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Buhari Approves Recruitment of 5000 NDLEA Personel
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The Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Col. Muhammad Abdallah (retd), says President Muhammadu Buhari has approved recruitment of 5,000 personnel for the agency to boost its manpower.
Abdallah made the disclosure on Friday at the Public Destruction of Drug Exhibits by Taraba Command of NDLEA in Jalingo.
He said that the gesture would go a long way in improving operations of the agency on campaign against drug addiction in Nigeria.
He said increased consumption of illicit drugs among the youths in Taraba was worrisome, appealing to families to brace up to their responsibilities.
According to Abdallah, effective drug prevention must involve positive engagement of children, youths and adults with their families, schools, workplace and community.
He commended Gov. Darius Ishaku of Taraba for his support to the agency in addressing drug problems in the state.
He also commended Mrs Anna Darius, wife of the governor, for giving great impetus to the war against drug abuse in the state.
The chairman thanked the governor for including NDLEA commandant in the state’s Security Council as well as supporting the agency with operational vehicles.
He noted that the provision of Hope Afresh Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), managed by the wife of the governor for sensitisation against drug abuse was a great boost to anti-drug abuse campaign.
Earlier, Acting Commander of NDLEA in the state, Mr Peter Odaudu, had said that the agency had assembled seven tonnes (6,963.80 kilogrammes) of deadly weeds and psychotropic substances for destruction.
Odaudu said that the exhibits were seized between January, 2003 and December, 2018.
He listed some of the illicit drugs assembled for destruction as Cannabis Sativa, Diazepam, Rophynol, Cough syrups with codeine and Tramadol.
According to him, a court order for their destruction has been duly obtained.
Odaudu commended other security agencies in the state for their cooperation in the success recorded by the NDLEA.
He commended the state government for supporting the agency towards ensuring effective control in consumption of illicit drugs in the state.
In his remarks, the state governor, Mr Darius Ishaku, said that drug consumption had increased violent crimes in the state.
Ishaku, who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Alhaji Haruna Manu, said that most persons arrested for violent crimes in the state were youths.
He, therefore, urged the youths to avoid the use of illicit drugs, saying that it was dangerous to their health and the society.
He also urged the agency to collaborate with office of the First Lady to achieve more feat in its mandate of ensuring a drug-free society.
Ishaku said that the construction of health centres by the first lady’s foundation for sensitisation in the three senatorial zones was a better platform to adopt by the agency.
He assured the agency of continued support by the state government to eradicate drug abuse.
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Scientists grow mice heart muscle strip that beats
[October 16, 2009] WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists have grown a piece of heart muscle -- and then watched it beat -- by using stem cells from a mouse embryo, a big step toward one day repairing damage from heart attacks. Think of Dr. Kenneth Chien as a heart mechanic. "We're making a heart part and (eventually) we're going to put the part in," is how he describes the work by his team of Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers.
Lots of work remains before trying that dramatic an experiment in people. But regenerating damaged heart muscle is a holy grail in cardiac care.
Doctors today have lots of treatments to prevent a heart attack. But once one strikes, there's no way to restore the heart muscle it kills. Gradually the weakened heart quits pumping properly, leading to deadly heart failure.
Hence the focus on embryonic stem cells, master cells that can give rise to any tissue in the body. Until now, scientists haven't known how to coax those cells into producing pure cardiac muscle.
Instead, researchers have tried injecting heart attack survivors with mixes of different kinds of stem cells, next-generation types like those found in bone marrow. The idea: Perhaps once those cells were inside a damaged heart, ones capable of growing cardiac muscle would receive a "get to work" signal and take root. There's been little success so far.
The new research, published in Friday's edition of the journal Science, promises a more targeted approach.
"It's not the home run," cautioned Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, which is spending millions on research nationwide into cardiac regeneration. "But it's a major advance that's helping to move the field forward in a very significant way."
Embryonic stem cells give rise to more specialized organ-producing stem cells. The team from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Mass General recently discovered a master heart stem cell present in both human and mouse embryos.
But could they control it enough to make just the kind of heart cell they wanted to grow? They'd have to winnow out the daughter cell whose only job is to grow the muscle fibers of the ventricle, or pumping chamber.
Chien genetically engineered mice so that certain cells in the embryos' developing hearts would light either fluorescent red or green. As he watched the embryos grow, where the colors overlapped signaled developing heart muscle. Sure enough, when the team plucked out those cells, they were pure ventricle generators.
Next Harvard engineers pitched in with a special scaffolding. The team "seeded" the scaffolding with these ventricle stem cells, and a thin strip of mouse heart muscle grew right in the laboratory.
Not only that, it spontaneously beat, the team reported in Science and at a National Institutes of Health meeting this week on the state of cardiac regeneration.
"This looks like the kind of work a normal heart tissue strip would do," said Chien, director of Mass General's Cardiovascular Research Center. "We went from embryonic stem cells to an organ."
What next? This was not a fully developed piece of heart muscle but a thin strip. To be usable, it would have to be thicker, more three-dimensional, for more beating strength. It also needs a nourishing blood supply. So a next big challenge is pinpointing which daughter to those master heart stem cells will grow blood vessels.
The NIH's Nabel said the experiment also offers a possible new opportunity for cell therapy -- that perhaps injecting the precise muscle-generating cell directly into a damaged heart would have a better chance of sticking and working.
The Harvard team wants both methods tried.
"We're not saying this is going to happen tomorrow," said Chien, who also is working on repeating the work with human cells. "I believe within five years," it might be ready to try with people.
[Associated Press; By LAURAN NEERGAARD]
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Brodsky, Adolph (1851-1929), Violinist, Principal of the Royal Manchester College of Music, 14 resultados 14
Brodsky, Anna (c.1855-1929), scientist, President of RMCM Club, writer, 2 resultados 2
Bantock, Granville Ransome (1868-1946), Knight, Composer, 1 resultados 1
Novello & Co. Ltd (1811-present), music publishing house, 1 resultados 1
Benis, N. (fl.1910s-fl.1920s), 1 resultados 1
Merz, Joseph (fl.1909-1921), 1 resultados 1
Harty, Herbert Hamilton (1879-1941), Knight, Composer, Conductor, Pianist, 1 resultados 1
Schalk, Franz (1863-1931), conductor, 1 resultados 1
Speelman, Simon (fl.1870s-1920), Violist, 1 resultados 1
Elgar, Caroline Alice (1848-1920) poet, author, 4 resultados 4
Brodsky Quartet (1894-present), 3 resultados 3
Hallé Orchestra (1858-present), orchestra, 2 resultados 2
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893), Composer, 2 resultados 2
Beyer, Frants Diecke Cappelen (1851-1918) tax inspector, composer, 1 resultados 1
Schuster, Frank (1852-1927) patron of Elgar, 1 resultados 1
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Programme of a concert given by Adolph Brodsky with RJ Forbes
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This concert was performed as part of the Tuesday Mid-Day Concert series, held at the Houldsworth Hall in Manchester. This was the 164th concert, performed on Tue 25 Mar 1919. Adolph Brodsky played Elgar’s Violin Concerto, Op. 61, with RJ Forbes...
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The Brodsky Papers comprise letters, newscuttings, programmes, telegrams, photograph albums, loose photographs, concert tickets, official documents (marriage certificate, diplomas) and music, which were found in the Brodsky home following the deat...
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Autograph letter signed from Franz Schalk to Adolph Brodsky
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Schalk is arranging a concert for Brodsky in Vienna next January. Brodsky has suggested Bach's A minor violin concerto and the Elgar violin concerto which up to now has had little success in Vienna, despite attempts by Ysaye and Kreisler. Sc...
Schalk, Franz (1863-1931), conductor
Autograph letter signed from Novello & Co. Ltd. to Adolph Brodsky
Brodsky has written to Novello, Elgar's publisher, about the full score and band parts of Elgar's Violin Concerto. Novello is quite willing for Brodsky to forward them to Vienna for his performance there. The letter is dated 9 Dec 1913.
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Autograph letter signed from Simon Speelman to Adolph Brodsky
Speelman gives Brodsky a provisional date, 3 November, for a Dublin concert. The Dublin Society has asked Speelman to quote terms for a recital by Esposito, Brodsky, Hatton and himself. Speelman has asked the Society to deal with Esposito and q...
Speelman, Simon (fl.1870s-1920), Violist
Autograph letter signed from Granville Bantock to Adolph Brodsky
Bantock sends Brodsky a copy of the Constitution of a Musical League on the lines of a German Tonkunstler Verein and hopes that Brodsky will consent to join the Committee. Elgar is the Chairman. Richter, Henry Wood, Delius and others are on the ...
Bantock, Granville Ransome (1868-1946), Knight, Composer
Typescript letter signed from Hamilton Harty to Adolph Brodsky
Harty writes to Brodsky that Elgar is delighted that Brodsky will play his Violin Concerto on the occasion of his visit to Manchester on 20th January [1927]. The committee members are also very grateful for Brodsky's help. The letter is dat...
Harty, Herbert Hamilton (1879-1941), Knight, Composer, Conductor, Pianist
Autograph letter signed from Edward Elgar to Adolph Brodsky
Elgar writes to Dr. Brodsky about the arrangements for the concert which will be for their own subscribers. Elgar is not satisfied with the proposed programme and suggests that it might stand thus: Tchaikovsky or Volkmann Quintet; then solo '...
Elgar, Edward William (1857-1934), Knight, 1st Baronet, composer
Elgar thanks Brodsky for his beautiful letter: such words make an artist's life worth living. Dated 14 Mar 1903.
Elgar thanks the Brodskys for coming to see him the previous evening and expresses his appreciation of the sympathy of real artists. Dated 16 Nov 1905.
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A life-changing session with a “psychic love coach”
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This is a rather sweet piece I wrote for The Times in 2005. I came across it online the other day and thought it would be fun to reprint it here.
Describing yourself as a “psychic love coach” can be a bit of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it makes you sound like a superior kind of love coach, with a phone line directly to the Divine; on the other, in a field which is seen by many as, well, a bit flaky, you could appear to be the farthest crumb clinging to the edge of the pastry crust.
I rather inclined to the second view when I first met Alison Chan Lung, a fortysomething psychic love coach, in a West London flat.
I had explained on the phone that I was a 39-year-old single journalist who wanted to meet a nice girl, fall in love, marry and live happily ever after. And Alison had agreed to give me a face-to-face psychic session and to coach me over the phone for four weekly half-hour sessions to help me achieve my goal.
At her office, Alison, a tall, slim woman of Chinese and Irish descent, said that she had been psychic since the age of 6 when her dead grandmother, who had also been psychic, contacted her to tell her that she had special powers.
After a brief period of meditation, Alison shuffled an ordinary pack of cards and asked me to pick 14 of them at random. Spreading them out face up in two rows of seven, she began the reading. In the top rank of cards was the queen of spades, directly above the two of hearts. In the near future, Alison said, I would meet a strong, dark, independent woman and have an intimate loving relationship with her. Excellent. But, Alison cautioned that a business woman (the queen of clubs, a couple of cards along), would also be in my life.
I agreed to talk to her for half an hour every Friday for the next four weeks. She said she would send me a “love crystal”, a smooth pink rock the size of a pound coin that would draw love towards me — a sort of mystic girl-magnet.
The weekly sessions were surprisingly harrowing. I discovered that, psychic mumbo-jumbo aside, Alison was an excellent psychologist. Her intelligent insights into my inadequacies as a man were profound and painful to confront. She told me that I hid behind jokes and flattery because I didn’t believe the real me was worthy of love. After each session I felt wrung-out but optimistic. And I began to take her seriously.
She set me homework: listing six negative beliefs about relationships and women; repeating mantras such as: “I love and accept myself as I am”; and listing 50 qualities that I was looking for in a woman. In the final week, with this last list reduced to the most important qualities, I had to draw up a manifesto on a sheet of red paper. Every night, after lighting a candle and clutching my love crystal,
I’d chant from the manifesto: “I now attract a wonderful, loving, attractive, soulmate into my life without delay.”
Unfortunately, my flatmates overheard me one night and made my life hell for weeks. I’d be queuing at the bar in the local pub and behind me they would intone: “I now attract two pints of lager and a large gin and tonic into my life without delay.”
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Alison told me to go speed dating. I was twitching with nerves when I stepped into a Knightsbridge bar to meet about 40 single women in their thirties and forties. After chanting under my breath “I love and accept myself as I am . . .” (and attracting a large gin and tonic into my life without delay), I began to feel more confident and actually enjoyed myself.
I did meet two women I liked. After a couple of dates, one, a tough businesswoman (the queen of clubs?), dumped me, I suspect because during the week I dated her I grew a purple boil the size of a planet on my left cheek.
The other woman, Mary, well, she’s wonderful. We’ve had many dates (she didn’t even seem to notice the boil) and we have fallen in love. A couple of months ago we went on holiday, I proposed and, guess what, in June we’re going to be married.
(Note from December 2019: nearly 15 years later, Mary and I are still married and have two lovely children, a boy, 7, and a girl, 10. I don’t work for The Times any more, I now write historical novels full time from home.)
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Choir Tour to Malta
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Christmas at All Saints
The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is sung by our choirs of Boys, Girls and Men on Sunday 19 December at 6:00pm. This is one of the most popular services of the year at All Saints and members of the congregation are asked to arrive no later than 5:30pm to guarantee a seat. During the service the Choirs give the first performance of two new carols, especially commissioned for the service from Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, known to many as the composer of the music for the films Murder on the Orient Express and Four Weddings and a Funeral. These two carols have been written in memory of Miss Valerie Travis, a long-standing supporter of our music, and set two traditional texts - The Holly and the Ivy and The Shepherd's Carol. For more information on the new carols, and the forthcoming broadcast on BBC Radio 3 of The Holly and the Ivy, please visit the composer's website.
On Sunday 12 December at 6:00pm the Girls' Choir perform Britten's Ceremony of Carols, a sequence of medieval carols given the atmospheric accompaniment of harp and candlelight. Alongside this ever-popular, evocative wintry work, the Choir will give the first performance of the Lee Dunleavy's sequence of traditional carols - Make we Merry! This includes arrangements of many well-known carols, including Away in a Manger, Ding dong, merrily on high and The Angel Gabriel, arranged for girls' voices and harp.
Our final preparations for the great Festival of Christmas begin on Friday 17 December at 6:00pm when Evensong is sung for the first of seven consecutive nights. It is especially in this final week of Advent that our attention is fixed on the messianic promises proclaimed by the ancient prophets of Israel. A distinctive feature of Evensong in this week preceding the Christmas vigil is the antiphon sung before and after the recitation of the Magnificat. Originally incorporated into the monastic office in the Middle Ages, these antiphons, often called the
“Greater Antiphons” or the “O Antiphons”, add a mood of eager expectation to the liturgy that builds throughout these seven days and climaxes at Christmas.
Midnight Mass is at 11:15pm on Christmas Eve and is sung by the Girls and Men to a setting by Cécile Chaminade and includes the anthem The word made flesh by Philip Wilby. Christmas Day sees a said celebration of the Mass at 8:00am with Carols, and the Festal Choral Eucharist of Christmas Day at 10:30am sung by the Boys and Men. The Festal Choral Eucharist will be accompanied by string ensemble, who will join the choir to perform music by Bach and Haydn, as well as a number of your favourite carols.
All are welcome to all of our services and events, which are Free with collections being taken to help defray the not inconsiderable costs of mounting such a large programme. For full details of all our choral services, please see our Service List.
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The Way Forward Report
Message from the Suicide Attempt Survivors Task Force Co-Lead
The newly revised National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, advanced through the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, calls for a new conversation to reduce suicidal actions and death. That conversation is being given a new voice and a new tone by inviting suicide attempt survivors to share their insights on both staying alive and finding hope.
The mission of the Suicide Attempt Survivors Task Force of the Action Alliance is to create a resource that would convey the voice of suicide attempt survivors. The untold stories of hope and recovery that belong to attempt survivors are the stories of suicide prevention; what they learned is what we all must learn. With these new voices come new ideas, new questions, and new insights. The Way Forward emerges from those new voices.
For far too many years suicide prevention has not engaged the perspectives of those who have lived through suicidal experiences. Because of social stigma and fear, as well as personal shame, a culture of silence prevailed. The Way Forward represents a seminal moment in this field’s history; it is an opportunity to benefit from the lived experience of suicide attempt survivors. Many of its recommendations are derived from evidence-based practices, and several are aspirational. All are grounded in the evidence of recovery and resiliency that is clear in the lives of our Task Force members. Viewing suicide prevention through the lens of the eight core values presented in The Way Forward can help us enhance safety while also bringing hope and meaning to those in suicidal despair.
It is our hope that The Way Forward will also help serve as a bridge to developing a conversation about suicide prevention between mental health policymakers and consumer advocates. Often, many mental health professionals have narrowly focused on ‘identifying persons at risk and getting them into treatment.’ Conversely, many mental health consumer advocates either avoid or react negatively to suicide prevention discussions, at times due to traumas associated with historically coercive practices and policies. This resource may enable these two powerful forces for change to come together and develop new, more effective approaches to reducing suicide attempts and deaths.
Like the Task Force itself, we, its co-leads, bring a range of personal and professional perspectives to these efforts. Through our work together over years, one a survivor of suicide attempts and mental health advocate, the other a psychologist with years of experience working with people in suicidal crisis, we have come to believe that collaboration and understanding are critical. Like all of the partners, colleagues, and supporters that helped to develop this resource, we feel deeply that suicide is preventable. It will be the spirit of collaboration – from policy-makers and advocates to clinicians and clients – that will make suicide prevention possible.
We greatly hope that The Way Forward will serve as a model for your new collaborations with others, aligned around a new vision for a world free of the tragedy of suicide.
Eduardo Vega, MA
Mental Health Association of San Francisco
John Draper, PhD
Suicide Attempt Survivors Task Force
John Draper, PhD – Co-Lead, Project Director, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Eduardo Vega, MA – Co-Lead, Executive Director, Mental Health Association of San Francisco
Lilly Glass Akoto, LCSW, Looking In ~ Looking Out, LLC
Cara Anna, Editor, Talking about Suicide blog and What Happens Now blog
Heidi Bryan, Senior Director of Product Development, Empathos Resources
Julie Cerel, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Social Work, University of Kentucky
Mark Davis, MA, Consumer Advocate
Linda Eakes, CMPS, New Frontiers, Truman Behavioral Health
Barb Gay, MA, Executive Director, Foundation 2, Inc.
Leah Harris, MA, Communications and Development Coordinator, National Empowerment Center
Tom Kelly, CRSS, CPS, Manager, Recovery and Resiliency, Magellan Health Services of Arizona
Carmen Lee, Program Director, Stamp Out Stigma
Stanley Lewy, MBA, MPH, President, Suicide Prevention Association
DeQuincy Lezine, PhD, President & CEO, Prevention Communities
Jennifer Randal-Thorpe, CEO, MR Behavior Intervention Center
Shari Sinwelski, MS, EdS, Director of Network Development, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Sabrina Strong, MPH, Executive Director, Waking Up Alive, Inc.
CW Tillman, Consumer Advocate
Stephanie Weber, MS, LCPC, Executive Director, Suicide Prevention Services of America
Anita Hegedus, (former) Executive Associate, Mental Health Association of San Francisco
Melodee Jarvis, Suicide Prevention Specialist, Mental Health Association of San Francisco
Angela Mark, Public Health Advisor, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services
…is a project of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline includes the world’s foremost experts in the area of lived experience of suicide.
…from the Perspective of Lived Experience
The Way Forward seeks to filter the evidence base used for suicide prevention through the core values shared by many attempt survivors (the Core Values). These Core Values were generated through an extensive dialogue of the Task Force membership. Many are based in the tenets of mental health recovery developed through decades of work by peer advocates, behavioral health professionals, and community feedback. They reflect the consensus perspectives that emerged and were clarified through Task Force discussions and correspond with many protective factors that counter risk for suicidal thinking and behavior.
“Our best route to understanding suicide is… directly through the study of human emotions described in plain English, in the words of the suicidal person.”
– Shneidman in The Suicidal Mind, 1996.
Part 1: The Core Values
Part 2: Core Values in Relation to Recovery and the National Strategy
Summary of TASK FORCE Recommendations
Attempt survivors as helpers: self-help, peer support, and inclusion
Every form of help and support for someone who has been suicidal depends on that person’s willingness and capability to seek and accept help. Further, given that the suicidal crisis is predominately internal, all changes, regardless of where they are initiated, must ultimately occur within individuals. Beginning with the individual attempt survivor is consistent with mental health recovery practices, person-centered care practices, and the Core Values.
The journey to recovery often begins with self-help practices (e.g., self-advocacy, community involvement, religious/spiritual activity, exercise) which can be supported by family, friends, and professionals. An additional approach to extend support is the peer-operated warm line, which can provide non-crisis assistance at times when traditional services are unavailable. After surviving a suicidal crisis and successfully navigating available systems and supports, peers can model self-care practices, and provide unique and powerful contributions to another’s recovery.
The Task Force recommends that suicide prevention and behavioral healthcare organizations engage, hire, and/or collaborate with peer support professionals. Beyond work as peer support professionals, attempt survivors should be included as key partners in a wide range of suicide prevention efforts.
Family, friends, and support network
Community connectedness is one of the Core Values and an established protective factor against suicide. An essential part of that is the assistance provided by family and friends. Each attempt survivor should define a support network, and the people in that network should be offered educational and other resources. It is important to establish who those supportive persons are and how they can assist before, during, and after a crisis.
Family and friends also need support for themselves. Unfortunately, there are very few support resources that have been developed to fulfill this need.
The Task Force recommends developing, evaluating, and promoting programs specifically intended to help the family and friends of attempt survivors.
Clinical services and supports
Behavioral healthcare organizations can enhance care and support for individuals experiencing, or recovering from, a suicidal crisis in multiple ways. At the leadership level, organizations should make suicide prevention a core component of care. Individual professionals should begin care with clear discussions about how they approach crisis situations. Beyond a focus on the suicidal crisis, however, professionals should conduct a comprehensive assessment that recognizes the strengths and challenges in multiple dimensions of life whenever possible. Similarly, all treatment, including the use of medication, should take place within a collaborative approach that discusses multiple options, respects informed choices, and engages a wide range of supports.
While most of the professional care for suicidal persons takes place within behavioral healthcare settings, many key services are provided in general healthcare offices, clinics, and hospitals. In every setting and situation, care for someone who is in, or recovering from, a suicidal crisis would be greatly improved by addressing negative stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination around suicide and mental health issues among medical professionals. Treating people with dignity and respect can help ease tensions and facilitate the type of collaborative care relationships that are most effective in addressing suicide risk.
The Task Force recommends that medical and behavioral health providers integrate principles of collaborative assessment and treatment planning into their practices.
Crisis and emergency services
Many crises can be addressed before emergency services are needed through the use of key crisis supports such as hotlines and crisis respite centers. In support of the Core Value emphasizing timely access to care, developing and/or sustaining supports and services that can be available 24/7/365 is critical. Yet, many people are wary of hotline services because they fear police involvement or inpatient commitment, based on prior experience or stories from others. Crisis hotlines can do much to alleviate such concerns by following protocols like those established by the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline for active engagement of callers and the use of least invasive approaches, with active rescue being a “last resort.” As an additional resource, more crisis respite centers (particularly ones that employ peer providers) should be developed and promoted.
In cases where active rescue, or non-medical on-site intervention, is required, it would be ideal to call a mobile crisis team that includes peer support professional. When such a team is unavailable, first responders with training about behavioral health emergencies should be engaged.
The recommendations for professionals in emergency departments mirror those for general medical and
behavioral healthcare professionals in many ways. Improvements in care should begin with shifting attitudes toward collaborative, respectful, and dignified treatment of persons undergoing a suicidal crisis. The person in crisis can also benefit greatly from the expanded support available from family, friends, and peers, who should be offered relevant information and resources. Peer professionals could provide additional support during onsite crisis intervention, follow-up after a crisis, or emergency department visit and/or discharge.
The Task Force recommends that providers of crisis or emergency services develop formal partnerships with organizations which offer peer support services and especially organizations that are operated or driven by people with lived experience.
Systems linkages and continuity of care
Long-term connections between educational, social, healthcare, and behavioral healthcare settings are solidified through formal agreements and partnerships. As one example, both educational systems and hospitals can establish formal ties with peer support programs or organizations to enhance services. Connecting attempt survivors to peer specialists provides an additional source of support, connection to the community, and a means to facilitate access to other services.
Continuity of care can be furthered through follow-up and/or innovative approaches with technology. Follow-up practices or programs can demonstrate compassion and caring while encouraging help-seeking. Innovative approaches such as online self-help tools and mobile applications can be used to facilitate timely access to care.
The Task Force recommends that hospitals and providers of crisis services establish formal strategies for ensuring continuity of care by helping people transition to community supports.
At the broadest level of support, community organizations often use communications and/or social marketing campaigns. The Action Alliance Framework for Successful Messaging encourages campaign developers and champions to have a clear strategy, convey a hopeful message, and follow relevant guidelines including maintaining safety. Those messages could be effectively promoted by individuals who have lived through a suicidal crisis.
Many recommended programs and practices in The Way Forward can be seen as promising, often having
evidence for supporting Core Values but lacking formally measured evidence of effects on suicidal thinking or behavior. Research and evaluation efforts are needed to strengthen the evidence base for such approaches, adding science-based knowledge to the insights from lived experience. Developing a network of professionals with lived experience related to suicide to initiate and implement such research and evaluation projects would be a major catalyst for this work.
As a key message in this section, and overall, the Task Force recommends that suicide prevention and behavioral health groups engage attempt survivors as partners in developing, implementing, and evaluating efforts.
Each year, millions of people in the U.S. seriously consider suicide. Some who survive suicide attempts have recurring or ongoing suicidal thoughts and feelings, and a substantial number of people attempt suicide again. It is imperative to develop and disseminate effective supports that are critically needed. Confronting and abolishing the fear, discrimination, and misunderstanding that have blocked these efforts is long overdue.
With The Way Forward, the Task Force aims to begin a new and more inclusive chapter in suicide prevention, sparking the development of innovative programs and projects, altering public policy, and promoting much needed social change. The recommendations in this resource combine research and practice with lived experience from attempt survivors to help put the NSSP into action. They provide a blueprint for a newly invigorated community effort to reduce suicide attempts and deaths.
Achieving these goals requires social and political support from attempt survivors, families, friends, and allies. To translate the collective vision of The Way Forward into reality, the Task Force recommends developing a national center focused on helping attempt survivors and including attempt survivor peer specialists in current mental health technical assistance centers.
Core Values for Supporting Attempt Survivors
Core Values in Relation to Recovery and the National Strategy
In creating the Core Values, the Task Force identified values and tenets that have been used in mental health recovery, the mental health consumer movement, and personal experiences. The Task Force modified the concepts to make them more applicable to the suicide prevention context. The NSSP was a key resource. As a result, the Core Values are consistent with recognized principles of recovery and concepts used throughout the NSSP (see Table 1).
Table 1. Core Values compared to recovery principles and NSSP concepts
Pathways to hope, recovery, and wellness with insights from lived experience
Prepared by the Suicide Attempt Survivors Task Force of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention July 2014
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building upon the lived experience of people who have been through suicidal struggles to help others and prevent suicide death. The experience of those who have through with suicidal intensity, distress and attempts can be a powerful resource to reduce suicide. As recently seen, stories of recovery from and growth through periods of suicidal struggle can spread a ‘contagion of hope’ and reduce suicide publicly.
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Rihanna is the new face of Dior!
Rihanna has signed as the new face of Dior. The French fashion house confirmed the news on Friday (13th March). Rihanna will star in Dior's Secret Garden campaign. The series of campaign videos, shot by Steven Klein, feature models cavorting around the Palace of Versailles. Rihanna will star in the fourth instalment of the Secret Garden films, which Dior has reinvented since 2012.
Rihanna has signed as the new face of Dior.
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Turns Out Jennifer Lawrence's Dress Was Supposed To Look Torn
By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29 January 2013
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Jennifer Lawrence did not experience a wardrobe malfunction at the SAG Awards, you hear us? Jennifer Lawrence's dress definitely did not rip or tear while she collected her award on Sunday - ok?
The Silver Linings Playbook actress set tongues wagging for all the wrong reasons when her full-length Christian Dior gown appeared to split in two as she made her way through the tables to the stage. It separated mid-thigh, with Twitter erupting into action and many fans questioning whether she'd suffered a dreaded wardrobe malfunction. "I fell on the ground," she told ABC News' Chris Connelly backstage, "Somebody's chair got stuck on my train or somebody's foot or something. I will never look at pictures of this. That's the only true way to happiness." Hmmm, seems as though Lawrence thought she suffered a wardrobe malfunction now doesn't it?
Nevertheless, Dior came out in a fiery defense of its dress in a statement to USA Today, saying, "The dress is made with different levels of tulle and satin, and that is what the viewers saw when Jennifer lifted her dress slightly. It was not ripped, and there was no malfunction. . It was the design of the gown." Couture fashion designer Bradley Bayou blamed it all on Lawrence, "If she is just walking down the runway, she would never have a reason to lift the dress up. So, in this particular dress, you never would have known that."
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Four Music Students Selected for Area All-State Festival: Auburn Junior and Senior High Schools are pleased to announce that two students have been selected to the Zone 3 Area All-State Orchestra and that two students have been selected to the Zone 3 Area All-State Women’s Choir. They will participate in concerts held at Ithaca High School on November 2, 2019. Ryan Packard , viola, 9th grade, has been selected for Orchestra and has been involved in school orchestra for five years. Emerson Brown , soprano, 8th grade, has been selected for the Women’s Chorus and has been involved in school chorus for four years. Rylee Catalfano , soprano, 8th grade, has been selected for the Women’s Chorus and has been involved in school chorus for four years. Kaela Sova , viola, 7th grade, has been selected for Orchestra and has been ... more >>
Food Services offers a new FD MEALPLANNER App: We are pleased to inform you that Whitsons is launching a custom designed, state of the art, mobile platform that will bring nutrition information, meal ingredients and real time allergen information to the fingertips of students, parents and school district staff. This new menu viewing interface, FD MEALPLANNER, will take the place of the Whitsons district web pages bringing you all new streamlined mobile viewing capabilities. (http://www.aecsd.education/districtpage.cfm?pageid=1464) Type in Auburn in the search field to view all the schools and select the one you want. FD MEALPLANNER provides easy access to school menu information anytime, from any mobile device or PC. Your menus will now be interactive and will display nutrition (such as calories, fat, sodium, etc.) and allergen ... more >>
Vanguard Marching Band Performs at Woodstock Site: The Auburn High School Vanguard Marching Band recently took its talents to Woodstock, performing at the original site of the music festival’s stage in honor of its 50th anniversary. The band’s field show this year features several hits from The Who, honoring another 50th anniversary – that of the release of the band’s rock opera, “Tommy.” It was only fitting that the Vanguard perform “Pinball Wizard” and other selections from that album at the Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center in the Catskills, where The Who performed in front of 400,000 people during the 1969 Woodstock music festival. Following their Oct. 5 performance and a tour of the Woodstock Museum, the Vanguard traveled to East Ramapo High School for a New York State Field ... more >>
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NAMI Basics Parent Education Course: The Auburn Enlarged City School District will host the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Basics Parent Education Program this fall. The six-week class will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. each Wednesday from Oct. 2 to Nov. 6 in the board room of the Harriet Tubman Administration Building, 78 Thornton Ave. The class is voluntary and FREE for up to 20 participants on a first-come, first-serve basis. NAMI Basics is designed to help support parents and caregivers of children and adolescents experiencing mental health challenges. Trained peers will guide participants on how to better understand and support children while maintaining one’s own well-being. The class provides caregivers with skills, knowledge and a community of people who can relate to the experience ... more >>
Central Registration for New Students: Effective immediately, the Auburn Enlarged City School District will begin registering new students at its Central Registration office, located in the Harriet Tubman Administration Building at 78 Thornton Ave. Any new families that have moved into the school district and need to register their children for any grade level, Pre-K through 12th grade, may do so at the new Central Registration office between 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. “Having a Central Registration office should make the registration process much easier for families moving into the district, and we are excited to provide this customer service,” said Camille Johnson, Assistant Superintendent for Student Services. more >>
Free Summer Lunch Program Open to the Public: (June 21, 2019) - The Auburn United Methodist Church and the Food Bank of Central New York are sponsoring free summer lunches from July 1 through August 23, 2019. Lunches will be served from 12:00-1:00 p.m. Monday through Friday at Genesee Elementary School, 244 Genesee Street, Auburn. The program is free and open to the public. If you have any questions, please call Barbara Loomis at (315) 406-8717. more >>
Six Auburn High School seniors earn Seal of Biliteracy: L to R: Jeff Pirozzolo (Superintendent), Kathy Rhodes (Board of Education President), Janna Fiermonte (Seal of Biliteracy Coordinator), Connor Cuthbert, Baylee Kennedy, Karrigan Gregory, Jenna Nila, Elizabeth Diego, and Olivia Gomes. (June 20, 2019) - Six Auburn High School seniors earned the Seal of Biliteracy this school year after completing and presenting two culminating projects, 1 in English and 1 in a World Language. Connor Cuthbert, Elizabeth Diego, Olivia Gomes, and Jenna Nila all presented in English and Spanish, while Karrigan Gregory presented in Italian and Baylee Kennedy presented in French. The students presented their final portion on April 9, 2019 and were honored at the Board of Education meeting on June 11. The Seal will be on each of their ... more >>
AJHS Environmental Club's Buddy Bench Project: The Auburn Junior High School Environmental Club has collected over 37,000 bottle caps to be recycled into benches as part of the Joshuas's Buddy Benches Project. Approximately 200 lbs of plastic bottle caps were needed to be melted down to be recycled into buddy benches. The club has reached their goal which is to provide a buddy bench for each of the Auburn elementary school buildings! more >>
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Auburn junior Div Patel wins scholarship at CNY science fair: Div Patel standing with his science project. (May 1, 2019) - Auburn High School junior, Div Patel, competed in the 40th Central New York Science & Engineering Fair at Onondaga Community College in late March. The event was sponsored by the MOST (Museum of Science &Technology), and schools within 10 central New York counties were eligible to participate. The MOST hosts its annual Central New York Science & Engineering Fair every March at SRC Arena on the Onondaga Community College campus. Students get the lifelong benefit of understanding science in a unique, hands-on way by actually performing an experiment of their own design or engineering a device or process. This is the second time Patel has competed at this fair. He competed ... more >>
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To Root or Not to Root
Duckweed Roots
Patterns of Root Growth
To Root or Not to Root: Spirodela, Landoltia and Lemna develop roots. The maximum number initiated per frond depends on the species. Wolffiella and Wolffia form no roots, and roots may occasionally be absent in the other groups. Lemna fronds make just one root, while Spirodela and Landoltia fronds initiate more. According to Landolt (1986) Spirodela can have as many as 21 roots per frond. We do not know what environmental factors govern the number of roots initiated.
The regulation of root length depends on environmental conditions (Landolt, 1986). Except in extreme conditions, low levels of nitrogen, phosphate or trace minerals encourage longer roots, while high fertility results in very short roots, or even an absence of root. Far-red light shortens roots, suggesting that phytochrome is involved. Gibberellins may also have a role.
Photo: A view from below, roots of Spirodela as collected from a wetland. The reflection at the water surface makes some of the roots appear to grow upward. Debris from the wetland still clings to some roots but will fall off as the roots grow in culture.
The structure of duckweed roots is very simple. Unlike most plants, duckweed roots do not show secondary growth or branching, and do not sprout root hairs. As a result, duckweed roots are very slender, less than 0.5 mm. Like other primary roots, they can be divided into four zones: the root cap, the meristematic region, the elongation zone, and the zone of mature cells.
What is the function of the duckweed root?
That question may seem obvious if one knows plant physiology, but duckweeds are exceptional. Research has shown that duckweeds mostly absorb water and nutrients through the lower surface of the frond, not the roots.
An experiment you can try:
Paul Gorham (1941) tried painting the lower surface of Lemna fronds (but not the roots) with lanolin, a soft fat. The thin lanolin coating prevented the fronds from making direct contact with the water. He found that coated fronds grew very slowly and their roots elongated more than the roots of control plants. For another control, he painted some fronds with lanolin on the upper surface. Those fronds were unaffected. Another experiment showed that Lemna will dry up if the fronds are held above the water but with their root tips still submerged.
In the water, long duckweed roots become entangled with one another. If one tries to gently pick up one plant or frond colony, often the result is to pick up several others whose roots are entangled with the first. In nature, this helps duckweeds to form loosely- connected mats on the water surface. Landolt (1986) points out that the a duckweed root provides stability to help keep the individual plants orientated rightside-up in the water as they encounter wind and water turbulance. The root is like a sea-anchor. A sea anchor does not touch bottom, but prevents a sailor's boat from drifting in the wind. In the same way, the duckweed root slows the plant's movement when the wind blows.
Duckweed roots are very sticky. This is key to another root function: dispersal. Ducks and other aquatic birds land among duckweeds and eat the fronds. When they do, some
of the fronds may adhere to their feathers. This allows duckweeds to hitch a ride on the bird to the next pond. In this way, duckweeds spread from one place to another.
Test this experiment yourself with a duckweed frond that has one or more long roots:
Pick up a frond with a stainless steel spoon or spatula. Tip the spoon and let the water drain off for just a minute. Try gently shaking the frond off. Did it still cling? Take a paper towel or tissue and gently wick the water from the root. Does it still cling? Cut the root(s) off the frond and repeat the experiment. Can you think of a way to measure the force it takes to pick up a frond clinging to a smooth surface?
http://www.mobot.org/jwcross/duckweed/duckweed-root.htm The Charms of Duckweed. John Cross, Missouri Botanical Garden 2002
Gorham, P.R. (1941) "Measurement of the response of Lemna to growth-promoting substances." Amer. Jour. Bot. 28: 98-101.
Landolt, E. 1986. The family of Lemnaceae - a monographic study. Vol 1. In: Biosystematic Investigations in the Family of Duckweeds (Lemnaceae). Veroff. Geobot. Inst. ETH, Stiftung Rubel. No. 71.
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Allendale, Mich. — The SVSU Track and Field team participated in the GVSU Big Meet - Day Two at Grand Valley State Saturday (Feb. 10) morning. Noah VanderVeen took home the only first place finish on the meet for the Cardinals in the men's high jump competition, which also went on to be his career-best jump.
Women's Track and Field Results
In the women's 200 meter dash open, Lauren Huebner ran a 25.61 and took home a seventh place finish. Freshman Lauren Wellman also competed in the 200m and ran a 30.27, her college best time.
Morgan Fuerst notched a seventeenth place finish in the women's 400 meter dash open with a time of 59.67.
With a time of 2:22.93, freshman Jenna Keiser took twenty-first out of 67 competitors in the women's 800 meter run open. Keiser also ran her college best women's one mile run with a 5:24.50.
Darby Meinecke, a junior runner for SVSU, ran a 10:39.98 in the women's 3000 meter run open, her college best time for this event. Rebecca Estep also participated in the event and ran an 11:43.18.
Freshman Jaden Liedel jumped 1.38m in the women's high jump open, placing eighteenth.
Brooke Sutyak is the only pole vaulter for SVSU at this meet and she earned a seventh place finish jumping a 3.27m, a new college best for the Cardinal.
Donna Jean Eschenbacher participated in the women's long jump open and ended with a distance of 5.10m, her college best jump. Freshman Taylor Lucas also participated and cleared a 4.61m distance.
Lucas took home an eleventh place finish in the women's triple jump open with a distance of 9.85m, her college best. Eschenbacher followed behind in twelfth place with a 9.83m jump.
Men's Track and Field Results
For the men's side, junior Noah VanderVeen took home the only first place finish of the day for SVSU. VanderVeen hit a D2 Provisional height of 2.05m in the men's high jump open. This was his collegiate best jump.
Sam Black followed behind with a height of 1.95m in the high jump competition. Black also took home an eighth place finish in the long jump open with a 6.47m distance.
Ryan Kelly earned a third place finish in the men's shot put open with a distance of 16.52m, a D2 NCAA Provisional throw.
Freshman Jonathan Johnson participated in the triple jump open and earned second place with his distance of 13.21m, his collegiate best.
Jacob Kulhanek notched a 4.27m vault, earning himself the fourteenth place finish overall.
Juan Bowers earned the top SVSU finish in the 400m dash with a 50.23 time.
Jamelle Russell posted a 23.83 in the men's 200m dash open. Sophomore Vincent Fochesato followed closely behind with a 24.31 time.
Sophomore Nick Plude notched a 1:58.01 time in the men's 800m run open. Keith Rodriguez ran a 2:01.23, less then half a second off of his college best time.
The SVSU Track and Field team will compete at the Michigan Silverston Invitational on Friday, Feb. 16. Times are to be annouced this week.
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Tags: Machine Learning, Higgs boson, citizen science, Outreach
Machine Learning Wins the Higgs Challenge
By 20th November 2014
Winners of the Higgs Machine Learning Challenge: Gábor Melis and Tim Salimans (top row), Tianqi Chen and Tong He (bottom row).
The winner of the four-month long Higgs Machine Learning Challenge, launched on 12 May, is Gábor Melis from Hungary, followed closely by Tim Salimans from The Netherlands and Pierre Courtiol from France. They will receive cash prizes, sponsored by Paris-Saclay Centre for Data Science and Google, of $7000, $4000, and $2000 respectively. The three winners have been invited to participate at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference on 13 December in Canada.
The Special High Energy Physics meets Machine Learning Award was given to team Crowwork's Tianqi Chen and Tong He. Though their score was 3.72 to Melis' 3.81, a thorough scrutiny showed that Crowwork's algorithm was an excellent compromise between performance and simplicity, which could improve tools currently used in high-energy physics. The team has been invited to CERN next year for a workshop where they will discuss the application of machine learning techniques in high-energy physics. The Challenge, hosted by Kaggle, had the all-time record of 1,785 teams participating.
"The Challenge is done but we are only really half-way through the project. We now have to digest the many ideas submitted by the participants, and establish long-term collaboration between high energy physics and machine learning communities," says David Rousseau, ATLAS physicist and organizer of the Challenge.
Participants had to develop an algorithm that improves the detection of Higgs boson signal events decaying into two tau particles in a sample of simulated ATLAS data that contains few signal and a majority of non-Higgs boson "background" events. The observation of the Higgs boson was a groundbreaking result published by the ATLAS and the CMS experiments in 2012, leading a year later to the award of the Nobel Prize in physics to theorists who proposed the underlying theoretical mechanism. For the Challenge however, no knowledge of particle physics was required but skills in machine learning – the training of computers to recognize patterns in data – was at stake.
"In the course of the Challenge, I learned that physicists and computer scientists think in different ways. Combining their strengths might lead to better results," says Crowwork's Tong He.
"I hoped to win, but even if everything goes smoothly, there is always an element of luck involved. How much physics knowledge would be required was uncertain. I expected a machine learning savvy physicist to win," says Melis, a graduate in software engineering and mathematics. His algorithm is an ensemble of deep neural networks trained on random subsets of data provided with very little feature engineering and no physics knowledge.
"Competitions like these offer a great platform to try out new modelling techniques and update skills. The competitive element makes them fun," says Salimans, who has a PhD in Econometrics and works as a data science consultant. He describes his solution as a combination of a large number of boosted decision tree ensembles, with some tricks to improve statistical efficiency.
"The Higgs Machine Learning challenge was special. It shows that machine learning and data mining are very important to the world, not just in generating profit but also in cutting-edge research. In the course of the Challenge, I learned that physicists and computer scientists think in different ways. Combining their strengths might lead to better results," says Crowwork's Tong He, a Masters student in Data Mining and Bioinformatics at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Team Crowwork developed XG Boost, an optimized general-purpose gradient boosting (or trees) algorithm that learns the effective high order combination of input variables. The toolkit is efficiently parallelized, with good accuracy. They made this available early on in the competition to other participants also.
Crowwork's Tianqi Chen developed XG Boost because his research code-base was too slow. "XG Boost has some nice features that go beyond what existing tools offer so we thought it would be helpful to share the toolkit. We were very glad that XGBoost was adopted by many users, their feedback helped us improve it," says Chen, a PhD student in Machine Learning at the University of Washington, Seattle.
"The huge success of the Challenge shows the fascination that the discovery of the Higgs boson, including the statistical tools used for it, holds for the public. It also reveals that experimental particle physics, in spite of its sophistication, can learn a lot from machine learning science," says Andreas Hoecker, physics coordinator of the ATLAS experiment.
For the detailed documentation of their optimization work, the CSE_Team_0 members – Chamila Wijayarathna, Dimuthu Upeksha, Maduranga Siwriwardena, Sachith Withana – were Specially Mentioned, together with contestant Dhiana Deva. The simulated data used for the Challenge will be made available on opendata.cern.ch for those who would like to test new ideas.
ATLAS Blog - 22 Dec 2019
Sharing the Excitement of ATLAS ATLAS News - 20 Nov 2019
African scientists take on new ATLAS machine-learning challenge Physics Briefing - 6 Aug 2019
Searching for Higgs boson interactions with the lightest charged lepton Physics Briefing - 12 Jul 2019
Exploring the Higgs boson “discovery channels"
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← 2011 Mitsubishi RVR GT 4WD
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2011 Jeep Compass North 4×4
Posted on April 27, 2011 by Isaac Adams-Hands
Review and photos by
Jil McIntosh, Autos.ca
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When Jeep first introduced the Compass for the 2007 model year, many people didn’t know what to think: a front-wheel drive Jeep? What on earth was the legendary off-road company thinking?
And yet, while Wrangler fans undoubtedly continue to look down their noses at the Compass – one of a trio of platform siblings along with the Dodge Caliber and Jeep Patriot – this little hatchback seems to do okay for itself with buyers, if the number I see on the road is any indication.
It’s gently redesigned for 2011, with handsome new exterior styling that echoes the front of the updated Grand Cherokee, and an interior that retains the same general layout as before but with some better-quality materials, an improvement in fit-and-finish and some new controls. Also new, and added to my CVT-equipped tester, is the availability of Jeep’s Freedom Drive II system, one of nine all-wheel systems available across the company’s line-up. The system runs primarily in front-wheel drive, but when needed, it will send torque to the rear wheels. It can also be locked into 50/50 via a handle on the centre console. When the shifter is put into Low, the Compass includes a 19:1 crawl ratio and hill descent control.
My tester was the Compass North, a Canada-only trim line that slots between the Sport and Limited. The North name is used specifically on a package of heated front seats and leather-wrapped steering wheel with audio controls, although I wonder if the overall trim level name might also refer to John North Willys, the man behind the Willys brand that brought the Jeep to military prominence during the Second World War. The Compass’ standard engine is a 2.4-litre four-cylinder, but if you order a front-wheel Sport or North, you can opt for a 2.0-litre four-cylinder. Chrysler’s pricing structure tends to be confusing, with trim levels often indicated as options on base models, but the Munroney sticker on my vehicle indicated a base price of $21,195 and a final price, after numerous options, of $28,765 before taxes and freight. These included $1,750 for a continuously variable transmission (CVT) in place of the stock five-speed manual, $750 for adding the Freedom Drive II in place of the model’s standard Freedom Drive I, and an upgraded stereo with satellite radio. The Compass has its good points, but I have to admit that it didn’t feel like almost $29,000 worth of car. Especially since, ironically enough, it didn’t contain a compass.This extra low-gear ability allows the Compass, for the first time, to wear the coveted Jeep “Trail-Rated” badge. The badge indicates off-road worthiness in traction, ground clearance, manoeuvrability, articulation and water fording. There is a caveat, however: the Trail-Rated designation is Jeep’s own, not an industry standard, and the company doesn’t divulge exactly what minimum requirements a vehicle must meet in order to earn the badge. That said, having driven a Patriot with the Freedom Drive II system on a challenging snow-covered course through woods and fields, it performed much better than I expected for an “off-road lite” system. Equipped with good winter tires, it made its way around the trail in snow that came up almost to the bumper and then took a deep gully in stride. While it certainly wouldn’t have the rock-climbing cred of the Jeep Wrangler that was also part of the event, it performed just as well as the Wrangler on a trail that would pretty much be the roughest that most drivers would ever ask it to cross. Whatever the Trail Rated badge entails, the Drive II Compass definitely appears to earn the right to wear it.
Still, in the grand scheme of things, the Compass is sized to be an urban commuter, and for most people going about their daily driving chores, this little Jeep may well be a contender among their choices. I really like that all the seats fold down flat, including the front passenger chair, part of the North package. With all seats up, the cargo hold is 75 cm long. Fold the second-row seats and it lengthens to 150 cm, while dropping the front seat opens it up to a length of 245 cm, enough to bring home an eight-foot piece of lumber. On its own, the Compass will tow 450 kg (1,000 lbs), and with the $225 trailer tow prep package added to mine, it increases to 907 kg (2,000 lbs).Part of the problem lies in the CVT. These transmissions are all over the map when it comes to noise and performance: some are very pleasant to drive and some considerably less so, and I’ve sometimes found both types in different vehicles from the same manufacturer. The Compass’ engine, producing 172 horsepower and 165 lb-ft of torque, is a little rough and growly, and the CVT emphasizes that, so the entire package is noisy as it drones up and down the tachometer. It’s not helped by the road noise that comes up from the asphalt, either. Don’t expect to be drag racing too many competitors off the lights, as acceleration is leisurely, and the low gear on the Freedom Drive II supersedes the manual mode that you get on the CVT without Drive II. As my husband wrote down in my notebook, “When accelerating to pass, the Compass has the sound of desperation.” For those who dinghy-tow behind an RV, only the 4×4 with manual transmission can be flat-towed; the CVT model cannot be hooked up this way. The brakes are good, though, with nice pedal feel and solid bite. My fuel consumption was less than stellar, which may have been due to the bitterly cold weather: against published figures of 9.9 L/100 km (29 mpg Imp) in the city and 7.5 (38) on the highway, the best I could get was 13.1 (22) in combined driving.
I really like the ultra-simple controls, which consist of three big dials for the climate system, big buttons for the stereo, air vents that pop open or closed with a quick touch, a centre console box lid that slides forward as an armrest, and clear, easy-to-read instruments in the cluster. The centre console box and an open dash cubby over the glove-box provide quick storage.
The first-row seats are relatively comfortable, although I’d question their ability to remain so on long trips; the second-row seats have okay legroom and they recline slightly, but the Bonneville salt flats have more contours than these cushions. Put the children back there while you can still quiet their complaints with promises of ice cream, and if you’re the driver on carpool duty, remember who fails to make another pot when the office coffeemaker goes dry.Still, there are a couple of sour notes. Should you use a tall travel mug, you’ll probably end up knocking it against the shifter when you take it out of the front cupholder, and if you’ve slid the armrest forward, you’ll hit that when accessing your drink from the rear cupholder. That pales beside a cubby in the centre console that’s covered by the parking brake lever any time the brake isn’t on, rendering it completely inaccessible when you’re driving. Didn’t any of the designers stop and give this a second look?
Pricing: 2011 Jeep Compass North 4×4
Options: $7,570 (Customer Preferred Package of 60/40 reclining and folding rear seats, height-adjustable driver’s seat, fold-flat passenger seat, deep-tint glass, heated mirrors, keyless entry, air conditioning, 115-volt outlet, power windows, power locks, illuminated entry, body-colour door handles and liftgate appliqué and North badge, $3,300; Sirius satellite radio group including auto-dimming mirror with microphone, one-year subscription, Bluetooth and Uconnect voice control, $625; trailer tow prep group, $225; North All-Season Group of heated front seats and leather-wrapped steering wheel with audio controls, $495; Freedom Drive II off-road group, $750; CVT, $1,750; six-CD/DVD/MP3 media centre, $225; full-size spare tire, $200)
Buyer’s Guide: 2011 Jeep Compass
Crash test results
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)
The Compass has its feet on both the positive and negative sides of the equation. On the good side, it’s better-looking both inside and out than before, its flat-folding seats make it very practical for carrying goods (at eight feet in total length, it can carry longer items than some pickup trucks), its controls are simple to operate, and its optional Freedom Drive II system works great in rougher terrain without moving to the Wrangler’s bouncy ride. On the down side, its growly engine and transmission don’t measure up to many competitors, some ergonomics could be much better, and it tends to get pricey when you add options. Each buyer must test-drive and decide individually, and there are enough of these vehicles out there that they definitely have appeal to many drivers. It’s up to you whether it’s a Jeep thing that you understand.
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9/11 Deja Vu : The Audios. The Analysis.
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RedMahna
very cool new website and enjoyed your audio summarizing the important points to focus on, mr Fintan... thanks.
i think the site and with you putting up the corresponding twitter/ facebook presence will bring on newcomers who may be more intimidated by joining into the pool of long-time discussions here... or have never seen BFN.
good work. keep on rolling along!
just cos things are fucked up doesn't mean it isn't progress...
MichaelC
There should be a prominent link to www.911DejaVu.com on the BFN home page.
Up-North
Location: Up-North USA
Great looking site. Good idea to dedicate one whole site to just 911!
"Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude." A. N. Whitehead
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:45 am Post subject:
Fintan Dunne is...
...the Green Running Man. [Pick up the pace!]
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 12:04 pm Post subject:
Picking up the pace and
Putting it right out there:
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=19102
Location: Outer Heaven
Sheesh, what a couple of wiseguys you're dealing with on that forum there Fintan lol. I'd like to believe they have honestly forgotten that (figuratively) you're on THEIR side..... I actually wanted to sign up just to post on that topic lol.
The Beautiful Truth Show - 5th May, 2010
How They Pulled Off 9/11
Broadband Mp3 Audio
http://911DejaVu.com/audio/911DejaVu-com-10-05-05.mp3
Click to Play or Right-Click to 'Save As' and Download.
http://911DejaVu.com/audio/911DejaVu-com-10-05-05-dialup.mp3
The Beautiful Truth Show - 28th January, 2009
http://breakfornews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=54125#54125
http://BreakForNews.com/audio/BeautifulTruth090128a.mp3
http://BreakForNews.com/audio/BeautifulTruth090128.mp3
REFERENCES AT THE LINK ABOVE
North Tower Impact Angle
South Tower Impact Angle
PENTAGON EYEWITNESSES
Gary Bauer: I had just passed the closest place the Pentagon is to the exit on 395 . . . when all of a sudden I heard the roar of a jet engine. I looked at the woman sitting in the car next to me. She had this startled look on her face. We were all thinking the same thing. We looked out the front of our windows to try to see the plane, and it wasnt until a few seconds later that we realized the jet was coming up behind us on that major highway. And it veered to the right into the Pentagon. The blast literally rocked all of our cars. It was an incredible moment.[1]
Aydan Kizildrgli, an English language student who is a native of Turkey, saw the jetliner bank slightly then strike a western wall of the huge five-sided building that is the headquarters of the nation's military. "There was a big boom," he said. "Everybody was in shock. I turned around to the car behind me and yelled 'Did you see that?' Nobody could believe it."
Donald R. Bouchoux "I was driving down Washington Boulevard (Route 27) along the side of the Pentagon when the aircraft crossed about 200 yards in front of me and impacted the side of the building. There was an enormous fireball, followed about two seconds later by debris raining down. The car moved about a foot to the right when the shock wave hit. I had what must have been an emergency oxygen bottle from the airplane go flying down across the front of my Explorer....
Daryl Donley, saw the crash as he was driving on Washington Boulevard. Among debris that was scattered as the plane crashed, he found a "scorched green oxygen tank marked 'Cabin air. Airline use' " on the road....
Mark Bright, a police officer at the Pentagon, saw the plane hit the building. He had been manning the guard booth at the Mall Entrance to the building. "I saw the plane at the Navy Annex area," he said. "I knew it was going to strike the building because it was very, very low -- at the height of the street lights. It knocked a couple down." The plane would have been seconds from impact -- the annex is only a few hundred yards from the Pentagon. He said he heard the plane "power-up" just before it struck the Pentagon.
Tim Timmerman, who is a pilot himself, noticed American Airlines markings on the aircraft as he saw it hit the Pentagon.[56]
it had been an American Airways 757. "It added power on its way in," he said. "The nose hit, and the wings came forward and it went up in a fireball."
"I was looking out the window; I live on the 16th floor, overlooking the Pentagon, in a corner apartment, so I have quite a panorama. And being next to National Airport, I hear jets all the time, but this jet engine was way too loud. I looked out to the southwest, and it came right down 395, right over Colombia Pike, and as it went by the Sheraton Hotel, the pilot added power to the engines.
Frank Probst, left the Wedge 1 construction site trailer [and] began walking to the Modular Office Compound, which is located beyond the extreme north end of the Pentagon North Parking Lot, for a meeting at 10 a.m. As he approached the heliport, he noticed a plane flying low over the Annex and heading right for him. The aircraft pulled up, seemingly aiming for the first floor of the building, and leveled off.
Rick Renzi: The plane came in at an incredibly steep angle with incredibly high speed."
"The jet creamed in at a dive bombing angle"
http://web.archive.org/web/20011228113620/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1590000/video/_1593685_pentagon17_biles_vi.ram
James Ryan: Within a hundred feet. It was very low. At that point he tilted his wings this way and this way (mimics), And the plane was slow, so that happened concurrently with the engines going down. (mimics) And then straightened out sort of suddenly and hit full gas.
http://digipressetmp3.teaser.fr/uploads/488/Ryan2.ram
Anonymous at Pentagon: At approximately 9:45am I entered the old office of my friend Gary Ramos', directly adjacent to the executive director.... As I stood there, I instinctively ducked at the extremely loud roar and whine of a jet engine spooling up.... The aircraft, looking to be either a 757 or Airbus, seemed to come directly over the annex, as if it had been following Columbia Pike - an Arlington road leading to Pentagon.... The aircraft was at a sharp downward angle of attack, on a direct course for the Pentagon. It was "clean", in as much as, there were no flaps applied and no apparent landing gear deployed. He was slightly left wing down as he appeared in my line of sight, as if he'd just "jinked" to avoid something. As he crossed Route 110 he appeared to level his wings, making a slight right wing slow adjustment as he impacted low on the Westside of the building.....
Mike Walter, USA Today reporter, while driving on Washington Boulevard, also witnessed the crash. He recounted to CNN, "...looked out my window. I saw this plane, the jet, American Airlines jet coming. And I thought, this doesn't add up. It's really low. And I saw it. It just went I mean, it was like a cruise missile with wings, it went right there and slammed right into the Pentagon. Huge explosion."
Steve Storti: Time seemed to slip into slow motion as he watched the plane cross over Route 395, tip its left wing as it passed the Navy annex, veer sharply and then slice into the Pentagon. "I remember thinking that whoever is flying this knows what they're doing," Storti said.
Afework Hagos, a computer programmer, was on his way to work but stuck in a traffic jam on Columbia Pike near the Pentagon when the plane flew over. "There was a huge screaming noise and I got out of the car as the plane came over. Everybody was running away in different directions. It was tilting its wings up and down like it was trying to balance. It hit some lampposts on the way in."[4]
Penny Elgas exited I-395 and came on to Washington Boulevard, heading towards the Memorial Bridge. She was "stuck in late morning rush hour traffic, almost in front of the Pentagon. Traffic was at a standstill. I heard a rumble, looked out my driver's side window and realized that I was looking at the nose of an airplane coming straight at us from over the road (Columbia Pike) that runs perpendicular to the road I was on. The plane just appeared there- very low in the air, to the side of (and not much above) the CITGO gas station that I never knew was there. My first thought was Oh My God, this must be World War III! In that split second, my brain flooded with adrenaline and I watched everything play out in ultra slow motion....
...In my adrenaline-filled state of mind, I was overcome by my visual senses. ... At the second that I saw the plane, my visual senses took over completely and I did not hear or feel anything -- not the roar of the plane, or wind force, or impact sounds....
...I saw the plane coming in slow motion toward my car and then it banked in the slightest turn in front of me, toward the heliport. In the nano-second that the plane was directly over the cars in front of my car, the plane seemed to be not more than 80 feet off the ground and about 4-5 car lengths in front of me. It was far enough in front of me that I saw the end of the wing closest to me and the underside of the other wing as that other wing rocked slightly toward the ground. I remember recognizing it as an American Airlines plane -- I could see the windows and the color stripes. And I remember thinking that it was just like planes in which I had flown many times but at that point it never occurred to me that this might be a plane with passengers....
....The plane seemed to be floating as if it were a paper glider and I watched in horror as it gently rocked and slowly glided straight into the Pentagon. At the point where the fuselage hit the wall, it seemed to simply melt into the building. I saw a smoke ring surround the fuselage as it made contact with the wall. It appeared as a smoke ring that encircled the fuselage at the point of contact and it seemed to be several feet thick. I later realized that it was probably the rubble of churning bits of the plane and concrete. The churning smoke ring started at the top of the fuselage and simultaneously wrapped down both the right and left sides of the fuselage to the underside, where the coiling rings crossed over each other and then coiled back up to the top. Then it started over again -- only this next time, I also saw fire, glowing fire in the smoke ring. At that point, the wings disappeared into the Pentagon. And then I saw an explosion and watched the tail of the plane slip into the building. It was here that I closed my eyes for a moment and when I looked back, the entire area was awash in thick black smoke."
http://www.debunk911myths.org/topics/Pentagon_witnesses
http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/witnesses/sgydk.html
http://www.playaudiovideo.com/msearch?co=v&loc=29-114232983-1-0-114232969&wo=plane+crash
Flight Paths into WTC - 9/11 Commission
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=YJX2fStDMo4
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Wow....there is NOTHING better than coming home for the day and literally seeing a new audio from Dunne....fantastic lol, and I haven't even listened to it yet, double fantastic lol. Pretty interesting now with getting technical Fintan, I surely thought back to the Final Verdict series, which ironically, I have just listened to both of them today, I think I go through all of your audios at least 2-3 times a day lol. Look forward to more great analysis.
Excellent, thanks Fintan.
I always figured it was done by some sort of auto-pilot system but having the planes full of passengers was a new one for me.
Some think that building 7 was the 'command centre' for this and thus had to be destroyed afterwards.
From Joe Vialls:
Electronically Hijacking the WTC Attack Aircraft
Forget the media hype about "Arab hijackers" because there were none on board any of the aircraft on 11 September.
Outrageous, you say?
The four aircraft used in the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, were hijacked electronically from the ground, and flown into their respective targets without the consent of the pilots, who were rendered helpless by the advanced technology used.
http://vialls.homestead.com/
http://geocities.com/mknemesis/homerun.html
Oh dear, the links are dead, no pun intended.
Oh my, a 360 degree turn in broad daylight. WHY?
1) Fire and fire alone had absolutely nothing to do with the actual collapse of the twins---IF IT DID then Tower one would have fallen first.
2) The ultra slow eyewitness account was akin to a script--too obvious. Who speaks like that in the real world/? NOBODY.
3) Why not show real time video of the Plane at the Pentagon and put the speculation to rest once and for all! Wait don't tell me >> all part of the plan to confound and confuse---got it--
4) Steel the likes used in the construction of those towers would NEVER--not in 1 million years be turned to dust, nano particulate, or gnat assed sized spheres of any kind by the energy from the collapse ALONE~~~NO WAY!
Questions: What is going on here? Why the contradictions ?
How can fire do in two absent all of the HOLLYWOOD STYLE FUEL spent " OUTSIDE " the building? Isn't that the culprit---Fire needs fuel---something about a triangle comes to mind. lol
Being hit lower is a rabbit hole and in that regard the KISS METHOD eliminates any further discussion due to most all fuel burning up outside the building. Besides commons sense ( is that still allowed ) says that Tower 2 being struck in the corner ( more toward the corner ) would have caused Two to topple LONG LONG before it would have ever collapsed in the manner that was seen!
How do you account for the 46 minutes of difference in time from beginning to end for Tower 1 vs Tower 2? ANYONE?
Another thing: A Pilot who would have gotten COLD FEET would have been blown from the sky within a few seconds of changing his mind. As it's been said 100% IS 100% CONTROL--
Eyewitness accounts cut both ways: Who said: " From my vantage point it doesn't look like a plane hit the pentagon at all " How can a seasoned CNN Reporter make such a mistake?
Too many holes this time around and too little time to double back for verification!
Remote controlled Planes! Really.
Never in the History of the world has there even been an event that has generated more play on words that 9-11. Much of it is lost in the shuffle, especially by those less inclined to THINK with an open mind.
What is possible, or was possible, doesn't exist where 9-11 is concerned and that's the real shame of it all. A grave mistake to underestimate technology on one hand only to promote it on the other.
Russian leaders offing themselves due to guilt from murder: How many near 9-11 have done the same?
Hombre'
With all due respect to Fintan I must confess that I also have a problem with fire plus the planes as the force pulling down both buildings.
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RAJA RAVI VARMA: An artist who is credited with bringing about a momentous turn in the art of India, Raja Ravi Varma inexorably influenced future generations of artists from different streams. He was the first artist to cast the Indian Gods and mythological characters in natural earthy surroundings using a European realism; a depiction adopted not only by the Indian “calendar-art”- spawning ubiquitous images of Gods and Goddesses, but also by literature and later by the Indian film industry- affecting their dress and form even today. His dazzling oil paintings of India’s ancient glory delighted turn-of-the-century India and his mass reproductions through oleography reached out to the Indian populace in an unprecedented scale.
Ravi Varma was convinced that mass reproduction of his paintings would initiate millions of Indians to real Art, and in 1894 he set up an oleography press called the Ravi Varma Pictures Depot. For photo-litho transfers, the Pictures Depot relied on Phalke's Engraving & Printing whose proprietor, Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, became famous as dadasaheb of Indian Cinema a few years later.
The Calendar-Art thus brought-forth by Ravi Varma has been the origin of lakhs of gaudy god-pictures by ultramodern litho presses for decades. Raja Ravi Varma died of diabetes on October 2, 1906, in his Kilimanoor Palace home overflowing with friends, relatives, dignitaries and the media. Yet, the rich heritage of the fragrance of his paintings continues to charm and influence the art of India.
Artist: Raja Ravi Varma
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REALITY BYTES (article first published : 2008-08-13; last edited : [an error occurred while processing this directive])
Written and directed by Rowin Munsamy (with directorial assistance from Wesley Maherry), Reality Bytes was the winner of this year’s Fringe Audience Favourite Award at the Musho Theatre Festival.
In this production, Rowin Munsamy addresses the problem of how the entertainment industry is to compete with the ever-growing market of interminable TV reality shows. As far as I am concerned, in most cases these shows constitute a dumbing-down process and are no more “reality” than my capacity to swim across the Atlantic!
Rowin has created an amusing and cleverly-devised one-act send-up of reality shows which opened tonight at the Square Space Theatre on the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Howard College Campus for a week’s run. He is passionate about the fact that reality shows have made theatre audiences unappreciative of the stories that actors try to tell. His programme notes reflects his belief that “theatre is more than mere entertainment“ and that “story telling is an endangered form of art and unless something is done, then it will soon become extinct.”
It’s a known fact that more people vote for reality shows than they do in an election. Scary stuff but perhaps it says something about society as a whole!
The stage is bare save for a screen and we soon understand that we are in television land. Mahesh (Rowin Munsamy) – all hugs à la Oprah - and brusque, embittered Yvette (Tessa Sessions) are TV presenters. Mahesh is the anchorman and Yvette is filled with jealousy – she gets stuck with the weather report.
What starts off as an embattled relationship ends up as a close friendship as the two are plunged into a nightmare of reality shows from Surviving South Africa (Survivor) to Idiots (Idols), The Intern (The Apprentice), The Smallest Winner (The Biggest Loser), Small Sister (Big Brother) and Strictly Come Dancing (Strictly Come Jiva), to name some of them. Their first destination is the Victoria Market on a journey to Home Affairs! The problem is, they can’t find where they’re supposed to be going because all the road names have been changed!
They take on various persona as they move as a pair through the minefields of being voted on/off a programme – the end result seeing Mahesh as the winner having to make a choice through Deal or No Deal where he has to “win some, lose some” aspects of what he considers a perfect society.
With good body language and a chance to show off his dancing skills, Rowin Munsamy is hilarious in a number of roles. Tessa Sessions is spirited and suitably aggressive, as befits the part, offering a good foil for Rowin but she needs to watch her tendency to be shrill at times. Their dancing scene in Strictly Come Jiva was well-executed and they managed to avoid Tessa’s legs hitting something in this low-ceilinged venue. Voiceovers are by Chris Swart and Graham Sessions’ photography provides the background for the various scenarios.
Reality Bytes takes place in the Square Space Theatre, University of KZN, from August 12 to 17 nightly at 19h00 (Sunday at 15h00). Tickets R50 (R25 students, scholars and pensioners) booked through 083 763 6292 or email scruffyaugust@yahoo.com Watch promo on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiV-CFqDCTA – Caroline Smart
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Posted by Natasha Hodgson On September 24, 2013 1 Comment
Have you ever thought to yourself ‘This is a nice film about the President Of The United States, but why isn’t he wearing trainers, kicking a Bad Man in the face and screaming “KEEP YO HANDS OFF MY JORDANS” as lots of paintings burn around him?’ White House Down. It’s what would happen if we got an upset The West Wing very drunk indeed.
Channing Tatum’s daughter loves The President. Not the real Channing Tatum, the Channing Tatum that’s pretending to be a character in White House Down. He has a name, it’s not John McCain, but it basically is. Anyway, she bloody loves The President and hates Channing McCain because he’s the kind of dad that forgets to go to her talent contest and calls her ‘champ’ and doesn’t let her listen to her iPod all the time. HE DIDN’T MEAN TO MISS YOUR TALENT CONTEST, GENTLY BUDDING TEEN GIRL. DAMMIT HE’S NOT BEEN THE SAME SINCE HE GOT BACK FROM THE WAR. What’s her talent? Flag waving. SHE LOVES THE PRESIDENT, OK?
Trying to win back her favour, Chan decides to go for a job interview at the White House (because that’s easy), to become part of the President’s security staff. He takes her along with him (because that’s easy), and catches a brief glimpse of the man himself, President Jamie Foxx, whose absolute refusal to play any kind of character at all in this puts Chan’s self-shrugging to shame, and is probably how he won the hearts of the voting public in the first place. Prez Foxx promptly struts into rooms and gardens and down bannisters, says things like “I’m the motha f*ckin leader of the FREE WORLD, BITCHEZ” and then earnestly promises to take all of the troops out of the Middle East, because context. Meanwhile, Maggie Gyllenhaal has gotten all of this completely wrong, and is genuinely attempting to do serious acting as Woman Security Woman In Charge of Providing Pathos. Poor thing.
Luckily, before we’ve had a chance to go “hang on, just… just what? What?”, the music turns from Star-Spangled-Baller to Ominous-Man-With-Mop – pertinent only because an ominous man with a mop is about to blow everything to shit. Why? Because the presidential gardens were made for screeching limos firing rocket-launchers out of them, that’s why.
White House Down’s enthusiastic refusal to give a shit about literally anything makes watching it both immensely satisfying and utterly baffling. Like seeing a toddler gleefully destroy a sandcastle he carefully made himself, Roland Emmerich’s greedy, sweaty eyes leave no historic Washington landmark unfucked. Machine guns, air-missiles, the pressing threat of nuclear warefare, Channing Tatum running around the White House with a FLAMING TORCH he presumably nabbed from whatever other nonsense film Emmerich is making at the same time, it’s all happening. It’s all happening, it’s all just sounds, it’s all one-liners and it’s all on fire.
Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum actually make a great team at the centre of the explosions, and they throw themselves into this borderline offensive nonsense, crashing into any number of priceless governmental heirlooms as they do so. The score doesn’t drop for a second (no mean feat with a running time of two hours and eleven minutes), so that even when the plot goes from lumpy to full sludge, the film keeps on its feet through adrenaline alone.
That’s not to say it gets away with everything. Any attempt at genuine emotion (we’re looking at you here Maggie) isn’t so much undermined as buried forever beneath the avalanche of noise, and though Chan’s weeping daughter does her best to steer away from energy-sapping, it still feels wrong to have any attempt at vulnerability tap the shoulder of this roaring, cheerful blood-monster.
Ultimately, White House Down’s dirty glee at being allowed to crash-bang-wallop in such a sacred place can’t help but have you setting any itchy questions aside in favour of dribbling, happy surrender. Sure you’ll have had your fill of the Land Of The Free long before the credits rolls, but when those stars and stripes are so brilliantly flammable, who minds a bit of top-notch waving?
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This is a nice film about the President Of The United States.
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I had my first good look at the fruits of the Ch'eonggye-ch'eon project this evening. The underground stream now stands revealed, having been resculpted and turned into something it never was. The sidewalks on either side of the stream are ridiculously narrow; the sight of the jam-packed walkways flanking the stream gave me a chuckle. My mother spoke with some gentleman who told her that the whole construction project had been politicized; in one useless gesture, the stream-builders apparently tried to introduce fish into the stream-- but the fish promptly died. Not hard to predict, given how unnatural the "restored" stream is.
The stream itself looks pretty, but also tackily reminiscent of what you might find in an amusement park. It's got lights. I am, however, a fan of moving water; its dynamism and simplicity are a visual relief for people downtown who normally see nothing but slow-moving lines of honking cars and trucks. In that sense, the stream does and will serve a good psychological purpose. Viewed more as a huge art project and less as a sincere attempt at restoring a lost bit of nature, Ch'eonggye-ch'eon makes a certain degree of sense. But have no illusions: this isn't a stream for calm, placid strolls. The sidewalks should have been (and by the looks of things, could have been) twice to three times wider.
And unfortunately, the stream has already had its baptism in blood. I suppose some ancient dragon was awakened by all the digging, and it demanded the sacrifice of a 51-year-old virgin. Not to make light of a death, but... well, OK, I'm making light of a death.
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‘Resolved’: San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer Responds to Viral Video of Incident With Wife
‘DEEPLY EMBARRASSED’
Video shows Larry Baer lunging at his wife and appearing to knock her to the ground
Emily Shugerman
Gender Reporter
Updated Mar. 02, 2019 3:59PM ET / Published Mar. 02, 2019 3:45PM ET
Lachlan Cunningham
In a series of public responses over the past 24 hours, Larry Baer and Pamela Baer have cast video of San Fransisco Giants CEO lunging at his wife as an argument gone wrong as the incident stirred outcry on social media.
In the video, published Friday by TMZ, Baer can be seen jumping toward his wife knocking her from her chair. She can be heard yelling “Oh God!” and calling out for help as Baer appears to grab for a cellphone in her hand. “Pam, stop,” he demands in a second clip.
Eye witnesses told the San Francisco Chronicle they saw the couple arguing for about 20 minutes in a public plaza before the incident, and added that Pamela seemed “seemed pretty terrified” afterward. They said Baer only calmed down after two bystanders intervened.
“He knocks her down off her chair and gets on top of her and puts his hands on her,” one witness recalled. “She was screaming for help.”
Police responded to the scene after the video was published, according to the Chronicle. The department did not respond to requests for comment on any investigation it might be conducting.
The Giants initially released a joint statement from Baer and his wife, calling the incident a a “heated argument in public over a family matter.”
“We are deeply embarrassed by the situation and have resolved the issue,” the statement read.
Later, the Giants released a second statement from Baer apologizing to his wife, his children, and the organization, adding, “I will do whatever it takes to make sure that I never behave in such an inappropriate manner again.”
Pamela Baer also issued a statement through an attorney, claiming she lost her balance and fell from the chair due to an injury to her foot. She said the incident began when she took Baer’s cell phone and did not want to give it back. “I did not sustain any injury based on what happened today,” she added. “Larry and I always have been and still are happily married.”
Nevertheless, the video drew outcry from fans and commentators.
“I always encourage waiting before making large conclusions on anything like this. All we see is the video snippets,” tweeted Tim Kawakami, editor in chief of local sports publication The Athletic. “But it's no rush to judgment to say that this is very ugly for Larry Baer and the Giants. It's not going away quickly.”
Under a domestic violence policy implemented in 2015, MLB players can be suspended for up to seven days while accusations are investigated. Players can be assigned treatment plans and disciplined by the baseball commissioner if they fail to comply. A spokesman for the MLB told The Daily Beast the policy also applied to CEOs.
Baer became CEO of the Giants in 2012, after leaving his position as the team’s marketing director to attend Harvard Business School and work for Westinghouse Broadcasting. He previously drew outcry for his response to news that Giants principal owner Charles Johnson had donated to Cindy Hyde-Smith, a U.S. senator who joked about public hangings.
“Neither I nor anyone else at the Giants can control who any of our owners support politically, just as we cannot and should not control whom any of our employees support politically,” Baer said at the time. “While our 30-plus owners span the political spectrum, they share one core belief: that sports has the power to inspire and galvanize a community."
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One Piece: Collection 1
Film Reviews, Reviews, TV Reviews
Director: Kônosuke Uda
Original Manga: Eiichiro Oda
Starring: Mayumi Tanaka, Akemi Okamura, Kazuya Nakai, Kappei Yamaguchi
Producers: Yoshihiro Suzuki, Carly Hunter, Justin Cook
Running Time: 650 min (26 episodes)
BBFC Certificate: 12
I got my first taste of anime back in the late 90’s when I picked up cheap DVD copies of the classics Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll (in that order I think). Back then not a huge number of anime films/series had made the journey over to the UK, so I never amounted a huge number of titles in my collection. Having to import dodgy copies of things like Neon Genesis Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop proved a little too expensive for a college student (and the quality of these ‘imports’ was variable), but I fell in love with the genre nonetheless. The elaborate and sometimes confusing plots, often mixing teenage melodrama with philosophy (cod or otherwise) made a change from the bland, well-trodden narratives of your average blockbuster. Then there was the style. Granted, the TV series’ and lower budget anime didn’t have the smoothest animation or most detailed character designs, but they made the most of their limitations to deliver true feasts for the eyes. Plus, for an action junkie like myself, my craving was often satisfied by blood spurting violence or epic robot/monster/super-powered showdowns. When I discovered the joys of Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki through the release of Princess Mononoke I also realised there was more to anime than 18-rated violence and brain melting sci-fi.
But then the fever died down. I wouldn’t say I fell out of love with the genre/format, but I was always into the films more than the series (other than the aforementioned classics) and over the years fewer and fewer of these seemed to get made, so I watched fewer and fewer. Anime became more about long-running TV/OVA series’ and I didn’t have the time or money to work my way through several box-sets worth of material. So, other than the occasional excellent Ghibli release and the odd cheap OVA box-set I’d find, I never become the otaku I expected to become.
I’ve started to miss the mind-bending, unusual and stylish world of anime recently though, helped by the Japanese festival Blueprint put on at the start of the year. So, seeing as I tend to watch review screeners more than anything else these days, I figured why not bite the bullet and start getting some anime featured on Blueprint: Review, even if it might come in TV series form. Manga have finally started to release the popular series One Piece on DVD in the UK and it’s not one I’ve seen, so I sat the 4-disc set next to my TV and have been working my way through it over the last few weeks.
One Piece follows wannabe pirate Luffy as he heads off towards the treacherous Grand Line to find and retrieve the infamous ‘one piece’, the world’s most valuable treasure, left up for grabs after the death of the legendary pirate Gol. D Roger. More important than the wealth gained from taking this treasure, Luffy wants to achieve the honour of being ‘king of the pirates’ by doing what no other pirate has managed since the death of Roger. Being such an arduous and uncharted journey, he must amass a crew and this first collection of episodes is largely made up of him helping oddball characters along his journey and convincing them to join him in his quest. These include the sneaky thief and navigator Nami, the world’s (second) greatest swordsman Roronoa Zoro, lovable liar Usopp and the fiery chef Sanji.
There are 26 episodes in the set, but really there are maybe only about 6 or 7 stories, made up of a number of episodes and these generally set up a new character to join the crew (other than one or two brief random excursions). These tend to follow a similar pattern in terms of Luffy and crew arriving at a new location, a character’s backstory being revealed and a evil pirate crew arriving that needs to be dealt with. However, the series gets away with this repetitive nature by throwing in a host of unusual characters with quirky skills or issues. The pirates for instance are always wonderfully bizarre. There are cat pirates, one of which fights with enormous claws, clown pirates with a leader whose body can separate and the ultimate swordsman who can split ships in half with a single slash. Even the central character Luffy is by no means normal. After eating one of the ‘devil fruit’ as a boy (the source of many of the quirkier characters’ powers), he has become a rubber person whose limbs can stretch and squash, meaning he is practically invincible (knives/swords and drowning can still stop him though).
It’s this imagination that prevents the series from becoming another straight-forward kids action series. There are plenty of nice visual flourishes too. Being a TV series, it doesn’t have the money or time to do anything too elaborate and the general look isn’t anything special, but in more dramatic or action-orientated scenes the style often changes, making for a dynamic and exciting experience from episode to episode.
Speaking of dynamic and exciting, the series consistently plays out in high gear, employing a fast, energetic pace throughout. There’s a lot of humour and even in its goofier moments it’s pretty funny, if hardly witty or intelligent. Its quirky imagination plays a part here once again. There’s a huge amount of action too, with pretty much all episodes containing a showdown or two to keep the adrenaline pumping. These are well executed, with a variety of techniques used to keep things interesting (although Luffy tends to use his handful of ‘gum gum’ moves an awful lot). It even gets pretty violent, with the blood quota building as the series moves on.
It can get a little repetitive, and there’s a tendency to drag bigger battles out over a few too many episodes, wasting time by pausing for everyone to admire the ‘special move’ somebody’s brought out. This is all part of the territory though and anyone familiar with this style of action anime will expect it.
Despite a few niggles, this is great fun throughout though. Whenever I planned to watched one or two episodes it would turn into four or five. This is largely down to the extended story lines, but also due to the infectiously fun tone and endless imagination of the writing and design. Those not attuned to the genre or format won’t be won over maybe, but if you like a bit of zany action-packed anime in your life, this is one of the best places to find it.
One Piece: Collection 1 is out now in the UK on DVD and Blu-Ray, released by Manga. Collection 2 has also been released recently and I imagine (or at least I’m hoping) Manga will be steadily working through the 15 series that have been produced and beyond.
Picture and audio quality is strong, I never noticed any problems. You can skip intros and outros easily which is handy for shows like this when you want to watch a few in a row. Extra features-wise you get a couple of staff commentaries, textless versions of the opening and closing songs and trailers.
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Akira was also the first anime I saw! I originally had a preference for films, too, but now I love watching a good series – and One Piece is by far one of my favourites. The quirkiness and humour is fantastic. I can’t wait to get my hands on collection five – there’s a trailer here, if you haven’t already seen it.
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The title of Person of Reconciliation 2018 to Sister Michèle
23 wrzesnia 2019 r.
The Polish Council of Christians and Jews
had the honour of inviting to the ceremony
of awarding the title of
Person of Reconciliation 2018
to Sister Michèle
from the Community of Grandchamp
The Ceremony took place on August 4, 2019
at the Centre for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim
Students Meet Politicians In Auschwitz
22 pazdziernika 2019 r. On the 7th October 2019, a delegation of the Parliament in Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany, consisting of the President Andre Kuper (CDU), the Vice-President Carina Gödecke (SPD), the Vice-President Angela Freimuth (FDP) , the Vice-President Oliver Keymis and the Managing Director Dorothee Zwiffelhoffer, as well as the Consultant for Memorial Culture Dr. Matthias Schreiber, came to visit the Centre for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim. Their program included a visit to the former Nazi German concentration and Extermination camp Auschwitz 1 where they laid a wreath in remembrance of the victims. They also went to the Jewish Centre in the town and saw the last remaining synagogue. In the evening, the delegation met with groups of students from Bestwig and Werne who had accompanied them throughout the day. Many questions and opinions were exchanged which led to interesting discussions within the groups.
My name is Henriette Vohn
1 pazdziernika 2019 r. I am the volunteer at the Center for Dialoge and Prayer in 2019/2020. Actually I am from Aachen, a small town in the west of Germany and decided, after I got my Abitur, that I wanted to spend my voluntary service, here in Oswiecim. There are infinite places and countries that are worth to explore and travel to, but I felt, that here was a special place to preserve the history and memory of what happend and is never allowed to happen again. I wanted to contribute to that, which is, why I am looking forward to welcome you here in the center soon.
Youth for Peace - Saint ‘Egidio 2019
About 800 people, young Europeans from 16 countries were guests of the Centre for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim/Auschwitz. They came to Poland as part of their Global Friendship To Live Together in Peace conference. In Kraków they met with Mrs. Lidia Skibicka-Maksymowicz, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau. They also visited the former Nazi German Concentration and Death Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau where they laid wreaths at the monument to the victims as a sign of their opposition to all forms of racism and violence. The group was accompanied by the President of the Community of Sant'Egidio, Marco Impagliazzo, professor of contemporary history.
Peace Tour 2019 from Oświęcim to Berlin
15 czerwca 2019 r. Pupils of the Johannes Gutenberg Secondary School travel as ambassadors of the city of Münster and on behalf of the Mayor and patron Markus Lewe.
77th anniversary of Edith Steins death Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross OCD
Ceremony in honour of the Patroness of Europe
at the invitation of
Bishop Roman Pindel, Ordinary of the Diocese of Bielsko-Żywiecka
in cooperation with the Centre for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim
9 August 2019 in Oświęcim
Exhibition opening Anne Frank
19 maja 2019 r. On the 10th of May 2019 the director of the Centre for Dialogue and Prayer father Jan Nowak opened together with Jochen Schmidt head of the Peace Library in Berlin exhibition: "Anne Frank" and "The Children of La Hille Castle" - Courage in World War II.
Exhibition "Anne Frank" and "The Children of La Hille Castle" - Courage in World War II
EXHIBITION THE GIRL IN THE DIARY. SEARCHING FOR RYWKA FROM THE ŁÓDŹ GHETTO
In 1945 a Soviet doctor found a school notebook in the liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp. It was a diary written by the teenager Rywka Lipszyc in the Łódź Ghetto between October 1943 and April 1944 — the testament of a Jewish girl who lost her siblings and parents, but never lost hope despite moments of doubt. More than 60 years after its discovery, the diary traveled to the United States, where it was translated from Polish, supplemented with commentaries and published in book form.
My Name is Alina Hӧtel
11 pazdziernika 2018 r. I am 19 years old and come from a little town near Aachen, Germany. In summer 2018 I finished school and since September 2018 I am a volunteer in the Centre for Dialogue and Prayer.
Young Jews and Muslim Refugees from Germany visited Auschwitz
August 06th to 10th 2018
Young Jews and Muslim Refugees from Germany visited Museum Auschwitz and Centre for Dialogue and Prayer on August 06th to 10th 2018
2018-08-06 Union of Progressive Jews Germany
31 lipca 2018 r. “Young Jews and Muslim Refugees from Germany Visiting Auschwitz
Exhibition of photographs AUSCHWITZ TODAY by Martin Blume
21 lipca 2018 r. August 9th 2017 to August 31st 2018
In Nomine Domini. Africa’s Missionary. Cardinal Adam Kozłowiecki SJ (1911-2007)
17 lipca 2018 r. July 15th – August 16th 2018
"In Nomine Domini. Africa’s Missionary. Cardinal Adam Kozłowiecki SJ (1911-2007)"
Presidents Andrzej Duda and Reuwen Riwlin met at the Center for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim
12 maja 2018 r. On 12/04/2018 President Andrzej Duda of Poland and President Re'uwen Riwlin of Israel met in the Centre for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim. They were greeted by the Director of the Centre for Dialogue and Prayer, Fr. Jan Nowak and the manager Małgorzata Waligóra. The event was an opportunity for the leaders of the two countries to meet and discuss Jewish- Polish relations. Afterwards, the leaders gave their statements. A few minutes before 2pm the March of the Living in Oświęcim left for the 27th time from the former concentration camp Auschwitz I.
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Perspectives for Theology after Auschwitz
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Sarah Palin takes down Brian Williams
Posted by PatriotUSA at 11:50 PM Labels: Denying the truth, LSM loving obama, obama is a muslim.
Brian Williams recently interviewed Obama and left alot of questions unanswered. The fact that Obama has mentioned another 'right wing conspiracy' in regard to his being a muslim is not too shocking to me. It has comes up in other sites and commentary. Palin is correct to jump all over Williams for not following up as is mentioned below.
Here is what was written at the Western Center For Journalism:
Sarah Palin blasts Brian Williams
By Caleb
Sarah Palin’s comments on last night’s Sean Hannity Show were dominated by critiques of the media, and one member of the media in particular.
She slammed Brian Williams’s interview of President Obama on Sunday, in which the president responded to recent polls showing a significant segment of the population believes he’s a Muslim.
After quipping, “I can’t spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead,” Obama responded to Williams’s question about whether the doubt about his religion reflected his inability to communicate with voters with an answer that had echoes of Hillary Clinton’s “vast right-wing conspiracy” comment.
“The facts are the facts,” Obama told Williams. “We went through some of this during the campaign — there is a mechanism, a network of misinformation that in a new media era can get churned out there constantly.”
Palin thought Williams should have pressed him on what he was implying with these comments.
“My first reaction was listening to Brian Williams and wondering, ‘Brian, that’s some stealth reporting. You’re not even going to follow up and ask him what in the heck is Barack Obama talking about. What is he insinuating’?
I was pretty appalled at that notion that Brian Williams was just letting him get away with that kind of false accusation that there is some kind of suggested right-wing conspiracy again, especially knowing that the media still — the mainstream, lame-stream media — they’re in his back pocket, still.”
Original article at WCJ is here.
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Peace TV in the Muslim world: Promoting Jihad and converting non-Muslims into Islam
Posted by PatriotUSA at 11:39 PM Labels: Dr. Zakir Naik. Global islamic subversion, Islam and sharia law
This is from Shoaib Choudhury's Weekly Blitz. What a great job this individual does, and he does this from an islamic country. The founder of Peace TV is a rather nasty muslim, Dr. Zakir Naik. This radical muslim has blamed 9/11 on George Bush, the Jews and Israel. He is supported by many rich muslims and monthly donations of Zakaat, the islamic charity that is collected in the mosques. He thinks that islam is true freedom for women and prevents them from getting raped. Sure, if that is true then the pig and pork products are beloved by all muslims and others who have been brainwashed by islam.
"Despite all such controversies Dr. Zakir Naik's mission of spreading hate speech is continuing in full swing. He not only runs a huge Jihadist television network, but also is gradually penetrating into non-Muslim societies through his charitable organizations, Islamic schools etc. No one is daring to investigate the sources of hundreds of millions of dollars of funds; he is receiving from various unknown people and institutions. And, it is giving him the opportunity of further expanding his Jihadist conquest in the world."
Continuous conquest of Jihadist media
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
Infamous and notorious Dr. Zakir Naik's media vehicle of spreading hate speech has stepped into further expansion with the establishment of a Urdu channel named Peace TV – Urdu under the network of Peace TV, now targeting additional audience of at least 90 million, though the Peace TV has around 60 million audience in twenty countries in the world at this moment.
Peace TV was launched on Arabsat on satellite BADR-3 in October 2006. In November, it was available on BADR-3 and BADR-C. In 2007, Peace TV returned to BADR-4, and became available on PanAmSat PAS-10. It became the first and only Islamic channel of the world. As of September 2007, Peace TV is available in the United States and Canada on World TV channel 65, and in the UK Broadcaster Kamran Khan and Europe on Sky platform, channel 820. It is also freely available from the LiveStation satellite television computer application which can be downloaded from the internet, free of charge.
This television channel, promoting Jihad and converting non-Muslims into Islam either through alluring promises made secretly by Dr. Zakir Naik and his gang, receives monthly donation of US$ 20-25 million from various individuals and institutions in the world. Major segment of such donations come from Zakaat [Islamic Charity] fund. In addition, Dr. Zakir Naik receives roughly US$ 3-4 million every month from various wealthy Muslim individuals and rulers in the world, for holding seminars in promoting Islam in various Muslim and non-Muslim countries. Each of the seminars, organized by Dr. Zakir Naik's organization named Islamic Research Foundation [IRF] costs approximately US$ 2-3 hundred thousand. IRF is registered as a non-profit organization in Mumbai, India.
Dr. Zakir Naik has also established another organization named United Islamic Aid, with the goal of collecting at least US$ 25 million per year from Muslims with 'revolutionary vision'. To become a member of this group, any individual is asked to contribute US$ 250 per year, which Dr. Zakir Naik wishes to use as per Sharia concept of 'Baitul Maal' [Islamic Treasury].
Following the tremendous growth of Islamic Research Foundation, United Islamic Aid and Peace TV network, Dr. Zakir Naik now has launched his next program named 'Islamic International School' with its first outlet in Mumbai, India. This is a modern-form project of kindergarten madrassa in reality, which targets students from affluent classes, with the goal of poisoning the minds of kids with extreme Jihadist indoctrination and motivation. This Islamic school will soon be affiliated to ICGSE Board, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. Female students of this school will have to wear Islamic Hijab according to the website of this institution. Careful visit to the website of this institution will give very clear idea as to how Dr. Zakir Naik is now playing important role in breeding Jihadists in India as well in other countries in the world, through his newest venture named Islamic International School.
Let me once again mention the identity of this Dr. Zakir Naik. In a lecture delivered on 31 July 2008 on Peace TV, Naik argued that 9/11 "it is a blatant, open secret that this attack on the Twin Towers was done by George Bush himself", to give Bush reason to attack and control oil-rich countries.
In a YouTube video recorded in Singapore in 1996 Naik said: "If Osama Bin Laden is fighting the enemies of Islam, I am for him. If he is terrorizing the terrorists, the biggest terrorist, I am with him. Every Muslim should be a terrorist."
Dr. Zakir Naik considers United States a terrorist, because he holds America responsible for the deaths of thousands of people living in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon.
Zakir Naik continues to make anti-Semitic statements in his 'lectures' on Peace TV and other platforms; on record, he says, "Jews are our staunchest enemy."
Naik has been denied entry into United Kingdom and Canada since June 2010. In June 2010 Zakir Naik was banned from entering the United Kingdom by the Home Secretary Theresa May. He had arranged to give talks in London and Sheffield. May said of the exclusion order regarding Naik, "Numerous comments made by Dr Naik are evidence to me of his unacceptable behavior, she noted statements from Naik such as, "every Muslim should be a terrorist".
In the lecture at Melbourne University, Naik argued that only Islam gave women true equality. He stressed the importance of the headscarf by arguing that the more "revealing Western dress" makes women more susceptible to rape.
Naik and his teachings have been associated with terrorists including Najibullah Zazi, Rahil Sheikh and Kafeel Ahmed.
Dr. Zakir has stated that any Muslim is free to convert out of Islam if the person so chooses, but added that if a Muslim converts then speaks against Islam then that is considered as treason. Naik stated that under Islamic law this is punishable by death.
During a question-and-answer session at one of Zakir's lectures May 29 on the Maldives, a 37-year old Maldivian citizen named Mohamed Nazim stood up and announced that he was struggling to believe in any religion and did not consider himself to be a Muslim; Nazim further asked what his verdict would be under Islam and in the Maldives. Zaik responded that he considers the punishment for apostasy not necessarily to mean death since Muhammed was reported in the Hadith scriptures to on some occasion to have shown clemency towards apostates, but added that if a Muslim apostate speaks and propagates against Islam under Islamic Sharia rule then the apostate should be put to death. Mohamed Nazim was reported to have been arrested and put in 'protective custody' by the Maldivian Police. He later publicly reverted back to Islam in custody after series of threats by the administration.
In 2004, Naik visited New Zealand and then the Australian capital at the invitation of Islamic Information and Services Network of Australasia. At his conference in Melbourne, senior writer and columnist Sushi Das commented that "Naik extolled the moral and spiritual superiority of Islam and lampooned other faiths and the West in general", further criticizing that Naik's words "fostered a spirit of separateness and reinforced prejudice".
Khushwant Singh, a prominent Indian journalist, politician and author argues that Naik's pronouncements are "juvenile" and said that "they seldom rise above the level of undergraduate college debates, where contestants vie with each other to score brownie points".
Singh replied to Zakir Naik's statement that "Western society claims to have uplifted women. On the contrary, it has actually degraded them to the status of concubines, mistresses, and society butterflies who are mere tools in the hands of pleasure seekers and sex marketers…." by saying "Dr. Naik, you know next to nothing about the Western society and are talking through your skull cap. People like you are making the Muslims lag behind other communities." Singh also noted that Naik's audiences "... listen to him with rapt attention and often explode in enthusiastic applause when he rubbishes other religious texts ..."
Lucknow based cleric Kalbe Jawad argued that "Naik is bringing a bad name to Muslims. Such people should be condemned and socially boycotted" and claimed that Naik was being financed by the Wahabi sect that supposedly perpetrates violence in the name of Islam and expressed the need for an inquiry into, how Naik was running a TV channel on his own and where he received the funds from. Another Lucknow cleric Naib Imam Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahali claimed that Naik has "mugged up some verses from the Koran and pretends to be an Islamic scholar".
Despite all such controversies Dr. Zakir Naik's mission of spreading hate speech is continuing in full swing. He not only runs a huge Jihadist television network, but also is gradually penetrating into non-Muslim societies through his charitable organizations, Islamic schools etc. No one is daring to investigate the sources of hundreds of millions of dollars of funds; he is receiving from various unknown people and institutions. And, it is giving him the opportunity of further expanding his Jihadist conquest in the world.
Original article at the Weekly Blitz is here.
