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Frazier Family graduates from Harding together
By Emily Sundermeier|2019-12-09T09:04:47-06:00December 6th, 2019|News, People|
*Courtesy of The Bison
SEARCY, Ark. – Three members of the Frazier family will walk across the stage at Harding’s December commencement ceremony. Bryan and April Frazier are the parents of Lydia Frazier, and all three will receive master’s degrees. Bryan and April will receive education specialist degrees in clinical mental health, and Lydia will receive a master of arts in teaching.
The Fraziers did not necessarily plan to graduate together, but Bryan and April decided to begin the same master’s program at the same time.
“My wife and I decided to do the counseling program together, so the two of us have been taking most of our classes together,” Bryan said. “We didn’t know that our daughter would be doing the master’s program in education at the same time, and it’s just so cool.”
Bryan predicted they will all be emotional and share a one of a kind experience as a family when they cross Harding’s stage next Saturday.
Lydia received a bachelor of science degree in psychology and a minor in English from Harding in 2017, and is even more thrilled for this graduation because her family will be right by her side.
“I am really excited that we will all get to walk together,” Lydia said. “Graduation is an incredibly special event, and I think that it will be made even more special because we all get to experience it together.”
Lydia experienced college with her parents, and she said she is thankful for this time.
April had mixed feelings about going back to college, but she said having Bryan beside her in the classroom and at home, in addition to the rest of her family cheering her on, made the whole experience worth it.
“It was scary for me to go back to college as an adult, and it was difficult at times to balance all my responsibilities, but I have an awesome support system at home, and that helped me through the tough times,” April said.
Close family friend Melani Blansett said the Fraziers are a tightly knit family, and them graduating together makes all the sense in the world to her.
“Graduating together perfectly reflects the Frazier family dynamic,” Blansett said. “They are a family who cares intensely about each other, encourages and supports each other.”
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Field and Court Sport Training from a Track Coach’s Perspective: The Phosphagen System
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By Rob Assise
Part of being an effective track and field coach is constructing training for athletes that’s designed to address the demands of their events. Over the years, I’ve developed relationships with numerous coaches from a wide variety of sports. I’m alarmed by the high percentage of coaches who don’t design training based on the demands of their sport. While there are track coaches who fall into this category, the percentage of field and court (FC) coaches (particularly soccer, football, and basketball) is substantially higher.
When I talk to these coaches, they throw around terms like an athlete has great “game speed” or is “football fast.” When asked to explain how their training addresses these phrases, they dance around the question and often give an unsatisfactory answer.
To all FC coaches, before you dismiss me as an out-of-touch track coach, let me bring to light issues of which I am well aware:
The environment of FC sports is more chaotic than track and field (although track is probably more chaotic than most think).
Change of direction is prominent in FC sports. It’s not prominent in track and field.
FC athletes often make reactive decisions (agility) based on game situations, environmental conditions, and the actions of their teammates and opponents. These factors also impact decisions track and field athletes make.
In FC sports, the positions from which athletes have to generate speed are unpredictable. In track and field, there is minimal variation.
Why should FC sport coaches care about a track coach’s perspective? As a track coach, my X’s and O’s are to get people to run faster, jump higher and farther, and throw farther. Although we don’t study offensive and defensive schemes and don’t scout our opponents, we constantly self-scout our athletes to get them to move better and determine what activities they respond best to in training.
Track coaches committed to their craft constantly study training methods to enhance human performance, so the numbers are smaller on the clock and larger on the tape measure. Taking these factors taken into account, the following represents how I would approach (as a track coach) training design for FC sports.
Addressing Energy System Distribution in Training
All coaches should have a fundamental knowledge of the body’s energy systems. This article by Jason Karp Ph.D. gives a brief overview of the three–phosphagen, glycolytic, and aerobic. Although we try to categorize the energy systems the body uses into sequential silos based on the intensity and duration of exercise, the reality is much more complicated.
Karp states, “The production of ATP is never achieved by the exclusive use of one energy system, but rather by the coordinated response of all three energy systems contributing to different degrees.”1 For a simple example, compare a running back scoring a 50-yard touchdown in both the first quarter and the fourth quarter. The phosphagen system may have been used almost exclusively for the run in the first quarter. But due to fatigue acquired during the game, the run in the fourth quarter may have been a combination of the phosphagen and glycolytic systems. The aerobic system would have a small role during both runs.
Despite the gray area that exists in producing energy, coaches must know the demands of their sport and how energy system usage applies. American football incorporates a short high-intensity effort followed by a break. At the high school level, the average play is 5.6 seconds with 30.8 seconds between plays.2 Basketball and soccer, on the other hand, involve athletes in constant motion who have periods of high and low effort depending on the game situation.
Due to the different gameplay demands, the percentage of training that addresses each energy system should vary. What is the appropriate distribution and what are the advantages obtained from training each? This part of my series on energy systems will address the phosphagen system.
The Phosphagen System and Maximum Speed
The phosphagen system is prioritized for maximum efforts up to ~10 seconds. For FC sports, this is short bouts of maximum effort. Although various research does not come to a common percentage of phosphagen system usage for FC sports, all agree it’s used the most. In football, it’s almost used exclusively, and in soccer and basketball, it’s used only slightly less.
Despite this fact, many FC coaches have a gaping hole in their programming. While many do well training the phosphagen system in the weight room, their systems fail to include the best way to train it–sprinting. Training to enhance maximum speed not only leads to a higher top-end speed, but also improves acceleration, strength, change of direction, and speed reserve. 3, 4, 5
Furthermore, a 2012 study of professional soccer players showed that linear sprinting is the most frequent action in goal situations. Because sprinting has a global effect on athleticism and due to its overall importance in FC sports, it’s the type of max effort activity I’ll address.
Image 1. If linear sprinting occurs most often in goal situations, shouldn’t it be trained regularly?
All coaches want faster athletes, but many have their athletes do everything to get faster except sprinting maximally with full recovery. If I want to get better at shooting free-throws, I shoot free-throws. If I want to get better at throwing a football, I throw a football. The principle of specificity must reign supreme when attempting to enhance maximum speed.
We can train this quality by getting the athlete into a starting position (use a wide variety) and sprinting just beyond the point where they attain maximum speed. For most high school athletes, max speed occurs between 15m (novice) and 50m (elite), so sprints between 20m and 60m fit the bill. A guideline for rest is one minute for every 10m sprinted in a rep (40m sprint = 4 minutes rest).
In terms of dosage, athletes should sprint one to three times per week depending on the time of year and the demands of their position. To ensure maximum efforts, sprints must be timed. An automated system such as Freelap is ideal, but a stopwatch is better than nothing.
According to Dr. Pat Davidson, research shows that the ability to enhance the phosphagen system’s percentage of energy contribution does not increase much, if at all, through training. 6 My takeaway is that the volume of max effort activity in training does not have to be high. If we’re not altering the energy system much, do what is needed to develop the nervous system and nothing more. For example, a typical maximum speed day for our program rarely exceeds 160m of total volume.
Sprinting with full recovery enhances #maximumspeed, says @HFJumps. Click To Tweet
Just because the phosphagen system’s contribution may not improve much with training does not mean there are no benefits regarding energy. The primary purpose of sprinting with full recovery is to enhance maximum speed. All FC coaches should desire this. The by-product of increasing maximum speed is improving speed reserve.
Speed Reserve
Speed reserve is not a complicated concept: The faster an athlete’s maximum speed, the faster their sub-maximum speed. For example, suppose Athlete A has a maximum speed of 10 m/s, and Athlete B has a maximum speed of 9 m/s. A percentage of their sub-maximum speeds are listed in the table below:
Image 2. Speed Reserve is a general percentage of submaximal velocities based on an athlete’s maximal ability. While top speed and acceleration are separate qualities, we can use the submaximal concept to make training decisions.
While these numbers are arbitrary, they get the point across. The faster athlete can exhibit less effort and still move faster (Athlete A can move at 82% and be faster than Athlete B’s 90%). If I were an FC sport coach, I would like a team full of athletes who could move faster without having to try as hard. It would be beneficial as the game continues to progress. If two small forwards are playing man-to-man against each other and one can average an 80% effort to guard the other while the other has to exert maximum effort while on defense, who will be in a better place once the fourth quarter rolls around?
Image 3. Basketball players probably never reach their true top speed during competition because of the court’s dimensions, but the global athletic improvements made by increasing maximum speed make it a must to train.
Training at maximum speed with full recovery improves maximum speed capabilities, which raises the level of sub-maximum speed capabilities. The carry-over is that a faster athlete has better sub-maximum speed repeatability because they can “try less” (leaving more energy in the tank) while still meeting the demands of a task.
Unfortunately many coaches view improving repeat sprint ability (RSA) from only one end of the spectrum. Gassers, ladders, and even standard wind sprints are often performed without full recovery and until failure (primarily addressing the glycolytic system). The work can be valuable, but in many cases it’s overdone. While the capacity to operate at a submaximal level may improve, an athlete’s maximum speed is not improving very much, if at all.
It would behoove these athletes to train on the other end of the spectrum. Purdue men’s basketball strength and conditioning coach, Josh Bonhotal, says it best, “A common mistake is to attack repeat sprint ability when you have never truly developed speed and thus sprint ability itself.” 7
Image 4. In my 12 years of football, 100% of running workouts primarily addressed the glycolytic or aerobic systems. Zero percent focused on the phosphagen system via maximum speed. I think this still rings true for many athletes 16 years after my last season.
Greater Max Speed ⇨ Greater Strength?
This idea seems foreign to most in the FC sport arena, at least at the high school level. Most would view it the other way around–get stronger to get faster. I have great respect for strength coaches, but I think many promote this idea and chase arbitrary weight room numbers to justify their positions. Also, there are high school FC coaches who promote this idea to keep their athletes from competing in other sports. They may do it because that’s what they believe regarding training or because they feel it necessary define an athlete’s high school experience. In either case, the motives and rationales are questionable.
An athlete can move faster by increasing force put into the ground (via higher brute force or improving the direction of force), or decreasing time spent on the ground. If an athlete is in a maximum speed training program, both often occur. Being able to deliver more force in less time is an ideal type of functional strength. If the body’s various structures can handle a higher speed, it’s logical to conclude that the structures are stronger. Furthermore, sprinting can increase protein synthesis pathways by as much as 230%.8
Being able to deliver more force in less time is an ideal type of functional strength, says @HFJumps. Click To Tweet
Reaching a higher top-end speed not only improves force output but also improves the ability to absorb higher forces. A faster athlete will decelerate from a higher speed than a slower athlete. If there is a defined distance to decelerate, the faster athlete will absorb more force over that distance. The greater eccentric loads placed on the faster athlete lead to an increase in strength. The ability to absorb force is essential for FC sports due to the change of direction requirements.
If athletes train at maximum speed, they will get faster. Being able to squat, bench, clean, and deadlift more weight will probably help a high school athlete get faster. In a presentation given at ALTIS, Arizona Cardinals strength and conditioning coach Buddy Morris stated, “Sprinting drives up your weights, weights don’t necessarily drive up your sprinting.” 9 Why not create a program that uses the best of both worlds?
Max Speed and Injury Resistance
Sprinting to achieve maximum speed is highly neural, and it must be trained so the athlete’s nervous system does not short circuit during competition. If the nervous system is not ready to handle operating at maximum speed, injuries (such as pulled muscles) are more likely to occur.
Image 5. Training maximum speed will decrease risks for potential injuries.
On a side note, for those who don’t believe muscle pulls can be a neurological issue instead of a muscle issue, there’s a 2014 study of elite-level soccer players that showed sports-related concussions increased the risk of a subsequent injuries (such as a hamstring or groin pull) by 50%.10
Image 6. In sports, concussions can increase risk of subsequent injuries.
The flow charts are different, but they end up in the same place. In the first, the control center is sending enough power to light a stadium to a system that is only equipped to light a bedroom. The second is like flipping on a bedroom light switch to light the kitchen, but the garage light turns on 5 minutes later. In other words, the control center (brain and spinal cord) is sending wrong signals to the nerves, which are getting muscles to contract and relax at inopportune times.
Many FC coaches are scared to have athletes sprint in training because they see players get injured when they sprint during a competition. I understand that player availability is a huge factor of success. When we introduce sprinting in a conservative and progressive manner, it is safe and leaves the athlete better prepared. I often wonder if the coaches who don’t train sprints due to injury risk are the same ones who have athletes hold logs over their heads while being sprayed with water–seems like conflicting logic.
Coaches who are serious about their craft pride themselves on their ability to prepare. It only makes sense to address competition demands in training.
Strength coach Kyle Kennedy recently tweeted, “The ability to create and close space is most important in most team sports.”11 Addressing the phosphagen system in a balanced format which includes sprinting, agility, and strength training will lead to improvements in this ability.
In the upcoming part(s) of this series, I will address the glycolytic and aerobic energy systems along with some other considerations.
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Karp, Jason. “The Three Metabolic Energy Systems.”
Holler, Tony. “New Ideas for Old School Football Coaches.”
Hansen, Derek. “Sprint Training: The Complete System.”
Hansen, Derek. “The Relevance and Importance of Speed Reserve in all Sports.” Strength Power Speed, July 17, 2014.
Clark, Ken. “The Mechanics of Underlying Linear Sprinting Performance.” Speed Science. PowerPoint Presentation.
Davidson, Pat. “Episode 104: Interview with Pat Davidson – Part 2 – ESD & Mass.” All Things Strength and Wellness Podcast. November 5, 2016.
Bonhotal, Josh quoted in Tony Holler, “Basketball Advice from a Sprint Coach.”
Poliquin Group. “Eight Reasons Everyone Should Do Sprints” March 20, 2013.
Morris, Buddy (via @StuartMcMillan1). “Sprinting drives up your weights. Weights don’t necessarily drive up your sprinting.” 3:54 p.m. – November 11, 2016.
Nordström A, Nordström P, Ekstrand J. “Sports-related concussion increases the risk of subsequent injury by about 50% in elite male football players.” British Journal of Sports Medicine, July 31, 2014.
Kennedy, Kyle (via @kennedyk24). “The ability to create and close space is most important in most team sports.” 9:07 a.m. – October 26, 2017.
Rob Assise
Rob Assise has 16 years of experience teaching mathematics and coaching track and field at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. He has also coached football and cross country. You can find his additional writings at Track Football Consortium, Just Fly Sports, and ITCCCA. Reach Rob via e-mail at robertassise@gmail.com or Twitter @HFJumps.
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rocky says
This paper needs to be broadcast out to FC coaches throughout the universe. Training for and running a sub 8 minute mile for prep female volleyball players is unbelievable.
Great info, thanks a ton!
Rob Assise says
Rocky,
Thank you for taking the time to read the article! I think it is important to address all 3 energy systems in training, but there is no doubt that the phosphagen system is the one that ends up getting the short end of the stick (at least at the high school level).
In regards to prep volleyball players, I suggest listening to Episode #14 of the Just Fly Performance Podcast. There is a part which discusses the advantages of training top end speed with volleyball players (who obviously never reach max velocity in competition). There is no legitimate substitute for sprinting!
Thank you Coach.
Erik Krueger says
Is Ken Clarks powerpoint on linear speed open access? If so can you shoot it to me?
Erik Krueger
Thank you for reading! I am looking into it, but in the meantime, can you send me an email?
Brian Robinson says
Hi Rob:
Great article. Would you consider “Flying 10 yds Starts” ( jog 10 yds and sprint 10 to 20 yds) as a prudent method of introducing sprinting to field sport athletes during pre-season? The objective is to increase speed/acceleration, while minimizing soft-tissue injuries.
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Thank you for reading! I think that would be appropriate and I would also suggest different types of movements into the sprint (shuffle, backpedal, etc.) If you go with static starts, I would vary the positions. In all cases, I would have the team sport athlete respond to a stimulus (ideally another athlete’s movement). The Just Fly Podcast Episode 84 does a great job describing some options.
Alina Smith says
Nice article its very helpfull thanks for sharing
Thanks for the article and explainjng it in simple language.What would you suggest for sports like tennis,squash and badminton… any resource who. An suggest?..
Ankit,
Thank you for reading! To be perfectly honest, those sports are out of my comfort zone, but I still think there would be significant value in having true sprinting as a part of a training menu. The global effect it has on overall athleticism is to great to ignore! If I come across any resources I will be sure to pass them your way.
Thanks for sharing this, these types of sports are very much physically demanding so their require a lot practice and specially very fit body, sprinters need to be very cautious about their diet and workout routine for more info regarding this check this article
Jhon Abraham says
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Francis says
Hi Rob, Really this is a nice article. Always I love this type of exceptional sports-related information. I hope other’s are come forwarding as like you.
Much obliged to you for perusing! I imagine that would be fitting and I would likewise recommend distinctive kinds of developments into the run (rearrange, retreat, and so forth.) If you run with static begins, I would change the positions. In all cases, I would have the group activity competitor react to a boost (preferably another competitor’s development). The Just Fly Podcast Episode 84 completes an awesome activity depicting a few alternatives..
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Florida Tourism Loving Miserable Weather Elsewhere in U.S.
Patrick Riley, Miami Herald
- Mar 02, 2014 1:00 pm
One region’s cold spell is another tourism region’s warm sweet spot. South Florida is making lots of money out of this winter’s great migration to its beaches.
On a bitterly cold day earlier this year, bundled up New Yorkers were greeted by a group of men and women in beach attire — complete with flip flops, sunglasses and bathing suits — in an effort to show them what South Florida’s winter looks like.
The unusual sight near New York’s Grand Central Station was part of the “Hello Sunny” advertising campaign put on by the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau.
And it seems to be working.
As freezing temperatures, snowfall, and ice continue to chill the nation, South Florida’s tourism industry is fired up over all-time high numbers.
“We really almost have lost count,” said Nicki Grossman, president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau of the record year. “A lot of it has to do with how miserable the weather is.”
According to Grossman, Fort Lauderdale’s tourism industry is enjoying its 50th consecutive month of growth with all-time highs across the board. She anticipates the numbers for February to be higher than ever for that month — including when Miami was hosting the Super Bowl in 2010.
Most domestic visitors are from the New York area, followed by Chicago.
“It’s almost a highway between New York and Fort Lauderdale,” Grossman said. “That’s the corridor that brings us the most business.”
Travel agent Olga Ramudo from Express Travel agrees.
“I’m looking at flights from New York for tomorrow, the cheapest flights are sold out,” Ramudo said. “The closer the cities, the easier it is for people to come down here.”
Almost 30 percent of visitors are from the Northeast United States, Grossman said.
But not only sun-hungry Americans are seeking out South Florida.
“Our Canadian numbers are almost up 12 percent over last year,” Grossman said. Since Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport added a Norwegian airline in November, the area has seen nearly 300 Scandinavian visitors per week.
With flights filled to the brim, hotels are not far behind.
The occupancy rate for January was 83.5 percent — an increase of almost 4.5 percent from the previous year, Grossman said. “For February we’re hearing they’re having an occupancy rate of over 90 percent,” Grossman said.
Fort Lauderdale is certainly not alone in enjoying an influx in visitors from the North.
Said Andy Newman, a spokesman for the Monroe County Tourist Development Council: “We’re really filled up down here. I have to imagine that some of it is due to the weather.”
Average daily rates in Key West hotels were up an average of 21 percent in February, Newman said.
Newman, who has lived in South Florida all his life, experienced the freezing cold weather first-hand when he flew to New York recently. He said the trip renewed his appreciation for the Keys. “I stepped off the plane, it was just so darn cold,” Newman said. After getting to the hotel he changed all his appointments so he could fly back down on earlier. “I was freezing my fanny off up there.”
You can have the best ads in the world, Newman said, but “nothing beats the cold chill to motivate people to come down to Florida.”
Despite the ringing endorsement from Jack Frost, Florida’s tourism industry is targeting frostbitten cities across the Northeast to lure travelers.
“We’ve done extensive marketing in cold-weather cities,” Grossman said. New York, Chicago and Boston have seen creative advertising strategies including heated bus shelters, complimentary sunglasses and even free flights courtesy of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau.
In Philadelphia, Visit Florida, the state’s official marketing organization, put mannequins dressed in beach attire atop taxis with their arms outstretched as part of its winter campaign “Flocking to Florida”, said Paul Phipps, the organization’s chief marketing officer.
“People are just trying to get away from the cold,” Phipps said. “Across the board you see people down here.”
Eduardo Chapoval, general manager of the Hampton Inn & Suites Miami Brickell Downtown, said his hotel’s pool is crowded even though it’s not heated. And while the water may be too cold for Floridians, many of his Northern guests don’t seem to mind.
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SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2017
This year's symposium will be in California, 9-13 April.
SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing (DCS) has a new location for 2017 in Anaheim, CA (USA), a new program to recognize early-career professionals, and new conference topical tracks. The tracks will highlight fiber-optic sensors; unmanned autonomous systems; and sensing, imaging, and photonics technologies for agriculture, food safety, and water quality applications.
The new location, in an area known for aerospace and other technology industries, is part of a three-city rotation for the annual meeting. After the 9-13 April 2017 meeting in California, SPIE DCS will return to Orlando, FL (USA), in April 2018, and to Baltimore, MD (USA), in April 2019.
Approximately 5000 attendees are expected this April at the collocated symposia, Defense + Security and Commercial + Scientific Sensing and Imaging.
This year’s meeting will have nearly 1800 technical presentations on IR sensing, spectroscopic techniques, computational image-processing methods, quantum cascade lasers, radar, lidar, and more, along with a three-day exhibition with about 370 exhibitors, a job fair, 32 onsite courses, and an extensive industry program.
Two plenary speakers will provide insight into the latest technology projects at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Plenary speaker Parker Abercrombie (right) is a senior software engineer and the immersive visualization project lead at JPL. He will discuss how JPL is using immersive technology to change how space exploration is conducted today.
Abercrombie's team is developing a mixed reality tool, OnSight, that will allow scientists and engineers to work virtually on Mars. The lead developer of the science targeting software for the upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission, Abercrombie will also discuss what's coming next.
The other plenary speaker will be Thomas J. Burns, director of DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office and a pioneer of technologies that can extract information from massive quantities of multisensor data.
Burns (right) has experience directing computer vision research at the US Air Force Research Lab and in the private sector, where he was a founder of two technology companies, including Object Video, an industry leader in video analytics for physical security applications.
The 47 conferences at SPIE DCS cover a broad range of technologies with applications in many commercial enterprises, not just in the defense and security sector. Sensing, communication, and robotic technologies, for instance, are necessary for food and energy production, agricultural and environmental monitoring, and disaster relief. New materials developments such as in graphene, photonic crystals, and quantum dots are opening up new possibilities for sensor technologies in fields as diverse as healthcare and entertainment.
The worldwide growth in sensing and imaging devices and techniques has been accompanied by a growing need for data and image analysis tools as well as a means to visualize and act on large amounts of data.
The fundamental and emerging topics at DCS that provide solutions for those needs include surveillance and reconnaissance, displays, data and signal processing, target recognition, unmanned autonomous systems, laser metrology, plasmonics, electronic imaging systems, scanning, and quantum information and computation.
In the conference on micro- and nanotechnology sensors, systems, and applications, SPIE Fellow Shouleh Nikzad of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will chair a session on repurposing space sensors and technologies for healthcare and medical applications. The session brings together scientists with multidisciplinary backgrounds to discuss how they have used technologies for astrophysics in medical applications such as detecting cancer.
Among the presenters will be former astronaut and medical doctor Scott Parazynski who will give a keynote talk recounting his experience of deploying JPL's Electronic Nose (ENose) on a 1998 flight to the International Space Station with astronaut John Glenn Jr.
Nikzad will also moderate a panel discussion following her conference session on future directions for these applications.
RISING RESEARCHERS TO BE RECOGNIZED
A new program that will recognize 10 early-career professionals who conduct outstanding work in product development or research in sensing, imaging, and optics for defense, commercial, and scientific fields will also debut during the event.
The “Rising Researchers” program at SPIE DCS offers professional development and networking opportunities to distinguished young researchers who received their terminal degree within the last 10 years.
The 10 to be acknowledged and the papers they will present are:
SPIE member Nathan Cahill, associate dean for industrial partnerships in the College of Science at Rochester Institute of Technology (USA); piecewise flat embeddings for hyperspectral image analysis
SPIE member Matt Graham, principal investigator at the Micro-Femto Energetics Lab at Oregon State University (USA); ultrafast microscopy for resolving the efficiency-limiting photocurrent generation dynamics in van der Waals materials
SPIE member Daniel LeMaster, a technical advisor in the Sensors Directorate of the US Air Force Research Lab; pyBSM, a Python package for modeling imaging systems
SPIE member Yongmin Liu of Northeastern University (USA); deep-subwavelength near-field imaging based on perovskite and doped semiconductors at IR frequencies
SPIE member Daniela Moody, a machine learning and data scientist at Descartes Labs (USA); crop classification using temporal stacks of multispectral satellite imagery
SPIE member Shuo Pang, assistant professor at University of Central Florida; compressive video sensing with side information
SPIE member Junsuk Rho, assistant professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (Republic of Korea); hyperlens for real-time high-throughput biomolecular imaging
SPIE member Fei Tian, a research assistant professor from Stevens Institute of Technology (USA); lab-on-fiber optofluidic platform for in-situ study of therapeutic peptides and bacterial response
John Hennessy of JPL; materials and process development for the fabrication of far ultraviolet device-integrated filters for visible-blind Si sensors
Adrian Tang of JPL and University of California, Los Angeles (USA); who will give an overview of CMOS technology for radiometry and passive imaging
EXPO, OTHER INDUSTRY EVENTS
On the SPIE industry stage in the Anaheim Convention Center 11-13 April will be leaders from Ocean Optics, the Aerospace Corp., FLIR, and others to discuss the small satellites known as CubeSats, high-speed imaging and motion analysis, sensing for autonomous vehicles, food safety, thermal imaging, government policy, and other topics.
A keynote talk at 4 pm 12 April from SPIE member Louay Eldada, CEO and cofounder of Quanergy Systems, will focus on opportunities in lidar for autonomous vehicles and the future of sensing.
The industry program also includes three days of demonstrations showing how Hollywood films employ technologies originally created for defense applications. IJK Controls, a US company specializing in control system design and analysis, will demonstrate its stabilized gimbals and other tracking and pointing technologies — common on movie sets for many action, adventure, and science fiction films — during the DCS Expo, Tuesday through Thursday.
Gunmar Ristroph, an IJK Controls partner, will also be on an industry panel Thursday morning discussing movie "magic" and cinema science.
Another industry panel, on Tuesday, will explore the emerging optical technologies used in production, from food sorting and characterization to detection of contaminated or counterfeit foods.
These and other industry sessions are open to all attendees.
The job fair at the DCS Expo will be run Tuesday and Wednesday. A social hour in the exhibition hall, “Evening at the Expo,” will begin at 5 pm Tuesday.
The onsite courses at SPIE DCS are taught by recognized experts in industry and academia and will cover IR sensors and systems, optomechanics, lasers, radiometry, “deep learning” techniques, and other subject matter.
The chair for the Commercial + Scientific Sensing and Imaging symposium is SPIE Fellow Majid Rabbani of the Rochester Institute of Technology (USA). Cochair is SPIE Senior Member and SPIE Fellow Robert Fiete, chief technologist and Engineering Fellow at Harris Corp. Space and Intelligence Systems (USA).
Donald Reago Jr., director of the US Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, is chair for the 2017 Defense + Security symposium. Arthur A. Morrish, vice president of advanced concepts and technology at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (USA), is cochair.
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SPIE leaders recently commended the “common sense reforms” of a revised US government travel policy that improves the approval process for government scientists to attend scientific conferences to present their research.
The action by the Office of Management and Budget in 2016 improves the process for government scientists while maintaining responsible accountability and transparency over government resources.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article has been updated to reflect a change in plenary speakers and more detail on some conferences and events.
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Category: Master and Margarita
Fantastic Symphonie-Theater “Master and Margarita”
Author charlie@58Published on 21. May 2017 7. July 2017
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Master und Margarita – Description
Fantastic symphony for Theater "Master and Margarita"
The symphony originated under the impression of the novel "The Master and Margarita" by one of the greatest Russian writers of the 20th century, Mikhail Bulgakov. The content of the novel is unusually varied and has a wide range of sujet-conditioned collisions. But the foundation of the symphony was one of the most important lines of action connected with the main characters of this amazing book.
It's all about that: The Moscow of the 1930s is visited by Satan (Voland). At the same time, a talented and completely unknown writer (the master), living in Moscow, writes a novel about the life of Jesus Christ (Joshua). The manuscript of the novel is public and the master is subjected to a degrading and cruel criticism. When she learns of it, Margarita tries to help her, and is turned into a witch by Voland. In the epilogue of the novel, both the Master and Margarita are transformed, but their great love continues in the other spheres of being and thus triumphs over the world of evil and violence.
The symphony consists of four parts that can be played without breaks. Each part is a small concerto for a solo instrument and orchestra. In the first part, called "The Master," it's a viola; in the second, under the name "Joshua", it's the organ, and in the third, Voland, the piano becomes a solo instrument. In the fourth part, "The Master and Margarita", however, the whole orchestra will sound. The thematic fabric of the symphony is born out of an intonation: a frightening-passionate one in the viola in the first part, a sublime tragic in the multiplicity of the organ in the second part and a grotesque in the jazz aria of the piano in the third part, ends with an eerie satanic ball. In the fourth part, this intonation is transformed into a light and at the same time sad melody, which embodies eternal love - the love of the Master to Margarita. For the presentation of the symphony a music theatricalized with the help of the light would be very important.
The stage should consist of three levels. On the lowest level is a piano. The pianist (Voland) is wearing a black suit and a beret. On the middle level is the orchestra and front of the viola players. His clothing resembles a slave jacket (the Master). On the highest level is the organ player, clothed with white chiton (Joshua). In the presentation of the symphony, the light should only highlight the persons present in the respective part, the other ambience is wrapped in darkness.
Only in the fourth part is the entire stage illuminated.
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TULL, RUTH C. was born 24 September 1921, received Social Security number 429-14-6136 (indicating Arkansas) and, Death Master File says, died June 1993 172,970,483
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TULL, RUTH C. was born 27 June 1922, received Social Security number 500-14-3728 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died 24 January 2013 172,970,484
TULL, RUTH C. was born 15 October 1921 to JULIA RIGGS (possibly her maiden name) in Mason County, Kentucky, United States of America. 172,970,485
TULL, RUTH D. was born 21 October 1908, received Social Security number 249-09-9685 (indicating South Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died May 1994 172,970,486
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TULL, RUTH E. was born 08 August 1918, received Social Security number 335-26-9861 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 15 August 1993 172,970,487
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TULL, RUTH E. was born 19 December 1913, received Social Security number 067-20-0599 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 25 September 1995 172,970,488
TULL, RUTH E. was born 30 March 1928, received Social Security number 215-22-1343 (indicating Maryland) and, Death Master File says, died 07 July 1997 172,970,489
TULL, RUTH J. was born 09 August 1923, received Social Security number 515-18-2837 (indicating Kansas) and, Death Master File says, died 13 April 2003 172,970,490
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TULL, RUTH JENNIE married 17 Aug 1881 in SHELBY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. a groom named GEORGE ANDERSON. 172,970,491
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TULL, RUTH NELLY married a groom named JOSE M. OJEDA on 16 August 1997 on a license issued in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America. 172,970,493
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TULL, RUTH (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named ALBERT L. WOODRUFF on 17 October 1948 in Bracken County, Kentucky, United States of America. 172,970,494
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TULL, RUTH (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named CECIL E. WOODRUFF on 29 September 1938 in Bracken County, Kentucky, United States of America. 172,970,495
TULL, RUTH (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named EDITH L. WOODRUF on 10 December 1943 in Bracken County, Kentucky, United States of America. 172,970,496
TULL, RUTH (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named FRED E. WOODRUFF on 11 December 1944 in Bracken County, Kentucky, United States of America. 172,970,497
TULL, RUTH (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named ROXIE M. WOODRUFF on 27 October 1949 in Bracken County, Kentucky, United States of America. 172,970,498
TULL, R W. was born 18 April 1927, received Social Security number 447-20-1242 (indicating Oklahoma) and, Death Master File says, died 15 November 1988 172,970,499
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TULL, RYAN E who was 31 (born ABT 1972) married 11 MAY 2003 in HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named WENDY L HALL who was 29 (born ABT 1974). 172,970,500
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TULL, RYAN H who was 28 (born ABT 1978) married 13 MAY 2006 in WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named BRANDI K SVEHLAK who was 29 (born ABT 1977). 172,970,501
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TULL, S was born 05 January 1989, received Social Security number 221-76-7023 (indicating Delaware) and, Death Master File says, died March 1989 172,970,502
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TULL, S was born 09 October 1902, received Social Security number 174-07-4025 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died January 1983 172,970,503
TULL, S was born 13 November 1947, received Social Security number 065-50-4108 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 14 August 2011 172,970,504
TULL, SADYE E. was born 24 May 1916, received Social Security number 272-14-8798 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 12 January 1993 172,970,505
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TULL, SALLIE V. was born 4 October 1911 to ADA YATES (possibly her maiden name) in Jessamine County, Kentucky, United States of America. 172,970,506
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TULL, SALLY was born 12 January 1912, received Social Security number 267-44-2876 (indicating Florida) and, Death Master File says, died February 1979 172,970,507
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TULL, Sally was born ABT 1790 in Md; was in the 1850 census in Worcester County, Maryland. 172,970,508
TULL, Sally was born ABT 1805 in "; was in the 1850 census in Somerset County, Maryland. 172,970,509
TULL, Sally (mother) , and Ellis Workman, had a baby boy, Pete WORKMAN. 172,970,510
TULL, SALLY C married 26 Apr 1832 in SHELBY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. a groom named WILLIAM DAVIS. 172,970,511
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TULL, Sally E. was born ABT 1849 in Md; was in the 1850 census in Worcester County, Maryland. 172,970,512
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TULL, SALLY J who was 26 (born ABT 1947) married 13 SEP 1973 in NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named DAVID G MCDONALD who was 18 (born ABT 1955). 172,970,513
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TULL, SALLY J who was 26 (born ABT 1948) married 5 JUN 1974 in NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named DAVID G MCDONALD who was 19 (born ABT 1955). 172,970,514
TULL, SALLY J who was 28 (born ABT 1947) married 25 OCT 1975 in NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named EDWIN C MCDANIEL who was 19 (born ABT 1956). 172,970,515
TULL, SALLY T who was 29 (born ABT 1948) married 16 JUN 1977 in NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named RUDOLPH M WALLS who was 28 (born ABT 1949). 172,970,516
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TULL, SAM was born 19 February 1881, received Social Security number 442-18-9843 (indicating Oklahoma) and, Death Master File says, died 15 May 1972 172,970,517
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TULL, SAM AKA SAMUEL H. was born 14 Dec 1893 (child of BARTELS (mother)) died 22 Sep 1971 in RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA, U.S.A. 172,970,518
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TULL, Saml. was born ABT 1848 in Maryland; was in the 1850 census in Worcester County, Maryland. 172,970,519
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TULL, SAMMY E who was 34 (born ABT 1947) married 17 JAN 1981 in MC LENNAN COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named SHERRY A MCMAHEN who was 28 (born ABT 1953). 172,970,520
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TULL, SAMMY E who was 49 (born ABT 1946) married 17 JUN 1995 in AUSTIN COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named LUCY JENNINGS who was 56 (born ABT 1939). 172,970,521
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TULL, SAMMY E, born ABT 1946, and his bride SHERRY A, born ABT 1953, married 17 JAN 1981, and they had no children under 18 when they got divorced in MC LENNAN COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. on 23 JUN 1988. 172,970,522
TULL, SAMMY E, born ABT 1946, and his bride SHIRLEY A, born ABT 1949, married 14 JUL 1967, and they had two children under 18 when they got divorced in MC LENNAN COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. on 15 NOV 1979. 172,970,523
TULL, SAMMY J who was 23 (born ABT 1951) married 22 JUN 1974 in FALLS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named ROSALIA M FALCO who was 18 (born ABT 1956). 172,970,524
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TULL, SAMMY K. was born 15 November 1951, received Social Security number 350-44-0570 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 01 November 2003 172,970,525
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TULL, SAMPSON D married 2 Mar 1900 in SHELBY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. a bride named MARQUITE M WALKER. 172,970,526
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TULL, SAMUEL was born 01 October 1934, received Social Security number 214-30-8435 (indicating Maryland) and, Death Master File says, died August 1974 172,970,527
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TULL, SAMUEL was born 11 December 1915, received Social Security number 185-03-8238 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died January 1982 172,970,528
TULL, SAMUEL was born 14 December 1893, received Social Security number 474-09-7900 (indicating Minnesota) and, Death Master File says, died September 1971 172,970,529
TULL, SAMUEL was born 14 May 1881, received Social Security number 442-10-8005 (indicating Oklahoma) and, Death Master File says, died February 1967 172,970,530
TULL, SAMUEL was born 26 February 1913, received Social Security number 417-05-1641 (indicating Alabama) and, Death Master File says, died April 1975 172,970,531
TULL, Samuel was born ABT 1823 in "; was in the 1850 census in Somerset County, Maryland. 172,970,532
TULL, Samuel was born ABT 1845 in LA; was in the 1870 census in Panola County, Texas. 172,970,534
TULL, Samuel was born ABT 1865 in Indiana; was in the 1870 census in Hendrick County, Indiana. 172,970,536
TULL, Samuel was born ABT 1865 in Maryland; was in the 1880 census in Wicomico County, Maryland. 172,970,537
TULL, Samuel (father) , and Martha Miller, had a baby, Rose MANNON. 172,970,538
TULL, Samuel (father) , had a baby boy, Abel TULL born ABT 1891. 172,970,539
Tull, Samuel, Rank: PVT CO.B, 6TH IND, Branch: INFANTRY, War: CIVIL WAR, died 3 June 1864, and was buried in Section E, Site 11350 in Chattanooga National Cemetery in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States of America. 172,970,540
TULL, Samuel A. was born ABT 1861 in Indiana; was in the 1870 census in Hendrick County, Indiana. 172,970,541
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TULL, Samuel B was born ABT 1852 in Arkansas; was in the 1870 census in Grant County, Arkansas. 172,970,542
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TULL, SAMUEL D. was born 23 October 1955, received Social Security number 440-48-5512 (indicating Oklahoma) and, Death Master File says, died 04 December 2002 172,970,543
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TULL, SAMUEL E. married a bride named ESTHER E. LAVINE in the year 1985 on license number 12808 issued in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.A. 172,970,544
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TULL, SAMUEL ERVIN married a bride named DONNA ANNAMARIA SUTTLE in the year 1992 on license number 8419 issued in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.A. 172,970,545
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TULL, SAMUEL F. was born 01 October 1928, received Social Security number 217-30-8433 (indicating Maryland) and, Death Master File says, died 28 February 2003 172,970,546
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TULL, SAMUEL F. was born 30 October 1926, received Social Security number 439-30-9343 (indicating Louisiana) and, Death Master File says, died 20 September 2012 172,970,547
Tull, Samuel G., Rank: PVT, Branch: US ARMY, War: WORLD WAR I, was born 26 April 1894, died 28 June 1949, and was buried in Section H, Site 65 in Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly, New Jersey, United States of America. 172,970,548
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TULL, Samuel H. married 27 Feb 1851 in Jefferson County, Indiana a bride named Catharine M. Reid. 172,970,549
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TULL, Samuel I was born ABT 1837 in Maryland; was in the 1880 census in Wicomico County, Maryland. 172,970,550
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TULL, SAMUEL L who was 36 (born ABT 1955) married 29 DEC 1991 in DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named BARRA P NIELSEN who was 41 (born ABT 1950). 172,970,551
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TULL, SAMUEL R who was 31, (born 1977 or 1978) married 21 December 2009 in HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named JESSICA R JENKINS who was 26 (born 1982 or 1983). 172,970,552
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TULL, SAMUEL R who was 33 in 2011 (born about 1978) married 22 December 2009 a bride named JESSICA R who was 28 in 2011 (born about 1983) on 22 December 2009 and they had no children under 18 when they got a divorce 26 July 2011 in HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. 172,970,553
TULL, SAMUEL W. was born 18 October 1940, received Social Security number 580-14-7591 (indicating Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico) and, Death Master File says, died 09 August 2010 172,970,554
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TULL, SANDRA A who was 22 (born ABT 1964) married 31 MAY 1986 in LUBBOCK COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named WILLIAM C MARBERRY who was 22 (born ABT 1964). 172,970,555
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TULL, SANDRA L. was born 01 April 1936, received Social Security number 228-48-5340 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 09 May 2008 172,970,556
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TULL, SANDRA L. was born 05 January 1950, received Social Security number 285-42-2771 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 29 June 2009 172,970,557
TULL, SARA A. (mother) , and JOHN D. MOORE who was born in MO, had a baby, FRED DANIEL MOORE born 5 Oct 1909 in AR. 172,970,558
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TULL, SARAH married 16 Jul 1868 in SHELBY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. a groom named THOMAS BARKER. 172,970,559
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TULL, SARAH married 22 Sep 1859 in SHELBY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. a groom named WILLIAM M CAIN. 172,970,560
TULL, SARAH married 26 Aug 1840 in HANCOCK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. a groom named THOMAS WILLSON. 172,970,561
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TULL, SARAH was born 04 October 1938, received Social Security number 230-48-1510 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died February 1984 172,970,562
TULL, SARAH was born 17 September 1913, received Social Security number 216-38-9750 (indicating Maryland) and, Death Master File says, died January 1994 172,970,563
TULL, SARAH was born 30 May 1904, received Social Security number 011-20-6565 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died October 1986 172,970,564
TULL, Sarah married 13 Jun 1800 in Monroe County, West Virginia, U.S.A. a groom named Mathew Wood. 172,970,565
TULL, Sarah married 18 Oct 1829 in Basford, Nottinghamshire, England a groom named William WOOLLEY. 172,970,566
TULL, Sarah married in 1800 in Monroe, West Virginia, United States a groom named Matthew Wood. 172,970,567
TULL, Sarah was born ABT 1767 in "; was in the 1850 census in Somerset County, Maryland. 172,970,568
TULL, Sarah was born ABT 1772 in Penna; was in the 1850 census in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. 172,970,569
TULL, Sarah was born ABT 1834 in Md; was in the 1850 census in Somerset County, Maryland. 172,970,572
TULL, Sarah A. was born ABT 1815 in "; was in the 1850 census in Somerset County, Maryland. 172,970,573
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TULL, Sarah A.E. was born ABT 1853 in Kansas; was in the 1860 census in Anderson County, Kansas. 172,970,574
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TULL, SARAH ANN married 18 Sep 1859 in GALLATIN COUNTY, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. a groom named RICHARD JOHNSON. 172,970,575
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TULL, SARAH E. (child of JOHN BROWN who was born in LA) was born 3 Aug 1890 in LA;; died 20 Feb 1952 in YAVAPAI COUNTY, ARIZONA, U.S.A.. 172,970,576
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TULL, SARAH E. was born 10 October 1916, received Social Security number 309-34-9992 (indicating Indiana) and, Death Master File says, died 07 September 1995 172,970,577
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TULL, SARAH E. was born 17 September 1927, received Social Security number 200-18-6204 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 01 January 1999 172,970,578
TULL, SARAH E. was born 22 February 1905, received Social Security number 228-48-7304 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 21 January 1988 172,970,579
TULL, SARAH E. was born 23 May 1917 to LUCINDA MCQUEEN (possibly her maiden name) in Laurel County, Kentucky, United States of America. 172,970,580
TULL, Sarah E. was born ABT 1839 in Md; was in the 1850 census in Worcester County, Maryland. 172,970,581
TULL, Sarah E. was born ABT 1856 in MO; was in the 1860 census in Bollinger County, Missouri. 172,970,582
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Word Count → 319 :: Dec 3rd. Before injury.
Oh, she was so going to be in trouble if either of her parents came to realise that she'd left the safety of Sapeint's borders. Their arguments for keeping her close and confined behind the invisible scent line, that marked what was safe and belonging to her father, the beyond of which was considered neutral lands and very much unsafe, were ones she could rationally understand. Yes, she had no training in self defence, little life experience to allow her to best read a situation and determine if she was in danger or not.
No, she wasn't a great liar, nor did she possess a level of natural caution that everyone else apparently had. Rather, she liked to believe everyone at face value, to give them a chance and the benefit of the doubt – thinking everyone was going to have bad intents wouldn't make for a happy life, at least that logic made sense to her, even if her parents just gave her a long suffering look when she'd said it first to her mother, then later to her father when he caught her trying to sneak out.
Really though, those who weren't good had to be a minority and her parents were simply being ridiculous. So, it had taken a few attempts for her to pull it off, but she'd managed to make her way over to the borders and beyond them.
Knowing of the world beyond it didn't equate to understanding it. She needed to get out there and experience things for herself, make her own mistakes and learn her own lessons. Being wrapped in cotton wool, masked as love and concern, was simply stifling her.
Picking up the pace, she was almost skipping as she moved forward, eyes wide as she took in everything around her, scents drawn in every few seconds, excitement growing to entirely new heights.
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And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
Sloan Ortega
MY SANCTUARY
YOU'RE HOLY TO ME
sneaking out to feed the hunger
The crystal had him on a high.
The traveler that he'd acquired it from had the stone hidden among a collection of largely worthless rocks, no matter the fact that they looked pretty. Bayani had been hovering in the woods not awfully far from the edge of Salsola, avoiding the rank and haughtiness of his home's interior and attempting to indulge in his most obvious addiction. Stealing, one could argue, was a habit that he couldn't break, but this isn't what he'd set out to do. Genuinely, he'd wanted to find a worthwhile trade. Maybe it wouldn't have been quite honest- after all, it was not Bayani's fault the majority of the strangers he met were ignorant and stupid according to the worth of their goods. After being raised in a merchant town, where every next meal depended on the genuine value of what you were offering, he knew what was what. This particular passerby had fallen so effortlessly into the wolfdog's invisible ropes it was almost comical. The Grimm managed to undermine the entire exchange with only a single scene of precise acting. When the other had shown interest in the goods Bayani carried- several chains of jewelry around his neck or ringing his fingers- he had begun his facade. The Salsolan explained the value of each individual piece, with was an outright lie and overestimation every time. The fellow dog had then presented his tray of pretty rocks. Bayani seemed wholly uninterested, even once setting sight upon the many-karat beryl, and traded off a single piece of worthless copper jewelry for the stone.
Now he held it in his hand, running his finger over the raw surface over and over, enraptured. It was a striking clear-blue, and nearly the size of his palm. His mother had worked with beryl many times before, and while it was not exceptionally rare, the clearer the gem, the more its value. The stone the trader had given him had only the faintest hints of opacity and was clearly gem-quality. The find had sent Bayani into a desire. He wanted to carve the thing into something to adorn his sister's throat, or perhaps present portions of it in rings to the greediness of his fellow Salsolans. It was a great prize for him to locate, but only one. He imagined the rainbow of colored gems he had memorized- perhaps without realization- and imagined all of the things to create, even despite his novice skills. Bayani's products would not have the ability to compare to his mothers', but with practice, perhaps they one day would. And with this determination alighting his mismatched gemstone of a gaze, he set deeper into the forest.
He departed north. Salsola would not miss him for his brief journey, though Bayani's mind did flicker occasionally back to his sister. He consoled himself that she had a friend, now. Strawberry and the brother had not begun on the best terms, but over the last few weeks the thief had grown accustomed and indifferent to the apparent slave. He was uncertain, still, if the male could protect his sister in a fight, but he supposed that his presence was better than none at all. Pulling his coat tighter over his shoulders, the male continued his ceaseless trek through the snows, grateful for the thick doggish lengths of his fur when the winds became particularly ceaseless.
He found no more crystals or gemstones of interest the day prior nor the morning next. But he was not swayed, for patience had become an essential element to the success of his thievery or obtainment of what he sought. He continued to walk, not quite certain what he was expecting the direction to offer him, but not quite caring. He's fully forgotten what packs lay to the north before catching scent of Sapient on the breeze. Ah, yes. Certainly, he could find something of worth nearby, so close in proximity to the group who had their hearts set so fully on wealth. And find something he did, though it was not a gemstone. It was, rather, a girl.
She was certainly young, most definitely not over the age of a year, and probably new to the delights of shifting. She passed by in a sort of skip, obviously excited at her freedom- which made Bayani suspect it was not quite allowed- and he caught the scent of Sapient as she passed him by. Tipping his head, he made a quick decision, as this was the most interesting scene he had found the past days. Without even a trace of a sound, he brought himself in her path, his figure obviously friendly and positioned in an attempt to cause her no harm. He smiled at her, a bright thing. "Careful, miss. Tree roots really like to trip up those of us who skip."
((810)) ooc. tl;dr I failed to keep the creep to a minimum
Bayani Grimm
The Family (NPC)
Word Count → 208 :: Out of Character text
With a gasp and hand to her chest, she tripped a step or two before coming to a halt before the strange male who'd seemingly appeared out of thin air. Such things, whilst she fancied the concept of magic, of the unknown and the impossible feats described in fantasy books, she knew wasn't to be the case. If anything it had been her own inattention that had allowed him to just pop right on in whilst her attention had been elsewhere.
“Um, right. Talking from experience?” beaming a smile his way, she caught a strand of pale hair, twirling it around her finger as she looked up to the strangers face. Whilst she was mostly, ok, only accustomed to meeting members of Sapient, he was a canine much as he was and she trusted the smile upon his face, as she would that of a pack mate. It wasn't blind naivety per say. More a belief that the male was genuine, that he was to be respected and treated at face value, innocent until proven otherwise.
“Oh. I'm Sloan. By the way. You are?” she introduced herself after a seconds pause, once again smiling wide, inclining her head in a curious manner at the spotted stranger.
His first impression was of her expressiveness- a gasp, a stop, a quick and witty response. She was a character, he could already infer, despite her youth. It had been a good inference to strike up the conversation; this young girl would, at the very least, be a welcome point of interest and potential source of information. He did not intend to extract secrets from her- he wasn't certain of how gullible she could be, anyways- but Bayani knew very little of Sapient. He knew that they had wealth (of course, never as much as Salsola could boast) and that intrigued him.
"Maybe. I have tripped in the past, but I much prefer to do the tripping." He shot back, smile unwavering. She had matched his grin, with a flare by twirling her golden hair, and Bayani's suspicion of her sincerity was confirmed. She had yet to develop experiences that would cause her to question the honesty of every face she came into contact with, that was certain. Lucky for the stranger, Bayani had no intentions to swipe something from her. Even should he, it seemed the Sapien was carrying little of value. A conversation was his only intent.
"My name is Blue." He lied, the words honey off his tongue. It did not even take effort anymore, to fabricate the identity he had been wearing for so long. The Salsolan shouldered the bag that was slung across his back, tipping his head in a gesture that betrayed his doggish descent. "From Sapient, are you? Does your pack know you're out here, talking to strangers?" The smile returned, just a flicker of white teeth on a blue-painted face.
((278)) ooc.
“You know, if you like someone, tripping them isn't the way to go,” it was such a strange thing for him to admit he liked tripping others up, her mind whirring to make sense of that statement. She'd been told that males, especially young ones, would often pick on those they liked, unable to otherwise express their interest any other way; maybe this was what he meant? That or he was just plain mean and freely admitting it, something she really didn't wish to believe of someone. Shaking her head, curious eyes stared into the others mismatched, trying to figure the stranger out.
A name was given freely, followed by more questions that had her ears twitching, head falling to the side as a smile lifted her lips, arms crossing at his words. Did Sapient care she was here? As the alpha's daughter, yes, they probably she did; her age and inability to defend herself made her too vulnerable to be out here on her own, words that were so often drilled into her that she could recite that speech word for word. Their concern was appreciated, even when it could be a little stifling.
“I'm not the only one going around talking to strangers. But I have your name now, Blue, so that technically doesn't make you a stranger,” it was a childlike logic, yet if everyone avoided everyone knew, how did anyone make friends, find love and experience the world?!
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THIS STAR OF ENGLAND
“William Shakes-speare”
Man of the Renaissance
by Dorothy and Charlton Ogburn
IN JANUARY 7, 1575, Lord Oxford set forth with his retinue, consisting, as Burghley noted in his diary, of “two gentlemen, two grooms, one payend, a harbinger, a housekeeper and a trenchman.” Going first to France, he spent about two months in Paris, where he was entertained at the French court by the Royal Family: Henry III, the Queen Mother, Catherine de’ Medici, and Marguerite de Valois. [Oxford may have set forth on January 7, but according to Nina Green, he actually left England in February 1575.]
Valentine Dale, English Ambassador to Paris, wrote Burghley some time later of having “presented my Lord of Oxford unto the French King and Queen, who used him honourably. Amongst other talk the King asked whether he was married. I said he had a fair lady. ‘Il y a donc ce,’ dit-il, ‘un beau couple.‘” (1)
The Earl was eager to proceed to Italy, which was at that time the fountainhead of culture and learning. Dale obtained for him letters from the Venetian Ambassador to the Doge and to his friends in Venice.
I had all passports and commissions for post-horses and letters for my Lord of Oxford that he could require [Dale wrote Burghley]; and indeed he was well liked of, and governed himself very honourably while he was here.(2)
Just before leaving Paris Oxford received welcome news in letters from his father-in-law, to which he responded with elation:
My Lord, Your letters have made me a glad man, for these last have put me in assurance of that good fortune which you formerly mentioned doubtfully. I thank God therefore, with your Lordship, that it hath pleased Him to make me a father, where your Lordship is a grandfather; and if it be a boy I shall likewise be the partaker with you in a greater contentation.
However, he had been striving for so many years to get this trip abroad that he could not go home straightway. And he makes this clear:
But thereby to take occasion to return I am off from that opinion; for now that it hath pleased God to give me a son of my own (as I hope it is) methinks I have the better occasion to travel, sith whatsoever becometh of me I leave behind one to supply my duty and service, either to my Prince or else to my country.
Before quitting Paris, he sent his wife a portrait of himself, just finished—evidently the one now known as the Welbeck, since it was painted in 1575—and a fine pair of horses.
Already he was concerned about funds for his journey, despite the fact that he had taken thought for his expenses before leaving England and had expected co-operation from his father-in-law in obtaining sufficient revenues for his needs. The same letter takes up this matter:
My Lord, whereas I perceive by your Lordship’s letters how hardly money is to be gotten, and that my man writeth he would fain pay unto my creditors some part of that money which I have appointed to be made over unto me; good my Lord, let rather my creditors bear with me awhile, and take their days assured according to that order I left, than I so want in a strange country, unknowing yet what need I may have of money myself. My revenue is appointed, with the profits of my lands, to pay them as I may; and if I cannot yet pay them as I would, yet as I can I will, but preferring my own necessity before theirs. And if at the end of my travels I shall have something left of my provision, they shall have it among them; but before I will not defurnish myself. Good my Lord, have an eye unto my men that I have put in trust. Thus making my commendations to your Lordship and my Lady, I commend you to God; and wherever I am I rest at your Lordship’s commandment. Written the 17th March from Paris.
