, K., Gorham, S., Fideli, U., Wylie, J., Grimm, D., Goodwin, N., Yang, Y., Patel, K., Zhu, J., Iacono, A., Orens, J. B., Nathan, S. D., Marboe, C., Berry, G. J., Quake, S. R., Khush, K., Valantine, H. A. 2019
BACKGROUND: Allograft failure is common in lung-transplant recipients and leads to poor outcomes including early death. No reliable clinical tools exist to identify patients at high risk for allograft failure. This study tested the use of donor-derived cell-free DNA (%ddcfDNA) as a sensitive marker of early graft injury to predict impending allograft failure.METHODS: This multicenter, prospective cohort study enrolled 106 subjects who underwent lung transplantation and monitored them after transplantation for the development of allograft failure (defined as severe chronic lung allograft dysfunction [CLAD], retransplantation, and/or death from respiratory failure). Plasma samples were collected serially in the first three months following transplantation and assayed for %ddcfDNA by shotgun sequencing. We computed the average levels of ddcfDNA over three months for each patient (avddDNA) and determined its relationship to allograft failure using Cox-regression analysis.FINDINGS: avddDNA was highly variable among subjects: median values were 3·6%, 1·6% and 0·7% for the upper, middle, and low tertiles, respectively (range 0·1%-9·9%). Compared to subjects in the low and middle tertiles, those with avddDNA in the upper tertile had a 6·6-fold higher risk of developing allograft failure (95% confidence interval 1·6-19·9, p = 0·007), lower peak FEV1 values, and more frequent %ddcfDNA elevations that were not clinically detectable.INTERPRETATION: Lung transplant patients with early unresolving allograft injury measured via %ddcfDNA are at risk of subsequent allograft injury, which is often clinically silent, and progresses to allograft failure. FUND: National Institutes of Health.
Combined Deceased Donor Parathyroid and Kidney Transplantation - An Underutilized Approach for ESRD Patients with Permanent Hypoparathyroidism Lee, L., Pan, J., Vasa, P., Berry, G., Lenihan, C., Busque, S. WILEY. 2019: 56
Spectrum of chronic lung allograft pathology in a mouse minor-mismatched orthotopic lung transplant model. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons Martinu, T., Oishi, H., Juvet, S. C., Cypel, M., Liu, M., Berry, G. J., Hwang, D. M., Keshavjee, S. 2018
Chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) is a fatal condition that limits survival after lung transplantation (LTx). The pathological hallmark of CLAD is obliterative bronchiolitis (OB). A subset of patients present with a more aggressive CLAD phenotype, called restrictive allograft syndrome (RAS), characterized by lung parenchymal fibrosis (PF). The mouse orthotopic single LTx model has proven relevant to the mechanistic study of allograft injury. The minor-alloantigen- mismatched strain combination using C57BL/10(B10) donors and C57BL/6(B6) recipients reportedly leads to OB. Recognizing that OB severity is a spectrum that may co-exist with other pathologies, including PF, we aimed to characterize and quantify pathologic features of CLAD in this model. Left LTx was performed in the following combinations: B10B6, B6B10, B6B6. Four weeks post-transplant, blinded pathologic semi-quantitative assessment showed that OB was present in 66% of B10B6 and 30% of B6B10 grafts. Most mice with OB also had PF with a pattern of pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis, reminiscent of human RAS-related pathology. Grading of pathologic changes demonstrated variable severity of airway fibrosis, PF, acute rejection, vascular fibrosis and epithelial changes, similar to those seen in human CLAD. These assessments can make the murine LTx model a more useful tool for further mechanistic studies of CLAD pathogenesis. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Glucose metabolism controls disease-specific signatures of macrophage effector functions. JCI insight Watanabe, R., Hilhorst, M., Zhang, H., Zeisbrich, M., Berry, G. J., Wallis, B. B., Harrison, D. G., Giacomini, J. C., Goronzy, J. J., Weyand, C. M. 2018; 3 (20)
BACKGROUND: In inflammatory blood vessel diseases, macrophages represent a key component of the vascular infiltrates and are responsible for tissue injury and wall remodeling.METHODS: To examine whether inflammatory macrophages in the vessel wall display a single distinctive effector program, we compared functional profiles in patients with either coronary artery disease (CAD) or giant cell arteritis (GCA).RESULTS: Unexpectedly, monocyte-derived macrophages from the 2 patient cohorts displayed disease-specific signatures and differed fundamentally in metabolic fitness. Macrophages from CAD patients were high producers for T cell chemoattractants (CXCL9, CXCL10), the cytokines IL-1beta and IL-6, and the immunoinhibitory ligand PD-L1. In contrast, macrophages from GCA patients upregulated production of T cell chemoattractants (CXCL9, CXCL10) but not IL-1beta and IL-6, and were distinctly low for PD-L1 expression. Notably, disease-specific effector profiles were already identifiable in circulating monocytes. The chemokinehicytokinehiPD-L1hi signature in CAD macrophages was sustained by excess uptake and breakdown of glucose, placing metabolic control upstream of inflammatory function.CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that monocytes and macrophages contribute to vascular inflammation in a disease-specific and discernible pattern, have choices to commit to different functional trajectories, are dependent on glucose availability in their immediate microenvironment, and possess memory in their lineage commitment.FUNDING: Supported by the NIH (R01 AR042527, R01 HL117913, R01 AI108906, P01 HL129941, R01 AI108891, R01 AG045779 U19 AI057266, R01 AI129191), I01 BX001669, and the Cahill Discovery Fund.
Matrix Metalloprotease-9 (MMP-9)-Producing Monocytes Enable T Cells to Invade the Vessel Wall and Cause Vasculitis. Circulation research Watanabe, R., Maeda, T., Zhang, H., Berry, G. J., Zeisbrich, M., Brockett, R. D., Greenstein, A. E., Tian, L., Goronzy, J., Weyand, C. M. 2018
Rationale: Giant cell arteritis (GCA), a primary vasculitis of medium and large arteries, is associated with vessel wall damage, elastic membrane fragmentation and vascular remodeling. Proteinases are believed to contribute to pathogenesis by degrading extracellular matrix and causing tissue injury. Objective: The matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9), a type IV collagenase, is produced in the vasculitic lesions of GCA. It is unknown which pathogenic processes are MMP-9 dependent. Methods and Results: The tissue transcriptome of GCA-affected temporal arteries contained high amounts of MMP-9 transcripts and immunostaining for pro-MMP-9 localized the enzyme to wall-infiltrating macrophages. MMP-2 and MMP-9 transcripts were also abundant in monocytes and monocyte-derived macrophages from GCA patients. Patient-derived monocytes outperformed healthy monocytes in passing through engineered basement membranes. GCA CD4+ T cells required MMP-9-producing monocytes to penetrate through matrix built from type IV collagen. In vivo functions of MMP-9 were tested in a human artery-SCID chimera model by blocking enzyme activity with a highly specific monoclonal antibody or by injecting recombinant MMP-9. Inhibiting MMP-9 activity profoundly suppressed vascular injury, decreased the density of inflammatory infiltrates (p<0.001), reduced intramural neoangiogenesis (p<0.001) and prevented intimal layer hyperplasia (p<0.001). Recombinant MMP-9 amplified all domains of vasculitogenic activity, promoted assembly of T cell infiltrates (p<0.05), intensified formation of new microvessels (p<0.001) and worsened intimal thickening (p<0.001). Systemic delivery of N-acetyl-proline-glycine-proline (ac-PGP), a matrikine produced by MMP-9-mediated gelatinolysis, had limited vasculitogenic effects. Conclusions: In large vessel vasculitis, MMP-9 controls the access of monocytes and T cells to the vascular wall. T cells depend on MMP-9-producing monocytes to pass through collagen IV-containing basement membrane. Invasion of vasculitogenic T cells and monocytes, formation of neoangiogenic networks and neointimal growth all require the enzymatic activity of MMP-9; identifying this protease as a potential therapeutic target to restore the immunoprivilege of the arterial wall in large vessel vasculitis.
Late manifestation of alloantibody-associated injury and clinical pulmonary antibody-mediated rejection: Evidence from cell-free DNA analysis JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Agbor-Enoh, S., Jackson, A. M., Tunc, I., Berry, G. J., Cochrane, A., Grimm, D., Davis, A., Shah, P., Brown, A. W., Wang, Y., Timofte, I., Shah, P., Gorham, S., Wylie, J., Goodwin, N., Jang, M., Marishta, A., Bhatti, K., Fideli, U., Yang, Y., Luikart, H., Cao, Z., Pirooznia, M., Zhu, J., Marboe, C., Iacono, A., Nathan, S. D., Orens, J., Valantine, H. A., Khush, K. 2018; 37 (7): 925–32
Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) often progresses to poor health outcomes in lung transplant recipients (LTRs). This, combined with the relatively insensitive clinical tools used for its diagnosis (spirometry, histopathology) led us to determine whether clinical AMR is diagnosed significantly later than its pathologic onset. In this study, we leveraged the high sensitivity of donor-derived cell-free DNA (ddcfDNA), a novel genomic tool, to detect early graft injury after lung transplantation.We adjudicated AMR and acute cellular rejection (ACR) in 157 LTRs using the consensus criteria of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT). We assessed the kinetics of allograft injury in relation to ACR or AMR using both clinical criteria (decline in spirometry from baseline) and molecular criteria (ddcfDNA); percent ddcfDNA was quantitated via shotgun sequencing. We used a mixed-linear model to assess the relationship between and ddcfDNA levels and donor-specific antibodies (DSA) in AMR+ LTRs.Compared with ACR, AMR episodes (n = 42) were associated with significantly greater allograft injury when assessed by both spirometric (0.1 liter vs -0.6 liter, p < 0.01) and molecular (ddcfDNA) analysis (1.1% vs 5.4%, p < 0.001). Allograft injury detected by ddcfDNA preceded clinical AMR diagnosis by a median of 2.8 months. Within the same interval, spirometry or histopathology did not reveal findings of allograft injury or dysfunction. Elevated levels of ddcfDNA before clinical diagnosis of AMR were associated with a concurrent rise in DSA levels.Diagnosis of clinical AMR in LTRs lags behind DSA-associated molecular allograft injury as assessed by ddcfDNA.
Pathological antibody-mediated rejection in pediatric heart transplant recipients: Immunologic risk factors, hemodynamic significance, and outcomes. Pediatric transplantation Hollander, S. A., Peng, D. M., Mills, M., Berry, G. J., Fedrigo, M., McElhinney, D. B., Almond, C. S., Rosenthal, D. N. 2018: e13197
Biopsy-diagnosed pAMR has been observed in over half of pediatric HT recipients within 6years of transplantation. We report the incidence and outcomes of pAMR at our center. All endomyocardial biopsies for all HT recipients transplanted between 2010 and 2015 were reviewed and classified using contemporary ISHLT guidelines. Graft dysfunction was defined as a qualitative decrement in systolic function by echocardiogram or an increase of ≥3mmHg in atrial filling pressure by direct measurement. Among 96 patients, pAMR2 occurred in 7 (7%) over a median follow-up period of 3.1years, while no cases of pAMR3 occurred. A history of CHD, DSA at transplant, and elevated filling pressures were associated with pAMR2. Five-sixths (83%) of patients developed new C1q+ DSA at the time of pAMR diagnosis. There was a trend toward reduced survival, with 43% of patients dying within 2.3years of pAMR diagnosis.
Inhibition of JAK-STAT Signaling Suppresses Pathogenic Immune Responses in Medium and Large Vessel Vasculitis CIRCULATION Zhang, H., Watanabe, R., Berry, G. J., Tian, L., Goronzy, J. J., Weyand, C. M. 2018; 137 (18): 1934–48
Giant cell arteritis, a chronic autoimmune disease of the aorta and its large branches, is complicated by aneurysm formation, dissection, and arterial occlusions. Arterial wall dendritic cells attract CD4+ T cells and macrophages to form prototypic granulomatous infiltrates. Vasculitic lesions contain a diverse array of effector T cells that persist despite corticosteroid therapy and sustain chronic, smoldering vasculitis. Transmural inflammation induces microvascular neoangiogenesis and results in lumen-occlusive intimal hyperplasia. We have examined whether persistent vessel wall inflammation is maintained by lesional T cells, including the newly identified tissue-resident memory T cells, and whether such T cells are sensitive to the cytokine-signaling inhibitor tofacitinib, a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor targeting JAK3 and JAK1.Vascular inflammation was induced in human arteries engrafted into immunodeficient mice that were reconstituted with T cells and monocytes from patients with giant cell arteritis. Mice carrying inflamed human arteries were treated with tofacitinib or vehicle. Vasculitic arteries were examined for gene expression (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction), protein expression (immunohistochemistry), and infiltrating cell populations (flow cytometry).Tofacitinib effectively suppressed innate and adaptive immunity in the vessel wall. Lesional T cells responded to tofacitinib with reduced proliferation rates (<10%) and minimal production of the effector molecules interferon-γ, interleukin-17, and interleukin-21. Tofacitinib disrupted adventitial microvascular angiogenesis, reduced outgrowth of hyperplastic intima, and minimized CD4+CD103+ tissue-resident memory T cells.Cytokine signaling dependent on JAK3 and JAK1 is critically important in chronic inflammation of medium and large arteries. The JAK inhibitor tofacitinib effectively suppresses tissue-resident memory T cells and inhibits core vasculitogenic effector pathways.
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Primary mammary analogue secretory carcinoma of the lung: a case report HUMAN PATHOLOGY Huang, T., McHugh, J. B., Berry, G. J., Myers, J. L. 2018; 74: 109–13
Mammary analogue secretory carcinoma (MASC) is a recently discovered salivary gland tumor described mostly in the major salivary glands and occasionally in the skin. We report a primary endobronchial tumor with histology, immunophenotype, and ETV6 rearrangement characteristic of MASC in a 62-year-old woman. The diagnosis was initially made on a transbronchial biopsy with fluorescence in situ hybridization confirmation of ETV6 rearrangement. The patient underwent lobectomy demonstrating a large endobronchial mass. To our knowledge, this is the first report of MASC arising as a primary pulmonary tumor. This tumor was unusual in that it is the largest (8.5 cm) MASC ever reported, showed an increased mitotic count (6/10 high-power fields) without high-grade cytology, and presented with advanced-stage disease that included visceral pleural invasion and lymph node metastasis.
The immunoinhibitory PD-1/PD-L1 pathway in inflammatory blood vessel disease. Journal of leukocyte biology Weyand, C. M., Berry, G. J., Goronzy, J. J. 2018; 103 (3): 565–75
Because of their vital function, the wall structures of medium and large arteries are immunoprivileged and protected from inflammatory attack. That vascular immunoprivilege is broken in atherosclerosis and in vasculitis, when wall-invading T cells and macrophages (Mϕ) promote tissue injury and maladaptive repair. Historically, tissue-residing T cells were studied for their antigen specificity, but recent progress has refocused attention to antigen-nonspecific regulation, which determines tissue access, persistence, and functional differentiation of T cells. The coinhibitory receptor PD-1, expressed on T cells, delivers negative signals when engaged by its ligand PD-L1, expressed on dendritic cells, Mϕ, and endothelial cells to attenuate T cell activation, effector functions, and survival. Through mitigating signals, the PD-1 immune checkpoint maintains tissue tolerance. In line with this concept, dendritic cells and Mϕs from patients with the vasculitic syndrome giant cell arteritis (GCA) are PD-L1lo ; including vessel-wall-embedded DCs that guard the vascular immunoprivilege. GCA infiltrates in the arterial walls are filled with PD-1+ T cells that secrete IFN-gamma, IL-17, and IL-21; drive inflammation-associated angiogenesis; and facilitate intimal hyperplasia. Conversely, chronic tissue inflammation in the atherosclerotic plaque is associated with an overreactive PD-1 checkpoint. Plaque-residing Mϕs are PD-L1hi , a defect induced by their addiction to glucose and glycolytic breakdown. PD-L1hi Mϕs render patients with coronary artery disease immunocompromised and suppress antiviral immunity, including protective anti-varicella zoster virus T cells. Thus, immunoinhibitory signals affect several domains of vascular inflammation; failing PD-L1 in vasculitis enables unopposed immunostimulation and opens the flood gates for polyfunctional inflammatory T cells, and excess PD-L1 in the atherosclerotic plaque disables tissue-protective T cell immunity.
Validation and Application of Predicted Tumor Mutational Burden (pTMB) Using a 130-Gene Sequencing Panel in Lung Adenocarcinoma Yang, S., Steiner, D., Stehr, H., Berry, G., Zehnder, J. L., Kunder, C. NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP. 2018: 758–59
Refractory Giant Cell Arteritis Complicated by Vision Loss From Optic Atrophy and Maculopathy Associated With Pachymeningitis JOURNAL OF NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY Uribe, J. A., Aggarwal, I., Witthayaweerasak, J., Liao, Y., Berry, G. J., Sab, U. K., Weyand, C. M. 2018; 38 (1): 17–23
We describe a 75-year-old woman who experienced vision loss in her left eye due to biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis (GCA). She subsequently developed pachymeningitis causing refractory headaches and bilateral optic neuropathy and maculopathy.Case report with literature review.Eighteen months after the initial diagnosis of GCA, imaging studies in our patient demonstrated pachymeningeal enhancement, and meningeal biopsy confirmed lymphoplasmacytic tissue infiltrates with low frequencies of IgG4+ plasma cells. Laboratory investigation revealed the presence of 3 antiretinal antibodies and antimyeloperoxidase antibodies, consistent with autoimmune retinopathy. Treatment with B-cell-depleting anti-CD20 antibodies suppressed meningeal inflammation and prevented further vision loss.This case illustrates that bilateral vision loss and chronic headaches in patients with GCA may result from retina-directed autoimmunity and pachymeningitis.
Dysphagia and Pharyngeal Obstruction in a Nonsmoker JAMA OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD & NECK SURGERY Nuyen, B. A., Berry, G., Megwalu, U. 2018; 144 (2): 171–72
Acute Limited Intimal Tears of the Thoracic Aorta. Journal of the American College of Cardiology Chin, A. S., Willemink, M. J., Kino, A., Hinostroza, V., Sailer, A. M., Fischbein, M. P., Mitchell, R. S., Berry, G. J., Miller, D. C., Fleischmann, D. 2018; 71 (24): 2773–85
Limited intimal tears (LITs) of the aorta (Class 3 dissection variant) are the least common form of aortic pathology in patients presenting with acute aortic syndrome (AAS). LITs are difficult to detect on imaging and may be underappreciated.This study sought to describe the frequency, pathology, treatment, and outcome of LITs compared with other AAS, and to demonstrate that LITs can be detected pre-operatively by contemporary imaging.The authors retrospectively reviewed 497 patients admitted for 513 AAS events at a single academic aortic center between 2003 and 2012. AAS were classified into classic dissection (AD), intramural hematoma, LIT, penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer, and rupturing thoracic aortic aneurysm. The prevalence, pertinent risk factors, and detailed imaging findings with surgical and pathological correlation of LITs are described. Management, early outcomes, and late mortality are reported.Among 497 patients with AAS, the authors identified 24 LITs (4.8% of AAS) in 16 men and 8 women (17 type A, 7 type B). Patients with LITs were older than those with AD, and type A LITs had similarly dilated ascending aortas as type A AD. Three patients presented with rupture. Eleven patients underwent urgent surgical aortic replacement, and 2 patients underwent endovascular repair. Medial degeneration was present in all surgical specimens. In-hospital mortality was 4% (1 of 24), and in total, 5 patients with LIT died subsequently at 1.5 years (interquartile range [IQR]: 0.3 to 2.5 years). Computed tomography imaging detected all but 1 LIT, best visualized on volume-rendered images.LITs are rare acute aortic lesions within the dissection spectrum, with similar presentation, complications, and outcomes compared with AD and intramural hematoma. Awareness of this lesion allows pre-operative diagnosis using high-quality computed tomography angiography.
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Radiogenomics Map Identifies Relationships between Molecular and Imaging Phenotypes with Prognostic Implications. Radiology Zhou, M., Leung, A., Echegaray, S., Gentles, A., Shrager, J. B., Jensen, K. C., Berry, G. J., Plevritis, S. K., Rubin, D. L., Napel, S., Gevaert, O. 2018; 286 (1): 307–15
Purpose To create a radiogenomic map linking computed tomographic (CT) image features and gene expression profiles generated by RNA sequencing for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Materials and Methods A cohort of 113 patients with NSCLC diagnosed between April 2008 and September 2014 who had preoperative CT data and tumor tissue available was studied. For each tumor, a thoracic radiologist recorded 87 semantic image features, selected to reflect radiologic characteristics of nodule shape, margin, texture, tumor environment, and overall lung characteristics. Next, total RNA was extracted from the tissue and analyzed with RNA sequencing technology. Ten highly coexpressed gene clusters, termed metagenes, were identified, validated in publicly available gene-expression cohorts, and correlated with prognosis. Next, a radiogenomics map was built that linked semantic image features to metagenes by using the t statistic and the Spearman correlation metric with multiple testing correction. Results RNA sequencing analysis resulted in 10 metagenes that capture a variety of molecular pathways, including the epidermal growth factor (EGF) pathway. A radiogenomic map was created with 32 statistically significant correlations between semantic image features and metagenes. For example, nodule attenuation and margins are associated with the late cell-cycle genes, and a metagene that represents the EGF pathway was significantly correlated with the presence of ground-glass opacity and irregular nodules or nodules with poorly defined margins. Conclusion Radiogenomic analysis of NSCLC showed multiple associations between semantic image features and metagenes that represented canonical molecular pathways, and it can result in noninvasive identification of molecular properties of NSCLC. Online supplemental material is available for this article.
Gastrointestinal Tract Vasculopathy: Clinicopathology and Description of a Possible "New Entity" With Protean Features. The American journal of surgical pathology Louie, C. Y., DiMaio, M. A., Charville, G. W., Berry, G. J., Longacre, T. A. 2018
Noninfectious gastrointestinal (GI) vasculopathic disorders are rare and are often overlooked in histopathologic examination or when forming differential diagnoses due to their rarity. However, involvement of the GI tract may lead to serious complications, including ischemia and perforation. Since awareness of the types of vasculopathy that may involve the GI tract is central to arriving at a correct diagnosis, we reviewed our institutional experience with GI tract vasculopathy in order to enhance diagnostic accuracy of these rare lesions. We report the clinical and histologic features of 16 cases (excluding 16 cases of immunoglobulin A vasculitis) diagnosed over a 20-year period. Of the 16 patients, 14 presented with symptoms related to the GI vasculopathy (including 2 presenting with a mass on endoscopic examination). The remaining 2 patients presented with incarcerated hernia and invasive adenocarcinoma. The vasculopathy was not associated with systemic disease and appeared limited to the GI tract in 8 patients. Eight had associated systemic disease, but only 6 had a prior diagnosis. The underlying diagnoses in these 6 patients included systemic lupus erythematosus (1), dermatomyositis (2), rheumatoid arthritis (1), eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (1), and Crohn disease (1). One patient with granulomatous polyangiitis and 1 patient with systemic lupus erythematosus initially presented with GI symptoms. The 8 cases of isolated GI tract vasculopathy consisted of enterocolic lymphocytic phlebitis (4), idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of the sigmoid colon (1), idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of the ileum (1), granulomatous vasculitis (1), and polyarteritis nodosa-like arteritis (1). Isolated GI tract vasculopathy is rare, but appears to be almost as common as that associated with systemic disease. The chief primary vasculopathies are enterocolic lymphocytic colitis and idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia. Although the latter occurs predominantly in the left colon, rare examples occur in the small bowel and likely represent a complex, more protean disorder.
Association of Omics Features with Histopathology Patterns in Lung Adenocarcinoma CELL SYSTEMS Yu, K., Berry, G. J., Rubin, D. L., Re, C., Altman, R. B., Snyder, M. 2017; 5 (6): 620-+
Adenocarcinoma accounts for more than 40% of lung malignancy, and microscopic pathology evaluation is indispensable for its diagnosis. However, how histopathology findings relate to molecular abnormalities remains largely unknown. Here, we obtained H&E-stained whole-slide histopathology images, pathology reports, RNA sequencing, and proteomics data of 538 lung adenocarcinoma patients from The Cancer Genome Atlas and used these to identify molecular pathways associated with histopathology patterns. We report cell-cycle regulation and nucleotide binding pathways underpinning tumor cell dedifferentiation, and we predicted histology grade using transcriptomics and proteomics signatures (area under curve >0.80). We built an integrative histopathology-transcriptomics model to generate better prognostic predictions for stage I patients (p = 0.0182 ± 0.0021) compared with gene expression or histopathology studies alone, and the results were replicated in an independent cohort (p = 0.0220 ± 0.0070). These results motivate the integration of histopathology and omics data to investigate molecular mechanisms of pathology findings and enhance clinical prognostic prediction.
Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase Testing: IHC vs. FISH vs. NGS CURRENT TREATMENT OPTIONS IN ONCOLOGY Niu, X., Chuang, J. C., Berry, G. J., Wakelee, H. A. 2017; 18 (12): 71
Personalized targeted therapy has emerged as a promising strategy in lung cancer treatment, with current attention focused on elucidation and detection of oncogenic drivers responsible for tumor initiation and maintenance and development of drug resistance. In lung cancer, several oncogenic drivers have been reported, triggering the application of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) to target these dysfunctional genes. The anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangement is responsible for about 4-7% of all non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) and perhaps as high as a third in specific patient populations such as younger, male, non-smokers with advanced stage, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene (KRAS) wild type, and signet ring cell adenocarcinoma with abundant intracytoplasmic mucin. The selection of patients based on their ALK status is vital on account of the high response rates with the ALK-targeted agents in this subset of patients. Standardization and validation of ALK rearrangement detection methods is essential for accurate and reproducible results. There are currently three detection methods widely available in clinical practice, including fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), immunohistochemistry (IHC), and polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based next generation sequencing (NGS) technology. However, the choice of diagnostic methodology for ALK rearrangement detection in clinical practice remains a matter of debate. With accumulating data enumerating the advantages and disadvantages of each of the three methods, combining more than one testing method for ALK fusion detection may be beneficial for patients. In this review, we will discuss the current methods used in ALK rearrangement detection with emphasis on their key advantages and disadvantages.
Comparative Analysis of the Macrophage Glycolytic Machinery in Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) and in Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) Weyand, C. M., Watanabe, R., Shirai, T., Zhang, H., Berry, G., Goronzy, J. WILEY. 2017
The Microvascular Niche Instructs Pathogenic T Cells in Medium and Large Vessel Vasculitis Weyand, C. M., Wen, Z., Shen, Y., Berry, G., Liao, J., Goronzy, J. WILEY. 2017
Applying rigor and reproducibility standards to assay donor-derived cell-free DNA as a non-invasive method for detection of acute rejection and graft injury after heart transplantation JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Agbor-Enoh, S., Tunc, I., De Vlaminck, I., Fideli, U., Davis, A., Cuttin, K., Bhatti, K., Marishta, A., Solomon, M. A., Jackson, A., Graninger, G., Harper, B., Luikart, H., Wylie, J., Wang, X., Berry, G., Marboe, C., Khush, K., Zhu, J., Valantine, H. 2017; 36 (9): 1004–12
Use of new genomic techniques in clinical settings requires that such methods are rigorous and reproducible. Previous studies have shown that quantitation of donor-derived cell-free DNA (%ddcfDNA) by unbiased shotgun sequencing is a sensitive, non-invasive marker of acute rejection after heart transplantation. The primary goal of this study was to assess the reproducibility of %ddcfDNA measurements across technical replicates, manual vs automated platforms, and rejection phenotypes in distinct patient cohorts.After developing and validating the %ddcfDNA assay, we subjected the method to a rigorous test of its reproducibility. We measured %ddcfDNA in technical replicates performed by 2 independent laboratories and verified the reproducibility of %ddcfDNA patterns of 2 rejection phenotypes: acute cellular rejection and antibody-mediated rejection in distinct patient cohorts.We observed strong concordance of technical-replicate %ddcfDNA measurements across 2 independent laboratories (slope = 1.02, R2 > 0.99, p < 10-6), as well as across manual and automated platforms (slope = 0.80, R2 = 0.92, p < 0.001). The %ddcfDNA measurements in distinct heart transplant cohorts had similar baselines and error rates. The %ddcfDNA temporal patterns associated with rejection phenotypes were similar in both patient cohorts; however, the quantity of ddcfDNA was significantly higher in samples with severe vs mild histologic rejection grade (2.73% vs 0.14%, respectively; p < 0.001).The %ddcfDNA assay is precise and reproducible across laboratories and in samples from 2 distinct types of heart transplant rejection. These findings pave the way for larger studies to assess the clinical utility of %ddcfDNA as a marker of acute rejection after heart transplantation.
Spectral Doppler Waveforms for Diagnosis of Appendicitis: Potential Utility of Point Peak Systolic Velocity and Resistive Index Values. Radiology Shin, L. K., Jeffrey, R. B., Berry, G. J., Olcott, E. W. 2017: 162251-?
Purpose To test the hypothesis that appendiceal spectral Doppler waveforms can distinguish patients with and patients without appendicitis. Materials and Methods In this retrospective study, Doppler waveforms were obtained from intramural appendiceal arteries identified with color Doppler imaging in 60% (93 of 155) of consecutive patients whose appendices were visualized at graded compression ultrasonography (US) performed for suspected appendicitis (53 male and 40 female; age, 1-56 years; mean, 14.5 years) over the 5-month period from November 2015 through March 2016. Point, non-angle-corrected peak systolic velocity (PSV) and resistive index (RI) values were compared between patients with and patients without appendicitis by utilizing histopathologically proven appendicitis and 6-week clinical follow-up as diagnostic reference standards. Data were assessed by using the Student t test, exact binomial distribution, two-sample test of proportions, and receiver operating characteristic analysis. Results Among the 93 patients, 36 (38.7%) had proven appendicitis (mean PSV, 19.7 cm/sec; mean RI, 0.69) and 57 patients (61.2%) did not (mean PSV, 7.1 cm/sec, P < .0001; mean RI, 0.50, P < .0001). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for the diagnosis of appendicitis was 0.97 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.95, 1.00) for PSV and 0.86 (95% CI: 0.78, 0.95; P = .011) for RI. Chosen discriminatory criteria of PSV greater than 10 cm/sec and RI greater than 0.65 yielded specificity for appendicitis of 94.7% and 96.5% with sensitivity of 88.9% and 63.9% (P = .013) and negative predictive value of 93.1% and 80.9% (P = .045), respectively. Original clinical graded compression US interpretations based on established US findings demonstrated specificity of 96.2% and sensitivity of 100.0%. Considering the subset of 20 patients whose maximum outer diameter measured 6-8 mm, the discriminatory criteria of PSV greater than 10 cm/sec and RI greater than 0.65 yielded specificity for appendicitis of 88.9% each, with sensitivity of 100.0% and 63.6% and negative predictive value of 100.0% and 66.6%, respectively. Conclusion In patients with visualized appendices at US, those with appendicitis exhibit significantly higher point PSV and point RI values than do patients without appendicitis and are distinguishable with high specificity by using a PSV greater than 10 cm/sec and an RI greater than 0.65 as diagnostic criteria. (©) RSNA, 2017.
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REDUCED CARBOXYLESTERASE 1 IS ASSOCIATED WITH ENDOTHELIAL INJURY IN METHAMPHETAMINE INDUCED PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION. American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology Orcholski, M. E., Khurshudyan, A., Shamskhou, E. A., Yuan, K., Chen, I. Y., Kodani, S. D., Morisseau, C., Hammock, B. D., Hong, E. M., Alexandrova, L., Alastalo, T., Berry, G., Zamanian, R. T., de Jesus Perez, V. A. 2017: ajplung 00453 2016-?
Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a complication of methamphetamine use (METH-PAH) but the pathogenic mechanisms are unknown. Given that cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) and carboxylesterase 1 (CES1) are involved in metabolism of METH and other amphetamine-like compounds, we postulated that loss of function variants could contribute to METH-PAH. While no difference in CYP2D6 expression was seen by lung immunofluorescence, CES1 expression was significantly reduced in endothelium of METH-PAH microvessels. Mass spectrometry analysis showed that healthy pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells (PMVECs) have the capacity to both internalize and metabolize METH. Furthermore, whole exome sequencing data from 18 METH-PAH patients revealed that 94.4% of METH-PAH patients were heterozygous carriers of a single nucleotide variant (SNV, rs115629050) predicted to reduce CES1 activity. PMVECs transfected with this CES1 variant demonstrated significantly higher rates of METH-induced apoptosis. METH exposure results in increased formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and a compensatory autophagy response. Compared to healthy cells, CES1-deficient PMVECs lack a robust autophagy response despite higher ROS, which correlates with increased apoptosis. We propose that reduced CES1 expression/activity could promote development of METH-PAH by increasing PMVEC apoptosis and small vessel loss.
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Immune checkpoint dysfunction in large and medium vessel vasculitis. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology Watanabe, R., Zhang, H., Berry, G., Goronzy, J. J., Weyand, C. M. 2017; 312 (5): H1052-H1059
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a granulomatous vasculitis of the aorta and its medium-sized branch vessels. CD4 T cells, macrophages, and dendritic cells (DCs) build granulomatous infiltrates that injure the vessel wall and elicit a maladaptive response to injury. Pathological consequences include fragmentation of elastic membranes, destruction of the medial layer, microvascular neoangiogenesis, massive outgrowth of myofibroblasts, and lumen-occlusive intimal hyperplasia. Antigens have been suspected to drive the local activation of vasculitogenic CD4 T cells, but recent data have suggested a more generalized defect in the threshold setting of such T cells, rendering them hyperreactive. Under physiological conditions, immune checkpoints provide negative signals to curb T cell activation and prevent inflammation-associated tissue destruction. This protective mechanism is disrupted in GCA. Vessel wall DCs fail to express the immunoinhibitory ligand programmed cell death ligand-1, leaving lesional T cells unchecked. Consequently, programmed cell death protein-1-positive CD4 T cells can enter the immunoprivileged vessel wall, where they produce a broad spectrum of inflammatory cytokines (interferon-γ, IL-17, and IL-21) and have a direct role in driving intimal hyperplasia and intramural neoangiogenesis. The deficiency of the programmed cell death protein-1 immune checkpoint in GCA, promoting unopposed T cell immunity, contrasts with checkpoint hyperactivity in cancer patients in whom excessive programmed cell death ligand-1 expression paralyzes the function of antitumor T cells. Excessive checkpoint activity is the principle underlying cancer-immune evasion and is therapeutically targeted by immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors. Such checkpoint inhibitors, which unleash anticancer T cells and induce immune-related toxicity, may lead to drug-induced vasculitis.
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Immunoinhibitory checkpoint deficiency in medium and large vessel vasculitis PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Zhang, H., Watanabe, R., Berry, G. J., Vaglio, A., Liao, Y. J., Warrington, K. J., Goronzy, J. J., Weyand, C. M. 2017; 114 (6): E970-E979
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) causes autoimmune inflammation of the aorta and its large branches, resulting in aortic arch syndrome, blindness, and stroke. CD4(+) T cells and macrophages form organized granulomatous lesions in the walls of affected arteries, destroy the tunica media, and induce ischemic organ damage through rapid intimal hyperplasia and luminal occlusion. Pathogenic mechanisms remain insufficiently understood; specifically, it is unknown whether the unopposed activation of the immune system is because of deficiency of immunoinhibitory checkpoints. Transcriptome analysis of GCA-affected temporal arteries revealed low expression of the coinhibitory ligand programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) concurrent with enrichment of the programmed death-1 (PD-1) receptor. Tissue-residing and ex vivo-generated dendritic cells (DC) from GCA patients were PD-L1(lo), whereas the majority of vasculitic T cells expressed PD-1, suggesting inefficiency of the immunoprotective PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint. DC-PD-L1 expression correlated inversely with clinical disease activity. In human artery-SCID chimeras, PD-1 blockade exacerbated vascular inflammation, enriched for PD-1(+) effector T cells, and amplified tissue production of multiple T-cell effector cytokines, including IFN-γ, IL-17, and IL-21. Arteries infiltrated by PD-1(+) effector T cells developed microvascular neoangiogenesis as well as hyperplasia of the intimal layer, implicating T cells in the maladaptive behavior of vessel wall endogenous cells. Thus, in GCA, a breakdown of the tissue-protective PD1/PD-L1 checkpoint unleashes vasculitic immunity and regulates the pathogenic remodeling of the inflamed arterial wall.
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Progression of EGFR-Mutant Lung Adenocarcinoma is Driven By Alveolar Macrophages. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research Wang, D., Lee, H., Yoon, D., Berry, G., Wheeler, T. M., Sugarbaker, D. J., Kheradmand, F., Engleman, E., Burt, B. M. 2017; 23 (3): 778-788
Lung adenocarcinomas with mutations in the EGFR have unprecedented initial responses to targeted therapy against the EGFR. Over time, however, these tumors invariably develop resistance to these drugs. We set out to investigate alternative treatment approaches for these tumors.To investigate the immunologic underpinnings of EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinoma, we utilized a bitransgenic mouse model in which a mutant human EGFR gene is selectively expressed in the lungs.EGFR oncogene-dependent progression and remission of lung adenocarcinoma was respectively dependent upon the expansion and contraction of alveolar macrophages, and the mechanism underlying macrophage expansion was local proliferation. In tumor-bearing mice, alveolar macrophages downregulated surface expression of MHC-II and costimulatory molecules; increased production of CXCL1, CXCL2, IL1 receptor antagonist; and increased phagocytosis. Depletion of alveolar macrophages in tumor-bearing mice resulted in reduction of tumor burden, indicating a critical role for these cells in the development of EGFR-mutant adenocarcinoma. Treatment of mice with EGFR-targeting clinical drugs (erlotinib and cetuximab) resulted in a significant decrease in alveolar macrophages in these mice. An activated alveolar macrophage mRNA signature was dominant in human EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinomas, and the presence of this alveolar macrophage activation signature was associated with unfavorable survival among patients undergoing resection for EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinoma.Because of the inevitability of failure of targeted therapy in EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), these data suggest that therapeutic strategies targeting alveolar macrophages in EGFR-mutant NSCLC have the potential to mitigate progression and survival in this disease. Clin Cancer Res; 23(3); 778-88. ©2016 AACR.
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Predictive radiogenomics modeling of EGFR mutation status in lung cancer SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Gevaert, O., Echegaray, S., Khuong, A., Hoang, C. D., Shrager, J. B., Jensen, K. C., Berry, G. J., Guo, H. H., Lau, C., Plevritis, S. K., Rubin, D. L., Napel, S., Leung, A. N. 2017; 7
Molecular analysis of the mutation status for EGFR and KRAS are now routine in the management of non-small cell lung cancer. Radiogenomics, the linking of medical images with the genomic properties of human tumors, provides exciting opportunities for non-invasive diagnostics and prognostics. We investigated whether EGFR and KRAS mutation status can be predicted using imaging data. To accomplish this, we studied 186 cases of NSCLC with preoperative thin-slice CT scans. A thoracic radiologist annotated 89 semantic image features of each patient's tumor. Next, we built a decision tree to predict the presence of EGFR and KRAS mutations. We found a statistically significant model for predicting EGFR but not for KRAS mutations. The test set area under the ROC curve for predicting EGFR mutation status was 0.89. The final decision tree used four variables: emphysema, airway abnormality, the percentage of ground glass component and the type of tumor margin. The presence of either of the first two features predicts a wild type status for EGFR while the presence of any ground glass component indicates EGFR mutations. These results show the potential of quantitative imaging to predict molecular properties in a non-invasive manner, as CT imaging is more readily available than biopsies.