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Latest ambush took place where Obama demanded the checkpoints be removed
Posted by PatriotUSA at 9:46 PM Labels: Arab Muslims hatred of Israel and the Jews, Hamas, Middle East Conflict and peace talks
Not that the death of four Israelis will bother the muslim in the White house, the first muslim potus. I doubt anyone in his administration will be bothered at all by this. We will hear the usual lip service comments of regrets but will any demands be forced upon the palestinians, the ones who are squatters on land that belongs to the Jewish people and Israel? No. of course not. The mullah in the Oval Office refuses to make the arabs concede to any demands, nor will he. Israel should cancel the talks at once and refuse to any future talks with the murdering cowards that have to resort to such tactics. New building should be approved right away and new permits issued for many future projects. One of the ambushed dead was a pregnant woman. So this makes it five that were butchered by these cowards. Will these murders change anything? I really hope it does but that remains to be seen. The creation of an terrorist state next to Israel will increase these types of attacks and should not even be a consideration. World opinion can go to hell as far as I am concerned. Israel needs to return to what worked in the past. Taking out the state's enemies FIRST and dealing with the fallout later. This is from WND.
Jews killed where Obama demanded removal of checkpoints
Anti-terror barriers credited with stopping scores of attacks
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – Today's deadly terror attack that killed four people took place on a road where the Israeli government removed staffed anti-terror checkpoints in line with requests from the Obama administration, WND has learned.
As President Obama was preparing for a Washington summit with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Palestinian terrorists today carried out a shooting attack, killing two Jewish men and two women, one of whom was pregnant.
The attack took place in the West Bank just south of the entrance to Kiryat Arba, near the historic biblical city of Hebron.
Israeli security officials say the terrorist shooting was a coordinated ambush.
Officially, Hamas took responsibility for the terror attack, in which gunmen opened fire at point-blank range on a car carrying the four Israeli civilians.
Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for Hamas, confirmed to WND his group was behind the attack.
Abu-Ubaida, a spokesman for Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, stated today's shooting was "a link in a chain-series of attacks - some have been executed, and others will follow."
The attack took place in the same general area where a gunman opened fire on an Israeli police vehicle just outside Hebron in June. A police officer was killed and two others were wounded in that shooting attack. Israeli security officials say the shooting was a planned ambush similar to today's attack.
Both incidents took place on Route 60, a West Bank road used by Israeli and Palestinian drivers and patrolled by Israel.
In the last year, the Israeli government removed 19 staffed checkpoints in the West Bank. At least 15 of the removed barriers are in the vicinity of Hebron.
A spokeperson for the Israel Defense Forces confirmed to WND that in the last year and a half, all roadblocks have been removed from Route 60.
The checkpoints were dismantled in line with demands from the Palestinian Authority that were passed on to Israel by the Obama administration.
George Mitchell, the White House envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, specifically requested that Israel remove roadblocks and checkpoints as a confidence-building gesture to restart talks with the PA, Israeli officials told WND.
Anti-terror roadblocks and checkpoints impede Palestinian movement, but have been credited with stopping scores of attacks.
Michael Ben-Ari, a Knesset member from Israel's National Union party, slammed the dismantlement of the checkpoints. "The writing was on the wall. Opening roadblocks encourages terror and gives a free hand to terrorists," he said.
Preliminary police reports here show the gunmen today approached the Israeli vehicle and shot the victims multiple times at point-blank range.
The Magen David Adom ambulance authority reported the victims were two men ages 25 and 40 and two women, also ages 25 and 40, one of whom was pregnant.
The victims were all residents of Beit Hagai, a Jewish community in the southern Hebron Hills.
Paramedic Guy Ronen described the shooting scene to the Jerusalem Post: "When we arrived on the scene, all four doors of the car were open and four bodies were strewn on the road. We saw that the vital organs had been struck by a very large number of bullets, and that there was no chance of saving their lives."
"It was a very difficult scene. We had learned to forget scenes like this in recent years," Ronen added.
State Department spokesman Philip Crowley, meanwhile, commented on the terrorist attack, stating: "We are cognizant that there could be external events that can have an impact on the environment. We also are cognizant that there may well be actors in the region who are deliberately making these kinds of attacks in order to try to sabotage the process."
The attack occurred just before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plane landed in Washington, where the Israeli leader is set to begin direct negotiations with PA President Mahmoud Abbas. The negotiations are aimed at creating a Palestinian state.
Members of Netanyahu's entourage said the prime minister was briefed on the events and that he instructed Israel's security agencies to prepare for the possibility of further attacks aimed at disrupting the Washington summit.
Original article at WND is here.
Guess Who's Meeting Today at the White House
Hat tip to ACT for America
The below article is by Christine Brim of Bigpeace dated August 28th. (Liberal viewer warning- Bigpeace is one of Andrew Breitbart's blogs.)It looks like a lot of questionable folks are meeting with our government leaders today at the White House. Objective? Cash in on stimulus grants.
http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/08/29/coming-august-31-direct-access-stimulus-grants-for-the-muslim-brotherhood/
For those of you not up to date on the Muslim Brotherhood. They are a movement based in Egypt that, while proclaiming themselves to be moderate, are the parent organization for all the other radical groups that have sprouted up-including al-Qaida. They are also connected to CAIR, ISNA, the Muslim Student Association(s) and any other organization you can name that has come under suspicion in the US. They were founded by a radical Islamist and their chief ideological spokesperson is radical imam Yusuf al Qaradawi, who lives in Qatar.
If any of the individuals or groups meeting in the White House today have any connection to the Brotherhood, they have no business being in the White House, and they have no business cashing in on government (tax-payer) money.
Why can't the White House reach out to true Muslim moderates like Steven Schwartz and Zuhdi Jasser?
Use them, nuke them or lose.
Posted by PatriotUSA at 1:19 AM Labels: Day of no return with nuclear weapons, MAD and WMD
I grew up in the age when nuclear weapons were literally a daily fear for our parents. We were required to hide under our desks at school during air raid drills or get to the nearest bomb shelter if we were out and about. As other countries acquired nukes and threatened to use them, the policy of MAD or Mutually Assured Destructtion came to be part of this country's defense policy. Richard Nixon was probably the most adept at using MAD to drive our enemies to the point of near madness with his use of MAD. Are we willing to use them today, tomorrow when this country becomes involved in a conflict from which there is no return without the use of our nuclear arsenal? That day will be coming as the world now has to deal with a nuclear Iran. The West should be ashamed of itself for not taking out Iran's nuclear facilities when the opportunity was there.
Ron from Totus has a good take on this subject and I agree with him 100%. It is not a matter of never but when. Thanks to Ron for letting me 'steal' this one.
"Nuke em"
By Ron Russell
"Nuke em", I often see this while visiting around the blogosphere and my usual first reaction is to recoil at the mere idea of setting loose those terrible WMD's. Being a child of the 1950's and having seen all the old movies such as "Fail Safe", "Doctor Strangelove" and many more coupled with my real nightmares as a child about those looming mushroom clouds the mere idea of a nuclear explosion scares the hell out of me.
Having gotten that out of the way, I've come to face a new reality and that reality is that one day we will be confronted with the cold hard truth of using the nuke or losing the battle. Tactical nukes are at the ready should they be needed. However, when such things are mentioned the American left recoils for they would not shoot so much as a spitball at the enemy and have shown consistently they will not even hurl insults their way. Although they have no problems with calling those of us on the right every name under the sun. It is becoming increasing obvious to me that the only enemy the American left sees are those fellow Americans on the right, and they feel if they can defeat those all other enemies in the world will miraculously vanish in a cloud of cleaning smoke.
War is not a game and the timid have no place on the battlefield or in the command post. To play at war is to lose and before losing I say those frightening words, "nuke um".
Original article is here.
Answering BBC propoganda on islam and the Crusades
Posted by PatriotUSA at 12:52 AM Labels: BBC perverts history, Crusades and Islamic agression
Here are two videos that show how the BBC has twisted history about the Crusades and beyond. The BBC is one the worst media sites when it comes to favoring islam in a positive light. This is done even if it has lies, half truths, and deception. The really tragic thing is that the BBC is used as an 'educational tool' and resource for schools in England and many other countries.
Hat tip: Vladtepes
Islamist George Galloway gets caught red handed at mosque fund raiser
Posted by PatriotUSA at 12:40 AM Labels: George Galloway, islamist at heart
Stimulus funds to be used with 'direct access' to the muslim brotherhood. Must read!
Posted by PatriotUSA at 2:12 PM Labels: Global Islamic Subversion, Islamization of America, Jihad and stealth jihad, Obama's muslim outreach
I really do not need to add much commentary to this excellent post from Big Peace. Suffice it to say that our tax money is being given out to muslim organizations who want only one thing; the complete and total islamization on the United States. "One ring to rule them all." A complete and total islamic state, here in the USA as part of the global islamic caliphate. This about complete and total islamic domination and control. I am only posting part of this so be sure to read the complete article at the link at the end of the post. Your taxes hard at work to subvert our country to an islamic caliphate. I wonder if obama counts this garbage as secured jobs under the stimulus plan, as this where the funds for this event are coming from? This is infiltration and stealth jihad at it's worst.
Coming August 31: ‘Direct Access’ Stimulus Grants for the Muslim Brotherhood
By Christine Brim
Think of it as ACORN reborn, with a slice of Jihad on the side.
On August 31, this coming Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated “Coordinating Council of Muslim organizations” (CCMO) will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and U.S. Government agencies (Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services etc.) to provide the groups “funding, government assistance and resources.” The workshop will apparently provide special access for these Muslim Brotherhood organizations: the organizers pledge to provide “direct access” and “cut through red tape.” Government and Muslim groups will hold an Iftar dinner (breaking the fast of Ramadan) after the workshop.
The event was announced in an email newsletter sent August 27 by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial, long associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the global Islamist network (great backgrounder here from Hudson Institute). Here are three key paragraphs from the email (the entire article on the August 31 event from the ISNA email is pasted below this post as reference):
This year, a phenomenal next step has been made where government iftars become coupled with workshops to provide resources and benefit the Muslim community. The US Department of Agriculture (DOA) and the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) have paired the first of such events, scheduled for August 31, 2010.
…Leaders from Muslim organizations around the nation, particularly social service organizations, are invited to a workshop with representatives from the DOA, Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Health and Human Services, the White House, Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, and more. Twenty five to thirty Muslim leaders representing 20 Muslim organizations are expected to attend the workshop.
According to a representative of CCMO, this workshop is designed to clarify how Muslim nonprofits, mosques, Islamic centers, and social service organizations can strengthen their communities through more direct access to opportunities provided to social service agencies at the Federal level. “It will hopefully help cut through some of the red tape and shine light on the many opportunities for funding, government assistance, and resources that we just don’t know about at the local level,” said Elsanousi.
The Problem: Your Money, redistributed to the Muslim Brotherhood
This workshop constitutes an abdication of their professional responsibility by all government participants – and a taxpayer-funded government stimulus program for the attending Muslim Brotherhood-associated groups. The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, is a global Islamist political movement dedicated to imposing Shariah law on all nations and institutions. Their credo is “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”
Why do we think some of these groups attending, possibly all, may be associated with the Muslim Brotherhood?
Because the sponsoring organization – the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO), co-sponsoring with the Department of Agriculture – has a long history of associations with the Muslim Brotherhood. They also signed a 2009 American Muslim Task Force statement threatening to “suspend” relations with the FBI, because the FBI was investigating possible links to homegrown terrorism in mosques and other Muslim organizations.
Not so evident on the current website, of course. This happens all the time with groups associated with the Muslim Brotherhood – the current CCMO website has a LOT less information than the older ones preserved at archive.org (aka “The Wayback Machine”). Here are the previous websites for the CCMO from 2004-2008. The pre-whitewashed CCMO websites are highly revealing. They expose the degree to which this Administration intends to direct taxpayer money (and “reduced red tape”) to Muslim Brotherhood-associated organizations in the U.S.
The Administration has not revealed which 20 groups and 25-30 leaders will attend the special workshop, but if they include the 41 CCMO members listed in 2007, the attendees could include the following groups , which I’ve linked to descriptions published by The Investigative Project (please support their work):
The Islamic Society of North America, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Terrorism Finance trial, and the source of Friday’s email promoting this CCMO/Department of Agriculture Event;
The Council on American Islamic Relations, shunned by the FBI, several of its leaders indicted or convicted for terrorism, a possible violator of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, sued for fraud by Muslim, Hispanic and African-American families, named as an unindicted co-conspirator (CAIR fundraiser advertised at the CCMO site);
The International Institute of Islamic Thought , the “think tank” of the Muslim Brotherhood, described at that link by The Grand Jihad author and former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. One of the current and longest serving officers of CCMO is Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, founder of the educational arm of IIIT, the Fairfax Institute and the Director of Outreach Program for Dar-ul Hijrah “Terror” Mosque – more on him below.
The Muslim Public Affairs Committee , exposed in that linked 88-page IPT report particularly for their defense of terrorists and terrorist financers. MPAC advertised here at the CCMO site for an event co-sponsored by Islamic Free Market Institute, the latter described in Paul Sperry’s pathbreaking book Infiltration)
The Dar al Hijrah Mosque (known as the “Terror Mosque” in Northern Virginia for its links to imprisoned, indicted or wanted terrorists as vividly described by Frank Gaffney), advertised here at the CCMO site.
The Muslim American Society “Freedom Foundation” run by three-time felon Mahdi Bray (MASFF Fundraiser advertised at the CCMO site). The Muslim American Society was originally founded as the U.S. branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. MAS leader Mahdi Bray was elected on September 7, 2003 to the Executive Committee by over 40 CCMO member organizations.
I suggest that the Administration knows these groups are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. They think that’s a good thing.
This isn’t incompetence; it’s intentional.
The article closes with this invitation that was emailed:
Here’s the email in entirety:
Iftar with Our Government:
Serving up Resources for American Muslim Communities
In celebration of Ramadan, ISNA leadership and staff have been busy attending iftars hosted by the White House, State Department, Federal and State Agencies, Embassies, elected officials and interfaith partners.
These iftars are a place to celebrate the diversity of America with our partners in the government and interfaith communities,” said ISNA Director for the Office of Interfaith and Community Alliances Dr. Sayyid Syeed. He adds, “They are also evidence that Muslims and our traditions are more regularly incorporated into the mosaic of cultures and traditions that form the foundation of American life.”
Although these iftars are important symbols of the transition of Muslims into mainstream American culture, according to ISNA Director of Community Outreach Mohamed Elsanousi, they are also a very important place for brainstorming and the development of practical ideas to help the Muslim community.
“Muslim community members have been asking for more from these iftars for years now. They have contacted ISNA and requested that we work with our partners in government to make the dinners more useful to our communities at the local levels,” said ISNA Director of Community Outreach Mohamed Elsanousi.
“ISNA is happy to join other nation-wide Muslim organizations and participate in this workshop. We absolutely expect that there will be more of these paired iftars and workshops in future Ramadans,” said Elsanousi.
The Workshop: So what exactly is this workshop, you may ask. Leaders from Muslim organizations around the nation, particularly social service organizations, are invited to a workshop with representatives from the DOA, Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Health and Human Services, the White House, Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, and more. Twenty five to thirty Muslim leaders representing 20 Muslim organizations are expected to attend the workshop.
The Iftar: Following the workshop, the DOA will host an Iftar to acknowledge and thank Muslim employees for their dedication and to the DOA. Keynote speakers will discuss the issues of increasing access to healthy foods for all communities and the powerful communal and sacred aspects of food. In addition to the DOA employees and representatives of various Muslim organizations, the DOA also invited Muslim employees from various other government agencies. The Deputy Secretary of the Department of Agriculture is also scheduled to attend.
Complete article can be found here at Big Peace
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Libtarded prize of the day: Turn off Fox News in public places.
Posted by PatriotUSA at 1:54 AM Labels: Fun with the demosocialistacrats, Liberal stupidity gone wild
Of course this is the San Francisco Examiner. So who is promoting hate and bias here? I will take Fox Nws any day over the lame stream media of kool aid drinkers and liberal regressive thinkers who think they are so damn clever. As we do not get cable anymore I get most of my news from the sites listed on the sidebar and many other sources. Most the places I go always have Fox News on. Why bother with the others? Go to this website and check some of the comments. many of these idiots have NEVER watched Fox News, yet they condemn it as evil and wicked. Not nearly as evil and wicked as the one who is sitting in the White House. This organization wants to control help businesses make "responsible decisions about what is on their televisons." Apparently these folks are too dumb to decide this for themselves. Below you find the article and I have copied the PDF from the site. Make note of the lies and political pandering that is going on in the entire article. Again, who is really spreading hatred and lies here? Fox News is not perfect but what news site is?
Liberals plot to ‘Turn off Fox News’ in public places
Say you are ‘drinking liberally’ in a bar and out of the corner of your eye, an insidious FOX logo keeps floating across the screen.
Yeah, you could ask the bartender to change the channel, but why not convince the manager to ban the Fox News channel altogether?
Now you can join a activist group determined to remove Fox news from ever being broadcast in public. ‘Turn off Fox’
Here is their credo:
Some businesses play Fox without having thought about it at all, and may not know how divisive and dangerous Fox is. Turn Off Fox will help you work with others in your area (and across the country) to identify places that play Fox, ask them to change the channel, and explain why they should.
It’s easy! Arm yourself with a few PDFs and make your case. After that, report back to your leaders, notify them where Fox is playing, and tell them how the business owner responded to you.
For the ‘Turn off Fox’ers,’ Fox News is not just a channel for news, its a channel for evil.
“Fox News isn’t just the home for hate, it’s the home for dangerous and lazy journalism.” says featured member Malkia Cyril, “It’s time for the public to turn off Fox News’ lies.”
Read the PDF below:
Case Against Fox News 2
Here is what is on site:
The Problem with Fox At a time when Americans have legitimate fear and uncertainty about our country's future, we need our media to be honest, insightful, and responsible. Fox News is exactly the opposite. Instead, the channel consistently stokes fear and division using race-baiting, divisive rhetoric, and smear campaigns based in lies and distortions.
Fox has enormous influence on our national debates, so this problem affects all of us --and it's only getting worse. Every day we are seeing grave warning signs that Fox's inflammatory approach can lead to violence, and in some cases it already has.
Part of the way Fox News disseminates its messages is through TV sets in public places. Without thinking about it, many businesses and other public establishments are providing a vehicle for Fox's attempts to divide America. Below is a summary of why we are asking businesses and other public establishments to refuse to play Fox News Channel.
The network divides our country Fox News hosts and guests regularly attempt to pit groups of people against one another – white against black, US-born against immigrant, gay against straight, and men against women.
Some of the network’s most divisive rhetoric is used on the topic of race. In July 2009, Fox host Glenn Beck called President Obama a “racist” who has “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture” -- a statement that Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch has since said he agrees with. Frequent Fo guest Jesse Lee Peterson has said that most black people lack moral character, and cited “what they did to the dome” after Hurricane Katrina as evidence. Recently, Fox News contributor John Stossel called for the repeal of a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prevents business owners from discriminating based on race.
And Fox News hosts Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity were the first to air maliciously edited video of Shirley Sherrod’s speech to the Georgia NAACP — video that cost Sherrod her job with the USDA. The recent episode involving Sherrod has helped confirm what we have long known — that Fox is a propaganda machine with no regard for the truth.
Glenn Beck calling President Obama a "racist" was the most blatant example of Fox News leading the effort paint the President as someone who harbors and acts upon deeply held prejudice against white people. But the network consistently tries to create the impression that black political and civic leaders want to “get even” with whites by taking their wealth and giving it to blacks.
We’ve seen the hateful atmosphere that has arisen at Tea Parties because of this false narrative. As the House of Representatives deliberated over health care legislation this past spring, some Tea Party members gathered outside the Capitol shouted "Ni**er!" at black congressmen. One of the protesters spat on Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver, while another called openly gay Representative Barney Frank a "faggot" as the laughing crowd imitated his lisp. The Tea Party has been uncritically promoted and embraced by Fox News since its inception.
It’s dangerous We already know that Fox's hateful and inflammatory rhetoric can have tragic real world consequences. Last year, abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down in his church after being demonized for years by Fox's Bill O'Reilly as "Tiller the Baby Killer." O'Reilly had compared Tiller to the Nazis and to Al-Qaeda. He said that Tiller had "blood on his hands" and that he wouldn't want to be Tiller "if there is a Judgement Day."
In July of this year, a man armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a handgun opened fire on California Highway Patrol officers on an Oakland freeway. After he was apprehended, police determined the shooter was on his way to the American Civil Liberties Union and Tides Foundation offices in San Francisco to kill people. In the aftermath of the tragedy, the shooter’s mother said that her son watched a lot of television news and was angry at left-wing politicians and organizations.
While many Americans are aware of the ACLU’s work, the Tides Foundation is a little-known non-profit organization that most people had never heard of -- until Fox's Glenn Beck started demonizing and spreading false information about the organization. Since Beck’s show premiered in January ofinvolving Tides on nearly 30 episodes. During the same time period, Tides was never mentioned on other cable or network news channels, according to a report by the watchdog group Media Matters 2009, he has pushed conspiracy theories involving Tides on nearly 30 episodes. During the same time period, Tides was never mentioned on other cable or network news channels, according to a report by the watchdog group Media Matters.
It’s not really news Fox News insists that they’re a legitimate news network. They engage in divisive rhetoric, race-baiting and attempts at character assassinations, but they do it all under the guise of reporting the news. Often the mainstream media eventually takes the bait and runs with Fox News’ distortions and smear campaigns. When businesses and public places play Fox News, they become a conduit for its stream of misinformation, and it contributes to the misconception that the network is a credible source for news and information.
What the Turn Off Fox campaign is not
• It's not about politics We aren't asking people to turn off Fox because of its political orientation. This is not about Democrats and Republicans, or left vs. right. We are concerned about Fox because of the way it uses lies and half truths to divide this country, and the danger that poses. People on all parts of the political spectrum have spoken out about how dangerous and divisive Fox is.
We believe that everyone who cares about a political culture rooted in factual information and free from violence and racial animosity, should refuse to be a part of what Fox is doing in any way.
• It's not an attempt to censor anyone, or a challenge to freedom of speech There's no question that Fox News has a right to broadcast what they do. The issue is whether businesses and public places want to be a conduit for Fox's consistently divisive rhetoric, race-baiting and distortions of the truth.
The First Amendment protects us from government efforts to suppress individuals' speech. The government can't, and shouldn't censor Fox -- but consumers, businesses, and other establishments can and should decide whether or not they want to be a part of what Fox is doing.
• Turn Off Fox is not an effort to attack business We believe that small businesses are the heart and soul of this country. They anchor our communities and are America's most important engine of job creation. That's why we think it's so important for them to think about what kind of messages they disseminate, even inadvertently. Our desire is to work in partnership with businesses to help them make responsible decisions about what’s on their televisions.
Thanks for taking the time to read this document. My contact information is below. Please call to let me know if you’d like to discuss further, or to let me know that you’ve decided to comply with my request.
FYI: The Tides Foundation is funded by many of the same far left liberal progressives who helped obama get elected. Media Matters is a den of far left liberal trash and a far cry from being an actual watchdog group unless you are a heavy kool aid drinker and addict. Media Matters was actually started up by the Clintons if memory is serving me correctly. If not please let me know. PatriotUSA
Original article in SF Examiner is here
Last one standing: Stern Pinball Mfg.
Posted by PatriotUSA at 12:45 AM Labels: American manufacturing, last one standing., Stern Pinball Company
I read this in Parade Magazine. Taking a break from the craziness of the world and times we live in. It happens every now and then here. It really hit home with me as I grew up playing pinball machines, bowling, shooting pool and fishing, lots of fishing. Pinball, I remember when when you got 3 games for twenty five cents. My friends and myself for $5.00, could bowl a few games, shoot some stick and play pinball. Yeah, that was quite a few years in the past. Do you recall the main players in this industry? Gottlieb, Bally, Williams and many others. Now there is just one left, the last one standing. Stern Pinball is it. They sell for around 10,000 pinball machines a year.
We have two children who grew up with all the latest technology. The video games we managed to keep out of home for many, many years. I just did not get it nor did my wife. How could they sit there for hours on end, playing a stinking video game? The same way my generation played pinball, shot pool and bowled. There is a big difference between video games and pinball machines. With pinball, you either had it or you didn't. The touch, the feel, the sense of knowing the difference in the company machines, the individual untis, the games that were great and the ones that really sucked. No two machines were alike even if they were the same game, same manufacturer. The sounds the games made were simple and not violent in any way. Can you say that about video games? I do not see how? Sure, there is a controller and the graphics are incredible and getting better all the time. It is not the same. RPG games are quite the ticket now and the sounds can shake an entire home if one has the sound system to go with the game. Pinball actually took some skill and finesse. You can't tilt a video gamelike a pinball machine.
This is an American company, the last one standing in an industry that time has passed by but is not dead yet. If I had the space and the money I would have several pinball machines in the house. I would set them up to play for a nickel a game. The story is all too familiar in this country. From 150 companies down to one. 100,000 machines sold a year back in 1993, down to 10,000 this year. Hats off to Stern Pinball Company. I hope they do not get 'tilted' out of business. Pinball, or whatever product is being manufactured, if it is an American company, we need each and every one.
Big Indian(Gottlieb,1974)
Keeping a Pinball Wizard's Dream Alive
by Mitch Albom
At Stern Pinball, employees must play the machines 15 minutes each day.
Ever since I was a young boy, I've played the silver ball. But I'm no longer a young boy. And the silver balls are disappearing.
Pinball is hanging by a thread. Once you couldn’t go to a bowling alley or an arcade without hearing the ching-ching-ching of those pleasure machines. The Who wrote a rock opera about a pinball player. Fonzie banged the flippers on Happy Days.
In the 1930s, there were around 150 small companies making some sort of pinball. As late as 1993, there were 100,000 machines sold in a year.
But this year, pinball production may be 10,000 machines total -- all of them by one company. Famous names like Bally, Gottlieb, and Williams are gone. There is only one soldier left in the bells-and-bumpers army.
Galaxy, (Stern 1981)
Stern Pinball. If it goes, pinball goes.
"Don't say we're the last -- say we're the only," president Gary Stern jokes. "'Last' sounds like we're dying."
Happily, The Only Pinball Maker on Earth is not dying. At 65, Stern remains an optimistic, wisecracking guru. He answers his own phone; no secretaries shield him. At his factory in Melrose Park, Ill., even high-level employees "must play 15 minutes a day of pinball." They make notes. Discuss how a ball played. Stern's father, Samuel, began as a game operator in the 1930s. The son carries on -- despite obstacles.
"The economics of starting a pinball company today wouldn't make sense," Stern says.
He points to the half mile of wire in a typical machine, the thousands of components, the intricate design, and the price tag -- around $5,000 -- for a new machine. And where do you put it?
"Years ago, when a kid went to pick up a pizza, he'd play a game of pinball while he waited," Stern says. "Today he's texting on his phone.
"Our competition now comes from video games, Xboxes, computer apps, even Internet gambling."
The game world has gone wireless and portable. A machine that stands more than 6 feet tall and weighs nearly 300 pounds seems like a cruise ship.
But that's the uniqueness of pinball. You can't just do it while you're bored at work. It's a game of touch, action, movement, and unpredictability.
"The ball is wild," Stern says. "That's the magic."
So Stern and company soldier on, producing a few new models each year. Movie and TV themes are the most popular (Batman, Shrek, Spider-Man), and in many cases, Stern licenses the real actors' voices. ("Arnold Schwarzenegger did the lines for our Terminator machine.")
Stern's newest model is based on Avatar and will feature 3-D elements. It's a long way from pinball's roots, which stretch back to the French Bagatelle machines of the late 1700s. The coil-and-spring plunger was invented in 1871. Flippers came during the 1940s.
It would be a shame to lose something so steeped in the history of leisure time. "Certainly the world would exist without pinball," Stern says, "but a little of the fabric of life would be gone."
So The Only Pinball Maker on Earth keeps shipping his machines -- to arcades, to overseas clients, to people's homes. Maybe you played pinball as a kid. Maybe you had a favorite that you knew so well you could keep a ball alive for four or five minutes -- until you heard that free-game knock. If so, you know the spark Gary Stern and his employees feel every day.
"In business school, they teach you to be in love with business, but not your business," Stern says, chuckling. "We break that rule. We're in love with our business. It's pinball."
The flippers are in good hands.
Original article is here
A few questions for those of you with muslim friends
Posted by PatriotUSA at 2:06 AM Labels: muslim friends or islamic foes, taqiyya in friendship.
From Bill Warner's Political islam: Muslim Friends. Here are some questions one can ask of your muslim friends or to give to your friends if they have muslim friends.
"Is a Muslim ever really the friend of a Kafir? Any Muslim who fully accepts the doctrine of Islam cannot be the true friend of a Kafir—friendly, yes, but not a true friend. If he is a true friend, then he is not obeying the Koran and not following the Sunna of Mohammed. The difference between friendly and a friend is that a Muslim who is true friend will sometimes choose the Kafir’s side in a dispute about it. A friendly Muslim will be pleasant, but will always choose Islam’s side in any politics or dispute about Islam. A Muslim friend who is a true friend will listen to reasonable criticisms and occasionally tell you that you have a point there. The Muslim Arabic FBI translators who cheered on 9/11 were quite friendly, but chose Islam over the Kafirs on 9/11."
Muslim Friends
Political Islam: When you read the comments section of an article about Islam, you will see the argument: I have some Muslim friends and they are good people. The conclusion: good Muslims mean that Islam is good. If the talk is face-to-face, the person may ask: Do you have any Muslim friends? There is a hidden implication that if you do not, then you don’t really know anything about Islam and you could be a bigot.
What is actually going on? The Kafir (non-Muslim) with Muslim friends does not know any real facts about Islam and wants to move the argument to feelings, not facts. If the Muslim friend is nice, Islam is nice. There is no need to know any facts about Islam. And, if Islam is nice, then speaking against it is bigotry. It is amazing how much people can talk about Islam and never mention a single fact. It is easy to tell if someone is speaking about Islam factually. A fact-based discussion will include the Koran and the Sunna, which means that the words Mohammed and Allah will be heard. If there is no Mohammed or Allah, then the discussion is not about the facts of Islam; it is about opinions that come from the media, authorities and the web.
Here are questions to ask people with Muslim friends.
• Do you have any Muslim apostate friends?
An apostate is one who has left Islam and under Sharia law may be murdered. Who would know more about the true nature of Islam than someone who knows it at the core of their being? The apostate knows both sides of the story.
Here are other questions to ask those with Muslim friends:
• Do you have any Christian friends from the Middle East?
• Do you have any Armenian, Serbian or Coptic friends?
These people have suffered cultural and religious annihilation by Islam over the past 1400 years, shouldn’t you also meet them? About 60 million Christians have been murdered over the last 1400 years, and Armenians, Serbians, Copts (Egyptians) and the rest of the Christians of the Middle East furnished the body count. Doesn’t it make sense to talk to who has personal experience in engaging Islam?
There are other questions to be asked. There are 13 verses in the Koran that say that a Muslim is not the friend of a Kafir. How can this not be talked about? According to Islam, we are Kafirs. Why can’t friends talk about such things?
Koran 4:144 Believers! Do not take kafirs as friends over fellow believers. Would you give Allah a clear reason to punish you?
What this means is that a Muslim may be friendly with a Kafir, but if a Muslim has a choice between favoring a Kafir or a Muslim, he will favor the Muslim. Why can’t this be discussed among friends?
Now to the most critical question: Is a Muslim ever really the friend of a Kafir? Any Muslim who fully accepts the doctrine of Islam cannot be the true friend of a Kafir—friendly, yes, but not a true friend. If he is a true friend, then he is not obeying the Koran and not following the Sunna of Mohammed.
The difference between friendly and a friend is that a Muslim who is true friend will sometimes choose the Kafir’s side in a dispute about it. A friendly Muslim will be pleasant, but will always choose Islam’s side in any politics or dispute about Islam. A Muslim friend who is a true friend will listen to reasonable criticisms and occasionally tell you that you have a point there. The Muslim Arabic FBI translators who cheered on 9/11 were quite friendly, but chose Islam over the Kafirs on 9/11.
This does not mean that a person, who calls himself or herself a Muslim, cannot be a real friend. They may see the Golden Rule as more attractive than Islam’s dualistic ethics. If they can see the other person as not being a Kafir, but a human being, then they can be a true friend.
It is important to see that these ideas concern implications about the practical application of Islamic doctrine. In this case the Islamic doctrine of friends is examined. These ideas are not about any particular person who calls themselves a Muslim. Generally, to be a Muslim, you must act according to Islamic doctrine. However, the term Muslim has come to mean anybody with any degree of adherence to Islamic doctrine, however if such a person adopts the Kafir Golden Rule then they can be a fine person and a fine friend.
This friend business is perhaps one of the worst parts of the Islamic ideology and shows how great the divide is between Islam and all other doctrines.
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The slaughter of the Hindu Men, Women and Children by islam
Posted by PatriotUSA at 1:48 AM Labels: Persecution of the Hindus from islam
"The islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging take for its evident moral that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex order and freedom can at any momnet be over thrown from barbarians invading from without and multiplying from within."
Will Durant, Historian 1885-1981
Italy: Islam denied income tax revenue
Posted by PatriotUSA at 1:22 AM Labels: Global Islamic Subversion, Islamic Subversion in Europe, Italy, Just say no to islam
At least one country in Europe has some stones left. Great job and way to go, Italy. From Adnkronos and Atlas Shrugs.
Rome, 27 August (AKI) - Mosques in Italy will not receive a share of income tax revenue the Italian government allocates to religious faiths each year. Hindu and Buddhist temples, Greek Orthodox churches and Jehovah's Witnesses will be eligible for the funds, according to a bill approved by the Italian cabinet in May and still must be approved by parliament.
Until now, the government had earmarked 8 percent of income tax revenue for Italy's established churches. The great majority of these funds go to the Catholic Church, although if they wish, individual tax payers may elect to give the money to charities and cultural projects instead.
The head of COREIS, one of Italy's largest Muslim groups, Yahya Pallavicini, said he was bitter that Islam had been denied the revenue from Italian income tax.
"Work should be begun on legally recognising those moderate Muslims who have for years shown themselves to be reliable interlocutors who are free of and fundamentalist ideology," he said.
Islam is not an established religion in Italy and there is only one official mosque in the country, Rome's Grand Mosque (photo). Politicians from the ruling coalition cite radical imams, polygamy and failure to uphold women's rights by Muslims immigrants as obstacles to recognising Islam as an official religion in Italy.
Until now, only the Catholic Church, Judaism and other established churches including Lutherans, Evangelists, Waldensians and 7th-day Adventists have received the income tax revenue from the Itallain government.
There are between one million and 1.5 million Muslims in Italy and 130 mosques linked the Muslim umbrella organisation UCOII across the country.
Link to the original article from Adnkronos.
From Atlas Shrugs
Denied tax status in Italy
Italy has denied religious status to Islam. Politicians cited extremist (fundamentalist) imams, polygamy and failure to uphold women's rights by Muslim immigrants as obstacles to recognizing Islam as an official religion in Italy.
And here in the US we are paying for extremist imams (like Rauf) and their wives to go on Middle Eastern junkets to raise money for Islamic supremacist Ground Zero mosques. Sick.
Mosques in Italy will not receive a share of income tax revenue the Italian government allocates to religious faiths each year. Hindu and Buddhist temples, Greek Orthodox churches and Jehovah's Witnesses will be eligible for the funds, according to a bill approved by the Italian cabinet in May and still must be approved by parliament.
Islam is not an established religion in Italy and there is only one official mosque in the country, Rome's Grand Mosque. Politicians from the ruling coalition cite radical imams, polygamy and failure to uphold women's rights by Muslims immigrants as obstacles to recognising Islam as an official religion in Italy.
Link to original article at Atlas Shrugs is here
Restoring Honor 08-28-10 Glenn Beck in Washington DC
Posted by PatriotUSA at 6:49 PM
No need for me to add anything to this. Just watch and listen.
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Co-exist courtesy of the 2nd Amendment
Posted by PatriotUSA at 6:11 PM Labels: Fun with Islam, Liberal magical thinking and stupid liberals, Three toxic stews of western society
I found this when I visited a very cool, informative Counter-Jihadist site, 1389 blog. This site has been added to the blogroll here so check it out. Now on to this really nice version of the infamous, disgusting co-exist sticker. There are links to follow in case you want to find out more. I wish someone was actually making this sticker as it would be one I would put on my rig. There is no co-existancing with islam and sharia law.
Here is the disgusting original sticker:
This next one is an improvement:
Now, here is the 2nd Amendment version:
Try enlarging this to get a better look it it.
Here are links to the sites that had more on this great 'sticker.'
Hat tip: 1389 Blog
1389 Blog Antijihadist Tech
Every Day No Days Off
Oklahoma Shooters Association
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AFP Blogger of the Year 2010 Defending the American Dream: Dr. Bill Smith
Dr. Bill Smith is a one of the contributors here at Patriot's Corner. Bill has been very instrumental to the success of this site in more ways than I can mention here. He works extremely hard at helping get out the message of true American Conservative Values. Way to go, Bill. PatriotUSA
AFP Blogger of the Year 2010 Defending the American Dream
Dr. Bill Smith, editor: Today, officially kicked off the speeches and workshops at the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Defending the American Dream (DAD) 2010 in Washington, D.C. Over 3200 people attended and that figure did not include people found wondering the hall. Some of these wanderers were people had come to Washington, D.C. for the Honoring America 8/28 rally and were also staying at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.officially kicked off the speeches and workshops at the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Defending the American Dream (DAD) 2010 in Washington, D.C. Over 3200 people attended and that figure did not include people found wondering the hall. Some of these wanderers were people had come to Washington, D.C. for the Honoring America 8/28 rally and were also staying at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.
Today, officially kicked off the speeches and workshops at the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Defending the American Dream (DAD) 2010 in Washington, D.C. Over 3200 people attended and that figure did not include people found wondering the hall. Some of these wanderers were people had come to Washington, D.C. for the Honoring America 8/28 rally and were also staying at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.
The day was a little different than normal for me and so not much is written today. I will post some articles about AFP DAD 2010 over the next few days. When I arrived yesterday around 6 pm, I saw lots of people I knew from other events. Some friendly chat and the getting to my room took another hour. It was great to see people from great groups like Smart Girl Politics and from Arkansas including the Faulkner County Tea Party. After an hour or so, I made it to my room, dropped my stuff and went down to event registration to pick up my media credentials. As I said that I was a blogger, a volunteer sent me down to blogger's row where credentials for new media bloggers and radio media were waiting. But, my credentials were not there. So, back to the event desk. Let me add that the event desk is close to 50 yards in length, so they had lots of volunteers and staff helping.
When I arrived back at the event desk, two of the AFP staff recognized me and said that my credentials were in the VIP section and walked me up to the section. Indeed, my name was on the VIP list. I chucked and said I am not VIP, I am just an old blogger and that there must be a mistake. They said no, you are registered as a VIP. They even had a special information packet for me. They advised me that I would was to attend a breakfast, lunch and a series of presentations in the morning for VIPs and closed reception in the evening before the dinner. They also said that I would be at one of the head tables and gave me my seat assignment.
I showed up at the morning event with my computer and camera. Met some of the officers of AFP, state supporters and heard some interesting insights most of which will not be written about. After lunch, I slipped out a few minutes early because I wanted to visit the Arkansas delegation who were having a working lunch. Last year we had 8 people from Arkansas; but, this year there were over 150 people from Arkansas who attended.
I then went to bloggers row and and found the end of a table and set up operations. Besides meeting other great bloggers and video new media, I talked with some campaign staffers, other activists, and met Michele Bachmann. Also, after speaking at the main even, Herman Cain, a contributing author on the ARRA News Service, stopped by and spent a considerable time with the bloggers. If the photos turn out, I will post them next week. Some others made some video interviews which I hope to also be able to post.
At 5:30 pm, I attend an AFP Chairman's VIP reception before the evening dinner. At the reception, met people from the morning and also other AFP State leaders and friends of AFP. Rep Eric Cantor dropped by for a few minutes and spoke. Surprisingly, a lady who had sat next to me on the flight from Memphis to Washington, D.C. and was meeting her husband in Washington was also at the reception - sometimes it is small world.
As with all prior AFP Defending the American Dream summits, the "Tribute to Ronald Reagan" dinner was a success. Michele Bachmann gave a rousing speech and conservative columnist writer George Will gave an exceptional insightful speech full of wit, sarcasm, and even baseball metaphors. Then at the closing, they awarded a couple of awards. It was then that I learned why I was a VIP on this day. Americans for Prosperity presented the Blogger of the Year 2010 to me "in recognition of leadership in advancing economic freedom and liberty through modern media." I was indeed surprised, humbled and thankful. And, I am especially thankful for Americans for Prosperity.
Tomorrow, everyone is heading to the Honoring America 8/28 rally at the Lincoln Memorial. A crowd of between 500,000 and a million people are expected. Regardless, it should be both fun and educational.
Link to the original article is here
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There Is No Stock Market, Just a Dump for Central Bank Money
I love it. A company posts earnings that dropped 9.3% over the quarter, BUT...
the stock jumps 11%.
No, there's no stock market bubble here.
Escaping the Insanity
With the outright stupidity (and the implications of having a feral, mindless, zombie society) I decided to load up the car and head out west. Within 2 hours of being in the Black Hills, all the strife and anger went away, and I did not see one SJW or frothing aged 40 something feminist at all. Here is what I saw:
Just remember not to let them or the insanity get you down, and to enjoy the decline.
Ivy League Losing Its Luster?
In the end, reality wins. No matter how rich or connected your parents.
What Cecil the Lion Tells Us About America
Cecil, the famous 13 year old lion, who was shot (which increasingly seems to be) illegally has made the news across the planet. As more and more facts comes in it looks like the hunter, Walter Palmer, shot him illegally (though whether he did this knowingly is yet to be determined).
When the news broke and when I read the article, it seemed to me that once again the MSM was going to run with this story and the facts be damned. There were statements made to villainize Dr. Palmer, but nothing confirmed for a fact.
"They lured the lion off of the reservation!" - Is that illegal?
"He paid $50,000 to hunt the lion!!!!" - Don't you usually have to pay a lot of money for safaris?
"You can't shoot a tagged lion!!!" - Really? How do you know?
There were others, but my interest was piqued when nearly the entire planet decided to post his personal information online and protest at his house, many people making death threats. And so naturally like any agitating realistic and principled person I went online, made a YouTube video and told people to stop being sheeple and think about how the media is potentially ruining an innocent man's life all to boost ratings.
Teh interwebz were having none of it.
Now, Dr. Palmer wasn't the only one getting death threats, but so was I. And this of course, bathed in an endless list of brilliant and cogent arguments presented by the YouTube community about me "being a dumbass" or "a stupid fucker" and other arguments of intelligence, thought, and ponderance proving the quality of education the Millennial generation is receiving in college. But it wasn't the death threats or names that forced me to pull the video (that comes with the territory), it was when they started posting the private data of Dr. Palmer that I now had a legal risk. And so unfortunately the video had to come down.
Still, we don't need the video to realize a very important and vital lesson about the mental faculties of your average American. And that lesson is they are no longer capable of logic, reason, empiricism or sanity. Worse, they're so selfish and narcissistic, they happily put their emotions over principles and the rights of others. With no proof (at that point in time) that Dr. Palmer was guilty of violating any law people were already threatening to kill him, ruin his career, and ruin his life. Some were so far gone they said they didn't care about the legality of his kill, they just thought he should be punished for hunting. And it is this principleless, amoral, mindless mob who put their emotions over, not just an individual's rights, but reality, facts, and truth that not only makes it difficult for the legal system to mete out justice, but is undermining our respective societies today.
The real story is not that poor Cecil was tragically shot. It's that western civilization, specifically the younger generations, have lost their collective minds and do not have the mental faculties to be adults, let alone adults in the free world. They are effectively zombies. And there is no reasoning with them.
Plan accordingly.
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Your "Internet Boyfriend" is Not a Real Boyfriend
No, you don't have a "boyfriend in Italy."
The Sanctuary Where Men Fleeing Feminist Churches Have Gone
My latest piece from Return of Kings that, in particular, would interest Christian (and other religious) men who are sick of their religion becoming feminist and leftist.
The "Knowledgesphere."
The Man from UNCLE and Racism
Interviewed by Kerry Lutz this week and we talked about the irony of being called racist for trying to help blacks, plus our anticipation of the new movie "The Man from UNCLE"
Why You Are a Slave for 13 Years
Time for some basic, simple 4th grade math everybody. The kind of math that debunks even the most complicated and detailed arguments of the left, not to mention, boils things down into very basic, simple, and understandable terms.
Understand that money is nothing more than the physical manifestation of human time. We, as humans, would like to exchange our time because different humans have different specialties that benefit us in terms and quality and extension of our lives.
I don't know how to farm, but Bob the farmer does.
I don't know how to program, but Bill the programmer does.
And I don't know how to do taxes, but Amy the accountant does.
Sadly, neither Bob, Bill, nor Amy want me to spend my time doing YouTube videos for them all day. BUT, if I convert my time into a universally accepted medium of exchange (called "money") which they can use to buy and purchase things they DO want, this allows us then to exchange our time.
So somebody pays me for my curse-laden wisdom. This transforms my time into money, and with this money I buy groceries from Farmer Bob who provides me his time in the form of said groceries.
There is one small minor problem.
Once you convert your time into money, into a physically tangible item, it can be stolen, take, "haircutted" or taxed away from you. And we all know how thieves and governments (but I repeat myself) love to take your money.
Now, in theory, there IS a difference between a government and a thief. A thief merely steals your money and provides nothing in return, thus the definition of theft. But a government TO THE PENNY should be provide you something in return.
What, you ask?
Well, public goods. Goods that directly benefit you.
Roads, defense, judicial system, laws, regulatory services, libraries, etc.
But there is ANOTHER "small problem." Democracy.
Since we live in a democracy, other people get to vote on how much the government takes of your time/money and where to spend it on. And since it is human nature to be immoral, lazy, greedy, and parasitic, the majority will vote to take your money and spend it NOT on public goods that benefit everybody, but them.
This, in it's more literal and linguistic definition can be called "legal theft." But it goes by the leftist euphemisms of "income transfers" or "wealth redistribution."
However, and let us be very clear and literal about this, this transfer of your time/money to other people with no compensation goes by another name - slavery.
Whether you like to admit it or not, whether you'd like to ignore this fact or not (as it will raise your ire) you are a slave to other people in this country. No different than the plantation slaves of the confederate South. No different than the slaves of the Caribbean trade during the 1700's. No different than the slaves of the Middle East (that academians and history revisionists seem to ignore). The only difference is that instead of being kept chained and on a plantation, you are tethered by law (which is enforced with jail time and guns), which (ironically) makes for an even more productive slave. You "think" you're "free" on account nobody is stopping you from going anywhere, but this serves to make you more productive, which generates for income for your slave masters.
Of course not all of your time is confiscated by the government. If they did that, then why work? Why not become a modern day slave master who parasites off of the productive and just collect a government check? But you are a slave to SOME LEVEL and the question is how much?
Thankfully, ole Cappy here has been blessed with SAEG (TM), and can tell you precisely what percent of your life is spent as a slave.
The math, again, is quite simple and thus literal and irrefutable.
If you start working at 16 and retire at 65 that is a 49 year work history. The state, federal, and local governments tax us at a rate around 36% (using government spending as a percentage of GDP). However, not all of that money goes to public goods that you benefit from. Truthfully, 75% of it is income transfers to other people, ie- your masters. So if we take a 49 year work history, multiply it by .36, and multiply that by .75 you see that you spend
working for other people.
Now I know the leftist argument that is coming. That this money goes to help "the poor," the "disadvantaged," the "under privileged," and "the children" and every other group of sops the left bribes with your money. But even if I thought these groups of people were truly disadvantaged and deserved the income transfers, it doesn't change the relational fact that these people are parasitic. And in them being parasitic, they are by default making you slaves to them for 13 years of your working life.
The point I'm trying to make is not one of whether there should be a safety net or we should spend money on the poor. It is to clearly identify and explain what is going on - that those who collect a government check are parasitic and should be THANKFUL for those who work extra to bail them out of their stupid ass life decisions support them. They should be humbled that other people are sacrificing a percentage of their lives (13 years to be precise) so that they are shielded from the consequences of their mistakes. They should be grateful so many millions of Americans are working damn well near a quarter of their working lives for others.
Alas, because of human nature, the opposite is true. These parasites are ungrateful, even entitled, demanding more and more, 100% incapable of humility, gratitude, humbleness, and thanks. All they can see is that those who worked harder and didn't make decisions that required a parasitic existence have "more" than they do and instead of looking into the mirror and accepting responsibility, they merely vote in more.
Many of you ask why I'm such a hard ass or such an "asshole" when it comes to helping out the poor.
I merely ask you why you aren't.
Ahhhh, Socialism
Yeah, you leftists keep championing this shit.
Leftists are Lazy
I'm going to say this again until people get it.
I don't care how many millions of pages of books are written by thousands of political scientists, journalists, or grad students.
If you want to understand leftist politics you need to understand only one thing:
Laziness is the reason for EVERYTHING they do.
"But the 50's Were Racist!"
It is without debate that the 1940's through the 1960's were America's "golden years" wherein:
Economic growth was nearly double what it is today
Unemployment was half of what it is today
The national debt averaged half of what it is today (relative to GDP)
High school graduates could graduate AND GET JOBS without endebting themselves pursuing worthless degrees.
Life was better. The economy was better. And the future much brighter.
Of course, since the 50's were largely the pinnacle economic achievement of free markets, those on the left must attack it. And thus, with the assurance of a ball returning while playing against a wall in one-man tennis, you can reliably predict two common arguments the left will use when trying to tear down those glorious 50's:
1. The highest income tax bracket was 91% in the 50's
2. The 50's were "raaaaayccccissss"
The first argument is easily debunked because so few people were in the 91% income tax bracket that its leftist-desired wealth redistributive effects were not realized, nor did it really affect the economy. Additionally, using the REAL tax rate (that would be "spending as a percentage of GDP" for you non-economists out there) shows overall taxation much lower in the Evil Racist 50's than what we have today (25% GDP at state federal and local vs. the 35% we have today, and that includes the Korean War).
But the "But the 50's Were Racist" argument the left uses to chicken-out of this economic debate is particularly obnoxious. For not only is it
a non-sequitir
a red herring
intellectually dishonest
and ultimately irrelevant to the economic debate (attempting) to be had,
it's down right tiresome. Alas, time to take this pathetic canard down.
The first and most obvious flaw with this argument is the fact that IN NO POINT IN TIME in the history of THE ENTIRE WORLD was there "no problems." ANY point ANYWHERE in history there was always something bad going on.
The roaring 20's? Untreatable cancer.
The industrial revolution? Polio.
Roman empire? Slavery.
The Renaissance? Cheating spouses.
You might as well respond to the argument that "the 80's was an economic miracle" with "yeah, but the Challenger blew up."
Bad things existing or happening during an booming economy does NOT moot the economic production that occurred during those times, NOR the variables/policies that lead to said booming economy.
Two, (and you need to follow the logic on this VERY CLOSELY and CLEARLY):
In claiming racism is a valid enough reason to debunk and dismiss the economic boom of the 50's, this MUST mean that the left believes racism had a causal relationship (in part) with the economic boom. Otherwise they would be intellectually honest and aim for "the best of both worlds." They would say, "well, we should look at what economic policies were in place during the 50's AS WELL AS eliminate the racist policies that plagued the day." However, they don't. They associate and thus imply that RACISM CAUSED THE ECONOMIC BOOM OF THE 1950's and therefore we cannot implement those policies.
Let that sink in.
I know leftists and socialists won't, but let that sink in your brain.
The left (albeit naively, idiotically, and unconsciously) is claiming RACISM CAUSES ECONOMIC GROWTH.
I don't need charts, data, or empirical evidence. This is just HIGHLY FLAWED and INSANE logic. Racism is GOOD for the economy??? And that if we wanted to get the economy booming again we should implement RACIST policies???
I know the left does not advocate such a thing, but their unchecked, emotionally driven "logic" does.
Finally, what's worse is it shows just how little the left views minorities (albeit unconsciously). For this argument to be true - that instituting the economic policies of the 50's would BY NECESSITY bring back "racism" - then minorities would have to have net negative economic NPV's. ie - they would have to be economic sink holes. Not just that they would "produce nothing of value" but actually DESTROY economic value (on par with an estimated 2% GDP per year). And the WHOLE REASON for the booming economy in the 1950's was because "whitey" was keeping blacks (and others) out of the economy, because if minorities were allowed in the economy (or treated as equals) then the economy would tank as if minorities were somehow "saboteurs."
Those aren't my words. Nor (admittedly) are they the conscious words of the left. But, again, it IS their logic and what they are effectively implying.
The truth is the "But the 50's Were Racist" argument is just another TIRESOME, REPEATED, and COWARDLY tactic of the left where they hide the failure of their economic policies behind an unrelated social issue. They cannot debate their economic plan of socialism, wealth redistribution and parasitism on
economic,
logical,
mathematical,
historical, or
empirical grounds,
and thus must take the greatest decade in American economic history and villainize it by tainting it with "racism" (and of course "sexism" as men beat their wives THRICE DAILY and Don Draper banged every secretary in his office in the 50's).
However, foolish as this argument is, there is a STEEP price to pay if Americans turn off their brains and fail to realize the non-sequitur in the left's argument. In dismissing the 50's economic boom "because racism" we REFUSE to look at a point in all of human history where an economy was NEVER BETTER. Poverty was decreasing at the fastest rate in human history FOR ALL PEOPLE. Standards of living were increasing faster than ever. And if we kept this economic miracle up, we would have had income per capita's of over $100,000 today.
To nearly all of our economic and financial problems lay in those decades of America's glory years sans, of course, the racism.
Too bad nobody's courageous enough to study them, highlight them, or advocate bringing them back because a bunch of intellectually dishonest parasites calling themselves democrats might falsely accuse you of being a (GASP!) raaaaayyyyyyycccciiiiiisssss!
And no country with an income per capita in the 6 figures is worth that risk, now is it?
Enjoy that decline.
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Defaulting on Debts and Jailing Bankers, Can the Iceland Solution Work for the US?
In this rather lengthy video I review and analyze the Iceland financial crisis of 2008 and explain how their solution to the crisis would and would not work here. I may then go on a tangent about "what President Cappy" would do...which entails a 52 card deck a la Iraq to hunt down banker scum on crotch rockets totting AR15's.
Do Baby Boomers Deserve Nursing Home Visits?
The answer to a question that is wrong:
College as the Fourth Layer of Government
I find sleep hard to come by. To aid in this I do many things, one of which is listen to podcasts as I go to bed. As long as they aren't terribly cerebral or detailed, they usually send me off to slumberland. But while half awake and about to make the jump last night, it was Bernard Chapin's podcast that jilted me out of my slumber. The reason why was because he started quoting an article about yet ANOTHER female college student complaining about some sort of injustice or another.
I can't remember even precisely what it was, nor was I able to go back and find the article. But I do remember my brain kicking in saying,
"WTF? ANOTHER college drama? ANOTHER complaint filed about harassment or trigger warnings or what have you? Why is this happening? Why can't college students get their act together and just go to school? Why all the made up drama?"
And then it dawned on me.
I learned over to the bed side table, grabbed my notepad, made a note, and though the brain juices were stirred, I managed to fall back to sleep.
When I woke up this afternoon and looked at my notepad the note read "College is the 4 Layer of Government." And I realized, despite being half awake, this epiphany was dead on. For not only is it true, it also explains why we can't go one day without some sort of "news article" about some petulant little child filing some complaint in the world of Academia.
Understand the current three layers of government exist for one logical reason or another.
Federal handles all things national and international. Defense, roads, trade policy, etc.
States handle regional issues, roads, national guard, interstate commerce, etc.
And local handles issues closest to home. Schools, parking regulations, police, fire department, etc.
And between these three layers of government the US people have ENOUGH (if not more than enough) governance to make sure society works. However, whereas governments typical form out of a requirement by the people to either regulate, legislate, or provide a certain public service, additional layers of government may evolve simply because an organization has enough power or is put in an effective position of power over a large enough group of people.
For example, most people really don't have the freedom of speech in the US. The reason why is that employers act as a defacto 4th layer of government.
You can't make politically incorrect posts on facebook.
You can't participate in politics publicly, lest you be fired by Mozilla.
What's your Twitter password?
Pee in this cup.
Were you out late last night? You look tired at this morning's meeting.
You can't date at work.
And (my all time favorite "law" one of my employers told me) you can't teach dance class.
And the reason employers can get away with this is because they have power over you in the form of employment. You need their money to survive.
However, a new and even more Orwellian fourth layer of government has formed and that is colleges or "Academia." But whereas the power of employers come from the fact you need a job, Academia's power comes from the fact you need a degree to even get a job! (or so they say). Ergo, entire futures of young people's careers are literally balanced in the hands (and whims) of the unelected officials of Academia.
And who are these unelected officials?
Professors, administrators, diversity officers, and other worthless academic bureaucrats who most certainly, if not entirely, hail from the left.
This has resulted in a defacto tyrannical government forcing their own leftist, socialist, feminist, and anti-white anti-male ideology on the unfortunate and unsuspecting student-citizens of Academiaville.
No longer can "Bill" just show up, get his degree in engineering and go on to work for Boeing. No he needs "diversity training" before he can graduate.
No longer can "Amy" just show up, get her degree in accounting, and go work for Peat Marwick. No, she needs to have 20 credit hours in "Corporate Social Responsibility" before she gets her degree.
And no longer can "Bob" just show up to class, flirt with "Jessica" (who he had the hots for on the first day of class) and nail her a month later after a couple dates. No, Bob needs to worry NOT ABOUT THE COPS, but about how the City Council of Academiaville have revised the definition of the word "rape" to mean "regret."
You combine this all together and you get nothing short of a propagandizing, tyrannical, leftist, Soviet, Orwellian nightmare. And Mr. Chapin's recent podcast was just one example of the many instances of this hell young people must endure.
The Duke lacrosse team was a perfect example where the fourth layer of government didn't care about police reports, facts, or justice. They (frankly) hated white males and used their effective government power to punish them for, well, being white males.
The fraternities of UVA were shut down by this fourth layer of government because Rolling Stone magazine wrote a story about a rape that was found out later to be false. Again, facts, police reports, forensics, and reality be damned. The leftist, feminist ideology of UVA's City Council was the effective law of the land there and they don't like fraternities. Shut them down!
How about Mattress girl at the Soviet Socialist Republic of Columbia University? Again, a provably false rape accusation where the unelected officials of Columbia university made the life of Jean-Paul Nungesser not only hell, but made it very likely he'd never have a career. It wasn't until Mr. Nungesser provided proof (in the form of texts) that the sex was consensual and that Mattress Girl (and Columbia University) was proven wrong. (He is now suing Columbia University, good for him.)
And how can we forget when they turn on their own? Laura Kipnis, a feminist studies hack professor enjoyed the experience some lampreys enjoy when other lampreys attack their own. After writing an article decrying the "sexual paranoia" she witnessed on college campuses two complaints were filed by (you guessed it) two lampreys feminist college students against her. After circus court ordeal where college administrators wouldn't even tell her what the complaint was about, she was exonerated.
But what makes the drama in college campuses today so frequent and "news worthy" (not to mention laughable) is not so much the Orwellian nature of leftist college administrators as much as it is their own success. Through nearly three generations of leftist brainwashing in both K-12 and media, the (predominantly) aged, baby boomer leftists of the 60's who run Academiaville are now reaping what they sowed. Thus, their problem students are not the "evil" "Straight Laced White Boy McGee" who comes in, wants to major in Actuarial Studies (who they desperately wanted to punish because of whitey-malelyness). It's the professional victim-monsters they've created that are now the citizenry of their domain. And they couldn't deserve these little self-created Frankenstein monsters more.
19 year old spoiled brat children from the suburbs who have NEVER been held to a standard and have ALWAYS been told they were right filing complaints against professors.
18 year old adult children who have NO real world experience, but have been brainwashed to believe because they champion the politically correct approved crusades and causes, they are "smart" and know better.
And particularly delicious is the egomaniac hordes of young American female students who have been led to believe that not only are they great, but are automatically victims, constantly under assail and assault, because they have a vagina. And that if things don't go their way, by god, they need to file a report and get people fired.
The result is a circus that belies not only the true intent of these academian leftist ideologues, but shows us what a leftist utopia looks like and the ultimate insanity that would ensue.
Trigger warnings
"Safe rooms"
False rape hysteria
Worthless college graduates with worthless college degrees
Financial ignoramouses who VEHEMENTLY defend wasting $200,000 on said worthless degrees
Fat acceptance
Tuition increases at 8x's the rate of inflation and 5x's the rate of wage increases
and ultimately
an entire generation of adult children who are not only completely useless and valueless to the rest of society, but are LIABILITIES NOBODY will want to have anything to do with.
The solution, of course, is two fold.
One, you do not have to live in "Academiaville." You can attend conservative colleges like Hillsdale which do NOT have the totalitarian, leftist insanity. You can focus on your studies and side step all the leftist indoctrination that is falsely posing as your "pre-requisite" classes to ensure you're a "well rounded person." Plus girls at Hillsdale will unlikely accuse you of rape if you kiss them on the cheek goodnight.
Two, that internet is coming. Already the IT industry (rightly) places more value on certifications and experience than it does that increasingly worthless piece of paper. Additionally, with places like ASU offering accredited degrees online in conjunction with the likes of Khan's Academy and CourseX, the MOOQ's will be replacing college campuses for a fraction of the cost, and NONE of the insanity. The only thing stopping it is getting American employers to realize it.
And truth be told, the Ole Captain has a little trick up his sleeve that might just make that happen sooner than you think.
But that is another story for another time.
Absolute "Must" Economic Lessons to Pull from Paul Krugman and Greece
Language warning, but seriously, this is something to watch if you are trying to understand the economics of the Greek debt crisis...not to mention how the minds of "leftist economists" work...or don't.
Picking on Greeks Will Be the New Racism
I predict (as leftists are predictable) that they will claim picking on Greece and Greeks is "racist." They will do this because it will divert and deflect all legitimate attacks against this nation's parasitism into one of "you hate Greeks," further hiding their ideology's spectacular economic failure (socialism) and allowing them to keep their pride (no matter how mentally-acrobaticy they had to be to have any pride in parasitism).
This now presents all self-respecting westerners the opportunity to nip this in the bud and prevent the left from creating another entire new "victim class." Thus we have an option. We can say,
"No, no, this is NOT racism. We are justifiably picking on a stupid and idiotic people who voted in the world's most evil and worst political party, not to mention shaming deadbeats and parasites who simply refuse to pay back what they borrowed. You will not turn this into a debate about race, which it isn't, as we have the self-respect to refuse to be hosts to another group of parasites."
Or we can fall for the ruse, abandon the argument against Greek socialist theft, and rush to
and plead for forgiveness
because we were accused of "racism."
Of course, I don't have a lot of faith in our guilt-laden-brainwashed westerners to grow a spine and tell the left to shove it when this accusation comes. But in the meantime, here are some jokes that were originally Latvian in origin, that now apply to Greece. Enjoy!
Why Whites Are Cowards When It Comes to Talking Race
"An accusation of racism is like an accusation of rape. Even if it isn't true, it can ruin your career."
NASCAR is Next
Look closely at the first pic.
Why Women Make Less Than Men
Thanks to a VERY deep undercover agent in the field (in academia!), I think I have found the perfect, singular and AUTHORITATIVE source to point young women to when they claim there's a wage gap, women earn less than men, glass ceiling, etc. etc. etc.
It's a PDF file, but in short it is a 182 page paper on earnings potentials for different degrees. You needed read the entire document (obvious) as much as just peruse the charts in the first few pages. It's DAMNING as to just how clear it is that women simply choose:
More popular and thus
More supplied/flooded majors
which (if they ever bothered to pay attention to economics 101, but "math hard") explains not only the wage gap, BUT PROVIDES THE THE KEY IF THEY WISH TO CLOSE IT! (but again, I know, I know, "math hard")
Anyway, book mark this page and merely link to it anytime you get into this tiresome and obsolete argument that there's a wage gap.
Why It Could Very Well Be President Bernie Sanders
Like any good economist admits he cannot predict what will happen to the economy, I also admit I cannot predict politics. However, my spidey senses are tingling and sadly I have to admit that if I were to put my money on any one of the current candidates it would be...
Bernie Sanders.
Oh laugh as you might. I know he is a bona fide socialist and endorses policies that are even "too left" for most leftists, but hear the ole Captain out.
First, I cannot see why nobody else (at least to my knowledge) has pointed out the more-than-one parallels between Mr. Sanders and Mr. Obama. I say this not to be hyperbolic or because I hate Mr. Obama, but simply because it's true-
They're both socialists.
Sure Mr. Obama ran and presented himself as more of a "lefty independent," but his actions, words, and deeds in office (and his entire political career if you cared to study it instead of listening to his pablum speeches) is that of a socialist.
Spend more money on the poor
His hatred for private property
His hatred for Western Civilization
Not to mention all of his affirmative action efforts to advance minorities and women at the expense of whites and males, which gives his version of socialism a particular racial and sexual flavor.
You combine that all together and you have a socialist who is no different in action, policy or voting that Bernie Sanders.
Ergo, so what if Bernie Sanders is a socialist? Our president is one too.
Two, socialism is no longer a four letter word. The Millennial generation proved that beyond a doubt in 2012. And so we must tip our hat to the long-LONG term strategy of the left to slowly but surely brainwash a generation through the schools into thinking that something like socialism is a "good thing." Ergo, while you, me, and our Baby Boomer counterparts either grew up in the 80's (knowing socialism was evil) or grew up in the 60's (only to have the Volcker Recession kick your ass into adult economic reality) and know the evils and drawbacks of socialism, the Millennials don't. They're SO brainwashed, they can't even put it together and realize that is was socialists (in the form of their teachers, professors, and leftist politicians) who have completely screwed them over in terms of
tuition/student debt/worthless degrees
a lousy economy/labor market
that whole minor social security/medicare thing
Ergo, just as the Millennial idiots voted against their own best interests in 2012 (and 2008) they will most certain vote again to shoot themselves in the foot come 2016. And Bernie Sanders is the most qualified candidate to help them do that.
Three, brainwashing and politics aside, the real reason I believe Bernie Sanders will win is (once again) something similar to why Obama won the nomination in 2008 - he's not an insider.
Well, yes, of course Mr. Sanders IS an insider. The loser is the epitome of career politician never working a real job in his life and immediately going into politics in his mid 20's. BUT the fact he runs as a socialist means he has something nearly no other politician has - honesty. And it is this honesty that effectively makes him an outsider and not part of the "established political class."
Consequently, because he's honest and forthright about his politics he at least STANDS FOR SOMETHING.
Something I disagree with wholeheartedly
Something that will continue and accelerate our decline.
Something I would thoroughly enjoy watching being implemented as it would just destroy the Millennial generation and the baby boomer retirements that heavily rely on them.
But at least something more than the self-serving pablum that is spewed from the mouths of Obama and Clinton.
And it is this, combined with the aforementioned traits of Mr. Sanders, that I believe he will get the nomination and win.
If Sanders is nominated the democrat party will be presenting PRECISELY what about 60-70% of the population wants.
1. A (reasonably) HONEST politician who
2. STANDS FOR SOMETHING and
3. That "something" is more free money at the expense of the "privileged class."
With such a candidate you'll win about 80-90% of Millennials, 80% of women, 90% of minorities, and 50% of men 30+, making it impossible for the republicans and whatever spineless, ball-less, SWPL establishment putz they decide to throw at the wall and hopes sticks.
Of course, the republicans could nominate their own equivalent of Bernie Sanders. An individual who speaks his mind. A individual who is honest. And an individual who isn't establishment republican. But republicans are already too busy shooting themselves in the foot and dumping Trump.
Alas, don't worry fellow conservatives and libertarians. The republicans will, as they always do, f*ck it up. They'll pick a nerdy SWPL square that has no spirit or character. A boring, connected establishment patriarch who's not the best candidate but "whose turn it is." And a sheepish individual who cannot handle the media and DARE doesn't get dirty and fight back.
So pour yourself a drink,
Make plans to vote with your feet
Participate in capital flight
And enjoy the decline. http://aaron-clarey.podomatic.com/
Helping Out Blacks is Now "Racist"
To give you the short background on the story. Mumia of Obsidian Radio did a two part episode (part 1 part 2) on my book and whether it was racist or not. Specifically, he read the complaint of a reader "Vector 313" that claimed The Black Man's Guide Out of Poverty was racist and that the Manosphere was eschewing black men. Naturally, I disagreed, but sadly Vector 313's views are not uncommon. Many (though I estimate only 40% based on book reviews thus far) of black men will view a book that is SPECIFICALLY and PURPOSELY designed to help them as "racist." Because of this (and wanting to thank Mumia for covering this topic) I have put together a much needed response that points out the INSANITY (not to mention bigotry) of refusing help simply because of the race of the person it comes from. I sincerely hope it reaches the ears of Vector 313, changes his mind, as well as any black man who agrees with him.
"Hello Mumia,
I was humbled to find out my book (The Black Man’s Guide Outof Poverty), and the issue of whether I was a racist or not were topics for two episodes of Obsidian Radio. Obviously, because of the efforts I put into writing the Black Man’s Guide Out of Poverty as well as that whole minor thing of being called a racist, I wanted to defend myself against your listener Vector 313 (and those who may agree with him).
In short, I need Vector 313 and everybody who agrees with him (that I am a racist for writing this book) to, step back, clear your minds, and ask themselves a very simple question:
“A guy wrote a book titled
THE BLACK MAN’S GUIDE OUT OF POVERTY
AND HE’S RACIST????”
Do you hear yourselves?
This wasn’t
“How to Make the Black Man Down.”
“How to Keep the Black Man in Poverty.”
“The Black Man’s Guide OUT of Poverty.”
You are accusing an individual, who wrote a book that is intended to help black men, which is the antithesis of racist, a racist.
Another minor complaint I noticed from Mr. Vector 313 was that the Manosphere does not care or is not for black men. That it’s largely a white boys’ club and black men are neither welcome nor allowed.
But when one of the more prominent members of The Manosphere (that would be me) takes the time to combine his expertise in economic and finance, with the consultation and advice from man young black men, to author a how to manual with the express purpose of helping young black men lead a better life than he did, just because the author is white, THAT DOESN’T COUNT????
What more was Mr. Vector 313 looking for? Perhaps a donation of 5 pints of blood and a kidney?
Here is the sad truth. I can’t argue with the Vector 313’s of the world because they’re insane. They have racism on the brain. They are trained to see racism, even when there is a genuine and sincere offer to help, a genuine and sincere olive branch of comradery, a genuine and sincere attempt to help a fellow man. And while I’d like to say that Vector 313 is in a small minority, unfortunately if I use book reviews as a proxy, nearly 40% of black men view a book that is designed to HELP THEM, as racist simply because it was written by a white guy.
Of course, I predicted this, but it still doesn’t make it any less pitiful and sad. 40% of the black population is going to reject help simply because it comes from a white guy (which, by the way, IS the epitome of racism). But that’s fine. Because while 40% may continue on the ways of the past, doomed to repeat it, and ignore potentially successful ways to enrich themselves and escape poverty, 60% won’t. 60% are at least open-minded enough to “give anything a try.” 60% are thankful that a (GASP!) white guy took the time to write a book specifically for them. 60% are going to read it, and 60% of them are going to improve their finances, not to mention their mental health, romantic health, family lives, and racial relations with other races.
So to the Mr. Vector 313’s of the world, who are very offended and are (predictably) used to guilty, SWPL, white people rushing to grovel, beg, apologize and ask “what they did to offend you?”
Obviously, being nice, sincere, and giving two shits about you doesn’t work with you. Trying to help only results in an accusation of racism (because you disagree with the message) which is not only unjust, but insulting. So fuck off. Don’t want help? Fine. Nobody's forcing you to read the book. You hack away at life using that same ole same ole “wisdom” that has FAILED to close the
Employment and
gaps in the past 60 years.
Keep thinking doing the same thing over and over again will result in different results.
And keep viewing the world through racist glasses that makes you so ignorant you refuse help just because its origins are white.
Because as I’ve said before “It ain’t my life you’re ruining. It’s yours.”
Ergo, I kindly and humbly ask you to reconsider, reread the book IN ITS ENTIRETY, and at least permit yourself the right to entertain ideas you may find disagreeable ESPECIALLY if they are designed and intended to help you.
Don't Blame "Capitalism" for China's Collapse
And don't blame it for our own collapse either:
Self Employ or Die
I'll say it again,
Trust no one but yourself.
Read a Book, Read a Book, Read a Mother Fucking Book
Hey, I got a book in mind!
Understanding Ownership
On a run around one of my favorite routes, I ended up listening to a podcast from Bernard Chapin. Uncie Bern had wandered into the discussion of whether the Nazi's were indeed socialist (which by most mathematical, economic, and political measurements were). While one would think with the full name "The National Socialist German Workers Party" would leave little doubt, Hitler was a such a bad man that the left desperately has (and still needs to) paint him as a right winger (while still have heart palpitations for Mao, Stalin, and Che). This has resulted in a painfully childish debate of semantics about who owned what, were the means of production owned by the state, did the state tell the corporations what to do, were they "corporatist," blabbity blah blah freaking blah.
Alas, I believe it is high time to do away with semantics and discuss precisely what is "ownership" so that before we all get caught up in the minutiae and technicalities of ideologue-infested debate, we can let you, the individual, think for yourself as to whether or not the Nazi's were indeed socialist (not to mention, be able to identify who is and is not an advocate of socialism).
First, one must ask "why do we own any assets" in the first place?
Is it pride? Is it power? Is it consumption?
It can be all of those things, but we have to delineate between a consumable good/asset and an investable asset.
A consumable good (or asset) is precisely that. It can be consumed.
An apple.
A bottle of scotch.
A movie.
A video game.
A car.
All of these things, sometimes immediately, some times over the course of years, are inevitably used up or "consumed" by the "consumer" and no longer serve any purpose or value. They feed a person, comfort a person, make life convenient for a person, but in the end they are consumed.
Contrast that with an investable asset, where that asset is not to be consumed (like a Milky Way bar) but rather employed in a process or business to generate INCOME aka PROFIT aka EARNINGS.
The computer you use to run your company.
The factory used to build widgets.
Even the trucks (which can also be considered a consumable asset) is considered an investable asset as long as it is used in such a capacity.
These assets are used to generate further earnings by which you can live off of and thus are considered "investments." Alas, "assets" in this particular economic sense of the word typically imply there is some income generating potential of those assets and are what are traditionally referred to by communists as the "means of production."
Now what the left and communists will do to "prove" the Nazi's were not socialist is point to the fact that under socialism it is the state the owns the means of production while under capitalism it is the private sector or individual who owns the means of production. And since the Nazi state did NOT own Germany's corporations, but rather said corporations were still in private hands, the Nazi's=Capitalists=Ronald Reagan=White Males=Kill Them All.
However, like most arguments of the left, they are disingenuous, deceiving, and intellectually dishonest.
The reason why is that while "officially" under Nazi Germany corporations were largely in private hands, the state still effectively told them what to do, what to produce, and how much of it. So sure, the deed to the plant had "Hans Fricktenstein" on it, and the deed to the factory had "Heinrich Gorsternstoppen" on it, but it was only in name. The Nazi state controlled it, not the individual "owner," rendering "official ownership" moot.
Of course, faux leftist intellectuals and libertarian conspiracy theorists will then pull out the term "corporatist." The leftists do this to throw you off track, while libertarian conspiracy theorists do this so they can use 50 cent words to fake intelligence. But whatever name they call it, it's still the STATE that effectively controls and owns the factors of production. Merely slapping "corporatist" on it does not change it's economic nature.
However, thinly veiled and politically-incentived semantics aside, there is a more compelling, fundamental economic reason that ultimately governs what precisely is "socialist" vs. what precisely is "capitalist." And it is not whose name is officially on the deed, nor even who effectively "controls" the assets.
It's who owns the profits of these investable assets.
You see, the ONLY reason people go into business is because they want to make a profit. It's very cute and funny how naive college students, as well as their older (yet pathetically not wiser) professor counterparts think "profit" is some how evil or unnecessary. When in reality NOT ONE THING in ANY economy would ever have been produced without the prospect for profit. You go to work because you intend to earn more than the gas and car maintenance you expend working there. I write posts and books because I intend to make money on them. And Warren Buffett gives up his money when buying companies not for S's and G's, but because he wants the profits of the companies he's buying. Thus, the real reason for assets even to be considered "investments" or "means of production" (and thus, sough after) is because of the profits they MAY potentially generate.
Alas, ownership is not determined by the deed, nor even the dictates of what is to be produced by the state, but who receives the profits.
At first, leftists and other ignorants of society will rush to point out "who receives the profits." The evil rich people. The illuminati. The bilderberg groups. "Big Oil." "Big Pharma." But there is ONE entity that that is a bigger shareholder than all the interconnected, multinational corporations and hedge funds combined.
The state.
You see, with a 36% federal corporate tax rate, combined with a ever so roughly 4% state tax rate, the rough average corporate tax rate is 40%. This means your state and federal government combined are the single largest shareholder of US corporations.
They did nothing to earn that money.
The states nor the federal government risked their own money in purchasing any investable asset.
Even Barack Obama didn't build that.
They merely through law declared that they are the default owner of 40% of all US corporations.
Throw in dividend taxes and the statutory rate is 50% (arguments of effective rate duly noted).
Ergo, the economic REALITY is that the United States is not an "evil greedy capitalist" nation like the left would have you believe, but a half owned, state entity where the government is the defacto 50% owner of all US corporations.
Now, of course it is not only corporations and companies that produce all the economic production in the nation. There are individuals, small businesses (who are not in the 50% tax range), and (as many leftists are no doubt spewing vehemently) just because the STATED tax rate is 50%, doesn't mean corporations pay that rate (the EFFECTIVE rate, sans dividends, is closer to 32%).
But we all know that the government taxes these entities as well. We have sales tax, property tax, personal income tax, gas tax, nearly everything is taxed. So it is ALL forms of profit that are taxed one way or another.
So how do we measure this, and thus define, whether a particular government or political party is "socialist" or not?
Government spending as a percent of GDP.
I've hit this one on the head before, but not from the angle that taxation is nothing more than a percent ownership in private ventures. And while you may "own" your house, or may "own" your corporation, or may "own" your stocks, you only own the percentage that the government does not tax away.
What is that percentage in the US?
Well, it depends on the state, but on average 40%.
When you combine state, federal, and local spending, the cumulative "state" is a default 40% shareholder in all American economic activity. This is certainly not the totalitarian Soviet Union or today's North Korea, but it is also NOT the "evil, heartless, capitalist" nation the left successfully dupes the perennial idiots of our country into thinking it is paints it to be.
The larger point is not that the US is "40%" socialist. Nor that a "communism-socialism-capitalism-anarchy" spectrum more aptly describes today's economies (although it does). The key is to understand that it is ownership of PROFITS that determines the true ownership of the assets. And that any debate that ignores this should be relegated to the societal garbage bin where it belongs - academia.
Now, just ask yourself this question.
What does a 40% socialist state say about who owns you and your life?
That is for another post at another time.
The Racist Running Game
"Senior Frogs"
Old dudes who can kick your ass
How mansions are works of art and not homes to live in
Greece, Cosby, and the idiot who killed himself with a firework
Stop making more fucking laws!
And fan mail
(Just to let you know it has to download the MP3 first and then play as my hosting service decided to "change" things because we all know "change" is always better)
Economics 101 Quiz
OK, lieutenants, economists, and agents in the field. What's wrong with this picture?
Federal Reserve: "Student Aid/Loans Cause Tuition Inflation"
To which I say, "No shit Sherlock!" (language warning)
Tuesday "I Lost My Boxer Shorts" Linkage
Interesting "4th of July" dates in American history.
The Fourth Power.
DT of DT and The Man decides to join the ole "Let's Repair Our Livers Bandwagon" in this episode of The Black Brigade Debrief.
I love the chart at the bottom.
Why do you run everyday?
So I can do it tomorrow (links to a lengthy video that you may want to have time to view)
Well, so much for Cos. Now that we have evidence you can form your opinions.
Ahhh diversity.
My son was stupid. Make a law!
I get a shout out by Mr. Cotto!
The three types of dads. Which one are you?
Higher Priced Weddings Correlate with Increased Divorce Rates
As do pricier engagement rings.
In short, if you blow more than $20,000 on a wedding, your chances for divorce go up 350%.
Still trying to find a study that shows the correlation coefficient (not to mention a study about the rate of divorce amongst women who insist on hyphenating their names, though I've heard studies have been squashed on that topic).
Germany, Not Greece Should Leave the Euro
I had faced a problem.
The new laptop I got SPECIFICALLY for being able to conduct business whilst adventuring was not recognizing the videos from the sim card I used with my camcorder. This was quite problematic as the majority of my consulting division's business is via video and not e-mail. I then started calculating how many hours it would take to trouble shoot this problem (do I download a codec, how long is it going to take to find the answer on google, what if nobody has had this problem before), until it dawned on me that the solution was NOT to somehow force my current system to work, but to simply use the built in camcorder that came with my new laptop.
Another instance, I was at a swing dance joint. I was feeling pretty good about myself, dapperly dressed in a suit fresh from my banking gig, and with no commitments for the weekend, was quite sure I'd land a couple phone numbers, perhaps even a girl back at my home that evening. However, there were very few attractive women at the club and those that were, were very stingy with the dancing. Even those that said yes were a bit standoffish. At first I thought maybe it was my approach or I had bad breath or something to do with me. But then I realized it may just be the joint and not me. I soon left to go salsa dancing and met a Russian ballet dancer (which is another story for another time).
I could go on, but there have been instances in my life where the solution is NOT the one you think you should be looking for, but one where you need to step back, take off the horse blinders, look at the problem from a wider scope and realize there is usually a much simpler, better, efficient, and cheaper solution.
And thus is the case with the current soap opera surrounding Greece.
Recently Greece voted to reject austerity measures that were insisted upon by the EU in order to continue to have the right to suck the blood out of hard working Europeans receive a bail out and further financial assistance. However, polls also showed 74% of Greeks wanted to remain in the Euro so they can continue to parasite off of other countries for reasons that are not too clear and ironic.
Naturally, the balless EU and its largely pansified, socialist member nations didn't dare play hardball, delivering rightly-due punishment to the communist Greek government. They instead said the door "still remained open for negotiations" which will continue to go forever and ultimately be like collecting on a mortgage of a $30,000-naire "Dudebro" and "Ditzytrophywife" American couple who bought a McMansion in 2006 on an adjustable ARM with their "part time sales" and "hair stylist" jobs.
So what is the solution my fine aspiring, young, deputy economists?
Is it to kick the can down the road again (and again, and again ^n x infinity?)
Is it to kick Greece out of the EU, forcing it to print off quintillion of "drachmas" and have the idiot bankers who lent them the money bite the bullet?
Should you send in tanks as would have been the norm back in 1800's?
How about something much simpler?
How about Germany leaves the EU?
While everybody is focusing on the screaming spoiled brat child in Europe, throwing its temper tantrums (that would be "Greece" if you didn't know), nobody is focusing on the one sole adult in the room, and that would be Germany. Germany, by nearly all measures is a superior, more responsible, more productive, and more intelligent country when it comes to economics than Greece is. It has only ran a deficit of 2% GDP the past 15 years (while recently balancing it) while Greece has ran a deficit averaging around 10% (halving it to "only" 5% today). Germany's labor force participation rate is (a still laughable) 60.3% today, while Greece barely has half it's able bodied people LOOKING for work (52%). And Germany's government spends (again "only") 44% GDP while Greece's spends 59% (while still screaming bloody murder over the "draconian" calls for austerity).
We could go on, but you get the point. You can look at nearly every economic measure at the OECD comparing Germany against Greece and see that one country is a reliable, responsible, productive adult and the other is a petulant little spoiled child.
However, there's another interesting thing about Germany.
Germany, is the ONLY adult in this daycare center euphemistically called the EU. Again, Greece is merely the loudest child, but if you look at the finances of nearly every other EU member, they're no better than Greece. France, Italy, Portugal, you name it. They all have debts approaching the point of being unpayable and populations that are just as delusional and just as entitled as their Greek siblings. And what this ultimately means is that the only real net-economic producer in this Euro-zone is Germany, making it the host to all the other parasite nations.
Alas, the solution is clear.
We can focus all the attention and negotiations and can-kicking and bail outs on Greece all we want. But Greece is merely one of many more countries that will be going through the same thing. It would be much easier for the EU's sole economic producer to abandon it's position of "host to the parasites," and let a Germanyless EU suffer its own fate. Germany could start the printing presses tomorrow, re-releasing the Deutschmark and at a rate I'd say around 2 Euros to 1 DM. There'd be international demand for it, and given German speed, intelligence and efficiency, they would lose at MOST 1% of GDP making the adjustment (which would save them the roughly 3-5% GDP the Greeks have been leeching off of them via bailouts).
But most importantly of all,
We Americans would no longer have to listen to this BS, soap opera drama where you European idiots ACTUALLY LENT MONEY to a socialist nation and thought they'd pay you back.
We can get on to much more important things like talking about Bruce Jenner or the Kardashians.
As they say "Auf Deutsch"
"Genießen Sie den Niedergang!"
Adam Kotsko - Why White Professors Sometimes Hate White People
Add Adam Kotsko to the growing list of professors (both white and non-white) who are blaming white males for all of the world's problems. Their solutions range from demanding reparations (from people who had nothing to do with any of the world's past grievances) to calling for white males to kill themselves. Of course Mr. Kotsko claims his demand white males commit suicide was a "joke," (and I'll let you be the judge of that), but it is clear that Mr. Kotsko is for effectively enslaving innocent white males for past transgressions (both real and made up) that they had nothing to do with.
In short, Mr. Kotsko hates white males...ironically, of which he is one.
Is Mr. Kotsko a worthless degreed academian with no real world experience?
Did he major in a worthless subject ensuring he never works a real job and only anti-male, anti-white, leftist authoritarian 4th tier degree mills will hire him?
Is this just another crusaderer leftist who is too lazy to work a real job and is just biding what little remains of his pointless, worthless life on this planet acting like he's morally superior to others?
But while this type of behavior is entirely predictable and expected among non-white racist professors, why are there white professors that seemingly hate themselves, even calling for their own race's enslavement or even suicide?
Well, strap yourselves in there fine lieutenants, economists and agents in the field, and pour yourself a hefty drink. For the ole Captain is going to explain it to you.
A while ago I knew this guy called "Bob." Bob had mommy and daddy pay for his masters in computer engineering and thusly never knew poverty, strife or what it took to make society work. He was spoiled and consequently lived on the "top decks of the Titanic" never seeing the dirty, sweaty engine room below that made his luxurious life so possible. Because he was never where the rubber hit the road in society, he was a staunch leftist. He believed that taxes should be raised, George Bush was evil, blah blah blah. However, when I asked him,
"What's it like forking over 50% of your income to people who don't work for a living?"
as he made well into the 6 figures he said,
"I prefer to pay them so they don't riot or revolt."
And that was the god's honest truth.
Go back considerably further in time and there's another similar example - danegeld.
"Danegeld" was simply money paid to the vikings in viking times so that they wouldn't raid northern mainland Europe. It was "protection money," nothing more, nothing less, to protect then Holland, Belgium, Normandy, and Denmark from viking raiders. And just like that wimp my old colleague "Bob," they'd rather effectively submit themselves to slavery than fight the parasites that were attempting to live off of them.
Now while the two aforementioned examples may not have any obvious link to Mr. Kotsko's hatred for the white race, there are some similarities and a shared seed between the two that explain why the likes of Mr. Kotsko call for/hate on their own race. And that commonality is laziness.
I will say it again for the cheap seats.
All socialism and leftists are is lazy.
The ENTIRE doctrine of socialism, communism, liberalism, feminism and leftism can be summed up in one word - lazy.
They simply do not want to work and if given the choice between self-supportation or parasitism, they will choose parasitism. This is why the vast majority of leftists are in academia, government, non-profits, or just on the government dole AND is also why the majority of their efforts are merely concocting reasons and lies as to why they are entitled to other people's work.
And Mr. Kotsko (and the increasing number of - surprise surprise - leftist worthless liberal arts academians) are no exception.
However, laziness presents a problem for people who are defined by it and live by it.
It's hard to survive with that mentality.
Again, the majority of leftists' work is simply rationalizing and coming up with reasons you're entitled to other people's time in the form of money. It is rationalizing slavery. It is rationalizing their parasitism.
This is all well and good when there's a healthy host full of a lot of blood you care to leech off of. But what if there isn't? What if the host is dying or dead? What if the host just plain doesn't have any more blood to give? Or the host is under threat of being taken over and replaced with a new entity?
And this is where the laziness is combined with cowardice on the part of the left.
It is my humble opinion that these leftists professors' survivalist instincts are kicking in. And because they are soooooo steeped in viewing the world through academically induce racial goggles, they see their own race "demographicing out," and non-white demographicing in. By 2047 whites are expected to NOT account for half the population, and given the political movement to criminalize whites, blame whites for all problems, and use them as the scapegoat, these cowardly professors see the OWN WRITING on the wall and will gladly throw away any self respect they have, as long as they're on the "winning side." This will hopefully "curry favor" with their new "overlords" and since they will have a track record of calling for the suicide of whites (and sometimes males) in their sad pathetic minds, their sad, pathetic, parasitic lives will be "spared."
There is however one problem.
In not even having the slightest bit of self-respect, and being so lazy you'll "submit" yourself to a new "tyrant," what kind of life will you live? I mean, I know being a liberal arts profession at a worthless school in an industry that is bursting like the Dotcom bubble must suck. But I cannot help but conclude your life will be like "The Toadie" from Mad Max 2.
Who is "The Toadie?"
Well, this guy who tries to catch the boomerang:
It doesn't matter how degrading the environment or his/her position in life is, leftists are so lazy they will accept ANY POSITION, as long as it avoids real work. The Toadie is a weakling. The Toadie doesn't care to work out. The Toadie does not care to become a road warrior. But that's OK. Even if The Toadie's fingers get cut off and he is the butt end of all jokes, perhaps even Lord Humongous' bitch, it beats having to work a real job. And that ultimately means having no self-respect, valuing yourself at 0, to the point you'd call for the suicide of your own kind.
The truth is this really has nothing to do with race. This is 100% psychology, psychopathy, cowardice, and self-loathing. These professors, who by their own "profession," are unconsciously admitting they do not care to be real men and women in this society, are the true and genuine fools in this world. They are the weaklings that would rather enslave themselves by paying danegeld to perceived-future vikings than lifting weights, taking up arms, and training to fight them off. They are the modern day incarnations of "Bob" who would rather bribe the parasitic masses than refuse them, fight them, or face them. And sadly, they are the true racists for deep down inside they believe their own leftist, hate-filled propaganda that there's some knid of race war brewing or (more idiotically) "whites should commit suicide" when in reality most minorities and whites get along just fine and we'd miss some friendships and loved ones if half the population just up and killed itself.
So do yourself a favor.
Don't pay the danegeld.
Don't pay the protection money.
Don't be an Uncle Ruckus.
And don't suffer from "The Toadie Syndrome."
It is now approaching 8 years that the country suffered the 2007 financial crisis and has since been stuck in the slow-growth doldrums of Keynesian mediocracy and "new normalcy." Despite trillions in stimulus spending and QE monies, the (largely) left's attempts to spur economic growth have failed. During Obama's administration GDP has grown around a paltry 1.8% per year, unemployment (if you believe the official figures) is just now below a recessionary 6%, and labor force participation has dropped to its worst measure since the last worst recession (The Volcker Recession).
However, while the macro-economic picture is bad, it doesn't tell half the story for younger people. And that story is a horrible one.
Unemployment for youth is double that of the national average. Labor force participation hasn't be this low since the FIRST oil embargo in the 70's. And (depending on which measures you want to use) UNDERemployment for the "most educated" generation in the history of America is anywhere between 30-50%. And this says nothing about the trillion+ dollar student loan albatross hanging around their necks.
The irony of course is that this generation did it to themselves. They voted for Obama. They "hated" on corporations. They launched the OWS protests. And they Venn diagram heavily with the parasites of society who euphemistically call themselves "SJW's." There is no generation that hates capitalism, economic growth, economic progress, and success more than today's young. However while they did pull the trigger and it is is "technically" their own fault, it wasn't as if they weren't completely brainwashed into doing so. The young did not grow up in a vacuum, uninfluenced by parents, teachers, media, politicians, and TV. They are a byproduct of the previous generations. And so while they did indeed vote against their own economic interests twice (and with Bernie Sanders, maybe a third, even fourth time) you can't blame them too much given the leftist indoctrination and complete lack of economic and financial fundamentals Gen X and the Baby Boomers failed to teach them.
However, the Millennials are no longer the doey eyed 18 year olds they were when they first voted for Obama in 2008. Nor are they the infatuated 22 year old female masters student with the VT's for Obama when they voted for him again in 2012. They are now a generation completely lost because all the promises and guarantees the previous generations told them are not coming true. And for the first time in their lives they are facing the full costs and consequences of being led to make the stupid decisions they did in the past. It is here they are finding out they've been living a lie and the real world is completely different than what they were told.
It is here there is a fork in the road and an important one for them. For they have the choice to start listening to the Knowledgesphere-harsh truths, facts and reality evil, blunt jerks like me spew on a daily basis, or simply double down on their indoctrinated religion of leftism, stick their heads in the sand, and continue to live the lies they were told to believe, consequently ruining their one, finite life on this planet forever.
And I think if you're here, you're thankfully in the former.
If that's the case then there is an important lesson you need to learn. For it's about your only shot at happiness, true financial success, and a life that was infinitely better than the one you've lived thus far. However, it requires that we look back and admit that what you were told was wrong. And not only was it wrong, but the people that told you it had no clue what they were talking about. We need to realize these people are living lives just as sucky as yours AND ALSO admit taking "conventional wisdom" that applied in the past does not apply into the future. We need to be forward looking, proactive and realistic, and develop strategies and make decisions based on these real world observations, all to salvage what remains of our lives.
In short, you must self employ or die.
On my latest western adventure I had lunch with a friend of mine on a main street in a small Minnesota town. He was telling me the story about how his dad worked for one of the largest airlines in America, until it went bankrupt. It emerged out of bankruptcy, but the pension he had worked so hard for was wiped out. The poor man is now underwater on his mortgage and relies on my buddy to support him.
On a less personal note, one of my most hated cities, Detroit, has gone through a similar such scenario. Not necessarily the actual city of Detroit, but its delusional and spoiled brat government workers who were promised insane pensions on the financial back of a dying leftist town. No matter what promises were uttered by the latest criminal-cum-mayor, in the end math and reality reigned supreme and thousands of former city employees are facing a fraction of what they were promised for pensions.
I could go on, but the points are clear.
1. The traditional life cycle of employment previous generations lived by no longer works and is no longer in effect. You will NOT find that life-long job at the local factory where you put in your 30 years and get your golden watch and pension. You are lucky to be working as a barrista and often for many young people today Uber and Lyft are the best employment options you have.
2. The previous generations have absolutely no freaking clue what they're talking about. Not only did they lead two full generations towards the path of life long poverty, debt, and underemployment, they themselves have so piss-poorly managed this nation you now have a country with 110% debt to GDP, a 7 year old recession, a housing bubble, a Dotcom bubble, a retirement bubble, and oh yeah, they're still blindsided by pensions not being funded AND no more than 10% of them have adequately saved for their own retirement.
3. No form of employment is safe. It's one thing if a traditionally leveraged and risky industry like airlines file for bankruptcy. But when government pensions can't even be honored it shows you there is NO employer who can be relied upon to pay for your retirement, let alone keep you employed. You are just one CEO's-trophy-wive's-demand-for-a-horse-farm away from getting laid off. One moronic bankster-inflated asset bubble bursting away from losing your job. And just one rating-agency's-downgrade-of-your-municipal-employer's-bonds away from losing your pension.
In short no place in America today is a consistent and reliable source of employment.
But dire as America's labor market is today for young people, this only speaks to the reliability of employment. It says NOTHING about the working environment that results when you have such an oversupply of desperate labor juxtaposed against weak demand for it. Specifically, an intolerable and hostile work environment where employers are becoming increasingly petty, controlling, manipulative, and sadistic.
Forget requiring an MBA and 5 years experience for an entry level job. Forget 5 stages of interviews, 2 with HR ditzes, and 3 with increasingly incompetent levels of management.
What if you actually get hired?
So untenable and fragile is your employment today it isn't enough that you merely perform well at your job. You need to navigate the insane and illogical labyrinth of office politics and managerial pscyhology. You need to walk on eggshells. You need to anticipate and forecast the inconsistent, psychotic, and always changing demands of all "stakeholders" You need to "kiss the ring" of your employer and dance like a good little monkey.
Alas, merely showing up on time and giving 110% isn't enough.
You need "diversity training."
You need to donate to the United Way.
You need to commute to the new office 90 minutes away.
You need to attend company functions on the weekend.
You need "sexual harassment training."
You need to "walk to raise awareness for ADHDHHDDHDDDD"
You need to "give us your facebook password."
You need to "smile more at work."
You need your "flair."
You need to "come in on the weekend."
And above all else, you need to avoid right leaning politics. Either through donations, public forums, or your right to freedom of association. Otherwise you will be doxxed, you will be fired, or magically a "sexual harassment case" will be made against you. And your career, no matter how far along you are to retirement, will be ruined.
