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Evidence and consultations
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What happens if a big care provider fails?
Richard Humphries argues that one lesson to emerge from Southern Cross is the need for better clarity in the roles of providers, commissioners, regulators and central government.
By Richard Humphries - 13 December 2011
Is the new NHS framework fit for purpose?
Will the new NHS outcomes framework need a wider focus if the underlying goals of the NHS reforms - improving health care quality and outcomes in England - are to be achieved?
By Veena Raleigh et al - 2 December 2011
Perspectives on telehealth and telecare
This paper, the third in a series of WSDAN briefing papers, examines the experiences of the network's 12 member sites in implementing telehealth and telecare.
By Nick Goodwin et al - 3 November 2011
The unifying principle of integration
Richard Humphries, our senior fellow in social care, shares his thoughts on the integration of health and social care.
By Richard Humphries - 2 November 2011
How is the NHS performing? October 2011: Quarterly monitoring report
Our third quarterly monitoring report provides a regular update on how the NHS is coping as it grapples with the evolving reform agenda as well as the more significant challenge of making radical improvements in productivity.
By John Appleby et al - 14 October 2011
Social care and clinical commissioning for people with long-term conditions
Written by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) in conjunction with The King's Fund, this short briefing asks how can clinical commissioners secure best use of social care to maximise outcomes and improve patient experience, while ensuring efficient, affordable care into the future?
By Richard Humphries et al - 22 September 2011
The evidence base for telehealth and telemedicine in the management of obesity
Can a telehealth programme help in maintaining weight loss?
By Susan Royer - 26 July 2011
How is the NHS performing? July 2011: Quarterly monitoring report
In the second of our quarterly monitoring reports, John Appleby and Emmi Poteliakhoff examine the current state of the NHS.
By John Appleby et al - 15 July 2011
Evidence and consultation
The Dilnot Commission Report on social care: Briefing
The current social care system is widely regarded as inadequate, unfair and unsustainable. The Dilnot Commission was established to help the government to deliver a fair, affordable and sustainable funding system for social care in England. In this briefing we reflect on the Dilnot Commission's findings.
Dilnot report verdict: adopt these proposals now, much work lies ahead
Richard Humphries gives his verdict on the publication of the Dilnot report.
By Richard Humphries - 5 July 2011
Why it's time to reroute health and social care
The health and social care relationship is in a state of upheaval. Facing the triple challenges of NHS reform, a widening gap between needs and resources and social care transformation, this could be seen as 'perfect storm' of problems.
By Richard Humphries - 30 June 2011
Routes for social and health care: A simulation exercise
How can the health and social care system rise to the current political and financial challenges? This paper is based on the Routes project, a simulation exercise created by Loop2, which set up a number of routes to managing change.
By Richard Humphries et al - 20 June 2011
How to improve cancer survival: Explaining England's relatively poor rates
The government has committed to improving cancer survival rates in England. This paper considers international survival rates to see how this could be achieved.
By Catherine Foot et al - 9 June 2011
Supporting care home residents at the end of life
This research considers factors that support residents to remain in care homes towards end of life. The study is based on four case studies of care homes in England and interviews with external health and social care professionals who interact with care homes.
By Rachael Addicott - 27 April 2011
How is the NHS performing? April 2011: Quarterly monitoring report
This monitoring report is the first of a regular quarterly review, which will combine publicly available data on selected NHS performance measures with views from a panel of finance directors on the key issues their organisations are facing.
By John Appleby et al - 20 April 2011
Variations in health care: The good, the bad and the inexplicable
This report explores the possible causes of variation and ways in which variations can be measured, and analyses variations in rates of elective hospital admissions.
The evidence base for telehealth in stroke management
This article on the evidence base for telehealth in stroke management was taken from the Whole Systems Demonstrator Action Research Network (WSDAN) database.
By Susan Royer - 6 April 2011
Improving the quality of care in general practice: Report of an independent inquiry commissioned by The King's Fund
This report, conducted by an independent panel of experts, aims to support the work of general practice and to provide a guide to ensure that quality is at the heart of the service.
Social care funding and the NHS: An impending crisis?
Social care funding has increased in real terms for the past decade, but this paper examines the trends in spending and the potential funding gap of £1billion by 2014 unless councils can achieve unprecedented efficiency savings.
By Richard Humphries - 17 March 2011
Telemedicine in cancer management
The impact of telehealth on cancer patients living in remote areas can be significant, offering them a virtual connection with health professionals & other patients.
By Susan Royer - 11 February 2011
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Vignettes from the Collection
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Chitrakala Mahotsav
Chitrakala Mahotsav, the first ever Folk Art Painting Festival @KNMA
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art with an aim to bring to the public, the various indigenous Folk art forms of our country presents the ‘Chitrakala Mahotsav’ an art festival focusing on Indian Tribal and Folk art to create awareness and bring to the public the original art sensibilities by artists from different states, in association with Dastkar, a private not-for-profit NGO established in 1981, working to support traditional Indian craftspeople.
The three-day festival will take place at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Saket and will have Exhibition of paintings by artists many of them women and village based, Performances by Folk Artists, Workshops open for public to understand the art forms and food stalls as well. The exhibition-cum-sale stalls of Folk and Tribal art forms will have Madhubani, Pichwai, Gond, Pattachitra, Miniature, Phad, Sanjhi, Kalighat painting amongst others.
The Art Workshops will be free for all and will be conducted by artists themselves for the general audiences hence giving them the opportunity of a better understanding of the effort and craft indigenous to the art form. These Interactive sessions with the local craft Artists will also help to understand the lineage and history of the art forms.
Dastkar is an organization that has been working for the last three decades with the main objective of helping craftspeople regain their place in the economic mainstream, in a country where the craft sector is second only to agriculture in providing employment.
Chitrakala Mahotsav is a humble attempt to celebrate the diversity of Indian art and the magnanimity of Indian Crafts from all across the nation. The Museum intends to create this fair for Tribal and Folk artists and craftsmen, and give the audiences an opportunity to indulge in the company of Indian artists, art lovers and art enthusiasts.
Indulge in the festivities for a weekend this February 8th-10th at KNMA, Saket. 11:00 am- 7:00 pm
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Email: knma@hcl.com
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“Search WWW” (2019 Drama): Cast & Summary
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May 27, 2019 · Updated : Nov 26, 2019 · 40,004 Views · 2
Here is a romantic comedy that has an interesting plot.
Im SooJung is the lead actress. She previously acted in dramas such as “Chicago Typewriter” (2017). Jang KiYong is the lead actor. He previously acted in dramas such as “It’s Okay, That’s Love”, “The Liar and His Lover”, “The Boy Next Door”, “Come and Hug Me“, and “Kill It“.
Lee DaHee (“I Can Hear Your Voice”, “The Beauty Inside” and more) and Jeon HyeJin (“Mother” and more) are also the main actresses.
The theme is on career women in the IT industry showing their love stories and their work.
Here is more information.
Search WWW (2019)
Title: Search WWW/Geomsaegeoreul Ipryeokhaseyo WWW/검색어를 입력하세요 WWW
Director: Jung JiHyun, Kwon YoungIl
Writer: Kwon DoEun
Network: tvN
Runtime: From June 5
# of Episodes: –
The story of women who are working confidently for web portal companies who are leading the trends and of men who make their heart beat. It tells their real romance.
Im SooJung as Bae TaMi
38 years old. She is the director general of the service department at a famous web portal company Unicorn. The IT company had been in a big trouble not long ago and she was used to try to stop it.
She likes to win and she is confident in winning. However, these days all her accomplishments do not look good to her. She doesn’t know why but she somehow feels like she wants to resign and moves to another life.
Jang KiYong as Park MoKun
28 years old. He is the CEO of Millim Sound. His name is Morgan Park Taylor. His birth mother had no other choice but to send him to adoption. He was adopted abroad.
When he was in middle school, in Korea, there was this girl who always wanted to win and who he was curious about. He became her protector.
When he got back to Korea, he got a job at a game company after he graduated university from Applied Music Department. He didn’t like the way the company was running, so he created his own company with his friend. The first company went bankrupt in one year. The second company is not failing.
Lee DaHee as Cha Hyun
37 years old. She is the director general of the social department at Baro company. She is a fan of makjang dramas, she watches them every morning. She is good at sports and has a healthy body. She looks cold and rational but is boiling inside
Jeon HyeJin as Song KaKyung
39 years old. She is the CEO of a famous web portal company Unicorn.
She has been married for 10 years. She has no kids. She had an arranged marriage with no love but she is not unfortunate. For her, her work at the company is more important.
Here is one teaser.
Here are the official posters.
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I love how it is smartly written. I enjoy the dialogues and the maturity of almost all of the characters when in arguing. And it is wonderfully shot. The cinematography and editing is really good. hmmmm. I am biased towards Im Soo Jeong, so she do no wrong in my eyes – an exceptional actress.
This drama will be a HIT!!! GOD BLESS…
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SNP Government Reaffirms Intention to Retain Uniform Business Rates
£100 Million Investment Milestone for Building Scotland Fund
Tories Afraid of Scotland's Right to Choose
Fireworks Action Plan Launched
Rates Relief for Retailers running Deposit Return Scheme
£9.3 Million Funding for Improvements to GP Practices in Scotland
SNP Government to Establish National Centre for Remote, Rural and Island Care
Scam Prevention
FMQ on Trans Women in Female-only Prisons
Oil Flows from North Sea’s Mariner Development
Oil has begun to flow from the biggest development project in the North Sea in a decade.