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Pulmonary Crohn's Disease DIGESTIVE DISEASES AND SCIENCES Regalia, K., Shelton, A., Berry, G., Triadafilopoulos, G., Cartwright, C. A. 2017; 62 (1): 64-67
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Pyruvate controls the checkpoint inhibitor PD-L1 and suppresses T cell immunity. The Journal of clinical investigation Watanabe, R., Shirai, T., Namkoong, H., Zhang, H., Berry, G. J., Wallis, B. B., Schaefgen, B., Harrison, D. G., Tremmel, J. A., Giacomini, J. C., Goronzy, J. J., Weyand, C. M. 2017; 127 (7): 2725–38
Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) are at high risk for reactivation of the varicella zoster virus (VZV) and development of herpes zoster (HZ). Here, we found that macrophages from patients with CAD actively suppress T cell activation and expansion, leading to defective VZV-specific T cell immunity. Monocyte-derived and plaque-infiltrating macrophages from patients with CAD spontaneously expressed high surface density of the immunoinhibitory ligand programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1), thereby providing negative signals to programmed death-1+ (PD-1+) T cells. We determined that aberrant PD-L1 expression in patient-derived macrophages was metabolically controlled. Oversupply of the glycolytic intermediate pyruvate in mitochondria from CAD macrophages promoted expression of PD-L1 via induction of the bone morphogenetic protein 4/phosphorylated SMAD1/5/IFN regulatory factor 1 (BMP4/p-SMAD1/5/IRF1) signaling pathway. Thus, CAD macrophages respond to nutrient excess by activating the immunoinhibitory PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint, leading to impaired T cell immunity. This finding indicates that metabolite-based immunotherapy may be a potential strategy for restoring adaptive immunity in CAD.
Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma with Enteric Differentiation Presenting with Bronchorrhea. Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Prakobkit, R., Churk-Nam Auyeung, W., Xu, L., Berry, G. J. 2017; 12 (8): e120–e123
Comprehensive Genomic Profiling of Malignant Effusions in Patients with Metastatic Lung Adenocarcinoma. The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD Yang, S. R., Lin, C. Y., Stehr, H., Long, S. R., Kong, C. S., Berry, G. J., Zehnder, J. L., Kunder, C. A. 2017
Cytology samples are being increasingly utilized for comprehensive molecular testing. Although fine-needle aspirates are adequate substrates for high-throughput sequencing, the suitability of malignant body fluids remains largely unexplored. Herein, we investigated the adequacy and utility of performing targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS) on malignant effusions from patients with metastatic lung adenocarcinoma. Thirty-two effusion samples that were submitted for hybrid capture-based NGS using a clinically validated solid tumor genotyping panel were examined. All cases showed ≥5% tumor cellularity; however, 28 (88%) provided sufficient DNA for NGS (≥1 ng/μL). The sequencing reads showed satisfactory quality control statistics, and the variant allele frequencies were correlated with tumor cellularity. Furthermore, pathogenic or likely pathogenic genomic alterations were identified in 26/28 samples (93%), whereas clinically actionable alterations were present in 18 (64%). Notably, nine patients had additional molecular testing performed on preceding/subsequent biopsies, and the results across multiple samples were compared. In two patients, the NGS-based fluid analysis identified clinically actionable alterations that were not detected by other hotspot testing. In four patients treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors, malignant fluid sequencing confirmed driver alterations from prior testing and revealed new resistance mechanisms. Hence, given adequate DNA input and tumor cellularity, comprehensive genomic profiling of malignant effusions may be used to establish mutational status at diagnosis and inform treatment resistance during targeted therapy.
The microvascular niche instructs T cells in large vessel vasculitis via the VEGF-Jagged1-Notch pathway. Science translational medicine Wen, Z., Shen, Y., Berry, G., Shahram, F., Li, Y., Watanabe, R., Liao, Y. J., Goronzy, J. J., Weyand, C. M. 2017; 9 (399)
Microvascular networks in the adventitia of large arteries control access of inflammatory cells to the inner wall layers (media and intima) and thus protect the immune privilege of the aorta and its major branches. In autoimmune vasculitis giant cell arteritis (GCA), CD4 T helper 1 (TH1) and TH17 cells invade into the wall of the aorta and large elastic arteries to form tissue-destructive granulomas. Whether the disease microenvironment provides instructive cues for vasculitogenic T cells is unknown. We report that adventitial microvascular endothelial cells (mvECs) perform immunoregulatory functions by up-regulating the expression of the Notch ligand Jagged1. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), abundantly present in GCA patients' blood, induced Jagged1 expression, allowing mvECs to regulate effector T cell induction via the Notch-mTORC1 (mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1) pathway. We found that circulating CD4 T cells in GCA patients have left the quiescent state, actively signal through the Notch pathway, and differentiate into TH1 and TH17 effector cells. In an in vivo model of large vessel vasculitis, exogenous VEGF functioned as an effective amplifier to recruit and activate vasculitogenic T cells. Thus, systemic VEGF co-opts endothelial Jagged1 to trigger aberrant Notch signaling, biases responsiveness of CD4 T cells, and induces pathogenic effector functions. Adventitial microvascular networks function as an instructive tissue niche, which can be exploited to target vasculitogenic immunity in large vessel vasculitis.
Features and Outcomes of Methamphetamine Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine Zamanian, R. T., Hedlin, H., Greuenwald, P., Wilson, D. M., Segal, J. I., Jorden, M., Kudelko, K., Liu, J., Hsi, A., Rupp, A., Sweatt, A. J., Tuder, R., Berry, G. J., Rabinovitch, M., Doyle, R. L., De Jesus Perez, V., Kawut, S. M. 2017
While amphetamines are recognized as "likely" agents to cause drugs and toxins associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), (meth)amphetamine associated PAH (Meth-APAH) has not been well described.To prospectively characterize the clinical presentation, histopathology, and outcomes of Meth-APAH compared to those of idiopathic PAH (iPAH).We performed a prospective cohort study of Meth-APAH and iPAH patients presenting to the Stanford University Pulmonary Hypertension Program between 2003-2015. Clinical, pulmonary angiography, histopathology, and outcomes data were compared. We used data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project to estimate the epidemiology of PAH in (meth)amphetamine abusers hospitalized in California.The study sample included 90 Meth-APAH and 97 iPAH patients. Meth-APAH patients were less likely to be female, but similar in age, body mass index, and six minute walk distance to iPAH patients. Meth-PAH patients reported more advanced heart failure symptoms, had significantly higher right atrial pressure (12.7±6.8 vs. 9.8±5.1 mmHg, p=0.001), and lower stroke volume index (22.2±7.1 vs 25.5±8.7 mL/m2, p=0.01). Event-free survival in Meth-APAH was 64.2%, 47.2%, and 25% at 2.5, 5, and 10 years respectively, representing more than double the risk of clinical worsening or death compared to iPAH (HR 2.04, 95% CI 1.28-3.25, p=0.003) independent of confounders. California data demonstrated a 2.6 fold increase in risk of PAH diagnosis in hospitalized (meth)amphetamine users.Meth-APAH is a severe and progressive form of PAH with poor outcomes. Future studies should focus on mechanisms of disease and potential therapeutic considerations.
Recurrent Pyogenic Cholangitis: Got Stones? Digestive diseases and sciences Gholami, S., Wood, L., Berry, G., Triadafilopoulos, G., Visser, B. C., Dua, M. M. 2016; 61 (11): 3147-3150
Pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory T cells in giant cell arteritis. Joint, bone, spine : revue du rhumatisme Watanabe, R., Hosgur, E., Zhang, H., Wen, Z., Berry, G., Goronzy, J. J., Weyand, C. M. 2016
Giant cell arteritis is an autoimmune disease defined by explicit tissue tropism to the walls of medium and large arteries. Pathognomic inflammatory lesions are granulomatous in nature, emphasizing the functional role of CD4T cells and macrophages. Evidence for a pathogenic role of antibodies and immune complexes is missing. Analysis of T cell populations in giant cell arteritis, both in the tissue lesions and in the circulation, has supported a model of broad, polyclonal T cell activation, involving an array of functional T cell lineages. The signature of T cell cytokines produced by vasculitic lesions is typically multifunctional, including IL-2, IFN-γ, IL-17, IL-21, and GM-CSF, supportive for a general defect in T cell regulation. Recent data describing the lack of a lymph node-based population of anti-inflammatory T cells in giant cell arteritis patients offers a fresh look at the immunopathology of this vasculitis. Due to defective CD8(+)NOX2(+) regulatory T cells, giant cell arteritis patients appear unable to curtail clonal expansion within the CD4T cell compartment, resulting in widespread CD4T cell hyperimmunity. Why unopposed expansion of committed CD4 effector T cells would lead to invasion of the walls of medium and large arteries needs to be explored in further investigations.
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Design and rationale of a prospective, multi-institutional registry for patients with sinonasal malignancy. Laryngoscope Beswick, D. M., Holsinger, F. C., Kaplan, M. J., Fischbein, N. J., Hara, W., Colevas, A. D., Le, Q., Berry, G. J., Hwang, P. H. 2016; 126 (9): 1977-1980
Assessment of patients with sinonasal malignancy is challenging due to the low disease incidence and diverse histopathology. The current literature is composed mainly of retrospective studies with heterogeneous cohorts, and the rarity of cases limits our understanding of disease characteristics and treatment outcomes. We describe the development of a prospective, multi-institutional registry that utilizes cloud-based computing to evaluate treatment outcomes in patients with sinonasal cancer.A web-based, secure database was built to prospectively capture longitudinal outcomes and quality-of-life (QoL) data in patients diagnosed with sinonasal malignancy. Demographics, tumor staging, and treatment outcomes data are being collected. The Sinonasal Outcome Test-22 and University of Washington Quality of Life Questionnaire are administered at presentation and at recurring intervals. To date, seven institutions are participating nationally.This prospective, multi-institutional registry will provide novel oncological and QoL outcomes on patients with sinonasal malignancy to inform management decisions and disease prognostication. The application of cloud-based computing facilitates secure multi-institutional collaboration and may serve as a model for future registry development for the study of rare diseases in otolaryngology.2C. Laryngoscope, 2016.
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Giant Cell Arteritis: From Pathogenesis to Therapeutic Management. Current treatment options in rheumatology Watanabe, R., Goronzy, J. J., Berry, G., Liao, Y. J., Weyand, C. M. 2016; 2 (2): 126-137
Antibody-mediated rejection of the lung: A consensus report of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. journal of heart and lung transplantation Levine, D. J., Glanville, A. R., Aboyoun, C., Belperio, J., Benden, C., Berry, G. J., Hachem, R., Hayes, D., Neil, D., Reinsmoen, N. L., Snyder, L. D., Sweet, S., Tyan, D., Verleden, G., Westall, G., Yusen, R. D., Zamora, M., Zeevi, A. 2016; 35 (4): 397-406
Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is a recognized cause of allograft dysfunction in lung transplant recipients. Unlike AMR in other solid-organ transplant recipients, there are no standardized diagnostic criteria or an agreed-upon definition. Hence, a working group was created by the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation with the aim of determining criteria for pulmonary AMR and establishing a definition. Diagnostic criteria and a working consensus definition were established. Key diagnostic criteria include the presence of antibodies directed toward donor human leukocyte antigens and characteristic lung histology with or without evidence of complement 4d within the graft. Exclusion of other causes of allograft dysfunction increases confidence in the diagnosis but is not essential. Pulmonary AMR may be clinical (allograft dysfunction which can be asymptomatic) or sub-clinical (normal allograft function). This consensus definition will have clinical, therapeutic and research implications.
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Banff study of pathologic changes in lung allograft biopsy specimens with donor-specific antibodies JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Wallace, W. D., Li, N., Andersen, C. B., Arrossi, A. V., Askar, M., Berry, G. J., Denicola, M. M., Neil, D. A., Pavlisko, E. N., Reed, E. F., Remmelink, M., Weigt, S. S., Weynand, B., Zhang, J. Q., Budev, M. M., Farver, C. F. 2016; 35 (1): 40-48
The diagnosis of antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) in the lung transplant is still an area under investigation. We performed a blinded multicenter study to determine if any statistically significant histologic findings in transbronchial biopsy specimens from lung transplant patients correlate with the presence of donor-specific antibodies (DSAs).We asked 9 pathologists with experience in lung transplantation to evaluate 161 lung transplant biopsy specimens for various histologic parameters. The findings were correlated with antibody status positive for DSAs, positive for non-DSAs, and no antibodies (NABs) present. The significance of each histologic variable was reviewed.We found no statistically significant association with acute cellular rejection, airway inflammation, or bronchiolitis obliterans and the presence or absence of antibodies. However, biopsy specimens with DSAs had a statistically significant difference vs NABs in the setting of acute lung injury, with or without diffuse alveolar damage (p = 0.0008), in the presence of capillary neutrophilic inflammation (p = 0.0014), and in samples with endotheliitis (p = 0.0155). In samples with complement 4d staining, there was a trend but no statistically significant difference between specimens associated with DSAs and specimens with NABs.Capillary inflammation, acute lung injury, and endotheliitis significantly correlated with DSAs. The infrequently observed diffuse staining for complement 4d limits the usefulness of this stain.
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Design and rationale of a prospective multi-institutional registry for patients with sinosodal malignancy The Laryngoscope Beswick, D. M., Holsinger, F. C., Kaplan, M. J., Fischbein, N. J., Hara, W. Y., Colevas, A. D., Le, Q. T., Berry, G. J., Hwang, P. H. 2016
Erionite-associated malignant pleural mesothelioma in Mexico INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY Oczypok, E. A., Sanchez, M. S., Van Orden, D. R., Berry, G. J., Pourtabib, K., Gunter, M. E., Roggli, V. L., Kraynie, A. M., Oury, T. D. 2016; 9 (5): 5722-5732
Predicting non-small cell lung cancer prognosis by fully automated microscopic pathology image features. Nature communications Yu, K., Zhang, C., Berry, G. J., Altman, R. B., Ré, C., Rubin, D. L., Snyder, M. 2016; 7: 12474-?
Lung cancer is the most prevalent cancer worldwide, and histopathological assessment is indispensable for its diagnosis. However, human evaluation of pathology slides cannot accurately predict patients' prognoses. In this study, we obtain 2,186 haematoxylin and eosin stained histopathology whole-slide images of lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma patients from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), and 294 additional images from Stanford Tissue Microarray (TMA) Database. We extract 9,879 quantitative image features and use regularized machine-learning methods to select the top features and to distinguish shorter-term survivors from longer-term survivors with stage I adenocarcinoma (P<0.003) or squamous cell carcinoma (P=0.023) in the TCGA data set. We validate the survival prediction framework with the TMA cohort (P<0.036 for both tumour types). Our results suggest that automatically derived image features can predict the prognosis of lung cancer patients and thereby contribute to precision oncology. Our methods are extensible to histopathology images of other organs.
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Idelalisib-associated Enterocolitis: Clinicopathologic Features and Distinction From Other Enterocolitides. American journal of surgical pathology Louie, C. Y., DiMaio, M. A., Matsukuma, K. E., Coutre, S. E., Berry, G. J., Longacre, T. A. 2015; 39 (12): 1653-1660
Idelalisib is a highly specific small-molecule phosphoinositide-3-kinase δ inhibitor that was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma and follicular lymphoma. The known side effects of idelalisib include severe diarrhea and colitis. Here we report the histologic findings in idelalisib-associated enterocolitis in 11 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or follicular lymphoma receiving idelalisib over a 5-year period (2011 to 2015) at our institution. All 11 patients were receiving idelalisib and underwent colonoscopy for the evaluation of diarrhea. None of the patients had previously received a stem cell transplant. Histologically, the colon biopsies in all 11 cases showed some degree of apoptosis within crypts, with 5 cases showing moderate to severe apoptosis involving the majority of the crypts with loss of goblet cells. No viral inclusions were seen in any case and immunohistochemical stains for cytomegalovirus performed in 9/11 cases were negative. All cases showed at least focal acute cryptitis, and 8 of these cases showed mild architectural distortion. Increased inflammation within the lamina propria was seen in 7 cases, and increased intraepithelial lymphocytes within crypts was seen in 8 cases; the lymphocytes were mostly T cells with a predominance of CD8 T cells, with the majority expressing the α/β T-cell receptor. Diagnoses of graft-versus-host disease, autoimmune enteropathy, infectious enterocolitis, and although thought to be less likely, inflammatory bowel disease were considered in each case. The presence of numerous intraepithelial lymphocytes in addition to severe villous blunting and apoptosis in the small intestinal biopsies from a subset of these patients additionally raised the possibility of autoimmune enteropathy, common variable immunodeficiency, or less likely, celiac disease. Awareness of the histologic features of idelalisib-associated enterocolitis is important to distinguish it from potential mimics, particularly graft-versus-host disease, autoimmune enteropathy, and cytomegalovirus/infectious enterocolitis.
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Inflammatory Pseudotumors of the Skull Base: Meta-Analysis OTOLOGY & NEUROTOLOGY Alyono, J. C., Shi, Y., Berry, G. J., Recht, L. D., Harsh, G. R., Jackler, R. K., Corrales, C. E. 2015; 36 (8): 1432-1438
To describe the presentation, treatment, and outcome of inflammatory pseudotumors (IPs) of the skull base.English-language articles in PubMed, Web of Science, and EMBASE from earliest available through April 2014.Articles were identified using a keyword search for "inflammatory pseudotumor," "inflammatory myofibroblastoma," or "plasma cell granuloma," including a keyword localizing to the skull base.One hundred papers with 157 cases met inclusion criteria. History, tumor site, initial and subsequent treatment, outcomes, and complications were extracted. Student t test, z test, and analysis of variance were used to analyze demographics, symptoms, sites involved, and outcomes. Odds ratios for site versus initial treatment were calculated.At diagnosis, average patient age was 41 years. Approximately 70% of lesions primarily involved the anterior skull base, 29% the lateral skull base, and 1.2% the occiput. The most common initial treatments were steroids (44%), surgery (28%), and surgery with steroids (16%). Anterior lesions were 55.8 times more likely than lateral lesions to be treated initially with steroids (CI, 14.7-212). Seventy-six percent of patients had stable or resolved symptoms after a single course of treatment.Diagnosis of skull base IP requires ruling out other aggressive pathologies, such as malignancy and infection, and maintaining a high index of suspicion. Surgery is favored for lesions that can be removed in toto with minimal morbidity, as well as steroids for those sites where anatomy limits complete resection, such as within the orbit, cavernous sinus, or brain. An option for larger lesions involving vital anatomy is debulking, followed by postoperative steroids.
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Inflammatory Pseudotumors of the Skull Base: Meta-Analysis. Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology Alyono, J. C., Shi, Y., Berry, G. J., Recht, L. D., Harsh, G. R., Jackler, R. K., Corrales, C. E. 2015; 36 (8): 1432–38
Hodgkin Lymphoma Following Adalimumab for the Treatment of Crohn's Disease in an Adolescent DIGESTIVE DISEASES AND SCIENCES Rodriguez, A. A., Kerner, J., Luna-Fineman, S., Berry, G. J. 2014; 59 (10): 2403-2405
Hodgkin lymphoma following adalimumab for the treatment of Crohn's disease in an adolescent. Digestive diseases and sciences Rodriguez, A. A., Kerner, J., Luna-Fineman, S., Berry, G. J. 2014; 59 (10): 2403-2405
T cell-macrophage interactions and granuloma formation in vasculitis FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY Hilhorst, M., Shirai, T., Berry, G., Goronzy, J. J., Weyand, C. M. 2014; 5: 1-14
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Classic biphasic pulmonary blastoma demonstrated by 18F-FDG PET/CT. Clinical nuclear medicine Keu, K. V., Berry, G. J., Quon, A. 2014; 39 (4): 346-348
A 75-year-old nonsmoker woman was referred for the evaluation of a nonsecretory left adrenal lesion. An abdominal contrast-enhanced CT showed an incidental left lower lobe mass, which was confirmed on a chest contrast-enhanced CT. A F-FDG PET/CT showed a hypermetabolic tumor without nodal or distant metastasis. She underwent a lobectomy, and the final pathology reported a classic biphasic pulmonary blastoma, which is an uncommon histological form of malignant lung neoplasm. This case highlighted the glucose avidity of this rare and aggressive cancer.
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Molecular assessment of surgical-resection margins of gastric cancer by mass-spectrometric imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Eberlin, L. S., Tibshirani, R. J., Zhang, J., Longacre, T. A., Berry, G. J., Bingham, D. B., Norton, J. A., Zare, R. N., Poultsides, G. A. 2014; 111 (7): 2436-2441
Surgical resection is the main curative option for gastrointestinal cancers. The extent of cancer resection is commonly assessed during surgery by pathologic evaluation of (frozen sections of) the tissue at the resected specimen margin(s) to verify whether cancer is present. We compare this method to an alternative procedure, desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometric imaging (DESI-MSI), for 62 banked human cancerous and normal gastric-tissue samples. In DESI-MSI, microdroplets strike the tissue sample, the resulting splash enters a mass spectrometer, and a statistical analysis, here, the Lasso method (which stands for least absolute shrinkage and selection operator and which is a multiclass logistic regression with L1 penalty), is applied to classify tissues based on the molecular information obtained directly from DESI-MSI. The methodology developed with 28 frozen training samples of clear histopathologic diagnosis showed an overall accuracy value of 98% for the 12,480 pixels evaluated in cross-validation (CV), and 97% when a completely independent set of samples was tested. By applying an additional spatial smoothing technique, the accuracy for both CV and the independent set of samples was 99% compared with histological diagnoses. To test our method for clinical use, we applied it to a total of 21 tissue-margin samples prospectively obtained from nine gastric-cancer patients. The results obtained suggest that DESI-MSI/Lasso may be valuable for routine intraoperative assessment of the specimen margins during gastric-cancer surgery.
Endothelial fate mapping in mice with pulmonary hypertension. Circulation Qiao, L., Nishimura, T., Shi, L., Sessions, D., Thrasher, A., Trudell, J. R., Berry, G. J., Pearl, R. G., Kao, P. N. 2014; 129 (6): 692-703
Pulmonary endothelial injury triggers a reparative program, which in susceptible individuals is characterized by neointima formation, vascular narrowing, and the development of pulmonary arterial hypertension. The neointimal cells in human pathological plexiform lesions frequently coexpress smooth muscle α-actin and the endothelial von Willebrand antigen, creating a question about their cellular lineage of origin.Experimental pulmonary hypertension with neointima formation develops in C57Bl/6 mice subjected to left pneumonectomy followed 1 week later by jugular vein injection of monocrotaline pyrrole (20 μg/μL and 1 μL/g; group P/MCTP). Compared with the group vehicle, by day 35, group P/MCTP developed higher right ventricular systolic pressure (54±5 versus 25±2 mm Hg; P<0.01) and right ventricular hypertrophy (0.58±0.16 versus 0.26±0.05; P<0.01). Transgenic vascular endothelial-cadherin Cre recombinase or Tie-2 Cre mice were intercrossed with mTomato/mGreen fluorescent protein double-fluorescent Cre reporter mice to achieve endothelial genetic lineage marking with membrane-targeted green fluorescent protein. In control mice, few endothelial lineage-marked cells lining the lumen of small pulmonary arteries demonstrate expression of smooth muscle α-actin. Concurrent with the development of pulmonary hypertension, endothelial lineage-marked cells are prominent in the neointima and exhibit expression of smooth muscle α-actin and smooth muscle myosin heavy chain. Human pulmonary arterial hypertension neointimal lesions contain cells that coexpress endothelial CD31 or von Willebrand antigen and smooth muscle α-actin.Neointimal cells in pulmonary hypertension include contributions from the endothelial genetic lineage with induced expression of smooth muscle α-actin and smooth muscle myosin heavy chain.
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A critical role for the mTORC2 pathway in lung fibrosis. PloS one Chang, W., Wei, K., Ho, L., Berry, G. J., Jacobs, S. S., Chang, C. H., Rosen, G. D. 2014; 9 (8)
A characteristic of dysregulated wound healing in IPF is fibroblastic-mediated damage to lung epithelial cells within fibroblastic foci. In these foci, TGF-β and other growth factors activate fibroblasts that secrete growth factors and matrix regulatory proteins, which activate a fibrotic cascade. Our studies and those of others have revealed that Akt is activated in IPF fibroblasts and it mediates the activation by TGF-β of pro-fibrotic pathways. Recent studies show that mTORC2, a component of the mTOR pathway, mediates the activation of Akt. In this study we set out to determine if blocking mTORC2 with MLN0128, an active site dual mTOR inhibitor, which blocks both mTORC1 and mTORC2, inhibits lung fibrosis. We examined the effect of MLN0128 on TGF-β-mediated induction of stromal proteins in IPF lung fibroblasts; also, we looked at its effect on TGF-β-mediated epithelial injury using a Transwell co-culture system. Additionally, we assessed MLN0128 in the murine bleomycin lung model. We found that TGF-β induces the Rictor component of mTORC2 in IPF lung fibroblasts, which led to Akt activation, and that MLN0128 exhibited potent anti-fibrotic activity in vitro and in vivo. Also, we observed that Rictor induction is Akt-mediated. MLN0128 displays multiple anti-fibrotic and lung epithelial-protective activities; it (1) inhibited the expression of pro-fibrotic matrix-regulatory proteins in TGF-β-stimulated IPF fibroblasts; (2) inhibited fibrosis in a murine bleomycin lung model; and (3) protected lung epithelial cells from injury caused by TGF-β-stimulated IPF fibroblasts. Our findings support a role for mTORC2 in the pathogenesis of lung fibrosis and for the potential of active site mTOR inhibitors in the treatment of IPF and other fibrotic lung diseases.
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T cell-macrophage interactions and granuloma formation in vasculitis. Frontiers in immunology Hilhorst, M., Shirai, T., Berry, G., Goronzy, J. J., Weyand, C. M. 2014; 5: 432-?
Granuloma formation, bringing into close proximity highly activated macrophages and T cells, is a typical event in inflammatory blood vessel diseases, and is noted in the name of several of the vasculitides. It is not known whether specific properties of the microenvironment in the blood vessel wall or the immediate surroundings of blood vessels contribute to granuloma formation and, in some cases, generation of multinucleated giant cells. Granulomas provide a specialized niche to optimize macrophage-T cell interactions, strongly activating both cell types. This is mirrored by the intensity of the systemic inflammation encountered in patients with vasculitis, often presenting with malaise, weight loss, fever, and strongly upregulated acute phase responses. As a sophisticated and highly organized structure, granulomas can serve as an ideal site to induce differentiation and maturation of T cells. The granulomas possibly seed aberrant Th1 and Th17 cells into the circulation, which are known to be the main pathogenic cells in vasculitis. Through the induction of memory T cells, aberrant innate immune responses can imprint the host immune system for decades to come and promote chronicity of the disease process. Improved understanding of T cell-macrophage interactions will redefine pathogenic models in the vasculitides and provide new avenues for immunomodulatory therapy.
Aortic wall thickness: an independent risk factor for aortic dissection? journal of heart valve disease Shiran, H., Odegaard, J., Berry, G., Miller, D. C., Fischbein, M., Liang, D. 2014; 23 (1): 17-24
Aortic aneurysm size is known to portend a higher likelihood of aortic complications in patients with connective tissue disorders (CTD), but other objective tools are needed to determine which patients are at greatest risk of dissection, especially those which reflect the structural integrity and strength of the aortic wall.The aortic wall pathology was evaluated in CTD patients with and without acute aortic dissection to identify parameters that affect the risk of dissection. A retrospective review was performed of aneurysm pathology from patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS; n = 53) without dissection undergoing prophylactic aortic root surgery, and acute type A aortic dissection patients (AAAoD; n = 16). Patients without a cardiovascular cause of death (n = 19) served as controls. The minimal aortic medial wall thickness was measured, and medial myxoid degeneration (MMD) and the degree of elastin loss and fragmentation were graded.The mean minimal aortic wall thickness was 1,625 +/- 364 microm in controls, and 703 +/- 256 microm and 438 +/- 322 microm for MFS and AAAoD patients, respectively. Aortic root diameters did not correlate with aortic wall thickness. A comparison of aortic medial thickness showed that the media was significantly thinner among acute dissection patients than either elective surgical patients (p = 0.02) or controls (p < 0.001). Aortic size, degree of MMD, and elastin loss did not vary significantly between CTD patients.A diminished aortic wall medial thickness may be linked to aortic dissection. High-resolution imaging techniques in the future may lead to the morphological assessment of aortic medial wall thickness in vivo becoming a reality which, in theory, could provide a more refined risk prognostication for acute aortic dissection.
The 2013 International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Working Formulation for the standardization of nomenclature in the pathologic diagnosis of antibody-mediated rejection in heart transplantation JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Berry, G. J., Burke, M. M., Andersen, C., Bruneval, P., Fedrigo, M., Fishbein, M. C., Goddard, M., Hammond, E. H., Leone, O., Marboe, C., Miller, D., Neil, D. L., Rassl, D., Revelo, M. P., Rice, A., Rodriguez, E. R., Stewart, S., Tan, C. D., Winters, G. L., West, L., Mehra, M. R., Angelini, A. L. 2013; 32 (12): 1147-1162
During the last 25 years, antibody-mediated rejection of the cardiac allograft has evolved from a relatively obscure concept to a recognized clinical complication in the management of heart transplant patients. Herein we report the consensus findings from a series of meetings held between 2010-2012 to develop a Working Formulation for the pathologic diagnosis, grading, and reporting of cardiac antibody-mediated rejection. The diagnostic criteria for its morphologic and immunopathologic components are enumerated, illustrated, and described in detail. Numerous challenges and unresolved clinical, immunologic, and pathologic questions remain to which a Working Formulation may facilitate answers.
Orthotopic heart transplantation in two infants with histiocytoid cardiomyopathy and left ventricular non-compaction PEDIATRIC TRANSPLANTATION Siehr, S. L., Bernstein, D., Yeh, J., Berry, G. J., Rosenthal, D. N., Hollander, S. A. 2013; 17 (7): E165-E167
HC is a rare cause of congestive heart failure that typically presents with malignant ventricular arrhythmias in infants, often requiring urgent intervention. Successful heart transplantation in a patient with HC has only been reported once (J Heart Lung Transplant 2004: 23: 902). The combination of HC with concurrent LVNC has only been described three times (Int J Legal Med 2009: 123: 47; Hum Pathol 2005: 36: 403; Pediatr Dev Pathol 2012: 15: 397). We report two rare cases of HC with LVNC in two infants presenting with cardiogenic shock, one requiring ECMO support who was successfully bridged to orthotopic heart transplantation with a Berlin Heart LVAD.
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Clinical and Echocardiographic Presentation of Rejection Episodes Following Heart Transplantation 33rd Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International-Society-for-Heart-and-Lung-Transplantation Sudini, N. L., Huo, J., Pan, S., Montoya, J., Leon, S., Vu, T., Beygui, R. E., Vrtovec, B., Wu, J. C., Pham, M., KUSH, K., Berry, G., Hunt, S., Haddad, F. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 2013: S254–S254
Pediatric plastic bronchitis: case report and retrospective comparative analysis of epidemiology and pathology. Case reports in pulmonology Kunder, R., Kunder, C., Sun, H. Y., Berry, G., Messner, A., Frankovich, J., Roth, S., Mark, J. 2013; 2013: 649365-?
Plastic bronchitis (PB) is a pathologic condition in which airway casts develop in the tracheobronchial tree causing airway obstruction. There is no standard treatment strategy for this uncommon condition. We report an index patient treated using an emerging multimodal strategy of directly instilled and inhaled tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) as well as 13 other cases of PB at our institution between 2000 and 2012. The majority of cases (n = 8) occurred in patients with congenital heart disease. Clinical presentations, treatments used, histopathology of the casts, and patient outcomes are reviewed. Further discussion is focused on the epidemiology of plastic bronchitis and a systematic approach to the histologic classification of casts. Comorbid conditions identified in this study included congenital heart disease (8), pneumonia (3), and asthma (2). Our institutional prevalence rate was 6.8 per 100,000 patients, and our case fatality rate was 7%.
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Pathology of pulmonary antibody-mediated rejection: 2012 update from the Pathology Council of the ISHLT JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Berry, G., Burke, M., Andersen, C., Angelini, A., Bruneval, P., Calbrese, F., Fishbein, M. C., Goddard, M., Leone, O., Maleszewski, J., Marboe, C., Miller, D., Neil, D., Padera, R., Rassi, D., Revell, M., Rice, A., Stewart, S., Yousem, S. A. 2013; 32 (1): 14-21
Concordance Among Pathologists in the Second Cardiac Allograft Rejection Gene Expression Observational Study (CARGO II) TRANSPLANTATION Crespo-Leiro, M. G., Zuckermann, A., Bara, C., Mohacsi, P., Schulz, U., Boyle, A., Ross, H. J., Parameshwar, J., Zakliczynski, M., Fiocchi, R., Stypmann, J., Hoefer, D., Lehmkuhl, H., Deng, M. C., Leprince, P., Berry, G., Marboe, C. C., Stewart, S., Tazelaar, H. D., Baron, H. M., Coleman, I., Vanhaecke, J. 2012; 94 (11): 1172-1177
There has been no large evaluation of the ISHLT 2004 acute cellular rejection grading scheme for heart graft endomyocardial biopsy specimens (EMBs).We evaluated agreement within the CARGO II pathology panel and between the panel (acting by majority) and the collaborating centers (treated as a single entity), regarding the ISHLT grades of 937 EMBs (with all grades ≥2R merged because of small numbers).Overall all-grade agreement was almost 71% both within the panel and between the panel and the collaborating centers but, in both cases, was largely because of agreement on grade 0: for the average pair of pathologists, fewer than a third of the EMBs assigned grade ≥2R by at least one were assigned this grade by both.The 2004 revision has done little to improve agreement on the higher ISHLT grades. An EMB grade ≥2R is not by itself sufficient as a basis for clinical decisions or as a research criterion. Steps should be taken toward greater uniformity in EMB grading, and efforts should be made to replace the ISHLT classification with diagnostic criteria--EMB based or otherwise--that correspond better with the pathophysiology of the transplanted heart.
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2011 Consensus statement on endomyocardial biopsy from the Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology and the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY Leone, O., Veinot, J. P., Angelini, A., Baandrup, U. T., Basso, C., Berry, G., Bmneval, P., Burke, M., Butany, J., Calabrese, F., D'Amati, G., Edwards, W. D., Fallon, J. T., Fishbein, M. C., Gallagher, P. J., Halushka, M. K., McManus, B., Pucci, A., Rodriguez, E. R., Saffitz, J. E., Sheppard, M. N., Steenbergen, C., Stone, J. R., Tan, C., Thiene, G., van der Wal, A. C., Winters, G. L. 2012; 21 (4): 245-274
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Antibody-mediated rejection of the cardiac allograft: where do we stand in 2012? CURRENT OPINION IN ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION Berry, G. J. 2012; 17 (3): 303-308
The review will discuss the current pathological criteria for the diagnosis and classification of antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) in the cardiac allograft.Until recently, the diagnosis of AMR required clinical dysfunction, presence of donor specific antibodies and pathological alterations. The concept of asymptomatic AMR and its adverse long-term outcomes created, in part the need to reevaluate diagnostic criteria. The results of a recent consensus meeting sponsored by International Society For Heart And Lung Transplantation are discussed.The diagnosis of AMR rests on histopathological and immunophenotypic findings. These provide the basis for a new grading scheme.
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AORTIC WALL THICKNESS MAY BE AN INDEPENDENT RISK FACTOR FOR AORTIC DISSECTION 61st Annual Scientific Session and Expo of the American-College-of-Cardiology (ACC)/Conference on ACC-i2 with TCT Shiran, H., Odegaard, J., Berry, G., Miller, D. C., Fischbein, M., Liang, D. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 2012: E831–E831
Cardiac Paraganglioma: Diagnostic and Surgical Challenges JOURNAL OF CARDIAC SURGERY Huo, J. L., Choi, J. C., DeLuna, A., Lee, D., Fleischmann, D., Berry, G. J., Deuse, T., Haddad, F. 2012; 27 (2): 178-182
Primary cardiac paragangliomas are rare extra-adrenal tumors. Though they account for less than 1% of all primary cardiac tumors, they are considerable sources of morbidity and mortality. In this case review, we discuss the challenges associated with the diagnosis and management of cardiac paragangliomas.
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miR-29b Participates in Early Aneurysm Development in Marfan Syndrome CIRCULATION RESEARCH Merk, D. R., Chin, J. T., Dake, B. A., Maegdefessel, L., Miller, M. O., Kimura, N., Tsao, P. S., Iosef, C., Berry, G. J., Mohr, F. W., Spin, J. M., Alvira, C. M., Robbins, R. C., Fischbein, M. P. 2012; 110 (2): 312-?
Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a systemic connective tissue disorder notable for the development of aortic root aneurysms and the subsequent life-threatening complications of aortic dissection and rupture. Underlying fibrillin-1 gene mutations cause increased transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling. Although TGF-β blockade prevents aneurysms in MFS mouse models, the mechanisms through which excessive TGF-β causes aneurysms remain ill-defined.We investigated the role of microRNA-29b (miR-29b) in aneurysm formation in MFS.Using quantitative polymerase chain reaction, we discovered that miR-29b, a microRNA regulating apoptosis and extracellular matrix synthesis/deposition genes, is increased in the ascending aorta of Marfan (Fbn1(C1039G/+)) mice. Increased apoptosis, assessed by increased cleaved caspase-3 and caspase-9, enhanced caspase-3 activity, and decreased levels of the antiapoptotic proteins, Mcl-1 and Bcl-2, were found in the Fbn1(C1039G/+) aorta. Histological evidence of decreased and fragmented elastin was observed exclusively in the Fbn1(C1039G/+) ascending aorta in association with repressed elastin mRNA and increased matrix metalloproteinase-2 expression and activity, both targets of miR-29b. Evidence of decreased activation of nuclear factor κB, a repressor of miR-29b, and a factor suppressed by TGF-β, was also observed in Fbn1(C1039G/+) aorta. Furthermore, administration of a nuclear factor κB inhibitor increased miR-29b levels, whereas TGF-β blockade or losartan effectively decreased miR-29b levels in Fbn1(C1039G/+) mice. Finally, miR-29b blockade by locked nucleic acid antisense oligonucleotides prevented early aneurysm development, aortic wall apoptosis, and extracellular matrix deficiencies.We identify increased miR-29b expression as key to the pathogenesis of early aneurysm development in MFS by regulating aortic wall apoptosis and extracellular matrix abnormalities.
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beta 2-adrenergic receptors mediate cardioprotection through crosstalk with mitochondrial cell death pathways JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY Fajardo, G., Zhao, M., Berry, G., Wong, L., Mochly-Rosen, D., Bernstein, D. 2011; 51 (5): 781-789
β-adrenergic receptors (β-ARs) modulate cardiotoxicity/cardioprotection through crosstalk with multiple signaling pathways. We have previously shown that β2-ARs are cardioprotective during exposure to oxidative stress induced by doxorubicin (DOX). DOX cardiotoxicity is mediated in part through a Ca(2+)-dependent opening of the mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT), however the signals linking a cell surface receptor like the β2-AR to regulators of mitochondrial function are not clear. The objective of this study was to assess mechanisms of crosstalk between β2-ARs and mitochondrial cell death pathways. DOX administered to WT mice resulted in no acute mortality, however 85% of β2-/- mice died within 30 min. Several pro- and anti-survival pathways were altered. The pro-survival kinase, εPKC, was decreased by 64% in β2-/- after DOX vs WT (p<0.01); the εPKC activator ψεRACK partially rescued these mice (47% reduction in mortality). Activity of the pro-survival kinase Akt decreased by 76% in β2-/- after DOX vs WT (p<0.01). The α1-antagonist prazosin restored Akt activity to normal and also partially reversed the mortality (45%). Deletion of the β2-AR increased rate of Ca(2+) release by 75% and peak [Ca(2+)](i) by 20% respectively in isolated cardiomyocytes; the Ca(2+) channel blocker verapamil also partially rescued the β2-/- (26%). Mitochondrial architecture was disrupted and complex I and II activities decreased by 40.9% and 34.6% respectively after DOX only in β2-/-. The MPT blocker cyclosporine reduced DOX mortality by 41% and prazosin plus cyclosporine acted synergistically to decrease mortality by 85%. β2-ARs activate pro-survival kinases and attenuate mitochondrial dysfunction during oxidative stress; absence of β2-ARs enhances cardiotoxicity via negative regulation of survival kinases and enhancement of intracellular Ca(2+), thus predisposing the mitochondria to opening of the MPT.