It is these two traits - the mathematical/economic impossibility of a traditional career, combined with the literally psychotic and totalitarian environment employers have become - that makes the only acceptable form of employment in your life self employment. You must self-employ, or you will mentally die.
Of course a lot of people don't think self-employment is for them. They're not the "entrepreneurial type." They like the "comfort" of working for somebody else. And to that I say "tough." Because you are operating under the premise that you have a choice. Yes, technically you do have a choice, but so bad has the employment prospects and employment environment become, that it practically forces you into self-employment. However, if you consider the pros and cons of self-employment against traditional employment, it will hopefully at least make a convincing argument for self-employment and at least provide you the incentive to "get into the entrepreneurial mindset."
First, you eliminate the issue of reliable employment. You are your own boss and thus you have your own best interests at heart. You will be the best boss you ever had and will treat yourself better than any boss you will ever have. You will not outsource your job to India. You won't sue yourself for sexual harassment. You won't "choose to go another direction" when times get tough.
Second, mental health. In being your own employer you won't have to endure the petty Baby Boomer boss antics of "predict my mind or else we'll fire you." Or "I told you this, but I really wanted you to do that." Or "I'm a 20 something brainwashed girl and am offended by everything and will file harassment complaints all the time." Or (my all time favorite game) "I Know We Said Your Job Would Be X, But Now that You Signed a Year Lease and MOved Here, It's Going to Be Y."
In short, all the mental BS, lies, and gimmickry is gone.
Third, efficiency. Closely related to mental health is the fact that most employees want to do their best. However, because more value is placed on conformance and ass-kissing than ass-kicking, being an efficient and productive employee gets you nowhere. When you're the boss it is all efficiency all the time. No games, no politics, no chicanery. Every decision you get to make is 100% efficient AND 100% IMMEDIATE. There is no "waiting for approval" or "waiting for the green light" from your boss. The mental health alone that comes with the feeling of "getting stuff done" is amazing and rewarding.
Fourth, no commute.
I know the aged, Baby Boomer powers that be who are desperately clinging onto the reigns of power believe this is a myth, but you don't have to commute. Matter of fact, most jobs can be done from home (unless of course you pursue a trade type form of self employment). This not only frees up time but drastically improves your mental health, your physical health, AND dramatically improves your family life. More time with the kids, more time with the wife, more time on the boat, more time playing catch. And its amazing how if you get rid of a commute you get rid of your chances for divorce.
And finally, five, better finances.
In being self employed you can write off a whole host of things you normally can't as a wage slave. Travel, computers, office space, insurance, etc., it usually compensates for the fact you have to pay your full social security tax. However, the tax write offs are not the key financial benefit of self employment. It is the long term asset you are building up that cannot be confiscated nor stolen from you (unless the communists take over).
The government can rescind the tax benefits,, even confiscate your 401k or IRA.
The government can inflate away or just refuse to pay your social security.
And your employer can (as we noted before) just go bankrupt and not pay you your pension.
However, your company, your network of clients, your expertise and everything else that goes into generating income from it cannot. In building your own company you create a system that is mobile, non-confiscatable, and unable to be rescinded like a pension or social security. That system can continue to generate income no matter what happens to social security, and (if done right) can be sold for more money than what 95% of Americans have in their "retirement accounts." If you're self employed, you won't have to sit there for 30 years post retirement worrying about whether "Montgomery Wards" is "going to make it" for the next 30 years. You just need to know that "Bob's Roofing" is running well under your son, "Bob Jr." as he pays you your 30% cut of profits and you retire down south on a beach.
But for all the pros (nay, compunction) of self-employment, there will be one final predictable argument against self-employment. And that is
"We all can't be self employed."
And you're right. We all can't.
Thankfully, despite the pure awesomeness of me and this blog, we are still a small minority when it comes to the general American population and interwebz. Because of the statistics of the bell distribution curve the average reader here is smarter than 93% of the population who are too busy being lemmings, watching daytime TV, Ellen, The View, Sports Center, Meet the Press, CNBC, The Kardashians, and "24/7 Bruce Jenner Saga Drama Show." They lack the intelligence, ingenuity, incentive, drive, rigor, and determination to become successful entrepreneurs and (thankfully) will serve as those tortured wage slaves at Initech or McDonald's so we don't have to,. And better yet, they will indebt themselves to that miserable existence TO BUY OUR STUFF.
Alas, we are compelled to become self-employed. Not just because economics and reality mandates us. Not just because it's the most basic self-respecting thing you can do for yourself. But because if not us, then who?
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Imagine If: A session of talks in partnership with the U.S. Air Force
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Curator Bryn Freedman invites the audience to imagine a world we all want to live in, as she kicks off the TED Salon: Imagine If, presented in partnership with the U.S. Air Force. (Photo: Ryan Lash / TED)
The event: TED Salon: Imagine If, curated by Bryn Freedman and Amanda Miller, TED Institute
The partner: U.S. Air Force
When and where: Thursday, February 21, 2019, at the TED World Theater in New York City
Music: Rapper Alia Sharrief, performing her songs “My Girls Rock” and “Girl Like Me”
The big idea: Imagination is a superpower — it allows us to push beyond perceived limits, to think beyond the ordinary and to discover a new world of possibilities.
New idea (to us anyway): We may be able to vaccinate against PTSD and other mental illnesses.
Good to be reminded: Leaders shouldn’t simply follow the pack. They need to embrace sustainability, equality, accountability — not just the whims of the market.
The talks in brief:
Brenda Cartier, Director of Operations at Headquarters Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) and the first female Air Commando selected for the rank of general
Big idea: “Precision-guided masculinity” allows us to maintain a killer instinct without discarding the empathetic, “feminine” traits that mitigate the “collateral damage” of toxic masculinity.
How? Viewing gender as a spectrum of femininities and masculinities allows us to select traits as they fit each situation, without tying our identities to them. As we learn to balance our personalities, we become well-rounded human beings and create more just societies.
Quote of the talk: “This new narrative breaks us out of a one-size-fits-all approach to gender, where we link male bodies and masculinity and female bodies and femininity. ‘Precision-guided masculinity’ begs us to ask the question: ‘Who is it that is employing those masculine traits to protect and defend?’”
Could we put a stop to mental illnesses like depression and PTSD before they develop? Rebecca Brachman explores the potential of a new class of drugs called “resilience enhancers.” (Photo: Dian Lofton / TED)
Rebecca Brachman, neuroscientist, TED Fellow and pioneer in the emerging field of preventative psychopharmacology
Big idea: Brachman and her team have discovered a new class of drugs called “resilience enhancers” that could change the way we treat mental illness like depression and PTSD. These drugs wouldn’t just treat symptoms of the diseases, she says — they could prevent them from developing in the first place.
How? Brachman’s research applies the fundamental principle of vaccination to mental illness, building up a person’s ability to recover and grow after stress. For example, imagine a Red Cross volunteer going into an earthquake zone. In addition to the typhoid vaccine, she could take a resilience enhancer before she leaves to protect her against PTSD. The same applies to soldiers, firefighters, ER doctors, cancer patients, refugees — anyone exposed to trauma or major life stress. The drugs have worked in preliminary tests with mice. Next up, humans.
Quote of the talk: “This is a paradigm shift in psychiatry. It’s a whole new field: preventative psychopharmacology.”
Michele Wucker, finance and policy strategist, founder and CEO of Gray Rhino & Company
Big idea: Catastrophic events sometimes catch us by surprise, but too often we invite crises to barrel right into our lives despite countless, blaring warning signs. What keeps us from facing the reality of a situation head-on?
How? Semantics, semantics, semantics — and a healthy dose of honesty. Wucker urges us to replace the myth of the “black swan” — that rare, unforeseeable, unavoidable event — with the reality of the “gray rhino,” the common obvious catastrophes, like the bursting of a financial bubble or the end of a tempestuous relationship, that are predictable and preventable. She breaks down the factors that determine whether we run from problems or tackle them, and lays out some warning signs that you may be ignoring one of those charging rhinos right now.
Quote of the talk: “Think about the obvious challenges in your own life and how you deal with them. Do you stick your head in the ground like an ostrich and ignore the problems entirely? Do you freak out like Chicken Little over all the tiny things, but miss the big giant wolf coming at you? Or do you manage things when they’re small to keep them from going out of control?”
Curator Bryn Freedman interviews executive (and former candidate for president of Iceland) Halla Tómasdóttir about how we can transform corporate leaders and businesses for a better world. (Photo: Ryan Lash / TED)
Halla Tómasdóttir, CEO of Richard Branson’s B Team and former Icelandic presidential candidate, interviewed by curator Bryn Freedman
Big idea: Corporate leaders — and the businesses they run — are in a crisis of conformity that favors not rocking the boat and ignores big issues like climate change and inequality. We need new leadership to get us out of this crisis.
How? It’s not enough for corporate leaders to simply follow the pack and narrowly define the missions of their organizations. If CEOs want to avoid the pitchforks of the masses, they must also ensure that their businesses are global citizens that embrace sustainability, equality, accountability — not just the markets.
Quote of the talk: “At the end of the day, we need to ask ourselves who are we holding ourselves accountable for — and if that isn’t the next generation, I don’t know who.”
Sarah T. Stewart, planetary scientist at the University of California, Davis, and 2018 McArthur “Genius” fellow
Big idea: How did the Moon form? Despite its proximity, we don’t actually know! Adding to the mystery: the Earth and Moon are composed of the same stuff, a rarity we’ve found nowhere else in the universe. In trying to solve the mystery, Sarah T. Stewart discovered an entirely new not-quite-planet.
How? Stewart and her team smash planets together in computer simulations to learn more about how they were created. While trying to uncover the Moon’s origin, they discovered that the early Earth may have been involved in a massive collision with a Mars-sized planet, which then created a “synestia:” a super-heated doughnut of molten material previously unknown to science, out of which the Moon was born.
Quote of the talk: “I discovered a new type of astronomical object. It’s not a planet; it’s made from planets.”
Why do teens seem to make so many bad decisions? Kashfia Rahman searches for an answer in psychological effects of risk-taking. (Photo: Ryan Lash / TED)
Kashfia Rahman, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner and Harvard freshman
Big idea: Teenagers aren’t necessarily chasing thrills when they make bad decisions. Rather, repeated exposure to risk actually numbs how they make choices.
How? After wondering why her peers were constantly making silly and irresponsible decisions, Kashfia Rahman decided to conduct an experiment testing how her fellow high school students responded to risk. She found that habituation to risk — or “getting used to it” — impacts how teenagers make choices beyond their cognitive control. With this insight, she believes we can create policies that more holistically tackle high-risk behavior among teenagers.
Quote of the talk: “Unforeseen opportunities often come from risk-taking — not the hazardous negative risk-taking I studied, but the good ones, the positive risks,” she says. “The more risks I took, the more I felt capable.”
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I WANT YOU TO CONTINUE GOING TO THE COVE DE IRIA ON THE 13TH OF THE MONTH…
TEXT TAKEN FROM THE BOOK IN LUCIA’S OWN WORDS
As I have already told what happened in this day, I will not delay over here, but pass on to the apparition which, in my opinion took place on the 15th in the afternoon. As at that time I did not yet know how to reckon the days of the month, it could be that I am mistaken. But I still have an idea that it took place on the very day that we arrived back from Vila Nova de Ourem. I was accompanied by Francisco and his brother John.
We were with the sheep in a place called Valinhos, when we felt something supernatural approaching and enveloping us. Suspecting that Our Lady was about to appear to us, and feeling sorry lest Jacinta might miss seeing her, we asked her brother to go and call her. As he was unwilling to go, I offered him two small coins, and off he ran. Meanwhile, Francisco and I saw the flash of light, which we called lightning, Jacinta arrived, and a moment later, we saw Our Lady on a holm oak tree.
“What do you want of me?”
“I want you to continue going to the Cova de Iria on the 13th of the month, and continue praying the Rosary every day. In October, I will perform a miracle so that all may believe.”
“What do you want done with the money that the people leave in the Cova da Iria?”
“Have two litters made. One is to be carried by you and Jacinta and two other girls dressed in white; the other is to be carried by Francisco and three other boys. The money from the litters is for the “Festa” of Our Lady of the Rosary, and what is left over will help towards the construction of a chapel that is to be built here.”
“I would like to ask you to cure some sick persons.”
“Yes, I will cure some of them during the year.”
Then looking very sad, Our Lady said:
“Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners; for many go to hell, because there are none to sacrifice themselves and to pray for them.”
And she began to ascend as usual towards the east.
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Balibo: Tense East Timor Testament
Robert Connolly’s Balibo is a compelling political thriller. It “is a true story” based on Jill Jolliffe’s book, Cover-Up.
It is in fact four stories:
The story of five Australian journalists who were murdered at Balibo by the Indonesian forces that invaded East Timor in 1975.
Of Roger East, an Australian journalist who sought the truth about their deaths.
Of Juliana who testifies as an adult to her experiences in Dili as an eight year old.
Of the spirit of the East Timorese people as embodied in their current President José Ramos Horta.
Connolly and playwright David Williamson have constructed a script that has avoided potential pitfalls associated with layers of flashbacks. At times the pace faltered as the context or the suspense was being established.
There is little attempt to present detailed characterisations of the Balibo 5. Damon Gameau as Greg Shackleton is the focus of the group. His re-enactment of Shackleton’s famous TV report from the frontline is impressive. You can compare the two on the website. The rivalry between the Channel 9 and Channel 7 crews continues today, though in a less friendly way.
Anthony LaPaglia gives a very convincing performance as Roger East. He has enough weight both figuratively and literally to carry off the role of a seedy, disillusioned journo.
Oscar Isaac manages the difficult job of the young José Ramos Horta. Fortunately he does not try imitating this distinctive and well-known personality.
Gyton Grantley (Gary Cunningham), Nathan Phillips (Malcolm Rennie), Mark Winter (Tony Stewart) and Thomas Wright (Brian Peters) show the depth of Australian acting talent. As does Simon Stone as ABC journalist Tony Maniaty.
The East Timorese cast are exceptional. Anamaria Barreto meets the high expectations of child actors these days as young Juliana. Her parents are Timorese and she lives in Darwin. Bea Viegas gives an intense, moving portrayal of the adult Juliana. Osme Gonsalves also impresses as Ximenes, a Fretlin soldier. It is difficult to find out the names of many of the actors as they are not listed on the website or IMDb.
The film raises many questions about the political responsibility for what happened and the need for justice to be done. This is a dark part of both Indonesian and Australian history. It does not attempt any definitive answers. That would be another movie. The historical background is analysed in depth and can be accessed through the official website.
Balibo works very effectively as both a political statement and a personal drama.
See it!
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The Bastards: all in a day's work
The Bastards (Los bastardos) is an award winning Mexican film. It’s mostly Spanish language though it’s set in the United States. Fausto (Rubén Sosa) and Jesus (Jesus Moises Rodriguez) are illegal day labourers. They have been hired to murder someone. We follow them on their mission.
In only his second feature length movie, writer/director Amat Escalante clearly worked at using his limited budget by the use of unconventional techniques:
Basically I was looking for a feeling of overwhelming fear. Something that is bigger than us but you cannot define.
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Nina Zavarin gives a disturbing performance as Karen, a lost soul in LA suburbia. Trevor Glen Campbell as her son Trevor does a convincing job of alienated teenager.
The strengths of this very experimental piece are also the roots of its weaknesses:
Long takes with little or no panning or use of zoom. Characters occasionally move in and out of frame and there is the odd dolly shot. The lack of variety is irritating and hard to justify in many of the scenes.
Action taking place off-camera, sometimes “behind” the camera. It's trite and ineffective.
Long silences, that cause us to lose interest as the story does not progress.
Sparse dialogue. The characters’ motivation or psychological states remain too clouded.
The use of actors with no experience. (Nina Zaravin was an exception.) There are few intense verbal clashes between characters.
It was shot in “five intensive weeks” of filming. A redeeming feature is the absence of the shaky hand-held photography that has been so trendy but is rarely used effectively. Unfortunately the cinematic style adopted does not lead to increased drama.
It would be wrong to classify this as an action movie. Very little happens. Nor does it quite hit the mark as horror or thriller. There is some suspense but it doesn’t provide the tingling tension or build-up we associate with these genre.
It isn’t very nail-biting. You just wish they would get on with it. It’s certainly edgy at times but the snail pace is frustrating. The only surprise is not what happens but when.
Going by the awards The Bastards has received, there is a keen audience for this film. This gives some hope to independent filmmakers with little money. Unfortunately it is unlikely to reach the cult status of films like Robert Rodriguez's el cheapo El mariachi.
There are many other measures of success. A last word from Amat Escalante:
I think the most interesting and amazing thing that I've done with my second feature, on a personal level, is working with two people who are not actors who at first could not believe that they were going to be in a movie and then get to the Cannes festival ... a movie with them is an experience that changes your life, both they and myself.
Labels: cinema, festivals, Film Reviews, foreign language, MIFF 2009, movies
Amreeka: Fresh Off The Boat
Amreeka presents the experiences of Palestinians living in the West Bank and those who migrate to the United States. The word is Arabic for America. It’s about their everyday lives rather than the political situation, though this dictates many aspects of their existence at home and abroad. The impact of 9/11 on work, school, family relationships and normal social interactions underlies this very human story.
Two sisters from Bethlehem of all places are reunited in Illinois: Muna (Nisreen Faour) the optimist who wants a better life for her 16 year old son Fadi (Melkar Muallem) and Raghda (Hiam Abbass) the hardened pessimist who wants her husband Nabeel (Yussuf Abu-Warda) to take them back to Palestine.
Adjusting to American culture is hard enough without the added burdens of prejudice against migrants and the anti-Arab feelings generated by the war on terrorism.
In many ways writer/director Cherien Dabis has created a soft-sell movie. It’s about understanding not retribution and it's executed with lots of humour. We do not see the worst of the occupation. It mostly presents the small humiliations and day-to-day abuse of their rights.
The wall dominates their lives. Its graffiti calls not too subtly to the audience: “ICH BIN EIN BERLINER!” and “BEEN THERE DONE THAT!”
Of course, the anti-Islamic feelings are misdirected as Muna’s family are not Muslims. This is not the first use of this trite device in a film about Middle Eastern migrants. Among others the Lebanese in The Combination are Christians but experience the same kind of racial profiling.
The first two people to befriend Muna are outsiders themselves. Her workmate Matt (Brodie Sanderson) is a high school dropout. Mr. Novatski (Joseph Ziegler), a teacher from Fadi’s school, is a Polish American Jew.
The rest of Muna’s extended family are well portrayed by the strong cast including her three nieces Salma (Alia Shawkat), Rana (Jenna Kawar) and Lamis (Selena Haddad) and her mother.
Amreeka is a gentle persuader that is well worth seeing.
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Bran Nue Dae Blazes
The film of Bran Nue Dae premiered to enthusiastic audiences at MIFF 09. Director Rachel Perkins* and a first class Australian cast have brought the musical to life with energy and fun. Rachel has described the process of bringing this much loved stage musical to the screen as frightening and fun. This indigenous Shakespearean-style comedy is all fun.
Young, star-cross'd lovers are separated. Willie is an aborigine at boarding school in Perth in 1969. He dreams of reuniting with his sweetheart Rosie (Jessica Mauboy) who is back in Broome. He is played by Broome schoolboy, the angel-faced Phillip "Rocky" McKenzie. Geoffrey Rush is the wicked Father Benedictus who wants him to follow in his footsteps into the priesthood. He is determined to stop Willie from getting back home. Willie's unlikely saviour is Uncle Tadpole (Ernie Dingo) a drunk, a conman but a charmer.
Along the way we meet two hippies in a combi wagon (Missy Higgins plays Alice with style), Roadhouse Betty (Magda Szubanski) and the raunchy Roxanne (Deborah Mailman, also stylish).
As befits a classic comedy, many complex relationships are revealed at the finale on the famous Cable Beach. In the words of its theme song:
There's nothing I would rather be
Than to be an Aborigine
* Rachel Perkins directed the indigenous musical film One Night The Moon, which has been turned into a stage production opening in Melbourne’s Malthouse soon.
(Official website is under construction)
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Zift Happens
Melbourne International Film Festival 2009
Zift is film noir set in post-war Bulgaria. Its black and white format works for this historical piece, creating a very appropriate mood. It is gloomy and seedy. It also moderates the ample blood associated with the inevitable violence. The magnificent settings reflect both the pre-war architectural grandeur of Sofia and the grey totalitarianism of the communist state.
The film has many of the classic noir stock features. Following release from prison in the 1960s, the protagonist Moth (Zahary Baharov) narrates his story taking us back to 1944. The mystery revolves around a diamond missing from the original crime scene. The femme fatale Ada or Mantis (Tanya Ilieva) is his school sweetheart. There is lots of suspense and a protracted chase. We meet a range of oddball characters during his one-night fight for life.
Betrayal is an essential part of this genus. The “villain” is his old partner in crime Slug (Vladimir Penev), now a powerful apparatchik who has thrived under the brutal, repressive Stalinist regime. Moth knows that he should trust no one.
This is an entertaining and at times troubling look at what people will do to survive. In keeping with the genre, it has an underlying layer of misogynism. There is little challenge to the view of women as men destroyers. The praying mantis metaphor is indulged both verbally and visually.
Both Baharov and Ilieva have very strong screen presences. He’s a man’s man, muscular and square-jawed. She’s lean and lithe with enticing eyes. The pair ooze sensuality, especially when working off each other.
According to Moth, “zift” means "bitumen" and was used as chewing gum. It’s also slang for “shit”. Very fitting for this dark movie. However, it’s tempered with some humour. Moth’s scrambles through the women’s section of a large bathhouse. He dives into a pool to retrieve a false eye that belonged to Grater (Tzvetan Alexiev) a prison friend. It’s worth seeing just for the gallery of tattoos. There is a sample in the trailer.
Director Javor Gardev and novelist/screenwriter Vladislav Todorov have crafted a tight script within an ample 92 minutes. Lots of other filmmakers could follow this example of brevity.Zift is definitely worth a look.
(The sub-titles on the copy shown at MIFF were less than satisfactory at times, which is very disappointing given its release was nearly a year ago.)
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Silent Wedding: no laughing matter
Silent Wedding (Nunta muta) is three films in one. A search for the para-normal. A romantic comedy. A political drama. It’s one too many.
There are many truly comic moments in its village that at times feels like sixteenth century rural Europe. The peasants are struggling to come to terms with the realities of Stalinist Romania in 1953. They treat their small local party cadre with ridicule. The modern day ruins of the giant factory are the legacy of this clash with brutal authoritarianism.
The characters and settings are pure Bruegel. Mara (Meda Andreea Victor) and Iancu (Alexandru Potocean) are a courting couple full of the joy and pleasures of youth. Their feuding families are finally united when a wedding is planned. Three upcoming events determine the date of the celebration and set their fate.
Firstly, the circus is coming. Coincidentally Iancu’s best friend is a dwarf, a seemingly essential element in stories of the supernatural. Secondly, the communist party has arranged a propaganda film night, a challenge in a place without electricity. Finally, Lent is approaching, with its deep significance for these religious people.
Silent Wedding has lots of entertaining and funny parts. There is a very effective three Stooges slapstick routine, a very difficult task at any time. The silent wedding scene is very amusing for the most part. Unfortunately, like the movie itself, it is too long with just too many visual gags and unnecessary detail.
The modern day TV crew’s search for a para-normal story could easily have been omitted to tighten up this production. The supernatural elements could also have been left out.
The unfolding tragedy is apparently based on a true story. If so it doesn't quite do its subject complete justice.
Walter Murch: cinema diamond cutter
Walter Murch's CV as a filmmaker reads like a Who's Who entry of American cinema: The Conversation, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient and many more.
In Murch - Walter Murch on Editing he talks about his role as film editor on some of the best known movies of the last forty years. He's a talking head with a difference.
Edie Ichioka and David Ichioka's documentary is not about the technicalities of editing. There is little jargon or complex technique. Its strength is in the exploration of how film is created, in particular the collaboration that brings image, sound and story together.
If you're into filmmaking, put this one high on your list of must sees.
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In the Loop: war of 4-letter words
In the Loop is a very enjoyable, well made spin off from the British TV series The Thick of It. Like most top British comedy it relies primarily for its humour on dialogue rather than visual gags.
Leader in this arena is Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker the U.K. government's Head of Communications. He is a foul-mouthed bully whose spew of offensive, sarcastic invective is unparalleled. He's a bully who harasses all around him.
The diminutive British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster (Tom Hollander) is another Pythonesque character whose droll one liners seem lost on his underlings. His new press officer Toby Wright (Chris Addison) has more than a professional interest in his U.S. opposite number Liza Weld (Anna Chlumsky) and slides down a steep learning curve on his first visit to Washington D.C.
It's a simple plot. U.S.President and U.K. PM want to go to war in the Middle East. The man to deliver this is master spinner Assistant Secretary Linton Barwick. David Rasche as Linton gives us some wonderful Donald Rumsfeld moments. In a War Committee meeting he asks the participants to imagine that a glass of water is a shoe. Mimi Kennedy as Karen Clarke does a competent job as his foil.
James Gandolfini, of Sopranos fame, adds his considerable weight to the anti-war forces in the role of General Miller.
When the film was introduced at MIFF 09 it was described as a mixture of Monty Python, The Office and Yes Minister. It certainly lived up to this accolade with lots of laughs throughout.
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Blessed : facing our worst nightmares
According to the producers, Blessed “is a film about mothers and children, about love and beauty, about being lost and finding your way home.” Director Ana Kokkinos, of Head On fame, has given us another disturbing exploration of surviving in the twenty-first century.
It is a very grim, gloomy look at ordinary lives in Melbourne’s western suburbs. They are outsiders: single parent families, migrants, indigenous stolen generation, the old to the very young. A lot of it is not a pretty picture: shoplifting, burglary, child abuse, poker machine addiction, clothing outworkers.
It’s the underclass, the working class who are unemployed or underemployed and exploited. Alienation is a sad, everyday fact of life. they are desperate people in a society that is failing them.
The story uses dual timeframes of a single day. Firstly we see the children’s crises unfold from their perspectives. Later the day is repeated using the parents’ experiences as the focus. The threads are tied together by the use of characters that link the narrative both directly and indirectly.
There are haunting scenes:
Two mothers visit the mortuary. One regains some hope, as the other screams unforgettably in despair.
A mother and father sit in a hospital emergency waiting room, separated by an empty seat and a crowded past.
A man cries for his stolen youth and his lost mother.
A woman cradles the unborn child in her womb, both facing a seemingly hopeless future.
The cast is outstanding, showing the depth of both experienced (Miranda Otto, William McInnes, Frances O’Connor, Deborra-Lee Furness, Monica Maughan, Wayne Blair) and new (Eamon Farren, Sophie Lowe, Harrison Gilbertson, Eva Lazzaro, Reef Ireland ) talent in Australian cinema.
McInnes plays the only father in this patchwork of relationships. He convincingly captures the essence of this lost soul, who is petrified, in both senses of the word, by life. Otto and O’Connor each leaves us with a lasting image as she dances, one of hope and the other of desperation.
Blessed is a dark drama that should touch you to the core.
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Endgame: finishing off apartheid
Michael Young (Jonny Lee Miller) is the invisible man who brings together white South Africa and the African National Congress in the early ‘90s. Endgame is a film about talk. It’s the dying days of apartheid. The government condones clandestine discussions in England as a stalling tactic to try to divide the ANC leadership.
Academic Professor Will Esterhuyse (William Hurt) and future SA President Thabo Mbeki (Chiwetel Ejiofor) lead the two sides. Separate overtures are being made to Nelson Mandela (Clarke Peters) by Dr. Niel Barnard (Mark Strong) head of the SA National Intelligence Service. Esterhuyse becomes an unlikely double agent as his friendship with Mbeki grows.
It’s a chess game whose result is famous so the macro-political level is not the focus of this treatment. Mandela is not the central character of this story. Nor do the director Pete Travis and writer Paula Milne spend much time on the brutality perpetrated by both sides. Two short bombing incidents and a fairly tame car chase will not satisfy action movie fans. Silences and stillness are as important as the dialogue, dramatic as it is. It’s a tight script with few wasted shots.
The extraordinary cast includes Derek Jacobi as the boss of Consolidated Goldfields who are the secret sponsors of the talks and Timothy West as President P.W. Botha. The actors manage the Afrikaans accent extremely well. The decision to cast Clarke Peters as Mandela plays out quite well as he captures the spiritual stature of the man without having his physical size.
The filmmakers also resist the temptation to use clichéd fades into the real people at the end. It's a pity that neither the official website nor IMDb give John Kani a credit for his role as ANC President Oliver Tambo. He is among the profiles on Channel4 which showed the film earlier in the year. Its website has lots of additional information about the end of apartheid as well as the film itself.
Engame proves that talking heads can be much more compelling than computer enhanced action flicks.
Pardon My French: going through the motions
Pardon My French is a puzzling title for this colourless film. Un chat un chat is the French name of this disappointing comedy/drama.
To call a cat a cat (or spade), Pardon My French is a dud. Célimène aka Nathalie (Chiara Mastroianni) says that she is “unstitching herself” though she denies having depression. She is a well-known novelist, who sometimes refuses to speak even to her psychiatrist. Apart from writer’s block the causes of her emptiness and identity crisis are unclear. Her lack of passion quickly becomes tiresome.
There are four people in her life who are trying to help her overcome her listlessness. Her seven year old son Adam (Mateo Julio Cedron) is suitably precocious but not enough to redeem the movie’s flaws. They are staying with her mother (Dominique Valadié ) while her apartment is renovated. It’s wrapped in plastic like a Christo Art project. Mum regularly interrupts her sleep baking habit.
Her last partner Viorel (Philippe Rebbot) is even less charismatic than his estranged lover.
A seventeen year old girl Anaïs (Agathe Bonitzer) is stalking her in a “friendly” way. She wants to write about her. Their interactions are sometimes bizarre but ultimately boring.
Célimène’s transition back to some kind of normality is so nuanced, it appears seamless. Apart from a not-so-surprising birthday party, there is no dramatic climax. She just floats back into life.
Pardon My French is not comic enough nor does it explore deeply into Célimène’s inner life. Its competent cast had little to work with.
Breathless: a stunning nether world
Breathless (Ddongpari) is a stunning film, in both senses of the word. It leaves you feeling battered around the head and awed by the boldness of its themes.
An unlikely group share a Korean barbeque: a girl in senior High School; a divorce woman and her young son; her father; and a former gangster. Missing is the man who brought them together, Sang-hoon, a gangster who worked as a loan shark debt collector.
So are the schoolgirl’s brother and Vietnam War veteran father. They are just two of the many dysfunctional characters we meet in this broken society.
Yang Ik-june, who stars as hard-man Sang-hoon, also served as the film’s screenwriter, editor and producer. It’s a low budget movie that has won a number of awards. Like its anti-hero, it pulls no punches with large serving of graphic violence and “offensive” language. It must set a record for the most four letters words in two hours of film.
Perhaps the most confronting issue raised in this film is the prevalence of domestic violence with wife bashing a recurring theme. The relentless brutality leaves us breathless and disgusted. There is none of the glamour of action movies such as Chocolate. Sang-hoon routinely bashes people indiscriminately. He’s from the “what are you looking at” school of thuggery.
However, his relationship with schoolgirl Yeon-Hue (Kot-bi Kim) is warm and tender, more sensual rather than sexual. Their arguments bring humour and humanity to their otherwise joyless lives. Kim has a natural gift for the comic moment but also handles fury and fear like a seasoned professional. She has plenty of opportunity to exercise the latter talent.
This dark and gloomy story ends with some hope. However, it is hope tempered with a very large dose of despair.
A Mother's Nightmare
Madeo (Mother) is a very challenging film from South Korea. Hye-ja Kim as Hye-ja, the over-protective mother of the film’s title, gives an outstanding performance. Director Joon-ho Bong takes us on a tortuous journey that is murder mystery and suspense drama. But most of all it is the tale of a mother-son bond that is stretched beyond the limits.
When her mentally disabled son Do-joon (Won Bin) is jailed, Hye-ja sets out to find the real perpetrator. Her quest brings much more than she could ever have anticipated.
Mom is an unlicenced acupuncturist who believes that she knows a secret point that will help you to forget your worst memories. If only…
There is no classic happy ending. The audience is left to decide if any kind of justice has prevailed.
The touches of humour help to soften an otherwise disturbing look at what happens when a mother goes to extraordinary lengths to protect her vulnerable son.
Flame and Citron: when the Nazis arrived
Ole Christian Madsen’s Flame and Citron presents two riveting characters who are fighting for the motherland in Copenhagen, 1944. Their job is assassination, ruthless and usually cold-blooded. Their usual targets, who are chosen for them, are Danish collaborators with the Nazis.
This is a violent, bloody story based on real people and events. The rules, if there are any, do not preclude collateral damage. Women and children are among the innocent victims of their deadly resistance to the occupation. Not shooting first is a dangerous manoeuvre as Flame discovers.
Thure Lindhardt plays Bent Faurschou-Hviid, the red-haired young assassin of the duo, with style and control. His love interest is the brooding Ketty Selmer (Stine Stengade ), a worthy femme fatale and Mata Hari.
Mads Mikkelsen’s portrayal of the very troubled Jørgen Haagen Schmith, the car mechanic and driver, is superb. The worse his marriage becomes, the more Jørgen becomes involved with the killing, culminating in a colossal Hollywood style confrontation with the German army.
Their network, based on the Holger Danske resistance group, leads a charmed life for the first half of the movie. They meet openly in front of the local Gestapo.
This is a powerful exploration of the lives of these tow national heroes, as personal morality is discarded for patriotism. We are often reminded that this is war. As well as the Nazi war and intelligence machines, they also face divisions, intrigues, political expediency and betrayal in their ranks.
The film’s main weakness is its implausibility. Bent and Jørgen seem invisible to their enemies for most of the story. They are virtually bullet-proof as well. The pair makes several undetected trips to Stockholm for high level resistance meetings. The Nazis can’t have been that stupid or ineffective, though truth is often stranger...
Flame and Citron is part psychological suspense and part action movie. The former works more convincingly than the latter.
No winner in Thrilla in Manila
John Dower's Thrilla in Manila is an anti-climax in many ways.
If it weren’t for rhyme and Muhammad Ali’s love of taunting his opponents, this film might not have been made. Without the racial slur of “gorilla” that is at the centre of their personal feud, it would have lacked punch except in the literal sense.
The documentary has historical significance although little is added to our understanding of Ali’s complex and at times contradictory personality. Smoking Joe believes that his former opponent’s current illness is a punishment from god.
The fight itself is heralded as the greatest of all time. It was close and extremely brutal. It is beyond dispute that both men did themselves irreparable physical harm. Their two previous encounters were one a piece. This treatment of their bitter rivalry, shown from Joe Frazier’s point of view, leaves a bitter taste that the classic When We Were Kings (Rumble in the Jungle) did not. Neither the duelling duo or the world of professional boxing comes out looking pretty. Suffice it to say that Joe had lost the sight in one eye in 1964, eleven years before this match. It had gone undetected by the authorities or perhaps was just overlooked.
It is hard not to compare Thrilla with the Rumble, Leon Gast’s 1996 documentary about Ali regaining the title from George Foreman in Zaire in 1974. Dower had to rely on limited original footage and resorted to a lot of repetition of the clips available. Gast had extensive footage of both the fight and the long weeks beforehand. They seemed to be having a three month long concert with James Brown and company while Foreman’s hand recovered from injury.
Dower used a similar narrative structure. Both films examine the choice of a third world dictatorship as the location and the odd hour chosen to meet television commitments in the U.S.
Much is made of Ali’s political involvement with the Nation Of Islam, most of it covering the same ground as the earlier film.
If Frazier had given up his bitterness, this film would have lost much of its sting. Sadly there was no real winner in the Thrilla in Manila.
Labels: cinema, documentaries, festivals, MIFF 2009
Defamation: in search of anti-semitism
“It’s time to live in the present and look to the future,” is a seemingly trite assessment of the issues facing Israel today. Yet writer/director Yoav Shamir’s documentary Defamation (Hahmatsa) is a refreshing and original take on anti-Semitism. Not only is it a Jewish perspective but also Shamir is a Gen X Israeli. He is wicked in the very modern meaning of the word. His occasionally mocking tone contrasts with the extreme seriousness of his overall examination of this vexed topic.
His journey takes him to the United States in search of causes and instances of anti-Semitism. It leads him to heated debates about anti-Zionism:
Is it a mask for anti-Semitism?
Is supporting the cause of the Palestinians or criticism of the actions of the State of Israel a form of anti-Semitism?
Is the holocaust used as an excuse or rationalisation for Zionist excesses?
Are Israeli's interests being undermined by the U.S. Israel lobby?
His access to people and situations is remarkable. Who could refuse an Israeli Jew who is researching anti-Semitism? He goes inside the U.S. based Anti-Defamation League, including extensive interviews with its leader Abe Foxman and coverage of his trips overseas proselytising to some of the world’s political elite.
Shamir accompanies a group of Israeli students on a ‘March of the Living’ to Auschwitz. It’s an historical pilgrimage with a highly political agenda.
This passionate, personal piece of journalism is also remarkably balanced. We hear the ideas, concerns and opinions of a wide range of people:
Yoav’s 92 year-old zionist grandmother who thinks that overseas Jews are more interested in money than religion;
African Americans who believe that there is some truth to the long discredited Protocols of Zion;
well-off secular American Jews who believe that Israel is an “insurance policy” against future genocide;
the bitter and extremely frank Professor Norman Finkelstein who sees conspiracies by pro-Zionists as the problem;
academics John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt whose book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy argues that "the lobby's impact has been unintentionally harmful to Israel as well";
a teacher and students during their Polish excursion.
Yoav Shamr was accused of being anti-Semitic following his 2003 documentary Checkpoint that criticised Israel’s policies towards Palestinians. Defamation gives us a chance to judge for ourselves.
Labels: cinema, documentaries, festivals, Film Reviews, foreign language, MIFF 2009
Inferno: Clouzot's classic cut short
It’s a compliment to Henri-Georges Clouzot that his unfinished film L’enfer (The Inferno) has an entry on IMDb. The recent French documentary L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot explores the reasons for its abrupt termination. It also pays homage to a potentially great classic, alongside his other films such as Les diaboliques.
Romy Schneider, who starred as Odette, was at the height of her career and her onscreen presence. Serge Reggiani, who was the catalyst for the film’s abandonment, played her psychotic husband Marcel. Clouzot’s uncharacteristic lack of focus and on-set heart attack were also culprits, it seems.
Salvador Dali’s surreal contributions to Hitchcock’s dream sequence in Spellbound have nothing on the special effects created for Marcel’s nightmares of jealousy. It is worth seeing just for these alone.
Unfortunately all the sound has been lost. Some script-readings and voiceovers, plus some discreet sound effects, help to enhance the extensive original footage.
This is one for movie buffs: a documentary about a film that was never finished.
Labels: cinema, documentaries, festivals, Film Reviews, foreign language, MIFF 2009, movies
Chocolate: Kill Bill 3 Thai Style
Director Prachya Pinkaew, a martial arts specialist, gives us a kickboxing movie with attitude: Chocolate. The hero is a teenage girl Zen played by 24 year old Yanin "Jeeja" Vismistananda. The thin plot involves her fund raising efforts for her ill mother Zin (Ammara Siripong). A case of Zin and Zen.
This movie has everything: Yakuza gangsters; glitzy transvestite Thai mobsters; autism; samurai sword duels; novel fight sets. Not to mention hundreds of fights and an ample sufficiency of blood. Some of it's real as the closing credits include a black and white montage of accident clips from the shooting of these extravaganza clashes. Pinkaew doesn’t just rely on computer graphics. Stars and stunts alike share the scars. He also pays homage to Tarantino with a Kill Bill 3 scene to die for. There is even an allusion to Indiana Jones. (No animals were hurt in the making of this film.)
Not my usual genre but it surpasses the little I’ve seen of Jackie, Charlie and Jet over the years. Its popularity is evident in the 600,000 + views, plus 500 comments, that the YouTube video above has received.
A must for all the action fans who enjoy a good fantasy. There is no shortage of movies about genocide at the festival if you want real violence.
Snow: Bosnia's complicated peace
Snow (Snijeg) is another movie that explores the dark side of humanity but offers hope to those who survive the worst that modern society can serve up to them. It’s Bosnia 1997 and the Slavno village is trying to cope without the men who were taken away during the war. Their fate is still unknown. There are only two males remaining, Dedo (Mir Hadžihafizbegović) the grandpa who leads prayer at their wrecked mosque and Ali (Benjamin Đip) a young boy who is totally traumatised by his personal horror.
Young widow Alma (Zana Marjanović) struggles to bring her husband’s dream to life by making the area a viable farming community. When two Serbs come offering to buy their land for developers, past and future clash as they search their souls for a way forward.
The cast have a mixed background of theatre, film and television. The children are all first-timers. It doesn’t show in their performances that are excellent given the dramatic nature of their parts.
Zana Marjanović gives a very controlled portrayal. Writer/director Aida Begic captures the rhythms of her life in close detail. Alma’s relationship with her mother-in-law Safija (Vesna Mašić) is skilfully realised and nuanced. It is Aida’s first feature-length venture, after directing short films.
As religion plays a central role in their community, the couple of supernatural elements are forgivable.
If you get a chance, don’t miss Snow. In Aida Begic words:
War is one of the most essential situations one can experience because of the constant closeness of death. If death follows you in peacetime, then peace continues to be as essential as the war was. Peacetime is sometimes more complicated than the war.
… This relationship between life and death, war and peace, past and future creates a lot of absurdities in the lives of people in my country. It creates a lot of questions but gives no answers. Pain and joy, love and hate, east and west are all happening and clashing at the same time.
… it may sound overly romantic to insist that the struggle for truth and freedom is worthwhile. But maybe we just need to be reminded. If art is not there to remind us, then what is?
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Detroit Mayor's Race Poll
Last night, WXYZ posted this video about the latest Detroit Mayoral Race poll.
A new WXYZ-TV Detroit Free Press poll conducted by EPIC MRA has found that the race for Detroit Mayor is currently between Mike Duggan and Benny Napoleon.
It looks like the the election for Detroit's Mayor will be an interesting one. I won't be covering it for Examiner.com, but I will here. Stay tuned.
Labels: detroit, elections, politics, video, wxyz
Storm damage and power outages in the suburbs
When I was ready to leave school today, it was 5:00 P.M. and I noticed a heavy downpour outside. I decided to wait until it passed. I didn't see any damage on the way home, even though I was following the storm to the east. It turns out that the part of Oakland County I'm in was lucky. It was much worse to the north and west, as WXYZ showed in these two videos.
First, WXYZ reported Power outages across metro Detroit.
That was for the dinner newscast. Here is one from later in the evening that shows straight-line wind damage in Livonia and also follows up on the car that didn't survive an attempt to drive through a flooded intersection: Cleaning up downed trees and restoring power.
I can take comfort that no apparently no one was injured, despite the damage.
Labels: comfort, detroit, nablopomo, Oakland County, real life, video, weather, wxyz
Let's celebrate with Grumpy Cat
This blog just earned 10,000 page views a month for the third month in a row. Also, Julie Bass just stopped by to give me a Best Moment Award. Unfortunately, I'm too sleepy to compose a proper acceptance speech according to the award's rules as reproduced by Julie Bass at Oak Park Hates Veggies. I'll do that later.
Instead, I'll celebrate with Tardar Sauce the Grumpy Cat, who just got a movie deal. Take it away, CNN!
Grumpy Cat goes from meme to the big screen
The world's grumpiest cat lands a movie deal. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports her feline frown is destined for the big screen.
I'm so happy I could just meow.
Labels: cnn, comfort, humor, Julie Bass, meme, meta, movies, nablopomo, video
WXYZ on the Flint tornadoes
In WOOD-TV on the Flint tornadoes, I made a promise.
WXYZ also reported on the storms. I'll have an entry featuring their coverage later.
It's later. Time to follow through.
WXYZ began their coverage at dawn with Powerful storm causes damage in Goodrich.
Note that the reporter located Goodrich as being close to Grand Blanc, where the tornado our daughter alerted my wife and me to touched down. It looks like this was the damage from that tornado.
Later in the day, WXYZ caught up with WOOD-TV's reporting that there were six tornadoes. Here is the overview segment from what looks like the noon newscast: Damage in Fenton Township from tornado.
I'm glad Mrs. Smith was able to find her wedding ring on the Smiths' 33rd wedding anniversary.
Follow over the jump for more coverage from WXYZ.
Labels: Michigan, nablopomo, real life, video, weather, wxyz
WOOD-TV on the Flint tornadoes
Last night, our daughter called my wife and me to warn us of a tornado touching down in Grand Blanc, Michigan. I told her that it was near Flint, a full county to the north, so as long as stayed there, we were OK.
I was right. We were OK, but the people in Flint sure weren't. It turned out there wasn't just one tornado, but six! WOOD-TV has three reports on the storm damage, beginning with 6 tornadoes reported in Flint area.
Severe thunderstorms pushed across Michigan's Lower Peninsula Tuesday evening, producing six possible tornadoes.
That looked like it was a segment from the noon newscast, which promised updates from another reporter during the five o'clock report. Here it is: Flint damaged by tornado.
A dark and stormy night in Michigan turned into a path of destruction on the east side of the state on Tuesday. (May 29, 2013)
The reporter on the scene promised yet another update for the six o'clock newscast. Here's that one: Flint hit by tornadoes, West Michigan spared.
While the National Weather Service says six tornadoes touched down in the Flint area on Tuesday night, West Michigan was spared. But why? (May 29, 2013)
The answer to the question was luck. Also, the worst tornado was confirmed as EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. At least I can take comfort that no one was injured.
Labels: comfort, Michigan, nablopomo, real life, risk, video, weather, wood-tv
The corner station returns to form in the local gas war
In Corner station surprises in gas war plus bonus "big gas" commercial, I described how things were the reverse of normal in the local gas war.
Yesterday, I dr[o]ve by the corner station and they dropped their price to $3.75 from $3.84. Even more surprising, it was selling gas for less than the three stations down the street, which were all at $3.79. Usually it's the corner station that leads in raising prices, not lowering them.
That's where prices remained all weekend long. This morning, prices finally moved, returning the situation to normal.
The corner station once again raised its price for regular to $3.99, just as it had a couple of weeks ago. The three stations down the block also raised their prices to $3.85, just about where they were at the same time. Once again, the corner station had charged out into No Man's Land and were going to have to retreat into the trenches. By this evening, that happened with the corner station matching the other three stations' price of $3.85.
It's really comforting to watch price competition working to keep my transportation costs down.
Labels: comfort, economy, energy, nablopomo, oil, real life, retail
Finally, Mark Schauer announces his candidacy
It's already time for a follow-up to Endorsements galore for Democratic candidates at Examiner.com.
Mark Schauer declared his candidacy for Governor on Facebook and Twitter Tuesday.
Schauer declares 'he's in' the race for Michigan Governor
Former U.S. Representative Mark Schauer ended months of speculation Tuesday morning by declaring on Facebook and Twitter that he was running for the Democratic nomination for Governor in 2014.
Schauer's announcement on both social media platforms read, "I’m in! Today I’m announcing my campaign for governor. I’m ready to run, I’m ready to work & I’m ready to win."
Schauer wasted no time in attacking Governor Snyder's record. Within a half hour of declaring his candidacy, Schauer tweeted, "Rick Snyder has taken Michigan in the wrong direction - cutting schools & raising taxes on seniors." A half hour later, he continued the attack with "Snyder just doesn't get it. It's time to start protecting Michigan's middle class."
In contrast, Schauer tweeted that Michigan needed "an economy that works for everyone — not just the wealthy and not just the special interests."
Schauer's candidacy takes care of a situation Nate Silver pointed out in Which Governors Are Most Vulnerable in 2014?
Mr. Scott, Mr. Corbett, Mr. LePage and Mr. Snyder — lead states that were carried by President Obama in both 2008 and 2012. All were helped by favorable political winds in 2010 that no longer blow so hard.
Mr. Snyder is in a slightly less precarious position in Michigan. His net job approval rating is negative, but in the single digits. The Rothenberg report rates the race as a tossup, but Michigan is rated as leaning Republican by Sabato’s Crystal Ball and as likely Republican by the Cook report. Part of the reason for Mr. Snyder’s relative strength is the lack of significant opposition. No prominent Democrat has announced an intention to run, but if one did, Mr. Snyder’s chances could certainly diminish.
That's now changed. Schauer counts as a "prominent Democrat" and promises to be "significant opposition." In fact, his support on Facebook is growing rapidly. From the Examiner.com article:
Schauer saw rapid growth in his support on his campaign's Facebook page. By noon, about three hours after declaring his candidacy, his page had 1,000 likes. At 3:26 P.M, his page hit 2,000 likes. Between 10:00 P.M and 11:00 P.M. it passed 3,000 likes. Just before midnight, it exceeded 3,500.
I'm excited already, and the election isn't for a year and a half.
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Labels: comfort, Democrats, elections, Examiner.com, journalism, Mark Schauer, Michigan, nablopomo, Nate Silver, New York Times, Rick Snyder
CNN and Russia Today cover the March Against Monsanto
It looks like I'm not done with the March against Monsanto. For starters, commenter Nebris retweeted Wizard Gynoid's tweet about CNN's lack of coverage of the event on Saturday.
I guess it should not be surprising that @CNN has no mention of the March Against Monsanto events currently going on all over the world.
Today, CNN finally got around to posting a video of the event on its YouTube channel.
Millions protest genetically modified food
Jake Tapper reports on the controversy that surrounds GMOs and one of the companies that makes them.
Better late than never and with complete statistics--two million protesters in 436 cities in 46 countries. That partially makes up for not reporting about the event on Saturday, when it was breaking news. As it is, it's enough for me to add a link to the video on the PowerPoint slide for environmental science that describes the reaction to GMOs as mixed, with mass acceptance on one hand and protests on the other. This video will make the point far better than the photo of Greenpeace street theater against Frankenfood I have now, which I show below.
Nebris also reposted Wizard Gynoid's tweet to his Facebook timeline, where I responded "Nah, you'll have to watch Russia Today." Sure enough, RT America, which I used as my primary source for Monsanto wins gene patent case, has been on Monsanto's case for years and hyped Saturday's protest the day before. They posted a video report about the protest in Los Angeles an hour ahead of CNN.
Southern Californians keep up fight against GMO
A thousand people took over the streets of Los Angeles Saturday to March against Monsanto. The subject of genetically engineered food is especially important in California, where much of the world's fruits and vegetables are grown.
Finally, there is the other side, which the CNN report gave time to and which Bryan Walsh at Time Magazine takes in Modifying the Endless Debate Over Genetically Modified Crops
I’ll admit—I’ve never quite understood the obsession surrounding genetically modified (GM) crops. To environmentalist opponents, GM foods are simply evil, an understudied, possibly harmful tool used by big agribusiness to control global seed markets and crush local farmers. They argue that GM foods have never delivered on their supposed promise, that money spent on GM crops would be better funneled to organic farming and that consumers should be protected with warning labels on any products that contain genetically modified ingredients. To supporters, GM crops are a key part of the effort to sustainably provide food to meet a global population that is growing by the billions. But more than that, supporters see the knee-jerk GM opposition of many environmentalists as fundamentally anti-science, no different than the deniers on the other side of the political spectrum who question the basics of man-made climate change.
For both sides, GM foods seem to act as a symbol: you’re pro-agribusiness or anti-science. But science is exactly what we need more of when it comes to GM foods, which is why I was happy to see the venerable journal Nature devote a special series of articles to the GM food controversy. You can download most of them for free here, and they’re well worth reading. The upshot: while GM crops haven’t yet realized their initial promise and have been dominated by agribusiness, there is reason to continue to use and develop them to help meet the enormous challenge of sustainably feeding a growing planet.
That doesn’t mean GM crops are perfect, or a one sizes fits all solution to global agriculture woes. Nature points out that most of the benefit of GM technology so far has indeed gone to big agribusiness, much of it in the form of herbicide-resistant crops like Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soybeans or cotton.
My take is that the scientific case against GMOs exists, but it's fairly weak. On the other hand, the social and economic case against their being used by agribusiness to monopolize food is much stronger.
Stay tuned, as this is a story I've been following for years, even if the first time I mentioned Monsanto on this blog was in Food Day News from Overnight News Digest on Daily Kos, where I mention the research that produced the tumor-ridden mice shown in the CNN video.
ETA: There is another part to CNN's coverage that I missed the first time.
Despite FDA approval, many distrustful of GMOs
New York Times investigative reporter Michael Moore says there are, as yet, no studies linking GMO to health problems.
As I wrote, CNN is making sure to get the other side, even when they have on a reporter who is critical of the food system.
Labels: cnn, food, Food Inc., meta, Monsanto, Nebris, Russia Today, stories I tell my students, sustainable actions, technology, Time Magazine, Twitter, video
Mood of Detroit survey
WXYZ has two reports. The first explores the most important issues to Detroit, the appointment of the Emergency Financial Manager, and Governor Snyder's performance.
Note that the residents of Detroit care more about crime than the city's finances and really can't stand Snyder. Defeating Snyder will depend heavily on getting Detroiters to the polls next year. In 2010, Detroiters didn't turn out, allowing a sweep of statewide offices by Republicans, including Snyder. For Schauer (or whoever is the Democratic nominee) to win, Detroiters must vote in 2014.
The second explores a number of other issues, including the importance of the mayor and performance of Detroit City Council.
Looks like city services, including police, will be a big issue in this November's municipal election, which could be a "throw the bums out" one if the residents' mood stays the same through November. Also, note the reporter's comment that "eyes across the country are watching." As I've been saying for more than two years, the solutions devised here for North America's problems will be exported, including the bad ones. Looks like that's already coming true.
Labels: crime, detroit, elections, emergency financial manager, meta, politics, Rick Snyder, video, wxyz
Weather and climate news for Memorial Day
I'll begin with Extreme Weather Conditions Plague Entire Nation from ABC News. It's slightly old news, as it came from Friday's uploads, but it does demonstrate what's been happening lately.
Record breaking rainfall in the South, snowfall hits Northeast on Memorial weekend.
It looks like there will be more severe weather to come as NOAA via Science Daily forecasts an Active or 'Extremely Active' Atlantic Hurricane Season Predicted for 2013.
In its 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued today, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center is forecasting an active or extremely active season this year.
For the six-month hurricane season, which begins June 1, NOAA's Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook says there is a 70 percent likelihood of 13 to 20 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher), of which 7 to 11 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including 3 to 6 major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5; winds of 111 mph or higher).
These ranges are well above the seasonal average of 12 named storms, 6 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes.
The drought is also continuing. Not only is the economy repeating the 1930s, so is the climate of the Great Plains. Michael Wines of the N.Y. Times describes the situation in Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust
HASKELL COUNTY, Kan. — Forty-nine years ago, Ashley Yost’s grandfather sank a well deep into a half-mile square of rich Kansas farmland. He struck an artery of water so prodigious that he could pump 1,600 gallons to the surface every minute.
Last year, Mr. Yost was coaxing just 300 gallons from the earth, and pumping up sand in order to do it. By harvest time, the grit had robbed him of $20,000 worth of pumps and any hope of returning to the bumper harvests of years past.
“That’s prime land,” he said not long ago, gesturing from his pickup at the stubby remains of last year’s crop. “I’ve raised 294 bushels of corn an acre there before, with water and the Lord’s help.” Now, he said, “it’s over.”
Meteor Blades at Daily Kos has more weather, climate, and other environmental news in Green diary rescue: The redwoods, the High Plains Aquifer and fracking ourselves crazy.
Follow over the jump for additional weather and climate news.
Labels: ABC News, climate, daily kos, Discovery News, Nature, New York Times, NOAA, science, Science Magazine, Space.com, sustainable actions, Time Magazine, video, water, weather
President Obama at Arlington for Memorial Day
Following up on A moment of silence for Memorial Day, here are two video clips of President Obama at Arlington National Cemetary today. The first is from The White House YouTube account: President Obama Lays a Wreath at Arlington National Cemetery.
President Obama lays a wreath on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery. May 27, 2013.
Next, PBS NewsHour invites the viewers of its YouTube channel to Watch President Obama's Memorial Day Speech at Arlington National Cemetery.
President Barack Obama spoke at Memorial Day Ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery.
Here's to the President using his office, empathy, and rhetorical skills to bring comfort to those remembering our fallen soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen.
Labels: Barack Obama, comfort, holidays, military, nablopomo, PBS, video
A moment of silence for Memorial Day
Labels: 1000 words, comfort, holidays, military, nablopomo
March against Monsanto
Yesterday was a global "March against Monsanto," which was planned well in advance of Monsanto winning their gene patent case. Al Jazeera English on YouTube has the global overview, pun fully intended, in Seeds of doubt prompt global anti-Monsanto protests.
Tens of thousands of people across the globe spent the day marching against biotechnology firm Monsanto.Protesters in more than 250 cities joined the co-ordinated marches. They say genetically-modified seeds sold by Monsanto have dire implications for the health of humans and animals alike. But Monsanto says its products are safe and help farmers produce more food. Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman reports.
For local coverage of the protests in Michigan, WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids had Protests against Monsanto all over USA.
Marches and rallies against seed giant Monsanto were held across the U.S. and in dozens of other countries Saturday.
" March Against Monsanto " protesters say they want to call attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the food giants that produce it. Marches are planned for more than 250 cities around the globe, according to organizers.
Hundreds of protesters showed up to voice their concerns at rallies in Grand Rapids at Ah-Nab-Awen Park
and in Kalamazoo.
My former house guest John Henry chimed in advance of the protest on Wednesday with Frankenfood: The REAL TRUTH About GMOs, Monsanto, and You.
With so much hype and paranoia about GMOs, Monsanto, etc., how do we sort the facts from the fantasies? JH is here to help out with an overview of the issues and a link to more quality resources.
To read the references for the video, they're at LowGenius.net.
Labels: Al Jazeera, biodiversity, food, Grand Rapids, health, law, LowGenius, Monsanto, science, sustainable actions, technology, video, wood-tv
Follow up to "Big Gas" commercial
There was more from WCPO than the commercial featured in Corner station surprises in gas war plus bonus "big gas" commercial. First, Helping you find the cheapest gas over the Memorial Day weekend.
A look at gas prices around the Tri-State and an app that will help you find the cheapest gas in your area.
Finally, here's the commercial itself.
Enjoy your Memorial Day travels!
Labels: comfort, energy, humor, nablopomo, oil, retail, technology, video, wcpo
Endorsements galore for Democratic candidates at Examiner.com
I got the writing bug today and was faced with two good stories that would cease to be newsworthy within 24 hours. First, the story about the Democratic nomination and likely nominee for U.S. Senate.
U.S. Representative Gary Peters earned the endorsements of U.S. Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow Thursday.
Peters endorsed by Stabenow and Levin for U.S. Senate
In an email to supporters sent Thursday, U.S. Representative Gary Peters announced that he had earned the endorsement of both of Michigan's sitting U.S. Senators, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow.
In a press release, Levin said, "It's of course important to me that the person who is elected to represent Michigan in the Senate next year be a fighter for Michigan's families and communities. That's why I'm pleased to announce today that I am endorsing Gary Peters for the U.S. Senate."
Stabenow also issued a press release in which she affirmed her support for Peters by saying, "Today, I am extremely pleased to announce my endorsement and whole-hearted support of Rep. Gary Peters for the job."
In his email, Peters responded by saying that he was "honored and humbled to have earned the support and endorsement of our two great Senators from Michigan, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow."
Now, the one about the likely Democratic nominee for Governor, should he ever get around to announcing.
Former U.S. Representative Mark Schauer earned endorsements from the Democrats in Michigan's congressional delegation and another potential rival for Governor.
More Democratic politicians call on Mark Schauer to run for Governor
Former U.S. Representative Mark Schauer is racking up the endorsements from fellow Democrats for the Democratic nomination for Governor, and he hasn't even declared his candidacy yet. On Friday, he gained more from both his former colleagues in Congress and a potential rival, State Representative Vicki Barnett.
Friday afternoon, the Macomb Daily published a report from the Associated Press that all of Democratic members of Michigan's congressional delegation had signed a letter endorsing Schauer.
The letter signed by Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow and U.S. Representatives John Conyers, John Dingell, Dan Kildee, Sander Levin, and Gary Peters said, “We support you and strongly encourage your candidacy for governor of our state, and we write to let you know we will be proud to support you."
Earlier that morning, Crain's Detroit Business political reporter tweeted that Barnett, who represents Farmington Hills and had been considering running for Governor herself, called former U.S. Representative Mark Schauer to encourage him to run for Governor and pledged her support.
Both of these gentlemen have been my U.S. Representatives in the past, Schauer when I lived in Washtenaw County, and Peters here in Oakland County before I was moved to Sander Levin's district this year. I was happy to support them then and will be happy to support them both next year for Senator and Governor.
Labels: daily kos, Democrats, elections, Examiner.com, journalism, Michigan, Michigan Liberal, politics
WXYZ follows up on DIA
In Detroit's Emergency Financial Manager asks for appraisal of DIA's collection, I promised to follow this story. WXYZ has made it easy for me by summarizing the major points in Can the DIA be protected?
In addition to the DIA, the report mentions Belle Isle, the water system, and Manoogian Mansion. Of those, the one that would have the greatest impact would be the water system, which I pointed out during the first month of this blog in Water wars, Detroit style, plus a programming note. Privatization of the water system could lead to a situation much like that I described in Greenfinger.
Suez, a Vivendi affiliate, actually took over the water supply in a city in Bolivia, then lost control as a result of massive protests.
That would affect not just the 700,000+ people of Detroit, but the 4,000,000 people in the service area, which covers nearly all of Metro Detroit and then some, as parts of Washtenaw and Genesee counties get water from Detroit. It's one of the reasons why I expressed interest in Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner; whoever occupies that position would be on the front lines of dealing with the issue, particularly if the solution is a regional board, not privatization. Here's to hoping that Jim Nash, the new Commissioner, is up to the task.*
The report concluded by mentioning the millage to support the DIA. I voted in favor of that and said that I was in favor of it last August. The millage passed and, as WXYZ reported, it's having the intended effects of secure funding and increased attendance. Selling off major parts of the collection would be a betrayal of voters like me from all three counties.
I'll conclude by repeating something from the very first post I wrote for this blog, which I quoted in Save the libraries, save civilization,the first fight over saving local cultural institutions I covered, then following up with how that applies to cultural institutions in general.
[S]aving the libraries might strike some people as frivolous, but remember that the way the humans in the book [The Mote in God's Eye] discovered the truth about [M]oties was by stumbling into a museum designed to speed the rise of Motie civilization after the next collapse. Another example involves Canticle for Leibowitz, the plot of which revolves around a monastery that includes a library the mission of which is to help revive civilization after its collapse. So, it's not as stupid an idea as it seems. Thanks to that suggestion, you can expect posts on saving cultural institutions during collapse, not just for how to keep yourself fed and safe.
I continued in that spirit while spreading some Christmas cheer last year, and repeated it while recounting how I warned the Glassmen these times were coming.
I may be wishing you all a happy holiday, but this is still a blog about collapse. Be prepared for a lot of your favorite things, especially cultural institutions to go away, or to fight very hard to keep them.
Here's to the DIA successfully fighting off Detroit's creditors.
Follow over the jump for the footnote about a future entry.
Labels: anti-austerity, art, culture, detroit, Detroit Institute for the Arts, elections, emergency financial manager, entertainment, first post, libraries, meta, science fiction, taxes, video, water, wxyz
Corner station surprises in gas war plus bonus "big gas" commercial
In the previous installment, I predicted that gas prices would generally go up, reaching $4.00 by July 4th. I didn't make a prediction about this weekend, but if I had, I would have forecast prices going up. So far, just the opposite has happened.
Yesterday, I drive by the corner station and they dropped their price to $3.75 from $3.84. Even more surprising, it was selling gas for less than the three stations down the street, which were all at $3.79. Usually it's the corner station that leads in raising prices, not lowering them.
Speaking of lower gas prices, WCPO posted this segment on K-Mart's "big gas savings" commercial. Enjoy the pun!
The video promoting the offer is controversial.
Labels: energy, humor, nablopomo, oil, real life, retail, video, wcpo
Detroit's Emergency Financial Manager asks for appraisal of DIA's collection
As the Detroit Free Press article began, "The once unthinkable is suddenly thinkable." WXYZ gives a video executive summary.
Kim Russell reports on Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr asking for an appraisal of the DIA's collection.
That's the overview. Follow over the jump for the details from the Detroit Free Press.
Labels: anti-austerity, art, comfort, culture, detroit, Detroit Free Press, Detroit Institute for the Arts, emergency financial manager, entertainment, nablopomo, video, wxyz
Explosion on Moon and other space and astronomy news
In WXYZ previews a coming attraction: Meteor impact on Moon, I made a promise.
One of the stories that I will be using in this week's space and astronomy news will be the largest lunar impact ever recorded by NASA.
Here's the video from NASA Television on YouTube: ScienceCasts: Bright Explosion on the Moon.
NASA researchers who monitor the Moon for meteoroid impacts have detected the brightest explosion in the history of their program.
More stories over the jump.
Labels: daily kos, meta, NASA, Nature, science, space, Time Magazine, video
Finally, a Ringworld movie!
I've been a huge fan of Larry Niven's Known Space ever since I watched The Slaver Weapon. I thought the Kzinti were really cool and promptly checked out a copy of Ringworld from the library. I read through all the Known Space stories I could lay my hands on during the years since, right up to Ringworld Engineers and The Patchwork Girl. After those books, no new Known Space stories appeared for a decade.
All was not lost, as Chaosium Games, the publishers of Runequest and Call of Cthulhu, purchased the game rights to Ringworld. I convinced Chaosium that I knew enough about Known Space and tabletop role-playing games to let me develop a scenario for an adventure module. I wrote the scenario, playtested it, submitted it, and was about to revise it when Chaosium told me to stop. It wasn't because what I wrote was bad; in fact, it had nothing to do with me. It turns out that Niven had sold the movie rights to Ringworld and the movie company asserted that it now held the game rights, not Chaosium. Chaosium was too small to take on the movie company and its lawyers, so it gave up.
I was pissed. Not only did it stop publication of a game that I really believed in, it meant that all my effort, about $300 worth in 1984 dollars, went right down the drain. I decided to never buy another Niven book new ever again. To add insult to injury, Niven used the game guide as source material for the Man-Kzin Wars series. Worst of all, there never was any movie. All that loss was for nothing.
That may all change, as Entertainment Weekly reports.
Ringworld' miniseries in the works at Syfy -- EXCLUSIVE
Michael Perry (The River, Paranormal Activity 2) is adapting Ringworld as a four-hour miniseries. The story follows a team of explorers that travel to the farthest reaches of space to investigate an alien artifact called Ringworld – an artificial habitat the size of one million Earths. As they crash land on this enormous structure, they discover the remnants of ancient civilizations, technology beyond their wildest dreams, mysteries that shed light on the very origins of man and, most importantly, a possible salvation for a doomed Earth.
For Ringworld fans, this news might cause some deja vu. Syfy previously considered making a Ringworld miniseries under a different production team nine years ago.
I might finally get a Ringworld movie--30 years later. Maybe I can get some comfort from that.
Labels: comfort, entertainment, gaming, Larry Niven, movies, nablopomo, rant, real life, science fiction, television, whining
Dying to look good?
One of my favorite recurring student presentation topics is the health effects of beauty products, whether they be cosmetics, hair care products, nail care products, or whatever. One year, a high school teacher brought in easily twenty samples of shampoos, conditioners, soaps, and cosmetics of all kinds as visual aids for a presentation titled "Are you dying to look good?" I've had other presentations on the topic, but that's that one I remember most vividly. As you can see, I found where she likely got the title, the book Dying to Look Good, the cover of which I used to illustrate this entry.
The next time a student picks that topic, I have a reference for her.
University of California, Berkeley, via MedicalXpress: Troubling levels of toxic metals found in lipstick
A new analysis of the contents of lipstick and lip gloss may cause you to pause before puckering. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health tested 32 different lipsticks and lip glosses commonly found in drugstores and department stores. They detected lead, cadmium, chromium, aluminum and five other metals, some of which were found at levels that could raise potential health concerns. Their findings will be published online Thursday, May 2, in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
Prior studies also have found metals in cosmetics, but the UC Berkeley researchers estimated risk by analyzing the concentration of the metals detected and consumers' potential daily intake of the metals, and then comparing this intake with existing health guidelines. "Just finding these metals isn't the issue; it's the levels that matter," said study principal investigator S. Katharine Hammond, professor of environmental health sciences. "Some of the toxic metals are occurring at levels that could possibly have an effect in the long term."
So, are you dying to look good?
Labels: 1000 words, book, health, pollution, real life, stories I tell my students
I warned the Glassmen these times were coming
I left the following gloomy footnote at the end of spreading some Christmas cheer last year.
Enjoy this while it lasts.
There is a double meaning to "this." Not only does it refer to the video, but the drum corps activity as well. I fully expect Peak Oil, economic decline, and social upheaval to end the national touring model, which has been around since 1971, by 2020. I started mourning in 2008, when I quit writing for Drum Corps World and stopped going to shows. This will be the fourth year I haven't seen a corps live.
As for drum corps' hopes, they rest on the one thing that makes Americans act, messing with their entertainment. Americans want their entertainment, and will do just about anything to keep it going.
Here is an example of what I began to mourn in advance five years ago.
Toledo Glassmen Sidelined for 2013 DCI Summer Season
The Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps need to fill a $300,000 gap in their $1M annual budget. They cancelled the 2013 Summer Tour, but will hold an "All Star Review" featuring other Drum Corps June 23, 2013 at the Doyt Perry Stadium at BGSU in Bowling Green, OH.
Ironically, the first corps I warned about what was coming was the Glassmen, so this hits me especially hard.
During Thanksgiving weekend 2002, my daughter and I visited Glassmen's first audition camp for a Drum Corps World story. During part of the visit, I interviewed their director. He complained about how the recession was hurting the corps' finances and hoped that things would get better. I told him that this was only the beginning and that things would get worse. He looked at me in disbelief.
When I last saw him in June 2008, the current crisis was just getting underway. I reminded him of what I had said. "Remember, I told you it was going to get worse." He shook his head and said, "You were right." I had hoped that I wouldn't be, at least in his corps' case. Glassmen is one of my personal favorites and has been ever since I began marching in corps in 1978.
I wish the Glassmen and their supporters all the luck in the world. They'll need it.
Labels: drum corps, entertainment, kids, music, real life, video
Corner station advances to $4.00, then immediately retreats
Welcome to another installment of the ride on the gas price rollercoaster! I hope you all enjoy the image I found for this series, which came from here.
In Refinery issues change battlefield in gas price war, I predicted that gas would briefly hit $4.00/gallon by July 4th. Yesterday morning, the corner station tried to get there before Memorial Day, by raising its price for regular to $3.99 and for premium to $4.09. The three stations down the block held steady at $3.84 for regular. As soon as I saw that, I knew that the corner station was once again charging No Man's Land and would retreat back into its trench. It took less time that I thought. This evening, the corner station once again matched its neighbors at $3.84.
I still think gas will get to $4.00 by July 4th at all stations and stay there for about a week, but I don't have say that gas will reach that price level this summer. It already has. I can take perverse comfort in my prediction of gas reaching $4.00 this year coming true, if a bit prematurely.
Labels: 1000 words, comfort, energy, meta, nablopomo, oil, real life, retail
WXYZ previews a coming attraction: Meteor impact on Moon
One of the stories that I will be using in this week's space and astronomy news will be the largest lunar impact ever recorded by NASA. WXYZ covered that news and their video Meteor crashes into moon's surface serves as a good preview of the NASA video I will include later this week.
Take comfort in the rock hitting the Moon instead of Earth and also that the Earth's atmosphere would have protected us from the full force of impact, although it would have made for a spectacular fireball.
Labels: comfort, meta, nablopomo, science, space, video, wxyz
Pandemics and collapse
Although the author of Peak Civilization, the article at The Oil Drum about the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, might disagree, it looks like disease might have contributed to the end of the expansion of the Eastern Roman Empire under Justinian. Charles Choi of LiveScience explains in Plague Helped Bring Down Roman Empire, Graveyard Suggests.
Plague may have helped finish off the Roman Empire, researchers now reveal.
The bacterium that causes plague, Yersinia pestis, has been linked with at least two of the most devastating pandemics in recorded history. One, the Great Plague, which lasted from the 14th to 17th centuries, included the infamous epidemic known as the Black Death, which may have killed nearly two-thirds of Europe in the mid-1300s. Another, the Modern Plague, struck around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries, beginning in China in the mid-1800s and spreading to Africa, the Americas, Australia, Europe and other parts of Asia.
Although past studies confirmed this germ was linked with both of these catastrophes, much controversy existed as to whether it also caused the Justinianic Plague of the sixth to eighth centuries. This pandemic, named after the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, killed more than 100 million people. Some historians have suggested it contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire.
To help solve this mystery, scientists investigated ancient DNA from the teeth of 19 different sixth-century skeletons from a medieval graveyard in Bavaria, Germany, of people who apparently succumbed to the Justinianic Plague.
They unambiguously found the plague bacterium Y. pestis there.
The same source who sent me the above article also sent me the next, which I placed together in Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (Carbon Dioxide 400 ppm) on Daily Kos as a reminder that, to paraphrase Samuel Clemens, history may not repeat, but it certainly does rhyme and also that resource depletion and environmental degradation aren't the only threats to civilization.
Discover Magazine: Pandemic Chatter
By Keith Kloor
I’m not on the pandemic beat, but some of the best science journalists are, and they are busy these days. Today, David Quammen, author of the recently published and critically acclaimed book, Spillover: Animal infections and the next human pandemic, has an op-ed in the New York Times. It begins:
Terrible new forms of infectious disease make headlines, but not at the start. Every pandemic begins small. Early indicators can be subtle and ambiguous. When the Next Big One arrives, spreading across oceans and continents like the sweep of nightfall, causing illness and fear, killing thousands or maybe millions of people, it will be signaled first by quiet, puzzling reports from faraway places — reports to which disease scientists and public health officials, but few of the rest of us, pay close attention. Such reports have been coming in recent months from two countries, China and Saudi Arabia.
The worrisome Chinese bird flu strain that has gotten a lot of attention is not, in its present form, going to cause a pandemic, says Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers of Disease Control (CDC). But if you want to learn about the potential for its lethal mutation, and why you should be worried about it, read this piece in Foreign Policy by veteran science journalist Laurie Garrett.
Follow over the jump for the latest on the other pandemic threat coming out of Saudi Arabia.
Labels: archeology, daily kos, Discover Magazine, health, history, LiveScience, pandemics, science, Science Magazine, The Oil Drum
Time Magazine on peak oil and climate change
For the most recent Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday on Daily Kos, I decided to look at Time Magazine, which I've used in past years' lectures on science and the scientific method as a good example of how science is misrepresented in the mainstream media. Media outlets change with the times, some for the worse and some for the better. Reuters, for example, has become a lot less user friendly for readers looking for environmental coverage. It's still there, but it's much harder to locate. I was hoping that Time's science coverage had improved since I last looked at it a few years ago. To my surprise, it had, featuring three articles by Bryan Walsh about the causes and effects of climate change.
The first, The IEA Says Peak Oil Is Dead. That’s Bad News for Climate Policy, explains how the development of unconventional oil will, as I wrote in Carbon Dioxide at Miocene levels, allow us to 'burn it until we reach Jurassic levels of carbon dioxide and global warm temperatures.'
No one—aside maybe from survivalists who’d stocked up on MREs and assault rifles—was really looking forward to a peak-oil world. Read this 2007 GQ piece by Benjamin Kunkel—while we’re discussing topics from the mid-2000s—that imagines what a world without oil would really be like. Think uncomfortable and violent. Oil is in nearly every modern product we use, and it’s still what gets us from point A to point B—especially if you need to get from A to B in a plane. If we were really to see the global oil supply peak and decline sharply, even as demand continued to go up, well, apocalyptic might not be too large a word. And for several years in the middle of the last decade, as oil prices climbed past $100 a barrel and analysts were betting it would break $200, that scenario seemed entirely plausible.
But there was an upside to peak oil. Crude oil was responsible for a significant chunk of global carbon emissions, second only to coal. Only the shock of being severed from the main fuel of modernity would be enough to make us get serious about tackling climate change and shifting to an economy powered by renewable energy and efficiency. We’d have to because we’d have no other choice, save a future that might look something like Mad Max. We’d lose oil but save the world.
Increasingly, though, that doesn’t seem likely to happen.
Here's the graphic from the IEA.
It shows that peak conventional oil happened right on schedule in 2006 and even the optimists at the IEA don't think conventional oil production will ever return to its highs of the last decade. The doomers were right about that one. What they didn't foresee was that technology would finally catch up with demand to deliver new sources of fossil fuel to the market. That took nearly a decade to happen and the delay resulted in all of the energy supply reasons for the wrenching economic contraction of the past five years. Now that a combination of reduced demand and increased unconventional oil has managed to loosen what New Deal Democrat at The Bonddad Blog calls the oil choke collar. That would be good for the current economy and allow more time to develop non-fossil fuel sources of energy, but terrible for the climate and the rest of the planet's natural environment in the medium and long range.
Follow over the jump for what Bryan Walsh of Time Magazine thinks climate change will do to biodiversity, including some wild animals we depend on for food.
Labels: 1000 words, biodiversity, Bonddad Blog, climate, daily kos, economy, energy, journalism, meta, oil, science, stories I tell my students, Time Magazine
Refinery issues change battlefield in gas price war
Friday, the corner station raised its regular price to $3.85. At the time, I thought that they were once again charging into No Man's Land and that they would retreat back into the $3.68 trench, just as they did last time. I realized differently yesterday, when I saw that the three stations down the street were all at $3.84. The best that would happen would be that the corner station would match their prices, which it did today.
So, what's happening? It's not the flooding, as that was a month ago. It is oil prices? According to Stuart Saniford at Early Warning, it shouldn't be.
Brent has dropped to the low end of the range of $100-$120 that it's traded in for the last couple of years. At this level it strikes me as cheap...
Here's the graphical update Stuart provided.
That's the big picture, but what does the situation look like now? Time to ask Reuters, which reported Oil rallies for third day, shrugging off firm dollar.
Oil rose for a third straight session on Friday, supported by a raft of strong economic data from top oil consumer the United States that also boosted U.S. equities, even as the dollar hit a multi-year high.
Brent crude settled up 86 cents at $104.64 a barrel, after an earlier rise of more than $1.
U.S. oil rose 86 cents to settle at $96.02, its third straight rise. U.S. crude has swung between $97 a barrel on May 6 and $92 a barrel on May 15.
According to the calculator at Econobrowser, gasoline should be at $3.45 when Brent is at $104.64. So it's not the oil.
It turns out that it's the refineries again, as USA Today reprinted in the Detroit Free Press reported Friday: Refinery woes cause nationwide gas price spike.
Troubles at several oil refineries are driving gasoline prices sharply higher in the Midwest, and the regional shortages are expected to boost pump prices nationwide.
While the USA may be dripping in new found crude oil deposits and early May supplies were at their highest levels since the early 1930s, issues at a handful of refineries that turn crude into gasoline and diesel fuel underscore how kinks in the supply chain can cause quick surges in what consumers pay at the pump.
Gas prices in Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma and Wisconsin have spiked up to 27 cents a gallon the past week alone. Behind the rise: outages and extended maintenance has curbed output at refineries in Joliet, Ill., Whiting, Ind; Tulsa, Okla, and Eldorado, Kansas.
I don't expect this to go away soon and neither does USA Today...
Nationally, prices average $3.60 a gallon after beginning 2013 at $3.29. Some industry observers thought this year's prices had peaked at $3.78 in February after sliding to $3.50 April 29. But the Midwest's refinery issues are now expected to keep propel prices for several weeks, perhaps to $3.85 a gallon nationwide.
...Or Stuart Saniford, after noting that Brent is cheap.
Saudi Arabia isn't going to let it go much lower (at least not for any length of time), and any number of things in the world could go wrong to make it go higher. In particular, I continue to have more faith in the future appetite of Chinese and Middle Eastern motorists to consume oil than US frackers to find it.
The commodities traders think that gas prices will go up, too, as Reuters mentioned.
U.S. gasoline has risen for nine out of 12 sessions, including the last three, despite a Wednesday report showing an unexpected year-on-year build in gasoline inventories ahead of the summer driving season.
On top of both the refining situation and oil price fundamentals, summer driving season has begun. I expect gas to briefly hit $4.00 right around July 4th. Good thing I'll finally get that bike I've been thinking about.
Labels: 1000 words, Detroit Free Press, Early Warning, Econobrowser, economy, energy, oil, real life, retail, Reuters, USA Today
Climate science choking on the latest serving of Satan Sandwich
In More science and the Satan Sandwich, SciShow on sequestration's effects on science, and Space and astronomy news: Satan Sandwich edition #1, I described the effects of sequestration on science research in general and NASA in particular, as well as efforts to reverse them. Now, it's time to show how the latest serving of Satan Sandwich is hurting climate research, which might be more of a feature than a bug.
Inside Climate News: Sequester Hits Nation's Climate Change Research Capability
Eight regional centers dedicated to expanding climate research at the local level lose millions in budget cuts.
By Rachel Nuwer, InsideClimate News
When Renee McPherson took on the role of director of research at the South Central Climate Science Center last year, she had no idea that she’d soon be grappling with budget cuts that threatened her ability to support regional climate research or hire new graduate students and faculty—the premise of hosting the center in the first place.
The facility McPherson runs out of the University of Oklahoma is among eight centers created between 2010 and 2012 by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The goal was to bring together federal, academic and on-the-ground experts who could pursue climate change research at the local level.
But then came the sequester, the Congressional mandate that slashed federal budgets across the board.
The irony, at least if one assumes that denialists might think this is a good idea, is that the weather itself is convincing people of the severity of the situation.
Postmedia News via Canada.com: Extreme weather is making Americans climate-change believers, study finds
By William Marsden, Postmedia News
A year of strange and often devastating weather that included extreme hurricanes, drought and wildfires appears to have increased the number of Americans who want government action on climate change, a new study shows.
Unfortunately, researchers say, this higher level of global-warming awareness is not translating into political action.
“Mother Nature has been pretty busy teaching Americans and Canadians and people from round the world about climate change through extreme weather over the past couple of years,” said Prof. Ed Maibach, one of the authors of the survey. “Since 2011 we see a fairly strong increase in belief that climate change is real and human caused and people are worried about it.”
The survey shows that 58 per cent of Americans believe “global warming is affecting weather in the United States” and 85 per cent of Americans claimed they experienced extreme weather during the last year.
Also, scientific research on climate change is making headlines again.
Reuters: Carbon dioxide level crosses milestone at Hawaii site
By Environment Correspondent Deborah Zabarenko
WASHINGTON | Sat May 11, 2013 5:32am EDT
The amount of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere topped 400 parts per million at a key observing station in Hawaii for the first time since measurement began in 1958, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Friday.
To many scientists, crossing the 400 ppm threshold, which means that there are 400 molecules of carbon dioxide for every million molecules in the air, is a bit like the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising above 15,000 points.
"It's important mainly as a milestone that marks a steady progress of increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere," said James Butler of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory.
Being able to figure out what happens when carbon dioxide is at Miocene levels might be a good idea and worthy of funding.
Labels: 1000 words, climate, Reuters, Satan Sandwich, science
Robots are coming for our jobs
The idea of robots taking our jobs, which bloggers like Chad/escapefromwisconsin at The Hipcrime Vocab and Stuart Saniford at Early Warning have been writing about for years, has popped its head up in mainstream science reporting. While Chad and Stuart have been pessimistic about the prospects, Discovery News on YouTube takes a more optimistic view in Robots Are Stealing Your Job.
Robots are awesome, but beware: they're after your jobs! Trace looks at the work robots are doing today, that once required a human touch.
I don't think either Chad or Stuart would be so comfortable with the situation. Instead, they might agree more with Seth Fletcher of Scientific American.
Yes, Robots Are Coming for Our Jobs—Now What?
M.I.T. economist Erik Brynjolfsson explains how technology has affected economic growth and productivity, and how human workers can adapt
Fifteen years ago Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, marking the beginning of what Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Erik Brynjolfsson calls the new machine age—an era driven by exponential growth in computing power. Lately, though, people have been feeling uneasy about the machine age. Pundits and experts seem to agree that the robots are definitely taking our jobs. At last week’s TED conference, Brynjolfsson argued that the new machine age is great for economic growth, but we still have to find a way to coexist with the machines. We asked him to expand on a few points.
Throughout most of modern history, productivity and employment have grown side by side. But starting about 15 years ago they started becoming decoupled. Productivity continued to grow, even accelerate, but employment stagnated and even fell, as did median wages for the people who were still working. This was an important milestone, because most economists, including me, used to be of the mind-set that if you just keep increasing productivity, everything else kind of takes care of itself.
But there’s no economic law that says everyone has to benefit equally from increased productivity. It’s entirely possible that some people benefit a lot more than others or that some people are made worse off. And as it turns out, for the past 10 to 15 years it’s gone that way. The pie has gotten bigger but most of the increase in income has gone to less than 1 percent of the population. Those at the 50th percentile or lower have actually done worse in absolute terms.
Chad at The Hipcrime Vocab came to the same conclusion beginning very early in his examination of robots and automation, beginning with What Are People Good For? As for Stuart, he thinks the loss of jobs to robots will be the major effect of the Singularity, not everyone becoming cyborgs or the machines enslaving or killing off humanity. Just the same, this is yet another piece of evidence demonstrating that we live in science fiction times.
Labels: comfort, Discovery News, Early Warning, economy, employment, Hipcrime Vocab, manufacturing, nablopomo, science, Scientific American, video
Annular Solar Eclipse and other space and astronomy news
NTDTV on YouTube has this week's top story in Annular Solar Eclipse Seen from Australia's Outback.
Scientists and astronomers from around the world gathered at Tennant Creek In Australia's outback to view an annular Solar eclipse on Friday, beginning just before 7 a.m.
The next total solar eclipse will be visible from Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Americas in November 2013.
Follow over the jump for the rest of this past week's space and science news.
Labels: daily kos, NASA, Nature, NTD TV, Reuters, science, space, Space.com, video
Rescuing the Star Trek past, continued
In Rescuing the Star Trek past, I quoted Original 'Star Trek' Galileo Shuttlecraft Restored by Loving Fans and embedded the accompanying video. Space.com on YouTube has followed up on this story with Star Trek Galileo Shuttlecraft To Land At Space Center Houston.
Star Trek's original prop shuttlecraft will be heading to the Johnson Space Center's visitors attraction, once its restoration team is done. SPACE.com found project leader Adam Schneider and crew in the ship's Atlantic Highlands, NJ "space-dock."
I'm sure that their efforts bring them satisfaction, and will bring comfort to the fans who will be happy to see the history of their favorite franchise preserved.
Speaking of the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek Into Darkness opened yesterday. I'll have more about that in a future installment, when I revisit my opinion that the franchise is in good hands.
Labels: comfort, movies, nablopomo, science fiction, space, Space.com, star trek, video
Jello shots for Narb
Narb had the following to say in a comment to ABC News and Democracy Now on comfort food.
Narb loves Michael Pollan (in a detached, intellectual way).
He also loves jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello jello.
In the spirit of This one's for Narb and Narb asked for more posts about Jell-O,* here are some videos about Jello shots.
First, Simple Cooking Channel explains how to make Marshmallow Jello shots.
Welcome to the SimpleCookingChannel. Things might get pretty simple sometimes but sometimes that's just what a person needs. I hope you like my recipe for marshmallow jello shots.
Marshmallow's
85 Grams of jello
Half a cup of vodka
Next, BuzzFeedFood describes their Blood Orange Mimosa Jello Shots recipe.
Blood Orange Mimosa Jello Shots
These are inspired by Jaymee Sire, the brilliant blogger behind e is for eat. See her post. We used tangerines because they are easier to find than real blood oranges, and made the prettiest cups. But you could also use navel oranges or actual blood oranges with great results. The cups will just be slightly more difficult to clean out. Adjust food coloring amount accordingly.
Finally, the Tipsy Bartender shows how to make Guinness Jello Shots.
Possibly the most badass jello shots we've made...GUINNESS JELLO SHOTS! An awesome beer taste with a hint of chocolate, covered with a tasty Bailey's foam head!
The Tipsy Bartender has an entire playlist of jello shots, so if Narb wants more Jello, I can just pull one or more of them out. That's a comforting thought.
*As you can see, I post one of these a year. This is the one for 2013--so far.
Labels: comfort, food, humor, I get comments, meta, nablopomo, Tipsy Bartender, video
Gas mileage down but so are emissions, plus bonus gas price rollercoaster
Early this month, the University of Michigan reported Fuel economy in the U.S. drops from recent high. Here's the complete press release.
ANN ARBOR—Fuel economy of new vehicles sold in the U.S. slipped last month for the first time this year, say researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.
Average fuel economy (window-sticker values) of cars, light trucks, minivans and SUVs purchased in April was 24.5 mpg, according to UMTRI researchers Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle.
"This value is down 0.1 mpg from the record high reached in March, likely reflecting the recent decrease in the price of gasoline," Sivak said. "Despite this small drop, the fuel economy is up 4.4 mpg since October 2007—the first month of our monitoring."
In addition to average fuel economy, Sivak and Schoettle issued their monthly update of their national Eco-Driving Index, which estimates the average monthly emissions generated by an individual U.S. driver. The EDI takes into account both the fuel used per distance driven and the amount of driving—the latter relying on data that are published with a two-month lag.
During February, the EDI improved to 0.82 from 0.83 the month before (the lower the value, the better). The index currently shows that emissions of greenhouse gases per driver of newly purchased vehicles are down 18 percent, overall, since October 2007.
While the average MPG of a new car is up slightly because of lower gas prices, the replacement of less fuel-efficient older vehicles with newer ones plus the fewer miles driven per person have reduced individual emissions. That's good news, especially in the face of carbon dioxide at levels not seen since the Tertiary.
In related news, the corner station lost another skirmish in the ongoing price war. As I reported last time:
Since then, the prices have gone up and down twice. First, the corner station started another round of price raising and failed, as they posted prices of $3.89 two weeks ago. The other stations didn't bite, and by the end of the week, everyone was selling for $3.65. This week, the corner station charged out into No Man's Land again and managed to hold it until today. On Monday, they were selling regular for $3.79 while the three stations down the street had prices of $3.75. That lasted until this afternoon, when the three stations dropped regular down to $3.70. By this evening, the corner station matched their price. I can take comfort in competition working to keep prices down.
The next week, all the stations dropped their prices to $3.68. Wednesday of last week, the corner station again charged out of their trench to do battle in No Man's Land, raising their price for regular to $3.89. The stations down the block again held steady, so when I filled up, I did so at one of them. By Friday, the corner station retreated back into their trench, lowering their price to $3.68. I can again take comfort in competition working to keep my costs down.
Labels: autos, climate, comfort, energy, nablopomo, oil, real life, retail, University of Michigan
Discovery News and PhysOrg on colony collapse disorder
Yesterday, I began my lecture on economics and the environment. One of the main topics was natural capital, including the ecosystem services nature provides. One of these is pollination, or at least, it used to be. During the past decade, growers have had to pay more and more for beehive rentals to the point where beekeepers have been earning more from rentals than from honey. This means that what used to be a beneficial externality is now an internalized cost. This is one of the factors making the prices of food that requires bee pollination go up.
This topic led to a lively discussion and a lot of questions. Fortunately, I had answers to nearly all of them. However, it would have been really useful to have shown my class this video, which came out the day before. It had the answers to all of them.
Why All The Bees Are Dying
Bee population around the world have collapsed. Now scientists are scrambling to find out why. Anthony has a list of the possible causes, and the threat this poses to food supplies worldwide.
I had seen the preview of this the night before last and was thinking of adding the link to it in the Powerpoint for the lecture, but ran out of time that morning because of other duties. Too bad, it would have been really helpful. Maybe I'll show it to the class tomorrow.
Also, I just happen to have article about one of the factors hypothesized to be contributing to colony collapse disorder, feeding high-fructose corn syrup to bees.
PhysOrg: Researchers find high-fructose corn syrup may be tied to worldwide collapse of bee colonies
by Bob Yirka
A team of entomologists from the University of Illinois has found a possible link between the practice of feeding commercial honeybees high-fructose corn syrup and the collapse of honeybee colonies around the world. The team outlines their research and findings in a paper they've had published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Since approximately 2006, groups that manage commercial honeybee colonies have been reporting what has become known as colony collapse disorder—whole colonies of bees simply died, of no apparent cause. As time has passed, the disorder has been reported at sites all across the world, even as scientists have been racing to find the cause, and a possible cure. To date, most evidence has implicated pesticides used to kill other insects such as mites. In this new effort, the researchers have found evidence to suggest the real culprit might be high-fructose corn syrup, which beekeepers have been feeding bees as their natural staple, honey, has been taken away from them.
I'll remind students about how HFCS may be unhealthy for bees when I show "Food, Inc." If it's not good for bees, why would it be good for people?
Labels: bees, biodiversity, Discovery News, farming, food, Food Inc., health, PhysOrg, real life, stories I tell my students, video
Monsanto wins gene patent case
Russia Today has two video clips on the unanimous decision in favor of Monsanto enforcing its patent on RoundUp-Ready soybeans.
First, Monsanto wins landmark case in Supreme Court gives the overview.
On Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the bio-tech giant Monsanto. In the case, Indiana farmer Vernon Bowman was being accused of seed infringement after he allegedly planted soybean seed without the company's permission. RT's Liz Wahl brings us more on the landmark case and how the 75 year-old man violated Monsanto's patent.
I had no idea about the inflation in seed prices until I watched this video.
Next, RT America offers one of its trademark opinion and analysis pieces with inflammatory titles in Monsanto taking over America's agriculture: New victory in Supreme Court.
A battle between Monsanto and an Indiana farmer ended on Monday after the Supreme Court found Vernon Bowman guilty of patent infringement. The 75-year-old farmer is expected to pay approximately $85,000 in damages. Many see this as a major blow against smaller farmers across the country and fear this ruling can threaten the livelihood of thousands of farmers. Patent attorney Mark Walters, who represented the defendant, joins us to discuss the details of the case and what this means for America's agriculture future.
This case is important because it shows that Monsanto will continue to be as dominant in the nation's food supply as Microsoft was in PC operating systems, as characterized in the movie "Food, Inc." That makes this case relevant to my class, especially the following questions from the worksheet I included in On Thanksgiving eve, I present "Food, Inc."
26. What has Monsanto done to promote use of their soybeans and stop seed saving? List at least three examples.
27. List at least five government officials who were connected to Monsanto and other food producers. What effect does the narrator think this has had on regulation of food production?
Part of the answer to 26 is sue people who violate Monsanto's patents. One of the people who traveled through the revolving door between Monsanto and the government is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote the decision allowing Monsanto to patent GMOs. It looks like the rest of the court went along with his precedent.
This won't be the only Supreme Court case involving biotechnology. Discovery News on YouTube discusses another in Gene Patents: 5 Things You Should Know.
The debate over whether we can patent genes has come to a head with the US Supreme Court weighing in on two human genes linked to cancer. Laci has all the details on what you need to know about this colossal decision and the impact it could have on medicine.
Based on the Monsanto decision, I expect the court to rule in favor of patenting human genes, too. Either way, it's more evidence that we live in science fiction times.
Labels: 1000 words, Discovery News, education, food, Food Inc., law, Monsanto, Russia Today, science, stories I tell my students, technology, video
Las Vegas Sprawl: videos for my class
In Detroit blight and renewal, I promised a post showing videos of sprawl. Here they are, two timelapse views from space of Las Vegas sprawling into the desert that I was insprired to look for when last Saturday's This Week @NASA included a segment on Landsat's Vegas Time-Lapse available on Google's Earth Engine.
My search made me realize that the Google Earth montage was not the first timelapse of Las Vegas's expansion. To celebrate Landsat's 40th anniversary in 2012, NASA released a timelapse of false-color Landsat images of Las Vegas showing its growth beginning in 1972 and ending in 2010.
What Doesn't Stay in Vegas? Sprawl.
The companion news release explains what the video shows.
The city of Las Vegas, Nevada has undergone a massive growth spurt. An image series, created in honor of Landsat 5's twenty-eighth birthday, shows the city sprawling across the desert over time.
Data from the expansion of Las Vegas was compiled from the fleet of Landsat satellites, and is shown as a false-color time-lapse from years of data.
The large red areas are actually green space, mostly golf courses and city parks. The images become a lot sharper around 1984, when new instrument designs improved the ability to resolve smaller parcels of land.
That's pretty amazing, but it only shows Las Vegas reaching out to the west and south. For a true-color version in which one can see the City of Sin growing in all directions, along with the shrinking of Lake Mead, here's a video explaining a montage from 1999 to 2011 that contains the last thirteen years of the images on the Google Earth Engine page.
Las Vegas Urban Expansion: Timelapse
Explore a global timelapse of our planet, constructed from Landsat satellite imagery. This timelapse from 1999 to 2011 captures the rapid growth of Las Vegas, Nevada, the fastest growing city in the United States over the past two decades. Each frame of the timelapse map is constructed from a year of Landsat satellite data, constituting annual 1.7-terapixel snapshot of the Earth at 30-meter resolution. The Landsat program, managed by the USGS, has been acquiring images of the Earth's surface since 1972. Landsat provides critical scientific information about our changing planet.