More than 300 million barrels of oil are expected to be produced over the next 30 years from the Mariner field which lies 95 miles east of Shetland.
It is expected to produce annual average plateau rates of around 55,000 barrels of oil per day and up to 70,000 barrels at peak production.
The development will support more than 700 jobs and generate significant revenue in the supply chain for many years to come.
Two months ago Treasury figures showed that oil and gas drove the value of Scotland's exports to the EU up by 18.6% over the last year.
Anders Opedal, Executive Vice President for Technology, Projects and Drilling at Equinor, said:
"By gathering and interpreting new seismic data we have improved our understanding of the oil reservoirs.
"This has resulted in fewer and better placed wells and increased resources since the project was sanctioned in 2012.
"With the significant volumes in place, we see clear potential to further increase oil recovery from the Mariner field and will proactively seek opportunities to do so through the application of new technology, additional drilling and future tie back opportunities.
"With the start-up of Mariner, we have delivered one of the most complex developments in the North Sea.
"We will continue to apply digital solutions and new technology to deliver safe and efficient operations and optimize production."
Kenneth Gibson MSP commented:
“With climate change it is important that Scotland priorities the development of renewable energy, so that a complete switch from fossil fuels can eventually be made. However, with that reality potentially still decades away, it is important that we continue to utilise our own oil and gas, rather than import from the Middle East or other unstable areas of the globe.
“UK Government has long sold Scotland short and downplayed the oil and gas sector, while continuing to syphon off revenues for the Treasury.
“As many of our industries like our food and tourism sectors continue to thrive, Scotland is clearly a wealthy country even without oil and gas. Nevertheless, these resources should benefit everyone in Scotland.
“The only way to ensure our valuable natural resources are protected, rather than exploited by Westminster, is through independence.”
Kenneth Gibson MSP
Scottish Oil
Scottish Economy
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With its extensive programme of public events in Florence, Berlin and elsewhere, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz sees itself as a forum for lively, international and interdisciplinary academic exchange. The Institute makes its research findings accessible to the public in exhibitions and publications. Through calls for papers, research fellowships and job opportunities, it aims to promote collaboration with academics from around the world.
With its programme of events and exhibitions, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz sees itself as a forum for academic exchange. Through its calls for papers, fellowships and job opportunities, it aims to foster academic collaboration.
The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz is a research institute of the Max Planck Society dedicated to the history of art and architecture. Its main areas of focus are the art and visual culture of Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean sphere in the global context. It is particularly committed to supporting, advancing and networking international young academics.
The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz is a Max Planck Institute dedicated to researching the history of art and architecture. Its main areas of focus are the art and visual culture of Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean in the global context.
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The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz positions itself as a laboratory of basic research in art history in dialogue with other disciplines. This includes questions related to the professional ethics of art history, the relationship between ethics and architecture, and the concern for cultural heritage. Projects at the Institute look e.g. at transcultural dynamics in the Mediterranean, European and global context, at urban and visual spaces, the history of knowledge and museology, photography and its archives, art history and ecology, the work of Leonardo da Vinci, image/language constellations, image and law, and with discourses on image and object.
The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz positions itself as a laboratory of basic art-historical research. This includes questions related to the ethics of art history and the relationship between ethics and architecture, and the concern for cultural heritage.
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The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz issues a range of individual and serial publications, through which it makes its research findings accessible to the public. The Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz is one of the oldest and most prestigious art-historical journals worldwide. Research reports provide information about the Institute's activities and about the academic projects of its staff and fellows.
The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz issues a range of individual and serial publications, as well as a specialist journal and research reports, through which it makes its research findings accessible to the public.
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German Edition of the 'Vite' of Giorgio Vasari
In its function as archive and work tool, the Library, with its collections and working conditions, forms the most important basis of academic study for members of the Institute and guests. Both historical and current specialist literature from various disciplines is available for consultation by an international community of researchers. With its elaborate cataloguing and indexing system, the Library also makes a significant contribution towards assuring the quality of the research conducted at the institute.
In its function as archive and work tool, the Library with its collections forms the most important basis of academic study. Both historical and current specialist literature is available for consultation.
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The Photothek is one of the most important collections of documentary photographs of Italian art and architecture. As a research facility and laboratory, it plays a leading role in the international and transdisciplinary debate on the function of photo archives in 21st-century research and societies. Its daily tasks, such as photo campaigns, cataloguing and digitization, are inseparably linked with its scholarly activities. With its projects, conferences, workshops and publications, the Photothek makes an active contribution to the academic life of the Institute.
The Photothek is one of the most important collections of documentary photographs of Italian art. As a research laboratory, it contributes to the international and transdisciplinary debate on the role of photo archives in the 21st century.
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Studium der Kunstgeschichte, Renaissance-Studien und Anglistik an den Universitäten Trier, Bonn und Florenz. 2018 Abschluss des Masterstudiums in Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Bonn sowie des binationalen Masters in Renaissance-Studien/Studi sul Rinascimento Europeo an den Universitäten Bonn und Florenz mit einer Arbeit zum Florenzaufenthalt Peter Paul Rubens' und dessen Michelangelorezeption. 2019 Aufnahme des von Prof. Dr. Birgit Ulrike Münch betreuten Promotionsprojekts "Mythos Künstlerreise? Künstlermobilität zwischen Süd und Nord im vormodernen Europa" innerhalb des trinationalen Graduiertenkollegs "Gründungsmythen Europas in Literatur, Kunst und Musik" an den Universitäten Bonn, Florenz und Paris-Sorbonne. Seit 2015 freie Mitarbeiterin im Digitalisierungsprojekt des Rara-Bestands der Bibliothek des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz.
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Cannetille
Canetille
Pink Topaz & Chrysoberyl Cannetille Gold Cross c.1830.
Cannetille is a close relative of filigree work. It typically features fine gold wires or thinly hammered sheets. Jewelry with cannetille was very popular in the 1820’s and 1830’s. Motifs included tendrils, scrolls, coils, beehives and spider-like rosette ornaments. Jewelry featuring cannetille was often embellished with granulation and thinly stamped metals. In the early days of cannetille, stamped metals were typically disk-shaped; floral and shell motifs later became popular. Colorful gemstones tend to embellish the pieces: Brazilian aquamarine, pink topaz, amethyst, and chrysoberyl. In central Europe, jewelers also used garnets (from Turnau, Czech Republic), turquoise and opals. In England, rubies were not uncommon. 1 Most of these stones were relatively inexpensive, at least compared to diamonds, and this fitted the trend of creating jewelry at a minimum expense. Usually, the stones were set in closed backs and foiled at the back to create a more uniform hue. Very unusual pieces have open settings and pieces set with diamonds and enamel.
The Rise and Fall of Cannetille Jewels
Cannetille work was inspired by embroidery, reputedly the embroidery found in traditional peasant garments. Some sources mention 18th century Portugal or India as a source, some mention France. The simple filigree tendrils that started to appear in the fashion and jewelry world around 1820 transformed into cannetille during the following decade. One can find cannetille work from almost every European nation during the 1820’s and 1830’s.
On one hand, the rise of cannetille is explained by the “gold poverty” of the early nineteenth century. After the Napoleonic wars, precious metals were extremely scarce on the European continent. The economy was crippled in the early 1800’s and even the upper classes struggled to survive the depression. Nonetheless, grand jewelry was in fashion. Cannetille jewels could be very large, but used only a small amount of gold. Though they were typically quite labor intensive (goldsmiths fabricated the intricate wire work completely by hand), the jewels were kept affordable by low labor costs.
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Cannetille Bracelet Clasp c. 1830.
On the other hand, cannetille jewelry tapped into a particular aesthetic urge– part nostalgic, part romantic– running through Europe at the time. In France, as the Bourbon monarchs returned to the throne in 1814, jewelry from pre-revolutionary days, in particular, the Louis XVI style worn by Marie Antoinette, became fashionable again. In Germany, scions of the literature and arts like Goethe and Novalis celebrated nature and the infinite, nodding to a distant, more authentic past. With its strong connection to the traditional garb worn by women in rural areas, cannetille fit nicely with this new aesthetic mood. It is likely that city dwellers were exposed to such garments during their jaunts to country feast days.
As suddenly as cannetille work emerged in jewelry fashion, it disappeared. The height of cannetille jewelry in civil fashion is around 1830 and when no other clues are present to properly date these pieces – as hallmarks, invoices or other provenance – they are dated as ca. 1830.
Early Examples of Cannetille
In Moscow’s Hermitage, there is a silver toilet service from the collection of Catherine the Great which was made around 1740-1750 in China (possibly from Canton). Although it mainly features filigree work, the piece shows early signs of cannetille decorations. In particular, it features a delicate spider-web “over stitching” around a small stamped circular dome, a design which would became popular later in the 19th century.
Kinds of Cannetille
One can divide cannetille work into two categories based on fabrication method:
Thread cannetille – The main body of the jewel is created from very fine gold threads of high alloy on which other ornaments were soldered. These pieces are very lightweight.
Plate cannetile – Instead of creating a framework of threads, the main body is made from a very thin plate which was, usually, worked open (à jour) on which the ornaments were soldered. This was used especially for larger jewelry objects.
Cannetille is different from filigree in the way that the ornaments in the former are 3-dimensional (such a twisted coils or springs) with some repousse work while the filigree work is primarily flat. The overall body of filigree work may be enclosing a space, yet the ornaments themselves (like tendrils) are 2-dimensional.