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The ISHLT working formulation for pathologic diagnosis of antibody-mediated rejection in heart transplantation: Evolution and current status (2005-2011) JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Berry, G. J., Angelini, A., Burke, M. M., Bruneval, P., Fishbein, M. C., Hammond, E., Miller, D., Neil, D., Revelo, M. P., Rodriguez, E. R., Stewart, S., Tan, C. D., Winters, G. L., Kobashigawa, J., Mehra, M. R. 2011; 30 (6): 601-611
Primary cervical tracheal monophasic synovial sarcoma confirmed by SYT-SSX gene rearrangement JOURNAL OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY Corrales, C. E., Berry, G., Damrose, E. J. 2011; 125 (6): 651-654
To review the existing diagnostic modalities and treatment for primary tracheal synovial sarcoma, and to report a case of primary cervical synovial sarcoma arising in the trachea.Retrospective.Head and neck surgery unit at a tertiary university centre.One case of primary cervical tracheal monophasic synovial sarcoma diagnosed by SYT-SSX gene rearrangement.This patient underwent surgical resection of the synovial sarcoma, together with tracheal resection and primary anastomosis assisted by laryngeal-releasing manoeuvres, without complication.Clinical, radiographical, pathological and surgical information were collected.One year post-operatively, there was no evidence of recurrence.Synovial sarcoma arising in the trachea is very rare. Diagnosis is confirmed by demonstrating the SYT-SSX gene rearrangement. The first-line treatment is surgery.
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Identification and Classification of Acute Cardiac Rejection by Intragraft Transcriptional Profiling CIRCULATION Holweg, C. T., Potena, L., Luikart, H., Yu, T., Berry, G. J., Cooke, J. P., Valantine, H. A., Mocarski, E. S. 2011; 123 (20): 2236-U154
Treatment of acute rejection (AR) in heart transplantation relies on histopathological grading of endomyocardial biopsies according to International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation guidelines. Intragraft gene expression profiling may be a way to complement histological evaluation.Transcriptional profiling was performed on 26 endomyocardial biopsies, and expression patterns were compared with the 1990 International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation AR grades. Importantly, transcriptional profiles from settings with an equivalent AR grade appeared the same. In addition, grade 0 profiles could not be distinguished from 1A profiles, and grade 3A profiles could not be distinguished from 3B profiles. Comparing the AR groupings (0+1A, 1B, and 3A+3B), 0+1A showed more striking differences from 1B than from 3A+3B. When these findings were extrapolated to the 2005 revised guidelines, the combination of 1A and 1B into a single category (1R) appears to have brought together endomyocardial biopsies with different underlying processes that are not evident from histological evaluation. Grade 1B was associated with upregulated immune response genes, as 1 categorical distinction from grade 1A. Although grade 1B was distinct from the clinically relevant AR grades 3A and 3B, all of these grades shared a small number of overlapping pathways consistent with common physiological underpinnings.The gene expression similarities and differences identified here in different AR settings have the potential to revise the clinical perspective on acute graft rejection, pending the results of larger studies.
Report from a consensus conference on antibody-mediated rejection in heart transplantation JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Kobashigawa, J., Crespo-Leiro, M. G., Ensminger, S. M., Reichenspurner, H., Angelini, A., Berry, G., Burke, M., Czer, L., Hiemann, N., Kfoury, A. G., Mancini, D., Mohacsi, P., Patel, J., Pereira, N., Platt, J. L., Reed, E. F., Reinsmoen, N., Rodriguez, E. R., Rose, M. L., Russell, S. D., Starling, R., Suciu-Foca, N., Tallaj, J., Taylor, D. O., Van Bakel, A., West, L., Zeevi, A., Zuckermann, A. 2011; 30 (3): 252-269
The problem of AMR remains unsolved because standardized schemes for diagnosis and treatment remains contentious. Therefore, a consensus conference was organized to discuss the current status of antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) in heart transplantation.The conference included 83 participants (transplant cardiologists, surgeons, immunologists and pathologists) representing 67 heart transplant centers from North America, Europe, and Asia who all participated in smaller break-out sessions to discuss the various topics of AMR and attempt to achieve consensus.A tentative pathology diagnosis of AMR was established, however, the pathologist felt that further discussion was needed prior to a formal recommendation for AMR diagnosis. One of the most important outcomes of this conference was that a clinical definition for AMR (cardiac dysfunction and/or circulating donor-specific antibody) was no longer believed to be required due to recent publications demonstrating that asymptomatic (no cardiac dysfunction) biopsy-proven AMR is associated with subsequent greater mortality and greater development of cardiac allograft vasculopathy. It was also noted that donor-specific antibody is not always detected during AMR episodes as the antibody may be adhered to the donor heart. Finally, recommendations were made for the timing for specific staining of endomyocardial biopsy specimens and the frequency by which circulating antibodies should be assessed. Recommendations for management and future clinical trials were also provided.The AMR Consensus Conference brought together clinicians, pathologists and immunologists to further the understanding of AMR. Progress was made toward a pathology AMR grading scale and consensus was accomplished regarding several clinical issues.
Clinical usefulness of a novel C1q assay to detect immunoglobulin G antibodies capable of fixing complement in sensitized pediatric heart transplant patients JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Chin, C., Chen, G., Sequeria, F., Berry, G., Siehr, S., Bernstein, D., Rosenthal, D., Reinhartz, O., Tyan, D. 2011; 30 (2): 158-163
Donor-specific antibodies (DSA) against human leukocyte antigens complicate transplantation with the potential for acute antibody-mediated rejection (AMR). Complement-fixing antibodies are required to initiate the complement cascade. Not all DSAs, however, can fix complement.A novel C1q assay was developed to detect the sub-set of immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies capable of fixing complement. Sera from 18 pediatric heart transplant patients were analyzed for DSAs using a Luminex platform (Luminex Inc, Austin, TX) and commercially available single-antigen bead assay kits. Biopsy specimens were assessed for AMR using histopathologic criteria and immunohistochemical staining.During the study period, 5 patients had AMR; of these, 2 were C1q virtual crossmatch positive (VXM+) and had persistent C1q DSAs after transplant, and 3 were C1q VXM- but antibody developed immediately after transplant. A positive C1q assay in the immediate post-transplant period had a positive predictive value (PPV) of 100% and a negative predictive value (NPV) of 100%, with 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity (Fisher exact p = 0.001). Of 11 patients who were IgG VXM+, 5 had AMR; the IgG VXM had a PPV of 45% and NPV of 100%, with 100% sensitivity and 54% specificity (Fisher exact p = 0.101).The C1q assay can detect a sub-set of antibodies capable of fixing complement and predicts AMR early after transplant. Avoiding only the donor antigens that would be recognized by the C1q assay may accelerate time to transplant by expansion of the donor pool and potentially allows transplantation of previously "incompatible" organs.
Pathologic Interpretation of Transbronchial Biopsy for Acute Rejection of Lung Allograft Is Highly Variable AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION Arcasoy, S. M., Berry, G., Marboe, C. C., Tazelaar, H. D., Zamora, M. R., Wolters, H. J., Fang, K. C., Keshavjee, S. 2011; 11 (2): 320-328
Despite the standardization of pathologic grading of acute rejection in transbronchial lung biopsies following lung transplantation, the reproducibility of pathologic diagnosis has not been adequately evaluated. To determine the interobserver variability for pathologic grading of acute rejection, 1566 biopsies from 845 subjects in the Lung Allograft Rejection Gene Expression Observational study were regraded by a pathology panel blinded to the original diagnosis and compared to the grade of acute rejection assigned by individual center pathologists. The study panel confirmed 49.1% of center pathologists' A0 grades, but upgraded 5.7% to A1 and 2.7% to grade ≥ A2 rejection; 42.5% were regraded as AX. Of 268 grade A1 samples, 21.2% were confirmed by the pathology panel; 18.7% were upgraded to ≥ A2 and 35.8% were downgraded to A0 with 24.3% being regraded as AX. Lastly, 53.5% of ≥ A2 cases were confirmed, but 15.7% were downgraded to grade A0 and 18.4% cases to A1, while 12.4% were regraded as AX. The kappa value for interobserver agreement was 0.183 (95%CI 0.147-0.220, p < 0.001). The results for B grade interpretation were similar. Suboptimal sampling is common and a high degree of variability exists in the pathologic interpretation of acute rejection in transbronchial biopsies.
Marked Tumor Response and Fatal Hemoptysis During Radiation for Lung Cancer in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Positive Patient Taking Nelfinavir JOURNAL OF THORACIC ONCOLOGY Chapman, C. H., Shen, J., Filion, E. J., Tran, P. T., Hara, W., Asuncion, A., Marko, D., Wakelee, H., Berry, G. J., Dimmick, K. W., Loo, B. W., Green, J. 2009; 4 (12): 1587-1589
Salivary Gland Anlage Tumor in a Neonate Presenting with Respiratory Distress: Radiographic and Pathologic Correlation AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEURORADIOLOGY Mogensen, M. A., Lin, A. C., Chang, K. W., Berry, G. J., Barnes, P. D., Fischbein, N. J. 2009; 30 (5): 1022-1023
We present a case of congenital salivary gland anlage tumor (SGAT) of the nasal septum in a 2-week-old infant who had difficulty breathing through her nose since birth. CT and MR imaging demonstrated a circumscribed mass within the nasal cavity that did not communicate with the intracranial compartment. Differential diagnosis and clinical significance of recognizing this rare lesion are reviewed.
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Right Ventricular Dysfunction Predicts Poor Outcome Following Hemodynamically Compromising Rejection JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Haddad, F., Fisher, P., Pham, M., Berry, G., Weisshaar, D., Kuppahally, S., Vrtovec, B., Deuse, T., Virani, S., Fearon, W., Valantine, H., Hunt, S. 2009; 28 (4): 312-319
Hemodynamically compromising rejection (HCR) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity after heart transplantation. Right ventricular (RV) function is a strong predictor of outcome in patients with heart failure and myocarditis. The objective of the current study is to determine whether RV dysfunction predicts event-free survival in patients with HCR.Medical records of 548 heart transplant patients followed at Stanford University between January 1998 and January 2007 were reviewed. HCR was defined as a rejection episode requiring hospitalization for heart failure. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to identify risk factors for death or retransplantation at 1 year.HCR occurred in 71 patients (12.9%). Death or retransplantation at 1 year occurred in 28 patients (39%). Univariate analysis identified non-cellular rejection (odds ratio [OR] = 3.20, p = 0.021), the need for inotropic support (OR = 4.80, p = 0.007), RV dysfunction (OR = 4.63, p = 0.006), left ventricular ejection fraction (OR = 0.941, p = 0.031) and acute renal failure (OR = 3.82, p = 0.010) as predictors of death or retransplantation at 1 year. Multivariate analysis identified RV dysfunction (OR = 4.80, p = 0.007) and the need for inotropic support (OR = 5.00, p = 0.009) as predictors of death or retransplantation at 1 year.In the modern era of immunosuppression, HCR remains a major complication after heart transplantation. RV dysfunction was identified as a novel risk factor for death or retransplantation following HCR.
Inter-Observer Variability hi the Interpretation of Cardiac Biopsies Remains a Challenge: Results of the Cardiac Allograft Rejection Gene Expression Observational (CARGO) II Study 29th Annual Meeting and Scientific Session of the International-Society-for-Heart-and-Lung-Transplantation Crespo-Leiro, M. G., Schulz, U., Vanhaecke, J., Zuckermann, A., Bara, C., Mohacsi, P., Bogaev, R. C., Boyle, A., Ross, H., Parameshwar, J., Zakliczynski, M., Fiocchi, R., Stypmann, J., Hoefer, D., Lehmkuhl, H., Deng, M. C., LEPRINCE, P., Berry, G., Marboe, C. C., Stewart, S., Tazelaar, H. D., Brown, M., Baron, H. M. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 2009: S230–S230
Revision of the 1996 working formulation for the standardization of nomenclature in the diagnosis of lung rejection JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Stewart, S., Fishbein, M. C., Snell, G. I., Berry, G. J., Boehler, A., Burke, M. M., Glanville, A., Gould, F. K., Magro, C., Marboe, C. C., McNeil, K. D., Reed, E. F., Reinsmoen, N. L., Scott, J. P., Studer, S. M., Tazelaar, H. D., Wallwork, J. L., Westall, G., Zamora, M. R., Zeevi, A., Yousem, S. A. 2007; 26 (12): 1229-1242
In 1990, an international grading scheme for the grading of pulmonary allograft rejection was adopted by the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) and was modified in 1995 by an expanded group of pathologists. The original and revised classifications have served the lung transplant community well, facilitating communication between transplant centers with regard to both patient management and research. In 2006, under the direction of the ISHLT, a multi-disciplinary review of the biopsy grading system was undertaken to update the scheme, address inconsistencies of use, and consider the current knowledge of antibody-mediated rejection in the lung. This article summarizes the revised consensus classification of lung allograft rejection. In brief, acute rejection is based on perivascular and interstitial mononuclear infiltrates, Grade A0 (none), Grade A1 (minimal), Grade A2 (mild), Grade A3 (moderate) and Grade A4 (severe), as previously. The revised (R) categories of small airways inflammation, lymphocytic bronchiolitis, are as follows: Grade B0 (none), Grade B1R (low grade, 1996, B1 and B2), Grade B2R (high grade, 1996, B3 and B4) and BX (ungradeable). Chronic rejection, obliterative bronchiolitis (Grade C), is described as present (C1) or absent (C0), without reference to presence of inflammatory activity. Chronic vascular rejection is unchanged as Grade D. Recommendations are made for the evaluation of antibody-mediated rejection, recognizing that this is a controversial entity in the lung, less well developed and understood than in other solid-organ grafts, and with no consensus reached on diagnostic features. Differential diagnoses of acute rejection, airway inflammation and chronic rejection are described and technical considerations revisited. This consensus revision of the working formulation was approved by the ISHLT board of directors in April 2007.
Active bacterial myocarditis: A case report and review of the literature JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Haddad, F., Berry, G., Doyle, R. L., Martineau, P., Leung, T., Racine, N. 2007; 26 (7): 745-749
Bacterial myocarditis (BM) is an uncommon cause of infectious myocarditis. BM is usually seen in the context of overwhelming sepsis or as part of a specific bacterial syndrome. The definitive diagnosis of bacterial myocarditis requires biopsy or morphologically proven active myocarditis with evidence of bacterial invasion or positive tissue cultures. The management of bacterial myocarditis consists of aggressive and early antibiotic or anti-toxin treatment, appropriate hemodynamic support, and treatment of arrhythmias or mechanical complications. We present a case of acute Listeria monocytogenes myocarditis in an immunocompetent patient and highlight the challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of bacterial myocarditis.
Rapid aneurysmal degeneration of a Stanford type B aortic dissection in a patient with Loeys-Dietz syndrome JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY Lee, R. S., Fazel, S., Schwarze, U., Fleischmann, D., Berry, G. J., Liang, D., Miller, D. C., Mitchell, R. S. 2007; 134 (1): 242-U32
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Mast cell-derived TNF can promote Th17 cell-dependent neutrophil recruitment in ovalbumin-challenged OTII mice BLOOD Nakae, S., Suto, H., Berry, G. J., Galli, S. J. 2007; 109 (9): 3640-3648
Both mast cells and IL-17 can contribute to host defense and pathology in part by orchestrating neutrophil recruitment, but the possible role of mast cells in IL-17-induced inflammation remains to be defined. We found that mast cells and IL-17, but neither IFN-gamma nor FcRgamma signaling, contributed significantly to the antigen (Ag)-dependent airway neutrophilia elicited in ovalbumin-specific T-cell receptor (TCR)-expressing C57BL/6-OTII mice, and that IFN-gamma significantly suppressed IL-17-dependent airway neutrophilia in this setting. IL-18, IL-1beta, and TNF each contributed significantly to the development of Ag- and T helper 17 (Th17 cell)-mediated airway neutrophilia. Moreover, IL-17 enhanced mast cell TNF production in vitro, and mast cell-associated TNF contributed significantly to Ag- and Th17 cell-mediated airway neutrophilia in vivo. By contrast, we detected no significant role for the candidate mediators histamine, PGD(2), LTB(4), CXCL10, or IL-16, each of which can be produced by mast cells and other cell types, in the neutrophil infiltration elicited in this model. These findings establish that mast cells and mast cell-derived TNF can significantly enhance, by FcRgamma-independent mechanisms, the Ag- and Th17 cell-dependent development of a neutrophil-rich inflammatory response at a site of Ag challenge.
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Thrombin-activatable procarboxypeptidase B regulates activated complement C5a in vivo BLOOD Nishimura, T., Myles, T., Piliposky, A. M., Kao, P. N., Berry, G. J., Leung, L. L. 2007; 109 (5): 1992-1997
Plasma procarboxypeptidase B (proCPB) is activated by the endothelial thrombin-thrombomodulin [corrected] complex. Activated proCPB [corrected] (CPB) functions as a fibrinolysis inhibitor, but it may play a broader role by inactivating inflammatory mediators. To test this hypothesis, C5a-induced alveolitis was studied in wild-type (WT) and proCPB-deficient mice (proCPB-/-). C5a-induced alveolitis, as measured by cell counts and total protein contents in bronchoalveolar lavage fluids, was markedly enhanced in the proCPB-/- mice. E229K thrombin, a thrombin mutant with minimal clotting activity but retaining its ability to activate protein C and proCPB, attenuated C5a-induced alveolitis in WT but not in proCPB-/- mice, indicating that its beneficial effect is mediated primarily by its activation of proCPB. Lung tissue histology confirmed these cellular inflammatory responses. Delayed administration of E229K thrombin after the C5a instillation was ineffective in reducing alveolitis in WT mice, suggesting that the beneficial effect of E229K thrombin is due to the direct inhibition of C5a by CPB. Our studies show that thrombin-activatable proCPB, in addition to its role in fibrinolysis, has intrinsic anti-inflammatory functions. Its activation, along with protein C, by the endothelial thrombin-TM complex represents a homeostatic response to counteract the inflammatory mediators generated at the site of vascular injury.
Influence of mast cells on outcome after heterotopic cardiac transplantation in rats TRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL Boerma, M., Fiser, W. P., Hoyt, G., Berry, G. J., Joseph, L., Joseph, J., Wang, J., Crew, M. D., Robbins, R. C., Hauer-Jensen, M. 2007; 20 (3): 256-265
Correlative data suggest that mast cells adversely affect cardiac transplantation. This study uses a mast cell-deficient rat model to directly address the role of mast cells in cardiac allotransplantation. Standardized cardiac heterotopic transplantation with cyclosporine immunosuppression was performed in mast cell-deficient and mast cell-competent rats. Rejection, ischemia, fibrosis, fibrin deposition, numbers of T-cell receptor alpha/beta positive cells, expression of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta), and of endothelin-1 (ET-1) and its receptors ETA and ETB were assessed. Differences in baseline cardiac gene expression were quantified by real-time PCR in a separate group of untransplanted animals. Baseline cardiac gene expression levels of all investigated growth factors, cytokines, ET-1, ETA, and ETB were similar in mast cell-deficient and mast cell-competent rats. Surprisingly, upon heterotopic transplantation, donor heart survival was significantly reduced in mast cell-deficient rats. Moreover, in mast cell-deficient donor hearts rejection was more severe, although nonsignificant, and extracellular matrix associated TGF-beta immunoreactivity was significantly lower than in mast cell-competent donor hearts. Fibrin immunoreactive area, on the other hand, was only increased in mast cell-deficient donor hearts, but not in mast cell-competent donor hearts. Histopathological changes in all donor hearts were accompanied by increased immunoreactivity for ET-1. In conclusion, this study shows that mast cells play a protective role after cardiac transplantation.
Gene expression profiling distinguishes moderate to severe from mild acute cellular rejection in cardiac allograft recipients Bernstein, D., Berry, G., Billingham, M., Marboe, C. C., Deng, M. C., Mital, S., Eisen, H., Williams, G. E., Baron, H., Klingler, T. M., Wohlgemuth, J. G., Kobashigawa, J. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 2007: S121–S121
Refining the identification of discriminatory genes for rejection in lung transplantation: The Largo study Keshavjee, S., Berry, G., Marboe, C. C., Wilt, J. S., Trulock, E. P., Corris, P. A., Doyle, R. L., McCurry, K. R., Arcasoy, S. M., Davis, R. D., Golden, J. G., Strueber, M., Sweet, S., Jaksch, P., Mehta, A. C., Mulligan, M. S., Pajaro, O. E., Sun, J. T., Klingler, T. M., Rosenberg, S., Dedrick, R. D., Wolters, H., Fang, K. C., Zamora, M. R. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 2007: S185–S186
Respiratory epithelial adenomatoid hamartoma: Diagnostic pitfalls with emphasis on differential diagnosis ADVANCES IN ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY Sangoi, A. R., Berry, G. 2007; 14 (1): 11-16
In the upper aerodigestive tract, respiratory epithelial adenomatoid hamartoma (REAH) is described as a polypoid proliferation of glands lined by ciliated respiratory epithelium that seem to invaginate downward into the submucosa while maintaining direct continuity with the surface mucosa. The lesion can be confused with a variety of benign and malignant entities, including inflammatory polyp, inverted schneiderian papilloma, and low-grade sinonasal adenocarcinoma. In reviewing the historical, clinical, gross, and histopathologic features of REAH and its subtypes, we elucidate how the distinction of REAH with florid mucinous metaplasia from low-grade adenocarcinoma can be challenging particularly in the setting of small biopsy samples. Diagnostic criteria are reviewed with emphasis on key distinguishing characteristics. The significance of this distinction is paramount in preventing unwarranted surgery and untoward consequences for the patient.
Janus kinase 3 inhibition with CP-690,550 prevents allograft vasculopathy TRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL Rousvoal, G., Si, M., Lau, M., Zhang, S., Berry, G. J., Flores, M. G., Changelian, P. S., Reitz, B. A., Borie, D. C. 2006; 19 (12): 1014-1021
Janus kinase 3 (JAK3) mediates signal transduction from cytokine receptors using the common gamma chain. The rationally designed inhibitor of JAK3, CP-690,550, prevents acute allograft rejection in rodents and in nonhuman primates. Here we investigated the ability of CP-690,550, to prevent allograft vasculopathy in a rodent model of aorta transplantation. Aortas from AxC Irish (RT1(a)) or Lewis (RT1(l)) rats were heterotopically transplanted into the infra-renal aorta of Lewis recipients and harvested at 28 or 56 days. Treated recipients received CP-690,550 by osmotic pumps (mean drug exposure of 110 +/- 38 ng/ml). Significant intimal hyperplasia was demonstrated in untreated allografts when compared with isografts at 28 days (2.08 +/- 0.85% vs. 0.43 +/- 0.2% luminal obliteration, respectively, P = 0.001) and 56 days (5.3 +/- 2.4% vs. 0.38 +/- 0.3%, P = 0.002). Treatment caused a 51% reduction in intimal hyperplasia at day 56. CP-690,550-treated animals also had a significant reduction of donor-specific IgG production and of the gene expression for suppressor of cytokine signaling-3 and with unchanged levels of expression of RANTES, IP-10 and transforming growth factor-beta1. These results are the first to show that JAK3 blockade by CP-690,550 effectively prevents allograft vasculopathy in this rat model of aorta transplantation.
Isolated giant cell myocarditis in the atrium: An incidental finding? PACE-PACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY Ahmad, I., Miller, D. C., Berry, G. J., Hsia, H. H., Wang, P. J., Al-Ahmad, A. 2006; 29 (10): 1179-1180
Giant cell myocarditis (GCM) is an uncommon disorder that affects ventricular myocardium causing severe left ventricular dysfunction and ventricular arrhythmias. We report a case of GCM that only affected the atrium sparing the ventricle.
The use of endobronchial valve device to eliminate air leak RESPIRATORY MEDICINE Fann, J. I., Berry, G. J., Burdon, T. A. 2006; 100 (8): 1402-1406
We evaluated an endobronchial valve device in the treatment of surgically created air leak or pneumothorax by eliminating antegrade flow.Six sheep underwent general anesthesia with positive pressure ventilation and left thoracotomy. After division of the mediastinal pleura, the contralateral cranial lobe was identified and a 2.5 cmx1.5 cm laceration created with resultant air leak. Using bronchoscopy, we deployed a valve device in the bronchus of the injured segment. Chest drainage tube was placed and the thoracotomy closed. At 1 week (n=3) and 4 weeks (n=3), the animals underwent general anesthesia, bronchoscopy and right thoracotomy.All animals survived the procedure. Bronchoscopic valve device placement in the segmental bronchus resolved the air leak immediately. After closure of thoracotomy, the chest tube demonstrated minimal drainage with no air leak. At 1 and 4 weeks, bronchoscopy showed no change in device location, and the treated segments were atelectatic with fibrous scar at the injured site.Collapse of a selected lung segment with resolution of air leak can be achieved using bronchoscopically implanted valve device. The valve device may facilitate treatment of patients with post-surgical or post-traumatic persistent air leak.
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Images in cardiovascular medicine. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for myocarditis: effective use in medical decision making. Circulation Fenster, B. E., Chan, F. P., Valentine, H. A., Yang, E., McConnell, M. V., Berry, G. J., Yang, P. C. 2006; 113 (22): e842-3
CD4+ invariant T-cell-receptor plus natural killer T cells in bronchial asthma. NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE Akbari, O., Faul, J. L., Hoyte, E. G., Berry, G. J., Wahlstrom, J., Kronenberg, M., DeKruyff, R. H., Umetsu, D. T. 2006; 354 (11): 1117-1129
Bronchial asthma is associated with an inflammatory process that is characterized by the presence in the airways of large numbers of CD4+ T cells producing interleukin-4 and interleukin-13. However, the CD4 antigen is expressed not only by class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-restricted CD4+ T cells, but also by a newly identified subgroup of T cells, CD1d-restricted natural killer T cells. These cells express a conserved (invariant) T-cell receptor and have a potent immunoregulatory function. Because mouse models of allergic asthma indicate that natural killer T cells are required for the development of allergen-induced airway hyperreactivity, we hypothesized that natural killer T cells play an important role in human asthma.We used CD1d-tetramers, antibodies specific for natural killer T cells, as well as reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction analysis of the invariant T-cell receptor of natural killer T cells to assess the frequency and distribution of natural killer T cells in the lungs and in the circulating blood of 14 patients with asthma.About 60 percent of the pulmonary CD4+CD3+ cells in patients with moderate-to-severe persistent asthma were not class II MHC-restricted CD4+ T cells but, rather, natural killer T cells. The natural killer T cells expressed an invariant T-cell receptor and produced type 2 helper cytokines. In contrast, the CD4+ T cells found in the lungs of patients with sarcoidosis were conventional CD4+CD3+ T cells, not natural killer T cells.Together with studies in mice indicating a requirement for natural killer T cells in the development of allergen-induced airway hyperreactivity, our results strongly suggest that CD4+ natural killer T cells play a prominent pathogenic role in human asthma.
Primary cardiac angiosarcoma: case report and review of the literature CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY Kurian, K. C., Weisshaar, D., Parekh, H., Berry, G. J., Reitz, B. 2006; 15 (2): 110-112
We report of a young man who was referred for evaluation of the right atrial mass. He had presented outside the hospital with shortness of breath. A transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) done there showed a bright echodensity in the right atrium with moderate pericardial effusion. He was treated for presumed viral pericarditis. Pericardiocentesis showed a bloody effusion. Four weeks after this initial presentation, a repeat TTE was done to evaluate for recurrent pericardial effusion due to shortness of breath. The right atrial mass had increased in size and no effusion was noted. He was referred to us for further evaluation. The tumor was successfully resected during surgery, and the pathological examination revealed primary cardiac angiosarcoma. The case highlights the misdiagnosis in initial clinical presentation, current diagnostic modalities, and treatment options for cardiac angiosarcoma.
Glycolipid activation of invariant T cell receptor(+) NK T cells is sufficient to induce airway hyperreactivity independent of conventional CD4(+) T cells PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Meyer, E. H., Goya, S., Akbari, O., Berry, G. J., Savage, P. B., Kronenberg, M., Nakayama, T., DeKruyff, R. H., Umetsu, D. T. 2006; 103 (8): 2782-2787
Asthma is an inflammatory lung disease, in which conventional CD4+ T cells producing IL-4/IL-13 appear to play an obligatory pathogenic role. Here we show, in a mouse model of asthma, that activation of pulmonary IL-4/IL-13 producing invariant TCR+ CD1d-restricted natural killer T (NKT) cells is sufficient for the development of airway hyperreactivity (AHR), a cardinal feature of asthma, in the absence of conventional CD4+ T cells and adaptive immunity. Respiratory administration of glycolipid antigens that specifically activate NKT cells (alpha-GalactosylCeramide and a Sphingomonas bacterial glycolipid) rapidly induced AHR and inflammation typically associated with protein allergen administration. Naïve MHC class II-deficient mice, which lack conventional CD4+ T but have NKT cells, showed exaggerated baseline AHR and, when challenged with alpha-GalactosylCeramide, demonstrated even greater AHR. These studies demonstrate an expanded role for NKT cells, in which NKT cells not only produce cytokines that influence adaptive immunity but also function as critical effector cells that can induce AHR. These results suggest that NKT cells responding to glycolipid antigens, as well as conventional CD4+ T cells responding to peptide antigens, may be synergistic in the induction of AHR, although in some cases, each may independently induce AHR.
Recurrence of pulmonary intravascular bronchoalveolar tumor with mediastinal metastasis 20 years later RESPIRATORY MEDICINE Chen, T. M., Donington, J., Mak, G., Berry, G. J., Ruoss, S. J., Rosen, G. D., Upadhyay, D. 2006; 100 (2): 367-370
Pulmonary intravascular bronchoalveolar tumor (IVBAT) also recognized as pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, is a rare malignant vascular tumor of unknown etiology. IVBAT is a tumor of multicentric origin and the lungs are rarely involved, with only about 60 cases of pulmonary IVBAT described in the literature. The prognosis is unpredictable, with life expectancy ranging from 1 to 15 years. We report an unusual case of pulmonary IVBAT that recurred in the lung with metastasis to the mediastinum.
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Early detection of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy through gene expression - Profiling insights of the cargo study Deng, M. C., Cadeiras, M., Baron, H. M., Marboe, H. M., Starling, R. C., Eisen, H., Valantine, H., Hunt, S. A., Kobashigawa, J., Mehra, M. R., Pauly, D. F., Murali, S., Mital, S., Berry, G., Billingham, M., Wohlgemuth, J., Dedrick, R. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 2006: S98–S98
Increased molecular testing scores associated with agreement among cardiac pathologists for the diagnosis of ISHLT 3A and higher rejection Marboe, C. C., Deng, M. C., Berry, G., Billingham, M., Eisen, H. J., Pauly, D., Baron, H., Klingler, T., Lal, P., Mahmood, I., Wohlgemuth, J., Starling, R. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 2006: S105–S106
Probabilistic modeling of rejection in cardiac allograft patients as measured by biopsy and molecular diagnostics Danaher, P. J., Klingler, T. M., Berry, G. J., Billingham, M. E., Eisen, H. J., Wohlgemuth, J. G., Baron, H. M., Deng, M. C., Marboe, C. C. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 2006: S186–S186
Dual in vivo magnetic resonance evaluation of magnetically labeled mouse embryonic stem cells and cardiac function at 1.5 T MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE Arai, T., Kofidis, T., Bulte, J. W., de Bruin, J., Venook, R. D., Berry, G. J., McConnell, M. V., Quertermous, T., Robbins, R. C., Yang, P. C. 2006; 55 (1): 203-209
Cell therapy has demonstrated the potential to restore injured myocardium. A reliable in vivo imaging method to localize transplanted cells and monitor their restorative effects will enable a systematic investigation of this therapeutic modality. The dual MRI capability of imaging both magnetically labeled mouse embryonic stem cells (mESC) and their restorative effects on cardiac function in a murine model of acute myocardial infarction is demonstrated. Serial in vivo MR detection of transplanted mESC and monitoring of the mESC-treated myocardium was conducted over a 4-week period using a 1.5 T clinical scanner. During the 4-week duration, the mESC-treated myocardium demonstrated sustained improvement of the left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction and conservation of LV mass. Furthermore, no significant difference of their restorative effects on the cardiac function was created by the magnetic labeling of mESC. Thus, in vivo MRI enables simultaneous detection of transplanted mESC and their therapeutic effect on the injured myocardium.
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Noninvasive discrimination of rejection in cardiac allograft recipients using gene expression profiling AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION Deng, M. C., Eisen, H. J., Mehra, M. R., Billingham, M., Marboe, C. C., Berry, G., Kobashigawa, J., Johnson, F. L., Starling, R. C., Murali, S., Pauly, D. F., Baron, H., Wohlgemuth, J. G., Woodward, R. N., Klingler, T. M., Walther, D., Lal, P. G., Rosenberg, S., Hunt, S. 2006; 6 (1): 150-160
Rejection diagnosis by endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) is invasive, expensive and variable. We investigated gene expression profiling of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to discriminate ISHLT grade 0 rejection (quiescence) from moderate/severe rejection (ISHLT > or = 3A). Patients were followed prospectively with blood sampling at post-transplant visits. Biopsies were graded by ISHLT criteria locally and by three independent pathologists blinded to clinical data. Known alloimmune pathways and leukocyte microarrays identified 252 candidate genes for which real-time PCR assays were developed. An 11 gene real-time PCR test was derived from a training set (n = 145 samples, 107 patients) using linear discriminant analysis (LDA), converted into a score (0-40), and validated prospectively in an independent set (n = 63 samples, 63 patients). The test distinguished biopsy-defined moderate/severe rejection from quiescence (p = 0.0018) in the validation set, and had agreement of 84% (95% CI 66% C94%) with grade ISHLT > or = 3A rejection. Patients >1 year post-transplant with scores below 30 (approximately 68% of the study population) are very unlikely to have grade > or = 3A rejection (NPV = 99.6%). Gene expression testing can detect absence of moderate/severe rejection, thus avoiding biopsy in certain clinical settings. Additional clinical experience is needed to establish the role of molecular testing for clinical event prediction and immunosuppression management.
Cyclin D1 and p16 expression in recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma. World journal of surgical oncology Lin, H., Berry, G. J., Sun, Z., Fee, W. E. 2006; 4: 62-?
Cyclin D1 and p16 are involved in the regulation of G1 checkpoint and may play an important role in the tumorigenesis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Previous studies have examined the level of expression of cyclin D1 and p16 in primary untreated NPC but no such information is available for recurrent NPC. We set out in this study to examine the expression level of cyclin D1 and p16 in recurrent NPC that have failed previous treatment with radiation +/- chemotherapy.A total of 42 patients underwent salvage nasopharyngectomy from 1984 to 2001 for recurrent NPC after treatment failure with radiation +/- chemotherapy. Twenty-seven pathologic specimens were available for immunohistochemical study using antibodies against cyclin D1 and p16.Positive expression of cyclin D1 was observed in 7 of 27 recurrent NPC specimens (26%) while positive p16 expression was seen in only 1 of 27 recurrent NPC (4%).While the level of expression of cyclin D1 in recurrent NPC was similar to that of previously untreated head and neck cancer, the level of p16 expression in recurrent NPC samples was much lower than that reported for previously untreated cancer. The finding that almost all (96%) of the recurrent NPC lack expression of p16 suggested that loss of p16 may confer a survival advantage by making cancer cells more resistant to conventional treatment with radiation +/- chemotherapy. Further research is warranted to investigate the clinical use of p16 both as a prognostic marker and as a potential therapeutic target.
Recurrence of iron deposition in the cardiac allograft in a patient with non-HFE hemochromatosis JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Kuppahally, S. S., Hunt, S. A., Valantine, H. A., Berry, G. J. 2006; 25 (1): 144-147
We report the case of a 36-year-old woman with a diagnosis of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy who underwent cardiac transplantation. The results of her initial iron studies were normal, but hemochromatosis was suspected after microscopy of the explanted heart revealed iron deposition. By 6 months post-transplantation, iron deposition was detected in her surveillance endomyocardial biopsy specimens and studies then confirmed the existence of non-HFE hemochromatosis. The patient has been stable on treatment with regular phlebotomies and a low vitamin C diet.
Differential cardioprotective/cardiotoxic effects mediated by ss-adrenergic receptor subtypes AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY Bernstein, D., Fajardo, G., Zhao, M. M., Urashima, T., Powers, J., Berry, G., Kobilka, B. K. 2005; 289 (6): H2441-H2449
Recent data suggest that beta-adrenergic receptor subtypes couple differentially to signaling pathways regulating cardiac function vs. cardiac remodeling. To dissect the roles of beta1- vs. beta2-receptors in the pathogenesis of cardiomyopathy, doxorubicin was administered to beta1, beta2, and beta1/beta2 knockout (-/-) and wild-type mice. Expression and activation of MAPKs were measured. Wild-type and beta1-/- mice showed no acute cardiovascular effects, whereas beta2-/- mice all died within 30 min. The additional deletion of the beta1-receptor (beta1/beta2-/-) totally rescued this toxicity. beta2-/- mice developed decreased contractile function, hypotension, QTc prolongation, and ST segment changes and a 20-fold increase in p38 MAPK activity not seen in the other genotypes. The MAPK inhibitor SB-203580 rescued beta2-/- mice from this acute toxicity. The enhanced toxicity in beta2-/- mice was also recapitulated in wild-type mice with the beta2-selective antagonist ICI-118,551, although the rescue effect of the beta1-deletion was not recapitulated using the beta1-selective antagonist metoprolol or the nonselective beta-antagonist propranolol. These data suggest that beta2-adrenergic receptors play a cardioprotective role in the pathogenesis of cardiomyopathy, whereas beta1-adrenergic receptors mediate at least some of the acute cardiotoxicity of anthracyclines. Differential activation of MAPK isoforms, previously shown in vitro to regulate beta-agonist as well as doxorubicin cardiotoxicity, appears to play a role in mediating the differential effects of these beta-adrenergic receptor subtypes in vivo.
Revision of the 1990 working formulation for the standardization of nomenclature in the diagnosis of heart rejection JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Stewart, S., Winters, G. L., Fishbein, M. C., Tazelaar, H. D., Kobashigawa, J., Abrams, J., Andersen, C. B., Angelini, A., Berry, G. J., Burke, M. M., Demetris, A. J., Hammond, E., Itescu, S., Marboe, C. C., McManus, B., Reed, E. F., Reinsmoen, N. L., Rodriguez, E. R., ROSE, A. G., Rose, M., Suciu-Focia, N., Zeevi, A., Billingham, M. E. 2005; 24 (11): 1710-1720
In 1990, an international grading system for cardiac allograft biopsies was adopted by the International Society for Heart Transplantation. This system has served the heart transplant community well, facilitating communication between transplant centers, especially with regard to patient management and research. In 2004, under the direction of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), a multidisciplinary review of the cardiac biopsy grading system was undertaken to address challenges and inconsistencies in its use and to address recent advances in the knowledge of antibody-mediated rejection. This article summarizes the revised consensus classification for cardiac allograft rejection. In brief, the revised (R) categories of cellular rejection are as follows: Grade 0 R--no rejection (no change from 1990); Grade 1 R--mild rejection (1990 Grades 1A, 1B and 2); Grade 2 R--moderate rejection (1990 Grade 3A); and Grade 3 R--severe rejection (1990 Grades 3B and 4). Because the histologic sub-types of Quilty A and Quilty B have never been shown to have clinical significance, the "A" and "B" designations have been eliminated. Recommendations are also made for the histologic recognition and immunohistologic investigation of acute antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) with the expectation that greater standardization of the assessment of this controversial entity will clarify its clinical significance. Technical considerations in biopsy processing are also addressed. This consensus revision of the Working Formulation was approved by the ISHLT Board of Directors in December 2004.