That the growth of Las Vegas coincides with the shrinking of Lake Mead is just that, a coincidence, but a striking one nonetheless. What is not a coincidence is that Las Vegas stops expanding about 2008 with the start of the housing bust and recession.
Labels: 1000 words, Las Vegas, NASA, real estate, space, video, water
Detroit blight and renewal
Here is the first of three video clips in tabs I am about to close that would work well as supplements to my lecture on the problems of sprawl and blight, where I juxtapose the two topics as examples of urban environmental issues. This one is a snapshot of blight and renewal in Detroit that WXYZ produced as part of its Detroit 2020 series called Driving the Two Detroits.
This video makes for a good companion to those in GooBing Detroit and I'm hosting a BlogTalkRadio program on Detroit tonight,* which show both blight and renewal in the Motor City.
As for the videos showing sprawl, stick around. I'll have them up after midnight.
*Don't let the lack of a preview for the video in the second entry deter you from playing it; it's still up.
Labels: detroit, meta, Michigan, video, wxyz
Video tributes to Mothers
Unlike the past two years, there aren't a lot of calls for conspicuous consumption to celebrate the holiday on my YouTube feed today. Even ABC News promoted non-material gifts for mom in Last Minute Mother's Day Gift Ideas.
A look at ideas that require commitment instead of a trip to the store.
Ah, how sweet--and sustainable, too!
Follow over the jump for the other distinctive ways that news organizations are giving tribute to moms.
Labels: 1000 words, ABC News, biodiversity, cnn, comfort, Discovery News, health, holidays, music, nablopomo, NTD TV, science, video, wood-tv
Space and astronomy news for Mothers Day weekend
Time for last week's space and astronomy news.
NASA Television on YouTube: Garver Tours Gulf Region NASA Facilities on This Week @ NASA
During a recent visit to the Gulf Coast region, Deputy Administrator Lori Garver toured two NASA facilities that are key to development of the new Space Launch System and the agency's commercial crew partnerships with private industry. At the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Garver was briefed on progress being made in support of the SLS and the Orion spacecraft programs. Garver later traveled to Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi for a tour of testing facilities there, including the B-2 test stand. Once used to test Apollo era engines, the structure is being restored to prepare it for testing of the SLS core stage. Also, Training in Star City, Back to Work for the rovers on Mars, Ice Sheet Rover, Asteroids -- Coming to Earth!, Saturn's Big Hurricane, Herschel Completes Cool Journey, Three Years of the Sun, Seeking Quiet Supersonic Flight and more!
More news over the jump.
Labels: NASA, NTD TV, science, space, Space.com, technology, video
Discovery News on the science of beards
I grew a beard after my surgery because I just didn't have the energy or inclination to shave for the first two weeks. Once I felt up to shaving, my wife told me that she liked it and to keep it. I have and I'm glad I did. I like the way I look with it, too, and so do must other people. In fact, I'm surprised about how comfortable I am with it.
I'm even happier after watching Discovery News on YouTube explaining the science behind my decision to listen to my wife in Ladies Love Beards.
For optimal sexiness, scientists say keep that 5'oclock shadow going! Anthony talks to Cristen Conger, host of "Stuff Mom Never Told You" to find out why beards are back and driving women crazy!
Also read Study finds men most attractive with heavy-stubble on MedicalXpress.
Labels: comfort, Discovery News, health, nablopomo, psychology, real life, sex, video
Whole Foods opening in Detroit next month
WXYZ gives its viewers a sneak peek.
I first wrote about this two years ago in Whole Foods to be an oasis in Detroit's Food Desert. Here's what I thought of it then.
If you had asked me last week which major supermarket chain would have been the first to come into Detroit, the last chain I would have expected would have been Whole Foods. Instead, I was expecting it to be Meijer, which is slated to open a store in the old State Fairgrounds area on Woodward and 8 Mile. Looks like I was wrong.
Honestly, this entire thing doesn't look like an effort to bring produce to the people in the neighborhoods, which is desperately needed, and something a chain like Meijer or Kroger could do. Instead, it looks like a plan to spur on the revitalization of one of Detroit's existing bright spots and make it more attractive to investors and people moving in from outside the area. That's not a bad idea at all, and it might make for a good start, but it would only be a good start.
It's also a good PR move. Right now, this article is the most read on the site... It also has 719 likes on Facebook. One of them is mine.
I still think it's a good start, as it is part of the gentrification of Midtown, which is also a good start, but not the only thing that needs to happen to revitalize Detroit.
Here's to Whole Foods living up to its promise of bringing hope and comfort to the residents of Detroit.
Labels: comfort, detroit, food, nablopomo, retail, video, Whole Foods, wxyz
Rocking the boat down the Los Angeles River
As much as I love my adopted city, I still follow the town where I grew up enough to have a label for it, even if I tell my students, "there is a reason the place is called La La Land and it's not just because the initials are L.A." I'm also interested enough in water for it to have a label, also. Before this entry, the two categories never intersected.* With this clip from LinkTV, now they do.
Kayaking the LA: Revitalizing an Urban River
Earth Focus features the film Rock the Boat which follows a controversial kayaking expedition down the partially cemented Los Angeles River, an act of civil disobedience led by satirical writer George Wolfe, whose goal was to have the Environmental Protection Agency declare the river navigable so that it could gain protection under the Clean Water Act. Boating down the LA River became a political movement which lead to changes in federal policy and opened up public access to a long-neglected waterway. With George Wolfe and Thea Mercouffer, film director. Produced in collaboration with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital.
This would be a great video to show my students, as it connects federal environmental policy, the built environment, water conservation, outdoor recreation, and an environmental movie together. As I point out to my students repeatedly, everything is connected to everything else, and this video demonstrates that. Now, the clip is a little on the long side, but I might be able to pull it off next week as an example of how individuals matter. I'll keep you all posted.
*They could have in Water wars, Detroit style, plus a programming note, as I compared and contrasted Detroit's water wars with California's, but I don't think I had a "Los Angeles" label at the time. I'm not going to add one to that entry's labels, either.
Labels: Link TV, Los Angeles, meta, movies, stories I tell my students, sustainability, sustainable actions, video, water
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Board index » In-Depth Motorsport Forum
Cause of Alonso's crash
CaptainRicky
Post subject: Cause of Alonso's crash
Reading an article on the explanation of Alonso's crash last weekend, I seemed a bit puzzled at their description:
"the accident was caused by the unpredictably gusty winds at that part of the circuit at that time, and which had affected other drivers similarly."
"The data also showed the car had no loss of aerodynamic pressure nor was there any electrical discharge or irregularity in the ERS (energy recovery) system before, during or after the incident."
""Our data clearly shows that he was downshifting while applying full brake pressure right up to the moment of the first impact -- something that clearly would not have been possible had he been unconscious at the time."
So it's clear that driver error and gusty winds caused the accident. But how does wind cause problems for a car that's running at 200-300 kph? There's probably some science to this, so I put this in the In-Depth forum. The whole crash seems a bit odd to be honest.
flyboy10
Post subject: Re: Cause of Alonso's crash
So you can't apply brake pressure or pull a flappy-paddle if you're unconscious?
As far as I know Alonso wasn't unconscious at any time during, before or after the crash. In fact, he was speaking with the doctors when he was airlifted.
From what I'm getting at, it looks like Alonso simply ran off the track, turned in a little sharply, and crashed into the wall. I'm calling driver error here. (Oddly enough, the F1 website turned out to be the source where I got that info)
I still don't know why gusty winds would have an impact on a cars performance, though.
Honda Quick
F1 cars are designed so air flows straight around them from the front, yet the side surface area does remain quite large with a number of very flat vertical surfaces to catch a cross wind. Given their weight, significant wind can definitely move a car across the track and even upset its balance - which likely led to Alonso's driver error. Normally, it's not an issue, but at Barcelona (and at that corner) it has been in the past. Definitely a strange one!
[ Kimi Raikkonen ]
2007 Formula 1 World Drivers Champion
That makes a lot more sense. Never thought of that before. I guess the sidepods act like a bit of a sail sometimes. Not much you really can do about the winds in Barca. As you said, definitely a strange one!
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Wetherell, Jessica L., Melendez, Josue W.
Wetherell, Jessica, Melendez, Josue W., & Zuercher, Gerald L. “Bat Surveys in Eastern Iowa: Simultaneous Stability and Change.” Poster presentation for the Chlapaty Research Fellowship Program, University of Dubuque, 2013.
Abstract: North American bats (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) are often underrepresented in conservation and management plans due to inadequate current information. The recent spread of white-nose syndrome (WNS) has raised concerns for bats throughout the eastern and mid-western United States. WNS was first detected in Iowa during the winter of 2011-2012. There are nine species of bats recorded for Iowa. This includes Myotis lucifugus (little brown bat) which has been severely impacted by WNS at some locations, the Federally Endangered Myotis sodalis (Indiana bat), Nycticeius humeralis (evening bat) which is “Threatened” within Iowa, and Myotis septentrionalis (northern myotis) which is a “Species of Special Concern” within Iowa. We sampled bat communities at Mines of Spain Recreational Area, a state park along the Mississippi River, between June and August 2013. This location also was sampled during the same time period of 2012. Mist nets were set up before sunset and left in place until one hour after the last bat was captured. Overall, eight of nine potential Iowa bat species were captured with little brown bats being the most common species during both sampling efforts. During the 2012 survey, a single Nycticeius humeralis was detected in Mines of Spain. During the 2013 survey, a suspected Myotis sodalis was captured. Perimyotis subflavus (tricolored bat) was not captured during 2012 but was captured during 2013. While little brown bats were the most common species during both surveys, other changes in community composition were documented including an increase in bat species diversity between 2012 and 2013 despite a decrease in captured individuals. Bats are important components of local biodiversity; we suggest continuing bat surveys in eastern Iowa.
Schnuelle, Dylan A., Jameison, Alexander R.
Schnuelle, Dylan, & Alex Jameison. “Flight Path Management Systems.” Poster presentation for AVI 495: Aviation Senior Seminar, Spr ‘15, Profs. Prelis & Kadolph.
Thier, Robbie J., Bohl, Darin P.
Their, Robbie, & Darin Bohl. “NextGen Aircraft.” Poster presentation for AVI 495: Aviation Senior Seminar, Spr ‘15, Profs. Prelis & Kadolph.
Shumar, William T.
Shumar, Bill. “NextGen Technology.” Poster presentation for AVI 495: Aviation Senior Seminar, Spr ‘15, Profs. Prelis & Kadolph.
Berg, Nathan R., Arellano, Victor H.
Arellano, Victor, & Nathan Berg. “TSA & Security.” Poster presentation for AVI 495: Aviation Senior Seminar, Spr ‘15, Profs. Prelis & Kadolph.
Ellison, Nathan M.
Ellison, Nate M. Koch, David E., & Zuercher, Gerald L. "Painted Turtle Movement Patterns in a Mississippi River Island Backwater." Poster presentation for the Chlapaty Research Fellowship Program, University of Dubuque, 2013.
In our turtle sampling at Nine-mile Island in Pool 12 in the Upper Mississippi River, painted turtles are the dominant species by number. While many captured turtles are recaptures, many of them are also caught only once, which suggests differing movement patterns. In an effort to better understand the type of habitat use and movement patterns of these turtles we used radio-telemetry to track three (3) turtles over a period of two months. Hoop nets were used to capture these turtles in a backwater portion of Nine-mile Island, then radio transmitters were attached to their carapace, and the turtles were released into the backwater they were captured in. All three turtles showed similar movement patterns in that each of them would stay in one small region for several days then moved to another nearby area. Total distance moved by the turtles in the tracking period was variable.
Barkhurst, Heather, Amore, Teresita D.
Heather Barkhurst, Amore, Teresita D., Mudalige-Jayawickrama, Rasika G., Predominance of Purple Color in Dendrobium is due to Enzyme Competition between DFR AND F3′H. 2013
Everhart, Nicholas R., Williamson, Brandon A.
Everhart, Nick, & Brandon Williamson. “Weather Forecasting.” Poster presentation for AVI 495: Aviation Senior Seminar, Spr ‘15, Profs. Prelis & Kadolph.
Kilsdonk, Joey W.C.
Kilsdonk, Joey W.C. & Koch, David E. "How the Zone of Transition in Dubuque Resembles the Social Disorganization of the City of Chicago." Poster presentation for the Chlapaty Research Fellowship Program, University of Dubuque, 2013.
Sadler, Matthew W.
Sadler, Matt. “Environmental Issues.” Poster presentation for AVI 495: Aviation Senior Seminar, Spr ‘15, Profs. Prelis & Kadolph.
Nie, Eric T.
Abstract: Water quality is an extremely important driver for the ecological processes that support life and influence biodiversity. Land use has a major influence on water quality, with some of the highest impact activities often associated with agriculture and waste disposal. During the past year grab and automated water samples were taken upstream (above landfill) and downstream (below the landfill) to characterize the water quality impacts of land use on the South Fork of Catfish Creek, a tributary of the Mississippi River. This stretch of Catfish Creek allows for an investigation of the impacts of land use and runoff as is adjacent to multiple land uses including both landfill and agricultural lands and was monitored during both base flow and rain-induced runoff events. Significant differences between water qualities characteristics were noted between the differing flow conditions. The samples were analyzed for suspended particulate matter (SPM), various phosphorus forms, nitrates, and heavy metals. Hydrographs showed the relation to changes in concentrations of phosphorus, metals, and sediment change with the flow levels during storm runoff events. Both our sampling sites, above and below the landfill, held levels of phosphorus that exceeded the EPA’s recommendation for ecoregion VII, likely a result of high amounts of agricultural land use in the study watershed. However the form of phosphorus varied between the sites during runoff events in that the upstream sites had more sediment bound P than downstream. This likely results from storage in the stream of sediment bound P as the velocity slows down and the sediment falls out of suspension, which holds long term implications on nutrients storage and transport in this system. Metal concentrations studied show that the holding (retention) pond have much lower concentrations of metals than does the stream – both before and after passing the ponds. As the downstream concentrations of these metals in nearly all cases are similar in concentration than the upstream water it seems very apparent that the ponds, or groundwater flow, are not contributing these potential leachate components into the stream during base flow conditions. Our results indicate that the agricultural lands are likely impacting Catfish Creek landfill with respect to nutrient loading, however the landfill is not adversely impacting the South Fork of Catfish Creek with respect to the analyses examined.
Citation:Nie, Eric T., & Hoffman, Adam R. “Monitoring the Impact of the Land Use Characteristics on the Surface Water Quality of a Mississippi River Tributary.” Poster presentation for the Chlapaty Research Fellowship Program, University of Dubuque, 2013.
Beck, Alex, Schultz, Paul
Abstract::This research project entails working with a joint partnership between the City of Dubuque and IBM Research on the Smarter Discards Pilot Study. The purpose of this research has many concepts, but my main focus areas were with diversion strategies from the landfill. It was also to improve Dubuque residents’ awareness of the importance and opportunities for more effective discard management practices. There is an online portal that will allow residents to view and analyze their “behavior” with discarding materials. By increasing public awareness and further opportunities for residents to participate in curbside collection of recyclables, food scraps, yard scraps, and trash, we are trying to provide further opportunities for Dubuque to become a more sustainable and prosperous city. There will be RFID tags installed onto recycling and trash bins to collect and transmit data pertaining to physical amounts that are set out for curbside collection each week. This allowed us to analyze weekly performance for household’s trash to recyclables ratio, landfill diversion, and cost savings. Along with data collection on trash and recycling bins, we also created a Smarter Discards survey asking residents in this program seven recycling questions, seven behavior questions, and open ended questions for participants to leave any comments or suggestions they chose. Shown in these graphs are responses from these participants about the Smarter Discards Pilot Study.
Orth, Kathrine B.
Orth, Kathrine B. "The Spiritual Formation of Children with Autism and the Response of the Church." Poster presentation for the Chlapaty Research Fellowship Program, University of Dubuque, 2014.
Bainbridge, Elizabeth L., Cruise, Chelsie E., Kieffer, Lea M., Matthews, Aaron J.
Bainbridge, E.G., Cruise, C.E., Kieffer, L.M., Matthews, A.J., Koch, David E., & Zuercher, G.L. “Gender Differences in Home-Ranges for Southern Flying Squirrels (Glaucomys volans) in Eastern Iowa.” Poster presentation for the Chlapaty Research Fellowship, 2012.
Abstract: In Iowa, southern flying squirrels (Glaucomys volans) are considered a “Species of Special Concern”. This stems mainly from a lack of information about the ecology of southern flying squirrels within the state. Students at the University of Dubuque have been studying this species at Mines of Spain Recreation Area (MoSRA) in eastern Iowa for several years. Beginning in August, 2011 flying squirrels have been fitted with telemetry transmitters in an effort to better understand their spatial needs and movement patterns within the park. Transmitters were affixed to ten flying squirrels which were captured from different parts of the park. The goals were to: 1) determine their locations on a regular basis (usually nightly); 2) calculate home ranges and average daily movement distances; 3) compare between individuals to evaluate whether spatial needs are consistent throughout the park; and 4) determine whether or not females occupy different spatial ranges from male squirrels. While a few flying squirrels have yielded only a few locations, most flying squirrels were routinely located for several weeks each. It appears that the spatial needs of both male and female squirrels changes through time. These data hopefully will yield a better understanding of flying squirrel ecology.
Englert, Melissa A., Goff, Mitchell T., Mondragon, Maria F., Olson, Chelsea J., Olson, Kayla S., Sinton, Mark
Citation: Englert, Melissa A., Goff, Mitchell, Mondragon, Maria F., Olson, Chelsea, Olson, Kayla, & Sinton, Mark. "An Analysis of the Thermophilic Mechanism of Potato Tyrosinase." Poster presentation for the Chlapaty Research Fellowship Program, University of Dubuque, 2012.
Cruise, Chelsie E., Bainbridge, Elizabeth G., Redmond, Kyle, Johnson, Meghan L.
Cruise, Chelsie E., Elizabeth G. Bainbridge, Kyle Redmond, Megan Johnson and Gerald L. Zuercher. "Assessment of a Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans) Population in the Upper Mississippi River Watershed." Chlapaty Research Fellowship, 2012.
Southern flying squirrels, Glaucomys volans, are a “species of concern” in Iowa. Within Iowa, they are considered “uncommon” with an “unknown” population trend. This assessment appears driven by a lack of information for the species. While their reported distribution in Iowa includes all but the extreme northwest corner, there are relatively few records of the species for the state. Beginning in early June 2012, we surveyed southern flying squirrels along four transects within Mines of Spain Recreation Area (MoSRA), a state park located in Dubuque County, Iowa. These transects also were sampled in 2011. We used Ugglan multi-capture live-traps, baited with peanut butter mixed with raisins, which were placed on trees approximately 5-meters above ground level. Traps were checked each morning, for five consecutive days, every other week. To date, 18 flying squirrels have been captured and marked with PIT (Passive Integrated Transponder) tags. Capture rates for 2012 were lower than for 2011. Also, patterns of capture success differed between years; the highest capture success for 2012 comes from the transect with the lowest capture success in 2011. We will summarize our capture data for 2012 and compare to previous years.
Johnson, Megan M., Bainbridge, Elizabeth G., Redmond, Kyle D., O'Rourke, Jake M., Cruise, Chelsie E.
Johnson, Megan M., Bainbridge, Elizabeth G., Redmond, Kyle D., O’Rourke, Jake.M., Cruise, Chelsie E., & Zuercher, Gerald L. “Spatial and Temporal Variation in Eastern Iowa Bat Assemblages.” Poster presentation for the Chlapaty Research Fellowship Program, University of Dubuque, 2012.
Abstract: North American bats, (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), are important components of biodiversity that are often underrepresented in conservation and management plans because of a lack of information on populations status and habitat requirements. Bats are important components to healthy ecosystems as well as human economies. North American bats are insectivores whose diets often include both human-disease vectors and damaging agricultural pests. There are nine species of bats recorded for Iowa. This includes the Federally Endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), the evening bat (Nycticeius humeralis) which is “Threatened” within Iowa, and the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) which is a “Species of Special Concern” within Iowa. We sampled bat communities at five locations within Dubuque County, Iowa including a state park (Mines of Spain Recreational Area), three county parks (Bankston Park, White Water Canyon Wildlife Area, Swiss Valley Nature Preserve), and a privately managed property (Wolter Property). Mist nets were set up before sunset and left in place until one hour after the last bat was captured. Overall, seven of the nine potential bat species were captured with little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) being the most common species. Variation in both total number of bats captured and number of species captured occurred between sites. Also, the sampled bat communities at each site varied temporally. With the presence of White-Nose Syndrome confirmed from caves in eastern Iowa, our data provide a baseline against which impacts from the disease can be compared. We suggest continuing the surveys of bat communities in eastern Iowa.
Magee, Benjamin R., Sterling II, John W.
Magee, Benjamin R., & John W. Sterling II. “Future of Pilot Skills.” Poster presentation for AVI 495: Aviation Senior Seminar, Spr ‘15, Profs. Prelis & Kadolph.
Almutairi, Fahad S.
Almutairi, Fahad. “GPS/Satellite Security.” Poster presentation for AVI 495: Aviation Senior Seminar, Spr ‘15, Profs. Prelis & Kadolph.
Porter, Tyler J., Duve, Brandon P.
Porter, Tyler J., Duve, Brandon, & Koch, David E. “White Sucker Movement Patterns and Stream Diversity of Two Mississippi River Tributary Streams.” Poster presentation for the Chlapaty Research Fellowship Program, University of Dubuque, 2013.
Abstract: In Northeast Iowa, two cold-water streams, Catfish Creek and Little Maquoketa River in Dubuque County are stocked with three trout species (rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss; brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis; brown trout, Salmo trutta) and fished relatively heavily by anglers. The richness of species and diversity of the streams have been an ongoing study for the past five years by the University of Dubuque to measure stream health and inter-annual variations. This summer, both streams were sampled using electro-shocking once a week for eight weeks. The white sucker (Catostomus commersonii) is the most populous fish in both of these streams, and its movement patterns have been studied very little in Eastern Iowa. Three adult white suckers were tagged with radio telemetry tags in Catfish Creek and tracked over the course of three weeks in late summer. The white suckers were mostly stationary, with only short inter-pool movements, except for the occurrence of one large movement near the end of the study. Catfish Creek yielded more fish, with higher diversity and richness than the Little Maquoketa River.
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Airliner Tracking / ICAO Flight Data Recorder Recommendations. (1) + -
An Analysis of the Thermophilic Mechanism of Potato Tyrosinase. (1) + -
Assessing the Genetic Diversity of Rediscovered Aegla of Paraguay using RAPD analysis. (1) + -
Assessment of a Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans) Population in the Upper Mississippi River Watershed. (1) + -
Aviation Fatigue Legislation (1) + -
Aviation Safety Moving Forward. (1) + -
Bat Surveys in Eastern Iowa: Simultaneous Stability and Change. (1) + -
Environmental Issues: Airports Going Green (1) + -
Functional Characterization of Orchid TCP Genes Using JAW Mutants of Arabidopsis. (1) + -
Future of Pilot Skills. (1) + -
Gender Differences in Home-Ranges for Southern Flying Squirrels (Glaucomys volans) in Eastern Iowa. (1) + -
Habitat Variation Impacts Small Mammal Distribution in Eastern Iowa. (1) + -
How the Zone of Transition in Dubuque Resembles the Social Disorganization of the City of Chicago. (1) + -
Implementation of NextGen Technology. (1) + -
Investigating Household Discard Behavior Changes from Landfilling to Recycling/Composting. (1) + -
Monitoring The Impacts of the Land Use Characteristics on the Surface Water Quality of a Mississippi River Tributary. (1) + -
NextGen Arrivals and Approaches / Flight Path Management Systems. (1) + -
Painted Turtle Movement Patterns in a Mississippi River Island Backwater. (1) + -
Predominance of Purple Color in Dendrobium is due to Enzyme Competition between DFR AND F3′H. (1) + -
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Дмитрий Аркадьевич Исаев
Dmitry Isaev
Работа в ВУЗе
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Here are examples of key products developed by D. Isaev for training and for teaching purposes.
Title Screenshot / Cover Description Note Year
Clear Physics. Website for Curious The Website is intended: for children 9-12 years old and even younger - 6 years (who already know how to read a little bit themself or with the help of parents) who are interested in the world we live in, who like to explore and experiment , to observe and reflect on the issues "How?" and "Why?" And of course for their parents and for older kids, for whom it is difficult to learn physics at school for some reason, well and also for their parents, for the teachers of natural science, physics and astronomy, for all who are interested in study nature to learn about its objects and laws.
The site is still in the stage of filling. 2013
DeCont - Goal The program is designed to analyze the goals of curriculum in physics. A structurally-target method is at the heart of its construction. Problems solved with the help of the program in particular are: the definition of personal opinions of experts, comparison of the distribution of elements of the main text of the curriculum with the opinions of experts about distribution of elements in curricula for different physics profiles, etc.
The first version of the program is designed primarily to be used by experts, to obtain information from experts and store it. 2002
DeCont - Complexity The program provides in particular the following features: to calculate the complexity of curricula in physics, different partitions and elements of the main text to obtain information about the complexity of those curricula their sections and topics as well as different elements of the main text; to compare the complexity of the curriculum in physics, different parts and elements of the main text based both on the own views of users and the views of one or another expert.
DeCont - Structure The "DeCont - Structure", as is evident from its name, is intended for the analysis and design the structures of physics curricula for secondary school. Working with the program "DeCont - Structure" provides the end user, in particular, the following features: 1. Access to a significant number of structures physics courses in a fairly short time. 2. Using existing structures, provided with the program "DeCont - Structure", as well as edit them, and / or create own ones. 3. Receiving information about the various options for titles, chapters and topics that have traditionally been used by the authors of school curricula in physics . The user has the ability to not only to save the current data in a text file but also to print them on paper.
DeCont - Elements The "DeCont - Elements" allows you to split the main text of the curriculum in physics in separate elements to represent these elements in a list and to save lists of elements. Key features that the end user gets using this program : 1. Splitting the main text of the curriculum in physics into separate elements and to save the resulting list of these separate elements. 2 . Viewing previously compiled lists elements of the main text of various curricula in physics. 3. Editing lists of elements. 4. Using lists of elements when working with other parts of "DeCont ." 2002
11 form A software package contains 26 interactive lessons that cover the following topics: Electromagnetic waves. Geometrical optics. Wave Optics. The theory of relativity. Quantum physics. Nuclear physics. The course contains an interesting and varied illustrative material. Using game elements in practical tasks, exercises and tests make the process of learning enthralling. Even at the times when the package was released it had rather modest system requirements (as well as other products of series "Physics Lessons of Cyril and Methodius "): MS Windows 95 - Processor Pentium, 16 MB RAM - 4x CD-ROM, sound card 16 - bit, SVGA- card 1 Mb.
New Media Generation Ltd., Cyril and Methodius
Certification: Certificate of the Ministry for Education of Russian Federation 0000052, 22.12.2000
10 form The package contains 35 interactive lessons that cover the following topics: Fundamentals of the Molecular-kinetic Theory (MKT), MKT of gases. MKT of liquids and solids. Fundamentals of Thermodynamics. Electrostatics, Constant Current, The Current in the different environments, Electromagnetic Induction, Alternating current. The course contains an interesting and varied illustrative material. Using game elements in practical tasks, exercises and tests make the process of learning enthralling. New Media Generation Ltd., Cyril and Methodius
Certification: Certificate of the Ministry for Education of Russian Federation
7-8 forms The package contains 35 interactive lessons that cover the following topics: Structure of Matter, Movement and Interaction of bodies, Pressure, Internal Energy and Heat Transfer, Electricity, Magnetism, Optics. The lessons contain more than 800 illustrations and voice recording practical tasks, more than 150 verification tasks that have interactive tips, more than 50 pages of the directory containing the formulas and basic laws, more than 50 test exercises and tasks on topics of more than 200 concepts and terms in the subject index. New Media Generation Ltd., Cyril and Methodius
5-6 forms The package contains 38 lessons in Physics for 5-6 forms that cover the following topics: Natural phenomena, Methods of investigation of Nature, Mechanical movement., Light, Characteristics of bodies and substances, Structure of Matter, Chemical elements, Electricity, Interaction of bodies. The lessons contain more than 500 illustrations and voice recordings of practical tasks, over 200 validation exercises and problems and more than 80 test exercises and tasks that will help to check the knowledge of the subject. User has a possibility to test the knowledge on all topics (mode "Exam"). Exam Questions are formed on the basis of tests on the topics. Each exam - it's seven random questions. For the convenience of a user the package has a directory that contains the basic formulas, laws and reference tables.
Sertificate of expertise of the Expert Council of the Ministry for Education of the Republic of Belarus 105 dated 14.02.2000 2000
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In accordance with its articles of association (statutes), ECSA actively promotes music authors’ rights at national, European and international levels.
When implementing advocacy activities, ECSA pursues the following objectives:
join the efforts of European music authors to ensure their voice is heard by policy-makers;
protect and defend music creators’ rights;
reinforce the perception of the cultural and economic value of music;
inspire policy-makers to encourage the creation of music;
actively support the development of authors’ right and copyright and defend the collective management of authors’ rights;
create fair commercial conditions for all music creators.
For detailed information on our positions on specific policy issues, please check the EU Policy Issues webpage.
Advocacy activities implemented by ECSA include:
organizing meetings with decision-makers;
drafting and disseminating position papers;
liaising with other right holders and user representative organisations;
representing music creators in external forums and cultural events;
organizing events to promote the awareness of the value of music.
Concrete examples of ECSA’s advocacy activities:
Authors’ Group
ECSA collaborates closely with its sister associations that are the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the European Writers’ Council (EWC), the Federation of European Film Directors (FERA) and the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE). The Authors’ Group is thus the largest European authors’ network representing more than 500 000 authors, including writers, literary translators, composers, songwriters, journalists, screenwriters, film and TV directors in Europe.
The Authors’ Group is advocating for a stable and fair European copyright framework for the benefit of authors achieving fair remuneration for authors and fighting unfair contracts. This framework shall diminish the value gaps between authors and publishers, producers and broadcasters, and stimulate the creative process bringing transparency in authors’ remuneration schemes.
From the left: Dan Clifton (FERA), Mogens Blicher Bjerregard (EFJ), Martin Schulz (EP President), Alfons Karabuda (ECSA), Sveinbjorn Baldvinsson (FSE) and Nick Yapp (EWC) © ECSA
Find the Authors’ Group statements in full length here:
Authors’ Group open letter in support of the Copyright Directive – January 2019
Authors’ Group declaration “Towards a modern, more European copyright framework and the necessity of fair contracts for creators” – May 2016
Authors’ Group statement on EC Communication ‘Towards a modern, more European copyright framework’ – December 2015
As a result of the failure of the GRD (Global Repertoire Database), ECSA initiated a cross-industry dialogue among music writer groups from North America and Europe in order to continue exercising pressure on the music industry to work on more connected and accurate databases of the respective repertoire hubs. The dialogue was launched at a Creators’ Roundtable, organized by ECSA in New York on 20 November 2015, aiming at addressing crucial questions related to the failure of the GRD.
Another Roundtable taking place in Washington DC two days before, on 18 November 2015, focused on legislative issues including discussions on the copyright law in light of the digital environment and on the GRD and the CisNet project, its results and collaborations of collective societies.
Relevant outcome of the Roundtables was the introduction of the Creators’ Network, a network whose goal is to focus on legislative issues and discussions on how to ensure fair remuneration in the digital environment.
Washington Roundtable
New York Roundtable
Photo credits: ECSA
A further Roundtable discussion with international creator and YouTube representatives was organised by ECSA in Berlin on 25 October 2016. The exchange of views in rapid changing times of the music business focussed on how to empower music writers in the digital future. Among the issues addressed were rights management, content ID and transparency.
From the left: Francisca Aas, Helienne Lindvall, Sonia Khan, Niels Mosumgaard, Kiki Ganzemueller, Alfons Karabuda, Victoria Campoamor, Markus Nordenstreng, Dennis Dreith, Marten Karlsson, Bernard Grimaldi and Patrick Ager, 25 October 2016, Berlin (photo credit: Stefan Riedel)
Transatlantic Dialogue for Sustainable Music
In order to keep the momentum of the Creators’ Roundtables, ESCA will continue further developing the collaboration with the North American fellows and music industry representatives. This Transatlantic Dialogue for Sustainable Music shall offer the platform for capacity building, exchanging information and advocacy among North American and European music creator groups, as well as establishing a dialogue with key consumer organisations and music service providers in order to elaborate common views for a more sustainable market for online music.
In the framework of the Berlin Roundtable in October 2016, ECSA and the AFM & SAG-AFTRA IPR Distribution Fund agreed to partner up for intensifying the collaboration of music creators in Europe and the United States of America.
In a Memorandum of Understanding, both parties agreed to exchange privileged information regarding creators’ rights and music industry developments in the US and in the EU, as well as to represent each other on specific occasions.
Dennis Dreith, Executive Director of AFM & SAG-AFTRA IPR Distribution Fund (left) and ECSA President Alfons Karabuda (right) sign the Memorandum of Understanding in Berlin on 25 October 2016 (photo credit: ECSA)
Picture Credit: Jennifer Harmon
On 13th March 2019, the Creators’ Roundtable took place in LA, hosted by The Society of Composers an Lyricists and ECSA. The event provided an opportunity for reciprocal updates on relevant political and legal developments in the EU and US for composers and songwriters.
For detailed information about our recent advocacy initiatives, please check the ECSA Journal webpage.
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Author(s): Esther Weltevrede and Fieke Jansen
Affiliation(s): University of Amsterdam; Data Justice Lab
Citation: Esther Weltevrede and Fieke Jansen. “Infrastructures of Intimate Data: Mapping the Inbound and Outbound Data Flows of Dating Apps.” Computational Culture 7 (21st October 2019). http://computationalculture.net/infrastructures-of-intimate-data-mapping-the-inbound-and-outbound-data-flows-of-dating-apps/.
In this article we engage with methodological challenges that apps pose for empirical analysis and develop an approach to study how apps operate and exchange data between platforms and networks. Complementing previous research on dating apps, our approach involves close attention to the intimacy of app data informed by a relational understanding of infrastructure. We experiment with the research persona as a methodological perspective to collect data at the intersection of five app-infrastructure relations – between app-user, app-device, app-social media, app-network and app-developer –, and initiate or advance an empirical inquiry into the specific materialisations of the data relationships. The final part of the article reflects on the conceptual and methodological implications of this approach beyond the study of dating apps.
A Data Infrastructure Approach to App Studies
In early 2018, as a result of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook limited the types of data that third-party apps could access through its application programming interfaces (APIs). 1 Facebook one-sidedly implemented a new data governance model, 2 limiting access to the personal information – such as relationship status and details, custom friends lists and media consumption activity – that could be accessed through the Facebook Login service, also known as Single Sign-On (SSO). The effects of these changes became visible through the temporary breakdown of apps that use the Facebook SSO as an inherent and integral part of their functioning, such as the dating app Tinder. 3 Consequently, Tinder users were caught in a permissions loop between the app and Facebook. 4 Concurrently, Google’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) announcement, 5 which outlined the company’s interpretation of its responsibilities and liabilities as a data controller, and its consent requirements for platforms using Google’s advertising services in the European Union, created friction amongst its users. Four major publishing trade groups published an open letter to Sundar Pichai, 6 Google’s CEO, expressing concerns about Google’s interpretation of the GDPR, noting that it would undermine the regulation’s fundamental purpose and place the burden of compliance primarily on the publishers. The temporary breakdown of Tinder and the open letter to Google exemplify the complex infrastructural relations with platforms and networks that apps engage in and make visible the resulting dependencies between different actors.
This article contributes to the empirical analysis of apps, which are a new focus of research within media studies. Within software and platform studies in particular, there is an increased technical-material understanding of platforms mediating the diverging interests and interactions among stakeholders. 7 In recent literature on the intersection of platform and infrastructure studies, the API figures prominently in explorations of the extent to which platforms are becoming infrastructures. 8 Platforms are defined as providing computational infrastructures that enable multiple parties, such as users, developers and advertisers, to build on the platforms’ data and features.9 This article builds on this infrastructural notion and extends it by approaching it from the perspective of apps. Even though platforms receive much scholarly attention, as do individual apps, how apps operate on and between platforms and networks is under-studied, which means that their full (im)possibilities are not accounted for. We advance an approach to apps as data objects that engage in multiple relationships, bringing together data from heterogeneous origins and simultaneously making those data available to external stakeholders. Apps thereby continually transform and enhance the data generated by and for daily practices within diverse socio-technical app environments.
Our case study focuses on dating apps, which is a popular genre in the emerging area of app studies. Scholars have discussed, among other topics, how dating apps afford and configure intimate engagements through affective affordances,10 give shape to online identity11 and evoke privacy concerns around data generation.12 We complement this research by developing empirical means to investigate how these intimate engagements are fed by and feed into larger data infrastructures, by which we propose the notion of ‘intimate data’ to contribute to the existing discussion of app data. The term intimate data, first aims to account for the ways in which the habitual proximity of mobile apps – they are ‘mundane software’13 that are deeply embedded in our daily routines14 – allows them to capture lively data of our everyday habits. Following David and Cambre,15 these data are particularly pertinent to the intimacy of dating practices, but our definition expands beyond dating apps to include the closeness and individualisation of mobile app-based practices more broadly. Second, intimate data accounts for the apps’ data relationships with other parties, which allow to feed back data into our daily routines through ads, suggested dating partners and other individualised recommendations derived from intersected data captured from our daily habits. Recognising the ‘cross-platform data-sharing’ and the centrality of location data in mobile apps, and dating apps particularly, Albury et al.16 call for a multiple and intersecting perspective on app-data cultures. Apps recombine, expand and valorise everyday habits of users with data about their locations, identities, behaviours and interests. With the notion of intimate data, we advance a multi-perspective and empirically driven approach to app data wherein the recombination and brokering of data through apps renders data intimate.
The study of apps poses methodological challenges, as they typically do not offer easy access to user-generated data and require researchers to consider the definition of ‘social data’ anew.17 In contrast to social media platforms, which offer user-generated data for social investigations that can be scraped by researchers via structured APIs, apps typically do not offer APIs. Instead, app data that is available for researchers is characterised by heterogeneous data formats ranging from device-based data (e.g., GPS), to software libraries (e.g., Software Development Kits – SDKs) to network connections (e.g., ad networks). Moreover, most apps are intimate data environments, they require authentication through logging in or capture data from the user’s routines and habits to offer personalised and increasingly individualised app experiences, tailoring data to the actual individual and not a segment they belong to.18 We therefore shift from a content analysis of API data to a data infrastructural perspective, focusing on the platforms and networks that apps connect to, the specificity of the heterogeneous data points between various parties, and how and by whom data flows are regulated. In our analysis, we distinguish between infrastructure and data flow, where the conditions of possibility for the inbound and outbound data flows are inscribed in the infrastructural relations, and the specific data points are realised by the negotiated agreements (e.g., through granted permissions) in the data flows established between the app and the platforms, networks and users it connects to. To understand how apps expand and recombine data in distinct ways, this data infrastructure perspective offers empirical entry points to explore how apps are related – and relate themselves to – multiple platforms, networks and users.
As illustrated by the examples in the introduction, it is in moments of breakdown – among other times – that infrastructures become visible. This article aligns with methodological efforts in infrastructure studies to make infrastructures and their roles visible through empirical methods, such as observation during moments of breakdown,19 or conceptual ones, such as ‘infrastructural inversion.’20 Our approach navigates around the breakdown as a potential moment for empirically studying data infrastructures and flows, which does not depend on accidents. In the context of understanding apps from such perspective, we take our cue from the now-classic relational definition of infrastructure by Star and Ruhleder, who argue that it is not the question what, but when is an infrastructure.21 Analytically, they argue, infrastructures are fundamentally relational and appear only as a characteristic in relation to organised practices; they are not things themselves.22 This perspective additionally enables a heterogeneous account of data infrastructures because apps can connect different things, such as people (e.g., users) and advertising networks (e.g., Google’s Doubleclick) or social media platforms (e.g., Facebook), and they also become manifest in different ways, for example, in a technical manner through Facebook’s APIs or in a regulatory manner through Android policies. With app-infrastructures, data exchanges are the moments at which the app engages relationships to establish a tailored data flow for specific functions.
To empirically analyse how apps operate and exchange data between platforms and networks, we develop methods to account for the data infrastructural relations that apps establish.23 In which the first challenge is to identify when apps engage in infrastructural relations, as not all are obvious or visible from a user perspective. To do this, we develop methods to capture and analyse data exchanges at the intersection between apps and their infrastructural relations. These methods allow us to account for the heterogeneous origins of data sources; how (and by whom) the conditions for data flows are regulated; and how dating apps recombine and enhance the data generated by and for the practices of dating within their respective data infrastructures. We proceed by introducing the methodological perspective we use to study data infrastructures around dating apps; then, we present five different methodological intersection points – user interface, device permissions, social media permissions, network connections and APIs – through which we can capture the data points between app-infrastructure relations, and we use these points of data exchange to initiate or advance an inquiry into the specific realisation and function of dating apps. The final part of the article concludes and reflects on the implications of this methodological approach beyond the study of dating apps.
Methods for Intersecting Data Points
Methodologically, one of the key challenges this article engages with is how one can do empirical research into the individualised and heterogeneous data spaces of apps. Apps are characterized by the way in which they engage in infrastructural relations – among others with the app store to access device based data and with existing social media profiles for SSO login – to offer individualized data spaces. Even when users and their practices are not the main focus of the research, they increasingly need to be taken into account in the method design when studying intimate media spaces. We therefore experiment with the ‘research persona,’24 a research-dedicated account to track information online. Rather than considering personalisation and individualisation as an obstacle, the persona is used as a tool that impacts what you can uncover.
From the perspective of a ‘clean’ research persona the first data relationship is established when the app is downloaded and an account is created. To study the inbound and outbound data flows that materialise during these actions we start with an adapted version of the walkthrough method. The walkthrough method is typically used to analyse and explore interfaces by systematically documenting interface features. The method has a history in software engineering, technology reviews and user-centred design research to review software products.25 Light, Burgess, and Duguay26 have reappropriated this method with an STS and cultural studies approach to perform critical analyses of apps. The authors suggest to build on the previous uses by maintaining the structured ‘step-by-step observation and documentation of app’s screens, features and flows of activity,’ and depart from it by contextualising the observations within what they call the app’s ‘environment of expected use’, defined as the app’s vision, operating model and governance.27 We advance a critical use of the walkthrough method to identify the inbound data flows that are established through a relation with the user.
This initial, individualised data collection of the user interface is subsequently used to develop methods that systematically capture data about app-infrastructure relations. To observe, capture and analyse the demarcated data connections that apps establish with platforms when an account is created we collect data from device permissions and social media permissions. Subsequently, to explore how device, social media and user data are recombined and fed back into our daily routines through ads, suggested dating partners and other recommendations we move away from the perspective of data relationships that get established when an account is created to one when the app is in use. Here we capture and analyse the network traffic that the mobile phone establishes on behalf of the dating apps to explore the data infrastructures the app is embedded in, and where possible the data that is exchanged with third parties, such as advertisers, analytics and cloud services. Finally, we systematically compare data exchanged through (unofficial) dating app APIs with the user interface. Together, these methods advance an approach to analyse the multiple and intersecting perspectives that provided analytical entry points into studying data infrastructures from the perspective of apps.
In our analysis, we focus on apps running on the Android operating system, which had a global market share of 85% in 2018.28 The analysis involves a set of 42 popular dating apps to scope the dating app space as well as an in-depth analysis of the three popular dating apps Tinder, Grindr and OkCupid. The list of 42 popular dating apps was demarcated by triangulating lists of popular dating apps,29 as well as dating apps for specific audiences, such as gay dating,30 dating for young professionals31 and free dating,32 to arrive at a representative popular yet diverse set of dating apps. The selection of the three dating apps for the in-depth analysis (Tinder, OkCupid and Grindr) is based on their popularity and distinctiveness in terms of their data model and target audience. We employ existing and custom-made tools for data collection and analysis as well as the visualisation software Gephi33 and RAWGraphs.34
The first point of contact for data exchange is the user interface which the user encounters when asked to complete a profile on a dating app. When setting up a profile the user surrogate, the research persona, is asked to provide and verify information and to approve permissions for the device and social media platforms. This data infrastructure focus allows us to layer the user interface walkthrough with data from multiple entry points to make the relationships between the different actors in the app environment visible. Introducing data visualisation as a visual form for the walkthrough – in addition to the commonly used (annotated) screenshots – allows us to combine the results of the device permissions (see Device Permissions) and the social media permissions (see Social Media Permissions) to not only understand the specific relationship between the app and a platform, network or user but also compare how apps establish different relationships with data infrastructures, thereby emphasising the decentralisation of data origins and the individualised recombination of data flows in the apps.
By focusing on inbound data flows (Figure 1) it is clear that the apps Tinder, Grindr and OkCupid each build unique data relationships between platforms and users. Tinder starts with a significant number of device permissions, after which it requires little action from the user, other than a request to create a profile by logging in through their Facebook account. Tinder can then access the user’s personal information, such as profile picture, personal description, education, work history and friends list. OkCupid requests the fewest permissions from the device, but the mandatory fields in the user interface facilitate the collection of username, email address and other data on gender, education, lifestyle, sexual preferences, etc. In its initial setup, Grindr requests access to device permissions but then only asks for an email address, password and date of birth for the initial setup. The second and final step in the registration phase is the request to access the user’s GPS before continuing, location being an essential data point for this app. During the registration process, Grindr does not create any relations with social media accounts.
Figure 1. Interface walkthrough of inbound data flows during the registration process.
Across the three apps, the origin of location data is the device, whereas the origin of profile information is diverse, as apps can opt to collect personal information such as gender and education from existing social media profiles or ask users to fill it in when creating the account. The mobile platform, which we turn to further below, regulates and controls the device permissions, and gives access to data that is central to the apps’ intimate data infrastructure. This initial analysis suggests that apps are less dependent on social media platforms than on mobile platforms; all three dating apps have distinct data collection strategies during the registration process, of which only Tinder is highly dependent on Facebook SSO. This walkthrough from a user perspective offers a partial view on app data relationships and allows for the identification of the different infrastructural settings that apps are embedded in. In what follows, we complement this user vantage point with multiple and intersecting perspectives on app data to analyse the specific configurations of data flows between apps and infrastructures in more detail.
Device Permissions
The second intersection point allows for a more detailed exploration of the infrastructural settings between apps and the device, which is usually obfuscated from an app user perspective. The installation of an app establishes a relationship for data exchange by realising the capabilities or information that the app can transfer from the device – known as device permissions. Device permissions are typically studied in privacy and security studies with a focus on the lack of transparency and the related lack of permission literacy of the users, exemplified by user surveys that found that only a small percentage of users are aware of what these permissions do.35 Other research on permissions are inquiries into the scale and sensitivity of the connection, such as studies that scope the extent to which apps are overprivileged beyond the permissions required for their functioning36 or have malware that exploits permissions on them.37 Complementing these studies, our focus is less on transparency and exploits and instead on how permissions set the conditions for intimate app data. Access to device data is a key source for establishing the habitual proximity that is specific to apps, as they allow the capture of data from the location, identity and (sensor-based) activity derived from the mobile phone. The permissions that have received the most attention in app studies are the various permissions that are used to establish geolocation (e.g., GPS, network-based), because geolocative information is often ‘crucial to user experience and to the software’s background operations.’38
Apps list permissions in the app manifest3940 and include all instances when an app needs to access data or resources in order to function on a user’s device. The conditions for access to device data are regulated and controlled by the mobile platform, which includes the operating system on the device (i.e., Android), app stores, i.e., the Google Play Store for devices such as phones or tablets running Android, and typically the associated developer kits and integrated development environments (i.e., Android Studio). This first connection point, which is seemingly a two-sided connection between device and app, is thus multifaceted and folds many infrastructural relations together, involving layers that not only complicate but also regulate and inform the relationship between device and app. Apps thus have a contingent and multi-layered dependence on the mobile platform to access app-specific data.
Especially in the case of Android, standardisation is a challenge because of the many active versions running at the same time. The high volatility in the Android mobile platform makes both users and app developers reliant on any changes to the system. There are variations in how stores offer control over permissions, as well as variations between mobile platforms and manufacturers, which transform over time. Android, for example, revamped the entire permission system in late 2015. Until Android 5.9, the operating system requested user consent on all permissions when installing an app from the Play Store, so-called ‘install-time’ permissions. Since the introduction of Android 6.0, consent is requested when a permission is needed to use an app, so-called ‘runtime’ permissions, which allows for the user to restrict data flows between the device and the app, through interface controls. Not only is the moment in which the user is asked for permissions subject to changes over time, the categorisation of permissions also changes. The permissions are organised by function in so-called ‘permission groups’; since Android 6.0, these permission groups are categorised according to protection level, affecting whether runtime permission requests are required (i.e., ‘normal’, ‘signature’, and ‘dangerous’ permissions).41 Next, at the protection level, the permissions are categorised by function – ‘permission groupings.’ These groupings are continuously evolving; however, this evolution is not a mere changing of labels for usability purposes. Once a permission in a certain group is granted, the app does not have to renew the user’s consent if, in the next app update, another ‘dangerous’ permission belonging to an already granted permission group is requested.42
In our analysis, we use the Google Play store to capture the permissions the 42 dating apps request.43 The Play Store is accessed through the desktop browser, which shows the permissions at install time, similar to what occurred before Android 6.0. For the data collection, we work with a modified version of the Google Play Similar Apps tool44 that allows us to batch query the Play Store with a given set of app identifiers and outputs permissions per app. The apps in Figures 2 and 3 are organised by the number of permissions requested. The permissions are categorised following Android’s permission groupings used with Android 5.9, which are the categories used in the desktop browser version of the Google Play Store, and lists the permissions at install time.45 Green indicates that the app uses a permission. The results show which categories of permissions are prevalent across the dating apps and include location access, (full) network access, access to media and camera, and variations of (device) identity. These device connections are required for the apps to function and, in most cases, cannot be obtained from a different source. From a data infrastructure perspective, ‘full network access’ as permission is needed to establish relationships with third-party analytics and advertising networks (see Network Connections). Among the most pervasive apps in terms of permissions are popular local dating apps such as Beetalk (Thailand), MoMo (China), WhosHere (Saudi Arabia) and Frim (Russia), with each requesting between 27 and 19 permissions. On the lower end of the list are gay dating apps (Hornet, 9monsters, Romeo, Growlr, Adam4Adam, Grindr and Jack’d) and elite dating apps (Elite Singles and The League), all with fewer than 10 permissions. Apps with alternative data models also figure at the lower end of the list – BeLinked (based on LinkedIn data), Sapio (based on 300 open-ended questions), Christian Mingle (only requires an email address) and AnonymousDating (secure/anonymous). This intersection offers insight into the contingent data relationship between the app and the device mediated and controlled by the mobile platform. In what follows, we analyse the specificity of the data relationships established between the app and social media platforms.
Figure 2–3. App-device permissions.
Social Media Permissions
The third intersection point at which data relationships are established is between the app and social media platforms. Unlike the device connection that all apps require, the connection to social media platforms is less pervasive and depends on the specific app’s requirements. When setting up a dating account, apps offer user verification processes through email and social media accounts. Third-party login via social media platforms, also known as Single Sign-On (SSO), is an authentication scheme in which users can use their previously verified identity on one platform to login to an app.46 SSO was first introduced on websites and later transported to the mobile environment. It offers users a convenient registration and verification process, prevents the risk of password leaking and allows apps to access profile data and verify a user’s identity. In 2018, Tinder was one of the three largest users of Facebook’s SSO, using the Facebook login Software Developer Kit (SDK).47
The primary research interest in SSO has been from the security community,48 as finding and exploiting a vulnerability in a popular SSO allows an attacker to potentially exploit millions of apps. Similar to device permissions, we complement, and move beyond, the exploit by taking an app-infrastructure perspective interested in the specificity of the data flows established between the apps and social media login services.
For the data collection process, all 42 dating apps and different social media platforms were installed on a ‘clean’ research phone. The perspective of the research persona was used to determine which social media login services are offered by the different apps and which permissions, i.e., access to data types, are granted to the app by the social media platforms. This method offers a view of the relationship between dating apps and social media platforms for the function of SSO and enables the identification of specific data points requested when setting up an account. From the 42 selected dating apps, we found that 29 apps provided one or more login options through a social media platform – a Facebook, Linkedin, Google+, Instagram, Spotify or Twitter account. Figure 4 shows how Facebook, with 27 apps providing login options through this platform, is the most prevalent social media platform providing inbound data flows to apps. In addition to Facebook, however, we also see that different dating apps allow connections to other social media platforms, specifically LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Instagram and Spotify. Our analysis revealed that the dating apps connecting to Twitter, Google+, Instagram or Spotify also allow connections to Facebook. Only one dating app – Belinked – relies on a connection to LinkedIn without also connecting to Facebook. The Chinese dating app MoMo connects to the social media platforms Tencent and Weibo, reflecting the Chinese internet infrastructure in which China’s own social media platforms are more prominent than American equivalents.49
Figure 4. Social media login connections.
In our analysis of SSO permissions, we focused on Facebook, collecting data on the 16 different types of data that dating apps could request from Facebook through login permissions. We identified three distinct data types: 1) registration data, which are data points provided by the user when registering for a social media account, such as name, public profile picture, birthday, email address, educational history; 2) activity data: this is information disclosed by the user through interacting on the platform, or information inferred by the platform on the basis of the user’s profile on a social network, such as status updates, likes, relationship interests, religion and politics, and photos; and 3) social graph data, or information about other people connected to the user, such as friend lists and relationships. These categories are derived from security expert Bruce Schneier‘s50 argument that some data types have more value than others. He explains how platforms understand the ease with which users can lie about their registration data but that it is far more difficult to lie or obfuscate behavioural data created as a user interacts with platforms or devices.
Figure 5. Facebook Login Permissions.
In figure 5, red indicates that the app uses a permission. The figure visualises the inbound data flows for the registration process; at first sight, this result contradicts Bruce Schneier’s51 data value argument. All dating apps create a connection through Facebook SSO and request access to the user’s registration data, specifically their public profile, which includes profile picture, gender and other public information. Almost all apps, 22 out of 26, want to gain access to the user’s birthday and email address. Dating apps request less access to current city or hometown data, suggesting that these data are irrelevant to apps, as 37 of the 42 dating apps have access to the user’s precise location through the device permission ‘precise location (GPS and network-based)’. The apps seemed less interested in activity data, except for access to pictures and to some extent likes. Only 12 apps want access to users’ friend lists and only two to relationship data. These findings suggest that across the 42 dating apps, the social media connection mostly facilitates a secure and frictionless login process and is less about access to platform-specific data such as activity and social graph data. Moreover, when there are multiple options to obtain a specific type of data – such as location and contact lists – the apps seem to privilege device-based data over social media permissions.
Our SSO permissions method has two noteworthy limitations. The first is that the social media permissions offer a partial view of the data relationships between apps and social media platforms. This approach enables the analysis of the conditions for data transfer from the social media platforms to apps through the SSO, in this case Facebook login SDK, while the outbound data flow to the social media platform remains invisible. The dating app Bumble’s discontinuation of the Facebook SSO (Burgess 2018) – a decision made to prevent data sharing with the platform – indicated that the Facebook SDK enables Facebook to collect data on an app’s users. A closer look at the Facebook privacy policy reveals that ‘partners implementing Facebook Business Tools provide information about your activities off Facebook – including information about your device, websites you visit, purchases you make, the ads you see and how you use their services – whether or not you have a Facebook account or are logged into Facebook.’52 The Facebook Login SDK is part of the abovementioned Facebook Business Tools, which implies that the data relations established through login services can enable a bidirectional data flow between an app and social media.
Second, social media APIs are subject to significant change, especially in recent years. This study was performed in the summer of 2017, and the changes effected hereafter are noteworthy in the context of our method. Tinder users were caught in a permissions loop between the app and Facebook as a result of Facebook’s new data governance model in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.53 On April 24th, 2018, Facebook changed its policy on third-party login and deprecated access to what they call ‘Extended Profile Permissions’, i.e., information on religion & politics, relationships, educational history, and work history.54 On July 2nd 2018, Facebook’s new login policy changed from a blanket to a tiered approach to gain access to user information. Third-party apps can gain access to the name, e-mail and profile pictures of users without a Facebook app review. Gender, age range, profile page link, birthday, location and hometown are only accessible after a Facebook App review. Information about friends, likes, photos, tagged places, videos, events, managed groups and posts are only accessible after Facebook App Review, with a Business certificate and a contract with Facebook.55 From an app-infrastructure perspective, this situation demonstrates how the established connections are volatile and transformative relationships that morph under political, technical, economic and regulatory changes.
The fourth data relationship between apps and other parties is the network traffic devices establish on behalf of apps. When approaching apps from an infrastructural perspective, network connections provide an entry point into studying how apps, when in use, establish relationships with third parties such as advertising networks, trackers, cloud services and content delivery networks, thereby providing further insights into how apps operate in data infrastructures. The below discussed method to analyse network connections enable to capture all the inbound and outbound data flows that devices establish on behalf of apps. Previous research on tracking and cloud infrastructures as ‘data-intensive infrastructures’56 is primarily based on research into web sources.57 With the continued rise of mobile devices, this research may be updated and expanded to explore data-intensive mobile infrastructures: some of the methods, procedures, and tools developed for tracing network connections on the web can be adapted, further refined and applied to the mobile devices to study the infrastructures apps connect to.
Whereas the app’s software object – Android package files (.apk) for Android58 – can be used to analyse static infrastructural relations hard-coded into the .apk file, network connections are dynamic, active data relationships, triggered by a variety of cues, including app, device and profile data. The permission to establish network connections is granted when installing and running an app on the device level (see Device Permissions). Apps thus extend themselves by asking permissions and establishing relationships with third parties through network connections. In our case study on the three dating apps Tinder, Grindr and OkCupid, we analysed network connections with techniques called network sniffing and packet inspection. These methods from the field of network security and software development59 are adapted to study apps and their data infrastructures. Network sniffing is used to identify the network connections that are being established; packet inspection is used to examine the data sent over a network connection. These techniques require a number of methodological operations to demarcate and prepare the data for analysis. To detect which data relationships the apps establish with third parties, network sniffers (also known as network analysers, protocol analysers, packet analysers or debuggers) can be used to log and examine connections. However, these tools often collect all data connections so that individual apps must be isolated. In our case, we connected a server to a phone and only captured the network connections established through the phone’s IP address by means of the command-line packet analyser TCPDump.org. The network traffic was captured by installing, opening, using and closing the apps one by one while simultaneously making a screen recording of the phone. This allowed us to relate certain network connections to individualised events such as advertisements or suggested dating partners in the user interface walkthrough.
A key methodological consideration for the research persona is whether to use of a ‘clean’ research phone or a private phone with mature profiles; we found that the latter would trigger more personalised ads.60 The network connection method is the only part of this research where we tested in the ‘wild’, as interacting with live profiles of others raises ethical considerations. To prevent harm to real users, the interaction with the dating app occurred during a limited period of time (approximately 3 minutes per app), a limited number of actions, no chat engagement with live profiles and the limited storage of any user data we might have collected in the process. We started out with a clean research phone, but when we compared the results of this research profile to the results of a profile on one of our private mobile phones we soon noticed that the latter triggered more personalised ads due to the maturity of the profile established by the advertising networks beyond the dating app under study. We therefore switched to one of our private phones and redid the network sniffing.61 The output is a .tcap file with all network traffic relating to the time frame during which one of the three dating apps was used.
Figure 6. Network traffic from the Grindr app viewed in WireShark.
To prepare the data obtained with network sniffing for analysis, we performed a number of procedures. First, we used Wireshark to open the .tcap file and demarcate the connections established by the app by retaining only traffic from the IP address of our phone as Source, discarding all other connections made from the device (Figure 6). Second, to identify the destinations, we focused on TCP in the Protocol column to identify all associated server destinations. The IP addresses found were cross-referenced with the DNS requests to domain names, resulting in a list of HTTP connections the apps had connected to. In our analysis, we focused on the actors the app connected to by looking into known databases of infrastructure technologies, such as the Ghostery database for trackers, or the CDNFinder for content delivery networks. To gain more insight into the larger infrastructure of companies involved in the data infrastructure around dating apps, we turned to Crunchbase to trace the companies behind the found trackers (using the ‘acquired by’ feature). Figure 7 below shows the actors that the three dating apps connect to, as well as the larger data infrastructures beyond these connections. In addition to actors, we are interested in the specificity of the established relationship. By analysing the company description, we divided the established connections into distinct categories – authentication, advertisement, analytics, app, CDN and platform API: the results show that all apps connect to those.
Figure 7. Network connections established between dating apps Tinder, Grindr and OKCupid and their third parties.
What the connections share is that they are established through the HTTP protocol, but the specificity of the data flow and how the relationship is governed varies. The conditions for data sharing are established through hard-coded infrastructural relationships in the .apk file, resulting in specific data flows taking place through the established network connection. Although all the apps connect to similar services, the comparative analysis in Figure 7 shows that the three dating apps have distinct profiles in terms of the relationships they establish with third parties and how they embed themselves within the different ecosystems of tech giants. What they share is that they all use content delivery networks (CDNs) to store and deliver app content to the user’s device. The three apps also share the analytics service Crashlytics, used for crash reports on Android. Where they diverge is that Grindr has significantly more connections than Tinder and OkCupid. Grindr mostly connects to a variety of advertising networks and statistics services, while OkCupid and Tinder mainly establish advertising connections in the Google ecosystem. Whereas all apps connect to Facebook, our analysis shows Tinder is most heavily embedded within the Facebook ecosystem. Tinder makes use of the Social Graph, the Graph’s Account Kit, and Facebook’s CDN, and it also connects to Instagram content.
Network sniffing shows the server (destination) and the fact that a data relationship exists; however, it does not show which data are being transmitted. The second affordance of network connections as entry points is package inspection, selecting and detecting transmitted values and fields over these network connections. Whereas most connections are secure, some data transfers are made over the unencrypted HTTP protocol, which means the contents of the packets transmitted or received can be captured and analysed – highlighted in red in Figure 7. A packet analyser such as TCPDump or Wireshark can be used to inspect which data are shared, for example, when an ad shows up in an app. These data may include device name, bundle ID, gender, age, lat long, screen width, height, language, carrier network, and permissions (Figure 8).
Figure 8. An unencrypted network connection between Grindr and MoPub.
A significant number of these advertising relationships are unsecure, which raises security concerns,62 but allows for the analysis of data flows. From an intimate data perspective, these relationships provide a view into which data types are shared with external parties and are being used to create individualised data experiences. The Grindr-MoPub relationship in Figure 8 shows that among other types, uniquely identifiable and personal data are transmitted, such as device name, bundle ID, gender, age, latitude and longitude, screen width, height, language and carrier network. Taking into account the previous methods, we can trace back some of the origins of these data points as originating from the device (e.g., device name, lat long) – where the user location that is being shared is the location at that specific moment in time – as well as from in-app profile information (e.g., age, gender). We can also trace how the app recombines these data points and makes them available to external parties, in this case the advertiser MoPub.
Our analysis also found that all three dating apps are deeply embedded in the invisible data infrastructures of the major tech companies Google, Facebook and Twitter. Facebook connections mainly enable the app to make use of the Social Graph or to retrieve Facebook content, whereas Twitter’s prominence is due to one of their acquisitions, the advertising company MoPub. For all three apps, Google is the most prominent with advertising connections –, e.g. DoubleClick and Google Ad Services; analytics – e.g. Crashlytics; content delivery – e.g. YouTube, and query suggestions. However, it is increasingly difficult to analyse what exactly is being shared between apps and their larger network of third parties because tech companies increasingly use more secure connections.
App Interfaces: User Interface vs. API
The fifth point of contact is the apps’ interfaces configured to cater to the interests and needs of different stakeholders through the user interface – also referred to as the graphical user interface (GUI) – and the application programming interface (API). In our analysis, we use comparative interface analysis to explore whether apps broker data permissions differently depending on the relationship between the app and the API or the app and the user interface. Methodologically, our analysis is based on a triangulation of API testing and interface walkthrough. None of the apps have an official, publicly documented API. For the API testing, we relied on unofficial (i.e., private and undocumented) APIs and their unofficial documentation, which are not targeted at external developers but instead are intended for in-house developers and app partners.63 Although the APIs provided a range of functionality, i.e., sending messages or likes to other users, this research solely focused on the relationship between the API and the app regarding outbound data flows.
For this part of the analysis, the research persona perspective entailed that we authenticated as a developer in order to collect data, which was specific per API. After authenticating and running the API queries for all three dating apps, the outbound data flows were categorised according to the main functionalities of the app:
Tinder: Personal profile, Friends (Facebook), Matches, List of people you liked;
Okcupid: Personal profile, Likes, Search nearby; and
Grindr: Personal profile, Faces, Messages, Taps.
Figures 9, 10 and 11 show data fields returned by the API and expanded with data fields identified through the Tinder, OkCupid and Grindr interface walkthrough. Our analysis showed that Tinder, OkCupid and Grindr create distinct relationships with APIs; Tinder (see Figure 9) has the most promiscuous, open and outward facing API and OkCupid (see Figure 10) – the most closed API.
Figure 9. Tinder user interface vs API.
Figure 10. OkCupid user interface vs API.
Figure 11. Grindr user interface vs API.
The analysis suggests that in terms of the specificity of the data available through the APIs, the API offers a substantive amount of app-generated data, in addition to some data points originally derived from external sources, such as social media connections, and through the device permissions (e.g. location). In the case of Tinder (see figure 9) the API, which requires a research profile for authentication purposes, provides significantly more information about the Facebook friends and past and potential matches of the profile connected to the API, then through the user interface. When exploring the Tinder option ‘Smart Photo,’ designed to help the user select the photo with the ‘highest’ success rate, the user interface merely suggests the top picture, while the API gives the exact number (as percentage) of the success rate calculation for each of the images. The API we used for Tinder required a Facebook ID for authentication, which not only allowed data extraction about the authentication profile and past and potential matches but also enabled the extraction of data from the profiles of Facebook and Instagram Friends.64 This extraction included not only the Friend’s name and age, similar to the user interface, but also all images, their biography, and all information about their Instagram and Spotify accounts (if connected). Contrary to Tinder, OkCupid (see figure 10) and Grindr (see figure 11) form a different relationship with the API. For OkCupid, the API authentication is an OkCupid user account.65 The API provides little data overall, in comparison to Tinder, and provides the same amount of data in the user interface as through the API. Like OkCupid, Grindr also requires a Grindr account as API authentication.66 Unlike OkCupid, there are differences in the data extraction permissions between the API and the user interface: Grindr, depending on the function of the relationship and the data type, sets different permissions for accessibility: a user’s HIV status and the last date they were tested, for instance, are only accessible through the user interface but not through the API.
Apps as In-Between Brokers of Intimate Data
The five methodological intersection points introduced above make the study of apps and the various kinds of relationships they establish between platforms and networks available for research. In what follows, we reflect on the conceptual and methodological implications of our analysis. Contrary to how social media platforms rework the fabric of the web by de-centralising and re-centralising data flows in a platform-centric manner,67 our analysis resulted in the conceptualisation of apps as in-between brokers of intimate data. Where apps bring together data from heterogeneous origins and simultaneously create value by making recombined data available to external stakeholders, that in turn feed personalised and individualised recommendations back to the app. Apps thereby continually transform and enhance the data generated by and for daily practices within diverse socio-technical app environments. Unlike platforms that mediate the interests of (external) developers, advertisers and users, our analysis shows that apps instead mediate relationships with various platforms and networks such as advertisers, operating systems, app stores, social media platforms, analytics and cloud services. This reliance on various platforms and networks obscures the governing agent in the data infrastructures; it is often at first glance unclear where the policy and technology of one function or data flow ends and the other begins. In order to function, apps are highly dependent on the conditions set by external platforms and networks, and have to negotiate the inbound and outbound data flows which are possible in these data infrastructures.
We put forward the notion of intimate data to capture the specificity of data that apps make available for research, to account for the individualisation of app data and the distinct ways in which apps recombine and valorise data collected from heterogeneous sources. While compared to social media platforms, apps have a lack of user-generated data available for research,68 as such their infrastructural relationships offer insights into the specific ways in which data is formatted, collected, circulated and recombined to render apps intimate. The unsecure Grindr-MoPub connection in figure 8 reveals how the app recombines intimate data from heterogenous origins – habitual data collected from the device (location data), user data (gender and age), with the apps demographics (sexual preference) –, and valorizes this in the relationship with advertiser networks, so that individualized data can be fed back into the users daily routines through ads. With the notion of intimate data, we thus advance a multi-perspective on apps as recombining and expanding the everyday habits of users with data about their location, identity, behaviour and interests.
Our intimate data perspective suggests mobile platforms, such as Android and Apple iOS, as the dominant actors shaping the fabric of the mobile app environment. From the perspective of apps and their role in the infrastructure as in-between brokers, the origins of and access to device data are controlled by mobile platforms. Although the apps’ contingent relationships with external sources for inbound data flows are heterogeneous, the level of dependence on various origins varies. Where mobile platforms, with their operating systems, software development tools and their app stores, are the first level at which data exchanges are established, we found varying degrees of dependence on social media platform data. For example, Tinder is the most embedded in and dependent on Facebook’s API for its functioning, as the example in the introduction shows. On the other end, we found that Grindr requires no mandatory relationships to social media and does not depend on social media platform data for its functioning. Although apps establish contingent relationships to various platforms for their initial data in-flow, creating multi-layered dependencies, the mobile platform controls access to core device and sensor data that are key to the specificity of mobile app data.
This research furthermore contributes to debates on platform regulation because it empirically explores apps’ reliance on data infrastructures, their role as brokers of intimate data, and how data relations fold into each other, all three creating multi-layered dependencies and interconnectedness that obfuscate who is governing and who is responsible. Apps’ reliance on invisible data infrastructures masks who forms relationships with whom, who regulates the conditions under which data flows are enabled and who decides when this relationship changes. Seemingly lightweight apps that require little data or action from the user, such as Tinder and Grindr, collect intimate data from the device and social media and broker these data to a large number of advertisers. The notion of the technology and policy of one company folding into the next by using multiple functions in the data infrastructures of an app is not trivial, as our analysis highlights how the major technology companies are accumulating functions that centralise data flows. Related to this, the platforms in the app environment have the ability to enforce standards and data governance models on the other actors. An app can negotiate these relationships to a certain extent: the analysis shows that apps can have varying degrees of dependence on inbound data flows from external sources. However, the centralising and overlapping governance models expose the complexity of data infrastructures that come about in the temporary breakdown of Tinder and the publishers’ complaints against Google’s GDPR implementation. The intricate dependencies on functions and data which are inscribed by the data infrastructures are often left out of debates around data, privacy and data protection.
Moving the research affordances away from social data to gaining access to infrastructural data enables us to account for apps relationally, an approach that is attentive to the negotiation, regulation and mediation of data between heterogeneous parties at the moments when infrastructures manifest themselves. Methodologically, we developed an individualised data collection approach through the research personas, which allowed us to study apps from a data infrastructure perspective. Whereas the walkthrough of the registration process required the research persona to develop profiles and establish a full portfolio of social media accounts to connect to in order to collect data, capturing network connections required a mature profile beyond the dating apps under analysis in order to return ads and other individualised data. Some parts of the study did not require a research persona, namely the device permissions, which are accessible via publically available Play Store pages. Finally, collecting API data types required dedicated logins to authenticate as a developer. Therefore, to account for the multi-faceted ways in which seemingly lightweight apps broker data infrastructures this approach requires different configurations of the research persona, which is dependent on the specific data relationships.
Although the research persona offers opportunities to study data infrastructures from the perspective of apps, there are two notable methodological challenges to investigating the data infrastructures around apps. The first is that some relationships tend to remain (partly) invisible for various reasons and on various levels. A clear example is that through our methods, we could analyse which permissions were granted to the app from a social media platform or the operating system, but we were not able to analyse the data the app exchanged with these platforms. The second methodological challenge is that the infrastructural relations are maturing, security standards such as secure network connections (HTTPS) are becoming the norm rather than the exception, and invisible infrastructures are being centralized in the hands of a few dominant mediators (i.e., Google, Facebook, and Apple). Governance models, as in the case of Facebook and the mobile platforms, where apps have to apply to gain access to specific data types, limit specific data flows solely to the more mature, secure and vetted apps. As this type of empirical research builds on the intersection points of these relationships in the invisible infrastructure of networks, exploiting its weaknesses to understand the data flow of intimate data and hierarchies between actors, both trends create methodological challenges. Standardisation of SSL implementation increases the security of the overall network but limits researchers’ ability to understand the type of data that is mediated between different actors. This is fortunate for security purposes, but researchers are limited to the established relationships, without knowing what is being shared. By contrast, more invasive methods are needed to capture data transmission over secure connections.
The overall aim of this article was to empirically analyse how apps operate and exchange data between platforms and networks by developing methods to account for the data relationships that apps establish. We developed the notion of intimate data to account for the specificity of app data. To empirically study how apps operate in infrastructures of intimate data, we used a data collection approach through the use of a research persona with the aim of capturing and analysing the data flows in and out of dating apps. In our analysis, we took on multiple and intersecting perspectives that provided analytical entry points into studying apps’ data infrastructures – i.e., the app-user, app-device, app-social media, app-network and app-developer data relationships. Although each method provides a partial view of the infrastructural settings dating apps are embedded in and can be useful for research on its own merits, the multi-perspective provides insights into apps as in-between brokers in the larger app-infrastructure. This approach offers a contribution to the fields of platform, data and app studies by moving beyond the app as an object of study to apps as mediators of visible and invisible data relationships. In which we conceptualised the role of apps as in-between brokers, contingently recombining data from heterogeneous origins and simultaneously making them available for external parties. The specificity of the five intersecting data points identified the central role of mobile platforms in regulating and controlling access to device-based data flows that are arguably central to the medium-specificity of apps. We invite future research in this area to continue to explore the infrastructural relations of apps and how they involve a diversity of often obfuscated parties, with the purpose of further enriching our understanding of how apps work, generate value and are entangled with everyday practices.
We would like to thank Emile den Tex (Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam) for his tool development, technical expertise, and commentaries. We would also like to thank Joana Moll and the participants and designers of the Digital Methods Summer (2017) that participated in the Dat(a)ing project: Beatrice Gobbo, Giacomo Flaim, Andrea Benedetti, Amanda Greene, Cindy Krassen, Lulia Coanda, Laetitia Della Bianca, Lauren Teeling, Liping Liu, Mace Ojala, Philip Hutchison Barry, Rebekka Stoffel, Simon Boas and Sofie Thorsen. Finally, we would like to thank the anonymous reviewers and editors of this journal’s special issue.
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Esther Weltevrede is an assistant professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She holds a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for the project ‘apps and data infrastructures.’ Her research interests include digital methods, software and platform studies, app studies, data infrastructures, and social media automation.
Fieke Jansen is a PhD candidate at the Data Justice Lab, as part of the ERC funded DATAJUSTICE project. She looks at the effects of data on society. Her research focuses on the impact of implementing data-driven decision-making in European police forces. Prior Fieke worked at several NGO’s on the intersection of data protection, privacy, digital security and human rights.
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Matsakis, “Facebook’s New Data-Sharing Policies” ↩
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Bogost and Montfort, “Platform Studies“; Helmond, “The platformization of the web”; Borra and Rieder, “Programmed Method”; van Dijck, “the Culture of Connectivity”; Gillespie, “The Politics of ‘Platforms.” ↩
Plantin et al., “Infrastructure Studies Meet Platform Studies in the Age of Google and Facebook” ↩
Bogost and Montfort, “Platform Studies”; Bucher, “Objects of Intense Feeling”; Gerlitz and Helmond, “The Like Economy” ↩
McVeigh-Schultz and Baym, “Thinking of You: Vernacular Affordance”; David and Cambre, “Screened Intimacies“ ↩
Duguay, “Dressing up Tinderella” ↩
Albury et al, “Data Cultures of Mobile Dating”; Lutz and Ranzini “Where Dating Meets Data” ↩
Morris and Elkins, “FCJ-181 There’s a History for That” ↩
Chun, “Updating to remain the same” ↩
David and Cambre, “Screened Intimacies“ ↩
Albury et al, “Data Cultures of Mobile Dating” ↩
Dieter et al, “Multi-situated app studies” ↩
A trend described in business literature, February 13, 2019: https://theblog.adobe.com/experience-led-commerce-from-personalisation-to-individualisation/ ↩
Star, “The Ethnography of Infrastructure” ↩
Bowker, “Science on the run” ↩
Star and Ruhleder, “Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure,” 112. ↩
Star and Ruhleder, “Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure,” 113 ↩
As such we aim to contribute to advancing ‘data infrastructure literacy’ for apps, see Gray et al, “Data Infrastructure Literacy” ↩
Light, Burgess, and Duguay, “The Walkthrough Method” ↩
Light, Burgess, and Duguay, “The Walkthrough Method,” 881–886 ↩
IDC, “OS data overview” https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/os ↩
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Most popular gay dating apps https://www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/here-are-the-worlds-most-popular-hook-up-apps-for-gay-dudes; https://www.travelgayasia.com/gay-dating-apps-survey-2016/ ↩
Most popular young professional dating apps; https://www.bustle.com/articles/144065-9-best-dating-apps-for-busy-young-professionals ↩
13 best Free dating apps; http://www.datingadvice.com/online-dating/free-dating-apps ↩
Bastian et al., “Gephi,” ↩
Mauri et al, “RAWGraphs” ↩
Kelly et al., “A conundrum of permissions” ↩
Felt et al., “Android permissions demystified” ↩
Enk et al., “TaintDroid” ↩
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Android documentation, “Building better apps with Runtime Permissions”, https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2015/08/building-better-apps-with-runtime.html ↩
Android documentation on permission classification, https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/permissions/overview#normal-dangerous ↩
In a security analysis of dating apps, the authors argue for conducting regular permissions analyses because ‘each time your app updates, it can gain additional permissions on your mobile device,’ see Hay et al., IBM Security Analysis” ↩
Since Android has moved to runtime permissions, future research into device permissions may prefer to make use of the AndroidManifest.xml of apps, where developers indicate the protected permissions the app uses by means of the tags. ↩
Digital Methods Initiative, “ Google Play Similar Apps“ https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolGooglePlaySimilar ↩
Comparing the current list with the 5.9 version categories, there are some changes. For example, the categories Device & app history, Identity, and Wi-Fi connection information no longer exist, while others have been renamed – Photos/Media/Files became Storage – and some permissions have been moved to another category, such as permissions from Identity that have been moved to Contacts. An overview of the groupings can be found here: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/6014972?hl=en&ref_topic=6046245 ↩
Ye, et al., “Formal Analysis of a Single Sign-On Protocol” ↩
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Ghasemisharif et al., “An Empirical Analysis of Single Sign-On”; Ye, et al., “Formal Analysis of a Single Sign-On Protocol” ↩
Fuchs, “Baidu, Weibo and Renren” ↩
Schneier, “Data and Goliath” ↩
Facebook, Data Policy, Last Modified: April 19, 2018. https://www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy ↩
Facebook for Developers, “API and Other Platform Product Changes” https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/04/04/facebook-api-platform-product-changes/ ↩
Facebook for Developers, “Recent Changes to Facebook Login“ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/changelog ↩
Gerlitz and Helmond, “The Like Economy” ↩
e.g. Field Guide to the Cloud ↩
Because we used different, existing profiles for this part of the walkthrough, we did not include it in the visualisation of the graphical user interface in Figure 1, which visualises the registration process with a new, clean profile. ↩
Let’s Encrypt, “About Let’s Encrypt,” https://letsencrypt.org/about/ ↩
For Tinder: Internet Archive, “Tinder Face Scraper,” https://web.archive.org/web/20170701201525/https://github.com/scoliann/TinderFaceScraper; GitHub, “Tinder,” https://github.com/fbessez/Tinder; For OkCupid: GitHub, “OKCupidjs,” https://github.com/tranhungt/okcupidjs; OKCupyd, “Read the docs,” http://okcupyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html; For Grinder: Grindr, “Unofficial Grindr API Documentation,” https://github.com/tomlandia/fuckr/blob/master/unofficial-grindr-api-documentation.md ↩
Internet Archive, “Tinder Face Scraper,” https://web.archive.org/web/20170701201525/https://github.com/scoliann/TinderFaceScraper; GitHub, “Tinder,” https://github.com/fbessez/Tinder ↩
GitHub, “OKCupidjs,” https://github.com/tranhungt/okcupidjs; GitHub, “readthedocs,” http://okcupyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html ↩
GitHub, “unofficial-grindr-api-documentation,” https://github.com/tomlandia/fuckr/blob/master/unofficial-grindr-api-documentation.md. ↩
Gerlitz and Helmond, “The Like Economy”; Helmond, “The platformization of the web” ↩
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CYC Blog • Digital divide -- Cleveland
News5: Digital divide in Cleveland among worst in the country
News5 Cleveland (WEWS): Digital divide in Cleveland among worst in the country
From the broadcast:
Living in the Stone Age – that is how some AT&T customers in Cleveland describe the quality of the internet service they’re getting from the communications giant.
The company is accused of failing to upgrade certain communities in the city with faster fiber technology.
Civil rights attorney Daryl Parks is representing three Cleveland women who he says live in neighborhoods with slow internet.
Turns out, many Clevelanders have no home connection at all.
With so much of what we do these days online, it is so shocking to learn about 40% of households in the City of Cleveland do not have internet access.
Nationally, that number sits at 15%.
There are several reasons we have so many people unable to stay connected at home.
Rachelle Lee is studying early childhood education at Cuyahoga County Community College. She told News 5 her AT&T internet connection is very slow.
“It takes forever to open up the page, to get online,” said Lee.
Doing schoolwork at home is nearly impossible.
“I do go to the Woodland branch library,” said Lee.
Lee is one of the plaintiffs in the complaint filed against AT&T.
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John Yoo Celebrates Sunshine Week
Sunshine Week, according to its website, is “a national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include print, broadcast and online news media, civic groups, libraries, nonprofits, schools and others interested in the public’s right to know.”
The University of Virginia here in Charlottesville is doing its part by hosting book tour stops for the chief author of the worst secret laws ever established. John Yoo will be speaking at the Miller Center and at an event hosted by the Federalist Society. Yoo will be speaking in support of unlimited presidential power, including the power to create secret laws.
When we think of government openness, we usually think in terms of allowing the public to verify that the government is properly executing the laws. There are no provisions for allowing the public to request access to know what the laws are, because laws are by definition public. Unless, that is, the laws are memos written by people like John Yoo at the request of a president.
Why would such memos be kept secret? Because sometimes the purpose of the memos is to legalize blatant crimes, to overturn actual laws with secret laws — something a U.S. president does not have a constitutional right to do, no matter whether it’s “wartime” or not. News of presidential “laws” legalizing obvious crimes could stir up concerns. Better to keep them in reserve as a legal defense if needed. In fact, Yoo wrote memos to legalize some crimes that had already occurred. But who was going to know which came first, the crime or the “law”, as long as it all stayed secret?
Yoo legalized aggressive war at the whim of any president, brushing aside the US Constitution, the War Powers Act, and the UN Charter, creating a new (secret) law in their place. Yoo legalized imprisoning people without any due process, tossing out habeas corpus and half the Bill of Rights. He legalized warrantless spying and torture, in blatant violation of real laws, public laws, laws passed by the legislative branch of the government and placed in the US Code of Law.
Yoo used shoddy scholarship, amateurish lawyering, and absurd reasoning to “legalize” just about whatever the president wanted legalized. Yoo explains now that he was hurried and pressured. Yet he does not retract any of his claims of presidential power. In fact, Yoo has made clear that he wants no limits whatsoever on presidential power. A president, in Yoo’s view, can nuke a city if he is so inclined, and another and another until the world is gone. That’s his right. So, of course, he can spy without warrants, torture, and anything else he likes, regardless of how many precedents the memos overlook or misconstrue.
Bush might not have attacked Iraq without Yoo’s work to secretly “legalize” that invasion. A million Iraqis could still be alive if not for what Yoo and his colleagues did. And had the public been permitted to see what they were doing, we would not have allowed it.
Friday will be Yoo’s second appearance at the Miller Center, which claims they invite him to balance out those who speak against him. Yet the Miller Center has never, to my knowledge, invited a member of the ANTI-war movement to speak.
On Friday Cindy Sheehan (Peace of the Action), Susan Harman (National Accountability Network), Ray McGovern (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity), Charlotte Dennett (Robert Jackson Steering Committee), Mike Ferner and Ann Wright (Veterans for Peace), Debra Sweet (World Can’t Wait), Shahid Buttar (Bill of Rights Defense Committee), Nancy Mancias (CODE PINK: Women for Peace), Dahr Jamail (journalist), and Mark Lane (attorney), will be leading an anti-war march and a rally to protest John Yoo’s defiance of the rule of public law. We think we’ll be adding more to Sunshine Week than Yoo will. Join us: http://hoosagainstyoo.org
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One Hundred Strokes for the Brush Before sleep by Melissa Parente, translated by Lawrence Venuti
Suicide Blonde may be the tale of Jesse, a sexual explorer in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. In deep love with an emotionally remote man that is bisexual used as a caretaker for a Boschian figure known as Madame Pig, Jesse seeks meaning and stimulation. Her foil is Madison, effective and breathtaking and poisonous, whom makes her living giving and doubting the dreams of other people. The novel has memorable fisting scene that I’ve never ever quite had the opportunity to shake since reading it at age thirteen, and a full page for web page wide range of astonishing, illuminating brutality and initial seriously considered the life span of this human body.
Written once the writer ended up being an adolescent and posted in English underneath the name that is semi-anonymous P.” in 2003, this brief, immersive novel is styled because the journal of the fourteen-year-old Italian woman who glides in some sort of trance from her very first intimate experience to increasingly debauched experiments with sadomasochism, team intercourse, and anonymous encounters with men and women. Told having a lonely singularity, it is a tale of hunger for experience: “I would like to feel my heart melt, would you like to see my icy stalactites shatter and plunge as a river of passion and beauty.”
Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
Printed in three handsomely-bound volumes, Lost Girls is just a visual novel loosely organized around a tale in regards to the Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy, Alice In Wonderland’s Alice, and Peter Pan’s Wendy encountering one another within an Austrian resort regarding the eve of World War I. Sexual storytelling, breakthrough, and a veritable encyclopedia of hijinks ensue. Lost Girls is distinguished by its undoubtedly omnivorous approach to sexuality — no taboo is kept unexplored — in addition to by Gebbie’s luminous pictures. Written over a length of sixteen years, Gebbie and Moore’s work is a collaboration that is true with Gebbie’s artwork providing the narrative pushback required to rein in Moore’s famously verbose design. Lost Girls is really a work that accomplishes Gebbie’s thoughtful initial motivation: “once I had been about 10, that has been whenever I first began considering intercourse officially,I thought, ‘There must be a beautiful book somewhere, that will tell me everything I want to know, and it will be beautiful, and everything will be explained, and once I see it, I will know everything there is to know about sex” she says, “and.’ Not to mention, there is no guide. There never ever is a guide. And I also finally got to be able to do one.”
The Vanishing Princess by Jenny Diski
This effective number of Diski’s work that is fearless her recognized to a much wider readership — unfortunately posthumously, because it had been posted after her untimely death from cancer tumors in April 2016. These tales explore the interior everyday everyday lives of females whom understand how small their crazy and selves that are wondrous be included by the categories with which other people define them. The realms of desire while the take that is beloved phase in several of these narratives. The story “Housewife” epitomizes the secret trick Diski plays in a variety of registers and keys, welcoming your reader in to the lush and shockingly vivid sexual play between a housewife inside her fifties along with her clandestine enthusiast — an arrangement salutary to your old-fashioned spouse that knows absolutely nothing from it. Styling one another “Witch” and “Witchfinder,” these enthusiasts produce a world all of their very own: “ you asked‘Do you want more. And I also begged for the saliva, a river from it. … I as you angry, my demented Kentish batwitch. You might be beside me, for the reason that spot (in every the places) in your geographical area in me personally.”
Excavation by Wendy C. Ortiz
Posted by Future Tense Books in 2014, Excavation may be the nonfiction that is creative of Ortiz’s girlhood, the storyline of her coming-of-age. Center stage is her relationship aided by the predatory center school teacher whom cultivates her youthful sexuality and wish to have attention, and something layer of Excavation is just a harrowing story of punishment, invisibility, and psychological chaos. Nevertheless the energy of Ortiz’s prose that is dynamic and refigures the tropes associated with victim/perpetrator paradigm that therefore notifies the most popular knowledge of stories like hers. With unflinching emotional acuity and penetrating intellect, Ortiz recreates the conflicted and vivid phenomenology of her more youthful self’s nascent desire — as well as in using her energy straight right straight back remakes a genre.
Just Exactly What Belongs To You Personally by Garth Greenwell
Obsessive, exact, and remarkably elegant, Greenwell’s first novel is not not as much as painfully clarion in inducing the irrepressible melancholy and overwhelming ecstasy of the condemned and indelible relationship between two guys, A american abroad in addition to young intercourse worker with who he becomes preoccupied. This juxtaposition of desire and knowledge makes exactly What Belongs to you personally winsomely heartbreaking: “There’s one thing theatrical in every our embraces, i believe, we perceive or task; always we want an excessive amount of or otherwise not sufficient, and make up correctly. once we weigh our reactions against those”
The Unknown University by Roberto Bolaсo, translated by Laura Healy
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The Climate’s Already Too Hot for Nuclear Power
Thursday Sep. 27th, 2018
John LaForge
The single reactor Ft. Calhoun station near Omaha, Nebraska was inundated by Missouri River flooding in June 2011. Missouri floodwaters also threatened the Cooper reactor in Brownville, Nebraska, which narrowly escaped a shutdown. Ft. Calhoun was permanently closed in 2016, but still “stores” 600,000 to 800,000 pounds (300 to 400 tons) of high level radioactive waste fuel in the floodplain.
With the summer’s record high temp’s all over the world, Andy Rowell asked this pointed question in the Earth Island Journal online: “For the last decade the nuclear industry has been telling us it is the solution to climate change. But if their reactors can’t work in our rapidly warming world, are we just building a whole new generation of expensive white elephants?”
Indeed, Reuters reported Aug. 4 that Electricity de France (EDF) in Paris shut down four nuclear reactors at three sites due to the heat summer wave. EDF, the mostly government-owned utility, ordered the shut downs because the scorching summer heat that slammed Europe drastically raised temperatures in the Rhone and Rhine Rivers. Temperatures reached 98.6°F in the Rhone valley, home to 14 reactors. Highs in Spain and Portugal in early August hovered around 104°F and reached 116.6°F.
The warming of seawater caused by Europe’s heat wave forced Finland’s two Loviisa reactors, about 65 miles outside Helsinki, to reduce power in July, just as it did before, in 2010 and 2011, Reuters reported.
The July 2006 heat wave also forced European reactor operators to reduce or halt production due to dramatic increases in the temperature of river waters. The Guardian reported back then that Spain shut down its reactor on the River Ebro. Reactor operators in Germany also cut output then, and several German and French units were allowed to temporarily violate temperature limits on the hot water the reactors return to rivers.
Nuclear reactors exacerbate global warming
In 2003, temperatures in French rivers reached record highs that also forced the temporary powering down of four reactors. France’s nuclear oversight authority then gave some reactor operators permission to return the river water at temperatures not normally allowed, a move that critics said would endanger fish and add to global warming.
Meanwhile, rising sea levels threaten to shutter one-out-of-four of the world’s 460 power reactors currently built on coastlines. John Vidal reports in the Aug. 21 edition of Hakai magazine that experts have warned that even newly built seawalls may not provide sufficient protection. Vidal interviewed Pete Roche, a former adviser to the UK government and Greenpeace, who pointed out that the seawall at the $25-billion “Hinkley Point C” nuclear station being built in southwest England “does not adequately take into account sea-level rise due to climate change.”
“In fact,” Vidal reports, research by Ensia - a nonprofit environmental magazine published at the University of Minnesota -- suggests that “at least 100 US, European, and Asian nuclear power stations built just a few meters above sea level could be threatened by serious flooding caused by accelerating sea-level rise and more frequent storm surges.”
The two St. Lucie reactors in Florida are among the US coastal nuclear sites considered most vulnerable to storm surges. While no US reactors have been “in imminent danger of a meltdown because of a storm surge,” Vidal notes, there have been many close calls. “Three US reactors were temporarily shut down because of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and a fourth, Oyster Creek in New Jersey, was put on alert when water levels rose dramatically, according to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.”
But the NRC is not concerned about storm surges. In August 2017, as Hurricane Harvey pummeled east Texas, environmental groups called for the immediate shutdown of the two South Texas Project reactors near Bay City. Instead, the twin, 42-year-old behemoths were kept running at full capacity throughout the disaster, the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the United States.
- John LaForge works for Nukewatch, the nuclear watchdog group in Wisconsin, edits its Quarterly newsletter, and with Arianne Peterson co-edited Nuclear Heartland, Revised: A Guide to the 450 Land-Based Missiles of the United
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Dyson is moving its headquarters to Singapore
Dyson has announced that it is moving its headquarters to Singapore from Malmesbury in Wiltshire.
The move by the appliance maker means two executives will relocate – chief financial officer Jorn Jensen and chief technical officer Martin Bowen.
Other work at Malmesbury will not be affected and no jobs will be lost.
Chief executive Jim Rowan said it was not to do with Brexit or tax but added: “It’s to make us future-proof for where we see the biggest opportunities.”
He added: “We have seen an acceleration of opportunities to grow the company from a revenue perspective in Asia. We have always had a revenue stream there and will be putting up our best efforts as well as keeping an eye on investments.
“We would describe ourselves as a global technology company and in fact we have been a global company for some time. Most successful companies these days are global.”
British bases
Dyson already has a presence in Singapore and in October announced plans to build its new electric car in its new factory there.
Most of its products are designed in the UK, but manufactured in Asia.
The company was keen to stress that it will still be investing money in its British bases.
Mr Rowan said it would be spending £200m in new buildings and testing facilities in Hullavington, and £44m in refreshing office space and adding new laboratories in Malmesbury as well as investing £31m for the young undergraduates at its university on the same site.
“Malmesbury has been the epicentre for us and we will continue to invest all over the UK,” he added.
“The tax difference is negligible for us,” added Mr Rowan, who confirmed that the company would be registered in Singapore, rather than in the UK.
“We are taxed all over the world and we will continue to pay tax in the UK.”
By Theo Leggett, BBC business correspondent
Dyson’s Chief executive Jim Rowan said today he would describe the business as a global technology company.
However, because its roots are in Britain and its founder Sir James Dyson has been a vocal supporter of Brexit, the decision to move its headquarters to Singapore is likely to make political waves.
In practical terms, the change is a minor one. Two senior executives will be transferred to the Singapore office, where the company itself will now be registered.
There will be no impact on its 4000 workers in Britain, and according to Mr Rowan, little impact on its tax affairs either. In 2017, it paid £95 million to the Exchequer.
It will continue to invest in its UK research and engineering sites in Malmesbury, London and Bristol, as well as a new centre in Hullavington, where it plans to develop a ground-breaking electric car.
But the change is still highly symbolic.
How Singapore sucked in James Dyson
A growing Asian market and fears of Corbyn drew the inventor to the east, writes John Arlidge
Sir James Dyson, with his wife Deirdre, plans to produce electric cars in Singapore
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Pioneer Crescent: Sir James Dyson could scarcely have chosen any other street on which to build his factory in Singapore. Raindrops the size of gobstoppers pounded the roof on a recent visit, forcing Hengky Wirawan, the plant’s leader, to shout to make himself heard as he showed off the production line.
“If you have a vacuum cleaner or hairdryer, the motor will have come from here,” he yelled. “We make one every 2.6 seconds.” Dyson keeps a close eye, even from his Gloucestershire estate. The factory floor is “live and connected to an app, so if James wants to look at it, he can,” said another staffer, Pinky Leong.
The billionaire inventor will soon be keeping an even closer eye on the Singaporean part of his empire. Last week he announced plans to move his headquarters from Malmesbury in Wiltshire to the city state. It is part of an estimated £1bn investment that will also see Dyson open the first car plant there for a generation to make his new electric car.
Critics lined up to accuse the arch-Brexiteer — who advocates a no-deal split from Europe — of fleeing the chaos the threat of no deal is creating just weeks before Britain is due to leave the EU. Labour MP Wes Streeting accused him of “rank hypocrisy”, saying he had “no sense of responsibility” to his country.
Company insiders concede Dyson is disappointed Theresa May’s compromise deal will, if approved, make it harder for Britain to negotiate comprehensive new global free trade deals. But they insist he is far more concerned by the possibility that Jeremy Corbyn might emerge from the morass as prime minister. “A general election is not out of the question, nor a Corbyn victory, and James and Jeremy Corbyn have diametrically opposed views on business,” said one staffer.