Very convincing replicas of cannetille work (from ca. 1830) are fabricated in Turkey and probably in the UK as well. These can fool even some of the best of jewelry experts in the field, especially when they have been worn for several years (giving them some wear and tear “life”.2 The peasant cannetille variety is also still produced today, but mainly to serve an audience who uses them still in folklore tradition and are usually fully disclosed as newly made.
Bennett, David & Daniela Mascetti. Understanding Jewellery. Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1989. ISBN 1851494308 (3rd edition, 2007)
Huibers, Jef. Twee eeuwen sieraden. Schoonhoven, The Netherlands: De Vakschool.
Amstel-Bos, E.G.G van. Sieraden uit de negentiende eeuw. Lochem, The Netherlands: De Tijdstroom, 1981
Romero, Christie. Warman’s Jewelry. Iola, WI, USA: Krause Publications, 2002
Möller, Renate. Schmuck. Munich, Germany: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1998
Marquardt, Brigitte. Schmuck, Klassizismus und Biedermeier 1780-1850 Deutschland, Osterreich, Schweiz. Verlag Kunst & Antiquitaten GmbH, Munich, Germany, 1982. ISBN 3921811260
Newman, Harold. An illustrated dictionary of jewelry, London: Thames and Hudson, 1990. ISBN 0500274525
Catalogue. “Des Dorelotiers aux Passementeriers”, Musée de Arts Décoratiefs, Paris, 1973
Tas, J. Viertalig Textiel-woordenboek voor de vakhandel. Misset N.V. Doetichem, The Netherlands, 1952
Donzel, Catherine. L’art de la passementerie: Et sa contribution a l’histoire de la mode et de la decoration. Chene, France. 1992 ISBN 2851087762
Thanks go out to the people of the Textile Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands for providing an endless stream of books; Piet Minderhout and Klaas Akkerman for providing valuable additional information.
Pers. comm. with Klaas Akkerman
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Think of this as a fun and casual interview, where he gets to know more about you, your loved one and your personal love story, or about your mission & purpose. This is like a secret, undercover mission between you and Lawrence.
2. Then, Lawrence will compose the melody of the song and write the lyrics. This is like a rough draft. He will contact you half way through the song. You listen to the song, review the lyrics over email, and upon your approval, Lawrence takes the next step.
3. Your song is recorded, edited, mixed, and mastered in the recording studio.
4. We will gift wrap the hard copy CD, case and lyric sheet. Even better, we can add an exclusive music industry custom song plaque with the lyrics forever engraved with the CD to look just like a "platinum album" tribute to you! (This is an extra expense)
We will also send you an MP3 version of the song and you can give them the gift in all its wrapped glory, or send them a surprise email with the MP3 included.
5. Now for the best part! If you want to make this EVEN MORE personal, Lawrence will sing and unveil your song LIVE at your event in front of your audience!
6. Your audience falls in love with the song, everyone sings it together, and you feel like a rock star!
We want you to be excited about the possibility of having your very own song. In fact, this is MORE THAN a song, it's an unforgettable experience that you will remember for the rest of your life.
Lawrence takes a VERY limited number of clients per year, so plan ahead and reserve your order well in advance.
Should you have any questions or simply want to get started, send an email to lawrence@lawrencelynnmusic.com with "Custom Song" in the subject line.
Lawrence has written songs on request, one of which was for a theme song for a motion picture, for which he composed the music for the lyrics written by Bara Byrnes - "The Wisdom Is Shown (Memoryman)". The producer of the movie still raves about it every time he talks to Lawrence.
Another song with lyrics written by Fred Porter (who requested that Lawrence compose the music and record the song) is "Saturday in South Carolina". This song is a favorite at Lawrence's concerts.
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$3,147 per song. Radio quality version
With bonus of a custom video of the song ($300 value) for investing all at once
6 month installment plan available (Click on "Subscribe")
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Patent Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. P-4)
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Use of Patents by Government (continued)
Marginal note:Appeal
19.2 Any decision made by the Commissioner under section 19 or 19.1 is subject to appeal to the Federal Court.
1993, c. 44, s. 191
Marginal note:Regulations
19.3 (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the purpose of implementing, in relation to patents, Article 1720 of the Agreement.
Marginal note:Definition of Agreement
(2) In subsection (1), Agreement has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act .
Government Owned Patents
Marginal note:Assignment to Minister of National Defence
20 (1) Any officer, servant or employee of the Crown or of a corporation that is an agent or servant of the Crown, who, acting within the scope of his duties and employment, invents any invention in instruments or munitions of war shall, if so required by the Minister of National Defence, assign to that Minister on behalf of Her Majesty all the benefits of the invention and of any patent obtained or to be obtained for the invention.
Marginal note:Idem
(2) Any person other than a person described in subsection (1) who invents an invention described in that subsection may assign to the Minister of National Defence on behalf of Her Majesty all the benefits of the invention and of any patent obtained or to be obtained for the invention.
Marginal note:Inventor entitled to compensation
(3) An inventor described in subsection (2) is entitled to compensation for an assignment to the Minister of National Defence under this Act and in the event that the consideration to be paid for the assignment is not agreed on, it is the duty of the Commissioner to determine the amount of the consideration, which decision is subject to appeal to the Federal Court.
Marginal note:Proceedings before Federal Court
(4) Proceedings before the Federal Court under subsection (3) shall be held in camera on request made to the court by any party to the proceedings.
Marginal note:Vesting on assignment
(5) An assignment to the Minister of National Defence under this Act effectually vests the benefits of the invention and patent in the Minister of National Defence on behalf of Her Majesty, and all covenants and agreements therein contained for keeping the invention secret and otherwise are valid and effectual, notwithstanding any want of valuable consideration, and may be enforced accordingly by the Minister of National Defence.
Marginal note:Person making assignment and person having knowledge thereof
(6) Any person who has made an assignment to the Minister of National Defence under this section, in respect of any covenants and agreements contained in such assignment for keeping the invention secret and otherwise in respect of all matters relating to that invention, and any other person who has knowledge of such assignment and of such covenants and agreements, shall be, for the purposes of the Security of Information Act , deemed to be persons having in their possession or control information respecting those matters that has been entrusted to them in confidence by any person holding office under Her Majesty, and the communication of any of that information by the first mentioned persons to any person other than one to whom they are authorized to communicate with, by or on behalf of the Minister of National Defence, is an offence under section 4 of the Security of Information Act .
Marginal note:Minister may submit application for patent
(7) Where any agreement for an assignment to the Minister of National Defence under this Act has been made, the Minister of National Defence may submit an application for patent for the invention to the Commissioner, with the request that it be examined for patentability, and if the application is found allowable may, before the grant of any patent thereon, certify to the Commissioner that, in the public interest, the particulars of the invention and of the manner in which it is to be worked are to be kept secret.
Marginal note:Secret application
(8) If the Minister of National Defence so certifies, the application and specification, with the drawing, if any, and any amendment of the application, and any copies of those documents and the drawing and the patent granted thereon shall be placed in a packet sealed by the Commissioner under authority of the Minister of National Defence.
Marginal note:Custody of secret application
(9) The packet described in subsection (8) shall, until the expiration of the term during which a patent for the invention may be in force, be kept sealed by the Commissioner, and shall not be opened except under the authority of an order of the Minister of National Defence.
Marginal note:Delivery of secret application
(10) The packet described in subsection (8) shall be delivered at any time during the continuance of the patent to any person authorized by the Minister of National Defence to receive it, and shall, if returned to the Commissioner, be kept sealed by him.
Marginal note:Delivery to Minister
(11) On the expiration of the term of the patent, the packet described in subsection (8) shall be delivered to the Minister of National Defence.
Marginal note:Revocation
(12) No proceeding by petition or otherwise lies to have declared invalid or void a patent granted for an invention in relation to which a certificate has been given by the Minister of National Defence under subsection (7), except by permission of the Minister.
Marginal note:Prohibition of publication and inspection
(13) No copy of any specification or other document or drawing in respect of an invention and patent, by this section required to be placed in a sealed packet, shall in any manner whatever be published or open to the inspection of the public, but, except as otherwise provided in this section, this Act shall apply in respect of the invention and patent.
Marginal note:Waiver by Minister
(14) The Minister of National Defence may at any time waive the benefit of this section with respect to any particular invention, and the specification, documents and drawing relating thereto shall thereafter be kept and dealt with in the regular way.
Marginal note:Rights protected
(15) No claim shall be allowed in respect of any infringement of a patent that occurred in good faith during the time that the patent was kept secret under this section, and any person who, before the publication of the patent, had in good faith done any act that, but for this subsection would have given rise to a claim, is entitled, after the publication, to obtain a licence to manufacture, use and sell the patented invention on such terms as may, in the absence of agreement between the parties, be settled by the Commissioner or by the Federal Court on appeal from the Commissioner.
Marginal note:Communication to Minister
(16) The communication of any invention for any improvement in munitions of war to the Minister of National Defence, or to any person or persons authorized by the Minister of National Defence to investigate the invention or the merits thereof, shall not, nor shall anything done for the purposes of the investigation, be deemed use or publication of the invention so as to prejudice the grant or validity of any patent for the invention.
Marginal note:Order to keep non-assigned application secret
(17) The Governor in Council, if satisfied that an invention relating to any instrument or munition of war, described in any specified application for patent not assigned to the Minister of National Defence, is vital to the defence of Canada and that the publication of a patent therefor should be prevented in order to preserve the safety of the State, may order that the invention and application and all the documents relating thereto shall be treated for all purposes of this section as if the invention had been assigned or agreed to be assigned to the Minister of National Defence.