Lymphocytic myocarditis after lung transplantation JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Weinkauf, J., Walia, R., Berry, G. J., Vagelos, R., Faul, J. L. 2005; 24 (8): 1163-1165
This study reports the development of lymphocytic myocarditis in a bilateral lung allograft recipient. A 23-year-old woman developed congestive heart failure and severe left ventricular dysfunction 32 months after a bilateral lung allograft for cystic fibrosis. She had taken oral acyclovir for infectious mononucleosis that was diagnosed 11 months previously. Her viral load for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) increased, and an echocardiogram revealed a left ventricular ejection fraction of 25% and endomyocardial biopsy revealed lymphocytic myocarditis. She received valacyclovir (1 g x 3 times daily) and made a full recovery 6 months later.
Nodular endocardial infiltrates (Quilty lesions) cause significant variability in diagnosis of ISHLT Grade 2 and 3A rejection in cardiac allograft recipients JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Marboe, C. C., Billingham, M., Eisen, H., Deng, M. C., Baron, H., Mehra, M., Hunt, S., Wohlgemuth, J., Mahmood, I., Prentice, J., Berry, G. 2005; 24 (7): S219-S226
Endomyocardial biopsy is used to guide therapy after heart transplantation. An accurate and reliable diagnosis of rejection is critical for proper patient management.A sub-set of 827 biopsies from 273 patients were identified from 8 centers participating in the Cardiac Allograft Gene Expression Observational Study. These included all biopsies graded by local center pathologists as International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Grade 1B or higher and also randomly chosen Grade 0 and 1A biopsies. Each of these cases was reviewed in a blinded manner by 3 study pathologists in the absence of clinical data. The study pathologists were assigned an ISHLT grade and noted nodular endocardial infiltrates (Quilty lesions).The study pathologists were significantly more likely than local pathologists to diagnose ISHLT Grade 0, 1A and 3B rejection and significantly less likely to diagnose ISHLT Grade 1B, 2 and 3A rejection. Concordance between local and study pathologists was lowest for Grade 2 (17% agreement). Quilty lesions were noted in 3.3% of local Grade 0 cases and in 31% and 37% of local Grade 2 and 3A cases, respectively. Quilty lesions were recognized by study pathologists in 35% of local Grade 2 cases "downgraded" to Grade 0 or 1, but in only 10% of local Grade 2 cases confirmed by study pathologists.The greatest variability between pathologists in application of the ISHLT grading system is in Grade 2 biopsies, and Quilty lesions are a major contributing factor to the lack of concordance. Accurate application of the ISHLT grading system requires improved recognition and understanding of Quilty lesions.
Pathology of radiation and anthracycline cardiotoxicity 8th International Conference on Long-Term Complications of Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Cancer Berry, G. J., Jorden, M. WILEY-LISS. 2005: 630–37
Radiation-induced heart disease (RIHD) and anthracycline cardiotoxicity are two patterns of cardiac dysfunction caused by therapeutic interventions to treat malignancies. They occur in both the pediatric and adult populations and there is evidence to suggest that pediatric patients are at greater risk. This is due in part to the longer survival rates but also reflects increased susceptibility to the attendant complications caused by both therapies. Radiation can cause injury to all the components of the heart, including the vasculature, while anthracycline toxicity is generally limited to the myocardium.
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TIM-1 induces T cell activation and inhibits the development of peripheral tolerance NATURE IMMUNOLOGY Umetsu, S. E., Lee, W. L., McIntire, J. J., Downey, L., Sanjanwala, B., Akbari, O., Berry, G. J., Nagumo, H., Freeman, G. J., Umetsu, D. T., DeKruyff, R. H. 2005; 6 (5): 447-454
We have examined the function of TIM-1, encoded by a gene identified as an 'atopy susceptibility gene' (Havcr1*), and demonstrate here that TIM-1 is a molecule that costimulates T cell activation. TIM-1 was expressed on CD4(+) T cells after activation and its expression was sustained preferentially in T helper type 2 (T(H)2) but not T(H)1 cells. In vitro stimulation of CD4(+) T cells with a TIM-1-specific monoclonal antibody and T cell receptor ligation enhanced T cell proliferation; in T(H)2 cells, such costimulation greatly enhanced synthesis of interleukin 4 but not interferon-gamma. In vivo, the use of antibody to TIM-1 plus antigen substantially increased production of both interleukin 4 and interferon-gamma in unpolarized T cells, prevented the development of respiratory tolerance, and increased pulmonary inflammation. Our studies suggest that immunotherapies that regulate TIM-1 function may downmodulate allergic inflammatory diseases.
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Recurrent lymphoma of the lung - Computed tomography appearance JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY Hwang, G. L., Leung, A. N., Zinck, S. E., Berry, G. J. 2005; 29 (2): 228-230
To describe the computed tomography findings of recurrent lymphoma involving the lung.Computed tomography scans of 15 patients with biopsy-proven recurrent lymphoma involving the lung were reviewed. Group mean age of enrolled patients was 38 years (range: 14-68 years). Pathologic specimens were obtained by thoracoscopic or open wedge biopsy (n = 8), transbronchial biopsy (n = 5), and fine needle aspiration (n = 2).Nodules, the most common manifestation, were present in all patients; nodules were greater than 10 in number in 12 (80%) of 15 cases and predominantly 6-10 mm in size in 8 cases (53%). Nodular distribution was bilateral and multilobar except in 2 patients, in whom a solitary pulmonary nodule was found. Lymphadenopathy was the second most common finding; it was seen in 13 (87%) of 15 cases and involved an average of 5 nodal stations.Recurrent lymphoma in the lung most commonly manifests as multiple pulmonary nodules that are typically bilateral and multilobar in distribution.
Split-thickness skin graft attachment to bone lacking periosteum ARCHIVES OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD & NECK SURGERY Tran, L. E., Berry, G. J., Fee, W. E. 2005; 131 (2): 124-128
To develop an animal model to investigate the survival of split-thickness skin grafts (STSGs) on bone without periosteum, to compare STSG attachment to bone with and without periosteum, and to determine the effect of fibrin glue on STSG attachment to bone.Prospective laboratory study.University laboratory.Sprague-Dawley rats.Percentage of survival of the STSGs at 2 weeks determined independently by the authors and a third, blinded head and neck surgeon.In experiment 1, which included 40 rats, the sutured STSGs showed an average survival rate of 38% when attached to bone with periosteum, 6% when attached to bare bone, and 10% when attached to bare bone using fibrin glue. The poor survival rate was thought to be attributable to the animals scratching at their bolster dressings. In experiment 2, 18 animals underwent a posteriorly based U-shaped flap of skin and subcutaneous tissue. The grafts were placed and isolated from the overlying flap with a biosynthetic wound dressing. The sutured STSG survival rates were as follows: 87% when attached to bone with periosteum, 94% when attached to bare bone, and 74% when attached to bare bone using fibrin glue.The survival of STSGs attached to bare bone was comparable to that of STSGs attached to bone with periosteum when grafts were protected with the skin-subcutaneous flap. The STSGs that were fixed with 0.1 cc of fibrin glue demonstrated poorer survival rates than those attached with sutures and were associated with more seromas.
Improved assessment of graft function by echocardiography in cynomolgus monkey recipients of hDAF-transgenic pig cardiac xenografts JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Stalder, M., Tye, T., Lam, T. T., Chan, M. C., Berry, G. J., Borie, D. C., Morris, R. E. 2005; 24 (2): 215-221
The current practice of evaluating heterotopic heart xenografts by palpation allows only detection of severe graft dysfunction, which indicates terminal graft failure. Therefore, we evaluated whether echocardiography is a better method of detecting early graft dysfunction as a marker of rejection in abdominal pig heart xenografts in cynomolgus monkeys.Six cynomolgus monkeys received heterotopic heart transplants from pig donors transgenic for human decay-accelerating factor (hDAF). Induction therapy consisted of either cyclophosphamide or rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin. Maintenance therapy consisted of cyclosporine or tacrolimus, steroids, and sodium mycophenolate or mycophenolate mofetil, GAS914 (alphaGal oligosaccharide containing glycoconjugate), and for some animals TP10 (soluble complement receptor type 1). Echocardiography was performed immediately after transplantation and 3 times a week after surgery. We scored contractility and measured left ventricular wall thickness. Impaired contractility or increased wall thickness were considered graft dysfunction and were treated with pulse steroids. Palpation score was recorded daily. We also obtained myocardial biopsy specimens.Palpation score remained at 4 out of 4 in all animals until 2 to 5 days before final graft failure, whereas echocardiography detected several episodes of impaired graft function, either decreased left ventricular contractility or increased left ventricular wall thickness before graft failure. Treatment with pulse steroids improved graft function only during early episodes of graft impairment. Final graft failure was steroid resistant and caused by severe vascular rejection.Echocardiography is a better method of assessing graft dysfunction than is palpation. Therefore, echocardiography may detect early rejection episodes of heterotopic heart xenografts in non-human primates.
Scedosporium apiospermum soft tissue infection successfully treated with voriconazole: Potential pitfalls in the transition from intravenous to oral therapy JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY Schaenman, J. M., DiGiulio, D. B., Mirels, L. F., McClenny, N. M., Berry, G. J., Fothergill, A. W., Rinaldi, M. G., Montoya, J. G. 2005; 43 (2): 973-977
An immunocompromised patient with an invasive soft tissue infection due to Scedosporium apiospermum was successfully treated with voriconazole and surgical debridement. After transition from intravenous to oral therapy, successive adjustments of the oral dose were required to achieve complete resolution. For soft tissue infections due to molds characterized by thin, septate hyphae branching at acute angles, voriconazole should be considered a first-line antifungal agent. The potential usefulness of plasma voriconazole levels for guiding optimal therapy should be investigated.
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Giant cell myocarditis: a rare cardiovascular manifestation in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus. Lupus Chung, L., Berry, G. J., Chakravarty, E. F. 2005; 14 (2): 166-169
Giant cell myocarditis (GCM) is a rare form of myocarditis with a median survival of less than one year. It has been reported to occur in patients with various underlying autoimmune diseases; however, no cases of GCM have been described in patients with clear evidence of underlying systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The presentation of GCM may mimic that of lupus myocarditis, including an initial response to immunosuppression. Despite initial clinical similarities, lupus myocarditis and GCM are histologically distinct entities with dramatic differences in prognosis. We report herein a patient with a longstanding history of SLE, who presented acutely with myocarditis, responded well to initial immunosuppression and then subsequently died of progressive heart failure that was found to be due to GCM. Endomyocardial biopsy can help define diagnosis and prognosis of lupus patients presenting with myocarditis, and early referral for cardiac transplantation should be considered in patients diagnosed with GCM.
Glycolipid mediated activation of iNKT cells is sufficient to induce airway hyperreactivity independent of conventional CD4 T cells. 5th Annual Meeting of the Federation-of-Clinical-Immunology-Societies Meyer, E. H., Akbari, O., Berry, G., Savage, P., DeKruyff, R. H., Umetsu, D. T. ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE. 2005: S14–S15
Hyperacute rejection of hDAF-transgenic pig organ xenografts in cynomolgus monkeys: influence of pre-existing anti-pig antibodies and prevention by the alpha GAL glycoconjugate GAS914 XENOTRANSPLANTATION Lam, T. T., Hausen, B., Boeke-Purkis, K., Paniagua, R., Lau, M., Hook, L., Berry, G., Higgins, J., Duthaler, R. O., Katopodis, A. G., Robbins, R., Reitz, B., Borie, D., Schuurman, H. J., Morris, R. E. 2004; 11 (6): 517-524
Our introductory pig-to-cynomolgus monkey heart or kidney transplantation using organs from pigs transgenic for human decay-accelerating factor (hDAF), showed a high incidence of hyperacute rejection (HAR), which was ascribed to extraordinary high levels of anti-pig antibodies. We evaluated the efficacy of GAS914, a Gal alpha 1-3Gal trisaccharide linked to a poly-l-lysine backbone, in inhibition of HAR.hDAF transgenic heterotopic heart (n = 15) or life-supporting kidney (n = 8) transplantation included induction with cyclophosphamide or anti-thymocyte globulin, and maintenance with cyclosporine or tacrolimus, steroids and mycophenolate sodium/mofetil. Four doses of GAS914 were given before transplantation. Rejection was confirmed by graft histology, and anti-pig antibody levels were determined in various assays.Four of six heart transplants without GAS914 treatment showed HAR. Nine subsequent transplants with GAS914 pre-treatment, did not show HAR (chi-square, P < 0.05). Two of four kidney transplants without GAS914 treatment ended with HAR. Four subsequent transplants with GAS914 did not show HAR. Animals with HAR showed extremely high antibody levels. Samples just before transplantation showed significantly higher antibody levels in recipients presenting with HAR. In all assays antibody levels were significantly lowered by GAS914 pre-treatment.HAR of hDAF solid organs could be ascribed to high levels of anti-pig antibodies. It is hypothesized that the hDAF transgene shows a threshold in efficacy, above which an overwhelming attack by antibodies and complement activation cannot be modulated to prevent HAR. HAR does not occur when animals with lower levels are used, or when antibodies are effectively depleted from the circulation by GAS914 treatment.
Induction of T helper type 1-like regulatory cells that express Foxp3 and protect against airway hyper-reactivity NATURE IMMUNOLOGY Stock, P., Akbari, O., Berry, G., Freeman, G. J., DeKruyff, R. H., Umetsu, D. T. 2004; 5 (11): 1149-1156
The range of regulatory T cell (T(R) cell) types that control immune responses is poorly understood. We describe here a population of T(R) cells that developed in vivo from naive CD4(+)CD25(-) T cells during a T helper type 1 (T(H)1)-polarized response, distinct from CD25(+) T(R) cells. These antigen-specific T(R) cells were induced by CD8alpha(+) DCs, produced both interleukin 10 and interferon-gamma, and potently inhibited the development of airway hyper-reactivity. These T(R) cells expressed the transcription factors Foxp3 and T-bet, indicating that these T(R) cells are related to T(H)1 cells. Thus, adaptive T(R) cells are heterogeneous and comprise T(H)1-like T(R) cells as well as previously described T(H)2-like T(R) cells, which express Foxp3 and are induced during the development of respiratory tolerance by CD8alpha(-) DCs.
Clinical and pathological absence of cardiotoxicity after liposomal doxorubicin LANCET ONCOLOGY Jones, R. L., Berry, G. J., Rubens, R. D., Miles, D. W. 2004; 5 (9): 575-577
Gastric pacing for severe gastroparesis in a heart-lung transplant recipient JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Yiannopoulos, A., Shafazand, S., Ziedalski, T., Berry, G. J., Robbins, R. C., Theodore, J., Faul, J. L. 2004; 23 (3): 371-374
Gastroparesis is a serious complication of lung and heart-lung transplantation that can lead to malnutrition, gastroesophageal reflux, aspiration pneumonia and deteriorating lung function. Some patients with severe gastroparesis have symptoms that are refractory to dietary modifications and gastric promotility agents and require surgery. We describe the successful use of gastric pacing for the management of intractable gastroparesis, malnutrition and recurrent aspiration in a heart-lung allograft recipient. Lung transplant recipients with severe gastroparesis may benefit from gastric pacing.
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Identification of tyrosine kinases overexpressed in head and neck cancer ARCHIVES OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD & NECK SURGERY Lin, H. S., Berry, G. J., Fee, W. E., Terris, D. J., Sun, Z. J. 2004; 130 (3): 311-316
To identify protein-tyrosine kinases (PTKs) that may be involved in the development and progression of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).Messenger RNA from 7 HNSCC specimens was reverse transcribed to complementary DNA, and selective amplification of PTK complementary DNA was achieved using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with degenerate PTK primers. The resulting PTK PCR products from these 7 HNSCC specimens were then cloned and randomly selected for sequencing. The PTKs that were represented multiple times in these randomly selected clones were selected as candidate PTKs that may be overexpressed in HNSCC. Antibodies against these candidate PTKs were then used for immunohistochemical studies on 8 other HNSCC specimens not used in the original selection of the candidate PTKs.Three known (EphA1, Brk, and Ron) and 2 novel (KIAA0728 and KIAA0279) PTKs were found to be highly expressed in the 7 HNSCC samples studied, based on the technique of reverse transcriptase-PCR with degenerate primers. Immunohistochemical studies with antibodies against the 3 known PTKs in 8 other HNSCC specimens not used in the previous reverse transcriptase-PCR reaction demonstrated overexpression of EphA1, Brk, and Ron in 12.5%, 37.5%, and 75% of these specimens.In this study, we identified 5 PTKs that were overexpressed in HNSCC using a reverse transcriptase-PCR technique and confirmed the overexpression of 3 known PTKs in some of the 8 archival HNSCC specimens studied. Our finding suggests that the signaling pathways mediated through EphA1, Brk, and Ron may be involved in the development and progression of HNSCC.
Noncirrhotic portal hypertension in association with juvenile nephropathic cystinosis: Case presentation and review of the literature JOURNAL OF INHERITED METABOLIC DISEASE DiDomenico, P., Berry, G., Bass, D., Fridge, J., Sarwal, M. 2004; 27 (5): 693-699
We report a case of portal hypertension and oesophageal varices arising in an 18-year-old female renal transplant recipient with juvenile nephropathic cystinosis diagnosed at 6 years of age. The patient had a history of poor compliance with her prescribed cysteamine therapy. Routine examination revealed normal liver function without hepatomegaly but asymptomatic splenomegaly. An abdominal ultrasound suggested mild oesophageal varices, confirmed later on endoscopy. A liver biopsy revealed an abundance of cystine crystals within the hepatic Kupffer cells, with preserved hepatic architecture. Although the pathophysiology of this rare complication is unclear, in the absence of other aetiologies the likely cause is the patient's poorly controlled cystinosis. As cystinotic patients live longer with improved renal transplant management and cysteamine therapy, it is of interest to characterize the long-term course of the illness after renal transplantation. An understanding of the pathophysiology of hepatic dysfunction will be required to manage this potential late complication of the disease.
Obliterative bronchiolitis is prevented by JAK3 inhibition with the new immunosuppressant CP-690,550. 5th American Transplant Congress Rousvoal, G., Zhang, S., Larson, M., Berry, G., Si, M. S., Holm, B., Paniagua, R., Hawkins, J., Lau, M., Flores, M., Morris, R., Reitz, B., Borie, D. WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2004: 286–286
Superarray analysis of tracheal allografts under JAK3-targeted immunosuppression reveals a role for the B-cell chemoattractant BLC-BCA1. 5th American Transplant Congress Lau, M., Zhang, S., Larson, M., Flores, M., Si, M. S., Rousvoal, G., Hawkins, J., Holm, B., Berry, G., Morris, R., Reitz, B., Borie, D. WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2004: 197–197
Matrix metalloproteinase inhibition decreases ischemia-reperfusion injury after lung transplantation AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION Soccal, P. M., Gasche, Y., Miniati, D. N., Hoyt, G., Berry, G. J., Doyle, R. L., Theodore, J., Robbins, R. C. 2004; 4 (1): 41-50
Increased microvascular permeability and extravasation of inflammatory cells are key events of lung ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) in IR-induced alveolar capillary membrane disruption after experimental lung transplantation. We used a rat model of lung orthotopic transplantation (n = 86) with a prolonged cold ischemic phase. MMP2 and MMP9 were elevated 4 h after the onset of ischemia and further increased during reperfusion. Compared to sham values, the alveolar-capillary membrane permeability increased by 105% and 82.6% after 4 h of ischemia and 2 h or 24 h of reperfusion, respectively. A 4- and 5-fold increase of the infiltration of ischemic tissue by neutrophils was also observed after 2 h and 24 h of reperfusion. The PO2/FIO2 ratio dropped significantly from 244 to 76.6 after 2 h of reperfusion and from 296.4 to 127.6 after 24 h of reperfusion. A nonselective inhibitor of MMP, administered to the rats and added to the preservation solution, reduced significantly the alveolar-capillary leakage, the transmigration of neutrophils and improved gas exchanges in animals submitted to 4 h of ischemia combined with 2 h or 24 h of reperfusion. We conclude that inhibition of MMP attenuates IR injury after experimental lung transplantation.
Thoracic lymphatic disorders. Lymphatic research and biology Davis, K. K., Berry, G. J., Raffin, T. A., Faul, J. L. 2004; 2 (3): 131-137
Thoracic complications of lymphatic disorders can culminate in respiratory failure and death and should be considered in any patient with a lymphatic disease and clinical or radiographic evidence of chest disease. Congenital lymphatic disorders are being increasingly recognized in the adult population. The spectrum of thoracic manifestations of lymphatic disorders ranges from incidental radiographic findings to diffuse lymphatic disease with respiratory failure. This article serves to review some recent advances that allow improved diagnosis and management of thoracic lymphatic disorders. Herein, we describe their anatomical and physiologic effects, the time course of their progression, and the therapies that are currently available. The management of malignant (cancerous) lymphatic disorders of the thorax is beyond the scope of this paper.
Epstein-Barr virus infection is not associated with fibroadenomas of the breast in immunosuppressed patients after organ transplantation MODERN PATHOLOGY Lau, S. K., Chen, Y. Y., Berry, G. J., Yousem, S. A., Weiss, L. M. 2003; 16 (12): 1242-1247
Epstein-Barr virus has been linked to an increasing number of nonhematolymphoid conditions. Epstein-Barr virus was recently described in association with fibroadenomas of the breast occurring in immunosuppressed patients. To further investigate the potential association of Epstein-Barr virus with fibroadenoma in the context of immune dysfunction, 11 cases of fibroadenoma of the breast in immunosuppressed organ transplant recipients were examined. Cases were evaluated for the presence of Epstein-Barr virus by polymerase chain reaction, in situ hybridization, and immunohistochemical methods. The presence of Epstein-Barr virus genomic DNA was studied by polymerase chain reaction amplification using primers flanking the BamHI-W fragment of the Epstein-Barr virus genome, as well as the Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen-4 and latent membrane protein-1 genes. Cases were also evaluated for the presence of defective heterogeneous Epstein-Barr virus DNA. In addition, morphologic analysis by in situ hybridization for Epstein-Barr virus-encoded RNA-1 and immunohistochemistry for latent membrane protein-1 were performed. Epstein-Barr virus DNA was detected in 4 of 11 (36%) cases with BamHI-W polymerase chain reaction. Polymerase chain reaction studies for Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen-4 and latent membrane protein-1 genes were positive in two and four cases, respectively. No defective Epstein-Barr virus genomes were identified in any of the cases. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction demonstrated low levels of Epstein-Barr virus in the fibroadenomas studied. Despite the detection of Epstein-Barr virus genomes in a subset of the cases examined, the constituent epithelial and stromal components of all fibroadenomas demonstrated no evidence of Epstein-Barr virus-encoded RNA-1 by in situ hybridization or latent membrane protein-1 expression by immunohistochemistry. Rare Epstein-Barr virus-encoded RNA-1-positive lymphocytes were observed in some cases, which may account for the positive polymerase chain reaction results. The findings of the present study argue against a significant relationship between Epstein-Barr virus and fibroadenomas of the breast in the setting of transplant-associated immunosuppression.
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Cardiac allograft monitoring using a novel clinical algorithm based on peripheral leukocyte gene expression profiling 76th Annual Scientific Session of the American-Heart-Association Deng, M. C., Mehra, M. C., Eisen, H. J., Billingham, M., Berry, G., Marboe, C., Itescu, S., Kobashigawa, J., Wohlgemuth, J. G., Quertermous, T., Hunt, S. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. 2003: 389–89
Ablation of mitral annular and leaflet muscle: effects on annular and leaflet dynamics AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY Timek, T. A., Lai, D. T., Dagum, P., Tibayan, F., Daughters, G. T., Liang, D., Berry, G. J., Miller, D. C., Ingels, N. B. 2003; 285 (4): H1668-H1674
Mitral annular (MA) and leaflet three-dimensional (3-D) dynamics were examined after circumferential phenol ablation of the MA and anterior mitral leaflet (AML) muscle. Radiopaque markers were sutured to the left ventricle, MA, and both mitral leaflets in 18 sheep. In 10 sheep, phenol was applied circumferentially to the atrial surface of the mitral annulus and the hinge region of the AML, whereas 8 sheep served as controls. Animals were studied with biplane video fluoroscopy for computation of 3-D mitral annular area (MAA) and leaflet shape. MAA contraction (MAACont) was determined from maximum to minimum value. Presystolic MAA (PS-MAACont) reduction was calculated as the percentage of total reduction occurring before end diastole. Phenol ablation decreased PS-MAACont (72 +/- 6 vs. 47 +/- 31%, P = 0.04) and delayed valve closure (31 +/- 11 vs. 57 +/- 25 ms, P = 0.017). In control, the AML had a compound sigmoid shape; after phenol, this shape was entirely concave to the atrium during valve closure. These data indicate that myocardial fibers on the atrial side of the valve influence the 3-D dynamic geometry and shape of the MA and AML.
Simvastatin rescues rats from fatal pulmonary hypertension by inducing apoptosis of neointimal smooth muscle cells CIRCULATION Nishimura, T., Vaszar, L. T., Faul, J. L., Zhao, G. H., Berry, G. J., Shi, L. F., Qiu, D. M., Benson, G., Pearl, R. G., Kao, P. N. 2003; 108 (13): 1640-1645
Pulmonary vascular injury by toxins can induce neointimal formation, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), right ventricular failure, and death. We showed previously that simvastatin attenuates smooth muscle neointimal proliferation and pulmonary hypertension in pneumonectomized rats injected with the alkaloid toxin monocrotaline. The present study was undertaken to investigate the efficacy of simvastatin and its mechanism of reversing established neointimal vascular occlusion and pulmonary hypertension.Pneumonectomized rats injected with monocrotaline at 4 weeks demonstrated severe PAH at 11 weeks (mean pulmonary artery pressure [mPAP]=42 versus 17 mm Hg in normal rats) and death by 15 weeks. When rats with severe PAH received simvastatin (2 mg x kg(-1) x d(-1) by gavage) from week 11, there was 100% survival and reversal of PAH after 2 weeks (mPAP=36 mm Hg) and 6 weeks (mPAP=24 mm Hg) of therapy. Simvastatin treatment reduced right ventricular hypertrophy and reduced proliferation and increased apoptosis of pathological smooth muscle cells in the neointima and medial walls of pulmonary arteries. Longitudinal transcriptional profiling revealed that simvastatin downregulated the inflammatory genes fos, jun, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha and upregulated the cell cycle inhibitor p27Kip1, endothelial nitric oxide synthase, and bone morphogenetic protein receptor type 1a.Simvastatin reverses pulmonary arterial neointimal formation and PAH after toxic injury.
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Treatment by mycophenolate mofetil of advanced graft vascular disease in non-human primate recipients of orthotopic aortic allografts AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION Klupp, J., Dambrin, C., Hibi, K., Luna, J., Suzuki, T., Hausen, B., Birsan, T., van Gelder, T., Fitzgerald, P. J., Berry, G., Morris, R. E. 2003; 3 (7): 817-829
Failure to control chronic graft dysfunction [e.g. graft vascular disease (GVD)] is the primary cause of immunologic graft failure. This is the first study of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) for the treatment of GVD in non-human primate recipients of aortic allografts. Abdominal aortic allografts were exchanged between mixed leukocyte reaction (MLR) -mismatched, blood-group-compatible cynomolgus monkeys. Six control recipients were untreated. Individualized treatment with frequent dose adjustments of MMF insured that treatment was close to the maximum tolerated dose (mean 99.2 mg/kg/day). Immune-mediated injury proceeded unhindered until day 45, after which MMF treatment began. Changes in intimal volume (IV) were quantified by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and compared to histology on day 105. Serial IVUS measurements of IV (mm(3)) in controls showed progressive GVD. In four out of six animals, MMF was well tolerated, thus enabling optimum treatment; in all these animals, IV was significantly less than in the control animals (p = 0.02). In the two remaining animals, high doses were not tolerated; at day 105, there was no significant difference in IV between them and the controls. We found a significant correlation between the mean MMF tolerated dose and the inhibition of progression of IV (r = -0.88, p = 0.015). When high MMF doses were tolerated, MMF slowed progression of GVD.
Sirolimus (rapamycin) monotherapy prevents graft vascular disease in nonhuman primate recipients of orthotopic aortic allografts CIRCULATION Dambrin, C., Klupp, J., Birsan, T., Luna, J., Suzuki, T., Lam, T., Stahr, P., Hausen, B., Christians, U., Fitzgerald, P., Berry, G., Morris, R. 2003; 107 (18): 2369-2374
Delayed treatment with sirolimus (SRL) halts progression of graft vascular disease (GVD) in nonhuman primate (NHP) aortic allograft recipients. In this study, we investigated whether SRL monotherapy prevents the development of GVD.Pairs of 3-cm infrarenal aortic segments were exchanged between mixed lymphocyte reaction-mismatched, blood group-compatible NHPs (n=12). Six NHPs were untreated controls, and 6 were treated orally with SRL starting on the day of transplantation. Follow-up was 105 days. SRL doses were adjusted individually by assessing SRL blood concentrations, immune function, and clinical status. The severity of GVD was determined every 3 weeks by intravascular ultrasound, which quantified intimal area (IA) and intimal volume (IV) for the middle 1-cm graft segments. The mean+/-SEM SRL plasma levels were 14.5+/-9 ng/mL. In grafts from treated NHPs, IA and IV values on days 63, 84, and 105 were significantly lower than for controls (P<0.05 to P<0.001). On day 105, in the grafts from SRL-treated NHPs compared with grafts from controls, values (mean+/-SEM) were IA, 2.9+/-0.9 versus 5.5+/-0.7 mm2, P<0.001 and IV, 29.6+/-4.6 versus 55.2+/-2.8 mm3, P<0.001; IA and IV values for grafts from SRL-treated NHPs did not increase significantly between days 21 and 105.We show that SRL monotherapy prevented GVD in NHP aortic allograft recipients, suggesting the value of SRL for controlling GVD in clinical transplantation.
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Effect of a surgical aortocaval fistula on mono crotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Nishimura, T., Faul, J. L., Berry, G. J., Kao, P. N., Pearl, R. G. 2003; 31 (4): 1213-1218
Increased pulmonary blood flow is believed to contribute to the development of pulmonary hypertension. We investigated the effect of overcirculation via an aortocaval fistula, on the development of monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension in rats. Monocrotaline was administered 1 wk after the creation of an aortocaval fistula.Randomized, controlled study.Research laboratory of an academic institution.Male Sprague-Dawley rats.Overcirculation was induced by pneumonectomy and by surgical creation of aortocaval fistula. Pulmonary artery hypertension was induced by administration of monocrotaline.Aortic blood flow, Pao(2), and pulmonary arterial pressure were measured 4 wks later. A blinded investigator quantified pulmonary arterial neointimal formation in small pulmonary arteries. Compared with animals that received monocrotaline and/or underwent pneumonectomy but did not undergo aortocaval fistula, the presence of a surgical aortocaval fistula was associated with increased aortic blood flow (p <.001), increased Pao(2) (p <.001), and lower mean pulmonary arterial pressure (p <.001). In addition, rats with aortocaval fistula had less pulmonary arterial neointimal formation than matched animals without an aortocaval fistula (p =.034).The presence of a surgical aortocaval fistula attenuates, rather than worsens, the development of monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension in rats.
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Graft thrombosis in hDAF-transgenic pig hearts transplanted into rhesus monkeys XENOTRANSPLANTATION Lam, T. T., Borie, D., Masek, M., Berry, G., Larson, M., Morris, R. E. 2003; 10 (2): 185-186
A clinical and histopathologic comparison of cardiac sarcoidosis and idiopathic giant cell myocarditis JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY Okura, Y., Dec, G. W., Hare, J. M., Kodama, M., Berry, G. J., Tazelaar, H. D., Bailey, K. R., Cooper, L. T. 2003; 41 (2): 322-328
The goal of this study was to determine the prognostic value of clinical data available at presentation and histology in cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) and idiopathic giant cell myocarditis (IGCM).The prognosis of patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy is partly dependent on the histologic diagnosis. Survival in IGCM is poor. The prognosis of a histologically related entity, cardiac sarcoidosis (CS), is less well established, and the prognostic value of the distinction between CS and IGCM on endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) is unknown.We identified 115 patients from the Multicenter IGCM Registry with CS (n = 42) and IGCM (n = 73). We compared the clinical data for these two groups using Cox proportional-hazards models to assess the association between histologic diagnosis and survival. In order to determine whether histologic features could reliably differentiate these two entities, two cardiac pathologists semiquantitatively graded the inflammatory infiltrate components and compared the results between groups.Black race was more frequent in the CS group (31% vs. 4%, p < 0.0001). Syncope and atrioventricular block were also more frequently observed in CS than IGCM (31% vs. 5%, p = 0.0002 and 50% vs. 15%, p < 0.0001, respectively). Left-sided heart failure was more common in IGCM (40% vs. 64%, p = 0.013). In CS patients diagnosed by EMB, the five-year transplant-free survival after diagnosis was 69.8% versus 21.9% for IGCM (p < 0.0001, log-rank test). In multivariate models, presentation with heart failure predicted IGCM, and presentation with heart block or more than nine weeks of symptoms predicted CS. Eosinophils, myocyte damage, and foci of lymphocytic myocarditis were more frequent in IGCM, while granulomas and fibrosis were more frequent in CS.Transplant-free survival is better for patients with CS than for IGCM diagnosed by EMB. Presentation with heart failure predicted IGCM, and presentation with heart block or more than nine weeks of symptoms predicted CS.
Feasibility and safety of linear microwave ablation in the left atrium 12th World Congress on Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology Liem, L. B., Law, M. F., Leung, G., Ormsby, T., Berry, G. J. MEDIMOND S R L. 2003: 99–106
PG490-88, a derivative of triptolide, attenuates obliterative airway disease in a mouse heterotopic tracheal allograft model JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Leonard, C. T., Soccal, P. M., Berry, G. J., Doyle, R. L., Theodore, J., Duncan, S. R., Rosen, G. D. 2002; 21 (12): 1314-1318
The current treatment of obliterative bronchiolitis in lung transplant recipients is sub-optimal. Triptolide is a novel immunosuppressant that has a mechanism of action distinct from currently available immunosuppressants, including induction of T-cell apoptosis, blockade of fibroblast proliferation/maturation and inhibition of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) mRNA production. We hypothesized that triptolide may be helpful in blocking obliterative airway disease in lung transplant recipients. We investigated the effect of PG490-88, a water-soluble derivative of triptolide, in a mouse heterotopic tracheal allograft model of obliterative airway disease. We show that PG490-88 attenuates airway obliteration in this model and inhibits accumulation of inflammatory cells, and therefore may have preventive or therapeutic benefits for patients with obliterative airway disease (OAD) following lung transplantation.
Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia - A narrative review CHEST Swigris, J. J., Berry, G. J., Raffin, T. A., Kuschner, W. G. 2002; 122 (6): 2150-2164
Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia (LIP) is regarded as both a disease and a nonneoplastic, inflammatory pulmonary reaction to various external stimuli or systemic diseases. It is an uncommon condition with incidence and prevalence rates that are largely unknown. Liebow and Carrington originally classified LIP as an idiopathic interstitial pneumonia in 1969. Although LIP had since been removed from that category, the most recent consensus classification sponsored by the American Thoracic Society and the European Respiratory Society recognizes that some cases remain idiopathic in origin, and its clinical, radiographic, and pathologic features warrant the return of LIP to its original classification among the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias. LIP also belongs within a spectrum of pulmonary lymphoproliferative disorders that range in severity from benign, small, airway-centered cellular aggregates to malignant lymphomas. It is characterized by diffuse hyperplasia of bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue. The dominant microscopic feature of LIP is a diffuse, polyclonal lymphoid cell infiltrate surrounding airways and expanding the lung interstitium. Classically, LIP occurs in association with autoimmune diseases, most often Sjögren syndrome. This has led to consideration of an autoimmune etiology for LIP, but its pathogenesis remains poorly understood. Persons who are seropositive for HIV, and children in particular, are at increased risk of acquiring LIP. Some studies suggest causal roles for both HIV and Epstein-Barr virus. The incidence of LIP is approximately twofold greater in women than men. The average age at diagnosis is between 52 years and 56 years. Symptoms of progressive cough and dyspnea predominate. There is great variability in the clinical course of LIP, from resolution without treatment to progressive respiratory failure and death. Although LIP is often regarded as a steroid-responsive condition, and oral corticosteroids continue to be the mainstay of therapy, response is unpredictable. Approximately 33 to 50% of patients die within 5 years of diagnosis, and approximately 5% of cases of LIP transform to lymphoma.
Donor cardiac allografts from p53 knockout mice exhibit apoptosis-independent prolongation of survival TRANSPLANTATION PROCEEDINGS Kown, M. H., Murata, S., Jahncke, C. L., Mari, C., Berry, G. J., Lijkwan, M. A., Blankenberg, F. G., Strauss, H. W., Robbins, R. C. 2002; 34 (8): 3274-3276
Simvastatin attenuates smooth muscle neointimal proliferation and pulmonary hypertension in rats AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Nishimura, T., Faul, J. L., Berry, G. J., Vaszar, L. T., Qiu, D. M., Pearl, R. G., Kao, P. N. 2002; 166 (10): 1403-1408
Hypertensive pulmonary vascular disease is characterized by abnormal proliferation of vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells, leading to occlusion of pulmonary arterioles, pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular failure, and death. Compounds with antiproliferative effects on vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells, such as 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors, may prevent the development of experimental hypertensive pulmonary vascular disease. Pneumonectomized rats injected with monocrotaline at 7 days develop severe hypertensive pulmonary vascular disease with neointimal formation. Rats were randomized to receive either vehicle or treatment with the HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor simvastatin (2 mg/kg per day). By Day 35, rats that received vehicle had higher mean pulmonary arterial pressures (53 +/- 2 mm Hg) and right ventricular hypertrophy (right ventricle/[left ventricle plus septum] [RV/LV+S] = 0.78 +/- 0.09) than rats in Group PMS5-35 that received simvastatin from Day 5 to 35 (mean pulmonary arterial pressure = 27 +/- 3 mm Hg, RV/LV+S = 0.34 +/- 0.08; p < or = 0.001). Pulmonary vascular remodeling with neointimal formation consisting of vascular smooth muscle cells was more severe in vehicle-treated rats (vascular occlusion score, 1.98 +/- 0.02) than in Group PMS5-35 (vascular occlusion score, 0.59 +/- 0.46; p < 0.001). In addition, lung endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene expression was decreased in vehicle-treated animals but was restored toward normal levels in simvastatin-treated animals. Simvastatin attenuates monocrotaline-induced pulmonary vascular remodeling with neointimal formation, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and right ventricular hypertrophy in rats.