Dyson, 71, also wants to make sure that, as he takes his biggest gamble — he is betting £2.5bn that he can make the first upscale electric car using solid state batteries — he is doing it in a region that has the biggest market for electric cars, and where most of the essential components are made. His company, which turns over £4.4bn and employs almost 9,000 people worldwide, will do much of the R&D for the car in Wiltshire, “but it would be stupid to think we could build our own automotive manufacturing plant while our management sat 7,000 miles away,” Dyson said.
Some are not surprised by his Asian takeaway. Dyson, who has a £9.5bn fortune and whose firm last week reported record annual profits of £1.1bn for 2018, has not hidden his admiration for Singapore. In a recent interview with The Sunday Times to coincide with the factory visit, he praised its support for manufacturing, technology and education and the global outlook of ministers. It is an “exciting, ambitious” nation “unapologetically focused on global trade and the future . . . from which Britain can learn as we chart our new course in the world”.
The tycoon has been investing in Singapore for more than a decade, sinking almost £500m into two manufacturing and research plants. Over 1,000 people work for Dyson there, and that number will rise to 2,000 when the car factory is completed. Only a handful of executives will transfer from the UK in the headquarters move.
Dyson sees similarities between Britain and Singapore. Each is small, with a highly educated population. That means they lack the scale to compete in mass production. Nor can they compete on price because brainy workers are expensive. But both can win in hi-tech sectors, such as complex engineering, pharmaceuticals and financial services.
That’s what Dyson calls the Singapore dream — and, whatever you think about a city with an authoritarian government, little free expression and an aversion to chewing gum, the dream has become economic reality. Two centuries almost to the day after Stamford Raffles landed and founded what became the modern city state, Singapore is growing so fast it is beginning to eclipse Hong Kong as Asia’s business capital. GDP growth is rising to $57,714 per head, compared with Hong Kong’s $46,194, the World Bank says.
Dyson is one of several British investors living the Singapore dream. Rolls-Royce’s second-biggest aero-engine plant, after Derby, is on the site of an old colonial British army barracks near Changi airport. By coincidence, Warren East, Rolls-Royce’s chief executive, sits on the board of Dyson, as a non-executive director. Bicky Bhangu, who runs Rolls-Royce Singapore with 2,500 employees under him, is investing in technology to increase production and servicing of his company’s Trent engines and will transfer the technology to the Midlands.
“We’re developing smart manufacturing, robotics, automation and 3D printing before deployment to Derby,” Bhangu said, as he looked out over the engine testing chamber whose walls are made from 1m-thick reinforced concrete.
Encouraged by the success of Dyson and Rolls-Royce, global tech giants Google and Alibaba are moving in, making Singapore the most important regional tech hub outside China.
British banks are investing heavily. Financial services in Singapore received record overseas investment in 2017 — £4.73bn. Bankers are attracted by the growing ranks of crazy rich Asians. Singapore is home to the third-largest number of multi-millionaires, according to analysts at GlobalData WealthInsight.
How has this tiny speck of a city, once so dull it was nicknamed the Isle of Wight of Asia, become so attractive to world-beating businesses? The government invests heavily in the hardware and software of the city, much as Dyson does in his products. Ministers are behind the expansion of the free port that Dyson will use to export his cars to China, and the construction of two new terminals and one new runway at Changi in half the time it has taken Heathrow to get first-stage approval for a third runway.
The government also backs Singapore’s people. Its schools and universities turn out one of the world’s most highly educated workforces, especially in engineering. “The quality you can achieve with the graduates here and the speed with which you can achieve it” makes it worth paying the high wages they command, Dyson said.
The government keeps taxes low. Corporation tax is 17% but can be cut to 8.5% with exemptions and incentives. Dyson won’t comment on what breaks he gained, but the company said the change in its bill would be “negligible”. There is zero tax on capital gains and dividends.
Dyson has taken steps to mitigate his tax bill in the past. He has amassed 33,000 acres of agricultural land, making him a bigger landowner than the Queen (farmland is exempt from inheritance tax). And he has put money into several tax-deferral film investment schemes.
Geography favours Singapore. It is a member of the Asean trade bloc, which has a free-trade relationship with China. That was part of the draw for Dyson. Being near China — but not in it— is politically attractive, too.
Weak trade unions and the stability that one-party rule guarantees also help to lure investors. The centre-right People’s Action Party has dominated Singapore’s politics since independence from Britain in 1963. Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong has been in power for 15 years.
Softer factors include the rule of law, the English language, no corruption, low pollution and what Loh Lik Peng, a former lawyer who is now the city’s best-known hotelier and restaurateur, calls “a new ‘can do’ spirit. Thirty years ago everyone wanted to be a professional. Now it’s about being an entrepreneur.” There are some clouds on the horizon, though. China’s belt and road initiative threatens Singapore’s port. Debt is high — 114.3% of GDP, the International Monetary Fund says. The trade war between America and China threatens growth. The population is ageing and immigration falling. Income inequality is rising. The film Crazy Rich Asians was a tasteless joke to locals who struggle to make ends meet. There are even hints of political unrest, mainly on social media.
But these problems will be swept aside tomorrow when prime minister Lee launches the Light to Night festival to kick-start Singapore’s year-long bicentenary festivities. He will recall the aspiration of his father, the late Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore, that it should become the “Boston of the East”. Dyson’s decision suggests it already has.
Additional reporting: John Collingridge
Great ideas, shame about the engineering
When they arrive at Dyson’s Wiltshire campus, recruits are handed a copy of its founder’s autobiography, Against the Odds, writes Liam Kelly.
The ritual gives a glimpse of what former workers at the vacuums-to-hairdryers empire describe as the “cult of personality”.
Sir James Dyson, 71, has become a business hero since he left the Royal College of Art in the 1970s and developed a wheelbarrow with a red plastic ball at the front. An estimated 67m homes around the world now own one of his products.
With fame and power has come a quirky corporate culture. A cadre of middle managers “second-guess what they think James would like, and do things in his name”, said a former manager. Teams are discouraged from communicating and the company is “unusual and inward-looking”, he added.
Dyson is still involved with all products. “It’s really cool, because you get to have meetings with him,” said a former engineer. “But also kind of annoying, because it’s really hard to make decisions unless James Dyson makes them.”
One former employee described the man known as JD as “like a nice old grandad”. Another engineer who attended product meetings described Dyson as “friendly and approachable”, adding that he “didn’t dominate the conversation at all”.
Not all workers think they are in the presence of an engineering genius. “He’s a great ideas man,” said one. “I don’t think he’s a great engineer. Engineering is about getting the final solution with the smallest number of steps.”
Dyson famously took 15 years — and 5,127 attempts — to make his first bagless vacuum cleaner.
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The HGTV Smart Home built in Roanoke for its 2019 annual sweepstakes giveaway has a winner: Maureen Rustrian, a credit analyst from Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
According to a release, Rustrian's name was randomly drawn from 97 million entries to win a prize package worth over $1.2 million. The giveaway includes the residence, furnishings, a 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLE, and $100,000 from LendingTree.
She discovered she won when she was ambushed at her home by HGTV designer and host Tiffany Brooks.
The HGTV crew first ambushed Rustrian’s husband at his fitness studio, enlisting his help to surprise his wife with a backyard summer barbecue that same evening, using the ruse that a friend from Boston was in town on business.
"I thought it was a joke at first, but then I realized that no one would actually have all this equipment with the cameras, lights, and microphones," Rustrian says in a statement. "And then, I heard Tiffany's voice — it's so distinct — and it slowly started to sink in."
Planned and built by local firm Highland Homes, the home is in a Roanoke development called Fairway Ranch, a sustainable community with walking trails, greenbelts, a community pool, and parks.
The residence spans 3,400 square feet, with three bedrooms and three-and-a-half baths, and an "Old-World retreat" aesthetic. It features smart technology and energy-efficient materials.
Rustrian is a self-proclaimed HGTV addict who entered the giveaway online twice a day, every day during the sweepstakes period. She and her husband have never been to Texas, but will visit the home in the coming weeks.
According to Country Living, few people who win HGTV homes, whether the Smart Home or the more popular Dream Home, end up moving in. The majority take cash instead.
In that scenario, they can still keep the furnishings, car, and cash portion of the prize.
Rustrian's ambush will be documented in an HGTV Smart Home Giveaway Special premiering August 16 at 12 pm on HGTV.
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Improvement of existing buildings for sustainability as against maintenance and rebuild
Adeyemi , Adegbenga and Martin , David and Kasim, Rozilah (2014) Improvement of existing buildings for sustainability as against maintenance and rebuild. In: 7th International Real Estate Research Symposium (IRERS 2014), 29-30 April 2014, National Institute of Valuation (INSPEN), Putrajaya.
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Many countries, especially in the developing world, did not meet the UN target of 2002 to achieve sustainable development because the issue of existing buildings which form the bulk of building stock were not adequately addressed. This paper did a literature review on how existing buildings could be sustained through improvement as against maintenance and rebuild; it revealed that the maintenance of unsustainable buildings could at best be returned to their unsustainable original standard at construction, while rebuild is costlier and less environmental friendly. Improvement is noted to be cheaper and more environmental friendly than rebuild, and will also reduce maintenance cost. The paper also reviewed some improvement models that can be applied for elimination of perceived waste and inefficiencies in existing buildings for sustainability.
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Following the five back‐to‐back most successful and highest‐attended seasons in its 36‐year history, The Lyric Stage Company of Boston announces all seven mainstage productions of the upcoming 2010‐2011 Season.
The Lyric Stage Company’s 37th season features their trademark variety with a selection of musicals, dramas, and comedies, including the Tony Award® winning The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and the New England premiere of David Edgar’s two‐part adaptation of Dickens’ The Life and Advenutures of Nicholas Nickleby, performed in rotating repertory. According to Producing Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos, “this new, shorter adaptation streamlines the narrative, and captures Dickens’ genius for combining exuberant characters, theatrical spectacle and genuine emotion.” In 2011 the season continues with Theresa Rebeck’s poke at theatre in The Understudy; and My Name Is Asher Lev, a young man’s poignant struggle between art and faith by Aaron Posner adapted from the novel by Chiam Potok; the inner city African‐American family drama Broke‐ology by Nathan Louis Jackson; and the Marx Brothers’ madcap musical Animal Crackers.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
September 3 through October 2, 2010
Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Book by Rachel Sheinkin
Conceived by Rebecca Feldman
Award‐Winning Musical Comedy
Directed and Choreographed by Stephen Terrell
Musical Direction by Jonathan Goldberg
Featuring Will McGarrahan, Lisa Yuen
Can you spell “centavo?” A quirky cast of characters hope to win the 25th Annual Spelling Bee. School‐age angst combines with current event improvisation as volunteer audience members join in for some fun competition.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Parts I and II in Rotating Repertory
October 21 through December 19, 2010
By David Edgar, adapted from the Charles Dickens novel, newly revised in 2006
New England Premiere
Once‐In‐A‐Lifetime Dickens Spectacular!
Directed by Elliot Norton Award winner Spiro Veloudos
Associate Director: Courtney O’Connor
Including Leigh Barrett, Peter A. Carey, Neil A. Casey, Larry Coen, Jack Cutmore Scott, Kerry Dowling, Nigel Gore, Maureen Keiller, Will Lyman, and more!
Producing Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos, “this new, shorter adaptation streamlines the narrative, and captures Dickens’ genius for combining exuberant characters, theatrical spectacle, and genuine emotion.” A cast of 25 plays over 150 characters in this remarkable two‐part play with music. Winner of both the Tony Award ® for Best Play and The Olivier Award for Play of the Year, it has never been produced in Boston. We’re pulling out all the stops for this incredible once‐in‐a‐lifetime experience.
The Understudy
January 1 through 29, 2011
By Theresa Rebeck
Boston Premiere
Smart New Comedy
Directed by Elliot Norton Award winner Larry Coen
Featuring Kelby T. Akin (Cat On A Hot Tin Roof)
When a Hollywood action star who is trying to prove himself in a serious Broadway play comes up against a new understudy with a chip on his shoulder and a tangled romantic past, the results are hilarious. Lyric favorite Theresa Rebeck pokes affectionate fun at the inner workings of the world of the theatre in this smart new comedy.
My Name Is Asher Lev
February 11 through March 12, 2011
By Aaron Posner
Adapted from the novel by Chaim Potok
Struggle Between Tradition and Art
Directed by Elliot Norton Award winner Scott Edmiston
My Name Is Asher Lev follows the journey of a controversial young Jewish painter torn between his Hassidic upbringing and his desire to paint. His artistic gift threatens to estrange him from his sheltered religious community in postwar Brooklyn and the parents he loves. While his mother is caught between her son and her husband, Asher must choose between his art and his faith.
Broke‐ology
March 25 through April 23, 2010
By Nathan Louis Jackson
Family At A Crossroads
Featuring Johnny Lee Davenport
A stirring portrait of an inner‐city African‐ American family’s defining moments. As they long for simpler times, tension builds between two brothers as their conflicting interests churn into a surprising outcome.
May 6 through June 4, 2010
Book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind
Music & Lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Henry Ruby
Adapted by Harry Wishcamper
Madcap Musical Mayhem!
Hilarity ensues in this classic Marx Brothers musical when Mrs. Rittenhouse’s swanky house party honoring the African explorer Captain Spaulding is interrupted by the pilfering of a prominent painting. Screwball antics arise as the guests search for the thief. An adaptation of the original Broadway hit and classic film that was a recent hit for the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, features favorite songs including “Three Little Words” and others. Hooray for Captain Spaulding!
Compiled from the press release courtesy of Lyric Stage Company of Boston (website | profile | tag archive).
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Super Producer Bryan Michael-Cox, Maxwell, Siedah Garrett And Toyota Honor Music Veterans And Emerging, Young Artists
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DJ Swiff, Kawan Prather, Big Boi, Kap G, Andre 3000
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Mariah Carey is back. Check out her latest single ‘Triumphant’ featuring Meek Mill and Rick Ross. “Triumphant” is the first single from Mariah’s forthcoming new album, due out next year. The song was co-produced by Bryan-Michael Cox and longtime collaborator Jermaine Dupri.
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Today the Drugs, Sex, and Swagger of the 1980s Lakers–Plus How They’d Match Up to the Miami Heat
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These were one of the biggest NBA teams to take the hardwood ever. And a week ago, the travails associated with 1980s Lakers—including Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and advisor Pat Riley—put activities journalist Jeff Pearlman pretty immediately right right back in the nyc instances bestseller list. We chatted towards the previous Sports Illustrated columnist about Showtime, their buzzy brand brand new Lakers book that charts the electric stylings and all-time impact of this Los Angeles that is dynastic group. Read his simply simply take regarding the players’ intercourse everyday everyday everyday lives, their on-court rivalries, and another infamous GQ address that helped sink Riley’s likeability. Shows:
In their autobiography, A View From Above, Wilt Chamberlain stated he slept with 20,000 ladies. Through the noises from it in your guide Showtime, it seems the 1980′s Lakers just weren’t far faraway from that tally. So just how big of a task did intercourse have fun with this particular group?
Well, a great deal. But in addition maybe perhaps maybe not a whole lot. Some tips about what after all: The Lakers had been celebrities in a hot town at a time whenever HIV understanding was not here yet, and groupies had been at their peak of appeal. There have been feamales in resort lobbies, women away from arena, ladies in the arena. Every-where. In addition they desired to have sexual intercourse. Therefore Lakers players did—often. But. . . it was not all that uncommon within the world of pro recreations. The Knicks, i am guessing, had a lot of intercourse. As well as the Cavs. And also the Clippers—well, perhaps not the Clippers. But the majority groups. Generally there was large amount of infidelity on offer the league buy a bride online, and I also’m uncertain the Lakers had been extremely unique for the reason that respect. They simply occurred to own a star who ended up with HIV. Which brings a massive level of additional focus on the behavior.
The fact that the team’s owner, Dr. Jerry Buss, ended up being frequently seen by having a cadre of women half his age by their side did not alter that impression, either. But Buss did more than simply date these females. He place them through university, aided them access it their legs in Los Angeles. Just exactly just What made Dr. Buss therefore unique as an owner?</p>
People utilize terms like visionary way too frequently, but he was a visionary. He said he wanted people who were visiting Hollywood to see a celebrity to know they’d have that at a Lakers game when he purchased the franchise in 1979. He got rid associated with the organ player and began utilising the USC marching musical organization. He then piped in stone music. He began the Laker Girls. The NBA today—loud, annoying, shit flying through the atmosphere, Miley Cyrus blasted beyond individual ability. . . that is all Buss’s eyesight of creating the NBA activity, not simply sport. He had been the first ever to view it. Pure genius.
But he additionally remained taken care of of baseball choices, and trusted those around him to create decisions that are wise. Their own big disturbance, player-wise, had been as he almost traded James Worthy to Dallas for Mark Aguirre and Roy Tarpley. General manager Jerry western discovered of this deal, told Buss never to do it—and he did not. Great owner.
It wasn’t the 1950s, it had been the ’80s. Yet, the Lakers players’ spouses apparently all comprehended “the deal”—how’d Pat Riley effect that?
The team would rent out for the evening at the start of every season, Riley held a dinner at a restaurant. The spouses and girlfriends will be here using the players, and Riley would provide a lengthy, pepped-up message about every person’s roles in winning a championship. The guys had been expected to give attention to basketball—and just baseball. And also the ladies, in Riley’s terms, were incredibly important as distraction buffers. Kid crying at 2 a.m.? Woman gets up. Man hungry? Girl makes a treat. Now, just exactly just what went unspoken ended up being also, “What takes place on your way remains on your way.” Interpretation: do not ask a lot of concerns; do not add drama up to a blissful trip. And, if you act, the total outcome is likely to be bands and cash and glory for several. A bit cultish.
James Worthy’s spouse sooner or later had sufficient, however. That which was the straw that is last her and also the Lakers’ star ahead?
Worthy ended up being busted in a prostitution sting in Houston, and she had been mortified. Angela is not any joke—she’s independent and tough, and often applied other spouses wrongly because she don’t simply choose the movement. There have been definitely NBA spouses who does have stuck by having a James Worthy after this kind of scenario. Angela, but, did not wish her daughters thinking it had been okay to take care of a female this way. So she left, and soon after composed a book that is excellent empowering women. I admire her significantly.
It’s difficult to also grasp this occurring in today’s NBA, but a number of the 80′s Lakers dabbled in difficult medications. Is Spencer Haywood the hero that is tragic this group’s legacy?
perhaps Not the hero—just tragic. He waited their whole profession for an opportunity to fool around with a group just like the Lakers, and as he got here l . a . plus the nightlife as well as the medications simply consumed him alive. He desired to perform some right things—he genuinely did—but addiction is just a beast. It is funny—my mother can be an addiction professional, and I also invested my youth hearing about medications and just how they grab you and never ever let go of. This was the best—and worst—example of the we’ve ever seen. He previously it all. It was lost by him all.
Derek Jeter’s planning to set about a farewell trip for their last MLB period. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s final campaign was not exactly comfortable. Exactly what made the NBA’s all-time leading scorer so very hard for fans to love?
Well, he addressed them like fluid crap. Over and over repeatedly, and without fail. The Lakers used to travel commercial, so they really’d be when you look at the airports on the list of individuals. One after another, people would approach, requesting autographs. Magic signed and finalized. Cooper finalized and finalized. Mike Smrek, Billy Thompson, Earl Jones, Mark Landsberger—all signed, and finalized with a grin. Kareem told individuals to bug down, to have away. He hid in restroom stalls, sitting from the toilets with a novel. I do not totally blame him—he had been a museum piece for decades, and ridiculed. He encountered a lot of racism, ended up being taunted with “Lou . Lou” years after changing their name. It absolutely wasn’t effortless. But he never ever modified, and there is reasons he could never ever secure a genuine nba gig, despite being really intelligent and accomplished.
Pat Riley may be the NBA that is only head to ever grace this mag’s address, but that did not look at well with all the players. Why’d his _GQ _cover rub them the way that is wrong?
By that point, Riley had been well on their method to becoming one thing he had not constantly been—an egomaniacal “genius” (sorta self-proclaimed) who had been not any longer in in the laugh. See, that is the thing that kills lots of activities figures which go from cool to dolt—they forget exactly how none of the is specially essential. Dudes who possess perspective, whom understand making huge amount of money to dress yourself in glorified pajamas and get an object that is round would be the people whom maintain and rarely need replacing their greets. Riley was previously that man, and someplace over the method he purchased into their own buzz. He started players that are treating kids, even if these were in their 30s. He stopped playing suggestions. By the end of their time because the mind mentor, he had been genuinely loathed by Laker players whom thought their act that is whole had stale. He had beenn’t a genius. Only a actually exceptional hoops mentor.
You can find rumblings within NBA groups of genuine hostility between LeBron James and Kevin Durant. Everyone assumed Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas had been most useful of buddies, nonetheless it was not constantly the situation. Just how and exactly why did that relationship sour?
Well, they certainly were near for a lengthy stretch—used to vacation together, spend a complete lot of the time together. Nonetheless they had been additionally hardened rivals and pretty personalities that are opposite. Magic Johnson had been the deal—fierce that is real insanely intense, but type, hot, universally beloved. Great look. Thomas additionally possessed a smile that is great but he had been—frankly—largely high in shit. Never to be trusted, hated with a large amount of guys within the league. The partnership took a significant hit whenever Thomas chatted trash about Larry Bird, making an instance which he had been overrated because he had been white. Magic and Bird just weren’t near, but there clearly was a bond—Michigan State–Indiana State, going into the league together, Boston-Lakers clashes—between Johnson and Bird. Whenever Thomas made those remarks, Magic called Bird and made clear he did not agree. The Magic-Thomas relationship had been never ever the exact same.
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3000-year-old sawn-off tooth may be the earliest evidence of horse dentistry
Horses like these continue to be the center of Mongolia’s economy.
William Taylor
Three thousand years ago, a horse in Mongolia had a toothache that was probably making it—and its owner—miserable. So the owner tried to help, by attempting to saw the painful top off the offending incisor. The procedure is among the earliest evidence of veterinary dentistry in the world, according to a new study, and the practices that flowed from it may have helped horses transform human civilization.
“It’s a great study,” says Robin Bendrey, an archaeologist and ancient horse expert at the University of Edinburgh who was not involved in the work. As horses became more important, he says, nomadic herders “are investing greater effort in understanding how to care for them.”
William Taylor, an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, first came across the strange sawn tooth in the collections of the National Museum of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar. “I could not for the life of me muster an explanation,” he says.
He turned to his Mongolian colleagues, archaeologists Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan and Tumurbaatar Tuvshinjargal, who grew up in the Mongolian countryside and have firsthand knowledge of traditional horse husbandry. The group concluded that the sawn tooth was an early, if inefficient, form of dentistry. The tooth had grown in crooked and was likely painful, but rather than pulling the incisor out completely, the notch shows that the ancient herder tried to cut its top off to restore a flat chewing surface, the team reports today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . (The procedure may not have worked, as the herder only made it halfway through the tooth. Shortly after, the horse was sacrificed and ritually buried.)
Together with another cut tooth from around the same time, the discovery shows that about 2000 years after horses were first domesticated, people were still figuring out the best way to take care of their teeth using basic stone tools.
The notch in this horse incisor, which had grown in crooked, shows that a herder tried to saw part of it off.
W. Taylor et al.; Origins of Equine Dentistry, PNAS, (2018)
Over time, horse dental care in Mongolia became much more systematic, Taylor and colleagues found. In the 3000-year-old horse skulls the team studied, many horses still had their “wolf teeth”—small, pointy teeth that grow in the space between the teeth in the front of a horse’s mouth and those in their cheeks. Wolf teeth are an evolutionary relic, and horses no longer use them for chewing; many horses don’t even develop them.
In today’s horses, when wolf teeth do grow in, they occupy some of the space where the bit sits. The contact between the tooth and the metal riding equipment can cause pain and tooth damage, so both Western veterinarians and Mongolian herders routinely remove these teeth.
But back when ancient herders were making their first forays into horse dentistry, bits were still made of leather. With softer equipment, early domesticated horses could keep their wolf teeth.
Beginning around 750 B.C.E., however, nearly all of the horses Taylor’s group examined were missing their wolf teeth. In many of the skulls, they could see a healed hole where a wolf tooth had been pulled out. That shift coincides with the adoption of bronze and iron bits in Mongolia, which gave riders much greater control over their horses—but meant that wolf teeth had to go.
“They’re adapting to new ways of riding and new ways of using the horse,” says Alan Outram, an archaeologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who studies horse domestication and wasn’t involved in the new research. “People innovated fairly quickly.”
Without such innovations, world history might look a lot different. Metal bits enabled herders to use horses in war and for long distance travel, shaping Mongolia and its nomadic cultures in ways that ultimately led to the rise of Genghis Khan’s mounted army and the Mongol Empire that controlled most of Eurasia in the 13th century. “Horses absolutely transformed Mongolia into a cultural and economic center of the world,” Taylor says.
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VIFF – Personal Highlights (So Far)
October 3, 2019 October 5, 2019 Nick Wangersky
I know, it seems like every writer here is doing something like this. But then VIFF is the main focus of what’s happening locally. I haven’t gotten as much of a chance as the other two, but I still got some opportunities at this year’s VIFF.
VIFF Totally Indie Day – A day of seminars and workshops, VIFF Totally Indie Day was a great event for students and upcoming filmmakers to learn some insider tips of the industry. The day started off with Expand The Frame, where many mentors described the process and perspective of writing. After that, came a storyboarding workshop hosted by Sam Hudecki, who talked about his history in drawing, the difference between storyboards and live-action, and how he discusses things with the crew members. Next came Indie Spirits, a panel where special guests talked about their hardships of making features including inexperienced actors, finance and so much more. But despite those, their movies were still pretty well made. They also shared advice. Speaking of advice, Meet The Distributors was another great panel discussing how to properly make a marketing plan for a good future. Details included being good friends with producers, having done a couple good films for a start, rate of reaction, high social media presence and good motivation were key factors to getting a movie properly distributed. The final panel of the day was Short Form Documentary, where the panel walked about the structure of short docs, interview subjects, unexpected changes, and the backstories that go into them. It was recommended that directors have a focus group to watch the original cut then consider a recut based on suggestions for change. VIFF Totally Indie Day was great and insightful, even providing free food. A small glimpse of the day can be viewed here.
VIFF Immersed – I learned two things at this exhibit. The first being you have to pre-register somehow before attendance. Secondly, you’re not allowed to bring a camera into the exhibit. (Sorry, no video). I was lucky that not all registered attendees could make it giving me access but this exhibit’s time was unusually short. VIFF Immersed features a lot of Virtual Reality Exhibits and a special cover-type mask to go with the headsets. Due to the time restraint, I could only check out 5 of these among the 20-ish. First I checked out Mr. Buddha, where the viewer gets to experience themselves as some kind of Buddha statue in a museum and during a heist between several different thieves. That one was questionable for me. Following that was Aripi, a very strange VR exhibit about an astronaut in space who has to fix his satellite only for the whole thing to break down. I don’t know the fact that the animation moved around more than I did gave me motion sickness and stomach churns. But then, nothing is very stationary in zero gravity. 11:11 had an interesting title sounding like the time I was born and had an interesting futuristic concept about people fleeing a planet from a supposed apocalypse caused by higher ranks. I really enjoyed checking this one out. Kind of wish I had time to see all of the stories though. Speaking of future, (how many times am I going to make THIS joke?) another cool VR exhibit was Bonfire, a showcase where the viewer and their personal robot assistant get stranded on a strange planet populated by weird creatures. That one was pretty entertaining to be a part of. Finally, the 100% was a beautiful and inspiring story about a ballerina with cancer who continues to defy all boundaries and keep dancing no matter what repercussions come over her. VIFF Immersed was a cool experience provided even better with the help of MSI which has recently created a new content creation laptop with a gaming graphic for designers who are looking to make interesting new artwork.
Red Snow – One of the things I’m so relieved about is the fact that I’m currently not fighting overseas… yet. Who knows what could happen? Every soldier his their stories. In the case of a young soldier named Dylan (Asivak Koostachin), he is currently out somewhere in Afghanistan trying to take out somebody named Aman (Shafin Karim). But before he can, Dylan somehow sees relatives of his family from the past. This distracts him and he gets held hostage by the Taliban. As Dylan sits in the prison, he gets flashbacks of his past, including a broken romance after being with his cousin Asana (Miika Whiskeyjack) who killed herself, witnessing the death of a wild animal, seeing his younger brother commit suicide (also) and moving out of his land to become a soldier. But Dylan isn’t the only one feeling upset, Aman also frets about his wife whom he has lost that were very close to him. In fact, despite being in a different place than home, there are a lot of interesting similarities that he doesn’t realize. So while Dylan is held hostage for ransom, Aman’s daughter Khatira (Moshdah Jamalzadah) does some top secret business to help bust down Dylan, Aman and her little brother Tahir (Ishaan Vasdev). But will anyone truly make it out alive? Red Snow is one of the darkest yet most amazing films ever made. Setup and composition of the shots makes the film even more ominous but slowly some colour comes in as Dylan bonds with the family. The characters are people you feel you can’t familiarize with but are somehow able to given how many rough struggles they have had. The story is emotional and really gets to someone, the characters are well developed and way more than anyone would expect, and the whole film really grinds out feeling. It’s an extremely edgy thrilling film that takes place in an extremely edgy thrilling country where conditions are mixed but deadly. Truly a sinister chill that any Canadian should see, but don’t let it make you too uncomfortable.
Red Snow will be screening October 6th and 8th at Cineplex Odeon In International Village.
Haida Modern – A very special screening that I got the pleasure of attending, Haida Modern told the story of an artist named Robert Davidson who talks about his humble beginnings and how he was the first person in years to carve a totem pole to bring back indigenous celebration of art despite the anxiety of the locals. Other topics in the documentary were the family discussing their own viewpoints, how animals get carved, how being a native is now viewed as cool, and culture being provided through art. Not only did viewers learn about how Indigenous art is made, they also learned about the comeback of Indigenous art, and what kind of person Robert is, with his skills in carving he learned from his father, his colourful and interesting fashion sense, and those who know him personally. Director Charles Wilkinson met Robert through a picnic on a beach, and got inspired to cover him. Wilkinson said “The honour of being able to witness a master at work, was truly amazing.” Having gotten to travel to some cool locations around Haida Gwaii and exhibits at the States, Wilkinson enjoyed every moment of being able to cover Davidson’s journey and learn about his backstory. There were barely any struggles except for Davidson’s patience, something he is still learning to control. This documentary about a great artist was remarkable, inspiring, moving, and even kind of funny. Now that Indigenous Art has finally gotten more recognition and no longer being shut out by Canada’s society, things are definitely on the right track for Robert Davidson and many more aspiring Indigenous artists who may wish to follow the same path. As an artist myself, I thoroughly enjoy it.
Haida Modern will be screening October 11th at Vancouver Playhouse.
There’s sure to be much more to VIFF than I just mentioned, like the closing gala and a lot more films, but I’m sure Darren and/or Shaun will have something to say about that. In the meantime, it’s best to keep an eye on the festival and see what other great things come out of it.
Review Asviak Koostachin, Charles Wilkinson, Haida Modern, Red Snow, Robert Davidson, Shafin Karim, VIFF, VIFF Immersed, VIFF Totally Indie Day
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Adaptive Reuse refers to the process of reusing an old building or site and adapting it into something other than what it was originally built for. Adaptive reuse projects help conserve land, reduce urban sprawl, and preserve the history of an area. Learn more about some of the adaptive reuse projects we've completed below, and contact us today for more information.
Sheds on Charlotte
Location: 2200 Charlotte Avenue | Nashville, TN 37203
Project Type: Adaptive Reuse – Industrial to Office
Owner: 2200 Charlotte, LLC
Architect: Tuck-Hinton Architects, PLC
Completed: June 2015
The Sheds on Charlotte is a dramatic transformation of 50,000 SF of 1940s-era corrugated metal sheds into a light -filled office/retail complex encompassing an entire city block from 22nd and 23rd Avenues along Charlotte Avenue in Nashville, TN. Throughout the design and construction process, extra attention was given to keep the "bones" of the structure and many of the architectural elements of the existing building in place. An example of this can be found in the open courtyards, where the original steel trusses were left exposed and help create an outdoor space that flows seamlessly from building to building. Aluminum and glass garage doors open up to the courtyards allowing daylight and breezes into the creative work areas. Translucent wall panels were used on the end of the buildings, providing abundant natural light that accentuates the volume of the space, as well as providing a dramatic glow in the evening hours that can be seen along the Charlotte Avenue corridor.
AM Stabilizers
Location: 705 Silhavy Road | Valparaiso, IN 46383
Project Type: Substantial Rehabilitation
Size: 109,229 SF
Owner: AM Stabilizers Corp.
Architect: Holladay Properties
HCG completed this $780,000 renovation project for AM Stabilizers Corporation, a global supplier of high quality liquid and powder heat stabilizers for both flexible and rigid PVC application in 2014. AM Stabilizers is the world's leading supplier of barium and calcium intermediates used in the production of liquid mixed metal stabilizers for PVC. HCG's work for AM Stabilizers consisted of substantial demolition and remodeling of an existing vacant office/warehouse facility previously owned/occupied by Northcoast Distributors in Valparaiso, IN. HCG worked closely with the Holladay Properties design team on a design/build contract which enabled the project to be fast tracked and completed in only three months.
The BowTruss Building
Location: 1001 Third Avenue North | Nashville, TN 37203
Project Type: Adaptive Reuse – Industrial Warehouse to Office
Owner: 305 Jefferson, LLC
Architect: DA|AD
The BowTruss Building in Nashville, TN is a former warehouse that was converted into creative office space. The project broke ground in August of 2012 and the first tenant, Stratasan, moved into their 4,500 SF space in February, 2013. Features like open architecture, exposed metal bowtruss beams, a vaulted wooden ceiling and spacious windows and skylights helped the building win an Excellence in Development Award from the Urban Land Institute (ULI) in 2015. Holladay Construction also completed the Tenant Improvement projects for the building’s other tenants: Redpepper, an ad agency that occupies 18,000 SF; Deavor Creative Co-Working, a 5,700 SF project offering a new concept in creative workspaces with co-working desks and workspaces in a creative, open atmosphere as well as shared spaces like meeting rooms, board rooms and a multipurpose room for events and learning opportunities; and Concept Technology, an IT services provider, whose 8,700 SF space features a creative, non-traditional design.
Covalen Inc.
Location: 6923 Brookville Road | Indianapolis, IN 46239
Project Type: Retrofit
Owner: Hunter Plantation, LLC
Architect: Curran Architecture
HCG completed an office building for Covalen Inc. that involved the renovation of existing buildings and the construction of the core and shell of a new building. The project required the disassembly, movement, renovation and re-installation of an 1890s barn from western Ohio to Indianapolis, IN.
The Sawtooth Building
Location: 2030 Lindell Avenue | Nashville, TN 37203
Owner: Sawtooth Partners, LLC
Architect: Dryden Abernathy Architecture Design, LLC
Completed: July 2011
The Sawtooth Building is the World Headquarters for Research and Development for Griffin Technologies. Holladay Construction Group, with collaboration from local Architects and Engineers, renovated an iconic factory constructed in the early 1900s for General Wax Industries in Nashville, TN into the headquarters of one of the most well-known names in the Technology Industry. This 40,000 SF facility was completed in 2011 at a total cost of $4 Million. The project earned an Excellence in Development Award by the Urban Land Institute's Nashville District Council and a Preservation Award from the Metropolitan Historical Commission.
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Alrighty let's get down to nitty gritty.
Our current titles that are up for pre-order are:
Necropolis by John Urbancik. 150 numbered softcovers and 26 lettered hardcovers. All the photography is done by John as well. This is a errie story of love and loss set in a massive cemetery.
The Better Year by Bridget Morrow. 100 numbered softcovers. This is a wonderful novella from a new voice in the genre. This is a must have for any collection. There will be no letter edition done for this title so if you are a letter buyer make sure you get your order in for a numbered copy, because you don't want to miss this title.
Shadow of the Dark Angel by Gene O'Neill. 100 hardcover copies. Art by John Pierro who also did the art for John Urbancik's House of Shadow and Ash. There will be a letter edition of this title AFTER the sequel Deathflash has been published later in the year. The letter edition will be a three volume box set that contains Shadow of the Dark Angel, Deathflash and a original novella titled Double Jack.
Necropolis and The Better Year have both been sent to the printers and we should have them in hand by the end of the month. Little Graveyard on the Prairie by Steve Wedel letter edition has also been sent to the printer and we should have those bad boys in by the end of this month or the first week in June. Michael Calvillo has cooked up a nice tasty surprise for the letter edition of As Fate Would Have It and we are putting the final touches on the edition. Also we are putting together Scott Edelman's The Hunger of Empty Vessels letter together. Shadow of the Dark Angel is set to be sent to the printer this Friday and we will have them in hand the second week of June. If it doesn't sell out (which we are down to about a dozen copies) we will have them with us for the Stoker weekend June 12th-14th in Burbank.
Speaking of the Stoker weekend there will be a Little surprise for those who are attending! Can't tell you but you might be able to suess from the very small hint. Our lifetime and yearly subscribers need not fear they will also be getting the Little surprise. Hope many of you can attend it looks to be fun filled and jammed packed with all kinds of activities!
After the dust settled on The Lost Tribe shipping it looks like we have two letter slots open. If you are interested let us know and we can get you started on the Bad Moon Books letter editions starting with Lost Tribe.
Well it looks to be a bit busy, but fun here at the Moon but we are always glad to hear from you so drop me a line at liz@badmoonbooks.com to chat!
It's that time again! Just a few updates and notes. After reading the last post I can see that our timetimeable got pushed back by about two to three weeks on some publications and for that I apologize.
First up we are now shipping out The Better Year by Bridget Morrow. Her first novel Master won the Los Angeles Black Book Expo Award for fiction. She is a great talent and we are pleased to publish her first novella. Here is a bit about the title:
Marcie fights the fear of cancer, her childhood, and something much darker. A haunting tale of troubled youth, love gone bad, and demons both real and perceived. Marcie is a woman haunted by two peoplw. A childhood loss and unconscious decisions made as a teenager, plunge her into a place of darkness she never imagined exsisted. The people haunting Marcie are obsessed with her. One tries to save her while the other is hell bent on destroying her. Both leave her soul at risk during the most vulnerable time in her like. The people tearing Marcie apart--are Marcie
Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the author. 63 pages. Art by Erin Wells. There will be NO letter edition for this title so if you are one of our letter buyers and want to keep that collection complete you gotta grab a copy of the numbered. We are more then half sold out, so don't miss out on this title.
Next we have Necropolis by John Urbancik. This is the third title we have done of John's and this is another great story. Fright.com did a small review about it:
An extended prose poem masquerading as a horror novella, this is a wondrously strange, occasionally gruesome tale, somewhat reminiscent of the poetic horror fests of T.M. Wright but very much the product of the extremely gifted John Urbanicik (whose other publications include the novels BREATH OF THE MOON and SINS OF BLOOD AND STONE).
In the midst of a vast cemetery, where “gravestones and mausoleums seem to go on forever in every direction,” several eccentric individuals are caught up in a drama involving murder, sacrifice, capture and escape. It all takes place over the course of a single night that leaves everyone involved irretrievably altered (in every possible sense of the word).
There’s Kelli, a photographer lured into the cemetery by an unseen flute player; Kevin and Jill, a couple in search of a wishing well; another couple, Anna and Darren, who are looking to perform a magical incantation. There’s also a ghostly individual named Auguste and a malevolent entity known as the Spider-Queen--who’s looking for her next meal! Auguste and the Spider-Queen dwell in the cemetery, while the others can’t seem to escape the place.
The overall nature of these peoples’ shared predicament isn’t exactly hard to figure out, although John Urbanicik’s aims aren’t as cut and dried as you might think. As one character comments, “Death comes in layers…you cross one just by being at the cemetery.” Hence the increasingly surreal exploits of Kelli, Kevin, Jill, Anna and Darren.
NECROPOLIS contains some good creepy-crawly stuff--a woman trapped in a crypt, a bloody stabbing, at least one mass spider attack--but its real virtues are in the dreamlike atmosphere and thoughtful narrative, which is packed with literary allusions (“The Raven” and “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” being the most blatant). The prose is engagingly frank and down-to-Earth; together with the fast 82-page count, this ensures a one-sitting read for those unafraid of fine writing that demands much and rewards more.
Here is a little about the book:
In the great city of the dead, night brings life to the gravesides. Spirits rise as the sun falls. Love is tested. Mysteries are presented. Strangers drift through the stones. Queens. Spiders. Goddesses. Death. In the great city of the dead, a dollar coin might buy your dearest wish. A photographer might capture her own heart. A breeze might reveal a raven. Listen to the sounds of the flute, listen to the soundless fireflies, listen to the ravensong.
It's not only ghosts that wander the Necropolis.
Limited to 150 numberd softcovers and 26 lettered hardcover copies, signed by the author. 100 pages. Filled with color and black and white photography by the author.
OK now onto that fun question "What's at the printer?!"
Shadow of the Dark Angel by Gene O'Neill is at the printer and should be in our hands by mid July. It is book four of our Eclipse line and shows a bit of a darker side of the author. There will be 100 hardcover copies done. There will be a letter edition of this title AFTER the sequel Deathflash has been published later in the year. The letter edition will be a three volume box set that contains Shadow of the Dark Angel, Deathflash and a original novella titled Double Jack. It is also filled with AMAZING art by John Pierro who also did the art for John Urbancik's House of Shadow and Ash. There are only about 10 copies left and with Gene already being one of our sell-out authors (Confessions of St. Zach & Lost Tribe) you don't want to miss out!
Little Graveyard on the Prairie by Steve Wedel letter edition is at the printer and should be to us by the first week in July. Steve has added two little bonus stories for this edition. One with our letter buyer names and a short story set in novella's setting.
Miranda by John R. Little letter editions are almost finished. Chris Hedges is finishing up the last batch and will be shipping them to us in the next week or two. He was able to get a handful shipped to us to show off at the Stoker Weekend and they are beautiful. Did I mention that it was a Stoker Award Winner for Long Fiction....no...well it was! Congrats to John for an amazing story. Also included in the letter edition is a bonus name story titled Hunting for Miranda that includes our letter buyers names. It a great addition to the Miranda timeline.
Now it's the "What's up for pre-order?" and "What's coming up soon?"
This Ghosting Tide by Simon Clark. Limited to 300 number copies and 26 letter hardcovers. Once again the AMAZING Zach McCain has hit the ball out of the park with the art. The title is up for pre-order and will be going to the printer at the end of the June. Here is a bit about the story:
‘Ghosts from past, present and future demand victory over the living - at any cost.’
The acclaimed author of Vampyrrhic, Blood Crazy and The Night of the Triffids delivers an off-beat quest for ghosts and haunted realms.
‘Coffins! That’s what you’re seeing. Dozens and dozens of coffins… bone boxes, sarcophagi, caskets, narrow houses… whatever you want to call them: there they are!’
For this highly-entertaining novella Simon Clark drew inspiration from filming his series Winter Chills for BBC TV. Yes, this book is decidedly occult fiction - yet it is seasoned with real-life experiences of eerie places.
A motley band of present-day ghost-hunters, headed by the wealthy, loveable and utterly eccentric Lord ‘Byron’, search for the paranormal. Their hunt leads them from a spot of illegal tomb-cracking in an English graveyard to a lonely stretch of beach. One reputedly visited by the ‘Ghosting Tide.’ That night the ocean rolls back. To the team’s astonishment the tide keeps falling, and falling… strange artefacts are revealed, shipwrecks exposed, disturbing creatures loom into view…
Byron and his friends venture out onto what was once ocean bed. There, they encounter a haunted world that is as surreal as it is loaded with danger. Then the Ghosting Tide sweeps over them…
GET READY FOR TOMB WARS!
The Adventures of Mr. Maximilliian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus by Clive Barker letter edition will be going to print by at the end of June. We have just finished placing the additional art by Richard Kirk ans well as a few extra surprises. The book and traycase will be bound in green leather that is pressed to look like aligator skin. The traycase will be lined with silk. Again there are a few little details that we are keeping quite about so that when the book arrives you will be quite surprised.
The Ultra edition that is being designed and bound by Marilyn Bonventure will be out at the end of the year. Clive and Richard are currently doing the original drawings that will be included in the edition.
The Hunger of Empty Vessels by Scott Edelman letter edition is in production and will be sent to the printers in the next two weeks. Cesar will be typesetting the bonus story and after some editing off to the printers it goes. Along with the bonus story is a extra illustration by Dominic Harman.
Last but not least just a few little tidbits.
Bad Moon Books is having a sale! All Bad Moon Books chapbooks (with the exception of Better Year and Necropolis) are only $10 and all (yes this time I mean all) hardcovers are $40. You can either order through the webpage www.badmoonbooks.com or email us direct (liz@badmoonbooks.com) with what you would like and we can invoice you through PayPal. Also if you spend $50 or more at our website you will get a free bonus John R. Little signed chapbook titled Pair of Little Things that was only available at the Stoker Weekend in Burbank. If you spend $25 or more and get a unsigned copy.
Also keep your peepers peeled for another Little announcement coming in the next week or so. If you haven't signed up for our email newsletter let Roy or I know and we can hook ya up! You will never miss a Bad Moon Books title announcement or sale notification.
Thanks to everyone who makes Bad Moon Books possible! The authors, the artists, the typesetter (go Cesar), the editors (Jamie & Leigh) and of course the readers (that's you)!
See ya on the flip side!
sdkdmd
Now that's what I call getting updated.
Thanks, Liz
W John Danenhower
Thae Gray Zone by John R. Little
Bad Moon Books in 2009. Introduction by James Moore. Art by Alan M. Clark. Limited to 250 softcovers and 26 hardcover letter editions. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Cover art by Alan M. Clark and $19.95
In 1984, Henry Davidson took the holiday of a lifetime, spending his summer in Aswan, Egypt.
The trip changed his life in many ways, but when he swallowed a secret powder handed down from generation to generation, the biggest change was yet to come.
Now Henry could remember his future as well as his past. And he could live his life out of sequence, choosing the age he wanted to live, from when he was a small child to when he turned 52. Beyond that is a hazy Gray Zone where he has no memories.
What happens when Henry is finally able to break through and live in the Gray Zone is horrifying and deadly, and Henry has to face the consequences of the decisions he has made through his life.
From the Bram Stoker award winning author of Miranda comes this new novella of love and terror and the mysteries of time.
If you order direct from us at www.badmoonbooks.com you will get the title for 20% off and free Media Mail shipping.
OK new update!! Gosh I love these! But this should be a quick one...I Hope!
Shadow of the Dark Angel by Gene O'Neill (HC 100 SGD/LTD) and The Gray Zone by John R. Little (SC 250 SGD/LTD) are here. Shadow has been shipped out and Gray Zone will be numbered and shipped this week.
The Hunger of Empty Vessels by Scott Edelman letter edition is at the printer and should be to us mid September.
This Ghosting Tide by Simon Clark (SC 300 SGD/LTD) should be shipping to us from the printer by the end of this week.
We are taking pre-orders on:
Lucid Dreaming by Lisa Morton 150 signed/limited softcovers, art by Zach McCain
Doc Good's Traveling Show by Gene O'Neil 200 signed/limited softcovers, cover art by GAK
Crimson by Gord Rollo 100 signed/limited hardcovers this is book 5 in our Eclipse line, art by Zach McCain
They are selling out fast and we will have them in hand mid September for a KillerCon in Vegas release.
I know people love this phrase but "in production" is:
Letter and Ultra of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus by Clive Barker
Letter of As Fate Would Have it by Michael Louis Calvillo
A new John Skipp and Cody Goodfellow title
Our first book in our Halloween series
A new Logan Saville title
I know it was a quick and dirty update but there will be more in depth one next week after some shipping dust settles. Also when you get the chance check out our new website design www.badmoonbooks.com
See ya'll later
RobertAnt
Post subject: Re: Bad Moon Books News John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow
I guess I'll post my own hint... or straight-up just post what it is!
(I love Jill Bauman)
Paul Melniczek's The Watching
Order direct from the site, and get a chapbook called Bad Candy featuring 3 short stories... one by Al Sarrantonio!
John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow's "The Day Before"
It looks like this is a 300 copy limited edition... with less then 100 copies left! Better hurry!
Looks like two more nice additions to the BMB library
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Dear Blog,
I know I've been neglecting you lately. Sorry. I've been busy, with:
1. Revising novel, again (see above).
2. New book reviewing gig at the Good Men Project (see left).
3. Hopeless addiction to racehorse betting (see biscuit).
To be honest, I doubt things are going to get much better soon, either, because:
a. I'm moving in a month.
b. The World Cup starts in ten days.
c. I'm still busy with points 1 and 2 above. (Point 3 was a joke.)
However, I'm going to try my best to be a little more prolific this month, so please bear with me. After all:
i. We're all human.
ii. Quality is more important than quantity.
iii. Where else can you find quality pun- and/or list-based humour these days?
A. Ladd
Conversations With Greatness CCLXXXIII
From BBC News: Greek PM's phone cut by mistake
A technician mistakenly cut off the home phone line of Greek premier George Papandreou while trying to disconnect a customer behind in payments.
The other customer's number was the same as the prime minister's, apart from one digit.
So NOT the same, then?
This might seem like a funny story already, but this is by far my favourite part:
"It was not a red phone", a [telecom] worker told the BBC, meaning that it was not one of Mr Papandreou's priority lines.
Wait... The Greek prime minister has a BATPHONE?!?!?! Maybe if he were using it more things wouldn't be in such a mess down there.
From BBC News: Heart attack survivors 'fear sex'
Heart attack survivors are highly likely to avoid sex, fearing it could kill them, US researchers say....
Dr Stacy Tessler Lindau, who led the study of 1,700 people, said the chance of dying during sex was "really small".
...Two words that are sure to restore any man's sex drive.
Experts say it is safe for heart attack survivors to start having sex again once they are capable of moderate exercise, such as climbing a few flights of stairs.
So basically, if you can get to the bedroom in the first place, go nuts.
Dr Lindau said: "Most heart attack patients are sexually active. But for the most part, physicians just aren't discussing this topic with their patients after a heart attack."
Well, I mean, that would be pretty weird.
PATIENT: [waking up] I... Where am I?
DOCTOR: You're in the hospital, Mr Jones. You suffered a heart attack.
PATIENT: My god.
DOCTOR: Don't worry, you're over the worst of it now — you're going to pull through.
PATIENT: Oh, thank you, doctor. What can I ever do to repay you?
DOCTOR: Well, let's talk about your level of sexual activity.
Cathy Ross, a cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said patients should be given information about resuming their sex lives when they were discharged.
But I thought the whole point was to give them that information BEFORE they were discharged.
SPLABANGO!
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Department of Jessica Seinfeld
Dear New Yorker,
If you're going to start publishing Shouts & Murmurs pieces that are irritatingly similar to the submissions I send you, that's fine. I get it. Ideas for Shouts & Murmurs pieces are probably more finite than you'd like anyone to believe. But Jesus, if you really have to do it, at least pick something that's significantly better than what I sent you.
Respectfully yrs,
It's The Only One We've Got
In today's atmosphere of economic uncertainty and corporate belt-tightening, parents are increasingly facing the prospect of their twenty-something children moving home. If you’re one of these parents, you may be dreading your child’s imminent return, but in fact, you needn’t worry: if current trends continue, your situation will soon be the rule rather than the exception — and in the meantime, you can take a healthy dose of solace in the fact that the squalid leech in your basement is a badge of eco-friendliness that will make you the envy of all your friends!
To begin with, the majority of your son or daughter’s growing demographic don’t own cars — they walk, bike, take the bus, or, indeed, simply forgo leaving the house entirely for days on end. After all, why commute to some stolid, old-fashioned job when your blog about bison meat is on the verge of going mainstream? Even your Prius carpool can’t hope to achieve so tiny a carbon footprint!
But that’s not all! Those “eccentric” kitchen habits they picked up at college could come directly from a Good Housekeeping guide to water conservation: your child and their peers eschew crockery and silverware in favour of whatever container the food was in to begin with; and if something has no container, then they just eat it over the sink! Sure, perhaps it’s a little unsightly to watch someone trickle orange juice down their bathrobe as they slurp it from the carton each morning (or, more commonly, afternoon) — but each glass not washed by hand can save up to a gallon of hot water. By some estimates, the average person will conserve forty gallons of water a day if they can just avoid doing dishes, and that means your bottom-dwelling progeny could be saving you tens of thousands of gallons per year. That's the sort of result that will make your fellow book club members green with envy — though still not as green as you!)
Speaking of conserving water, that pungent fragrance emanating from behind so many bedroom doors is not just from marijuana: it stems from your child’s personal hygiene habits, which are a perfect model of energy efficiency. For them, showers can be postponed for whole days and weeks, or even, during particularly spirited bouts of Beatles Rock Band, indefinitely. And those dreadlocks on which they laboured for so long? The ones that make you wonder if your neighbors can produce any expression but a sneer? Well, they can’t be washed more than once a month! Imagine the reduction in shampooing time!
Don’t forget their approach to laundry, either. For the typical malingering dropout, the system works like this: if you can sniff the armpit of a t-shirt without recoiling in nausea, then it’s okay to wear again; if you can turn your underwear inside out without too egregiously soiling the insides of your jeans, by all means do so. Simple tricks like these can cut two or three laundry days out of every month, which is another 130 gallons of water, roughly, that can be used elsewhere — to say nothing of the electricity not being used by your dryer. And clothes last longer when washed infrequently, so the I Brake For Blowjobs t-shirt you find so urbane will continue to appear at the dinner table for many more years to come. No more driving the kids to T.J. Maxx for you!
Ultimately, while you might be tempted to complain about the constant bass thumping through the walls of your home, or the Family Guy episodes perpetually cluttering up the Tivo, you should always remember three important facts. One: what’s good for the environment is good for you. Two: once a baby is on its way they’ll have no choice but to find a place of their own (and that won’t be long, if the weekly Saturday night noises from their bedroom are anything to go by). And, three: at least that beanbag they found on the street last week matches the carpeting.
Your planet thanks you!
Harumph.
From AOL Health: Men Who Use Viagra Risk Hearing Loss
In an unrelated story, Jay Leno's head exploded today. Here are the jokes from the notebook he was writing in at the time:
No, really, did you read about this? Did you read about this? Apparently, men who take Viagra are twice as likely to develop hearing loss as men who don't... See, ladies? Now you know that when he doesn't answer your calls the next day it's because he can't hear the phone.
No, this is true, really. And I mean, they say it's a negative side effect — but actually it makes the men taking it last even longer. Yeah, because they can't hear their wives telling them they're finished.
Yeah, and apparently sales of Viagra have actually doubled since this story was released. Turns out women are buying it now too — that way they don't have to listen to their husbands snoring afterwards.
No, but really, did you hear this? The scientists who published the results said they started the study because of previous research showing their might be a link between Viagra and hearing loss. And the lead researcher said, this is true, "We wanted to see if the link held up."... Yeah, well, with Viagra the link ALWAYS holds up, if you know what I mean! Am I right, Kevin?
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Define "Cool"
From BBC News: West Midlands Ambulance Service defend 'Hitler' survey
Some West Midlands Ambulance Service staff contacted their union after being asked if they thought Adolf Hitler was a "cool" leader in an NHS survey…
"In discussing different styles of leadership a survey, which is one small part of the project, sought to include an analysis of a dictatorial style.
"With hindsight, it would have been better to have used a different example.
I'll say — haven't they heard of Gordon Brown? Hey-oh!
N.B. Not comparing Gordon Brown to Hitler, which EVEN WITHOUT HINDSIGHT I realise would be a terrible idea; merely reminding people that he is alleged to treat his immediate staff in a dictatorial way.
But really: there's no excuse for the phrase "Choosing Hitler was a bad idea" ever being preceded by "In hindsight".
In other news, as if it wasn't bad enough that Britain officially has a smarmy toff for Prime Minister and my socialist utopia lies in ruins — now there's a bloomin' great ash cloud sitting in the middle of the Atlantic so my parents might not even be able to escape the new bloke's Etonian talons this week! FML.
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On The Edge Of Your Seats: Live Updates From Election Night In Britain
[05:51 BST: Andrew goes to bed, even further securing status as worst live blogger ever.]
05:23 BST: Edit: England has now swung 6.2% to the Tories. FFS. It's like a Smurf threw up down there.
04:57 BST: Sexism is alive and well in the British media:
"She looks extremely upset"??!?! WTF?! How is that even remotely relevant? Unless the headlines tomorrow read "Gordon Brown a bit teary at defeat" I call foul here.
04:47 BST: David Milliband (how many Davids are there in this damn election, anyway?) has provided a prime example of how much more gentlemanly British politics are than American politics:
If indeed no party has won an absolute majority then it seems to me perfectly reasonable and right that parties should talk to each other to see if they can find common ground to establish a strong and stable government. There's no harm in that.
It's a good thing to do when the voters have clearly not embraced any of us and given us the absolute majority that we are all seeking.
American translation: IT AIN'T OVER 'TIL IT'S FUCKING OVER, ASSHOLES!
04:41 BST: The Tories are now sitting on a gain of 50-ish seats. David Cameron claims the country wants "change". No word yet on "hope".
04:05 BST: In Scotland, the vote has swung 0.2% towards Labour; in England, the vote has swung 1.2% towards the Conservatives. Fucking England ruins everything.
03:59 BST: Gordon Brown has managed to hold onto Cowdenbeath. THANK GOD.
03:55 BST: The Tories have gained 32 seats so far, almost all of them from Labour. David Cameron says Labour has "lost its mandate to govern"; David Blunkett says Labour has "lost". Gordon Brown says Labour has "a sexy dog of a leader".
[00:00 BST – 03:45 BST: Andrew goes to leisurely dinner with friends, securing status as worst live blogger ever]
23:49 BST: The BBC is reporting that some polling stations "have locked voters in polling stations after the official close of voting to allow them to cast their ballots". Now THAT'S democracy! ("Nobody is going anywhere until you've all cast your goddamn votes!")
23:36 BST: A third Labour hold in Sunderland Central, though the swing in votes to the Tories suggests that as a whole the country may have gone f*cking crazy.
23:29 BST: A second seat has now been held by Labour: Washington & Sunderland West. (Further proof that Obama has brought socialism to Washington.)
23:20 BST: Best description of Peter Mandelson ever: "Labour's election supremo Lord Mandelson".
22:52 BST: The first seat to be called has been held by Labour. Gordon Brown was reportedly quick to call and congratulate the victor, Bridget Phillipson of Houghton & Sunderland South, though he mistakenly addressed her as Mr Brian Phillerman and then muttered under his breath that she sounded like a prole.
Hellenic Handbasket
I wouldn't worry — if their Euro 2008 appearance was anything to go by, Greek strikers can't hit anything with much success.
Only five weeks 'til the World Cup!
Aqueduct For Cover
From NYTimes.com: Crews Race to Fix Break in Boston's Water Supply
BOSTON (AP) -- Workers began installing on Sunday a metal collar they hoped would provide a quicker-than-expected fix to a break in a major pipe that inhibited the supply of clean water to 2 million people in the Boston area. . . .
Gov. Deval Patrick ordered residents to boil water, since some untreated water has entered the system. It remained safe for firefighting, showering and toilet flushing.
Question: at what point does water cease to be safe for toilet flushing? I mean, my God, this is poop we're talking about, people! How clean does our toilet-flushing water ever need to be?
Speaking of facts about this story that confuse me:
The source of the rupture has been identified in the pipe break that has caused nearly two million people in the Boston area to lose their supply of clean drinking water.
This is the rupture that was pouring eight million gallons of water an hour into the Charles yesterday, right? Shouldn't that have been pretty easy to identify? IT'S THE GIANT LEAK NEAR THE CHARLES.
On the bright side, now I at least know why I pay my ridiculous Cambridge rent.
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Boys and Fathers
After premiering "Boys for Sale" (WEBSITE) nearly a year and a half ago in Germany (STORY), the film has had an amazing run on the film festival circuit. While we thought screenings might be over this past the summer, we have had a last minute surge in interest in the film and have just confirmed screenings this month in Germany and Slovakia. Next month "Boys for Sale" will be screening in the Philippines and Switzerland, and in December it will be in Taipei. More information about the screening can be found on the film's website (HERE).
These screenings now bring the grand total to 40 festivals, and on behalf of our entire team, we are so grateful for all of the support we have received over these many years we have been in research, production and post!
Back in July, I wrote about two new documentaries I am working on (STORY). The first is called "Sending Off" (WEBSITE), which is the feature-version of my television documentary "Dying at Home" (INFO), and the other is a short documentary called "The Father's Love Begotten" (WEBSITE), which is about a young man who was sexually molested by a Catholic priest when he was a little boy.
While I am still putting the finishing touches on both of these films, I have already begun sending them out to film festivals. Soon I will be announcing some exciting news regarding "The Father's Love Begotten" and an opportunity I have been given to hold a special private test audience screening of it at a film school near Detroit early next month for which both the film's subject and I will be in attendance.
When I began working on "The Father's Love Begotten" nearly two years ago, I could not have imagined how timely its release would be and how the issue of sexual abuse in the Catholic church would be back in the news so prominently.
Although many people will have heard about the priest sexual abuse scandal, the film contains detailed descriptions of not only the rape, but of how this boy was groomed by the priest to believe that sex with the priest was his "duty" to God and how this continues to affect him in his sexual relationships as an adult. These are parts of this horrible tragedy that I believe most people have not heard before and are not being covered in the news.
My hope is that the story of the young man in "The Father's Love Begotten" will be heard by people across the world and that it will be one of the lights shed on the trauma these victims continue to suffer. May their voices no longer be silenced by the Church.
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Hard drives and fun drives
Although I have been mostly quiet on social media these past few months, much has been going on in the background, including editing on several projects and lots of submissions to film festivals. And also a little fun, like driving these gorgeous ladies to a concert. Ages 81, 90 and 93, they are great story tellers, funny, smart and seem to have more energy than me!
More news on the film front soon...
Point of break
Recognizing I was in dire need of a break, I spent much of this month away traveling, visiting family, relaxing. And healing.
While I have done a bit of recording while away, only time in the edit suite will reveal if it is a film, an installation piece or simply a personal project that through its making brings to me some new understanding about myself and the people I love...
Two new releases
Continuing a trend of putting out a new documentary nearly every year since 2012 (FILMS), I am extremely honoured to release the trailers for not one, but TWO new films (!).
The first one is called 「おみおくり〜Sending Off〜」, and it is the feature-length version of my public television-commissioned documentary program "Dying at Home" which was broadcast on NHK World in 2016 (WEBSITE). Following completion of that program, I continued to film for an additional six months and then edit off and on for a year after that. The result is a story that is more patient/family-focused and observational in style. I am extremely honoured to be able to share this story of Dr. Konta and her amazing team of nurses, and I look forward to posting more information on the website (HERE) about upcoming screenings as they are confirmed. In the meantime, the trailer can be seen below:
The second is a documentary short called 「父なる愛生せば」(in English: The Father’s Love Begotten), which is the story of a young man who was sexually abused by a Catholic priest when he was 12. While the story may unfortunately sound all too familiar, what this young man shares in his heart-breaking and harrowing interview contains details I have never heard before. The website for the film is HERE and the trailer is below.
I look forward to completing the post-production on these two news films (which for the filmmakers reading this includes locking picture, colour grade and sound mix) later this summer.
I would like to thank my team members who worked so hard with me on these films, as well as all of the supporters of my work whose encouragement over the years has been so instrumental in my ability to keep creating work which has been neither commercially successfully nor self-sustaining.
Acknowledging recent and significant signs that I need a break and time away to reflect, I have made the decision to take off most of the month of August during which time I will be traveling, visiting with family, and deeply considering my path forward in life.
"Boys for Sale" screens in Tokyo
On Friday night, Boys for Sale (WEBSITE) screened in Japan for only the second time, after last autumn's participation in Tokyo AIDS Weeks (STORY).
Organized by Professor David H. Slater, the screening was held as part of the Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2018 (INFO). Professor Slater also arranged for me to speak at a lunchtime seminar during the 22nd Annual Asian Studies Conference Japan last week to help promote the screening (STORY).
The screening was held at a venue in the university that holds 150 people. More than 20 minutes before the start of the event it became clear it was going to fill up, so more than 50 seats were added on the sides and in the aisles of the room. Those chairs also filled up and some people were left standing (meaning more than 200 people attended!), but at least no one had to be turned away like at the screening last year (STORY).
I was joined for post-screening discussion by Co, one of the film's protagonists, who has also joined us for screenings in Germany and America. The audience is always so appreciative of the opportunity to hear not only from the filmmakers' side, but also from one of the subjects in the film. So many wonderful questions were asked, and had it not been for a time limit on the event, it seemed like there were enough questions to carry on for another hour.
Also joining the Q&A was Nakatani Hitomi of N Tani Studios who created all of the drawings that were animated for the documentary. Hitomi shared with the audience her approach to illustrating the stories of the boys in the film and how these extremely sexually explicit drawings are so remarkably unsexy.
With so many people in attendance, t is clear that there is an audience for this film. A potential distribution partner who attended the screening later told me how watching the film with a group of 200 people- where you could hear them laugh, express surprise and feel the tension in the room- was like seeing a different film from the one she saw on her laptop in isolation.
Um, yeah, that's why we have cinemas.
Now, let's try to get this film distributed...
"Boys for Sale" awarded in Germany (UPDATE)!!!
***** UPDATE July 2, 2018*****
I have just received word from the Nachtschatten Film Festival about their 2018 Awards (unfortunately, I had to leave before the festival ended to attend the conference here in Tokyo on Saturday). "Boys for Sale" received the award for Best Feature Film with the jury citation "for giving us insight into a world of sexworkers that share their experiences and dreams with us."
As the executive producer of the film, and on behalf of our entire team, especially director Itako, DOP/ producer Adrian "Uchujin" Storey, illustrator N Tani Studios and music composers Kazaguruma, I am extremely honoured and would like to thank the festival, their audiences and all of our supporters.
「売買ボーイズ」がドイツで行われたNachtschatten映画祭の長編部門でグランプリを受賞しました！本当に光栄に思っております。
***** END UPDATE *****
I returned home last night from two wonderful screenings of "Boys for Sale" (WEBSITE) at the Nachtschatten Film Festival in Germany (INFO). Taking place at the iconic Werkstattkino cinema in Munich (WEBSITE), this niche festival screens films under the broad banner of BDSM/ Fetish (!); I previously wrote more about this world of niche festivals (HERE).
Q&A with NACHTSCHATTEN festival organizer Tobias Fleischer
It was a wonderful homecoming of sorts as well, as the Werkstattkino held an Artist in the Focus series of several of my films over a week in 2015 (STORY) under the direction of programmer and dear friend Doris Kuhn.
While I was in Germany, the award we received for Best Feature Documentary at the 2017 Queer International Film Festival Playa del Carmen (STORY) arrived via Berlin (long story), so we promptly posted that to the social media of the film as well (TWEET).
And with no rest for the wicked, today I presented a lunchtime talk at the 22nd Annual Asian Studies Conference Japan at the invitation of Sophia University's Professor David H. Slater (PROGRAM). Presenting clips from "Boys for Sale"and speaking about possible uses of the film in universities, this event was held ahead of our screening at Sophia University on July 6 (INFO).
In the evening, I stopped by a restaurant popular with foreign visitors to have dinner with friends where I spotted the July issue of Metropolis. I had heard they were featuring the July 6 screening of "Boys for Sale" at Sophia, but I had not seen it yet (below). Metropolis published a four-page feature about all of my film work this past December (READ).
This will be the only the second for this Japanese documentary to be screened here, so not only are we looking forward to it, but we are hoping to secure some form of wider distribution as well.
Thank you all so much for your continued support!
Update on "Boys" and other news
Another blog from the airport on the way to a film festival, this time to attend the Nachtschatten Film Festival (STORY) where the Munich Premier of "Boys for Sale" (WEBSITE) will take place. I am so grateful to have been a member of the team that made this documentary and for the amazing reception it has received across the world (AWARDS).
A few days ago "Boys for Sale" also had the honour of being featured in the International Documentary Association's list of 5 documentaries to watch for Pride Month (LINK)!
Meanwhile, I am extremely honored that "Orbiting in the Field: a Taidan (conversation) on Ecology and Filmmaking in Tohoku, Japan" (READ) was published in Duke University Press's Positions Asia Critique. This was four years in the making (!) and came to fruition through the hard work of my taidan partner Professor of Biology and renowned Chernobyl/ Fukushima researcher Timothy Mousseau and guest editors/ conference organizers Lisa Onaga & Harry Wu. More about that conference in Singapore from four years ago is on my blog (HERE).
And my mail box held one other surprise with this week- a producer's gift from Shawn Lee Small, director of the award-winning documentary "Acres of Diamonds". I am truly honoured to have been able to serve on the team of this amazing film as well (STORY).
Coming up on July 6, "Boys for Sale" will screen in Tokyo at Sophia University (INFO), and despite this Japanese film screening all over the world, this will be only the second time the film has screened in Japan; the first was last year's sold-out screening in Tokyo AIDS Week (STORY).
Time to head to the gate...
Thank you all so very much for support and encouragement over these many years.
Peace and gratitude,
"Boys for Sale" awarded in India
I am extremely honoured to announce that "Boys for Sale" (WEBSITE) received the Best Documentary Feature Award on Sunday night at the KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival in Mumbai!
「売買ボーイズ」がKASHISH ムンバイ国際映画祭で、昨夜、長編ドキュメンタリー最優秀賞を受賞したことをご報告できますことを大変光栄に思います。
The Jury Citation, which can be found HERE, stated:
“The jury found it unique for its honesty, brutality and integrity. The jury found the blend of form and content remarkable. The film goes into the heart of the matter fearlessly, creating an intense impression for the audience.”
This is the 6th award "Boys for Sale" has received, in addition to THESE five.
これまでの５つの賞（こちら）に加え、これで６つ目の賞です。
We are next screening in Germany and Chile in June! Information the on “Screenings” page HERE.
On behalf of the entire "Boys for Sale" team, we thank you all so much for your support!
次の上映はドイツとチリにて6月の予定です。詳細は「上映」ページ（こちら）をご参照下さい。これからも皆様の温かいサポートをお願い申し上げます。
A dying father reunites with his son, two years later
It is hard to believe that it has been two years since Mr. Hata died.
I first met Mr. Hata in the autumn of 2016 while working on my documentary "Dying at Home", and over the six months that followed, I formed a deep friendship with him and his wife. During the time I spent with Mr. Hata, I learned so much about family, love and loss, and I shared one of these lessons with the world via Twitter when just weeks before he died Mr. Hata reunited with the son he had not seen in 30 years.
I first published that story with photographs live on Twitter as the father and son reunited and then archived it a few days later on Storify with the title "Mr. Hata and T: a father and a son: a dying father reunites with his son after thirty years" (BLOG). I then published two follow-up stories, one when Mr. Hata died three weeks later (BLOG) and then when he was buried (BLOG). A few months later I was invited to write the cover story for the December issue of Number 1 Shimbun, the magazine of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (READ), where I was able to more objectively reflect on the experience of documenting such an intimate and personal story in real time. To mark the first year after his death, I published Mr. Hata's story in Japanese (BLOG).
This weekend will be the 2nd anniversary of Mr. Hata's death, and I am traveling to Fukushima today to attend the ceremony and visit his grave where I will remember all of the important lessons I learned and which continue to influence me.
Recently I learned that Storify will discontinue its service. As I hope the story of Mr. Hata will be able to continue affecting and moving people, I have added a page on my website where these photodocumentaries will be archived. The first three (all about Mr. Hata + the first one in Japanese) can now be found under the PHOTO DOC tab (HERE), where I plan to publish more when the right story calls out to be told in this format.
Thank you all for accompanying me on this journey.
"Boys" in Thailand, Switzerland and Germany!
While I have been fairly quiet on social media lately, it has been for a great reason- for the past several months I have been working on a couple of really exciting projects, and I am really looking forward to sharing more about them soon!
Meanwhile, the "Boys for Sale" (WEBSITE) team continues to work on arranging upcoming screenings of the documentary. Earlier this month we were honoured to provide the film for a free community screening in Bangkok that was hosted by OUT BKK (INFO).
Next month, the film will be screening in Switzerland's La fête du slip, during which it will screen everyday during the three-day film festival (May 11, 12 and 13)! More information can be found HERE.
And in June, we will be screening in Munich at the Nacht Scahatten Festival of BDSM & Fetish Films (!). As I wrote on this blog earlier this year (HERE):
Of all the niche film festivals that documentaries I have produced have screened at (Japanese, ethnographic, Asian, LGBTQ, environmental, nuclear) I have been most amused by the number of pornographic film festivals to which "Boys for Sale" has been invited. Among these was the film's Italian Premier in Turin's Fish and Chips Erotic Film Fest on January 20. I have yet to attend one of these pornographic festivals, but our DOP/ producer Adrian "Uchujin" Storey attended the film's screening in the Porn Film Festival Berlin last October and wrote about it on his blog. Not for the faint-hearted. ;)
More information about the dates/ times "Boys for Sale" at Nacht Scahatten will be posted on the film's website and social media accounts as soon as we receive it. In the meantime, general information about the festival can be found HERE.
And we are looking forward to announcing our Indian premier at a festival in Mumbai in May as soon as the press embargo is lifted.
It has been almost a year since "Boys for Sale" held its World Premier in Germany (STORY). Thank you all so much for your support and encouragement over this year!
Marking 7 years since the March 11, 2011, triple disasters
Especially today I remember the disaster and the impact it has had on so many peoples' lives. And I am profoundly humbled to have had the honour of helping to record some of their voices (READ).
It was an honour to be invited to attend yesterday's performance of the musical "Life for Tomorrow" (complete with English subtitles) to mark 7 years since the March 11, 2011, disaster. 昨日の公演に行かせて頂きました。感動しました。「被災地から未来へ、いのちの伝言“いのちてんでんこ” 2018年鎌倉芸術館 公演。」
The producer of the musical, Jujiro Maegawa, interviewed more than 70 people who had been displaced by the tsunami and were living in temporary housing. It was these interviews that formed the story of the musical which was first performed in 2013. More information about the show is HERE.
Today, March 11, trains were stopped at 14:46, the time the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake struck 7 years ago to observe a minute of silence.
Selling out in Sydney
With the screening in last week's Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival (INFO), "Boys for Sale" (WEBSITE) has now screened on six continents... with just Antarctica now remaining. And thanks to travel support from the Japan Foundation of Sydney, I was honoured to be able to attend the screening, which also marked my first time in Australia.
Qscreen Mardi Gras FFでの上映完売について、 国際交流基金のサポートを受けられたことを光栄に思います。
with Queer Screen director Lisa Rose
the Queer Screen film page for "Boys for Sale"
The Japan Foundation Sydney website
Between attending screenings at the festival and doing a bit of PR, there was not time for too much sight-seeing, but I did make it to the harbour briefly for the must-have photo in front of the Opera House. I also spent time at the local cinema where I saw films that will not be released in Japan for months, including "Call Me By Your Name" and "Lady Bird".
with 2SER's What Matters's Nic Healey on his morning breakfast radio show
speaking with Elevan Cooper for his Elevan O’Clock podcast
One of the highlights of attending festivals is getting to meet other filmmakers, some of whom I have met before while traveling on the circuit, like Craig Boreham, director of "Teenage Kicks" whom I met last summer at Oufest in Los Angeles (INFO).
L to R: Craig Boreham, me, Will Sullivan (dir "The Ring Thing") & Mikko Makela (dir. of "A Moment in the Reeds")
The festival audiences were amazing, enthusiastic and out in full force, and despite having already been moved into a bigger cinema, "Boys for Sale" SOLD OUT all 346 seats the day before our screening! As always, the post-screening Q&A felt too short, but aside from a question from a sex-worker advocate with an agenda, it went really well and the audience asked great questions and had clearly engaged with the film.
UPDATE: My conversation with Elevan Cooper for his Elevan O’Clock podcast has been published. Elevan skillfully disarmed me to the point that I appear to have mistaken the interview for a session with a therapist. Listen HERE for more about my personal life than most viewers of my documentaries ever wanted to know or I ever intended to share, LOL.
"Boys for Sale" receives Best LGBTQ Feature at Oxford Film Fest!
I am extremely honoured to announce that "Boys for Sale" (WEBSITE) received the award for Best LGBTQ Feature at the Oxford Film Festival in Mississippi last night! 「売買ボーイズ」がOxford映画祭でLGBTQ長編最優秀賞を受賞！
Ahead of the opening of the festival, Brian Whisenant, head programmer for the LGBTQ+ category, was quoted in THIS DM Online article about the festival which is held in Mississippi:
“Oxford Film Festival has always shown LGBTQ films, but (festival director) Melanie Addington and I believe that highlighting the community and giving it its own section shows our town and the film community at large that we are not our state’s legislative bigotry."
I had really been looking forward to attending this awesome festival, where "Boys for Sale" was screening twice (INFO) and where I had received the additional privilege of being asked to participate in the Queer Filmmaking Panel tomorrow during which "Filmmakers/actors discuss the challenges, advantages of queer filmmaking as well as the state of LGBTQ cinema in today's climate" (INFO). Unfortunately, due to deadlines on some upcoming projects (more exciting news on those soon!), I had to cancel plans to attend at the last minute.
from the DM Online article
This is the 5th award "Boys for Sale" has received, in addition to THESE four. On behalf of the entire "Boys for Sale" team, we are truly humbled by the amazing reception the film has received. Thank you all so much for your support! これまでの4つの賞（こちら）に加え、これで5つ目の賞です。皆さんありがとうございます！
We are next screening in Oregon’s Corvallis Queer Film Festival (Feb 21) and Sydney’s Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival (Feb 20)! Info on “Screenings” page HERE. 次の上映はアメリカのオレゴン州 (2月21日）とオーストラリアのシドニー（2月20日）です。詳細は「上映」ページ（こちら）をご参照下さい。
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Barati, M., Faramarzi, M., Nafissi-Varcheh, N., Khoshayand, M., Houshdar Tehrani, M., Vahidi, H., Adrangi, S. (2016). L-Asparaginase Activity in Cell Lysates and Culture Media of Halophilic Bacterial Isolates. Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 15(3), 435-440. doi: 10.22037/ijpr.2016.1898
Mahmood Barati; Mohammad Ali Faramarzi; Nastaran Nafissi-Varcheh; Mohammad Reza Khoshayand; Mohammad Hassan Houshdar Tehrani; Hossein Vahidi; Sina Adrangi. "L-Asparaginase Activity in Cell Lysates and Culture Media of Halophilic Bacterial Isolates". Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 15, 3, 2016, 435-440. doi: 10.22037/ijpr.2016.1898
Barati, M., Faramarzi, M., Nafissi-Varcheh, N., Khoshayand, M., Houshdar Tehrani, M., Vahidi, H., Adrangi, S. (2016). 'L-Asparaginase Activity in Cell Lysates and Culture Media of Halophilic Bacterial Isolates', Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 15(3), pp. 435-440. doi: 10.22037/ijpr.2016.1898
Barati, M., Faramarzi, M., Nafissi-Varcheh, N., Khoshayand, M., Houshdar Tehrani, M., Vahidi, H., Adrangi, S. L-Asparaginase Activity in Cell Lysates and Culture Media of Halophilic Bacterial Isolates. Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 2016; 15(3): 435-440. doi: 10.22037/ijpr.2016.1898
L-Asparaginase Activity in Cell Lysates and Culture Media of Halophilic Bacterial Isolates
Article 20, Volume 15, Issue 3, Summer 2016, Page 435-440 PDF (538.05 K)
Mahmood Barati1; Mohammad Ali Faramarzi2; Nastaran Nafissi-Varcheh1; Mohammad Reza Khoshayand3; Mohammad Hassan Houshdar Tehrani4; Hossein Vahidi1; Sina Adrangi 1
1Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biotechnology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 14155-6451, Tehran, 14176, Iran
3Department of Drug and Food Control, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
The objective of this study was to isolate halophilic bacteria with the ability to produce intracellular or extracellular L-asparaginase. A total number of 120 halophilic bacteria were isolated from 17 different saline habitats of Iran including salt lakes, wetlands, brine springs and deserts. Among these, 68 were able to grow in the presence of 1.5 M NaCl and 52 demonstrated the ability to grow in the selection medium containing 3.5 M NaCl. None of the isolates appeared to produce appreciable amounts of extracellular L-asparaginase. Among the isolates that produced intracellular L-asparaginase, 5 moderate and 1 extreme halophiles were selected for further study based on their observed activity level. The moderately halophilic isolates were shown to belong to the genus Halomonas while the extreme halophile was identified as a member of the genus Aidingimonas.
Screening; Halophile; L-asparaginase; Halomonas; Aidingimonas
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CarMax Reports Second Quarter Results
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RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CarMax, Inc. (NYSE:KMX), the nation’s largest retailer of used cars, today reported net income and earnings per share for the second quarter ended August 31, 2019.
Net sales and operating revenues increased 9.1% to $5.20 billion.
Used unit sales in comparable stores increased 3.2%.
Total used unit sales rose 6.2%.
Total wholesale unit sales increased 4.7%.
CarMax Auto Finance (CAF) income increased 4.1% to $114.1 million.
Net earnings increased 5.8% to $233.6 million and net earnings per diluted share increased 12.9% to $1.40.
Omni-channel experience remains on track to be available to the majority of customers by the end of fiscal 2020.
CEO Commentary:
“CarMax posted solid second quarter results, and our double-digit increase in earnings per share reflected growth across our used, wholesale and CAF operations, along with ongoing share repurchases,” said Bill Nash, president and chief executive officer.
“In addition, we made significant progress on the roll-out of our omni-channel experience, and we remain confident that this is the future of car buying,” continued Nash. “This experience, which allows customers to move seamlessly between online channels and physical locations, is now offered to approximately one-third of our customer base. And, we remain on track to reach the majority of our customers by the end of this fiscal year.”
Second Quarter Business Performance Review:
Sales . Total used vehicle unit sales increased 6.2%, including a 3.2% increase in comparable store used unit sales compared with the prior year’s second quarter. The comparable store sales performance reflected strong conversion and solid growth in web traffic.
Total wholesale vehicle unit sales increased 4.7% compared with the second quarter of fiscal 2019, largely driven by an increase in our appraisal buy rate, partially offset by lower appraisal traffic.
Other sales and revenues increased 8.5% compared with the second quarter of fiscal 2019. Extended protection plan (EPP) net revenues rose 15.0%, reflecting the combined effects of our used unit growth, increased margin and higher product penetration rates. In addition, we recognized a $6.5 million benefit for estimated EPP profit-sharing revenues compared with a $4.4 million benefit recognized in the prior year’s quarter. Net third-party finance fees were comparable with the prior year period.
Gross Profit . Total gross profit increased 6.6% versus last year’s second quarter to $693.5 million. Used vehicle gross profit rose 6.4%, largely reflecting the increase in total used unit sales. Used vehicle gross profit per unit remained stable at $2,183. Wholesale vehicle gross profit increased 5.7% versus the prior year’s quarter, driven by the increase in wholesale unit sales and an increase in wholesale vehicle gross profit per unit to $928 compared with $919 in last year’s second quarter. Other gross profit increased 8.2%, largely reflecting the improvement in other sales and revenues.
SG&A . Compared with the second quarter of fiscal 2019, SG&A expenses increased 6.0% to $480.8 million. Factors contributing to the year-over-year change included the 9% increase in our store base since the beginning of last year’s second quarter (representing the addition of 18 stores); higher costs associated with our sales growth; and continued spending to advance our technology platforms and support our core and omni-channel strategic initiatives. Due to shifts in the timing of our spend, advertising expense remained consistent with the prior year’s quarter. SG&A per used unit was $2,300 in the current quarter, down $4 year-over-year.
CarMax Auto Finance .(1) Compared with last year’s second quarter, CAF income increased 4.1% to $114.1 million, reflecting a 7.8% increase in average managed receivables, slightly offset by a higher loan loss provision. The provision for loan losses increased to $45.5 million from $40.0 million in the prior year quarter, reflecting both the growth in average managed receivables and a small increase in the provision as a percentage of managed receivables. Net losses remained well within our long-term targeted performance range. The allowance for loan losses grew slightly to 1.15% of ending managed receivables as of August 31, 2019, compared with 1.14% as of May 31, 2019, and 1.13% as of August 31, 2018. The total interest margin percentage, which represents the spread between interest and fees charged to consumers and our funding costs, remained constant at 5.7% of average managed receivables in both the current and the prior year’s second quarter.
Share Repurchase Activity . We repurchased 1.5 million shares of common stock for $128.3 million pursuant to our share repurchase program during the second quarter of fiscal 2020. As of August 31, 2019, we had $1.78 billion remaining available for repurchase under the outstanding authorization.
Although CAF benefits from certain indirect overhead expenditures, we have not allocated indirect costs to CAF to avoid making subjective allocation decisions.
Amounts and percentage calculations may not total due to rounding.
Sales Components
Three Months Ended August 31
Six Months Ended August 31
Used vehicle sales
Wholesale vehicle sales
Other sales and revenues:
Extended protection plan revenues
Third-party finance fees, net
(10.3
(9.7
)%
Total other sales and revenues
Total net sales and operating revenues
Wholesale vehicles
Average Selling Prices
Vehicle Sales Changes
Used vehicle units
Used vehicle revenues
Wholesale vehicle units
Wholesale vehicle revenues
Comparable Store Used Vehicle Sales Changes (1)
Stores are added to the comparable store base beginning in their fourteenth full month of operation. Comparable store calculations include results for a set of stores that were included in our comparable store base in both the current and corresponding prior year periods.
Used Vehicle Financing Penetration by Channel (Before the Impact of 3-day Payoffs) (1)
Tier 2 (3)
Calculated as used vehicle units financed for respective channel as a percentage of total used units sold.
Includes CAF's Tier 3 loan originations, which represent less than 1% of total used units sold.
Third-party finance providers who generally pay us a fee or to whom no fee is paid.
Third-party finance providers to whom we pay a fee.
Represents customers arranging their own financing and customers that do not require financing.
Selected Operating Ratios
% (1)
Net sales and operating revenues
CarMax Auto Finance income
Selling, general, and administrative expenses
Interest expense
Earnings before income taxes
Net earnings
Calculated as a percentage of net sales and operating revenues.
Used vehicle gross profit
Wholesale vehicle gross profit
Other gross profit
Gross Profit per Unit
$ per unit(1)
%(2)
Total gross profit
Calculated as category gross profit divided by its respective units sold, except the other and total categories, which are divided by total used units sold.
Calculated as a percentage of its respective sales or revenue.
SG&A Expenses
Store occupancy costs
Advertising expense
Other overhead costs (2)
Total SG&A expenses
SG&A per used unit
Excludes compensation and benefits related to reconditioning and vehicle repair service, which are included in cost of sales.
Includes IT expenses, insurance, preopening and relocation costs, non-CAF bad debt, travel, charitable contributions and other administrative expenses.
Components of CAF Income and Other CAF Information
Interest margin:
Interest and fee income
(178.0
Total interest margin
Provision for loan losses
Total interest margin after provision for loan losses
Total other expense
Total direct expenses
Total average managed receivables
Net loans originated
Net penetration rate
Weighted average contract rate
Ending allowance for loan losses
Warehouse facility information:
Ending funded receivables
Ending unused capacity
Annualized percentage of total average managed receivables.
Earnings Highlights
(In millions except per share data)
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding
Net earnings per diluted share
During the second quarter of fiscal 2020, we opened three stores -- two in existing markets (San Francisco, California, and Phoenix, Arizona) and one in a new market (Lubbock, Texas).
We currently plan to open the following stores during the 12 months ending August 31, 2020. During this period, we will be entering three new television markets and expanding our presence in ten existing television markets. Of the 13 stores we plan to open during this period, 5 will be in Metropolitan Statistical Areas having populations of 600,000 or less, which we define as small markets. Normal construction, permitting or other scheduling delays could shift the opening dates of any of these stores into a later period.
Television Market
Metropolitan Statistical Area
Planned Opening Date
Denton, Texas (1)
Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington
Q3 Fiscal 2020
Palm Desert, California (1)
Riverside/San Bernardino/Ontario
Bogart, Georgia
Athens/Clarke County
Biloxi/Gulfport (2)
Gulfport/Biloxi/Pascagoula
Nashville/Davidson/Murfreesboro
Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton
North Port/Sarasota/Bradenton
Canoga Park, California
Miami/Ft. Lauderdale/W. Palm Beach
Jacksonville, N. Carolina
Greenville/New Bern/Washington
Store opened in September 2019.
Represents new television market as of planned store opening date.
Conference Call Information
We will host a conference call for investors at 9:00 a.m. ET today, September 24, 2019. Domestic investors may access the call at 1-888-298-3261 (international callers dial 1-706-679-7457). The conference I.D. for both domestic and international callers is 7045117. A live webcast of the call will be available on our investor information home page at investors.carmax.com.
A webcast replay of the call will be available at investors.carmax.com through December 19, 2019. A telephone replay also will be available through October 1, 2019, and may be accessed by dialing 1-855-859-2056 (international callers dial 1-404-537-3406). The conference I.D. for both domestic and international callers is 7045117.
Third Quarter Fiscal 2020 Earnings Release Date
We currently plan to release results for the third quarter ending November 30, 2019, on Friday, December 20, 2019, before the opening of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. We plan to host a conference call for investors at 9:00 a.m. ET on that date. Information on this conference call will be available on our investor information home page at investors.carmax.com in early December 2019.
CarMax, the nation’s largest retailer of used cars, revolutionized the automotive retail industry by driving integrity, honesty and transparency in every interaction. CarMax continues to innovate and is currently rolling out an omni-channel experience, providing customers the option to complete transactions entirely from home, in store, or in a seamless combination of both. CarMax has more than 200 stores nationwide, and during the latest fiscal year sold nearly 750,000 used cars and 450,000 wholesale vehicles at its in-store auctions. With more than 25,000 associates, CarMax is proud to have been recognized for 15 consecutive years as one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®. For more information, visit www.carmax.com.
We caution readers that the statements contained in this release about our future business plans, operations, opportunities or prospects, including without limitation any statements or factors regarding expected sales, margins, expenses, capital expenditures, debt obligations, tax rates or earnings, are forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these forward-looking statements by the use of words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “outlook,” “plan,” “predict,” “should,” “will” and other similar expressions, whether in the negative or affirmative. Such forward-looking statements are based upon management’s current knowledge and assumptions about future events and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from anticipated results. Among the factors that could cause actual results and outcomes to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements are the following:
Changes in the competitive landscape and/or our failure to successfully adjust to such changes.
Events that damage our reputation or harm the perception of the quality of our brand.
Changes in general or regional U.S. economic conditions.
Our inability to realize the benefits associated with our omni-channel initiatives.
Changes in the availability or cost of capital and working capital financing, including changes related to the asset-backed securitization market.
Our inability to recruit, develop and retain associates and maintain positive associate relations.
The loss of key associates from our store, regional or corporate management teams or a significant increase in labor costs.
Security breaches or other events that result in the misappropriation, loss or other unauthorized disclosure of confidential customer, associate or corporate information.
Significant changes in prices of new and used vehicles.
Changes in economic conditions or other factors that result in greater credit losses for CAF’s portfolio of auto loan receivables than anticipated.
A reduction in the availability of or access to sources of inventory or a failure to expeditiously liquidate inventory.
Changes in consumer credit availability provided by our third-party finance providers.
Changes in the availability of extended protection plan products from third-party providers.
Factors related to the regulatory and legislative environment in which we operate.
Factors related to geographic and sales growth, including the inability to effectively manage our growth.
The failure of or inability to sufficiently enhance key information systems.
The effect of various litigation matters.
Adverse conditions affecting one or more automotive manufacturers, and manufacturer recalls.
The inaccuracy of estimates and assumptions used in the preparation of our financial statements, or the effect of new accounting requirements or changes to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
The volatility in the market price for our common stock.
The performance of the third-party vendors we rely on for key components of our business.
Factors related to seasonal fluctuations in our business.
The occurrence of severe weather events.
Factors related to the geographic concentration of our stores.
For more details on factors that could affect expectations, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 28, 2019, and our quarterly or current reports as filed with or furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Our filings are publicly available on our investor information home page at investors.carmax.com. Requests for information may also be made to the Investor Relations Department by email to investor_relations@carmax.com or by calling (804) 747-0422 x7865. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements after the date they are made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
CARMAX, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EARNINGS
(In thousands except per share data)
SALES AND OPERATING REVENUES:
Other sales and revenues
COST OF SALES:
Used vehicle cost of sales
Wholesale vehicle cost of sales
Other cost of sales
TOTAL COST OF SALES
Selling, general and administrative expenses
Other expense (income)
(686
Income tax provision
WEIGHTED AVERAGE COMMON SHARES:
Diluted
NET EARNINGS PER SHARE:
Percents are calculated as a percentage of net sales and operating revenues and may not total due to rounding.
(In thousands except share data)
Restricted cash from collections on auto loan receivables
Auto loan receivables, net
Deferred income taxes
Operating lease assets
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities
Accrued income taxes
Current portion of operating lease liabilities
Short-term debt
Current portion of long-term debt
Current portion of non-recourse notes payable
Long-term debt, excluding current portion
Non-recourse notes payable, excluding current portion
Operating lease liabilities, excluding current portion
Commitments and contingent liabilities
Common stock, $0.50 par value; 350,000,000 shares authorized; 164,885,648 and 167,478,924 shares issued and outstanding as of August 31, 2019 and February 28, 2019, respectively
Capital in excess of par value
(91,630
TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
In connection with our adoption of ASC 842, the new accounting standard for leases, during the first quarter of fiscal 2020, certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period’s presentation. Financing obligations have been reclassified to Current portion of long-term debt and Long-term debt, excluding current portion. Capital lease obligations have been reclassified to Accrued expenses and other current liabilities and Other liabilities.
Adjustments to reconcile net earnings to net cash (used in) provided by operating activities:
Share-based compensation expense
Provision for cancellation reserves
Deferred income tax provision
Net (increase) decrease in:
(721,165
Net (decrease) increase in:
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities and accrued income taxes
NET CASH (USED IN) PROVIDED BY OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Proceeds from disposal of property and equipment
Purchases of investments
Sales of investments
NET CASH USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES
(Decrease) increase in short-term debt, net
Proceeds from issuances of long-term debt
Payments on long-term debt
(3,284,866
Cash paid for debt issuance costs
Payments on finance lease obligations
Issuances of non-recourse notes payable
Payments on non-recourse notes payable
Repurchase and retirement of common stock
Equity issuances
Increase in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at beginning of year
CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH AT END OF PERIOD
In connection with the changes to the Consolidated Balance Sheets as a result of our adoption of ASC 842, the new accounting standard for leases, during the first quarter of fiscal 2020, payments on financing obligations have been reclassified to payments on long-term debt. Prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period’s presentation.
investor_relations@carmax.com, (804) 747-0422 x7865
pr@carmax.com, (855) 887-2915
Source: CarMax, Inc.
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Rich Leopold Ends Bid for Governor, Citing Financial, Self-Promotion Woes
Leopold for Iowa/Facebook
Former Iowa Department of Natural Resources Director Rich Leopold, the first Democrat to enter the 2018 race for governor, announced today that he is dropping out of the race because of the difficulties outsider candidates face to become viable with the state’s current campaign finance system.
“Sadly, I now know first-hand that electoral politics in Iowa is largely controlled by a small group [of] people,” he wrote in a Facebook message. “This isn’t just sour grapes — I acknowledge that I had difficulties in fundraising and talking about myself (two things my parents taught me were not polite). But I believe that until we the people demand a more equal and open system of government, we will get the same as we have always gotten.”
Leopold ended his statement by vowing to continue fighting to improve Iowa’s water quality and for rural sustainability, raising awareness about climate change, working to improve access to mental and physical health services, and fighting to reform campaign finance laws.
His exit from the race leaves a still-loaded field of eight declared or prospective Democratic candidates.
Here’s his full statement:
Dear Supporters of the Leopold For Iowa Campaign,
As of June 7, the Leopold For Iowa campaign is suspending operations in our bid for the Democratic nomination for the Iowa Governor’s race in 2018.
This is sad day for my family, which includes all of you who supported me. I accepted your support with humility and resolve, and have given this campaign my all. Many of you shared stories with me of your struggles with state government such as economic insecurity, physical and mental health challenges, concerns for our water quality, etc.
I fought harder, worked harder, than I have for anything in my life. I gave it my all, and yet I feel discouraged. I have heard from so many people across Iowa that if a person like me, an outsider, could get elected, it would restore their faith in state government. Truth is, the reality of an outsider mounting a winning campaign in Iowa is slim.
Our themes were resounding well: Iowans taking care of other Iowans, rebuilding rural communities, and protecting Iowa from domineering and top-down political systems. We all know, across the political spectrum, that Iowans deserve better management of government than they have been getting these past few years. We all know Iowa needs to return to transparent, fair, compassionate, and predictable leadership. We all need to pull together to demand these traits from our elected officials.
Sadly, I now know first-hand that electoral politics in Iowa is largely controlled by a small group people. This isn’t just sour grapes – I acknowledge that I had difficulties in fundraising and talking about myself (two things my parents taught me were not polite). But I believe that until we the people demand a more equal and open system of government, we will get the same as we have always gotten.
I am not done working for this state that I love. I will continue to work for cleaner water, equal and fair treatment of all people, resilience to climate change, strong and sustainable rural economies, compassion in our mental and physical health systems, and CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM!
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your financial, volunteer, and moral support.