Marginal note:Rules
(18) The Governor in Council may make rules for the purpose of ensuring secrecy with respect to applications and patents to which this section applies and generally to give effect to the purpose and intent thereof.
R.S., 1985, c. P-4, s. 20
2001, c. 41, s. 36
Marginal note:Agreement between Canada and other government
21 Where by any agreement between the Government of Canada and any other government it is provided that the Government of Canada will apply section 20 to inventions disclosed in any application for a patent assigned or agreed to be assigned by the inventor to that other government, and the Commissioner is notified by any minister of the Crown that the agreement extends to an invention in a specified application, the application and all the documents relating thereto shall be dealt with as provided in section 20, except subsections (3) and (4), as if the invention had been assigned or agreed to be assigned to the Minister of National Defence.
R.S., c. P-4, s. 21
Use of Patents for International Humanitarian Purposes to Address Public Health Problems
Marginal note:Purpose
21.01 The purpose of sections 21.02 to 21.2 is to give effect to Canada’s and Jean Chrétien’s pledge to Africa by facilitating access to pharmaceutical products to address public health problems afflicting many developing and least-developed countries, especially those resulting from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other epidemics.
2004, c. 23, s. 1
Marginal note:Definitions
21.02 The definitions in this section apply in this section and in sections 21.03 to 21.19.
authorization means an authorization granted under subsection 21.04(1), and includes an authorization renewed under subsection 21.12(1). (autorisation)
General Council means the General Council of the WTO established by paragraph 2 of Article IV of the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, signed at Marrakesh on April 15, 1994. (Conseil général)
General Council Decision
General Council Decision means the decision of the General Council of August 30, 2003 respecting Article 31 of the TRIPS Agreement, including the interpretation of that decision in the General Council Chairperson’s statement of that date. (décision du Conseil général)
patented product means a product the making, constructing, using or selling of which in Canada would infringe a patent in the absence of the consent of the patentee. (produit breveté)
pharmaceutical product
pharmaceutical product means any patented product listed in Schedule 1 in, if applicable, the dosage form, the strength and the route of administration specified in that Schedule in relation to the product. (produit pharmaceutique)
TRIPS Agreement
TRIPS Agreement means the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, being Annex 1C of the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, signed at Marrakesh on April 15, 1994. (Accord sur les ADPIC)
TRIPS Council
TRIPS Council means the council referred to in the TRIPS Agreement. (Conseil des ADPIC)
WTO means the World Trade Organization established by Article I of the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, signed at Marrakesh on April 15, 1994. (OMC)
Patent Act
1 - Short Title
2 - Interpretation
2.1 - Her Majesty
3 - Patent Office and Officers
12 - Rules and Regulations
13 - Seal
14 - Proof of Patents
15 - Patent Agents
17 - Appeals
19 - Use of Patents by Government
20 - Government Owned Patents
21.01 - Use of Patents for International Humanitarian Purposes to Address Public Health Problems
22 - Patents Relating to Nuclear Energy
23 - General
27 - Application for Patents
31 - Joint Applications
32 - Improvements
34.1 - Filing of Prior Art
35 - Examination
36 - Divisional Applications
37 - Biological Materials
38.2 - Amendments to Specifications and Drawings
40 - Refusal of Patents
42 - Grant of Patents
43 - Form and Term of Patents
47 - Reissue of Patents
48 - Disclaimers
48.1 - Re-examination
49 - Transfers
52.1 - Standard-Essential Patents
53 - Legal Proceedings in Respect of Patents
54 - Infringement
60 - Impeachment
62 - Judgments
64 - Conditions
73 - Abandonment and Reinstatement of Applications
74 - Offences and Punishment
76.2 - Written Demands
77 - Miscellaneous Matters
78.1 - Transitional Provisions
79 - Patented Medicines
79 - Interpretation
80 - Pricing Information
83 - Excessive Prices
88 - Sales and Expense Information
90 - Inquiries
91 - Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
101 - Regulations
102 - Meetings with Minister
103 - Agreements with Provinces
104 - Supplementary Protection for Inventions — Medicinal Ingredients
104 - Interpretation
106 - Application for Certificate of Supplementary Protection
113 - Certificate of Supplementary Protection
118 - Transfer
119 - Administrative Matters
123 - Use of Certificates of Supplementary Protection by Government
123.1 - Legal Proceedings in Respect of Certificates of Supplementary Protection
124 - Infringement and Impeachment
127 - Abuse of Rights
129 - General
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Are Jellies & Preserves Vegan?
By Zoe Van-de-Velde
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Being a vegetarian or vegan shouldn't mean that you miss out on tasty jellies and preserves. Vegan food shouldn't be boring, tasteless or unappetizing. The vegan diet can be as varied and as interesting as you make it.
Jelly is not usually vegan as it contains gelatin which is essentially made from beef bones, hides and pork skin. It is used as a thickening agent which makes the jelly "set." Most jelly crystals or cubes contain this substance. Vegan jelly can be purchased or made using agar-agar as a substitute. This product is derived from seaweed and has thickening and setting properties.
Most preserves (or jams) are vegan-friendly as the method of preservation is the addition of sugar and pectin to the product. Pectin is found naturally in fruit. Fruit with a higher pectin content include blackberries, plums, grapes and citrus fruits. Fruits, such as strawberries, blueberries and cherries, have a lower pectin content. Lemon juice can be added to these fruits to raise the pectin level. Pectin can also be bought in powdered form and as a liquid extract.
Always check the label on any jelly, jam or preserve you buy. Many of them will be completely vegan and you will not have to visit the health store to buy these goods. If you are good at cooking, making your own vegan jellies and preserves is a great way to ensure a fully vegan product.
BBC UK: Food Agar-agar
BBC UK: Food Pectin
VRG: Veganism In A Nutshell: The Vegetarian Resource Group
Zoe Van-de-Velde began writing in 1990 and contributes to eHow and Answerbag. Van-de-Velde has a Bachelor of Arts & Humanities in media and English from DeMontfort University. She is currently studying for a Master of Arts in creative media arts specializing in digital photography at the London South Bank University.
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New outdoor LED luminaires from Sentry Electric to launch at Lightfair 2011
Freeport, NY – Sentry Electric, one of North America’s most experienced and knowledgeable manufacturers of outdoor LED lighting luminaires, will be launching several new, innovative LED luminaire solutions at LIGHTFAIR 2011 in Philadelphia, PA. Each of the luminaires incorporates the most current light engine technology in Sentry’s time honored, historically-styled luminaire designs, thereby delivering both aesthetic appeal with the benefits of LEDs. Sentry’s LED luminaires are perfectly suited for street lighting, area lighting, and architectural applications.
The three principal systems being launched are all part of Sentry’s mainstay Tulip family of luminaires. The new designs are:
• ARA System: Individual LED modules, mounted in the top of the luminaire, utilize the contoured ARA reflector to uniformly and symmetrically distribute indirect light.
• Indirect Sloped Reflector: A single high-performance LED module, mounted in the top of the luminaire, projects light onto the internal sloped reflector, and drives out indirect light in a Type IV distribution.
• Directional LED Light Engine System: A single, top mounted, lensed LED array provides both Type V and Type II distribution. This luminaire has been utilized by the University of California at Berkeley in the first phase of a major campus relighting initiative.
Each of the Sentry LED systems will deliver a reduction in energy consumption, maintenance, and down time, which slashes the life-cost of the product and contributes to the end customer’s sustainable initiatives. The LED modules are environmentally friendly and RoHS compliant. Systems are available in a range of color temperatures with a minimum of 50,000 hours of high CRI light, flattering to people, objects and structures.
For current installations of Sentry’s family of tulip-style luminaires, retrofitting can be accomplished in the field. This helps to contain costs and insures that streets, parks, public spaces and campuses remain illuminated during the retrofit process.
“We are very excited about incorporating the latest in sustainable technology into our family of Tulip luminaires,” offers Shepard Kay, President of Sentry Electric. “Our strategy has always been to marry the best in technology with our classic luminaire designs, and provide a true, high performing, low energy consuming, and aesthetically beautiful result. Working with our technology partners, we are able to provide a standard of excellence that is consistent with our customers’ expectations.”
About Sentry Electric:
Sentry Electric is North America’s most responsive source of standard and custom, historically styled, exterior lighting, completely committed to end-to-end project success. The company’s specification grade cast iron and aluminum luminaires/lamps, bollards, poles, brackets and accessories are installed across America’s prestigious municipal street, park and university settings, including deployments at Yale University, Battery Park City in lower Manhattan, Indianapolis’ Lower Canal Park, UCLA and Ellis Island. Lighting designers and engineers, architects and urban planners all rely on the company’s commitment to end-to-end project success and its unparalleled knowledge of architecturally significant exterior lighting, honed over the past sixty years.
Sentry’s reputation for solid construction, its longevity in business and its custom design capabilities unquestionably made the company the right choice for outdoor luminaires for the recently rebuilt Yankee Stadium. The distinctive, elegant Riverside luminaire with a robust, durable cast iron pole are both standards now at the new “House That Ruth Built.” www.SentryLighting.com/ProjectGallery.asp
Sentry has produced award-winning outdoor lighting products, including the exclusive SCP Central Park tulip luminaire, the winner of a Central Park Conservancy design competition. Its rugged, cast aluminum structure meets New York City’s vandal resistance specifications. Sentry’s catalog includes a range of luminaires in a variety of styles that incorporate many different light sources, including LED, high intensity discharge (HID), compact fluorescent, induction and incandescent, for high efficiency, photometric performance, service life and energy use.