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Imaging for suspected appendicitis: Negative appendectomy and perforation rates RADIOLOGY Bendeck, S. E., Nino-Murcia, M., Berry, G. J., Jeffrey, R. B. 2002; 225 (1): 131-136
To determine which patients suspected of having acute appendicitis benefit from preoperative imaging.The medical records of 462 consecutive patients who underwent appendectomy for clinically suspected acute appendicitis and underwent preoperative evaluation at our institution were retrospectively reviewed. Patients were divided into four groups: women (n = 166), girls (n = 46), men (n = 178), and boys (n = 72). Preoperative computed tomography (CT) or ultrasonography (US), requested by the referring clinician, was performed in 313 of the 462 patients. Unnecessary, or negative, appendectomy and perforation rates were calculated for each group for preoperative evaluation with CT, with US, and with neither CT nor US. In addition, the sensitivity and positive predictive value of CT and US were calculated for diagnosing appendicitis.In women, the negative appendectomy rate was significantly lower for those who underwent preoperative CT (7% [six of 85 patients], P =.005) or US (8% [four of 49 patients], P =.019), as compared with 28% [nine of 32 patients] for those who underwent no preoperative imaging (P >.35 for all groups). The negative appendectomy rates for girls, men, and boys were not significantly affected by preoperative imaging. The sensitivity of CT and US for diagnosing acute appendicitis exceeded 93% and 77%, respectively, in all groups. The positive predictive values for both CT and US were greater than 92% in all groups.Women suspected of having appendicitis benefit the most from preoperative CT or US, with a statistically significantly lower negative appendectomy rate than women who undergo no preoperative imaging. Therefore, we propose that preoperative imaging be considered part of the routine evaluation of women suspected of having acute appendicitis.
Antigen-specific regulatory T cells develop via the ICOS-ICOS-ligand pathway and inhibit allergen-induced airway hyperreactivity NATURE MEDICINE Akbari, O., Freeman, G. J., Meyer, E. H., Greenfield, E. A., Chang, T. T., Sharpe, A. H., Berry, G., DeKruyff, R. H., Umetsu, D. T. 2002; 8 (9): 1024-1032
Asthma is caused by T-helper cell 2 (Th2)-driven immune responses, but the immunological mechanisms that protect against asthma development are poorly understood. T-cell tolerance, induced by respiratory exposure to allergen, can inhibit the development of airway hyperreactivity (AHR), a cardinal feature of asthma, and we show here that regulatory T (T(R)) cells can mediate this protective effect. Mature pulmonary dendritic cells in the bronchial lymph nodes of mice exposed to respiratory allergen induced the development of T(R) cells, in a process that required T-cell costimulation via the inducible costimulator (ICOS-ICOS-ligand pathway. The T(R) cells produced IL-10, and had potent inhibitory activity; when adoptively transferred into sensitized mice, T(R) cells blocked the development of AHR. Both the development and the inhibitory function of regulatory cells were dependent on the presence of IL-10 and on ICOS-ICOS-ligand interactions. These studies demonstrate that T(R) cells and the ICOS-ICOS-ligand signaling pathway are critically involved in respiratory tolerance and in downregulating pulmonary inflammation in asthma.
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The use of (99m)Technetium-labeled MCP-1 to assess, graft coronary artery disease in rat cardiac allografts JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Kown, M. H., Jahncke, C. L., Lijkwan, M. A., Koransky, M. L., Mari, C., Berry, G. J., Blankenberg, F. G., Strauss, H. W., Robbins, R. C. 2002; 21 (9): 1009-1015
Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) is associated with the development of graft coronary artery disease (GCAD) following cardiac transplantation. This study assessed whether technetium 99m ((99m)Tc)-labeled MCP-1 binds its receptors in chronic cardiac transplants and thereby provides a potential modality to assess GCAD.Allogeneic (PVG-->ACI, n = 9) and syngeneic (ACI-->ACI, n = 9) rat heterotopic heart transplants were performed. Allograft recipients were treated with 7.5 mg/kg per day of Cyclosporin A for 10 days until tolerance was achieved. After 90 days, animals were injected intravenously with (99m)Tc-MCP-1 and killed after 1 hour. Radioactivity of heart tissues was measured and standardized to uptake in the overall blood pool. Two-dimensional (99m)Tc-MCP-1 uptake (autoradiographs) was imaged by exposing 50-microm sections on a phosphoimager overnight. ED-1 staining of monocyte/macrophages was performed on serial sections. Additional sections were stained with elastin von Gieson and hematoxylin. Hearts were scored for luminal narrowing and intima/media ratio (I/M) with computerized image analysis.Allografts exhibited significantly more luminal narrowing (22.5 +/- 10.7% vs 2.6 +/- 4.6, p = 0.0005) and higher I/M (0.173 +/- 0.151 vs 0.015 +/- 0.029, p = 0.0088) than isografts. The ratio of (99m)Tc-MCP-1 uptake in allografts (1.04 +/- 0.4) was greater than that of isograft controls (0.72 +/- 0.11, p = 0.03). Pixel counts of autoradiographs and ED-1-stained sections demonstrated a modest correlation between the two (R(2) = 0.50). No significant differences were seen in acute rejection scores.(99m)Tc-MCP-1 uptake was higher in allografts vs isografts and was consistent with a greater degree of GCAD. These data demonstrating increased radiopharmaceutical uptake in hearts with GCAD provide a foundation for the development of a potentially non-invasive imaging assay of this disease process in heart transplantation.
CD4 T-helper cells engineered to produce IL-10 prevent allergen-induced airway hyperreactivity and inflammation JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY Oh, J. W., Seroogy, C. M., Meyer, E. H., Akbari, O., Berry, G., Fathman, C. G., DeKruyff, R. H., Umetsu, D. T. 2002; 110 (3): 460-468
T(H)2 cells play a critical role in the pathogenesis of asthma, but the precise immunologic mechanisms that inhibit T(H)2 cell function in vivo are not well understood.The purpose of our studies was to determine whether T cells producing IL-10 regulate the development of asthma.We used gene therapy to generate ovalbumin-specific CD4 T-helper cells to express IL-10, and we examined their capacity to regulate allergen-induced airway hyperreactivity.We demonstrated that the CD4 T-helper cells engineered to express IL-10 abolished airway hyperreactivity and airway eosinophilia in BALB/c mice sensitized and challenged with ovalbumin and in SCID mice reconstituted with ovalbumin-specific T(H)2 effector cells. The inhibitory effect of the IL-10-secreting T-helper cells was accompanied by the presence of increased quantities of IL-10 in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, was antigen-specific, and was reversed by neutralization of IL-10. Moreover, neutralization of IL-10 by administration of anti-IL-10 mAb in mice sensitized and challenged with ovalbumin seriously exacerbated airway hyperreactivity and airway inflammation.Our results demonstrate that T cells secreting IL-10 in the respiratory mucosa can indeed regulate T(H)2-induced airway hyperreactivity and inflammation, and they strongly suggest that IL-10 plays an important inhibitory role in allergic asthma.
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Pulmonary cryptococcosis: CT and pathologic findings JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY Zinck, S. E., Leung, A. N., Frost, M., Berry, G. J., Muller, N. L. 2002; 26 (3): 330-334
The purpose of this work was to describe the CT and pathologic findings of pulmonary cryptococcosis.CT scans of 11 patients (7 immunocompromised, 4 immunocompetent) with proven pulmonary cryptococcosis were analyzed for number, morphologic characteristics, and distribution of parenchymal abnormalities as well for presence of lymphadenopathy and pleural effusion. Pathology of lung specimens obtained by open biopsy or resection (n = 5) and transbronchial biopsy (n = 1) was reviewed by one dedicated pulmonary pathologist.Pulmonary nodules, either solitary or multiple, were the most common CT finding, present in 10 of 11 patients (91%); associated findings included masses (n = 4), CT halo sign (n = 3), and consolidation (n = 2). On histologic examination, focal areas of ground-glass attenuation surrounding or adjacent to nodules were found to represent airspace collections of macrophages and proteinaceous fluid.Pulmonary cryptococcosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of solitary or multiple pulmonary nodules (with or without associated CT halo sign), particularly in immunocompromised patients.
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The pathology of hibernating myocardium NUCLEAR MEDICINE COMMUNICATIONS Berry, G. J., Masek, M. 2002; 23 (4): 303-309
Myocardial hibernation represents a protective mechanism of muscle preservation in the setting of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease. Long-standing myocardial hypoperfusion leads to diminished myocardial contractility that reverses with improved blood flow after revascularization. The morphologic changes in both animal models and humans are described.
The role of right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy for idiopathic giant cell myocarditis 48th Annual Scientific Session of the American-College-of-Cardiology Shields, R. C., Tazelaar, H. D., Berry, G. J., Cooper, L. T. CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE INC MEDICAL PUBLISHERS. 2002: 74–78
Idiopathic giant cell myocarditis (GCM) is an uncommon cause of cardiac failure distinguished clinically from lymphocytic myocarditis by rapidly progressive heart failure, arrhythmias, and heart block. Unlike fulminant lymphocytic myocarditis, patients with fulminant cardiac failure caused by GCM may respond to certain immunosuppressive agents; however, right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) is infrequently used to establish the diagnosis partly because the sensitivity of EMB for GCM is unknown. The purpose of this study was to estimate the sensitivity of right ventricular EMB for GCM in a referral population.Twenty subjects (of 63 total) in the Multicenter Giant Cell Myocarditis Registry underwent both right ventricular EMB and heart pathology (HRTP) evaluation from apical wedge, explantation, or autopsy. The false-negative rate of right ventricular EMB was defined as the ratio of negative EMB to positive HRTP results. Ten of the 20 subjects were women. The mean age was 38 years (range, 16-53 years). Twelve (60%) subjects had a positive EMB and positive HRTP confirming GCM. Three (15%) had a negative EMB and positive HRTP for GCM. Five had a positive EMB and negative HRTP evaluation for GCM. The resulting sensitivity of EMB for GCM was 80% (12/15) with a positive predictive value of 71%. Assuming the 5 subjects with a positive EMB and negative HRTP are true positives, the sensitivity improves to 85% (17/20). Predictors of negative HRTP after positive EMB were time from symptom onset to HRTP (P.006) and time from EMB to HRTP (P.03).The sensitivity of right ventricular EMB is high in patients with GCM who have early disease presentation and a fulminant clinical course. Although these results may not apply to individuals with less aggressive disease, EMB may be used selectively to distinguish fulminant heart failure caused by GCM from other causes in which the prognosis may differ.
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Nodular invasive tracheobronchitis due to Aspergillus in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus LUPUS Angelotti, T., Krishna, G., Scott, J., Berry, G., Weinacker, A. 2002; 11 (5): 325-328
Nodular or pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis due to infection by Aspergillus species is an uncommon presentation of invasive aspergillosis. Most cases have been described in severely immunocompromised hosts. We describe the case of a 23-year-old woman, with recently diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus, who developed worsening respiratory function. Bronchoscopy revealed rapid development and progression of multiple nodular plaques in her trachea and bronchi. Endobronchial biopsy demonstrated invasive fungal infection with tissue necrosis and the presence of hyphal elements consistent with aspergillosis. To the best of our knowledge, this is only the second report of fulminant invasive tracheobronchitis due to Aspergillus in a patient with an autoimmune disease.
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Impact of cytomegalovirus hyperimmune globulin on outcome after cardiothoracic transplantation - A comparative study of combined prophylaxis with CMV hyperimmune globulin plus ganciclovir versus ganciclovir alone TRANSPLANTATION Valantine, H. A., Luikart, H., Doyle, R., Theodore, J., Hunt, S., Oyer, P., Robbins, R., Berry, G., Reitz, B. 2001; 72 (10): 1647-1652
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease was previously shown to be unaltered by a 28-day course of ganciclovir compared with placebo in seronegative recipients of hearts from seropositive donors (D+/R-). This study tests the hypothesis that a combination of ganciclovir plus CMV hyperimmune globulin (CMVIG) is more effective than ganciclovir alone for preventing acute CMV illness and its long-term sequelae.The study population receiving CMVIG (n=80) included 27 heart transplant recipients (D+/R-) and 53 heart-lung and lung transplant recipients (R+ and/or D+). Each group was matched with historical controls who underwent transplantation within the preceding 2-3 years. Outcome measures compared were as follows: 3-year incidence of CMV disease; fungal infection; acute rejection; survival; rates and severity of transplant coronary artery disease (in heart patients) defined by intimal thickness (ultrasound) and coronary artery stenosis (angiographic); and incidence and death from obliterative bronchiolitis defined by pathological criteria on endobronchial biopsy specimens (in heart-lung/lung patients).Patients treated with CMVIG had a higher disease-free incidence of CMV, lower rejection incidence, and higher survival rate compared with the patients treated with ganciclovir alone. The coronary artery intimal thickness and the prevalence of intimal thickening were lower in the patients receiving CMVIG. Heart-lung and lung transplant patients treated with CMVIG had lower incidences of obliterative bronchiolitis and death from obliterative bronchiolitis and longer survival compared with the patients treated with ganciclovir alone.CMVIG plus ganciclovir seems to be more effective that ganciclovir alone for preventing the sequelae of CMV infection. A prospective randomized study is required to confirm these observations.
CT of noninfectious granulomatous lung disease RADIOLOGIC CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA Zinck, S. E., Schwartz, E., Berry, G. J., Leung, A. N. 2001; 39 (6): 1189-?
Noninfectious granulomatous diseases of the lung consist of a diverse group of disorders that logically can be subdivided into those with and without associated vasculitis. This article reviews the epidemiologic, clinical, pathologic, and radiologic features of sarcoidosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, berylliosis, and the five entities traditionally classified as pulmonary angiitis and granulomatosis.
Cellulose granulomatosis presenting as centrilobular nodules: CT and histologic findings AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY Bendeck, S. E., Leung, A. N., Berry, G. J., Daniel, D., Ruoss, S. J. 2001; 177 (5): 1151-1153
A cystic upper lobe lesion in a healthy nonsmoking man - Angiosarcoma of the left upper lobe, presumed metastatic CHEST Leonard, C. T., Weinacker, A., Berry, G., Whyte, R. I. 2001; 120 (5): 1725-1727
Sirolimus (rapamycin) monotherapy prevents graft vascular disease in non-human primates. Dambrin, C., Klupp, J., Birsan, T., Luna, J., Suzuki, T., Kitamura, K., Staher, P., Fitzgerald, P., Jacobsen, W., Christians, U., Berry, G., Lam, T., Hausen, B., Hook, L., Morris, R. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. 2001: 759–59
Critical role for IL-13 in the development of allergen-induced airway hyperreactivity JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY Walter, D. M., McIntire, J. J., Berry, G., McKenzie, A. N., Donaldson, D. D., DeKruyff, R. H., Umetsu, D. T. 2001; 167 (8): 4668-4675
Airway hyperresponsiveness to a variety of specific and nonspecific stimuli is a cardinal feature of asthma, which affects nearly 10% of the population in industrialized countries. Eosinophilic pulmonary inflammation, eosinophil-derived products, as well as Th2 cytokines IL-13, IL-4, and IL-5, have been associated with the development of airway hyperreactivity (AHR), but the specific immunological basis underlying the development of AHR remains controversial. Herein we show that mice with targeted deletion of IL-13 failed to develop allergen-induced AHR, despite the presence of vigorous Th2-biased, eosinophilic pulmonary inflammation. However, AHR was restored in IL-13(-/-) mice by the administration of recombinant IL-13. Moreover, adoptive transfer of OVA-specific Th2 cells generated from TCR-transgenic IL-13(-/-) mice failed to induce AHR in recipient SCID mice, although such IL-13(-/-) Th2 cells produced high levels of IL-4 and IL-5 and induced significant airway inflammation. These studies definitively demonstrate that IL-13 is necessary and sufficient for the induction of AHR and that eosinophilic airway inflammation in the absence of IL-13 is inadequate for the induction of AHR. Therefore, treatment of human asthma with antagonists of IL-13 may be very effective.
Modified cyclophosphamide, hydroxydaunorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone therapy for posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disease in pediatric patients undergoing solid organ transplantation JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY ONCOLOGY Suryanarayan, K., Natkunam, Y., Berry, G., Bangs, C. D., Cherry, A., Dahl, G. 2001; 23 (7): 452-455
The authors report the use of a cyclophosphamide, hydroxydaunorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (CHOP)-based chemotherapy regimen in treating six children with posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) that developed after solid organ transplantation.The chemotherapy regimen consisted of a 29-day induction with CHOP and then as many as 15 cycles of maintenance therapy using methotrexate and cytarabine alternating with vincristine, adriamycin, mercaptopurine, and prednisone.All patients attained remission. One patient died of sepsis while in remission. Four of the five remaining patients have been followed-up in remission for as long as 8 years without losing the graft. One of the patients experienced relapse after completing therapy and subsequently died with disease.The authors conclude that pediatric patients with PTLD after solid organ transplantation that fails conservative management can be treated successfully with CHOP-based chemotherapy.
In vivo Imaging of acute cardiac rejection in human patients using (99m)Technetium labeled annexin V AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION Kown, M. H., Strauss, H. W., Blankenberg, F. G., Berry, G. J., Stafford-Cecil, S., Tait, J. F., Goris, M. L., Robbins, R. C. 2001; 1 (3): 270-277
Annexin V binds phosphatidylserine moieties on apoptotic cells. This study reports the initial experience at Stanford University Medical Center with 99mTc-labeled annexin V imaging as a noninvasive measure of apoptosis in acute cardiac rejection. Ten cardiac transplant patients had 99mTc Annexin V imaging and endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) performed within 24 h. No complications related to 99mTc annexin V administration occurred. Eight patients had ISHLT grade of acute rejection of 1A or less. Five patients had two or more areas of uptake noted in the right ventricle on imaging studies. Two of these patients had positive biopsies: one patient had grade 2 rejection with two focal uptake areas and another had grade 3A rejection with three foci. An additional five patients had either one or zero hot spot areas and corresponding negative EMBs. 99mTc-annexin V appears to be well tolerated and may identify patients with acute cardiac rejection.
Viral serine proteinase inhibitor (SERP-1) effectively decreases the incidence of graft vasculopathy in heterotopic heart allografts TRANSPLANTATION Hausen, B., Boeke, K., Berry, G. J., Morris, R. E. 2001; 72 (3): 364-368
Graft vascular disease (GVD) is the most common cause of late graft failure in solid organ transplantation. Recent studies have shown good efficacy of a novel nontoxic viral-derived serine proteinase inhibitor (SERP-1) in preventing postangioplasty restenosis. The current study was designed to test whether short-term treatment with SERP-1 was effective in reducing the incidence of GVD in a solid organ transplant.Piebald-Virol-Glaxo (PVG) donor hearts were transplanted into August-Copenhagen-Irish (ACI) recipients and observed for 90 days. All recipients (n=60) were treated with microemulsion cyclosporine (CsA) 7.5 mg/kg per gavage from day 0 to day 9 and randomized into 4 groups. SERP-1 was given intravenously. Group I received CsA monotherapy; group II, CsA+SERP-1 1 ng/g (postoperative days 0-9); group III, CsA+SERP-1 10 ng/g (postoperative days 0-9); and group IV, CsA+SERP-1 10 ng/g (postoperative days 0-9, 30, and 60). Graft viability was monitored by palpation, and GVD was assessed by morphometry.Two animals in group I rejected their allografts on postoperative days 7 and 14, 1 animal in group II rejected the allograft (postoperative day 31), and none in group III and IV rejected the allografts. At 90 days postoperative, 23.8% of all coronary vessels showed evidence of GVD in group I, 18.4% in group II, 12.9% in group III, and 11.8% in group IV. The difference in incidence of GVD was significant between groups I and III (P<0.05) and groups I and IV (P<0.05). Treatment with SERP-1 was well tolerated, and all animals regained weight quickly postsurgery.Treatment of allograft recipients with SERP-1 in combination with CsA early after transplantation significantly decreases the incidence of GVD when compared to grafts treated with only CsA. These results demonstrate the clinical potential for this novel serine protease inhibitor to prevent GVD in solid organ transplantation.
Nasal-pulmonary relations in allergic fungal sinusitis and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis CLINICAL REVIEWS IN ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY Leonard, C. T., Berry, G. J., Ruoss, S. J. 2001; 21 (1): 5-15
Prolonged inhibition of obliterative airway disease in murine tracheal allografts by brief treatment with anti-leukocyte function-associated antigen-1 (CD11a) monoclonal antibody 16th Annual Meeting of the American-Society-of-Transplant-Physicians Morikawa, M., Brazelton, T. R., Berry, G. J., Morris, R. E. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. 2001: 1616–21
We have previously shown that anti-leukocyte function-associated antigen (LFA)-1 (CD11a) monoclonal antibody (mAb) prevents acute rejection and produces donor-specific unresponsiveness in murine recipients of heterotopic heart allografts. Here, we investigate the ability of this mAb to prevent the development of obliterative airway disease (OAD) in murine recipients of tracheal allografts.BALB/c tracheae were heterotopically transplanted into C3H mice. OAD developed by day 28 after transplantation and was characterized histologically by a loss of epithelial cell coverage and luminal obliteration of the tracheal allograft with a proliferation of fibrogenic mesenchymal cells, which is a lesion comparable to obliterative bronchiolitis in human lung transplant recipients. Monotherapy with anti-LFA-1 mAb preserved graft epithelium, prevented the development of OAD, and maintained unresponsiveness to donor antigen for more than 42 days after the final mAb administration.These findings suggest the potential for anti-LFA-1 mAb therapy to suppress both acute and chronic rejection in clinical lung transplantation.
IL-18 gene transfer by adenovirus prevents the development of and reverses established allergen-induced airway hyperreactivity JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY Walter, D. M., Wong, C. P., DeKruyff, R. H., Berry, G. J., Levy, S., Umetsu, D. T. 2001; 166 (10): 6392-6398
We examined the role of IL-18 in preventing the development of and in reversing established allergen-induced airway inflammation and airway hyperreactivity (AHR), the cardinal features of asthma. IL-18, which potently induces IFN-gamma, was administered into the respiratory tract as cDNA in a replication-deficient adenovirus (Adv). Treatment of OVA-sensitized mice with the IL-18-expressing Adv reduced allergen-specific IL-4 production, airway eosinophilia, and mucus production, increased IFN-gamma production, and prevented the development of AHR. The effects of the IL-18 Adv treatment were dependent on the presence of IFN-gamma and IL-12. Moreover, administration of the IL-18 Adv to mice with established AHR greatly reduced AHR and IL-4 production and increased IFN-gamma production. These results demonstrate that IL-18, when administered by Adv into the respiratory tract, effectively reduces AHR and replaces an established Th2-biased immune response with a Th1-biased response.
Paclitaxel-induced hypersensitivity pneumonitis: radiographic and CT findings. AJR. American journal of roentgenology Wong, P., Leung, A. N., Berry, G. J., Atkins, K. A., Montoya, J. G., Ruoss, S. J., Stockdale, F. E. 2001; 176 (3): 718-720
Case report - Paclitaxel-induced hypersensitivity pneumonitis: Radiographic and CT findings AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY Wong, P., Leung, A. N., Berry, G. J., Atkins, K. A., Montoya, J. G., Ruoss, S. J., Stockdale, F. E. 2001; 176 (3): 718-720
40-O-(2-hydroxyethyl)-rapamycin attenuates pulmonary arterial hypertension and neointimal formation in rats AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Nishimura, T., Faul, J. L., Berry, G. I., Veve, I., Pearl, R. G., Kao, P. N. 2001; 163 (2): 498-502
Pneumonectomized rats develop pulmonary hypertension (PH) and pulmonary vascular neointimal formation 4 wk after monocrotaline (MCT) administration. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were injected with MCT (60 mg/kg) on Day 7 after left pneumonectomy. Three groups (n = 5) received 40-O-(2-hydroxyethyl)-rapamycin (RAD, 2.5 mg/kg/d, by gavage): Group PMR(5-35) from Day 5 to Day 35, Group PMR5-14 from Day 5 to Day 14, and Group PMR15-35 from Day 15 to Day 35. By Day 35, rats that received vehicle had higher mean pulmonary arterial pressures (Ppa = 41 +/- 3 mm Hg) (p < 0.001), right ventricular systolic pressures (Prv,s = 45 +/- 2 mm Hg) (p < 0.01), and right ventricle/(left ventricle plus septum) (0.55 +/- 0.05) (p = 0.028) than rats in Groups PMR5-35 (Ppa = 25 +/- 3 mm Hg, Prv,s = 32 +/- 7 mm Hg, RV/LV&S = 0.42 +/- 0.06) and PMR5-14 (Ppa = 29 +/- 4 mm Hg, Prv,s = 30 +/- 5 mm Hg, RV/LV&S = 0.43 +/- 0.07). Pulmonary arterial neointimal formation (quantified by a vascular occlusion score) was more severe in vehicle-treated rats (1.93 +/- 0.03) than in Groups PMR5-14 (1.56 +/- 0.27) and PMR(5-35) (1.57 +/- 0.1) (p < 0.01). RAD attenuates the development of MCT-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension in the pneumonectomized rat.
In vivo monitoring of myoblast transplantation into rat myocardium. journal of heart and lung transplantation Koransky, M. L., Ip, T. K., Wu, S., Cao, Y., Berry, G., Contag, C., Blau, H., Robbins, R. 2001; 20 (2): 188-189
Triptolide attenuates pulmonary arterial hypertension and neointimal formation in rats AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Faul, J. L., Nishimura, T., Berry, G. J., BENSON, G. V., Pearl, R. G., Kao, P. N. 2000; 162 (6): 2252-2258
This paper reports the effect of triptolide (a diterpenoid triepoxide) on the development of monocrotaline (MCT)-induced pulmonary hypertension in pneumonectomized rats. Male Sprague- Dawley rats were injected with MCT (60 mg/kg) on Day 7 after left pneumonectomy. Rats received therapy from Day 5 to 35 with triptolide (0.25 mg/kg intraperitoneally, every other day, n = 10), or vehicle (0.1 ml of ethanol/cremophor intraperitoneally, every other day, n = 10). By Day 35, triptolide-treated rats demonstrated lower mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP) than vehicle-treated rats (mPAP 21 +/- 3 versus 42 +/- 5 mm Hg, p < 0.001). Triptolide-treated rats also had significantly less right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH) and pulmonary arterial neointimal formation. In a rescue experiment, rats initiated therapy on Day 21. At Day 35, vehicle-treated rats (n = 4) had higher mPAP (40 +/- 9 mm Hg), greater RVH, and more severe pulmonary arterial neointimal formation than rats that received triptolide (0.25 mg/kg every other day, n = 7, mPAP 30 +/- 4 mm Hg) and rats that received triptolide (0.2 mg/kg daily, n = 7, mPAP 25 +/- 5 mm Hg, p < 0.01). In pneumonectomized rats that receive MCT, triptolide attenuates the development of pulmonary hypertension and RVH, and promotes regression of pulmonary arterial neointimal formation.
Zinc-mediated reduction of apoptosis in cardiac allografts. Circulation Kown, M. H., van der Steenhoven, T., Blankenberg, F. G., Hoyt, G., Berry, G. J., Tait, J. F., Strauss, H. W., Robbins, R. C. 2000; 102 (19): III228-32
Apoptosis is thought to occur during immune-mediated acute rejection of cardiac allografts. In vitro studies have shown that zinc inhibits the activity of the proapoptotic enzyme caspase-3. We hypothesized that ZnCl(2) would reduce acute cardiac rejection in vivo via the blockade of caspase-3-dependent apoptosis. (99m)Tc-labeled annexin V was used to measure apoptosis in cardiac allografts through nuclear imaging. Annexin V binds to phosphatidylserines, which are externalized to the outer membrane of apoptotic cells.Twenty-seven PVG rat hearts were transplanted heterotopically into the abdomen of untreated ACI rats as controls (group 1). Fifteen were scanned and euthanized on postoperative day 4, and 12 were assessed for graft survival. Group 2 and 3 rats (n=15 each) received 1 and 5 mg/kg ZnCl(2) BID IP, respectively. Nine of each of these groups were scanned and euthanized on postoperative day 4, and 6 were studied for allograft survival. Group 4 rats (n=3) received isografts. Region-of-interest analysis demonstrated a dose-dependent reduction in (99m)Tc annexin uptake in ZnCl(2)-treated allografts: 2.43+/-0.37% for group 1, 1. 97+/-0.41% for group 2, 1.21+/-0.47% for group 3, and 0.55+/-0.19% for group 4 (ANOVA, P:=0.001). Graft survival times of 6.4+/-1.7, 9. 3+/-3.0, and 11.5+/-3.4 days for groups 1, 2, and 3, respectively, were also observed (ANOVA, P:=0.001). Caspase-3 activity in the allografts showed a 3.7-fold reduction in group 3 animals compared with group 1 animals (P:=0.004).Apoptosis that occurs in acute cardiac allograft rejection is reduced with ZnCl(2) in a dose-dependent manner via caspase-3 inhibition.
Zinc-mediated reduction of apoptosis in cardiac allografts CIRCULATION Kown, M. H., van der Steenhoven, T., Blankenberg, F. G., Hoyt, G., Berry, G. J., Tait, J. F., Strauss, H. W., Robbins, R. C. 2000; 102 (19): 228-232
Rapid deployment of a vein to aorta anastomosis with a novel integrated and automated anastomosis system: Preclinical results from an aorto-coronary bypass study in sheep Hausen, B., Gruenenfelder, J., Yencho, S. A., Morris, R. E., Green, B. A., Berry, G. J., Molho, C., Vargas, J., Sheehan, D., Robbins, R. C. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. 2000: 766–66
Tissue characterization of atherosclerotic plaques by intravascular ultrasound radiofrequency signal analysis: An in vitro study of human coronary arteries AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL Komiyama, N., Berry, G. J., Kolz, M. L., Oshima, A., Metz, J. A., Preuss, P., Brisken, A. F., Moore, M. P., Yock, P. G., Fitzgerald, P. J. 2000; 140 (4): 565-574
Conventional gray-scale images of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) cannot accurately differentiate histologic subtypes of sonolucent coronary plaques with or without a lipid core.We analyzed radiofrequency signals obtained in vitro from 24 regions of interest (ROI) of noncalcified (sonolucent) plaques in 10 atherosclerotic coronary artery specimens pressure-fixed by formalin. Radiofrequency signals were sampled with a 30-MHz IVUS catheter and digitized at 500 MHz in 8-bit resolution. The ROIs were histologically categorized into 12 plaques with a lipid core and 12 plaques without it. Integrated backscatter and statistical parameters of the radiofrequency envelope (mean/SD ratio [MSR], skewness, and kurtosis) within the ROI were calculated offline, and their ability to detect a lipid core was compared with visual analysis of the IVUS video images. In the group with lipid cores, percent area of a lipid core in each ROI was measured in a digitized histologic image by a computerized planimeter.Sensitivity and specificity of MSR, skewness, and kurtosis for lipid core detection were substantially greater than visual video image analysis (83.3% and 91.7%, 100% and 91.7%, 100% and 91.7% vs 53.3% and 71.7%). Furthermore, the parameters of integrated backscatter, MSR, skewness, and kurtosis were significantly correlated to percent of core area (r = -0.64, -0.73, 0.78, and 0.63, respectively; P<.05).Compared with IVUS video images, the parameters of radiofrequency signal analysis may be used to aid in more accurate detection and quantitative evaluation of a lipid core, which is one of the major factors of a vulnerable coronary plaque.
Sirolimus (rapamycin) halts and reverses progression of allograft vascular disease in non-human primates TRANSPLANTATION Ikonen, T. S., Gummert, J. F., Hayase, M., Honda, Y., Hausen, B., Christians, U., Berry, G. J., Yock, P. G., Morris, R. E. 2000; 70 (6): 969-975
Current immunosuppressive protocols fail to prevent chronic rejection often manifested as graft vascular disease (GVD) in solid organ transplant recipients. Several new immunosuppressants including sirolimus, a dual function growth factor antagonist, have been discovered, but studies of drug efficacy have been hampered by the lack of a model of GVD in primates, as a prelude to clinical trials. As described earlier, we have developed a novel non-human primate model of GVD where progression of GVD is quantified by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS).Twelve cynomolgus monkeys underwent aortic transplantation from blood group compatible but mixed lymphocyte reaction-mismatched donors. To allow the development of GVD in the allograft, no treatment was administered for the first 6 weeks. Six monkeys were treated orally with sirolimus from day 45 after transplantation to day 105.Progression of GVD measured as change in intimal area from day 42 to 105 was halted in sirolimus-treated monkeys compared to untreated monkeys (P<0.001, general linear model). On day 105, the intimal area +/- SEM was 3.7+/-1.0 and 6.4+/-0.5 mm2, respectively (P<0.05, t test). The magnitude of allograft intimal area on day 105 correlated inversely with sirolimus trough levels (R2=0.67, P<0.05). Regression of the intimal area was seen in four of six sirolimus-treated monkeys, which was significantly different from the untreated monkeys (P<0.05).Our results in the first non-human primate model of GVD showed that treatment with sirolimus not only halted the progression of preexisting GVD but also was associated with partial regression. Sirolimus trough blood levels were correlated with efficacy. Therefore, sirolimus has the potential to control clinical chronic allograft rejection.
Epithelial re-growth is associated with inhibition of obliterative airway disease in orthotopic tracheal allografts in non-immunosuppressed rats TRANSPLANTATION Ikonen, T. S., Brazelton, T. R., Berry, G. J., Shorthouse, R. S., Morris, R. E. 2000; 70 (6): 857-863
Because epithelial cells are targets of alloimmune injury leading ultimately to airway obliteration, we tested whether epithelial re-growth could prevent obliterative airway disease (OAD) in orthotopic tracheal allografts.Brown Norway tracheal segments were orthotopically transplanted into nonimmunosuppressed Lewis rats. Allografts were removed on days 2-10 (n=13), 30 (n=4), and 60 (n=5) for histology, computerized morphometry (obliteration), and immunohistochemical detection of mononuclear cells, smooth muscle alpha-actin, and tissue phenotype. Normal tracheas, host tracheas, and heterotopically transplanted allografts served as controls.Orthotopic allografts removed on days 2-10 exhibited epithelial damage and re-growth and mononuclear cell infiltration. On days 30 and 60, partially ciliated cuboidal or attenuated epithelium completely covered the lumen. Although mononuclear cells declined, numerous T cells with a high CD4/CD8 ratio were found in the epithelium till day 60. Orthotopic allograft epithelium expressed donor phenotype on day 7, but recipient phenotype on days 30 and 60. Despite subepithelial alpha-actin positive myofibroblast proliferation, obliteration did not progress from day 7 to 30 and 60 (35, 30, and 33%, respectively). Although more than in normal or host tracheas, the obliteration in orthotopic allografts on days 30 and 60 was significantly less (P<0.001) than in heterotopic allografts.We describe, for the first time, longterm patency of fully histoincompatible orthotopic tracheal allografts in nonimmunosuppressed rats. Despite acute alloimmune injury and induction of myofibroblast proliferation, epithelial re-growth from the host limited the progression of OAD, thus emphasizing the role of epithelium in the control of airway obliteration.
Respiratory infection with influenza A virus interferes with the induction of tolerance to aeroallergens JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY Tsitoura, D. C., Kim, S., Dabbagh, K., Berry, G., Lewis, D. B., Umetsu, D. T. 2000; 165 (6): 3484-3491
Viral respiratory infections have been implicated in influencing allergen sensitization and the development of asthma, but their exact role remains controversial. Because respiratory exposure to Ag normally engenders T cell tolerance and prevents the development of airway hyperreactivity (AHR) and inflammation, we examined the effects of influenza A virus infection on tolerance induced by exposure to intranasal (i.n.) OVA and the subsequent development of AHR. We found that concurrent infection with influenza A abrogated tolerance induced by exposure to i.n. OVA, and instead led to the development of AHR accompanied by the production of OVA-specific IgE, IL-4, IL-5, IL-13, and IFN-gamma. When both IL-4 and IL-5 were neutralized in this system, AHR was still induced, suggesting that influenza-induced cytokines such as IL-13, or mechanisms unrelated to cytokines, might be responsible for the development of AHR. The length of time between influenza A infection and i.n. exposure to OVA was crucial, because mice exposed to i.n. OVA 15-30 days after viral inoculation developed neither AHR nor OVA-specific tolerance. These mice instead acquired Th1-biased OVA-specific immune responses associated with vigorous OVA-induced T cell proliferation, and reduced production of OVA-specific IgE. The protective effect of influenza A on AHR was dependent on IFN-gamma, because protection was abrogated with a neutralizing anti-IFN-gamma mAb. These results suggest that viral respiratory infection interferes with the development of respiratory allergen-induced tolerance, and that the time interval between viral infection and allergen exposure is critical in determining whether viral infection will enhance, or protect against, the development of respiratory allergen sensitization and AHR.
Giant cell myocarditis as a manifestation of drug hypersensitivity CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY Daniels, P. R., Berry, G. J., Tazelaar, H. D., Cooper, L. T. 2000; 9 (5): 287-291
Adverse drug effects on the myocardium are often classified into toxic and hypersensitivity forms of myocarditis, each with distinct histologic findings. In contrast, giant cell myocarditis (GCM) is generally not associated with adverse drug reactions and has unique histopathologic features. We report four cases of adverse drug reactions in which the histologic findings were characteristic of GCM. The clinical recognition that GCM may be a manifestation of an adverse drug reaction is important, since the prognosis and treatment of this entity may be different from that of other forms of myocarditis.
Survival outcomes of patients with giant cell myocarditis bridged by ventricular assist devices ASAIO JOURNAL Brilakis, E. S., Olson, L. J., Berry, G. J., Daly, R. C., Loisance, D., Zucker, M., Cooper, L. T. 2000; 46 (5): 569-572
Giant cell myocarditis is a highly lethal disorder characterized by rapidly progressive congestive heart failure. The aim of this study was to describe the clinical course of patients with giant cell myocarditis who received a ventricular assist device. Patients with giant cell myocarditis were identified from the Multicenter Giant cell Myocarditis Registry. Bridging to cardiac transplantation in the giant cell myocarditis patients who received a ventricular assist device was compared with bridging in the general population of heart failure patients, as reported in the literature. Median posttransplantation survival for patients with giant cell myocarditis who received and did not receive ventricular assist devices was calculated by the Kaplan-Meier method and compared with use of the log-rank test. Nine patients with giant cell myocarditis who received ventricular assist devices were identified. Seven patients survived to transplantation, four were alive 30 days posttransplantation, and two survived to 1 year. The rate of successful bridging to transplantation in seven of nine patients (78%) is similar to that reported for other ventricular assist device recipients. Posttransplantation survival of 57% (4 of 7) at 30 days and 29% (2 of 7) at 1 year was significantly lower compared with 93% 1-year survival of the 30 patients with giant cell myocarditis who did not receive ventricular assist devices before transplantation (p<0.001). Ventricular assist devices can be an effective bridge to transplantation for patients with heart failure caused by giant cell myocarditis. Although their posttransplantation survival was poor in our series, a few patients had long-term survival.
Mechanisms preventing allergen-induced airways hyperreactivity: Role of tolerance and immune deviation JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY Tsitoura, D. C., Blumenthal, R. L., Berry, G., DeKruyff, R. H., Umetsu, D. T. 2000; 106 (2): 239-246
Aeroallergens continuously enter the respiratory tract of atopic individuals and provoke the development of asthma characterized by airway hyperreactivity (AHR) and inflammation. By contrast, nonatopic individuals are exposed to the same aeroallergens, but airway inflammation does not develop. However, the mechanisms that prevent allergen-induced respiratory diseases in nonatopic subjects are poorly characterized.In this study we compared the role of allergen-specific T-cell tolerance and immune deviation in conferring protection against the development of allergen-induced AHR.We exposed mice to intranasal ovalbumin (OVA) to induce T-cell tolerance and examined its effects on the subsequent development of AHR and inflammation.We demonstrated that exposure of mice to intranasal OVA resulted in peripheral CD4(+) T-cell unresponsiveness that very efficiently prevented not only the development of AHR but also greatly inhibited airway inflammation and OVA-specific IgE production. The induction of peripheral T-cell tolerance and protection against AHR were not dependent on the presence of IFN-gamma or IL-4. The development of AHR was also prevented by an OVA-specific T(H)1-biased immune response induced by inhalation of OVA in the presence of IL-12. However, the OVA-specific T(H)1 response was associated with a significant degree of pulmonary inflammation.These results indicate that both allergen-specific T-cell tolerance and T(H)1-biased immune deviation prevent the development of AHR, but T(H)1 responses are associated with significantly greater inflammation in the lung than is associated with T-cell unresponsiveness. Therefore CD4(+) T-cell unresponsiveness critically regulates immune responses to aeroallergens and protects against the development of allergic disease and asthma.