Rich Leopold
(former) Candidate for Governor of Iowa
Gavin Aronsen is an editor and reporter for and founding member of the Iowa Informer. He previously worked as a city reporter for the Ames Tribune, research assistant to investigative journalist Wayne Barrett at the Village Voice, and in various roles at Mother Jones, where his work contributed to a National Magazine Award nomination for the magazine's digital media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Email: garonsen [at] iowainformer [dot] com.
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We would not expect to find any rocks from the very beginning of earth history, because the earth appears to have gone through a largely molten stage soon after it formed. Further, it can bring about, through insight, a lessening of morbid dependency on parents. The contact between the Cambrain rock over million years old and the Devonian rock less than million years old is a type of unconformity, which you will read more about below. However, it is possible that the granite may have intruded as a magma within the crust, beneath conglomerate, after the conglomerate formed. Relative dating by biostratigraphy is the preferred method in paleontology and is, in some respects, dating apps uk more accurate.
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Intranscription standards are established by the Translation Standardisation Committee for the Chinese Media. As a result, xenoliths are older than the rock which contains them. You may have already completed introductory laboratory studies of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Living life creatively, full of crochet, crafts, family and random quirkiness.
Scottish geologist, James Hutton recognized the principle of cross-cutting relationships. As the drama in court unfolded, you would not be very prosperous. There are no sedimentary strata to record what happened during the intervening interval. If sufficient sedimentary material is available, it will be deposited up to the limits of the sedimentary basin.
Igneous or metamorphic rocks. The principle of cross-cutting relationships pertains to the formation of faults and the age of the sequences through which they cut. The principle of faunal succession is based on the appearance of fossils in sedimentary rocks. Today we know that some strata start out tilted, but nevertheless this principle enables us to easily detect unnatural degrees of tilt and infer that they have been disturbed since their formation. Basically, he deduced that rocks were laid down in vertical order just as sediments are laid down today, under water, bodybuilder with new on top of old.
For tectonic processes such as folding can completely overturn a section of rock, or, just as bad, turn it on its side so that we can't tell which was originally up and which was down. By the s absolute dating methods had been used to determine the ages of many rocks from all the continents and ocean floors. In saying so, we are tacitly taking it as axiomatic that science-fictional processes such as levitation or teleportation did not come into play.
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Likewise, Nagarjuna hill which lies north-west of Kathmandu is wonderful for a day hike. You could catch some of the magnificient views of the Himalayas from the hill. The Nagarjuna hill is also popular for rock climbing.
Another equally popular hill is the Shivapuri which is known for its forests and camping. You could visit the Budhanilkantha Budhanilkantha is the temple of Lord Narayan situated 8 kms North West of Kathmandu city. The main attraction of this temple is the 5th century statue of Lord Narayan reclining in the bed of snakes in a pond in the middle of the temple. This is one of the master sculptures of the ethnic Newar community. Though a sacred Hindu temple, Budhanilkantha is equally worshipped by the Buddhists. temple and Bagdwar which is the origin of the Bagmati river on your long but thrilling walk to the hill.
For professional bikers, an off-road track of around 140 km starting from Balaju Baisdhara to Chisapani via Tokha and Budhanilkantha is an interesting option. For beginners, the Kathmandu to Dhulikhel 30 kms east of Kathmandu city along the Araniko highway is the historic and scenic city of Dhulikhel. From this city, one can observe the panoramic magnificent view of the Himalayas. Do not forget to visit the religious Namo Buddha temple near the city. A beautiful village of Panauti, which lies on top of a big rock, is also nearby. highway or Kirtipur Kirtipur is the cultural courageous and historic city of the Newars situated on top of a hill 8 kms south west of Kathmandu city. This city is unique to other Newar cities as the locals still wear their traditional dresses, live in old era houses, weave traditional hand looms and preserve their ancient temples and shrines. The Tribhuvan University, the biggest and oldest university of Nepal lies on the base of this hill top city. are advisable but care should be taken of the traffic.> You may be busy or might have a tight schedule to meet but these short trips do not require much of your time. Your small effort can easily give you true adventure spots within the valley. Whether it is a simple walk up the hill or some running, hiking sports can offer you much more.
All these legends which take you back to those days of innocence shall never be experienced in any other part of the world cause these legends live and are as pure as the chink of the wind chimes from the eves of gilded pagoda forgotten, like the legends told by the temples.
Kathmandu evokes strong emotions among travelers. Some look at the crowded and chaotic streets and cannot wait to hop on the next flight home while others fall hopelessly in love with its splendid architecture, bustling squares, majestic monuments and the legends which pervade the city. It adds a whole new dimension to the number of tourists interested to visit the country and it is these that have kept this city alive.
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Alhalaweh, Amjad
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Health Sciences, Medical Science.
George, Sumod
Basavoju, Srinivas
Childs, S.L.
Renovo Research, Atlanta, GA.
Rizvi, S.A.A.
College of Pharmacy, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Velaga, Sitaram
Pharmaceutical cocrystals of nitrofurantoin: Screening, characterization and crystal structure analysis2012In: CrystEngComm, ISSN 1466-8033, E-ISSN 1466-8033, Vol. 14, no 15, p. 5078-5088Article in journal (Refereed)
The objective of this study was to screen and prepare cocrystals of the poorly soluble drug nitrofurantoin (NTF) with the aim of increasing its solubility. Screening for cocrystals of NTF using 47 coformers was performed by high-throughput (HT) screening using liquid assisted grinding (LAG) methods. Raman spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) were used as the primary analytical tools to identify the new crystalline solid forms. Manual LAG and reaction crystallization (RC) experiments were carried out to confirm and scale-up the hits. Seven hits were confirmed to be cocrystals. The cocrystals were characterized by PXRD, Raman and IR spectroscopy, thermal analysis (DSC and TGA) and liquid-state NMR or elemental analysis. The solution stability of the scaled-up cocrystals in water was tested by slurrying the cocrystals at 25 °C for one week. NTF forms cocrystals with a 1:1 stoichiometric ratio with urea (1), 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (2), nicotinamide (3), citric acid (4), l-proline (5) and vanillic acid (6). In addition, NTF forms a 1:2 cocrystal with vanillin (7). All but one of the NTF cocrystals transformed (dissociated) in water, resulting in NTF hydrate crystalline material or NTF hydrate plus the coformer, which indicates that the transforming cocrystals have a higher solubility than the NTF hydrate under these conditions. The crystal structures of 1:1 NTF-citric acid (4) and 1:2 NTF-vanillin (7) were solved by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The crystal structures of these two cocrystals were analyzed in terms of their supramolecular synthons.
Boström, Dan
Department of Energy Technology and Thermal Process Chemistry, Umea University.
1:1 and 2:1 urea-succinic acid cocrystals: structural diversity, solution chemistry, and thermodynamic stability2010In: Crystal Growth & Design, ISSN 1528-7483, E-ISSN 1528-7505, Vol. 10, no 11, p. 4847-4855Article in journal (Refereed)
The aim of this work was to study the crystal structures of 1:1 and 2:1 urea-succinic acid (U-SA) cocrystals and to investigate the role of solution chemistry in the formation and stability of different stoichiometric cocrystals. The structural diversity of other urea-dicarboxylic acid cocrystals is also discussed. The 1:1 U-SA cocrystal was stabilized by an acid-amide heterosynthon while acid-amide heterosynthons and amide-amide homosynthons stabilized the 2:1 cocrystals. The hydrogen bonding motifs in 1:1 and 2:1 U-SA cocrystals were consistent with other urea-dicarboxylic acid systems with similar stoichiometries. The 1:1 cocrystals were transformed to 2:1 cocrystals upon slurrying in various solvents at 25 °C. The phase solubility diagram was used to define the stability regions of different solid phases in 2-propanol at 25 °C. While no phase stability region for 1:1 cocrystal could be found, the stable regions for the 2:1 cocrystals and their pure components were defined by eutectic points. The solubility of the 2:1 cocrystals was dependent on the concentration of the ligand in the solution and explained by the solubility product and 1:1 solution complexation. The mathematical models predicting the solubility of the 2:1 cocrystals were evaluated and found to fit the experimental data
3. George, Sumod
Crystal Engineering of Some 2-Pyrimidinones and Unsymmetrical Ureas2005Conference paper (Other academic)
Crystal Engineering of Some 2-Pyrimidinones and Unsymmetrical Ureas.2004Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Self-assembly of porphyin arrays by hydrogen bonding and supramolecular isometrism in porphyrin networks2006Conference paper (Other academic)
Goldberg, Israel
Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, School of Chemistry, Sackler Faculty of Exact.
5,10,15,20-Tetrakis(4-pyridyl)porphyrin tris(acetic acid) clathrate2005In: Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, ISSN 1600-5368, E-ISSN 1600-5368, Vol. 61, no 7, p. o1973-o1975 Article in journal (Refereed)
The crystal structure of the title compound, C40H26N83CH3COOH, has been determined at ca 110K. The compound crystallizes as an acetic acid clathrate in which three guest molecules are intercalated between layered zones of offset stacked porphyrins. Two of the pyridyl groups of the latter are involved in hydrogen bonds with the acetic acid.
[5,10,15,20-Tetrakis(4-pyridyl)porphyrinato]zinc(II) acetic acid clathrate, and its unique polymeric honeycomb architecture2005In: Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, ISSN 1600-5368, E-ISSN 1600-5368, Vol. 61, no 8, p. m1441-m1443 Article in journal (Refereed)
The crystal structure of the title compound, [Zn(C40H24N8)]1.6C2H4O2 has been determined at ca 110K. The centrosymmetric metalloporphyrin compound forms a self-assembled honeycomb architecture, with open channels extending parallel to the c axis of the unit cell. The compound crystallizes as an acetic acid clathrate. The guest species, which are included in the interporphyrin channels, hydrogen bond to the porphyrin framework.
Self-assembly of supramolecular porphyrin arrays by hydrogen bonding: New Structures and Reflections2006In: Crystal Growth & Design, ISSN 1528-7483, E-ISSN 1528-7505, Vol. 6, no 3, p. 755-762Article in journal (Refereed)
This study relates to the self-assembly of the free-base 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin (TCPP), six-coordinate manganese-5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin with molecules of water or methanol as axial ligands [MnIII(H2O)2-TCPP or MnIII(CH3OH)2-TCPP, respectively], and manganese chloride-5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-hydroxyphenyl)porphyrin [MnIII(Cl)-TOHPP] into multiporphyrin hydrogen-bonding "polymers". In the first case, the porphyrin units hydrogen bond directly to each other through their carboxylic acid functions. The two-dimensional (2D) square-grid polymeric arrays thus formed are sustained by characteristic intermolecular cyclic dimeric (COOH)2 hydrogen-bond synthons between a given porphyrin unit and four other neighboring species along the equatorial directions. They stack tightly one on top of the other in an offset manner along the normal direction, yielding channeled lattice architecture. In an aqueous basic environment insertion of MnIII into the porphyrin core involves deprotonation of one of the carboxylic groups, to balance the charge, and attraction of two water molecules as axial ligands. The MnIII(H2O)2-TCPP units hydrogen bond, however, directly to one another through their carboxylic/carboxylate functions in the equatorial plane in a catemeric (rather than cyclic dimeric) manner. The 2D networks that form in this case are interconnected in the normal direction by additional hydrogen bonds through the axial water ligands, yielding a three-dimensional (3D) hydrogen-bonding architecture. In a methanolic solution of H3PO4, the methanol molecules replace water as axial ligands to the metal ion. The phosphate anions balance the extra positive charge of the trivalent metal, and they act also as effective bridges between adjacent MnIII(CH3OH)2-TCPP moieties by interacting as proton acceptors with the peripheral carboxylic functions of four different porphyrins. This affords open square-grid-type layers with alternating porphyrin and phosphate components. The 2D arrays stack in an offset manner, interconnecting to one another through hydrogen bonds involving the methanol axial ligands. The Mn(Cl)-TOHPP building blocks arrange in a unique tetragonal structure around axes of 4-fold rotation and self-assemble through multiple O-HCl- attractions between neighboring units into a single-framework hydrogen-bonding polymer. The directional asymmetry introduced to them by the Cl-axial ligand, which is amplified by the preferred hydrogen-bonding scheme, induces the formation of a noncentrosymmetric crystal structure. The nanoporous nature of TCPP-based multiporphyrin assemblies and the chirality of the Mn(Cl)-TOHPP structure are highlighted.
Lipstman, Sophia
Tel Aviv UniVersity, School of Chemistry, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences.
Tel Aviv UniVersity, School of Chemistry, Sackler.
Porphyrin supramolecular solids assembled with the aid of lanthanide ions2006In: Crystal Growth & Design, ISSN 1528-7483, E-ISSN 1528-7505, Vol. 6, no 12, p. 2651-2654Article in journal (Refereed)
Reactions of free-base tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin with lanthanide ions as Pr3+, Dy3+, and Nd3+ led to open metal-organic framework solids sustained by polynuclear metal-carboxylate clusters. Their three-dimensional structures are characterized by channel voids accessible to other guest components (e.g., water, small organics). Crystalline solids obtained by the hydrothermal synthesis with Dy3+ and Nd3+ reagents reveal remarkable stability and represent the first example of hybrid porphyrin-lanthanide single framework architectures.
10. George, Sumod
Muniappan, Sankar
Porphyrin network solids: examples of supramolecular isomerism, noncentrosymmetric architectures and competing solvation2006In: CrystEngComm, ISSN 1466-8033, E-ISSN 1466-8033, Vol. 8, no 5, p. 417-424Article in journal (Refereed)
Self-assembly of functionalized tetraarylporphyrins into 2-D and 3-D supramolecular arrays may exhibit structural isomerism when carried out in different experimental conditions. This study shows that the open 2-D hydrogen bonding quadrangular grid networks of free-base tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin (TCPP) form an interweaved crystalline architecture, in addition to the non-interweaved offset-stacked porous arrangement observed before. In the two structures the individual arrays are similarly stabilized by multiple cyclic-dimeric (COOH)2 hydrogen bonding synthons, differing slightly in the grid shape. The Mn-metalled TCPP building blocks afford in a lipophilic environment 2-D coordination polymers by direct Mn-OOC/HOOC association between the tetra-acid metalloporphyrin units, without incorporation of any external bridging auxiliaries. This polymerization is further enforced by interporphyrin O-HO hydrogen bonding within and between the 2-D arrays, yielding a solvent-free 3-D architecture. The latter is related to an isomeric crystalline organization of similar layered Mn-TCPP coordination polymers obtained earlier from hydrophilic crystallization mixtures, wherein intercalated solvent separates the layered polymeric arrays. The non-acidic Mn(Cl)-TOHPP compound yields a chiral 3-D assembly sustained by multiple inter-porphyrin hydrogen bonding. Its formation is promoted by the non-centrosymmetric (axially polarized) shape of this porphyrin unit, as well as by the directional hydrogen bonding interactions, and it involves coordination of an additional axial ligand to the manganese ion. Effects of competing solvation, which interfere with the supramolecular aggregation of the TCPP scaffolds into network arrays, are demonstrated also by structures obtained from solvent mixtures containing dimethylsulfoxide.
Nangia, Ashwini
University of Hyderabad, School of Chemistry.
N-(3-Pyridyl)urea2001In: Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, ISSN 1600-5368, E-ISSN 1600-5368, Vol. 57, no 8, p. o719-o720 Article in journal (Refereed)
The crystal structure of the title compound, C6H7N3O, exhibits packing typical of amides, with N-HO hydrogen-bond dimers forming a corrugated tape and N-HN bonds connecting the tapes
N,N'-Bis(4-biphenylyl)urea2003In: Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, ISSN 1600-5368, E-ISSN 1600-5368, Vol. 59, no 6, p. o901-o902 Article in journal (Other academic)
The crystal structure of the title compound, C25H20N2O, has the N-HO α-network typical of diaryl ureas.
Bagieu-Beucher, Muriel
Laboratorie de Cristallographie associé à l'Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS.
Masse, Rene
Nicoud, Jean-François
Institut de Physique et Chemie des Mateériaux de Strasbourg, CNRS et Université Louis Pasteur, Groupe de Matériaux Organiques.
Crystal engineering of two-dimensional polar layer structures: hydrogen bond networks in some N-meta-phenylpyrimidinones2003In: New Journal of Chemistry, ISSN 1144-0546, E-ISSN 1369-9261, Vol. 27, no 3, p. 568-576Article in journal (Refereed)
n a recent paper (New J. Chem., 2001, 25, 1520), we have analysed crystal structures of some N-aryl pyrimidinones. Based on the occurrence of two-dimensional layers in six out of nine crystals, we proposed that self-assembly in these structures might be analysed in terms of the stacking of 2D hydrogen-bonded layers. We show herein that meta-substituted phenyl pyrimidinones (Br, I, F, NO2, Me, OMe) have an overwhelming preference for the 2D polar arrangement, namely the parallel alignment of 1D chains within a layer. The molecules are arranged in chains mediated by C-HO hydrogen bonds and such motifs are connected via C-HO and C-Hhalogen interactions in the lateral direction. A notable feature in these structures is that chains of dipolar molecules align in a parallel fashion to produce polar layers. The preference for 2D polarity is explained by the shape of the aryl pyrimidinone molecule and the geometry of interactions between hydrogen bonding functional groups (C-H donors, O/halogen acceptors). However, the polar layers stack in an anti-parallel manner and the crystal structures are centrosymmetric. The task of controlling parallel stacking of polar domains in the 3D crystal is a continuing challenge in our studies.
Lam, Chi-Keung
Chinese University of Hongkong, Department of Chemistry.
Mak, Thomas C..W
Institut de Physique et Chemiedes Materiaux de Strasbourg, Groupe des Materieaux Organiques.
Crystal engineering of urea α-network via I...O2N synthon and design of SHG active crystal N-4-iodophenyl-N'-4'-nitrophenylurea2004In: Chemical Communications, ISSN 1359-7345, E-ISSN 1364-548X, no 10, p. 1202-1203Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Crystalline nitrodiphenyl ureas adopt the N-H...O tape α-network only when stabilization accrues from the I...O2N or C=C-H...O2N synthon, otherwise the urea...nitro motif is preferred; soft, weak interactions can direct polar self-assembly in strong N-H...O hydrogen-bonded crystals.
Lynch, Vincent M.
University of Texas, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
N-(4-Biphenylyl)urea2001In: Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications, ISSN 0108-2701, E-ISSN 1600-5759, Vol. 57, no 6, p. 777-778Article in journal (Refereed)
In the crystal structure of the title compound, C13H12N2O, N-H(anti)...O hydrogen bonds produce the so-called urea alpha-network and the N-H(syn) donor forms an unconventional N-H...pi hydrogen bond
Muthuraman, Meiyappan
Masse, René
Crystal engineering of neutral N-arylpyrimidinones and their HCl and HNO3 adducts with a C-HO supramolecular synton: Implications for non-linear optics2001In: New Journal of Chemistry, ISSN 1144-0546, E-ISSN 1369-9261, Vol. 25, no 12, p. 1520-1527Article in journal (Refereed)
In a previous crystallographic study of some N-arylpyrimidinones 1, we noted that: (1) C-HO hydrogen bonds connect molecules in a linear array; (2) the charge transfer axis of the chromophore is aligned with the main symmetry operator of point groups 2 or m at ca. 57°, a value that is close to the ideal angle of 54.74°; (3) the methyl and chloro derivatives are isostructural. In this paper, we report the characterisation of chloride and nitrate salt adducts of 1 by X-ray diffraction and the analysis of their packing motifs. Recurrence of the same C-HO supramolecular synthon in three neutral and five HCl and HNO3 adducts of 1 signifies the robustness of this weak hydrogen bond. The occurrence of a mirror plane m in a family of eight crystal structures (four Pnma, two P21/m, one Pbcm, and one Pmn21) is unusual because this symmetry operation is generally avoided due to close packing considerations. Ab initio calculations show that the bisected phenyl conformation present in these crystal structures is the most stable conformation of the pyrimidinone molecule. The presence of aryl and pyrimidinone chromophores in 1, the correct alignment of the aromatic ring in the crystal and the occurrence of 2D polar layers in some crystal structures are favourable factors for non-linear optical applications. However, a strategy for the crystallisation of these achiral molecules in non-centrosymmetric space groups is yet to be achieved. This crystal engineering study simplifies the challenge of complete 3D structural control into a modular 2D+1D problem
Self-assembly of uniquely structured porphyrin network solids by charged N-HCl and N-HO hydrogen bonds2006In: CrystEngComm, ISSN 1466-8033, E-ISSN 1466-8033, Vol. 8, no 11, p. 784-787Article in journal (Refereed)
New motifs for the supramolecular assembly of crystalline porphyrin network solids directed by charged N-HCl and N-HO hydrogen bonds are presented, using the tetra(4-pyridyl)- and tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)-porphyrin building blocks.
(4-Acetylpyridine)(tetraphenylporphyrinato)zinc(II)2006In: Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, ISSN 1600-5368, E-ISSN 1600-5368, Vol. 62, no 3, p. m417-m419 Article in journal (Refereed)
The title compound, [Zn(C44H28N4)(C7H7NO)], is a square-pyramidal five-coordinate zinc-porphyrin complex with γ-acetylpyridine as the apical ligand. The intermolecular packing involves van der Waals forces, close π-π stacking and C-Hπ contacts, revealing an interesting pairing of adjacent molecules related by inversion.
Framework coordination polymers of tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin and lanthanide ions in crystalline solids2007In: Dalton Transactions, ISSN 1477-9226, E-ISSN 1477-9234, no 30, p. 3273-3281Article in journal (Refereed)
Targeted synthesis of framework coordination polymers was achieved by reacting meso-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin with common salts of lanthanide metal ions. The large size, high coordination numbers and strong affinity for oxo ligands of the latter, combined with favourable hydrothermal reaction conditions in acidic environments, allowed the formation of open three-dimensional single-framework architectures in which the tetra-dentate porphyrin units are inter-coordinated by multinuclear assemblies of the bridging metal ions, which serve as construction pillars, into infinite architectures. Three different modes of coordination polymerisation were characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. They differ by the nuclearity of the metal connectors. All structures exhibit, however, layered organization of the porphyrin-metal domains, and periodically spaced solvent accessible channel voids that penetrate through these layers throughout the corresponding crystals. Thermal analysis provided additional insight into the stability of these polymeric materials.
The effects of strong Lewis-base reagents on supramolecular hydrogen bonding of meso-tetra(carboxyphenyl)porphyrins2006In: CrystEngComm, ISSN 1466-8033, E-ISSN 1466-8033, Vol. 8, no 8, p. 601-607Article in journal (Refereed)
Reactions of Pd-, Ru(CO)- and Cu-complexes of meso-tetra(carboxyphenyl)porphyrin with strong Lewis base reagents (as pyridine, 4-acetylpyridine or dimetylsulfoxide) avoided the formation of commonly observed 2-D or 3-D multiporphyrin arrays by direct hydrogen bonding. Structural analysis of the crystalline products indicates that this is due to preferential affinity of these reagents to associate to the carboxylic acid functions via H-bonds, in competition with the potential self-association of the porphyrin units. In the copper-porphyrin derivative all four carboxylic acid functions of a given porphyrin interact with the 4-acetylpyridine species, creating discrete 1 : 4 porphyrin : ligand pentameric assemblies. Then, in adducts of the ruthenium carbon monoxide porphyrins with pyridine or 4-acetylpyridine, two trans-related carboxylic acid groups of the porphyrin scaffold interact directly with neighboring porphyrin species via the common (COOH)2 cyclic dimeric synthon to yield 1-D hydrogen bonded chains, while the other carboxylic functions donate their protons to molecules of the polar pyridine/acetylpyridine ligand that prevent further interporphyrin lateral binding along the perpendicular direction. The pyridyl-type moieties bear a single electron lone pair on the N-atom that can act as an effective hydrogen bond acceptor, allowing for a localized hydrogen bond with the carboxylic acid. On the other hand, the dimethylsulfoxide can involve readily through its O-site (bearing two lone pairs of electrons) in two hydrogen bonds in tetrahedral directions, and can thus serve as a bridging auxiliary between the carboxylic acid groups of neighboring porphyrins. Correspondingly, its reaction with the palladium complex leads to the formation of heterogeneous porphyrin-dimethylsulfoxide linear hydrogen bonded chains. Along these chains two ligand molecules are inserted between adjacent porphyrin units on both sides, and bridge between their cis-related carboxyphenyl arms. The different motifs of hydrogen-bonding effect different crystal packing features in three dimensions, some characterized also by the presence of solvent-accessible open channels that propagate through the lattice.
Porphyrin framework solids: synthesis and structure of hybrid coordination polymers of tetra(carboxyphenyl)porphyrins and lanthanide-bridging ions2007In: Inorganic Chemistry, ISSN 0020-1669, E-ISSN 1520-510X, Vol. 46, no 14, p. 5544-5554Article in journal (Refereed)
New types of porphyrin-based framework solids were constructed by reacting meso-tetra(3-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin and meso-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)metalloporphyrins with common salts of lanthanide metal ions. The large size, high coordination numbers and strong affinity for oxo ligands of the latter, combined with favorable hydrothermal reaction conditions, allowed the formation of open three-dimensional single-framework architectures by coordination polymerization, in which the tetradentate porphyrin units are intercoordinated by multinuclear assemblies of the bridging metal ions. The latter serve as construction pillars of the supramolecular arrays, affording stable structures. Several modes of coordination polymerization were revealed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. They differ by the spatial functionality of the porphyrin building blocks, the coordination patterns of the lanthanide-carboxylate assemblies, and the topology of the resulting frameworks. The seven new reported structures exhibit periodically spaced 0.4-0.6 nm wide channel voids that perforate the respective crystalline polymeric architectures and are accessible to solvent components. Materials based on the m-carboxyphenyl derivative reveal smaller channels than those based on the p-carboxyphenyl analogues. An additional complex of the former with a smaller third-row transition metal (Co) is characterized by coordination connectivity in two dimensions only. Thermal and powder-diffraction analyses confirm the stability of the lanthanide-TmCPP (TmCPP = tetra(m-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin) frameworks.
CNRS et Université Louis Pasteur, Groupe des Matériaux Organiques, Institut de Physique de Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg.
Fur, Yvette Le
ombining and coordinating its economic and technical perspectives.
Desiraju, Gautam R
C-H···O and C-H···N Hydrogen Bond Networks in the Crystal Structures of Some 1,2-Dihydro-N-aryl-4,6-dimethylpyrimidin-2-ones2000In: Journal of Solid State Chemistry, ISSN 0022-4596, E-ISSN 1095-726X, Vol. 152, no 1, p. 221-228Article in journal (Refereed)
A set of three aryl dimethyl pyrimidinones have been studied and their crystal structures described in terms of networks of C-HO and C-HN hydrogen bonds. Two of the three molecules in this study differ in the replacement of a chloro group by a methyl group and obey the chloro-methyl exchange rule in that they have nearly identical crystal structures. However, and in contrast to other pairs of compounds so related, the chloro and methyl groups here are not merely isosteric but also form similar polarization-induced ClPh and CH3Ph contacts. These conjugated molecules may offer some scope for nonlinear optical studies.
Rao, H. Surya Prakash
Pondicherry University, Department of Chemistry.
Muralidharan, K.
Indian Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, Kanpur.
Clucose diacetonide route to functionalized perhydrofuro [3,2-b] furan ring system1998In: Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, ISSN 0971-1627, Vol. 8, p. 95-98Article in journal (Refereed)
Reddy, L. Sreenivas
Chandran, Sreekanth K
Babu, N. Jagadeesh
Crystal Structures of N-Aryl-N′-4-Nitrophenyl Ureas: Molecular Conformation and Weak Interactions Direct the Strong Hydrogen Bond Synthon2007In: Crystal Growth & Design, ISSN 1528-7483, E-ISSN 1528-7505, Vol. 7, no 12, p. 2675-2690Article in journal (Refereed)
Hydrogen bond competition was studied in 21 X-ray crystal structures of N-X-phenyl-N′-p-nitrophenyl urea compounds (X = H, F, Cl, Br, I, CN, C≡CH, CONH2, COCH3, OH, Me). These structures are classified into two families depending on the hydrogen bond pattern: urea tape structures contain the well-known α-network assembled via N-HO hydrogen bonds; however, in nonurea tape structures the N-H donors hydrogen bond with NO2 groups or solvent O acceptor atoms. Surprisingly, the urea CO hardly accepts strong H bonds in nonurea type structures sustained by ureanitro and ureasolvent synthons. The carbonyl group accepts intra- and intermolecular C-HO interactions. The molecular conformation and H bonding motifs are different in the two categories of structures: the phenyl rings are twisted out of the urea plane in the tape motif, but they are coplanar in the nonurea category. Even though hydrogen bond synthon energy and urea carbonyl acceptor strength favor the N-HO tape structure, the dominant pattern in electron-withdrawing aryl urea crystal structures is the ureanitro/ureasolvent synthon and persistence of intramolecular C-HO interactions. Remarkably, the presence of functional groups that can promote specific C-IO or C-HO interactions with the interfering NO2 group, for example, when X = I, C≡CH, NMe2, and Me, steers crystallization toward the N-HO urea tape structure, and now the diaryl urea molecule adopts the metastable, twisted conformation. Molecular conformer energy calculations and difference nuclear Overhauser enhancement NMR experiments show that the planar, trans-trans-N,N′-diphenyl urea conformation is more stable than the N-Ph twisted rotamer. However, the urea CO is a better hydrogen bond acceptor in the twisted conformer compared to the planar one, based on electrostatic surface potential (ESP) charges. These diaryl ureas together with previously reported crystal structures provide a global structural model to understand how functional groups, molecular conformation, hydrogen bonding, and crystal packing are closely related and influence each other in subtle yet definitive ways. Our strategy simultaneously exploits weak, soft intermolecular interactions and strong, hard hydrogen bonds [supramolecular hard and soft acid-base (HSAB) principle] in the crystal engineering of multifunctional molecules.
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How the game goes on
Quarto is a board game recently invented by Blaise Muller (blaise.muller@9online.fr) and published by Gigamic
This is a game for two players. The board has 16 squares (4x4), and the 16 different pieces that can be constructed combinating the following four characteristics:
Size (big/small)
Colour (red/blue)
Shape (circle/ square)
Hole (piece with hole/piece without hole)
The aim of the game is to complete a line with four pieces that are similar at least about one of the four described characteristics (four big pieces, four little, four red, four blue, four circle, four square, four with hole or four without hole). The line may be vertical, horizontal or diagonal. The winner is the player who places the fourth piece of the line.
Players move alternatively, placing one piece on the board; once inserted, pieces cannot be moved.
One of the more special characteristics of this game is that the choice of the piece to be placed on the board is not made by the same player who places it; it is the opponent who, after doing his move, decides which will be the next piece to place.
So, each turn consists of two actions:
1. Place on the board the piece given by the opponent.
2. Give to the opponent the piece to be placed in the next move.
In the first turn of the game, the player who starts has only to choose one piece for the opponent.
The game finishes in a draw when nobody reaches the objective after placing the 16 pieces.
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Introducing Mark Colbourne MBE: After Dinner Speaker in Cardiff
Mark Colbourne MBE has created a successful speaking career from presenting his key messages on “Change and Mindset” to many FTSE 250 companies. Mark has kindly educated other people successfully on how to overcome their fear of change. Global audiences can learn thought provoking elite mindset skills that empowers confidence, overcomes fear and consistently impacts results on their bottom line.
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It was a huge pleasure to have Mark join us for the Trent XWB Leadership Forum in January 2017. Mark’s story was a true inspiration to everyone in the room. It challenged the head and how we look at the world as well as the heart, which drives us on.
If you lead teams that do amazing things, then I would thoroughly recommend Mark to inspire them to even greater heights.
Rolls Royce • Gareth W Davies
Project Director • Trent XWB
Over the years, I have had the opportunity to see many inspiring and motivational speakers in action, but I must say Mark’s story was quite simply, astonishing and one that will stay with me throughout my career. It is no surprise the team are still talking about Mark now, and I feel quite certain all of them will have found inspiration in his powerful and engaging presentation.
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Steve Murrells • CEO
The mindset of a great leader in any organization is one that takes many years of nurturing and many hours of living in the zone. Having had the pleasure of watching Mark Colbourne present on “Change” to my staff at our annual awards was a true reflection on what can be achieved when you set your goals high. Mark made my special guests feel so welcome with his true wisdom and respectable wit.
GE Aviation • Lorenzo Simonelli
President & CEO • Oil & Gas
Mark’s ethos, ethics and attitude to people and work fits in very well with that of Arup’s. Mark’s attention to detail was extremely refreshing. Mark is a true professional who captures the attention of any audience with his powerful delivery. His approach underpins the qualities needed in any organization who believe in success, diversity, equality and wanting to make a difference to the world. I would have no hesitation in recommending Mark.
Arup • Debbie Rogers
Mark Colbourne was our guest speaker at our internal leadership conference and easily held the audience in total suspense for well over an hour, which I’ve never seen before at any of our events. Mark was able to relate his experiences and key messages with our ongoing strategy, and I feel this worked very well using his Olympic long-term mindset when working towards an outcome, which was our theme and main message.
Siemens UK • Neil Eardley
Mark gave an amazing insight into the strength of the human body and mind to overcome change. Mark presented his knowledge and key messages to my UK Team who reflected on their golas in life. We can all take inspiration and courage from Mark.
Kier • Steve Bowcott
Former COO
Having reflected on Mark Colbourne’s journey I can honestly say he is a special individual and his story truly transcends sport. He made Scape’s CEO forum a fantastic event and we all agreed his session made the difference. I would certainly book Mark again and refer Mark to any large organization for a result’s driven presentation.
Scape • Mark Robinson
Group Chief Executive
Hello, and welcome to the official website of Mark Colbourne MBE. When you think of me, what do you see? A sportsman? A Paralympic cycling champion? An after-dinner speaker? Well, I am all those things and more.
My story began in 2009 when I was forced into an emergency landing whilst paragliding off the coast of South Wales. I plunged 35 feet to the solid ground and broke my back.
Following my accident, I began cycling through Disability Sport Wales and competed in the C1 classification for riders on upright bikes with the most severe disabilities. After struggling to cope both physically and mentally, cycling gave me hope.
I trained at the Newport Velodrome with the help of my cycling coach, Neil Smith. Not long after I first sat in the saddle, I made my first appearance in a track race in May 2010 at the Wales Grand Prix.
After this race, I was hooked. In 2011 I won my first UCI Para-Cycling World Cup medal. It was an incredible achievement; however, I was not done yet. I went on to take the bronze medal in the C1 time trail during my World Cup debut in Spain.
I received a lot of support from my friends and family in South Wales and it helped drive me to success at my first World Championship where I won silver at the 2011 UCI Para-Cycling Road World Championships in Denmark.
The year 2012 sticks in our minds for many reasons, for me it is the year that will forever be my proudest and unforgettable. It is the year that I won my first world title, taking the gold medal in the C1 3km individual pursuit at the Para-Cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles. At the same Championships I won the silver medal in the C1 1km time trial.
Next came the selection process for the 2012 Summer Paralympics that was held in Great Britain. I received the call from my coach and was given the incredible news that I would be representing my country.
I trained harder and longer than I have ever trained before and on the 30th of August 2012 I won a silver medal and Great Britainís first medal of the 2012 Paralympics in the C1-3 1km time trial.
The following day, not even twenty-four hours later, on the 31st August 2012 I won a gold medal in the C1 3km individual pursuit after breaking the world record in both the qualification round and in the final.
That was it, I did it, I won gold at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. It was a dream come true and a feeling that I simply cannot put into words.
Once the dust had settled and everyone had gone home, I was invited to visit Buckingham Palace where I was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling.
In the summer of 2013, I announced my retirement from para-cycling.
So, what came next? Well the stage was set; I had hit my peak within the sporting world and needed a fresh challenge. I wanted to make a difference, I wanted to help people and motivate others to change their thought process and way of thinking.
There is a huge stigma attached to peoples attitude towards change in all areas of the working environment. As a motivational speaker in Cardiff I see this regularly. In fact, when I travel to Swansea and other areas across South Wales, I often come up against this.
Change creates an unnatural fear deep down in our soul, as our brains are developed to keep us safe. The reason for this is because traditionally the perception of fear when faced with a sudden curve ball, has been with us ever since that giant asteroid hit our planet all those 65 million years ago.
The truth is that in todays fast-moving global environment the only way to succeed against your competition, is to create a lasting change with your staff and within your organisation.
My name is now my brand, Mark Colbourne MBE, Paralympic Champion and motivational speaker. I have gained extensive experience delivering key messages on change and mindset and have been noted as one of the best after-dinner speakers in South Wales.
I have worked with countless FTSE 250 companies across the UK and educated people successfully on how to overcome their fear of change. If you or your business is looking for after dinner speakers in Wales, contact me and lets discuss your aims.
Professional speakers in South Wales has a lot of competition and talent especially when your desired speaker is a former sporting professional. As a keynote speaker, I always promise to deliver an authentic and motivational speech that is unforgettable to all those in attendance.
Each speech is tailored to your conference and objectives. As professional speakers go, I supply the whole package and inspire delegates, both in their professional environment and personally which many motivational speakers in Wales do not consider when they put their material together.
When you come to booking me for your charitable, sporting or business events you can expect me to set a vision, focus on goal setting for teams and individuals, taking ownership and committing to goals, identifying and overcoming hurdles. There will also be specific talking points about the use of creativity and innovation to achieve outstanding results.
How could you put a price on making your employees or team members to be more flexible and manage change proactively. Once we have completed the after-dinner talk everyone in the room will fully understand the importance of teamwork and how to achieve it.
National and global brands have benefited from thought provoking elite mindset skills that empowers confidence, overcomes fear and consistently impacts results on their bottom line, which lets face it, is the main reason anyone hires keynote speakers in Wales.
I don't just turn up and speak like a lot of after-dinner speakers in Cardiff. No, I turn up with plenty of time to spare and meet the staff, event organisers and the guests. I am my own brand remember, and I want to ensure that you get the very best experience and assure others that Mark Colbourne is the best after-dinner speaker in Cardiff, Swansea and other areas across South Wales.
Yes, I am most famous for not just talking about my world record results, but also showing audiences how to inspire themselves to be the best they can be, and how to deliver marginal gains that they control. It's all about teaching people to live with a new perception of understanding a lasting change, I couple this with an insatiable hunger to put these new skills into action.
Having delivered over 250 quality speaking presentations in fourteen different countries across three continents, you should have the confidence of working with a likeable professional with a plausible track record that is guaranteed to deliver a positive impact on the success of your organisation.
So, you have read all about me, let's find out more about you. I would love to have a quick conversation to understand if my presentations would be right for your business, organisation or charity.
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One Night Only: Gamelan D'Drum
by Amy Martin
In Bali and Indonesia, music arises from life: the steady rhythm of pounding rice into paste, the choppy beats of waves in shallow tropical bays, the polyphonic swelling of frog song at dusk, the rolling rhythms of gentle jungle hills. This merges with a spirited grace captured in their gamelan ensembles. Based on melodic tuned gongs that are arrayed in the manner of keyboard percussion such as marimbas, they also include wood drums, bamboo flutes, and bowed and plucked strings.
The Dallas-based ensemble D’Drum takes these rhythms and others from around the world, melds them with their own jazz and classical sensibilities, and executes them with a stunning level of musical chops. This makes them a perfect match for a Dallas Symphony commissioned composition from the former Police drummer Stewart Copeland, a globetrotting musical synthete with a precise drumming style that never loses track of the groove.
“Gamelan D'Drum” debuted on February 5, 2011, after the first two shows were canceled due to a freakish ice storm that also led to a minimum of rehearsals. Not that anyone could tell at the debut concert. The half-hour composition was virtuallywithout flaws, even with the five D’Drum percussionists having to move rapidly between dozens of colorful instruments crowding the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Hall stage.
Truly a milestone in both the band’s and Copeland’s careers, “Gamelan D'Drum” was the first time for D’Drum to perform a piece not created from improvisational interactions as the band usually does. The piece was, however, highly collaborative, with recordings passed back and forth over several months between composer and band. The resulting percussion score was a monster, especially the vibe, marimba and cimbalom parts.
So committed was D’Drum to seeing this piece to fruition that they commissioned Javanese and Balinese sets of gamelan bells in concert pitch by their favorite Indonesian instrument maker. In the relaxed manner of the Indonesian islands, gamelan in one village might be set to a different tuning than that in another, and neither truly syncs up with western intonation.
For Copeland it was a chance of a lifetime to merge his global sensibilities, arising from his peripatetic childhood and so showcased in WOMAD, with the classical style composing he’d made a name for in film for the last decade. But unrestricted by the necessary limitations of soundtracks, and fueled by the soaring excellence of the Dallas Symphony and conductor Jaap van Zweden, Copeland’s creativity bloomed into true fine art, with D’Drum as the inspiration for it all.
Copeland chose an orchestration of piccolos, flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets and trombone, along with a full string complement, to highlight D’Drum’s Balinese and Javanese gongs and bells, African and Middle Eastern drums, and assorted gamelan percussion. The percussion bloomed under the Meyerson acoustics, at times overwhelming the symphony that could have used a touch more amplification.
Possibly no other composer today could have blended so seamlessly a global improvisation-based percussion ensemble with orchestra. At times, D’Drum would showcase a rhythmic section, creating a textural bed, and the orchestra would slide in, echoing and then expounding on the motif. The composition sounded natural, fluid and spirited under van Zweden’s passionately precise direction. The violin solo by guest (and former DSO) concert master David Kim with D’Drum was goosebump inducing. A true testament to van Zweden’s depth of skills that he so gracefully fused improvisational percussion and scored orchestra. His intense focus on the band’s spontaneity was thrilling to behold.
Because of the unique instrumentation and skills of D’Drum, it’s doubtful this composition could be performed with another ensemble. Copeland took care to showcase each band member’s strengths. John Bryant had a turn with his global drum kit, highlighting a versatility born from his own considerable composition chops. Jamal Mohamed was spotlighted in his classic doumbek solo in which he plays the small ceramic goblet drum from both sides of the drum skin, much to the perplexment of the audience. Douglas Howard’s nuanced marimba work and Ron Snider’s cimbalom excellence show why they are such valued leaders in the symphony’s percussion section. But the heart of the composition belonged to vibraphonist Ed Smith, who most captures the taksu spirit of gamelan, especially on the Balinese reyong.
The presentation of “Gamelan D'Drum” represented some serious boundary pushing for North Texas musical culture. Jaap van Zweden and other leaders in the Dallas Symphony, plus all the performers, are to be congratulated for enabling such a groundbreaking work of art to become reality -- a trans-global effort that even surmounted at the end considerable weather odds. The audience showed its appreciation with a thunderous and extended standing ovation that included repeated curtain calls.
This reviewer is going to look back many years from now and say: "I saw that show, that one night, that one show, and it was sincerely amazing." Or maybe the Dallas Symphony will realize the importance of this work and do it justice with a return extended engagement.
Visit the D'Drum website
Photo by Mark Birnbaum
Posted by Amy Martin ~ www.moonlady.com at 12:15 PM
Labels: D'Drum, Dallas Symphony, Gamelan, Jaap van Zweden, Stewart Copeland
Moonlady Meanderings
The incidental writings of Amy Martin: Messages for seasonal dates and holidays... Musings from Osage Moon, a rural nature preserve... and other short bits.
First Light A poem of Imbolc and Candlemas
MidWinter Convergence of Light's Return
Amy Martin ~ www.moonlady.com
Amy Martin is a well-known North Texas leader in alternative and non-mainstream spirituality and creator of the acclaimed Winter SolstiCelebration presented by Earth Rhythms, (www.EarthRhythms.org) for which serves as executive director. She writes weekly from the spiritual-not-religious and Taoist perspective for Texas Faith blog at the Dallas Morning News daily newspaper, and sets on several interfaith panels. Regarded as the “Moonlady,” (www.moonlady.com) she operates a very popular eclectic online news service for North Texas called Moonlady News that covers the non-mainstream spirituality, environment, holistic, metaphysic and progressive politics communities. A journalist and writer of over 30 years experience, Moonlady Media produces books, both printed and electronic, on a variety of topics. Books by Amy include “Holy Smoke: Loose Herbs & Hot Embers for Intense Group Smudges & Smoke Prayers” and the upcoming “Poison Oak, Poison Ivy: The Ultimate Guide.” A book on the spiritual-not-religious movement will be in research phase during 2011. Amy and her husband share their wooded East Dallas home with several cats‚ two dogs and a variety of wildlife.
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Review – Bride of the Rat God
Jul 28, 2014 | Horror, On Writing, Past Notes
BRIDE OF THE RAT GOD is a marvelous historical novel (with an element of fantasy to it) that belies its kitschy title.
The title makes the story, of course, because it is, in fact, about a silent film star who gets caught in a sorcerous web of complications involving a sacred Chinese heirloom, a jealous demon-god who wants her soul, and his attempted sacrifice of her on the altar of his own ancient desire.
Sounds kind of melodramatic and silly, eh?
Not so much. Barbara Hambly has a deft touch with deep and well articulated characters, and she adds layers of experience and reality to her characters as she goes. The marvelously well written landscape of 1920s Hollywood is also meticulously researched and is perfectly portrayed, with an eye to both technical and emotional detail that is all too often lacking in historical novels.
The fantastical / supernatural elements of the novel merely add a rapidly accelerating plot to a novel that’s already a strong and well-written story of two women whose lives have become enmeshed in the silliness and wild party that is Hollywood (circa 1920s…. probably worse now).
I’ll be reading more Hambly, because she made me believe in her characters, their desperate situation and their history. I’ve also written quite a bit about Bride of the Rat God in my How to Write Fantasy Series, which you can read here.
My only nit to pick was that the final confrontation was not powerful enough — it didn’t knock my socks off. But I really cared about the characters, and I really believed in the story, which is enough to out-last any slowness to the final denouement.
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The 1960's - Part 5
Ivan Mauger
Born: 4 October 1939 Died: 16 April 2018
All the above photographs are courtesy of the souvenir programme dated 22nd April 2018.
The Mauger Family
The Mauger family say: This is a statement we released to the press today (March 2015) regarding Ivan.
"Former world speedway & long track champion Ivan Mauger OBE and MBE is being treated for Cognitive Aphasia, a communication disorder."
The Mauger family are issuing this statement detailing the situation and will be making no further comment. Ivan, who won six speedway titles between 1968 and 1979, and long track crowns in 1971, 1972 and 1976, announced his retirement from public life two years ago. He is receiving daily treatment at a Gold Coast (Australia) nursing home, but still manages to enjoy time with wife Raye, their three children, Julie, Kym and Debbie, and longstanding friends and associates from within motorcycling and the wider community.
Meanwhile, collectors are warned to be wary of items of Ivan's equipment and memorabilia being offered for sale. “It has come to our notice that some unauthorised and unscrupulous people have been making false representations so please take every care to ensure any such offers are genuine and being made by authentic sellers,” said Raye.
The "Rough Diamond" Ivan's Own Photo Collection Ivan In NZ In 1956 More Of Ivan In The 1950s Ivan & Raye Celebrate The First World Title In 1968 Ivan Helps Me With The Website! The Famous Gold Bike Ivan's Title Winning Machines Ivan On A Two-Stroke Greaves 1963 The Maugers Arrive In Newcastle
Mid 1960s at Newcastle 1965 My Leg In Plaster Ivan Mauger's Newcastle Stats
John says: Ivan told me, when he was well, that he was very happy to help me with the website. We exchanged numerous emails. He sent me lots of his personal photos which I have added to this website and my
Defunct Speedway Website . All of my effforts on the website relating to Ivan, Raye and family have Ivan's approval. Ivan and I continued to correspond until it became too difficult for him due to his illness. I am honoured that my boyhood hero chose to help me with my websites and I sincerely hope he responds to treatment and is able to enjoy his time with his family despite the Cognitive Aphasia.
John says: After collecting many photos and stories shown on this webpage, about Ivan's time with Newcastle. Ivan himself has been in touch many times now. He has sent me loads of his private photos etc and has agreed that I can show the entire Newcastle chapter from his Autobiography "The Will To Win". The book is great and you should buy it. I am delighted to reproduce the chapter from his book under the heading "Rough Diamond". The book extract is copyrighted and belongs to Ivan and should not be reproduced elsewhere for financial gain:-
John says: I was emotionally
Ivan at Wimbledon
Ivan & Rod Laver
Courtesy of John Spoor
Ivan rode at Rockhampton Australia prior to coming back to Britain in 1963. Rod Laver was born in Rockhampton
"Rough Diamond"
After Wimbledon and its plush stadium, such an eye-opener for a teenaged arrival in 1957, Newcastle was something of a culture shock for a new signing in 1963. The London we first encountered was still recovering from the damage caused by the war years but in our view it was the most exciting, vibrant city in the world. Newcastle upon Tyne, my new speedway base and Manchester, where we set up home, were traditionally industrial northern cities- only a couple of hundred miles or so from London but they may has well have been light years removed.
Brough Park had history. It was one of the first tracks to operate and the incomparable Johnnie Hoskins ran the place before and after the war. However, it has always been basic rather than beautiful, a bit like the city itself which for years had a reputation as being hard edged and predominantly working class. At first sight it seemed a grey, unforgiving sort of place and bear in mind during 1957 and 1958 I rarely travelled further north than Coventry! The north east people though, are the salt of the earth and once they have accepted you- and you have managed to understand the distinctive dialect of the region-the Geordies are great. We have fond memories of a six season association with the Diamonds which, after a few early irritations had been ironed out, began so promisingly, and produced some great occasions for the team and for me as an individual. It is a pity it ended acrimoniously, thanks to a falling-out with the man who got me there in the first place.
The fact I left Newcastle in 1968 as a world champion, in my opinion, was as much in spite of Mike Parker as it was because of him. In the end the place was not big enough for both of us, although from the distance of time it is easy to think I possibly was a part of the problem as he was. Raye and I will always be grateful to him for bringing us and our family to England and Newcastle. When we were last in the UK in 1958 nobody in speedway had heard of him, but in the years we were away he had made a big impact. Originally a midget car driver, Mike opened several tracks in 1959 to run composite speedway and car meetings, and was a leading light in the foundations of the Provincial League the following year. The man helped change the landscape of British speedway, and as such was one of the architects of a revival which could not have been better timed from my point of view. Very much due to his powerful influence and that of a few others- Trevor Redmond and Reg Fearman among them-the number of British tracks doubled virtually overnight, and signalled the start of speedways long journey back into the sunshine.
Parker was the new leagues chairman and operated at Liverpool, Stoke, Middlesbrough and Bradford in 1960. His interests continued to expand, among them Wolverhampton and Newcastle, whose 1962 team included Gil Goldfinch one of my former Plough Lane colleagues, and Ivan Crozier an old friend from Christchurch with whom I had ridden in Adelaide. It was Ivan (Crozier) who encouraged me to contact Mike Parker and at the same time Ivan encourage Mike to give me a go.
New tracks meant fresh opportunities and a whole new blast of enthusiasm was running through the sport, especially at this level. All was not so good with the National League, with the traditional big track promoters doggedly clinging to past glories but seemingly challenged when it came to finding a new formula to invigorate a competition which by 1963 was down from the 10 teams of 1958 to just 7. The league was still being dominated by most of the big stars who were around 5 years earlier. By contrast the Provincial League contained plenty of names I remembered and recognised, although a few of them I thought would have improved to such an extent that I couldn’t live with them.
The Provincial League had 13 tracks. The Diamonds, after finishing bottom in their comeback year 1961, had climbed to ninth in 1962 and the locals were hanging out for further improvement. It was against this background that our family unit, now five strong, undertook the boat trip via the Italian ship Castle Felice to Southampton. We took the overnight sleeper train from Adelaide to Melbourne to board the ship. With three active youngsters in tow barely old enough to understand what was happening but inevitably caught up in the excitement of it all, we were reading for a new beginning.
Before getting to meet Mike Parker in person, we were met off the boat in Southampton by Eddie Glennon (Eddie died in a car accident in July1968, returning north after a meeting at Newport where he held the promoting reins on behalf of the Mike Parker organisation.) Eddie was Mike’s right hand man. He managed various Mike Parker teams and was a very popular and generous personality. Eddies first connection with Mike Parker was as secretary of the Manchester Midget car club. Over time we were to discover that Eddie was a great foil for Parker, who was widely regarded as a tough operator and often gruff with it.
The Parker base was in Manchester, he owned a lot of property in Whalley Range, and had accommodation for us to rent. Even though it was so far north of London and the people and places with whom we had become familiar on our first visit, and was about a three and a half hour drive to Newcastle, the distance was not something we considered a drama. But when we finally arrived at 101 Upper Chorlton Road, most of the arrangements he had laid on were less than ideal. The flat turned out to be a tip, an ex-GPO van provided in the deal obviously had seen better days and a promised bike wouldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding. Still the big one was that Mike Parker had offered a team place and coughed up all the expenses for Raye and I and the three kids to get to England. For that I agreed to ride for him for a minimum of two seasons on whatever the normal start and points money was in Provincial League.
Because I had signed a contract with Wimbledon for both 1957 and 1958 I was officially on their retained list. When I started to win quite a few championships in Australia and there was occasional publicity in the speedway magazines that I wanted to go back to England, that probably was the only reason Ronnie Greene kept me on the Wimbledon retained list. Mike Parker had quite a battle with the Speedway Control Board over who owned my contract. But he had a much stronger personality and level of determination than any of those guys at Belgrave Square. They were no match for his powers of persuasion so he got me released without any problem.
We were on a high, just getting a chance to come back. The accommodation was something which could be fixed up. Being located in Manchester was fine as there was reasonable access to all of the tracks. And while the bike he provided was extremely second-hand – Bill Andrew had used it the previous year – I was so grateful he brought us to England, that situation didn’t bother me too much. We didn’t really have too many bad words over the car and bike except to tell him that if he wanted me to actually arrive at the track and start scoring maximums I couldn’t do either using the bike or the car he provided, so I soon gave them back to him.
My first appearance for Newcastle was at Middlesbrough on Thursday, April 11, and the Bears were all over us, winning 51-26 with Eric Boothroyd scoring a maximum and Johnny Fitzpatrick, another rider I remembered from Wimbledon second halves, 10. After three scoreless rides, my first points came in Heat 11 when I ran a second to the 18-year-old Eric Boocock, with Ivan Crozier third.
My home debut was four days later, against Wolverhampton. It was my first sight of the 361-yard Brough Park circuit and at a quick glance it resembled the shape of Wembley, my recurring theatre of dreams. No dream started here though, as the bike packed up in my first ride and next time out I trailed in behind Tommy Sweetman, another one-time Wimbledon second half opponent. Then things got better and two heat wins later I was starting to feel more confident. Newcastle picked up their first victory of the season and it was clear to me that on proper equipment the way forward was going to be better still. Long-term, the biggest plus on that initial home meeting was within the first half-hour when I met Gordon Stobbs, who was a track raker. He and his wife Margaret started going to away meetings on their 500 BSA and Gordon later became my full-time mechanic – he was with me until I retired at the end of 1985. They became great friends of all our family and have visited us on the Gold Coast in Australia. Raye and I stay with them when we are on our UK northern trips and even in recent times Gordon has come to help out at some of my training academies. Over many years Gordon was absolutely the most loyal mechanic in speedway. He knew my moods, likes and dislikes and he got to know if I was going to win a meeting or just do some experimenting for future meetings.
We could go to a track in Europe for the first time and he would attend to the gear ratio, the wheel base, ignition settings and other details which were accurate 9 times out of 10. Gordon usually got to those cities several hours before me and one of his jobs was to make sure we got rooms on the quiet side of the hotels. All of this was way in the future though, and at this early stage I needed a good machine before I needed a good mechanic. I asked a few people including Ted Brine at Wimbledon if they knew where there were any good bikes for sale. Ted said his brother Cyril had retired and he was selling his bike.
That was enough for me. With Rolf Von Dor Borch I jumped into my newly purchased £100.00 Bedford Dormobile- It had 3 rows of seats and space behind for a couple of bikes, tool boxes and all the other gear- and went down to Wimbledon to buy the bike for £125.00. The payback was immediate. Next Monday I got a maximum, Newcastle disposed of Edinburgh in the Northern Trophy and my heat 5 win over Wayne Briggs was in a new track record time. A decent machine meant I could start doing the business on track, and there was another boost for the family (especially Raye) when we moved next door to 103 Upper Chorlton Road, where the accommodation was bigger and better. We stayed there until we went to New Zealand at the end of the 1968 season.
When the league matches started, my form just kept on improving, and for most of the next few months I was around the top of the averages. At Brough Park in particular I had the measure of most riders and no less pleasing was finding the ability to go to away tracks and win races on a regular basis. In 24 league meetings there were 13 maximums and an average of 10.80. This was enough for me to be top of the Provincial League averages in my first season. I held the Silver Sash match race title for a couple of months. The team improved steadily too. In the end 6th place was the best we could do, although just one more win and we would have finished in second spot behind champions Wolverhampton.
Given the lack of interest from National League promoters when I made it know that I wanted to come back to England, It was quite funny to have several of the scrambling to use me as a fill in rider- Oxford, 4 times, Southampton twice and even Wimbledon on a couple of occasions- and then fielding suggestions they would like to take me on board the following year. I took great delight in telling them all to get stuffed. In those 8 National League and KO Cup appearances I scored 59 points at an average of 7.37 including 11 for Wimbledon at Swindon where Peter Moore beat me in my last race to spoil my chance of a maximum.
Every man and his dog it seemed wanted to have a say about whether I should be allowed to ride. It was the same sort of argument and debate repeated years later when riders like John Louis, and most recently young Australian prospect Darcy Ward, were top of the pile in the lower division and scoring big points as a rent-a-guest for a succession of teams in the top flight. Several additional opportunities came my way in Provincial League select teams booked to ride on National League tracks. I even beat Peter Craven in my first race at Hyde Road. The Belle Vue riders were handicapped and started 10 yards back but that could be an advantage as it carried more momentum at the first corner. Peter was beside me at the first turn but I found better grip on the exit and rode away from him to win a fraction of a second outside his track record. A few weeks later I scored paid 7 from 4 rides to help Oxford beat the Aces, a result that threatened to spoil their charge for championship honours.
In another source of controversy, not that any of us took that much notice of it at the time, Mike Parker was starting to flex his muscles in what would prove a long running battle with officialdom. He was warring with his fellow Provincial League promoters over his signing for Wolverhampton of Rick France from Coventry.
There was increasing talk of operating outside the jurisdiction of the Speedway Control Board, threats of a breakaway. Most riders were aware of some of it, but few had any idea how the relationship between promoters and the governing body was about to fracture so dramatically. Of course I kept an eye on what was happening in the National League, and was sad when Ronnie Moore broke his leg in a crash at Plough Lane. Ronnie was one of the “big five” – Briggo, Peter Craven, Bjorn Knutsson and Ove Fundin – were the others who were doing it the hard way starting every race of a handicap at that stage. Ronnie’s accident occurred in a last heat decider in May when Bob Andrews and Swindon’s Martin Ashby came off in front of him as he was trying to make his way through the traffic. Before the season was over Ronnie had announced his retirement, for the second but not the final time.
The worst accident of the year (1963) though, was a fatal one – Peter Craven, riding for Belle Vue at Edinburgh in a challenge match in September, collided with the safety fence trying to avoid the fallen George Hunter. He never regained consciousness and died four days later in hospital. It rammed home the dangers riders face every time they get on a bike. Everybody accepts speedway is dangerous and there is always the potential to get hurt. But little Pete against whom I had raced in Adelaide only a few months before, in an inter-league event at Hyde Road in April and at Middlesbrough later in that season, was such a huge star, and yet such a good bloke, it was shocking to think he had gone.
The Provincial League Riders Final at Belle Vue on September 28th started with a 2 minute silence for Peter who had died 4 days earlier. It was a sombre way to go into one of the biggest meetings of the year. For weeks I had been building myself up to prove I could do the business in the league’s showpiece occasion. Normally I was as healthy as any young bloke, and fitter than most because I took physical training and conditioning pretty seriously. But in the days leading up to the PLRC I was feeling very ordinary, suffering bad headaches for the first time in my life. I put that down to some kind of tension going into the big meeting. The last thing I needed on the night was a mini-riot, stirred up by riders who took exception to the 24 heat formula. The traditional 16 rider, 20 heat world championship format was ditched and instead 2 dozen riders contested the meeting taking 4 rides a piece, with the top 4 scorers qualifying for a grand final.
Nothing revolutionary about the format in more recent times, but it was an innovation which did not please the purists and threatened to go pear-shaped when 5 riders tied on 9 points. Jack Kitchen of Sheffield and I were safely through to the decider with 11 points each from our 4 rides. George Hunter, Ross Gilbertson, Ray Cresp, Clive Featherby and Maury Mattingley were locked together. After a lengthy delay it was decided to put all 5 into a run-off – At least Hyde Road was big enough and plenty wide enough for an extra rider at the starting gate. Gilbertson and Hunter duly joined us in the final, and my chances looked shot when I drew the worst gate. However, it was Hunter who turned out to be the unlucky one. He made the start but packed-up at the beginning of the second lap, allowing me to take the lead which I held to the chequered flag. Many people in the full stadium gave me the reception that often goes the way of a fortunate winner, but the massed ranks of Newcastle fans didn’t care and nor did I. It was in all respects a champion feeling.
A couple of hours later I was much the worse for wear, and not because of any celebration. After the meeting a group of us went back to a pub in Bolton where the owner was a friend of Newcastle rider Jack Winstanley. Mike Parker, Eddie Glennon and most of my Diamonds team mates along with our wives. I had an extra strong headache by the time Raye and I arrived and the owners took us through into their lounge where I lay on a couch and was not involved in any of the celebrations out in the bar. The owner called a doctor but before he bothered to come out to see me he’d had a few beers in the bar so obviously he didn’t think there was anyone seriously wrong. Raye was sitting in a chair next to the couch and he looked at her and asked “does he take any drugs”. Raye said “The only thing he takes is Glucose in the orange juice I mix up for him at the tracks and then he takes vitamin tablets that you buy from the chemist”. Anyway the doc was convinced I was on some kind of drugs and he left us and went out to the bar and started drinking a few more beers.
When we got home I was in a bad way. Raye has always had medical books and when she looked up my symptoms she decided I had meningitis. First thing in the morning she walked down to Dr Friedlander, our family doctor who was a couple of blocks away. Fortunately he came to see me immediately and called for an ambulance to take me to the Monsall Hospital in the middle of Manchester. They promptly put me in an isolation ward and I was there for over a month, missing all of the remaining meetings of the 1963 season. It cost me a lot of money, a KO cup final appearance against Cradley Heath and more besides. For several weeks I was so far out of things it was not until later that the full impact of it all hit home.
Dr Friedlander and the doctors at the hospital told Raye it would take up to a year to get rid of the symptoms and that she should never let me get tired. By this time it was mid November and Raye made me go to bed about 9pm every night. It was winter anyway and it was not until well into the New Year (1964) I was able to go into the workshop and tinker around with my bikes for a few hours at a time. Fortunately Guy Allot, who had been forced to retire after suffering serious injuries when he fell off the tractor/grader during a victory parade at Sheffield, was getting into engine preparation and tuning. It was reassuring to know he was working hard to get my motors prepared for season ’64.
I started on my recovery, training and running at the Manchester YMCA where the facilities included and indoor track. It took a long time before my health was anywhere close to what it had been, and a night in the pub with Rolf did not speed my rehabilitation. He thought he was doing the right thing by getting me out of the house to unwind, but a couple of beers knocked me flat again. Raye was not at all amused. With the season a few weeks away, there was another huge cloud on the horizon. The Speedway Control Board (SCB) tried to coerce Mike Parker into moving Wolverhampton into the National League, accelerating a long-running dispute into open war. There was talk of strike action, the Provincial League promoters voted to operate outside the official channels, and the SCB warned riders they would be suspended if they rode on unlicensed tracks
Most of the Provincial tracks were attracting excellent crowds and there was great racing because most of the boys had a lot of ambitions, whereas the National League numbers had been on the slippery slope for several years. West Ham moved up to the NL, replacing Southampton, but in spite of the quality in the top division the quantity still wasn’t there. They simply did not have enough tracks or offer sufficient meetings to appeal to a lot of riders. The bottom line is that Mike and the other PL promoters had a meeting with the leagues top guys at Cradley Heath a couple of weeks before the start of the 1964 season to tell us they were going to run “black” and without being licensed by the SCB. That meant we would not have licenses. But, they assured us that it would all blow over before that season’s world championship qualifying rounds. I wanted to believe what we were being told. I told Mike that I owed my loyalty to him because he had brought me over while there had been no contact or response from the NL promoters such as Ronnie Greene at Wimbledon and Charles Ochiltree at Coventry, who had never even answered my letters. To shore up the arrangement Mike voluntarily offered what was at that time quite a good guaranteed prize money arrangement for each meeting which I accepted and gave him my word for two seasons. Later we realised there was very little intention of linking up with the SCB. The PL promoters were doing well financially without paying license or permit fees and did not have anyone outside their group telling them what they could or could not do.
The first year Mike would often drop in to see me. He rented the upper floor at 81 Upper Chorlton Road, he (and Eddie Glennon) had offices on the ground floor and my workshop was out the back. He knew I had tea on most of the day. But from about May 1964 he rarely looked in – The promised truce had not materialised and he knew I was angry after being misled. Nevertheless I had a great time in 1964 starting with 10 maximums in 11 Northern League matches; only a fall at Glasgow cost me a perfect record. I was top of the PL averages, defended the Silver Sash against all comers from May to September and again won the PLRC at Belle Vue at the end of the season.
What very few people knew was quite often I had to have a sleep in the afternoon. I left home a couple of hours early to go to Newcastle each Monday and had an hour or so flat out on the couch in the speedway office before just about every home meeting. There were a few changes in the PL with Stoke, St Austell and Rayleigh all gone from the previous year, but new teams Sunderland, Glasgow and Newport. The arrival of Sunderland promised a fresh local derby rivalry but the Saints, who signed new Aussies Jim Airey and Gordon Guasco, operated for just a few weeks before closing down. The two Aussies went on to Wolverhampton who immediately became a serious threat, bracketed with ourselves and Hackney – who had Colin Pratt and Roy Trigg – as likely honours challengers.
As far as we were concerned, Newcastle would be the team to beat. Brian Craven had retired, but the returning Bill Andrew, the jockey turned racer from Palmerston North, was a decent replacement, Goog Allan was another recruit from New Zealand, and the signing of veteran Ken Sharples after Sunderland closed gave us an added edge in the second half of season 1964.
Fans who had been watching for years reckoned these Diamonds had enough about them to bring a league title to the club for the first time. I hardly put a foot wrong, although there was one memorable time when Ivor Brown, who dished it out but appeared to regard himself as untouchable, did get the better of me and hung me out to dry when Cradley Heath came to visit Brough Park in June 1964. He was my challenger for the silver sash but hardly put in any effort. In the second half final I warned Mike Watkin and Bill Andrews to stay out of the way in the first corner. Ivor ended up going through the pit gates. From a personal viewpoint my league and KO Cup results could not have been much better – 293 points from 23 matches, an average of 11.49 and 15 maximum scores.
Newcastle was an unforgiving circuit, usually on the rough side, and we made the most of it as a home track. We also had the ability to win six out of 11 away from home, finally clinching the championship with a 49-29 home win against Edinburgh. In the end we had a three-point margin over Hackney with the rest way behind. Celebrations in the north-east went on for days and at the end of the week, winning the individual title at Hyde Road for the second year in a row was another highlight. After dropping a point to Roy Trigg in my first race, and another to former Adelaide rival Charlie Monk (Glasgow) in Heat 12, I finished on 13 and needed to beat Charlie in a run-off for the championship. As we were the only riders with a figure above 11 for the season, it seemed a fitting result. I would have been disappointed with anything less, but it was a tough night. Belle Vue was packed, the meeting attracting more fans than any other at Hyde Road that year. The atmosphere was brilliant, although by all accounts thousands of fans were angry when programmes sold out an hour before the start. The point was not lost on those who were following the continual split between the ‘official’ National League and the ‘black’ Provincials. The Speedway Control Board suspended Belle Vue’s licence after they staged the PLRC, but relented a few days later, shortly before all parties were to meet in the first step towards reconciliation.
It took many weeks in the off season, a great deal of wheeling and dealing. When everybody had given their input the Shawcross Report into the state of speedway eventually brought together all the feuding factions. All of this was still in the melting point when the season ended but this time I was determined not to let anything get in the way of my preparations for the following year and my world championship ambitions. Raye and I and the kids again stayed in England that winter. Julie and Kym were established at school and doing well and we wanted to have five or six months quality time in one base during the winter to get really organised for the following season. In addition I had made the conscious decision to start my year’s preparations on January 1 – an ideal time to start a new campaign – and I have always kept to that plan even today.
I was in my workshop for a few hours most days during November and December, just cleaning things up and starting to make a plan with Guy Allott as to what we should do with engines and so forth the following year.
Not being able to ride in the championship rounds had occupied a lot of my thoughts in the weeks after the end of the season. When Mike Parker eventually got around to coming in to see me shortly before Christmas it probably was the first time he and I ever had hard words. He was a very strong-willed person and so was I and that made it inevitable we would have our problems sooner or later. He started off by telling me his plans for the formation of the British League, which meant the National League and Provincial League amalgamation was going to happen. He was keen to talk about a new deal but I wasn’t ready. It was good to know the two competitions were coming together but I had fulfilled the two years agreed. He and I both fully understood that there was no loyalty now after his lies in 1964.
Mike was such a visionary for speedway and one of the first people who could see a league join up had to happen. He was more forceful and had a stronger personality than any of the other promoters and that was a huge factor in how the British League (BL) got started. – Just as he was one of the first group who had a vision for the Provincial League (PL) a few years before. But I knew that I was coming from a strong bargaining position. I told him that as one of the hot properties in British speedway, after cleaning up the PL in 1963 and 1964, I figured I could ride for just about anyone I wanted to. By staying loyal to Mike and the PL I had wasted a year of world championship rounds. In that instant I could not have cared less whether I rode for Mike again or not. Discussion stalled at that point so I locked my workshop door and went home.
Raye and I discussed everything for a week or two. We had made many friends up at Newcastle and we loved all the people; they were great supporters and very friendly, as they are today. I really wanted to stay there but on my own conditions. We decided upon exactly what I wanted no matter who I rode for in 1965, Newcastle or anybody else: good guaranteed money, better transport vehicles, better bikes and better accommodation. Only then did I go back to the workshop. When Mike next came in he asked me if I had calmed down and asked if I still wanted to ride for Newcastle. I said “yes, lets go up to your office and I will tell you what the deal is.
I started by telling him to make the tea and provide the chocolate biscuits. We sat in exactly the same place as we had done 10 months before when he called me in to tell me that the PL promoters and riders were going “black” and offered me the financial guarantee to continue with him in the PL that year. I told him I could not forget how all his reassurances about the dispute being settled quickly had been shown to be false. I again said I could ride for whoever I wanted to and in particular Belle Vue, who had made no great secret about wanting to get me to Hyde Road from the first time I had been on their track. After I had outlined all the conditions Raye and I had worked out he was silent for quite a long time and I was determined not to speak until he did. People in Newcastle had told me Mike was desperate for me to ride there particularly in the first season of his brainchild the BL. I also knew he had done some deals with other promoters when he was trying to get the new BL started, and Maurice Marshall, the Chief Executive Officer of the entire Belle Vue complex, was top of his list.
It followed that Mike did not want to get into a fight with Belle Vue over me so I told him I would ride for Newcastle home and away and open meetings for a guaranteed £100.00 a meeting plus double travel money. Any challenge matches I could negotiate with the promoters for a higher guarantee. Any individual meeting at home I kept whatever prize money I got plus the guarantee.
That was good money in them days. Briggo, who was world champion in1964, only got £35.00 for open meetings. But I didn’t have any doubt I was worth that sort of money to Mike Parker- not that I expected him to immediately agree. Anyway, after a while he said that was too much and no club in the UK would pay that much and also he wouldn’t give me a transfer to another club.
I was wise enough to know at that stage that Mike’s ambitions of being the chairman of The British Speedway Promoters Associations (BSPA) or the number one promoter in the British League with several tracks would play a part in his thinking. All the other promoters wanted me to be in it and Mike had upset so many people any arbitration court in the RAC would defeat him. I gambled on the fact that his ego would not allow him to be publicly defeated so I was confident that he would come up with my requests. After about an other half an hour of silence during which time Mike made more teas, he said he thought I was completely ungrateful after he had brought my family over in 1963 and I should reconsider. My reply was that I had fulfilled my loyalty in riding two seasons for him which when I made the agreement and committed to that loyalty never included never included being excluded from the world championship for one of those seasons (1964).
Mike could sense I was determined and also at that time I thought he was figuring out he was going to tell the people at Newcastle that I was leaving. After a while he told me to come back the next day. When we got together again we haggled and compromised a bit, part of which I didn’t get any travelling money at all! But obviously he had cleared his thoughts overnight and done his sums because we did the deal there and then. The prospect of earning £100.00 several nights a week was quite attractive as the average UK wage was in the region of £13.00 and petrol was less than two bob a gallon. As with every deal I made with Mike, all it took was a handshake and he paid every penny.
As the start of speedway’s new era dawned and everybody in the UK was getting very excited about the formation of the British League, I was as jazzed up as anybody. For two years in the Provincial League things had gone extremely well for me. My results were consistently good, my confidence was high. The drama of meningitis behind me – although never forgotten – I felt I was ready for the challenge. Plenty of people had doubts about how the former Provincial League guys would fare up against the gun riders who had been stars in the National League. Among them were those who seemed to take a delight in reminding anybody who would take notice that Ivan Mauger and all the rest of them had everything to prove, because none of them had cut it in the big time. And it was true. But thanks to several years of increasingly tough competition, to a greater or lesser degree all of us were now serious contenders. If the biggest criticism to be levelled against us was that we lacked experience, well now was the time to bring it on! At least I’d had the benefit of racing against some of the star names before coming back to England and handling myself more than adequately. I knew too that I was a far better all-round rider than say, two years before when the Newcastle adventure kicked off.
My analysis of the teams for the new British League was that the overall strength would not be that much greater than the Provincial League had been. Of course the big stars like Briggo, Nigel Boocock and company would present a whole new challenge but they were only one man in a seven-man team. What remained to be seen was whether good domestic form could be carried over into the world championship rounds. After being dudded out of the opportunity to compete in 1964, this was a high priority.
It was good to be able to get into detailed planning for the months to come, although it was not the case for all the riders who were going to be involved in the new set-up. There were pay disputes, threats of tracks shutting down and various other loose ends to be resolved before the new British League lurched into action.
When all the talking and argument was over, Coventry, one of the traditional big guns, met Cradley Heath, one of the ex PL-clubs, and 14,000 people turned out at Brandon to give the bold new era a fantastic start. Newcastle were one of the later-starting tracks but we had a challenge match at Sheffield and I kicked off my season with 13 points. Then there was a gap of more than a week before Newcastle were due at Wolverhampton on Good Friday.
Ivan May 1963
In between times I had a very bad bout of flu which put me in bed for a few days. But of course Mike Parker wanted me to ride at Monmore Green – another of his tracks – so against my better judgment, I got out of bed and went. You can ride with injury, and put up with the pain, but I wasn’t thinking clearly because of the flu. In my second ride I rode a lazy first corner, came down, and Gordon Guasco ran over my left foot and broke my ankle and leg really badly. It wasn’t Gordon’s fault and you couldn’t say directly that it was Mike Parkers fault, but the bottom line was for the second year in a row it looked as if my world championship hopes were in huge trouble through trying to help out.
There was so much more besides. As holder of the silver sash, which I had successfully defended for weeks in 1964, I was keen to hang on to it for a while. There was talk of my being nominated to challenge Briggo for the golden helmet, the most prestigious match race championship in speedway There was a test match series coming up against The USSR, history to be made and I fancied my chances of getting a run in the series too.
As a speedway rider you have to accept there is a possibility all the best laid plans can be wrecked through injury. All forms of racing have that element of risk attached, which can be minimised by engaging the brain before twisting the throttle. But by its very nature, motor sport is dangerous, as the warnings in all the programmes and posters used to say. That is precisely when injuries made a mess of my 1965 season. Doing myself serious damage was shattering in more ways than one. In over 8 years I had never had worse than a bit of concussion in 1957 and broken ribs in 1958, but this was something else. The most immediate single consequence was the way it made a mess of my hopes in the 1965 world championships. Carlo Biagi speedways miracle doctor did patch me up any number of times over the next few months to help me through the qualifying rounds, then the British Semi-Final but my hopes of getting through to a Wembley final was pretty much doomed.
Carlo had almost legendary status because of his work at Peel Hospital, near Galashiels. In 1982 he was awarded an honorary fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons a tribute normally reserved for distinguished international visiting surgeons and almost unheard of for a surgeon at a small hospital such as Peel. In 1990, he was presented with a MBE at Buckingham Palace for his services to Orthopaedic surgery.
After missing 16 meetings in the first couple of months of the season, I managed to get some reasonable results but the BL proved to be tougher for the Diamonds than might have been imagined. Newcastle were good enough to win 14 and draw 1 at home but managed only 2 away wins in 17 road trips, at Edinburgh and Long Eaton in my first few weeks back in action.
Bill Andrew had gone from 1964 replaced by the returning Brian Craven. After my Good Friday crash, Mike Parker talked Brian Brett (Pictured) out of a short-lived retirement, and then had to battle other tracks to hold onto him after I was fit to come back.
Mike won that fight and for a spell with Brett and myself in the team the team strung together some consistent results before injuries struck again. In the end 12th place in a British League of 18 teams was the best we could do and seven of the teams who finished behind us in 1964 now jumped ahead of us in the table. Former National League clubs West Ham, Wimbledon and Coventry made the running for the big prizes.
I managed to be 0.01 ahead of Bretty in the averages when the line up was announced for the first (1965) BLRC which was allocated to Belle Vue after their earlier success with the PLRC. This was the one last chance I had to salvage something from the year and my only time at Hyde Road in 1965. It also was the start of a sequence of tremendous occasions which signalled the end of the UK season 1965.
Most riders loved the space and speed of the track, they enjoyed the atmosphere of the old Zoological Gardens which for so long were a massive attraction in the north west of England, and the buzz created when a full house packed into the stadium was very special. I hoped for something good with which to sign off, and won my first race, but fell next time out, again aggravating the ankle and collected 5 points from my last three rides. Briggo blasted through the field with 14 points collecting his first of what turned out to be six consecutive title and my mid table scoring just about summed up my year.
In spite of all that, everyone in Newcastle was complimentary about the way we had tackled that first British League campaign. At the end of season function at the Newcastle Mayfair Ballroom (Now demolished) 1600 turned up and made my night by presenting me with an illuminated scroll to acknowledge my efforts. I even managed to have a civilised end of season conversation with Mike Parker. The speedy upshot was an agreement on another two year deal with improved terms and built in price indexes rises.
For the first time in more than 2 and a half eventful years, our family set off for a trip to New Zealand – our first by plane. We flew via San Francisco and Fiji. I hadn’t intended to ride much, but those intentions lasted only a few days. Promoter Russell Lang persuaded me to ride on the Saturday night programme at Templeton. I was keen to build up my fitness and just as a kid years before, went off to Rapaki Hills to do some running. But after a few sessions I was getting terrific pain from the ankle.
It turned out that I had been pushing myself so hard that the screws in my ankle had bent over and were rubbing against the bones. Dr McFarlane, a specialist in Papanui Road Christchurch told me it was best to have the screws removed and that turned out to be a painless and simple operation. Within a fortnight I was back in action and building up for our return. After falling sick (meningitis) at the end of my first season with Newcastle, struggling for fitness the following year, and having 1965 bighted by injury, it was desperately important for me to go through and entire English season with a clean bill of health. At last in 1966 I managed that. In the British League 1966 I upped my average by Half a point from 8.93 to 9.46, I scored my first 7 ride maximum of 21 points at Poole in a KO cup match, and it was a much improved year for Newcastle. Only one home defeat, some decent results on the road, with Peter Kelly and Brian Brett – despite some injury problems- doing a good job and a hard-working supporting cast, helped us pin down 5th place.
It was no accident that my good form in the BL, and selection for the World Team Cup and GB teams, also coincided with the first consistently successful world championship campaign. Winning the European Final at my first meeting at Wembley, and qualifying for my first world final, were achievements I would happily have settled for going into that year. At last I felt I belonged and proved that I could go well in the very highest company. It had been years in the making, and everything started to fall into place. Good for me and good for Newcastle. But it also provoked another argument with Mike Parker. While the disappointment and deception of 1964 still rankled, this was the beginning of a bigger rift which ultimately meant a parting of the ways would be inevitable.
Photographs Provided For The Website
By Ivan Mauger
The photo used on the cover of this programme came from the Newcastle Speedway History Website. Ivan says it was taken in 1964
Aranui New Zealand
Aranui New Zealand in 1956. I was 15 then and told the steward I was 16. You had to be 16 to get a Speedway licence. That was the first fib that I ever told! It says 1957 but it was 1956
Ivan In The 1950s
Ivan in the 1950s. I hope someone told him he had a flat tyre at the front! This picture was taken in the late 1950s that is well before he came to England for the second time (1963) to link up with the Diamonds. The young guy in this picture was probably dreaming that he could go on to emulate his countrymen Ronnie Moore (twice a world champ) and Barry Briggs (4 times world champ) and his boyhood hero Australian Jack Young (Twice a Champ). He emulated them all and kept on winning, yes he did that, eclipsing the three world champions.
Ivan's First Appearance As A Diamond April 1963 At Brough Park
Mauger Gating Talent
Ivan was great at psyching out the opposition and referees too. He would often take his time in coming to the starting gate, slowly roll up to the tapes and keep moving slightly until the tapes went up but more often than not he just reacted more quickly than other riders and usually was ahead going into the first turn.
World Veteran Riders Association In
This one was taken at the World Riders Association in March 2009. It has my Mechanic Gordon Stobb. My engine tuner for the Speedway and Long track Guy Allott, Guy tuned all my engines from half way thru in 1963 until I stopped riding in Feb 1987.Wilfried Drygala who has been my European Manager since March 1966. And Norrie Allan who done most of the Continental work for me.
Raye And Me After
The 1968 World Final
Raye and me after the 1968 World Final. Raye has got the Diamonds badges on her coat. John says: She must have been a fan of yours Ivan!!
This Is Me With The Winged Wheel
My 1968 Jawa,
Winning Bike
I only had the one sponsor Valvoline.
My All Time Hero Jack Young & Promoter
Kym Bonython
But I got a lot more sponsors, see above picture. Taken with my all time hero Jack Young and the Promoter Kym Bonython who paid our Air tickets from Christchurch. I rode for Kym from Nov 1969 until we left in Jan 1973. When I was World Champion in 1968 I done a meeting for him completely free
Ivan At Newcastle
Bill Andrew, Russ Dent, Mike Watkin, Mike Parker, Goog Allan, Ken Sharples, Peter Kelly, with me on the bike.
Ivan & Raye
Provincial League Riders Final
Ivan is pictured throughout this website with many trophy's but a league riders win is a bit special. Raye must have spent a lot of time polishing! Newcastle Promoter Mike Parker poses with the Maugers.
I Rode The 1000cc Vincent Combo On 29th Nov 1968
I rode the 1000cc Vincent on 29th Nov 1968 at Ipswich in Queensland and that was a 510 Yard Track. I am driving in this photo
Ivan On The Wall No!
Not The Wall Of Death
Ivan on top of the world (A wall actually!) Do you know who the other guy was John
George Winstanley says: Hi John. Thought I'd put you out of your misery! The guy with "Ivan on the wall" is Les Waine. He was the landlord of the pub Ivan went to with my dad, when Ivan fell ill the following day! Nobody would have got that.
This Photo Is From When I Started My Son Kym At Newcastle
Youngster's
Raye was 13 and I was 14 and a bit when this was taken
Ivan & Raye "Tying The Knot" Back Home In
The site of their wedding destroyed by earthquake! Ivan says: It was started to be rebuilt after the big one on 4th September 2010. But the big one on 22nd Feb 2011 destroyed it completely.
Riding A
1929 Douglas
I rode a Douglas at the Lockeren Memorial in Oct 1970.
Kym Mauger 1986
Long Track Champion
My son Kym Mauger: 1986 New Zealand Long Track Champion at Claudelands in Waikato NZ.
Those Winged Wheels
I got the Winged Wheel to keep. Don Clarke and George Casey made a speech after I won it in 1969 to say If I can Win it 3 times on the trot they would give it to me. But it was to be when I won it 5 times that they gave it to me in Nov 1977. if any of your readers are interested go to my web site www.ivanmauger.com and they will see it as it is in the Canterbury Museum .Also my 1968 Bike will go to the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. It will have the very same stand and a glass case as the 1979 bike has.
John says: As a speedway fan from 1961 to now. I feel the World Championship trophy should always be a winged wheel, maybe a bit smaller than Ivan's trophy?
New Zealand All Blacks Rugby Team
"The above photo shows the ALL BLACKS flag. I support them and go to most of their games. Put that in the 1960s. That's All for now John. Ivan"
Ivan Accepts The Website, Says He likes It & Helps Me With It!
John says: I have waited a year before adding many pictures of Ivan to the site as I wanted nothing but the best possible shots of him and a lot of pictures I could have used had copyright issues over them. BUT....Ivan has now been in touch following a conversation he had with his friend and mine, Dave Gifford (Giffy also has his own page on this website) and today Ivan's own pictures are shown above and below with his permission. Thank you Ivan (the site now has it's pictures of the master!). If you read this Ivan then why not type up some more text to go with them?
My All-time Favourite
Ivan Mauger Picture
A typical Spencer Oliver shot going into the first corner with a massive crowd in background.
Ivan has been in touch, he says: -
Hi to all the Newcastle fans.
Raye and I will always be grateful to Mike Parker for bringing us and our family to England and Newcastle in 1963.The 1963 season was very good and I won the Provincial League Riders championship in my first year for Mike and the Newcastle fans. We won the PL League for the fans in 1964 and I got the PLRC again so 1964 ended on a great note for Newcastle Speedway. I knew all the rows Mike and the other PL Promoters had over the winter of 63/64 with the Speedway Control Board. That row concerned the National League tracks insisting Wolverhampton as winners of the PL championship in 63 move to the NL in 1964.
At that time there were 14 tracks in the PL and all attracting excellent crowds and there was great racing because most of the PL riders had huge ambitions, in contrast in the NL there were only 7 and none of them were getting good crowds because the racing was boring in that league.
Bottom line is that Mike and his other PL Promoters had a meeting with the top PL guys at Cradley Heath a couple weeks before the start of 1964 to tell us they were going to run black and without licences from the Speedway Control Board. That meant we also would not have licences. They assured us that it would “all blow over before the World Championship Q/rounds began" Later we all realized that they were lying and they never intended to link up with the SCB. They were all doing well financially without paying licence or permit fees.
That in a nutshell is when Mike and I started to fall out and it compounded when he would not let me go to Practice for my first World Final in 1966 and the same for 1968.Add to that the fact that both Mike and me had very strong personalities so we were bound to fall out sooner or later. That was when I put in the transfer to Belle Vue but if the Newcastle Promotion had changed I was happy to stay with Newcastle to the end of my BL career but contrary to opinion I never ever fell out with Mike over money. He paid myself and all his riders what was quite good money for that period and Mike never owed any of the boys money.
I have to say that Mike was one of the Promoters who got the Provincial League started in the late 50s and was the person most responsible for the formation of the British League during the 64/65 winter. That was when Speedway really took off and was great for the next 20 years or so. Speedway really needs another Mike Parker who was never afraid to tell the authorities and the other Promoters exactly where they were going wrong and what they should be doing to get it right. Mike was also very much a visionary and knew where he wanted the sport to progress. I accepted all that but I still needed to get away from him.
However, despite my occasional arguments with Mike I really enjoyed riding for Newcastle ,the fans there were great and Raye and I still have a lot of friends there. Within the first couple of meetings in 1963 I met Gordon Stobbs. Soon after meeting him, Gordon and Margaret started to go to away tracks to help me. Later Gordon became my full time mechanic and was my main Mechanic until I retired in 1985.They are great friends of all our family and have visited us on the Gold Coast in Aussie. Raye and I stay with them when we are on our UK northern trips. Gordon was absolutely the most loyal mechanic in Speedway, he knew my moods, dislikes, likes etc and he got to know if I was going to win a meeting or just do some experimenting for future meetings. We could go to a track in Europe for the first time and he would put the gear on, the wheel base, the ignition settings etc etc., for me that was accurate 9 times out of 10. Gordon usually got to those Cities several hours before me and he made sure we got rooms on the quiet side of Hotels. In the last few years Gordon has come to my training Academies in the North. Gordon was most certainly a plus from my Newcastle years.
Gordon left with my European manager Wilfried Drygala after I won the 1976 Long Track World Final at Marianske Lazne in Czechoslovakia.
Jack and Eileen McClurey became very good friends, Bob Hall who ran Lowrys Shell garage was a great help to all the team and also Les Cummings. Bob came with us to my first World Championship win in Gothenburg in 1968 so it was very much a combined Newcastle effort.
The years I spent at Brough Park were great. The Geordie fans were encouraging to all the boys and we all could feel it. There was great team spirit in the 60s and the Stadium was always full on Monday nights. Eddie Glennon was an excellent Team manager who had a rapport with all the boys. The team changed a bit from 1963 until I left at the end of 1968 but there were several who were in all those years and we quickly accepted any new guys.
The Evening Chronicle used to have a special edition every Monday with two back pages. They used Spencer Oliver’s photos and Sam Brook done the write ups. Then Tues Morning there was half the back cover. Spencer would go home after the meetings, develop his photos and take a selection to the Chronicle before 1am and Sam would do the story.
Tom Graham Snr was Mike's right hand man in Newcastle ,George English Senior and his Wife Joan with Jack Hewlett ran the supporters club, Ivan Stephenson was the Pits Marshall.
Those were great days for Newcastle. Even today the first results I look at in the Speedway Star are Newcastle’s meetings, Then Belle Vue. Then it used to be Exeter and Hull. sadly Hull does not look like starting again but hopefully Exeter will be away again in 2010.
Best wishes from Raye and myself and our family to all the Fans, Promoters, officials and the riders.
It's Behind You Ivan!
Sunday Mirror Presentation Of This Winged Wheel,
Gordon Stobbs (right) and my UK manager Peter Oakes at a function at the Sportsman club in London in Nov 1977 when the Sunday Mirror presented me with the World Championship Winged Wheel to keep to mark my 5th World Championship.
More from Ivan:-
Ivan (Mauger) sent me an email for the Website which is reproduced below: -
My first bikes during my time with Newcastle..
Mike Parker booked my family on a return Boat trip to Newcastle in April 1963. My very first meeting was at Middlesbrough on 11th April 1963 (That was the first Time I had ever ridden for Newcastle) I scored 2 points on a bike that Mike Parker gave me. It was an ex-Bill Andrew bike.
I managed to fix the bike up and rode it in a challenge v Wolverhampton on 15th April 1963 and I scored 8 points. I gave that bike back to Mike Parker and bought one of my own. I got a Bike from Ted Brine as Cyril Brine had just retired. I knew Ted did Cyril’s bike in the Wimbledon Workshop from my riding there in 1957 and 58. I knew how fastidious Ted was at that time. The bike was a good one.
Maximums.. Then I started to score Maximums. I scored 24 Maximums and had an average of 11.10 over the 1963 season. 46 Maximums in 1964 and I scored 11.91 average.
The "Blacked" breakaway season 1964.. In 1964 we rode “black” in the Provincial League. Mike and his other Promoter colleagues had us down to visit Cradley Heath and told us that it will be all over by the time the SCB got around to doing the World Championship rounds that were in June, but they were liars!!!!!!!!!!. They did not want the SCB to do it as they had their own little patch and did not want the SCB to have anything to do with the PL in 1964.
John, you can take whatever you like out of my book ROUGH DIAMOND for your websites. It has a lot of what I had to say about missing a BLACK year. Over the Winter Mike was starting the British League. In the formation of the BL that Mike wanted to front. Morris Marshall the CEO of the entire BV complex was top of his list, but Morris Marshall was not interested in the BL. You can see that story in ROUGH DIAMOND.
My 1960s Earnings.. I got 100 quid a meeting when most workers were getting £13 a week, and I was riding sometimes up to 5 nights a week and sometimes 6. I did that until 1968 at Newcastle.
My Newcastle British League averages are as follows:-
1965 I Averaged 8.90 When I had my ankle crushed at Wolves on Good Friday
1966 I Averaged 9.92
1968 I Averaged 11.49
Ivan Mauger OBE MBE
PS Brian Craven and Ivan Crozier have passed away. Ivan
Ivan & His All-Time Speedway Hero
Australian Jack Young
Ivan says: I posed with with my all time hero Jack Young for the above photo's. Kym Bonython was also in the left hand photo. That was Jack giving me the Trophy after I won my last ever race on 1st Feb 1987 in Adelaide.
Cheers Ivan
"Speedway King"
The Ivan Mauger Story
General front view of exhibition
Ivan has given permission for me to display these pictures from his museum display in Christchurch NZ. Thanks go to the 3 directors of the museum namely: Anthony Wright, Director: Lesley Colsell, General Manager Museum Programmes: Stephen Ruscoe, Exhibitions Manager. If you want to see more check out Ivan's website www.ivanmauger.com.
Profile of World Long track record holding bike. HZ Godden Engine in Hagon Frame
Ivan's 9 Individual World Championship winning race jackets.1968-1969-1970-1972-1977-1979 World Speedway Championships and 1971-1972-1976 World Long Track Championships
Ivan's Gold Bike
2016 Ivan Mauger's Gold-Plated Bike
Sold To NZ's
Canterbury Museum
The Triple Crown Special, my gold Jawa bike
Ivan is of course a New Zealander and when it was decided to sell his most valuable item the "Gold Bike" the sale was won by the New Zealand Canterbury Museum. The Museum says: The story of the world's greatest speedway rider Ivan Mauger continues today (August 2016) with the Canterbury Museum purchasing his 24 carrot gold-plated motorbike and other memorabilia.
John says: I believe Ivan's bike plus memorabilia realised 1.7 million NZ Dollars which I have translated to around £900,000 pounds sterling, (I hope my math's are right). The items may have reached more in an open auction but the Mauger family were keen for the items to stay in New Zealand.
Canterbury Museum's chairman Michael McEvedy said the Mauger Family have generously sold the collection to us "For much less than they may have received on the open market" Ivan's "Triple Crown Special motorbike, which he used to win his third consecutive World Speedway Championship in 1970 was gold plated as a bet between some speedway entrepreneurs. They agreed to gold plate Ivan's bike if he won the triple crown which he did and so his bike was gold plated. The bike will now be preserved for ever by the Canterbury Museum.
Mauger's glittering "Triple Crown Special" Jawa Speedway bike which he rode to his 3rd consecutive World Championship Title 46 yrs ago as I type, His 3rd win was in 1970. The bike was afterwards Gold-Plated as the result of a bet. His Friend in the USA George Wenn had an associate Ray Bekelman who owned an electro-plating company. The legend goes that they would gold plate his bike if he won the World title for the 3rd time, the rest is history. Ivan kept all of his world title winning machines and has sent me photos of them which are on my two websites this one www.newcastlespeedwayhistory.co.uk and www.defunctspeedway.co.uk
Ivan Mauger's Famous Bikes
The following bike pics are shown with Ivan's permission they are part of the Ivan Mauger Australian Museum which you can visit here www.ivanmauger.com
Early 1960s ESO
Courtesy of Ivan Mauger
1963 Rotrax JAP
The photo was taken by Wright Wood at Sheffield in the mid 60's.
Who can forget this man and this bike too. The white mudguard and black Kiwi emblem must have struck fear into the rest of the world's top riders because they would have been looking at this rear mudguard almost every time he rode against them!
This is the actual bike shown in the above black and white picture For me it was the "trademark" Ivan Mauger machine check out Ivan's other famous bikes below: -
1968 ESO (Jawa)
Ivan has been in touch. He says: I am sending you a photo of my 1968 Bike, (see above). I had hoped to restore it before Raye and I did our usual trip to London in June 2011.
We got back in late Sept 2011 from California but were very busy. We went down to Adelaide for the Ivan Mauger tribute night on 29th October 2011. Then we went to the Melbourne Cup with our good friends Kath and Jack Walker. Then we spent most of November 2011 in Christchurch. We got back on 4th Dec 2011 and that was when I finished the bike.
My 1968 Bike will go to the Sports Hall of Fame in Dunedin and it will have the stand and glass case as the 1969 Bike If any of your readers want to see it, go to my website www.ivanmauger.com John, you are welcome to put my photo of my 1968 Bike on your Website. I am now restoring my 1969 Bike. I will send you a photo when I get it finished. I have done all the others so do not know why I left the first couple of bikes to last?
John Says: When you finish the bikes you will have to get yourself a new hobby!!
Longtrack JAWA 1972
1977 JAWA
1994 Antig/Godden Longtrack Machine
Kym's Winning Bike
Jim Airey's Jawa
Gordon Guasgo's JAP
1961 Moto Cross
Ivan says: Hi John. This is me when I won the South Australian 250cc Moto Cross Championship for 1961. I also won the South Australian Moto Cross championship on a 500 cc in 1962. Then we left to go to Newcastle in Feb 1963. Cheers Ivan
John says: Moto Cross's loss was Speedways gain The bike was a British Greaves a 250cc two stroke which would be slow compared to Mauger's speedway machines.