EDWARD OXENFORD
[Complete letter.]
This was the day on which the Earl left Paris. It is not difficult to infer the sort of inquiries Burghley had been making of Ambassador Dale upon reading that gentleman’s response:
… I will assure your Lordship unfeignedly my Lord of Oxford used himself as orderly and moderately as might be desired, and with great commendation, neither is there any appearance of the likelihood of any other. God send him a Raphael always in his company, which I trust he verily so hath, for Mr. Lewyn is both discreet and of good years, and one that my Lord doth respect… . If the skill of this painter here be liked, I suggest he would be induced to come thither, for he is a Fleming, and liketh not over well of his entertainment here. It seemeth to us he hath done my Lord of Oxford well. My Lord’s device is very proper, witty, and significant.
“My Lord’s device” was evidently Oxford’s play, The Famous Victories of King Henry V. It is of especial interest that Dale found it significant”; for indeed it was.
The Ambassador had already assured Burghley that Lord Oxford had “governed himself very honourably,” but “the Fox,” wishing to find out all he could, had evidently inquired further. He had set a man to spy upon his own son, Thomas, in Paris some years before (just as Polonius set Reynaldo to spy upon Laertes). And it develops that, after receiving Dale’s recommendation of Lewyn, he employed this painter to watch and report to him the doings of Lord Oxford, as will presently be seen.
From Paris the princely little caravan proceeded to Strasburg, where Oxford visited the eminent Protestant educator, Doctor John Sturmius, upon whom the Earl made a lasting impression. Nine years later in a letter to Queen Elizabeth Sturmius was to show how highly he regarded Lord Oxford.
The Earl took leave of Sturmius on April 26, but remained in Germany until some time in May, when he departed for Italy to slake his thirst at those springs of learning which had lured him for so long a while. He skirted Milan, in order, as he wrote Burghley, to avoid the Inquisition of the Bishop, who had the reputation of being a cruel tyrant, and stopped for a time in the valley of the Adige, where ancient Roman roads led past Lake Garda under the towering Julian Alps. Thence he travelled to Verona, to find plays being performed in the old Roman arena, as operas are now. He knew whereof he spoke when he had Hieronimo say, in The Spanish Tragedy (IV. 1. 158-60):
The Italian tragedians were so sharp of wit
That in one hour’s meditation
They would perform anything in action.
The magnificent scenery of the Upper Adige, with its snow-covered mountains glistening in the dazzling sunshine which gilded Lake Garda with magic light, must have delighted the soul of this English poet, as it was to delight those of succeeding generations.
Before the end of May the traveller reached Venice, where he declined a generous offer on the part of Sir Richard Shelley of a furnished house, to continue his journey. During this time he was saturating himself in Italian literature, reading plays especially, meeting and talking with the leading writers and artists.
There is no definite record of Lord Oxford’s whereabouts in the summer months of 1575. William Lewyn, the painter, who had accompanied him thus far from Paris, lost track of his Lordship and reported to Burghley that he did not know whether he had gone to Greece or was still in Italy—”although,” he writes, “my good intention and service … hath always been to obey your honour’s commandment.” Thus we find that Burghley was employing the portrait-painter, whom Ambassador Dale had recommended, as a spy. The mettlesome Earl of Oxford had obviously discovered what was up and had escaped in no little disgust.
From the facts that are known, it appears that he went by ship from Venice down the Adriatic coast, stopping for a while in Sicily, for at Palermo it is recorded that he issued a “challenge against all manner of persons whatsoever, and at all manner of weapons, as Tournaments, Barriers with horse and armour, to fight a combat with any whatsoever in defence of his Prince and Country. For which he was very highly commended, and yet no man durst be so hardy to encounter with him, so that all Italy over he is acknowledged the only Chevalier and Nobleman of England. This title they give unto him as worthily deserved.”(3)
It is likely that he went to Rome before sailing up the Mediterranean to Genoa, where he spent some time; he certainly went to Padua, Mantua, Florence, and Siena; then he returned to Venice. From here the banker, Clemente Paretti, through whom he was to receive funds, wrote Burghley that his Lordship had found himself, on coming from Genoa “somewhat altered by reason of the extreme heats,” adding that “his Lordship had hurt his knee in one of the Venetian galleys, but all is past without further harm.” In this quarter, too, Burghley must have asked for a report upon the behavior of his son-in-law, for the banker adds, “Of any other reports that your honour hath understood of my Lord, no credit is to be given unto.” There had been, he said, a quarrel among students and “a certain congregation of Saffi,” and “two noble gentlemen of Polonia” had been killed “all unawares.” Although for a time “the bruit ran Gentiluomini Inglesi,” there was nothing in it.
Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford.
“I overtook coming, from Italy,
In Germany, a great and famous Earl
Of England, the most goodly fashion’d man
I ever saw; from head to foot in form
Rare and most absolute; he had a face
Like one of the most ancient, honour’d Romans,
From whence his noblest family was deriv’d;
He was besides of spirit passing great,
Valiant, and learn’d, and liberal as the sun,
Spoke and writ sweetly, or of learned subjects,
Or of the discipline of public weals;
And ’twas the Earl of Oxford.”
William Cecil, First Lord Burghley.
“There’s no art To find the mind’s construction in the face:
He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust.”
Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 4, Lines 11-14
On September 24, Oxford wrote his father-in-law from Padua acknowledging letters which had acquainted him with news of the birth of a daughter on July 2nd. “Having looked for your Lordship’s letters a great while, at length when I grew to despair of them I received two packets.” From this it would seem that he supposed his itinerary to have been known to Burghley; but the cause of Burghley’s possible lack of information may be found in his ensuing statement that three packets of letters which he, Oxford, had sent to England during the summer had been returned to him “by reason of the plague being in the passages,” so that “none were suffered to pass.” He thanked Burghley “for the good news of my wife’s delivery.” [Complete letter.]
This is all that has survived of his comment upon that subject, for his letters to Anne have, unfortunately, been destroyed. But it was at about this time that he sent her a Greek Bible, with a poem in Latin inscribed upon the fly-leaf. [According to Nina Green, the Bible is no longer extant. The copy of the verses we have is not in Oxford’s hands.]
It is addressed: “To the illustrious Lady Anne de Vere, Countess of Oxford, while her noble husband, Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford, was occupied in foreign travel.” The Latin poem, which is for the most part a series of puns on Truth through the words Vera, Veritas, and Vere, has been translated by Ward as follows:
Words of truth are fitting to a Vere; lies are foreign to the truth, and only true things stand fast, all else is fluctuating and comes to an end. Therefore, since thou, a Vere, art wife and mother of a Vere daughter, and seeing that thou mayst with good hope look forward to being mother of an heir of the Veres, may thy mind always glow with love of the truth, and may thy true motto be Ever Lover of the Truth. And that thou mayst the better attain to this, pray to the Author of all Truth, that His Word may teach thee; that His Spirit may nourish thy inner life. So that, thus alleviating the absent longings of thy dear husband, thou, a Vere, mayst be called the true glory of thy husband.
(He meant the motto to be read, “E-ver Lo-ver of the Truth.” There is reason to believe that he had good cause to set before Anne an ideal of truthfulness.)
This is one of the earliest evidences we have of Lord Oxford’s tendency to play upon his name, but he continued to do so, both obviously and subtly, though unfailingly, through everything he wrote: upon his name, and truth, and other names and words. Not only was it the fashion, an intellectual exercise enjoyed by the alert-minded Elizabethans; he was helping to shape the language, to make it flexible, varied, fluent.
The meaning and the potentialities of a word may be illuminated through etymology. Turning a word about to exhibit its several meanings stimulated and delighted the Renaissance logicians. They were far from being jaded, as we are, with our semantics, self-conscious understatement, etc. With them—to quote a fascinating treatise on the subject—it was
a witty analysis commended and relished by Aristotle, practiced by Plato and the great dramatists of Greece, esteemed and used by Cicero, employed by mediaeval and Renaissance preachers in their sermons, regarded as a rhetorical ornament by the Elizabethans, but it was frequently despised as false and degenerate wit from the eighteenth century to the present day…. It must be acknowledged that when the word pun first came to be applied to verbal quibbling, about fifty years before Addison wrote, the excessive punning in political acrostics, anagrams, and facetious tales … had brought the practice into the disrepute and contempt which remain attached to it today. [But] “to an Elizabethan the play upon words was not merely an elegance of style and a display of wit; it was also a means of emphasis and a means of persuasion. An argument might be conducted from step to step—and in the pamphleteers it often is—by a series of puns. The genius of the language encouraged them.” (4)
John Donne played upon his name in his reverent Hymn to God, My God in My Sickness:
Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,
Which was my sin, though it was done before?
Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run
And do run still, though still I do deplore?
When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done;
For I have more.
Each stanza ends with “done” used thus, the last one varied to:
And having done, Thou hast done,
I fear no more.
In his letter to Lord Burghley of September 24, Oxford wrote, “I thought to have seen Spain, but by Italy I guess the worst.” However, he was “desirous to see more of Germany, wherefore I shall desire your Lordship, with my Lord of Leicester, to procure me the next summer to continue my licence, at the end of which I mean undoubtedly to return.”
I have sent one of my servants into England [he continued] with some new disposition of my things there, wherefore I will not trouble your Lordship with the same. If this sickness had not happened unto me, which hath taken away the chiefest time of travel at this present, I should not have written for further leave, but to supply the which I doubt not Her Majesty will not deny me so small a favour.
By reason of the great charges of travel and sickness I have taken up of Master Baptiste Nigrone five hundred crowns, which I shall desire your Lordship to see them repaid, hoping by this time my money which is made by the sale of my land is all come in. Likewise I shall desire your Lordship that whereas I had one Luke Astlow that served—who is now become a lewd subject to Her Majesty and an evil member to his country—which had certain leases of me—I do think according to law he loseth them all to the Queen, since he is become one of the Romish Church … having used lewd speeches against the Queen’s Majesty’s supremacy, legitimation, government and particular life; and is here, as it were, a practiser upon our nation. Then this is my desire: that your Lordship-if it be so as I do take it-would procure those leases into my hands again, where, as I have understood by my Lord of Bedford, they have hardly dealt with my tenants. Thus thanking your Lordship for your good news of my wife’s delivery, I recommend myself unto your favour: and although I write for a few months more, so it may fall out I will shorten them myself. (5)
To this communication Burghley attached a notation: “Mark well this letter.” Whether he wished to emphasize the intention of his son-in-law to travel more extensively, thus remaining absent from his wife, or to keep in mind the terseness of the comment Oxford had made to him upon the birth of Elizabeth Vere, there is no knowing. (“Lewd speeches” against the Queen’s supremacy or “particular life” were no novelty to Burghley.) Lord Oxford had certainly evinced affection in the Latin poem inscribed to his wife when he spoke of the absent longings of thy dear husband,” even if, in the role of father, he had felt a little moralizing was in order. In the light of what afterward happened, it is impossible to exonerate Burghley—who invariably preserved all documents creditable to himself and his immediate family (6)—in the matter of the loss of so many that Oxford wrote in sincere good faith. Why only those showing the seamy side (many of them dictated to a secretary), concerning finances, sales of estates, doings of his tenants, debts, etc.– filed by Burghley and now to be found in the Hatfield MSS.—were kept, while others, to his friends, to, the Queen, and to his wife, are lost, one can only surmise, at the same time deeply deploring the fact; for what a mine of golden words and judicious thoughts was thus obliterated! However, it happens all too often that the judgment of the Philistine prevails at the expense of the poet of “purest faith.”
A letter recently unearthed which Leicester wrote Burghley in July 1577, doubtless bears upon a similar request. The final paragraph reads:
I am sorry my L. of Oxford should for any report think any more of going oversea. I can but wyshe and advyse him to take such course in all things as were best and most honourable for him & spetyally in his con-sideracion toward Her Ma[jesty] & his country…. In so hast this fowle Thursday
Yor L. assured friend.(7)
Leicester seems never to have put any obstacle in the way of his nephew’s, Philip Sidney’s, desire for travelling abroad or going to the wars, but it may of course be that in this case he had had instructions from Her Majesty, who seemed determined to keep Oxford at home.
Meanwhile his funds had dwindled, and the Earl was forced, as he had written Burghley, to borrow 500 crowns from the rich Paduan banker, Baptista, Nigrone. Money urgently requested from England was finally received through the Venetian banker, Pasquino Spinola. The names of these two combined are similar to that of Baptista Minola, who represents Burghley, and whose “crowns” are spoken of, in The Taming of the Shrew, one of the early plays.
A vivid impression of Edward de Vere, as he was at this time, has been preserved in Chapman’s The Revenge of Bussy d’Ambois (III.1); the speech is by Clermont:
I overtook, coming from Italy,
Of England; the most goodly fashion’d man
I ever saw: from head to foot in form
Like one of the most ancient honour’d Romans
Valiant and learn’d, and liberal as the sun,
In Siena, at the beginning of the New Year, 1576, the traveller was still distressed about funds and wrote Lord Burghley in bitter protest with regard to the claims of his creditors. The chief of these was, of course, Burghley himself, in his official capacity of Master of Wards, which is to say the State. It may have been to this year, and not to 1570, that Burghley’s denial belongs:
Whoever saith that I did stay my Lord of Oxford’s money here so as he had no money in Italy by a space of six months they say so untruly.
There were undoubtedly a number of persons who knew the accusation to be justified.
My Lord [wrote Oxford], I am sorry to hear how hard my fortune is in England … but knowing how vain a thing it is to linger a necessary, mischief—to know the worst myself, and to I let your Lordship understand wherein I would use your honourable friendship—in short, I have thus determined. That, whereas I understand that the greatness of my debt and greediness of my creditors grows so dishonourable and troublesome to your Lordship, that that land of mine which is in Cornwall I have appointed to be sold … be gone through and withal. And to stop my creditors’ exclamations—or rather, defamations, I may call them—I shall desire … [and] authorize your Lordship to sell any portion of my land … where your Lordship shall think fittest, to disburden me of my debts to Her Majesty, my sister, or elsewhere I am exclaimed upon.
(In As You Like It [IV.1.20-22], Rosalind says:
A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad. I fear you have sold your own lands to see other men’s.)
Knowing that, in the opinion of his father-in-law, property was the sign and apanage of gentility, he continued:
In doing these things your Lordship shall greatly pleasure me, in not doing them you shall much hinder me; for although to part with land your Lordship hath advised the contrary, and that your Lordship for the good affection you bear me could not wish it otherwise, yet you see I have no other remedies, I have no help but of mine own, and mine is made to serve me and myself, not mine.
Always courteous, he seems to feel his patience wearing a little thin. Of course he knew perfectly well that Burghley had no interest in aiding him to remain in Europe. But he was determined not to be thwarted; besides, he always believed that money was but a means to an end. So far he still had confidence, however, in the good faith and affection of his father-in-law. Before concluding the letter, he states his position:
Whereupon, till all such incumbrances be passed over, and till I can better settle myself at home, I have determined to continue my travel. … For having made an end of all hope to help myself by Her Majesty’s service—considering that my youth is objected unto me, and for every step of mine a block is found to be laid in my way, I see it is but vain calcitare contra li busse; and the worst of things being known, they are the more easier to be provided for to bear and support them with patience…. That I am determined to hope for anything, I do not; but if anything do happen praeter spem [i.e., beyond my hopes], 1 think that before that time I must be as old as [so old that] my son, who shall enjoy them, must give the thanks; and I am to content myself according to the English proverb that it is my hap to starve while the grass doth grow.
(By the time Hamlet quoted this same proverb, some seven or eight years later [III.2.348-91, it had grown, as he said, “something musty.”)
With wishes for “a long and happy life, and better fortune to define your felicity in these your aged years [Burghley was forty-nine] than it hath pleased time to grant me in my youth …” he concludes, “Your Lordship’s to command during life” …
EDWARD OXFORD. (8)
Since the child recently born to the Countess of Oxford was a daughter, the reference may be to the son he hoped some day to have.
On his way back to Paris from Siena, Lord Oxford passed through Lyon, stopping for the Carnival, and was reported by the English Ambassador to have arrived on the last day of March, 1576. Dale was quoted by the Venetian Ambassador in a report to the Doge as having spoken of “the numerous courtesies” the Earl had received in Venice.
April 3 found Lord Oxford in Paris again, making preparations for returning home, fifteen months after he had set forth. In the best of spirits, exhilarated by the experiences he had had and the honors he had received, he paid his devoirs to the English and Venetian Ambassadors, and all was well.
Then the next day, as with a clap of thunder, the storm broke.
He had weathered storms before and was to bow his head more than once again, as time went on, to the lashing winds of adversity; but this catastrophic blow seems to have shocked him past recovery. Perhaps the reason lay in its peculiar quality, for the wound he sustained was jagged, not clean-cut; there was venom in it, as well as the pang from the impact which had taken him utterly unaware. The poisons arising from the situation with which, upon this April day in Paris, he found himself confronted, infected his blood and mind, precipitating a kind of intermittent fever that was to torment him for the remainder of his life. Again and again he would recreate this crisis in partially veiled fictitious instances, turning it this way and that, striving to resolve it in his own understanding and in his own conscience. But to the very end it rankled; the poison and the puzzlement plagued his great and sensitive intelligence. And he has left the record for us to make of it what we may.
What happened was that his steward, the manager of his estates, who had just arrived in Paris to meet him, informed him that the child born during his absence was not his. Burghley, the man said, had falsified the date of the child’s birth, which had taken place in September, not in July. (Was this why the announcement had been received so late, when he had grown almost “to despair of it”?) Perhaps the Countess’s father—so the agent insinuated—had encouraged his daughter in this act of unfaithfulness, in order to be assured of an heir to the de Vere estates who would also be his grandchild. He spoke darkly of these things.
Whether this slanderous steward was a secret agent of the Howards, the Catholic cousins bent upon separating the Earl from his Protestant wife, cannot be positively stated; but there is persuasive circumstantial evidence that he was in truth their Iago.
In any case, Lord Oxford left Paris in a fury of blind shock and outraged pride and crossed the Channel for England.
1. Ward; p. l01; cit. S.P.Foreign, 33-38. (Cal. 1575-7, p. 25.)
2. Op. Cit.; 33-45, p. 29
3. Ward; p. 112; quot. The Travels of Edward Webbe. Webbe was a Master Gunner, a senior officer in the Army, a man of standing and repute.
4. Sister M. Joseph: Shakespeare’s Use of the Arts of Language; pp. 164-5; quot. from Frank P. Wilson: Shakespeare and the Diction of Common Life.
5. Ward; pp. 107-8; cit. Hatfield MSS. (Cal. 11-114.)
6. Frederick Chamberlin makes this statement from his own findings in Elizabeth and Lycester; p. 174.
7. Op. Cit.; pp. 206-7.
8. Ward; pp. 100-111; cit. Hatfield MSS. (Cal. II.83.)
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Air Transports. A Rant.
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Discuss the source code and development of Spring Engine in general from a technical point of view. Patches go here too.
Post by Argh » 19 Nov 2007, 05:54
I can't even say how appalled I am. It's bad. Really, really bad. I'd forgotten just how bad.
It vibrates whenever it reaches a destination. Just sits there, in mid-air, vibrating like it's having a seizure.
It cannot seem to find a valid landing-spot. It's an 8X8, it shouldn't be having this problem on the map I picked to test with.
Until I lowered its acceleration to the same values as the Arm Atlas, it would skid about, like it was coated with an invisible layer of grease.
Once it reaches the destination, it air-drops the Units as it should, then... er... unless I give it a path, it just stops and gets killed. It's not even smart enough to keep moving, like a bomber.
It doesn't bank on turns. It basically just acts like it's a hovercraft with Upright=1, except that even hovercraft don't look this retarded.
Ok, instead of just bitching, I'm going to propose a plan, for new air-transports, that will not be retarded. These would not be backwards-compatible- I can see clearly that this code was designed just for OTA mods, and will never, ever work right for PURE.
Here's what I think we should have:
1. A variable, called "TransportType", that is basically a flag for any type of transport, like WeaponType. This would call up the appropriate behaviors.
2. If TransportType==ParaDrop, then:
A. The Transport will use the Bomber code, or a clone with appropriate changes, for pathfinding and general flight behavior. Not the CAirTransportMoveType code, which is terrifyingly bad. It should behave as a Bomber that's armed with a secondary weapon (i.e., it'll fire at targets of opportunity, but the "bombs" control the Unit) if in combat, so that we can, OMG, maybe have Transports that are armed and act like armed aircraft.
B. When unloading, it will dive to a height "ParaDropheight" (we need to specify this, the current bomber code does a few things automatically which are counter-productive), then begin unloading Units at a time interval "ParaDropSpeed". Now that I've tested the code, I'm 100% convinced that game designers need to control this speed- the current code drops far too slowly for me (it also almost invariably drops two Units on the same place, too- but that's a bug), yet for some mods, slower dropping speeds may be more appropriate.
C. It will drop until it is unloaded. None of this "select the appropriate-sized circle and hope it's big enough" stuff. I see where that was going, ExitWound, and I appreciate the thought, but I just don't think it works correctly. That, and I don't think that users are likely to ever want to do the whole "drop some here, drop some there" behaviors in a real game. However, it could be a flag or whatever- what you wrote works, it just doesn't deliver what I was hoping it would.
The user selects a point, the transport attempts to pathfind to that point, then starts moving in a straight line, dropping units until it has finished. It won't be perfect, but it'll be better than what we've got.
D. It will load by going to the nearest-valid location near the center of the load radius, then it will automatically put all Units > TransportWeight / TransportSize / TransportCapacity into itself. The only calls to COB should be to BeginTransport() and EndTransport()- if users want to attach-piece at that point, for fancy visual representations, great, but it should default to being invisible storage. The way it works right now, where it expects the Transport to line up a Piece with the Unit it's going to carry, is completely inappropriate to anything but OTA clones, frankly.
3. If TransportType=="Helicopter", then:
A. It should use the Fighter code for flight and pathfinding. It should use HoverAttack=1 behavior, if available.
B. It should use Land Flood to unload, after landing. All Units should be unloaded during that frame.
C. Like ParaDrop, it should just call BeginTransport / EndTransport.
D. It should, like ParaDrop, load in one frame, whilst calling BeginTransport (that way, we can do stuff like FX, keep it from moving for a few seconds, etc., and provide a good illusion of realistic behavior...).
I don't even think it's worth trying to "fix" the current Air Transport code any more. It was designed for one game- OTA. It works for one game- OTA. It sucks for anything trying to act differently. ParaDrop and Helicopter would cover a far larger gamut of games, and would be visually less sucky. If I need to make videos showing the vibrations, the stupid pathfinding results, the "skating" behavior when the Unit has a Acceleration value over 0.5 or so, so be it... or you can just trust me, because it's all definately happening.
For now, instead of an exciting, cool air transport in PURE, that can swoop in, drop your army into the middle of an enemy's base, retro-rockets flaring as the Shells brake and then deploy... I have something that's not worth showing off. I'm not going to include this feature in PURE until it's addressed- second-rate is not acceptable, when the rest of the game is working so nicely...
Snipawolf
Post by Snipawolf » 19 Nov 2007, 06:07
Sounds like +1 if you ask me.
I am going to have air transports, and this needs to be fixed. Adding parachutes could be annoying, I am remaking all of my infantry soon, so I can hope that we have a thumbs up on it soon. If not, I will have to remodel/remap/redo origins and a ton of stuff, which isn't much fun.
Forboding Angel
Evolution RTS Developer
Re: Air Transports. A Rant.
Post by Forboding Angel » 19 Nov 2007, 07:27
Argh wrote: Made a lot of sense
I am experiencing this as well. My transport in Evolution is 8x8 also, and the jittery thing looks terrible, plus the way they work is so damn annoying
Post by smoth » 19 Nov 2007, 07:32
I have a 12 by 12.
Mine will probably be even larger, heh. If I made it to scale of the universe I have stolen it from, it would be even larger than 20x20
I could always give the whitebase/gaw their transport abilities and shut you all up :).
Post by Warlord Zsinj » 19 Nov 2007, 09:05
Arr, I'll join the chorus of 'transports make me sad'.
Really, it's a serious weakpoint both visually and functionally. Supreme Commander showed that very strong and functional transport mechanics are a big selling point for players.
hueg 32x32 transport would be hueg
LOL. Let's not have a transport e-peen thing. After testing it, I don't think it has anything to do with size, either.
Fanger
Expand & Exterminate Developer
Post by Fanger » 19 Nov 2007, 16:38
Hey guys I heard the bomber code was borked...
image related:
Forboding Angel wrote: hueg 32x32 transport would be hueg
they are 40X40.
argh, what if there was an invisible arm bound to a particle system to make it look like the units are poofed into the transport?
Can't do it that way, unless something's been fixed- last time I tested, attach-piece to piece 0 (i.e., invisible attachment) caused Spring to crash, with Air Transports. Moreover, they don't make calls to COB to activate the move / turn stuff that ground transports do- you've gotta go look at the code for Air Transports, it's incredibly specialized.
Anyhow, that's not the meat of the issue anyhow. The main thing is that Air Transports use a CMoveType that doesn't resemble an aircraft, don't do proper loading behaviors, and are generally screwy. It'd be better to start with a different MoveType, and leave the current code in the Dark Ages, where it belongs, imo. I will take a look at the code issues tonight, see whether I can move this forward, past the bitching stage and into the practical reality stage- I really want to see proper airdrops and helicopter-type behaviors in PURE, it's well-worth patching the engine if nobody else wants this badly enough. I just dunno whether I'll be able to straighten out the somewhat-spaghetti-like nature of the MoveType code enough to understand where I need to do stuff- except for the search / filtering to do insta-load, everything else is already available, somewhere in Spring...
FLOZi
MC: Legacy & Spring 1944 Developer
Post by FLOZi » 19 Nov 2007, 19:44
Can't do it that way, unless something's been fixed- last time I tested, attach-piece to piece 0 (i.e., invisible attachment) caused Spring to crash, with Air Transports.
Well, that sucks, but you could use SetSFXOccupy() and get TRANSPORT_ID to make units hide all their pieces when loaded by the air trans.
Anyway, yeah, that's the least of the problems (though it should be fixed).
Pxtl
Post by Pxtl » 19 Nov 2007, 20:06
I think we need better default-behaviour for units that are trapped in regions that they can't move. They need to die, or roll downhill, or something, so that we can juts say "screw it, unload the suckers".
Otherwise, it's annoying when you get units that are blasted out into the water (where they can't exist) and suchlike. We're never going to avoid all these possibilities, so it's better to just be able to handle them.
This is related to Argh's desire for better unloading, since mass airdrop approaches are also going to produce more "stuck" units.
Guessmyname
Post by Guessmyname » 19 Nov 2007, 20:13
We've already got part of sliding thing for units on slopes too big for them to pass.
You could just make them kill themselves via checking whether they're underwater. Angular stuff should be able to be handled by adding a SlideTolerance, as of 0.76b, although it would not be a perfect solution, and I admit I haven't tested it yet...
Neddie
Community Lead
Post by Neddie » 19 Nov 2007, 23:31
Woah, Fang, easy there! Don't we have... another thread for bomber code?
EXit_W0und
Post by EXit_W0und » 20 Nov 2007, 00:44
Looks like I'll be going back to the drawing board :/
Things didn't quite turn out as I'd hoped & you're right the majority of the issues stem from the transports movement code. Tbh I was originally wary about modifying the normal aircraft flight code to be able to accomade transportation
but after trying to twist the transport ai backwards to work the with the transport flight code I realize I should've just done that in the first place.
The drop rate of troops is impeded a bit in terms of accuracy and speed because its dealt with inside the slow update - so i'm going to rethink that.
That should also resolve the issue of units getting clumped together when being dropped.
But before I go and get stuck in again, I want to discuss it a tad more so that this time its done right.
For the area unload using the paratroop drop, do you recon it would be better for the transport to make several passes over that area till its empty? Or have it ignore the size of the area and just unload everything in the same straight line (from the point the command was given to the centre of the circle)?
Regarding invisible attachment, it would be easy to move units to/from anywhere inside a certain radius (dictated by a tag) directly into the transport so we'd effectively have teleportation.
I have been working on a flood style load - but this occasionally suffers from units getting stuck en route to the transport on each other. To combat this the transport gives up on loading these after x amount of time. This is probably acceptable for infantry style units which can maneuver out of each others way for the most part and so don't get stuck too often, but i can see this becoming a problem for more cumbersome units.
I also considered having set entry/exit points, to work with doors on the sides of the transport. But this might exacerbate the units getting caught on each other.
Lastly, I think the original transport style could maybe still be cleaned up to remove the worst of its problems - but i'm going to prioritize using the normal aircraft code first.
If anyone has useful insight on the tricky bits of the flight code, now would be a good time to share them :)
Last edited by EXit_W0und on 20 Nov 2007, 23:23, edited 1 time in total.
EXit_W0und wrote: For the area unload using the paratroop drop, do you recon it would be better for the transport to make several passes over that area till its empty? Or have it ignore the size of the area and just unload everything in the same straight line (from the point the command was given to the centre of the circle)?
Tag please!
I have been working on a flood style load - but this occasionally suffers from units getting stuck en route to the transport on each other. To combat this the transport gives up on loading these after x amount of time.
Tag for x please!
And a tag for the size- it needs to be a fixed arc, for most games, and game designers should figure out ways to depict it (circle a point around, emit-sfx, use LUA, or whatever).
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Kiev Suspends Accreditation of Russian Journalists in Ukraine
After Minsk: Will Peace Come to Ukraine? (1049)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201502171018387097/
Accreditation of Russian journalists with government institutions in Ukraine was suspended by a decree was signed on February 17.
KIEV, (Sputnik) – The accreditation of Russian journalists with government institutions in Ukraine has been suspended, according to a decree posted on the Ukrainian parliament's website Tuesday.
"The document was signed on February 17," the decree's summary reads.
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Donetsk Leader Injured in Debaltseve – Media
The Ukrainian parliament voted to pass the law on February 12, at the time when the Normandy format talks on Ukrainian reconciliation were being held in Minsk.
The full list of media affected by the new law will be released later by the Ukrainian Security Service.
Since the start of military confrontation between Kiev forces and independence supporters, press freedom in Ukraine has been repeatedly violated, according to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Several international journalists have been kidnapped, tortured and killed.
Pro-Kiev Commander: 'We Will Burn Down Crimea, With All Its Residents'
Donetsk Forces Ready to Withdraw Artillery Wherever Kiev Observes Ceasefire
Lithuania Selling Arms to Kiev is of 'Grave Concern' to Russia
Donetsk Ready to Release Encircled Kiev Troops if They Lay Down Arms
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The Impact of TEF
October 4, 2019 by SRHE News Blog Leave a comment
by George Brown
A report on the SRHE seminar The impact of the TEF on our understanding, recording and measurement of teaching excellence: implications for policy and practice
This seminar demonstrated that the neo-liberal policy and metrics of TEF (Teaching Excellence Framework) were not consonant with excellent teaching as usually understood.
Michael Tomlinson’s presentation was packed with analyses of the underlying policies of TEF. Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka considered the theme of students’ perceptions of excellent teaching. Her research demonstrated clearly that students’ views of excellent teaching were very different from those of TEF. Stephen Jones provided a vibrant analysis of public discourses. He pointed to the pre-TEF attacks on universities and staff by major conservative politicians and their supporters. These were to convince students and their parents that Government action was needed. TEF was born and with it the advent of US-style neo-liberalism and its consequences. His final slide suggested ways of combating TEF including promoting the broad purposes of HE teaching. Sal Jarvis succinctly summarised the seminar and took up the theme of purposes. Personal development and civic good were important purposes but were omitted from the TEF framework and metrics.
Like all good seminars, this seminar prompted memories, thoughts and questions during and after the seminar. A few of mine are listed below. Others may wish to add to them.
None of the research evidence supports the policies and metrics of TEF (eg Gibbs, 2018). The indictment of TEF by the Royal Statistics Society is still relevant (RSS, 2018). The chairman of the TEF panel is reported to have said “TEF was not supposed to be a “direct measure of teaching” but rather “a measure based on some [my italics] of the outcomes of teaching” On the continuum of neo-liberalism and collegiality, TEF is very close to the pole of neo-liberalism whereas student perspectives are nearer the pole of collegiality which embraces collaboration between staff and between staff and students. Collaboration will advance excellence in teaching: TEF will not. Collegiality has been shown to increase morale and reinforce academic values in staff and students (Bolden et al, 2012). Analyses of the underlying values of a metric are important because values shape policy, strategies and metrics. ‘Big data’ analysts need to consider ways of incorporating qualitative data. With regard to TEF policy and its metrics, the cautionary note attributed to Einstein is apposite: “Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that is counted counts.”
SRHE member George Brown was Head of an Education Department in a College of Education and Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology of Education in the University of Ulster before becoming Professor of Higher Education at the University of Nottingham. His 250 articles, reports and texts are mostly in Higher and Medical Education, with other work in primary and secondary education. He was senior author of Effective Teaching in Higher Education and Assessing Student Learning in Higher Education and co-founder of the British Education Research Journal, to which he was an early contributor and reviewer. He was the National Co-ordinator of Academic Staff Development for the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals (now Universities UK) and has served on SRHE Council.
Bolden, R et al (2012) Academic Leadership: changing conceptions, identities and experiences in UK higher education London: Leadership Foundation
Gibbs, G (2017) ‘Evidence does not support the rationale of the TEF’, Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching, 10(2)
Royal Statistical Society (2018) Royal Statistical Society: Response to the teaching excellence and student outcomes framework, subject-level consultation
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St. Mary’s College heralded the start of the Christmas season by holding its annual Carol Concert this week.
Staff, students and their families gathered at a packed SS Peter and Paul Church on Liverpool Road to enjoy the atmospheric service in the 100-year-old building.
The concert - which was partly candlelit - featured a selection of readings, carols and instrumental and choral performances co-ordinated by the school’s Director of Music, Andrew Byers.
Highlights of the evening included Sophie Clarke’s solo soprano aria ‘Bereite Dich’ from J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, accompanied by Ellie Griffiths on violin and Isabelle Bond on cello.
Another highlight was the Chamber Choir and Chamber Consort performing ‘For Unto Us A Child Is Born’ from Handel’s Messiah, while the Training Choir gave a lovely rendition of popular classic ‘The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year’.
The traditional event finished in a traditional way with the serving of mulled wine and mince pies back at the school.
Principal Mike Kennedy, commented: “The carol concert is always a very popular event with families and a really enjoyable way to mark the start of the festive season.
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# 28 PlayStation
Who said video games are only for kids? Many generations in Saudi love to play video games. However,this post is not about Saudis who find their joy in playing video games. I will not talk about video games in general, it’s specifically about the one and the only game console that has been dominating every house in Saudi for decades… allow me to introduce the Sony PlayStation. The Sony PlayStation is the game console that every Saudi kid dreamed about and strived to get A’s in his classes in order for his parents to buy them one.
“BLAY” Station became a must in any Saudi household…it is one of those necessities that is a must have for a Saudi household… like TVs, dining table, sleeping beds, etc. PlayStation became so popular that people started referring any video game console by calling it PlayStation. Mention XBox to Saudis and they will think that you are talking about a new coffee shop in town. Walk into any bachelor pad in Saudi, you will witness three entertainment aspects every one has in common; people playing cards (Bal’ot), hookah, and PlayStation. Don’t be surprise if you see a bunch of Saudis reading Japanese. They mastered the language by playing the number one game on PlayStation for years, which is Winning Eleven (a Japanese soccer game).
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Not Gree-dy Enough
I was really looking forward to the return of the Gree this past week. It has been something like half a year since they last showed up on Ilum, and Bioware added a considerable amount of items to their reputation rewards since then. More Gray Helix Components, please!
Sadly I couldn't work up nearly as much enthusiasm for the event once it actually started. I think in the end I had got two world boss kills under my belt, earned three more Gray Helix Components, and did a few rounds of dailies. Not a very impressive haul.
I can't quite put my finger on why I didn't end up playing more, though I suspect that a mix of reasons played into it.
First off, it remains noticeable how much less time I have to play since I started working full time. One evening I joined a pug that was trying to hunt down some world bosses, which was decent fun even though it involved a lot of milling around while people checked the different map instances for spawns, but after I had got my two kills I looked at the time, realised that a whole hour had passed and that I had to go to bed. It's sad that "inefficient gaming", as I like to think of it, is becoming a bit of a luxury to me right now.
Secondly, it didn't take me long to realise that - even though some new rewards had been added - the event was still the same as before. While I've accepted that all world events from now on are going to be repeatable, that doesn't change that personally I'm just not that interested in repeating them forever. The first time a new event comes out I'm super excited and binge myself on all its content, the second time I may happily finish up what I didn't get around to the first time, but after that it all starts to feel a bit meh, even if there are achievements to kill lots of droids and other players to be chased. Due to their unpredictable schedule, the Gree have done a better job at holding my interest than Bounty Contract Week, but it's still not quite enough.
And finally... I think this particular event may have just been jinxed for me. On the first day my pet tank and I went into the PvP area, we got killed immediately and he got super grumpy. Personally I just tend to shrug these things off, but he took it so badly at the time that it seriously impeded my enjoyment of the event for a while.
While hunting world bosses, my little pug group also ran into a Republic guild that had decided to randomly troll people with smooth moves such as taunting someone else's boss mid-fight and then dragging him away until he reset so they could steal the kill. This is the kind of thing that makes people clamour for shared tagging like other games have it, but I'm not that bothered about that - there is something to be said for the thrill of having to actually compete for some resources. I just don't like it when people fight dirty I suppose. Either way that was another thing that left me feeling a bit down on the event, realising that my already limited time had effectively been wasted that evening because of other people being jerks.
Let's hope that I'll have better luck with the rakghouls once they make their comeback. We all know they will...
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Want a guild ship? Hope you got 50 million lying around
The latest reveal about the upcoming Galactic Strongholds expansion has been the price of guild ships. Apparently they'll cost fifty million credits each. I'm sure I'm not the only one whose jaw dropped a little at that piece of news, and I certainly don't consider myself poor in-game.
I was actually quite surprised to hear that my guild already has that much in the guild bank - I knew we had more than thirty million, but I didn't think it was quite that much. I'm sure that there are a fair few other guilds who do have the money to afford this as soon as the feature launches... but I have to admit that I'm a bit worried about the many more for whom I suspect this will be way out of reach. I'm guessing that any guild who is hoping to accumulate that amount of money needs to either be a raiding guild that sells a lot of crafting mats on the GTN, or have some generous benefactors among its membership that love making money and are willing to donate to the guild bank out of their own pockets.
The reason I'm concerned is that it's all very nice to have a goal to work towards as a guild... but these ships won't just be for show, they'll provide tangible benefits (though admittedly we have yet to see or find out how strong these are going to be), and giving such benefits to only the richest of guilds automatically makes it much harder for any guild that can't afford the same benefits to attract players.
Look at WoW and learn from its mistakes: they introduced a guild levelling system that provided you with perks as the guild levelled up back in Cataclysm, and have now decided to abolish it in the next expansion because, and I quote: "the nature of guild leveling and guild perks has shifted from being a reward for dedication and collective effort, to effectively being a penalty and barrier to entry for new guilds". I fear that this is only going to be worse in SWTOR when this barrier will consist of having to save up fifty million credits (which, let's be honest, is far from being small change for most players) to earn your guild any benefits at all.
I'm not saying that there shouldn't be any expensive perks that you can earn, possibly in the form of optional ship upgrades or something. But requiring fifty million credits to even get started seems pretty harsh to me.
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Character Selection Surprises
Yesterday's patch brought with it an interesting little surprise. When you change character, the one you most recently logged out of shows up from a position that's much further zoomed out than the usual portrait view that just shows your character's face and most of their upper body.
However, when you then select another character it resets to your normal point of view, even if you go back to your original selection.
There's a thread on the forums about it that's already 13 pages long and in which it's suggested that it's a bug... but a lot of people are also saying that they kind of like the new view and how it lets them see more of their character and their ship.
My personal guess is that this is related to the display bug that's existed pretty much forever and which would show your character's portrait a bit further down the screen than expected when you relogged, making them look like they had shrunk. It looks like someone finally tried to fix this issue, but instead of truly fixing it, they caused... this. At least it looks less silly this way, even if the sudden change of perspective is still strange.
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Another Achievement Ticked Off
This Saturday I finally got something that I've been after for a long time: the Avalanche Heavy Tank from EC NiM.
In my opinion it's still one of the cooler mounts in the game, and pretty much perfect for a trooper. Too bad it only gives you a 90% movement increase, but I'm never really in enough of a hurry for that to matter.
I think I've finally got everything I could possibly want from Explosive Conflict: all the achievements (including the "survived" ones), the Praxon mount from Kephess, the tank... well, I suppose I don't have the Praxon variety that drops on hardmode (because why do hardmode when you could do NiM instead and also get a shot at the tank) or the Qyzen Fess customisation. But I don't care nearly as much about any of those as I did about the tank.
Now to wait for Bioware to add some sort of amazing housing drop to Denova when Galactic Strongholds launches, giving us yet another reason to run this over two-year-old operation over and over again...
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The Curious Case of SWTOR's Gold Sellers
In the comments of one of my recent posts, a commenter went a little off topic and brought up the subject of gold sellers. (I suppose that, strictly speaking, we should refer to them as "credit sellers" in this case, considering that gold isn't used as a currency in game, but gold seller is just such a well-established term... I'm sure everyone knows what we're talking about.) This is actually a subject that I've been meaning to talk about for ages, so this is as good an opportunity as any.
I always thought that the most interesting thing about gold sellers in SWTOR was that, at launch, they were practically non-existent. People didn't really talk about this much back then, I suppose because we were busy enough talking about which parts of the game we liked and which ones we didn't - why worry about the absence of minor nuisances we knew from other MMOs? Maybe we also thought that the technology had simply become advanced enough that gold sellers had finally been defeated for good. All I know is that it took several weeks (maybe even months, I'm not entirely sure) until I saw my first advert to buy credits. It wasn't in chat either, but someone had managed to sneak an in-game mail through the filters and was encouraging me to buy credits for real money that way. It was a memorable moment precisely because it made me realise that actually, until then, I hadn't even seen a single gold seller advertising anywhere. That was two years ago now.
It didn't really strike me just how remarkable that was until I followed the news surrounding the launches of ESO and Wildstar this year, both of which were apparently absolutely inundated with gold seller spam and hacking/botting issues (caused by gold sellers needing wares to sell). So clearly the technology isn't there yet, generally speaking. Bioware just happened to have some secret anti-gold seller sauce. Too bad they got little credit for it.
What's really sad though is that said secret sauce has started to fail in recent months. I don't look at general chat often enough to be able to say whether any gold sellers manage to spam it, and I'm certainly not being accosted in whispers or in-game mails... however, at pretty much any time of day, there's a character standing near the GTN who advertises a gold-selling website in both /say and /yell.
I've blanked out the URL in this screenshot, but most people have probably seen the site advertised at some point or another. It's quite annoying, and the sad thing is that Bioware doesn't seem to be very responsive when it comes to reports. I can right-click "report spam" all I want - the next day the exact same character is still standing there doing his thing. And by the time they finally remove him, the gold selling company has already run the next alt to the fleet. It's not like I expect an instant response (I work in customer service myself, I know how it is), but you'd think that silencing these guys would be a very straightforward task that doesn't require much investigation before you can at least mute the character to shut down his shenanigans. I suppose it doesn't help that the game doesn't use the placebo you commonly see in other MMOs, where reporting someone for spam automatically adds them to your ignore list as well, so even if customer service is slow to react, at least you don't have to see any more of the same spam.
I wonder if the inventor of the anti-gold selling spam secret sauce no longer works at Bioware?
Labels: community , customer service , screenshots , swtor general
Datacron Master At Last
I've written about my changing relationship with datacrons before. At launch and for the first couple of months thereafter I didn't care about them at all. When I built my first matrix cubes, I looked up which shards I needed and how to get them and that was it. It was only later, when I levelled alts with other people who liked picking up datacrons while levelling (most importantly my pet tank), that I was more or less forced to learn where most of them were located - and eventually it just seemed natural to pick them up on my own as well whenever I had the chance on a new alt.
As a result, most of my characters have most of the datacrons these days, barring some toons that were created a long time ago (before my change of heart) and for whom I couldn't be bothered to backtrack to get the missing datacrons yet. There was one exception that I didn't have on any character however: the Makeb datacrons.
Many months ago, my pet tank and I set aside an afternoon to get the endurance datacron on Makeb, and I don't remember how many hours we actually spent on trying to get it, but let's just say that we lost the will to live long before we actually achieved anything. To this day I remain impressed by how whoever's responsible for this particular piece of design could ever think that the way this datacron is set up was a good idea. I don't mind difficult jumps (even though I'm not good at them), and I don't even mind falling to my death every time I fail - provided that I can pick myself back up and try again with ease. What I do mind is being challenged by several difficult and deadly jumps that also require you to spend ten minutes running back to get back to where you were after every attempt.
The worst thing for me was that I would find myself actively regressing after a certain number of failed jumps. As I grew increasingly impatient during the long runs back (thinking, "I know how this bit works, I just want to get back to the tough part") I would mess up earlier and earlier until I couldn't even come close to matching my previous progress anymore. It was just an exercise in frustration. Pet Tank and I pretty much vowed to ourselves that we weren't going to ever bother trying again, and then never even looked at the presence datacron either, even though that one is laughably easy in comparison.
Until... last night, when a guildie spoke up after a social ops run, saying that he was going to go for the Makeb endurance datacron and invited us along with the intent turn it into a fun guild event where the more skilled could help out the jumping-impaired with pulls and the like. I wasn't thrilled, especially since it was late, but I also realised that multiple people actually offering to help me was a rare opportunity, boosting my chances of actually making it to the datacron to the highest they were ever going to get.
So we set out as a group of seven to start that long journey of jumps. We got split up pretty much immediately, with one or two people impatiently racing ahead as they already knew what to do while others lagged behind, unsure of where to go and afraid of falling to their deaths. I felt my frustration levels rise again almost right away, as I kept failing at the simplest of jumps even though I knew that I had been able to pull them off before. There was at least one occasion where I considered bowing out of the whole event as I was worried about getting too frustrated. But others died too, and the guildie who had initiated the whole thing as well as my Sage healing buddy from ops were remarkably patient when it came to running back to help us failures catch up again or assist with getting across a particularly tricky gap. And then, at last, the endurance datacron was in my sights and with no more difficult jumps left in the space between us. I could hardly believe it.
A guildie that got it at the same time had the Galactic Datacron Master achievement pop up for him, and I was told that I should be able to get the presence datacron that evening as well, since it was actually much easier to get. It was, and it didn't take long at all, so I got my achievement too.
The funny thing is that I have very mixed feelings about the whole experience now. Part of me feels that I never want to do it again and that I should be happy that I got the achievement at all and leave it at that. However, there's also a second voice that says: "Well, you got it once (admittedly with help), surely any subsequent tries can only be easier? You know you want to repeat the process until you've actually mastered it yourself and get the datacrons for your alts too (though admittedly maybe not in the immediate future)!" We shall see...
Labels: achievements , datacrons , guild , makeb , screenshots
Listen to my guildie on TOROCast!
The latest episode of TOROCast (#205) is out, and I feel that I have to give it a bit of a plug... because it has one of my guildies in it! I am of course talking about their guest Macewindy. It was rather funny when he told me about having been invited to TOROCast due to his interim class rep position, and all I could think of was: "We have a class rep in the guild?" As he says on the show, he kind of came into the role accidentally.
They interviewed him about a lot of Gunslinger/Sniper stuff which I have no clue about, but I'm still chuffed about it. I know someone who's internet famous now!
I also got a good chuckle out of the first couple of minutes of the show, when Mace's introduction caused them to muse on deep subjects such as whether it means anything that the Expanded Universe and the European Union share initials.
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Do you consider SWTOR "old"?
While reading about SWTOR on general gaming sites as of late, I've noticed a (to me) funny thing: I keep seeing people refer to it as "an older game". Seeing someone express that sentiment startles me every time - the game is only two and a half years old, for Christ's sake! I know this is the internet and internet years are different from real life years (probably more similar to dog years or something), but in an MMO two and a half years really aren't that long of a time. I'm pretty sure that the number of MMOs older than that is much larger than the number of those that have been released more recently.
"I don't look old, HK, do I?"
I'm thinking back to when WoW was two and a half years old and I can't even imagine anyone calling it old back then. Then again, WoW's popularity was still rising rapidly at that point. So maybe our perception of a game's age has less to do with how long it has been out than with how popular it is. Consider EVE Online, a game that is over eleven years old by now but experienced a lot of pretty steady growth during that time. I for one don't see anyone dismissing EVE as old.
However these days, with people's tendency to jump on the bandwagon of every new launch and then abandoning the game a couple of months later, the road to being considered old and forgotten is a fairly short one. Not to mention that many new MMOs see a lot of pre-launch hype these days, meaning that by the time the game actually gets released, it can feel as if you've already been engaged with it for several months or even years.
So is SWTOR not popular enough anymore? The truth is, it's hard to say. Back when the hype surrounding the game was at its peak, Bioware loved to throw around metrics about how many subscribers they had and how long the average player was playing per day. Ever since the free-to-play transition however, talking about metrics seems to have become a bit of a taboo around Austin. It's already a surprise when they dare to release information such as "Vanguards win more than half of their arena matches". In EA's quarterly financial report, SWTOR gets lumped in with other games and you can't really tell how well it's doing beyond a vague notion that it seems to be making some money for EA. Individuals can share observations about how their server is bustling or a ghost town, but as the saying goes, anecdotes are not data. Personally I think that there is still a decent amount of interest in the game though. If nothing else I thought it was telling that, back when Massively suffered its staff cuts, the SWTOR column was one of the ones to be thrown out, but has now actually been brought back. They wouldn't have done that if there wasn't still a healthy amount of interest in the game.
In my opinion one or two years after launch is actually a great time to get into a new MMO. By that point, the launch issues that every MMO experiences have been ironed out, and the game's system requirements don't seem nearly as steep as they were on release. It's probably cheaper than it was at launch (if it's not free to play anyway) and may even have had an expansion or two, offering players a considerable amount of content to play through. At the same time it shouldn't yet suffer from the problems that some of the genuinely older MMOs experience, such as a lack of low-level characters to interact with or systems bloat that makes it hard for new players to come to grips with the game.
When do you consider an MMO (or a PC game in general) "old"?
Hooked on Housing?
With the delay of Galactic Strongholds, many SWTOR players feel that the game is suffering from a bit of a content draught right now. I'm inclined to agree that it kind of feels that way when you consider the size of previous patches, but I can't really blame the devs when it's obvious that they are pouring all their resources into the next two large releases right now (housing and the as of yet unnamed story expansion). Not to mention that SWTOR is still pretty good about its content patch cycle compared to a lot of the competition.
Either way it was interesting to read today's developer update by Jesse Sky, giving us a sneak peek of Galactic Strongholds and hopefully rekindling some player interest in the process. There is some stuff in there about how you'll get your stronghold and how other people will be able to access it, but the biggest bit of news was that the system will be hook-based.
Unsurprisingly that immediately sent some people howling on the forums, especially after Eric Musco emphasised at the Vancouver Community Cantina that SWTOR's housing system would be "different and new". To be fair, it does seem different and new to me in so far as it tries to strike a balance between limiting players to what seems sensible (e.g. furniture going on the floor, wall decorations going on the walls) but still giving them as much freedom as possible at the same time. Anyway, haven't all the recent housing additions to MMOs been more or less freeform anyway? RIFT? Wildstar? Why should all games have to follow the same rules?
There are definitely advantages to having some limitations. I reckon that for every wannabe artist that feels let down by being unable to make things float in the air and hates being blocked from manually building a piano out of a hundred teacups, a system like this will win over at least one player who would've otherwise just dumped all their decorations on the floor and gone: "Screw this, I can't be bothered with meticulously placing all this crap in three dimensions." Honestly, I suspect that I'm more likely to fall into that latter category myself. Admittedly I've never played an MMO that had housing before, but I know that building in The Sims was always a bit of a chore for me when all I really wanted was a serviceable house to be able to actually play with my Sims.
So I'm on board with what they previewed so far. The only thing that worries me are the repeated comments about how the UI is just a placeholder as the system is still in alpha. Isn't this whole thing supposed to launch in a little over a month? I would've thought that a major new system like that would have to be in beta by now.
Labels: galactic strongholds , housing , other games , swtor general
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Police Order Oath Keepers To Stop Guarding Ferguson Rooftops
By Catherine Thompson
December 1, 2014 7:01 a.m.
Although Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) called in the National Guard to prepare for potential unrest in Ferguson following a grand jury’s decision in the Michael Brown shooting, some local business owners and residents turned to volunteers from a group called the Oath Keepers to protect their property instead.
But St. Louis County police shut down the group’s security efforts Saturday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The Oath Keepers’ founder, Stewart Rhodes, told the newspaper that volunteers agreed to leave their posts after being threatened with arrest for operating without a license.
The group, made up of current and former law enforcement officials and military who pledge to defend the Constitution, had put out a call last week on its website asking for recruits to head to Ferguson. Rhodes told the Post-Dispatch that the people who volunteered to handle rooftop security there had “intense military, police and EMS training.”
Sam Andrews, a former Defense Department contractor who told the New York Times that he’s organized private security details for Ferguson businesses in the Oath Keepers’ name, said there were “more than five, less than 500” volunteers contributing to the effort.
Andrews told the newspaper that he had screened all the volunteers as to whether they might have “racially based motivations” for coming to Ferguson.
“I don’t want any racists in my group,” he said. “I don’t want any people who want to visit violence on any group. I only want professionals with real credentials that can be verified and have experience in dealing with violence.”
It’s unclear if the group plans to resume its activities in Ferguson.
Catherine Thompson (@kt_thomps) Catherine Thompson is a senior editor for Talking Points Memo in New York City. She came to the site in 2013 and reported on national affairs. Previously, she worked as a research assistant to investigative reporter Wayne Barrett. She can be reached at catherine@talkingpointsmemo.com.
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Between Memory and Museum
Arun Wolf, Gita Wolf, Various Artists
This pioneering dialogue with 38 extraordinary folk and tribal artists from across India focusses on the idea of a museum — particularly for communities historically regarded as anthropological subjects. In their visual responses, artists reflect on the museum as an institution, and the way it preserves, creates and disseminates knowledge. Do these representations communicate a lived life? What are the artists’ own ways of remembering and passing on tradition? And finally: who has the power to put whom in a museum? Artists featured in this book include several award-winners of extraordinary talent, including Bhajju Shyam, Durga Bai, Jagdish Chitara and Bhaddu Hamir. Each of these artists has exhibited in India and elsewhere, being featured in exhibitions of outsider and folk art from India.