Tissue distribution and clinical monitoring of the novel macrolide immunosuppressant SDZ-RAD and its metabolites in monkey lung transplant recipients: Interaction with cyclosporine JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS Serkova, N., Hausen, B., Berry, G. J., Jacobsen, W., Benet, L. Z., Morris, R. E., Christians, U. 2000; 294 (1): 323-332
We report the tissue distribution and clinical monitoring of the novel macrolide immunosuppressant SDZ-RAD ¿40-O-(2-hydroxyethyl)-rapamycin and its metabolites in monkey lung transplant recipients as well as its interaction with cyclosporine as the Neoral formulation. After left unilateral lung transplantation, cynomolgus monkeys received by oral administration either 1) 1.5 mg/kg/day SDZ-RAD (n = 4); 2) 100 mg/kg/day cyclosporine (n = 4); 3) 0.3 mg/kg/day SDZ-RAD + 100 mg/kg/day cyclosporine (n = 6); 4) 1.5 mg/kg/day SDZ-RAD + 50 mg/kg/day cyclosporine (n = 5); or 5) SDZ-RAD and cyclosporine doses adjusted according to trough blood concentration measurements (n = 6). At the end of the observation period (usually 29 days after transplantation), and 24 h after the last doses, tissue samples were collected and analyzed with HPLC/mass spectrometry. Gall bladder, pancreas, the transplant lung, cerebellum, kidneys, and spleen had the highest SDZ-RAD concentrations. Coadministration of cyclosporine increased SDZ-RAD concentrations in most tissues as well as tissue-to-blood distribution coefficients. In contrast, SDZ-RAD had only a small effect on cyclosporine blood and tissue concentrations. Rejection in lung grafts in monkeys treated with either of the cyclosporine/SDZ-RAD combinations was significantly less than in the monotherapy groups (P <.002). Histological rejection scores were inversely correlated with SDZ-RAD concentrations in blood (r = -0. 68; P <.001; n = 24), lymph nodes (P = -0.58; P <.003; n = 24), thymus (r = -0.63; P <.001; n = 23) and transplant lung tissue (r = -0.58; P <.003; n = 24). We conclude that, in addition to the synergistic pharmacodynamic interaction, a pharmacokinetic interaction resulting in higher SDZ-RAD tissue concentrations contributed to the significantly better immunosuppressive efficacy when both drugs were combined compared with monotherapy.
Immunosuppressive therapies for the prevention and treatment of obliterative airway disease in heterotopic rat trachea allografts TRANSPLANTATION Adams, B. F., Berry, G. J., Huang, X. F., Shorthouse, R., Brazelton, T., Morris, R. E. 2000; 69 (11): 2260-2266
Obliterative bronchiolitis remains a major long-term complication after lung transplantation. Using a reproducible model of heterotopically transplanted rat tracheas, this study examined the role of several novel immunosuppresive compounds to prevent and reverse obliterative airway disease in these animals.Brown Norway rat trachea were transplanted into the greater omentum of Lewis (allografts) or Brown Norway (isografts) animals. Recipient animals were treated with rapamycin, cyclosporine, 15-deoxyspergulin, mycophenolate mofetil, or leflunomide from day 0, 7, or 14 until day of graft removal, either day 28 or 50. Trachea segments were evaluated for degree of lumenal occlusion, as well as percent and type of lumen epithelial cell coverage.All untreated allografted tracheas obliterated completely, although isografts appeared patent with normal respiratory epithelium when they were removed. Leflunomide, rapamycin, and cyclosporine effectively prevented obliteration when treatment was initiated at day 0, with rapamycin showing continued efficacy when initiated as late as day 7. 15-deoxyspergulin and mycophenolate mofetil failed to consistently inhibit obliteration with any treatment schedule. An inverse correlation was found between epithelial coverage and degree of obliteration, and was especially pronounced in grafts from cyclosporine-treated animals.Immunosuppressive drug therapy will inhibit airway obliteration, but efficacy sharply diminishes if initiation of treatment is delayed. Efficacy also varies among immunosuppressive compounds, and results indicate those drugs that enable epithelial regrowth most effectively inhibit airway graft obliteration.
Viral serine proteinase inhibitor (SERP-1) effectively decreases the incidence of graft vasculopathy in heterotopic heart allografts. Hausen, B., Boeke, K., Berry, G. J., Acklin, S., Morris, R. E. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. 2000: S344–S344
IL-18 gene transfer by adenovirus (ADV) into the lungs prevents and reverses allergen induced airway hyperreactivity (AHR). Walter, D. M., Wong, C., DeKruyff, R. H., Berry, G., Levy, S., Umetsu, D. T. FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL. 2000: A1066–A1066
Dendritic cells and macrophages in lung allografts a role in chronic rejection? AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Leonard, C. T., Soccal, P. M., Singer, L., Berry, G. J., Theodore, J., Holt, P. G., Doyle, R. L., Rosen, G. D. 2000; 161 (4): 1349-1354
Antigen presentation by lung macrophages/dendritic cells (DC) is thought to be important in obliterative bronchiolitis/bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (OB/BOS), which severely limits survival post-lung transplantation. However, a recent study found minimal numbers of DC in lung allografts. We looked at numbers and phenotype of macrophages/DC in lung allografts using endobronchial biopsy (EBB) and transbronchial biopsy (TBB) from 22 lung transplant patients. Biopsies were stained with monoclonal markers of DC (CD1a, RFD1, and major histocompatibility complex [MHC] Class II), and "suppressor macrophages" (RFD1 and RFD7). Dendritic cells were also stained for the costimulatory molecules CD80 and CD86. Significantly greater numbers of DC/high-power field (HPF) were seen in biopsies when we defined DC using dendritic morphology and Class II MHC expression instead of CD1a expression. Dendritic cell numbers were significantly higher in eight patients with OB/BOS compared with 14 stable patients. Fifty percent of DC expressed CD86 and 20% expressed CD80. There was no difference in CD80 or CD86 expression between OB/BOS patients and stable patients. There was no correlation between DC numbers and presence or absence of acute rejection (AR), and/or cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis on current or prior biopsies. There were significantly more MHC Class II DC in EBB compared with TBB. We found minimal staining for lung macrophages capable of suppressing T-cell inflammation. We conclude that studies of lung allografts may underestimate DC numbers if relying on CD1a as the sole marker of DC. DC are increased in patients with OB/BOS compared with stable patients. EBB may be more important than TBB in looking for inflammatory changes of OB. DC expressing costimulatory molecules are present in lung allografts, and costimulatory pathway blockade may be useful in human lung allografts. Also, the absence of "suppressor" macrophages may increase susceptibility of human lung allografts to the rejection process.
Successful treatment of acute, ongoing rat lung allograft rejection with the novel immunosuppressant SDZ-RAD ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY Hausen, B., Boeke, K., Berry, G. J., Christians, U., Schuler, W., Morris, R. E. 2000; 69 (3): 904-909
Recent experimental data have shown that coadministration of microemulsion cyclosporine and the novel immunosuppressant SDZ-RAD potentiates the immunosuppressive efficacies of both drugs to suppress allograft rejection. Our study was designed to assess the potential of delayed SDZ-RAD administration, in addition to cyclosporine maintenance therapy, to reverse acute rejection in an allogeneic rat lung transplant model.Unilateral left lung transplantation was performed using Brown-Norway donors implanted into Lewis recipients. An untreated control group and a cyclosporine monotherapy group (7.5 mg/kg) were followed for 7 days. An additional cyclosporine monotherapy group (7.5 mg/kg), and a combined therapy group treated with cyclosporine (7.5 mg/kg) plus SDZ-RAD (2.5 mg/kg), were followed for 21 days. For treatment of ongoing rejection, 7.5 mg/kg cyclosporine was given as maintenance therapy, and SDZ-RAD (2.5 mg/kg) was added on postoperative day 7. Drugs were given orally, and in the combined therapy regimens, administered 6 hours apart. Outcome variables included daily weight, radiographs, and histology.Radiographs on postoperative day 7 showed mild and moderate opacification of the left chest in the cyclosporine monotherapy groups and the untreated control group. Addition of SDZ-RAD to cyclosporine treatment on postoperative day 7 reversed opacification by postoperative days 14 and 21. Monotherapy with microemulsion CsA resulted in mild histological rejection by day 7, which progressed to moderate rejection by day 21. Addition of SDZ-RAD on postoperative day 7 reversed acute rejection, resulting in none or minimal rejection at day 21.SDZ RAD reverses acute rejection under cyclosporine maintenance therapy in a stringent lung allotransplant model.
Radionuclide imaging of acute lung transplant rejection with annexin V 29th Annual Meeting of the Fleischner-Society Blankenberg, F. G., Robbins, R. C., Stoot, J. H., Vriens, P. W., Berry, G. J., Tait, J. F., Strauss, H. W. AMER COLL CHEST PHYSICIANS. 2000: 834–40
Early detection and treatment of lung transplant rejection is critical for preservation of pulmonary graft function. Damage to pulmonary allografts is mediated by apoptotic cell death induced by the alloreactive T lymphocytes that infiltrate lung grafts. Previous studies demonstrate that acute cardiac allograft rejection can be visualized using radiolabeled annexin V. This study was done to determine whether this technique could visualize acute rejection in a rodent model of unilateral orthotopic lung transplantation.Eighteen Sprague-Dawley ACI rats underwent removal of their left lung followed by orthotopic transplant of either an allogeneic (PVG, immunologically mismatched; N = 10) or a syngeneic (ACI, immunologically matched) pulmonary graft (N = 8). Animals were imaged 1 h after IV injection of 1 mCi (37.0 MBq) of (99m)Tc-annexin V 1 to 7 days after transplantation.Lungs receiving the allograft demonstrated moderate to marked mononuclear infiltration of the perivascular, interstitial, and peribronchial tissues. No mononuclear infiltrates were noted in the native right lungs nor in the syngeneic transplants. Region of interest image analysis revealed significant (p < 0.0005) increases of transplant to normal lung activity ratios 3 to 7 days after allograft surgery. The increased annexin V uptake in these lungs was confirmed at biodistribution assay (allograft 151% greater than isograft activity, p < 0.005).Acute experimental lung transplant rejection can be noninvasively identified using (99m)Tc-annexin V. Radiolabeled annexin V may be a clinically useful noninvasive screening tool for acute rejection.
Thoracic lymphangiomas, lymphangiectasis, lymphangiomatosis, and lymphatic dysplasia syndrome AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Faul, J. L., Berry, G. J., Colby, T. V., Ruoss, S. J., Walter, M. B., Rosen, G. D., Raffin, T. A. 2000; 161 (3): 1037-1046
Prevention of acute allograft rejection in nonhuman primate lung transplant recipients - Induction with chimeric anti-interleukin-2 receptor monoclonal antibody improves the tolerability and potentiates the immunosuppressive activity of a regimen using low doses of both microemulsion cyclosporine and 40-O-(2-hydroxyethyl)-rapamycin TRANSPLANTATION Hausen, B., Gummert, J., Berry, G. J., Christians, U., Serkova, N., Ikonen, T., Hook, L., Legay, F., Schuler, W., Schreier, M. H., Morris, R. E. 2000; 69 (4): 488-496
In previous studies of cynomolgus monkey lung allograft recipients, we demonstrated significant immunosuppressive efficacy but reduced tolerability after combined treatment with high doses of microemulsion cyclosporine (CsA) and SDZ RAD (40-O-(2-hydroxyethyl)-rapamycin). The current study was designed to compare efficacy and tolerability of a combination of low-dose CsA and high-dose SDZ RAD (CTL group) to triple therapy using the chimeric anti-interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor (CD25) monoclonal antibody (mAb) basiliximab (anti-IL-2 receptor mAb) for induction therapy (basiliximab: 5 mg intravenously on days 0 and 4) plus low-dose CsA and low-dose SDZ RAD for maintenance immunosuppression (CD25 group). CsA and anti-IL-2 receptor mAb are drugs that reduce cytokine synthesis and block IL-2-mediated lymphocyte stimulation, respectively. SDZ RAD blocks lymphocyte stimulation by other cytokines (e.g., IL-15) that are not inhibited by anti-IL-2 receptor mAb.Twelve unilateral lung transplants were performed. Recipients were observed for 49 days by daily weight assessment, hemograms, blood chemistries, radiographs, and lung biopsies. Monkeys were euthanized before day 49 in the event of excessive weight loss (>25%) or organ failure. Target CsA trough levels were 100-200 ng/ml. Target SDZ RAD trough levels in the CTL group (no mAb) were 20-40 ng/ml, and 10-20 ng/ml in the CD25 group.None of the monkeys in the CD25 group needed to be euthanized early due to signs of drug toxicity. In contrast, four monkeys in the CTL group were sacrificed on days 28-35 as a result of excessive weight loss (n=3) and renal functional impairment (n=1). Three recipients in the CD25 group were euthanized on days 36, 38, and 46 as a result of persistent high fever associated with severe rejection. The median animal survival in the CTL group was 32 vs. 46 days in the CD25 group (P<0.04). The only two long-term survivors in the CTL group showed moderate rejection at day 49. The median rejection scores at day 14 (A0) and day 28 (A2) were identical in the two groups, despite the fact that the mean SDZ RAD trough level was significantly lower in the CD25 group (CTL: 38+/-3 ng/ml, CD25: 18+/-2 ng/ml, P<0.0001). After basiliximab levels fell below the minimum therapeutic level (1 mg/ml) on day 28, the median rejection score at day 49 increased to A4 in the CD25 group.This is the first study to combine an anti-IL-2 receptor mAb with a drug from the rapamycin class plus CsA. Our study shows that induction therapy with basiliximab enabled SDZ RAD blood levels to be significantly reduced, which led to improved tolerability without the penalty of increased rejection.
The role of respiratory epithelium in a rat model of obliterative airway disease TRANSPLANTATION Adams, B. F., Brazelton, T., Berry, G. J., Morris, R. E. 2000; 69 (4): 661-664
The etiology and pathogenesis of obliterative bronchiolitis after lung transplantation remain to be fully elucidated. Using a rat model of heterotopically transplanted trachea grafts, we have examined the role airway epithelium plays in obliterative airway disease (OAD).Rat trachea isografts were denuded of epithelium by protease digestion. Grafts were inoculated either with or without native airway epithelial cells and transplanted into the omentum of recipient animals.Airway epithelium removal resulted in OAD in denuded isogeneic trachea grafts. Reseeding of the denuded grafts with epithelial cells significantly reduced airway obliteration from 78% to 22% luminal occlusion.Non-immune-mediated injury will cause OAD, and epithelial cell replacement in denuded isografts can significantly reduce the fibrotic progression of the disease.
Particulate emboli capture by an intra-aortic filter device during cardiac surgery 79th Annual Meeting of the American-Association-for-Thoracic-Surgery Reichenspurner, H., Navia, J. A., Berry, G., Robbins, R. C., Barbut, D., Gold, J. P., Reichart, B. MOSBY-ELSEVIER. 2000: 233–40
Particulate embolization is associated with neurologic morbidity after cardiac surgery. Crossclamp manipulation has been identified as the single most significant cause of particulate emboli release during cardiac surgery. A new intra-aortic filtration method has been assessed with regard to its safety and its ability to capture particulate emboli before they enter the central circulation.Patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass through standard median sternotomy were selected for emboli management by means of intra-aortic filtration. A novel intra-aortic filter device was inserted through a modified 24F arterial cannula immediately before releasing the crossclamp in 77 patients. Filters remained in the aorta until cardiopulmonary bypass was discontinued and the heart was fully ejecting. The procedure was assessed for facility, safety, and effect on routine cardiopulmonary bypass operation and function.The insertion and removal of the intra-aortic filter were safe, easy, and uneventful in most patients. Patient hemodynamics and bypass flow rates remained normal throughout the filter dwell period. No strokes or gross neurologic defects were noted. Electron microscopic analysis of 12 filters revealed an insignificant degree of platelet adhesion on filter surfaces. Histology samples (n = 44) were examined, and 66% (n = 29) showed evidence of atheromatous material, 36% (n = 16) with platelet-fibrin, 25% (n = 11) with true thrombus and/or blood clot, 7% (n = 3) with normal vessel wall, and 2% (n = 1) with aggregates of cholesterol or grumous portion of atheromatous plaque.The intra-aortic filter can be safely deployed and captures particulate emboli, the predominant origin of which is atheromatous. The beneficial effects of this device on neurologic outcomes have yet to be determined.
Combined immunosuppression with cyclosporine (Neoral) and SDZ RAD in non-human primate lung transplantation: Systematic pharmacokinetic-based trials to improve efficacy and tolerability TRANSPLANTATION Hausen, B., Ikonen, T., Briffa, N., Berry, G. J., Christians, U., Robbins, R. C., Hook, L., Serkova, N., Benet, L. Z., Schuler, W., Morris, R. E. 2000; 69 (1): 76-86
We studied the efficacy and tolerability of combined immunosuppressive therapy with cyclosporine A microemulsion (Neoral) plus the macrolide SDZ RAD 40-0 (2-hydroxyethyl) rapamycin (RAD) in a stringent cynomolgus monkey lung graft model in comparison with cyclosporine or SDZ RAD monotherapy.Thirty-nine cynomolgus monkeys received mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) mismatched unilateral lung transplants. Immunosuppressants were administered orally as single daily doses. The observation period was 28 days and follow-up included serial trough blood drug concentrations measured by high performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry, blood analyses, chest radiographs, open lung biopsies, as well as tissue drug concentrations and graft histology at necropsy.Graft biopsies in monkeys treated with vehicle (n=4), Neoral (day 1-7: 150 mg/kg/day; day 8-28: 100 mg/kg/day; n=6; mean +/- SE trough level (MTL): 292+/-17 ng/ml) or SDZ RAD monotherapy (1.5 mg/kg/day; n=6; MTL: 15+/-1 ng/ml) showed severe rejection. Coadministration in two transplant monkeys of Neoral (150/100 mg/kg/day) and SDZ RAD (1.5 mg/kg/day) caused their early death. In both animals, SDZ RAD blood levels were more than 5-fold higher than under monotherapy (MTL: 82+/-18 ng/ml). Simultaneous administration (n=6) of Neoral (150/100 mg/kg/day; MTL: 217+/-16 ng/ml) and SDZ RAD (0.3 mg/kg/day; MTL: 24+/-2 ng/ml) improved graft outcome (mild rejection). Side effects included renal failure (n=2) and seizures (n=1). Three monkeys survived to day 28. In this group the MTL for cyclosporin was 143+/-13 and for RAD 38+/-3. Staggered treatment completely prevented rejection in four of six grafts. However, five of six monkeys had moderate to severe diarrhea. In a concentration-controlled trial of simultaneously administered Neoral and SDZ RAD in transplant monkeys (target SDZ RAD MTL: 20-40 ng/ml; cyclosporine MTL: 100-200 ng/ml) all six monkeys survived with improved drug tolerability and an average biopsy score of mild rejection.Combination of orally administered SDZ RAD and Neoral showed excellent immunosuppressive efficacy in a stringent lung transplant model. The drug interaction and the narrow therapeutic index of this drug combination required careful dose adjustments to optimize tolerability and efficacy.
Vaccination with heat-killed Listeria as adjuvant reverses established allergen-induced airway hyperreactivity and inflammation: Role of CD8(+) T cells and IL-18 JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY Hansen, G., Yeung, V. P., Berry, G., Umetsu, D. T., DeKruyff, R. H. 2000; 164 (1): 223-230
Asthma is a respiratory disorder characterized by airway hyperreactivity (AHR) and inflammation and is associated with high serum IgE and overproduction of IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13 by allergen-specific Th2 cells. Our previous studies demonstrated that heat-killed Listeria monocytogenes (HKL) as an adjuvant in immunotherapy successfully reversed ongoing Ag-specific Th2-dominated responses toward Th1-dominated responses, but it was unclear if such immune modulation could reverse ongoing, established disease in target organs such as the lung. In this paper we show that a single dose of Ag plus HKL as adjuvant significantly reduced AHR in a murine model for asthma and reversed established AHR when given late after allergen sensitization. HKL as adjuvant also dramatically inhibited airway inflammation, eosinophilia, and mucus production, significantly reduced Ag-specific IgE and IL-4 production, and dramatically increased Ag-specific IFN-gamma synthesis. The inhibitory effect of HKL on AHR depended on the presence of IL-12 and CD8+ T cells and was associated with an increase of IL-18 mRNA expression. Thus, our results demonstrate that HKL as an adjuvant for immunotherapy mediates immune deviation from a pathological Th2-dominated response toward a protective immune response in peripheral lymphoid tissues and in the lungs and may be clinically effective in the treatment of patients with established asthma and allergic disease.
Influenza pneumonia in a paediatric lung transplant recipient TRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL Faul, J. L., Akindipe, O. A., Berry, G. J., Theodore, J. 2000; 13 (1): 79-81
Although a common cause of morbidity and mortality in the general population, influenza infections are uncommon in lung transplant recipients and, to date, have only been associated with transient declines in pulmonary function and a relatively benign clinical course. This paper describes severe influenza pneumonia in a 13-year-old paediatric lung transplant recipient (5 months after double lung transplantation). Influenza pneumonia was diagnosed by direct fluorescent antibody testing and viral culture of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. The patient required mechanical ventilation for 2 days due to respiratory failure and fatigue. Since his recovery from this pneumonia, he has developed obliterative bronchiolitis and currently awaits re-transplantation.
Electrophysiological correlates of transmural linear ablation PACE-PACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY Liem, L. B., Pomeranz, M., Riseling, K., Anderson, S., Berry, G. J. 2000; 23 (1): 40-46
The purpose of this study is to describe the characteristics of lesions created using radiofrequency (RF) energy delivered through a saline/foam electrode that is designed to simplify ablation of the isthmus between the tricuspid annulus (TA) and the inferior vena cava (IVC). We compared the changes in the electrophysiological parameters produced by the ablation to histological findings. In search of a more practical and effective atrial flutter ablation method, various energy modifications and catheter designs have been tested. It was shown that the efficiency of RF ablation could be improved using an endocardial cooled catheter; resulting in increased lesion size. Thus, we postulate that a similar advantage of the cooled catheter system would allow efficient RF delivery through specially designed long foam electrodes, therefore improving the practicality of TA-IVC isthmus ablation for atrial flutter. The study was performed in two acute and five subacute sheep under general anesthesia and with adequate heparinization. We used a linear ablation catheter system equipped with two 2-cm saline bipole electrode pockets with 1.5-mm separation, each consisting of two 8-mm electrodes with 1-mm spacing, allowing for bipolar pacing and recording. This saline/foam electrode pair were positioned on a support loop. RF energy was applied to the saline electrodes at 50 watts for 90 seconds with a saline flow rate of 0.4 mL/s. Bipolar atrial signal amplitude and pacing thresholds were measured before and after ablation. If necessary, the catheter was pulled back and additional ablation was applied to any viable tissue. Transisthmus ablations were created with a single catheter positioning in five sheep using both saline electrodes in four and one electrode in the other. Pullback and additional ablation to one saline electrode was required in two sheep; in one after RF was delivered to only one electrode. After ablation, atrial signal amplitude was reduced by an average of 76% (range 51%-92%) and its pacing threshold was increased by an average of 617% (range 150%-400%). Transmural lesions were found in all sheep, measuring 8-20 mm in length, 4-10 mm in width, and 1.5-2.0 mm in depth. No charring, coagulum, or remote structural damage was found in any preparation. Continuous transmural TA-IVC isthmus lesions could be produced with stationary RF linear ablation using a saline/foam electrode catheter system. This system allowed for assessment of electrophysiological parameters that correlated with complete necrosis.
CD4(+) T helper cells engineered to produce latent TGF-beta 1 reverse allergen-induced airway hyperreactivity and inflammation JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION Hansen, G., McIntire, J. J., Yeung, V. P., Berry, G., Thorbecke, G. J., Chen, L. Z., DeKruyff, R. H., Umetsu, D. T. 2000; 105 (1): 61-70
T helper 2 (Th2) cells play a critical role in the pathogenesis of asthma, but the precise immunological mechanisms that inhibit Th2 cell function in vivo are not well understood. Using gene therapy, we demonstrated that ovalbumin-specific (OVA-specific) Th cells engineered to express latent TGF-beta abolished airway hyperreactivity and airway inflammation induced by OVA-specific Th2 effector cells in SCID and BALB/c mice. These effects correlated with increased concentrations of active TGF-beta in the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid, demonstrating that latent TGF-beta was activated in the inflammatory environment. In contrast, OVA-specific Th1 cells failed to inhibit airway hyperreactivity and inflammation in this system. The inhibitory effect of TGF-beta-secreting Th cells was antigen-specific and was reversed by neutralization of TGF-beta. Our results demonstrate that T cells secreting TGF-beta in the respiratory mucosa can indeed regulate Th2-induced airway hyperreactivity and inflammation and suggest that TGF-beta-producing T cells play an important regulatory role in asthma.
Feasibility of in vivo intravascular ultrasound tissue characterization in the detection of early vascular transplant rejection CIRCULATION Jeremias, A., Kolz, M. L., Ikonen, T. S., Gummert, J. F., Oshima, A., Hayase, M., Honda, Y., Komiyama, N., Berry, G. J., Morris, R. E., Yock, P. G., Fitzgerald, P. J. 1999; 100 (21): 2127-2130
Unprocessed ultrasound radiofrequency (RF) signal analysis has been shown to distinguish different tissue structures more reliably than gray-scale interpretation of conventional ultrasound images.The objective of this study was to test the feasibility of in vivo intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) RF signal analysis in an animal model of allograft rejection. Six cynomolgus monkeys underwent transplantation of 3-cm aortic allograft segments distal to the renal arteries from immunologically mismatched donors. IVUS imaging with a 30-MHz system was performed 84 to 105 days after the operation. RF signals were acquired from cross sections of the recipient and the allograft aortas in real time with a digitizer at 500 MHz with 8-bit resolution. Sixty-five cross sections and 68 regions of interest (31 in host aorta and 37 in allograft) were analyzed in the adventitial layer with a total number of 8568 vectors processed. For each region of interest, a weighted-average attenuation was calculated on the basis of the attenuation and length for each individual vector. Histological examination was performed at every cross section imaged by IVUS. When the gray-scale images of conventional IVUS scored by an independent observer were compared, no distinction between adventitia of the native aorta and allograft was possible. Analysis of the average RF backscatter power also showed no significant difference (70.32+/-3.55 versus 70.72+/-3.38 dB). However, the average attenuation of allografts was significantly lower than that of the host aortas (2.64+/-1.38 versus 4.02+/-1.16 dB/mm, P<0.001). Histology demonstrated a marked adventitial inflammatory response in all allografts, with no inflammation observed in the host aortas.In vivo IVUS tissue characterization can be performed during routine imaging. In this model of transplant vasculopathy, RF attenuation measurements were more sensitive than visual or quantitative gray-scale analysis.
Mitral annular dilatation and papillary muscle dislocation without mitral regurgitation in sheep. Circulation Green, G. R., Dagum, P., Glasson, J. R., Daughters, G. T., Bolger, A. F., Foppiano, L. E., Berry, G. J., Ingels, N. B., Miller, D. C. 1999; 100 (19): II95-102
Asymmetrical mitral annular (MA) dilatation and papillary muscle dislocation are implicated in the pathogenesis of functional mitral regurgitation (MR).To determine the mechanism by which annular and papillary muscle geometric alterations result in MR, we implanted radiopaque markers in the left ventricle, mitral annulus, anterior and posterior mitral leaflets, and papillary muscle tips and bases in 2 groups of sheep. One group served as controls (CTL, n=7); an experimental group (EXP, n=9) underwent topical phenol application to obliterate anterior annular and leaflet muscle (confirmed histologically ex vivo). After 1 week of recovery, markers were imaged with biplane videofluoroscopy, and hemodynamic data were recorded. MA area (computed from 3-dimensional marker coordinates) was 11% to 13% larger in the EXP group than in the CTL group (P<0.05 by ANOVA). This area increase resulted exclusively from intercommissural axis increase except in 1 heart with large (>1 cm) increases in both the intercommissural and septolateral annular axes. The anterior papillary muscle tip in EXP was displaced from CTL by 2.9+/-0.23 mm toward the anterolateral left ventricle and 2.5+/-0.12 mm toward the mitral annulus at end systole; the posterior papillary muscle geometry was unchanged. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed MR only in the heart exhibiting biaxial annular enlargement.MA dilatation in the intercommissural dimension with anterior papillary muscle tip displacement toward the annulus is insufficient to produce MR in sheep. Functional MR may require MA dilatation in the septolateral axis, as observed with proximal circumflex coronary occlusion.
Mitral annular dilatation and papillary muscle dislocation without mitral regurgitation in sheep CIRCULATION Green, G. R., Dagum, P., Glasson, J. R., Daughters, G. T., Bolger, A. F., Foppiano, L. E., Berry, G. J., Ingels, N. B., Miller, D. C. 1999; 100 (19): 95-102
Superior vena cava syndrome caused by pulmonary artery sarcoma JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY Faul, J. L., Wahl, T., Ihnken, K., Berry, G. J., Doyle, R. L., Whyte, R. I. 1999; 118 (4): 749-750
Constrictive pericarditis due to coccidiomycosis ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY Faul, J. L., Hoang, K., Schmoker, J., Vagelos, R. H., Berry, G. J. 1999; 68 (4): 1407-1409
Coccidiomycosis is a fungal infection that rarely causes cardiac disease. Constrictive pericarditis in the setting of disseminated coccidiomycosis can be fatal, despite antifungal therapy and pericardiectomy. We report on a patient with constrictive pericarditis due to localized infection by Coccidioides immitis. The patient underwent successful surgical pericardiectomy and antifungal chemotherapy, and remains well 1 year later.
The histology of subcutaneously implanted donor bronchial rings correlates with rejection scores of lung allografts in a primate lung transplant model JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Hausen, B., Berry, G. J., Dagum, P., Ikonen, T., Christians, U., Briffa, N., Hook, L., Morris, R. E. 1999; 18 (7): 714-724
The diagnosis of acute rejection in lung transplantation generally relies on transbronchial biopsies. This invasive procedure may be associated with bronchial bleeding or pneumothorax and may not be feasible in patients with severely compromised lung function. The hypothesis of the current study was that histopathological findings of donor bronchial segments implanted into the subcutaneous tissue of lung allograft recipients would predict lung tissue rejection scores, thus providing the clinician with an alternate source of information.Unilateral left lung transplantation was performed in 34 cynomolgus monkeys as part of a drug efficacy study. After completion of the transplant procedure, 4 bronchial ring segments of the explanted recipient left lung and 4 bronchial ring segments of the non-transplanted right donor lung were implanted subcutaneously in the abdominal region. Lung allograft rejection was evaluated by open lung biopsies of the allograft performed on postoperative (PO) Day 14 and during sacrifice on PO Day 28. At the time of each biopsy, 2 donor and 2 recipient subcutaneous bronchial rings were explanted. Histologic evaluation of the lung tissue samples was performed according to the working formulation of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. Bronchial rings were independently evaluated by assessing the degree of airway narrowing; percentage of intact epithelial coverage as well as its specific histology (respiratory ciliated, flattened cuboidal, squamous); presence of lymphocytes, macrophages or spindle cells; and presence of peribronchial inflammation, luminal fibrosis, lymphocytic bronchitis or luminal mucous. Statistical analysis was performed by logistic regression.In the recipient bronchial rings, there was no evidence of airway narrowing. There was 98% epithelial coverage, 71% that were respiratory ciliated cells, and there was no inflammation. Donor bronchial rings showed no airway narrowing for monkeys with grade A0 to A2 rejection in tissue biopsies and a maximum narrowing (41.2%) with A4 rejection. Epithelial cell coverage was approximately 100% with grade A0-A2 and 44+/-11% with A4 rejection. Lymphocytic bronchitis was most severe in A4 rejection and minimal in A0 to A2 rejection. By logistic regression analysis, independent predictors of a likelihood of rejection were the degree of airway obliteration, the percentage of epithelial cell coverage, the degree of lymphocytic bronchitis and the product of respiratory and flattened cuboidal cell coverage.The current data show that histologic alterations of subcutaneously implanted donor bronchial rings correlate with lung tissue biopsy scores based on the ISHLT working formulation. Because subcutaneous bronchial rings can be explanted under local anesthesia, they may provide useful information for the diagnosis of acute allograft rejection in patients with impaired lung function, patients that obtaining lung tissue samples may not be feasible.
Coadministration of neoral and the novel rapamycin analog, SDZ RAD, to rat lung allograft recipients - Potentiation of immunosuppressive efficacy and improvement of tolerability by staggered versus simultaneous treatment 17th Annual Meeting of the American-Society-of-Transplant-Physicians Hausen, B., Boeke, K., Berry, G. J., Segarra, I., Benet, L. Z., Christians, U., Morris, R. E. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. 1999: 956–62
Neoral and rapamycin derivative (RAD) have complementary mechanisms for inhibition of lymphocyte activation and are substrates for the same pathways of drug metabolism. Therefore, we investigated treatment regimens designed to minimize pharmacokinetic interactions and to potentiate immunosuppressive efficacy in a highly stringent rat lung allograft model.Lewis recipients of Brown Norway lungs received the following daily oral doses: (A) RAD at 2.5 mg/kg (n=9); (B) Neoral at 7.5 mg/kg (n=8); (C) RAD at 2.5 mg/kg + Neoral at 7.5 mg/kg simultaneously (n=8); or (D) RAD at 2.5 mg/kg + Neoral at 7.5 mg/kg (n=6) staggered 6 hr apart. Rats were assessed by daily weights, chest radiographs, drug trough levels (high-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry), and blinded scoring of graft histology at death (day 21).Radiographs were completely opacified in all grafts of control and RAD monotherapy groups on days 7 and 14, respectively. Grafts were mildly opacified (Neoral monotherapy) and completely clear (both RAD + Neoral groups) on day 21. Simultaneous or staggered combined treatment dramatically reduced histologic rejection compared with treatment with either drug alone. Simultaneous treatment caused poor tolerability (poor grooming, lethargy) and significantly higher day-14 RAD and cyclosporine (CsA) trough levels (49+/-5 and 638+/-106 ng/ml; P<0.04) than in the staggered group (28+/-3 and 318+/-25 ng/ml) in which all animals were clinically normal. RAD and CsA day-14 trough levels in the staggered group were the same or lower than trough levels in animals treated with either drug alone (RAD 27+/-3/Neoral 815+/-67 ng/ml).(1) Administration of RAD + Neoral suppressed lung rejection more effectively than treatment with either drug alone. (2) Trough levels did not differ between monotherapy and staggered combination therapy for RAD but were lower for CsA. These results suggested that pharmacological, rather than pharmacokinetic, interactions between the parent drugs were responsible for the potentiation of immunosuppression when these drugs were coadministered. 3) Staggered administration of RAD+Neoral avoided the pharmacokinetic interactions that caused the elevated drug blood levels and poor tolerability caused by simultaneous administration. Thus, we could potentiate efficacy and improve tolerability by staggering administration of RAD and Neoral.
Chronic rejection in non-human primates: Sirolimus (rapamycin), but not cyclosporin, prevents graft vascular disease (GVD) in aortic allografts alter acute rejection. Ikonen, T. S., Gummert, J. F., Hayase, M., Honda, Y., Kobayashi, Y., Christians, U., Hausen, B. A., Berry, G. J., Yock, P. G., Morris, R. E. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. 1999: S252–S252
Recurrent Pneumocystis carinii colonization in a heart-lung transplant recipient on long-term trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Faul, J. L., Akindipe, O. A., Berry, G. J., Doyle, R. L., Theodore, J. 1999; 18 (4): 384-387
In the setting of organ transplantation, prior to prophylaxis, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) had been a common clinical problem, particularly in heart-lung and lung recipients who receive long-term immunosuppressive therapy to prevent allograft rejection. Continuous oral trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) has been highly effective in preventing PCP in these patients.In this paper we report a case of recurrent Pneumocystis carinii infection in a chronic (> 15 years) heart-lung allograft recipient on long-term TMP-SMX prophylaxis. Twice, in 1995 and again in 1998, Pneumocystis carinii infection was diagnosed by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), in the same patient, despite continued oral TMP-SMX (960 mg TMP/4800 mg SMX per week) prophylaxis. The subject was not lymphopenic (his CD4 count was 569/mm3) and there was no associated deterioration in pulmonary function, nor evidence of hypoxemia.This case demonstrates that asymptomatic Pneumocystis carinii lung infections may recur in chronic heart-lung transplant recipients who take standard oral PCP prophylaxis.
Quality of computer enhanced totally endoscopic coronary bypass graft anastomosis - comparison to conventional technique EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY Falk, V., Gummert, J. F., Walther, T., Hayase, M., Berry, G. J., Mohr, F. W. 1999; 15 (3): 260-264
Aims of the study were to develop an endoscopic technique to perform robot assisted coronary anastomoses, using a computer enhanced telemanipulator and to compare the quality of the anastomoses with those performed using a standard open technique.A surgical telemanipulator with two instrument arms and a central videoscopic arm was used to perform remote endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting on isolated porcine hearts. The end effectors and the videoscope were placed through three 10 mm port incisions. All anastomoses (Cx to LAD) were performed using a double armed 7-0 Prolene suture of 5 or 7 cm in length. All operations were performed remotely from the master console using ten times magnification, tremor filtering and 3:1 motion scaling. Initially 20 anastomoses were performed to develop and train the technique. Then, 20 robot-assisted anastomoses (group I) were compared with 20 anastomoses using a standard open parachute technique (group II). All anastomoses were checked for patency and leakage. Patency was confirmed by bench angiography. After fixation, all anastomoses were macroscopically evaluated for patency, intactness, alignment, intimal tears and dehiscence. Both angiographic and pathologic evaluations were performed with the examiners blinded to the technique of anastomosis.In the initial feasibility series, time for anastomosis was 18.2 +/- 9.1 min. All anastomoses were patent although minor stenoses were found in two and minor leakage was noted in five anastomoses. In the second series all anastomoses were patent, not leaking and showed a good run-off at angiography. Mean time for anastomosis in group I was 12.8 +/- 2.4 min as compared with 6.3 +/- 0.2 min in group II (P < 0.001), respectively. Macroscopic analysis demonstrated equal quality for both groups. There were no stenoses, no intimal tears and no dehiscences. All anastomoses had a normal alignment and intact suture lines.Using the Intuitive surgical telemanipulator, it is possible to remotely perform endoscopic coronary anastomoses with the same quality as with an open standard technique after a brief learning curve. This will enable true endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting with a precision that has not been achieved with any other previously applied endoscopic technique.