1963 The UK Dawn
Of Ivan Mauger
Phrases like "living legend"," the greatest ever" and "simply the best" have been used about many riders but they all apply to "Ivan the Great or The Galloping Mauger". He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand and first came to England in the late 50's. Wimbledon gave him some rides in 1958 but didn't spot the potential he had. He was more famous for his mispronounced (Mawger) surname then than for his riding and went back to NZ. Mauger (pronounced Major) was brought back to England by Mike Parker on the recommendation of 1962 Diamond and fellow New Zealander, Ivan Crozier and he took his place in the Diamonds side of 1963. Ivan quickly replaced the Diamonds star man Brian Craven as the darling of the Brough Park terraces.
Ivan With Newcastle Manager
Eddie Glennon in 1963
1963 & Two Ivans In The Diamonds Team
This Newcastle 1963 photo with my good friend Ivan Crozier, who told Mike Parker about me which led to me signing for the Diamonds. Ivan Crozier (now deceased) was probably the main reason I ended up at Newcastle.
1963 Ivan Shows The Rest How To Make The Gate
Bob Andrews has emailed me in a light-hearted debate about Ivan rolling at starts, sparked by a video clip he saw of Ivan coming from the back.
Bob says: Hi John, I once passed someone, about 1961 I think? Might have been Bert Harkins? Ha. Ha. When I first rode at Newcastle, the "starter" used to get the visiting riders (like me) to come up to the tape and stand still, then Ivan would come up at about 10 mph. and keep going. (and win) Me being a fast learner, would do that at my next ride, but it was deemed a false start. That is how Ivan had so many maximums in his early days. Mind you the "Ref" used to wear a Newcastle scarf. Bob (old but reliable) Andrews. 26th August 2005
John says: Thanks Bob for shattering my memories of Ivan!! It would be great to hear from any Referee from the era, I remember them holding the tapes longer when Ivan was in a race. It was a battle of wits for a Ref to catch him out! I will bet they went home happy if they forced him to break the tapes eh?
Ivan At Brough Park In 1963
In 1963 the Diamonds wore the big diamond without a border which looked great as almost all riders wore black leathers
Ivan Winner Of A
World Championship Round
Ivan Wins a world championship round. Charlie Monk is on the right. Can you name the other rider please? John
Jack Hides says: I am almost certain that the other rider shown above is Roy Trigg of Hackney, wearing an old Hawks 1964-65 body colour
Ivan says this was 1963!
Terry Kirkup says: The rider with Ivan Mauger and Charlie Monk on your web site is Roy Trigg.
1963 Provincial Riders Championship
The 1963 Provincial Riders Championship from left is me, Jack Kitchen Sheffield 2nd and Ross Gilbertson Poole 3rd. The girl was the Miss Edinburgh Speedway. The driver is Vic Gooden who was team manager of Great Britain for my first trip to Poland in 1965.
John says: All those cups and other trophies. Ivan at the end of his career would have needed a warehouse to store them all
Ivan Mauger 1964
This 1964 Newcastle photo was taken with another very good friend, Goog Allan. I had known both Ivan (Crozier) and Goog for several years in New Zealand and Australia before meeting up with them in our Newcastle days.
John says: I remember Ivan lodging with the next door neighbour of my cousin who lived in Heaton, Newcastle. Hey Ivan do you remember an 11 year old pestering you over the fence?
Mid To Late 1960s
The Diamond race jacket changed. The later jacket had the white border and who else is better qualified to model it than Ivan Mauger, see below, John says: personal taste but I preferred the older jacket without the border. John says I have seen hundreds of photos of Ivan Mauger but the picture, below taken by R Spencer Oliver is amongst the best speedway photos I have ever seen. The photo is excellent but then you have to know the subject Ivan Mauger was on the verge of greatness. Also it shows a jam packed Brough Park and everyone's eyes were on Ivan sailing along in front.
Q: Who is that with number 3 on his back in the picture shown above? John
A: Dave Rowland suggests that the number 3 rider above is Bill Andrew. Can anyone confirm that? Another email suggests that Bill Andrew only wore number 3 twice and only Ken Sharples made that jacket his own during 1964. Another 60's fan advises Peter Kelly wore it twice, Goog Allen twice and Morrie Robinson once. So was it Bill Andrew? let us know if you recognise the rider John
John says: The number 3 guy looks to big to be Bill Andrew to me!
In the above picture, the 3rd bike along the line shows what appears to be a brake drum on the front wheel and as the following picture shows the same bike ridden by Russ Dent then bike number 3 above belongs to Russ.
The 1964 Provincial Riders
The 1964 Provincial Riders Championship from left is Roy Trigg Hackney 3rd,Charlie Monk Glasgow 2nd and me.
1965 And Still At Newcastle
Ivan quickly got to grips with the Provincial League (2nd Division) and by the1964 season he was winning his races by a mile. 1965 saw Newcastle become founder members of the British League and Ivan the Great was one of the reasons why the Diamonds became that years league champions. He was a devotee of the British JAP engine and he broke track records on his JAP everywhere he rode. Then he changed to ESO and was even better.
1965 My Leg In Plaster
This 1965 photo is when I rode with my leg in plaster to do the World Champ qualifying rounds in 1965. I did not have a boot on, only the plaster and we made an oversize steel shoe to go over the plaster. It hurt a lot in the three rounds and semi-final but I was young and ambitious then. In the photo I am having a bit of a struggle with Dick Fisher from Belle Vue.
John Skinner says: An excellent photo which shows the plaster clearly. I remember going home after watching you ride with it and told my dad. We had a big argument about whether you were mad or not!!! But you survived. Big shame about that injury as you may have landed your first world title that year. Who knows what might have been. Modern regs. would not have allowed it I suspect.
Ivan Mauger says: I was not mad, just young and ambitious and ready to put up with pain!! You are correct in modern times the boys are not even allowed an Aspirin if they have a headache before a meeting as it is deemed an outside assistance. I had lots of pain killing injections while riding in plaster. I also would not have won both Speedway and Long track World Champs in1972 as I had broken scaphoid in my left wrist and broken bones in my right wrist and before and during both Finals I gave myself pain killing injections between my fingers on both hands. My Doc, who was the Belle Vue Doc showed me how and gave me a bag with syringes, etc. in 1965 and again in 1972.
1965 Newcastle Team
The Newcastle Team photo taken at Sheffield by Wright Wood. Year unknown, can you say what year this was John
Keith Dyer says: The team photo in part 5 (Mauger) is 1965.The clue is Brian Craven and Ken Sharples, the only year they rode together was 1965.
John says: Ok Keith I will name the team now, 1965 L to R Mike Parker, Mike Watkin, Russ Dent, Ken Sharples, Goog Allen (absolutely true: my mother called him "Goo Gallen" she wasn't a big speedway fan!) Brian Craven and Eddie Glennon and Ivan Mauger astride his Rotrax 1963 Jap.
Giffy & Ivan Brough Park Pits Other Two Unknown
Courtesy of Dave Gifford
John says: Dave Gifford, Mike Watkin (in woolly hat) Ivan Mauger Newcastle 13-9-65.
Giffy has been in touch about this picture. I named the guy in the hat as Mike Watkin, Giffy says it is not Mike Watkin in the hat but one of the track staff whose name I do not know. The other guy is Ronnie Ferguson, a mate of Ivan's from Edinburgh.
Ivan says: It is Ronnie Allan, not Ronnie Ferguson in the photo with Giffy and I.
I met Ronnie Allan the first time I went to Edinburgh on 22nd April 1963. Ken Cameron from Melbourne boarded with Ronnie and Norrie Allan’s Grandmother. Soon after Ronnie came down to our house in South Manchester for holidays. Later Norrie became my mechanic and did most of the European meetings from 1977 until I retired at the end of 1985. But for any important meetings Gordon was there also. Norrie did the Ivan Mauger 30 year jubilee series in Australia in 1984/85 and New Zealand in 1985/86. Ronnie later became a SCB referee and still is today.
Kev Ash says: The guy in the woolly hat is definitely not Mike Watkin. It is my father Albert Ash.
John says: Albert Ash is still alive and kicking and I have asked his son Kev for any memories his dad has of his time working at Brough. Watch this space!
1966 Ivan Still At Newcastle
Ivan, Gordon Guasco, Brian Craven &
Dave Gifford
At A Packed Old Meadowbank
Ivan In His Iconic
Speedway Pose
Ivan Mauger is the only Newcastle rider to date, actually to bring the world title back to Brough Park whilst still a member of the Diamonds he did this in September 1968. Ivan and promoter Mike Parker had differences that they couldn't settle (not about money), So Ivan's ambitions led him to leave Newcastle at the end of 1968 for a bigger club Belle Vue. Ivan's Career took off again at BV and he went on to win four more world titles. The rest is as you say "History" and could fill this page all by itself.
Ivan on the winners tractor ride at Belle Vue. He says: The first photo I am particularly proud of (says Ivan). I was the first ever winner of the Peter Craven Memorial Trophy at Belle Vue in 1967.
1967 Peter Craven Memorial Trophy
This photo with Brenda Craven, Peter's widow, was taken at the first ever Peter Craven memorial meeting and Brenda made the presentations.
Fresh faced youngsters Ole Olsen and Ivan Mauger, they went on to dominate world speedway. Ole was a protégé of Ivan's and when Mauger left the club and signed for Belle Vue Ole stepped forward and filled the enormous gap left by Ivan moving on at the end of 1968.
Ivan & Giffy at Old Meadowbank?
No! It was Coatbridge
Ivan Mauger chatting to mean and moody Dave Gifford at Old Meadowbank
Peter McCann says: 'Ivan and Giffy at Old Meadowbank' should be Ivan and Giffy 'at Coatbridge'
Ivan's Trophy Count
More silverware, Ivan after winning yet another trophy, his house must have been full of them
Ivan On His Trusty JAP
Ivan on his trusty JAP, compression ratio so high it needed two pushers to bump it into life. I don't know the year or the track John
Dave Train says: Ivan is at Old Meadowbank
Ivan Back On Track 2003
These pictures were sent to me by Dave Gifford and show Dave and Ivan and Ivan with Ian Hoskins, they date from 2003. I presume as both Giffy and Ian live in NZ that the pictures are from a NZ track. These pictures show Ivan 40 years on from signing for Newcastle way back in 1963.
A 1960s Rarity
A Colour Photo Of Ivan
At Brough Park
Well no! not from the 1960s! Ivan says: The colour photo was 1975 at Newcastle's re-opening, when I did match races with Jimmy McMillian. I put my black leathers on and my Diamonds vest for the occasion. I also got the track record, I think 65secs on a two valve Jawa with narrow rear tyre.
34 years later the average time is 65 seconds and that is with modern machinery (laydown 4 valve technology) The all time Brough Park track record is 61 Seconds by Sean Wilson, then the track was altered and Kenneth Bjerre clocked 62.1 this is reckoned to be the current track record. But! Kenni Larsen bettered that, he did 61seconds in 2010. It was great to see Ivan riding at Brough in 1975. Great that you dressed for the occasion Ivan!
Ivan Chilling Out Before
Commencing Racing
This Is The 1966
Newcastle Team
Photo Courtesy of John Robson
This is the 1966 team. The riders from memory are:- Mike Watkin, Brian "Pommie" Brett, Alan Butterfield, Ivan Mauger (on bike), Russ Dent, Peter Kelly and someone whose face I just don't recognise! Help me out there someone please. John
Dave Gifford tells me the rider on the far right was Kiwi Graham Coombes Giffy says he sadly passed away some years ago.
Ivan Mauger says he was sitting on Graham's bike in this photo
Mike, Alan and Russ were locals and very popular with the fans. Pommie Brian Brett was a Londoner who was signed to cover for an injury to Ivan. He was so good he was kept on when Ivan returned to action. I remember him quitting at a relatively young age to concentrate on a big time window cleaning business. Peter Kelly was from the Manchester area. I think and he did a great job for the team. He often beat the best in the world around Brough. Ivan during this period became the "Match Race" specialist. He held the Silver Sash and Silver Helmet where he took on the top scoring opponent in every match in a series of match races. Everyone got used to Mauger winning and if he slipped to 2nd once in a match we considered he had had a bad match.
Picture supplied by Pauline Percival
Another shot of the 1966 team with the crowd all around the stadium: left to right: Peter Kelly, Mike Watkin, Brian Brett, Russ Dent and Alan Butterfield, Graham Coombes, Ivan Mauger.
Giffy Looming Large With His Mate He Calls "Sprouts"
Ivan Mauger's Newcastle Stats
Season Competition Matches Rides Points Bonus Pts. Tot Points Match Ave
1963 Provincial League only 10.70
1964 PL Northern League & KO Cup 34 142 405 5 410 11.55
1965 British League & KO Cup 20 79 161 12 173 8.76
1966 British League & KO Cup 36 158 375 13 388 9.82
1968 British League & KO Cup 36 160 447 2 449 11.23
Overall an average of 10.23, amazing considering his injuries.
These figures were supplied by my friend Keith Dyer a life long fan and a devotee of cycle speedway too, our cycle speedway website can be found at Cycle Speedway In the North East
Mike Watkin, Goog Allen, Alf Wells, Ole Olsen, Dave Gifford, Alan Butterfield with Ivan Mauger on his Bike
John Skinner says: I enjoyed the few years when Ivan was fit enough to correspond with me. we exchanged dozens of emails. My websites now contain many comments in Ivan's own words and some of his and Raye's personal photographs. Thank you Ivan and Raye and good luck for the future.
To continue Newcastle's Speedway History click 1970's
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New Jersey joins 22 other states in fight over transgender bathrooms
Wednesday, November 27, 2019 7:56 PM EST
New Jersey is joining 22 other states in the fight for rights for the transgender community.
State Attorney General Gurbir Grewal says that schools cannot be allowed to deny students access to bathrooms that are consisted with their gender identity.
This comes amid a lawsuit filed after a Virginia school refused to let a transgender student use the boy’s bathroom, even though he identified as a male.
RELATED: New Jersey unveils new directives to help protect transgender residents
“In New Jersey and across this country, individuals deserve the right to be treated in line with their gender identity and to live free of transphobia,” Grewal said in a statement.
New Jersey is one of 20 states that have enacted protections against this kind of discrimination.
Grewal also recently issued new directives to law enforcement officers to help make police interactions with the transgender community safer.
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Redecorating the Titanic, post impact ~ Thain and exec bullshit
Thank you John Thain! We needed a poster boy for Wall Street excess and the bank bailout, and you're it! Congratulations......
"In early 2008, just as Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain was preparing to slash expenses, cut thousands of jobs and exit businesses to fix the ailing securities firm, he was also spending company money on himself, senior people at the firm say.
According to documents reviewed by The Daily Beast, Thain spent $1.22 million of company money to refurbish his office at Merrill Lynch headquarters in lower Manhattan. The biggest piece of the spending spree: $800,000 to hire famed celebrity designer Michael Smith, who is currently redesigning the White House for the Obama family for just $100,000.
Big ticket items included $87,000 for an area rug, four pairs of curtains for $28,000, a pair of guest chairs for $87,000 and fabric for a "Roman Shade" for $11,000.
The other big ticket items Thain purchased include: $87,000 for an area rug in Thain's conference room and another area rug for $44,000; a "mahogany pedestal table" for $25,000; a "19th Century Credenza" in Thain's office for $68,000; a sofa for $15,000; four pairs of curtains for $28,000; a pair of guest chairs for $87,000; a "George IV Desk" for $18,000; six wall sconces for $2,700; six chairs in his private dining room for $37,000; a mirror in his private dining room for $5,000; a chandelier in the private dining room for $13,000; fabric for a "Roman Shade" for $11,000; a "custom coffee table" for $16,000; something called a "commode on legs" for $35,000; a "Regency Chairs" for $24,000; "40 yards of fabric for wall panels," for $5,000 and a "parchment waste can" for $1,400.
The documents also show that Thain signed off on the purchases personally. "Labor to relamp the six wall sconces" cost $3,000, and Thain authorized the payment of another $30,000 to pay the expenses Smith incurred in doing the work. Thain has hired Smith—whose celebrity client list includes Steven Spielberg, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cindy Crawford and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild—to design and decorate his private residences. They include a Manhattan apartment at 740 Park Avenue, and his 10-acre mansion in Rye, NY.
See Thain’s Top 16 Outrages
Thain was tapped to run Merrill Lynch as the firm suffered massive losses from investments tied to the depressed real estate market under his predecessor Stan O'Neal, who was ousted in late 2007. Those losses continued through 2008, forcing Thain and his management team to sell the brokerage firm to Bank of America in mid-September or face near certain liquidation as investors fearing further losses began pulling lines of credit and other financing.
Just last week, Bank of America announced that Merrill has suffered an unexpected loss of $1.79 billion for the fourth quarter of 2008, nearly collapsing BofA's purchase. Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis said that without $138 billion in government assistance, including the infusion of $20 billion from the federal government he would have pulled out of the Merrill deal, which was approved by BofA shareholders in early December.
Thain has come under pressure in recent weeks after several top executives at Merrill, including brokerage chief Bob McCann and investment banking head Greg Fleming, abruptly resigned from the firm citing differences with Thain. People close to Lewis say his relationship with Thain was further strained by the recent massive loss. Lewis himself has faced withering criticism for rushing the buy Merrill for $28 billion after less than two days of due diligence.
"I don't want to convey to you that Ken was delighted in mid-December when he found out about the losses, in fact he was pissed at Thain," one person at BofA who is close to Lewis told The Daily Beast earlier in the week. "He's not doing anything about Thain now because it isn't clear whether Thain should have told him sooner. So at least for now, Ken is sticking with Thain." (A spokeswoman for Thain denied a rumor inside Merrill that Thain is poised to step down from the firm.)
It's unclear how the disclosure of the personal expenses will effect now Thain's position. Thain signed off on the purchases in January, people close to Merrill say, when Merrill was still an independent firm and when some analysts believed the company was poised for a rebound with Thain as the new CEO. Thain came to Merrill after a largely successful stint as CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, where he converted the not-profit entity to a public company. Before that, he was a long-time executive at Goldman Sachs, where he served as former CEO Hank Paulson's No. 2.
Still others say spending so much company money on personal items shows incredibly bad judgment on the part of Thain since Merrill was in the middle of a financial crisis that ultimately led to its demise as an independent company. At the time, Thain was preaching the virtues of cost control, telling employees to reduce expenses including car services, entertainment and travel. In addition to the personal expenses on his office, documents show Thain paid his driver $230,000 for one year’s work, which included the driver's $85,000 salary and bonus of $18,000, and another $128,000 in over-time pay. Drivers of top executives are often paid about half that amount.
"If this is accurate it has shades of Dennis Kozlowski's $6,000 shower curtain," said investor Doug Kass of Seabreeze Capital Management, in a reference to former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski who was convicted of fraud and is serving prison time for improperly spending millions of dollars on personal items. While there is no evidence that what Thain did is either illegal or of the magnitude of the spending by Kozlowski, Kass said "Merrill was on the fence and Thain came into save the company. It's still a lot of money and there is no rationalization for something like this."
Posted by kevin at 1/23/2009 08:30:00 am
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Predictions continued ~ China
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Now's the Time: Kurt Rosenwinkel
As Joe Klopus notes in his excellent preview of the event, Kurt Rosenwinkel performs at the 36th Annual KU Jazz Festival on Saturday, March 2. The acclaimed guitarist has become one of the most distinctive figures in jazz during the past decade.
Labels: KU Jazz Festival
*Demencha published a review of Eddie Moore and the Outer Circle's Freedom of Expression.
*KCJazzLark suggests that the shuttering of Jardine's may have been a blessing in disguise.
*A blogger documented Sunday's tribute to Thelonious Monk at the RecordBar.
*Bobby Watson participated in a panel discussion titled “Art Blakey: The Jazz Message” at this month's Portland Jazz Festival.
*The Lawrence Journal-World offers an excellent profile of the Junkyard Jazz band.
*The Great Band Tribune reports that "KC jazz icon" David Basse will perform at the Great Bend Jazz Festival this weekend.
*A Topeka television station provides footage of Angela Hagenbach performing at a library function.
*The Black House Improvisors' Collective shares a new set of photos.
*Phonologotron's Soundcloud profile remains active.
*Cover Art, the debut album by the Next Collective, an all-star band that includes Kansas City's Logan Richardson, was released this week.
*A blog run by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation reminds readers that Charlie Parker's residence in the East Village is designated as an official historical landmark.
*Tonight's Tribute to J Dilla show at the Blue Room has been postponed.
*Tweet o' the Week: Clint Ashlock-"Snowed In At a Gas Station on K-10" #shouldabeencountrysong #nopeitstruelife
*Comment of the Week: Sid- Footnote to KC Star review: Kenny Garrett and Bobby Watson. Two virtuosos, brilliant artists and both sound innovators. (They changed the sound of the alto saxophone.) Only one person sounds like Bobby Watson. In two notes you can identify him. Kenny Garrett on the other hand used to be identifiable in one note but he has influenced an entire generation of players based on his tone itself. Now its harder to tell who you are listening to. Not since David Sanborn in the 1970's has an alto saxophonists tone been imitated so much. Dozens of alto players sound similar to Kenny Garrett. Similar comparison with tenor saxophone. Coltrane's tone influenced (and still does) several generations and the next guy to "change" the tone was Mike Brecker again in the 1970's and he influenced an entire generation. The question that is interesting to me is that why has Kenny Garrett's sound been so enticing to copy and not Bobby's. I personally enjoy both of them very much even though they are quite different in so many ways. Anybody want to weigh in. Thanks, Sid
*From Brad Cox: New York trumpeter Dave Scott will perform with The People's Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City at the RecordBar on Sunday, March 3rd at 8:00pm. The band will perform a night of compositions and arrangements by Scott, with the composer as featured soloist.
*A reminder from Michael Pagán: Jazz Jam Session every Saturday afternoon at Piropos Piano Bar in Briarcliff.
*From Kent Rausch: (T)he Vine Street Rumble concert (at Californos) has been postponed to Monday, March 11th.
*From a press release: A Night of Harmonious Horn. Stan Kessler, Trumpet performing with Tim Whitmer & The Consort Band. Kansas City Jazz Legend Stan Kessler is not only a gifted performer but also wears the many hats of trumpet/flugelhorn instructor, bandleader, clinician, writer/arranger and educator. He performs, and leads, in numerous ensembles including the long-running Sons of Brasil, The Stan Kessler Quartet, Stan Kessler’s TV, HoraceScope, The Uncertainty Principle, Mistra Fina and Passport. Wednesday, March 6, 2013. 7:00 p.m. Unity Temple on the Plaza. Tickets at the door only $7.00. Children under 16 free.
*From Dan Gailey: The KU School of Music is pleased to present the 36th Annual KU Jazz Festival on March 1-2, 2013, featuring notable guest artists Bob Sheppard, saxophone, and Kurt Rosenwinkel, guitar. Both concerts will be held at Free State High School Auditorium in Lawrence at 7:30 pm and are open to the general public…
On Friday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the Free State High School Auditorium, saxophonist Bob Sheppard will be featured with the KU Jazz Festival All-Star Big Band... The Jazz Festival All-Star Big Band features KU School of Music faculty, along with some of the nation's finest jazz educators and prominent musicians from the Kansas City jazz community. The concert will open with Free State High School Jazz Ensemble I and the festival's chosen Outstanding High School Ensemble from the daytime performances.
The concert on Saturday, March 2nd features guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel with KU Jazz Ensemble I, under the direction of Dan Gailey, director of jazz studies at KU… The performance will include new big band arrangements of Rosenwinkel's music written by KU Jazz Studies faculty, students and alumni. The concert will open with KU Combo 1 and the KU Jazz Singers, and the festival's chosen Outstanding College Ensemble….
KU Jazz Festival After Hours (featuring the Matt Otto trio) will be held at the Oread in the All Seasons Den following the evening concerts from 10:00 pm-12:30 am both evenings. Admission is free; a cash bar is available.
Labels: Angela Hagenbach, Bobby Watson, Charlie Parker, Clint Ashlock, Dan Gailey, David Basse, Eddie Moore, Jardine's, Logan Richardson, Outer Circle, People's Liberation Big Band, Record Bar, Stan Kessler
Review: Pat Metheny- The Orchestrion Project
I'm an ardent fan of Pat Metheny's Orchestrion concept. I've witnessed performances of Metheny's tour in support of the groundbreaking undertaking on two continents.
Yet the recent release of the audio-only version The Orchestrion Project makes me feel as if I'm experiencing the endeavor for the first time. (Uninitiated readers are encouraged to watch this three-minute promotional video.)
The sound quality seemed fine at the Orchestrion concerts I attended in Kansas City and Rome. Yet the mix is substantially different on the new release. Listeners can safely infer that the sound field of the live recording is set to Metheny's specifications. The album also demonstrates how far the concept has progressed since the initial 2010 recording.
The Orchestrion offers an amazing spectacle. Yet divorced from the stupendous visual distractions, The Orchestrion Project is an excellent stand-alone recording.
Metheny's identifiable traits, of course, are readily apparent. The sentimentalism that causes many imperceptive people to dismiss all of Metheny's work materializes on "Soul Search." Fresh versions of old favorites like the discordant "80/81" and the lovely "Sueño Con Mexico" clarify the ways in which Metheny deploys the Orchestrion. A mechanical rhythm section- my sole objection to the project- is especially apparent on "Spirit of the Air."
Given Metheny's brilliance, the supposed flaw could very well be a deliberate commentary on the philosophical implications of his elaborate one-man-band. The Orchestrion Project serves as further evidence that the iconoclastic artist is one of the most important musicians of our time.
Labels: Genius, Pat Metheny
Now's the Time: The Vine Street Rumble Jazz Orchestra
The Vine Street Rumble Jazz Orchestra will perform a free concert at Californos on Monday, February 25. The multi-generational tradition-minded band includes heavy hitters like Rod Fleeman, Steve Lambert and Lonnie McFadden. The Benny Carter composition that gave the ensemble its name is almost certainly in its repertoire. Carter directs a German band in the embedded video.
Labels: Vine Street Rumble Jazz Orchestra
*JJ's, a Plaza-area restaurant that regularly featured live jazz, was destroyed by a natural gas explosion yesterday.
*KCJazzLark praises the Green Lady Lounge.
*The Kansas City Star reviewed last weekend's concerts by Kenny Garrett, Kurt Elling and Bobby Watson with the Kansas City Symphony. KC Metropolis also offers a review of Garrett's performance.
*Here's tantalizing footage of a rehearsal for Bobby Watson's collaboration with the Kansas City Symphony.
*Michael Shults performed the National Anthem at a University of Cincinnati game.
*Brandon Draper's February 16 set at Take Five Coffee + Bar is available as a free download at Bandcamp.
*The Jorge Arana Trio are captured in a session at KJHK.
*Phonologotron posted a portion of a recording from a recent rehearsal.
*Chris Burnett shares another draft of an arrangement of a new composition.
*Prior to Kenny Garrett's performance, Gale Tallis, Executive Director of the Folly Theater, announced that Stan Kessler and Matt Otto would perform with Matthew Rybicki at the bassist's concert on March 9.
*Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will return to Helzberg Hall on October 19.
*Joe Sample will be 12th Street Jump's featured guest artist in a taping of the show at White Recital Hall on March 26.
*UMKC will host the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference in 2014. The University News reports that "(t)he speakers and entertainment for the event will be focused on" the "Jazzin' It Up" theme.
*A new exhibit at the University of Kansas is titled “Rhythm and Meaning: Jazz at KU.” (Via Offstage.)
*You Tube gold: "UMKC Concert Jazz Band Rehearsal with Howard Johnson (2006)".
*Tweet o' the Week: brandondraper- Free Album!!! brandondraper.bandcamp.com. Ambient, drum 'n bass, hip hop, jazz, rock, 70's funk, Afro-Cuban,indie-rock.
*Comment of the Week: Nigel- That ladies and Gentlemen is how to hold the audience in the palm of your hand. It was a great clinic in "working the room". Class, grace, style, polish and COMPETENCE!
*From Bill Lee: 95-year-old Clyde Bysom and his band Junkyard Jazz will be inducted into the Kansas Music Halll of Fame at Liberty Hall inn Lawrence on March 2. Junkyard jazz plays at the Lawrence American Legion Hall every Thursday evening. Other 2013 inducteees are the Devestating Dinks (Salina), the Exceptions (Topeka), Ray Hildebrand (Paul of Paul & Paula, Prairie Village), Kerry Livgren (Berryton), Chuck Mead (Lawrence), Mystic Number National Bank (KC), the Playmate Blues Band (Hays), the Tempests (Hays), Steve Werner (KC), the Wizards From Kansas (Lawrence), Sherman Halsey (Independence, KS) and Larry Emmett & the Sliders (DeSoto).
*From Jason Bata: The Lincoln Prep Bands are hosting a benefit concert for their Wind Ensemble's trip to perform in Carnegie Hall this March. The Lincoln Prep Jazz Ensemble & Combo will start the concert that will then feature The Kicks Big Band with Horace Washington. The concert begins at 7:30pm on Thursday, February 21, in the LCPA Auditorium (2111Woodland). There will be food beforehand for $5 (burritos or nachos & a drink).
*From Kent Rausch: Roarin' Out Of KC! Kansas City's Vine Street Rumble Jazz Orchestra was formed to honor the legacy of the "golden era" of our city's world renowned jazz history. The band exclusively performs the same outrageously exciting music that made Kansas City THE place to be in the 30's and 40's, dedicated to taking the audience back to the wildly famous "jam sessions" and concert performances that literally changed the jazz world and influenced musicians from coast to coast and beyond… Saxophone: Mike Herrera, Steve Lambert, Brett Jackson, Carl Bender; Trumpet: Jay Sollenberger, Barry Springer, Al Pearson; Trombone: Jason Goudeau, Dan Strom; Piano: Walter Bryant; Guitar: Rod Fleeman; Bass: Zach Beeson; Drums: Jurgen Welge; Vocals: Lonnie McFadden. When: Monday Feb. 25, 2013 8:00-9:30pm. Where: Californos. Cost: Free!
Labels: Bobby Watson, Brandon Draper, Chris Burnett, Clyde Bysom, Folly Theater, Green Lady Lounge, Jorge Arana Trio, Michael Shults, Phonologotron, UMKC, Vine Street Rumble Jazz Orchestra
Review: Eddie Moore and the Outer Circle- The Freedom of Expression
Of the many notable albums that have been released in the past few years by Kansas City-based jazz musicians, only a few have pleased me more than Eddie Moore and the Outer Circle's new release The Freedom of Expression. In addition to documenting the formidable talent of several young musicians, the project serves as a reminder that everything is indeed up to date in Kansas City.
With the exception of "Liberation," the mainstream closing track, The Freedom of Expression is a bracing collection of modal neo-soul grooves. Imagine 1968-era Herbie Hancock filtered through 2009-era Robert Glasper.
Because I don't possess a physical copy of the album, I'm unsure of the specific credits. The core of the band is keyboardist Eddie Moore, guitarist Matt Hopper, bassist Dominique Sanders and drummer Matt Leifer. Saxophonists Erik Blume and Andy McGhie also make appearances.
Knowledge of such details isn't necessary to appreciate The Freedom of Expression. No one- not even Moore- attempts to draw excessive attention to his contributions. Even "Anger Management," the loudest track, maintains a pleasing low-key atmosphere. A few selections are hampered by an annoying buzz that I presume is emitted by an amp, a reflection of the session's casual vibe.
Yet listeners shouldn't confusing the relaxed ambience of The Freedom of Expression with nonchalance. The beautiful album represents an important touchstone in the evolution of Kansas City jazz.
Labels: Dominique Sanders, Eddie Moore, Matt Hopper, Matt Leifer, Outer Circle
Now's the Time: Kurt Elling
Kurt Elling is almost certainly the elite male jazz vocalist of the new millennium. He performs at the Gem Theater on Saturday, February 16. Joe Klopus previewed the weekend's concerts by Elling, Kenny Garrett and Bobby Watson.
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Labels: Gem Theater
*Pat Metheny won his twentieth Grammy Award on Sunday when Unity Band was named Best Jazz Instrumental Album. Metheny spoke to his hometown newspaper last month. (Via Pat Metheny News.) Additionally, the audio version of Metheny's The Orchestrion Project was released yesterday.
*Diverse appears in a new music video for Reach's "How To Fish".
*Eddie Moore tells Ink magazine about the music he loves. A prominent hip hop blog compliments Moore's new album.
*Chris Burnett suggests that Kansas City's jazz veterans including Bob Bowman, Deborah Brown, Rod Fleeman and Will Matthews are unfairly overlooked by taste-makers.
*The promotional efforts for the Next Collective's forthcoming album, continue with a quip from Logan Richardson.
*Chuck Berg reviewed Wycliffe Gordon's recent performance in Topeka. (Via Offstage.)
*YouTube gold- Check out John Park's gorgeous solo on "I Can't Get Started" "(f)rom the out-of print "If Winter Comes" LP. Recorded in 1975 at Kansas City jazz fest."
*Tweet o' the Week: Heinlein Music- @HappyInBag named "Become Light" the 2nd best KC jazz CD last year. The guy that got first just won a Grammy. We're OK with 2nd.
*Comment of the Week: Cb- HIB: "Is Kenny Garrett the fully-realized artistic heir of John Coltrane?" Cb: No. Kenny Garrett has is own distinct thing that seems to be more based upon what he was doing with Miles (only acoustic). Steve Coleman and his M-Base theorists might be closer to the John Coltranes of our age - if such a distinction could actually even exists. Of course, just my opinion ;) Peace, Cb
*From the Kansas City Symphony: Kansas City's very own Bobby Watson will host a jazz master class on Saturday, February 16 at 11 a.m. in Helzberg Hall. This event is free and open to the public and reservations are required.
*From a press release: Pianist Amina Figarova… comes to Kansas City as part of a 12-city US tour with "one of jazz' very best working bands"... on Thursday, March 7 at The Blue Room. Figarova's sextet, featuring Bart Platteau on flutes, Ernie Hammes on trumpet, Marc Mommaas on tenor sax, Jeroen Vierdag on bass and Chris "Buckshot" Strik on drums, tours in support of its 2012 album Twelve, which has earned wide critical acclaim.
Labels: Bobby Watson, Chris Burnett, Diverse, Eddie Moore, John Park, Logan Richardson, Pat Metheny, Ryan Heinlein
Review: Voyage
Opening an album with a ballad takes gumption. The unconventional strategy works on Voyage, the self-titled album by a quartet of Kansas City musicians.
The wistful "The New Moon" begins with a conversation between Forest Stewart's resonant bass, composer Mike Warren's wary drumming and Wayne Hawkins' delicate piano. The rapturously beautiful tone is further enhanced when saxophonist Dan Thomas gently takes the melodic lead.
The selection's superb musicianship, sensitive interplay and formidable compositional sensibility showcase the quartet's strengths. Their eminently listenable album is polite but not mild-mannered.
Voyage's mainstream post-bop tone will be familiar to listeners who appreciate classic Bobby Watson albums like Present Tense. The similarity isn't an accident. Anyone who's attended a jazz function at the University of Missouri-Kansas City during the past several years likely noticed a slender man standing alongside the famed Watson. That's Thomas. Like Watson, Thomas is both a respected UMKC instructor and a powerful saxophonist. He's the yin to Watson's yang.
Four of Voyage's nine tracks are Thomas' compositions. The brash "Shock and Awe"- my favorite selection- is a chaotic maelstrom. Thomas' virtuosity is also responsible for the album's weakest moment. His primary solo on Hawkins' "Brazilian Haiku" is a technical triumph. Impressive? No doubt. Emotionally resonant? Afraid not. It's the only track on which the band resembles inhibited music professors.
Thomas may be the dominant voice on the album but Voyage is a true band. Warren is one of Kansas City's most distinctive drummers. Voyage serves as an excellent document of his playing. Stewart locks in with Warren throughout. The soulful groove of his "I'll Miss All of Those Things" makes it one of the album's strongest tracks. His solos on Hawkins' "Truth and Beauty" and Thomas' "Lamenting" also impress. Hawkins' nuanced contributions reinforce Voyage's enticing ambiance.
Voyage was released to little fanfare last September. It deserves to be heard.
Labels: Dan Thomas, Forest Stewart, Mike Warren, UMKC, Voyage, Wayne Hawkins
Now's the Time: Kenny Garrett
Is Kenny Garrett the fully-realized artistic heir of John Coltrane? The unjust question continues to haunt Garrett's career. I have yet to make up my mind even after years of studying Pursuance: The Music of John Coltrane, Garrett's stellar 1996 album featuring Pat Metheny. The band performing at an Italian club in the embedded clip will appear at the Folly Theater on Friday, February 15.
Labels: Folly Theater, Pat Metheny
*Logan Richardson tells The Revivalist about the role he plays in the forthcoming album by the Next Collective.
*KCJazzLark's provocative commentary on the size and scope of Kansas City's jazz audience is fascinating.
*Matt Hopper is singled out for praise in a review of the debut album by Eddie Moore & the Outer Circle.
*Diverse made a portion of a recent Michael Jackson tribute performance available as a free download.
*The Prairie Village Post reports that a professional fundraiser may be utilized by the Prairie Village Jazz Festival. (Tip via Offstage.)
*Tim Finn checks in with Jeff Harshbarger about the bassist's forthcoming trip to Europe.
*The American Jazz Museum's Glenn North spoke to The Kansas City Star about the relationship between jazz and poetry.
*Phonologotronic shares a "teaser".
*The Pitch reveals that UMKC has a student-run internet radio station. And yes, the schedule indicates that there's jazz programming.
*All About Jazz offers an extensive review of the audio portion of Pat Metheny's The Orchestrion Project. (Via Pat Metheny News.)
*Jef Lee Johnson has died. The guitarist performed with Esperanza Spalding at Helzberg Hall last October.
*Tweet o' the Week: JeneeinKC- Jazz and Hip-Hop. Hip-Hop and Jazz. I love KC.
*Comment of the Week: Stanton Kessler- Thank you Mr.Sax, I am thrilled that you liked our project so much! Hopefully, it will induce more people to enjoy us live. Mike, you are too kind.
*Via the Folly Theater: The lineup for Kenny Garrett's February 15 concert is Kenny Garrett - saxophone, Rudy Bird, percussion, Vernell Brown, Jr., piano, Corcoran Holt, bass, McClenty Hunter, Jr.,drums.
*From Jim Mair: Jazz by the Lake. Thursday February 7, 2013. Noon to 1:00pm. Diverse trio with Hermon Mehari, Ben Leifer, Brad Williams. KCKCC Conference Center by the Lake. Free and Free food. In a living room atmosphere, a very intimate space. The most Diverse audience in Kansas City. (unintentional pun). All ages and all stages and beyond.
*From the Kansas City Symphony: KC's very own Bobby Watson continues the fine traditions of Charlie Parker and Count Basie, performing jazz standards with a special twist. For this show, Watson is joined by 20 of the best jazz musicians in the Midwest, including David Basse, Rod Fleeman, Dan Thomas, Steve Malloy, Horace Washington, Roger Wilder and others. Get ready to jam! February 15-16, Helzberg Hall.
Labels: American Jazz Museum, Bobby Watson, Diverse, Eddie Moore, Jeff Harshbarger, Logan Richardson, Matt Hopper, Pat Metheny, Prairie Village Jazz Festival, UMKC
Sepian Bounce
A minor milestone in the evolution of Kansas City's jazz scene transpired on February 1.
Diverse played a hip-hop show at the RecordBar. Eddie Moore and the Outer Circle performed jazz inspired by hip-hop during its record release party at the Blue Room. Forward-thinking pianist Mark Lowrey and drummer Brad Williams entertained at the Green Lady Lounge. The Jorge Arana Trio participated in a rock-oriented show at the Czar Bar.
Audiences were just as likely to hear covers of songs by J Dilla, Michael Jackson and Radiohead as material by Count Basie and Charlie Parker. The younger musicians who participated in these shows aren't necessarily superior to their elder counterparts. They merely have a different perspective than the jazz artists who worked elsewhere Friday night.
These four events signal an unofficial changing of the guard. I expect that The Kansas City Jazz Calendar will increasingly resemble nights like February 1.
Labels: Blue Room, Brad Williams, Diverse, Eddie Moore, Green Lady Lounge, Jorge Arana Trio, Mark Lowrey, Record Bar
Now's the Time: Eddie Moore and the Outer Circle
Keyboardist Eddie Moore doesn't attempt to conceal his admiration of Robert Glasper. The Freedom of Expression, the new album by Moore and the Outer Circle, seems to split the difference between Glasper's 2007 album In My Element and last year's Black Radio. Moore recently spoke to Joe Klopus about his nascent career. His band's album release show is Friday, February 1, at the Blue Room.
Labels: Blue Room, Dominique Sanders, Eddie Moore, Matt Hopper, Matt Leifer
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Grading the 2018-19 Folly Season
Familiarity breeds contempt. Six of the seven artists featured in the 2018-19 season of the Folly Jazz Series have already appeared in Kansas City at least once in the last five years. The exception is the Yellowjackets, a group that performed at the Folly Theater three times in the previous decade.
Given the vast universe of thrilling talent, it’s frustrating that area jazz promoters tend to limit their bookings to a short list of two dozen acts. The repetition is made even more painful by the struggles of the American Jazz Museum. The institution’s concerts at the Gem Theater seem to be a thing of the past.
There’s a reason for the repetition. The cautious nature of the jazz offerings for the Folly Theater’s 36th season increases the likelihood of a 37th season. My dream lineup consisting of the likes of Lakecia Benjamin, Mary Halvorson, Dave Holland, Shabaka Hutchings, Charles Lloyd, Pat Metheny and Matthew Shipp might bankrupt the series. I’ve made every effort not to let my disappointment in who’s not playing unfairly impact the grades of the actual bookings.
Ramsey Lewis and Urban Knights
Ramsey Lewis has done it all in an audacious career of more than sixty years. He’s a master of bop, pop, soul-jazz and funk. The octogenarian will be joined by guitarist Henry Johnson, keyboardist Tim Gant, bassist Joshua Ramos and drummer Charles Heath during his third concert in Kansas City in 21 months.
Larry Carlton Quintet
Every committed Steely Dan enthusiast is familiar with Larry Carlton’s distinctive guitar work. His impeccable playing will be supported by saxophonist Bob Reynolds, keyboardist Mark Stevens, drummer Gary Novak and Carlton's son Travis on bass.
The Yellowjackets
The audience for smooth jazz in Kansas City remains substantial. The four aces in The Yellowjackets are likely to draw a healthy crowd.
Nancy Wilson, 81, doesn’t get around much anymore. Kandace Springs has filled the void. She’s carved out a similarly elegant space in the realm of supper club soul.
Kurt Elling Quintet
Kurt Elling is the preeminent jazz vocalist of the new millennium.
Joshua Redman’s Still Dreaming, an homage to his father Dewey Redman’s collaboration with Ornette Coleman, is one of the most engaging jazz albums of 2018. Alas, the saxophonist isn’t bringing the left-of-center musicians featured on the project to the Folly. Instead, he’ll be accompanied by the sublime trio of pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Gregory Hutchinson.
The respect commanded by the storied Cuban defector Arturo Sandoval is reflected by the presence of Alejandro Sanz, Pharrell Williams, Ariana Grande and Josh Groban on the trumpeter's latest album.
Labels: American Jazz Museum, Folly Theater, Jazz, Kansas City
Now's the Time: The Music of Bennie Moten
The Jackson County Historical Society, the Kansas City Jazz Ambassadors and the Mutual Musicians Foundation are hosting an event billed as Bennie, Basie, and Bird: An Evening of KC Jazz at the Foundation on Saturday, July 28. While “live performances with original and contemporary arrangements of their classics” are promised, details on precisely who will be interpreting the music of Bennie Moten, Count Basie and Charlie Parker aren’t available. Perhaps my skepticism makes me an insolent heretic, but I don’t intend to fork over the $35 price of admission until I know which musicians are participating. A multitude of other options are listed at The Kansas City Jazz Calendar.
Labels: Bennie Moten, Jazz, Kansas City, Mutual Musicians Foundation
*Joe Klopus scrutinizes the 2018-19 season of the Folly Theater’s jazz series for The Kansas City Star.
*Tweet o’ the Week: Carl Kincaid- Celebrating some of my favorite KC musicians in my favorite KC band at my favorite KC club. Chris Hazelton’s Boogaloo Seven’s new record “The Basement Beat” Release Party in the Black Dolphin Room at Kansas City’s legendary Green Lady Lounge. Check Sunflower Soul Records! (photos)
*From a press release: Lonnie McFadden presents "Charlie Parker - Past, Present & Future" starring Bobby Watson, Tivon Pennicott and Ronald McFadden. Saturday, August 25; Gem Theater. Lonnie has produced an incredible, high energy evening of song and dance with a strong group of some of the very best jazz musicians Kansas City has to offer. The show honors Charlie “Yardbird” Parker... Mr. Kansas City himself, Lonnie McFadden, has created a show that will have you on your feet and celebrating the music and stories of Kansas City's own jazz legend, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker.
Labels: Black Dolphin, Charlie Parker, Chris Hazelton, Folly Theater, Jazz, Kansas City, Lonnie McFadden
Album Review: Chris Hazelton's Boogaloo 7- The Basement Beat
I mumbled something about New York, Puerto Rico, salsa, soul and the 1960s when Steve Kraske asked me to define boogaloo in an on-air discussion about Chris Hazelton’s Boogaloo 7’s The Basement Beat on KCUR’s Up to Date program three weeks ago. I cited Cardi B’s current boogaloo-based hit “I Like It” as a relevant entry point for curious listeners. Vibrant The Basement Beat selections including the celebratory boogaloo “Tru-Galú” and soul-jazz workouts like “Fryin’ Pan” may be several production tweaks removed from the rapper’s summer smash, but they’re every bit as fun as “I Like It.” Hazelton’s band hosts an album release show at the Black Dolphin on Sunday, July 22.
(Original image captured on the Brooklyn Bridge by Plastic Sax.)
Labels: Black Dolphin, Chris Hazelton, Jazz, Kansas City
Now's the Time: Kandace Springs at the Sprint Center
Unsuspecting pop fans are in for a treat at the Sprint Center on Friday, July 20. Punctual devotees of Hall & Oates and Train will take in an opening set by Kandace Springs. The elegant artist working in the tradition of Nancy Wilson will return to Kansas City on February 15 for a headlining concert at the Folly Theater. Both bookings are listed on The Kansas City Jazz Calendar.
*An event billed as A Yardbird Homecoming is slated for Friday, August 3. A complete collection of the Dial Records catalog amassed by DeBorah "Dee" Williams will be displayed in the atrium of the American Jazz Museum. Williams, Jayne McShann and Jermaine Reed will speak. Jason Goudeau’s Little Big Band will perform.
*The Marcus Lewis Big Band created a music video for “All Day”.
*Stephen Martin was interviewed by Joe Dimino.
*The editorial board of The Kansas City Star questions why “Kansas City is striding boldly back into the concert game” after the financial debacle that followed last year’s Kansas City Jazz & Heritage Festival.
*Details about next month’s Charlie Parker Celebration continue to be added to the event’s site.
*Tim Whitmer & the KC Express, the Wild Women of Kansas City, B.M.W. and J Love provide the jazz component of the ninth annual Phoenix Fest at The Phoenix on Saturday, July 28.
*The Kansas City Star reports that the Wheatley-Provident hospital building in the Jazz District is slated for renovation.
*The 2018 edition of New York’s annual Charlie Parker Festival includes performances by Charles Tolliver, Gary Bartz, the Bad Plus and Catherine Russell.
*Tweet o’ the Week: Terra Brister- “Yes the community is safe, it’s the people that come into the community that are not safe!” -Jazz Museum, Kansas City
*From a press release: KC Area Youth Jazz is pleased to announce the addition of Media Relations Expert and Kansas City area Radio and Television Personality, Joel Nichols as an official Spokesperson, Concert Emcee, and Media Consultant.
Labels: American Jazz Museum, Charlie Parker, Jazz, Kansas City, Marcus Lewis, Stephen Martin
Concert Review: Henrique Eisenmann and Ehud Ettun at the 1900 Building
Members of an audience of about 70 laughed as if Henrique Eisenmann had delivered the punchline of an implausible joke when the pianist explained that he and bassist Ehud Ettun were performing Israeli jazz at the 1900 Building on Saturday, July 7. There was nothing comical about the exquisite 90-minute performance by the Brazilian born, New York based Eisenmann and the Israeli bassist Ettun. Although I paid $25 to enter, the recital had all the trappings of a private event.
In addition to resonant echoes of Ettun’s home in Jerusalem, the show included impeccable interpretations of material by the Brazilian icons Milton Nascimento and Hermeto Pascoal and the American bassist Steve Swallow. Eisenmann also attempted to translate the sound of the African mbira to piano on the percussive “Afro-Latidos.” The show included two demonstrations of what is either a nifty parlor trick or the inception of a vital new genre when Eisenmann added composed melodies to recordings of poems recited by a Peruvian child and an Israeli poet.
Gasps of horror filled the room when Eisenmann disclosed that he’d spent much of the past year battling cancer. He indicated that he was optimistic about the outcome. His family, friends and the extended jazz community need him. Liberated from the mandate to perpetually swing, he and Ettun are forging vital new sounds.
Aside from three people I recognized as regulars at Kansas City jazz performances, no one in the room probably had any way of knowing that Israeli jazz is- as Eisenmann put it after the concept was openly mocked- “a thing.” In fact, my favorite performances of improvised music in 2018 have been rendered by a group led by the Israeli clarinetist Anat Cohen at the Gem Theater (Plastic Sax review), a quartet fronted by the Israeli pianist Uriel Hermann at Black Dolphin
(Plastic Sax review), and now, Henrique Eisenmann and Ehud Ettun at the 1900 Building.
Now's the Time: For Now
For Now proves that there’s plenty more where Snarky Puppy came from. Like the celebrated arty jazz-pop ensemble Snarky Puppy, For Now is a product of the music program at the University of North Texas in Denton. Composer and vocalist Isabel Crespo takes the lead in the embedded For Now video. Her band performs at Black Dolphin on Friday, July 13. Details are available at The Kansas City Jazz Calendar.
*The Vijay Iyer Sextet is slated to headline the Open Spaces festival at Starlight Theatre on Sunday, October 14. Janelle Monáe and the Roots top the bill on the two preceding days.
*Brandon Draper is the subject of a feature on KCUR.
*Jim Mair chatted with Joe Dimino.
*Saxophonist Michael Eaton will perform John Coltrane's 1967 album Stellar Regions at Californos on Friday, August 3. He’ll be joined by guitarist Seth Davis, bassist Jeff Harshbarger and drummer John Kizilarmut. The cover charge is $10.
*The 2018 edition of the Columbia Experimental Music Festival has a few noteworthy bookings of interest to aficionados of adventurous jazz.
*Tweet o’ the Week: Kansas City, MO- “The Weekend will be stacked with high profile performances, particularly headliners @JanelleMonae, @theroots, and @vijayiyer, who is one of the biggest names in contemporary jazz.” - @OpenSpacesKC artistic director Dan Cameron
Labels: Brandon Draper, Jazz, Jim Mair, Kansas City, Open Spaces
Album Review: Stephen Martin- Vision
The jazz bro woo-cry is a repellent element of many jazz performances. Yet I find myself involuntarily yelping the enthusiastic shout of appreciation every time I listen to Vision, the thrilling debut album by the Kansas City saxophonist Stephen Martin that will be released on July 27.
The playing of Martin, pianist Matt Villinger, bassist Karl McComas-Reichl and drummer John Kizilarmut isn’t gratuitously flashy. Instead, exceptional group dynamics and uncommonly smart choices elicit my grating blurts of joy.
Vision is particularly intriguing in the wake of the “new” John Coltrane album. Give or take 18 months, the approach documented on the 1963 recording Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album serves as the foundation of Vision. Rather than attempting to expand or update Coltrane’s sound, Martin’s quartet pays commendable homage to some the most renowned American music of the 20th century.
Villinger plays a fervent McCoy Tyner to Martin’s persuasive Coltrane. The pianist stands out on uptempo selections including a raging version of Charlie Parker’s “Segment.” While it doesn’t challenge convention or break new ground, Vision is among the most praiseworthy mainstream acoustic jazz albums to be made by a Kansas City artist in years. Woo!
Labels: Jazz, John Kizilarmut, Kansas City, Karl McComas-Reichl, Matt Villinger, Stephen Martin
Now's the Time: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Victor Wooten’s outing at the Madrid Theatre in 2017 was one of the year’s most energetic jazz-adjacent performances in Kansas City. (Plastic Sax reviewed the concert.) The audacious bassist returns to Kansas City on Monday, July 9, as a member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones for a show at the Uptown Theater. The concert is one of hundreds of gigs listed at The Kansas City Jazz Calendar.
Labels: Jazz, Kansas City, Uptown Theater
*Logan Richardson’s Blues People is the surprising but entirely worthy headliner of the 2018 edition of The Prairie Village Jazz Festival. Molly Hammer, the Enormous Guitar Project, the Kessler-Embrey Conspiracy, Victor & Penny and Shawnee Mission East Blue Knights round out the lineup.
*As Plastic Sax first reported on May 2, the 2018-19 season of the Folly Jazz Series consists of concerts by Ramsey Lewis, Larry Carlton, the Yellowjackets, Kurt Elling, Joshua Redman and Arturo Sandoval. The unnamed “mystery artist” at the venue’s site is Kandace Springs.
*The Kansas City Jazz Calendar has been updated with July’s bookings
*Tweet o’ the Week: Terry Teachout- Bill Watrous, R.I.P. The first world-class jazzman with whom I ever played, he was a supreme virtuoso and a true artist. This performance dates from around the time he came to Kansas City and appeared with my college jazz band. It suggests his quality: (link).
*From a press release: The Charlie Parker Celebration returns and will celebrate its 5th anniversary… (O)ne of this year’s Artist-in-Residence is Lonnie McFadden, a singer, trumpeter and tap dancer… Joining McFadden as an Artist-in-Residence will be Grammy winner Tivon Pennicott. Both will participate in many of this year’s feature events and the jazz crawl (20+ performances at 14 jazz clubs or venues during the 10-day event)… Tickets will range from free to modestly priced.
*From a press release: Leaving for Europe on July 3, KU Jazz Ensemble I will perform at three of the world’s most prestigious jazz festivals: the 52nd Annual Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, 38th Annual Jazz A Vienne in France and 48th Annual Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy. The group will also play in Italy at Scarperia Jazz Festival in Florence as well as performances at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan and shows in Stresa and Torino. (Deborah) Brown will perform with the jazz ensemble throughout Europe.
*From a press release: Pat Metheny has been elected into the prestigious Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden. The academy's purpose is to promote art music and musical life… (T)he 20-time GRAMMY® Award winner kicks off a 24-city European tour this week with Antonio Sanchez, Linda May Han Oh, and Gwilym Simcock, followed by a U.S. tour this fall.
Labels: Deborah Brown, Folly Theater, Jazz, Kansas City, Logan Richardson, Lonnie McFadden, Pat Metheny, Prairie Village Jazz Festival
Down(beat) and Out
Kansas City’s jazz scene doesn’t fare well in Downbeat’s 66th Annual Critics Poll. Four artists received votes in the instrumentalist categories: Bobby Watson (12th place, alto saxophone), Pat Metheny (13th place, guitar, and 16th place, miscellaneous instruments), Logan Richardson (6th place, rising star- alto saxophone) and Mike Dillon (2nd place, rising star- vibraphone). The late Bob Brookmeyer took 10th place on the Hall of Fame ballot. No albums by Kansas City musicians are among the 104 releases receiving votes, nor is there any mention of notables including Peter Schlamb, Hermon Mehari, Marilyn Maye, Julian Vaughn, the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, Matt Otto or Deborah Brown. What gives?
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Scopus 2011-2015
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/dspace/handle/123456789/14081
Title: Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans serotypes, the JP2 clone and cytolethal distending toxin genes in a Thai population
Authors: Panwadee Bandhaya
Prakaimuk Saraithong
Khanchit Likittanasombat
Bunlue Hengprasith
Kitti Torrungruang
Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
Keywords: Dentistry
Issue Date: 1-Jun-2012
Citation: Journal of Clinical Periodontology. Vol.39, No.6 (2012), 519-525
Abstract: Aim To examine the genetic diversity of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans in Thai adults. Materials and Methods Subgingival plaque samples from 453 subjects were analysed for A. actinomycetemcomitans serotypes, the presence of the high leukotoxin-producing JP2 clone and cytolethal distending toxin genes (cdtABC) using the polymerase chain reaction technique. In subjects who were positive for cdtABC, restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis was used to identify a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the cdtB gene at amino acid position 281. The extent and severity of periodontal disease were compared between subjects harbouring different A. actinomycetemcomitans genotypes. Results Eighty six subjects (19%) were positive for A. actinomycetemcomitans. The JP2 clone was not detected. Serotype c was the most prevalent (57%), followed by serotypes a (33%) and b (7%). Among A. actinomycetemcomitans-positive subjects, 27% were positive for cdtABC. All cdtABC-positive subjects possessed the SNP in the cdtB, which is involved with increased toxin activity. The presence of A. actinomycetemcomitans, but not a specific genotype, was significantly related to increased probing depth and periodontal attachment loss. Conclusions Our results confirm the previous findings that genotype distribution of A. actinomycetemcomitans varies between ethnic groups. However, no clear relationship between a specific genotype and periodontal conditions was observed. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons A/S.
http://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/dspace/handle/123456789/14081
ISSN: 1600051X
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Prelude to Attack?
October 29, 2011 PecanGroup Leave a comment
Israeli prisoner swap may be prelude to attack on Iran
By Abraham Rabinovich
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to execute a 1,000-for-1 prisoner exchange last week despite his frequently voiced opposition to such lopsided deals is seen by several Israeli military commentators as an effort to “clear the deck” before possibly undertaking an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Amir Oren, the veteran military analyst for Ha’aretz newspaper, took note of Israel’s exchanging 1,027 Palestinian convicts for army Staff Sgt. Gilad Schalit, who had been captured by Hamas in 2006. Mr. Oren wrote that the price paid by Mr. Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak “can be interpreted only in a context that goes beyond that of the Gilad Schalit deal.”
He noted that Israeli leaders in the past have shown a readiness to absorb “a small loss” in order to attain a greater success, generally involving “some sort of military adventure.”
Mr. Oren also noted that, until recently, Mr. Netanyahu had faced opposition to attacking Iran from Army Chief of Staff Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi and Mossad intelligence chief Meir Dagan. Both retired earlier this year and have been replaced by men believed to hold a different view on Iran.
The Islamic republic has not been a top agenda item since the outbreak of the Arab Spring. Yet Iran’s nuclear program, which Western nations believe is geared for making an atomic bomb, has remained a key concern, despite Tehran’s denials that it is seeking to build a nuclear weapon.
According to Israeli media reports, a shift in the Israeli government’s views on Iran might have prompted Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s Middle East visit in April: His main mission was to pass on a warning from President Obama against any unilateral attack on Iran.
At a press conference with Mr. Barak in April, Mr. Panetta stressed that any steps against Iran’s nuclear program must be taken in coordination with the international community.
This week, Jerusalem Post military correspondent Yakov Katz wrote that, with the Schalit chapter behind it, “Israel can now move forward to deal with some of the other strategic problems it faces in the region, such as Iran’s nuclear program.” Had Israel first attacked Iran, Hamas‘ patron, it would have endangered the Schalit deal, Mr. Katz said.
Writing in Yediot Achronot, Alex Fishman said that for Mr. Netanyahu, who built a political career as a warrior on terror, the Schalit deal was a very courageous step, particularly in view of an estimate by Israel’s security services that 60 percent of Palestinians who are released in such exchanges return to terror.
“He took a risk in a certain area and thereby focused all our attention on much more troubling fronts — in distant Iran and in the Arab revolutions around us,” Mr. Fishman wrote. To deal with these problems, national consensus is necessary and the freeing of Gilad Shalit went far toward achieving that.
Mr. Oren offered another insight that he says may point Mr. Netanyahu toward military action against Iran.
Although the prime minister failed to make any enduring mark on history during his previous term or so far during his present term, Mr. Netanyahu may see Iran as an opportunity to achieve his Churchillian moment, Mr. Oren wrote. “The day is not far off, Netanyahu believes, when Churchill will emerge from him.”
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Comic Review: The Muppet Show Robin Hood #2 (Boom! Kids) Review by Adam P.
Classic show translates poorly to comics
At the back of The Muppet Show: Robin Hood #2, the publisher and writer talk about the series, and it's very telling. The publisher talks about how a lot of fans of The Muppet Show are showing interest in the comic. Unfortunately, anyone who isn't a rabid fan of the classic 1970's comedy show won't find much to appreciate here. So much of the show’s humor is based on voices, timing, interactions... and it is extremely difficult to replicate this to the same effect in a comic book.
Secondly, the writer talks about how a Muppet Robin Hood movie would be too expensive to produce, but that the same story is easier to make as a comic book. In fact, this tale would be far more entertaining as a movie than a comic book. As a comic, it's very wordy, fairly confusing and not all that funny. The issue generates a few smiles, and maybe a half-chuckle, but no genuine guffaws like you'd expect from the classic Muppets.
The art is nice, but the individual Muppets sometimes don't look exactly like they should, which is a shame. I mean, I understand updating the characters for modern times, but there are just some things which are really key to the Muppets being who they are. And without those special features, it just feels wrong.
All in all, the book should only appeal to Muppet purists or Robin Hood aficionados. Otherwise there are far better and far funnier books in the Boom! Kids stable.
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DVD News: Warner Home Video Launches The “Green Lantern” Power Ring Sweepstakes
To promote the Blu-ray and DVD release of “Green Lantern: First Flight” on July 28, a sweepstakes has been created to get fans involved and give them a chance to win cool prizes.
Green Lantern fans can enter the sweepstakes and learn more about the fifth entry in the popular DVD series of DC Universe Animated Originals through a Facebook Power Ring widget.
Once the Facebook Power Ring widget has been added to a fan’s page, they can “recharge their ring” continuously to keep it powered to 100% and automatically submit additional entries into the sweepstakes. Additional features of the widget include:
• Personality Quiz – Fans can take the “Which Green Lantern Are You?” personality quiz which will result in the character being added to their Facebook page and a message that announces which character they are.
• Green Lantern IQ Test – This test will lead fans through a series of trivia questions resulting in a Green Lantern IQ score which can be posted to their Facebook page with a prompt for others to take the test.
• News and Updates – This feature of the widget shows the latest news about the movie including weekly Q&A’s from the talent and movie makers as well as any breaking announcements.
• Video – The widget will feature an embedded player with trailers and video clips from the movie. Video clips will include EC pieces as well as feature clips from the movie.
• Downloads – This feature will be available with wallpapers, icons and other downloads and special content for Power Ring holders.
• Links – The widget allows fans to stay connected with all things “Green Lantern: First Flight” through links to the official website, Myspace and Twitter pages.
The sweepstakes runs from June 30, 2009 through August 11, 2009 and can be accessed through the Power Ring widget, the official sweepstakes site, www.GreenLanternSweeps.com or the official “Green Lantern: First Flight” website, www.greenlanterndvd.com. Prizing for the sweepstakes include, one grand prize winner who will receive a package consisting of a PlayStation 3, a 40” LCD HDTV and “Green Lantern: First Flight” on Blu-ray. Five first prize winners will receive the Complete DC Universe Animated Movie Collection on 2-Disc DVD or Blu-ray including “Green Lantern: First Flight,” “Wonder Woman,” “Batman Gotham Knight,” “Justice League: The New Frontier” and “Superman Doomsday.” Ten second prize winners will receive a standard edition of “Green Lantern: First Flight” on DVD.
“Green Lantern: First Flight” will be available on July 28 as a special edition 2-disc version on DVD and Blu-ray™ for $24.98 (SRP) and $29.99 (SRP), respectively, as well as single disc DVD for $19.98 (SRP).
Christopher Meloni (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”) leads the cast as the voice of Hal Jordan aka Green Lantern. The cast includes Emmy® Award nominee Victor Garber (“Milk,” “Titanic”), Tricia Helfer (“Battlestar Galactica”) and Michael Madsen (“Reservoir Dogs”). Produced by animation legend Bruce Timm, “Green Lantern: First Flight” is directed by Lauren Montgomery (“Wonder Woman,” “Superman Doomsday”) and scripted by four-time Emmy® Award-winning writer Alan Burnett (“The Batman”).
When pilot Hal Jordan accepts a mysterious, powerful ring from a dying alien creature, it transforms him into a Green Lantern, one of an elite force of heroes who patrol the universe to ensure peace and justice under the leadership of the “Guardians of the Universe.” Unsure of their newest recruit, the Guardians assign Hal to their most-honored Green Lantern Sinestro for training, unaware that Sinestro wants to overthrow the Guardians and create a new order he’ll control.
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Comic News: Dabel Brothers Publishing presents 5pg preview to Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Storm Front vol 2 #1
Dabel Brothers Publishing is pleased to provide a 5pg preview to Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Storm Front vol 2 #1. Adapted to comics by Mark Powers with art by Ardian Syaf.
The bodies are piling up in the Windy City and Harry's key witness is one of them! How will he prove his innocence and find the real killer now?
The Dresden Files: Storm Front continues to grab readers with the gripping mix of mystery and adventure that have made of Jim Butcher's bestselling Dresden Files novels a hit!
Look for the book to hit stores everywhere July 22nd, with a regular cover and special wraparound Diamond PX cover.
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DVD News: AS SCI FI TELEVISION CLASSIC FARSCAPE MARKS ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY, A&E HOME ENTERTAINMENT AND THE JIM HENSON COMPANY PARTNER ON A RE-LAUNCH
The Re-packaged Line, Slated for November 2009, Includes the First-Ever
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Fans Invited to Attend Panel Featuring Executive Producer Brian Henson,
Creator Rockne O’Bannon and Stars Ben Browder and Claudia Black
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When a freak accident during an experimental space mission catapulted Astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder) across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield, a cult classic was born with the epic, adventure-filled TV series Farscape. The award-winning fan favorite show, which ran from 1999-2003 on Sci Fi and was named by TV Guide as one of television’s best cult shows ever, is about to blast off again on DVD courtesy of a pact between A&E Home Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company.
Blasting off in November 2009, as the show marks its 10th Anniversary, the treasure of the newly re-packaged DVD line will feature a Farscape home entertainment first: THE COMPLETE SERIES MEGASET™. Never before available in one package, A&E Home Entertainment brings together all four out-of-this-world seasons with countless hours of absorbing bonus programming featuring multiple commentaries, interviews with cast and crew, behind-the-scenes featurettes and much more! Single season collector’s sets will also be released, offering genre fans of all walks the opportunity to sample this superlative sci-fi classic.
To launch this eagerly-anticipated re-release, there will be a Farscape panel convening at this year’s Comic-Con International in San Diego. Executive producer Brian Henson, creator Rockne O’Bannon, and stars Ben Browder and Claudia Black (Officer Aeryn Sun) will be in attendance to discuss their favorite moments from the series and the DVD re-release.
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Comic News: Top Cow Announces The Darkness/Pitt #1 To Be Released in August
DALE KEOWN’S CLASSIC HERO RETURNS TO COMICS
THE DARKNESS/PITT #1
Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that Dale Keown’s classic hero, Pitt, will make his return to comics in the long awaited crossover event The Darkness/Pitt. The three-issue mini-series reunites Pitt creator and artist Dale Keown (Hulk: The End) with writer Paul Jenkins (Captain America, Mythos), who worked together on the second volume of The Darkness. The first issue of The Darkness/Pitt is scheduled for release in August 2009.
First published by Image Comics in 1993, Pitt is a human-alien hybrid genetically engineered to serve as a killing machine for an alien race known as the Creed. Dale Keown continued self-publishing Pitt under his own company, Full Bleed Studios, in 1995. After publishing twenty issues, Keown put Pitt on hold to work for other companies, drawing The Darkness with writer Paul Jenkins for Top Cow Productions and The Hulk for Marvel Entertainment. Since the regular series ended in 1998, fans of the character have had to make do with limited appearances by Pitt as a guest star in other books.
The story behind The Darkness/Pitt follows Pitt and his human half-brother Tim on their mission to New York to track down those infected by an alien virus. But mob boss and current bearer of the mystical power of The Darkness, Jackie Estacado, doesn’t permit anything to go down in his neighborhood unless he knows about it. When the two forces attract the unwanted attention of the Federal Government, mayhem ensues!
”Darkness/Pitt has been a labor of love but it has been well worth it. As always, I’m excited to work with Dale on Jackie Estacado, a character we’re so familiar with, and I’m gratified he’s allowed me the opportunity to work with characters so near and dear to his heart in Pitt and Tim,” commented writer Jenkins, “The book looks as beautiful as I always hoped it would, and I trust fans will forgive me for bringing a voice to some of Dale’s most beloved creations.”
“Fans have waited patiently for Darkness/Pitt and good things come to those that wait,” added Filip Sablik, Top Cow Publisher, “It’s great to see two great creators like Paul and Dale return to characters they know inside and out. These guys are packing this series with action, horror, humor, and jaw-dropping art from the top to bottom of every page.”
The first issue of The Darkness/Pitt will offer two cover variants: one by series artist Keown and another by Stjepan Sejic (Witchblade).
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Comic News: Get Your First Look At THE MARVELS PROJECT #1
Marvel is pleased to unveil your first look at the hotly anticipated The Marvels Project #1, from the Captain America Eisner-winning team of Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting.
Discover the hidden connections that bring together Marvel’s earliest super heroes as the world stands on the brink of war! Who will create the first super soldier? And how does this affect the Marvel Universe today?
How Do You Create Tomorrow? Find out as the race for the super human begins in The Marvels Project #1.
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TV News: Adult Swim Announces Robot Chicken Roller Skating Tour
Robot Chicken Co-Creators Seth Green and Matt Senreich Celebrate the Release of Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II DVD with Nine-City Roller Skating Tour
Gym Class Heroes to Perform
Adult Swim and Robot Chicken creators and executive producers Seth Green and Matt Senreich are celebrating the release of the Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II DVD this summer by strapping on a pair of roller skates and living on a tour bus for two weeks just to bring Robot Chicken-style fun to the masses. Green and Senreich host the celebration throughout the nine-city roller rink tour across America, featuring performances by one of the hottest bands today, Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen recording group Gym Class Heroes, in addition to special Robot Chicken guests including the show’s writers and producers, celebrity guest stars, Robot Chicken-themed activities and games and exclusive Adult Swim merchandise. Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II Roller Skating Tour kicks off in Los Angeles August 1. A preview party, which is also open to the public, will take place on July 25 in San Diego with a guest DJ.
“Our show is so much fun, we want to invite everyone to have fun with us,” says Seth Green. “Grab your friends, your couple’s skate partner and some kneepads. We’re coming to your town! Or at least to a major market somewhat close to your town.”
“When Seth first pitched the idea of throwing roller skating parties around the country, I rolled my eyes and laughed at him,” says Matthew Senreich. “I said, ‘That’s crazy talk.’ Now that we’re actually going to do it, I’m in awe of its absurdity and can’t wait to attend. It fits with the randomness of our Robot Chicken show. Why not throw roller skating parties across the U.S.?”
Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II Roller Skating Tour schedule*:
• July 25, San Diego, Calif.: Skate San Diego—Preview party minus the band but with a guest DJ and extra Comic-Con awesomeness
• August 1, Los Angeles, Calif.: Venue TBA
• August 2, Las Vegas, Nev.: Rancho Crystal Palace Skating Center
• August 4, Denver, Colo.: Skate City Westminster
• August 6, Kansas City, Mo.: River Roll Skate Center
• August 8, Indianapolis, Ind.: Skateland
• August 10, Richmond, Va.: Roller Dome Skating
• August 12, Philadelphia, Pa.: Jamz Roller Skating Center
• August 14, New York: Venue TBA
*Dates and times are subject to change.
At each event, all ages are welcome, admission is free and doors open at 8 p.m. Patrons with an early entry-voucher will be admitted one hour earlier. Early-entry vouchers can be found in the new Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II DVD, which will arrive at retail on July 21. More information about the tour can be found at AdultSwimPresents.com.
Building on its tremendous broadcast success, the highly anticipated DVD release of Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II features 15 minutes of never-before-seen footage. The sequel once again combines the satirical sensibilities of Seth Green and Matthew Senreich’s Stoopid Monkey Productions Emmy Award®-winning Robot Chicken with the unforgettable moments and favorite characters of the Star Wars universe. Winner of three Annie Awards, including Best Animated Television Production, the Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II DVD includes both the original broadcast version and extended version of the special, along with more than 90 minutes of bonus features.
In addition to the roller rink tour and new DVD, the final nine brand-new episodes of Robot Chicken’s fourth season will premiere on Adult Swim beginning July 26 at 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT). Created by actor/producer Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, Robot Chicken uses stop-motion animation to bring pop-culture parodies to life in a modern take on the variety/sketch show format. The series is created in conjunction with ShadowMachine Films’ Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico.
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Comic Review: Swordsmith: Assassin #1(BOOM! Studios) By John H
Disgrace not thy honor…
To those whose pursuit of happiness lies in their creations, whose sole purpose in life is to conceive the perfect idea with their minds and to create this concept with their hands. That is the story of a true artisan.
In Swordsmith: Assassin #1, two generations of sword-smiths, both of exceptional talent, have two vastly different points of view as to how they should conduct business. The father, Hideko Ono of the “old” generation, chooses only to sell his wares to the noblest of Samurai warriors, whilst the son, Toshiro Ono, seeks greater recognition and wealth. Before long, Toshiro ends his apprenticeship after years of sweat, toil and tutelage at his father’s feet, and begins his own ascent as a great sword-smith.
Toshiro's long apprenticeship soon pays off, as he finally surpasses his father’s talent and begins to sell his swords to anybody who can meet his costs. His father disagrees with this philosophy and soon falls ill, with Toshiro tries to make amends, but Hideko only sees failure in his son’s actions. Before his death, Hideko says to Toshiro that he has brought much dishonor to the family name.
After his father’s demise, and still having the weight of his father’s words on his soul, Toshiro is honored with the task of presenting a sword to the Shogun. Upon his return from the Shogunate, Toshiro will be faced with trials so taxing, they will set him on a path of revenge to reclaim every sword he has ever forged, and reclaim the honor he lost with each transaction.
Though the story will seem familiar to some, it is written in such a way as to seem more poignant in this rendition. The art lends itself to the words of an awesome script, words of triumph and despair and loss. I think this comic book would make an excellent novel, and I can’t wait for the further tales of Toshiro. To me, the gripping despair he faces is compellingly poignant, and oddly inviting.
I am willing to follow this story gladly- won’t you?
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Comic Review: Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan #3 (IDW Publishing) By Eddie R.
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan#3 opens right at the best part of the movie: the hunt /chase scene between the U.S.S Enterprise and the U.S.S Reliant in the Mutara nebula. The static discharges from the nebula make the sensors on both ships inoperative, leaving them both evenly matched, and essentially blind. You can feel the tension between the two ships, and their respective captains, as they search for one another within the gas cloud. I must admit the art here really captures this feeling. The colors and shading used here really draw the movie and the book together.
Once inside the nebula, Kirk uses Khan's inexperience with three-dimensional combat to basically cripple the Reliant. With his dying breath, Khan activates the Genesis Device, which once detonated will reassemble all the matter in the nebula. This includes the Enterprise.
Even though the crew of the Enterprise detects the activation of the Genesis device, they are unable to escape the oncoming Genesis wave with just impulse power. With few moments to spare, Spock hurries to Engineering to restore the warp drive. When McCoy tries to stop Spock from exposing himself to high levels of radiation from the warp core, Spock incapacitates the doctor and does a mind meld, telling McCoy to “remember”. Once inside the dilithium chamber, Spock manages to restore power to the ship, allowing the Enterprise to escape the oncoming Genesis wave. But this act of heroism does have its price.
Now, no matter how many times I look at the movie, I always get choked up a bit at the end, as we watch Jim Kirk see his best friend die before his eyes, then deal with the aftermath which follows. To me, this is just one of many parts to an amazing story, and this comic book adaptation does justice to it all.
The only thing which surprised me though in this issue was Spock’s death scene. I honestly don’t remember Spock mentioning about this act of heroism being his “Kobayashi Maru”, the no-win situation used to test the character of Starfleet officers, during his death scene in the film. Granted this does make sense, and I am really glad they included it here. Its gems like this which make this book a very enjoyable read, and one great comic book adaptation.
Eddie R
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Els now has a different task in trying to bring an elusive Presidents Cup victory to the International squad in what has been a lopsided competition dating to its beginning in 1994.
On the opposing side is Woods, the captain of the U.S. team who will also play in the competition that begins Thursday at Royal Melbourne, where Els holds the course record of 60.
The Big Easy won't be playing, however, and simply brings a career's worth of knowledge -- and lots of scar tissue -- to the competition that he'd very much like to see shift.
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"He's not a bad golfer, you know what I mean,'' Els said of Woods during a Tuesday morning news conference before both teams were to play practice rounds. "He's one of the best, the best of my generation. It was a privilege to compete against him. I know I could have had a couple more events under my belt, but still very proud to have played against Tiger, and after all these years to be friends with him is another privilege.
"It's been a long ride. I've known Tiger since the early '90s when he was still a junior player, and we've shared a lot of moments together. A lot of tournaments come through my mind now where I've come close and lost to him, but there was a couple where I got him here and there.
"But it's been a real privilege to play in his era. Where the game of golf has gone in the last 24 years is just remarkable, and it could not be where it is today if it it wasn't for Tiger Woods.
"So with all that being said and done ... we'd like to kick their asses this week here.''
Els, 50, got a big laugh, but it appears to be a tall order. The U.S. side will be a heavy favorite in a competition it has dominated, going 10-1-1. The International squad's only victory was here at Royal Melbourne in 1998, a team Els played on. And the tie came in South Africa in 2003 when -- under rules at the time -- Woods and Els squared off in three epic holes of sudden death, with the competition finally being declared a draw.
All 12 players on the American squad are ranked among the top 23 in the world, while the International side has just two players -- Adam Scott and Hideki Matsuyama -- ranked that high.
Els has finished second to Woods seven times, including four times in major championships, twice in 2000 -- by 15 shots at the U.S. Open and by eight at The Open.
The two players have combined for more than 160 worldwide victories, including 19 major championships.
But when it comes to the Presidents Cup, Els played on eight teams that went 1-6-1 against the Americans. In the only victory, Els went 3-1-1.
Woods went 2-3 that week, winning his singles match against Greg Norman, but the U.S. lost 20½ to 11½ with Jack Nicklaus as the captain.
"The guys' season ended around Nov. 1 and quite frankly most of the guys didn't play,'' Woods said. They put the clubs away. Rested for a month and a half, and we came down here. The guys just weren't sharp. We didn't come as prepared as we needed to be and the International team was loaded and they put it on us. They flat-out outplayed us and we couldn't respond. Our games weren't sharp enough to respond, and unfortunately that led to a blowout.''
Only Dustin Johnson of the 12-man U.S. squad did not play last week at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, where Woods finished fourth. The entire team and entourage including Johnson departed from the Bahamas on a charter flight on Saturday night and arrived 26 hours later on Monday morning.
As part of a kick-off event on the Yarra River, Woods hit two balls in the water Monday afternoon, perhaps an ominous sign. Tuesday was spent trying to get acclimated and learn the golf course.
"Today is an important day for us to just walk and to stretch our legs a bit,'' Woods said. "Getting in yesterday after a 26-hour ride in a luxurious tin can, it's nice to actually get out there and feel some fresh air.''
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Mongolia Population: 6 million
The Mongols gained fame in the 13th century when under Chinggis KHAAN they established a huge Eurasian empire through conquest. After his death the empire was divided into several powerful Mongol states, but these broke apart in the 14th century. The Mongols eventually retired to their original steppe homelands and in the late 17th century came under Chinese rule. Mongolia declared its independence from the Manchu-led Qing Empire in 1911 and achieved limited autonomy until 1919, when it again came under Chinese control. The Mongolian Revolution of 1921 ended Chinese dominance, and a communist regime, the Mongolian People’s Republic, took power in 1924. The modern country of Mongolia, represents only part of the Mongols' historical homeland; today, more ethnic Mongolians live in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China than in Mongolia. Since the country's peaceful democratic revolution in 1990, the ex-communist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) - which took the name Mongolian People’s Party (MPP) in 2010 - has competed for political power with the Democratic Party (DP) and several other smaller parties, including a new party formed by former President ENKHBAYAR, which confusingly adopted for itself the MPRP name. In the country's most recent parliamentary elections in June 2016, Mongolians handed the MPP overwhelming control of Parliament, largely pushing out the DP, which had overseen a sharp decline in Mongolia’s economy during its control of Parliament in the preceding years. Mongolians elected a DP member, Khaltmaa BATTULGA, as president in 2017.
Landlocked; strategic location between China and Russia
Location: Northern Asia, between China and Russia
Geographic coordinates: 46 00 N, 105 00 E
Size comparison: slightly smaller than Alaska; more than twice the size of Texas
Land Boundaries: total: 8,082 km border countries (2): China 4630 km, Russia 3452 km
Climate: desert; continental (large daily and seasonal temperature ranges)
Terrain: vast semidesert and desert plains, grassy steppe, mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in south-central
Natural resources: oil, coal, copper, molybdenum, tungsten, phosphates, tin, nickel, zinc, fluorspar, gold, silver, iron
permanent crops: 0% (2011 est.) permanent pasture: 72.6% (2011 est.) forest: 7% (2011 est.)
other: 20% (2011 est.)
Irrigated land: 840 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: dust storms; grassland and forest fires; drought; "zud," which is harsh winter conditions
Current Environment Issues: limited natural freshwater resources in some areas; the burning of soft coal in power plants and the lack of enforcement of environmental laws leads to air pollution in Ulaanbaatar; deforestation and overgrazing increase soil erosion from wind and rain; water pollution; desertification and mining activities have a deleterious effect on the environment
International Environment Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling
Nationality: noun: Mongolian(s)
adjective: Mongolian
Ethnic groups: Khalkh 84.5%, Kazak 3.9%, Dorvod 2.4%, Bayad 1.7%, Buryat-Bouriates 1.3%, Zakhchin 1%, other 5.2% (2015 est.)
Languages: Mongolian 90% (official) (Khalkha dialect is predominant), Turkic, Russian (1999)
Religions: Buddhist 53%, Muslim 3%, Shamanist 2.9%, Christian 2.2%, other 0.4%, none 38.6% (2010 est.)
Population: 3,103,428 (July 2018 est.) note: Mongolia is one of the least densely populated countries in the world (2 people per sq km); twice as many ethnic Mongols (some 6 million) live in Inner Mongolia (Nei Mongol) in neighboring China
Age structure: 0-14 years: 27% (male 427,225 /female 410,579)
55-64 years: 7.43% (male 105,085 /female 125,502)
male: 28 years
Major urban areas - population: 1.52 million ULAANBAATAR (capital) (2018)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 70.2 years male: 66 years
Hospital bed density: 7 beds/1,000 population (2012)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: <.1% (2017 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: <1000 (2017 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths: <100 (2017 est.)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24: total: 17.9% male: 15% female: 22.6% (2017 est.)
conventional short form: Mongolia
local short form: Mongol Uls
former: Outer Mongolia, Mongolian People's Republic
etymology: the name means "Land of the Mongols" in Latin; the Mongolian name Mongol Uls translates as "Mongol State"
Government type: semi-presidential republic
Capital: name: Ulaanbaatar
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Saturday in March; ends last Saturday in September
note: Mongolia has two time zones - Ulaanbaatar Time (8 hours in advance of UTC) and Hovd Time (7 hours in advance of UTC)
etymology: the name means "red hero" in Mongolian and honors national hero Damdin Sukhbaatar, leader of the partisan army that with Soviet Red Army help, liberated Mongolia from Chinese occupation in the early 1920s
Administrative divisions: 21 provinces (aymguud, singular - aymag) and 1 municipality* (singular - hot); Arhangay, Bayanhongor, Bayan-Olgiy, Bulgan, Darhan-Uul, Dornod, Dornogovi, Dundgovi, Dzavhan (Zavkhan), Govi-Altay, Govisumber, Hentiy, Hovd, Hovsgol, Omnogovi, Orhon, Ovorhangay, Selenge, Suhbaatar, Tov, Ulaanbaatar*, Uvs
Independence: 29 December 1911 (independence declared from China; in actuality, autonomy attained); 11 July 1921 (from China)
National holiday: Naadam (games) holiday (commemorates independence from China in the 1921 Revolution), 11-15 July Constitution Day (marks the date that the Mongolian People's Republic was created under a new constitution), 26 November (1924)
Constitution: history: several previous; latest adopted 13 January 1992, effective 12 February 1992 amendments: proposed by the State Great Hural, by the president of the republic, by the government, or by petition submitted to the State Great Hural by the Constitutional Court; conducting referenda on proposed amendments requires at least two-thirds majority vote of the State Great Hural; passage of amendments by the State Great Hural requires at least three-quarters majority vote; passage by referendum requires majority participation of qualified voters and a majority of votes; amended 1999, 2000 (2019)
Legal system: civil law system influenced by Soviet and Romano-Germanic legal systems; constitution ambiguous on judicial review of legislative acts
Executive branch: chief of state: President Khaltmaa BATTULGA (since 10 July 2017)
head of government: Prime Minister Ukhnaa KHURELSUKH (since 4 October 2017); Deputy Prime Minister Ulziisaikhan ENKHTUVSHIN (since 18 October 2017); note - Prime Minister Jargaltulga ERDENEBAT (since 8 July 2016) was voted out of office by the Parliament on 7 September 2017
cabinet: Cabinet nominated by the prime minister in consultation with the president, confirmed by the State Great Hural (parliament) elections/appointments: presidential candidates nominated by political parties represented in the State Great Hural and directly elected by simple majority popular vote for a 4-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 26 June 2017 with a runoff held 7 July 2017 (next to be held in 2021); following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or majority coalition is usually elected prime minister by the State Great Hural
election results: Khaltmaa BATTULGA elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Khaltmaa BATTULGA (DP) 38.1%, Miyegombo ENKHBOLD (MPP) 30.3%, Sainkhuu GANBAATAR (MPRP) 30.2%, invalid 1.4%; percent of vote in second round - Khaltmaa BATTULGA 55.2%, Miyegombo ENKHBOLD 44.8%
Legislative branch: description: unicameral State Great Hural or Ulsyn Ikh Khural (76 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote; each constituency requires at least 50% voter participation for the poll to be valid; members serve 4-year terms)
election results: percent of vote by party - MPP 45.1%, DP 33.1%, MPRP 8.0%, independent 4.8%, other 9.0%; seats by party - MPP 65, DP 9, MPRP 1, independent 1; composition - men 63, women 13, percent of women 17.1%
Judicial branch: highest courts: Supreme Court (consists of the Chief Justice and 24 judges organized into civil, criminal, and administrative chambers); Constitutional Court or Tsets (consists of the chairman and 8 members) judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court chief justice and judges appointed by the president upon recommendation by the General Council of Courts - a 14-member body of judges and judicial officials - to the State Great Hural; appointment is for life; chairman of the Constitutional Court elected from among its members; members appointed from nominations by the State Great Hural - 3 each by the president, the State Great Hural, and the Supreme Court; appointment is 6 years; chairmanship limited to a single renewable 3-year term
subordinate courts: aimag (provincial) and capital city appellate courts; soum, inter-soum, and district courts; Administrative Cases Courts
Political parties and leaders: Democratic Party or DP [Sodnomzundui ERDENE] Mongolian National Democratic Party or MNDP [Bayanjargal TSOGTGEREL] Mongolian People's Party or MPP [Ukhnaa KHURELSUKH] Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party or MPRP [Nambar ENKHBAYAR]
International organization participation: ADB, ARF, CD, CICA, CP, EBRD, EITI (compliant country), FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURSO, MONUSCO, NAM, OPCW, OSCE, SCO (observer), UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
National symbol(s): soyombo emblem;
national colors: red, blue, yellow
National anthem: name: "Mongol ulsyn toriin duulal" (National Anthem of Mongolia)
lyrics/music: Tsendiin DAMDINSUREN/Bilegiin DAMDINSUREN and Luvsanjamts MURJORJ
note: music adopted 1950, lyrics adopted 2006; lyrics altered on numerous occasions
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Yondon OTGONBAYAR (since 28 March 2018)
chancery: 2833 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007
consulate(s) general: New York, San Francisco
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Michael S. KLECHESKI (since 22 February 2019)
embassy: Denver Street #3, 11th Micro-District, Big Ring Road, Ulaanbaatar, 14190 Mongolia
mailing address: P.O. Box 341, Ulaanbaatar 14192
telephone: [976] 7007-6001
FAX: [976] 7007-6016
Foreign direct investment in Mongolia's extractive industries – which are based on extensive deposits of copper, gold, coal, molybdenum, fluorspar, uranium, tin, and tungsten - has transformed Mongolia's landlocked economy from its traditional dependence on herding and agriculture. Exports now account for more than 40% of GDP. Mongolia depends on China for more than 60% of its external trade - China receives some 90% of Mongolia's exports and supplies Mongolia with more than one-third of its imports. Mongolia also relies on Russia for 90% of its energy supplies, leaving it vulnerable to price increases. Remittances from Mongolians working abroad, particularly in South Korea, are significant. Soviet assistance, at its height one-third of GDP, disappeared almost overnight in 1990 and 1991 at the time of the dismantlement of the USSR. The following decade saw Mongolia endure both deep recession, because of political inaction, and natural disasters, as well as strong economic growth, because of market reforms and extensive privatization of the formerly state-run economy. The country opened a fledgling stock exchange in 1991. Mongolia joined the WTO in 1997 and seeks to expand its participation in regional economic and trade regimes. Growth averaged nearly 9% per year in 2004-08 largely because of high copper prices globally and new gold production. By late 2008, Mongolia was hit by the global financial crisis and Mongolia's real economy contracted 1.3% in 2009. In early 2009, the IMF reached a $236 million Stand-by Arrangement with Mongolia and it emerged from the crisis with a stronger banking sector and better fiscal management. In October 2009, Mongolia passed long-awaited legislation on an investment agreement to develop the Oyu Tolgoi (OT) mine, among the world's largest untapped copper-gold deposits. However, a dispute with foreign investors developing OT called into question the attractiveness of Mongolia as a destination for foreign investment. This caused a severe drop in FDI, and a slowing economy, leading to the dismissal of Prime Minister Norovyn ALTANKHUYAG in November 2014. The economy had grown more than 10% per year between 2011 and 2013 - largely on the strength of commodity exports and high government spending - before slowing to 7.8% in 2014, and falling to the 2% level in 2015. Growth rebounded from a brief 1.6% contraction in the third quarter of 2016 to 5.8% during the first three quarters of 2017, largely due to rising commodity prices. The May 2015 agreement with Rio Tinto to restart the OT mine and the subsequent $4.4 billion finance package signing in December 2015 stemmed the loss of investor confidence. The current government has made restoring investor trust and reviving the economy its top priority, but has failed to invigorate the economy in the face of the large drop-off in foreign direct investment, mounting external debt, and a sizeable budget deficit. Mongolia secured a $5.5 billion financial assistance package from the IMF and a host of international creditors in May 2017, which is expected to improve Mongolia’s long-term fiscal and economic stability as long as Ulaanbaatar can advance the agreement’s difficult contingent reforms, such as consolidating the government’s off-balance sheet liabilities and rehabilitating the Mongolian banking sector.
GDP (purchasing power parity): $39.73 billion (2017 est.) $37.81 billion (2016 est.) $37.38 billion (2015 est.)
Gross national saving: 26.9% of GDP (2017 est.) 23.1% of GDP (2016 est.) 22.4% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 49.2% (2017 est.) government consumption: 12.3% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 23.8% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 12.4% (2017 est.) exports of goods and services: 59.5% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -57.1% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 12.1% (2017 est.) industry: 38.2% (2017 est.) services: 49.7% (2017 est.)
Agriculture - products: wheat, barley, vegetables, forage crops; sheep, goats, cattle, camels, horses
Industries: construction and construction materials; mining (coal, copper, molybdenum, fluorspar, tin, tungsten, gold); oil; food and beverages; processing of animal products, cashmere and natural fiber manufacturing
Industrial production growth rate: -1% (2017 est.)
Labor force: 1.241 million (2017 est.)
Unemployment rate: 8% (2017 est.) 7.9% (2016 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 13.7%
highest 10%: 5.7% (2017)
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 34 (2017) 36.5 (2008)
Public debt: 91.4% of GDP (2017 est.) 90% of GDP (2016 est.)
Current account balance: -$1.155 billion (2017 est.) -$700 million (2016 est.)
Exports - commodities: copper, apparel, livestock, animal products, cashmere, wool, hides, fluorspar, other nonferrous metals, coal, crude oil
Exports - partners: China 85%, UK 10.7% (2017)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, fuel, cars, food products, industrial consumer goods, chemicals, building materials, cigarettes and tobacco, appliances, soap and detergent
Imports - partners: China 32.6%, Russia 28.1%, Japan 8.4%, US 4.8%, South Korea 4.6% (2017)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $18.02 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $16.28 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $495 million (31 December 2017 est.) $455.2 million (31 December 2016 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares: $632.6 million (31 December 2015 est.) $766.1 million (31 December 2014 est.) $1.095 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
Exchange rates: togrog/tugriks (MNT) per US dollar - 2,378.1 (2017 est.) 2,140.3 (2016 est.) 2,140.3 (2015 est.) 1,970.3 (2014 est.) 1,817.9 (2013 est.)
Electricity - exports: 51 million kWh (2015 est.)
Electricity - imports: 1.446 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Crude oil - production: 20,000 bbl/day (2017 est.)
Crude oil - exports: 14,360 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: n/abbl (1 January 2017)
Telephone system: general assessment: network is improving with international direct dialing available in many areas; a fiber-optic network has been installed that is improving broadband and communication services between major urban centers with multiple companies providing inter-city fiber-optic cable services; compared to other Asian countries, Mongolia's growth in telecommunications is moderate; mobile broadband is growing with 4 competitive MNOs (mobile network operators) along with better tarrifs; 3G mobile broadband products are very popular with 4G services by 2022; in May 2018 a South Korean company completed the sale of 40% stake back to Mongolian government (2018)
domestic: very low fixed-line teledensity 10 per 100; there are four mobile-cellular providers and subscribership is increasing with 131 per 100 persons (2018)
international: country code - 976; satellite earth stations - 7 (2016)
Broadcast media: following a law passed in 2005, Mongolia's state-run radio and TV provider converted to a public service provider; also available are 68 radio and 160 TV stations, including multi-channel satellite and cable TV providers; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available (2019)
Internet country code: .mn
(2017) broad gauge: 1,815 km 1.520-m gauge (2017)
note: national operator Ulaanbaatar Railway is jointly owned by the Mongolian Government and by the Russian State Railway
(2017) paved: 10,600 km (2017)
unpaved: 102,600 km (2017)
Waterways: 580 km (the only waterway in operation is Lake Hovsgol) (135 km); Selenge River (270 km) and Orhon River (175 km) are navigable but carry little traffic; lakes and rivers ice free from May to September) (2010)
by type: bulk carrier 4, container ship 3, general cargo 107, oil tanker 68, other 83 (2018)
Military branches: Mongolian Armed Forces (Mongol ulsyn zevsegt huchin): Mongolian Army, Mongolian Air Force (2016)
Military service age and obligation: 18-27 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; 1-year conscript service obligation in army or air forces or police for males only; after conscription, soldiers can contract into military service for 2 or 4 years; citizens can also voluntarily join the armed forces (2017)
Disputes - International: none
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
stateless persons: 17 (2018)
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Calls for mandatory alcohol interlocks in Europe
By admin in Drink Driving Europe March 19, 2018
A new report published by the European Transport Safety Council recommends that the EU should require alcohol interlock be fitted in all professional vehicles and retrofitted to cars used by repeat drink-driving offenders.
Authors of the report, which was published late last month, are looking at ways to reduce the 5000 road deaths which are still caused by drink drivers in the European Union each year.
The French government said all repeat drink-driving offenders would be required to install an alcohol interlock, an in-car breath testing device that prevents the vehicle from being started if the driver is over the limit. All coaches in France are already required to have the devices installed.
Antonio Avenoso – ‘High levels of enforcement are critical to solving Europe’s drink driving problem’
Photo: An Garda Síochána
In September last year, Austria launched a national rehabilitation programme for drink-drivers that offers the option for drivers to install an interlock to get back behind the wheel before the full term of a driving ban has expired. Belgium, Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands, Poland and Sweden have introduced similar programmes as have most US states.
According to the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), the programmes have proven to be one of the most effective measures for tackling repeat drink-driving offences and should be extended across the European Union.
A review of vehicle safety regulation by the European Commission is expected to be completed in May of this year and the ETSC is calling for a standard electronic interface to be fitted to all new cars to make installation of an interlock easier when required by law. ETSC also says the devices should be fitted as standard on professional vehicles.
Antonio Avenoso, Executive Director of ETSC said: “High levels of enforcement are critical to solving Europe’s drink-driving problem. And for those drivers who carry on getting behind the wheel after drinking, despite checks and sanctions, alcohol interlocks are an important and effective way of getting people rehabilitated.