Michael Shatzkin Sentry Electric (516) 379.4660 x104 info@sentrylighting.com
E-mail:michael@sentrylighting.com
Web Site:www.sentrylighting.com
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We have a supportive group of governors who challenge and work closley with our school. We send home termly Governor Newsletters to parents, which contains important information to help you to know what the governors have been doing each term throughout school. The Newsletter also contains the dates of governors meetings.
Louise Wilson
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Mr James Spiers - Parent Governor
My name is James Spiers and I'm very proud to say that I am a Parent Governor and Health and Safety Governor at Leedstown School.
I am a family man who moved to Cornwall in 2001 from London. I live in Leedstown and I have two children that both attend Leedstown School.
When the opportunity arose to become a Parent Governor at this school, I grabbed it with both hands. Leedstown is such an amazing school and is run by a fantastic team under their Head Mrs Neale.
Caring, Sharing and Giving is our school values and the children of Leedstown certainly live up to these. I love working with the teachers and the PTA. Between us, we continue to drive improvement and in return exceeding Ofsted targets. I work closely with Mrs Wheeler and the TAs for Pre School, Reception and Year 1. I attend classes to see how the children learn and improve whilst carrying out phonics, literacy and numeracy . I also love the learning through play for Preschool children. It's obvious to see how the children get such fantastic grades. The school has strategies such as in depth reading, writing and numeracy. A seamless learning allowing children that are exceeding to continue to do so by spending time in the higher year, and also effectively supporting children that need more time and support.
A little bit about me, I joined the rail industry in 1998 and have worked in several roles throughout my career. My current role is working with the On Board Services with GWR as an Acting OBS Manager. My role looks after the newly refurbished Night Riviera service.
Within my role, I work with a small team who are working hard to achieve high standards and KPIs set by senior management. The KPIs includes things such as Health and Safety, finances, revenue and labour.
My role can be very diverse, from representing GWR with stakeholders like Cornwall Council, interviewing, testing new products or delivering training and assessing.
At GWR our first priority is safety. We also have 6 pillars of customer service;
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We work hard to keep communities prosperous, encourage dignity and respect in the workplace and promote diversity and women in rail.
For fun I also run a FaceBook page that I set up for my childhood school that I attended in Uxbridge. I now have over 500 members from all era’s.
I feel with the skills and values in my career, I have a lot to offer as a parent governor. I look
forward to helping the school go from strength to strength.
Dr Loveday Jenkin - Coopted Governor
Mrs Louise Wilson - Chair of Governors
I have two children at Leedstown School and live in the village, having moved here from London in 2014. I hope I bring a lot to the role through my professional experience in global citizenship education, and my previous experience as a pre-school Chair.
I’m a self-employed researcher and project manager, with nearly two decades experience in sustainable development and global citizenship education. I’ve worked with the education teams in organisations such as Comic Relief and the Fairtrade Foundation and have written a range of teaching and learning materials for key stages 1 to 4. I’m passionate about the role schools can play, not just in giving children solid grounding in the core subjects, but also helping them develop as active citizens, who feel empowered to play a positive role in their community and the wider world. I’m also a self-employed Personal Trainer and fitness instructor, so am passionate about encouraging and supporting children and families to stay active and lead healthy lives.
Having previously served as Chair of the pre-school, I saw through the sourcing and renovation of the Early Years hut, an Ofsted inspection that resulted in a ‘Good’ judgement and the incorporation of the pre-school into Leedstown School’s Early Years unit. The role gave me a huge appreciation for what can be achieved through the hard work of families, community members and school staff when they work together.
As a parent, I have been so impressed at the high-quality teaching and brilliant events and activities that our small school offers. I look forward to doing everything I can to ensure that our staff and leadership team have the support and resources they need to continually improve and offer our children the best educational experience possible.
Mrs Tamsin Harris - Community Governor
I have been a part of Leedstown School for over 20 years. Both of my grown up children attended the school. I feel very privileged to be a part of the school, I believe that it is a fantastic school. I have been a TA at Leedstown and have a bee keeping business that has grown and keeps me busy. I am thrilled to be able to support the school through a governors role.
Mrs Patricia Pennington - Community Governor
Having lived in Worcestershire for over 25 years and, with our two sons living abroad with their families, my husband and I decided to move back to his childhood home and be amongst his large family. We moved to Leedstown two and a half years ago and this year my son in Japan felt it would be beneficial for our grandson, who had lived in England for first four and a half years of his life, to stay with us to revitalise his English after living in Japan for nearly three years. Neil wondered if Theo could spend some time in Leedstown school during his stay, which is why the school kindly allowed Theo to join the school for the last few weeks of the summer 2019 term. Our first impression of the school was how friendly and happy the staff and children were and, once Theo settled in, we realised that the education the children were receiving was of a high quality. During his stay his spoken English improved immensely.
When I was offered the opportunity of joining the Governors, I was very happy to be able to give something back to the school. It has been a challenging start to my membership but I’m looking forward to my training and involvement.
I have taught for over 25 years in London, Kent and Worcestershire covering most ages with various responsibilities. My interests are singing, handicrafts, dogs and swimming.
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Pointe à Jérôme, Pointe à Jacquot, and Dixon Point are three fingers of land that jut out into Bouctouche Bay and were among the first sites to be settled in the area. Pointe à Jacquot was home to Bouctouche’s first Roman Catholic Church. The church burned down in 1921, but the associated convent now serves as the Kent County Museum, and the rectory/manse is now operated as Auberge le Vieux Presbytère.
A set of range lights was established on Dixon Point in 1881 to guide vessels to the entrance of Bouctouche Harbour, which lies between Dixon Point and a lengthy sand dune that shelters most of the harbour. Two years later, a second set of range lights was constructed at Pointe à Jérôme, which was also known as Church Point or Indian Point. The 1883 Annual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries provides details on the original range lights on the point.
Two range lights were established during the past season upon Church or Indian Point, on the north side of Buctouche Harbour, on the Straits of Northumberland. Both lights are fixed white catoptric, and shown from small square wooden towers 23 feet high, the front light being visible in the line of range for 9 miles and the back light for a distance of 12 miles. The lights are 660 yards apart and in range lead into the harbour through the deepest channel, clear of all obstructions, from the line of range of the Dixon Point Lights to the point where the channel turns abruptly to the westward to enter the Buctouche River.
Dosithee O. Maillet was appointed first keeper of the range lights at an annual salary of $150. When the lights were electrified in 1963, Gerald Maillet was serving as their keeper at an annual salary of $750. As an official keeper was no longer needed after electrification of the lights, Gerald Maillet’s title was changed to caretaker and his salary reduced to just $100.
The present Pointe à Jérôme Range Lights consist of a 20.7-foot-tall, square, pyramidal front tower and a 44.6-foot tall, skeletal rear tower with an enclosed upper portion. Both towers have a red, vertical stripe on the range line. The range lights were discontinued in 2014, after the Canadian Coast Guard published a notice of its intent to extinguish the range and gave mariners and other interested parties three months to comment.
Keepers: Dosithee O. Maillet (1883 – 1921), J. D. Mailett (1921 – 1922), Henry Argartine Cormier (1922 – 1955), Gerald Maillet (1955 – 1963).
Annual Report of the Department of Marine, various years.
Located just east of Bouctouche.
Latitude: 46.48663, Longitude: -64.67882
For a larger map of Pointe à Jérôme Range Front Lighthouse, click the lighthouse in the above map.
From Highway 11 in Bouctouche, take Exit 32 and travel east on Boulevard Irving. As you leave Bouctouche, the road will become Chemin Du Couvent (Route 475), which you need to follow for 3.5 km (2.2 miles). At this point, the front tower will be on the seaward side of the road and the rear tower in a field on the opposite side.
The lighthouse is owned by the Canadian Coast Guard. Grounds open, tower closed.
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What would a Corbyn victory mean for Southwark Labour?
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kellandj
Monday 14 September 2015 11.24pm
i'll go for the rejoice as well ...
dee dee
Tuesday 15 September 2015 8.03am
JasonSE1 wrote:
Rejoice, just rejoice!
A big thank you to Neil Coyle for helping to make this result possible.
Rejoyce? Really-Labour has just let the working class population of this country down big time-they have gone for an unelectable leader and the Tories will be back in power again after the next election-even the Labour MPs can see this hence the big move to distance themselves.
Despair, just despair!
dee dee wrote:
What's the point of electing a Labour government when their policies are indistinguishable from those of the Tories? It was New Labour pseudo-Toryism that lost the last election.
It was New Labour pseudo-Toryism that lost the last election. wrote:
I'm afraid if you think that was why Labour lost the last election, you might be waiting a while for them to win the next one.
spatua
It's really great news that Jeremy Corbyn has been elected leader of the Labour party. I look forward to a proper opposition over the next 5 years!!
5 years? 10 years in opposition more like
boroughonian
Tuesday 15 September 2015 12.00pm
I would prefer a Corbyn government, but I would take New Labour over the Tories any day of the week.
When Blair was getting rid of clause 4, I had a debate with an old Labour stalwart, of course he was mortified that this was happening. I said to him with great profundity, "if you had a shop and no one came to buy anything, you'd change your stock" and I firmly believed it, problem was, after a few years of Blair I was regretting my point of view.
I'm back there again, anything but more Conservatism.
Just consider, for Corbyn to win an election, he has to get Scotland and middle England back, good luck!
EDIT: Also, we have probably lost any chance of a Lib Lab coalition.