Potentiation of immunosuppressive efficacy by combining the novel leflunomide analog, HMR 279, with microemulsion cyclosporine in a rat lung transplant model TRANSPLANTATION Hausen, B., Boeke, K., Berry, G. J., Gummert, J. F., Christians, U., Morris, R. E. 1999; 67 (3): 354-359
The novel leflunomide (LFM) analog, HMR 279, potentiates the immunosuppressive efficacy of microemulsion cyclosporine (Neoral) in rodent heart transplantation. The present study was designed to evaluate the immunosuppressive efficacy of this combination in comparison to the combination of Neoral and LFM in a stringent allogeneic rodent lung transplant model.Donor lungs from Brown Norway rats were implanted into Lewis recipients and were followed for 21 days. Postoperative monitoring included daily weight assessment, chest radiographs, drug trough levels measured by high-performance liquid chromatography (LFM/HMR 279) and high-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (Neoral), and blinded histology assessment of the transplanted lung on the day of death based on the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation working formulation. Untreated lung recipients served as controls (group I, n=5). Rats were assigned to the following treatment groups: II, 7.5 mg/kg/day Neoral (n=6); III, 10 mg/kg/day LFM (n=6); IV, 10 mg/kg/day HMR 279 (n=6); V, 10 mg/kg/day LFM plus 7.5 mg/kg/day Neoral given simultaneously (n=13); and VI, 10 mg/kg/day HMR 279 plus 7.5 mg/kg/day Neoral given simultaneously (n=6). Drugs were given daily by oral gavage.All rats except for one in the HMR 279 monotherapy group survived the follow-up period. The chest radiographs in the control, LFM, and HMR 279 monotherapy groups showed moderate to complete opacification of the left chest by postoperative day 7 (controls) and day 14 (LFM, 279). At postoperative day 21, the Neoral monotherapy and the combination groups showed no signs of opacification in the radiographs. Combination therapies of Neoral plus HMR 279 or Neoral plus LFM were most successful in preventing histologic allograft rejection. Combining Neoral and HMR 279 resulted in a significant decrease in the cyclosporine trough levels. Co-administration of LFM plus Neoral resulted in significantly higher LFM trough levels when compared to LFM monotherapy. Of all treatments studied, the combination of HMR 279 plus Neoral was tolerated best as assessed by percentage of weight change.This study showed for the first time in a stringent rodent lung transplant model that combined treatment of LFM or HMR 279 plus Neoral potentiates the immunosuppressive efficacies of these drugs and successfully prevents allograft rejection.
Suppression of acute rejection in allogeneic rat lung transplantation: A study of the efficacy and pharmacokinetics of rapamycin derivative (SDZ RAD) used alone and in combination with a microemulsion formulation of cyclosporine JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Hausen, B., Boeke, K., Berry, G. J., Segarra, I., Christians, U., Morris, R. E. 1999; 18 (2): 150-159
The novel immunosuppressant SDZ RAD, 40-0 (2-hydroxyethyl)rapamycin, is an orally active rapamycin analogue developed for use in combination with cyclosporine (Neoral). The present study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of SDZ RAD, Neoral, or a combination of both drugs for suppression of acute rejection in an allogeneic, unilateral rat lung transplant model.Brown-Norway (RT1n) donor lungs were implanted into Lewis (RT1l) recipients that were observed for 21 days. Postoperative evaluation included daily weights, serial chest radiographs, drug trough levels, and histology scores of the transplanted lung on the day of sacrifice. Treatment groups were comprised of rats treated orally with the RAD vehicle as controls (n = 6); SDZ RAD 2.5 mg/kg/day (n = 9); Neoral 7.5 mg/kg/day (n = 8); Neoral 2.5 mg/kg/day (n = 6); SDZ RAD 2.5 mg/kg/day plus Neoral 7.5 mg/kg/day (n = 7); and Neoral 2.5 mg/kg/day plus SDZ RAD 2.5 mg/kg/day (n = 6).The results of this study showed that neither monotherapy with 2.5 mg/kg/day of Neoral, nor 2.5 mg/kg/day of SDZ RAD prevented severe acute rejection in unilateral lung transplant recipients. Furthermore, despite high dose (7.5 mg/kg/day) Neoral treatment, graft histology showed moderate rejection. However, addition of 2.5 mg/kg/day of SDZ RAD to 7.5 mg/kg/day of Neoral completely prevented histologic rejection in four of seven grafts, although the remaining 3 grafts showed minimal rejection. This combination resulted in significantly higher RAD trough levels when compared to SDZ RAD treatment alone. Combining a lower dose of Neoral (2.5 mg/ kg/day) with 2.5 mg/kg/day of SDZ RAD resulted in less weight loss and improved animal health; however, the histology of lung grafts in these rats showed mild rejection.This is the first study on the efficacy of the novel rapamycin derivative SDZ RAD for the control of acute lung allograft rejection. Results showed that acute unilateral rat lung allograft rejection is refractory to monotherapy with either high dose Neoral or SDZ RAD. The two regimens of combined treatment with Neoral plus SDZ RAD used in these studies produced either minimal rejection and reduced tolerability or mild rejection and better tolerability and showed potentiation of immunosuppression when both drugs were used together. Additional investigation of these two drugs is needed, however, to devise regimens that produce both high immunosuppressive efficacy and good tolerability.
Alterations in inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and nitrotyrosine (NitroY) during re-epithelialization of heterotopic rat tracheal composite grafts XVIIth World Congress of the Transplantation-Society Ikonen, T. S., Romanska, H. M., Bishop, A. E., Berry, G. J., Polak, J. M., Morris, R. E. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 1999: 182–82
Allergen-specific Th1 cells fail to counterbalance Th2 cell-induced airway hyperreactivity but cause severe airway inflammation JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION Hansen, G., Berry, G., DeKruyff, R. H., Umetsu, D. T. 1999; 103 (2): 175-183
Allergic asthma, which is present in as many as 10% of individuals in industrialized nations, is characterized by chronic airway inflammation and hyperreactivity induced by allergen-specific Th2 cells secreting interleukin-4 (IL-4) and IL-5. Because Th1 cells antagonize Th2 cell functions, it has been proposed that immune deviation toward Th1 can protect against asthma and allergies. Using an adoptive transfer system, we assessed the roles of Th1, Th2, and Th0 cells in a mouse model of asthma and examined the capacity of Th1 cells to counterbalance the proasthmatic effects of Th2 cells. Th1, Th2, and Th0 lines were generated from ovalbumin (OVA)-specific T-cell receptor (TCR) transgenic mice and transferred into lymphocyte-deficient, OVA-treated severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice. OVA-specific Th2 and Th0 cells induced significant airway hyperreactivity and inflammation. Surprisingly, Th1 cells did not attenuate Th2 cell-induced airway hyperreactivity and inflammation in either SCID mice or in OVA-immunized immunocompetent BALB/c mice, but rather caused severe airway inflammation. These results indicate that antigen-specific Th1 cells may not protect or prevent Th2-mediated allergic disease, but rather may cause acute lung pathology. These findings have significant implications with regard to current therapeutic goals in asthma and allergy and suggest that conversion of Th2-dominated allergic inflammatory responses into Th1-dominated responses may lead to further problems.
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The use of technetium Tc 99m annexin V for in vivo imaging of apoptosis during cardiac allograft rejection 78th Annual Meeting of the American-Association-for-Thoracic-Surgery Vriens, P. W., Blankenberg, F. G., Stoot, J. H., Ohtsuki, K., Berry, G. J., Tait, J. F., Strauss, H. W., Robbins, R. C. MOSBY-ELSEVIER. 1998: 844–52
Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, has been suggested as a mechanism of immunologic injury during cardiac allograft rejection. We tested the hypothesis that technetium Tc 99m annexin V, a novel radiopharmaceutical used to detect apoptosis, can be used to detect cardiac allograft rejection by nuclear imaging.Untreated ACI rats served as recipients of allogeneic PVG rat (n = 66) or syngeneic ACI rat (n = 30) cardiac grafts. Untreated recipient animals underwent 99mTc-annexin V imaging daily for 7 days. Region of interest analysis was used to quantify the uptake of 99mTc-annexin V. Immediately after imaging grafts were procured for histopathologic analysis and terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase-mediated deoxyuridine triphosphate-biotin nick-end labeling of apoptotic nuclei. One group was treated with 10 mg/kg/d cyclosporine (INN: ciclosporin) commencing on day 4 after transplantation (n = 6).Untreated allografts showed histologic signs of rejection 4 days after transplantation. Apoptotic nuclei could be demonstrated in myocytes, endothelial cells, and graft-infiltrating cells of all rejecting allografts. Nuclear imaging revealed a significantly greater uptake of 99mTc-annexin V in rejecting allogeneic grafts than in syngeneic grafts on day 4 (P = .05), day 5 (P < .001), day 6 (P < .001), and day 7 (P = .013) after transplantation. A correlation between the histologic grade of acute rejection and uptake of 99mTc-annexin V was observed (r2 = 0.87). After treatment of rejection with cyclosporine, no apoptotic nuclei could be identified in allografts and uptake of 99mTc-annexin V decreased to baseline.Apoptosis occurs during acute cardiac allograft rejection and disappears after treatment of rejection. 99mTc-annexin V can be used to detect and monitor cardiac allograft rejection.
Sirolimus (rapamycin) reverses the progression of graft vascular disease in primate aortic allografts Ikonen, T. S., Gummert, J. F., Honda, Y., Hayase, M., Kobayashi, Y., Hausen, B., Barlow, C. W., Perlroth, J. D., Berry, G. J., Yock, P. G., Morris, R. E. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. 1998: 751–51
The use of cardiac biopsy to demonstrate reduced cardiotoxicity in AIDS Kaposi's sarcoma patients treated with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY Berry, G., Billingham, M., Alderman, E., Richardson, P., Torti, F., Lum, B., Patek, A., Martin, F. J. 1998; 9 (7): 711-716
Pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PL-DOX) has been shown in preclinical models to induce less cardiotoxicity than non-liposomal doxorubicin. Endomyocardial biopsy is a highly sensitive and specific method for detecting anthracycline-induced cardiac damage.Myocardial tissue from ten KS patients who had received cumulative PL-DOX (20 mg/m2/biweekly) of 440-840 mg/m2 was evaluated for evidence of anthracycline-induced cardiac damage. Controls were assembled from patients who had received cumulative doxorubicin doses of 174-671 mg/m2 in two earlier cardiac biopsy protocols. Two control groups were selected on the basis of both cumulative (+/- 10 mg/m2) and peak doxorubicin dose (60 or 20 mg/m2, control group 1), or peak dose alone (20 mg/m2, control group 2).PL-DOX patients had significantly lower biopsy scores compared with those of doxorubicin controls despite higher cumulative doses of anthracycline. The median biopsy scores for the PL-DOX and doxorubicin groups, respectively, were 0.3 vs. 3.0 (P = 0.002, Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel row mean difference test) for group 1 and 1.25 for group 2 (P < 0.001, Wilcoxon rank-sum test).Less severe cardiac changes were seen in patients given PL-DOX relative to historical control patients given comparable cumulative doses of doxorubicin.
Enhancement of obliterative airway disease in rat tracheal allografts infected with recombinant rat cytomegalovirus JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Reichenspurner, H., Soni, V., Nitschke, M., Berry, G. J., Brazelton, T., Shorthouse, R., Huang, X. F., Boname, J., Girgis, R., Raitz, B. A., Mocarski, E., SANDFORD, G., Morris, R. E. 1998; 17 (5): 439-451
Cytomegalovirus infection has been identified as a significant risk factor for the development of obliterative bronchiolitis in human lung transplant recipients. This study was designed to assess the influence of rat cytomegalovirus (RCMV) on the pathogenesis and development of obliterative bronchiolitis in an experimental model of obliterative airway disease, which occurs after allogenic heterotopic tracheal transplantation in rodents.Sixty Lewis rats were infected intraperitoneally with 10(7) plaque-forming units of recombinant lac-Z-tagged RCMV expressing the gene for beta-galactosidase. Rats were either infected at the time of surgery (acute infection, n = 30) or 56 days before surgery (chronic infection, n = 30). Tracheae from Brown Norway (allograft) or Lewis (isograft) rats were implanted and wrapped in the greater omentum of infected Lewis rats. RCMV infection was verified in different recipient tissues by in vitro plaque-assays and by direct in situ staining for beta-galactosidase activity. The tracheal grafts were harvested on days 7, 14, and 21 after transplantation and stained with hematoxylin-eosin and Masson's trichrome. The peritracheal cellular inflammation was scored visually. The cellular density of the infiltrating cells and the extent of airway obliteration were analyzed by use of computer-digitized morphometry and compared with uninfected allografts as control.Both acute and chronic cytomegalovirus infection produced significantly higher mononuclear cell density values on days 7 and 14 compared with noninfected controls, indicating a more intense immune response in the infected allografts. Tracheal allograft obliteration was also more extensive after acute and, in particular, after chronic cytomegalovirus infection (64% narrowing after 21 days compared with 36% in grafts from noninfected control animals).Our experimental results provide direct evidence that the tracheal grafts were infected with RCMV and that the development of obliterative airway disease was enhanced in the acutely and chronically infected allografts compared with grafts from noninfected control animals.
Bronchiolitis obliterans after lung transplantation - Detection using expiratory HRCT CHEST Leung, A. N., Fisher, K., Valentine, V., Girgis, R. E., Berry, G. J., Robbins, R. C., Theodore, J. 1998; 113 (2): 365-370
The objective of this study was to determine if air trapping, as detected on expiratory high-resolution CT (HRCT), is useful as an indicator of bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) in lung transplant recipients. MATERIALS andCorresponding inspiratory and expiratory HRCT images at five different levels and spirometry were obtained in 21 lung transplant recipients. Eleven patients had BO proved by transbronchial biopsy specimens; the remaining 10 patients had no pathologic or functional evidence of airways disease. Two "blinded" observers assessed the inspiratory images for the presence of bronchiectasis and mosaic pattern of lung attenuation, and the expiratory images for presence and extent of air trapping. Statistical comparison of the frequency of HRCT findings between patients with and without BO was performed using Fisher's Exact Test.On inspiratory images, bronchiectasis and mosaic pattern of lung attenuation were present in 4 (36%) and 7 (64%) of 11 patients with BO, and 2 (20%) and 1 (10%) of 10 patients without BO (p>0.05 and p<0.05), respectively. The sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of bronchiectasis and mosaic pattern for BO were 36%, 80%, and 57%, and 64%, 90%, and 70%, respectively. On expiratory images, air trapping was found in 10 of 11 (91%) patients with BO compared to 2 of 10 (20%) patients without BO (p<0.002). Air trapping was found to have a sensitivity of 91%, specificity of 80%, and accuracy of 86% for BO. Air trapping was identified in one patient with BO who had normal results of baseline spirometric function tests.Air trapping, as detected on expiratory HRCT, was the most sensitive and accurate radiologic indicator of BO in the lung transplant population.
Validity of clinic biopsy specimens in classifying histopathologic characteristics of recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma ARCHIVES OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD & NECK SURGERY Brown, J. J., Berry, G. J., Moretto, J., KEATING, W. F., Fee, W. E. 1997; 123 (9): 950-955
To evaluate nasopharyngeal carcinoma resection specimens for heterogeneity of histologic patterns to determine if preoperative histologic characteristics of the clinic biopsy specimen are representative of the entire lesion. The null hypothesis is that clinic biopsy specimens are not necessarily representative.Preoperative clinic biopsy specimens were measured to calculate their average size. Resection specimens were then sectioned and evaluated in increments corresponding to this size. Each of these increments was then histologically classified according to the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. This classification of the preoperative biopsy specimens was compared with that of the resection specimen as a whole.University referral center.Twenty-six consecutive patients with recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma who underwent surgical resection. Radiation therapy failed in all patients.The presence or absence of WHO histologic heterogeneity in the nasopharyngectomy specimen was recorded. Disparity between preoperative clinic biopsy and resection specimens was recorded.The mean clinic biopsy specimen size was 13.9 mm2 or less than 1% of the available surface area of the nasopharynx. Of 26 resection specimens classified in 5 increments of this size, 15 (57.7%) were a single WHO type, and 11 (42.3%) were found to be mixtures of WHO types I, II, and III. Of 16 cases with preoperative biopsy specimens available, 4 (25%) were a different WHO classification than their corresponding resection specimen.Most clinic biopsy specimens were representative of their corresponding tumor resection specimens in their entirety; however, tumor heterogeneity is such that some biopsy specimens will not be representative. This finding may interfere with WHO classification data determined on the basis of clinic biopsy specimens and hence confound any meaningful data on treatment outcomes. It is recommended then that multiple nasopharyngeal biopsy specimens be obtained from disparate areas of the lesion and each subjected to independent histopathologic review.
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Obliterative airway disease after heterotopic tracheal xenotransplantation: Pathogenesis and prevention using new immunosuppressive agents TRANSPLANTATION Reichenspurner, H., Soni, V., Nitschke, M., Berry, G. J., Brazelton, T. R., Shorthouse, R., Huang, X. F., Reitz, B. A., Morris, R. E. 1997; 64 (3): 373-383
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether obliterative bronchiolitis might occur after xenogenic pulmonary transplantation. A model for obliterative airway disease (OAD) after tracheal allograft transplantation in the rat undergoes tracheal obliteration with histologic features characteristic of obliterative bronchiolitis in human lung transplant recipients. Using this model, the pathogenesis of OAD and its prevention with immunosuppressive drugs was studied in rat recipients of hamster tracheal grafts.Tracheae from 30 hamsters (xenografts) or 23 Brown-Norway rats (allografts) were implanted and wrapped in the greater omentum of untreated Lewis rats. The grafts were removed on day 1, 3, 7, 14, 21, or 28 after transplantation and stained with hematoxylin and eosin and Masson's trichrome and by immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence (IFL) techniques. In addition, 25 recipients were treated with cyclosporine (CsA, 10 mg/kg p.o.), leflunomide (LFM, 20 mg/kg p.o.), or rapamycin (RPM, 6 mg/kg i.p.) for 14 or 21 days (5 animals per treatment group). Visual and morphometric analyses were used to evaluate the extent of airway obliteration, luminal coverage by respiratory or flattened cuboidal epithelium, and extent and density of peritracheal cellular inflammation.In all xenografts, a neutrophilic infiltration of the mucosa and submucosa was observed from day 1 until day 14 and was associated with complete loss of tracheal epithelium by day 14. A marked peritracheal mononuclear cellular infiltrate mixed with plasma cells and eosinophils was seen on days 7 and 14. Both the extent of peritracheal inflammation and the density of the mononuclear cell infiltrate were significantly increased in xenograft tracheae when compared with the allografts. Tracheal obliteration began on day 14 and reached a maximum of 43% on day 21 with evidence of intraluminal fibrosis. In contrast to IFL of allografts, IFL of xenografts demonstrated marked deposition of rat immunoglobulin in the peritracheal tissue on days 7 and 14. The effects of treatment with immunosuppressive drugs on tracheal graft narrowing and protection of respiratory epithelium were as follows: After 14 days of treatment, the percentage of tracheal graft narrowing was 12%, 23%, and 19% in the no treatment, CsA, and LFM groups, respectively; the percentage of respiratory epithelium at 14 days was 0%, 21%, and 95%. After 21 days of treatment, the percentage of tracheal graft narrowing was 43%, 49%, 12%, and 5% for the no treatment, CsA, LFM, and RPM groups, respectively; the percentage of respiratory epithelium at 21 days was 0%, 39%, 86%, and 0%. Using computerized morphometry, the extent and densities of the peritracheal cellular infiltrates were significantly reduced in LFM- and CsA-treated groups when compared with untreated xenograft controls. LFM and RPM, but not CsA, significantly reduced the degree of luminal obliteration compared with no treatment (P<0.05). LFM and, to a lesser extent, CsA were able to prevent the loss of normal respiratory epithelium. Analysis by IFL revealed a marked decrease in rat immunoglobulin deposition in xenografts from LFM- and RPM-treated groups compared with xenografts from CsA-treated or untreated rats.(1) OAD occurs not only after tracheal allotransplantation but also after xenotransplantation. (2) Subepithelial infiltration of neutrophils and the appearance of plasma cells and eosinophils in the peritracheal infiltrates distinguished the histology of rejected xenografts from allografts. (3) Antibody deposition was detected by IFL only in xenografts. (4) Treatment with LFM or RPM significantly decreased the severity of luminal obliteration. Importantly, LFM also prevented the loss of respiratory epithelium.
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Idiopathic giant-cell myocarditis - Natural history and treatment NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE Cooper, L. T., Berry, G. J., Shabetai, R. 1997; 336 (26): 1860-1866
Idiopathic giant-cell myocarditis is a rare and frequently fatal disorder. We used a multicenter data base to define the natural history of giant-cell myocarditis and the effect of treatment.We identified 63 patients with idiopathic giant-cell myocarditis through journal announcements and direct mailings to cardiovascular centers worldwide.The patients consisted of 33 men and 30 women with an average age of 42.6 years; 88 percent were white, 5 percent were black, 5 percent were Southeast Asian or Indian, and 2 percent were Middle Eastern. Most presented with congestive heart failure (47 patients, or 75 percent), ventricular arrhythmia (9 patients, or 14 percent), or heart block (3 patients, or 5 percent), although in some cases the initial symptoms resembled those of acute myocardial infarction (4 patients). Nineteen percent had associated autoimmune disorders. The rate of survival was worse than among 111 patients with lymphocytic myocarditis in the Myocarditis Treatment Trial (P<0.001); among our patients, the rate of death or cardiac transplantation was 89 percent, and median survival was only 5.5 months from the onset of symptoms. The 22 patients treated with corticosteroids and cyclosporine, azathioprine, or both therapies survived for an average of 12.3 months, as compared with an average of 3.0 months for the 30 patients who received no immunosuppressive therapy (P=0.001). Of the 34 patients who underwent heart transplantation, 9 (26 percent) had a giant-cell infiltrate in the transplanted heart and 1 died of recurrent giant-cell myocarditis.Giant-cell myocarditis is a disease of relatively young, predominantly healthy adults. Patients usually die of heart failure and ventricular arrhythmia unless cardiac transplantation is performed. Despite the possibility of fatal disease recurrence, transplantation is the treatment of choice for most patients.
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Pulmonary tumor embolism AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Bassiri, A. G., Haghighi, B., Doyle, R. L., Berry, G. J., Rizk, N. W. 1997; 155 (6): 2089-2095
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The effects of post-treatment with lisofylline, a phosphatidic acid generation inhibitor, on sepsis-induced acute lung injury in pigs AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Hasegawa, N., Oka, Y., Nakayama, M., Berry, G. J., Bursten, S., Rice, G., Raffin, T. A. 1997; 155 (3): 928-936
The effects of lisofylline [(R)-1-(5-hydroxyhexyl)-3,7-dimethylxanthine] (LSF), an inhibitor of de novo phosphatidic acid (PA) generation, on sepsis-induced acute lung injury was studied using Hanford minipigs weighing 18 to 25 kg. Sepsis was induced by an intravenous infusion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (1 x 10(6)/colony-forming units/kg/min over 2 h). Saline was used as the control vehicle. Six groups were studied: saline control group (SALINE: n = 5); sepsis control group (SEPSIS: n = 5); LSF control group (LSF: n = 5), which received a 25-mg/kgbolus of LSF 30 min before time zero followed by continuous infusion of 10 mg/kg/h throughout the study; LSF-treated septic groups, which were treated with LSF 30 min prior to sepsis (Pre: n = 5), 1 h postonset (Post-1 h: n = 8) or h postonset (Post-2 h: n = 8) of the bacterial infusion. Hemodynamics PaO2, neutrophil counts, and plasma porcine tumor necrosis factor-alpha concentrations were monitored for 6 h. After the minipigs were killed, lung tissue was sampled to measured wet-to-dry weight ratio (W/D), tissue albumin index (TAI), thiobarbituric acid-reactive material content (TBARM), and myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity. Compared with the SALINE group, the SEPSIS group showed significant systemic hypotension, pulmonary hypertension, arterial hypoxemia, neutropenia, and increase in TNF-alpha, MPO activity, W/D, TBARM, and TAI. LSF treatment attenuated sepsis-induced pulmonary hypertension, neutropenia, and hypoxemia, and increased MPO activity and lung injury measurements in the Pre and Post-1 h groups, but its efficacy was blunted in the Post-2 h group. Plasma TNF-alpha was decreased only in the Pre group. Thus, inhibition of intracellular PA generation through de novo pathways attenuates sepsis-induced acute lung injury.
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Rapamycin inhibits development of obliterative airway disease in a murine heterotopic airway transplant model TRANSPLANTATION Fahrni, J. A., Berry, G. J., Morris, R. E., Rosen, G. D. 1997; 63 (4): 533-537
Obliterative bronchiolitis is the major cause of long-term morbidity and mortality in heart-lung and lung transplant recipients. There is presently no completely effective therapy for the treatment of obliterative bronchiolitis. We have examined the effects of rapamycin (RPM) on the development of obliterative airway disease in murine recipients of heterotopically transplanted allograft tracheas. In this model, an untreated allograft develops almost complete occlusion of the airway lumen with fibroblastic tissue and collagen scar by day 28 after transplantation. RPM administered intraperitoneally at the time of transplantation or even as late as day 14 after transplantation markedly inhibited obliteration of the airway lumen by fibroblastic tissue. Also, RPM significantly inhibited infiltration of the graft by macrophages. In the RPM-treated animals, the airway was reconstituted with an attenuated squamous epithelium rather than a normal pseudostratified epithelium. No adverse side effects were observed with RPM doses up to 12 mg/kg/ day. These findings suggest a potential role for RPM, perhaps in combination with cyclosporine, in preventing and treating obliterative bronchiolitis in heart-lung and lung allograft recipients.
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Risk factors for the development of obliterative bronchiolitis after lung transplantation JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Girgis, R. E., Tu, I. P., Berry, G. J., Reichenspurner, H., Valentine, V. G., Conte, J. V., Ting, A., Johnstone, I., Miller, J., Robbins, R. C., Reitz, B. A., Theodore, J. 1996; 15 (12): 1200-1208
Acute rejection has emerged as an important risk factor for obliterative bronchiolitis after lung transplantation. We performed a multivariate analysis to assess the impact of additional variables.Seventy-four recipients (48 heart-lung, 18 single-lung, and 8 bilateral-lung recipients) who survived longer than 90 days and underwent transplantation more than 15 months before data analysis were included in this study. Several variables were entered into a Cox regression analysis to determine their association with the development of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome.Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome developed in 48 (65%) of 74 patients. Significant correlations were detected for acute rejection score, defined as the sum of pathologic grades of each separate acute rejection episode (p = 0.0004, likelihood ratio test value = 12.4) and for lymphocytic bronchiolitis (p = 0.03). In a bivariate model, episodes of organizing pneumonia and bacterial or fungal pneumonia significantly increased the likelihood ratio test value of the acute rejection score. The addition of the cytomegalovirus infection score, reflecting the frequency and severity of infection, to the combination of the acute rejection score and episodes of bacterial or fungal pneumonia resulted in a further significant increase in the likelihood ratio test value. Significant risk factors for moderate to severe stages of airflow limitation were at least one episode of acute rejection of grade > or = 2, younger recipient age, and any acute rejection episode 180 days or longer after transplantation.Increasing frequency and severity of acute rejection episodes are strongly associated with the development of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome. Lymphocytic bronchiolitis appeared to be significant by univariate analysis, but in a two-risk factor model, it did not augment the influence of acute rejection. Organizing pneumonia, bacterial or fungal pneumonia, and increasing severity and frequency of cytomegalovirus infections potentiate the effect of acute rejection. Late episodes of acute rejection and younger recipient age increase the risk for development of advanced disease.
Increased accumulation of tissue ACE in human atherosclerotic coronary artery disease CIRCULATION Diet, F., Pratt, R. E., Berry, G. J., Momose, N., Gibbons, G. H., Dzau, V. J. 1996; 94 (11): 2756-2767
Angiotensin may play a pathophysiological role in experimental and human cardiovascular disease. Clinical studies have shown that ACE inhibitors reduce mortality, recurrent myocardial infarction, and ischemic events in patients with left ventricular dysfunction. Animal studies suggest that tissue ACE, particularly within blood vessels, may be an important target.To study tissue ACE in human coronary artery disease and to identify potential mechanisms of ACE inhibitor action, we examined ACE expression immunohistochemically in nonatherosclerotic and diseased human coronary arteries. In nonatherosclerotic arteries, ACE immunoreactivity was found in luminal and adventitial vasa vasorum endothelium. In early- and intermediate-stage atherosclerotic lesions, ACE was detected prominently in regions of fat-laden macrophages and in association with T lymphocytes. In advanced lesions, ACE immunoreactivity was also localized to the endothelium of the microvasculature throughout the plaques. Immunoreactive angiotensin II was also detected in these areas. ACE expression in macrophages was further examined by in vitro experiments with a monocytoid cell line. ACE activity was induced threefold after differentiation of the cells into macrophages and was further increased after stimulation with acetylated LDL.These observations demonstrate that significant sources of tissue ACE in human atherosclerotic plaques are regions of inflammatory cells, especially areas of clustered macrophages as well as microvessel endothelial cells. These results suggest that ACE accumulation within the plaque may contribute to an increased production of local angiotensin that may participate in the pathobiology of coronary artery disease. Plaque ACE probably is an important target of drug action.
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Pulmonary capillaritis and alveolar hemorrhage - Update on diagnosis and management CHEST Green, R. J., Ruoss, S. J., KRAFT, S. A., Berry, G. J., Raffin, T. A. 1996; 110 (5): 1305-1316
Pulmonary vascular inflammatory disorders may involve all components of the pulmonary vasculature, including capillaries. The principal histopathologic features of pulmonary capillaritis include capillary wall necrosis with infiltration by neutrophils, interstitial erythrocytes, and/or hemosiderin, and interalveolar septal capillary occlusion by fibrin thrombi. Immune complex deposition is variably present. Patients often present clinically with diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, which is characterized by dyspnea and hemoptysis; diffuse, bilateral, alveolar infiltrates on chest radiograph; and anemia. Pulmonary capillaritis has been reported with variable frequency and severity as a manifestation of Wegener's granulomatosis, microscopic polyarteritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Goodpasture's syndrome, idiopathic pulmonary renal syndrome, Behçet's syndrome, Henoch-Schönlein purpura, IgA nephropathy, antiphospholipid syndrome, progressive systemic sclerosis, and diphenylhydantoin use. In addition to history, physical examination, and routine laboratory studies, certain ancillary laboratory tests, such as antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies, antinuclear antibodies, and antiglomerular basement membrane antibodies, may help diagnose an underlying disease. Diagnosis of pulmonary capillaritis can be made by fiberoptic bronchoscopy with transbronchial biopsy, but thoracoscopic biopsy is often employed. Since many disorders can result in pulmonary capillaritis with diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, it is crucial for clinicians and pathologists to work together when attempting to identify an underlying disease. Therapy depends on the disorder that gave rise to the pulmonary capillaritis and usually includes corticosteroids and cyclophosphamide or azathioprine. Since most diseases that result in pulmonary capillaritis are treated with immunosuppression, infection must be excluded aggressively.
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Stanford experience with obliterative bronchiolitis after lung and heart lung transplantation 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society-of-Thoracic-Surgeons Reichenspurner, H., Girgis, R. E., Robbins, R. C., Yun, K. L., Nitschke, M., Berry, G. J., Morris, R. E., Theodore, J., Reitz, B. A. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 1996: 1467–72
Obliterative bronchiolitis (OB) is the main chronic complication after heart-lung (HLTx) and lung transplantation (LTx), limiting the long-term success of both transplant procedures.Since 1981, 135 HLTxs and 61 isolated LTxs were performed in 184 patients at Stanford University.The overall prevalence of OB in patients surviving longer than 3 months postoperatively was 64% after HLTx and 68% after LTx. The actuarial freedom from OB was 72%, 51%, 44%, and 29% at 1, 2, 3, and 5 years, respectively, after HLTx and LTx. An analysis of potential risk factors revealed that the frequency and severity of acute rejection episodes (p < 0.001) and the appearance of lymphocytic bronchiolitis on biopsy (p < 0.05) were significantly associated with the development of OB. With regard to diagnosis of OB, pulmonary function tests show early reductions of the forced expiratory flow between 25% and 75% of the forced vital capacity with subsequent decreases in the forced expiratory volume in 1 second. The sensitivity of transbronchial biopsies has increased to 71% since 1993. Current treatment consists of augmented immunosuppression. Concurrent acute rejection episodes or active OB on biopsy have been treated aggressively with high-dose steroid pulses. Analysis of data from 73 patients with OB after HLTx and LTx revealed actuarial 1-, 3-, 5-, and 10-year survival of 89%, 71%, 44%, and 17% versus 86%, 77%, 63% and 56% in patients without OB (p < 0.05 by log-rank analysis). The main complication and cause of death in patients with OB was superimposed respiratory tract infection, which was treated aggressively.Early diagnosis of OB using pulmonary function tests or transbronchial biopsy is possible and important, because immediate treatment initiation has led to acceptable survival rates, with nearly 50% of affected patients still alive 5 years after transplantation. Current experimental research on OB suggests that immune injury is the main pathogenetic event of airway obliteration in animal models; rapamycin and leflunomide are new immunosuppressive agents that may have the potential to prevent and treat airway obliteration.
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Impact of ganciclovir prophylaxis on heart-lung and lung transplant recipients JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Soghikian, M. V., Valentine, V. G., Berry, G. J., Patel, H. R., Robbins, R. C., Theodore, J. 1996; 15 (9): 881-887
Cytomegalovirus infection threatens pulmonary allograft survival and function. This retrospective study details the experience of ganciclovir prophylaxis against cytomegalovirus infection and its sequelae.Eight-nine lung and heart-lung transplant recipients with positive cytomegalovirus serology were analyzed. The 37 recipients who underwent transplantation before September 1989 received no prophylaxis. The 52 subsequent recipients received ganciclovir prophylaxis.Thirty-six non-prophylaxed versus 42 prophylaxed patients had cytomegalovirus events with cumulative incidences of 100% and 86% (p < < 0.01), and median onsets of 37 +/- 21 versus 85 +/- 35 days, respectively (p < < 0.01); 22 non-prophylaxed versus 27 prophylaxed patients had cytomegalovirus pneumonitis with cumulative incidences of 60% and 55% (p < < 0.01), and median onsets of 34 +/- 14 and 84 +/- 26 days, respectively (p < < 0.01). Respiratory failure caused by cytomegalovirus pneumonitis developed in nine of the non-prophylaxed versus two of the prophylaxed patients (p < < 0.01). The significant estimated survival benefit in patients who received prophylaxis (p = 0.04) was not apparent when reanalysis was performed after exclusion of patients with respiratory failure (p = 0.36). Ganciclovir prophylaxis produced a significant delay in the development of obliterative bronchiolitis with a median time to onset of 1072 +/- 280 days versus 432 +/- 189 days for the non-prophylaxis cohort (p < < 0.01).Ganciclovir prophylaxis (1) improves recipient survival by reducing the severity of disease and essentially eliminating respiratory failure caused by cytomegalovirus pneumonitis, (2) reduces the incidence and delays the onset of cytomegalovirus events and pneumonitis, and (3) delays the onset of obliterative bronchiolitis.
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Port-access coronary artery bypass with cardioplegic arrest: Acute and chronic canine studies 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society-of-Thoracic-Surgeons Stevens, J. H., Burdon, T. A., Siegel, L. C., Peters, W. S., Pompili, M. F., STGOAR, F. G., Berry, G. J., Ribakove, G. H., Vierra, M. A., Mitchell, R. S., Toomasian, J. M., Reitz, B. A. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 1996: 435–40
Our goal is to perform minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting without sacrificing the benefits of myocardial protection with cardioplegia.Twenty-three dogs underwent acute studies and 4 dogs underwent survival studies. The left internal mammary artery was taken down using a thoracoscope. Cardiopulmonary bypass was conducted via femoral cannulas and using an endovascular balloon catheter for ascending aortic occlusion, root venting, and delivery of antegrade blood cardioplegia. Pulmonary artery venting was achieved with a jugular vein catheter. An internal mammary artery-to-coronary artery anastomosis was performed using a microscope through a 10 mm port.All animals were weaned from cardiopulmonary bypass in sinus rhythm without inotropes. Cardiopulmonary bypass duration was 104 +/- 28 minutes and aortic clamp duration was 61 +/- 22 minutes. Cardiac output and pulmonary artery occlusion pressure were unchanged. The internal mammary artery was anastomosed to the left anterior descending artery (25) or the first diagonal (2) with patency shown in 25 of 27. One dog in the survival study had a very short internal mammary artery pedicle under tension and was euthanized for excessive postoperative hemorrhage. Three weeks postoperatively the remaining dogs had angiographically patent anastomoses, normal transthoracic echocardiograms, and histologically normal healing and patent grafts.Endovascular cardiopulmonary bypass using a balloon catheter is effective in arresting and protecting the heart to allow thoracoscopic internal mammary artery-to-coronary artery anastomosis.
Obliterative airway disease after heterotopic tracheal xenotransplantation in a concordant rodent model: Pathogenesis and treatment 3rd International Congress for Xenotransplantation Reichenspurner, H., Adams, B., Soni, V., Brazelton, T., Shorthouse, R., Reitz, B. A., Berry, G. J., Morris, R. E. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 1996: 729–30
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Endoluminal aortic grafting: A preliminary animal study of graft healing JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH Harris, E. J., Harris, E. J., Berry, G. J., Mitchell, R. S. 1996; 61 (2): 404-412
Our purpose was to evaluate the placement, long term performance, and healing of a transluminally delivered endoluminal graft and attachment system, in an animal model using large adult sheep. Nineteen sheep in the weight range of 105-125 kg were entered into this study. Under fluoroscopic guidance in anesthetized animals, an endoluminal delivery system was inserted through a common femoral arteriotomy into the infrarenal aorta, and the graft and attachment system were deployed. Fixation of the proximal and distal ends of the graft to the aortic wall was achieved by hooks on the self expanding attachment system, and seated by balloon expansion. Explantation of the prosthesis was performed prior to euthanasia at 1-, 3-, and 6-month intervals. Aortograms were obtained before and after implantation and before explantation for evaluation of placement, patency, anastomotic seal, migration, and graft infolding. In situ gross examination of the prosthesis under anesthesia prior to sacrifice was performed in all animals. Histologic sections were obtained from both attachment sites ("anastomoses"), from the midgraft and hook insertion sites, and from normal aorta inferior and superior to the endoluminal prosthesis. Scanning electron microscopy was performed randomly on specimens derived from the superior and inferior anastomotic sites at each time point. Selected intervals of healing were 1 month (N=5), 3 months (N=5), and 6 months (N=8). One sheep was euthanized at 1 week due to paraplegia. At all intervals, all prostheses were patent, were well incorporated at the aortic wall-anastomotic sites, and were without mural thrombus. The attachment hooks penetrated the aortic adventitia in all animals. There was no graft migration. At one month, initial pannus formation covered the anastomoses and the entire luminal graft, yet the endothelial-like surface coverage was incomplete. At 3 months and at 6 months, the anastomoses and luminal surfaces displayed more uniform pannus and endothelial-like surface coverage. We conclude that this endoluminal delivery system, passed through a femoral arteriotomy, can effectively deploy an endoluminal graft with self expanding attachment system having consistent patency, secure fixation, and incorporation of the anastomoses with the aortic wall in this animal model.
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Revision of the 1990 working formulation for the classification of pulmonary allograft rejection: Lung rejection study group JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Yousem, S. A., Berry, G. J., Cagle, P. T., CHAMBERLAIN, D., Husain, A. N., Hruban, R. H., Marchevsky, A., Ohori, N. P., Ritter, J., Stewart, S., Tazelaar, H. D. 1996; 15 (1): 1-15
In 1990, an international grading scheme for the grading of pulmonary allograft rejection was instituted. The use of this classification has resulted in a uniformity of grading which has allowed inter-institutional collaborations and communication unique in allograft monitoring. In 1995 an expanded group of international pathologists convened and revised the original proposal. This article summarizes the updated classification for pulmonary allograft rejection. In brief, acute rejection is based on perivascular and interstitial mononuclear infiltrates. Each grade of acute rejection should mention the presence of coexistent airway inflammation, the intensity of which may also be graded. Chronic rejection is divided into bronchiolitis obliterans--active or inactive--and vascular atherosclerosis--accelerated arterial or venous sclerosis.