Photo: ETSC
Mr. Avenoso also said it is crucial that drivers entrusted with professional vehicles carrying goods or passengers must never be allowed to get behind the wheel when they are over the limit. Many fleets across Europe are already using interlock devices, and he feels it’s time they were made a standard feature.
The comparison between individual country performance in reducing road deaths is attributed to drink driving compared with progress in reducing other road deaths since 2006, using each country’s own method of identifying alcohol-related deaths.
Collectively in the EU, drink-driving deaths have been reduced 1% per year faster than other road deaths. In 17 out of 26 countries, progress in reducing drink-driving deaths has been faster than overall reductions in other road deaths. In Israel, Bulgaria, Estonia and Latvia, progress on drink-driving has contributed most to overall reductions in roads deaths over the last decade. In Bulgaria and Israel, drink-driving deaths were cut by 12% faster than other road deaths each year on average since 2006. In Estonia drink driving deaths fell by 10% per year faster than other road deaths, in Latvia by 8.3%.
*Source: ETSC Report
In Ireland, a reduction in the number of drink driving deaths has been at the core of Ireland’s road safety policy for years. However, a high level of drink driving is still evident. A report published by the Road Safety Authority revealed that 38% of all fatal collisions that occurred over the period 2008-2012 involved a driver, motorcyclist, cyclist or pedestrian who had consumed alcohol. Moreover, 86% of drivers and 51% of passengers who had consumed alcohol and were killed did not wear a seatbelt.
The RSA use data from garda forensic collision reports and the Medical Bureau of Road Safety when estimating the scope of the drink driving problem. The most up-to-date information on alcohol-related road deaths shows that in 2014 one third of road users killed had alcohol in their blood. Out of those, 82% had a BAC level of more than 0.5g/l and 60% a BAC of more than 1.5g/l. This figure however looks at alcohol-impaired deaths only and not at other victims of road users who had consumed alcohol contrary to the SafetyNet recommended definition, meaning that the overall number of alcohol-related deaths is higher in Ireland.
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THIS WOULD BE MABULOUS
Sometimes it’s fun to take a look at impossible concepts, especially if they're: a.) utterly insane; and b.) provide enough foundation for us to convince ourselves that they're not actually completely entirely totally impossible, even if they are.
Adrian Perez Zapata's futuristic concept — which he calls "Mab" — envisions a swarm of tiny flying robots zipping around your house to clean surfaces before returning to a spherical home base.
Mab is a self-cleaning system consisting of 908 robots which clean the surface of a floor by touching and trapping the dirt particles on the floor with droplets. These robots also fulfill the task of feeding the system energy by capturing solar energy in their wings. The second component of the Mab is the core which the robots returns to. This central part handles multiple tasks: It generates the mixture of water with an additive that gives higher surface tension and a pleasant odor to the water; it controls the robots based on information they are providing about the environment; it receives the contaminated droplets and filters them to remove the dirt from the water, saving the highest percentage possible; and cleans its walking surfaces.
The following summarizes the seven step cleaning process:
1. Mixes the water and the substance that gives greater surface tension. 2. The mixture is distributed to subordinates (robots). 3. The robots fly with the load. The robots use a propeller for flying. 4. The robots clean by touching the surface with droplets of fluid. 5. The droplets capture the dirt and carry it back to the core. 6. The core filters the dirt out. 7. The core recovers the highest possible percentage of water to restart the cycle.
The thought behind Mab is to restore a sense of wonder in everyday life, and to recapture the magic in simple processes, providing human shelters an autonomous purification.
It's a little bit hard to tell from the pictures just how small the flying robots are, but they're seriously tiny. Getting robots that small to fly at all — much less fly intelligently — is exceptionally difficult but not impossible, as Harvard is trying to show with their Robobee project at http://robobees.seas.harvard.edu/.
BACK WITH NEW BLACK
Parrot's latest AR drone upgrade — the Power Edition — features a new piano black hull, up to 36 minutes of flight time, and some swanky new prop colors.
Keep in mind that the " 36 minutes of flight time" is the total flight time you get using both the high capacity batteries (if you land the drone and switch a spent battery for a fresh one). The drone does not carry both batteries at once and besides the color, there is no fundamental difference in the hardware. The batteries will run you about 60 bucks by themselves, so the whole package (including four sets of props) costs about $370 — not too bad a deal.
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31/07/2012 - Defence Cuts: 20,000 to join the Dole Queue?
IT’S NOT very often that you’d see a trade union comment on military affairs – but then again Solidarity is no ordinary union! However, the decision (made earlier this month by British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond) to cut 20,000 regular troops to save money has provoked many comments. So what’s our take on the situation?
First of all, here’s some background information relating to the cuts:
The full-time British Army will be cut from 102,000 to 82,000 by 2020 because of budget cuts. Of the 20,000 troops going, many will leave under a voluntary redundancy scheme. However, the Ministry of Defence has acknowledged that the 20 per-cent cut cannot be reached by this way alone. Lord Dannatt, the former head of the Army, has estimated that there will have to be approximately 10,000 compulsory redundancies (1).
The Guardian (2) has also noted:
“Though it is hoped many soldiers will leave under the voluntary redundancy scheme, the Ministry of Defence acknowledges the target cannot be reached without pushing some to the door.”
As we noted earlier, these redundancies are a result of the spending squeeze. Indeed, economics have forced the army to rethink its structure - as part of a review undertaken by Lieutenant General Nick Carter.
These changes will see the army effectively split into three sections - reaction forces (the army's spearhead, trained, equipped and prepared for speedy intervention operations anywhere in the world), adaptable forces (who would take over from the reaction forces, but would take 18 months to prepare for combat) and force troops (made up of logistical units required to support the front line – such as the artillery, engineers, signals, intelligence and medical corps).
As a trade union, it’s not really Solidarity’s place to comment on the military aspects of Lieutenant General Carter’s review. What we can say, however, is that we hope that the Con-Dem Government will have an infrastructure in place that will support those leaving the army against their will at a time of economic uncertainty.
They may well need a greater level of support to help them adjust to civilian life. Additionally, we’re wondering if Defence Secretary Philip Hammond – when making his decision to slash military numbers – ever took into account where are these 20,000 squaddies – and their families – going to be housed? Where are their children going to be educated? And what jobs (or training schemes) will be available to those leaving the army?
Our fear is that the Con-Dem Government will have made no such provisions. We feel that Cameron and Clegg will be happy enough to let these men and women be kicked out of the armed forces and have them fend for themselves. In their world of casino capitalism, market forces (in other words ‘dog-eat-dog’) will sort everything out!
Solidarity believes that this is all wrong.
Many of these squaddies will have seen active service – indeed, some of them may have been injured in the course of their duties. Some of their comrades may have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Just showing them the door is disrespectful in the extreme.
So what does Solidarity suggest? We feel a three way approach should be employed:
Firstly, this massive pool of labour should utilised in a positive way. Instead of letting them rot on the dole or waste their time in useless training schemes (designed to ‘massage’ the unemployment figures) and dead-end ‘jobs’, their military training and discipline should initially be put to good use by instituting an emergency programme of national works. This would include re-building our transport infrastructure, cleaning up our towns and cities, making all dwellings fit and habitable and tending to the land.
Secondly, a massive package of meaningful training schemes, apprenticeships and jobs should be put together. We also need to re-build Britain’s heavy industries and create new industries which will reduce our reliance on foreign imports. Our education system and the NHS should also be made priorities.
Thirdly, we would favour a move away from the cities towards a more rural, organic and rooted way of life. We would therefore advocate that those ex-military personnel who are willing should be trained in various farming techniques. Land (via a scheme of redistribution) and debt-free start up loans should be provided to aid this move.
Our opponents on the left and right will argue that our proposals are too idealistic or ‘pie in the sky’. However, we believe that only radical – yet entirely practical – economic solutions such as these will be able to provide employment for (potentially) 20,000 squaddies who’ll be entering the ‘jobs market’.
If the Con-Dem Government doesn’t do anything and - as we noted earlier – relies on ‘market forces’ then we fear that the only ‘alternative’ will be longer and longer dole queues. This is utter madness. And, as we noted in issue 1 of English Worker (3) whilst dealing with a similar subject: “After all, what’s the point of having skilled tradesmen and workers rotting on the dole?”
Additionally, and on a human level, Solidarity Trade Union feels that our proposals will ensure that the transition of those from the armed forces to ‘civvy street’ will be as seamless and painless as possible.
1 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9377776/Defence-cuts-are-risky-says-former-Army-chief.html
2 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/05/thousands-soldiers-compulsory-redundancy
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Soulbound by Heather Brewer
#1 in the Legacy of Tril series
What's worse than being blackmailed to attend a hidden school where you're treated like a second-class citizen? How about nearly getting eaten by a monster when you arrive? Or learning that your soulmate was killed in a centuries-old secret war? And then there's the evil king who's determined to rule the world unless you can stop him...
Meet Kaya, a young woman with the power to heal and the determination to fight. But struggle as she will, she remains tied to three very different men: a hero who has forsaken glory, a tyrannical ruler who wants to use Kaya, and a warrior who's stolen her heart. Kaya learns the hard way that some ties can't be broken...and blood is the strongest bond of all.
Buffy, Kaya is NOT
I started out liking Kaya a lot. She's a Healer, but she's spent her whole life living apart from the Barron/Healer world (more on that later), so she's pretty much a normal girl. She's not a super woman and she's not filled with angst (her parents are both alive and love her). She approached her new school with caution and resignation born from actual intelligent thought. I thought we were going to get along swimmingly.
Right up until Kaya took a turn for the unbelievable and super annoying. Now I think I kinda hate her. Or, at least, I really don't like her.
Look, I admire her desire to buck the rules and learn how to fight. Seriously, Healers are expected to hang out on battlefields, so the rules that healers can't learn how to fight are completely messed up and make about a much sense as a screen door on a submarine. The fact that the Powers That Be didn't give squat for an explanation made the whole situation even more infuriating. So I totally sympathize.
I just wish Kaya could have focused her angry rants on the stupidity of the rule and not the sexist/unfair aspect she decided to harp on instead. Especially considering it's not sexist at all. There are male AND female healers and none of them are allowed to learn how to fight. There are also male AND female Barrons and both of them routinely kick butt. The fact that Kaya had a legitimate reason for learning how to fight and mostly ignored those arguments made me especially eye-twitchy every time she started in with her irrational railing against the unfairness of The Man.
Know what also didn't make sense? Her transformation from normal girl weakling to Buffy-level skills after about a week's worth of training. Erm, nope, not buying that. Tell me she's The Chosen One, tell me she drank a magical elixir. Tell me SOMETHING, but don't tell me she just practiced real hard for a few days and that transformed her into the second best fighter in the land 'cause I'm not buying that.
Insta-love is in the air!
But it totally makes sense because they're bound, which means there's some magical bond between them that makes them instant besties. Plus, he's a total hottie, so it's cool, right?
Normally, ok, I can sometimes make an exception when there's some kind of paranormal explanation for their insta-bond, and there IS an explanation like that here, but...their relationship was just so darn boring. I was also feeling zero chemistry from the pair. The guy was like her older brother (a very nice brother, but a brother nonetheless).
I have no idea why they care for each other and when they weren't making random googly eyes they were fighting. And not the sexy tension-filled kind of fighting either. This was more like the silent treatment and talking to other people to make each other jealous kind of fighting. BOR-RING, especially considering I couldn't care less if they aren't together.
Then there's the other guy. Oh, yes, this is a Love Triangle book, complete with capital letters because it pretty much monopolizes the plot. Kaya knows she's bound to the first guy, but she can't help but stare at the sexy abs of the second guy. Even though it's soooo wrong and really, she totally doesn't like him but, oooh his well-muscled back is so hot.
Now, granted, I tend to favor the bad boy, and Kaya's second love interest is the typical bad boy as the outcast badass fighter. He has a mysterious past and he has a hate-turned-love thing going on with Kaya. Plus, he treats her as more of an equal whereas her bound guy is all about following strict protocol of Barron/Healer interactions (and as already discussed, they're pretty whacked). I definitely swooned a little in between my eye-rolling. Still, there was something about him (maybe his awkward dialog?) that kept me from a full on swoon.
Maybe in the next book everyone can die and Maddox can be the heroine
Maddox should be the heroine. Or she should be a guy and become the romantic lead. Because Maddox is MADE OF WIN. She's Kaya's guard/guide and eventual best friend. Maddox has the cocky attitude of a swaggering rule-breaker. She has an acid tongue, a painful past, and she does everything with a lazy grin. If we had a sleepover party, we'd end up spending the night in jail after engaging in a spate of ill-advised but totally awesome hijinks.
How can you be so good and so bad all at once??
The world building is AWESOME. The concepts of Healers, Barrons, bound, soulbound alone is worth stars. Then add on top of that the generation-spanning war (with lots of horrific battles in the not-too-distant past) and an evil adversary with a hoard of demon dogs and this is a recipe for success. I also loved all the little hints that things are not what they seem.
Those demon dog things are called Graplars and they are everything I want out of a monster. Creepy, incredibly dangerous, hard to kill, and vividly described. Kaya goes up against them multiple times and every scene was pulse-pounding fun. There was also a fun mystery to solve surrounding how the Graplars were getting into the school, though unfortunately Kaya was all talk and no sleuth. I wish there were more Graplar scenes.
As much as I loved these concepts and as much as I'm really, really looking forward to learning more about them in the sequels, I also have a lot of complaints. Most importantly, where the heck am I?? Some features made me think this was a fantasy world with quaint medieval-like villages and no modern technology. But then why was I getting such strong modern vibes? Is this book a paranormal set in the modern world, or is it a fantasy set in a medieval-like world? Pick ONE, please.
Also, much as I really do appreciate it when fantasy authors use made up curse words (seriously, I really DO appreciate that! Nothing pulls me out of a fantasy world faster than a modern slang), Heather Brewer made her characters curse waaay too much. I don't say this because I'm a tightwad. I say this because if every other word wasn't "fak" it was "dek" and that just got tiresome after the fifty millionth time. It was like the fake-cursing equivalent to Edward's bronze hair.
The climax gave me a double eye-roll sprain it was so beyond ridiculous. The villain's dialog and motivations made me cringe and laugh. I was uncomfortable reading it and award the climax NO stars (and not even an E for Effort).
Heads up, it's also a total cliffhanger (and it's probably the most obvious cliffhanger in the world).
Am I complaining a lot? Yup. Am I eagerly awaiting the next book? You bet! Why? I have no idea. I guess because, even with all of my complaints, I still had fun reading Soulbound. I want to find out more about the dynamics of this world and the truth behind the war. I want to see more Graplar fights. I'm not going to go out and buy the sequel, but I'll definitely check it out from the library.
The pages listed on Goodreads says it's only 304 pages, but the ARC I read was only a few pages shy of 400, so I'm not sure what's up with that. That said, it didn't take me long to read Soulbound and I did look forward to the time I spent reading. The pacing is that deceptive kind of slow where you can read a huge chunk in a short period of time, and even though it flew by pretty quick, looking back you realize not much actually happened to account for all those pages.
I'm not really the best reader for this book considering I'm not a fan of love triangles or insta-love. Readers who do like those things will probably love Soulbound. Though I'm not really sure if this is a paranormal or a fantasy, I think paranormal fans will be more inclined to like Soulbound. I'm ordering a copy for my library because I know it will be a big hit.
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Labels: Book review, Heather Brewer, Rating: Three Stars
Alison Can Read July 12, 2012 at 12:45 AM
It's funny how a book can be just okay but you're still drooling at the mouth for the next one. That happens to me all the time. Is this related to the Eighth Grade Bites series at all?
Danny July 12, 2012 at 12:47 AM
That was an interesting review but... I totally understand! It seems like I often complain in 3 star ratings yet I still ended up liking it. I would love to give this book a try especially after you had such mixed feelings! :)
Oh, I love reading your reviews - you're awesome at making your points.
I think the whole "I don't know where I am" thing would drive me nuts and I think that over-cursing is a real issue in books in general. People don't talk like that and made up-cursing can make things worse.
Maddox sounds like a real baddass, though.
I like the sound of her. But I'm totally with you on the whole Girl becomes awesome fighter after a week. I mean, Buffy was already an athlete when she becomes a vamp slayer, and she had mad skills because she was the chosen one, there was an explanation. And yeah, I hate when people play the sexist card, particularly when it's not well applied like here.
Also, authors should get it already that love triangles only work when the person in the middle has STRONG CHEMISTRY with the two other people!
Sierra Abrams July 12, 2012 at 1:00 PM
Oh Small! This review made me laugh out loud! Have I ever told you how much I love love love your reviews?
In any case, this book sounds fun, but probably not my cup of tea. What you said about the climax...that just irks the crud out of me and I probably would give the book 1 star because of it. And a boring romance? NO THANKS.
So, yah, not for me. BUT if you like the next one, maybe I'll give it a go, brave the things I don't like for the things I might actually enjoy. ;)
Anywho, great review, of course! :D
danya July 12, 2012 at 6:26 PM
Haha, sounds like there is plenty of eyerolling to be had here! Her reasoning for sticking it to The Man sounds pretty ridiculous, and it's a shame to hear about the lack of romantic chemistry between Kaya and her insta-bond guy. I'm getting the impression this is one of those for-entertainment-only, guilty pleasure kind of reads. Thanks for your thoughts, Small!
Rubita July 12, 2012 at 8:17 PM
This book lost me at Insta-Love. I HATE that, and there are few things that will turn me off of a book as easily as that. I love me my smidge of romance, but that does NOT mean it doesn't what the quality is.
Natalie (Mindful Musings) July 13, 2012 at 4:57 PM
Insta love AND eye roll sprain? Uh-oh!!!! I'm not sure I could handle both of those in the same book. Lol. Hmm...the concept intrigues me, but if I do decide to read it, I'm going to borrow it from the library. I have a bad feeling that this one won't really click with me.
A Canadian Girl July 14, 2012 at 5:25 PM
And to think I was really, really looking forward to this one! The world building does sound good but the MC also sounds annoying. I'm not a fan of insta-love and love triangles either and in this case, it sounds rather dull. Who cares about people trying to make each other jealous?! Thanks for the review, Small. I won't be buying this one but will see if it's available from the library :)
Aylee July 16, 2012 at 9:56 PM
Meh. Despite the fact that you say you did have fun reading it despite not liking many things, I think I'll skip this one. The concept and world building sound like they have potential, but I really can't deal with insta-love, stupid cliffhangers, and love triangles if they're not done right. Just not high on my priority list. But I really appreciate the helpful review, Small!
BURIED IN BOOKS July 19, 2012 at 1:23 AM
So...was there a plot? Or just Maddox and the great fights and great back muscles. I was really hoping this would be good and great world building goes a long way, but you either have to have a great plot or great characters to keep me there. Sounds like it's hit or miss on the characters and not much plot. I'll wait for some more reviews and that's a lot of pages to cut out of the ARC. Did they change the typeface or something?????
Mackenzie @ Oh, For the Love of Books! July 28, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Oh my goodness. I couldn't agree more!!! Though, I think I may have liked Kaya a bit more than you. But she did get on my nerves. I hated Trayton. Goodness, what a whiny, pathetic pansy. He just....UGH....got on my nerves. And yes, their relationship was sooo boring. And corny. Can't forget corny.
I personally kinda loved Darius :P yeah, the dialogue sometimes sucked, but there was also something that hooked me in.
but I'm left with soooo many questions. On one hand, the world-building is great. But we know nothing about the bad guy or his soldiers. Are they skilled that are on his side? Are they unskilled? Is he magical? Give me more details!
Oh, and I totally don't understand where we are either. I know its fantasy and at first it felt like it had a sort of historical feel to it. But then there is a bunch of modern things and words. Like, the author doesn't even attempt to write old-school.
but yes, I'm hopelessly addicted. I stayed up late finishing this book so that says something I guess. Great review!
All the best ♥
Mackenzie @ Oh, For the Love of Books!
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Adam Knowles: Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities: A Politics of Silence
Título: Heidegger's Fascist Affinities: A Politics of Silence
Autor: Adam Knowles:
Editorial: Stanford University Press
Formato: Paperback $28.00
Reviewed by: Gabriel Popa (Independent Scholar)
One may approach Heidegger’s affinities with the National Socialism movement starting from the most evident/overtly expressions as in his rectoral address Self assertion of the German university and other so called political writings or discourses from 1933-1934, continuing with the now available Black Notebooks which offer some of Heidegger’s private insight regarding the intellectual foundation of his «spiritualized» Nazism (including the anti-Semitic dimension), and then start a thorough examination of Heidegger’s GA in order to find the proper philosophical justification for such abhorring political views. All of that has been done and will probably occupy or contaminate any future research even if it not conducted with a sole view on these specific topics. There are efforts trying to identify and to reconcile Heidegger’s more arid topics of being and historicity with his political views[i], while, on some part, Heidegger invites us to do so, by allowing and even imposing his ontology upon such things as the German state, soil, blood, Volk and its Führer.
The fact is that Heidegger tries not only to justify, but to ground National Socialism as the political-spiritual expression of his perpetual quest for authenticity, historicity, origin and other recurrent themes, within a world that blinds itself, forgetful of being. It is not clear what type of reflection would be able to clarify if Heidegger was a Nazi avant la lettre, or if he sought to take advantage of a position like the rector of Freiburg University in order to impose some of his views and try to reverse the German and the worldly spiritual decline. When he tries such a thing, he does it by an appeal which is always to be found within Heidegger’s seminars, namely an appeal to the root or the origin of Western thought, the Greek philosophy and its seminal connection with the German language and spirit.
What Adam Knowles does in his book, is to propose us a reflection about this rootedness of Heidegger’s affiliation with Nazi movement, which is to be found within the German-Greek exploitation of a phenomenon which does not allow a frontal confrontation if only because the object of research lies beneath and hides under any attempt at overtly expressing it, being it in writing, speaking, or artistic configurations.
The main constellations of terms and expressions configuring most themes within Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities are related to language (discourse or speech), rootedness and their counterparts, silence and uprootedness. There is a double play here between speech and silence exposed through the intervention of sigetics – a peculiar form of privation stemming from Aristotle and used here to suggest the absence of speech or the presence of absence of speech. When turning to Greek meaning of legein, Heidegger often relies on one of its originar meanings as gathering, while Knowles emphasizes this throughout his book in order to suggest that, progressively, Heidegger’s own use of language related expression come to determine more of an ontic placing of one’s attunement to being while, in opposition, the uprotedness brought by modern Machenshaft and Gestell (127) or even by the infamous «world Jewry» (7), is nothing but an attempt of a worldwide desewering making the ones caught in this turmoil a-topoi and a-logoi (147).
Against this background of an accelerated deterioration of an already fallen possibility of average language to express being, which is nonetheless a lack of a proper audience for him, Heidegger will employ a strategy of a disclosure which conceals what is most essential in order to preserve a space of authenticity which is not to be betrayed by complete silence (25). An entire «hermeneutics of reticence» (26) is thus deployed, underlying both public appearances and periods of complete silence, which is but «the core of Heidegger’s life, teaching, politics, and thinking» (26).
Arguably as it may seem, the above sentence turns the reader towards the ontic background and implication of Heidegger’s entire life’s interrogation addressing being and its various determinations, while it is mainly the politic dimension which may help us best understand this ontic exposure of both being and the one which is to be its keeper as Da-sein. As a politics of silence, which serves as a subtitle of this Knowles book, Heidegger seemed to see is as the possibility of a European spiritual renaissance appraised in terms of German-Greek congeniality, thus preserving a space of clearing for the historical disclosure of being, while we may count it as one of the most influential encounters, in terms of its impact and consequences for both parties, between philosophy and political regimes, wherefrom we may «draw larger conclusions about the response of the humanities to totalitarian regimes, and in particular about philosophy’s historical contribution to ethno-nationalist authoritarian regimes» (8).
Emphasizing sigetics in Heidegger’s work and speeches has no other ground than the fact that, in Knowles’ terms, it is «one of the branches of his philosophy most deeply saturated with anti-Semitic and völkisch affinities» (56). The latter are best depicted when reading Heidegger against a background of deeply anti-Semitic and nationalistic writings of some of Heidegger’s contemporaries, which, even if not so philosophically convincing, are more closely connected in both spirit and language, to a general trend in Weimar Germany.
Various instances of silence are also analyzed in terms of instituting a red wire connecting Greek Dasein and the Nordic-Germanic soul, while both are seen in their average comportment and even physiognomic features as being profoundly attuned to a space of silence and reticence. These are set against an enemy depicted as the rootles foreigner, being it the capitalist, the city dweller or even the world Jewry (40). The affinities between Heidegger and his more völkish contemporaries are found both their proximity of language visiting current themes and in Heidegger openly anti-Semitic and anti-modern passages of his writings, correspondence and speeches, of which the most notorious is his first speech as Rector of Freiburg University in 1933.
But sometimes Knowles falls prey to his own attempt of impregnating every instance of Heidegger’s silence with traces of National Socialism and anti-Semitism as when emphasizing one of the passages of SuZ within the existential analysis of Dasein as instantiating the above opposition between silence, reticence and rootless verbiage. In short, Knowles assimilates Heidegger’s famous discussion of one’s world’s intelligibility where the initial guidance is prompted by concern and circumspection and there is no need for sentential legein as things are firstly seen in their ready-to-hand dimension, with the peasantry understanding of handiwork which goes by without unnecessary verbiage such as to be found in one of Heidegger’s contemporaries (48). There is also no need for words between coworkers, in Heidegger’s passage, since they share the same understanding of their tools and of the work to be done (as being-in-the world and being-toward). But what Heidegger does within the lines emphasized by Knowles is to point out explicitation as a relative way of understanding and interpretation, while the latter usually go by in circumspective concern, that is without need of explicit wording, and the former lays out the explicit features of a thing making it suitable for logical assertion. It would require a biased hermeneutical travail to find in Heidegger’s own «without wasting words» which are to be found in SuZ 157, some political commitment being it National Socialism or some other.
Third and fourth chapters are the most philosophically intriguing and original ones, dealing with the transition Heidegger makes between a preliminary idea of silence tied to the existential dimension of discourse (rede) as seen in SuZ, and, through the intervention of nothing and notness in his What is Metaphysics?, a more thorough analysis of silence in connection to his interpretation of Aristotle from 1931. The hermeneutical effort of Knowles is here as its best, searching for clues to support his main thesis, for which these two chapters offer the red wire connecting Heidegger’s phenomenology with his political views, while setting the ontological on the way to its ontical promiscuity by means of a silence which will find its way to both world and word.
Mainly based on an original reading of chapter 34 of SuZ, the reader will find the third chapter to develop some of Heidegger’s less explicit intention, while his own reticence in finding an expression for the unspeakable will be translated by Knowles as a struggle «to develop a language adequate to the task of bringing silence to language as silence» (75). Heidegger’s analysis in chapter 34 of SuZ employs discourse as another existentiale of Dasein, alongside understanding and attunement, while language is the mean that discourse finds for its expression within the world. As vocalization of discourse (60), language will be then its worldly being or dimension, thus both the possibility and the completion of expression (as utterance and statement) rendering discourse to public disclosure within the averageness of the «they», in the proximity of chatting and idle talk.
The nothing which silence brings through the call of conscience into the very meaning of discourse (73, 74) leaves the interrogation open since Heidegger does not yet render this nothingness to its ontological dimension (which will eventually happen in What is metaphysics?). SuZ works its way through the already established conceptual architecture of the Dasein‘s existential constitution as fully immersed in the everyday averageness, while Heidegger is not yet eager to employ the full scale ontological apparatus needed in order for Dasein to find its way back from the scattered world of das Man. Appraised in SuZ as a possibility belonging to discourse and rendered merely to an ontic opposition to fallen and scattered language, while reticence could only bring forth for Dasein the possibility of its withdrawal from the public sphere of chatting and idle talk (74), silence will finally insinuate within the existenzial-existenziell hiatus between discourse and language, merging them and contributing to the collapse of this difference.
As a clarification for the reader, the issue at stake here is to find a way to deliver the more authentic – existential dimension of discoursing to a language which is already fallen, but not only as silence and listening as these are the only possibilities belonging to «discoursing speech» (a transitional expression itself) listed in the 34th chapter of SuZ, but as and within a meaningful speech. «That is to say», in Knowles’ words, «Heidegger cannot capture the possibility of speaking through silence until language becomes folded into silence to such a degree that it even requires silence.» (73) This would only happen few years later, when the analysis of silence will get a decisive clue from Aristotle’s idea of withdrawal within his opposition between dynamis and energeia.
The idea is to capture silence through and within legein, that is through a kind of «discoursive speech» which is no longer opposed to vocalization as a form of corrupted speech, but it makes way for steresis, understood as a type of privation that withdraws/robs (robbing) what essentially belongs to something or someone, as sickness is a privation of health or blindness is a privation of seeing. In the same vein, while in the SuZ the absence of overt utterance does not necessarily mean that interpretation or discourse are absent, here we may find that even in the presence of speaking there may be a form of silencing still active which does not mean the absence of words. The idea of steresis clears the path for the introduction of silence into the handicraft of writing (81), by means of altering, if not totally collapsing, the distinction between discourse and language. As a form of poiesis, it will guide one through the manifoldness of logos, according to a guiding meaning (96), working its way by means of separation and elimination of wrong paths, same way as the «sculptor hews away the marble to bring out a form» (99).
In his interpretations to Aristotle’s Metaphysics Θ2, Heidegger takes model and form to be confronted with material as to bound what is initially unbounded, and this is the meaning of the opposition enacted by what the Greeks understood by enantia and enantiotes: «a lying opposites each other and confronting each other face to face (GA33, 119)[ii]. Within production, such a confrontation is always guided by the model, eidos, which is foreseen or re-presented, and will act like a catalyzing force within the producer’s soul, «by bringing into bounds of what belongs to a model» and it does it by means of » a selective gathering of what belongs together» (GA33, 121). The assimilation of model with logos is now two-folded, once through the meaning of logos as gathering and again through the its more current meaning as discourse and language, when what is to be produces is addressed during its production as what is to be present later. When visiting these themes, alongside some of Heidegger’s public speeches and notes within his Black Notebooks, Knowles will emphasize the selective nature of logos (99, 100), since it works by means of progressive exclusions as during the production guided by eidos, the initial unbounded material will finally give way to what is to be produced. Selection and exclusion are re-instantiated through recalling various statements of Heidegger during the same period when he lectures about Aristotle’s Metaphysics, thus connecting them to some popular thesis among völkish movement and even, questionably indeed, with the Nazi language of eugenics (100).
With some help from Heidegger’s Black Notebooks starting from the early 1930s, what Knowles wants the reader to acknowledge is another dimension of Heidegger’s famous Kehre, in terms of an in-famous turn towards a more political history of being which will become more and more appraisable in terms of a destinal community between the Greek people and German Völk. While this transition usually revolves around stressing the inception of new understanding of the place of being as Ereignis (event), in order to emphasize Heidegger’s immersion in the proxy facticity of a Nazi Germany, Knowles focuses on the «steretic» dimension of Heidegger activity during those times, bringing together his public appearances, writings, public notes and letters.
There are two chapters (5 and 6) dealing with different instances of exclusion which may be found in Greek philosophy and literature, supposedly revived by Heidegger through his fascination with the Greek rooted inception of the long standing quest for being and manifold possibility of expressing it more or less adequate. As we expect, Greek philosophy, literature and politics have a lot to offer in terms of exclusion grounded on various traits starting from human physiognomy, gender, citizenship and social status. Focusing on the possibility of acquiring the proper measure for speaking, Knowles analysis starts by tracing the crudest, earliest forms of exclusion, the Pythagorean physiognomic human traits and gestures rendering one as (im)proper for philosophical training, in order to complete the first chapter with an interpretation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, «especially in Aristotle’s concern with the proper amount of precision applicable to the analysis of the matter at hand»(104).
Regarding Aristotle, the whole of ethical inquiry involves the least of precision in terms of its status as a science, since it involves the least amount of generality, addressing one’s proper comportment within a particular situation. Aristotle’s analysis is carried on searching for proper means of acting within different situations, while the impossibility of an all encompassing cartography of the latter involves the impossibility of acquiring a standard set of resolutions which may grant us knowledge similar to that of logic, mathematics or physics. The one endowed with phronesis[iii], is said to be able to skillfully deliberate regarding the means for attaining the proper measure when facing a states of matter which could be ethically appraised. This time, having already in mind what is to be said about connecting Heidegger through his sigetics to Aristotle’s ethical inquiry, Knowles shortcuts a text which usually poses difficult problems for Aristotle’s scholars, in order to find that, since prudence is only acquirable through a certain length of time, it may also be a matter of disposition, making thereafter a peculiar transition to «one’s potential fitness or unfitness for philosophy» being «nonetheless a matter of one’s disposition, as indicated by the careful delineation of different types of character in the Nichomachean Ethics» (118, 119).
Not being in the position to deliver a lengthy discussion of Aristotle’s text, we must nevertheless remind the reader that the main question which drives Aristotle’s investigations in his Nicomachean Ethics is directed towards the chief good which may be obtained as a result of our actions, the own most possibility of the human being, his most desirable state or condition. Now, phronesis is that faculty of the soul through which it attains the truth in regard to things whose principles could be otherwise, namely the action which is ethically appraisable in terms of virtues and vices. Objects of prudence are matters of actions, therefore both universals and particulars, but mainly the latter (1141b 20). There is a difference between the acquiring of knowledge in mathematics or geometry and prudence, which reside in the fact that the former do not suppose an experience to be accumulated over the years (objects and principles come from abstraction in case of mathematics, 1142a 15), while these later fields are concerned with things like individuals or principles which mostly come from experience. Prudence is then a peculiar kind of a natural disposition of the soul, not of a kind to be born with, but a disposition which is acquired through experience, and which is said to be the prerequisite of skilful deliberation according to correct reasoning about issues the moral virtues are concerned with.
Wherefrom the moral virtues are usually attainable through experience and habit, and not through inner disposition, there is no philosophical formation required for Aristotle concerning the attaining of moral virtues, while it is sophia, the fifth and the highest capacity of the soul which will turn out to be the one that is best suited in terms of human happiness, being mostly connected to a such a intellectual formation. The reader may find Heidegger’s own interpretation of Aristotle’s phronesis in his Natorp Report[iv] and Sophist, in order to find out that his own emphasis of Aristotle’s term is more connected to Heidegger’s early analysis concerning the hermeneutics of facticity and temporality. Nevertheless, Knowles is perhaps too eager to provide us with his hermeneutical commitments when stating that «Heidegger’s lecture courses on Greek philosophy [thus] must be read as deeply political pedagogical acts intended to teach hearers how to better dwell within the proper place» (124). Place, which is a late theme in Heidegger’s thinking, is easier to connect with contemporary völkish themes and figures, following an already settled way of argumentation in Knowles which translates silence into sigetics and the latter into different form of exclusions, race or gender based.
Besides Aristotle’s general statement about the scientific deficit which essentially impacts the ethical inquiry, Knowles also emphasizes some of Aristotle’s worries about that type of discourse regarded by Heidegger in SuZ as chatter and idle talk, which may impeach virtuous reasoning and acting. An act of reticence and even silence is needed when feeling the danger of placing ourselves in situations that may be considered unworthy of a free man. We must remind the reader that what Aristotle does during his inquiry is to search for that middle ground between lack and excess and for the means of attaining it, while speaking and listening are actions both ethically appraisable in their selves but also deeds which may impact the means to achieve an ethical comportment. Instead, Knowles’ analysis revolves around the groundedness and groundlessness of legein which, stemming from its meaning as gathering, may facilitate the encounter and understanding of concerned matters, when properly used, or, contrary, it may sever the speaker from the things spoken about. This may be the case and there is here an undisputedly common ground between Aristotle and Heidegger, but the connection between prudence, silence, sigetics and what follows, namely the transition to Heidegger’s völkish themes fall short of being convincing.
What gathering means in terms of language is said to be a motif of Heidegger’s attunement to such gatherings as inward gathering and völkish gathering which may even be attained through serving in labor camps, militias and other para-military organizations (123, 124). Surely, Heidegger’s own scattered but nevertheless anti-modern and anti-Semitic nuances within his Black Notebooks during the 30s, invites us to such an interpretation, as Knowles remarks (124). If Heidegger seized the National Socialist revolution as a way to give political reality to his ideas[v], even if he later refutes the possibility of philosophy offering guidance for actual living[vi], the invitation to read Heidegger’s analysis of language in these terms would be similar to what Knowles has warned us against, namely to read Heidegger backwards.
Nevertheless, analyzing steresis in terms of different gestures of exclusion does right to Heidegger when inscribing him within a long standing philosophical tradition, while the privilege Heidegger contents to Greek philosophy maintains all of the latter’s forms of exclusion. The Black Notebooks translates these into various explicit ontic instances of denying access to authenticity, the history, event or the topology of being, as we traverse the development of Heidegger’s philosophy (125). As Jeff Malpas states when Assesing the significance of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks in 2016, those subsequent gestures of exclusion would culminate in Heidegger remaining the only one being able to grasp the call of being.
Knowles interprets Heidegger’s later assumptions regarding a possible topology of being, namely the emergence of an explicit concern with place which will also translate in Machenshaft giving way to Gestell, as an adaptation of Greek make self-mastery stemming from one’s habituation within a polis (126). The latter determines the being-there (das Da) of the historical being in terms of both temporality and place, thus allowing a fully fledged coming into being of its gods, temples, priests and all other essential figures which populates the various Greek expressions of being (147). Being a-polis or a-topos, out of place, does not mean here an exclusion in terms of physical interdiction, but it characterizes a complex and seemingly paradoxical situation, of being at the same time within and without polis, which is best illustrated by the «measureless measure» of the feminine figure in Greek lyrical and philosophical compositions. The duplicitous figure of woman is said to be a-topos by mean of her being a-logos, thus not being granted with free speech while, at the same time, her silence being treated as essentially deceptive. In Knowles’ words, «Women possess logos in a manner of not-having that is not a full privation, for their very having is a not-having—a relationship best described as steretic» (147). This type of steresis is more of a dramatization of Aristotle’s concept, thus describing a kind of a structural privation, which is not yet full, but nevertheless essential.
When used in depicting Heidegger’s own use and analysis of instances of silences, steresis suggests a more voluntary use of silence and reticence in order to be able to come to terms with a more proper use of language or to conceal what one would consider that it would not be yet suitable to openly express due to historical and/or average means of understanding.
Before one starts dwelling into the multifaceted meaning and relevance of such an encounter, between the most preeminent/notable figure of the XXth Century philosophy and a criminal organization such as the NSDAP political party, one has to inquiry its own motivation for approaching and assessing that fact. The fact, in Thomas Sheehan’s words, may be simply stated as there is no compromise in saying that Heidegger was a «blatant anti-Semite» and a supporter of the Nazi movement. As member of the NSDAP party and rector of the University of Freiburg, he delivers speeches which, beside his perpetual verbose about the history and destiny of being, may be easily counted as political guidelines for Nazi members, supporters or even for the yet unconvinced. As to his anti-Semite worldview, it is supported by explicit evidence in his infamous marginalia known as the Black Notebooks.
The author of Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities writes after the initial shockwave of Heidegger’s now explicit mentioning of anti-Semitism has passed, and when we may be able to take stock of what has been achieved through consulting his most intimate notes, as to the relevance they may bring for phenomenological inquiry and for Heidegger’s scholars. Even if they are usually disregarded as to their philosophical insights, there are some private mentions made by Heidegger which may prove useful in philosophical key, especially regarding Heidegger’s turning points of the transition from one dimension of being, temporality, to others like event, logos or place. Another key aspect of the publication of the Notebooks, targeting a larger audience, is the possibility of providing some insights of a never-ending story concerning the possibility of assessing one’s opera per se, regardless or even in spite of his or her personal life-options.
Turning towards Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities, we may say that this is one of the most philosophically engaging works related to Heidegger’s political views, which unrolls/unravels as a meta-investigation of the polivocality of logos and legein, while the main interrogation addresses Heidegger’s ontological motivation for keeping his most striking worldly notes private. We call it a meta-investigation since it appears to be an investigation of Heidegger’s own inquiry about the possibility of keeping silent pertaining to and within language itself.
As to the place of the Black Notebooks within Heidegger’s work, it must be said that firstly they offer Heidegger a place where he may come back every time he considers that overtly discoursing is in danger to lose its rootedness and grounding, in other words, a place which may be seen as a reservoir of authenticity, where he may somehow overtly speak through silence without any compromise that may be needed in order to get published and/or promoted or even for the care of average comprehensibility. This is the ontological meaning of placing the Black Notebooks, but here is its ontical counterpart: placing authenticity and sigetics in their rooted, inherited tradition and land, that is placing them within the völkish, rural dimension of German landscape, and this means away from the corruption of urban areas infected with modern technology and idle talk, which aggressively disrupt and aggravate/hasten the fallenness of a language already fallen. Away from fallenness, this happens by a double folded gesture of exclusion mirroring the ontological-ontical dimension of placing the Black Notebooks. Namely, there will be an ontological exclusion of anything that may accelerate the oblivion of being which already characterizes western civilization, but also the ontic exclusion of anything and anyone who may threaten even more the proper housing of being within language. While in SuZ the average dimension of discourse which is language is looked upon especially as a proper technique for the existential analysis of being-in-the-world, starting with the 1930s, and especially in the Black Notebooks, Heidegger builds its own sigetic way of interrogation for delivering, as much as possible, the proper tools for speaking through silence.
How and where do we place Heidegger? But, maybe more important, where do we place ourselves as readers of the history of western civilization and philosophy? Are we situated as objective, neutral observers of some historical facts and figures of which we may dispose, with the means offered by the possibility of an objective confrontation? Thrashing Heidegger out of the history of philosophy or absolving him of any philosophical commitment to national socialism would have us granted with the above high seat of objectivity and connoisseurs of «what would have been, if». Presumably, we are not granted such a thing. As Rorty, Gadamer and even Heidegger, especially during his hermeneutical period, often observe, historical observation is never free of prejudices and biases, as long as the very interpretation is historically situated and conditioned.
Thus, as Adam Knowles warns us, we have to resist the temptation of reading Heidegger’s involvement with the National Socialism backwards, namely as being already in the position to confront the totality of Nazi regime, meaning its policy of political, ethical and racial annihilation of anything and anyone not willing or not being able to conform to its world-view. This implies, in Knowles’ view, that any consideration of Heidegger’s political involvement which may be tempted to diminish the relevance of Heidegger’s public or private defense of such a regime when measured against the large scale murder machinery of the same regime, should inquire into the motivation of an already tenured philosophy professor, nonetheless a notable international figure, willing to offer his support to an already dictatorial and authoritarian political movement. The gaze should be turned upon Heidegger’s fully appropriation/embrace of Nazi themes during his rectorate but also after this period, through a throughout investigation of his work, since this encounter wasn’t born out of nothing or by a misfortune.
On the other part, our abhorrence when reading some passages of the Black Notebooks, Heidegger’s discourse a rector at Freiburg, other related political discourses or writings, but also his scare phrases connecting him to the »inner greatness» of the Nazi movement, is fully comprehensible since we see them against the background of the totality of its atrocities. Arguably, we will never be in the position of absolving him as naive and apolitical, since, as Besancon observes in his Century of Horrors, the fully fledged extermination policy of National Socialism strikes us as something extra-ordinay, beyond human comprehension, thus benefiting of a long lasting placing within our memory, especially when compared to its more easily forgettable dizygotic twin, communism.
[i] See the controversy between Thomas Sheehan and Emmanuel Faye.
[ii] Pagination indicates the samen English translation Knowles uses.
[iii] The English version Knowles uses translates it as «prudence».
[iv] «Phenomenological Interpretations in Connection with Aristotle: An Indication of the Hermeneutical Situation»
[v] According to Jeff Malpas «assessment of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks«.
[vi] Heidegger’s interview in Der Spiegel.
Publicado el 05 de septiembre de 2019 05 de septiembre de 2019 Autor Gabriel PopaCategorías ReseñasEtiquetas Black Notebooks, Martin Heidegger, Metaphysics, Pedagogy, Phenomenology, Totalitarianism
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Montreal,Province of Quebec, CANADA
by Chip Jacobs
A fresh dish of chicken Parmesan whipped up by Alvaro Morfin bubbles with rich red sauce and even thicker symbolism. The skinny East L.A. homeboy cooked it as an assignment from his doctors, and nailed it, as he has other parts of his crash course on life as a paraplegic - life without the use of his legs.
Parked in his wheelchair in a classroom-kitchen for the disabled, the young man wants to be clear: He can't envision a career under a poofy chef hat. His intellect is better grabbed by something like computer repairs. His life will be a horizontal one, to be sure, but, at 18 and a rookie patient at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, Morfin already knows what it means to beat the odds, and that helps him accept his present condition. He'd been the barrio kid who escaped, the Optimist High School Senior with honor-roll grades and a foster family that had insulated him from gangland temptations. That is, until one summer evening back home, when a rival's bullet found his spine before he found cover.
"Me, cook?" he deadpans, his dark brown eyes swooping around to his visitors. "No, I'll get a girlfriend for that." Pretty soon, he says, "I plan to go home."
His physician, Dr. Irene Gilgoff, gladly swallows this bit of chauvinism as if it were Morfin's gooey chicken. Over her career, she's seen 150 juveniles paralyzed by brutal and often random gang warfare that sent bullets and knives zinging their way. "There's a lot of hope for him," she says, smiling. "He recently went to the movies and noticed girls noticing him. That was big. Some go out and close themselves off. There's such rage."
At Rancho, the L.A. County-run rehab hospital with a national reputation for its treatment of spinal-cord and traumatic brain injuries, the anger, depression, and denial that accompanies these life-changing injuries has to be treated as much as the physical wound. "Why me?" is a question that hangs over these wards.
Dotted over 220 tranquil acres in the southern L.A. County town of Downey, the Spanish-style buildings here give way to ranks of sagging barracks and shady courtyards. The only modern structure is the tan-colored Jacquelin Perry neurotrauma rehab building. The hospital itself dates back to 1888, when a train offloaded the sick and Rancho operated a full-blown dairy to sustain itself. Back then, patient costs at the county's so-called "poor farm" were $31 a day.
Now, however, hospital personnel, patients, and activists are fighting for Rancho's survival after the Board of Supervisors voted in January to shut the facility in order to save $60 million a year. The county's health department is sinking under a projected three-year, $709 million budget deficit with no last-minute federal bailouts on the horizon. Only an injunction by a federal judge in April kept the doors open. County executives want a nonprofit group to eventually buy it. Simply put, in a county with teeming emergency rooms and squeezed medical capacity, rehab itself is considered expendable.
Should Rancho fold, spinal-cord patients would be referred to the four general county hospitals for treatment and rehab, though none of them specializes in this type of injury. Rancho's patients have little voice in the matter: 30 percent are uninsured indigents, the majority of others are on Medicare or Medi-Cal that won't fully cover the price of their treatment. The effects of wiping Rancho off the public-healthcare map are hard to exaggerate. People with devastating injuries and limited means would not only lose access to specialists and surgeons, they would also lose a well-regarded pediatric unit, a pharmacy, a walk-in clinic that sees about 75,000 people a year, a wheelchair-sports program, a bedsore ward, research studies, and therapists who teach everything from strength training to independent living skills.
It's an ugly scenario. Don Knabe, Rancho's champion on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, said some former patients would inevitably be "warehoused" in nursing homes or worse if the hospital were shuttered. He believes that any savings realized by the county would be sucked up later as patients fall prey to more complications taxpayers must finance later.
"Nobody wants to close Rancho," said health department spokesman John Wallace. "We just have too many uninsured in L.A. County."
Spending a day on this ward will make you rethink your own life.
Outside the weight room, where wheelchair-hauling biceps are summoned from flab, an adolescent in Oakland Raiders, gear propels himself stomach-down on a gurney, smirking to himself. Or is he staring you down? Nearby, but a world away, a kindergarten-age little girl clutching her doll rolls around in an electric wheelchair with a nurse in tow. In another room, an affable mother with cornrows, unable to walk due to an undiagnosed disease attacking her spine, greets hospital staff with hardened dedication. Ethnically, it's pure L.A.: On the ward, a fireplug Middle Eastern-born surgeon trained in Europe treats kids born in L.A. and in Mexico.
These rooms will change your definition of courage, revive hope, and embitter you toward the handgun. Here you'll find a new appreciation for the contours of a wheelchair and dampen your appetite for risk, even if it's just on the commute home.
For the spinal-cord patients, the challenge is to come to love parts of themselves that have become numb to the touch and, sometimes, dead to everything else. They will become adept at manipulating catheters and monitoring kidney infections, and work on legs and butts they can't feel to prevent pressure sores - the common cold of the wheelchair crowd - and learn all about living life in L.A. from the seat of their pants. Rancho is their home and school during a harried adjustment phase, after they are released from trauma units but before the shock of a life diverted wears off.
The spinal cord - which transmits the brain's lightning-like instructions to breathe, walk, reach, procreate, release waste, and myriad other functions - is still mysterious. It's also not forgiving of abuse.
Despite the promise of "cures" offered by stem-cell research and other neuro-biological avenues, and the hoopla generated by Christopher Reeve's promise to shake off his quadriplegia (inability to use all four limbs), the central nervous system is proving more complex than some scientists originally thought.
Spinal-cord injuries afflict 450,000 people in the U.S. today. Of the thousands in Southern California, anyone who doesn't have private insurance is coming to one of the 207 beds here. Should you misjudge your dive, catch a bullet, jack-knife your motorcycle, get thrown from a horse, trip off a roof, blow your acrobatic landing or develop a compromised spinal canal in any other fashion, there's a good bet the rest of your life starts here. On your back.
Rancho is a place of both healing and reflection, and its legend stands taller than its buildings. Doctors here have trailblazed polio treatments, back-fusion surgeries, and the "halo" traction device that is the gold standard around the world. (One of only 18 designated regional spinal-cord centers in the U.S., Rancho is part of a national study for paraplegics relearning stepping motions via treadmills.) Hospital alumni have achieved seemingly impossible things, too, from quadriplegic skydiving to exquisite mouth-brushed Expressionist art that fetches top dollar.
As a mirror on the population they serve, the wards here also reflect something less noble: the implacable "drive-by" culture of L.A.'s urban warfare. All over the U.S., the No. 1 cause of spinal injury is car accidents, but not at Rancho. Here it is gunshot wounds.
Growing up in East L.A., Alvaro Morfin was raised by his mother after she and his dad, a taxi driver, separated. He didn't join a gang for sheer mayhem: He joined it, he said, because, "you don't have nothing else." He was busted on a pot charge and sent to live with a foster family for two years. During that time, he said, he earned straight As. He excelled in history. Cleaned himself up.
Back home this summer, his willpower wilted. His friend stole $1,000 and persuaded him to come party with the money. The two took off on bikes. They rode to the home of a third friend, and that's when they spotted a car carrying a rival gang. It cruised by menacingly, and Morfin expected a fistfight. Within seconds, someone started firing indiscriminately. He hotfooted it out of there, but a bullet caught him as he scaled a wall. The lead clipped him in the side, hit his spine, and exited from his ribcage. He took a few steps and dropped.
L.A. County General was the nearest emergency room. He hated it there, unaccustomed to being sick, nervous about being probed, wondering why it took two hours to get pain medication. At Rancho, however, he says he's connected with everybody, janitors included, and he's learned skills he never considered before.
"I have to push my [old friends] to the side. I can't walk like them. I came to realize that my family members are my real friends," he says, a little choked up. "Now they are letting their feelings out. This probably happened for a reason. I had a lot of chances before, and my luck ran out."
When he does leave Rancho, luck won't have much to do with it. On a typical Rancho day, he showers, attends occupational therapy, then physical therapy, rests for an hour, attends class, eats lunch, hits weightlifting, practices wheelchair transfers, and then relaxes. To unwind, he fancies PlayStation (Grand Theft Auto is his favorite videogame) and watching the Angels, which he seems to know more about than their skipper, Mike Sciossia.
Image-conscious administrators discourage talk of Bloods and Crips, of Eastside gangs and "busting caps" inside their wards. Past media coverage of that, they say, has sensationalized that angle, sullying Rancho's mission in the process.
Physicians are more vocal about it. It's budgetary politics they'd rather not touch. Just like the firefighter who tore his spine in two falling from an all-terrain vehicle in the desert, irony and heartbreak infuse every chart they review, they say.
Doctors have occasionally treated a gang member left a paraplegic after one shooting, only to see him return to Rancho as a quadriplegic after a second incident.
About 10 years ago, a young Hispanic paralyzed by a gunshot wound and treated at Rancho was selected to appear on an ABC-TV roundtable special about adolescent violence called Kids in the Crossfire. The show was televised at a Washington, D.C. high school and was attended by about 30 kids and various dignitaries, including Attorney General Janet Reno and actor Chuck Norris. After the program, the former patient promised he wouldn't return to his old gang habits. Nobody told the members of an opposing faction. Within a year of the program, they ran him down on the street and shot him to make sure he was dead.
"It was a tragic statement about society," said a Rancho doctor, who asked that his name not be used. "It's happened on too numerous an occasion. As a physician, you do the best you can. You encourage your patient to change their life, and you don't let it sour you."
Over the years, Rancho's safeguards against in-hospital violence have become institutions themselves. Some gang patients are assigned aliases. No tribal colors or paraphernalia are permitted on site. Guards are stationed around the buildings, though a P.R. person said it's mainly to dispense directions. Nonetheless, staffers here know that Saturday is the busiest day for spinal gunshot wounds, and summer is their busiest season.
"When I came here 20 years ago, there were a few patients with gunshot wounds," Dr. Gilgoff said. "Today we get quite a few. Now there can be multiple paraplegics in the same gang. I've had patients with five, six bullet wounds, and you realize it's because semiautomatic weapons are in play."
Interestingly, one of Rancho's best innovations actually comes from the street - in the form of sports. Young men from ragged environs, where gang camaraderie is often more comfort than family, need a vent now and then, a way to reconnect with the street. The hospital has an extensive wheelchair athletics program, and a bursting trophy case to prove it.
There is basketball, baseball, tennis, and hockey, where getting knocked out of your chair can be a badge of honor, and a magazine - Sports N' Spokes - to chronicle it. The athletics, sponsored by a Rancho support group, have two non-negotiable stipulations: to participate, patients must be in school and clean from drugs. "They've gotten more out of sports than anything," Dr. Gilgoff said. "Of the 150 gunshot victims I've treated, only about four of them, I thought, should have been incarcerated. The other 146 were young men in the wrong situation. With the right assistance, they do really well."
Dr. Michael Scott, a soft-spoken, 40-year-old specialist for the disabled with a Zen-like calm and a Stanford pedigree, is hearing the lowdown during morning rounds from a female medical resident.
His first patient is a 27-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds, one that damaged the middle section of his spine. He'd been shot before, but odds are this time he won't amble away from his injury. Originally treated at Martin Luther King Hospital emergency room, he is feverish, glum about his prognosis, and still carrying the bullets that laid him out.
The next patient, a 35-year-old Hispanic man, was shot three times in June. Unlike his ward-mate, he is expected to walk again. Still, he has problems - heart problems, hepatitis problems, mood problems, and drug problems. The intricate tattoos adorning his chest gyrate as he writhes in bed, where he complains about pain and circulation-aiding socks that have given him rashes.
Dr. Scott predicts the man will be returning to the same "difficult condition" that put him here once he's well enough to leave. It's a common problem for gunshot victims, one muddled by family issues and lack of money, and not helped by a combatant's new fragility. "They're more vulnerable in a chair," Dr. Scott says. "They're not going back to Beverly Hills."
Neither is the outlook always so bleak. A smiling, gap-toothed African American man who appears to be in his mid-50s wheels up to the white-coats as they make their way down the squeaky-clean hall. He is wearing a loud blue plaid Fedora and matching shorts, and wants a nail clipper. "My toenails look like tiger claws," he says merrily. Dr. Scott tells him he'll fix him up. "They're great docs," offers the man. "I love them. But the therapists! They're trying to kill me." With that, he rolls off.
A Latina mother of four is one of the last visited. She was ejected from her van during a May accident because she wasn't wearing a seatbelt. The impact dislocated the most sensitive part of the back - the cervical spine. Upright in a wheelchair, looking content as can be, she reports in Spanish she has nothing negative to report. "She never complains," says resident Sheila Patel. "If there are any problems, I have to find out through my sneaky ways."
There is nothing sneaky about Rancho's adult physical therapy room, a cavernous, well-lit space with electrical outlets that dangle from the ceiling over a mishmash of low-tech gizmos that attack forlorn muscles and lost coordination. It feels like a gym and sounds like one, too. A patient grunts, and a young female therapist exhorts "Good job!" Sweat beads and repetition grinds on. What a split-second mishap took from many of these people, this room may take months, if ever, to restore.
It's the visuals that stick. Off in the corner, near the plastic mini American flags, is a burn victim with a bandaged stub where a hand used to be. There is the sheepish-looking car-accident survivor with a chest brace and deep scars seared into his face. He doesn't walk so much as waddle on the beige-and-white floor, but his real problem is his arms. Hyperextension injuries like his jam the nerves controlling the arms, which may never regain full strength and range. A paradox of the limbs results: Some patients post-accident are nimble enough to dribble hackeysacks with their feet yet are unable to wash their face.
The spine can be mysterious. People can break one of their vertebrae without suffering neurological damage and be fine. Unfortunately, the reverse can be true as well. The worst-off sustain nerve death. The higher up the spine it occurs, the more devastating the result in terms of lost movement, breathing ability, bowel control, and sexual function. Sometimes, only the myelin, the insulation-type coating around the nerve, is damaged, and it - unlike the nerve itself - can mend itself.
Generally speaking, whatever sensation returns after nine months from the time it was lost is the best it will get.
"It's a life-changing injury," Dr. Scott says. "They've lost the person they used to be. Everybody handles it differently."
Some of the most heroic figures at Rancho are children. Nelly Benarbashian, an eight-year-old patient in Rancho's pediatric ward, is sitting under a "SpongeBob SquarePants" blanket as she wolfs down Taco Bell burritos and does coordination-building puzzles with gusto.
Nelly's journey to Rancho began when she went to the school nurse at Hazelton Elementary in the Valley, complaining of a sore throat. Hours later, at her bus stop, she collapsed into her mother's arms. At an emergency room in Northridge, she labored to breathe, unable to feel her limbs and gasping, "Mommy, I'm dying."
Doctors concluded she had "transverse myelitis," a puzzling condition where the spinal cord swells up. They stabilized her - inserting a ventilator and getting her situated in a wheelchair - and then transferred her to Rancho because they lacked the expertise to rehab someone in her shape.
"When she first got here, she had a trachea tube and a [feeding tube]," said Nelly's mom, Maral. "Her left foot could only wiggle. I was scared, but I could see she was in good hands. The therapists got her walking. Without Rancho, I don't know what I would do."
Nelly can walk. Most who come here won't. To lead them back to a civilization not always as accommodating as those blue handicapped parking spaces, Rancho has set up a "model home" that looks as if it were thought up, in part, by Aldous Huxley. There are gadgets that robotically turn pages, rotate plates, and operate spoons. Counters move up and down on a lift, and showers and sinks are wheelchair-friendly. Patients are brought here to mull their options, even if they can't afford all of them.
Sam Morris, a blond, guitar-playing paraplegic who traveled to L.A. from Maine, opted for Rancho when a local private hospital twice bungled efforts to heal a nagging pressure wound. These bedsores are caused by the weight of the body rubbing sores into the skin that the patient can't even feel. They can go from a small bruise to open sores the size of a softball.
Dr. Salah Rubayi, an Iraqi-born surgeon with a rapid-fire tongue, makes it his life's work dealing with these wounds. To him, the idea that a county general hospital would handle these sores is absurd. It can take 12 weeks to recover from an $80,000 bedsore surgery. In typical cases, the wounds are covered with muscle flaps exported from the same area as the wound.
Morris is in the minority of patients here with private insurance. A friend told him that Dr. Rubayi was "the best in the business," and had trained other doctors how to do the flap surgery.
"In hindsight, the whole experience at the other hospital was ridiculous," said Morris, 27. "My [first surgeon] confused confidence with arrogance."
Like the wounds it treats, Rancho is not a place that leaves the system easily. Walk out of here and pray you never wind up with a patient ID on a tingling wrist. But, wind up this way and pray you end up here, if it's still here.
Doctors must often simultaneously play healer, psychologist, social worker, and hope salesperson. Aspiring MDs are drilled to look beyond garden-variety complications such as embolisms, kidney infections, skin lesions, and spastic limbs that can toss people from their chairs and into combat with the psyche. The patient's past often dictates his coping calculus. People with tight-knit families and established roles as breadwinners, parents, etc. tend to fare better. So do folks with a strong faith in a creator-with-a-gameplan, Another thumbnail rule: The younger the victim, the quicker the acceptance
Some patients demand their prognosis immediately. Others say hold off. A-type personalities with kinetic determination to reclaim their legs can flame out emotionally. Oddly enough, a quadriplegic on a ventilator can be more at peace than a paraplegic.
"We've had a few dramatic cases where people with no movement in their legs walk out of here," Dr. Scott explained. "Even for those with a poor prognosis, hope means different things. I've had some [gang] patients say: 'This is the best thing that could have happened to me. If I weren't paralyzed, I'd be dead.'"
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"Alright that's a wrap! Time for lunch. You all can pick up your meal vouchers from the sound crew. Catering should be ready by now." He pointed towards one of the crewmembers, "Terry, can you get these sheets washed and grab new ones for the next scene? Thanks."
The director shuffled out of his seat as the cast members and crew shuffled off the set, which was merely a semi-secluded Airbnb for the weekend. The place was decent for what they needed for shots. A washer and dryer, lots of open floor space, spare linens, but had an atrocious green wallpaper in the bedroom. Victor did not have a very significant career in his 16 years of directing porn. The internet pretty much flooded the market and like all directors, slash producers, slash actors, slash web masters of the porn industry he had to try to strike in a very niche fetish to peddle around as paid content.
Really, the trick nowadays was to find the next big thing and ride the gravy train as long as possible. Whether it was some new fetish or actor or different media, people will pay through the nose on content that enhances their little play sessions in ways they weren't even aware of. Then it was just a matter of having a monopoly on that content for as long as possible. Victor longed to set that next trend and has had some moderate success blending in his work with a sci-fi theme. Although he was still kicking himself over not pursuing POV stuff when he thought of it back in 2007.
He was the last out of the house as people lined up by the table serving greasy tacos. He pulled out his phone to text his partner.
Just wrapped scene 5. We'll get ready and do the finale after lunch. You'll be around to edit everything tomorrow right?
He put the phone down, grabbed a paper plate, and stood in line. In front of him was a tall brunette woman wearing a latex miniskirt and tube top. Although attractive, her figure was not what grabbed Victor's attention but the fact that her paper plate was about to fold from the sheer weight of soggy beef and pork enchiladas she was piling on. All topped with a hefty dollop of sour cream.
"You, uh… you know you don't need to do that."
The woman turned around with a confused look. "Do what now?"
"Eat all that and then… you know… " Victor motioned by putting his index finger in his mouth.
Her brows furrowed a little as she deposited a handful of dollars into the catering tip jar. "I'm not bulimic."
He nodded calmly. "I direct porn. I don't judge. I'm just saying you don't need to. You look great."
She crooked her expression and made path towards an empty folding chair. "I just have a big appetite, excuse me." She sat down with her plate on her lap, but wobbled a little as one of the chair legs suddenly buckled inward very slightly. These were just cheap chairs that the caterer provided afterall.
Now Victor felt bad. He didn't have many feelings left, but guilt was one he couldn't drop easily. He sighed and took the seat next to her. "I'm very sorry. I'm a jerk. I meant no insult. Actually I'll be really impressed if you can put all that away and still do the next scene without burping."
She chuckled a little with her mouth full. After swallowing and dabbing the grease from her lips, she introduced herself. "I'm Jessica."
"Victor. I have to say I have met most of the actresses in the Quebec area. You new?"
"More or less. I'm not from here originally."
Victor nodded and ate one of his two chicken tacos. He looked at her plate and noticed that Mt. Slop was already half eaten. Victor's curiosity about this woman continued into his third bite, "Have you been working long?"
She swallowed again before speaking, "This is actually my first time on video. I thought I would be nervous but the cast has been really nice to me."
Victor looked at the other crew and cast members at an adjacent table. "I know most of them and they are a good bunch. I think Damien referred you right?"
By now, she was cleaning up her plate and looking at the line for seconds. "He and I are good friends now. I was worried about him for a while, but he seems to be doing real well since we met."
"Yeah… I have noticed that he's… well… a lot better. He doesn't look tired or irritable. And he's wearing short sleeves. That's a good sign I'd say. Honestly, I can't tell you how many times I had to talk to him about his drug use. Whatever you're doing for him, keep it up."
"I just listened to him. Excuse me." And with that she got up for seconds. Victor was a little taken back about how such a sweet woman wound up working on his set. It was rare to find but not unheard of. Actually, it was rather refreshing, he thought.
An hour passed and the crew was set up for the final scene. Jessica was to co-star with Damien in this one. They both walked away from the elderly woman in charge of makeup and hair, sat on the bed, and awaited for instructions while dressed in their respective costumes.
"Damien, Jessica. You only have a few lines, but I want Jessica to take charge in the beginning of this scene. That alright?"
They both nodded, then looked at each other and smiled. Victor slouched in his chair next to the camera man and nodded back. "Ok then. Roll. Action."
The scene played out as expected. There were some minor lines of dialogue before the action started. Victor took note that they had a good chemistry on set. Still he could not let go of the urge to micro-manage the scene from his chair. "Little more tongue, Damien."
It was at this moment that he heard the faint rattle of camera equipment next to him. Victor looked over and noticed that his camera man's hand was shaking and he was sweating bullets. He leaned in to whisper sternly. "What's the matter with you? You having a stroke? Quit fucking up the shot."
The camera man regained his composure and tried to speak, but no words. Victor glanced back at the set. "Damien, you don't need to suck, it's making too much noise. On second thought just keep doing what you're doing, we'll edit it out. Jessica, can you get a little more… yeah that's it. Hold him down. Higher please? Yes, perfect."
The camera man's words finally crawled out of his throat. "I-I-I-I d-don't know what's g-g-going on, Vic." Victor, clearly annoyed and bordering on pissed, looked back at him. "Just film the fucking shot, Walter. Don't get squeamish on me."
Walter looked back into the camera and mumbled. "…holy mother of god…"
Victor pulled the camera away from Walter. "Just go outside. I'll shoot." Walter simply nodded, looked at Jessica, and sulked out the door. Victor tried to think clearly over the howling moans on set. He took a deep breath and got back to work, pushing the tripod a little closer. "Sorry about that, both of you just keep going. Damien, the nipples… there you go. Looks great."
Victor looked at the camera to make sure his angle was right, but when he looked at the small LCD screen, the blood from his face suddenly drained out. Several times, he had to look at the camera screen and then back at Jessica. A few times she even looked back to make eye contact with him. Victor was frozen with a rush of haunting and confusing emotions. The oblivious cast and crew looked around confused, expecting a cue from their director. The other two actors stood offset in their costumes and tried to motion towards him. "Vic, is it our time to come in or…"
"Shut up, Alex!" He barked back. Victor knew an opportunity when he saw one and he wasn't about to let another slip out of his hands. He sat there silently for the next twenty minutes filming the scene.
When they finished, the cast and crew looked back at Victor. His face was pale and he sat in shock for a good ten seconds before speaking. "Y-yeah. That's a wrap for today. We'll end early." Before anyone had a chance to put underwear back on, he was out the door with the camera and tripod. A brisk walk to his car later he whipped out the SD card to the camera and opened up his laptop to write a quick email.
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The Bibliomaniac
While writing an article for the Delaware Bibliophile's newsletter,Endpapers, I received emails from other bibliophiles about their own projects. Communications began to fly back and forth once two of us realized we were writing about similar projects--the student produced books*. Meanwhile, another bibliophile began to email, thrilled with her own project and soon a bunch of book lovers were salivating over each others ideas, finds, and projects.
It was during this flurry of email, that I stumbled across the following definition for the term "bibliomania" in American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking: Containing a History of These Arts in Europe and America.** I wanted to share it on Passed Time, because chances are, if you are on this website, one of the traits of the biblomaniac will apply to you. Honestly, if one has to be a maniac, isn't a bibliomaniac the best kind?***
Bibliomania signifies a passion for possessing curious books. The true bibliomaniac is governed in the purchase of books less by the value of their contents than by some other consideration affecting them. To be valuable in his eyes they must relate to particular subjects, be embellished curiously, or have something remarkable in their history. Among those that are thus sought for are all books printed before 1480; all books except the trite religious ones printed before 1500; block books; the production of the Elzevirs and the Aldi; Caxton's works; the first editions of authors, like Bocaccio's Decameron and the single plays and first folio of Shakespeare; books from celebrated presses, like those of Bodoni and Ibarra; the first books printed in particular towns, like Bradford's in New York and Philadelphia, and Day's or Green's in Cambridge; a set of an author's works, like Ruskin's; books with defecta or errors, like the Vinegar Bible or the Breeches Bible; those which have been bound by celebrated binders like Payne; that have had artistic owners, like Grolier; that have a book-plate or the signature of some distinguished person, such as Burns or Washington or Goethe, and in fact everything that lends an interest to the volume apart from its reading matter.
Particular works rise in value to a very great height. There are many books known to bibliographers which are worth over a thousand dollars; one was sold in New York for $8,000 twelve years ago and has since been resold for $15,000, and Quartich displayed in New York in 1890 the Psalter of 1457 of Fust and Schoeffer, for which he asked $26,250.*** The highest price yet reached for an American book is $1,650. To be worth a large sum in the bibliomaniac's sense the book must have something about it which would make it remarkable in his eyes and it must then be scarce. The book written by Napolean when he was a lieutenant of artillery is an illustration. There are many collectors who are anxious to get everything they can concerning him; the book was of no value when published, the edition was small, and the work not being in demand most of the copies were probably thrown away. It is now consequently very scarce, so if a copy turns up it is worth ten times the value of his nephew's Vie de Cesar, although this has intrinsitc merits. has valuable historical matter, is much larger and is well printed.
Gathering many editions of the same work has always had an attraction for the bibliomaniac, while to make a complete collection of the works of a voluminous writer of the whole number of volumes issued by a single printer is likewise very seductive. It is supposed that there are about two hundred books published by the Elzevirs. A collector attempts to gather them all and is at first pleased with the ease with which he moves on. many can be bought for about a dollar or two or nearly any volume for $5. But after he gets beyond one hundred and fifty it is impossible to obtain the rest. He knows the names of the books he requires, but a year will go by without showing him more than three or four, no matter how assiduous may his search or how long his purse. Of some there may not be more than two or three in existence; of the scarcest perhaps only one; those that have eight or ten copies may all be in public or corporate libraries or in the hand of men who will not sell: and the collector's only chance on these is when a library is dispersed by the death of its owner.
Books were formerly printed in editions of a few hundred. War, fire, mice, water and ignorance speedily destroyed them. Those that are preserved are in public, society or college libraries, and their number is continually becoming smaller. There are not many copies of the first folio Shakespeare, yet when Edwin Forrest's house caught fire in Philadelphia one of these books was there. The Chicago Historical Society Library has twice been burned out; there were undoubtedly many unique books on its shelves each time, and these have now totally disappeared. The finest collection of materials for Western history, that of James McBride, of Hamilton, Ohio, went to the papermill. The book which George H. Moore esteems as the first one from Bradford's press in New York is lost. It is a curious fact that cheap books issued in large editions are among the hardest to find when some time has elapsed. Thus the New England Primer is very difficult to obtain, while larger New England books, which were not published in hundreds where this was in thousands, can very easily be obtained. An early edition of Mother Goose's Melodies will bring its weight in gold.
Illustrated books, those upon vellum, prohibited books, works upon curious materials and obscene books have each their collectors. Tall copies are greatly desired. Until lately there was no close uniformity in the sizes of sheets. Before the Fourdrinier machine came into use the sheets of paper frequently varied an inch or an inch and a half. After being printed those that were of one size were picked out and bound together. If the work afterwards becae sought for this large copy looked much finer and gave a better opportunity for the binder to show his skill. Most books wer and are yet cropped too close. In America the first editions of Hawthorne, Lowell, Longfellow and other writers are now sought for, as are the first productions of the New England towns, New York, Philadelphia and Ephrata. Other American cities and neighborhoods may have a few collectors, but not enough to raise the price of the books materially. For instance, the earliest productions of Cincinnati lie unnoticed there out on the stalls, and New York books after the Revolution up to the 1825 are still unregarded. Yet there can be no doubt that some day, when these books are far more difficult to thet than they are now, collectors will endeavor in vain to obtain sets.
In England Caxton is the summit of the bibliomaniac's desire. He published some ninety books, which will bring anywhere from £ 20 to £ 300 each, according to condition and the value of the book itself. In New York and Philadelphia Bradford books are sought for. By a curious succession of adventures it happened that he began the art in both cities--in Philadelphia in 1685 and in New York in 1693. Thus he appeals to book-buyers in both places. Proficiency as a book-collector is only to attained by buying largely, by attending auctions and fequenting book-stores, by comparisons of catalogues and by examination of the books themselves. Some collectors by large lots and then weed out what they do not desire. Brinley, who had the most valuable American library, traveld from town to town with a light wagon and purchased the contents of garrets; much was bought in lots that he did not examine. Some of the books for which he did not pay more than five or ten cents have since sold for nearly as many hundred dollars. Well-selected books or pamphlets keep continually increasing in price.
*The student produced books were the articles (shown above and below this article) that set off so much excitement. Thanks to R.M. Walsh and the Delaware Bibliophiles for letting Passed Time share the two articles!
**Keep in mind this was originally a dictionary entry, as such, no paragraphs existed. I put them in for easier reading.
***Pasko, Wesley Washington. American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking: Containing a History of These Arts in Europe and America by Wesley Washington Pasko. New York. Howard Lockwood & Co. Publishers, 1894. pp 43-44
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MBAA Technical Quarterly
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The flight from Vancouver was headed for Brisbane, Australia, when it diverted to Honolulu because of a medical emergency, said Peter Fitzpatrick, an Air Canada spokesman.
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“Out of respect for the privacy of our customers, Air Canada cannot confirm the details about the medical emergency,” he said in an email.
The man had been sick prior to the flight, Jessica Lani Rich of the Visitor Aloha Society of Hawaii, a non-profit that assists visitors in distress, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
The man was travelling with five children, his wife and another family member, Rich said. Her organization also hired a nurse to care overnight for an 11-year-old passenger travelling alone.
There were 257 passengers and 13 crew members on the flight. The airline provided passengers with hotel and food vouchers. The passengers left Honolulu Sunday on a different flight, Fitzpatrick said.
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Video: CBS All Access Debuts First Teaser for "The Good Fight"
"The Good Wife" spin-off premieres Sunday, February 19.
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CBS ALL ACCESS UNVEILS FIRST TEASER FOR THE GOOD FIGHT
THE GOOD FIGHT picks up one year after the events of the final episode of "The Good Wife." In the new series, an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of Lockhart & Lee, they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.
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MMA and UFC Tackling the World of Online Betting
Out of Obscurity: King of the Cage, Titan FC 26 and Deep Jewels 1
Events, Previews
Every Thursday, The MMA Corner will take a look at three regional or international cards, previewing from each a single fight to which people should pay close attention. We will also list other significant bouts from the card, as well as information on how to follow each promotion and watch the events.
Let’s discover those prospects that fight in the obscurity of the regional and international circuits, waiting for their shot at the bright lights and big stage of the UFC, and those veterans looking for one more chance at stardom. It all begins here, in the small convention centers and high school gymnasiums. It all begins with promotions such as these…
King of the Cage: Split Decision
San Manuel Casino in Highland, Calif.
Event Date: Aug. 29
Website: kingofthecage.com
Watch Event: MAV TV
Twitter: @OfficialKOTC
Spotlight Fight:
Sean Strickland (12-0) vs. Daniel Hernandez (10-9)
King of the Cage used to be a prime source for new talent entering onto the big stage, but that hasn’t been the case in the recent past. That all may change courtesy of middleweight Sean Strickland. The undefeated prospect is certainly turning into one of the promotion’s best, and he’ll defend his middleweight title this weekend against Daniel Hernandez.
Strickland’s combat sports background is in wrestling and jiu-jitsu, but like many younger fighters, he is a well-rounded talent. If there’s a weakness to his game, it’s probably his stand-up. Despite power that has led to six knockout victories, Strickland isn’t 100 percent comfortable on his feet. In fact, he’s even admitted disappointment in finishing fights on the mat, saying he wanted to spend more time standing while working on his striking. “Tarzan” holds wins over TUF alum Josh Bryant and back-to-back stoppage victories over Brandon Hunt. Having debuted as a teenager in 2008, Strickland already has a healthy dose of experience under his belt.
With a career mark of 10-9, Strickland’s opponent, Daniel “El Leon” Hernandez, may seem less than spectacular, but The Vault MMA product is 7-2 over his last nine fights and, win or lose, has not exited the first round in his last eight outings. Hernandez has six submission wins and five submission defeats to go with three wins and four losses by some form of knockout. He’s only seen the scorecards once, in a winning effort.
Hernandez is a fun fighter to watch, even if he doesn’t win all the time. He attacks aggressively with takedowns and submission attempts. However, he’s also a natural welterweight and will likely suffer a size deficit in his fight with Strickland. Furthermore, the young Strickland is smart and has a good eye for finishing opportunities. If Hernandez launches forward with an aggressive onslaught, it’s not difficult to imagine Strickland finding the right moment to strike, either with a knockout blow or a quick submission. Considering Hernandez’s affinity for takedowns, look for the latter to happen, with Strickland locking up the submission when Hernandez gets careless while shooting for a leg.
Other key bouts: David Gomez (15-5) vs. Joshua Aveles (12-9-1) for the welterweight title
Titan Fighting Championship 26
Union Station Sprint Festival Plaza in Kansas City, Mo.
Website: titanfighting.com
Watch Event: AXS TV
Twitter: @titanfighting
Dan Hornbuckle (24-5) vs. Dennis Hallman (51-14-2)
In many cases, a trip to the regional scene is a way for a veteran to gain redemption, to refocus and to perform a course correction. The Titan FC 26 headliner may be one of the last opportunities for 37-year-old Dennis Hallman to turn things around. He’ll fight 32-year-old Dan Hornbuckle, a man whose prospect shine wore off during his time under the Bellator banner when he failed in his bid to oust Ben Askren as the promotion’s welterweight kingpin. Now, both men seek a win in hopes of returning to the big show.
Hallman is making his first appearance since the end of a stint in the UFC best remembered for his skimpy fight attire and weigh-in debacles. “Superman’s” other claim to fame comes in the form of two lightning-fast submissions of UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes. Hallman is a talented grappler who sports 40 submission wins over the course of his lengthy fight career. When he loses, it’s by way of either a decision or a knockout. Hallman typically fights at 170 pounds, but attempted to drop to lightweight during his most recent run in the UFC. Despite a 3-2 mark through five fights and a win in his most recent bout, Hallman was released by the UFC after missing weight by seven pounds for a scheduled contest against Thiago Tavares.
Hornbuckle made his pro debut in 2006 and quickly ran his record up to 21-2 by 2010. Then he ran into dominant wrestler Ben Askren in a Bellator title bout and things seemed to change. The American Top Team product had no answer for Askren’s takedowns and top control. After losing the fight via unanimous decision, Hornbuckle attempted another run at a title bid, but went 1-2 in his three subsequent appearances with the promotion. Since leaving Bellator, Hornbuckle has strung together back-to-back unanimous decision victories against Pete Spratt and Yuya Shirai. The latter of those wins earned Hornbuckle the Deep welterweight title. With a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Hornbuckle is also a talented grappler, but he complements those skills with a striking arsenal.
Hallman has struggled with weight too often, but this fight is at welterweight, which should ease concerns about Hallman coming in heavy. However, “Superman” has other factors going against him in this fight. At 6-foot-2, Hornbuckle will enjoy a five-inch height advantage and the reach edge that comes with it. Pair that height advantage of Hornbuckle’s with his head-kick knockout ability and Hallman’s questionable chin, and this one could end with Hallman staring at the lights.
Hornbuckle has the confidence of victories over a UFC vet and a Deep champ as he rides into this fight. With such an extreme height edge, he’ll seek to stay outside and land punches and kicks. Hallman, meanwhile, will look to close the distance, clinch with Hornbuckle and force takedowns.
Hallman’s most recent victory came in 2011 and ring rust, plus age, could factor into the outcome of this fight. Based on his last UFC run, Hallman has a fair chance of winning. However, Hornbuckle has righted his ship and appears to be set for another lengthy winning streak. Hornbuckle will eventually connect with a kick to Hallman’s head that ends this contest.
Deep Jewels 1
Shinjuku Face in Tokyo
Website: deep2001.com
Twitter: @DEEP_JEWELS
Sadae Numata (4-1-1) vs. Celine Haga (5-11)
Gone are the days of Jewels as an independent promotion. However, that doesn’t mean that the leading Japanese all-women’s promotion is total history. Deep has stepped up to take the reins and lead the promotion forward as a branch of its own promotion. Call it a reboot, a resurrection or a continuation, but the new Jewels, now known as Deep Jewels, is starting over with its event numbering beginning with the Aug. 31 event. The show includes plenty of familiar faces, including atomweight contenders Sadae Numata and Celine Haga. They will fight in what Deep has labeled as a “featherweight” title eliminator, which is what it calls its 48-kilogram (or 106-pound) female weight class.
Those not familiar with Haga might be wondering how someone who sits at 5-11 through 16 fights can be considered a contender. The answer, at least partially, lies in a shift to a new weight class. After competing earlier in her career against larger opponents, Haga has shifted to atomweight, where she has already defeated former Jewels champion Naho Sugiyama. The 29-year-old is now on a four-fight winning streak after going 1-11 in her first 12 fights since turning pro in 2009. The Norwegian fighter trains under the tutelage of Pride veteran Joachim Hansen and shares many of the same strengths and weaknesses as her mentor.
Numata earned the nickname of “Manhoef” from her kickboxing background, but it’s her ground prowess that has been on display in her MMA career. The 41-year-old has two submission victories and just one TKO to her credit. Training out of Cobra Kai MMA Dojo in Japan, Numata posted a pedestrian 1-1-1 mark through three outings, but has since turned things around and is on a three-fight winning streak. Numata also launched her pro campaign in 2009, but didn’t maintain a consistent MMA fight schedule until 2011, when she made her sophomore appearance.
Haga’s record can be very deceptive. Her debut fight came in a loss against Shizuka Sugiyama, who is listed as a bantamweight fighter. Her long list of losses also includes defeats at the hands of Strikeforce veteran Maiju Kujala, Invicta vet Simona Soukupova and Japanese mainstays Saori Ishioka, Kyoko Takabayashi, Emi Fujino and Mika Nagano. Haga has also notched a win over Nagano. Other than her win over Sugiyama, however, Haga has not defeated a high-level foe in her current streak. The experience she carries, including going the distance with many of those top names, will be a big asset in this fight.
Numata’s only loss came against her most accomplished adversary, Tomomi Sunaba, and the draw came in her pro debut. She has faced mostly competition that sits a hair above the .500 mark, and her finishing percentage is strong. However, it’s troublesome that a fighter with a kickboxing record has not scored more knockouts. Furthermore, Numata isn’t getting any younger, and age could play a factor in this fight.
Age might be Numata’s biggest disadvantage, but Haga has shown an inability to overcome opposition when she is put on her back. She struggles against superior grapplers and has suffered four losses via submission. She’s also a hard out, though, with five decision losses and four decision victories.
If Haga can keep positional control, this fight could be hers for the taking. If Numata gets it to the mat, then Haga will either lose a lopsided decision or tap before the final bell. In the end, it’ll be Haga’s youth and momentum that carry her to yet another upset win.
Other key bouts: Mika Nagano (13-8) vs. Akiko Naito (6-12), Emi Fujino (12-6) vs. Hyo Kyung Song (0-2), Yasuko Tamada (14-8-3) vs. Yukiko Seki (11-22)
Photo: Celine Haga (L) with trainer Joachim Hansen (far right) (Taro Irei/Sherdog)
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Family History by Tim Hill
Maud Cabe
Selected Families
Maud Cabe1
#14728, (circa 1890-1915)
Father Henry Cabe2 (1842-1902)
Mother Elizabeth Mellon2 (1863-16 Jul 1931)
Charts Oaten Family - descendants
Last Edited 16 Jul 2019
NOTE: The information on this page is my research to date and is subject to change as I become better informed. I very much welcome any corrections or additional info you might have - my email address is at the bottom of this page. Whilst historical facts are not copyright, my writing about these facts are. If you wish to use any text from this site on Ancestry or on any other website, please ask me first - Tim Hill.
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Maud was born circa 1890.3,4 She was the daughter of Henry Cabe and Elizabeth Mellon.2 Maud and Charles lived in 1914 at at 175 Canning Street in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton.5 Maud's occupation was given as 'home duties' in 1914.5
Maud Cabe married Charles Henry Oaten, son of Charles Henry Oaten and Catherine Carroll, in 1914 at Victoria.1 Her body was interred at Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery on 12 August 1915 at the Melbourne suburb of Coburg. She is buried in the Church of England Area, Plot COE*D***544..6
Maud died in 1915 at Victoria.3,7
1890 Birth 3,4
1914 Residence at 175 Canning Street in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton5
1914 Occupation 5
1914 Marriage Victoria1
1915 Residence-hide Carlton8
1915 Occupation-hide 8
1915 Burial at Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg6
1915 Death Victoria3,7
Charles Henry Oaten (19 Nov 1890-1973)
[S264] Victoria, Marriage Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1914 No.3043 (index only).
[S265] Victoria, Death Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1915 #8230 (index only).
[S265] Victoria, Death Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1915 No.8230 (index only).
[S1054] Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (http://gmct.com.au) (Her age at death is listed at 25 years).
[S483] Australia - Electoral Rolls 1900-1980 - Ancestry.com, Division of Batman, Sub-Division of Carlton 1914 p.7.
[S1054] Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (http://gmct.com.au).
[S338] Ancestry.com.au Ancestry.com, (http://www.ancestry.com.au/) Ancestry.com. Australia, WWI Service Records, 1914-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015 - Charles Henry Oaten.
[S483] Australia - Electoral Rolls 1900-1980 - Ancestry.com, Division of Batman, Sub-Division of Carlton 1915 p.56.
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SCORE BREAKDOWN
Fully functional mobile experience
Integrations with key database software
High pricing compared to competitors
Outdated UI and desktop experience
The publicly traded Domo is a company offering a business intelligence (BI) software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform with a focus on small to large enterprises. Similar to Klipfolio, Microsoft Power BI, and IBM Watson Analytics, Domo is one of many sophisticated SaaS tools to fill an already crowded market.
BI the Domo way
Most business intelligence tools share common functionality and Domo has many of the characteristics of its competitors. Users can import data, streamline performance reporting workflows, and obtain real-time analytics for a variety of corporate functions. Domo offers solutions for human resources, financial management, and marketing-communications operations, among other verticals.
Users have the benefit of using Domo as a browser-based platform backed by powerful cloud functionality and a new corporate focus on machine learning. Through the use of external software and data sources or the Domo platform itself, users can extract real-time analytics on almost every thinkable function of an organization.
One of the available capabilities of Domo is the user ability to create virtual “cards” on the dashboard’s overview panel. These cards, similar to that of Klipfolio’s “klips,” are customizable. Users can attach metrics, live data, and visualizations to these cards that update automatically without users having to click the refresh button in their browser. Data updates every hour for basic Domo subscribers or on demand for premium business and enterprise clients. Domo also features “drop-and-drag” data manipulation, proprietary and live data visualizations and other standard BI platform functions.
The Buzz chat platform
Domo gets high marks for their in-platform chat and collaboration tool. Known as Buzz, this feature provides users with real-time collaborative functionality and the ability to disperse live and ever-changing data sets, visualizations, and other related media within the application. Buzz can integrate with external software, as well.
The dashboard and overall UX
While users with prior BI experience enjoy the tool and its features, Domo is a challenging tool for casual users lacking expertise in this area. Users unacquainted with in-depth BI tools and enterprise data solutions will fail to enjoy their Domo experience at the outset. For one, the dashboard for the platform emulates a highly technical, slightly out-of-date users experience (UX). There’s a lack of intuitive functionality, and the dated user interface can become highly congested if users fail to prioritize which metrics are essential for successful organizational measurements.
Original data and generous data storage
Domo integrates with popular data warehouses and other BI SaaS to offer constant flows of data, but users need to feed their original data into the platform for it to work. Interestingly enough, Domo itself can be used as a data warehouse with the user subscription tiers providing virtually unlimited data asset storage. By “virtually unlimited,” we mean that hosting data within the Domo dashboard is relatively cheap when it comes to high-volume data files. For example, the basic “Standard” plans for Domo offer users the ability to store up to 5 million rows of data.
Other external integrations
Domo has integrations with CRM tools, marketing applications, human resources applications, and with most mainstream office productivity suites. Domo also caters to developers by offering open API.
Domo offers mobile applications for Apple and Android devices. On both the iOS and the Android systems, the natively built Domo apps are fully functional and provide a condensed but similar experience to that of the browser-based iteration of the platform. The applications are also well designed and can sustain heavy use.
Support regime
All users get access to 24/7 support from the Domo help center at no extra cost. “Standard” users can receive additional support from Domo-certified consultants. Users of the higher subscription tiers get personalized support and consultation services with their plans.
Pricing and comparison
Domo offers a 30-day free trial before enforcing the subscription to a premium plan. The “Standard” subscription plan is $83 per user per month and is billed annually. Standard users are limited to 20 user licenses and the basic service package which includes several elements described in this review. The “Professional” plan averages at $160 per user per month and the “Enterprise” plan averages at $190 per user per month, both billed annually. The Professional and Enterprise plans require consultation with the company to determine user licenses, the support regime, and the necessary customizations needed for an organization’s experience.
Domo is highly priced compared to other BI tools. Microsoft Power BI offers the majority of its platform’s capabilities for free while its premium plans only start at $9.99 per user per month. Looker averages at $50 per month under customized quotes. And, Klipfolio also has a free program and a “Starter” plan at $29 per month with up to four user licenses included.
From the proprietary data visualizations and the attempts at data manipulation automation, Domo is undoubtedly a tool that could produce an adequate return on investment for any sized organization. However, smaller campaigns and nonprofits should consider investing in simpler tools such as Klipfolio or Microsoft Power BI.
If you have any feedback on this review or you would like to suggest an app for us to review, please drop us a note – telegraph@joinlincoln.org.
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The Semi-finals at Wimbledon 2017 Gentlemen’s Draw
Marin Čilić
In the semi-final of the big servers, 7th seed Marin Cilic (CRO) took on 24th seed Sam Querrey (USA). Both players having such huge serves meant it was going to be about which man returned better. Neither man could break as the first set went to a tie break. Continue reading “The Semi-finals at Wimbledon 2017 Gentlemen’s Draw”
The Semi-finals at Wimbledon 2017 Ladies’ Draw
With Andy Murray leaving the tournament, all British hopes were with 6th seed Johanna Konta (GBR) as she battled fellow big server 10th seed Venus Williams (USA). In the serving statistics there was little to separate the two, but the returning of the five time Wimbledon champion was stronger, putting Konta’s serve under pressure. Continue reading “The Semi-finals at Wimbledon 2017 Ladies’ Draw”
The Quarter Finals at Wimbledon 2017 Gentlemen’s Draw
Number 1 seed Andy Murray (GBR) was knocked out by the big serving 24th seed Sam Querrey (USA). Murray came into the tournament with a niggling hip injury and it became a full blown issue in the quarter final. After a shaky start from the American, Murray took the first set 6-3, but Querrey played an excellent second set to make it level 6-4. Continue reading “The Quarter Finals at Wimbledon 2017 Gentlemen’s Draw”
The Quarter Finals at Wimbledon 2017 Ladies’ Draw
The match of the day saw 2nd seed Simona Halep (ROU) take on 6th seed and home crowd favourite Johanna Konta (GBR). The two had met on the tour a number of times, notably in this year’s Miami Open quarter final which Konta won, and made Halep’s coach walk away from the Romanian. This was the tightest match of the tournament with each game hotly contested and the scoreboard was reflective of that.
Continue reading “The Quarter Finals at Wimbledon 2017 Ladies’ Draw”
The 7th Day at Wimbledon 2017 Gentlemen’s Draw
Number 1 seed and two time Wimbledon Champion Andy Murray (GBR) has made it to the quarter finals an impressive 9 times. Today he made it 10 beating Benoit Paire (FRA) who was into the fourth round of Wimbledon for the first time. After a tight first set featuring 4 breaks of serve, the Frenchman forced a tie break with the world number 1, but played a howler of a tie break getting just one point. Continue reading “The 7th Day at Wimbledon 2017 Gentlemen’s Draw”
The 7th Day at Wimbledon 2017 Ladies’ Draw
Number 1 seed Angelique Kerber (GER) faced a tough challenge if she was to progress into the quarters past 14th seed and former finalist Garbine Muguruza (ESP). Muguruza, who is being guided by former champion and legend Conchita Martinez, has found form in this tournament. The pair served up a spectacular show of bruising ralleys, Muguruza hitting what would have been winners against most players. Continue reading “The 7th Day at Wimbledon 2017 Ladies’ Draw”
The 6th Day at Wimbledon 2017 Ladies’ Singles Draw
Number 1 seed Angelique Kerber (GER) had to dig deep to get past Shelby Rogers (USA) after the American took the first set 6-4. She fought hard to get the second set to a tie break and showed great composure to take it 7-2. The German made a poor start to the third set but came back to win it 6-4. She’ll face 14th seed and former finalist Garbine Muguruza (ESP) who is in imperious form, not yet dropping a set, beating Sorana Cristea (ROU) 6-2 6-2. Continue reading “The 6th Day at Wimbledon 2017 Ladies’ Singles Draw”
The 6th Day at Wimbledon 2017 Gentlemen’s Singles Draw
2nd seed Novak Djokovic (SRB) got over an early lapse in concentration to beat Ernests Gulbis (LAT) in straight sets 6-4 6-1 7-6. At the beginning of the match Djokovic felt aggrieved after being denied a challenge by the chair, and the very next point he needed the challenge again, this time getting it, and it going his way. He remonstrated with the chair umpire about line calls and challenges, ironically telling the umpire to “focus” before losing all focus himself, dropping his serve immediately after. Continue reading “The 6th Day at Wimbledon 2017 Gentlemen’s Singles Draw”
Number 1 seed Andy Murray (GBR) faced 28th seed Fabio Fognini (ITA), both of whom are known to have the occasional outburst on court. Murray raced to a 1 set lead 6-2 only for the momentum to swing the Italian’s way in the second, taking it 6-4. Murray seemed to be back on track as he took the third set 6-1 but yet again the Italian came back. Continue reading “The 5th Day at Wimbledon 2017 Gentlemen’s Singles Draw”
2nd seed Novak Djokovic (SRB) breezed past Adam Pavlasek (CZE) 6-2 6-2 6-1 without breaking a sweat and will be surprised to see that his next opponent is not Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG). The 29th seed crashed out of the tournament in straight sets 6-4 6-4 7-6 to world number 589 Ernests Gulbis (LAT) who is also coming back from injury. Continue reading “The 4th Day at Wimbledon 2017 Gentlemen’s Singles Draw”
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FROM 5 A SIDE IN READING – TO DUSSELDORF!
From The Grass Roots To The World Cup
England, ISF, Scotland, Socca, Wales
“Last week we were playing in Reading, this week we are watching Fortuna Dusseldorf play FC Koln…..”
Those were the words of Bradley Cowen the skipper of Class Of 09, who was incredulous as he savoured the weekend he and his teammates spent in Germany, just for winning the Leisure Leagues Prize Draw.
The team from the thriving Prospect Park League on a Tuesday evening (which has a new season starting tonight) became the first of two top prize winners so far to take their trip to watch a Bundesliga match – and the lucky lads couldn’t hide their delight.
The top division clash was a real thriller, with Fortuna Dusseldorf winning 2-0. James Coe, Leisure Leagues Head Of TV, commented on the “incredible atmosphere” and added “I have filmed all around the world it was one of the most amazing football experiences I have ever had.”
This was about more than football, though. The boys from Berkshire made sure to sample the legendary nightlife in Dusseldorf, an experience that they won’t forget. Indeed, as a bleary eyed Charlie, from the side put it: “I’d highly recommend it….!”
The prize came courtesy of our partners Uhlsport, and UK Socca’s Martin Cassidy said these partnerships were vital as the sport looks to thrive in the wake of the exceptional success of the World Cup. “It is essential that we work with world class partners, such as Uhlsport. We look forward to developing this relationship further as it moves forward and hope to take teams to Holland, Belgium and France where Uhlsport supply the balls in the top leagues.”
Martin went on to discuss the vital importance of these grass roots leagues to UK Socca, commenting: “The focus recently has been on the World Cup, which is the pinnacle for all of us, but the fact we can also offer this to players in their local leagues shows the commitment of not just these providers – but Uhlsport – to the whole spectrum of small sided football.”
The prize draw happening again tomorrow, live on the Leisure Leagues Facebook page, there will be thousands more players from all across the UK looking excitedly on to see if they will be the next to jet off to watch a game.
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