Tuesday 15 September 2015 3.58pm
Eiger wrote:
Sorry, Eiger - do you mean New Labour didn't lose the last election (on a platform of 'we'll be just as austere as the Tories but we'll cook the books to preserve the NHS') or that they might have won if they'd been even more of a gang of right-wing nonentities than they actually were?
what would a corbyn victory mean for southwark labour? packing would be very nice
Boss St Bloke
Sings the red flag loud.
Silent during our National Anthem. Sung at a service in St Paul's to honour our living WW2 RAF heroes and our war dead.
Disrespectful, repugnant and pathetic.
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barnes & webb| chris barnes
Words by Fiona Symington-Mitchell. Photos courtesy of Barnes & Webb.
IT'S a quiet time of year for Barnes & Webb. Come April, bee season will have started and any opportunity to talk to Paul Webb and Chris Barnes will be near impossible. With over 40 hives across London and each one receiving a weekly visit, there’ll be little rest for these two urban beekeepers.
Winners at the recent Urban Food Awards for Heavenly Honey, Barnes & Webb has brought a new localism to London food. They rent beehives across the city, selling the honey that they collect, while helping support the local honey bee population and our appreciation of them. Like the index of London’s famous A-Z street directory, their honey is named after the postcode from which it is collected. From EC2 (Shoreditch) to SW15 (Putney), each one varies in flavour, offering a very local taste to those who buy it.
As Paul explains: “Our N16 honey last year was very light and very floral. You could almost taste the flowers in that one. We have had other honeys like the one in Putney, which was very dark, richer and toffee-flavoured in its first year. And we have new colonies down in SW7 (Kensington). We were nominated for a couple of honey awards this year and one of the judges described that honey as tasting of elderflower and champagne.”
At present the bees are hivenating (Barnes & Webb’s term for this dormant period) with little expected activity until March, when the days become warmer. Bees stay in their hives unless it is 10-15 degrees. From April onwards, it’ll be all hands on deck with each hive being visited once a week for routine care such as cleaning, maintenance, disease control, and swarm control. This is the natural phenomenon of the colony breaking off to form a new one. Whereas in the country this is allowed to happened; in the city, 30,000 bees in mid swarm needs to be prevented. In August, they collect the honey, filter and bottle it with each hive producing up anywhere between 20-100 jars depending the season.
With growing interest in hive rental, suitability of location is key to these urban beekeepers. Describing their role, Paul shares: “We advocate sustainable urban food production. As bee farmers we have a responsibility to our colonies to ensure they are healthy and provided with the best opportunity to forage for nectar and pollen.”
So before a hive is installed, there’s a checklist of things that informs their assessment such as thoroughfares, availability of food, proximity to other hives, as well as children, pets and also people with bee allergies. The alternative to hive rentai is their adopt-a-bee scheme, where it is possible to support an existing bee colony.
So do bees have the best views of London? Given their preference for trees, Barnes & Webb say yes. As Chris tells me, “From rooftops, London bees have some great views of the city. The best would probably be the hives that we have in Shoreditch near the Old Street roundabout, and the Geffrye Museum of the Home in Hoxton, where a herb garden is nearby.”
You can buy Barnes & Webb online here or at one of their stockists.
london as a food city
There are now a huge number of new food producers with a very high level of quality and personality in their products.
food hero
Brooklyn Grange Farm in New York is a mightily impressive roof top farm that grows a large and diverse range of produce for sale to local residents. They farm sustainably and are a community-based enterprise.
how does london need to evolve as a food city
When I’m on a rooftop looking around I often see places that I think would be great for another hive. As the city gets more and more densely populated and with space at such a premium, rooftops are massively under utilised in London. We need to cultivate more unused space in London for growing. Small businesses also need support finding suitable premises in London that are scarce and expensive.
We have a lot of respect for our stockists like Lillie O’Brien's London Borough of Jam (LBJ), A.Gold in Spitalfields, and E5 Bakehouse. In terms of produce, some of our favourite London producers include The Roasting Shed coffee, LBJ’s rhubarb and cardamom jam, Fatties Salted Caramels, Fine Cider and Wildes Cheese - Napier. Eat 17 Homerton do a great bacon jam.
cookbook you can't live without
At the moment, Dutch Oven Breads by Mark Hansen.
for your address book
The Geffrye Museum of the Home, 136 Kingsland Road, E2 8EA.
Brooklyn Grange, Clinton Ave and Flushing Ave in Brooklyn.
London Borough of Jam, 51d Chatsworth Road, Clapton, E5 0LH.
A.Gold, 42 Brushfield St, London E1 6AG
E5 Bakehouse, Arch 395, Mentmore Terrace, E8 3PH
Eat 17, 64-66 Brooksby’s Walk, Homerton, E9 6DA
Fiona Symington-Mitchell is an Australian freelance writer living in London. She has published with Modern Farmer, Remedy Quarterly, Countlan magazine, Food& and de Groot Media Australia across its food guide publications.
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Lorraine Rastorfer
Painting details
2017 - group shows
2017 - Solo show
Muse Gallery - Havelock North
Cadence Communications - Auckland
Mobile Art - Auckland
Zimmerman Gallery - Palmerston North
Milford Gallery - Dunedin
Art Associates - Auckland
Paintings in homes and workplaces
Essay by Jacquie Clarke
Essay by Becky Hemus
Austrian Blood
White Ribbon (2009). Masterpiece by Austrian Film maker Michael Haneke.
My father born in Linz, Austria, stumbled across NZ because the Australian Visa office was closed. How random is that! He had to look up where it was, when they said he could go there with his friend. He slept in a car on Mt Victoria, in Wellington, enjoyed traveling the country and going on hunting trips which are a luxury in Austria. He returned to Austria and met my mother and showed her the pictures of this wonderfully promising country on the other side of the world. She comes from Leibnitz, a small town in a stunning wine growing area close to the Slovenian boarder.
My father trained as an artificial limb-maker when he left school and accepted the job and accommodation offered by the NZ government, when he applied to return. My parents arrived in NZ in 1960. My father was 25 and my mother was 20 when they sailed over and arrived in Wellington. She gave birth to my sister soon after and then I was born 13 months later.
Both my parents left school at 14, both were arty/crafty, and experienced the war as children. One of my fathers recollections of his teenage-hood is attending a Hitler rally. There are a lot of war heroes in my family. One grandfather was awarded an iron cross for crawling up the side of a tank and tossing in a hand grenade, and I recently had the medal sent to me. My other grandfather, a bee-keeper, escaped from a POW camp in Siberia and walked back to Austria, which took him a whole year.
Our household was very Austrian; gorgeous textiles, rugs, embroideries (yes, I think there is a connection there to the visual tactility of my painting), traditional folk furniture and art objects. My mother had worked as a nanny back in Austria (think governess 'Sound of Music') and excelled in all the domestic arts, especially cooking, embroidery and sewing. She also played the Zither, cultivated roses, and did amazing ikebana flower arrangements. My mother looks quite eastern European, black hair and pale skin. I always thought she was so beautiful, especially when she danced to Elvis Presley while she vacuumed. She became quite a career women in New Zealand, exhibited her needle-crafts and rugs, managed exhibitions and a embroidery shop, travelled the country giving demonstrations, and played the zither at functions. Now she's an extraordinary and passionate gardener and her efforts in Tauranga have been featured on garden trails.
My father is a master craftsman with nearly every material, especially wood, and more recently has become an exhibiting figurative sculptor with clay. He can do incredible Leonardo da Vinci type drawings of anatomy, and is really interested in the expression in human forms. He is the ultimate handyman and can make and fix anything, and I have inherited a bit of that. Also a very talented gardener, he cultivated bonsai's and made ceramic pots for them. He designed and made traditional Austrian furniture, (hollowed out hearts and turned legs) and built a lovely Chalet in our Melrose garden, shutters and wooden boxes filled with flowers, that we used to call 'the little hut'. My parents posed outside the chalet for Austrian Club invitation photo shoots in their national dress. My father was 'shuh-blattler' a dance where a team of men sing, carry out a log and chop it up, while slapping their thighs. I was in awe of that as a child.
German was my first language; apparently I didn't learn English until I went to school and then taught and corrected my parents. My Oma stayed with us a couple of times for extended periods and I remember her hilarious way of talking with her hands to explain German to my sister and I, and I sometimes think that gestural imprint soaked into me, and has played out in the way I make paintings. She taught me how to make apfel-strudel and had a very silly sense of humour that my sister and I loved her for. When I hear Austrian-German now, it's like hearing a nursery rhyme you haven't heard since you were 4, and it makes me feel very strange. So I can understand spoken German really well and like to practice speaking from time to time but have very little occasion to. I try to see every contemporary Austrian film that comes out. I love the complex psychology in their filmmaking, which is so different to the tourist representations and the ideas about the 'home country' I had growing up. I spent a year in Austria, in my twenties, working in ski resorts and that really gave me a perspective on what was 'Austrian' and what was just my parents personalities, as I really found it hard to distinguish between the two.
So I am a first generation NZer, and that's tough, very little extended family, and no historical roots to any particular location. I sometimes feel I don't really understand the subtleties of this culture, which for those born here is a childhood osmosis of learning about what the right thing to say and do is, at a particular time. Our family culture was very direct, demonstrative, expressive. We observed traditions like Christmas on the 24th and ate very European food. I have learned that I am more Austrian than I thought in relation to others born here, but have always considered myself a kiwi through and through.