I found Between Memory and Museum on the website of Tara Books and thought you would be interested. You can visit the page at https://tarabooks.com/shop/between-memory-and-museum/.
Showcases beautiful, opulent artwork ...offers piercing insights and reimaginings that turn traditional notions of museums inside out.
Arun Wolf
Editor of this book, Arun Wolf is a young filmmaker from Chennai, India, and has been associated with Tara for several years. He assists with visual documentation, and is involved in producing book-related shorts and themed documentaries for Tara Books.
Gita Wolf
Gita Wolf started Tara Books as an independent publishing house based in India. An original and creative voice in contemporary Indian publishing, she is known for her interest in exploring and experimenting with the form of the book. She has written over twenty books for children and adults. Several have won major international awards and been translated into multiple languages. Click here to discover her other Tara Books.
Artists featured in this book include several award-winners of extraordinary talent, including Bhajju Shyam, Ramsingh Urveti , Durga Bai, Bhuri Bai, Gangu Bai and Jagdish Chitara. Many of these artists have exhibited in India and abroad, being featured in exhibitions of indigenous and folk art from India.
Catriona Maciver is a multidisciplinary designer from Scotland. After graduating in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martin’s College in London, she travelled to India to explore traditional artisanal craft and culture. It was this interest that led her to work for Tara Books in 2013. Catriona continues to work on book projects with Tara, while also running her own studio in South India. Click here to discover her other Tara Books.
Stories and exquisite art from some of the finest living artists, on the most universal of themes: the sun and the moon.
Visual travelogue from a Gond tribal artist reverses the anthropological gaze.
The London Jungle Book
Exquisite hand block printed textile book in the form of a cloth shrine.
The Cloth of the Mother Goddess
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The Night Life of Trees
Bhajju Shyam, Durga Bai, Ramsingh Urveti
The Night Life of Trees is an exquisite silkscreen-printed art book of tree lore from the Gond tribe in central lndia. Trees are central to the Gond tribal imagination: in addition to the stories that surround them, trees are important in a lived, everyday sense. There is a Gond belief that trees are busy during the day, giving shade and food to humans and animals. It is only during the night that their real spirit emerges. A collection of work by three of the finest living artists of the Gond tribe – traditionally a community of forest dwellers from central India – this quintessential Tara title has gone into several editions and in different languages.
I found The Night Life of Trees on the website of Tara Books and thought you would be interested. You can visit the page at https://tarabooks.com/shop/the-night-life-of-trees/.
Silkscreen-printed on paper recycled from cotton waste
Foreign Rights Sold
Adriano Salani Editore
Minoru Tamura
Borim Press
Editora WMF Martins Fontes
Editorial Kalandraka
NordSüd Verlag
BolognaRagazzi Award, New Horizons, Bologna, 2008
A glowingly mysterious and charming volume.
A moving manifesto for the mesmerism of the paper page in the age of everything.
Bhajju Shyam
Bhajju Shyam belongs to the Gond tribe of artists—a community of highly visual story-tellers—from Madhya Pradesh in India. His captivating art keeps the symbolic density of the Gond style, bringing to it the intelligence and clarity of his own vision. The versatile artist has received international acclaim since his runaway success in 2003 with The London Jungle Book. Click here to discover his other Tara Books.
Durga Bai
Durga Bai is a female artist working within the Gond tradition of tribal art from Madhya Pradesh, central India. Her work constantly re-works and pushes the boundaries of the Gond art form to create a style that sparkles with a distinctive energy. Her work has been exhibited both within India and abroad, and she’s worked on several of Tara’s seminal projects. Click here to discover her other Tara Books.
Ramsingh Urveti
Ramsingh Urveti is one of the most brilliant living artists of the Gond tradition. Ramsingh’s work has spread the myths and stories of the Gond community throughout Asia, Europe, Australia and South America, and has won him awards nationally and internationally. His work creates a world of fantasy and metamorphosis, coming alive with finely detailed organic forms. Click here to discover his other Tara Books.
Rathna Ramanathan
Designer Rathna Ramanathan has steered the design philosophy of Tara since the very beginning. In the process, she can be said to have pioneered innovative children’s book design in India. Her main interest is in typography as well as in changing the form of the book. She runs minus9, her own graphic design studio, and is currently the Head of Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art, London. Click here to discover her other Tara Books.
Ramsingh Urveti: When the peacock dances in the forest, the trees change turn their leaves into peacock feathers.
The Peacock
Durga Bai: The holy Dumar tree, whose fruits look like little birds, is worshipped for during the festival of Navratri.
The Dumar Tree
Beautiful handmade cards in the Gond style of tribal art silkscreen-printed on handmade paper.
The Dumar Tree Card
The beautiful handmade cards in this box are rendered in the intricate Gond tribal art style from central India.
The Night Life of Trees – Card Box
A sumptuously illustrated re-telling of Sophocles’ classic tragedy, celebrating the art of bookmaking.
Exquisitely rendered images of an imaginative water-world – in the Mithila folk style from Bihar.
Folk singer and self-taught artist draws her incredible journey from rural poverty to a life in art.
Drawing from the City
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Galaxy Training Day
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Installing and configuring Linux Ubuntu for bioinformatics http://biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/installing-and-configuring-linux-ubuntu-bioinformatics https://tess.elixir-europe.org/events/installing-and-configuring-linux-ubuntu-for-bioinformatics CBBU, COMBINE, and SCU are organizing a series of introductory bioinformatics and statistics workshops. The workshops are primarily aimed at students, postdocs and early-mid career researchers, but are open to everybody from our College. 2016-04-07 09:00:00 UTC 2016-04-07 00:00:00 UTC Australian National University Canberra, Australia Canberra Australia Bioinformatics [] [] [] workshops_and_courses [] ABRBioinformatics
Software Carpentry Introduction to Programming with R and Use of Unix Shell and Git, plus Data Carpentry Processing and Visualization of Genomic Datasets
Software Carpentry Introduction to Programming with R and Use of Unix Shell and Git, plus Data Carpentry Processing and Visualization of Genomic Datasets http://biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/software-carpentry-introduction-programming-r-and-use-unix-shell-and-git-plus-data https://tess.elixir-europe.org/events/software-carpentry-introduction-to-programming-with-r-and-use-of-unix-shell-and-git-plus-data-carpentry-processing-and-visualization-of-genomic-datasets Workshops in bioinformatics and statistics CBBU, COMBINE, and SCU are organizing a series of introductory bioinformatics and statistics workshops. The workshops are primarily aimed at students, postdocs and early-mid career researchers, but are open to everybody from our College. 2016-04-11 09:00:00 UTC 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC Australian National University Canberra, Australia Canberra Australia Bioinformatics Data visualisation Data management [] [] [] workshops_and_courses [] ABRBioinformaticsSoftwareCarpentry
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Introduction to EBI bioinformatics resources
Introduction to EBI bioinformatics resources https://ebi-bioinformatics-resources.eventbrite.com.au https://tess.elixir-europe.org/events/introduction-to-ebi-bioinformatics-resources This workshop introduces researchers to the rich (and freely available) resources of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). We will walk through a variety of exemplary software tools and database resources, providing plenty of time for exploration. Primarily, this is targeted towards biologists with no, or very limited, bioinformatics experience to assist with ‘making a start’. 2016-06-22 09:00:00 UTC 2016-06-22 00:00:00 UTC VLSCI - University of Melbourne Lab-14, VLSCI, University of Melbourne, Australia Lab-14, VLSCI University of Melbourne Australia Bioinformatics Data architecture, analysis and design [] [] [] workshops_and_courses [] ABRVLSCIlifescienceBioinformatics
Introduction to Molecular Modelling & Visualisation for Life Sciences
Introduction to Molecular Modelling & Visualisation for Life Sciences https://intro-mm-visualisation.eventbrite.com.au https://tess.elixir-europe.org/events/introduction-to-molecular-modelling-visualisation-for-life-sciences This VLSCI workshop introduces beginners to molecular modelling and visualisation techniques using packages such as VMD and NAMD. After introductory talks, participants will be given practical exercises to visualise molecules as well as learn how to submit jobs to the VLSCI clusters. 2016-07-04 09:00:00 UTC 2016-07-04 00:00:00 UTC VLSCI - University of Melbourne Lab-14, VLSCI, University of Melbourne, Australia Lab-14, VLSCI University of Melbourne Australia Computational chemistry Computational biology Molecular modelling Molecular dynamics Data architecture, analysis and design [] [] [] workshops_and_courses [] ABRVLSCIComputationalBiologyMolecularInteractions
Intermediate Molecular Modelling & Visualisation for Life Sciences
Intermediate Molecular Modelling & Visualisation for Life Sciences https://intermediate-mm-visualisation.eventbrite.com.au https://tess.elixir-europe.org/events/intermediate-molecular-modelling-visualisation-for-life-sciences This workshop is for the intermediate user who is already familiar with molecular modelling and submitting cluster jobs, and is interested in learning more advanced job submission and visualisation techniques. Topics include: advanced job submission scripts; data analysis; and molecular image and movie making. 2016-07-06 09:00:00 UTC 2016-07-06 00:00:00 UTC VLSCI - University of Melbourne Lab-14, VLSCI, University of Melbourne, Australia Lab-14, VLSCI University of Melbourne Australia Data visualisation Computational chemistry Computational biology [] [] [] workshops_and_courses [] ABRVLSCIComputationalBiology
Open source science with Git and GitHub
Open source science with Git and GitHub https://git-and-github.eventbrite.com.au https://tess.elixir-europe.org/events/open-source-science-with-git-and-github Learn how to keep a record your code's evolution over time using the git version control system, used by companies and open-source projects worldwide. Git allows you to easily maintain snapshots of your code as you make changes, keep multiple parallel versions of your code, and collaborate with others. Follow up with an understanding of GitHub, the king of open-source project hosting. Learn how you can use git and GitHub to do code review and contribute to your favourite open source projects. 2016-08-02 09:00:00 UTC 2016-08-02 00:00:00 UTC VLSCI - University of Melbourne Lab-14, VLSCI, University of Melbourne, Australia Lab-14, VLSCI University of Melbourne Australia Bioinformatics Data management Data submission, annotation and curation [] [] [] workshops_and_courses [] ABRVLSCIlifescience
Introduction to R and RStudio
Introduction to R and RStudio http://biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/introduction-r-and-rstudio https://tess.elixir-europe.org/events/introduction-to-r-and-rstudio Introduction to R and RStudio co-organized with Teresa Neeman from Australian National University Statistical Consulting Unit. The workshop will be over 2 half-days 31/10 and 1/11 9:30am - 1:30pm, and will cover basic concepts in R, including: introduction to R and RStudio, importing and graphing data, basic data processing, and statistics, good coding practice. The short course will help you to be more confident using R and will prepare you for understanding statistical modelling in R. This workshop is for R and RStudio novices. No previous experience in R or RStudio is expected. We especially invite mid-year honours students. Please note that this workshop was already advertised to honours students by Giel Van Dooren. To sign up please email no later than October 7th. The workshops are offered at no cost. 2016-10-31 09:00:00 UTC 2016-10-31 00:00:00 UTC Australian National University Canberra, Australia Canberra Australia Data visualisation Data management [] [] [] workshops_and_courses [] ABRBioinformatics
Data Processing in R for beginners
Data Processing in R for beginners http://biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/data-processing-r-beginners https://tess.elixir-europe.org/events/data-processing-in-r-for-beginners Data Processing in R for beginners co-organized with Janet Gardner from EEG. This will be a 6 hours workshop on 8/11 9:30 - 12:30 - lunch break - 1:00pm - 4:00pm and will be covering: Brief introduction to R and RStudio. Data types in R, and type conversions. Loading and saving tab and coma delimited files. Data exploration: basic statistic (mean, std. deviation and so on), basic plots (dotplots and histograms). Data sub-setting and filtering. Adding new columns with calculated values. Find-and-replace for values in a column. Detecting and handling errors an missing values in the data. Designing an appropriate structure for a spreadsheet. Joining datasets. Programming - creating functions in R. To sign up please email marcin.adamski@anu.edu.au no later than October 7th. The workshops are offered at no cost. 2016-11-08 09:00:00 UTC 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC Australian National University Canberra, Australia Canberra Australia Bioinformatics Data visualisation Data management [] [] [] workshops_and_courses [] ABRBioinformatics
Data Processing in R for advanced users
Data Processing in R for advanced users http://biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/data-processing-r-advanced-users https://tess.elixir-europe.org/events/data-processing-in-r-for-advanced-users Data Processing in R for advanced users co- organized with Janet Gardner from EEG. This will be a 6 hours workshop on 15/11 9:30 - 12:30 - lunch break - 1:00pm - 4:00pm covering the same subjects as workshop #2 but will be much more focused on writing code (programming in R) and practical exercises and will skip the basics. To sign up please email marcin.adamski@anu.edu.au no later than October 7th. The workshops are offered at no cost. 2016-11-15 09:00:00 UTC 2016-11-15 00:00:00 UTC Australian National University Canberra, Australia Canberra Australia Bioinformatics Data visualisation Data management [] [] [] workshops_and_courses [] ABRBioinformatics
EMBL-ABR/ELIXIR workshop: Open Source and Software Development Best Practice
EMBL-ABR/ELIXIR workshop: Open Source and Software Development Best Practice https://www.embl-abr.org.au/bioinformatics-sw-workshop/ https://tess.elixir-europe.org/events/embl-abr-elixir-workshop-open-source-and-software-development-best-practice This workshop will provide an interactive forum to discuss, review and gain an overview of Open Source and Software Development and will be based on content from the ELIXIR Software Development Best Practices group and aims to explore how to harmonise EMBL-ABR efforts in this area. Participants will reflect together on their own experiences and discuss what are the challenges, mechanisms and recognition systems are for those who get involved in open source. We would like to use this also as an opportunity to further define what would be the best practice model in terms of software development when it comes to activities under EMBL-ABR. Bioinformaticians involved with software development are the target audience. 2016-12-08 09:00:00 UTC 2016-12-08 00:00:00 UTC EMBl-ABR Lab-14, University of Melbourne, Australia Lab-14 University of Melbourne Australia Computational biology Bioinformatics [] [] [] workshops_and_courses [] ABRlifescienceBioinformatics
EMBL-ABR Workshop: Open and Scalable Training
EMBL-ABR Workshop: Open and Scalable Training https://www.embl-abr.org.au/open-scalable-workshop/ https://tess.elixir-europe.org/events/embl-abr-workshop-open-and-scalable-training This workshop will provide an overview of bioinformatics training at postgraduate level being offered across EMBL-ABR Nodes and what is happening in this area in other parts of the world. We will discuss what are the demands and offers when it comes to bioinformatics training around the globe, how this differs or not from the specific case of Australia, how training is reaching trainees, and whether or not it can scales up. In particular we will look at principles of open software and open data as basic concepts that could also be applied to training and contribute to its scalability. The target audiences for this workshop are trainers, organisers and general faculty involved in postgraduate courses. 2016-12-08 09:00:00 UTC 2016-12-08 00:00:00 UTC VLSCI - University of Melbourne Lab-14, University of Melbourne, Australia Lab-14 University of Melbourne Australia Computational biology Bioinformatics [] [] [] workshops_and_courses [] Bioinformatics
EMBL-ABR & ELIXIR Workshop – Registries in Bioinformatics: tools, datasets, standards, events & training
EMBL-ABR & ELIXIR Workshop – Registries in Bioinformatics: tools, datasets, standards, events & training https://www.embl-abr.org.au/registries-workshop/ https://tess.elixir-europe.org/events/embl-abr-elixir-workshop-registries-in-bioinformatics-tools-datasets-standards-events-training This workshop will provide an introduction to existing solutions and methods for registries across a variety of areas relevant to bioinformatics, such as tools, datasets, standards, events and training. The workshop will provide a forum for bioinformaticians to discuss pros and cons as well as general best practices when it comes to registries. It will also offer a hands on session on submission (content upload), dissemination (content pull) and visualisation. The final session will be a writing activity: based on the experience gained through the day, participants and faculty will write a review of existing registries, a guide for how to use registry information and summarise the next challenges. 2016-12-09 09:00:00 UTC 2016-12-09 00:00:00 UTC VLSCI - University of Melbourne Lab-14, University of Melbourne, Australia Lab-14 University of Melbourne Australia Data management Computational biology Bioinformatics [] [] [] workshops_and_courses [] ABRlifesciencebioinfoorganisms
Open source science with Monica Munoz-Torres
Open source science with Monica Munoz-Torres https://www.embl-abr.org.au/monicamunoz-torrestour/ https://tess.elixir-europe.org/events/open-source-science 2017-06-28 09:00:00 UTC 2017-06-28 17:00:00 UTC Melbourne Bioinformatics 161 Barry St, Carlton, University of Melbourne, Australia 161 Barry St, Carlton University of Melbourne Australia Bioinformatics Melbourne Bioinformatics [] [] workshops_and_courses [] Bioinformatics
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CONVERGENCE: The Merging of Lighting and Video
In Uncategorizedby tfwm April 4, 2014
by Vickie Claiborne
Are AV professionals in danger of having video control taken away from them by lighting programmers? Will video control systems need to integrate DMX, Ethernet, or some other type of control protocol in order to compete with lighting consoles?
Before we can answer these questions, let’s take a look at why this trend is happening in the lighting industry.
When automated lighting first debuted, fixtures were extremely limited in the number of patterns that could fit in the unit. Manufacturers constantly pushed to develop fixtures with more gobos and effects in response to demand from Lighting Designers. However, the trade off as manufacturers developed new products was larger, heavier lighting fixtures with up to three gobo wheels. But there is an upper limit to the size of a fixture you want to hang on a truss. These fixtures, while providing 20+ patterns in some cases, simply take up more space in the rig. Other factors like price (some of these fixtures can cost upwards of $10k each) are also prohibitive. That kind of money for so few patterns has resulted in most major lighting manufacturers pushing to find an effective way of creating a lighting fixture with a digital gobo library. The goal for manufacturers eventually became a fixture that could have a virtually endless supply of images while enabling designers the freedom of selecting unique images instead of using stock patterns that have been used on hundreds of other shows.
In the mid 90’s, LSD launched a product called the Icon M. When it came on the scene it was a revolutionary breakthrough in the lighting industry. While it remained an in-house product due to issues like the fixture’s DLP micromirror technology (not used in today’s digital lighting luminaires) and the proprietary control, it did prove that the industry could create a fixture with a much larger library of digital images.
High End Systems continued the R&D on solving the digital gobo problem, and in the late 1990’s HES teamed up with hardware developers WWG and SAM Show Control Software developer Richard Bleasdale to develop a prototype product. In it’s earliest form, Bleasdale’s control software (the foundation for today’s Catalyst Media Server software) provided the source and control of the digital images while WWG’s orbital projection head, attached to a large scale projector, provided the ability to pan and tilt the very bright source of light from mid to large size projectors (5k to 18K lumens) from a DMX lighting console. This was an important milestone because using Catalyst meant that the lighting programmer would have the ability to control digital images that could be fed to a projector, and the orbital head allowed the programmer the ability to aim the digital images anywhere on any surface while controlling the speed of the movement between focus locations. This breakthrough opened up the minds of everyone in the lighting industry, and video suddenly became a new aspect of the lighting industry.
How does a media server connect to a console?
The real advancement for the lighting industry comes from the ability to control video via a DMX signal, something previously not possible. In the case of a Catalyst Media Server, the server receives a DMX signal from a lighting console via the Catalyst Interface Box. The CIB converts the DMX information into USB and feeds it to the server. The server then interprets the information, processes the data, and creates the ‘look’. That ‘look’ is then sent out via the server’s Video Card outputs and into video distribution amplifiers before being routed into a Video converter called the DV1. The DV1 converts the VGA signal to RGBHV and sends the data out to the projection device. All media servers can connect to a wide variety of projection devices, anything from projectors to monitors to LED Walls using either the VGA or RGBHV outputs of the DV1.
What does a media server do?
Currently, a media server’s main purpose is to provide an extremely large library of media files to be called up and programmed into lighting cues from a lighting console. This could be via DMX, or it may be via an Ethernet, ArtNet or another type of protocol. Each media server provides the programmer with some ability to control various things on the fly (as opposed to having to re-render each time you change an effect) things like play speed and direction of a movie file, layering and playback of still images, masking, color, intensity, scale, rotation of the image along X, Y and Z axis’, and mapping an image to a 3D object. Some media servers allow you to program your looks on the media server itself and then trigger those presets from the lighting console via DMX (i.e. the Maxedia from Martin) or MIDI (i.e. Brash!Live from Lucid3D). Some media servers, like Catalyst, allow the programmer complete access to all attributes directly from the console and the programmer records the looks directly into cues on the console. In no cases currently is the content actually stored on the console; instead, the files are typically categorized on the server in folders and then called up from the console via a DMX value on a specific channel.
The benefits of using a media server
Lighting designers in the past had to rely on separate personnel from a different discipline to execute video aspects of the show. Having a DMX controlled Media Server eliminates this problem and allows the operator to be able to playback video effects simultaneously in the same cue as other lighting fixtures are also being told to change colors, patterns, positions, etc. Also, designers who are familiar with current video equipment are always amazed at how easy it is to manipulate video images live, in real time, without re-rendering each change. Controlling video from a DMX console enables the LD more input into the overall look and feel of the show, and the programmer working with both lighting and video is better able to balance levels between the lighting and video aspects, something which is generally very difficult to do when lighting is controlled from one location and video from another.
The limitations of the technology
Currently there are many choices for professional video gear available in the market, each with its own merits. Therefore, it can be difficult for the Lighting Designer to be in complete control of all of the video aspects used in a show. The entertainment industry is, at least for the time being, in the place where media servers are more likely to be routed to a switcher instead of the media server handling the switching between video devices. But with the recent introduction into media servers of features like Live Camera Inputs, Audio Inputs and Serial Device Control, some technically savvy lighting programmers (who are video savvy as well) are undertaking the complete integration of video control from their lighting consoles and having great success.
Whether or not it was originally intended to unfold this way, the reality is that Digital Media Servers are here to stay. As a result, lighting consoles will continue to develop features that enable better and more efficient programming results when controlling video. Today, most major lighting manufacturers either offer a media server or are developing one. Lighting designers now have many choices for controlling the visual aspects of the show from one control source. Will that lead to a reduction in AV technicians on shows? Not likely. AV technicians are essential to the equation. A lighting programmer is tied to the console and is not easily able to attend to problems with equipment when they arise, especially at showtime. Even on shows where a media server is used, AV technicians are still needed to properly setup and maintain the projection devices. You will be hard pressed to find any Video Director on a network broadcast at this time that would be comfortable with the video being cued from a Lighting Console. The trust hasn’t been established yet, and the functionality of most lighting consoles serving as a video controller is not ironed out. But it is inevitable. So a basic understanding of lighting principles like ‘Channels’ and ‘Cues’ and the concepts of programming a lighting console do seem essential for an AV tech if he wants to continue to expand his knowledge and increase his chances for employment.
The development of video content is becoming more important and there is a role developing for the video artist to work out how the content will be used.
As the two industries continue to merge, a new breed of Lighting Programmer/AV Technician will be born. In the lighting industry today, a programmer who truly understands video equipment and concepts is highly sought after, and an AV tech that can program a lighting console already has an advantage. Will a lighting programmer replace the AV tech? Not likely. They will slowly become one and the same.
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Romeo and juliet character description essay
The prologue of play has own meaning. Major parts of famous play influence readers. Love and Fate Fate is the central concept of entire story, which allows looking at the most popular Romeo affair as a single tragedy.
Romeo is initially presented as a Petrarchan lover, a man whose feelings of love aren't reciprocated by the lady he admires and who uses the poetic language of sonnets to express his emotions about his situation. Romeo's exaggerated language in his early speeches characterizes him as a young and inexperienced lover who is more in love with the concept of being in love than with the woman herself.
The play's emphasis on characters' eyes and the act of looking accords with Romeo's role as a blind lover who doesn't believe that there could be another lady more fair than his Rosaline.
Romeo denies that he could be deluded by love, the "religion" of his eye. This zeal, combined with his rejection of Benvolio's advice to find another love to replace Rosaline, highlights Romeo's immaturity as a lover.
Similar imagery creates a comic effect when Romeo falls in love at first sight with Juliet at the Capulet feast. When Romeo sees Juliet, he realizes the artificiality of his love for Rosaline: As the play progresses, Romeo's increasing maturity as a lover is marked by the change in his language.
He begins to speak in blank verse as well as rhyme, which allows his language to sound less artificial and more like everyday language. The fated destinies of Romeo and Juliet are foreshadowed throughout the play. Romeo's sense of foreboding as he makes his way to the Capulet feast anticipates his first meeting with Juliet: Romeo belongs in a world defined by love rather than a world fractured by feud.
Tybalt's death in Act III, Scene 1, brings about the clash between the private world of the lovers and the public world of the feud.
Romeo is reluctant to fight Tybalt because they are now related through Romeo's marriage to Juliet. When Tybalt kills Mercutiohowever, Romeo out of loyalty to his friend and anger at Tybalt's arrogance kills Tybalt, thus avenging his friend's death.
After the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt, Benvolio acts as a
In one ill-fated moment, he placed his love of Juliet over his concern for Mercutio, and Mercutio was killed. Romeo then compounds the problem by placing his own feelings of anger over any concerns for Juliet by killing Tybalt.
Romeo notes that both he and Paris are victims of fate and describes Paris as: "One writ with me in sour misfortune's book" (V) since Paris experienced an unreciprocated love from Juliet similar to Romeo's unrequited love for Rosaline. Contrasting Evil and Good in Macbeth - In this essay I will look at the ways that Shakespeare has contrasted evil with good in his play Macbeth. rutadeltambor.com, Create Lesson Plans from Movies and Film Clips - film cllip from Shakespeare in Love Introducing Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo's immaturity is again manifest later when he learns of his banishment. He lies on the floor of the Friar's cell, wailing and crying over his fate. When the Nurse arrives, he clumsily attempts suicide. The Friar reminds him to consider Juliet and chides him for not thinking through the consequences of his actions for his wife.
The Friar then offers a course of action to follow, and Romeo becomes calm.Romeo Character Essay One character i will be discussing from the play Romeo and Juliet is, Romeo. I will tell you what i found enjoyable about the character and also how he helped me to understand a key idea in the play, how revenge always ends badly.
Romeo is a young character who lives in the city Verona. He is one of the main characters in the play with very distinct characteristics. "ROMEO AND JULIET" Character Description Essay In "Romeo and Juliet", by William Shakespeare, Romeo Montague is portrayed as a very romantic character.
In Webster's New World dictionary,?romantic' is defined as: "Preoccupied with love or by the idealizing of love. Try Our Friends At: The Essay Store. Free English School Essays. We have lots of essays in our essay database, so please check back here frequently to see the newest additions. When Romeo and Juliet kiss at the feast, Juliet teases Romeo for using the popular imagery of love poetry to express his feelings and for kissing according to convention rather than from the heart: "You kiss by th' book" (I).
William Shakespeare. Character Analysis Juliet. Juliet, like Romeo, makes the transition from an innocent adolescent to responsible adult during the course of the play. In Juliet's case, however, there is a heightened sense that she has been forced to mature too quickly.
A summary of Act 2, prologue–scene 1 in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Romeo and Juliet and what it means.
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Taxi driver brutally attacked by British Soldier
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Sapper Tyrone Jackson, 20, attacked taxi driver Kevin Fugelsang, after a night out drinking in Ipswich. Fugelsang, who is in his sixties, was approached by Jackson who knocked on his window and mumbled something before sticking his finger up at him. The court heard that Fugelsang closed his window in an attempt to avoid any further conflict but Jackson began banging on the roof of his vehicle. Fugelsang stepped out of his taxi to confront Jackson, this is when he attacked, punching Mr Fugelsang in the face. Fugelsang fell to the floor and was immediately mounted by Jackson who continued punching him. Fugelsang managed to contain the attack, but when he let Jackson free, he was attacked again. Fugelsang suffered cuts to his face and Jaw, and also damage to his eye. CCTV footage showed Jackson not only punching his victim, but also kicking him while he lay on the floor.
(Ipswich Crown Court)
Jackson, who has previous convictions for battery and two for threatening behaviour, was sentenced to 16 months in jail by Judge John Devaux who said the offence was aggravated by his previous behaviour. Acting for Jackson, Daniel Taylor said his client was ashamed of his own behaviour and had sought help for his issues which stem from having a difficult childhood. According to the Ipswich Star, Taylor urged the court to give Jackson one last chance and pass a suspended sentence, stating he'd recently been on a pre-para training programme and had a promising career ahead of him if he was to avoid an immediate prison sentence. Judge Devaux decided a stint in prison for Jackson was the appropriate punishment for his continuous behaviour.
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Studying in the UK is an opportunity to discover its unique culture, cities and countryside – from music and sports to history and heritage
Higher education in the UK varies depending on the constituent state (England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland), though the systems are fairly similar. Undergraduate degrees at universities in the UK typically last three years, although courses in Scotland are usually a year longer. Some UK universities also offer fast-track undergraduate courses which can be completed in as little as two years. You could also choose a vocational-based ‘foundation degree’, which typically lasts one or two years and is similar to the US associate’s degree.
Students in the UK start their higher education with a bachelor’s degree, although for some subjects you can enroll on an undergraduate degree that leads directly into a master’s program – usually a total of four years long. Taken separately, master’s programs last one or two years, and PhDs at least three. Courses are taught in English at most universities in the UK, with some Welsh-language programs offered in Wales and Scottish Gaelic-language programs in Scotland.
In terms of numbers of international students, the UK overall lags only behind the considerably larger US – and this popularity is unsurprising given the strong global reputation enjoyed by UK universities. An impressive 71 UK universities feature in the QS World University Rankings® 2015/16, with four currently ranked among the world’s top 10.
The University of Cambridge is currently ranked joint third in the world, while the University of Oxford is sixth, followed by UCL (University College London) at seventh and Imperial College London at eighth place.
King's College London (KCL) and the University of Edinburgh are also in the global top 25, while the University of Manchester and London School Of Economics And Political Science (LSE) are within the top 40. A total of 18 UK universities appears in the top 100, and another 12 make the top 200. A shortage of exciting options will not be an issue if you’re looking to study in the UK.
Source: topuniversities.com
United Kingdom at a glance
Capital: London
Major Cities: London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow
Currency: Pound Sterling
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SpiceJet to be watched after launch of new international flights
SpiceJet announced the launch of eight new non-stop international flights from the country's busiest metros of Mumbai and Delhi. SpiceJet will service Mumbai-Riyadh-Mumbai, Mumbai-Dhaka-Mumbai, Delhi-Dhaka-Delhi and Delhi-Jeddah-Delhi with daily non-stop flights. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 25 June 2019.
NTPC had participated in the UPNEDA's tender for 500 MW Solar capacity with two bids of 20 MW each at Auraiya and Rihand. Reverse Auction was carried out on 25 June 2019 and NTPC has won entire 40 MW of Solar capacity bid by it at a levelised tariff of Rs. 3.02/kWh applicable for 25 years. The projects shall be set up by NTPC under EPC mode and shall add to the installed capacity of NTPC. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 25 June 2019.
HealthCare Global Enterprises said that the company's board of directors approved the allotment of 7.10 lakh equity shares at Rs 285 per share on preferential basis, to Kunnathu Philipose Geevarghese. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 25 June 2019.
Dewan Housing Finance Corporation said the company has defaulted payment towards maturity on unsecured commercial paper dues to the tune of Rs 225 crore. The company said that the amount shall be paid over the next couple of days. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 25 June 2019.
Shares of Torrent Power will be watched. Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC) approved the power procurement arrangement of 278 MW between the company's UNOSUGEN Power Plant (capacity of 382.5 MW) and its Licensed Distribution Business for cities of Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Surat. The approval, with certain stipulations, is for the balance life of the plant i.e. 19 years. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 25 June 2019.
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Trans Domination: Niki Flux on Camming, Transition, and Ethics
Trans Ethics: What did you do before you started camming?
Niki Flux: I was a software/web developer, specialising in building sales funnel systems based around google adwords.
TE: That sounds like a very lucrative career. What attracted you to camming?
NF: It paid pretty well. I’ve always liked numbers and I really enjoy being able to organize a bunch of numbers into something which magically produces money… it’s a very cool process to be part of. Unfortunately I often found my clients needy and annoying which took a lot of the fun out of it. I also wasn’t happy with myself, and at the time things were coming to a head with me [regarding being transgender] which made for quite a destructive combination.
With camming — I don’t really know… it sorta just *happened*. I was starting to accept who I was — kinks and all — and camming was just another facet of [me] being allowed to be me, and celebrate that rather than hiding it. It wasn’t really even camming at first… it was just accepting that I had fetishes… and that was okay. In fact it was better than okay… it was actually rather fun.
TE: So you got into camming as a way to express the fact that you are trans and had certain fetishes?
NF: Not as a way to do it – I think it was perhaps more like a natural by-product of the process.
TE: Do you find camming is more fulfilling than a typical day job?
NF: Well, I never really had a typical day job so not sure I can comment. But yes, overall I enjoy camming a lot, and –whilst it has its fair share of twats– I get clients, callers etc., where I come away from the conversation feeling like I’ve actually changed someone’s life for the better. I’m not on about people getting their jollies here, though that’s obviously fun. I mean more like… I know from first hand experience what it’s like having secret fetishes or uncomfortable feelings and being ashamed of them. Trying to repress [those desires] can be very isolating and lonely. It can fuck with your whole self-esteem and self perception really negatively.
I know what a difference it made to me when I was first able to talk about that stuff with a friend who wasn’t judgmental. I was lucky and had someone I could talk to. I feel like there’s a lot of people who don’t have anyone, and they’re just locked in their lives with this thing boiling over in the background. Simply having someone non-judgmental to talk to about it can make ALL the difference and I’m kinda honoured to be that person for a number of my clients. Also, people are trusting [me] with their very deepest darkest desires… there’s a level of trust in that too which I find quite intoxicating.
TE: How would you respond to critics who say sex work & camming is unethical?
NF: How exactly is that the case? (lol) no really.. I mean, what the fuck leads them to that conclusion? Now banking… that’s a shady game. (lol)
TE: It’s no secret that you recently had Gender Confirmation Surgery. How has that effected your clientele?
NF: It’s had surprisingly little effect actually. But then I had spent much of the previous year moving away from cock-centric activities. Even so, I expected more of a drop-off. I’ve been surprised by the number of people specifically into post-op girls. When I flew out to Thailand, I genuinely didn’t know if I would still have a job when I got home. Fortunately I do. (smiles) I guess in theory becoming more at peace with yourself, your body should only have positive effects, since it would affect confidence etc., but theory often doesn’t live up to practice.
TE: There has been a lot of articles on the internet regarding “trans regret” — what are your thoughts on that?
NF: Yeah — I regret I didn’t do this sooner. (lol)
TE: What would you say to someone who wanted to transition, but was too afraid to come out?
NF: I think if you try and plan your entire transition from that starting point, you’re likely to go bonkers. It’s too big and your perspectives will change along the way. Whilst preparation is good in terms of making sure you have enough money along the way and whatnot, not everyone has that luxury. I think the only way to really approach it is one step at a time. In my case I started with IPL (Intense Pulse of Light — for hair removal) because even if I didn’t go ahead and transition, fuck having to shave every day. That was something I was sure of, regardless of whether I transitioned. Eventually I think you have to get to a point where you stop worrying about what other people think. The moment you start stepping out of your front door in “assigned-sex-innappropriate” clothes, and continue to do so, you simply have to be able to let go of what other people think or you’d go nuts.
It’s actually very liberating when you manage it but it’s not an easy thing to do. I’d hoped to move [to a new house] by the time I went full-time — So I’d leave the one place as a “guy” and arrive the new place as a woman. But things didn’t work out like that, and I had to transition where I was. And yes going Full Time from one day to the next was crazy-nerve wracking and I’m sure we were the talk of our neighbours for a while. Eventually things settle down and people see that the sky hasn’t fallen, and things go back to normal.
TE: Losing friends and family is an unfortunate common fear among trans people — trans women in particular. How did coming out and transitioning affect your personal relationships?
NF: Losing friends – yeah well it’s a well-grounded fear. I think friends-wise I was actually quite lucky. My friends were generally tending towards the eccentric & unusual anyway, so were mostly quite open-minded. I did sorta feel everyone withdraw for a while, but then again things settled down.
TE: The UK has recently enacted a bunch of laws regulating the sex industry. How have those had an impact on what you do?
NF: So far they’ve not really had any practical impact, but I’d been planning to do more based around pain, corporal punishment, whipping etc., and see how far I could push that. The new laws potentially scupper a number of those plans. Or not, it’s still a bit too early to tell.
TE: As a sex worker, do you think those laws were intended to protect you, or just to hurt your bottom line?
NF: As a sex worker I think the people making the laws don’t have a fucking clue what they’re talking about. It’s more about posturing and being seen to be doing something than actually doing something. people feeding their agendas. the whole thing is such a load of nonsense I don’t know where to start (lol). At the end of the day it doesn’t really matter why things were done anyway. It’s done, [and] entrepreneurs will simply adapt and overcome. Though I reckon my actual well-being probably rates a pretty long way down whatever list of priorities was in play.
TE: Have you done work with other trans women?
NF: I did some filming & photography with another friend who’s TS but I was purely behind the lens there. (TS-Kelly-Anne as of the squirting/gushing clip.)
TE: Would you consider shooting a video with trans women in the future?
NF: Oh yes definitely, though I’ve found I have a bit of a problem with women in submissive positions…
TE: Such as?
NF: Well… part of me really has a problem with [me domming trans women]. They shouldn’t be submissive to me.
TE: How would you describe ethical sex work?
NF: In principle it’s where people aren’t getting exploited or fucked over. i guess in practice that means when we do shoots it’s because we had an idea we thought worth pursuing. With camming/domming I guess it would mean not fucking your clients over –except for where that’s what they’ve asked for of course– and not trying to cheat people.
TE: And it’s all consensual.
NF: Yes — consent is a huge thing for me. This is supposed to be about fun and perhaps a little self development [and] horizon-broadening along the way. Nobody should be there *genuinely* against their will. (I keep finding I’ve got to add exceptions.. like *except for when it’s consensual non-consent — and “don’t fuck your clients over” — unless that’s what they’ve paid for.) Strange job.
TE: Being a trans sex worker, how do you feel about the industry using terms like “tranny” and “shemale” to describe you?
NF: I think that’s something which is mostly dying out. As far as I know “shemale” is classified as a “hate term” as far as Google is concerned. So apart from anything else, it’s on the way out because Google says so (to some extent). I think the terms probably persist because the people they’re dealing with (as in the porn sites where these terms are used) were at the very beginning of their exploration of the transgender rabbit hole, and that the terms are still used perhaps reflects a lack of understanding/education about the subject on the clientele’s part, [rather] than it being intended as derogatory.
TE: Just one more question: As a sex worker, how do you respond to mainstream feminists who claim you are a victim and need to be helped out of the sex industry?
NF: #notyourmotherfuckignrescueproject {micdrop}
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RIFT: Priming the Primalist…
September 16, 2015 June 19, 2016 / The War Fist
Greeting, ladies and gentlemen!
I don’t know how many of you follow news involving Trion Worlds or their many titles, but their flagship title, RIFT, is going to be getting another major update soon. This update has a particularly interesting addition that will be a first for the series since the game’s release in early 2011. RIFT will be receiving its first new Calling which will be called (tee hee) the Primalist. For today’s post, I will be discussing some of the information that has been release about the new calling, explore some its new features and souls, and examine how the Primalist differs from the four callings that came before it. Join me as we venture Into The Wilds.
Big Weapons and Beast Heads
The Primalist Calling will feature a new theme with a uniquely RIFT feel. As a Primalist, players will become beacons of primal energy channeling power from the elemental planes and eventually unlocking Primal Avatars for increased power. They enter the fray wielding two-handed weapons to smash any foes in their way, and while Primalists are only clad in leather armor, they are capable of taking on any role including becoming a Tank. The Primal Avatars can be called upon to grant the Primalist additional benefits, and they present themselves as giant, glowing animal heads affixed to the Primalist’s own head. The specific benefits of each Primal Avatar are not yet known.
I believe one design advantage the Primalist affords the developers, that the original four Callings couldn’t, is its theme. By this, I am speaking to any limitations that may arise when designing different Souls for a Calling. The Primalist has potentially fewer limitations because it can be whatever the developers want it to be, and it is less constrained by a particular theme or mindset than the original four Callings. The Warrior is stuck being the plate-wearing, front-line fighter with varied forms of weapon attacks. The Mage is your typical spellcaster with the capacity to take on different magical disciplines. Granted, the developers have the capacity to create Souls that go beyond the standards that make up each Calling, but the Primalist has this flexibility innately.
A Balance of Two Mindsets
The Primalist, like most of RIFTs other Callings, will have a unique resource mechanic called Focus. While in combat, the Primalist’s Focus will shift between two different states, Fury and Cunning, which provide different benefits depending on the active state. While some abilities may gain more benefit from one state over the other, it will behoove players to carefully manage the use of their abilities as failing to do so will surely spell their doom, or that of their raid. One example given in the RIFT 3.4 Spotlight was an ability that might normally take 6 seconds to cast would become instant-cast while the Primalist was at full Fury.
From what was shown off in the Announcement Trailer for the new Calling, the Primalist’s Focus mechanic functions very similar to the Balance mechanic available to Druids in World of Warcraft. Though, it is difficult, without having played the new Calling, to say whether the Focus mechanic functions like the original Balance mechanic or the one that exists in Warlords of Draenor. The original version of the Balance mechanic was fully in the control of the player and allowed them to halt the shifting of phases, speed it up or slow it down at a whim. However, the Warlords of Draenor version is completely out of the players control and forces them to be at the mercy of the machine instead of playing their character on their own terms. One can only hope the RIFT developers have followed the original design of the Balance mechanic and not the latest one.
Diverging from the Beaten Path
One compelling deviation from the traditional design of Callings in RIFT is how the Soul Trees have been designed for the Primalist. For the original four Callings, players receive talent points for every level earned, up to level 60, that can be spent in the “branches” of a Soul Tree. The “branches” of each soul tree is composed of 61-points worth of talents, with the top-most talent in a tree requiring 41-points to obtain, and players have a total of 76 talent points (though it should be 80) to work with to build their characters. The soul trees available to the Primalist are only composed of 31-points of talents, with the top-most talent requiring 21-points, but players will only have around 39 talent points to define their Primalist’s build. In a behind-the-scenes post on the RIFT website, the reason Jeff “Red Hawk” Hamilton gave for making this change was the 61-point soul trees of the original four Callings were “the product of multiple expansions worth of skills to the foundation of their original trees.” Many of the passive bonuses the other Callings receive through the soul trees, like “+2/4/6/8/10% damage”, have been baked into the Primalist’s abilities which has left room for more interesting talent choices.
I’m one of those people who is always for MMORPGs changing and updating their character customization options, especially if those features are in need of an overhaul. I believe, in RIFT’s case, there is a lot more that could be done to the Callings. RIFT has reached the point that World of Warcraft and Star Wars: The Old Republic hit just before they made huge revamps to the way players customize their characters. Although, the RIFT developers clearly realized they hit that point when they raised the level cap to 65 and introduced Masteries instead of expanding the Soul Trees.
The biggest problem with the Talent Trees mechanic in MMORPGs has always been the options available. The developers either don’t create enough compelling options, don’t provide enough diverse options, don’t have any mechanics outside talent trees (other than abilities) that work in conjunction with the talents, create too many mandatory talents, or they eliminate hybrid builds by forcing players to invest most of their points into a single tree before being allowed to invest in others. Developers have a history of being just outright awful when it comes to designing talent trees. Before their big change, Star Wars: The Old Republic’s talents provided miniscule bonuses and possessed passives that made minor changes to a character’s playstyle. In World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion, they had shrunk the talent trees, but each passive was bloated with two or three different effects, and too many talents were mandatory to being effective in a particular role.
My point is, the RIFT developers should think about overhauling the soul trees into a mechanic that will bypass the issues they know they are facing. The revamped Talents system in World of Warcraft is a really good idea. Players are given the choice to select one of three different options to differentiate themselves from others of the same class/spec composition. Are the WoW devs particularly good with creating multiple viable options? Not really. For any particular specialization, there is often one, occasionally two, viable choice per Talent tier. For classes with a single damage specialization, there is, for the most part, one way to play that character that is viable, which could easily be expanded to two or three.
In Star Wars: The Old Republic, the talent trees were entirely dropped in place for a system that mirrors, more or less, what World of Warcraft currently has. Players have four class choices at character creation. They select one of two advance classes at around level 10 (on last count), and each advanced class has three different disciplines (specializations) to choose from which provide a collection of passives and new abilities. Players will periodically earn Utility points to unlock passives shared across all three disciplines within an advanced class. There are plenty of ways that the RIFT developers can take the Soul tree system in new directions, but I think it would need to retain the ability to create hybrid builds, which is a facet of character customization that has been lost in World of Warcraft and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Well, this was a small-ish (?) overview of what is known about the Primalist and how it differs from the four original Callings. There is quite a bit more to this post than I had originally anticipated, but I think it still merits mentioning. I believe it’s good that the RIFT developers are finally looking to add more Callings to their game, but it probably would have been better to have revamped their Soul Tree feature beforehand. Sadly, there isn’t likely to be any major changes to this facet of their game before the release of the Primalist, but maybe they’ll surprise their players with something shiny and new in the next expansion. Yes? No? Maybe? Probably not.
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MTV’s Ex On The Beach Announces New Cast
Sammi Turano November 15, 2018
New York, NY (November 15, 2018) – The U.S. format of MTV’s global phenomenon “Ex On The Beach” returns for season two on Thursday, December 20th at 8PM ET/PT. Hosted by multi-platinum rapper and actor Romeo Miller, theprovocative dating series follows celebrity couples in Malibu Beach as they search for new love while being confronted by their past romances. With 12 versions of MTV’s “Ex on the Beach” around the world, the new season will also air across MTV’s international channels beginning in January.
This season of “Ex On The Beach” features romantically embattled stars from “Survivor,” “The Bachelorette,” “Big Brother,” “Bad Girls Club,” “Teen Mom,” “The Challenge,” “Are You The One?” and “Fire Island.” The new cast of celebrities arrive in paradise in search of love only to be blindsided by their exes face-to-face. As lovers wash ashore, the daters will decide whether to rekindle a past flame or move on with a new prospect.
Meet The Cast of “Ex On The Beach” Season 2:
The Singles:
Farrah Abraham — “Teen Mom,” “Couples Therapy,” “Celebrity Big Brother,” and “Marriage Boot Camp”
Chad Johnson — “The Bachelorette,” “Bachelor in Paradise,” “Famously Single,” & “Celebrity Big Brother”
Angela Babicz— “The Challenge,” “Bad Girls Club” and “Ex On The Beach”
Jozea Flores— “Big Brother” and “The Challenge” seasons Champs vs. Stars & Final Reckoning
Morgan Willett — “Big Brother: Over the Top”
Cheyenne Parker— “Fire Island”
Maya Benberry — “Catching Kelce”
Corey Brooks – “Big Brother”
Nicole Ramos — “The Challenge” seasons Bloodlines, Rivals III, Dirty 30 & Vendettas
Malcolm Drummer— “Are You The One?”
Janelle Shanks— “Bad Girls Club”
The Exes:
Simon Saran— “Teen Mom”
Tor’I Brooks— Harlem Globetrotters, “Ex On The Beach”
Nelson Thomas — “The Challenge” and “Are You The One?”
Nurys Mateo — “Are You The One?”
Diandra Delgado— “Are You The One?”
Murray Swanby— “What Happens at The Abbey”
Cory Zwierzynski— “What Happens at The Abbey”
Jay Starrett— “Survivor”
Monte Massongill— “Big Brother”
JD Harmon— NFL Free Agent
Sha Carrell— Wilhelmina Model
Darian Vandermark
Nate Sestock
Maddie Sullivan
Kareem Peterson
Perez Corothers
Rob Tini
Keep up to date with all things “Ex On the Beach” with @ExOnTheBeach on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
“Ex On The Beach” is based on a format by Entertainment One (eOne) company Whizz Kid Entertainment with Purveyors of Pop producing the US iteration. Malcolm Gerrie and Lisa Chapman serve as Executive Producers for Whiz Kids. Matt Anderson and Nate Green serve as Executive Producers with Cooper Green as Co-Executive Producer for Purveyors of Pop. Tara Long serves as Executive Producer for eOne. Richard Hall and Keith Burke serve as Executive Producers with Liz Chapetta as Co-Executive Producer. Nina L. Diaz, Lily Neumeyer and Dan Caster serve as executive producers for MTV. Diana Morelli serves as Co-Executive Producer for MTV.
About MTV:
MTV is the leading global youth media brand in 180 countries, reaching 450 million households in nearly 30 different languages across every platform. A unit of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA), MTV operations span cable and mobile networks, live events, theatrical films and MTV Studios, a unit that produces new and reimagined content for SVOD and linear platforms based on MTV’s library of over 200+ youth titles and franchises.
About Purveyors of POP:
Purveyors of Pop is an independent entertainment company producing cutting-edge programming across
multiple platforms. Founded in 2010 by veteran executive producers Matt Anderson and Nate Green, POP specializes in programming at the forefront of the pop culture zeitgeist. Known for their string of hit TV series, the duo has developed and produced shows ranging from MTV’s The Ashlee Simpson Show to Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise, where they have executive produced over 200 episodes. Under the POP banner, the outfit has produced series for major cable networks including Bravo (Married To Medicine Atlanta/Los Angeles/Houston, Real Housewives of Miami), MTV (Ex On The Beach), E! (Lady Gang), Lifetime (Jordin Sparks’s: A Baby Story), A&E (Psychic Tia), and Fox International Channels (Lucky Ladies Mexico/Argentina/Italy).
About Entertainment One:
Entertainment One Ltd. (LSE:ETO) is a global independent studio that specialises in the development, acquisition, production, financing, distribution and sales of entertainment content. The Company’s diversified expertise spans across film, television and music production and sales; family programming, merchandising and licensing; digital content; and live entertainment. Through its global reach and expansive scale, powered by deep local market knowledge, the Company delivers the best content to the world.
Entertainment One’s robust network includes international feature film distribution company Sierra/Affinity; Amblin Partners with DreamWorks Studios, Participant Media, and Reliance Entertainment; Makeready with Brad Weston; unscripted television production companies Whizz Kid Entertainment and Renegade 83; live entertainment leaders Round Room Entertainment; world-class music labels Dualtone Music Group and Last Gang; and award-winning emerging content and technologystudio Secret Location.
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Release Blitz – BOMBSHELL by CD Reiss
May 1, 2017 / travelsnreads / Leave a comment
Bombshell, an all-new sexy and swoony standalone from CD Reiss is now LIVE!
Bombshell by CD Reiss
Publication Date: May 1st, 2017
Publisher: Montlake
Hollywood bad boy Brad Sinclair always gets his way, whether it’s the role he wants or the bikini-clad model he has to have. But when a bombshell gets dropped in his lap in the form of a dimpled five-year-old from a forgotten relationship, he knows his life is about to change forever.
Cara DuMont isn’t exactly thrilled when she gets assigned to be the nanny for the latest box-office king. She has one rule: no celebrity fathers, especially single ones with devilish good looks and rock-hard abs.
But as soon as Cara meets Brad and his adorable little girl, she knows she’s in for a world of trouble. Because there’s something about the way Brad looks at her that makes her believe that some rules are meant to be broken…
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Born in New York City, she moved to Hollywood, California to get her master’s degree in screenwriting from USC. In case you want to know, that went nowhere but it did give her a big enough ego to write novels.
She’s frequently referred to as the Shakespeare of Smut which is flattering but hasn’t ever gotten her out of chopping that cord of wood.
If you meet her in person, you should call her Christine.
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Remembering a Year to Forget
The financial lessons from the year 1990 are all but forgotten. Today, the beginnings of the Nineties are a stark reminder that markets ebb and flow – and that the tide can actually recede.
Kevin Duffy 09.07.2019, 03.48 Uhr
The last bear market is now ten years in the rearview mirror, which means investment professionals under the age of 30 have never experienced more than a mild correction. Prior to the 2008 meltdown, the 2000-2002 bursting of the technology bubble and the 1987 Crash satisfy the standard definition of a bear market in U.S. stocks, but 1990 gets overlooked for the pessimism generated, even though the S&P 500 fell less than 7%. For all but grizzled veterans, the lessons from that year are all but forgotten.
Kevin Duffy
Kevin Duffy is a battle-proven veteran in the risky business of short selling. He co-founded Bearing Asset Management in 2002. He and his partner were vocal critics of the 2007 credit bubble, successfully shorting many of its most aggressive players including Countrywide Financial and Bear Stearns. Prior to Bearing, Kevin co-founded Lighthouse Capital Management and served as Director of Research from 1988 to 1999. He chronicled the excesses of the Japan and technology bubbles of the late 1980s and the late 1990s. Kevin Duffy bought his first stock at the age of 13. He has a passion for Austrian economics and is the author of the popular Notable and Quotable blog.
1990, for those with short memories, arrived before the Internet. Most of the information that paints a picture of that year is stored in microfilm in libraries and not available online or to algorithmic traders. In an age when quants increasingly dominate the investment landscape, this downturn might as well be dead and buried. With a bit of digging, however, a financial archeologist will discover that 1990 was a year of fear – in fact many fears.
The 1987 Crash was just three years away and still fresh on investors’ minds. The Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) was in the middle of cleaning up a $160 billion mess caused by the failure of one-third of the nation’s savings and loans. The Japan bubble peaked a year earlier, but concerns about «America’s decline» and a lack of competitiveness had barely begun to fade. Would Japan’s unwind pull the rest of the world’s economies down with it?
Growth stocks, especially technology stocks, were abandoned. The takeover bubble peaked in 1989 when financing for the $6.75 billion United Airlines deal fell through. As the market for high yield bonds (a.k.a. «junk bonds») collapsed, chief financier Michael Milken was prosecuted by the feds and his firm Drexel Burnham put out of business. The so-called «Decade of Greed» seemed to be on trial, not Milken, yet he took the fall, fined $600 million and sentenced to ten years in jail and three years of community service.
Fears of the Japan Inc.
Heading into 1990, the greatest fear was Japan Inc. From politicians to management gurus, Japan’s brand of capitalism – cooperation between business and government – was deemed superior. America needed to emulate Japan, i.e. encourage more government intervention in the economy, or risk falling further behind.
«The United States,» Congresswoman Helen Bentley was quoted in a 1990 «Fortune» article as saying, «is rapidly becoming a colony of Japan.» Lester Thurow, MIT economist, «New York Times» columnist and frequent guest on business television, warned: «At the rate things are going, we are all going to wind up working for the Japanese.»