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Obliterative bronchiolitis after lung and heart-lung transplantation ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY Reichenspurner, H., Girgis, R. E., Robbins, R. C., Conte, J. V., Nair, R. V., Valentine, V., Berry, G. J., Morris, R. E., Theodore, J., Reitz, B. A. 1995; 60 (6): 1845-1853
Obliterative bronchiolitis (OB) has emerged as the main cause of morbidity and mortality in the long-term follow-up after lung and heart-lung transplantation. The pathogenesis of OB is multifactorial, with acute rejection and cytomegalovirus infection being the main risk factors for the development of OB. The final common pathway of all inciting events seems to be an alloimmune injury, with subsequent release of immunologic mediators and production of growth factors leading to luminal obliteration and fibrous scarring of the small airways. Analyzing the 14 years of experience in 163 patients at Stanford University, we found a current incidence of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome or histologically proven OB within the first 3 years after lung and heart-lung transplantation of 36.3%, with an overall prevalence of 58.1% after heart-lung and 51.4% after lung transplantation. Both pulmonary function indices (forced expiratory flow between 25% and 75% of forced vital capacity and forced expiratory volume in 1 second) and transbronchial biopsies have proven helpful in diagnosing bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome or OB at an early stage. Early diagnosis of OB and improved management have achieved survival rates in patients with OB after 1, 3, 5, and 10 years of 83%, 66%, 46%, and 22%, compared with 86%, 83%, 67%, and 67% in patients without OB. Recently, different experimental models have been developed to investigate the cellular and molecular events leading to OB and to evaluate new treatment strategies for this complication, which currently limits the long-term success of heart-lung and lung transplantation.
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CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION FOR HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH SENGERS-SYNDROME ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY Robbins, R. C., Bernstein, D., Berry, G. J., VanMeurs, K. P., Frankel, L. R., Reitz, B. A. 1995; 60 (5): 1425-1427
Sengers' syndrome is a rare condition consisting of congenital cataracts, mitochondrial myopathy, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The syndrome is transmitted in an autosomal recessive pattern. Progressive cardiac failure is the cause of death in most patients. This report describes cardiac transplantation for the treatment of the cardiomyopathy associated with Sengers' syndrome.
STUDIES IN EXPERIMENTAL-MODELS OF CHRONIC REJECTION - USE OF RAPAMYCIN (SIROLIMUS) AND ISOXAZOLE DERIVATIVES (LEFLUNOMIDE AND ITS ANALOG) FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF GRAFT VASCULAR-DISEASE AND OBLITERATIVE BRONCHIOLITIS 5th International Alexis Carrel Conference: Genesis, Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Rejection, Obliterative Bronchiolitis and Graft Vessel Disease after Organ Transplantation Morris, R. E., Huang, X., Gregory, C. R., Billingham, M. E., Rowan, R., Shorthouse, R., Berry, G. J. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 1995: 2068–69
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ARTERIAL SWITCH AND RESECTION OF HEPATIC HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY Robbins, R. C., Chin, C., Yun, K. L., Berry, G. J., Bernstein, D., Reitz, B. A. 1995; 59 (6): 1575-1577
We report on the management of a neonate undergoing arterial switch for transposition of the great arteries and concomitant resection of a hepatic infantile hemangioendothelioma. A preoperative aortogram demonstrated the arterial supply of the hepatic hemangioendothelioma. Pulmonary artery hypertension and myocardial ischemia were noted after separation from cardiopulmonary bypass. Resection of the hepatic malformation produced an immediate reduction in pulmonary hypertension and resolution of the myocardial ischemia. The patient had an uneventful postoperative recovery.
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GIANT-CELL MYOCARDITIS JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Cooper, L. T., Berry, G. J., Rizeq, M., Schroeder, J. S. 1995; 14 (2): 394-401
Giant cell myocarditis is a rare and frequently fatal disorder of unknown origin that is defined histopathologically as diffuse myocardial necrosis with multinucleated giant cells in the absence of sarcoidlike granulomata. The clinical and pathologic features of lymphocytic myocarditis have been described in several recent publications, but the features of idiopathic giant cell myocarditis have not been adequately addressed.We describe five patients with idiopathic giant cell myocarditis who were seen at Stanford University over the past 10 years. In each case the onset was subacute congestive heart failure. After diagnosis each patient received immunosuppressive therapy and was evaluated for heart transplantation. Progressive heart failure and ventricular arrhythmias developed in all. Three died rapidly, two of progressive heart failure and one of sudden cause. Two patients underwent orthotopic heart transplantation and are currently alive, one with disease recurrence. Pathologic studies, including endomyocardial biopsy and evaluation of postmortem or explanted material at transplantation were reviewed. The pathologic studies provided additional support that the giant cells derive from a monocytic/histiocytic lineage. Segmental wall motion abnormalities suggest giant cell myocarditis can be a focal, as well as diffuse process at certain stages of its course. This experience is compared with published cases and implications for diagnosis and treatment are discussed.In view of the uniformly fatal nature of the disease, heart transplantation should be a serious consideration, and the patients evaluated once the diagnosis is established. Triple-drug immunosuppressive therapy should be considered at the time of diagnosis.
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Neoplastic disorders after pediatric heart transplantation. Circulation Bernstein, D., Baum, D., Berry, G., Dahl, G., Weiss, L., Starnes, V. A., Gamberg, P., Stinson, E. B. 1993; 88 (5): II230-7
Because of their life-long requirement for immunosuppressive therapy, neoplastic disorders could represent a significant threat to long-term survival in infants and children after heart transplantation. This study determined the incidence and clinical spectrum of neoplastic disorders in 80 pediatric patients who underwent heart transplantation between 1974 and 1992.Follow-up ranged from 6 to 189 months (mean, 50.0 months). Tumors occurred in 10 patients (12.5%). Time to detection ranged from 3.3 to 139.2 months (mean, 52.7 months). Tumor incidence was greatest in 9 patients transplanted before the cyclosporine era (44%) compared with the subsequent 71 patients (8.5%, P < .05). There was no increase in risk related to sex, age, underlying disease, or blood type; however, patients with tumors received higher initial doses of cyclosporine and prednisone and had more rejection episodes in the first 3 months (P < .05). There was an increased risk associated with anti-thymocyte globulin (33%, P < .05) but not with OKT3 (6%, P = NS). There were eight lymphoproliferative disorders (four B-cell, one T-cell, three not determined) and one hepatocellular and one squamous cell carcinomas. Six cases of lymphoproliferative disorder had in situ evidence of Epstein-Barr virus. Patients were treated by reducing immunosuppression (7), radiotherapy (2), and chemotherapy (1). There were five deaths: two tumor related and the others due to rejection, renal failure, and infection. Of 5 survivors, 1 had tumor recurrence 4 years after diagnosis, and 4 are disease free.Tumors represent a small but serious long-term risk to pediatric heart transplant recipients. The incidence in children transplanted in the cyclosporine era is similar to that in adults, and the majority of tumors are lymphoproliferative disorders that often regress by reducing immunosuppression.
GRAFT CORONARY-DISEASE IN PEDIATRIC HEART AND COMBINED HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS - A STUDY OF 15 CASES 2nd Loma Linda International Conference on Pediatric Heart Transplantation Berry, G. J., Rizeq, M. N., Weiss, L. M., Billingham, M. E. MOSBY-YEAR BOOK INC. 1993: S309–S319
Graft coronary disease (GCD) has emerged as the most important deterrent to long-term survival in adult heart transplant recipients. The incidence, natural history, and pathobiology of GCD is less well understood in the pediatric transplant population. This study evaluated the histopathologic and immunohistochemical features of GCD in the Stanford pediatric heart and heart-lung group. Eighty-eight patients, ages 1 week to 18 years, received heart transplants between 1974 and 1992, and 15 patients, ages 1 month to 18 years received heart-lung transplants between 1981 and 1992 at Stanford University Hospital. There were 50 males and 38 females in the heart transplant group; 39 (11%) had idiopathic cardiomyopathy, 26 (30%) had congenital heart disease, 13 (15%) had viral cardiomyopathy, seven (8%) had familial cardiomyopathy, two (2%) had cardiomyopathy resulting from doxorubicin therapy, and one other case was not further delineated. In the heart-lung transplant group, there were eight males and seven females; pretransplantation diagnoses included nine (60%) with congenital heart disease and Eisenmenger's physiology, three (20%) with primary pulmonary hypertension, and one (7%) each with cystic fibrosis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and congenital lymphangiectasia. Fifteen (17%) of the heart transplant recipients and three (20%) of the heart-lung transplant recipients had GCD on angiographic or pathologic examination. Histopathologic samples were available on 14 cases (11 heart transplants and three heart-lung transplants).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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INFANTILE HISTIOCYTOID CARDIOMYOPATHY - MYOCARDIAL OR CONDUCTION SYSTEM HAMARTOMA - WHAT IS THE CELL-TYPE INVOLVED HUMAN PATHOLOGY Gelb, A. B., VANMETER, S. H., Billingham, M. E., Berry, G. J., Rouse, R. V. 1993; 24 (11): 1226-1231
Primary myocardial diseases in the pediatric age group encompass a variety of metabolic, infectious, congenital, and acquired disorders, one of which is "histiocytoid cardiomyopathy." We describe clinical and pathologic features in two infants. Autopsy findings in the first case were consistent with sudden cardiac death. The second infant has survived for 2 years on antiarrhythmic therapy with amiodarone. Microscopically, cells with vacuolated to granular cytoplasm were grouped in fascicles, imparting a pseudonodular appearance, but following a distribution reminiscent of conduction fibers. Ultrastructurally, the cells lack a T-tubule system, possess scattered lipid droplets and desmosomes rather than side-to-side junctions, and contain leptomeric fibrils that predominantly marginate to the cell periphery without sarcomeres. Immunostaining of paraffin-embedded tissue reveals perimembranous immunoreactivity for muscle-specific actin, but not for the histiocytic markers CD68 (KP1) and lysozyme. Immunohistochemistry may be a practical alternative when tissue is not saved for electron microscopy. The clinical and pathologic features of this disorder in light of the current literature suggest that it may be hamartoma, possibly of conduction system origin.
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THE DIAGNOSIS OF OBLITERATIVE BRONCHIOLITIS AFTER HEART-LUNG AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION - LOW-YIELD OF TRANSBRONCHIAL LUNG-BIOPSY 12TH ANNUAL MEETING AND SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOC FOR HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Kramer, M. R., STOEHR, C., WHANG, J. L., Berry, G. J., Sibley, R., Marshall, S. E., PATTERSON, G. M., Starnes, V. A., Theodore, J. MOSBY-YEAR BOOK INC. 1993: 675–81
Obliterative bronchiolitis is the most significant long-term complication of lung and heart-lung transplantation characterized by the rapid development of obstructive airway disease. It is thought to be a manifestation of chronic rejection and has been treated, with limited success, with augmentation of immunosuppression. Early detection of obliterative bronchiolitis and prompt initiation of therapy may result in an improved outcome. The role of transbronchial biopsy has been reported in the diagnosis of acute rejection and infection but not for obliterative bronchiolitis. To study this problem we retrospectively reviewed the transbronchial biopsy results of patients with advanced clinical obliterative bronchiolitis, as defined physiologically. Between January 1, 1988, and December 31, 1991, 46 "sets" of adequate transbronchial biopsy specimens were obtained from 16 patients (15 heart-lung recipients and one double lung recipient). Seven sets of transbronchial biopsy specimens (15.2%) showed obliterative bronchiolitis by pathologic study. In four patients with severe clinical obliterative bronchiolitis, only one transbronchial biopsy specimen of seven (14.3%) showed obliterative bronchiolitis. The pathologic diagnosis of obliterative bronchiolitis was confirmed in three of these patients at the time of autopsy or retransplantation. Twelve patients were still alive at the end of the study period, and all experienced further deterioration of lung function typical for obliterative bronchiolitis. We conclude that the sensitivity of transbronchial biopsy for obliterative bronchiolitis is poor. Possible explanations for these results are explored.
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EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS-ASSOCIATED LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER FOLLOWING AUTOLOGOUS BONE-MARROW TRANSPLANTATION FOR NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA TRANSPLANTATION Chao, N. J., Berry, G. J., Advani, R., Horning, S. J., Weiss, L. M., Blume, K. G. 1993; 55 (6): 1425-1428
WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS PRESENTING AS RIGHT MIDDLE LOBE OBSTRUCTION CHEST Lee, S. J., Berry, G. J., HUSARI, A. W. 1993; 103 (5): 1623-1624
Wegener's granulomatosis may present with a variety of findings and be difficult to diagnose. We report a case of a 55-year-old woman presenting with right middle lobe obstruction who was found to have limited Wegener's granulomatosis. Extensive medical evaluation was nondiagnostic and open lung biopsy specimens were required to establish the diagnosis.
THE ROLE OF TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSIES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF LUNG-TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Sibley, R. K., Berry, G. J., Tazelaar, H. D., KRAEMER, M. R., Theodore, J., Marshall, S. E., Billingham, M. E., Starnes, V. A. 1993; 12 (2): 308-324
We examined the utility of the transbronchial biopsy in the management of 53 lung transplant patients. One hundred thirty-three protocol biopsies were performed to ascertain the frequency and nature of abnormalities in clinically stable or asymptomatic patients; 128 diagnostic biopsies were performed in clinically ill patients to assess the morphologic abnormalities before the institution of therapy, and 105 biopsies were performed to assess the response to therapy. Histologic evidence of acute rejection was found in 24% of the protocol biopsies, and infection was found in 17%. Twenty-five patients with grade 1 or grade 2 perivascular infiltrates in protocol biopsies did not receive antirejection therapy. Follow-up biopsy in these patients showed spontaneous resolution of the infiltrates in 19% and increased infiltrates in 6. Only two of these patients became clinically ill, representing "progression" to clinical rejection in only 8% of the nontreated patients. Forty percent of the biopsies performed to rule out acute rejection or infection had histologic features of acute rejection, and another 23% had features of infection. Treatment of patients with clinical and histologic evidence of rejection was associated with rapid resolution of clinical symptoms in nearly 90% of the patients, but follow-up biopsies showed residual infiltrates compatible with ongoing or resolving rejection in 52%. Despite repeat antirejection therapy in some patients, these infiltrates persisted for an average of 30 days after the diagnostic biopsy. Follow-up biopsies also showed asymptomatic infection, usually cytomegalovirus pneumonitis, which often persisted for weeks despite the lack of symptoms. Perivascular infiltrates compatible with acute rejection were also found in 38% of biopsy specimens with evidence of infection. These perivascular infiltrates resolved with antibiotic treatment alone in nearly 50% of the patients with these features. Although perivascular mononuclear cell infiltrates are the cardinal histologic feature of acute rejection, similar infiltrates occur in patients who apparently have infection alone and other patients who have both infection and rejection; infiltrates compatible with minimal, mild, and moderate acute rejection also occur in clinically asymptomatic patients. These histologic findings are a challenge to both the pathologists' and the clinicians' skills in the management of the lung transplant patient.
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DIAGNOSIS OF BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS IN HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION PATIENTS - IMPORTANCE OF BRONCHIAL DILATATION ON CT AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY Lentz, D., Bergin, C. J., Berry, G. J., STOEHR, C., Theodore, J. 1992; 159 (3): 463-467
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the significance of bronchial dilatation identified on high-resolution CT scans obtained after heart-lung transplantation. Bronchial dilatation has been identified on pathologic specimens and on high-resolution CT scans of patients with severe bronchiolitis obliterans after lung transplantation, but this finding has not previously been systematically studied as a manifestation of this complication.We studied the high-resolution CT scans of 16 patients who had had heart and lung transplantation at least 1 year before, and compared the percentage of dilated bronchi with evidence of small airways disease shown on pulmonary function tests.We found a close correlation between the percentage of bronchi in the lower lobes that were dilated and the percent predicted forced expiratory volume in 1 sec, forced vital capacity, and forced expiratory flow between 25% and 75% of vital capacity. No other feature identified on high-resolution CT scans correlated with pulmonary function abnormalities.We conclude that dilatation of the lower lobe bronchi is a good indicator of bronchiolitis obliterans in this population, and that the percentage of dilated bronchi generally increases with increasing pulmonary dysfunction.
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ASSESSMENT OF CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT-REJECTION WITH ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY OF THE CONDUCTION SYSTEM AND HISTOPATHOLOGY OF THE VENTRICLE 11TH ANNUAL MEETING AND SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOC FOR HEART TRANSPLANTATION Kitamura, M., Berry, G. J., Billingham, M. E., Hoyt, E. G., Gutierrez, J., CLAYBERGER, C., Starnes, V. A. MOSBY-YEAR BOOK INC. 1992: 280–88
Correlation between the effective refractory period of the conduction system and the histopathologic grade of the ventricle was examined in the rat cardiac allograft during acute rejection. Lewis rats were recipients of intraabdominal heart grafts from brown Norway rats (allogeneic group, n = 42) or Lewis rats (syngeneic group, n = 15). No immunosuppressant was given. The effective refractory period of the conduction system was measured by the programmed atrial extrastimulus method (basic cycle length, 150 msec) just before the time of death. Specimens of the transplanted hearts were examined histopathologically and the histopathologic grade of rejection was scored according to the standardized grading system of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. The effective refractory period of the allogeneic heart was significantly longer starting on the third day after transplantation (p less than 0.01). The effective refractory period of the allogeneic heart was more prolonged as the severity of rejection increased. The correlation between the effective refractory period (Y) and the histopathologic grade (X) of the allogeneic group was statistically significant (r = 0.955; Y = 10.3X + 81.0; p less than 0.01). The effective refractory period of all syngeneic hearts and allogeneic hearts of postoperative day 1 and 2 were statistically equivalent to the period of native rat hearts (81.0 +/- 2.0 msec; n = 6). The histopathologic grade of the conduction system was the same as that of the ventricle. We conclude that the effective refractory period of the conduction system could be a useful measure to predict the histopathologic grade of cardiac allograft rejection.
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WARTHIN-FINKELDEY POLYKARYOCYTES DEMONSTRATE A T-CELL IMMUNOPHENOTYPE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY Kamel, O. W., LeBrun, D. P., Berry, G. J., Dorfman, R. F., Warnke, R. A. 1992; 97 (2): 179-183
Warthin-Finkeldey polykaryocytes have been described in various benign and malignant lymphoid conditions since their initial identification in tonsils of patients in the prodromal stage of measles. However, the nature of these multinucleated giant cells is obscure. The authors studied the immunohistochemical profile of the Warthin-Finkeldey-type giant cells in three cases of lymphoid proliferations (two reactive, one neoplastic) containing many multinucleated cells using a panel of paraffin-reactive antibodies. Warthin-Finkeldey polykaryocytes demonstrated reactivity with Leu22 (CD43), anti-CD3, and OPD4, indicating that these cells are multinucleated T lymphocytes. The significance of these results with respect to the disorders in which these cells are found and their possible role in pathogenesis of disease are discussed.
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DIVERSITY OF T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR VARIABLE GENES USED BY MYCOSIS-FUNGOIDES CELLS AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY Bahler, D. W., Berry, G., Oksenberg, J., Warnke, R. A., Levy, R. 1992; 140 (1): 1-8
The expression of T-cell antigen receptor beta-chain variable genes (V beta) was evaluated in 28 cases of mycosis fungoides. A novel polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique was used to associate expression of particular V beta genes with monoclonal T-cell populations. In addition, the same biopsies used for PCR analysis were also examined for reactivity with a panel of seven monoclonal antibodies that specifically recognized V beta proteins from four different families. Only three cases clearly stained with the antibodies, a result consistent with a diverse set of V beta genes being used. This was confirmed by PCR analysis, which indicated that V beta genes from many different families were expressed by these tumors. Preferential use of the V beta 8 family, which had been previously use of the V beta 8 family, which had been previously reported for this disease, was not evident among the cases analyzed.
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ULCERATIVE TRACHEOBRONCHITIS AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATION - A NEW FORM OF INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS AMERICAN REVIEW OF RESPIRATORY DISEASE Kramer, M. R., Denning, D. W., Marshall, S. E., Ross, D. J., Berry, G., LEWISTON, N. J., Stevens, D. A., Theodore, J. 1991; 144 (3): 552-556
Invasive aspergillosis is frequently a fatal disease in the setting of immunosuppression, including organ transplant recipients. The fungus usually affects lung parenchyma and may disseminate from there. We have recently noted tracheobronchitis in six patients with heart-lung and lung transplants, three of whom had deep mucosal ulceration and histologic evidence of invasive aspergillosis. This apparently new form of invasive disease is initially limited to the anastomosis site and large airways. Ulceration, necrosis, cartilage invasion, and formation of a pseudomembrane are the pathologic features. In two patients subsequent disseminated aspergillosis occurred with a fatal outcome. In the two single-lung recipients, disease was limited to the transplanted side emphasizing the importance of abnormal local defense mechanisms in the airways of lung transplant recipients. Routine bronchoscopic examination of the airways is important in early detection of this complication. Oral therapy with the new, antifungal agent itraconazole was successful in five of the six patients, with fatal relapse in one. A classification of the various forms of saprophytic, allergic, and invasive forms of aspergillus tracheobronchitis, to include this new entity, is proposed.
CYTOLOGY OF ANGIOSARCOMA IN EFFUSIONS ACTA CYTOLOGICA Berry, G. J., Anderson, C. J., Pitts, W. C., NEITZEL, G. F., Weiss, L. M. 1991; 35 (5): 538-542
The cytologic and immunocytochemical findings in pleural effusions from three cases of angiosarcoma are presented. In two of the cases, the primary lesion was on the scalp; in the third case, an angiosarcoma of the small intestine developed after radiotherapy for Hodgkin's disease. Single malignant cells and small clusters of cells were seen in cytologic preparations from two cases while only single cells were seen in preparations from one case. The malignant cells had delicate, finely vacuolated cytoplasm with distinct borders. No specific morphologic features were noted. Immunoperoxidase studies revealed binding of Ulex europaeus and reactivity for vimentin in all three cases and expression of Factor VIII-related protein in two of the cases but no expression of epithelial markers. The clinical history and immunoperoxidase studies are necessary to distinguish angiosarcoma from metastatic adenocarcinoma and other malignancies in effusions.
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GROWTH FRACTION ESTIMATION OF MALIGNANT-LYMPHOMAS IN FORMALIN-FIXED PARAFFIN-EMBEDDED TISSUE USING ANTI-PCNA CYCLIN 19A2 - CORRELATION WITH KI-67 LABELING AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY Kamel, O. W., LeBrun, D. P., Davis, R. E., Berry, G. J., Warnke, R. A. 1991; 138 (6): 1471-1477
The immunohistochemical detection of PCNA/Cyclin, a nuclear protein associated with cell proliferation, represents a potentially useful tool for the study of tumor proliferative activity. Previous studies investigating the reactivity of anti-PCNA/Cyclin monoclonal antibody 19A2 have not clearly defined the population of proliferating cells with which 19A2 reacts in tissue sections. The authors describe a method for detection of PCNA/Cyclin in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue using a routine biotin-streptavidin immunohistochemical system that employs an anti-IgM, mu-chain-specific second-stage antibody. The authors used this method to study the proliferative activity of 24 malignant lymphomas, consisting of 12 low-grade lymphomas (LGLs) and 12 intermediate-grade lymphomas (IGLs), and five reactive tonsils. 19A2 data was compared with Ki-67 labeling in frozen sections in the same group of cases. 19A2 provided easily detectable nuclear staining of proliferating cells with reactive cells demonstrating varying intensity of staining, this latter finding most likely due to the varying nuclear concentration of PCNA/Cyclin protein during the cell cycle. In tonsils, 19A2 reacted with germinal center cells and basal keratinocytes. In the malignant lymphomas, there was good correlation between 19A2 and Ki-67 data (r = 0.90, P less than 0.001). The subgroup of LGLs showed a mean PCNA/Cyclin of 26% and a mean Ki-67 of 28%. In the subgroup of IGLs, mean PCNA/Cyclin = 54% and mean Ki-67 = 59%. These results indicate that 19A2 detects a fraction of proliferating cells that is similar to that detected by Ki-67, ie, the growth fraction, and that 19A2 is a reliable marker of proliferative activity in uniformly handled, formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue.
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PROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF SERIAL PULMONARY-FUNCTION STUDIES AND TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSIES IN SINGLE-LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS TRANSPLANTATION PROCEEDINGS Marshall, S. E., LEWISTON, N. J., Kramer, M. R., Sibley, R. K., Berry, G., Rich, J. B., Theodore, J., Starnes, V. A. 1991; 23 (1): 1217-1219
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EFFECTS OF THE NEW AND HIGHLY-ACTIVE IMMUNOSUPPRESSANT, RAPAMYCIN, ON LYMPHOID-TISSUES AND CELLS INVIVO 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE TRANSPLANTATION SOC Zheng, B., Shorthouse, R., Masek, M. A., Berry, G., Billingham, M. E., Morris, R. E. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. 1991: 851–55
PSEUDOMALIGNANT ULCERATIVE CHANGE OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL-TRACT HUMAN PATHOLOGY Berry, G. J., Pitts, W. C., Weiss, L. M. 1991; 22 (1): 59-62
The occurrence of pseudomalignant ulcerative change in seven specimens from the colon and rectum of six patients is described. In all cases, there was surface ulceration of a polypoid lesion which contained granulation tissue and acute and chronic inflammation. There was an underlying inflammatory pseudopolyp in four lesions, a juvenile polyp in one lesion, an adenomatous polyp in one lesion, and a benign retention polyp in one lesion. Within the stroma of all cases were numerous atypical cells that mimicked a malignant neoplasm. The atypical cells expressed vimentin in immunohistochemical studies; no expression of keratins, leukocyte common antigen, factor VIII, Ulex europaeus, carcinoembryonic antigen, actin, or desmin was found. Recognition of this lesion is important, as confusion with carcinoma, lymphoma, sarcoma, or a viral infection may easily occur.
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A working formulation for the standardization of nomenclature in the diagnosis of heart and lung rejection: Lung Rejection Study Group. The International Society for Heart Transplantation. journal of heart transplantation Berry, G. J., Brunt, E. M., CHAMBERLAIN, D., Hruban, R. H., Sibley, R. K., Stewart, S., Tazelaar, H. D. 1990; 9 (6): 593-601
A WORKING FORMULATION FOR THE STANDARDIZATION OF NOMENCLATURE IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF HEART AND LUNG REJECTION - LUNG REJECTION STUDY-GROUP JOURNAL OF HEART TRANSPLANTATION Yousem, S. A., Berry, G. J., Brunt, E. M., CHAMBERLAIN, D., Hruban, R. H., Sibley, R. K., Stewart, S., Tazelaar, H. D. 1990; 9 (6): 593-601
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PNEUMOCYSTIS-CARINII PNEUMONIA - CT AND HRCT OBSERVATIONS JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY Bergin, C. J., WIRTH, R. L., Berry, G. J., Castellino, R. A. 1990; 14 (5): 756-759
We examined the chest radiography, CT, and high resolution CT (HRCT) of 14 patients with proven Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. We compared the radiographic and HRCT patterns of abnormal lung parenchyma with histologic sections obtained in those 11 patients who had had transbronchial lung biopsies. Diffuse bilateral perihilar airspace disease was the most common radiographic pattern. Both CT and HRCT showed "ground glass" opacity in the lungs, through which the vessels remained visible in all patients. No enlarged lymph nodes or pleural effusions were seen in patients without associated lymphoproliferative disorders.
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ACUTE LUNG REJECTION AFTER HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION - CORRELATION OF FINDINGS ON CHEST RADIOGRAPHS WITH LUNG-BIOPSY RESULTS AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY Bergin, C. J., Castellino, R. A., Blank, N., Berry, G. J., Sibley, R. K., Starnes, V. A. 1990; 155 (1): 23-27
This retrospective study was performed to determine if the chest radiograph could serve as a predictor for acute lung rejection in heart-lung transplantation patients. The findings on chest radiographs were correlated with the results of transbronchial biopsies in 16 heart-lung transplantation patients. The chest radiographs immediately preceding 83 biopsies were evaluated for a variety of findings. The histopathologic results of the lung biopsies were divided into five categories: (1) acute lung rejection (n = 25); (2) suggestive, but not diagnostic, of acute lung rejection (n = 8); (3) nonspecific (n = 26); (4) infection (n = 17); and (5) normal lung (n = 9). Biopsies from two patients showed both acute lung rejection and cytomegalovirus infection and were included in both categories. These histopathologic results were then correlated with the radiologic observations. We found that the combination of septal lines and new or increasing pleural effusions, without concomitant increase in cardiac size or vascular pedicle width, or evidence of vascular redistribution, indicated acute lung rejection with a sensitivity of 68% (17/25), specificity of 90% (52/58), and overall accuracy of 83% (69/83). We conclude that the chest radiograph is a useful indicator of acute lung rejection.
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THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF THE ANOPHTHALMIC SOCKET .2. ANALYSIS OF ORBITAL FAT OPHTHALMIC PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY Kronish, J. W., Gonnering, R. S., Dortzbach, R. K., RANKIN, J. H., Reid, D. L., Phernetton, T. M., Pitts, W. C., Berry, G. J. 1990; 6 (2): 88-95
The pathophysiologic mechanisms responsible for the clinical features of the anophthalmic socket are poorly understood. Atrophy of orbital fat has been thought to be a major contributing cause of enophthalmos and the superior sulcus deformities that develop after enucleation, but it has never been demonstrated histopathologically or confirmed by scientific analysis. This study was undertaken to investigate the changes that occur in the orbital fat compartment of the anophthalmic socket in an animal model by measuring orbital soft tissue mass and evaluating adipocyte cell size. Instead of reduction in the tissue mass, a statistically significant greater weight of the fat and connective tissue compartment was found in the anophthalmic orbit by nearly 13% compared to the control orbit in the animals in the long-term group. No significant change in the mean maximal diameter of adipocytes developed 7 months after enucleation. These analyses do not support the concept that orbital fat atrophy or a reduction of metabolic activity occurs in the anophthalmic socket in this animal model. From these results and our previous findings that the circulation dynamics and blood flow to orbital tissues do not change after enucleation, we propose that the pathophysiologic basis of the problems associated with anophthalmos is a disturbance in the spatial architecture and interrelationships of the multiple tissue components of the orbit, not a change in the orbital blood flow or development of fat atrophy.
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INSITU HYBRIDIZATION STUDIES FOR VIRAL NUCLEIC-ACIDS IN HEART AND LUNG ALLOGRAFT BIOPSIES AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY Weiss, L. M., MOVAHED, L. A., Berry, G. J., Billingham, M. E. 1990; 93 (5): 675-679
In situ hybridization has been shown to be a useful technique for the identification of specific viruses in pathologic tissues. The authors studied 313 lung and 164 heart biopsies from 20 heart-lung recipients to assess its utility in this clinical setting, employing biotinylated probes for the cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex, and adenovirus genomes. Twenty-five lung biopsies and one heart biopsy had detectable cytomegalovirus DNA by in situ hybridization. As compared to histopathology, in situ hybridization had a sensitivity of 85% and a specificity of 99%. None of the biopsies had detectable herpes simplex or adenovirus by either in situ hybridization or routine histopathology. In situ hybridization studies may be of greatest use when the results of conventional histopathology are equivocal and in the patients with radiologic or clinical evidence of pulmonary disease.
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SPINDLE CELL NEOPLASMS OF LYMPH-NODES OF PROBABLE RETICULUM-CELL LINEAGE - TRUE RETICULUM-CELL SARCOMA AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY Weiss, L. M., Berry, G. J., Dorfman, R. F., Banks, P., Kaiserling, E., CURTIS, J., Rosai, J., Warnke, R. A. 1990; 14 (5): 405-414
Primary spindle cell neoplasms involving hematolymphoid organs are extremely rare. We present four cases of spindle cell neoplasms of unusual phenotype arising within lymph nodes. Two of the four cases showed morphologic and immunophenotypic features suggestive of interdigitating reticulum cell lineage; these cases expressed several macrophage antigens and S-100 protein but not CD1. The other two cases showed evidence suggestive of dendritic reticulum cell lineage. Both cases expressed HLA-DR, several macrophage antigens, complement receptors C3b and C3d; one case expressed R4/23; both showed the presence of desmosomes on ultrastructural examination. A germline configuration for the immunoglobulin heavy chain and beta-T--cell receptor genes was detected in all four cases. Of the two patients in the first group, one had local recurrence of tumor; the other died of widespread metastases. Of the two patients in the second group, both are alive and well at 12 and 27 months follow-up, respectively.
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EVALUATION OF HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS WITH PROSPECTIVE, SERIAL TRANS-BRONCHIAL BIOPSIES AND PULMONARY-FUNCTION STUDIES JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY Starnes, V. A., Theodore, J., Oyer, P. E., Billingham, M. E., Sibley, R. K., Berry, G., Shumway, N. E., Stinson, E. B. 1989; 98 (5): 683-690
The insidious development of obliterative bronchiolitis after heart-lung transplantation is thought to be due to rejection and possibly infection (cytomegalovirus). To evaluate further, we prospectively managed the last 16 consecutive heart-lung transplant recipients with serial transbronchial biopsies with lavage and pulmonary function studies as part of a surveillance protocol or as dictated by clinical presentation. A total of 123 transbronchial biopsies with lavage were performed, 77 for clinical indications (group I) and 46 for routine surveillance (group II). Results of 64 (83.1%) group I biopsies were positive for rejection or infection. Thirty-one of these biopsy specimens showed signs of rejection (29 in group I and two in group II), characterized by a perivascular mononuclear infiltrate, lymphocytic bronchiolitis, and occasionally alveolar septal mononuclear infiltrate. Forty-six serial pulmonary function tests were performed. The forced expiratory volume in 1 second (percent predicted), forced expiratory flow rate between 25% and 75% of the forced vital capacity (percent predicted), and arterial oxygen tension (millimeters of mercury) were significantly reduced from baseline values during rejection episodes: forced expiratory volume in 1 second, 75.7% +/- 20.1% versus 52.7% +/- 18.3% (p less than or equal to 0.05); forced expiratory flow rate between 25% and 75% of the forced vital capacity, 97.6% +/- 30.5% versus 49.8% +/- 22.3% (p less than or equal to 0.05); and arterial oxygen tension, 92.1 +/- 8.8 mm Hg versus 71.4 +/- 18.8 mm Hg (p less than or equal to 0.05). The fall in pulmonary function was reversible with pulse methylprednisolone. Asynchronous heart and lung rejection was documented. Of the 29 episodes of pulmonary rejection, 18 (62%) occurred asynchronously. Ten of the 16 (62%) heart-lung recipients had at least one episode of cardiac rejection. Thirteen of 16 (81%) had at least one episode of lung rejection. Serial transbronchial biopsies with lavage, as dictated by pulmonary function tests and clinical status, have guided early and more specific therapy directed against rejection and infection. With early detection, small airway dysfunction has been reversible.
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MARGINAL VACUOLES IN METASTATIC THYROID-CARCINOMA - A CASE-REPORT DIAGNOSTIC CYTOPATHOLOGY Pitts, W. C., Berry, G. J. 1989; 5 (2): 200-202
A case of metastatic follicular carcinoma to the iliac bone in a 78-yr-old woman is presented. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) smears showed numerous, cohesive tumor cell groups with moderately abundant cytoplasm and distinctive, peripherally situated pink-staining vacuoles on May-Grünwald-Giemsa stain. The presence of marginal vacuoles strongly suggested the possibility of metastatic thyroid carcinoma. Immunohistochemical studies performed on a concomitant needle core biopsy showed immunoreactivity for thyroglobulin, supporting a thyroid derivation for this metastasis. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case in which marginal vacuoles ("flame cells") have been identified in a malignant thyroid condition.
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KIKUCHIS HISTIOCYTIC NECROTIZING LYMPHADENITIS - AN ANALYSIS OF 108 CASES WITH EMPHASIS ON DIFFERENTIAL-DIAGNOSIS SEMINARS IN DIAGNOSTIC PATHOLOGY Dorfman, R. F., Berry, G. J. 1988; 5 (4): 329-345
Kikuchi's necrotizing lymphadenitis has now become recognized in many parts of the world as a well-defined clinicopathologic entity with a remarkable predilection for cervical lymph nodes of young women. The morphologic features encountered in lymph nodes are distinctive and should enable pathologists to establish the diagnosis with confidence. Nonetheless, this analysis of 108 cases, encountered over a 15-year period, has emphasized the difficulty that many pathologists have in recognizing this disorder, and in particular, in distinguishing it from malignant lymphoma. Although in the vast majority of cases, lymphadenopathy and other symptomatology resolves spontaneously, two of our patients, thought initially to have Kikuchi's disease, developed systemic lupus erythematosus. This raises consideration for the proposal that Kikuchi's disease may reflect a self-limited SLE-like auto-immune condition (a "forme fruste" of SLE), perhaps induced by virus-infected transformed lymphocytes. Moreover, such observations indicate that patients with Kikuchi's disease should be kept under observation for several years to ensure that they are not at risk for the development of systemic lupus erythematosus.
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Being viewed globally as a reliable and consistent supplier of pulses directly affects the ability for growers across Canada to be profitable. This is why we collaborate with our national association Pulse Canada, other provincial pulse organizations, and others across the agriculture sector in the area of transportation to ensure we have a unified voice at a national level, and that we see results that enhance the Canadian agriculture supply chain.
Railway Performance
The pulse industry, through Pulse Canada, led the establishment of the Ag Transport Coalition. The Coalition is a group of agriculture industry stakeholders that are working towards enhancing the competitiveness of the agriculture supply chain. The coalition has developed performance measurement reports for rail for 90 per cent of grain shipped from Western Canada, which allows for objective and credible, real-time daily and weekly reporting on supply-chain effectiveness. This reporting increases transparency and accountability for railway performance.
Other industry members of the Ag Transport Coalition include the Alberta Wheat Commission, the Canadian Canola Growers Association, the Western Grain Elevators Association, the Inland Terminals Association of Canada, the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
Canada Transportation Act Review & Bill C-49
In May 2018, Bill C-49, the Transportation Modernization Act, received Royal Assent after being passed in both houses of Parliament. This marked the introduction of reciprocal penalties into Service Level Agreements, replaces extended interswitchiing with a new "long-haul interswitching" provision, provides the Canadian Transportation Agency with own-motion inquiry powers on systemic or emerging rail freight issues under guidance from the Minister of Transportation, redefines adequate and suitable service, and makes changes to the Maximum Revenue Entitlement calculations to promote railway investment in hopper cars.
A key outcome of Bill C-49 will be the launch of a regulatory process to develop rail service and performance indicators. The Canadian pulse industry believes that the development of a comprehensive data regime to hold players accountable for their performance and track progress towards achieving the goals of the Transportation 2030 strategy is essential.
The Canadian pulse industry worked with other partners to provide input to the Federal Government during the Canada Transportation Act (CTA) consultation period. Following the report and recommendations made by the CTA Review Committee Chairperson, David Emerson, the Canadian pulse industry identified recommendations included in the report that were in alignment with the agriculture industry’s recommendations, those that were not aligned, and areas that may lead to positive outcomes with further industry discussion.
Since Bill C-49 was unveiled the Canadian pulse industry had been calling on the Canadian government to make the amendment to the bill that provided the Canadian Transportation Agency with Own-motion power that would remove the requirement of the Agency to receive a complaint from a shipper, instead enabling the Agency to investigate service issues and railways actions independently, and identify solutions within their regulatory toolbox.
An Inside Look at Transportation and Market Access - Video
AG Transport Coalition External Link
Letter to Minister of Employment, Workforce Development, and Labour on CP Work Stoppage - May 29, 2018 External Link
Pulse Sector Views C49 as a Step Toward Improved Transportation Performance and Reliability External Link
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