I think there is significant Austrian cultural influence in my work. I see it in the baroque romanticism that I love, a kind of serious aesthetic, an intensity which appears different to some NZ sensibilities, a love of a 'richness' that isn't about Pacific relaxed ways, light and song. I also hope that some of the refined elegance that I admired so much living for a couple of years in Japan has also permeated my painting practice. I definitely inherited the work ethic of an immigrant, and I am a willing slave to art.
I'm a New Zealand based artist musing about my painting practice and sometimes life in general.
Contemporary Abstract Painting
New Zealand Artist
Painting Practice
Copyright © 2018 Lorraine Rastorfer
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RAF engineer opens up about tragic Red Arrow accident
Corporal David Morris was the first person to reach Fl Lt Sean Cunningham after his ejector seat fired by accident
Matthew LodgeTrainee Reporter
David Morris (Image: Help for Heroes)
A former Red Arrows engineer has spoken of his struggles with PTSD after witnessing a colleague die in a tragic accident.
Corporal David Morris was serving as a survival equipment specialist with the Reds when he witnessed a tragic incident at RAF Scampton which left claimed the life of Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham.
Fl Lt Cunningham was killed on November 8, 2011, when he was ejected from his cockpit while the plane was on the tarmac at the airbase.
"His ejection seat went off and I was the first one to get to him," David said. "I suffered a lot - I didn't realised what it was initially but later I was diagnosed with PTSD."
David with his daughter Katie and son Matthew (Image: David Morris)
David, who is from Sleaford, said the incident left him struggling to cope day-to-day and left greatly altered his personality.
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"When I had to leave for work I would leave it five minutes because I didn't want something bad to happen in those five minutes I'd be at work," he said.
"Then I would leave it five minutes later and that escalated to half an hour and then I would just call in sick."
This continued while David worked on an airbase in Cyprus where he helped people returning from conflicts in the Middle East readjust to civilian life.
"My guys that were working for me noticed I wasn't doing well," he said. "I was having nightmares, I was crying in my sleep.
David Morris with his partner Sam (Image: David Morris)
"All of my family noticed me change greatly. I turned to alcohol - I would be the person who drank too much at family get togethers, that's when they realised I was a completely different person. I was grumpy and snappy.
"I became scared of my own shadow - the anxiety was too much."
Since his diagnosis and receiving help David has found himself in a better place, and is set to vice captain Team UK at the Invictus Games next year and compete in the athletics, rowing and powerlifting.
Flt Lt Sean Cunningham Red Arrows.
"If you believe you can do something then why not give it a try," he said.
"I want to be able to manage that level of anxiety which still plays a massive part in blocking me from achieving simple goals, and can often be debilitating, through raising my self-confidence to a point where I actually believe that I can do something without thinking worst case scenario and giving in before I have even tried.
"I hope this will have a positive impact on my children who, on more than one occasion, have missed out on activities because I have suffered panic and anxiety problems."
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The company will establish a sustainability committee that will have the power to stop or escalate projects (Bloomberg)
Siemens snubs Greta Thunberg's appeal, says will honor Adani coal mine contract
1 min read . Updated: 13 Jan 2020, 05:53 AM IST Bloomberg
Siemens AG said it intends to honor a controversial contract to supply signaling systems to an Australian coal mine, defying the demands of activists that protested at locations in Germany on Friday.
Greta ThunbergSiemensJoe KaeserAdani Mine
The company will establish a sustainability committee that will have the power to stop or escalate projects, but the company will ultimately continue with the Adani contract, Chief Executive Officer Joe Kaeser said in a statement on Sunday.
“I do realize, most of you would have hoped for more," Kaeser said in the statement. “While I do have a lot of empathy for environmental matters, I do need to balance different interests of different stakeholders."
Fridays for Future activists, including Greta Thunberg, had targeted Siemens to renounce the contract for months and not work with Adani Power Ltd. on the planned Carmichael coal mine in Queensland.
“Siemens’ announcement that it will continue working on Adani’s coal mine while bushfires rage in Australia is nothing short of shameful," environmental lobby group Australian Conservation Foundation said in a statement. “The company has shown its true colours with this decision. It has a climate change policy, but it is hollow and empty."
Kaeser had met with German activist Luisa Neubauer on Friday, and in private talks offered the 23-year-old a seat on the supervisory board of Siemens Energy, which she turned down. Siemens Energy creates gas turbines and wind turbines, while the Adani contract will be supplied by Siemens Mobility, a different division.
Protesters had also camped out at Siemens locations, including a 24-hour protest in front of the company’s headquarters in Munich.
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Asha Jadeja Motwani
Indian bureaucracy is damaging the Indian start-up ecosystem
2 min read . Updated: 09 Jan 2020, 09:20 AM IST Nandita Mathur
Venture capitalist Asha Jadeja Motwani speaks about the India Tech Park at CES Las Vegas and what she thinks of the Indian start-up ecosystem
ces-2019 Asha Jadeja MotwaniStart-up
Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist Asha Jadeja Motwani is showcasing India’s consumer electronic systems start-ups at the India Tech Park, at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Motwani speaks about the India Tech Park and what she thinks of the Indian start-up ecosystem. Edited excerpts:
1- What is the purpose behind launching India Tech Park at CES2020?
India Tech Park is a platform for Indian start-ups working towards a sustainable future utilizing technological innovation and creating products that tackle global problems. When I visited CES last year, there was no official representation from India. As a member of Indian diaspora, I decided to take up the initiative and showcase Indian start-ups on to a global platform.
2- What are your views on the start-up ecosystem in India?
The startup ecosystem in India is still evolving. The promise shown by Indian start-ups is incredible. Buoyed by bold, fresh economic policies and reduced red tape, Indian startups can truly lead the world and can contribute to the goal of a $5 trillion economy by 2025 and even overshoot it to reach a $10 trillion economy if nurtured and supported well.
The government has taken a lot of initiatives to provide a push to the startup culture in the country but the international exposure to start-ups is still relatively low. Also, I feel that the Indian bureaucracy is stifling and damaging the Indian start-up ecosystem by flushing down billions of rupees on useless buildings (which they call incubators).
To see them flourish, it is important for the government to pull bureaucracy out of the Indian start-up ecosystem.
3- How can Indian start-ups go global?
The only way to pave the way for the Indian start-ups to the global platforms is by making the ecosystem free from babus and babudom. We are really fortunate that our PM is very bullish on Indian start-ups but ends up handing over the whole ecosystem to his bureaucrats. He must be advised to free up billions of rupees that we are wasting on IT bureaucracies and hand over that money to the people who have created and funded dozens of successful start-ups before so that they can develop more start-ups which are actually fruitful.
4- What can the government do to boost the Indian start-ups?
The government should involve highly successful diaspora members to take charge of the Indian start-ups. The diaspora members have global exposure, and can guide the start-ups well. The Indian bureaucracy should be kept out as they are not helping start-ups to connect with the Valley directly. Instead they keep sending babus to foreign countries which yields no results except wasting tax payers’ money.
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Microsoft Launches Official 'Cortana' App for iOS and Android Devices
Wednesday December 9, 2015 8:20 AM PST by Mitchel Broussard
Microsoft today officially launched its virtual assistant Cortana as a downloadable app for iOS and Android platforms (via Business Insider). Similar to Apple's Siri personal assistant, Cortana allows Windows users to set reminders, preview the weather, and answer basic questions thanks to integrated internet search abilities. Other Cortana for iOS and Android features include the following:
•Set and get location and time reminders across your PC and phone.
•Track packages, flights, scores, stocks, and other important info across your PC and phone.
•Use Cortana’s Notebook to view, edit and manage your interests
•Get information and answers to all kinds of questions. If you’re looking for it, Cortana can help find it.
•Have a little fun in your down time — ask anything, get jokes, and much more.
Microsoft detailed a few features for Cortana at Business Insider's Ignition Conference in New York City, including abilities like asking Cortana for help with your voice without having to open up the app. Unfortunately, most of those features won't be available to iOS users due to certain developer restrictions that fence off Cortana from becoming fully integrated into iOS.
On the other hand, a few Android smartphones will gain a leg up on the iOS version of Cortana thanks to a partnership between Microsoft and start-up company Cyanogen, which runs a custom version of the OS on select Android devices. With Cyanogen software, Android users will have essentially all of the abilities Windows Phone users have over Cortana, including being able to speak to the personal assistant without opening up the separate app.
After some rumors and speculation earlier in the year, in May Microsoft confirmed that Cortana would be heading to non-Windows Phone platforms later this year. In November, the company opened up beta sign-ups for users to test out Cortana for iOS in a pre-release state.
Cortana for iOS is available to download now for free from the App Store [Direct Link].
Tags: Microsoft, Cortana
AlliFlowers
Hey Siri....Open Cortana. Totally hands-free.
Not really sure what the point of this is on iOS. Also not available in the UK app store
gabriel193755
Wow. Wasn't expecting it to be released so fast. Wasn't it just a few weeks ago they were sending it out to Beta Testers? Not much Beta Testing to do, I guess... I'll download it, but not really sure what to expect, since it can't actually replace Siri...
EDIT: hmm. It seems Microsoft (or Apple)has removed the App from iTunes. I'm in the US and can't seem to find it when searching for it. The direct link in the article doesn't work either. When you say "show in iTunes" it takes you to the page to download/install iTunes and not actually opening up iTunes on your computer...
Here is how you can find it:
>Look for any other Microsoft app at the App Store
>Tap on the developer
>Scroll until you find Cortana
>Download it
>Play with it for 5 minutes
>Forget it for the rest of your life inside of that folder named "others"
whodatrr
While this nascent technology is off most people's radar, this maybe the future of ecosystem lock-in?