By the end of 1990, real estate prices in the Northeast and California were falling, big banks were bleeding red ink, and the U.S. was heading into recession while on the verge of the Gulf War. Brokerage firm profits reached a 16-year low (1974 being the worst bear market since the early 1930s).
Fears about debt, deficits, recession and even environmental Armageddon reflected the zeitgeist. Doomsayers were in vogue. One could peruse the business section of any bookstore (yes, they actually existed back then) and find titles such as Doug Casey’s «Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression» and Paul Erdman’s «What’s Next? How to Prepare Yourself for the Crash of ’89 and Profit in the 1990s». Ravi Batra’s «The Great Depression of 1990» was a long-running bestseller and staple of the doom-and-gloom crowd.
Amid all the negativity, even once-in-a-lifetime uplifting news – the fall of the Iron Curtain and the return of Eastern Europe to the free market – was seen in a glass-half-empty light, as more evidence that America’s glory days were behind it.
Dirt Cheap Tech Stocks
With American competitiveness in question, technology stocks were so cheap, some sold for little more than the cash on their balance sheets. The stocks of rapidly growing emerging tech leaders traded at prices a millennial portfolio manager can only dream of. The personal computing and networking industries were in their infancy.
Dell Computer, which went public in 1988, was growing sales at 36% and gross profit 45%, yet traded at just 11 times trailing earnings. Cisco Systems, which went public earlier that year, held a «formidable position» as «the clear leader of the $200 million to $400 million inter-networking market, according to market researchers,» reported «Investor’s Daily». For 1991, earnings were expected to grow 125% to 155% on a near-doubling of revenue. The stock traded at less than 19 times forward earnings and commanded a market cap of just $550 million (vs. today’s $239 billion).
Dell and Cisco would each go on to climb 100-fold from their public debuts in less than 8 years. According to a study of top-performing stocks from 1962-2014 by Chris Mayer in «100-Baggers», just eleven stocks accomplished this feat over a 52-year period. These huge winners are now obvious in hindsight, but at the time investors overlooked them as they were barraged with headlines like «Should You Work For the Japanese?» («Fortune») and «Where Are Computer Makers Thriving? Hint: It Starts With a ‹J›» («Business Week»).
How far removed is the financial world today from those dark days in 1990? A decade of zero interest rate policy has not only turned all traffic lights green, but many income statements red. Profitability and growth have become mutually exclusive terms. Apple sports a 25% operating margin, but revenues are declining as it surrenders market share in a saturated and competitive smartphone market. Meanwhile, newly public companies like Uber and Slack Technologies are growing revenues north of 40% while losses are counted in the billions.
There simply is no fear. U.S. equity fund managers hold record low cash levels and retail investors treat index funds like piggy banks. Favored strategies include buy-and-hold, buy the dip, and reach for yield.
According to Ruchir Sharma, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management,
The U.S. today is about 55% of the global market cap, and its share of the global economy is 25%. The last time such a large gap existed was in the late 1980s, when the Japanese market was 45% of the global market cap and Japan's economy was about 15% of the world total.
Can a major top in U.S. equities be far off?
The year 1990 is a reminder that markets ebb and flow, and that the tide can actually recede. When the narrative becomes one-sided and the crowd convicted, don’t be surprised to see the opposite happen. As pioneer of modern contrarian theory Humphrey Neill said, «The public is often right during the trends, but wrong at both ends.»
With the unprecedented buildup of debt, Baby Boomers nearing retirement, and valuations at all-time highs this cycle, the next bear market could make 1990 look like a walk in the park.
Market Ebbs and Flows
Low 1990
High 2000
Economic bogeyman Japan China
Financial disaster Money center banks Investment banks
Budget surplus / GDP -3.9% 1.4% -6.4% -4.7%
Public debt / GDP 56% 58% 77% 105%
Median Baby Boomer age 33 43 52 62
Equity fund cash 12.9% (Oct) 4.0% (Mar) 5.9% (Feb) 3.1% (May)
High yield bonds, yield 21% 10% 21% 6%
10-Year T-note, yield 8% 6% 3% 2%
Wilshire 5000 / GDP 50% 137% 57% 144%
Number of IPOs per week 1 9 0 6
% of IPOs with negative earnings 15% 80% 29% 80%
Die Meinung
History Rhymes
Predicting the top of a financial bubble is next to impossible. But with the financial masters of the universe in such a giddy mood and looking like geniuses, perhaps it is time to consider the downside.
Kevin Duffy 06.05.2019
The Bubble in Complacency
The warning signs have been growing in number and frequency. Yet for all the fretting about the trade wars, Cold War II, Brexit, Euro-fragility, populism, sky-rocketing debts, underfunded pensions, and the slowing economy, the vast majority of investors remain confident that all of these problems can and will be solved painlessly.
Simon A. Mikhailovich 17.06.2019
«The World-Wide Suppression of Interest Rates Has Been Something Very Near to a Crime»
James Grant, editor of the renowned investment newsletter «Grant’s Interest Rate Observer», warns about the growing herd of corporate «zombies» and other fatal market distortions caused by modern monetary policy.
Christoph Gisiger 04.04.2019
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The final deadline: Courageous editor Rex Gibson dies
I hope you’re listening, the new generation certainly is!
Readers at the heart of business strategy and four other publishing trends for 2020
Awards wrap: First entries into the awards calendar, and WARC’s data awards
A new dawn for the Cape Times?
Home Press Newspapers The writing’s on the wall for Iqbal Survé
The writing’s on the wall for Iqbal Survé
Posted By: Peter Bruceon: November 21, 2019 In: Newspapers
Photo: Iqbal Surve at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2019. ©World Economic Forum/Greg Beadle. Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
For a lifelong newspaperman like myself, the prospect of the Public Investment Corp (PIC) successfully liquidating the toxic ownership structure of what I remember as the old Argus Group is exhilarating.
It isn’t Argus anymore, obviously. For years it’s been Independent Media or versions of that, bought by the Irish tycoon Tony O’Reilly in the mid-1990s and sold, when he got into financial trouble, to a curious consortium out of which Iqbal Survé emerged as top dog. The PIC lent him the money, which, fortunately, he appears not to have paid back. In fact, reading around, he appears to have become convinced that he doesn’t owe the PIC anything, that a billion rands of debt has somehow evaporated.
Well, just wait. Survé hasn’t met the new chair of the PIC yet. Say hello to Reuel Khoza, arguably the most upstanding straight-arrow citizen in the country. He’s a former chairman of Nedbank, of Eskom (pre-capture), GlaxoSmithKline in SA and has served on the boards of the JSE, Nampak, Standard Bank, Liberty and Old Mutual. And he has served as deputy to Mervyn King during the formulation of various iterations of the King codes, which govern corporate behaviour and ethics.
In other words, Survé has met his match. Khoza knows exactly what is at stake here. It isn’t the money. It’s the newspapers — The Star in Johannesburg, the Cape Times, The Argus, the Weekend Argus, the Mercury and the Daily News and the Sunday Tribune, Isolezwe and the Pretoria News.
The Irish ownership of the group was patchy. They are often accused of not investing in the papers and it must be true that as O’Reilly’s finances worsened, so he pulled more money out of his South African investment than it was reasonably able to withstand.
A self-aggrandising disgrace
But Survé’s leadership has been a wasteful, self-aggrandising disgrace. The newspapers are barely recognisable as products of journalism and it is a wonder any are still on their feet. But as this amaBhungane story shows, Survé’s time at the head of these once fine titles is coming to an end.
Not a moment too soon either. Paper Tiger, a new book, which I have yet to read, by two former Independent editors, Chris Whitfield and Alide Dasnois, details the chaos at Independent under its current owners.
Normally the story in South African print newsrooms has been one of slow torture. Greedy owners cut costs at any cost. And it’s always the same. Do we really need all those subeditors? What do they do? You have how many messengers? Why does that woman over there write only one story a day? I mean, how long does it take?
No-one except the people who make newspapers knows how complex it all is. How every step requires the utmost concentration and care. You are making an information and entertainment meal for your readers the next day. You don’t know how they read you — back to front or do they start with the briefs on page one? Get a crossword clue wrong and your phone rings off the hook the next day.
Which I hope the PIC people who take the newspapers out of Survé’s hands understand. They need to make sure that these titles are secure. Put them into a trust and get the great and the good (there are many in SA) to sit as trustees. Give the managers and editors budgets to meet and let them get on with their jobs. Bring these titles back to life.
Print is tangible evidence of digital excellence
Look, we all know the future of journalism is digital. But there are only two ways to get there — by making money or by relying on the kindness of strangers and asking them to fund you. The stories I’ve quoted above are from amaBhungane and Daily Maverick, both of which raise money through donations from wealthy citizens and members of the public.
Good for them. They do a fantastic job. Newspapers don’t have that luxury but they are, nonetheless, a critical part of our society. A newspaper is somehow a snapshot in time, a historical judgment where the issues of the day are laid out in some order of importance, that the internet cannot be or do and was not designed to be. But newspapers have to somehow shift their print income to digital. That means requiring people to pay for what they read online, while some good sites are free to read.
To take newspaper buyers or subscribers with you on that journey two things seem clear. The print product needs to be top rate. It is daily, physical and tangible evidence that your new digital offering is rooted and credible. That certainly has been the case with the Financial Times (FT), The New York Times, The Washington Post and Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers.
You can’t read them online unless you subscribe. So successful has the FT’s management of this two-way street between print and digital been, that it now (as of this year) has more than a million paying subscribers. It is going not only to survive digital, it is going to own it.
But while the company carefully calibrates its print spend, the amount of experience and skill and effort put into the print newspapers by the FT and, I am sure, all of the papers mentioned above, is gigantic. Their digital offering is credible as long as the newspaper is credible. For the newspapers concerned, it is going to be that way for a generation.
So the future of the old Argus papers needs to be very carefully considered. The editing needs to be strengthened, they need good writers on their opinion pages, reporters who become experts in their fields so that people can trust what they write.
Perhaps more important, there needs to be more real journalistic competition back in the print market again and the question that the new owners of the Independent titles will need to ask themselves isn’t what their digital strategy is. That’s the easiest one to answer — you put everything you have online when you have it. Don’t wait for print.
The harder question is: what is your print strategy? There’s nothing you can do about amaBhungane and Maverick. But as a print owner you have no option but to ensure your print base is as good as it can be. It is still, like it or not, your launch pad and, in the face of digital competition, a real weapon. You have to resource it and you have to stand with it, not on it.
Reuel Khoza, sir, you have holy work to do.
This story was first published by BusinessLIVE and is republished here with permission. BusinessLIVE premium subscribers have access to exclusive news stories, columns, comment and analysis. To find out more about subscription offers, click here.
Peter Bruce was Tiso Blackstar Group (now Arena Holdings) Editor at Large. He was also the editor-in-chief of Business Day, Financial Mail and ABC, the broadcaster of the Business Day TV, Home and Ignition television channels. He was editor of Business Day from 2001 until August 2012. His previous roles include editor: Financial Mail; editor: Business Report; UK news editor: Financial Times; and Madrid correspondent, Bonn correspondent, industrial correspondent: Financial Times. Bruce describes himself as a media junkie, a die-hard Protea and Springbok fan and a hopeless Sharks supporter.
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belmont charter, charter schools, school reform commission, world communications charter
July 1 — 4:25 pm, 2016
SRC approves new Belmont Charter High School for Mantua
The 3-2 vote rejected the recommendation of the charter office.
Harvey Finkle
The School Reform Commission on Friday approved the creation of a new, 300-student Belmont Charter High School, rejecting the recommendation from the District charter office that the application be denied.
A resolution to deny the charter had been prepared and distributed at the meeting. But Commissioner Bill Green had another "walk-on" resolution at the ready to approve it, with conditions. The resolution to deny never received a second, and Green’s resolution passed by a 3-2 vote.
The SRC also voted to begin the process for revoking the charter of World Communications Charter, but took no action (through a 2-2 tie) on a request from Harambee Institute, one of the city’s oldest charters, to increase its enrollment by 50 students.
DawnLynne Kacer, head of the charter office, told SRC members before the Belmont vote that she had concerns about the new school’s governance structure, which would involve a coalition with the K-8 Belmont Charter School and the K-2 Inquiry Charter School.
"The exact nature of the responsibilities of the proposed school, its partner Belmont schools (via the Coalition Agreement), and a non-profit back-office service provider (Community Education Alliance of West Philadelphia, or CEAWP) remain unclear," reads the charter office evaluation. "Although the applicant has taken some steps to restructure board membership among the various entities mentioned above, significant concerns remain."
They included a lack of clarity about which entity would actually employ teachers, and boards of the various entities that overlapped even though there is a requirement for "arm’s length" financial transactions between charters and service providers.
Michael Karp, who founded Belmont charter in what was originally a District-run school, had been identified as being on the board of both charters and CEAWP, which would constitute a conflict of interest. He and another person with roles in more than one of the entities have promised to step down from one. Kacer said that issue had been resolved.
"I think we have a situation today where the charter school office’s recommendation identified existing concerns that remain in place," she said in an interview. She noted that this vote was the fourth involving the application for a Belmont Charter High School, and that the usual procedure is to seek corrective action before approving a new charter application.
"The hesitancy of the Charter School Office is that charter authorizing should reflect practices and outcomes based on evidence, and not promise of future actions that may occur," she added. "In an ideal world we would not be so heavily conditioning an approval," she said, for a new charter application.
Green’s resolution gives Belmont the choice of creating a new charter or amending the existing charter to create a K-12 school. Conditions attached include complying with all state curricular requirements and rules regarding admissions lotteries, but the resolution doesn’t specify governance restructuring. If it goes this route, the high school grades could eventually enroll 500 students.
The SRC had rejected Belmont’s application in February, but it was resubmitted.
The surprise vote followed a parade of parents, community members, and students saying that the two existing Belmont charters had positively affected their lives and the neighborhood. They said the area needs a high school; University City High School was closed in 2013 and subsequently demolished.
The last voice in favor of the charter was from City Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, who had a statement read at the meeting through an aide that said, among other things, that the Belmont charters had "exceeded all her expectations."
CEAWP presents itself as creating the first real "community schools" in Philadelphia. Several local partner organizations testified at the meeting about their work at the Belmont schools.
In addition to Green, Commissioners Sylvia Simms and Farah Jimenez voted in favor. Chairwoman Marjorie Neff and Commissioner Feather Houstoun voted against.
Green’s resolution approves the charter, with conditions to correct concerns before it opens. But usually, those conditions are settled in a written agreement before commissioners vote.
The vote for revoking the World Communications charter was 4-1, with Simms voting no. On Harambee, the SRC originally voted 3-2 to deny the enrollment increase for the 500-student school. But after reviewing the paperwork, Jimenez determined that she need to recuse herself because her husband’s law firm had done legal work for the school. The resulting tie means that there was no official action and the issue could come up again.
Harambee’s executive director, Sandra Dungee Glenn, a former SRC chair, was present for the vote and urged that the expansion be granted.
The primary reason for holding a July 1 morning meeting was so that the SRC could approve tax and revenue anticipation notes for the new fiscal year. Chief Financial Officer Uri Monson explained that tax and other revenue come in on an erratic schedule while expenses are steady, so short-term borrowing is necessary.
Monson added a smidgen of levity to the meeting: whatever the other consequences of the Brexit vote – Britain’s decision to leave the European Union – the timing was such that it saved the District $350,000 in interest costs.
Hite speaks out against state bill
Before the SRC took any of the charter votes, Superintendent William Hite spoke out against Pennsylvania House Bill 530, which, in its current form, would overhaul charter regulation and make it easier for charters to add grades.
Hite said that the bill would severely restrict Philadelphia’s ability to manage its own charters and would hurt the District financially if charters could add enrollment without getting prior approval. Philadelphia has more than half the charter schools in the state.
The proposed legislation, among other provisions, would create a state performance evaluation matrix for charter schools and nullify any local efforts to do something different. Philadelphia’s charter office has spent years working on "quality authorizing," or setting clear standards for charter approvals and continued operation.
"There is a shift in 530 of practices and policies that Philadelphia has worked to put in place to the statewide level," said Kacer. "New charter applications, renewal applications and evaluations, all of them would be dictated at the state level without the ability for us to amend or modify." For instance, the District would not be allowed to ask for additional information beyond what the state specifies, she said.
Kacer said that it is still unclear to her from the versions of the bill that she has seen if the District would be able to consider academic performance, operations and financial conditions in considering charter renewals.
The legislation would create a new commission to study how charters are funded, and that body would also figure out a charter performance matrix. It would also expand the membership of the state Charter Appeals Board to add two members from the charter sector, which presumably would make it more charter-friendly.
HB 530 would also allow "multiple charter organizations," like Belmont, to have one board and move resources across schools — what the Philadelphia charter office opposes in seeking to preserve the independence of individual charter schools and their funding streams.
Several advocacy groups, including Public Citizens for Children & Youth (PCCY) have been raising the alarm about the legislation.
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Official Drone R & D Partner Surf Life Saving Australia
Official Drone Partner Westpac Rescue
"Westpac Little Ripper Rescue: world's first recorded drone surf rescue, Lennox Head, NSW, January 2018"
Ripper Rescue
Sharkspotter™ Wins the Triple Crown of Industry Awards
The Triple Crown of Industry Awards
On 7 June 2018, the Ripper Group and its university partner UTS won the triple crown of industry awards at the 2018 NSW iAwards conducted by the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA).
Research and Development Project of the Year
Artificial Intelligence Innovation of the Year
The awards are conducted by the AIIA to acknowledge the leaders in Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) arena, and are very prestigious.
This is the first time in its 25-year history that a single entity has won the Triple Crown.
SharkSpotter© is the world’s first automatic, real-time artificially intelligent shark detection system for drones. SharkSpotter© enables drones to patrol beaches to detect sharks and other safety hazards (rips, etc.) and people in distress through real-time image processing. It is currently deployed at more than a dozen beaches and has assisted over 50 people in the past year.
These advanced machine learning techniques significantly improve aerial detection accuracy to >90%, compared to conventional techniques such as helicopters with human spotters (18%), fixed wing aircraft spotters (12% accuracy) and humans analysing aerial imagery (20–30%).
The software detects 16 different objects: swimmers, surfers, different boat types, rays, dolphin, whales, sharks, turtles, large fish), drones, humans, tents on beaches.
This intelligent real-time data processing raises an appropriate alarm when a shark/potential threat is detected, and automatically alerts surf lifesavers when emergency beach evacuations are required.
Additionally, there is an ability to drop a lifesaving flotation pod with electronic shark repellent from the drones during emergency situations (e.g. for swimmers drowning, trapped in rips or near approaching sharks).
Read More About Sharkspotter™ and our collaborative research project with UTS.
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Minor characters, Vampires, Characters with special abilities,
1240s; Malta
Age when turned
Black (when thirsty)
Luca (great-uncle)
Makenna (descendant)
Charles (in-law)
The Volturi
Basic vampire abilities
Aversion field
Volturi guard
Aro's personal bodyguard
"Renata is Aro's personal bodyguard. A very practical kind of shield, and a very strong one."
―Eleazar on Renata.[src]
Renata is a member of the Volturi guard; she is gifted with the supernatural talent to repel opponents, and is therefore Aro's personal bodyguard.
She doesn't exist in the movie franchise.
Renata was born around 1240s in Malta. She was born into a vampire-friendly family that has produced several vampires over the centuries, one of whom included a nomad named Makenna. She was changed into a vampire by her great-uncle, Luca on her 20th birthday.
She initially intended to help her family perpetuate their family line, but her unique talent to drive away pursuers caught the Volturi's attention and her uncle encouraged her to join the coven to avoid conflict. Her uncle encouraged her to oblige, because his interaction with his human family was already a grey area. From then on, Renata became emotionally bound to only Aro by Chelsea's influence and became Aro's personal bodyguard. Her main job was to protect him on battlefields — she would throw her own life at risk for his protection. Other than Aro, she would also offer protection to Caius and Marcus when they were in need. With her power, along with Jane and Alec's, the coven became untouchable.
The Volturi arrives in Forks.
In Breaking Dawn, the Volturi are informed by Irina about the 'creation of an immortal child', which prompts the entire coven to confront the guilty 'family'; Renata is ordered to extend the invitation of witness to her relative, Makenna, and subsequently Charles. When the Volturi travel to Forks to punish the family for the supposed crime, the child turns out to be a hybrid, instead. Renata is mostly at Aro's side when he questions the Cullens and their witnesses, her hand clutched on his shoulder to protect him from potential danger as she is constantly worried for her master.
After the situation was cleared up, she returns to Volterra with the rest of her coven.
Renata has black hair and is slight in build, being 5'0" in height. She wears one of the darker cloaks bestowed only to higher-ranking members of the Volturi guard.
When Renata is first seen during the confrontation between the Cullens and the Volturi, Bella depicts her face as being rigid with distress, and her personality timid and frail. In contrast to the greater number of the Volturi guard she harbors no bloodlust or desire to fight, only protect.
She is seen as Aro's personal shield, standing beside him at all times during battle. During the confrontation Bella views her hand as being sewn onto Aro's cloak as she stood closely behind him. She has shown to be exceptionally protective of her master, and is visibly disturbed whenever he willingly makes himself vulnerable by saying, "Master?" (as shown during the confrontation in Breaking Dawn). All of this, however, is influenced by Chelsea's power that bound her loyalty to him.
Powers and abilities: aversion field Edit
Main article: Aversion field
"There was a woman in one of the darker cloaks just behind Aro. I couldn't be sure, but it looked like she actually be touching his back. Was this the other shield, Renata? I wondered, as Eleazar had, if she would be able to repel me."
―Bella on Renata and her gift[src]
Renata's gift is the ability to divert physical attacks. If someone were to approach her or Aro, as she is always close beside him in hostile situations, she repels them by implanting a thought in their minds to make them want to go in another direction, with a confused memory as to why they wanted to go there in the first place. Her repelling power is powerful but almost unnoticeable. Renata is also able to project her shield several meters out from herself to protect others. Because of her powerful gift, she is known as a shield against a physical attack and is one of the permanent members of the Volturi, her main priority being Aro's personal bodyguard. If Marcus and Caius are in danger, she is also responsible for protecting them.
Like the vast majority of vampire gifts, Renata's power works by mentally invading another individual's mind; because of this, her power can be rendered useless by Bella's shield against such abilities. Also, her power probably doesn't affect the powers of others since she can only repel an attacker coming her way.
Aro Edit
Aro is the leader of the Volturi. He heard of Renata and her power, and decided to add her to his guard.
Aro had Chelsea make Renata completely loyal to him and him only. Since then, she had been his personal bodyguard and mainly uses her power to protect him. When Aro leaves Volterra, she is always at his side. She is so tightly bound to him that she would rather die than see him harmed.
New Moon (assumed)
Stephenie Meyer's official website
The Twilight Series' official website
The Twilight Lexicon
Leaders Aro • Caius • Marcus
Wives Athenodora • Didyme • Sulpicia
Guard Afton • Alec • Chelsea • Corin • Demetri • Felix • Heidi • Jane • Renata • Santiago
Other Bianca • Eleazar • Gianna • Mele • Valentina
Retrieved from "https://twilightsaga.fandom.com/wiki/Renata?oldid=687212"
Characters with special abilities
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Tags: red dead redemption 2, Rockstar Games
Red Dead Redemption 2 PC: Here’s When Red Dead Redemption 2 Launch On Steam
Salal Awan October 4, 2019
Red Dead Redemption 2 has been just confirmed for PC. It will be available exclusively for Rockstar Games Launcher at the start and later for Steam.
Rockstar Games has shared the pre-order bonuses for Red Dead Redemption 2 launch on PC. The game will be available exclusively for Rockstar Games Launcher at the start. It will be then released on other platforms including Greenman Gaming, The Humble Store, Epic Games Store, and more.
Read More: The Last of Us Part 2: How Long Will It Take To Beat The Game
What is surprising is that the Steam launch has been delayed for a month as confirmed by Rockstar Games. This is despite the game launching on Google Stadia in November.
When Will Red Dead Redemption 2 Launch On Steam?
In the news that detailed the announcement, Rockstar Games had confirmed that RDR 2 pre-order will be available exclusively on their Rockstar Games launcher from October 9th to October 22nd. There will be various pre-order bonuses to give the user an incentive to purchase the game from there.
Red Dead Redemption 2 will also launch on Steam but it has been delayed there for one month. The game will be available to purchase on Steam in December. There was no release date given for the Steam version.
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While the Steam version will arrive later in December, the game will launch in November for the rest of the PC marketplace including Greenman Gaming, Epic Games Store, Google Stadia, The Humble Store, and more. It will be also available through GameStop and other retailers.
The game is already available on PS4 and Xbox One. In an interview earlier this year, Rockstar Games had confirmed that they won’t release any single-player DLC for the game.
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Gina Phillips named Staff Hero for September
Gina Phillips ‘97 MS ‘07, senior director of development for major gifts at Texas Wesleyan, received the Staff Hero Award at the 2020 Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 11 in recognition for the key role she plays in supporting and achieving the University’s 2020 Vision goals.
“Gina has been the quintessential jack of all trades for Texas Wesleyan,” Jim Lewis, vice president for advancement, said. “Having done many jobs over the years, she provides significant institutional memory for our program.”
Phillips started her Texas Wesleyan career in 1996 in the Admissions office. After a few more stops across campus, she settled in with the division of Advancement where she has been since 1997. Phillips’ appreciation for Texas Wesleyan has only grown since she arrived here.
“We have faculty who invest in students and their lives, and staff that go above and beyond to meet the student’s needs,” Phillips said.
Phillips’ holds the University in such a high regard that she sent her three children, brother-in-law and niece to Texas Wesleyan. Her husband even attended for a while.
“It’s easy to sell something you believe in and love, and it’s important to have a passion for what you do,” Phillips said.
About the Staff Hero Award
The Staff Hero Award was created in 2015 as a way to honor staff members who go above and beyond to support the University’s 2020 Vision strategic plan. The Staff Hero is nominated by the vice president and presented by President Frederick G. Slabach during 2020 Town Hall Meetings.
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Gulf Coast: Green Buildings & Mobility
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Getting to and from green buildings: People generally have to get themselves to and from buildings, green or otherwise. Most people are tired of traffic, and part of the population wants to bicycle, another part wants to take transit, and another part wants to share rides. What are the current best practices and what are people looking forward to? What is Mobility As A Service? What are we doing about reducing parking demand other than charging more for it?
Meet an architect who knows green buildings and the changing demand for parking garages, a district manager who deals with mobility issues on a daily basis, and a representative for our regional transit authority, who will share the current and emerging opportunities for moving around the area.
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Wall Street's Changing Culture: The Cost…
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See also on LTCM: Wall Street's Changing Culture
John Brimelow thinks something Very Bad is brewing out there in the financial structure – and the story of the LTCM bail-out is providing more clues.
The saga of the Long Term Capital Management hedge fund - its rise, fall, and the peculiar circumstances surrounding its rescue in September 1998 - more and more appears paradigmatic of Clinton Era finance. Esoteric and secretive in action, operating through special relationships and understandings, involving greed and ambition on astonishingly uninhibited scale, and ultimately giving rise to suspicions of ominous fusion between private commercial objectives and the formulation of public policy, it lays out a pattern likely to become all too familiar as documentation of the period becomes more available.
Nicholas Dunbar's book Inventing Money: The Story of Long Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It, makes an important and unique contribution to elucidating the story. Written in London by a journalist specializing in derivatives, it was actually published some months before Roger Lowenstein's When Genius Failed (For my comments see here.). Not benefiting from the mutual assistance habits of Lowenstein's Wall Street Journal circle, the book was little noticed. I, like others, only became aware of it via the increasingly valuable "similar titles" component of Amazon.com. It is worth the additional effort.
Appropriately, given the importance of the subject, Inventing Money is as remarkable a book as When Genius Failed. But it is very different. A first time author, Dunbar obviously fell victim, as so often happens, to a domineering but simple-minded publisher's sales force over the matter of his books' title. Something boring like "Engineering with Money: The Advent of Financial Derivatives in the era of LTCM" would have far better communicated the book's wide range and emphasis.
Inventing Money in fact, reminds one of the old aeronautical engineering jokes that according to the science a bee cannot fly. Dunbar cheerfully undertakes to explain from first principles the concepts behind modern financial derivatives, scrupulously tracing their historical development and current status. Even few experienced writers would have attempted such an ambitious structure.
Acres of jargon and forests of buzz words fall to his axe and are neatly stacked in lucid paragraphs. This whole book is only a little more than 200 pages. Anyone slightly hazy on this arcane subject should use the book as a painless refresher; any humane finance professor (if such an animal exists), could reasonably prescribe it to incoming classes. It is an astonishing technical achievement.
Inevitable with such a broad canvas (in which he includes elegant brief accounts of the derivatives disasters which destroyed the independence of Union Bank of Switzerland and Bankers Trust), the LTCM discussions itself is quite short, and is really only supplementary to the Lowenstein account. But it is supplementary in a very significant way.
Dunbar directly asserts, and supports with a detailed discussion, what can only be inferred from Lowenstein: that the Italian authorities in effect hired LTCM to groom or manipulate the Italian bond market, in order to accelerate convergence with the other European Monetary System bond markets and to reduce the Italian government interest burden. This permitted the achievement of the Maastricht criteria and allowed Italy to adopt the Euro.
"According to some observers...the Bank of Italy provided LTCM with market access and privileged information denied to Italian Banks - which would yield a massive profit. In return, LTCM - and a handful of others - would engineer the convergence of Italian debt..."
Dunbar lays out in considerable detail how this was done. One element was the overlooking by the Italians of LTCM's repeated cornering of Italian bond auctions, greatly to the dismay of small local players. Of course, the U.S. Treasury had, since 1989, capped the proportion available to a single buyer at the American auctions at 35%. (It was a subordinate's flouting of this regulation which caused Merriwether's fall at Salomon.) The Italians were not so scrupulous.
How many other such cozy arrangements were there? As mentioned in my discussion of Lowenstein's book, the credit department of UBS took comfort in the fact that about 31% of LTCM was owned by "generally government-owned banks in major markets" who could supply LTCM with market intelligence. Dunbar seems to imply that other ECU markets received LTCM's ministrations. And he directly says of LTCM that by the end of 1997
"Governments treated it as a valued partner, to be used whenever markets weren't efficient enough to achieve macroeconomic goals."
(In this context, of course, "efficient" means "obedient" and "macroeconomic" means "political.")
This leads directly to the question of gold. Dunbar, like Lowenstein makes no reference at all to gold, not even to repudiate the rumors of a large LTCM short position. And indeed such a position must have either been eliminated or else been very well hidden by the time LTCM was invaded by hordes of Goldman and J.P. Morgan investigators in late September '98. But what Dunbar does reveal is very important: that in the latter part of the 90s, Central Banks did indeed strike what he describes as "devil's bargains" with hedge funds, who were essentially hired as mercenaries to achieve certain effects.
And they did so in extreme secrecy. So well had LTCM disguised its activities that the Italians were able with a straight face to sanction Credit Suisse-First Boston for squeezing the Italian Post Office bond sale in '96, while its protege LTCM was discreetly doing the same thing (a profitable bit of protection for LTCM.) On the evidence of Dunbar's book, if a major Central Bank had decided it wished to repress gold, discreet private sector agents were readily available to perpetrate the deed.
Inventing Money also adds an interesting perspective on the role of equity derivatives in the LTCM crisis. In late 1997, with equity markets gyrating because of the Asian crisis, the price of insuring against volatility rocketed to astonishing levels. This was important because a sizable industry had grown up in London selling options on various indices. By November of that year, J.P. Morgan estimated the sellers faced a mark to market loss, if they had to cover their positions, of over $3 billion. At this point, LTCM began, in effect, offering them reinsurance by selling long-dated equity options. This must have greatly relieved certain investment banks (and regulators).
But gratitude, it seems, has no derivative. In September 1998 with volatility back up to even higher levels as the Russian/LTCM problems impacted, it dawned on some LTCM "counterparties" (purchasers of the equity options) that if the hedge fund failed, and their contracts became null, in effect they would have re-established a short volatility position with volatility levels at unsustainable heights (and of course just as the underlying cause was dealt with). So some of these counterparties began to actively push for LTCM's demise.
"Banque Nationale de Paris also declined [to contribute to the LTCM rescue fund]" reports Dunbar "although BNP officials deny this was due to any large index volatility positions being held by the Bank". And there were others.
By now the reader is wondering about the wisdom of allowing these financial nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of such children. Dunbar leaves no room for doubt that these instruments could be immensely powerful. A quarter of the flow of outstanding Italian floating rate Treasury Certificates passed through LTCM's accounts in a two-year period. At the end, Morgan Stanley estimated LTCM had synthesized a British gilt position larger than the entire market. And Dunbar is not at all willing to accept the peculiar but common argument that because the numbers are so huge they must be meaningless.
"In the case of LTCM derivative notionals are real numbers indicating the real economic effect of the fund. The actions of Alan Greenspan in October [1998 –cutting interest rates three times] would bear this out".
(This comment, is by a man who is on the staff of Risk Magazine, which specializes in covering the derivatives industry, sheds an interesting light of the gold derivatives debate which arose following the discovery of ballooning gold derivative exposure on the books of certain banks in 4Q'99.)
Dunbar thus resoundingly confirms what Bill McDonough, President of the New York Fed, has said in Congressional testimony: When his investigators first visited LTCM on Sept 20, 1998, they
"came to understand the impact which Long Term Capital's positions were already having on markets around the world and that the size of these positions was much greater than market participants imagined".
This book provides further documentation that derivatives have put immense surreptitious power in the hands of privileged individuals, not always without official knowledge. It makes the furious efforts by Rubin and Greenspan to block closer supervision of derivatives look, in the words of Alice in Wonderland, curiouser and curiouser.
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A Capitol Fourth
Maelyn Jarmon Performs "The Star-Spangled Banner"
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Maelyn Jarmon, winner of The Voice season 16, performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the 2019 A Capitol Fourth to help ring in America's 243rd birthday!
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About Used Books in Class
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Adding “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” to the World Literature Course
May 26, 2014 — 1 Comment
“I find people confusing.”
That particular quote is spoken by Christopher John Francis Boone, the 15-year-old narrator of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, who describes himself as “a mathematician with some behavioral difficulties.” Christopher lives in Swindon, England, and his behavioral difficulties are more along the lines of Asberger’s or high functioning autism or savant syndrome. This diagnosis explains his attitude towards his peers,
“All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.”
Or his obsession with truth:
“Metaphors are lies.”
Or his appreciation for math:
“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
Christopher’s observations are also what make him interesting to our students who read the novel in literature circles in grade 10. Students at this age connect with the author, Mark Haddon, and his belief that the novel is not about a character with Asperger’s Syndrome, but rather,
“…a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. It’s as much a novel about us as it is about Christopher.”
We have well over 100 copies of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime in our book room. They are a collection of books purchased at book sales ($1-$3 a copy) throughout the state of Connecticut for the past five years. These copies are most likely the discards from book club members who, 10 years after its original publication date (2003), donated their used copies. The only problem in locating copies of the text at a book sale is determining on which genre table the copies will be shelved. The novel is classified as a mystery, but it is also considered a young adult novel or trade fiction, and was published in England simultaneously in separate editions for adults and children.
Fortunately, I can see that iconic bright red cover from a distance, the same one with the dog cut-out onto the shiny black cover underneath. When I distribute the texts, no matter how I threaten to make sure the book comes back in pristine condition, there are students who will trace and retrace that cutout until the die-cut shape of the dog becomes the shape of a blob.
The students read the novel independently first, usually during a unit on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, before coming together in literature circles. I would like to think that the character of Christopher would enjoy being paired with Shakespeare’s murder and intrigue since he is uncovering a sinister killing of a neighborhood dog. Students are given time in class to read the novel as SSR, and the literature circles begin once the play is concluded. The students are organized into smaller groups, where they work together to choose a “big idea” that can be found in the novel. The “big idea” can center on large concept words such as bravery, fear, change, determination, trust, or belief. Once a big idea is selected for the day, each group has several tasks to complete, with each member of the group completing one task. The students receive one grade for the completion of these assignments, and disputes are resolved through peer review feedback sheets. The roles for the literature circles are fairly traditional:
Group leader/discussion director/writer: leads the discussion and writes the response that answers the question with contributions from the other members.
Notes taker/quote maker: keeps notes during the discussion, finds, and writes the passages that support the group’s conclusions about the big idea.
Artist: draws a series of cartoons or a particularly important scene that represents the big idea.
Poet: creates a found poem of at least 20 lines that supports the group’s conclusions.
Organizer: Gets the paper, plans the poster, keeping everyone on task and contributing to the overall success of the assignment!
Because we are a BYOD school, we have on occasion also included some “digital” tasks where group members can use a software platform to create an Animoto or a Voice Thread as a way to illustrate the big idea.
The literature circles usually meet four or five times covering different sections of the book depending on the big idea selected. At the end of each meeting, students their findings to the class with each member explaining the contributions from his or her role. The rubric is centered on Common Core State Standards that require the inclusion of evidence to support a position. For an exemplary rating, a group will produce the following:
POSITION: clearly addressed task, purpose, and audience
One page that answers question about the big idea
Found quotes in novel to support a group’s position; wrote them on the chart paper
a cartoon or illustrated scene that supports big idea
Creation of a “found” poem of at least 20 lines, using words from the novel.
Response answers the question; it has a thesis, and at least two quotations for support.
Poster displays the quotations you have found; they are written carefully & cited.
Art work is neat and colorful and expresses the big idea
The poem is of required length and is expressive and creative.
STANDARDS of the DISCIPLINE
Response has no more than two errors in mechanics, spelling, capitalization.
Quotations are blended.
Quotes have no misspellings, etc.
As they read, many students become curious about Aspergers and autism, so we have incorporated video supplemental materials including a speech on the inspiration for the novel by Mark Haddon; a film on autism activist Temple Gradin; and a quick 6 minute video on another savant Stephen Wiltshire: The Human Camera.
Sometimes, if time allows, we have included mysteries from Christopher’s idol, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. For the honors students, we have added the text of the Sherlock Holmes mystery “The Hound of the Baskervilles” for independent reading (audio text) . On other occasions we have used adaptations of Sherlock Holmes mysteries in short audio texts (Story Nory site).
While the addition of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has richly enhanced our curriculum of World Literature, the price was not expensive, roughly $250 for the entire set of books. This contemporary novel by a British writer allows us to connect the reading to other fiction (mysteries) and informational texts including speeches and documentaries. In the beginning of the novel, Christopher explains,
“In a murder mystery novel someone has to work out who the murderer is and then catch them. It is a puzzle. If it is a good puzzle you can sometimes work out the answer before the end of the book.”
By the end of the novel Christopher comments on the mystery as a “good puzzle” saying, “I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.” That assessment is a powerful reason to share Haddon’s novel with students…if they can draw from a character like Christopher the inspiration that they too can do anything.
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Report Cites Major Improvements in Data Gathering
The ability to gather and analyse project data has improved or improved significantly for nearly two-thirds of the respondents to a survey of construction managers, specialty trade contractors, and design/build firms. The study was conducted by Dodge Data & Analytics and Viewpoint via an online survey.
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Redefining Subcontractor Management
When it comes to effectively managing today’s complex construction projects, collaboration is the key to success. With large, multi-faceted projects involving the potential for dozens, even hundreds of subcontractors, keeping track of communications, processing data, tracking job progress and changes and managing compliance issues can be a hefty task for even the most skilled project managers and construction lead teams.
Software keeping construction on track
Construction is a high stakes game, with massive projects and equally massive budgets balancing on a knife-edge between success and failure. ‘‘A 2016 report by McKinsey, Managing Construction’s Digital Future, showed that around the world, on average, large projects go 20 per cent over schedule and up to 80 per cent over budget,’’ says Ian Desbrow, managing director of Australia and New Zealand sales for US-based construction software firm Viewpoint, ‘‘Australia is no exception. The industry is highly volatile, many contractors operate with razor-thin margins and just a handful of project issues can dramatically affect profitability.’’
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Moyo Close, Bukoto, Kampala, Uganda
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Namugongo Martyrs Shrine
Known for its beautiful, unique interior and exterior of 22 copper pillars over 100 feet long, this shrine honors the 32 young men, pages of king Mwanga II of Buganda, who were burned to death for their refusal to renounce Christianity.
Hundreds of thousands of Christians from Uganda, Africa and other parts of the world pilgrimage here every June 3rd, to commemorate their deaths.
From far, the eyes cannot fail to catch the sight of a whitish pinnacle towering the normally blue sky. As one approaches, one is gripped by that special feel of a godly environment, with a heroic atmosphere of the Martyrs given by the imposing giant structure of a shrine. This is Namugongo where now people flock daily in Tens and thousands to honour and pray to God through the intercession of the twenty two Uganda Martyrs.
This Uganda Martyrs Minor Basilica/Shrine is a Catholic church dedicated to the Martyrs of Uganda who shed their blood because of the Christian faith. The Shrine is well known for its beautiful and unique interior and exterior, but it is especially notable for its shape and architectural plan: the 22 copper pillars-over 100 feet long that support the shrine built in form of an African hut and its wooden doors that depict the history of the Martyrs. The Shrine has a capacity 1000 seats arranged in a circular form.
The construction of the Uganda Martyrs’ Shrine began in 1967. It was completed and formally opened by the special Papal envoy, His Eminence Sergio Cardinal Pignedoli on 3rd June 1975. Thanks to the late former Archbishop Emmanuel Cardinal Nsubuga the author of the project, Dr. Danhinden the Architect and the ROKO Construction for the wonderful work done. When Pope John Paul II made a Pilgrimage to Namugongo on February 7, 1993, during his six -day visit to Uganda (5th -10th February 1993), he elevated the Shrine to a rank of a minor Basilica.
Anglican Uganda Martyrs shrine- Namugongo
Namugongo is located in Kyaliwajjala, Kira Municipality in Wakiso district, approximately 16 km from Kampala. Every year on June 3, pilgrims from all over the world gather at Namugongo Martyrs shrine to commemorate the day, June 03, 1886, when 32 young palace pages were burned to death at the orders of Kabaka Mwanga for refusing to renounce Christianity. This year, according to Police estimates, Namugongo received two million pilgrims.
There were 23 Anglican and 22 Catholic Christian martyrs who were executed between November 1885 and January 1887. 12 of the 22 Catholic Martyrs, were burnt to death at Namugongo, Kiyanja side of Church of Uganda. Other Martyrs were hacked to pieces like Andrew Kaggwa, Pontian Ngondwe, Matthias Mulumba, and Denis Ssebuggwawo.
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GLOBAL MARKETS-Pound and stocks flop as Brexit fears resurface
Marc Jones
* European stocks drop off record highs
* Pound skids 1%as hard Brexit fears re-emerge
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By Marc Jones
LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - European stocks skidded off record highs and sterling dropped more than 1% on Thursday, as reports that Britain’s prime minister was ready to play rough in Brexit talks brought December’s cross-market rally to a halt.
U.S.-China trade optimism and reassuring Chinese economic data had driven Asia and emerging market stocks to 18-month highs overnight, but green immediately turned red when London, Frankfurt and Paris opened.
Britain’s FTSE 100, which had seen its best day in nearly a year on Monday, dropped 0.2% on reports that Prime Minister Boris Johnson would use his control of parliament to stop any extension of the Brexit transition period beyond 2020.
The news knocked the domestically focused mid-cap index as much 1.7% lower, while the pound fell 1% to back below $1.32 and nearly 2% under Thursday and Friday’s post-election highs of just over $1.35.
A profit warning from consumer goods giant Unilever that sent its shares down nearly 6% also helped push the broader European STOXX 600 down 0.6%.
“So much for pragmatism,” J.P. Morgan’s Malcolm Barr said, referring to the reports of Johnson’s hard-line Brexit stance. “We have put the risk of a no-deal end to the transition at 25%, a number we regard as uncomfortably high.”
The resurgence of uncertainty over Britain’s departure from the European Union on Jan. 31 and their future relationship meant Wall Street was expected to give back some ground when New York reopens and put safety trades back in play.
Most 10-year European bond yields were around two basis points lower. UK and German 10-year yields dipped to 0.77% and -0.29% respectively, compared to 1.85% for U.S. Treasuries.
Britain’s political wrangling had not kept Asian stocks from joining a global rally overnight, however, as more U.S. officials confirmed phase one of a trade deal with China was done, although the details remain unpublished.
The preliminary deal between Washington and Beijing reached last week will double U.S. exports to China, White House adviser Larry Kudlow told Fox News on Monday. The United States will also reduce some tariffs on Chinese goods under the agreement.
Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul all gained more than 1% and MSCI’s all-country index set a record high, putting its gains for 2019 at almost 23%, its best year in a decade and the fourth-best year ever.
“People are looking to close the year on a good note,” said Vishnu Varathan, head of economics and strategy at Mizuho Bank in Singapore. “I think that these are far more opportunistic than they are conviction trades, so they tend to be a little bit more prone to taking profits.”
The Australian dollar was another currency under pressure after the minutes of this month’s RBA central bank meeting suggested it might cut interest rates again when it next meets in February.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has already cut three times since June, taking rates to a record low of 0.75%. “Members agreed it would be concerning if there were a deterioration in the outlook,” the bank’s December minutes showed.
Elsewhere, investors were staying broadly optimistic over the tentative U.S.-Sino trade deal struck last week which fuelled gains in emerging market currencies and capped the Japanese yen and Swiss franc.
Oil was nearing three-month highs in anticipation of growing demand from the world’s biggest economies. Brent crude ticked up for a fourth day at $65.52 per barrel, while gold held just below $1,480 per ounce.
Palladium, which is widely used in catalytic converters for car and truck exhausts, remained the real focus, though, as it sped towards $2,000 an ounce for the first time.
“Supply is tight in the palladium market and when you’re adding the speculation about a potential pick-up in demand due to recovery in the global economy, you have a perfect storm of bullish news continuing to keep it supported,” Saxo Bank analyst Ole Hansen said.
Additional reporting by Tom Westbrook in Sydney and Eileen Soreng in Bangalore; Editing by Catherine Evans
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Cyclops and Emma inform Sadie about their plan. Though the Juggernaut has been further magically empowered, they intend to get rid of his helmet which makes him vulnerable to psychic attack. While Cecilia Reyes protects civilians with her forcefield, the first team of X-Men fails to remove the helmet. Cyclops gathers a second team to keep him busy, then has Hope absorb all the students’ powers and have a go at him. Before Hope passes out, she succeeds. Emma attacks the Juggernaut telepathically but finds herself attacked in turn by his psychic defenses. The acolyte then informs Cyclops and Sadie that either San Francisco has to destroy Utopia or the mutants have to stop protecting San Francisco – either way, one of them will be destroyed!
City Hall, San Francisco, Mayor Sadie Sinclair’s office. She asks her assistant to try and “mayor up” the following press release: The X-Men’s response to the Juggernaut is imminent. Until then, the emergency services are proceeding with the vacation. The situation is serious but under control. They are working hand in glove with the X-Men. Their collaboration couldn’t be closer.
Having finished the official version, she tiredly rubs her eyes and asks her assistant if Summers is answering yet. No reply, she is informed. Sadie muttering curses Cyclops to the circle of hell reserved for serial voice mail abusers. As if on cue, there’s a phone call for her. Cyclops apologizes. They’ve been making final preparations. Is that any excuse not to pick up the damn phone? Cyclops replies he isn’t exactly in the right headspace to answer the phone, then asks Emma to patch the mayor in.
The astral plane:
Sadie finds herself in a kind of white room with Cyclops. Emma Frost is there as well, dressed in a white skimpy cowgirl suit and resting on her throne. Scott asks Sadie to stay calm. This is a psionic conference room. How come she gets the throne? Sadie asks. Emma points out it’s her psychic projection.
Cyclops points towards a map to where the Juggernaut currently is. Emma shows a hologram of him while Scott narrates how Cain Markro was empowered by the extradimensional entity Cyttorak as its avatar. What does “extradimensional entity” mean? Sadie inquires. It’s what you call demons in polite society, Emma informs her.
Scott continues that on a good day he was a Thor class threat by himself. Now that he has this hammer they have no idea how powerful he is. Magic’s never been the X-Men’s area of expertise. Sadie asks what the plan is. Scott summarizes that the Juggernaut is indestructible. Physically he is a powerhouse. But he’s vulnerable to psychic attack. The helmet he wears gives him protection. In short: They hit him hard enough to get it off, they turn off his brain. They go home.
Sadie refers to the Juggernaut’s followers, the anti mutant crowd. If they are as close as the map shows and the X-Men apply too much force, there’s going to be some collateral damage. She can’t condone that. Scott calms her, they planned for that. Emma whispers that a little collateral damage to knock a little sense into them could do them a world of good.
In the Cerebra chamber, Emma concentrates and forces the followers telepathically to leave the Juggernaut’s side. The Juggernaut says something in Norse, then slams the ground. The shockwave hurts the people. His acolyte translates that the Juggernaut believes that mind invasion is the greatest sin against nature. If you remove anyone’s free will, it negates their very selves. If they try and annex their wills, he will kill them rather than let that abuse continue.
Cyclops gives orders to assemble the team for the initial engagement. And add Cecilia Reyes, he decides.
Soon, Cyclops and Cecilia are standing on the I-580 east of San Francisco, waiting for the Juggernaut and his followers. Cyclops tells Cecilia her responsibility is keeping the mob safe with her forcefield. If her forcefield slips… she’ll let Emma know and Cyclops can back off.
Cyclops informs Juggernaut they are there to stop him. His acolyte mocks Scott, who knocks him out and then fires his full optic blast at the Juggernaut.
In the meantime, Shadowcat phases up Colossus from the ground behind the Juggernaut. Colossus grabs him from behind, trying to get to the helmet. Juggernaut shakes him off and Iceman tries to catch him.
Cyclops reminds Bobby that Colossus doesn’t need the help. He knows what to do. Sorry for still having human emotions! Bobby snaps. But he knows! He tries to freeze the helmet to absolute zero. Instead, Juggernaut hits him off his iceramp.
“Excuse me,” Colossus says politely and hits Juggernaut in the face. To no avail, he is hit back and flies through the air.
They’ve got some penetration regarding the helmet? Cyclops asks Emma but she has no telepathic trace yet. Cyclops next calls Magneto, who tries to remove the helmet magnetically. Angrily, Juggernaut throws his hammer at him. Throwing a hammer at the master of magnetism is somewhat futile, Magneto boasts until realizing he cannot stop the hammer with his powers. Fortunately, at the last moment, Kitty quickly phases Magneto out of harm’s way. He announces the hammer is unstoppable as well. Cyclops orders his team to back off.
On the astral plane, Emma informs him he slowed down Juggernaut’s speed from an average of 4.1 mph to 3.8 mph. They’ve delayed San Francisco’s destruction by matter of minutes. The keys of the city are surely theirs. Please, Cyclops sighs while Sadie exclaims she is going to be mayor of the flattest demographic group in the US!
Cyclops informs her that this was a preliminary engagement. Now they know the helmet can be disrupted. There are many more options available. Utopia has over 100 mutants. Why isn’t he deploying them? Sadie demands. Emma points out the best half of them are children, to which Cyclops adds that it creates too many variables. Juggernaut is indestructible. With a few exceptions they are not. If they go in en masse they’re going to be killing their own. He believes that’s what Juggernaut wants. How does he work that out? Sadie asks. He hasn’t killed any of them yet and he could. So, plan B? Sadie asks. Plan 2, Scott corrects her. “Plan B” implies they only have 26.
He tells Emma to relay three orders. Firstly, deploy the second team: Storm, Psylocke, Angel Dazzler. Strictly delaying the target! Secondly, get all students to the mainland. She thought he wasn’t going to deploy the kids, Sadie bursts out. He just needs them near enough to pull off what he is planning, Cyclops replies. And finally, tell Hope to get ready.
Soon, while the second team is trying to slow Juggernaut down, Hope, the students and many X-Men have gathered. Cyclops reminds Hope she can use everyone’s power but is going to burn out fast when she does. They’ll extract her when she drops. Just get that helmet off. After Hope affirms, Cyclops orders Storm’s team to pull back.
Primal whimpers “flight.” It’ll be fine, Hope tries to calm him and powers up, mimicking as many powers as she can and attacks. She hits the Juggernaut with all kinds of energy while trying to dislodge the helmet physically. Finally, by liquefying it, Hope succeeds, moments before passing out.
Helmet’s clear, Cyclops informs Emma who, enabled by Cerebra, attacks the Juggernaut telepathically. Red energy comes from his eyes and, far away, Emma’s eyes begin to glow red as well. Endless, she mutters. Her psychic astral office she shares with Scott and Sadie splinters. Instead, the acolyte enters, telling Scott and Sadie that they cannot stop the Juggernaut! The Breaker of Stone. Only he can stop his foot from falling.
He addresses Sadie, accusing her of harboring sinners for long enough. She must decide who her citizen are. These mutants aren’t people. Drive them forth…destroy them! Sink this island Gomorrah! Save her city!
He turns to Scott. He has now seen that those human hate mutants. He has seen the mob the great Juggernaut leads towards them, driven by fear and hate. And still Cyclops fights for them! Don’t fight for these people! Do nothing and even though San Francisco will be ashes, mutantkind will be saved!
His foot is raised! he shouts. It will fall! Only they can decide where!
Sadie and Scott are both back in their bodies, facing an impossible decision and the Juggernaut continues undeterred… Unstoppable! Emma breathes.
Angel, Cecilia Reyes, Colossus, Cyclops, Dazzler, Hope, Iceman, Magneto, Shadowcat, Storm, White Queen (All X-Men)
Cannonball (New Mutant)
Primal, Transonic (Lights)
Gentle, Mercury, Pixie III, Rockslide and others (New X-Men)
Mayor Sadie Sinclair
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News archive - Support for start-ups in Montenegro
On 21 June 2018, the Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility (PSF) Specific Support to Montenegro kick started in Brussels, Belgium. The Montenegrin government has asked for policy advice in building a friendlier environment and a supportive ecosystem for start-up enterprises in the country.
The kick-off meeting involved the representatives of the Montenegrin authorities, the European Commission and the PSF panel of independent experts on business innovation and entrepreneurship from Poland, Finland, France and Slovenia. The objective of this policy support initiative is to provide tailored advice and practical recommendations to help the Montenegrin government in three focus areas:
Legislative changes to facilitate a start-up friendly environment
How to set up funding schemes for start-ups
Developing an organisational model for a functional start-up ecosystem.
The key outcome of the project will be a report that will present these policy recommendations along with good practice examples to follow, analysis of the current state of play, and the challenges faced by entrepreneurs and start-ups.
The exercise will last for seven months, from June 2018 until February 2019, and will include two field missions to Montenegro by the experts, as well as a final event to present the results in Montenegro.
Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility Specific Support to Montenegro
Factsheet on the new PSF Specific Support to Montenegro
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Specify your canonical
четверг, февраля 12, 2009
: we now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. If your site has identical or vastly similar content that's accessible through multiple URLs, this format provides you with more control over the URL returned in search results. It also helps to make sure that properties such as link popularity are consolidated to your preferred version.
Let's take our old example of a site selling Swedish fish. Imagine that your preferred version of the URL and its content looks like this:
http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish
However, users (and Googlebot) can access Swedish fish through multiple (not as simple) URLs. Even if the key information on these URLs is the same as your preferred version, they may show slight content variations due to things like sort parameters or category navigation:
http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&category=gummy-candy
Or they have completely identical content, but with different URLs due to things such as a tracking parameters or a session ID:
http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&trackingid=1234&sessionid=5678
Now, you can simply add this <link> tag to specify your preferred version:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish" />
inside the <head> section of the duplicate content URLs:
and Google will understand that the duplicates all refer to the canonical URL: http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish. Additional URL properties, like PageRank and related signals, are transferred as well.
This standard can be adopted by any search engine when crawling and indexing your site.
Of course you may have more questions. Joachim Kupke, an engineer from our Indexing Team, is here to provide us with the answers:
Is rel="canonical" a hint or a directive?
It's a hint that we honor strongly. We'll take your preference into account, in conjunction with other signals, when calculating the most relevant page to display in search results.
Can I use a relative path to specify the canonical, such as <link rel="canonical" href="product.php?item=swedish-fish" />?
Yes, relative paths are recognized as expected with the <link> tag. Also, if you include a <base> link in your document, relative paths will resolve according to the base URL.
Is it okay if the canonical is not an exact duplicate of the content?
We allow slight differences, e.g., in the sort order of a table of products. We also recognize that we may crawl the canonical and the duplicate pages at different points in time, so we may occasionally see different versions of your content. All of that is okay with us.
What if the rel="canonical" returns a 404?
We'll continue to index your content and use a heuristic to find a canonical, but we recommend that you specify existent URLs as canonicals.
What if the rel="canonical" hasn't yet been indexed?
Like all public content on the web, we strive to discover and crawl a designated canonical URL quickly. As soon as we index it, we'll immediately reconsider the rel="canonical" hint.
Can rel="canonical" be a redirect?
Yes, you can specify a URL that redirects as a canonical URL. Google will then process the redirect as usual and try to index it.
What if I have contradictory rel="canonical" designations?
Our algorithm is lenient: We can follow canonical chains, but we strongly recommend that you update links to point to a single canonical page to ensure optimal canonicalization results.
Can this link tag be used to suggest a canonical URL on a completely different domain?
**Update on 12/17/2009: The answer is yes! We now support a cross-domain rel="canonical" link element.**
Previous answer below:
No. To migrate to a completely different domain, permanent (301) redirects are more appropriate. Google currently will take canonicalization suggestions into account across subdomains (or within a domain), but not across domains. So site owners can suggest www.example.com vs. example.com vs. help.example.com, but not example.com vs. example-widgets.com.
Sounds great—can I see a live example?
Yes, wikia.com helped us as a trusted tester. For example, you'll notice that the source code on the URL http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Nelvana_Limited specifies its rel="canonical" as: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Nelvana.
The two URLs are nearly identical to each other, except that Nelvana_Limited, the first URL, contains a brief message near its heading. It's a good example of using this feature. With rel="canonical", properties of the two URLs are consolidated in our index and search results display wikia.com's intended version.
Feel free to ask additional questions in our comments below. And if you're unable to implement a canonical designation link, no worries; we'll still do our best to select a preferred version of your duplicate content URLs, and transfer linking properties, just as we did before.
Update: this link-tag is currently also supported by Ask.com, Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo!.
Update: for more information, please see our Help Center articles on canonicalization and rel=canonical.
Written by Joachim Kupke, Senior Software Engineer, and Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead
Carpe diem on any duplicate content worries: we now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. If your site has identical or vastly similar content that's accessible through multiple URLs, this format provides you with more control over the URL returned in search results. It also helps to make sure that properties such as link popularity are consolidated to your preferred version.
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Vivian Loh
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Vivian Loh (b. 1997, Singapore) is a multi-disciplinary artist who a FineArts Degree student in Lasalle College of the Arts. She specialises in oil painting, murals, assemblages, digital illustration and drawing in her artistic practice.
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on Monday 11th April 2016 14:17 PM
About The Hornchurch Stadium Hornchurch have called “The Stadium” home since 1953 when they moved from Upminster Park. The ground is predominantly an athletics ground with individual stands placed around the edge. As the club made a rapid rise through the leagues in the early 2000’s bits were added to comply with various league gradings. The Riverside side of the ground is so called as the River Ingrebourne runs behind it. On this side of the ground there are three separate stands offer shelter from the elements although as they are not very steep the view isn’t the best. On the East side of the ground is the Main stand, flanked by covered terracing. The East side also houses the rather plush, for non-league standards anyway, club shop, bar and restaurant. At the far ends of each ground is simply a fence around the pitch. How to get to The Hornchurch Stadium By car – Take the M25 to junction 29 on to the A127 towards London. Come off at the next major turn-off (signposted to Upminster) and turn left into Hall Lane. Follow this road for about a mile and a half, passing Upminster station on your left, until you come to a major crossroads with traffic lights. Turn right at the lights into St Mary’s Lane. Continue down the hill and take the second turning on the left (Bridge Avenue). The stadium is found about 200 yards down Bridge Avenue on the right. There is a large car park at teh ground. Alternatively parking is on the streets around the ground, but be careful of some of the parking restrictions. The postcode for SatNav’s is RM14 2LX. By tube – Upminster Bridge underground station (District line) is a few minutes away. Turn right out of the station, walk under the railway bridge and take the second right turning into Bridge Avenue. The station is in zone 6. By train – Upminster BR station is the nearest and a 10 minute walk. Come out of station, turn left into St Mary’s Lane and then left again for Bridge Avenue. The station is in zone 6. Getting in at The Hornchurch Stadium Apart from the odd cup game as they experienced a few seasons ago when Peterborough United were visitors in the FA Cup first round it is pay on the door for everyone. Adults are charged £9, OAP’s £6 and Under 16’s £2. There is no additional charge to go into the seated areas. Match programmes are £2. Our last visit – February 2012 Twenty one days ago the sun was shining. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky as Lewes kicked off against Canvey Island. Twenty four hours later I landed in Los Angeles to temperatures that would have had The Sun trumpeting as “Phew, what a scorcher” and “It’s hotter than Greece”. During the next week I worked with the sun shining all day, with my walk to the office along the empty beach in Santa Monica. Bliss, you may say and I would agree. Yet you mortals back in England were suffering freezing temperatures and tonnes of the white stuff. And of course that mean a serious lack of football. Being purely selfish I was glad when the whole country called off their games the following weekend. Lewes’s game at Wingate & Finchley was postponed whilst I travelled east from California to New York. I cheered. Wingate is one of only two grounds I haven’t been to in the league so a re-arranged midweek fixture suited me perfectly. Seven days later and I was back in the UK but the after effects of the coldest February on record in many places in England again decimated the fixture let (and our plans for a game). What did this mean? Well, on the positive side, Lewes had gone unbeaten during February. On the pessimistic side, it would mean their last league win was 7 weeks ago when they beat Hastings United. The enforced break had given manager Simon Wormull to assess his squad. Out had gone striker Michael Malcolm, and returning to the club was centre-back and ex-captain Chris Breach. Three good centre-backs may be needed for the visit to AFC Hornchurch. The Urchins were enjoying a good season. They had devastated Lewes earlier in the season, ending The Rooks 100% home record with a four goal second half display. Since then they had topped the league, and despite losing a few games, had hung onto Billericay’s coat tails thanks to their strong, well organised approach play, and a proven non league centre-forward in Martin Tuohy, Golden Boot winner three seasons ago with 50 goals. AFC Hornchurch actually play in Upminster, which is really the starting point of Essex. The drive down the country lanes from the M25 revealed some impressive houses, and the area can boast such residents as Jessie J, Frank Bruno and that girl from S Club 7 (Not Rachel Stevens, or the one that looked like a boy). It also has two windmills. One which is one of the last remaining grade II windmills left in England; the other is a pub outside the tube station. Guess which one we saw today? As we supped our fine Essex Ales (Peroni, Strongbow and Tetley’s), the team news came through. AFC Hornchurch were fielding their two new players – Ex-Norwich City, Crystal Palace and Peterborough United striker Leon McKenzie and Fola Orilonishe from Sutton United. Lewes included signed that morning from the youth team Kelvin Brown as one of the three subs. Hornchurch’s ground is a real mixed bag for spectators. Firstly, it is an athletics ground – but not a proper one as it only has six lanes. Unlike Melbourne Park, home of Chelmsford City, there are no big stands where you can watch the game from a bit of a height, nor is there any temporary stands behind either goal. This means the views from the small stands around the pitch are poor. However, they have an excellent bar area behind one goal that is set high above the pitch, meaning you can watch the whole game from inside the bar, or on a nice sunny day from the terrace outside. As with all away games this season, Lewes arrive bearing gifts. A pretty impressive gift if you ask me as well. Seventy two pints of FREE BEER in the form of a polypin from Harvey’s, known globally as the world’s greatest beer. Within minutes of the beer arriving the away fans (and officials) will be queuing at the bar to get their pint of local luxury. The clubs can charge what they want for the beer (although few seem to grasp the whole point of the exercise and faced with an opportunity to earn 100% profit, still overcharge). We arrived in the bar at The Stadium and became one of many to ask for a Harveys. “We haven’t put it on yet”…after the twentieth person came and asked they eventually obliged, although the barman who took the first pint screwed his face up and threw most of his drink away – a fine endorsement indeed. Hornchurch also have a satellite feed from overseas. Based on the adverts I deduced it was Albanian. Whilst people crowded round to watch the Chelsea v Birmingham City game (which was on UK TV anyway) they were showing Everton v Blackpool at 3pm, which was watched by no-one. And here lies one of the points why it is a bit of a non-issue. As the teams emerged from the dressing rooms and down the steps onto the pitch, the rain started falling. Hornchurch’s pitch had not endured the past few weeks well, and up until Friday were still not 100% confident this game would go ahead. AFC Hornchurch 1 Lewes 0 – The Stadium – Saturday 18th February 2012 Big Deaksy chastised me after my post-match comments when I said we battled well but ultimately fell short. He suggested this was the corporate line. He is of course right to an extent. It was a crap game, played in crap conditions, on a pitch that helped neither team which eventually had a big hand in deciding the result. Illness had robbed Lewes of Chris Breach, and Wormull attempted to fit square pegs in round holes, with Nanetti playing just behind Paul Booth. But there was little they could do about the strong wind blowing down the pitch that saw the ball by-pass the midfield in the opening exchanges. The home side made the best of the early running, and Lewes keeper Pawel Szelemj was the busier of the two but was rarely troubled although Hornchurch did have a good shout for a penalty when Tuohy was sent crashing in the area. Perhaps the referee, aware of the two soft penalties given for the Urchins in the reverse fixture earlier in the season was trying to even it all up! On the half hour mark came the deciding moment of the game. Hustwick underhit a back pass to Pawel and the heavy ground slowed the ball up further, allowing the predatory Tuohy to anticipate the roll of the ball and he nipped in, rounded Pawel and slotted home into an empty net from an acute angle. During half time the heavy rain upgraded itself to a monsoon. Consequently around a third of the 298 fans in the ground stayed in the bar, watching the game from our own large Executive Box. The tail wind was now blowing towards the Hornchurch goal and Lewes started to create some chances. Harry Harding, fresh from his two weeks at Fulham, started to dominate proceedings and Booth had a couple of half chances. But the Hornchurch keeper was rarely called into action – in fact it was still Pawel who had to make the saves from the likes of Tuohy and Thompson. Lewes’s fight boiled over during the second half on one occasion when Jack Walder’s tackle on McKenzie started a mini-difference of opinion and the Lewes youngster could count himself a bit lucky to stay on the pitch. The final whistle was greeted with some relief by the home fans – a 1-0 win is never comfortable whilst Lewes can take some heart by the performances of the back four, especially Charlie Leach who showed maturity well beyond his young years. The next few weeks will prove a massive test for the team. Two games against the most in-form team in the league start the run of games. East Thurrock United have strengthened their squad thanks to the money they earnt in their FA Cup run to the televised first round game versus Macclesfield Town, and Lewes visit them first on Tuesday in the Ryman League Cup semi-final, before they come down to Sussex on Saturday. After that the Rooks have games against four of the top six in March. New players are on the horizon and the play-offs are still only a few points away, but it will need something extra to spark the team back into life. The watching world (in BN7) turns to Simon Wormull to see what that will be. Our last visit – August 2010 – AFC Hornchurch v West Ham XI “And so the end is near”…with just a few days left until the start of the Premier League and Non-league seasons there was still time to fit in one more friendly. And could we have found a better one that just across the water in the heart of the Essex commuter land. Hornchurch has some interesting memories for me. A few years before the beautiful CMF came into my life I dated an Essex girl. Well, dated was stretching it a bit. Culture was not high on her agenda, but she knew every lay by in and around Upminster and Hornchurch. Her Dad worked next to Hornchurch Stadium and threatened me on a number of occasions to “take me daarn the Urchins”. Somehow I managed to avoid that treat as by all accounts the place was a “right dump”. Before I incur the wrath of any Hornchurch fans this was in 1992 – some time before the club hit the highs and then the lows of the mid-2000’s. This was also my first chance to see West Ham this season. We, of course knew they would only be bringing squad players to this local derby, but even so some of these would be earning more in a week than the Hornchurch team would earn in a season put together. At up to £37 a ticket for a game* at Upton Park this season it would be one of the only chances that the Littlest Fuller’s would get to see them. AFC Hornchurch are the phoenix that rose from the flames of Hornchurch FC. We all know that clubs who throw ridiculous money around are doomed to failure in the long term. Everyone knows that one day the owners of Manchester City will walk away leaving the club in billions of pounds of debt. Or they could simply convert the debt to shares as Roman Abramovich has done, although these holdings will essentially be worthless unless he can find a buyer willing to pay his premium. In the non-leagues such investments, albeit on a smaller scale are not uncommon. Such events took hold of Isthmian League Three team Hornchurch when a strange European Investment Company started investing in the club. Within a couple of years they had risen up to the Conference South, had hosted a sell out FA Cup 2nd round game against Tranmere Rovers in their redeveloped ground and with a full time squad including ex-Premier League players such as Darren Caskey (today officially the size of a bus) and Dmitri Kharine. All quite unheard of at this level. The future looked very bright for the club as they started the 2004/05 season like a train – winning 14 out of the first 18 league games and seeing regular crowds at The Stadium of over 800. But then murmurings started about the stability of the owners, Carthium Ltd and that started to affect the team. A FA Cup 4th qualifying win against Gravesend & Northfleet in front of over 1,600 fans saw the beginning of the end. The club went into freefall, the investment disappeared, the crowds dwindled, the high paid players all left and the club eventually folded, reforming as AFC Hornchurch in May 2005 in time to take their place in the Essex Senior League. Five years on and the club are back again in the Isthmian League Premier Division. Sensible investment, a couple of good cup runs and a prudent business plan has seen them get into a position to be ready to challenge again for the Conference (Blue Square) South. Last season they were an outside bet for a play off spot around Easter but as with a few other teams in the Rymans League the ridiculous pressure to complete their fixtures saw the club having to play 7 games in 21 days. This was a special occasion, as Littlest Fuller was to make her debut for the season. Not that she really wanted to, but sometimes in life we don’t always get what we want. CMF was out with her chums so I was on baby sitting duty, and what better option than to take her to football. I am sure when she is older she will thank me – after all I had sat through the pain and misery that was Cats and Dogs II (in 3D to make it even worse) in the afternoon, so it was only fair that she should endure 90 minutes of pain for me. A quick trip under the Thames and through the country lanes that I knew so well, passing the cows that had seen too much of me when I was younger and we were outside the Hornchurch Stadium before you knew it. Of course being an English Summer’s evening we were met with rain, rain and more rain. AFC Hornchurch 1 West Ham United XI 2 – Hornchurch Stadium – Tuesday 10th August 2010 Hornchurch hadn’t really marketed the game much apart from on the website, and despite it being a foul evening the crowds had come in abundance. Over 1,100 in total – and hats off to the club for charging a sensible £5 for Adults and just £2 for kids. The one thing the ground doesn’t lack is seats under cover although sitting on the edge of an athletics track with virtually no incline isn’t ideal. The best views of the game actually came from the bar, positioned at one end on the bank, with a nice patio area – not that anyone could enjoy anything but the rain. The West Ham team according to the programme contained a number of “fringe” first team squad youngsters – the impressive Anthony Edgar and Jordan Spence were down to play, but of course the actual team looked nothing like that. It was an Under18’s squad, led by the legend that is Tony Carr. It is a shame that perhaps one, or maybe two of these will ever see the bench on a Carling Cup 2nd round night, let alone a regular place. In recent years we have seen Noble, Collison, Tompkins and Hines emerge, but others have simply not had the opportunity. Some make an impact on the reserve level but in a first team squad of 33 (currently), there are players from 16 different countries, and I would suggest over a third of the squad are “transient” – i.e they will be gone in 12 months. After all just look at players such as Diego Tristan, David Di Michele, Mido, Ilan – hardly set the world alight did they? Still it was the youngsters we were here to support, although judging by the reaction of some West Ham fans (of the younger variety) they felt that just because they were wearing the Macron shirt they should be Di Canio or McAvennie. Every missed tackle or poor pass was missed with a “you wanker” or “tosser”. This was in between deciding which girls in the ground were “legal”…highly intelligent fans. So with the rain, the greasy pitch and the wide open spaces it was hardly a classic. Hornchurch’s first team for the most part were out muscled by the young West Ham team but it was the home side who took the lead around the half hour mark when West Ham keeper Sam Cowler made a Howler (he must hate his name for just that reason), letting a shot from distance squirm between his hands. Obviously watching too much Robert Green over the summer? Just as the second half started, so did the heavy rain. Hardly a pleasant evening to be watching, let alone playing the game. Our young friends had moved off around the ground to look for more “jail bait” as they said, although one was keen to have a “crack” at the MILF in the hot dog van. Do they really think that life is just like a scene from the Inbetweeners? West Ham started to pass the ball around a bit better, and actually dominated the midfield, especially with the introduction of Daniel Purdy who is a name to watch out for. The equaliser came eventually in the 53rd minute when Jack Werndly’s shot took a massive deflection of a defender and wrong footed the Urchins keeper. As the thunder started overhead with just ten minutes left West Ham scored the winner when Sadlier finished off a nice move with a well hit shot. Did the trip bring back happy memories? Not really, although on the drive back up to the A127 we did pass a car, with very steamy windows parked in a lay-by. “Look Dad” said Littlest Fuller as we drove past “They must be drinking some very hot tea to make the car that steamy”. So much to learn about life. *It should be noted in fairness that for the first home game against Bolton Wanderers under 16 members tickets started from £1. More photos from the night can be seen at our Flickr feed here.
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Voodoo Dolls, Cardboard Robbers, Rosie O’Donnell, & Football Fornicators
Posted in Skewed News, tagged Add new tag, cardboard bank robber, cardboard cut-out robber, french president Nicolas Sarkozy, french president voodoo doll, montgomery township robbery, N.J. robbery, rosie bitch, rosie o'donnell flop, rosie odonnell, sex in a public place, sex in public, sex in public restrooms, spawn of the devil, SWAT, voodoo doll on November 30, 2008| 1 Comment »
Voodoo doll of French President Sarkozy
Here at the Crusty Curmudgeon, information comes across our desk from every corner of the globe. Rain or shine, it just keeps coming. The Curmudgeon staff sifts painstakingly through this info to garner only the juiciest, wickedly titillating, system shocking, stomach-churning, digestively disgusting tidbits from the disturbing world in which we live. And most of the time the stuff is so stupid it’s funny.
Hoodoo That Voodoo That You Do
From across the pond in the land of snails, surly cabbies, and ladies who wear no pants, comes this tale of a pissed-off President. An outfit is marketing voodoo dolls of French President Nicolas Sarkozy – himself no stranger to ladies with no pants – which the lucky owner can prick in various body parts and nether regions. There’s no word on whether the indiscriminate pin-sticking actually hurts the President physically, but emotionally, he’s as stewed as a pig-brain cassoulet. Sarkozy demanded a ban on the evil dolls, but a lower court rejected his case citing “the right to humor.” Now an appeals court has concurred, but the judge stuck on this caveat: The dolls must carry a notice saying that pricking them harms the President’s dignity. Those French always were a bunch of pricks.
Back on this side of the Atlantic, in a place called Montgomery Township, N.J., a scene familiar all across the US played out in real time on a quiet Thanksgiving evening. A bank alarm goes off. Police respond to the alarm. They witness the figure of a man—a possible suspect—visible through the window blinds inside the bank. A standoff ensues. The area was sealed off. Three nearby apartment buildings were evacuated. Bullhorns roared. Telephone calls were made. There was no answer. There was no response. Having failed to establish contact with the perp, the SWAT (Shocked With A Taser) team is summoned. They stealthily make their way to the entrances, crouching and leap-frogging into the ready position. It was a go!
The SWAT team storms the bank, semi-automatics at the ready. Quickly and skillfully they encircle the perpetrator and…this is where it turns from an episode of The Shield into Car 54 Where Are You. What they had captured was…here it comes…a cardboard cutout! Yes, my friends, twas a cutout of a dude hawking IRAs. Maybe some of those cops should think about getting an IRA or two, cause retirement must be looking pretty good right about now. Watch for further news in Bank Robbing for Cardboard Dummies!
Rosie O’Donnell and Her Thanksgiving Turkey
Bank robberies weren’t the only thing that happened during Thanksgiving. There was truly something to be thankful for. Yes, friends, you’re thinking, “You, Mr. Curmudgeon? You’re thankful?” Yes, even old Curmudgy can feel deeply and even get a tear or two, time to time. Especially in a movie where they kill the dog. My good news is that the new Rosie variety show crashed and burned. Bombed big time. (Hmmm. Voodoo dolls…Rosie…that gives me an idea.) Natch, I didn’t see the show cause I wanted to keep my dinner down, but the reviews concurred that the show stunk up the place. That puts a big smile on my mug. Let’s hope this pushes “The Thing” into forced retirement with an IRA from a cardboard guy in N.J. It’s not that I don’t like Rosie, gosh, I’m sure she’s got her good points, but…it’s just…you know…she’s the Devil’s spawn.
A Whole ‘Nother Ballgame
Rosie is the opposite of sex, which reminds me… it seems the football game between the Minnesota Gophers and the Iowa Hawkeyes got a little boring with the Hawkeyes well on their way to a 55-0 trouncing. A couple of Iowa fans, not to be denied their randy recreation, decided to play ‘hide the bratwurst” in a handicapped stall in the bathroom. The couple—a 38 year-old woman and a 26 year-old man—went at it like a couple of gophers and drew a crowd of drunk, cheering fans. But when anybody is ever having any fun, it’s gonna get penalized by the man and the long..er…arm of the law. The university police—tipped off by a security guard—interrupted the couple and cited them for indecent conduct, off-sides, and backfields in motion. I’m sure these enterprising citizens felt pretty embarrassed, but they hadn’t felt nothin’ yet: The man was released into the custody of his girlfriend and the woman into the custody of her husband. Lucy, you got some splainin’ to do!
Which brings us back to voodoo dolls. I don’t know if they work or not, but I sure would like to give one a try.
Well, the clock has ticked into the wee hours of December and the first snow of the holiday season has begun to fall and blanket the ground, like a harbinger of good will towards men and holiday festivities. We’ve shared poking a doll, poking fun, a pig-in-a-poke, and poking for pleasure. Mmmm. Good times. Old Curmudgy has a tear in his eye…cause he’s gonna have to get up early and shovel snow.
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Sophomore Julien Lewis to transfer from Texas
By Sara Beth Purdy Posted on May 14, 2013 at 6:21 pm
Sophomore Julien Lewis was granted a release and will transfer from the program Texas announced through Twitter on Tuesday afternoon.
Lewis is the fourth Longhorn to leave Texas this semester. Sophomores Sheldon McClellan and Jaylen Bond announced their intents to transfer in March and Sophomore Myck Kabongo declared for the NBA draft last month.
The Longhorns finished this past season with a record of 16-18 and missed the NCAA tournament for the first time under Texas head coach Rick Barnes.
Lewis started in 21 games for the Longhorns this past season averaging 11.2 points per game. The sophomore from Galveston, TX shot .398 from the field and .351 beyond the 3-point arc this past season.
Texas blanks Texas Southern in doubleheader
By Sara Beth Purdy Posted on May 12, 2013 at 11:51 am
The Longhorns blanked Texas Southern in a doubleheader sweep Saturday. The Texas pitching staff combined for a no-hitter in a 4-0 Game 1 victory before the offense took over in a 12-0 Game 2 victory later in the afternoon.
Sophomore Parker French started on the mound in Game 1 and threw three innings before freshman Travis Duke came in with two innings of relief. Junior Corey Knebel recorded his ninth save with four strikeouts across two innings in the shortened seven inning game. Texas gave up no hits across seven innings.
The Texas offense registered 11 hits with four runs in the first game of the doubleheader. Four Longhorns each registered two hits on the afternoon with junior Ty Marlow going 1-for-2 with two RBI.
The Longhorns continued in game two with 12 hits highlighted by a seven run second inning. Seven runs is the most runs scored in a single inning so far this season for the Longhorns. Freshman Taylor Stell headlined with two RBI and a 3-for-4 effort. Brooks Marlow, Mark Payton and Jeremy Montalbano each contributed two RBI to the Longhorn’s offensive production.
On the mound, the Texas pitching staff surrendered only one hit across the nine inning game. Dillon Peters threw three as the starter with only one it. Nathan Thornhill threw four in relief before Josh Urban came in to close in the eighth.
The Longhorns head to TCU on Thursday for a three game series to conclude the 2013 season. Currently the Longhorns are sitting last in the Big 12. With a sweep of TCU this weekend, the Longhorns would move to 9-15 in conference play with a chance to qualify for the Big 12 tournament at the end of May in Oklahoma City.
Houston Texans NFL Draft analysis: Was WR DeAndre Hopkins the right pick at No. 27?
By Cameron Kubena Posted on May 2, 2013 at 12:47 pm
First Round: DeAndre Hopkins, WR, Clemson
In last week’s blog I made a case for Terrance Williams as a better candidate for the wide receiver role in Houston than Hopkins. It was a minority opinion, but I still stand by it. However, that does not mean Hopkins was a bad selection. Hopkins was a great selection.
The Texans needed a wide receiver to fill the role left open by the release of Kevin Walter, and DeAndre Hopkins should be able to exceed it. As one of the most dynamic receivers from the ACC, Hopkins will be expected to become the complimentary threat to Andre Johnson that Lestar Jean and DeVier Posey have so far failed to become.
If Hopkins can fulfill those expectations, the Houston Texans will have their most effective wide receiver core in their short history. Keshawn Martin would be dedicated primarily as a third/slot receiver; and if Andre Johnson and Owen Daniels can remain healthy, Matt Schaub will have plenty of options.
Second Round: D.J. Swearinger, S, South Carolina
It would have been a wasted opportunity if Houston did not draft a safety to back up Ed Reed. Not only did they need depth at the position, but a team does not always have a future hall of famer on their roster to mentor those at his position. Houston took the opportunity by drafting Swearinger.
I don’t know what it is about Houston and drafting defensive backs from South Carolina (Dunta Robinson, Fred Bennett), but it has worked out so far. With two interceptions in the 2012 season, including a 69-yard interception return for a touchdown against Arkansas, Swearinger has playmaking ability. Known for his physical play, that should help him translate into Wade Phillips’ man coverage defensive schemes.
Swearinger probably won’t show up on the starting depth chart for a few seasons, but he could become an impactful nickelback in the meantime.
Third Round: Brennan Williams, OT, North Carolina / Sam Montgomery, OLB, LSU
The Texans offensive line was both outstanding and struggling. The whole left side of the line was elected to the Pro Bowl. The right side struggled for consistency with the injury of right tackle Derek Newton and the shuffle at right guard between Ben Jones and Antoine Caldwell.
Brennan Williams will be expected to strengthen that right side, providing Schaub more consistent protection and less reliance to run to the left side of the ball.
With the injury to Brian Cushing last season, the Texans found they needed some depth. By selecting Montgomery (and even Trevardo Williams in the fourth round) the Texans now have an option of moving Brooks Reed to the inside. Montgomery will have a similar role to Whitney Mercilus’ last season. But in the future, if Montgomery can fulfill expectations, he will be able to take over Reed’s position and allow the move.
Fourth-Sixth Rounds: Trevardo Williams, DE, UConn / David Quessenberry, OT, San Jose State / Alan Bonner, WR, Jax State / Christopher Jones, DT, Bowling Green / Ryan Griffin, TE, UConn
Trough the rest of the draft, the Texans reiterated their needs at wide receiver, offensive line and outside linebacker. But with the selection of Christopher Jones, Houston also gave some support to the nose tackle position.
Shaun Cody and Earl Mitchell have played adequate roles in the line’s center. NFL teams do not strive for adequacy. Since it was not a large issue, a nose tackle was not selected in the earlier rounds. As MAC Defensive Player of the Year with 12.5 sacks last season, Jones just may be a steal for the Texans.
Longhorns sign guard Martez Walker, giving them four Class of 2013 signees
By Christian Corona Posted on May 2, 2013 at 12:21 pm
The Longhorns signed Pershing (Detroit, Mich.) guard Martez Walker to a letter of intent, Texas announced Thursday.
Walker, a three-star prospect, according to rivals.com becomes the fourth player to sign with the Longhorns this year, joining fellow guards Demarcus Croaker, Isaiah Taylor and Kendal Yancy. Walker averaged 20.4 points and seven rebounds per game as a senior last season, earning a spot on the Detroit Free Press Class A All-State First Team. Pershing went 46-4 over the past two seasons, including a 22-0 record in conference play and a 25-1 mark last year, when Walker led the Doughboys to the Michigan Class A state quarterfinals.
"Martez is an unorthodox player who has a knack for scoring," head coach Rick Barnes said. "The thing that gives him a chance to be really good at our level is his competitive nature. Like most young guys, he'll have to get stronger. When he does, his ability to score the basketball along with his mental toughness and passion to compete will allow him to be very successful."
Three of Texas' five sophomores from last season have since left the program, with Myck Kabongo declaring for the NBA Draft and Sheldon McClellan and Jaylen Bond electing to transfer. Jonathan Holmes and Julien Lewis, who also contemplated transferring, are the only two rising juniors on the Longhorns' roster, which included six freshmen on scholarship last season. Texas will be a young team again next season and may need some of its four freshmen (Walker, Croaker, Taylor and Yancy) to contribute immediately.
"When you take a look at this four-player class as a whole, we obviously made a concerted effort to improve our skill and athleticism on the perimeter," Barnes said. "We also believe we've added some natural scoring ability to our team. Our staff is excited to begin working with these four young men on campus this summer and see them mesh with our returning players, who have really worked hard and improved this spring."
NBA Playoffs: Warriors working their postseason magic once again
By Diego Contreras Posted on May 1, 2013 at 2:21 pm
External, unseen forces aren’t usually at work during NBA basketball games, but the Golden State Warriors appear to have become the exception to that.
The days of Sleepy Floyd putting up 50 points against Magic Johnson and the Lakers are far behind us. The RUN TMC era that Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond, and Chris Mullen created is pretty far removed from us as well. Even the Warriors' last magical run in the playoffs when they beat top-seeded Dallas Mavericks as an eighth seeded team happened in 2007. Though your memory might tell you otherwise, that series was actually seven years ago.
But the Warriors are back, and it looks like they brought some of that playoff magic with them.
And as crazy as it seems for assuming the Warriors have some sort of playoff aura around them, it’s kind of hard to argue with the way history looks.
Don’t get me wrong, Stephen Curry is on an incredible streak and may be cementing himself as one of the best players in the league, and at the very least, he’s proven he is the best shooter in the game of basketball. But, I don’t want to be the one to deny that some sort of playoff magic is helping the Warriors. And this has been going on for years.
This isn’t simply an acknowledgement of a few major events in playoff history. The Warriors only title was in 1975 when a Rick Barry-led squad swept the Washington Bullets. What shouldn’t come as a surprise to you, however, is that the '75 Warriors were considered heavily as the underdogs. Many people in the basketball world actually believe the '75 Warriors performed the biggest upset in NBA history. This isn’t a new occurrence, this is just who the Golden State Warriors are.
And that brings us back to this team. The Stephen Curry led Warriors are one home game away from advancing to the second round and they’ve already made sure to leave a few lasting memories.
Stephen Curry did his best impersonation of Davidson Stephen Curry and threw in 22 points in the third quarter of game four against the Nuggets. And in game five the Warriors almost came back from a 27 point deficit.
The way history has shaped already, it’s looking fairly grim for the Denver Nuggets to make it out of the first round. With a notably weaker team after the loss of Danilo Gallinari as well, the stage looks perfectly set for the Golden State Warriors to add another chapter to their compilation of playoff stories.
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Ordos, the stillborn city
The world’s biggest new city, Ordos, is under construction in the desert of northern China. It has everything fancier than the others, but still lacks the most essential: its people.
A crowdfunding project by Adrien Golinelli, photography and publishing, Ordos.Read more
How to build a ghost city
The city of Ordos, in northern China, only exists since a 10 years, but it is already dead.
The biggest new city in the world, it has everything grander and everything fancier, but seems doomed to stay forever empty.
After thorough research on Ordos, I decided to go there in 2013. I smuggled my way into Inner Mongolia Province and eventually settled in Ordos for 2 months. I soaked myself in this strange place, criss-crossed every corner of it, trying to find the rare humans, and eventually amassed a thousand analog photographs.
Extravaganza in the steppe
This photo book is a dive into the surreal atmosphere of a modern-days Tower of Babel, where the only activity is the expansion of the city itself.
Could this be a glimpse into our own future? As much as Ordos can seem far away from our lives, it is just the visible tip of a widespread problem: The misallocation of ressources.
Coal is still the first source of energy in China, and is so abundant around Ordos that the region has amassed hoards of cash, which it is funneling towards this white elephant. in an absurd cycle, dead stones are transformed into money, and then to dead stones again.
Why make it a book?
Photographs tell different stories depending on how you assemble them. But that’s not the only reason.
My goal is to go beyond fine art and to add a layer of understanding, making it a documentary and an esthetic object at the same time. In addition to 150 photographs, 3 essays from the best specialists in their field will shed light on the social, economical, and environmental issues triggered by Ordos.
The goal of this book is to be both a graphic journey into a dystopian world, and a reflection on our times backed by in-depth analysis.
I have a contract with Kehrer of Heidelberg (an reputed photo book publisher) to go on press by next January. After a year working on it, the draft is ready and I now need these CHF 8’000 to make the first half-payment to the printing house.
The book should be ready by early february, and you will be the first to recieve it.
Before Christmas I will send you a voucher in the form of a postcard that certifies your purchase. That way you could also offer it as a Christmas gift.
Large format (25cm x 33cm)
150+ photographs
Uncoated Munken White 150mg paper, used for fine art prints
3 essays by recognized scholars
Preface by Christian Caujolle, founder of Agence VU
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Much obliged! I’ll send you a handwritten postcard from my next «strange» destination. Will it be from Pyongyang, Kabul, Juba...? I cannot tell you yet, but rest assured that it’ll stand out on your fridge.
Cheers! You get one of the original Bon à Tirer, a 70cm x 100cm test print that validates the ink settings. Each one is unique and covers 6 pages on each side.
Thank you! You get the book before everyone else, with a personnal dedication. Postage included for Switzerland and France (Please add 9.- for other countries)
Send me your name and address and before Christmas you will receive a voucher in the form of a postcard to certify your purchase, and that you could use as a gift.
Thank you so much. You get 2 copies of the book before everyone else, with a personnal dedication.
Postage included for Switzerland and France (Please add 9.- for other countries)
Never really satisfied by your FB picture? Need a nice mug shot for your website? Or just want to check out how great you look with a proper lighting? I’ll take your portrait in my agency’s professional photo studio and we’ll find together your best angle.
The Collector Edition.
You get one of the 10 first copies of the book, signed, numbered and stamped at the printing house, together with 50cm x 50cm Hahnemüle print of the «main» picture that is on top of this page – also limited to 10, signed and numbered. And your name will be shown in the book’s credits as a special sponsor.
The genuine fine art print.
You get the picture of your choice from those on this page, in 100cm x 100cm print on Baryta paper, signed and numbered. All my pictures are limited to 5 prints, and come with a certificate of authentification. Except the one on top of this page, this is and will be their only format.
Naturally the book comes with it, and your name will be shown in the books credits as a special sponsor.
Adrien Golinelli
Swiss photographer, born 1987.
Won the Paris Photo Jeunes Talents award for his work in North Korea in 2012, subsequently published at Editions de la Martinière in 2013. He has given a talk on photography at TEDx Paris 2013.
He holds a MA in general linguistics from the University of Geneva. A member of Phovea Photo Agency.
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Wheadon's Gin
Distillery Experiences
The Gin Hotel
Classic Cocktails: The Negroni
The Negroni. Iconic, delicious, a danger to sobriety in any quantity and perfect in both the heat of summer or by a fire in the winter.
Tasting notes: Citrus, oranges, grapefruits, bitterness, a hint of wine, spices, cloves
"This is a really fine invention. It has the power, rare with drinks and indeed with anything else, of cheering you up." Kingsley Amis
Like any good story, there are a number of versions, all involving colourful characters of the 20th Century.
The most commonly accepted story is that the Negroni was invented in Florence in 1919, at the Caffe Casoni, at the request of the raffish Count Camillo Negroni. Born in Italy in 1868, the Count Negroni is reported to have lived in America, where he became a cowboy, adventurer, banker and gambler - although it is questionable whether he was actually a Count at all. He asked the barman to swap the soda in his Americano for gin. The barman dutifully aquiesced, and gave it a final twist in the substituting of the slice of lemon for a twist of orange peel and thus the Negroni was created. The other version is that the Negroni was invented in Africa, by Count Pascal Olivier de Negroni in 1857 in a bid to impress his bride.
Either way, where this drink lacks a solid origin story, it makes up for it in taste.
To make, you will need
Wheadon's Mandarin Lime and Hibiscus Gin
Twist of orange peel
Chilled short rocks glass
Pour equal parts of Wheadon's Mandarin Lime and Hibiscus Gin, Sweet Vermouth and Campari (approx. 25ml of each) in to a shaker and stir to mix. Fill a chilled short rocks glass with ice and pour over the mix and stir. Garnish with a twist of orange peel.
To purchase a bottle of Wheadon's Gin, or to commission a custom infusion, contact the distillery at the Bella Luce Hotel - www.wheadonsgin.co.uk/contact
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Bah bah bah ba-baaah ba-ba-da-ba-baaahh!
Posted on November 2, 2007 by Andrew Collins
Welcome to my world. Yesterday afternoon, I went up to Broadcasting House to record a column (ie. authored piece that you read out) for the estimable Front Row on Radio 4. It compared the opening night of Channel 4 with the schedule of this week, in a light-hearted way. (They don’t usually ask me on for a non-light-hearted view – they have plenty of others for that type of thing.) It was fun to do, as it began with me musing on the fact that TV channels no longer have fanfares, as they all did when I was growing up. I was going to ask producer Laura to drop in clips of the fanfares for Thames, LWT, Anglia and early C4, which are all reassuringly available on YouTube, but we decided it would be more amusing if I sang them, as you might in a pub during a conversation about theme tunes. So I did. With the column recorded, I came home. Then, about an hour and a half later, I had a concerned call from Laura, who was mid-edit: it turns out I had erroneously sung the Thames theme for Anglia. Hey, you try remembering channel idents on the spot, in a BBC studio. They get mixed up. So, I travelled all the way back into Central London just to sing the Anglia TV ident. We found a studio, we set up, I put on my headphones, sang, “Bah bah bah ba-baaah ba-ba-da-ba-baaahh!” and then came home again. What professionalism, you’re thinking.
Anyway, it was worth it, I think, to lower the tone of Radio 4 for a few minutes on a Thursday evening. You can, if you wish, listen to the column (it’s the last item on the show, as my items always are!) and to Kirsty Lang back-announcing it with a jaunty laugh in her voice, possibly put on, possibly not. I don’t care! Look for Thursday night’s Front Row here.
(Of course, C4 dropped its fanfare in 1996 and went all esoteric. Nowadays you get an ambient “bed” over which the announcer can rabbit on, and the logo is constructed, mid-air, out of haystacks or bits of council estate.)
And if anybody needs to see or hear the old Anglia fanfare, here it is:
This entry was posted in C4, Radio 4, tv, YouTube by Andrew Collins. Bookmark the permalink.
43 thoughts on “Bah bah bah ba-baaah ba-ba-da-ba-baaahh!”
Steve M on November 2, 2007 at 12:03 pm said:
The great thing about the Anglia channel ident is that it hasn’t dated at all: it looked cheap, tacky and past-it even in the 70s.Got to love any channel that can launch it’s premier programme with “And now, live from Norwich…..”
Bingethink on November 2, 2007 at 12:04 pm said:
“Skedule”??There’ll be complaints, you know…
Andrew Collins on November 2, 2007 at 12:07 pm said:
It’s a conundrum. I asked my producer if it was shedule or skedule, and she assured me that we say skedule in this country, so I said it. Was she wrong? (Not that I’m blaming her – I have trouble pronouncing quite a few words, and it’s usually those that could go either way. Iraq and Irarq, for instance. Good job I’m not on the radio that often any more!)
Al McGregor on November 2, 2007 at 12:20 pm said:
Channel 4 ident looks suspiciously like the North Peckham Estate – oh happy memories.
who on November 2, 2007 at 12:22 pm said:
Andrew, this is going to bug me until I can go home and listen to it. I can see the Anglia horse going round, I can hear the opening strains of The Sullivans but can I remember the fanfare? Nope.I remember being confused on my first trip to London to see that St Paul’s, Tower Bridge etc are not all squashed up against each other like they were ‘on the telly’. That’s what happens when you take the girl out of Northampton.
I’ve embedded the clip of the Anglia ident above. Enjoy.
Gari on November 2, 2007 at 12:46 pm said:
I remember when Eric and Ernie left the BBC in the 70’s and went to Thames. When the programme was shown, rather than the usual Thames tune, they played a version with the words (I may be paraphrasing slightly) “Now it’s time fopr Morecambe and Wise”, and the view of London was replaced by the letter M rising from the River, reflecting in the water to make a W. And of course, come early evening on a Friday, Thames would magically disappear, only to be replaced by London Weekend Television, with such high quality entertainment as Mind Your Language. I think my favourite old ITV region was Tyne Tees. And I’ve always hated STV.
bingethink on November 2, 2007 at 1:55 pm said:
The British pronunciation is “shedule”. “Skedule” is the American. I rememebr it by the way that Variety talks about the “sked” – “Fall Sked Hits Laffer Low” meaning “Not many comedy shows on the autumn schedules.”
It was “Here They Are Now… Morecombe and Wise”!
Primitive Person on November 2, 2007 at 2:09 pm said:
Ahh, I love the old ident tunes! The ATV one was the best, and it had groovy animation as well.Baa-baa-baa! Dum-dum-dum…bing-bang-bong-daah-dah-DAAAAH!The Anglia one was good as well, of course, and in my mind is immediately followed by the words “From Norwich, it’s the quiz of the week!” – this must have been one of Anglia’s few networked shows.
Gari on November 2, 2007 at 4:05 pm said:
Ah, thank you bingethink. My memory told me as much, but for some reason I didn’t believe myself. Pathetic really. But at least I didn’t imagine it.
PutneyEd on November 2, 2007 at 4:57 pm said:
My favourite TV ident was the old London Weekend Television one – the one I heard described as looking like a student scarf forming the letters LWT accompanied by vibraphone music. It always heralded the beginning of the weekend (yipee!) as Thames TV gave way to LWT every Friday evening. I seem to remember the evening kicked off with Hawaii Five O. Happy days, eh?!
The Mighty Pierre on November 2, 2007 at 5:58 pm said:
I could not remember the theme till I actually heard it either then like everybody else hear I expect to hear. From Norwich its the quiz of the week.I actually have an East Anglians Tourettes type syndrome. I simply cannot hear East Anglia, Norfolk or Norwich without giggling uncontrollably. Very embarassing in meetings.
Sorry to be back so quickly but please take the time to look at this clip which was promoted under Andrew’s clip. I defy you to watch it without smiling.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYnda1gj4M8
ginjabadja on November 2, 2007 at 6:29 pm said:
Can I be the umpteenth person to say…”Live from Norwich, it’s Sale Of The Century!”.Thanks! Anyone seen my coat?
Sky Clearbrook on November 2, 2007 at 8:29 pm said:
Thames TV’s fanfare Salute To Thames and its accompanying ident is an all-time classic.It’s hard to listen to without half expecting to hear the opening tune for either Man About The House, Rainbow, The Sweeney or Magpie chiming in at the end of it.Ah… them were the days.
Rod Begbie on November 2, 2007 at 8:37 pm said:
Damn you, Collins! I’ve now lost a good half-hour to trolling round YouTube looking at old ITV jingles.The ATV one is still my favourite — reminds me of THe Muppet Show and Tiswas.
Tim on November 3, 2007 at 10:37 am said:
I listened to your ‘column’ in the car and made myself late for barbershop rehearsal as a consequence. It was one of those moments where you’re sitting in the car and other people are walking by clearly wondering “Why’s that man laughing to himself?”You can’t beat a bit of Andrew Collins in light-hearted mode. Cheers.
Andrew Collins on November 3, 2007 at 8:35 pm said:
So you were cutting it fine for the barbershop rehearsal then?(Thanks, by the way.)
Joe on November 4, 2007 at 10:12 am said:
I just listened to this on t’internt and was most impressed by your likening of to Collins and Carr to Glazer and McClean. Genius.By the way: Kirsty’s laugh. Defineatley false.
Simon B on November 4, 2007 at 10:55 pm said:
I was always bothered by what looks like a baby doll’s face under the letter M on the old Thames ident. If Kirsty Lang’s laugh was put on she’s good. Sounded genuine to me. Noticed David Quantick got a slightly bigger laugh on Friday.
kenny ellaway on May 4, 2008 at 9:16 pm said:
Well if you want to revel in all those lost mispent days of tv, head over to TV Ark they have em all there…and your fave kids shows etc… PS The Best ident was Central, by a country mile…the Yorkshire TV ident used to scare me…big feckin chevron
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Character Profile: Yuki Nagato
Yuki Nagato Yuki Nagato (長門 有希)
Humanoid interface (robot/cyborg thing built by the Integrated Data Thought Entity) Humanoid interface (robot/cyborg thing built by the Integrated Data Thought Entity)
Female Female
3 years old (source: Episodes 3 & 5) (Appears about 17 years old) 3 years old (source: Episodes 3 & 5) (Appears about 17 years old)
Purplish brown Purplish brown
Golden-brown Golden-brown
Student, data entity, member of the S.O.S. Brigade Student, data entity, member of the S.O.S. Brigade
"A humanoid interface for use in contact with organic living creatures, created by the Integrated Data Thought Entity that supervises this galaxy. That would be me...In more common terminology, I would be classified as an alien." "A humanoid interface for use in contact with organic living creatures, created by the Integrated Data Thought Entity that supervises this galaxy. That would be me...In more common terminology, I would be classified as an alien."
Michelle Ruff Minori Chihara
Episode 00, "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00, "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu
The Disappearence of Haruhi Suzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoshitsu
Last I checked, this character's cosplay outfit was available at Milanoo.
The above info came from Elwin Blaine Coldiron, and was edited by yours truly. The image came from photobucket.
Character Description: Yuki Nagato
Yuki Nagato is a student in the same high school which Haruhi Suzumiya and Kyon attend. Originally, she was a member of the literature club... but since the rest of the members graduated the term before, she was present when Haruhi took over the club room when she formed the S.O.S. Brigade. She then became the first member to "join", besides Haruhi and Kyon.
Personality-wise, Yuki is a rather dull person. She appears not to pay too much attention to all the chaos Haruhi causes, instead keeping her nose in a book. She also tends to speak in an emotionless monotone. But not long after the club was formed, Yuki had invited Kyon to her apartment for tea. It was there she told him a startling story.
Yuki had revealed that she was, in fact, an artificial data interface serving something called the Integrated Data Entity, and she had been on Earth for about three years – the same time that Haruhi had discovered she was no different than any other person on Earth – and as a result unconsciously recreated the universe. Yuki was assigned to Earth to observe Haruhi, for which the Integrated Data Entity believed that she was the key to human evolution.
Naturally, Kyon didn't think much about Yuki's story, although he got similar stories the next day from Mikuru Asahina, who clamed she was a time traveler observing Haruhi, and Itsuki Koizumi, who claimed he was an ESPer that dealt with the closed spaces often created by Haruhi's moodiness. It was some days later that another student at school, Ryoko Asakura, also claimed to be an artificial data interface, and Yuki's backup – and proved that when she went to kill Kyon, because she became impatient for Haruhi to do something and thought killing Kyon would accomplish this. Thankfully, Yuki had broken through the data shield Ryoko put up in the classroom where she trapped Kyon and not only saved him, but also deleted Ryoko from existence. Yuki then set right the damage Ryoko did and repaired the wounds she suffered.
As a data interface, Yuki has the ability to alter the data environment around her – what Kyon refers to as "bogus magic" – and is able to make unexplainable actions to occur. This ability was shown after Haruhi dragged the S.O.S. Brigade into a baseball tournament and altered both a baseball and a baseball bat so that the club could win against a seemingly-invincible baseball club.
"A humanoid interface for use in contact with organic living creatures, created by the Integrated Data Thought Entity that supervises this galaxy. That would be me...In more common terminology, I would be classified as an alien." (Volume 1, Chapter 3/Episodes 3 and 5)
"My work is to observe Haruhi Suzumiya and upload the data obtained to the Integrated Data Thought Entity...I have been doing this since I was born three years ago." (Volume 1, Chapter 3/Episodes 3 and 5)
"I hope that you can both return to this world. Haruhi Suzumiya is an important observation target, an important treasure that might only appear once in this universe. Besides that, I myself also wish for you to return." (Volume 1, Chapter 7/Episode 14)
"This bat has been modified with a boost in attribute data." Kyon: What's that mean? "Homing Mode." (Volume 3, Chapter 1/Episode 4)
"Permission? ...I see. *Presses the Enter key*" (Volume 5, Chapter 2/Episode 11)
"In five minutes and fifteen seconds, you will buy soft-serve ice cream. At five minutes and twenty-eight seconds, you will drop it on you leg. At seven minutes and six seconds, you will hit your head on a sign. You will then bump into your girlfriend. Your girlfriend's things will fall out of her purse..." (Not in novels as far as I know/Episode 12)
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QuickBooks introduces 'Backing You,' starring Danny DeVito
December 03, 2018, 12:17 p.m. EST
Intuit QuickBooks’ Backing You campaign, now in its second year, has named Danny DeVito a partner for its latest videos. The initiative is aimed at helping self-employed, small business and mid-market enterprise customers succeed.
DeVito, whose character in the long-running TV series “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” helps run a small dive bar, will help “provide customers insights about smarter business tools while they run the day-to-day of their business,” in the Backing You videos, Intuit reports. The comedian will play a coach and advocate for small businesses on behalf of QuickBooks, where he cheers on real small business owners, including an electrician, a personal trainer and a doggy daycare owner, with practical advice to help them on their path to success. The short films aim to shed light on the common struggles small business owners experience and also to demonstrate the simplicity of using QuickBooks tools to manage their business.
Intuit is also releasing a series of instructional mini films called “Danny Teaches,” in which DeVito will demonstrate the simplicity of QuickBooks’ product suite in 15 seconds, To further boost the real small businesses taking part in the video campaign, Intuit is featuring 30-second commercials that profile each of the business owners as they receive personalized coaching from DeVito.
“The importance of small business is personal to me,” DeVito said in a statement. “At a young age, I watched both my parents and my sister build their own business from the ground up and struggle to balance family obligations with growing their businesses. When Intuit QuickBooks approached me for this campaign, I felt this was a way that I could give back to this very important industry, show them how to make their lives easier and make them laugh along the way too.”
“Owning a small business can be the most rewarding yet challenging pursuit a person takes on. We know how much work and effort it takes to keep these businesses afloat and their time is of the utmost importance,” added Dan McCarthy, vice president of global marketing for QuickBooks. “When QuickBooks launched Backing You last year, we focused on the inspirational stories we hear through our hours of customer-focused research and innovation. This year, we kept with the same Backing You message to show small business owners we understand their challenges and to show the ease of using QuickBooks products. This new campaign is an entertaining call for small business owners, the self-employed and mid-market enterprises to get what they are owed. Nothing is more valuable than time and QuickBooks provides a smarter way to run a small business so owners can get back the time, and money they deserve.”
To view the Backing You video series, which is now live, visit Intuit’s QuickBooks video channel on YouTube.
Ranica Arrowsmith
Technology editor, Accounting Today
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McCloud’s Grill House
A Hub for Good Food, Events, Family Fun
October 18, 2017 - Featured, Food & Entertainment - Comments:
Text by Barb Bourscheidt Photography by Molly Shurtleff
An affordable steakhouse with a relaxed atmosphere that welcomes families in a casual dining experience is a unique find in a restaurant. Andy Graham, the brains and energy behind McCloud’s “The No. 1 Steakhouse in Kitsap” tagline, has managed to create just that magical combination.
Graham, a University of Washington business major who also has a background in commercial real estate, restaurant ownership and retail marketing, saw an opportunity to fill a void in the local dining scene. Prior to 2012, the establishment had been a cowboy-style bar, a little on the rough side. The building was for sale, the economy was in a slump due to three naval ships out of port, and Graham seized the chance to open the restaurant he knew his community needed.
Andy Graham, owner
Welcoming families and providing a weekly schedule of revolving activities, McCloud’s Grill House offers a little something for everyone. The emphasis is first on food, with the bar as a secondary offering, and every day or evening there are activities for the enjoyment of customers.
Sunday is Family Day, with “Big Prize Family Bingo” offering dinner specials and bingo prizes for all ages. There is “Karaoke Sunday” through Tuesday after 9 p.m. and free line dance lessons Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. during the “All Country” evenings.
Thursdays feature “Ladies Night” from 9 p.m. until closing, with $5 drink specials and a DJ who lets the girls run the show. “Jazz Night Tuesdays” feature blues, jazz and rockabilly bands and combos from 6 to 9 p.m. There is no cover charge for those who order dinner. Happy hour occurs daily from 2 until 5 p.m., with half-price appetizers and drink specials.
McCloud’s can seat 200 for special parties and events and is equipped with drop-down screens, a sound system and digital projector to accommodate meetings and conferences. The large dance floor offers play space for the kiddos during family dining hours, and resident bouncy toys are a favorite pastime with the little guys. Children’s birthday parties may also be arranged.
The main attraction that brings customers through the doors, however, is the food. Graham learned the value of home-cooked food at his mother’s side. “She was a wonderful cook who never measured anything,” he said as he smiled, remembering her fruit cobbler.
High-quality, well-prepared meat is the specialty of the house, and sides are reminiscent of “the good old days.” Macaroni and cheese, buttery sweet corn and sautéed green beans with bacon and onion are just a few of the mouthwatering options.
Army veteran and culinary-school-trained chef Curtis VanOrsby manages the kitchen, keeping the menu relevant to the demands of the clientele. In addition to his academic culinary training, VanOrsby has a wealth of experience garnered in the U.S. Army and while working under a chef trained at the Culinary Institute of America. He has won awards for his crab cakes and clam chowder.
All food is prepared fresh, from scratch, in house by the kitchen staff of about eight people. Cornfed Choice beef from the Midwest features heavily on the menu. Applewood- and alderwood-smoked ribs, pulled pork and brisket are also favorites. Prime rib is served every day, along with award-winning burgers made from beef brisket and chuck, custom ground for McCloud’s by Minder Meats.
A meat lovers’ dream, the McCloud’s menu has two sizes for nearly every entrée, with additional ounces available for a small upcharge. Plenty of other menu choices are available to please every palate, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Catering offsite is also available.
With a vast background in business and restaurant ventures, Graham has realized his dream of providing a place that serves his community in myriad ways. He believes success in business depends on staying relevant to your audience, reinventing and evolving as time, the economy and the community changes.
Graham also believes in giving back to the community that supports him and his restaurant. He provides a meeting place for the Wednesday morning Rotary meeting in addition to financial support for other groups such as the Tractor Club, YMCA swim team, etc. Customer reviews on websites such as Yelp and TripAdvisor attest to the kindness and generosity of this affable business owner and manager of McCloud’s Grill House.
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Virginia Senate agrees to ‘ban the box’ asking job applicants about criminal history
Posted 6:18 pm, January 18, 2019, by Capital News Service
Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond
After two decades of pleas from criminal justice reform advocates, the Virginia Senate voted 24 to 16 on Friday to “ban the box” — to remove the checkbox on state employment application forms that asks applicants about their criminal history.
Democratic Sens. Rosalyn Dance of Petersburg and Jennifer McClellan of Richmond sponsored the bill, SB 1199. Supporters included the advocacy group New Virginia Majority, which aims to “build power in working-class communities of color.”
Tram Nguyen, co-executive director of the group, said the bill could provide more opportunities to people who have committed crimes but served their time.
“Fair-chance policies like this benefit so many families and employers throughout the commonwealth. This bill is a step forward in establishing more equitable hiring practices that we want to see,” Nguyen said. “Employers should consider a candidate’s qualifications first without the stigma that comes with checking that box.”
Bobby Lee, a member of New Virginia Majority, said he is “overjoyed” with the Senate’s action.
“I got clean in 2007 and I have been on the right path ever since, but that box has held me back from being able to help other people,” Lee said. “I am a certified mental health and substance abuse professional. I got my voting rights back, I finished school, I was hopeful. And then job after job would never call me back.”
Lee said he applied to be a “peer recovery specialist” two years ago.
“When I interviewed for the job, I was told that I would’ve been hired on the spot if it weren’t for a conviction I received when I was 17 years old,” he said.
SB 1199 would prohibit state agencies from asking applicants if they have ever been convicted of a crime early in the application process. Agencies could pose such questions only after the applicant has received a conditional offer of employment; the offer then could be withdrawn “if the applicant has a conviction record that directly relates to the duties and responsibilities of the position.”
The legislation would not apply to law enforcement jobs or certain other positions that require background checks.
The bill now heads to the House of Delegates, where it has failed in the past.
By Corrine Fizer
Topics: criminal record, Law, Virginia Senate
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Sodium Variable Conductance Heat Pipe with Carbon-Carbon Radiator for Radioisotope Stirling Systems
Home | Sodium Variable Conductance Heat Pipe with Carbon-Carbon Radiator for Radioisotope Stirling Systems
Calin Tarau and William G. Anderson
Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.
1046 New Holland Ave.
Lancaster, PA 17601 U.S.A.
717-295-6066, Calin.Tarau@1-act.com, 717-295-6104, Bill.Anderson@1-act.com
In a Stirling radioisotope system, heat must continually be removed from the General Purpose Heat Source (GPHS) modules to maintain the modules and surrounding insulation at acceptable temperatures. The Stirling converter normally provides this cooling. An alkali-metal Variable Conductance Heat Pipe (VCHP) has been developed to provide back-up cooling, allowing multiple stops and restarts of the Stirling convertor. Unlike standard VCHPs which maintain a relatively constant temperature, this VCHP has two different heat rejection surfaces. During normal operation, heat is transferred to the Stirling convertor heater head. When the Stirling convertor is stopped, the VCHP temperature increases by 30°C, and the gas front is pushed back, allowing the heat from the GPHS to be rejected to the Cold Side Adapter Flange (CSAF) using a low-mass, carbon-carbon radiator. The 880°C temperature when the Stirling convertor is stopped is high enough to avoid risking standard ASRG operation, but low enough to save most of the heater head life. The Haynes 230/sodium VCHP was successfully tested with a turn-on ΔT of 30°C in three orientations: horizontal, gravity-aided, and against gravity.
KEY WORDS: Variable Conductance Heat Pipe, Carbon-Carbon Radiator, Radioisotope Stirling System, Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator
In the Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator (ASRG), two General Purpose Heat Source (GPHS) modules supply heat to dual Stirling convertors (Stirling engine with an integrated linear alternator) (Chan, Wood, and Schreiber, 2007). This heat is used to generate electric power, while the waste heat is radiated to space. The maximum allowable GPHS module operating temperature is set by the iridium cladding around the fuel. The GPHS module is designed so that it will not release radioisotopes, even under such postulated events as a launch vehicle explosion, or reentry through the earth’s atmosphere. However, if the iridium cladding was to overheat, grain boundary growth could weaken the cladding, possibly allowing radioisotopes to be released during an accident. Once the GPHS is installed in the radioisotope Stirling system, it must be continually cooled. Normally, the Stirling convertor removes the heat, keeping the GPHS modules cool. There are three basic times when it may be desirable to stop and restart the Stirling convertor:
During installation of the GPHS
During some missions when taking scientific measurements to minimize electromagnetic interference and vibration
Any unexpected stoppage of the convertor during operation on the ground or during a mission.
In the current system design, the insulation spoils (partially melts) if the convertor stops, to protect the GPHS from overheating. A VCHP was developed to allow convertor operation to be restarted on a planned convertor stoppage and potentially allow for convertor restart on any unexpected stoppage, depending on the reason for the stoppage. It would also save replacing the insulation after such an event during ground testing.
In a normal VCHP, the Non-Condensable Gas (NCG) front blankets a portion of the condenser surface. As the temperature increases slightly, the increased vapor pressure compresses the NCG, exposing more of the condenser surface. The NCG reservoir is sized to maintain the evaporator temperature near a nominal temperature as the power is increased or decreased.
In contrast, the current VCHP has two different heat rejection surfaces. One surface supplies heat to the Stirling convertor during normal operation, while the other is used to dump the heat from the GPHS when the Stirling convertor is off.
The schematics in Fig. 1 show the basic concept of the VCHP integrated with a Stirling convertor. A GPHS module supplies heat to the heat collector which, in turn, wraps around the hot end of the Stirling convertor’s heater head, so the normal heat flow path is GPHS – heat collector – heater head. The annular evaporator of the VCHP wraps around the heat collector so, during normal operation, vapor is approximately at the heater head’s temperature. The non-condensable gas (NCG) charge in the system is sized so the radiator is blocked during normal operation (see Fig. 1(a)). When the Stirling engine is stopped, the temperature of the entire system starts to increase. Since the system is saturated, the working fluid vapor pressure increases as the temperature increases. This compresses the NCG. As shown in Fig. 1b, this opens up the radiator. Once the radiator is fully open, all of the heat is dumped to the radiator, and the temperature stabilizes. Once the Stirling engine starts operating again, the vapor temperature and pressure start to drop. The noncondensable gas blankets the radiator, and the system returns back to the normal state (Fig. 1(a)).
The Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator (ASRG) (Chan, Wood, and Schreiber, 2007) was selected as the baseline Stirling system design. The system consists of two Advanced Stirling Convertors (ASCs), mounted back to back to minimize vibration. Heat to each ASC is supplied by one GPHS module. A cold-side adapter flange, shown in Fig. 1 is used to conduct the waste heat from the Stirling engine cold side to the ASRG housing. This is fabricated from copper, and serves as a structural member. As shown in Fig. 1, when the Stirling convertor is turned off, then the radiator dumps all of the heat from the GPHS to the Cold Side Adapter Flange (CSAF).
A summary of the design requirements is presented in Table 1. The heater head hot-end temperature was 850°C for this program, compared to the current ASRG engineering unit temperature of 650°C.
2. VCHP DESIGN
A schematic of the VCHP prototype is shown in Figures 2 and 3. Heat passes through the heat collector and into the annular heat pipe evaporator, which in the real system would surround the Stirling convertor heater head. During normal operation, the NCG blocks the remainder of the VCHP. Heat is transferred from the bottom of the evaporator to the inner wall, where it provides energy to the Stirling convertor.
A tube runs from the annular evaporator to a secondary condenser and radiator. A second tube then runs from the condenser to the NCG reservoir. When the Stirling engine stops, heat is no longer removed from the inner evaporator. The temperature and pressure inside the VCHP increase, driving the NCG front past the condenser and radiator. Heat is removed by radiation to the CSAF, until Stirling engine is started up again. As the temperature drops, the NCG front moves close to the evaporator again, cutting off the secondary radiator.
A cut-away of the VCHP with the heater head simulator is shown in Fig. 3. In a Stirling convertor, heat is removed by the unsteady flow of gas through the heater head. For these experiments, the heater head is simulated by an annular tube assembly where compressed air enters through the inner tube and exits through the annular space, removing the heat by convection from the heat collector – heater head interface region. The air flow rate is monitored by a Pitot tube, while inlet and outlet temperatures are monitored by intrusive thermocouples.
2.1 Reservoir Design
The reservoir is located under the CSAF, in the insulation surrounding the Stirling convertor. The initial concept was to locate the reservoir so that its temperature would be relatively stable when the convertor was turned on and off. After numerous CFD iterations to determine a reservoir location with a small ΔT, it was determined that the minimum change would be 300-400 K. Since this change in temperature is unacceptable (the reservoir size would increase unrealistically), the system design was modified to cool the reservoir by radiation to the CSAF.
If both the VCHP geometry (except the reservoir size) and reservoir steady state cold temperature (ASC is ON) are fixed, then the reservoir size becomes a function of the following:
Steady state hot reservoir temperature (ASC is OFF)
Temperature difference (ΔT) necessary to turn the VCHP ON.
Figure 4 shows the required reservoir volume as a function of these two parameters for a certain fixed geometry and reservoir cold temperature (in this case the cold reservoir temperature is the origin, 450 K). It is clearly shown that for each selected ΔT, the reservoir size increases very abruptly beyond a certain hot reservoir temperature. For example, with a 30°C ΔT, the reservoir volume exceeds reasonable values (20-40 cm3) very abruptly when the hot reservoir temperature is ~570 K.
If we chose 17 cm3 as the upper limit of a reasonable reservoir volume, then, for a 30 K turn-on ΔT, the maximum hot reservoir temperature we can have is 571K. The only possibility that allows a good design for higher hot reservoir temperature values is to increase the VCHP turn-on ΔT, with possible significant impact on heater head life. As an example, for the same 17 cm3 reservoir volume but with a 50 K VCHP turning-ON ΔT, the hot reservoir temperature will be 681 K. Higher ΔTs are undesirable, since it may require lowering the nominal operating temperature to avoid creep problems over the life of the system.
It was determined (but not shown here) that the VCHP tubing size before and after condenser does not influence the reservoir volume significantly. The reservoir volume was calculated for four different ratios of the reservoir volume to the adiabatic/condenser volumes, Vog/(Vcg+Vcdg), where:
Vog, is the VCHP volume between the end of the condenser and the entrance of the reservoir
Vcg + Vcdg is the VCHP volume between the evaporator and the end of the condenser.
A significant geometry change (9 times higher volume ratio) has a small impact on the allowable hot reservoir temperature, increasing it by only 12 K.
This analysis confirmed that the VCHP must be designed under the following restrictions:
Cold reservoir temperature should be at least 450 K (the objective is to increase it).
A reasonable reservoir size would be around 17 cm3 (the objective is to keep it low).
VCHP turning-ON temperature difference should be around the original 30K (the objective is to keep it low).
Hot reservoir temperature should be around 570-680K (the objective is to decrease it).
Since the geometry (volume ratio) impact on the above parameters is weak, it is convenient to keep the current pipe length and choose the closest standard and off-the-shelf tube diameters available for Haynes 230.
Finding the proper location of the reservoir and solutions to keep the hot reservoir temperature in the above range became mandatory.
The solution of the reservoir temperature problem was solved by creating artificial heat leaks from the reservoir to CSAF by radiation through an aperture in the insulation. These heat leaks are in the order of 1W.
2.2 Prototype VCHP
The prototype VCHP is shown in Fig. 5. The VCHP fabrication material is Haynes 230 because of both its compatibility with sodium based on long duration life tests by NASA Glenn (Rosenfeld et al. 2004) and its low creep rate at 850°C. At the bottom of the annular evaporator is the heat collector that receives heat from the GHPS simulator. The heater head simulator, which removes the heat during normal operation (ASC “ON”) is brazed to the upper/inner side of the evaporator. The carbon-carbon radiator is shown behind the heater head simulator. It is shaped to fit around the Stirling convertor (or simulator).
Finally, the NCG reservoir is located at the front of Fig. 5. The radiator mass is significantly reduced by using a carbon-carbon radiator, due to both the lower density and higher thermal conductivity. The radiator, shown in Fig. 6, was fabricated by Allcomp, Inc with the following components:
Carbon-carbon (C-C) radiator panel (2 mm thick)
POCO foam to accommodate the C.T.E. mismatch between the Haynes and the carboncarbon
Condenser back plate (Haynes 230)
Condenser shell (Haynes 230)
VCHP evaporator-condenser connecting tube (Haynes 230)
VCHP condenser-reservoir connecting tube (Haynes 230)
Details of the radiator design and fabrication can be found in Tarau et al. (2010).
3. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP
The testing setup is designed to simulate the VCHP behavior with a simulated ASRG and GPHS; see Figure 7. Two of the four copper walls were removed in this picture. Prior to testing, the empty space inside the copper box was filled with MicroTherm insulation. Four adjustable legs are attached to the setup to allow testing in different orientations inside the vacuum chamber.
Figure 8 shows the locations of the thermocouples used to measure the temperature distribution along the VCHP. Thermocouples from 1 to 20 were spot welded to the pipe. The remainder were inserted into thermo-wells. Thermocouple 36 measures the NCG temperature in the reservoir while thermocouples 21 and 23 (not shown in Fig. 8) measure the vapor temperature in the evaporator. Thermocouples 24 and 27 (24 is not shown in the figure) measure the heat collector wall temperature under the vapor space. These thermocouples can be seen in Figures 9 through 11 as components of the entire VCHP temperature profile.
The remainder of the thermocouples measure temperatures of the test setup. Those thermocouples, along with other parameters monitored during testing include:
CSAF temperature
ASRG wall temperatures
Vacuum chamber wall temperature
Heater head simulator temperatures
Heater temperature
Air IN and OUT temperatures
Air velocity (using a Pitot tube)
The average distance between the thermocouple locations along the VCHP is approximately 12 mm. The VCHP was charged with 17 cm3 of sodium and 4.98 x 10-4 moles of NCG for the baseline vapor temperature of 850°C.
4. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
Since the tests on the previous prototype (similar to the one presented here) were successful in gravity aided, horizontal, and against gravity orientations (Tarau et al., 2010), the final VCHP prototype was tested only gravity aided for the nominal vapor temperature of 850°C. Error! Reference source not found. 2, below, summarizes the relevant parameters: electrical power applied to the heater, reservoir temperature, condenser temperature (TC 8), ASRG wall temperature (average), heater temperature and vacuum chamber wall temperature (average). Numbers 1, 2 and 3 in the second line of Error! Reference source not found. 2 refer to the experimental contexts that are described below:
Context 1: Heat Losses: The system is supplied with the minimum electrical power required to maintain a vapor temperature of 850°C under steady state conditions. No cooling is applied during this context and the applied power compensates for all of the heat losses.
Context 2: ASC “ON”, VCHP “OFF”: The heat supplied to the system consists of two components: losses and heat supplied to the ASC (nominally 225 W). In Context 2, cooling is applied to maintain a vapor temperature of 850°C, with the front at the exit of the evaporator (between TC23 and TC1). This context simulates normal operation of the ASRG, before the ASC stoppage and when the VCHP is OFF.
Context 3: ASC “OFF”, VCHP “ON”: The system is continuously supplied with the same total power as in Context 2, however no cooling is applied. This context simulates the system after the ASC is stopped and the VCHP has turned ON, rejecting the heat through the radiator to the CSAF under steady state conditions.
The steady state conditions (reached at the end of each context) will be discussed next, while the transient responses (front motion) will be discussed in the second part of this section. Figure 9 shows the temperature distributions along the VCHP at the ends of the first two contexts. It can be observed from Context 2 that, when cooling is ON (ASC ON), all the temperatures along the VCHP are reasonably close (except the heat collector – TCs 24 and 27) to those corresponding to Context 1 (cooling OFF). This verifies our assumption that the heat losses during Context 1 are equal to those during Context 2. In both contexts, the front is located at the exit of the evaporator at a vapor temperature of 850°C and reservoir temperature of ~160°C. The reservoir temperature as lowered from the ~250°C in Tarau et al. (2010) by redesigning the VCHP to decrease the heat leaks through the VCHP. Of particular importance was using a thinner tube with few screen wraps to decrease the heat leak through the tube connecting the condenser and the reservoir, and increasing the aperture to radiate heat from the reservoir to the CSAF.
The heat losses during Context 1 are 118 W, while total power (electrical) during Contexts 2 and 3 is 380 W, resulting in a VCHP throughput of approximately 262 W.
Figure 10 shows steady state temperature distributions. The cooling air was initially on (Stirling ON), with the front near the evaporator. The cooling air was shut off (Stirling OFF), activating the VCHP radiator. Under steady state conditions the NCG front settled at the end of the condenser. The vapor temperature reached an average value of 880°C while the hot reservoir temperature reached 246°C. Finally, the cooling gas was turned back on (Stirling ON). The front settled at the exit of the evaporator (TC1) for a 850°C vapor temperature and 177°C cold reservoir temperature. There is some difference between the two temperature differences with the cooling gas on (Stirling ON), because steady state has
not yet been reached.
The transient VCHP temperature profiles for Contexts 3 (Cooling Gas off, VCHP activated) and 2 (Cooling Gas on, VCHP deactivated) are presented in Figure Figure 111. Figure 11a starts with the lowest temperature profile, where the cooling air is active (ASC ON). The evaporator is at 850°C, and most of the heat is going from the heater, through the annular evaporator, and into the cooling air. The radiator is OFF, with temperatures below 300°C. Once cooling is stopped (ASC OFF), the system starts to heat up, and the NCG gas front moves toward the condenser. As it travels up the condenser, heat is transferred to the wall of the ASRG simulator and then to the ambient (vacuum chamber walls) by radiation.
When cooling is turned on the system gradually cools. The vapor temperature and pressure drop, and the NCG front moves back towards the annular evaporator. As expected, the gas front moves at a faster rate in the beginning and slower toward the end of each of the two sequences, as steady state conditions are approached. It can be observed that the front is slower during the return when the radiator is activated.
A sodium VCHP has been developed to provide back-up cooling, allowing multiple stops and restarts of the Stirling convertor. Unlike standard VCHPs which maintain a relatively constant temperature, this VCHP has two different heat rejection surfaces. During normal operation, heat is transferred to one condenser. With no heat removal from the first condenser, the VCHP temperature increases by 30°C, and the gas front is pushed back, allowing the heat to be rejected to a second condenser. While the presented prototype was only tested in the gravityaided orientation, tests with previous prototypes show that the VCHP can operate in any orientation.
ASC, Advanced Stirling Convertor.
ASRG, Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator
CSAF, Cold Side Adapter Flange
C.T.E., Coefficient of Thermal Exapansion
GPHS, General Purpose Heat Source
NCG, Non Condensable Gas
TC, Thermocouple
VCHP, Variable Conductance Heat Pipe
This research was sponsored by NASA Glenn Research Center under Contract No. NNC07QA40P. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lanny Thieme is the contract technical monitor. We would like to thank John Hartenstine of Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc., Jeff Schreiber and Jim Sanzi of NASA Glenn Research Center, Bill Miller, Rogelio Ramirez, and Wei Shih of Allcomp, Inc., and Jaime Reyes, Jack Chan, and Michael Welz of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company for helpful discussions about the Stirling system and the VCHP. Tim Wagner was the technician for the program.
1. Chan, T.S., Wood, J. G. and Schreiber, J. G., “Development of Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator for Space Exploration,” NASA Glenn
Technical Memorandum NASA/TM-2007- 214806, 2007. http://gltrs.grc.nasa.gov/reports/2007 /TM-2007-214806.pdf
2. Rosenfeld, J. H., Ernst, D. M., Lindemuth, J. E., Sanzi, J., Geng, S. M., and Zuo, J., “An Overview of Long Duration Sodium Heat Pipe Tests,” NASA Glenn Technical Memorandum NASA/TM—2004-212959, 2004. http://gltrs.grc.nasa.gov/citations/all/tm-2004-12959.html
3. Tarau, C., Anderson, W. G., Miller, W. O., and Ramirez, R., “Sodium VCHP with CarbonCarbon Radiator for Radioisotope Stirling Systems”, Space, Propulsion & Energy Sciences International Forum, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, MD, February 23-25, 2010.
4. C. Tarau, W. G. Anderson, and K. Walker, “Sodium Variable Conductance Heat Pipe for Radioisotope Stirling Systems,” 7th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Denver, CO, Aug. 2-5, 2009.
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Crossbill Guide to Extremadura: A Review
March 29, 2011 by Dale Forbes 4 Comments
The second edition of the Crossbill Guide to Extremadura has just been released and – to my delight – a copy arrived in the post for me the other day.
In preparing for our birding trip to Extremadura this February (as part of the EL50 Swarovision launch), I had bought a copy of the first edition of the Crossbill Guide to Extremadura and, quite unexpectedly, read it from cover to cover within hours of buying it. I say unexpectedly, because who has ever read a guide book from cover to cover? But this book just drew me in. But as with almost everything in the world we live in, things change quickly. Five years after the publication of the first guide, the second edition boasts some nice updates and additions.
While being somewhat bird focussed, I really like that the author has dedicated time to giving the reader insight for the ecology of the region; and how things fit together. If I were to pigeon-hole the Crossbill Guides as a whole, I would probably call them “guides for the ecology-minded birder” or possibly “guides for the bird-loving ecology person”. The guide has three main (colour-coded) sections:
– Landscape. wonderful images and well-written text transport the author’s love for the geography, geology, history and habitats of the region. He succinctly explains, for example, what a dehesa is, how dehesas work, and what makes them so special. This has got nothing to do with I’d-rather-be-chewing-flour boring history lessons in high school.
– Flora and Fauna. A quick run through the biogeography and typical assemblage composition characteristic of the region (plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, insects and other creatures – let’s just lump them indiscriminately in to the category “general bird food”, my lumping, Dirk had nothing to do with that description).
– Practical Part. I like the name, it sums it up well: 17 well thought out and well chosen birding/ecologying routes to explore Extremadura (yes, I just made up a word). The progression of the route is well described, highlighting the various natural jewels one should look out for along the way. Small maps and good descriptions will help you find your way, but it is never a bad idea to have a good road map and/or GPS navigation device with you.
The author, Dirk Hilbers, starts the book off with his 8 highlights of Extremadura (rugged landscapes and vultures of Monfragüe; winter crane watching; etc.) and then dedicates the first real page of text to something he calls “About this guide”; a single page in which he manages to put the entire concept of the Crossbill Guides Foundation and this guide in a nice neat nutshell. And what a beautiful nutshell it i:
At first glance, (the Crossbill is) just a big finch with an awkward bill. But there is more to the Crossbill than meets the eye. This bill is beautifully adapted for life in coniferous forests. It is used like scissors to cut open pine cones and eat the seeds that are unobtainable for other birds. In the Scandinavian countries where Pine and Spruce take up the greater part of the forests, several Crossbill species have managed to answer two of life’s most pressing questions: how to get food and avoid direct competition. By evolving crossed bills, each differing subtly, they have secured a monopoly of the seeds produced by cones of varying sizes. So complex is this relationship that scientists are still debating exactly how many different species of Crossbill actually exist. Now this should heighten the appreciation of what at first glance was just a plump red bird with a beak that doesn’t close properly. Once its interrelationships are seen, nature comes alive, wherever you are.
The Crossbill Guide Foundation is a publishing NGO, founded by Dirk Hilbers, and they currently have 10 Crossbill Guides for great European birding/nature areas, including the Finnish Lapland, Hungary’s Hortobagy, France’s Loire Valley and the Biebrza Marshes in Poland.
Wholeness, interconnectedness, wonder, beauty. Dirk, you have done a great job of transporting your passion for this land.
Open publication – Free publishing – More woodlands
Extremadura field guide Spain
Written by Dale Forbes
Dale got his first pair of binoculars for a very early birthday after his dad realized that it was the only way to be left in peace. Many robins, eagles and finches later, he ended up at university studying various biology things and wrote a thesis on vertebrate biogeography in southern African forests. While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds. Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks. After meeting the woman of his dreams, he moved to Austria where he now has the coolest job in the world making awesome toys for birders (Swarovski Optik product manager). He happens to also be obsessed with photography, particularly digiscoping, and despite all efforts will almost certainly never be a good birder. He also blogs for birdingblogs.com
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Mike March 29, 2011 at 4:26 pm
This guide is phenomenal. Thanks for sharing it, Dale. I can’t believe I just flipped through the whole volume. Now I just need to get to Extremadura!
Dale Forbes March 30, 2011 at 3:18 am
yup, it really is cool (but then I think I said that enough in the review). The flip version we embedded is a neatly-crafted selection of pages from the guide including pages from each of the main sections so you have a good feel for what the book is all about.
Something I neglected to mention in the review was that the guide was published in association with two other publishers: KNNV Publishing (Netherlands) and WildGuides (UK) – both of which are not-for-profit publishers specializing in nature-related books. I love the philosophy behind these organizations!
John Cantelo March 30, 2011 at 11:19 am
Hi Dale,
As one of the smaller cogs in the ‘Crossbill’ set-up, many thanks for a great review. It was writing a review of the original edition of the Extremadura book that got me involved in the ‘Crossbill’ project in the first place. Like you I just loved the idea of a guide that encompassed more than just the birds. The original was a terrific book, but I think Dirk’s revision puts the book on another level – although I may be biased as I helped edit the final draft. However, although there’s an element of teamwork in these books, the vision and nitty-gritty research is all Dirk’s.
John Cantelo
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1718 San Antonio
Founding Families & Descendants
"Los Primeros"
SAN ANTONIO BEGINNINGS
"On the 5th of May, the governor, in the name of his Majesty, took possession of the place called San Antonio, establishing himself in it, and fixing the royal standard with the requisite solemnity, the father chaplain having previously celebrated mass, and it was given the name of villa de Bexar. This site is henceforth destined for the civil settlement and the soldiers who are to guard it, as well as for the site of the mission of San Antonio de Valero, established by the said governor about three-fourths league down the creek". - 1718 Francisco Celiz
Timeline of the History the first European Spanish in the Americas, Texas & San Antonio
1718 Presidio soldiers and families
narrative/script (click here)
The narrative is a specific paraphrased account, created by 1718 SAFFD and its promiment advisory board comprised of professional historian and registered archaeologist) that will depict the specific and detailed history (but not limited to) of the founding of 1718 San Antonio as shared by the 1718 San Antonio Founding Families and Descendants. Obtained from historical archives. This narrative will detail and outline the facts and is by the 1718 SAFFD as they portray the history. The narrative will provide the latest and up to date information which will accurately relay historical accounts. This narrative is factual and contains information that some other publications may not include. Please keep checking in as we will continue to update as new findings and information being discovered!
The terms narrative and script may be used interchangeably to express the type of document and its use.
General narrative and list of the 1718 Presidio Soldiers and their families
Spanish interest and settlement in Texas 1519-1718
1519-1525 Hernan Cortes lead the Spanish and some allies, the indigenous Tlxcalan, through Mexico to colonize “New Spain”. At this time Silver mines are discovered in central Mexico.
1528-1535 Spanish explorers Narvaez, Cabeza de Vaca, African “Moor” Estabanico and two other Spaniards are ship-wrecked and spend seven years among natives as captives and as shamans.
1531 - December 12 Our Lady of Guadalupe appears to native Juan Diego at Tepayac, near present day Mexico City.
1542 - King Carlos I of Spain, issues laws called “Law of the Indies” to set regulations for social, political and economic life in the New World.
1686-1689 Alonso de Leon, Spanish explorer and Governor, led four expeditions into Tejas, the last one founding the first Mission in East Texas.
1691 Expedition Naming of San Antonio
FIRST REPORTS OF SAN ANTONIO The first official description of the San Antonio region was recorded during the third official entrada into Texas in 1691 by the expedition of Don Domingo de Teran on the way to the newly formed East Texas missions (Hatcher 1932:14): “On the 13th [June 1691] our royal standard and camp moved forward in the aforesaid easterly direction. We marched five leagues over a fine country with broad plains - the most beautiful in New Spain. We camped on the banks of an arroyo adorned by a great number of trees, cedars, willows, cypress, osiers, oaks, and many other kinds. This I called San Antonio de Padua, because we reached it on his day.”
June 13, 1691 Gobernado Domingo Teran de los Rios of Coahuila and Father Damian Mazanet arrive at the camp of the Payaya Indians.
excerpts from father Mazanet’s diary “We found at this place the Rancheria of the Indians of the Payaya nation. This is a very large nation and the country where they live is very fine. I call this place San Antonio de Padua because it was his day. In the language of the Indians it is called Yanaguana.”
1709 Expedition Naming of San Pedro Creek and the San Antonio River
Expedition with Spanish militia Capitan Pedro de Aguirre with 14 soldiers from the Presidio del Rio Grande arrive in San Antonio along with Franciscan fray Isidro de Espinoza and Fray Antonio de Olivares.
Father Olivares names San Pedro Creek “Agua de San Pedro.”
Father Olivares states in his dairy “This river (San Antonio River) not having been named by the Spaniards, we call it the river of San Antonio de Padua
1716 Expedition establishing missions in East Texas
In July 1716, Capitan Jose Domingo Ramon, accompanied by Father President Fray Isidro de Espinosa and Father President Fray Antonio Margil de Jesus, lead an an expedition into East Texas to re-establish presence by founding a mission.
The entourage included twelve priests or friars, three Frenchmen, and several dozen civilians which traveled across a path which came to be known as “Old San Antonio Road” or “Camino Real.”
Seven of the soldiers were married and brought along their families; their wives the first recorded Spanish women in Texas.
On April 14, 1717 a trading expedition through San Antonio on its way to the Presidio de San Juan Baptista del Rio Grande and in a diary by Derbanne it is stated “the Spaniards are going to establish a settlement there.”
1718 Gobernador Martin Alarcon Expedition
Founder of San Antonio, Mission San Antonio de Valero, Presidio de Bexar and
the Villa de Bejar's first settlement of families.
Two hundred years have passed since the Spaniards have been exploring and then establishing missions, presidios and settlements that they now have come to finally establish and settle San Antonio.
In April 1718 Alarcon crossed the Rio Grande into the province of Tejas with an entrada numbering 35 soldiers, seven with families and a total of seventy-two persons in all. larcon's company was made up "as recommended by the fiscal and as provided for by the council of war and the instructions." He was supplied with 100 head of sheep (ganado menor), the greater part of which were females (obejas) there were some nanny goats and their males (padres); 200 head of cattle; and 150 loads of flour. There were also war supplies and offensive arms.
List of the Alarcon Expedition included;
General Don Martin de Alarcon knight of the order of Santiago Governor and Lieutenant Capitan-General of the Provinces of Coahuila, New Kingdom of the Philippines, Province of the Tejas, appointed by Viceroy of New Spain by the Marqués de Valero as commander of the Presidio San Francisco de Coahuila and as Governor of the province of Tejas.
The soldiers enlisted for the expedition, according to Alarcón were:
1. Francisco Hernández, Alférez, who was going with his family. (most likly his wife, Ana Garcia and 3 son’s; Andres, Diego and Jacobo, and two daughters, Ana and Maria, total of 7 family members, plus two sons listed below.)
2. Diego de Escobar, with his family. (most likly with his wife)
3. Francisco Varreyro, (Barreyro), engineer, who was put under arrest September 20, for complicity with Diego Ramón.
4. Miguel Martinez de Valenzuela.
5. Diego de Zárate y Andizávar.
6. Juan Varrera. (Barrera)
7. Cristóbal Carvajal. (probably the brother of Mateo, married Josefa Guerra, he died in San Antonio in 1734.)
8. Joseph Flores Quiñones. (married Maria Flores de la Peña on May 6, 1721 at the mission San Antonio de Valero.)
9. Juan Valdés and wife Maria Zappopa de Iruegas
10. Joseph Gaona, with his family. (most likly with his wife, there are no records for this family in the San Fernando records.)
11. Juan de Castro, with his family. (most likly his wife Ana de Padilla)
12. Nicolás Hernández, son of the Alférez. (he married Simona de Sepulveda.)
13. Francisco Hernández, son of the Alférez. (he married Marciana Longoria)
14. Joseph de Neira.
15. Joseph Velásquez.
16. Francisco Menchaca. (Minchaca)
17. Lázaro Joseph Chirino, with family. (most likly his wife, Maria Gonzales de la Torre.)
18. Gerónimo Carvajal. (he married Maria Zapopa Minchaca, he died prior to 1722.)
19. Sebastián Peniche. (There are no records for this name in the San Fernando records.)
20. Antonio Guerra. (he married Catharina Ximenes y Menchaca.)
21. Francisco de Escobar.
22. Domingo Flores, with his family. (most likly his wife, Manuela Marcela Treviño)
23. Cristóbal de la Garza. (he married Antonia Guerra, the daughter of Miguel Guerra and Maria Josefa Longoria on February 24, 1722 in La Villa de Béxar.)
24. Sebastián Gonzáles.
25. Joseph Plácido Flores.
26. Joseph Jiménes. (Ximenes) (he married Maria Flores de Valdés.)
27. Manuel Maldonado.
28. Manuel de Vargas.
29. Pedro Rodriguez.
30. Francisco Juan de la Cruz, master mason.
31. Santiago Pérez, carpenter.
32. Joseph Menchaca.
33. Joseph Antonio Menchaca. (may also be known as Francisco Menchaca, he married Antonia Urrutia, the daughter of Capitán Jose Urrutia and Antonia Ramón.)
34. Vicente Guerra.
35. Cristóbal Barrera. (Varrera), (possibly Cristobal Barrera who married Maria de Zapopan.)
May 1, 1718 MIssion San Antonio de Valero is re-established for the third time. The first having been in June 1699 as Mission San Juan Bautista and re-established in January 1700 as Mission San Francisco de Solano. In January 1803 a company of 100 Spanish Lancers arrive in Texas to occupy the secularized Mission San Antonio de Valero at which time it receives its nickname “The Alamo.”
Fray Mezaqui stated in his diary “The mission of the Fray Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares is near the first spring (San Pedro Creek).
May 5, 1718 Fray Celiz stated in his diary “the Gobernador (Alarcon) in the name of his Majesty, took possession of the place called San Antonio, establishing, himself in it, and fixing the royal standard with the requisite solemnity, the father chaplain having previously celebrated mass, and it was given the name of the villa de Bejar. This site is henceforth destined for the civil settlement and the soldiers who are to guard it, as well as for the site of the mission of San Antonio de Valero.”
San Antonio settlement 1718-1730
“It is well to remember that Alarcón's expedition of 1718 was not a purely military undertaking since the Presidio Soldiers who were part of the founding expedition were chosen because they had families and their families, along with the Presidio Soldiers and and the Natives would meet the Crown of Spain's requirements need to establish a Villa. The Villa de Bejar is the only settlement in San Antonio, which met the criteria and was sanctioned by the Crown to earn this status. Current written historical information will reflect that by the year 1731, San Antonio was a bustling and thriving community of nearly or around 2,000 citizens.
Since the 1718 expedition, other colonizers have joined our community to help colonize and bring different influences and perspectives that help to create what San Antonio is known for today.
Many of the descendants from the early Spanish who voyaged from Spain in the 15th century are still here today in San Antonio, Texas and other parts of the America!
The Tejano or Tejana are these landed people (of ancestors who acquired land) and these are the stories of those who have transcended time and are here to share the history of our beloved San Antonio.
Cross of Bourbon Flag
The Cross of Burgundy (Spanish: (top left) Cruz de Borgoña, Cruz de San Andrés), a form of St. Andrew's cross, was first used in the 15th century as an emblem by the Valois Dukes of Burgundy, who ruled a large part of eastern France and the Low Countries as effectively an independent state.
The Duchy of Burgundy was inherited by the House of Habsburg on the extinction of the Valois ducal line. The emblem was then assumed by the monarchs of Spain as a result of the Habsburgs bringing together, in the early 16th century, their Burgundian inheritance with the other extensive possessions they inherited throughout Europe and the Americas, including the crowns of Castile and Aragon.
The Spanish monarchs continued to use it in their own arms even after they lost their Burgundian lands. From 1506 to 1701 it was used by Spain as a naval ensign, and up to 1843 as the land battle flag, and still appears on regimental colours, badges, shoulder patches and company guidons. The emblem also continues to be used in a variety of contexts in a number of European countries and in the Americas, reflecting both the extent of Valois Burgundy and the former Habsburg territories.
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Driver could be charged in fatal car surfing
By: Associated Press August 17, 2012 2:35 pm
SIREN, Wis. (AP) — The St. Paul, Minn., man behind the wheel in a car surfing accident that killed one of his best friends is expected to be criminally charged in Wisconsin.
The 21-year-old driver has posted bond after his arrest in Burnett County on a possible charge of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle. He’s due in court Wednesday.
Twenty-one-year-old Shawn Swanson was killed after he climbed on top of an SUV last Saturday with his four friends inside. His mother, Renee Swanson, tells the Star Tribune they were “going faster than they should’ve been” and her son fell off the vehicle and hit his head.
Swanson and his friends from St. Paul Johnson High School were in Wisconsin for a weekend of boating and fishing.
Information from: Star Tribune, http://www.startribune.com
homicide 2:35 pm Fri, August 17, 2012 Wisconsin Law Journal - WI Legal News & Resources
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Chief Lisa Parker
What does it take to become a police officer at the Jersey Shore?
Do you think you have what it takes physically, emotionally and mentally to become a police officer? It's a lot more challenging than you may think.
Vin Ebenau
Manchester man charged with murder for shooting a man in the back
A multi-agency investigation into a death in Manchester Monday has come to a close with the arrest of a resident wanted for murder.
Route 539 safety upgrades to include tougher policing, says Manchester chief
Safety upgrades for Route 539 in Ocean County will get support in the form of increased enforcement and awareness efforts by police in Manchester and neighboring communities along the danger-prone highway.
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Atari 2600 game reviews: Strawberry Shortcake Musical Matchups through Sub Scan
April 17, 2018 April 18, 2018 / woodgrainwonderland
Strawberry Shortcake Musical Matchups (Parker Brothers, 1983)
I’m not too macho to admit I kinda liked the Strawberry Shortcake cartoon as a kid. Or at least I liked the Purple Pieman (I’m a sucker for a twirly-moustached villain). So it’s in that spirit I approached Strawberry Shortcake Musical Matchups and as a result actually had a mildly enjoyable time playing it. I’m not likely to ever play it again, but I have to give Parker Brothers a thumbs-up for doing right by their license.
As can be expected from a kids’ game, the goal of Strawberry Shortcake Musical Matchups is to put together specific characters from the heads, middles and legs (wow – it sounds kind of grisly when I put it that way) of the various Strawberry Shortcake characters, including Strawberry Shortcake, Huckleberry Pie, Blueberry Muffin, Purple Pieman and Lime Chiffon. When you successfully piece a character together, it does a little dance to its own individualized song. Get it wrong and it will still dance but to a “mixed-up” version (and extremely off-key in the Pieman’s case) of the same tune.
Having been so long since I saw the TV show, I was initially only successful at putting together Purple Pieman and Strawberry Shortcake, so I had a little bit of a learning curve especially when it came to the timed variations. The graphics and music are nothing short of wonderful – each character is colourful and looks distinctive.
For a kids’ game, Strawberry Shortcake Musical Matchups is pretty good. It’s a good game for testing the memories of youngsters, but I have no idea if the brand still holds any relevance in pop culture among today’s kids. If I was to venture a guess, I would say this cart probably holds more appeal as a collectable among adult Strawberry Shortcake fans (you know they gotta be out there) than Atari 2600 collectors. Other than that, as well-designed as the game may be, it’s another one of those VCS titles without an audience. C
More Info: Strawberry Shortcake Musical Matchups on AtariAge. For current listings of Strawberry Shortcake Musical Matchups for sale on eBay, click here
Street Racer aka Speedway II (Atari, Sears, 1977)
For all their faults, I really like some of the Atari 2600 launch titles and the console’s other early games. It’s a matter of tempered expectations; to enjoy them, you just have to realize how innovative some of these games were at the time. However, this blog isn’t just about my perspective or my opinion. Well, it’s obviously that, but I try to place these old games in a context of whether they’re still fun today. I don’t know if most young kids used to photo-realistic graphics are ever going to find the 2600 in any way relevant (although I know there are a few out there), but at the very least I’d like to think this blog serves people like myself who grew up with Atari, would like to discover games they’ve never played or would just like to vehemently agree or disagree with my recommendations and condemnations.
So after that lengthy intro, let’s talk about Street Racer, in which you drive a souped-up jumping jack against other jumping jacks and try to avoid colliding with yet more jumping jacks. That may sound harsh, but it’s not as bad as it sounds. Avoiding the collision cars can be quite fun, especially with the paddle controls needed to play the game.
Fortunately, the Street Racer variation is not the only thing the cart has to offer. The game also features Slalom (not a patch on Activision’s later, greater Skiing but enjoyable enough), Dodgem (not to be confused with the all-around great Dodge ‘Em from 1981), Jet Shooter (just like it sounds), Number Cruncher (ditto) and Scoop Ball (catch balls – actually addition signs – and deposit them in a “computer scooper”).
All of these variations offer reasonable entertainment, but if there’s any real fun to be had with Street Racer, you need one to three human competitors because the computer opponent is simply inept. Trust me – even if you’ve never played the game before you will handily beat the computer on every variation. To go back to my first paragraph rant, Street Racer can be fun in 2018 as much as it was in 1977 – you’ve just gotta play it like it was intended: with other people. C
More Info: Street Racer on AtariAge. For current listings of Street Racer for sale on eBay, click here
Stronghold (CommaVid, 1983)
Stronghold has it all: innovative gameplay, Atari 2600-beautiful graphics, a status approaching or surpassing “hidden gem.” And I never want to play it ever, ever, ever again. For all of its strengths, Stronghold is ludicrously hard. Whether that is a feature or a flaw is up to you.
Stronghold starts out with a screen that sets you up against some Demon Attack-style space birds. Using your ship – which features a full range of motion around the playfield – you attempt (emphasis on “attempt”) to either shoot or dodge the birds, which appear to fly around the screen unpredictably even though in reality there are some distinct patterns. What makes Stronghold innovative and infuriating at the same time is your ship’s unique firing system. Instead of being able to fire left, right, up, down and diagonally, you’re limited to up, down and northern diagonal. And trust me, it makes the game very challenging.
Things do not get any easier on the second level, in which you shoot through a Breakout-style matrix in order to destroy the Command Crawler, although chances are it will destroy you as it can fire and aim faster than you could ever hope. And then there are even more baddies to deal with on the top two-thirds of the playfield. Stronghold blows Atari’s excuses for being unable to produce ports as difficult as their arcade counterparts right out of the water; it’s as hard or harder than any arcade game I’ve ever experienced.
CommaVid only released a handful of games, but just about every one attempted to do something new (see Mines of Minos, Cakewalk and Room of Doom). Stronghold is no exception, but it’s probably harder than all their other games put together. Playing it with a joystick might make a difference, but getting a cartridge copy may be a tall order as it rates a “9” (extremely rare) on AtariAge’s rarities guide. If you like games that start out hard as balls and continue to torture you with every new variation, then Stronghold is the game for you. B
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Stunt Cycle (Atari Prototype, Developed 1980)
By all indications, Stunt Cycle was complete and ready for release before it was cancelled – a fact that makes the end product even more disappointing. It’s another one of those games in which its history is far more interesting than the game itself. Stunt Cycle was released as an arcade game by Atari in 1976 and ported as the first non-Pong dedicated console that same year. A fully-colourized version was developed for the VCS in 1980. According to Atari Protos, someone at Atari had the idea to adapt the game to a Dukes of Hazzard theme. However, a glitch in the game was discovered in the playtesting process, so – much like what would eventually happen with Saboteur/A-Team – neither version was released.
Ultimately, Stunt Cycle was a lot of fuss over nothing. The joystick is a perfect implement for gear shifting, so why did the powers that be decide to make it a paddle game? Someone at AtariAge – God bless ‘em – whipped up an instruction manual making the game sound a lot more sophisticated than it really is (concepts like loose, strict and hybrid physics are invoked) but while playing the thing it seemed like I was able to make a pretty good jump no matter what I did. And no, I am hardly what you would call a naturally-gifted video game player.
The graphics and sound are pretty sophisticated for a VCS game from 1980 (if I didn’t know the development year, I would have pegged it for a potential 1983 release). Gameplay-wise, however, Activision’s Dragster covered similar ground far, far better. Stunt Cycle was probably considered pretty spectacular in 1976 but video games had already come so far by 1980 that gamers did not lose anything for its failure to launch. D
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Sub Scan (Sega, 1983)
There seems to be a lot of submarine-sinking games on the 2600 and Sub Scan is, well, another one of them. Lord help me, though, I kind of enjoyed this humble little title in spite of some infuriating control decisions and overall just being . . . so . . . slow.
Like other games in a similar vein going all the way back to the “sea” portions of Air-Sea Battle, your goal is to launch depth charges into the sea in order to blow submarines to Kingdom Come. The difference between Sub Scan and most others in its genre is instead of dropping your charge from the bottom of your ship, you toss the charges from the side, which brings a whole new dimension to leading your shot. What I hated was the fact that the charges only fired in the direction you move your ship. This was initially frustrating and remained that way, but it can be overcome.
One thing I really liked was the bonus ship. With every regular ship you destroy, you collect 100 potential bonus points. These can add up fairly quickly. The bonus ship floats exclusively at the bottom level, making it especially hard to hit, but when you do you collect all of the bonus points in your queue. I think it’s the pinball fan in me that delights in getting a big bonus, but it certainly added to an otherwise run-of-the-mill game.
This might be a fault to some but a feature to others, but Sub Scan never seems to scale in terms of speed or difficulty. It could be argued that it’s already difficult enough, but back in its video game era it was expected that a game would get harder in order to justify the continuing interest of players. Personally, I’m more than willing to file Sub Scan under “relaxing entertainment” and leave it at that. C
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Conference Pontcysyllte, Llangollen 2019, News, Publications, Uncategorized, WHS Review, World Heritage UK
2019 Conference delegates Photo: Sam Rose
Hosted by the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal UNESCO World Heritage Site at the Llangollen Pavilion in spectacular North East Wales, this was the 5th Annual Conference and AGM for World Heritage UK and every bit as good as its predecessors. The programme was framed by a new World Heritage UK publication, a review of the state of UK World Heritage Sites called ‘UK World Heritage: asset for the future‘. The conference developed themes from the report, in particular on finance and governance, on diplomacy and ‘soft power’, and the impacts and benefits of tourism. This attracted an excellent range of speakers from as far abroad as Philadelphia, Hangzhou and Dublin as well as from the home nations of the UK, culminating in an expert panel fielding the questions raised by delegates. You can see some of the presentations via these links:
Allan Forrest Wrexham Council, ‘Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal’
Andrew MacClelland, Liverpool University ‘Heritage and the past in the UK’s diplomatic futures’
Aydin Zorlutuna, Arcadis, ‘Trevor Basin Area Masterplan’
Chris Blandford, World Heritage UK, ‘UK World Heritage Site Review’
Jane Gibson/Jo Shoebridge, Durham Castle and Cathedral World Heritage Site ‘Visitor Centre and local artisans’
Michael MacDonagh, Irish Government, ‘Irish perspectives – the challenges and opportunities for heritage’
Peter Moore, National Trust, ‘Looking to a Sustainable Future at Giant’s Causeway for Visitors and the National Trust’
Rebecca Burrows, Purcell, ‘Conserving 20th Century Buildings – an international approach to sustaining significance’
Xinyun Liang, Grand Canal Preservation Centre of Hangzou, ‘China Grand Canal’
Zabeth Teelucksingh, Global Philadelphia Association, ‘The World Heritage City Project – a Public-Private Partnership Model in Philadelphia’
Thanks to the many local partners who contributed to the event, participants experienced some memorable natural and cultural wonders provided by this World Heritage Site, including riding the aqueduct by narrowboat, viewing it illuminated by night, travelling the canal by horse-drawn boat, by routemaster bus to dine with a Welsh Male voice choir and visiting the steam railway at Llangollen. Follow this link to see the photographs of the whole event taken by Sam Rose.
Over a hundred participants in this event networked vigorously throughout the two days and the conference hall was fringed with pull-up banners and displays to assist in information exchange.
Among the many thanks, World Heritage UK is particularly grateful to Cadw and Welsh Government, Transport for Wales, Denbighshire and Wrexham Councils, Arcadis and Purcell consultancies for their support.
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Presidential Proclamation — Law Day, 2013
April 30, 2013 · by Williams College Law Society · in Announcements. ·
LAW DAY, U.S.A., 2013
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
As a Nation, we are bound together not by the colors of our skin, the tenets of our faith, or the origins of our names. What unites us as Americans is our allegiance to an idea articulated more than two centuries ago: that “all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” In the years since that declaration, we not only forged a Republic of, by, and for the people; we also set ourselves to the task of perfecting it, and bridging the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.
This Law Day, we look back on our long journey toward equality for all. We reflect on the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago to mend a Nation half-slave and half-free under the unifying promise of liberty. We remember when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stood in Lincoln’s shadow a century later and gave voice to a dream, sounding the call for an America that truly lives out the meaning of its founding creed. We honor the courageous men and women who fought to bring those ageless ideals of freedom and fairness into the rule of law — from the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act to Title IX and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Even now, that work is not yet finished. Opportunity remains painfully unequal for too many among us; justice too often goes undone. Law Day is a chance to reaffirm the critical role our courts have always played in addressing those wrongs and aligning our Nation with its first principles. Let us mark this occasion by celebrating that history, upholding the right to due process, and honoring all who have sustained our proud legal tradition.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, in accordance with Public Law 87-20, as amended, do hereby proclaim May 1, 2013, as Law Day, U.S.A. I call upon all Americans to acknowledge the importance of our Nation’s legal and judicial systems with appropriate ceremonies and activities, and to display the flag of the United States in support of this national observance.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-seventh.
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Bang on a Can Marathon: Today’s the day
Artists scheduled to perform at the Bang on a Can Marathon 2018
What day could be more appropriate than Mothers’ Day for the mother of all Bang on a Can Marathons.
The free 10-hour multi-genre show kicks off at noon at New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
Featured artists and composers include Bang on a Can founders David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe, along with one of their mentors, Terry Riley — and, of course, the Bang on a Can All Stars.
But performances aren’t limited to contemporary classical. Singer-songwriter and Magnetic Fields‘ frontman Stephin Merritt is appearing in the first hour of the show, with cellist bandmate Sam Davol, to appeal to the pop audience. Another artist with proven crossover appeal, Brooklyn singer-songwriter Xenia Rubinos, appears later in the day.
If you can’t make it to Skirball, a livestream is scheduled. GO HERE to connect (free registration required to watch).
Check out the full performance schedule after the jump
Posted in Concerts, Contemporary, Contemporary Classical, Free, Music, News, Pop and Rock
Tagged Bang on a Can, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can Marathon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, livestream, Michael Gordon, New York University, skirball, skirball center for the performing arts, Terry Riley
Hey, Buke and Gass, ummm, GASE, are back with new music
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Thoughts on a name change
Buke and Gass keep their feet busy, too. (Photos © 2010, Steven P. Marsh)
Plus a PREVIEW OF THEIR NEW SONG!
It’s been more than a year since Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone? mentioned Buke and Gass. We’re overdue.
Arone Dyer on buke.
Maybe you’ve already noticed that there’s something different about this intense duo — their name. They’re now Buke and Gase, in what appears to be a slightly sad surrender to phonetics.
For those who have been paying close attention, the morphing began late last fall when the band posted this brief, cryptic bulletin on its website:
October 26 – Just played a show in Canada and our name is morphing.
But the reality didn’t sink in until we saw announcements for the band’s May 4 appearance at The National‘s Bryce and Aaron Dessner-curated Crossing Brooklyn Ferry series at BAM. We thought somebody had made a typo. On further investigation, we discovered the band had indeed changed the spelling.
Aron Sanchez on gass.
Although the pronunciation of the band name was easy to remember once you knew what it stood for — baritone ukulele=Buke, while guitar+bass=Gass — it appears the second half of the name was too often the butt of jokes rhyming with ass. So Arone Dyer, who plays the buke, and Aron Sanchez, on gass, gave in and changed the spelling.
But they didn’t change the sound, as you’ll hear on this great preview track from their next album, which they hope to release in September.
If you can’t make it to Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, or you just want more Buke and Gase, check out the lineup they’ve curated (they’re not listed as performing, just curating) through May 15 with Terry Riley‘s son Gyan Riley, at The Stone, John Zorn‘s music venue in Manhattan’s East Village.
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Kronos Quartet’s rare NYC club appearance at (Le) Poisson Rouge
David Harrington of Kronos Quartet at New York nightclub (Le) Poisson Rouge on Oct. 8, 2010. (Photos copyright 2010, Steven P. Marsh)
Groundbreaking ensemble sells out two nights at Greenwich Village nightspot
Kronos Quartet can and does regularly fill huge auditoriums for its programs. But for its latest appearance in New York City, the ensemble picked Greenwich Village’s (Le) Poisson Rouge, arguably the most welcoming venue for New Music New York City.
Kronos Quartet's cellist, Jeffrey Zeigler.
Kronos’ two-night program included a slew of premieres and put the spotlight on many New York-based composers and collaborators, including the super-talented young composer Missy Mazzoli (founder of the hot electroacoustic chamber ensemble Victoire), Bang on a Can founder Michael Gordon, guitarist Bryce Dessner of the bands Clogs and The National (formed in Cincinnatti but now based in Brooklyn) and the Young Peoples Chorus of New York City.
The 37-year-old, San Francisco-based qua
rtet — David Harrington and John Sherba on violins, Hank Dutt on viola and Jeffrey Zeigler on cello — played a spirited set to a packed house on Friday evening, Oct. 8. The second installment is tonight, Saturday, Oct. 9, when Kronos offers a completely different program.
At the Friday show, Kronos kicked off with Dessner’s Aheym (Homeward), which he wrote for Kronos. Mazzoli’s lovely, lyrical Harp and Altar, also composed for Kronos, followed.
The first world premiere of the evening was Aleksandra Vrebalov‘s spell no. 4, for a changing world.
But the most stunning performance moments of the evening came next, when Kronos introduced the Young Peoples Chorus, founded and conducted by Francisco Nuñez. The youngsters entered from the darkened sides of the room shrieking and howling the vocal parts of Terry Riley‘s Another Secret eQuation, which he wrote for Kronos and had its world premiere at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in March.
Composer Michael Gordon cheers the Young Peoples Chorus of New York City, with John Sherba and David Harrington of Kronos Quartet.
After a brief intermission, the Young Peoples Chorus rejoined Kronos for the world premiere of Gordon’s Exalted, an intensely emotional composition.
Click through to the jump for more words and photos about Kronos and collaborators. Continue reading →
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Tagged (Le) Poisson Rouge, Aheym (Homeward), Aleksandra Vrebalov, Bryce Dessner, Clogs, Francisco Nuñez, Hank Dutt, Harp and Altar, Iceland, Jacob Garchik, Jeffrey Zeigler, John Sherba, Kronos Quartet, Maria Schneider, Michael Gordon, Michael Harrington, Missy Mazzoli, Sigur Rós, spell no. 4 for a changing world, Terry Riley, The National, Victoire, Young Peoples Chorus of New York City
New Music’s next wave
Remixer Dennis DeSantis, in the shadows, left, with the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble at (Le) Poison Rouge. (Photos copyright 2009, Steven P. Marsh)
I saw and heard the future of New Music on Sunday night, and I am happy to report the future is bright.
A saxophone solo opens the performance of "In C."
The Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, which burst onto the scene with its fabulous 2007 performance (and followup recording) of Steve Reich‘s “Music for 18 Musicians”, filled (Le) Poisson Rouge last Sunday night with the sounds of another 20th Century classic — Terry Riley‘s “In C.”
Radio Lab host Jad Abumrad was master of ceremonies.
Riley’s piece is more of a challenge than Reich’s because it is less structured, more mutable and highly shaped by the musical personality of the performers. The 15 talented players in GVSUNME — most of them students — played an engaging version that they made their own with the use of electronics and flourishes like a saxophone solo to open the performance.
Sunday’s concert was a celebration of the release of In C Remixed, GVSUNME’s double-CD recording of In C and 18 remixes by 16 artists. The ensemble’s recording of “In C” clocks in at just over 20 minutes. For Sunday’s concert, the group played for about an hour. That’s the other major variable of the piece — it’s written in such a way that it can be as long or short, within certain limits, as the players want it to be.
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Tagged (Le) Poisson Rouge, Dennis DeSantis, GVSUNME, In C, In C Remixed, Jad Abumrad, Michael Lowenstern, R. Luke DuBois, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Todd Reynolds
Jad Abumrad to host In C Remixed live
WNYC Radio Lab host Jad Abumrad is MC for the In C Remixed show at (Le) Poisson Rouge on Sunday evening.
If you haven’t booked tickets for the In C Remixed show at (Le) Poisson Rouge tomorrow evening, here’s another incentive: the innovative radio host Jad Abumrad will be MC for the evening.,
Jad is host of WNYC’s Radio Lab, a program that Ira Glass of This American Life has called Jad’s program “the best show on radio.”
Jad is the perfect choice of hosts, as he’s one of the artists who remixed the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble‘s recording of Terry Riley‘s 20th Century classic In C for inclusion on the ensemble’s new In C Remixed CD.
With Jad as host and an opening set by the Slow Boys (Todd Reynolds and Michael Lowenstern, who also have remixes on the CD), it’s shaping up to be a memorable evening.
But if you really can’t make it, not to worry. The show is being recorded by WNYC/WQXR and will be available for listening on WQXR’s Q2 stream.
In C Remixed, featuring the GVSU New Music Ensemble and the Slow Boys is at (Le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, Manhattan. (212) 505-3474. Doors at 6:30 pm, show at 7:30. Click here for more info or here for tickets. $15 in advance.
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Tagged (Le) Poisson Rouge, Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, In C Remixed, Jad Abumrad, Terry Riley, WNYC, WQXR
In C Remixed
If you’re lucky enough to be in New York City next Sunday, don’t miss out on an amazing opportunity to witness a live performance of one of the 20th Century’s defining pieces of music, Terry Riley‘s In C.
The Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble is bringing its version of In C to the stage at (Le) Poisson Rouge on Nov. 8 to celebrate the release of its fantastic new recording, In C Remixed.
The GVSU ensemble obviously can’t reproduce the album — which features the recording of the title piece and 18 remixes by some of today’s best sonic manipulators — in a concert setting. But the show will feature live remixing by composer and sound designer Dennis DeSantis (one of the album’s remixers), videos by album remixer R. Luke DuBois, and an opening set by the Slow Boys (comprising digital violin genius Todd Reynolds and bass clarinetist and composer Michael Lowenstern, who also contributed remixes).
This is a show that requires homework, albeit very pleasant homework. Here’s your assignment:
Before the show — best to do it now — download In C Remixed from your favorite digital music source. (It’s available now at Amazon.com and on iTunes. If you want a physical CD, you’ll have to wait until Nov. 17.)
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Tagged (Le) Poisson Rouge, Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, In C, In C Remixed, Terry Riley
In C Remixed web site launches
Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble at (Le) Poisson Rouge in NYC.
The Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble — the group that made the splendid recording of Steve Reich‘s Music for 18 Musicians in 2007 — is at it again. This time the group has commissioned a bunch of artists to record, remix and reinvent Terry Riley‘s seminal work, In C.
You can get a taste of what they’re up to by checking out the project’s web site, which was launched today.
In this project, a slew of invited artists took GVSUNME’s recording of In C and remixed it to create their own version. The only rule was to produce a 4- to 8-minute track. Contributors include: Jad Abumrad, Masonic (Mason Bates), Jack Dangers, Dennis DeSantis, R. Luke DuBois, Mikael Karlsson/Rob Stephenson, Zoë Keating, Phil Kline, Kleerup, Glenn Kotche, David Lang, Michael Lowenstern, DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Nico Muhly, Todd Reynolds, and Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR).
Their versions are being assembled into a album, In C Remixed, due out digitally on Oct. 27 and on CD on Nov. 17. It’s available for preorder here. The ensemble is also performing the reinventions live, and will bring the show to NYC’s (Le) Poisson Rouge on Sunday evening, Nov. 8. $15.
Posted in Contemporary Classical, Music, News
Tagged (Le) Poisson Rouge, DJ Spooky, Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, Nico Muhly, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Todd Reynolds
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Hardware: Mauser M18
by Ron Spomer - Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Funny. When Ruger introduced its American Rifle a few years ago, I didn’t hear complaints that “this isn’t a Ruger.” But Mauser’s new M18 bolt-action brought immediate howls from several quarters: “This is not—not—a Mauser! Plastic abomination! Foul!”
What the howlers meant, of course, was the rifle isn’t a Mauser M98.
Of course it isn’t. The 2018 Ford Mustang isn’t a Ford Model A of 1903, either.
Good as the M98 was and still is, it remains and always will remain an 1898 state-of-the-art mechanical tool. In the eyes of fans, it might be the perfect bolt-action rifle, but that doesn’t mean rifle design, engineering and evolution must stop. That’s just not the way human tool-making works. We are creative, inventive people, always trying new designs, new materials, and new applications of those designs and materials. The result, in the case of the Mauser M18, is a functional, reliable, accurate bolt-action rifle with an MSRP of $699—about 10 times less than a current-production M98.
Who’s going to howl about that? You must admit, the M18 at this price with an MOA accuracy guarantee is at least as remarkable an achievement as Paul Mauser’s perfection of the M98.
We don’t get controlled-round feeding with the M18, but how many of us are hunting man-eating lions on a regular basis? For that matter, how many of us have suffered the “horrors” of a push-feed action failing? I’ve run them, the M18 included, upside down, sideways, fast and slow, and have yet to have one fail to feed. Yes, if I don’t close the bolt before pulling it back, the round will remain in the chamber because the extractor hook hasn’t engaged. That’s the nature of the push feed, and it’s been functioning smoothly, taking game and winning precision shooting competitions since at least 1860, when the push-feed Henry repeating rifle hit the market.
Of course, if you insist on controlled-round feeding or a heavy, classic, walnut-stocked rifle with all the safety features incorporated in the Mauser M98, unlimber your bank account and buy one. If you want a Mauser that’s more affordable, look to the M18, what Mauser calls the “Volksrifle”—the People’s Rifle—priced within reach of the typical working man and woman.
Mauser kept the price down on this rifle by incorporating “circle of concentricity” manufacturing techniques. (Remington used this to good effect when it introduced its round-bottom action, the Model 721, in 1948. It continues in the Model 700.) The M18 action is turned on a lathe rather than milled, a less time-consuming and less expensive operation. Keeping the action, barrel and bolt concentric is more quickly accomplished on lathes, too.
In addition to a round receiver, the M18 reduces manufacturing costs by using a full-diameter bolt body pushing three integral locking lugs. This eliminates the need to mill guide rails in the receiver body. It also results in a short, 60-degree lift. Common Remington Model 700 scope bases mount to the M18 receiver rings. The receiver is the same diameter in both standard and magnum chamberings, too, and all barrels come without sights—more cost savings.
Instead of adding a recoil lug between the barrel and stock ala the Model 700, Mauser seats a steel bar within the polymer stock and mates it to a simple groove milled into the bottom of the front receiver ring. Both the forward bedding screw and the rear tang screw are captured in the receiver, and they tighten to the stock within countersunk, round-bodied nuts.
The rifle’s three-position safety blocks the trigger and locks the bolt handle when fully engaged, frees the handle for cycling rounds while still blocking the trigger in the middle position, and frees everything up for shooting when fully forward. The trigger of my test rifle broke between 2 and 2.5 pounds of pull with just a glimmer of creep before the break. This didn’t seem to interfere with the rifle’s ability to direct bullet after bullet inside 1 MOA with virtually any factory load I tried. My first three shots fell inside .5 MOA.
The M18 is currently offered in short- and standard-action chamberings, but again, they’re all in the same diameter and same length action. Drop-out polymer magazines hold five rounds in all chamberings, snap in and out with authority, function smoothly and precisely, and are blocked to hold .308 Win.-length cartridges. Cold-hammer-forged barrels are 22 inches long in standard chamberings, and 24.4 inches long in 7mm Rem. Mag. and .300 Win. Mag. rifles.
My test rifle in .308 Win. was one of the first on American shores. I fitted it with a Swarovski Z5 3.5X-18X-44mm scope in Talley rings. Quickly zeroed, the M18 immediately dropped three 170-grain Norma TipStrike bullets into a .5-MOA huddle. This precision didn’t seem to change in the muddy ex-pineapple fields of Lanai where rifle, scope and cartridges accounted for five spotted axis deer out to 310 yards.
A small thing I found objectionable in the M18 is what I call its zip sound. The bolt sliding in the action makes a distinctive zipping noise. My fingers sliding down the outside of the barrel make a similar, but softer, zip. I’m guessing the blued barrel was left unpolished to minimize glare, thus the slightly rough-feeling, zip-producing surface. The source of the bolt zip I’ve not been able to pinpoint.
A more serious complaint revolves around the bolt’s tendency to bind if I run it in panic mode, less than perfectly in-line with the action. With cartridges on board, the bolt has a tendency to balk or stop just as I’m turning it down for lockup. At first I thought headspace was a bit tight, but on further examination I suspect the dual, strong, spring-powered ejectors in the bolt face provide the resistance. Smoothly closing the action on a chambered round requires a strong hand and concentration.
For a black, polymer stock, the one on the M18 is stiffer than most. It’s nicely shaped in the American style with a straight comb, dual palm swell on the open-radius grip, and fairly slim, forward-tapering fore-end with a touch of tumblehome. Inserts under the fore-end and on the grip are neither the advertised “soft” nor tacky, yet they subtly and effectively enhance purchase, dry or wet. This was most welcomed during my hunt with High Adventure Company on Lanai, where rains were almost as common as deer. The 1-inch, black recoil pad snaps in and out of the hollow butt, opening storage space and suggesting length-of-pull options may become available.
This so-called plastic abomination stock, combined with the 8-pound rifle’s between-the-hands balance, makes the M18 handle and shoot like, well, like one heck of a well-built, affordable, 21st century Mauser.
• Type: bolt-action centerfire rifle
• Caliber: .243 Win., .308 Win. (tested), .270 Win., .30-06 Sprg., 7mm Rem. Mag., .300 Win. Mag.
• Barrel: 22″; cold-hammer-forged chrome-moly steel; 4 grooves, 1:11″ RH twist
• Magazine: detachable box; 5-rnd. capacity
• Trigger: single-stage, adjustable; 3.25-lb. pull weight
• Safety: three-position toggle
• Sights: none; receiver drilled and tapped for Remington Model 700-style bases
• Stock: straight-comb synthetic; LOP 14″; matte-black finish
• Metal Finish: gloss black
• Overall Length: 41.75″
• Weight: 6.4 lbs.
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EP. REVIEW: Haikyu!! 3rd Season
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including their rivals Nekozawa
Unless that occult loving senpai from Ouran became part of this show without our noticing, I think you're talking about Nekoma. Though that guy looks kind of like a Kuroken lovechild so I don't blame you for the confusion
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whiskeyii
Man, there was so much packed into the start of episode 2 that I was genuinely shocked when the halfway-point sequence came up. ^^;
I'm still a little leery of this show dragging the match out for too long to meet the 13 episode quota, but given that we'll have five matches instead of the usual 3 does alleviate some of those worries. But then I'm wondering if the teams have enough variety in what obstacles they have to overcome to last a full 5 matches. Kuroku had a similar issue where it just kept piling on the superpowers to unbelievable levels in order to raise the stakes quarter after quarter. :/
Zhou-BR
whiskeyii wrote:
This season will be just 10 episodes long, actually, so I'm expecting it to spend two episodes on each set.
Kon'Doriano
Kuroko long lost its credibility as a sports series the moment it brought superpowers into the mix. Haikyuu on the other hand raises stakes through sheer motivation, teamwork, and techniques. It never needed any supernatural nonsense to raise the bar.
Hameyadea
Kon'Doriano wrote:
More like Kuroko was more blatant about it, but it still exist here, too, however on a smaller, less noticeable scale. Instead of magically insta-weaving between players all the way to the other side of the court, we get those consecutive feat of strengths that would otherwise raise a suspicion about doping. But as long as it doesn't detract from the story, or distract from the action, I'm fine with it.
Hikaru Suzuhara
Yeah the chapter coverage picked up noticeably. While the first episode covered only 2 chapters, the second covered 4. The match lasts 38 chapters or about twice the length of the Aobajōsai rematch which lasted five episodes. So ten episodes is just the right length to cover this one match and nothing else, hence the name of the season.
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LOL I'll fix that then.
Gina Szanboti
Tsukki's epically snarky intro to Shiratorizawa's resident bard had me applauding with glee, and I had to rewind to relish it a second time. And I loved his new eyecatch with his bro. Judging by the title, he'll get to show off even more next week. ::happyhappy:: I'm such a sucker for characters who quietly watch everything and then come out of nowhere to act on what they've seen. (Sensei in Natsume seems to be doing that a lot this season as well).
It's as if his hair is standing on end not because he styled it that way, but because his pent-up energy is trying to escape through the top of his head.
Excellent way to describe it!
It's funny, but sometimes when I'm watching this and how the various plays go down, I find myself wanting to see how Aoba Jousai would have fared against these guys. There needs to be an ova covering that, like from a previous tournament or something (not clear on all the people on each team that are new this year, so it might not really be possible to satisfy me except as a fantasy game).
Gina Szanboti wrote:
Both Seijoh and Shiratorizawa kept the same line-up since the Inter-High, so it would definitely be possible to have an OVA of their match. Though I probably don't have it in me to watch Oikawa get defeated one more time )':
Amazing episode. I can't even imagine how insane the last three sets will have to be to top the second one. I don't think sports anime gets any better than this, and I feel privileged to watch this show.
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Zhou-BR wrote:
Don't imagine. There's more to come. Just go along with the thrill ride. If you're like Suga thinking that your heart can't take this, be glad you're watching this on a weekly basis instead of marathoning it
In a show with many well-written and truly satisfying character arcs, Tsukishima's is definitely one of, if not the best out of all the main cast. It's particularly great because it's not one or two episodes of focus and then we're done, there's little sprinkles of it here and there and then shining moments of growth that makes it feel like a wholesome journey that we've been able to watch over. I'd already read the manga, but the execution of this episode was fantastic, I was pumping my fist and screaming, the excitement of the characters was incredibly infectious. And knowing that there's still more to come is super thrilling. Particularly love the shots of Akiteru watching his brother grow and feel overwhelmed with pride, it's adorable and we don't see a lot of family interactions in other sports anime, so this is super sweet.
By the way, Rebecca keeps saying "this match... second match... next match", but the word should be "set". The match is the entire game they're playing, and it's divided in 5 sets. I'm not really the nitpicky type but this error has been consistent in all the reviews of this season, whereas I don't remember seeing it in her reviews of S1 and 2
Princess_Irene
Location: The castle beyond the Goblin City
I hadn't realized they weren't interchangeable terms - everything I know about volleyball I've learned from this show. I'll make sure to just use "set" from now on. Thanks!
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Princess_Irene wrote:
Same progression as tennis: point; game (tennis only); set; match.
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Venture Catalysts
Venture Catalysts ranked No 7 globally as the most active angel and seed-stage investors in 2019
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] Jan 14 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Venture Catalysts, India's first, largest and pioneering integrated incubator and accelerator platform, and among Asia's top three, has been ranked No 7 globally as the most active angel & seed-stage investors in 2019 by global market research firm Crunchbase.
The rankings are based on the findings across 9,892 early-stage deals done in 2019, worldwide.
In 2019, Venture Catalysts lead 48 deals of start-up funding as per the Crunchbase report.
Data used by Crunchbase for coming up with global rankings take into account investor(s) led transactions in start-up investment deals. Crunchbase projects that USD 29.78 billion worth of investment was made across 2,480 deals in the fourth quarter of 2019.
The global recognition for Venture Catalysts comes in the wake of the fund providing the highest number of exits to its investors in less than four years. The incubator has invested Rs 500 crore across 63 deals in 2019. With this achievement, Venture Catalysts has surpassed the existing standards of the industry.
The platform, with its vast network of over 5000 angels spread across tier-2 and tier-3 cities have closed 171 deals so far with portfolio investments reaching USD 1.7 billion in valuation. It has also given returns in the multiple of 3X to 70X - a phenomenon unheard of in any other asset class.
"This is just the recognition of the hard work that we put in on behalf of our angel investors. Since 2016, we have been approached by more than 14,000 start-ups across 27 cities. The reason we are the first choice of start-ups in the country for getting angel funding is that we don't just give them money to run their business, but also guidance and mentorship to scale it up. This is one of the many prestigious recognitions that have come our way, and we believe many more would be coming in the New Year, as we continue to add value to the start-up ecosystem in the country", said Dr Apoorva Ranjan Sharma, President & Co-Founder, Venture Catalysts.
Apart from the HNIs, Venture Catalysts portfolio has gained the trust of some of the biggest names from the corporate world through its business model. These include 40 plus renowned and international companies such as Google Inc, Jade Value, Axis Capital, Wavemaker, Amalthea Capital & Founders Factory co-invested among others.
With an aim to bridge the gap between India and Bharat, Venture Catalysts also focuses on entrepreneurs from tier-2 and tier-3 cities. Start-ups funded by Venture Catalysts employed over 2,165 people directly. The fund has so far invested in 11 companies from these cities, giving wings to more than 31,600 micro-entrepreneurs. Some of the names include Cleansecar.com, Cleardekho, Supr, Rare Planet, Fashor and Playtoome among others.
Venture Catalysts has also facilitated over two million SMEs by helping them manage supply chains and revenue leakages. About 14 portfolio companies funded by Venture Catalysts including BharatPe, nupay, Blowhorn, Coutloot, Adurcup, and Jumpstart have helped the SMEs in managing payments and their working capital needs.
Meanwhile, about seven fin-tech companies such as LenDenClub, Home Capital, Ideal Insurance, LiquiLoans and OTO Capital financed by Venture Catalysts, enabled over 20 million UPI transactions amounting to USD 19 million in microloans and deep distribution of insurance.
This story is provided by BusinessWire India. ANI will not be responsible in any way for the content of this article. (ANI/BusinessWire India)
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Trapped: The Abduction
It was just another day for the young woman at the center of this story, and then the world around her went black. The next thing she knew, she was in the back of a truck with no memory of who she was or how she got there. Guide this woman to safety!
It was just another day for the young woman at the center of this story, and then the world around her went black. The next thing she knew, she was in the back of a truck with no memory of who she was or how she got there. She soon learns one terrifying truth, however: she's at the mercy of an unseen serial killer who's watching her every move. Guide this woman to safety by cracking codes, solving puzzles and escaping traps! Fail, and she could meet a horrific end.
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Home > Sports > Arab-Kurdish Feud Deepens as Fears Mount Over Battle for Raqqa
Arab-Kurdish Feud Deepens as Fears Mount Over Battle for Raqqa
admin July 19, 2017 Sports
Syrian rebel militias and Turkey appear to be preparing to intensify their military operations north of Aleppo aimed at taking back mainly Arab towns and villages the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, seized in 2015.
The fighting is a new sign that the United States Turkey, Russia and Iran are plunging deeper into a multifaceted conflict that's carved Syria into unstable zones of influence with no clear lines emerging of how piece it back together.
The Syrian Kurdish force is the United States' main ally in northern Syria. More Arab-on-Kurd clashes would complicate plans for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces to assault Raqqa, the Islamic State terror group's self-styled capital.
The situation in northern Syria is becoming more complex by the day, with patchwork micro-conflicts featuring a variety of rival militias, as fighting intensifies between Turkish-backed Arab rebels and Kurds.IS has tried to gain a foothold in Idlib province to the west of Aleppo, bringing it into confrontation with rival al-Qaida jihadists.
All the feuding groups are vying for territory.
Fighting in northern Syria between rebels backed by Turkey, a NATO member, and the Kurds risks undermining the battle against IS.
Arabs and Kurds
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based network of activists in Syria, warns there are continued preparations by Turkish forces and the factions backed by them" to launch an operation to regain control of areas they lost in late 2015 and early 2016.
Rebels who've been battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad for years are still smarting from what they see as a Kurdish land-grab of mainly Arab towns north of Aleppo under cover of, and apparently coordinated with, a Syrian government offensive in December 2015.In some towns the YPG seized, only about 10 percent of the Arab residents who fled have been allowed to return, the rest are housed in camps along the Turkish-Syrian border.
This week, Turkish-backed Arab militias clashed with SDF units north of Aleppo despite efforts by Russia and the United States to prevent the conflict.
The Turks and Arab rebel militias Ankara backs fear the Kurds want to link up Kurdish cantons along the border with Turkey. The Kurds have made no secret of their determination to establish a self-governing entity in northern Syria.
Analysts say Arab skirmishing with Kurds, and Turkish shelling of YPG positions around the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, are forcing the SDF to reduce the forces it could use in the assault on Raqqa.That provides IS with a clear opening to exploit and there are signs the assault on Raqqa is being affected.
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces appear to be struggling in the campaign for Raqqa, with reliable reports suggesting several hard fought for front-lines were relinquished over the weekend due to heavy IS pressure, says Middle East Institute analyst Charles Lister.
Meanwhile, leaders of the Syrian Coalition, the main umbrella organization of the anti-Assad insurgents, warn of a possible fight between Arabs and Kurds over control of Raqqa after IS has been evicted.Syrian rebels are demanding Raqqa be administered by local residents, not a council shaped by the YPG.
A 'gift' for IS
Speaking with political activists during a teleconference, the president of the Syrian Coalition, Riad Seif, stressed his his position that the Kurds should not participate in Raqqa's governance.He said the SDF, which is commanded largely by YPG officers, should withdraw from the city once it's cleared of Islamic extremists.
Disputes over the territory freed from IS in Syria and Iraq are gifts for the group, says Mideast analyst Lister.He says the extremists will adapt to the new security environ by conducting geographically disparate attacks, exploiting seams between anti-IS forces, and setting conditions to resurge in alternative terrain.
Turkey has not reduced its vehement opposition to U.S. support of the YPG, a militia it views as the Syrian affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers Party, a separatist Turkish Kurd group the U.S., European Union and Ankara all consider terrorists.
Monday, Turkey's National Security Council accused the United States of allowing weapons it provided to the YPG to be passed on to the PKK.This shows that both are the same organization, the council said.
The Turks offered no specifics to support their allegation.But a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, which oversees American military operations in Syria and Iraq, told VOA the weapons the United States has supplied the SDF "will be returned to the coalition on completion of the mission.
In further evidence of Turkish anger, the state-run Anadolu news agency published the locations of nearly a dozen U.S. military bases across a 200-kilometer stretch of northern Syria.The bases listed by Anadolu are where American military advisers and Special Forces oversee the assault on Raqqa.
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Home > Sports > Suicide Car Bomber Kills at Least 18 in Damascus
Suicide Car Bomber Kills at Least 18 in Damascus
admin July 2, 2017 Sports
A suicide car comber blew himself up Sunday in the central part of Syria's capital, killing at least 18 people and wounding a dozen more, according to state media and a monitor of Syria's conflict.
Syrian state media and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described the attack as one of three car bombs that were meant to go off.
There was no claim of responsibility. Damascus has in the past been struck by the Islamic State group and other jihadist fighters.
Syrian security forces said they had pursued three car bombers, destroying two at the entrance to the city before they could do damage. Footage on state television showed least two scorched vehicles and other debris along the road to the airport.
The third driver initially evaded authorities and blew himself up in Tahrir Square after being surrounded.
The Syrian Minister of Local Administration, Hussein Makhlouf, said the response marked a "major success in foiling a plot" that could have lead to mass casualties.
The car bomber struck Syria's capital city as many people were commuting for the first work day after the conclusion of the holy month of Ramadan.
Damascus, the seat of power for President Bashar al-Assad, rarely sees such attacks. Sunday's bombing was the worst the city had seen since March.
ISRAEL STRIKES SYRIAN MORTAR LAUNCHER AFTER STRAY FIRE
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Double points score for BWT Arden on the streets of Monte-Carlo
BWT Arden returned to the points in FIA Formula 2 after both Nirei Fukuzumi and Maximilian Günther scored points in Monaco.
BWT Arden scored points at the Circuit de Monaco, thanks to a 10th position finish for Nirei Fukuzumi in the Feature Race, followed by a 6th place finish from Maximilian Günther in the Sprint Race during an eventful weekend.
The FIA F2 Championship headed to the streets of Monte-Carlo for Round 4 and Races 7-8 of the season.
Neither of the two BWT Arden drivers had experienced the ‘Jewel in the Crown’ event before, so had to learn the circuit in the sole Practice session on Thursday morning at Monaco, before heading into Qualifying.
Qualifying was split into two groups, in order to reduce the risk of traffic around the short 3.337km street circuit.
Maximilian Günther set the 4th fastest time in Group A with a strong showing, despite being blocked later in the session. Sadly, he was later excluded from the session, after failing to report to the weighbridge on his return to the pits – meaning he would start the Feature Race from the pitlane.
Fukuzumi set the 7th fastest time in his Qualifying Group B, meaning he would start the first race of the weekend from 15th on the grid.
The Feature Race saw Fukuzumi move himself up into 12th position early on, before a Safety Car was deployed to recover a start-line accident.
Racing resumed for a few laps before a Virtual Safety Car (VSC) was deployed due to an accident at Rascasse. A Safety Car was deployed soon after following a crash at the final corner. This was then followed up by an incredibly bizarre accident between the two leaders in the pitlane – which further promoted both drivers up three positions, as the race entered the pitstop windows.
Fukuzumi and Günther pitted to change from their ‘Soft’ tyres and onto the ‘Supersoft’ tyres to finish the 42 lap Feature Race. The two BWT Arden teammates finished close to each other in 10th and 11th respectively, with Fukuzumi picking up a championship point and Günther making a good recovery from his pitlane start.
Both drivers made a good start to the Sprint Race, with Günther moving himself up and into 9th position and Fukuzumi slotted in just behind him in 10th.
A safety car was deployed on Lap 5 following a crash at the ‘Swimming Pool Chicane’, with both drivers just avoiding the stricken car. The race restarted five laps later, due to the barrier’s being repaired.
The race order remained consistent as the race wore on, with driver’s looking after their tyre wear for the 30 lap Sprint Race. A VSC was deployed following a crash on the exit of the ‘Swimming Pool Section’ on lap 2, restarting a lap later.
An accident at the ‘Nouvelle Chicane’ on Lap 27 brought out the second Safety Car of the race, finishing with two laps to go and setting up a two-lap shootout for positions.
On the restart however, Fukuzumi went deep into the Rascasse corner along with Santino Ferrucci behind him – causing him to retire from 9th position.
The race finished under the Safety Car, with Günther classified in 6th position at the end of the race, taking home 4 championship points for himself and BWT Arden.
FIA Formula 2 next heads to the Circuit Paul Ricard on the 22-24 June for Round 5, Races 9-10 of the 2018 Championship in four weeks’ time.
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Baby is a Cool Machine
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American Medium is pleased to present Baby is a Cool Machine, an exhibition of new works by artist, writer, and curator Aria Dean.
How do you begin to unburden an object bound to nothing when you too are tethered to nothingness? No body. No history. No landscape. How do you release it from the clamor of its own form? Do you encode it, burn it, drown it in the yazoo? This seems impossible given that you and the object have been given no option but to toe the line between art and artifact. Doing the most and the least at the same time while doing nothing at all. Why do objects speak and must they at all? The keystone is a farce because you are the cornerstone and the market was driven and is driven by you. In unburdening the object you lay yourself bare, but who will relieve you?
American Medium is pleased to present Baby is a Cool Machine, an exhibition of new works by artist, writer, and curator Aria Dean. In her first exhibition with the gallery - and her first solo exhibition - Dean hones in on her materially-driven examination of the situation of blackness in the United States. Baby is a Cool Machine binds this study to an interrogation of objects-for-themselves. For Dean, these two situations - that of blackness and that of the art object’s status - are irrevocably entangled.
To this end, Baby is a Cool Machine abstractly excavates Dean’s own family history, approaching by way of the landscape of the American South and its mythologies. She considers the particularity of this history and its entanglement in a shared and genericized historical narrative, continuing her interest in the multiple valences of identification, experience, and the (im)balance of the individual and the collective, of the continuous and the discrete.
Dean simultaneously deconstructs, dissects, and discredits the materials that she employs, beseeching her audiences to pursue more from what is presented to them, creating works that rebuke their previously encoded meaning and their own virality, drawing out and exploiting the weak bonds of language and signs, and redistributing the weight of materialism.
– Hanna Girma
Aria Dean is an artist, writer, and curator based in Los Angeles, CA. She currently holds the position of assistant curator of net art & digital culture at Rhizome. Her writing has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, The New Inquiry, Real Life Magazine, Topical Cream Magazine, Mousse Magazine, CURA Magazine, and X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly. She has exhibited at Arcadia Missa (London), Knockdown Center (NY), and Chateau Shatto (LA) among other venues. Dean has spoken at the New Museum, UCLA, The New School, and Machine Project. She also co-directs Los Angeles project space As It Stands LA.
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Childhood Poverty, Parental Abuse Cost Adults Their Health for Years to Come
Growing up in poverty or being abused by parents can lead to accumulated health problems later in life, according to research from Purdue University.
"Childhood disadvantage has long-term health consequences—much longer than most of us realize," said Kenneth F. Ferraro, distinguished professor of sociology. "A novel aspect of this study is that childhood disadvantage was linked to the onset of new health problems decades later."
Daughters of Interracial Parents More Likely Than Sons to Identify as Multiracial
Daughters of interracial parents are more likely than sons to identify as multiracial, and this is especially true for children of black-white couples, according to a new study in the February issue of the American Sociological Review.
Study Finds EITC Bolsters Recipients’ Self-Respect While Helping Them Financially
America's welfare state is quietly evolving from needs-based to an employment-based safety net that rewards working families and fuels dreams of a better life, indicates a new study led by a Michigan State University (MSU) scholar.
The major reason: the little-known Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a $65 billion federal tax-relief program for poor, working families. The program has been expanded dramatically during the past 25 years, while cash welfare has been sharply curtailed.
Study Finds Foreclosures Fueled Racial Segregation in U.S.
Some 9 million American families lost their homes to foreclosure during the late 2000s housing bust, driving many to economic ruin and in search of new residences. Hardest hit were black, Latino, and racially integrated neighborhoods, according to a new Cornell University analysis of the crisis.
Led by demographer Matthew Hall, researchers estimate racial segregation grew between Latinos and whites by nearly 50 percent and between blacks and whites by about 20 percent as whites abandoned and minorities moved into areas most heavily distressed by foreclosures.
Study: Probation for Schools Spurs Transfer Patterns Linked to Family Income
Schools placed on probation due to subpar test scores spurs transfer patterns linked to household income, a study by New York University (NYU) sociologists finds.
Their study of a school accountability program in the Chicago Public Schools reveals that families were responsive to new information about school quality and that those with more financial resources were the most likely to transfer to other schools in the district or to leave the district altogether.
Many Religious People View Science Favorably, But Reject Certain Scientific Theories
A new study finds that many U.S. adults — roughly one in five — are deeply religious, know a lot about science, and support many practical uses of science and technology in everyday life, but reject scientific explanations of creation and evolution.
With Racial Segregation Declining Between Neighborhoods, Segregation Now Taking New Form
Recent research has shown that racial segregation in the U.S. is declining between neighborhoods, but a new study indicates that segregation is manifesting itself in other ways — not disappearing.
The IRL Fallacy
Putting the lie to "digital dualism" in an essay on the inseparability of online and offline selves.
Marrying across Class Lines
Even when married couples think childhood class differences are in the past, those factors shape how each spouse tackles tasks and allocates resources.
The Role of Gender, Class, and Religion in Biracial Americans Racial Labeling Decisions
Racial attachments are understood to be socially constructed and endogenous to gender, socioeconomic, and religious identities. Yet we know surprisingly little about the effect of such identities on the particular racial labels that individuals self-select. In this article, I investigate how social identities shape the racial labels chosen by biracial individuals in the United States, a rapidly growing population who have multiple labeling options.
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We have relied for many years on critical dimension scaling to give us increases in the functionality of integrated circuits and systems while reducing the cost per function. Scaling has taken us from the microelectronics to the nanoelectronics regime, as critical device dimensions within commercially available chips are now measured in tens of nm. However, it has become abundantly clear that performance can no longer be driven solely by feature size reduction as nanoscale versions of �traditional� electronic devices do not necessarily possess the characteristics that made their forebears so desirable. For example, scaled gate dielectrics and depletion regions in MOS devices lead to excessive tunneling currents which make CMOS circuits, once renowned for their low power operation, significant dissipaters of power even in their quiescent state. This equates to inefficiencies that result in heat generation and reduced battery life in portable systems. It is therefore universally agreed that the adoption of new material paradigms will be necessary to allow us to break through to the terabit regime. One such paradigm goes by the name �nanoionics�. Whereas nanoelectronics involves the movement of electrons within their nanostructured settings, nanoionics concerns materials and devices that rely on ion transport and chemical change at the nanoscale. Rising interest in nanioionics has been fuelled by the wide range of demonstrated and potential applications so that the field has been equated in significance by some with nanoelectronics. It is this mounting attention worldwide and ASU�s role over the past decade in pushing the frontiers of this dynamic field that has led to the foundation of the Center for Applied Nanoionics (CANi) at Arizona State University.
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Network Collapse: Why the internet is flirting with disaster
By: Jay Harris
It’s surprising the internet works at all, given the age of its core software. The question is, can we catch it before it falls over?A panel of academic experts recently took part in a discussion on the future of the internet, and among other things highlighted its fragility, the ease with which it can be disrupted and its seeming resistance to change.
The weaknesses arise primarily from the fact that the internet comprises protocols for Layer 3 networking in the TCP/IP stack, invented many years ago.“There are a lot of challenges for the internet. We face daily problems,” said Timothy Roscoe, a professor at ETH, Zurich’s science, technology and mathematics university in Zurich.
“Most of what we do is at Layer 3, which is what makes the internet the internet.” However, new and incredibly popular services, such as YouTube, Netflix, Twitter and Facebook, have put pressures on these protocols.
New age, old protocols
Laurent Vanbever, an assistant professor at ETH, said: “There is a growing expectation by users that they can watch a 4K video on Netflix while someone else in the house is having a Skype call. They expect it to work but the protocols of the internet were designed in the 1970s and 1980s and we are now stretching the boundaries.”
The internet is often described as a network of networks. What makes these networks communicate with one another is BGP, the border gateway protocol. In essence, it’s the routing protocol used by internet service providers (ISP). It makes the internet work.
Roscoe said: “BGP is controlled by 60,000 people, who need to cooperate but also compete.” These people, network engineers at major ISPs, email each other to keep the internet running.
Routing for trouble
“When you visit a website, you really don’t know where your internet traffic goes,” said Roscoe. One would assume the route network traffic takes from a user’s computer to the server is the shortest possible.
But often, according to Roscoe, this is not the case. “I have seen network packets taking remarkably bizarre paths across the internet,” he said, and added that Pakistan was able to route all YouTube traffic through its servers, blocking the traffic, and effectively taking YouTube offline.Due to the way BGP and other protocols work, he said, there is “very little control over where traffic goes”. The question is why there is so little control.
Mark Handley, a professor of network systems at University College, London, said: “The internet is built out of a set of networks, where the operators have their own desires about what they want their network to do. Internet operators partially hide pricing and routing policy information, while needing to communicate with their neighbours.”
So, there’s a paradox, driven by competition to route traffic, and they [the operators] “are hiding who they will talk to, while trying to talk to each other”, said Handley.More recently, Edward Snowden’s revelations propelled into the public domain the ease with which the internet’s traffic can be routed and moved, highlighting the mass collection of internet data by US government spooks.
No need for internal change
Adrian Perrig, a network security professor at ETH Zurich, said his group at the university has been working on a new protocol and trying to tackle the internet’s secure routing challenge, in a way that is also more efficient than existing methods.
He said: “The architecture was started as an academic exercise, but we realised it is not that hard to deploy, as we do not need to change the internals of networks. We only need to change the points where different ISPs touch each other.”
So far, three major ISPs have begun deploying the new protocol along with a few banks – who want to gain greater transparency over their network packets. Perrig and his team are attempting to develop a protocol that can easily be deployed.
Too complex to change
Matt Brown, site reliability engineering head at Google, said: “A lot of the core protocols of the internet we rely on are very old. There are many improvements that need to be made to give us the level of robustness and security needed for the role the internet has in society.”But, he argued, it is still extremely hard to upgrade these protocols. “With a network you get network effects. You are effectively constrained by the lowest common denominator, like the last person who hasn’t upgraded who holds everybody back.”
For instance, he said the digital subscriber line (DSL) router provided by ISPs to people at home to allow an internet connecting may be four years old, yet it contains critical protocols.
“Getting new functionality to everyone in the world is a huge challenge,” he added. For instance, while the number of available IPv4 addresses has effectively run out, Google recently found that only 10% of the world’s traffic has upgraded to the next version, IPv6.There is a cost for ISPs if they want to make these changes. Moreover, as the slow rollout of IPv6 is revealing, many prefer to stick with old technology, simply because it can be made to work.
Source: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450296912/Network-Collapse-Why-the-internet-is-flirting-with-disaster
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Photo: CR: publicity photos of Paul Ossmann, Sharon Reed, Thomas Roberts
2019 Atlanta TV/film year in review: Tyler Perry, Paul Ossmann, ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ Ted Turner
Originally posted Wednesday, January 1, 2020 by RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog
The biggest show shot in Atlanta is now “Stranger Things,” which could also be an apt description of some of the stories that I wrote about 2019. (Sorry. I should have gotten this out earlier but life got in the way!)
Here are a few of the highlights - or lowlights - depending on your point of view.
Actress Alyssa Milano reads her letter to Gov. Brian Kemp urging opposition to the “heartbeat” bill on the last day of the 2019 session of the Georgia Legislature. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
Photo: HYOSUB SHIN / AJC
Thanks Alyssa Milano! The “Charmed” actress, shooting the Netflix show “Insatiable” in Atlanta, was deeply offended by a “heartbeat” anti-abortion bill passed by the legislature in March, signed by the governor in May and ultimately stopped by the courts in the fall. In March, she decided to go public calling for a boycott and dozens of famous Hollywood types (e.g. Sarah Silverman, Don Cheadle, Gabrielle Union, Ben Stiller ) signed a petition to skip Georgia. Crew members and politicians in Georgia pushed for folks to “stay and fight” instead. Did the boycott hurt Georgia? New TV series dropped off but worldwide demand for film stages kept most of Georgia’s stages full through the end of the year.
A-List Heaven: Tyler Perry officially opened his Tyler Perry Studios in October, the largest in acreage of any studio in the United States. And he did his opening in a big way, inviting some of the biggest stars on earth, including Oprah Winfrey, Halle Berry, Spike Lee and Will Smith. Atlanta luminaries such as John Lewis, Evander Holyfield and Andrew Young came as well to christen Atlanta’s self-made mogul, who is a mere 50 years old. His studio has since hosted a Democratic debate and the Miss Universe pageant.
Reverse racism? Paul Ossmann, a veteran meteorologist, was fired in April from CBS46 under murky circumstances. Ossmann in July blew open the doors of what happened when he sued the station for wrongful termination, citing reverse discrimination and a “hostile working environment.” One piece of evidence was Sharon Reed allegedly insulting him while exchanging notes with co-host Thomas Roberts that were found by someone at the station and leaked to FTVlive.com. CBS46 did something unusual: it publicly responded and cited unspecified Ossmann’s inappropriate behavior against several women. The two sides are now negotiating behind the scenes to resolve the situation.
Photo: Rodney Ho/Radio and TV Talk
Anchor shifts: Three of the four local news affiliates saw major anchor departures in 2019. Cynne Simpson left Fox 5 after six years to do humanitarian work. Craig Lucie said goodbye to Channel 2 Action News after eight years to start his own public relations firm. CBS46 said goodybe to controversial Sharon Reed after four years and former MSNBC host Thomas Roberts after just 14 months .
Ted Turner speaks at a ceremony where an AT&T WarnerMedia building was dedicated to him on December 6 in Atlanta.
Photo: Elijah Nouvelage/For the AJC
End of an era: AT&T’s WarnerMedia announced a major restructuring which effectively splintered what was Turner Broadcasting into three parts. And the name itself disappeared, taken off the Techwood building where it was seen from 75/85 in Midtown for decades. To make up for that, WarnerMedia in December re-named the campus after Ted Turner, had a mural commissioned in his image and brought him there to speak a few words. They also donated $550,000 to UGA in part for scholarships and an internship. Turner, now suffering from Lewy body dementia, kept it brief: “Never have I lived through something exactly like this. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Those of you who are with CNN now, carry it on. I’ll be watching! I miss it. I didn’t really leave because I wanted to. But anyway... here I am!”
CNN racism? Dewayne Walker had filed EEOC complaints and lawsuits for several years against his employer citing racial discrimination. He had applied for dozens of jobs but could not get above a certain managerial level, he said. He was unable to win any of his previous suits but then he filed another one in the spring. Walker alleged that one of his bosses in a CNN restroom threatened to kill him over his lawsuit. CNN placed Walker on leave with pay, then subsequently fired him, saying he lied. The discrimination lawsuit lives on.
Photo: Netflix/Courtesy of Netflix
“Stranger Things” revives Gwinnett Place Mall by going back in time: Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth is a ghost mall. Most of the space is empty. The owner is trying to unload it. It was a perfect place for “Stranger Things” to transform a portion of it into the fictional 1985-era Starcourt Mall for season three. The transformation was amazing for anyone who grew up during that time period, with stores such as Claire’s, Sam Goody, Wicks-n-Sticks and Chess King meticulously re-created. Unfortunately, efforts to keep the mall “alive” for tourism purposes fell through and Netflix quickly dismantled the set after season 3 debuted.
Stuntman John Bernecker died after falling on the set of "The Walking Dead" and missing a safety cushion. Photo: imdb.com
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A stuntman’s fall equals $8.6 million: Stuntman John Bernecker had moved to Atlanta from New Orleans a few years ago because there was so much work here. He latched onto a raft of film and TV shows, including “The Walking Dead.” Unfortunately, he fell 20 feet from a balcony during a stunt leap on that popular AMC show and missed the padding, hitting the hard ground with his head and dying soon after. His parents filed a wrongful death suit. During the trial, the plaintiff’s attorney said this was the first death of its type in the entertainment industry in 17 years and said “The Walking Dead” producers did not set up proper safeguards to prevent the accident. The defense countered that Bernecker made some unusual moves during the stunt that led to a death that was unforeseen. The jury right before Christmas gave the stuntman’s parents $8.6 million in civil damages but did not provide punitive damages or find AMC liable for negligence.
Photo: AJC photo of the flyover during the Super Bowl
A touchdown for Mercedes-Benz Stadium: Although the Falcons were not in playoff form this year or last for that matter, at least Atlanta got to host a Super Bowl, courtesy of Arthur Blank’s new $1.5 billion stadium. It went off without a hitch though ratings were the lowest in a decade. About 100 million people watched a low-scoring match-up between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams. The Maroon 5 half-time show? Blah reviews.
Billboard near Tyler Perry Studios
Racquel Bailey really wanted to be in a Tyler Perry production. So last month, she rented two billboards near Tyler Perry Studios in southwest Atlanta for $2,000. (Photo via AJC)
Photo: WSB-TV Photo via AJC
A billboard investment: Racquel Bailey, a New Jersey actress, invested $2,000 in two billboards near Tyler Perry Studios over the summer. She ultimately got cast in a recurring role on Perry’s BET show “Sistas” though Perry later said he was not a fan of the billboard and didn’t even know it was the billboard woman when she was cast. He warned others not to repeat her stunt.
Tulsa, Regina King and a classic comic: “Watchmen,” based on the classic comic, was the most intriguing TV show shot in metro Atlanta in 2019. “Lost” co-creator Damen Lindelof took elements of the original comic and added new race elements including the real Tulsa massacre in 1921. The current-day Tulsa is an alternative history where America won the Vietnam War, Robert Redford was president and a 1985 attack on New York City by a giant squid ended the Cold War. Regina King was the star of the show and the series received plenty of buzz. But it was a self contained season and Lindelof has not expressed much of a desire for a second season.
Streaming services keep on coming: The big three streaming services - Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu - chugged along but Disney+ made a huge splash. Apple Plus and BET Plus also arrived in a very crowded marketplace. In 2020, several more services are expected including HBO Max, NBC’s Peacock and Quibi. This free-for-all has been a boon for creative types with hundreds of new TV series, films, documentaries and reality series vying for eyeballs courtesy of voracious budgets of the big streamers. Georgia has been a beneficiary, home to several current and upcoming Netflix, HBO and Disney series.
LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 22: Chris Evans attends the Los Angeles World Premiere of Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Endgame" at the Los Angeles Convention Center on April 23, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)
Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney
“Avengers Endgame” breaks records: Marvel, which shot several of its films at Pinewood Studios during the 2010s, hit the pinnacle in 2019 with “Avengers Endgame.” The film - which killed off several of favorite Marvel characters - grossed $2.8 billion internationally and is by far the most popular film shot in Georgia since the current tax credit structure debuted in 2018.
Studio update: Speaking of Pinewood, the U.K.-based Pinewood Group sold its equity stake in Fayetteville’s sprawling Pinewood Atlanta Studios, one of the largest in the United States. This may mean a change in what shoots at Pinewood down the road once its name changes. The studio will now be owned 100 percent by River’s Rock, an independently managed trust of the Cathy family. Cathy also owns the popular Chick-fil-A fast-food operations.
“Richard Jewell” kerfuffle: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution came out swinging against what the paper saw was a false portrayal of former AJC reporter Kathy Scruggs in a Clint Eastwood film “Richard Jewell.” The film was meant to bolster the heroic security guard who saved lives during the 1996 Centennial Olympic bombing but was pilloried when the FBI targeted him as the potential bomber and the media reported it. The movie, shot in metro Atlanta, ended up fumbling at the box office, marking one of the worst-performing films directed in recent times by Eastwood. It was released December 13 and grossed less than $18 million by the end of the year against a $45 million budget.
WSB ownership change: On December 17, 2019, WSB-TV and other Cox TV stations nationwide were officially taken over by Apollo, a private equity firm. But Apollo won’t change the name of the parent company, keeping it Cox Media Group. Cox now owns a minority stake in the company. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution remains a fully-owned media property of Cox Enterprises.)
Reality competition round up, Atlanta edition:
- Famed Atlanta educator Ron Clark finished ninth on “Survivor: Edge of Extinction” season 38 this past spring while Macon broadcaster Rick Devens landed fourth. In season 39 which aired this fall, Atlanta native Missy Byrd finished 10th and was part of a controversial season which saw a contestant booted over inappropriate touching of crew and cast.
THE VOICE -- "Live Playoffs Top 20" Episode 1715A -- Pictured: Alex Guthrie -- (Photo by: Trae Patton/NBC)
Photo: NBC/Trae Patton/NBC
- Marietta singer-songwriter Alex Guthrie and Atlanta teen duo Hello Sunday both made it to the live shows on season 17 of “The Voice.”
- Georgia native Lauren Alaina landed fourth in this year’s edition of “Dancing With the Stars.”
- Three Georgians - Alan Dunn of John Creek ($120,802), Steven Grade of Atlanta ($115,501) and college champion Dhruv Gaur of Gainesville ($100,000) - made it to the “Jeopardy” Tournament of Champions. None landed in the finals, ultimately won by powerhouse James Holzhauer. Dunn lost to Holzhauer in the opening round while Grade was taken down in the semifinals. Gaur also lost during the semifinals but he caused ailing Alex Trebek to tear up by wishing him well instead of answering the Final Jeopardy question.
- Suwanee’s Angelica Hale finished in the top 12 on “America’s Got Talent: The Champions”
- Kandi Burruss came in fifth on “Celebrity Big Brother” on CBS.
- “Project Runway” season 18 on Bravo featured one local designer Asma Bibi who was eliminated in the first episode that aired December 5.
LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 31: Mama June attends Bossip Best Dressed List Event on July 31, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Earl Gibson III/Getty Images for WE tv )
Photo: Earl Gibson III/Getty Images for WE tv
Reality show rap sheet round up, Atlanta edition:
Former Atlantans Todd and Julie Chrisley (”Chrisley Knows Best”) settled a $2.1 million tax evasion case with the Georgia department of revenue but a federal case with comparable charges remains pending.
“Mama June” Shannon and her boyfriend Geno Doak were arrested in May for crack cocaine possession. She is now estranged from many of her family members because of her involvement with Doak. She also sold her home in Hampton in the fall at a major loss.
The U.S. government in the fall filed a lawsuit seeking $1.8 million in unpaid taxes from syndicated judge show host Glenda Hatchett.
Tommy Lee, formerly of “Love and Hip Hop Atlanta” landed in jail in March after she showed up drunk to a child abuse case.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - MARCH 04: (L-R) Kenya Moore and Marc Daly attend the 26th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation's Academy Awards Viewing Party at The City of West Hollywood Park on March 4, 2018 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for EJAF)
Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for EJAF
“Real Housewives of Atlanta” big moments: Kenya Moore was edging toward a divorce with her arrogant husband and restaurateur Marc Daly... NeNe Leakes had estranged herself from all the other main cast members of the show but was gingerly trying to get her way back in... Porsha Williams separated from her fiance Dennis McKinley after she found out he had cheated on her while she was pregnant but they reconciled... Cynthia Bailey and Mike Hill got engaged... Kandi Burruss had a baby via surrogate... Eva Marcille had her third child...
“Say Yes to the Dress” injury: Lori Allen, owner of Bridals by Lori and host of “Say Yes to the Dress Atlanta” on TLC, slipped on a train during a shoot in April and fell flat on her face, a broken nose, two cracked ribs, two broken wrists, a concussion and two black eyes. She had surgery on both her nose and her right wrist. Let’s just say it was more than a pratfall. She is still recovering and the show must go on.
Other CBS46 controversies: Ella Dorsey of CBS46 angered some viewers who thought she was comparing a black man in a photo to two gorillas when in fact, she was referencing anchor Roberts, who is white. The controversy blew over... She also said she received death threats when she interrupted that Master’s with tornado watch coverage and defended herself on social media... Adam Murphy has been doing his restaurant report cards for years and for the first time, one of his photographers was assaulted by multiple employees at a Denny’s in Lithonia that has since closed. The video from May is pretty wild..
Other changes: Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Karen Minton retired earlier this year after 33 years and lifestyle reporter Julie Smith left CBS46...
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Merry Christmas from everybody at Barnet FC!
Barnet Football club would like to wish all of our supporters a very Merry Christmas!
We wish you a safe and enjoyable day with your family members and loved ones.
We look foward to seeing you at our next two away fixtures, Boreham Wood and Dagenham & Redbridge, before we all return to The Hive for our New Years Day derby against Boreham Wood.
Match Postponed: Barnet vs Dagenham and Redbridge
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Pitch inspection planned
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Vasiliou joins St Albans City on loan
The Club can confirm that Antonis Vasiliou has today joined St Albans City on a 28-day loan.
Jack Barham joins Dorking
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Windsor, England
Queen Charlotte Street
At just 51 feet and 10 inches long, it's the shortest street in England.
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The next time you find yourself near Windsor Castle in need of a short walk, check out Queen Charlotte Street in Windsor, England. At just under 52 feet long, the tiny passageway is officially the shortest street in England.
The quirky cobblestone pathway is centuries old and measures a mere 51 feet and 10 inches. There’s a round, blue plaque that marks its location on the corner of High Street and declares its title as the shortest street in the country.
It’s about 50 yards from Windsor Castle and starts on High Street next to the Crooked House of Windsor, a slanted 17th-century building that in itself is worth passing by. The short stone road stops at Carpenter’s Arms, a pub, which is perfect for travelers in need of a place to rest and quest their thirst after completing the journey from one end of the street to the other.
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Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction: staging an intervention. But when 18-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment and her interventionist is found dead at the airport where she was last seen, Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all.
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An Intervention Novel
When 15-year-old Lance Covington finds an abandoned baby in the backseat of a car, he knows she's the newborn daughter of a meth addict he's been trying to help. But when police arrest him for kidnapping, Lance is thrust into a criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. His mother, Barbara, looks for help from Kent Harlan - the man whom she secretly, reluctantly loves and who once helped rescue her daughter from a mess of her own. Kent flies to her aid and begins the impossible work of getting Lance out of trouble, protecting a baby who has no home, and finding help for a teenage mother.
Emily Covington has turned her life around after a drug addiction, but her family still has trouble trusting her. Though Emily has committed herself to a year-long treatment program and has been sober for almost a year beyond that, even her mother walks on eggshells around her, fearing she’ll relapse. After her behavior during her drug years, Emily realizes she has a lot to prove. When police discover a homemade bomb under Emily’s car, and she then learns the wife of one of her friends was murdered that same morning, she knows things are deadly serious.
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Home 2015 Aviation Cancelled Cebu Pacific Air Civil Aeronautics Board Delayed January News Ninoy Aquino International Airport Aviation Officials: Explanations Not Enough for Cebu Pacific Flight Delays and Cancellations
Aviation Officials: Explanations Not Enough for Cebu Pacific Flight Delays and Cancellations
Dirk Andrei Salcedo January 01, 2015 2015, Aviation, Cancelled, Cebu Pacific Air, Civil Aeronautics Board, Delayed, January, News, Ninoy Aquino International Airport,
Aviation Updates Philippines - A week passed after the incident at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3, where passengers got disappointed at Cebu Pacific due to several delays and flight cancellations. However, the aviation officials are not convinced by the reasons given by the carrier such as air traffic congestion, bad weather, and lack of man power, according to the Civil Aeronautics Board Executive Director, Carmelo L. Arcilla.
Cebu Pacific Air Airbus A330-343X RP-C3341
(PHOTO) Gabriel de Cadiz - PPSG
According to Manila International Airport Authority General Manager, Jose Angel Honrado, that air traffic congestion did not cause the flight delays and cancellations on December 24, 25, and 26, 2014. Officials of Cebu Pacific said that the transfer of five international carriers in NAIA Terminal 3 added to the airport's congestion.
“Flight delays and cancellations were not NAIA’s fault. The problem is airlines were not taking off and arriving at their designated time. It’s a matter of timeliness,” Honrado said. He did not accept the carrier's excuse as 70 percent of its delayed and cancelled flights were due to the lack of aircraft and man power.
Arcilla said that a total of 719 flights of the largest low-cost carrier in the Philippines, Cebu Pacific, were delayed and about 70 percent of its flights were cancelled. The reasons given by the carrier are air traffic congestion, overbooking, bad weather, and lack of personnel on Christmas day.
"These reasons aren't enough to justify the large number of passengers delayed and flights cancelled. If air traffic congestion or weather condition were the problem, why were the other airlines able to manage it?" Mr. Honrado said. "In terms of the sudden absence of most of its crew, they should have expected it and secured enough manpower, especially in this crucial season.”
Bayan Muna Representative, Neri Colmenares said in a statement that the carrier should be punished due to its dismal service and failing to protect their airline passengers. He also said that he strongly disapproves carriers for excessive fares, delays or cancellations, and dismal service to be investigated by the Civil Aeronautics Board, a PDI report stated.
“I wished that Congress then already called for a probe but that did not happen, so I will file a resolution when Congress opens on Jan. 5 for the probe to immediately take place,” Colmenares said. “While it is good that the CAB will already start their investigation to get to some of the details of the continued inconvenience of airline passengers, I think that the CAB should also be probed for not doing its duty to regulate these airlines and protect airline passengers."
According to the carrier's website, passengers with flights originating or connecting from Manila, between December 23, 2014 - January 5, 2015, who have been unable to check-in for their flights or have been tagged as no-show for their flights, may avail any of the following options without additional charges:
Rebooking of flights up to 30 days from original departure date
Full travel fund or
Passengers may specify their preferred option, until January 12, 2015, by calling +(632)7020888 or visiting Cebu Pacific's organic ticket offices listed below:
NAIA Terminal 3 Sales Office – Level 3, Departure Hall, NAIA Terminal 3, Andrews Ave., Pasay City
NAIA Terminal 4 Express Ticket Office – Old Domestic Road, Pasay City
Robinsons Galleria – West Lane, Level 1, Ortigas Ave. cor. ADB Ave. Quezon City
Robinsons Place Imus – Level 4, Aguinaldo Highway Imus, Cavite
Robinsons Place Manila – Level 1 Adriatico Wing, Pedro Gil cor. Adriatico St. Ermita Manila
Cebu Airport Ticket Office – Mactan International Airport, Lapu-Lapu, Cebu City
Robinsons Fuente – Fuente Osmeña, Cebu City
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By Dirk Andrei Salcedo on January 01, 2015
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Perth Scorchers vs Adelaide Strikers BBL Betting Tips
Perth Scorchers and Adelaide Strikers BBL Preview, Betting Tips and Odds
The MCG won’t be the only stadium hosting a cricket match on Boxing Day, with the Perth Scorchers and Adelaide Strikers to meet in the BBL later in the day.
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Perth Scorchers vs Adelaide Strikers
By Ashley Perry,
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The MCG won’t be the only place to watch cricket on Boxing Day, with the Perth Scorchers and Adelaide Strikers to light up Perth’s Optus Stadium at 4:15 p.m. local time (6:15 p.m. AEST), shortly after stumps between Australia and India.
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Perth entered the BBL|08 season as title favourites but have had a disastrous start to the season with losses to the Melbourne Renegades and Sydney Sixers. This is their first home match for the season, and they’ll be desperate to return to form against the defending champion Adelaide Strikers, who won their season opener against the Brisbane Heat before losing at home to the Renegades.
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The online bookies have been quick to write off the Scorchers, making them underdogs for this match. Interestingly, the Scorchers won 83.3% of games last season when they started underdogs and just 42.9% of games as favourites, according to Unibet. They’re good value to turn things around against the Strikers, with TopBetta paying 2.10 in match betting.
Focus on Player Betting Markets
The Scorchers go in without Shaun and Mitch Marsh, who are on test duty, and Cameron Bancroft, who will return from his lengthy suspension against Hobart on December 30. The likes of Michael Klinger, 1.90 with Unibet to score 24 or more, and Ashton Turner, 1.87 to score 18 or more, will need to lead the way with the bat. Jason Behrendorff, 6.50 for top match bowler, will be under pressure to add to his season tally of four wickets.
There was nothing Short about this strike! @Weet_Bix | #BBL08 pic.twitter.com/LsVzjKwYqV
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 23, 2018
Strikers recruit Matthew Short top scored against his old team the Renegades with 65, and Pointsbet are paying 10.00 for a him to top score against the Scorchers – and for Adelaide to win. Short and teammate Alex Carey are both ranked top 10 in the BBL for sixes, with five and four respectively. Bet365 is paying 2.00 for Adelaide to have the most sixes in this match.
Aussies to win @2.20 with Betfair
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The Plain Meaning of a Covenant Not to Sue
by Charles Bieneman
Categories: Patent Licenses, The Software IP Report
How can you draft a covenant not to sue for patent infringement without agreeing to restrictions that will prevent you from enforcing your patent rights against some unknown party in the future? In Securus Technologies Inc. v. Global Tel*Link Corp., Nos. 2016-1470, 2016-1506 (Jan 26, 2017), the Federal Circuit held that the plain and ordinary meaning of a covenant not to sue in a settlement agreement justified a district court’s summary judgment dismissing a cause of action for patent infringement.
In 2009, Securus had settled a patent infringement lawsuit it had brought against various entities for allegedly infringing its patents. In that settlement, Securus gave the suit entities a covenant not to sue the entity “or its affiliates” for infringement of its patents until September 18, 2014. One of those entities was acquired by Global Tel *Link (GTL) in 2010; Securus sued GTL for infringing its patents in 2013.
The District Court had found “that GTL qualified as an affiliate of PCS and that the covenant therefore protected GTL from Securus’s suit.” The Federal Circuit agreed, because the plain and ordinary meaning of “affiliate” encompassed GTL. And not only did the plain and ordinary meaning of “affiliate” encompass a corporate parent, but the court rejected Securus’s argument that the agreement’s reference to “Securus’s ‘affiliates, subsidiaries and parent corporations’ as separate entities” meant that a parent corporation was not an affiliate. The court explained that
it is not unusual for legal documents to use overlapping language in order to ensure against gaps intended coverage. Overlapping terms are frequently found in documents such as wills (“give, bequeath, and devise”), contracts of sale (“grant, bargain, sell and convey”), and releases (“remise, release, and forever discharge”). That appears to be the role of the reference in the 2009 contract to Securus’s covenant not to sue “on behalf of itself and its former and present affiliates, subsidiaries and parent corporations, successors and assigns.”
As a side note, the court also rejected GTL’s argument that it had made an adequate showing to recover attorneys fees. GTL had failed to present testimony and evidence to support its request.
Absent explicit exclusionary language, expect a covenant not to sue to be construed broadly. Often a patent owner, concerned about giving up its rights to enforce its patents against third parties, will craft very careful language when providing a covenant not to sue in a settlement agreement. A patent owner can carve out future acquirers, categories of entities, or even specific companies. The patent owner did not do so here.
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US mid-terms latest: All you need to know
US mid-terms 2018
The US mid-term elections on Tuesday will help define the rest of Donald Trump's presidency.
Americans will vote for members of both chambers of Congress, as well as for governors in 36 out of 50 states.
This is our last daily round-up ahead of the mid-terms, so we've pulled together all our material that matters.
Wait...what are the mid-terms? (Don't worry, it's OK to ask.)
It may feel like the US is always having elections, so what's at stake on Tuesday? What are people voting for?
We're here to help. Here's our very simple guide that hopefully answers everything you want to know.
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If you were to look at campaign videos alone, it would appear that the key issues on people's minds as they go to the polls were healthcare and immigration.
But what do voters themselves say? We asked people in 12 different states what issues are on their minds as they select their candidates.
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Donald Trump's name isn't on the ballot this year, but it might as well be.
One important thing to watch on Tuesday will be whether candidates who have embraced the president's rhetoric and tactics end up doing well. This could shape the direction of the Republican party over the next two years.
Either way, we can expect these mid-terms, like all others, to be a referendum on the president.
The parties of presidents who have low approval ratings tend to do poorly in the mid-terms - and President Trump's are very low indeed.
This is one reason Democrats, with the House of Representatives in their sights, are optimistic this year.
Here are other reasons Democrats are hopeful
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There are plenty we could have picked here - any of the close Senate races in Tennessee, Missouri or Arizona for example - but if there's one race that sums up the 2018 mid-terms, it is the close race for governor in Georgia.
Like in a number of other states this year, Georgia could see a significant first: Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams would become the first female African-American governor in the US if she won.
Her Republican opponent Brian Kemp is Georgia's secretary of state. His office has been behind the cancellation of 1.5m voter registration applications in four years, and has been accused of voter suppression, one of the hot-button issues this year.
As with the divisive race for governor in neighbouring Florida, the Georgia contest has also been laced with racist undertones (or even overtones). Just last week, the Washington Post reported, voters in Georgia received a fake robocall purporting to be from Oprah Winfrey "asking you to make my fellow Negress Stacey Abrams the governor of Georgia".
Our correspondent Courtney Subramanian spent time in Georgia looking at how the bitter race has played out.
You can read her piece here
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The first polls will close at 23:00 GMT on Tuesday (that's 18:00 on the east coast of the US).
We'll be bringing you coverage live online, on TV and on radio as the results come in.
How can you find out where to read, watch and listen?
See the schedule for our mid-terms coverage here
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There are plenty of possible outcomes on Tuesday, and therefore plenty of possible consequences.
If you want to see what those consequences are, choose a scenario right here...
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Spain and Belgium World Cup 2018 Squad News: Chelsea Trio Miss Out as Spanish Set Sights on the Trophy
Image Credit: joshjdss via flickr
They are one of the favourites to win the World Cup this summer, and so Spain’s squad was always likely to be a high-quality collection of players. But few would have expected a key Chelsea trio to miss out on Julen Lopetegui’s 23-man selection.
But Alvaro Morata, Cesc Fabregas and Marcos Alonso have paid for Chelsea’s low key campaign, Saturday’s FA Cup triumph apart, by failing to make the grade in what is an outstanding Spanish set-up.
Morata has scored just eleven goals for the Blues in a campaign that started well but ended with him losing his place to Olivier Giroud in the starting eleven, while Alonso faced stiff competition for the left back berth from the likes of Barcelona veteran Jordi Alba, Arsenal’s Nacho Monreal and the versatile Nacho Fernandez. And Fabregas could not find his way into a midfield that is overstocked with world class talent.
They will now have a watching brief from the sofa, with Arsenal’s Hector Bellerin also missing out on selection after a so-so campaign for the Gunners.
La Roja Ready to Regain Trophy
Spain #WC2018 squad announcement live: Morata left out!
https://t.co/p1ZLCzESNl pic.twitter.com/0StOHZhSdR
— AS English (@English_AS) May 21, 2018
It was always likely to be a tough decision for Lopetegui to trim down his preliminary shortlist into a concrete 23-man squad to embark to Russia, but the results of his labour reveal an outfit that will surely go close at the summer spectacle.
You may as well start off with the best goalkeeper in the planet on whose shoulders you can rely, and so David de Gea will step into the limelight as number one ahead of Pepe Reina and Kepa.
In defence, Lopetegui may opt for three at the back or he may play a flat four, but either way he has plenty of options at his disposal. Sergio Ramos and Gerard Pique offer a wealth of big tournament experience, with Daniel Carvajal and Alba likely to get the nod at full back. Cesar Azpilicueta may have to watch on from the bench with Monreal, Nacho and Alvaro Odriozola.
One look at the options in midfield and you can see why even a class act like Fabregas can’t force his way into the reckoning. Take your pick from Sergio Busquets, Isco, Thiago Alcantara, Koke, Saul Niguez and Andres Iniesta, who has recently announced his decision to leave Barcelona. The outstanding David Silva could be pressed into service as a ‘false nine’ in attack.
Alternatively, La Rojo could opt for Diego Costa through the middle – a bit of a snub for Morata, the man who replaced him at Stamford Bridge – with the Real Madrid pair Lucas Vazquez and Marco Asensio in wide areas.
It really is a mouth-watering squad, and you can see why the Spanish have been inserted as a strong 13/2 chance behind Brazil and Germany to lift the Jules Rimet trophy in July. A group that contains Portugal, Morocco and Iran should offer little in the way of resistance to their hopes.
Turmoil for Key England Opponent
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To rather less fanfare, Belgium announced their World Cup squad on Monday, and one player was notable by his absence.
Radja Nainggolan, the brilliant midfielder who helped guide AS Roma to the Champions League semi-finals, has been bizarrely omitted from his country’s squad by head coach Roberto Martinez.
“The reason that Radja’s not in the squad is purely a tactical decision. I don’t think he is a player to be used in a small role,” was Martinez’s explanation in what must go down as one of the most underhand backhanded compliments in football.
Nainggolan has since announced his international retirement in an act of hasty petulance, but even his teammates must surely be confused as to why such a class act failed to make the grade in a midfield in which Marouane Fellaini and Adnan Januzaj are given the nod.
There will be a healthy Premier League presence in the Belgium team, with Romelu Lukaku and Michy Batshuayi battling it out for the number nine shirt ahead of a truly mesmerising midfield that will surely include Kevin de Bruyne, Eden Hazard, Mousa Dembele and Dries Mertens.
At the back Tottenham pair Jan Vertonghen and Toby Alderweireld – although how much longer he will be at the club remains to be seen – will team up on the international stage, although it remains to be seen whether the fitness of Vincent Kompany will hold out for a full tournament.
In goal, Chelsea’s Thibaut Courtois is likely to get the nod over the ousted Liverpool shot stopper Simon Mignolet.
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Liquid Cancels Sale of Telegram's Gram Tokens, Returns Funds to Investors
The sale of Telegram Open Network tokens held by Liquid Exchange was canceled due to launch delays, with the funds being returned to the investors.
Liquid Exchange has canceled the sale of Telegram Open Network’s (TON) Gram tokens, according to a Jan. 10 company post. The exchange returned the funds of all investors who participated in the unofficial sale.
The exchange reportedly canceled the sale due to the delay in the launch of TON’s mainnet. At the time of the sale in July 2019, it was believed that the network would be live on Oct. 31. However, the launch was impeded by the SEC’s investigation into the original Gram offering, which it argues was an unregistered sale of securities.
Liquid’s terms of sale stated that all funds were to be returned to the investors in case TON failed to launch by Nov. 30, 2019.
As previously reported by Cointelegraph, Liquid’s token sale was in no way affiliated with Telegram. According to Telegram’s terms of sale, participants in the original initial coin offering (ICO) are not allowed to resell or swap the tokens in any way until 18 months after the launch of the network. According to the Liquid ICO page, the tokens were supposed to be delivered in several tranches after TON’s mainnet launch.
Liquid reportedly acted as an agent for Gram Asia, allegedly the largest Gram token holder on the continent. Cointelegraph’s sources close to Telegram noted at the time that it was the first they heard about the organization.
The exchange succeeded in collecting at least $4 million in USDC, contained in an Ethereum wallet disclosed by the company. The funds were moved to Liquid’s hot wallet on Jan. 14, according to Etherscan.
Telegram’s lawsuit with SEC is set to continue, with the regulator recently obtaining crucial evidence against it.
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Capsula Mundi
I have sometimes talked about the false dichotomy between Nature and Culture, that weird, mostly Western aberration that sees mankind separated and opposed to the rest of the environment. This feeling of estrangement is what’s behind the melancholy for the original union, now presumed lost: we look at birds in a tree, and regret we are not that carefree and unrestrained; we look at our cities and struggle to find them “natural”, because we insisted in building them with rigid geometries rarely found elsewhere, as if to mark the difference with all other habitats in which straight lines seldom exist.
This vision of man as a creature completely different from other living beings has found an obvious declination in Western burials. It’s one of the very few traditions in which the grave is designed to keep the body from returning to earth (of course in the past centuries this also had to do with the idea of preserving the body for the ultimate Resurrection).
But there is someone who is trying to change this perspective.
Picture your death as a voyage through three different states of matter. Imagine crossing the boundaries between animal, mineral and plant kingdom.
This is the concept behind Capsula Mundi, an italian startup devised by Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel, which over the past decade has been trying to achieve a new, eco-friendly and poetic kind of burial. An egg made of biodegradable material will wrap the body arranged in fetal position, or the ashes; once planted underground, it will grow a specific tree, chosen by the deceased when still alive. One after the other, these “graves” will form a real sacred forest where relatives and friends can wander around, taking care of the very plants grown, fed and left as inheritance by their dear departed. A more joyful alternative to the heavy, squared marble gravestone, and a way of accepting death as a transition, a transformation rather than the end of life.
Actually the very idea of a “capsule” incorporates two separate connotations. On one hand there’s the scientific idea of a membrane, of a cell, of a seed for new life. And the shell enveloping the body — not by chance arranged in fetal position — is a sort of replica of the original embryo, a new amniotic sac which symbolically affirms the specularity (or even the identity) of birth and death. On the other, there is the concept of a “capsule” as a vehicle, a sci-fi pod, a vessel leading the corpse from the animal kingdom to the mineral kingdom, allowing all the body components to decompose and to be absorbed by the plant roots.
Death may look like a black monolith, but it gives rise to the cosmic fetus, the ever-changing mutation.
The planting of a tree on burial grounds also refers to the Roman tradition:
For the ancients, being buried under the trees enabled the deceased body to be absorbed by the roots, and matter to be brought back to life within the plant. Such an interpenetration between the corpse and the arboreal organism therefore suggested a highly symbolic meaning: plunging his roots inside mother earth and pushing his top towards the sky, it was like the deceased was stretching out his arms, to protect and save his descendants, in a continuing dialogue with posterity’s affection and memory.
(N. Giordano, Roma, potenza e simbologia: dai boschi sacri al “Miglio d’oro”, in SILVÆ – Anno VI n. 14)
I asked some questions to Anna Citelli, creator of Capsula Mundi along with Raoul Bretzel.
It is clear today that the attitude towards death and dying is changing, after a century of medicalization and removal: more and more people feel the need to discuss these topics, to confront them and above all to find new (secular) narratives addressing them. In this sense, Capsula Mundi is both a practical and symbolic project. From what did you draw inspiration for this idea? The “capsule” was shaped like an egg from the beginning, or were you initially thinking of something else?
We unveiled the Capsula Mundi project in 2003, at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. It was not the first time we exhibited at the Salon, albeit independently from one another. Our works at the time were already a reflection on sustainability, and when we had the occasion to work together we asked ourselves some questions about the role of designers in a society which appears removed from nature, well-satisfied and overwhelmed by objects for every necessity.
We decided to devote our work to a moment in life of extreme importance, charged with symbolic references, just like birth and wedding. Death is a delicate passage, mysterious and inevitable. It is the moment in which the person stops consuming or producing, therefore in theory it’s something distant from the glossy environment of design. But if we look at it as a natural phenomenon, a transformation of substances, death is the moment in which the being is reconnected with nature, with its perpetual changing. The coffin, an object neglected by designers, becomes a way of reflecting on the presumption that we are not part of the biological cycle of life, a reflection on a taboo. Adopting the perfect shape of the egg was an immediate and instinctive choice, the only one that could indicate our thought: that death is not an end or an interruption, but the beginning of a new path.
How does Capsula Mundi relate to the death-positive movement? Is your project, while not aspiring to replace traditional burials but rather to offer an alternative choice, also intended to promote a cultural debate?
We have been presenting the concept of Capsula Mundi for more than a decade now, and in the last few years in the public we have finally seen a rising need to talk about death, free from any negative cultural conditioning. It is a collective and transversal need which leads to an enrichment we’ve all been waiting for. We receive a lot of letters from all over the world, from architecture students to palliative treatments operators, from botany students to documentary filmmakers. A whole variety of human beings sharing different experiences, trying to achieve a social change through debate and confrontation, to gain a new perspective on the end of life.
What point is the project at, and what difficulties are you encountering?
Green burials are prohibited in Italy, but seeing the huge demand we receive every day we decided to start the production of the small version of Capsula Mundi, for cremated remains. In the meantime we are carrying on the studies to build capsules for the whole body, but we still need some time for research.
Green burials are already a reality in other countries, as are humanist funerals. Do you think the Italian legislation in funeral matters will change any time soon?
We think that laws are always a step behind social changes. In Italy cemetery regulations date back to Napoleonic times, and legislative change will not happen quickly. But the debate is now open, and sooner or later we too will have memorial parks. Regarding cremated remains, for instance, many things have already changed, almost all regions adjusted to the citizens requests and chose some areas in which the ashes can be spread. Up until some years ago, the urn had to be left within the cemetery, under lock and key and in the keeper’s custody.
How is the audience responding to your project?
Very well. Since the beginning, in 2003, our project never caused any uproar or complaint. It was always understood beyond our expectations. Now, with the help of social medias, its popularity has grown and we just reached 34.000 likes on Facebook. In november 2015 we presented Capsula Mundi to an English-speaking audience at TEDx Torino and it’s been a huge success. For us it is a wonderful experience.
Official site: Capsula Mundi.
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Banks have allowed fintechs to take a large portion of market share, according to Paul Maley, managing director, head of corporate bank UK and Ireland at Deutsche Bank
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“I think it is the way in which we reacted to the financial crisis through things like central clearing, through things like the way we do OTC price discovery. I think we just gave away too much, and there was often a mindset - and I don’t think this was exclusive to my firm but it was across the whole street - where it was about meeting the requirements of the regulation rather than being in front of it, and thinking about the business models that were going to come as a result,” he said.
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Maley said the bank was going through a “renaissance” period.
Andrew Murray, European head of market infrastructure investments, Citi, said his teams’ focus was on strategic return rather than financial returns in fintech investment.
“Our teams’ investments are not going to move the dial for the overall bank, whereas the partnerships that are catalysed and the initiatives that are kicked off as a result of the investing activity can have more of an impact,” he said.
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In the far future, space explorers discover strange civilizations in an obscure corner of the Milky Way.
Sequel to SCARLET BEAST, IDOLS, EDEN DELETED, THE END OF THE WORLD, and ENEMY. Continues in OF DOGS AND MEN and FORWARD TO THE PAST.
Submitted: March 21, 2016
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“Sir! Star system ahead!”
The young Navigator’s voice was hoarse with childish excitement. The spaceship was close to completing a long and largely uneventful voyage across the Milky Way. Most of the galaxy’s constellation arms were sparsely inhabited. Exploring one empty star system after another was as tiresome as going through long rows of identical cans in hope of finding one with some food in it. Even the Captain had nearly lost his patience.
Things started to look more interesting when they began cruising in and around a curiously shaped belt about twenty-five thousand light years away from the galactic center. They had discovered a beautiful planet populated entirely by fairly small quadruped, fur-covered, halfway sentient mammals; according to the Universal Translator, these creatures called themselves sons of bitches, and were very proud of that designation. The Captain mentioned interstellar cooperation, but they did not seem to comprehend that concept. In the end their loud, incessant barking had become unbearable.
“Clearly unredeemed,” the Captain concluded, returning to the ship. “Still waiting for the Anointed One. Let’s move on, and somebody get me a cup of coffee already.”
Not too far from that planet was another star system bursting with activity. It was inhabited by aliens boasting three genders and a confusing number of various appendages. The aborigines went by the nickname Voz, and readily admitted that they had been colonized by a race of advanced space travelers two thousand years ago. The level of their scientific knowledge was disproportionally high compared to their spiritual development, even though they possessed old religious books written in the ancient languages of the colonizers, Russian and English.
“I like those guys,” the Psychologist declared when the ship took off. “Especially the three-gender thing. Man... think of all the possibilities.”
“Very funny,” the Captain said. “How about some Redemption evaluation instead?”
“I’d say they might have had an indirect contact with the Anointed One,” the Psychologist said seriously. “Maybe that fellow Alexei Men, the one who founded their civilization, can be considered a messenger of sorts. I’m just saying.”
The Captain was somewhat taken aback by that suggestion. Classification of civilizations by Redemption status was no easy task, and that corner of the Milky Way seemed to contain the oddest cases they had encountered so far.
But the biggest surprises were still ahead. The travelers came upon a planet with a horribly mutilated surface, as if a giant monster had walked on it, stamping and demolishing everything in its path. There was nothing left except hideously deformed landscape. The Navigator had a strange nightmare the following night, replete with war cries and blood.
A closely grouped, densely populated star system located nearby housed a strange remote planet with nothing but a lone dome-shaped laboratory standing on one of its continents.
“Now that’s really weird,” the Historian said, observing sterile corridors and complex equipment held in pristine condition. There was no trace of life in the laboratory. “I’d even say scary… Where is everyone?”
The Captain carefully plugged into a strangely looking device placed at the very center of the building. For several minutes he just stood there, seemingly enchanted by what he saw. After he disconnected, he didn’t say a word and briskly walked out of the laboratory. Only a few hours later, when they were on the way, he shared his experience with the rest of the crew.
“I don’t understand,” the Captain said. “This must be a new technique of… creation? If I dare say so.”
“What are you talking about?” the Psychologist asked impatiently.
The Captain shook his head.
“That device… it contained a whole world. A whole programmed world, with creatures that have a free will. Some of them worship a being they call Oduya. I’m fairly certain that’s their real creator. The owner of that lab.”
“But how is this possible –” the Psychologist began.
The Captain raised his hand.
“That’s not all,” he said. “Comparing evidence and data from the other inhabited planets we have visited, I am convinced that this mysterious Oduya, the civilizing hero Alexei Men, and the deities of those barking savages all belong to the same race of sentient creatures. And something tells me they are connected to that destroyed planet as well. ”
They went silent for a moment.
“Wow,” the Historian said finally. “That’s… incredible. Are you saying God-like power was given to one race? Can Redemption even go that far?”
“I don’t know what I think,” the Captain said abruptly. “All I know is that this whole trip was useless if we don’t find the origin planet of that super-race and establish contact.”
They stumbled upon an inconspicuous, medium-sized bluish planet only a few days later. It was orbiting a modest yellow dwarf and at first appeared civilized – even monstrously so, according to the Historian. Ruins of grotesquely tall structures, veritable nightmares of glass and concrete, covered large portions of the surface. It was clear that once great powers had thriven here; a single look upon any of the demolished gigantic cities convinced the crew that they finally found what they’d been looking for all along.
But there was no life on that planet.
No sentient creatures of any kind. No animals. No plants. The atmosphere contained heavy doses of radioactive substances and biological hazards. The planet was dead, suffocated by heaps of inorganic matter of various kinds, a few hard to discover fossils, and many large skeletons, probably belonging to an unknown species of mammals. It was the most depressing view the space explorers had ever been exposed to.
They stayed for a few weeks. The young Navigator aimlessly wandered through deserted streets, inexplicable longing and sadness overcoming him. The Captain seemed to be more addicted to coffee than usually. The Psychologist was puzzled and angry because he could not fathom a civilization that would indulge itself in self-destructive megalomania. In all his years of studying and practicing interstellar psychology he had never encountered such a case.
After a few days, the Historian discovered a damaged communication system, which he eventually managed to restore. Once they had gained access to the Web, the history of the planet, recorded in a multitude of documents, was finally revealed to them.
Later that day, they sat in the spaceship dining room, and for a long while none of them could speak.
“I… I don’t know what to say,” the Captain said finally, his voice trembling.
Everyone was silent.
“They –” the Captain tried again and coughed violently.
They didn’t utter another word about what they had found until the spaceship took off. In a monotonous voice, as though mourning the death of a beloved person, the Historian dictated the report.
The inhabitants of Planet RZ-31173, having fallen from Grace, were blessed by the first Advent of the Anointed One three thousand years ago. The nominal acceptance of Redemption reached its peak about five hundred years afterwards. However, while the documentation of the Advent continued to spread, eventually becoming known to the planet’s entire population, the inhabitants remained overwhelmingly ignorant of the consequences. By and large, they chose to reject the Redemption plan by refusing to cooperate.
The organization responsible for the practical application of the plan was gradually turning more and more corrupt. This resulted in numerous betrayals and splits, which eventually led to grave disappointment among the inhabitants. This, in turn, caused a severe psychological disease of unseen proportions. The inhabitants began to focus on themselves entirely, as though they had created themselves or were randomly spawned by blind natural forces. In fact, mythological concepts furthering such simplistic and illogical explanations concerning the origin of the world were flourishing by the end of nineteenth century following the Advent. The mental damage was so strong that the subsequent century found itself plagued by horrifying wars conducted in the name of ideologies rooted in steady denial of any evidence pointing to the Advent and its consequences.
Later decades of the twenty-first century saw a consolidation of three political entities, each vehemently resisting the Redemption plan either by perverting, ignoring, or obfuscating it. The lack of any true local spiritual guidance resulted in mass dissatisfaction and mounting tension. A few individuals still recognizing the Advent left the planet. We have observed the results of their activities in the nearby star systems. Meanwhile, a devastating war eradicated the majority of the local population on Planet RZ-31173 in the year 2121. Subsequent emergence of a new intelligent species and its relationship with the formerly dominant race is only sparsely documented, but the available evidence indicates that, several centuries later, one man's folly, condoned by the majority, caused the total extinction of life on the planet.
We have established that the defining motive for the aforementioned unfathomable actions was a highly destructive and very rare state of mind, of which even our esteemed Psychologist has only theoretical knowledge. In the documentation of the inhabitants of Planet RZ-31173, it is described with the word ‘pride’.
When the Historian finished no one could speak. The spaceship was heading towards their home planet, and the relief was so palpable that they felt ashamed. They had witnessed a tragedy they could not grasp, and they knew nothing would ever be the same again. When their homeland was already in sight, the Psychologist said quietly, standing near the Captain and admiring the beautiful celestial glow:
“Do you think they were… you know… redeemed? After everything they’d done? I mean, they did get those amazing chances… Meeting other intelligent beings. Even creating…”
The Captain looked at him.
“What’s wrong with you?” he asked, concerned. “You know as well as I do that He wants to save everyone. But you also know what free will means, don’t you? So… it’s an open drama, my friend. A play where we can choose our roles, but not change the script.”
“True,” the Psychologist mumbled. “But… we’ll pray for them, alright?”
“Way ahead of you,” the Captain said seriously, then added: “You know what I really want right now?”
“A cup of coffee?” the Psychologist said and rolled his eyes.
The Captain smiled. They hugged each other firmly with all eight tentacles, changed their skin colors to festive bright blue, and floated downstairs to the dining room.
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Mon, March 21st, 2016 1:27pm
Mr. Roschin is back to thoughtful mode;
a return to seriousness that we welcome. As we welcome his first story for 2016,
and related retrieval fondness of carefully, and, which matters more, affectionately picked lexicon.
But as always, he looks stuck in his surpassed mindset as to, for one, gender.
Three genders?! Educate yourself, widen your views, please: http://genderfluidsupport.tumblr.com/gender/
You should check your sexism: for instance, see Garbiñe Muguruza play tennis: if it does come to your mind
that she is "attractive", you are sexist. If you are a public figure and say it, be ready for the whole
"democratic" media to assail you.
It's attitudes like saying "I think the most qualified person should get the job" that can't be tolerated
any longer, you see. Try to tell them as a Florida university student and see.
Try handing "love notes" to a schoolmate as a fourth-grader, too, if you dare (http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/family/544661/nine-year-old-sexual-harassment-love-note)
Jokes — and present (and future) reality of the West and the disease state liberty drives human societies to — apart, this is no less sorrowful and thoughtful than a writing has to be to qualify as art,
and indeed qualifies as such.
You know, the adverb in that "grotesquely tall structures", that adjective in the disguise of adverb.
This time tears fall down the panes in The Force: this time, unlike then, for real.
I wonder what type life species these voyagers belong in, however; if even their Psychologist
finds unfathomable the equation of human existence, Alles = Kraft. Must be a lucky species.
And an hardly-plausibly blessed universe, if areas under said existence formula are as rare as the story says.
I note that the Psychologist is hardly going to realize Earth was ruled by self-destructive megalomania
(a definition so exemplar that shall not be modified)
before he and his travel mates learn of the planet's history.
The Captain's and crew's wellbeing would, also, be enhanced by the use of chocolate alongside coffee too,
I think. If you talk with them, suggest these: http://www.amedei.it/en/prodotto/5944/QSLQLDEP/pralines-25-alcohol
(they come very recommended for juvenile, gleeful engaged couples as well, by the way ;) )
My bet is nor the Captain or the Psychologist's taste buds have ever met something of the like.
For there is no chocolate of the like in the entire universe (I don't warrant this to apply to other
universes).
One finishes reading, instinctively compares this to past Oleg Roschin, and questions himself
about what can elicit such change, and psychological development.
Or pretends to question himself about that, more likely.
Only the realisation of our mortality can be cause of suchlike development.
Free will is probably nothing but a daring conception (what if it were a son of pride too?), and
the very idea of us having a chance to change anything is the most philosophically
inconciliable idea with that of immortality than can be thought, .. as hardly thinkable as
a play where we can make our rules, but can't alter the script.
Of course,the capacity of thinking is a tool of ours; figuring being and the absolute could lie under its juridisction
would be another sin of pride — and is the faith driving cilivilisation forwards on the path of the Supreme Folly.
What we can do is hope, pray, as the pitiful (in the most noble archaic acceptation of the term) story here bravely teaches.
Mon, March 21st, 2016 10:06pm
Thank you for your insightful comment! Regarding the free will statement - the Captain didn't say we could change the rules, he said we could choose the roles! In other words, the script of all events in the universe has been already written by God (as per the determinist cause-and-effect law), but human free will is a separate agent that alters not God's plan, but individual events and humans' own fate. That's pretty much the orthodox Christian concept, hopefully I understand it correctly (not radical Calvinist - I can't agree with the predestination-only idea...).
We find free will contradicting the law of causality (same way, as you observed, as immortality contradicts the ubiquitous death) because both those concepts can only exist outside of time and space and are attributes of a being who is outside of time and space (God). The moment we try to squeeze these concepts into the world as we know it, we come to irreconcilable contradictions.
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This is an interesting take on sci fi which breaks out of it at the same time as having a Star Trek feel to it. The introduction of the divine into the mix makes it even stranger, but somehow the whole thing holds together and it reads well. The last sentence provides something of a twist and lightens the narrative considerably. All in all a very enjoyable story, Oleg.
Tue, March 22nd, 2016 11:49am
Thank you very much for your kind comment, Chris! I did want it to feel very light-hearted in a Star Trek kind of way, and also have a bit of a goofy twist at the end - all in order to make a story focused on the dark topic of humans' most destructive sin less unbearably heavy... At the same time, making the pure-hearted, religious explorers into octopuses had a deeper meaning for me - they may look ridiculous to us, but they are better than us, and we have nothing to be proud of...
I'm not much for writing reviews, but I will say this is well written and thought provoking. I enjoyed it greatly.
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Thank you very much for your kind comment, Johnny!
Sylvermyst
Thu, March 24th, 2016 7:16pm
I just have to say what reading this -- that it was a amazing. It is very different but I really liked it. It just flowed together so beautifully and I didn't expect the ending.
Thank you for your kind comment! I think it does gradually become clear that the protagonists are not from Earth themselves, but for some reason it still feels strange when they are revealed to be aliens at the end... I wonder why...
after* where what is
Amanda Stein
Thu, March 24th, 2016 10:22pm
Well, I did enjoy this story with its philosophical and theological overtones, although your thesis is that the lack of spirituality and resistance to the "creators" intentions resulted in a splintering off into various "tribes" which resulted in a devastating war and elimination of the species except for the "Redemptors" who left and spread the "word" throughout the galaxy. Now I can also see that the splintering off was between the religious sects who accepted God's teachings but believed they were the "chosen ones" and all other beliefs were wrong and evil. I did wonder why this "converted alien species" felt the need to seek out "the source" of their religious beliefs when they should be satisfied in and of themselves that they are living a "righteous life". At first I guessed they were off to "covert" "unredeemed" species but they seemed to give up on so many along the way. I did like the twist at the end where they are revealed to be some forms of mollusks. If they floated inside the ship was it due to zero gravity or was the inside of the ship filled with liquid? Did they wear aqua suits outside of the ship to explore? As mollusks can only remain outside of their liquid environment for short periods of time? Also wouldn't an alien species have an entirely different type of beverage than coffee? Octopi have billions of nerve fibers throughout their body that makes them extra sensitive to changing in sea pressure and currents and enable them to change their colors. I don't know what excessive caffeine would do to them but I would imagine it wouldn't be good. ( I know your point of the story is beyond science but I do like some scientific consistency mixed in with any philosophical and/or theological examinations presented in a science fiction format. But again I may disagree with your conclusions but all in all it was very enjoyable.
Fri, March 25th, 2016 10:19pm
Thank you for your insightful comment, Amanda! I'll try to refer to all the points you've made :)
The lack of spirituality in my (hopefully imaginary!) futuristic universe results in the formation of three officially anti-Christian superpowers - United States of Democratic West, Islamic Caliphate, and China. In year 2121, atomic war ensues and the fate of humanity still remains unknown. My other stories (e.g. Strictly Confidential, Ichthys, Scarlet Beast, The Fallout) provide many more details.
Another set of my stories (Of Dogs and Men, Till We Have Monitors, Forward to the Past, etc.) describes how those few who managed to escape from Earth colonized other planets.
The alien species that are the protagonists of this story are NOT among those colonized by escaped humans. They are, on the contrary, a (probably) unfallen (or fully redeemed?) race with natural faith and no knowledge of pride, on a mission to evaluate other civilizations regarding their level of Redemption. Eventually they find all those human-colonized planets and are naturally curious as to what their source planet might be. To their dismay, they discover that the source planet (our Earth) was destroyed by its own proud, megalomaniac inhabitants (human beings). In the end, they can't quite figure out why those creatures have gotten such amazing chances (constructing a whole robotic world in the case of Oduya, etc.) despite their rejection of Redemption. The point I'm trying to make is - God wants to redeem us no matter what we do.
As for them being octopi-like: that was more of a reminder to us not to consider ourselves supeior. Throughout the story, humans are presented as insane, while the aliens are much more "humane". So the final twist sort of emphasizes the contrast. The coffee part was important because I wanted to create a cozy atmosphere around the Captain. Sorry for the scientific inconsistencies :)
crowefoot
Fri, March 25th, 2016 7:11am
Hi I love it that your writing is so ambitious: bursting with intelectual ideas, symbolism and food for thought. I'd be lying if i said i knew exactly what point you were making with this piece but their is a lot that is open to interpretation. its good to have the mind provoked in an engaging and entertaining format. oh and the last line is fabulous.
Thank you for your kind comment, crowefoot!
The point I was trying to make through this story is this: God has offered us a chance to be redeemed by dying on the cross as Jesus Christ (the Advent of the Anointed One), but we have, by and large, rejected this chance. Possessed by pride, we essentially destroyed ourselves and our planet. 2000 years later, a pious alien race is conducting some statistics experiments in our corner of the galaxy. They learn about our history but they don't understand how come the few humans who had escaped Earth had gotten such amazing chances at colonizing, civilizing, and even creating other worlds. Which means that God always gives us chances no matter what evils we do...
My other stories give much more insight to what exactly happened. This one is more of a "summary" story.
Ethan Howard
"Free will is an open drama, my friend. A play where we can choose our roles, but not change the script."
One the most profound quotes I have read in literature in some time.
Well done, Oleg!
Let me get some things out of the way: Your writing was good and the story flowed nicely.
Now for the important stuff: I love how you tackle fundamental issues of life in this short story. You get the reader to think without coming off as preachy or some political agenda.
The ending was sweet. I went back and re-read the story with the mindset that the space crew looked anything but human.
I could go on and on but I will stop.......for now
Sat, March 26th, 2016 11:16am
Thank you so much for your kind comment, Ethan! I don't have a political agenda at all, but I do have a very clear spiritual agenda and it's very hard for me not to be preachy in my writing. That's why I'm very happy to know you didn't find this story preachy.
You did think the space crew was human at first, didn't you? :) I even inserted the silly coffee bit to obfuscate their alien origin (that was probably overkill, but still ;)). I wanted to make sure we get attached to those guys and get to like them...
ThunderousHunter
Mon, March 28th, 2016 2:30pm
I thought that this was an thought provoking short story. It is an interesting idea that an observing alien race would look for spiritual development as a key factor in an civilization's progression. I think the modern stereotype is that aliens would be scientifically hyper-advanced, and look down on us and marvel at the superstitions we've conjured up as though they could not comprehend the idea of spirituality. Good story!
Mon, March 28th, 2016 11:38pm
Thank you for your insightful comment! That, exactly, was one of the points I was trying to make. For me science fiction format is all about looking at humanity from strange angles to cast a different light on it- and, sadly, it is not always favorable.
That technological advances do not bring along spiritual growth - and, on the contrary, are bound to reduce it - is not a new idea at all, which doesn't make it any less true. One of my main inspirations for making up this set of stories was Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels". Particularly, the last part (with the sentient horses and evil human-like yahoos) emphasizes this same point.
Joshua Kepfer
I can see this being a full novel. You should think about it.
Very interesting ideas in here. It's very difficult to bring Christianity to science fiction, but you did a pretty good job. The last sentence made me laugh.
I've been told several times that I should write novels instead of short stories, but I'm way too lazy...
Indeed it's difficult to write Christian sci-fi, but C.S. Lewis keeps inspiring me at all times. Well, he and the Bible, of course, which has a bit of sci-fi in it too ;)
Don't laugh at mollusks! They have accepted Redemption Plan while we have not! :-)
Bitter Tea Leaves
What an amazing read! I was enthralled from beginning to end. I loved how not all the answers and details were given away at once, so that way it didn't make your passage repetitive and redundant. Instead, your words built on on the other, each detail helping me understand the story better, and answering any questions that I had before. Honestly, applying science fiction to God? Something like that is really hard to pull off, but you did it so flawlessly. I also really appreciated in the end the twist (or maybe it wasn't a twist? Maybe it was just me being slow on the uptake haha), about how the crew we were following wasn't human, but rather the planet that they visited used to be filled with humans (or at least that's what I inferred.) Overall, magnificent job! Short, but wildly effective
Thank you for your kind comment, much appreciated!
Applying science fiction to God is not a new concept - many great sci-fi works have religious overtones. I highly recommend "The Space Trilogy" by C.S. Lewis, which is an amazing example of Christian sci-fi.
I don't think you were slow figuring out the protagonists weren't human; I intentionally obfuscated anything pertaining to their non-human origin (especially in the beginning).
The planet they visited is, of course, our Earth! I thought I made it abundantly clear when I recounted the brief history of humanity from a Christian perspective (in the Historian's report). My other stories ("Scarlet Beast", "The Fallout", etc.) describe in detail what happened to humans around the beginning of 22nd century. It seems that quite a few readers didn't think the planet was Earth; I guess I wasn't clear enough after all...
D. Thurmond, aka, JEF
Tue, March 29th, 2016 1:10pm
I seldom write reviews, but I will say this is well written. I enjoyed it, but found that more interaction of the captain and maybe more crew members would be a nice addition to their tedious mission.It does seem Trekkie at times, but that is a good thing to those that like that. Overall, it was a good read and I enjoyed it. --- Thanks...
Wed, March 30th, 2016 8:52pm
Thank you for your comment, JEF! I was actually thinking of adding more crew and characterization, but then the story got too long... I'm trying to keep it as concise as possible. The Star Trek-like atmosphere was needed to emphasize the familiarity of the reader with the crew - and, by extension, the revelation that the roles were inverted in this one...
Aranea
Thank you for your message to stop by and have a read of your latest work.
I enjoyed the vein of belief woven into the story, however I found it a bit, condensed and like other commenters have mentioned, perhaps would have been better conveyed if the story was stretched out a bit more.
The pacing of the story seems very rapid and quick for me, and took a couple times to re-read over portions, such as the layout of the solar system, in order to keep the mental image movie story in my head accurate to the words on the page.
There are some very profound concepts and messages conveyed in this work that I think would be better served at a tiny bit of a slower rate for folk to wrap their head around, but lol perhaps I'm just tired. :)
I did enjoy the twist of the captain and such being of a race other than human as throughout the work my mind had been struggling to place the point of view from a place other than a humanesque being; kept waiting for it to be revealed they had been part of that civilization, generations removed, described on the planets due to how they were speaking, interacting etc.
This reminds me somewhat of a story I once read, I can't remember what it's called; where a father was taking his son to a zoo of exotic and rare beasts. It is only through the conversations of the child and father after they get home that you come to realize the beast was a human, and the family were something vastly, else.
Good job Oleg.
I enjoyed the read.
E.VA.
Thank you very much for your detailed comment!
Of course the "alleged humans turn out to be aliens" twist is not new - off the top of my head, there is a delightful Isaac Azimov short story, "Youth", with that same twist. It's just that I'm trying to use it for different purposes.
I completely see now how the story became too condensed; however, since all my short stories are interconnected, you can see it as a chapter in a larger saga (which it really is). My other stories deal with the actual fate of humanity around 2121, and with the colonized planets (dogs, Vozs, robots, etc.).
SofieR
I'm a huge trekkie, and this felt like the original series to me, which I liked. Definitely wasn't expecting the ending, that was great! Could have been pretty standard sci-fi, but you added some stuff in there to set it apart. Nice job on this!
Thank you for your kind comment, Sofie! I was aiming for a vanilla old-school popular "soft" sci-fi to contrast it with the spiritual message it's supposed to carry.
Jason Crager
Thu, March 31st, 2016 2:07pm
I enjoy an occasional science fiction story. However, I've found the majority of modern day sci-fi tales are written solely for entertainment purposes- which is perfectly fine. You've added quite an original twist to the genre by including a philosophical and spiritual edge to the story. It makes for an interesting read. A well written, thought provoking, and captivating piece. Very good Mr. Roschin.
Sat, April 2nd, 2016 2:45am
Thank you very much for your kind comment, Ronin! I do use the sci-fi genre for the purpose of expressing spiritual ideas, and I'm very glad that can be appreciated.
Salma Said
Fri, April 8th, 2016 11:44am
This is one of the most amazing Sci fi I have ever read in my life! It has a nice flow and the description it written in a nice smooth way so the writer doesn't get bored. Great story!!! And sorry for not reading it sooner. Exams were eating me up.
Thank you very much for your kind comment, Salma! Really appreciate it.
Adrian Hunt
Sat, April 9th, 2016 10:43am
A lighthearted story with a serious undertone, Oleg, although my own view is pretty much the polar opposite to the message that I think I'm seeing here.
I think that the writing is generally okay - grammatically, it's fine - although I do think that it's cliché in parts, which I think is where the Trekki vibe comes from.
Your characters are distinct and I thought that leaving their physical appearance as a reveal at the end was fun, and in keeping with the tone of the story.
Thanks again for the read request, always welcome.
Thank you for your comment, Adrian! The cliche tone is intentional, for keeping in line with the Star Trek atmosphere :)
I wonder what the polar opposite view would be? That mankind has created itself and is doing just great? Ouch... ;)
Sat, April 9th, 2016 1:33pm
Lol! Not quite, Oleg, I just think that humanity's flaws require no further explanation once we accept that we are a primate species with biology evolved largely for the African savannah from whence we came. We're smart, but maybe we're not yet evolved enough to behave responsibly with our own technology. That has to do with our adrenaline glands being larger than is required for the modern environment and our prefrontal cortex being in need of a little more growth. As I find in all aspects of my life, God offers no explanation of, let alone any solutions to the problem.
I'm one of the beings without belief that you're talking about in your story - I wouldn't push the button that destroys the world. I know of no humanists that would. The premise, therefore, is flawed.
Sun, April 10th, 2016 11:04am
Hmm, not if we study human history and see what role atheist "humanism" has played in it. The horrible recent history of Europe is a direct result of its rejection of Christianity. Rampant capitalism, imperialism, racism, communism, fascism, nazism, and all those other ideologies started in the "Enlightenment". They were all about humans being no more than animals, yet for some reason justified of being mighty proud of themselves. When people reject God idols conquer their hearts and eat them from within...
As for God offering no explanation or solution to the problem... He will if you let him. Trust me, I was a militant atheist for twenty years :) He definitely won't offer anything like that when you keep disbelieving him. He is stubborn that way ;)
Sun, April 10th, 2016 1:45pm
Do the groups you refer to not consist if humans in possession of the same biological flaws that I was talking about? Evil has been done by evil people and good done by good people - atheism has nothing to do with it. My evidence? - just pick up a newspaper! Would you say that the Taliban, ISIL etc are secular?
Capitalism - USA is capitalist, yet very religious (much more so than my country). Also, you're assuming that capitalism is always a bad thing.
Imperialism - crusades, anyone? Caliphates?
Racism - KKK, Islamic antisemitism, the plights of yazidis and Kurds...
Communism/ fascism/ nazism - Stalin's regime was pseudo-religious, at least it drew on the same principles (worship of a leader, inquisition, miracles of the state...). As for Nazis, the SS had 'God on our side' engraved on their belts, and had Germanic-pagan beliefs at the root of their thinking. Natural selection was the principle employed to create the aryan race, not the ideology itself. Oh... And Hitler's birthday was celebrated from the pulpit every year until the end if the war - BY ORDER OF THE POPE!
To think, as you seem to, that morally sound behaviour comes from acceptance of God is an outright insult to all of humanity.
If you want to hold religious beliefs, fine. Just be sure that your belief doesn't become dogma, because that sort of intolerance could also be called fascism.
Indeed, human beings do evil regardless of their ideology. That includes doing evil things in the name of God. Christians do not believe that professing their faith makes them morally superior, but they do distinguish between evil as an integral part of human nature and evil that arises from evil ideologies. I'm not sure you are making this distinction. The existence of evil Christians doesn't make our rebellion against God any less vile - in fact, Christianity only exists because such rebellion has taken place. The fact that Crusaders killed people doesn't at all absolve atheism of its immanent immorality. Christians are sick people who say they need a doctor, while atheists are sick people who pretend to be healthy - which, naturally, causes the disease to spread more and more. That, and only that, is the difference - it lies in the acceptance or ignorance of our sinfulness, not morality.
Similarly, I do not think that morally sound behavior comes from a philosophical conviction manifested in the belief in the existence of God. But I do think that such kind of behavior does come from God as its only possible source, since nature does not endorse altruism and this very concept is alien and even opposite to it. The mere existence of love, compassion, selflessness, sacrifice, etc. are completely incompatible with any natural law, therefore their source must lie elsewhere, and that source is designated as God by most religious people.
As for religious beliefs becoming dogmas - I am no more dogmatic in my belief in God than you are in your belief that there is none. If our beliefs are not dogmatic, they are not real beliefs. Dogma is mental clarity imbued with passion. When I was an atheist I was very aggressive when arguing with Christians. It was because there is no middle ground: either Christianity is the worst, most horrible lie and hoax in the history of humanity, or it is true. And I pray to God that your conviction of the former will become the latter some day.
Sun, April 10th, 2016 10:46pm
There is no distinction between evil people and evil ideology- save to say that one creates th other. I don't think I said that humans are not, to a point, sick; although I wouldn't have used that terminology. I pointed out very specifically some of the flaws we have - difference is, I can point to empiracle evidence to explain them, whereas you have to say 'I know I'm sick because God told me'.
Left alone, my atheism wouldn't cause me to bother about whether you believe in God or not, but that's the root of the issue- rather than being left alone, I'm being told by you that people like me are so evil or misguided that we'll end the world one day, and that my non-belief will ensure my eternal suffering. This is patronising in the extreme, and I will not be addressed in that manner.
I'm leaving our debate there, since we'll never reach a consensus anyway.
Oh no, I don't mean that people like you end up destroying the world - I mean that people in general end up doing that, and atheism is the banner under which they will gather. This should be no more offensive to you than your statement about evil Crusaders should be to me. Please don't take this personally, it never is about you or me, it's about ideologies.
Why are you so worried about eternal suffering if you don't believe in God?.. We believe that eternal suffering is a result of a human being's free choice to reject God. If you reject God, why are you still afraid of being separated from him?..
You do use the word "evil" and other moral judgments - if there is no God, where do these words come from?.. Nature knows no good and evil...
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