It's not a stretch to think that at some point Alexa, Cortana, or Siri may be more important to users than the OS or devices these "assistants" follow us around on. They'll own our schedules, our documents, our contacts, know our habits, provide access to our entertainment, help us spend money, automate our work and living spaces, help run our vehicles, mine our data, etc. They will be the gatekeepers between us and the technology and services we use.
While this is kludgy at the moment, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the biggest tech battle in the next decade?
Requires login to M$ account. Don't have one, so there goes Cortana.
retrem93409
not showing in UK app store
rdlink
I downloaded it, and Cortana very politely asked me to allow her access to my personal information, and for permission to use it in any way she sees fit. At which point I politely deleted her from my phone.
caligomez
JohnApples
Still don't trust her after she tried taking over the galaxy.
Because 10 or so years from now, platforms may be irrelevant. Put another way, Siri/Cortana/Alexa/etc may in fact be the ecosystems that we access from various devices and the internet of things.
We won't search with Bing or Google, but with Siri or Cortana
We'll ask Alexa to make a phone call, or Siri to send an email, regardless of what service we use for those communications
Alexa and Siri will be how we manage and find our work data and entertainment, across a multitude of platforms
Cortana and Siri will be in our communications, shopping, and productivity workflows
the names above are interchangeable, but whoever grabs the lion's share of that ecosystem will have considerable leverage over the other providers of hardware, software, and services that they enable.
Maybe I'm getting it wring, but I'm guessing that's in the minds of these vendors. They're fighting to see who owns the glue that will cobble together the Internet of Things. Whoever owns that will have leverage, in the coming decades. Or maybe I just watched too much sic-fi, or sat through too many tech conferences?
I still can't see a reason to develop Cortana on a platform that isn't Windows.....
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Stories of the week: June 29 - July 5
Amanda Hall
amandah@baylismedia.co.uk
08:12AM, Saturday 06 July 2013
The Advertiser and Express websites bring you a round-up of the week's top stories from across east Berkshire each weekend.
Visit our websites every Saturday for the main news stories over the last seven days in Maidenhead, Slough, Windsor, Twyford and Burnham. Click on the links to read the full story.
'I'm not afraid to fight back' says Hardev, 64, after Kendal Drive attack
The 64-year-old woman who fought off a mugger in Kendal Drive in Slough last week has spoken about the attack.
Hardev Samra, who lives near where the attack happened on Saturday last week at 1pm, was walking to shops in Wexham Road.
Festival travellers make camp near police station over fears of trouble
A group of travellers in 20 caravans have made camp in a field which backs onto Maidenhead Police Station on Thursday saying they ‘feel safer’ being close to the police.
The travellers arrived at Maidenhead Town Moor, situated alongside Blackamoor Lane, Ray Street and Salters' Road, between midday and 12.30pm.
Marlow educated Myles Mordaunt fired in The Apprentice
Marlow educated Myles Mordaunt is out of The Apprentice after a 10-week run.
The 40-year-old, who went to Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in West Street until 1989, missed out on a place in the final five after failing as project manager in a task to set up a retail business in 48 hours.
Royal Borough hits back after Bracknell attack
Borough health chiefs have hit back at a neighbouring authority's attack over their decision to take NHS bosses to the High Court.
Bracknell Forest Council (BFC) criticised the borough for calling for a judicial review to be held into plans by the NHS to close the minor injuries unit (MIU) and move it to Bracknell.
Concern growing over size of housing estate to be built in Mill Lane
Concern is growing about the number of homes developers could build on the former Taplow Paper Mill site.
South Bucks District Council (SBDC) cabinet is set to decide on Tuesday, July 16, whether to approve a development brief that will guide plans for regeneration in Mill Lane.
Council's leisure centres could be taken over by charitable trust
Unease has been voiced over plans to hand control of the Royal Borough’s leisure centres to a charitable trust.
Staff at leisure centres in Windsor, Maidenhead and Sunningdale have all received letters saying that the idea is being explored.
Parish council objects to its own notice board plans
Cookham Parish Council has voted to object to its own planning application for a new notice board following a heated debate on Tuesday night.
The decision comes after concerns were raised about the location and suitability of the board in a discussion about an application to put up the community board.
Charvil primary school to open on time despite slow worm discovery
A desperately needed primary school is on course to be open and ready for pupils starting school in September.
But a discovery of protected slow worms on site means the project won't be fully finished until Christmas.
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Ossoff to challenge Perdue for US Senate seat in Georgia
ATLANTA (AP) — Pledging to "root out corruption in politics," Jon Ossoff, a former long-shot congressional candidate who rose to prominence two years ago riding a wave of dissatisfaction with Washington, says he's challenging Republican Sen. David Perdue in 2020.
Democratic candidate for 6th congressional district Jon Ossoff concedes to Republican Karen Handel at his election night party in Atlanta. Ossoff, D-Ga., will challenge Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue in 2020, the Democrat tweeted Monday night, Sept. 9, 2019.
Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., speaks during a Kiwanis Club of Atlanta luncheon. Former congressional candidate Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., will challenge Perdue in 2020, the Democrat tweeted Monday night, Sept. 9.
Ossoff, the fourth Georgia Democrat to join the race that could help determine control of the Senate, announced his bid Monday night during an appearance on "The Last Word" on MSNBC. "I'm running because we face a crisis of political corruption in this country," Ossoff told host Lawrence O'Donnell, calling Perdue a "caricature of Washington corruption."
Ossoff cited Congress' failure to take up gun control legislation and political influence at scientific institutions as examples of corruption. Perdue, a former Fortune 500 company chief executive, has emerged as a close ally of President Donald Trump after being elected in 2014.
National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Nathan Brand called Ossoff an "unaccomplished, far-left candidate" in a statement. Ossoff says he'll work to expand his network of supporters who helped him raise roughly $30 million in a 2017 special election he lost to Republican Karen Handel by about four percentage points in Georgia's 6th Congressional District.
Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights leader and influential Georgia Democrat, has already endorsed Ossoff in the primary. Lewis said Ossoff's 2017 campaign "sparked a flame that is burning brighter than ever, in Georgia and across the country." He pledged to work "tirelessly to elect him" to Senate.
Perdue's isn't the only Georgia Senate seat that's up for election. Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson announced his retirement late last month due to health issues, and a special election to fill the remaining two years of his term will also be on the November 2020 ballot.
The two open Senate seats have raised Georgia's status as a must-watch 2020 battleground. While Ossoff will face a primary contest in the race for Perdue's seat, the race for Isakson's seat won't have any primary and will instead be open to all qualified candidates, significantly increasing the likelihood of a runoff.
Ossoff, a 32-year-old investigative filmmaker, faced that type of wide-open race in his 2017 special election loss. He won the most votes by far in the 18-candidate race for the suburban Atlanta House seat in April 2017, but fell short of topping 50%, which is needed for an outright win. Ossoff lost the subsequent runoff to Handel.
Others seeking the Democratic nomination in the race against Perdue include 2018 candidate for Georgia Lt. Gov. Sarah Riggs Amico, former Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson and Clarkston Mayor Ted Terry.
The field began to form after Stacey Abrams, former Democratic candidate for Georgia governor, announced in April that she would not run for the seat. Brand said Ossoff's "extreme left-wing views will fit in with the rest of the crowded Democratic primary but will stand in sharp contrast to David Perdue's positive record of delivering results for all of Georgia."
Ossoff says on a newly launched website that he's "building a movement to mount an all-out attack on corruption in Washington — starting with President Donald Trump and Georgia Senator David Perdue."
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have announced who will induct this year’s honorees at the upcoming ceremony at Public Hall in Cleveland on April 18. Paul McCartney will speak on behalf of fellow Beatles Ringo Starr, just as he...
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The website The Richest has posted the top ten richest bass players in the world. While many of the bassists on the list you would be able to guess, there is one surprise to me…Tony Kanal of No Doubt came in at #9 with $45...
Rare George Harrison guitar expected to fetch $400-600K at May auction in New York City
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Julien’s Auctions revealed on Monday that an electric guitar played by George Harrison on British television prior to the Beatles’ “invasion” of the United States will go up for auction along with a rare...
Beatles News: Grammys to honor Fab Four with 2 hour special, new video released
by craig | Nov 17, 2013 | ROCK NEWS, TV ROCK NEWS, VIDEO | 0 |
The Grammy Awards will air a two hour special taped the day after the award broadcast commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ landmark performance on The Ed Sullivan Show. ‘The Night That Changed America:...
Paul McCartney gives new tracks from upcoming album their live premiere at iHeartRadio Music Festival (video)
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Paul McCartney was a part of the iHeartRadio Music Festival over the weekend (Sept. 21) at the MGM Grand, with three songs in his eight song set coming from the upcoming album ‘New,’ being released on Oct. 15....
Paul McCartney joined by ex-Nirvana members in Seattle concert (video)
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It was a truly magical night in Seattle as the Sound City collaborators Paul McCartney and ex-members of Nirvana (Dave Grohl, Pat Smear and Krist Novoselic) came together in front of close to 45,000 fans at Seattle’s...
‘War Child 20: The Best Of’ digital album now available
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U.K. charity War Child turns 20 this year and the organization is marking the occasion by releasing ‘War Child 20: The Best Of’ as a digital album only on February 18th. The album is a collection of tracks that...
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Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones married his fiancée Sally Humphreys this past Friday (Dec. 21) at the Dorchester Hotel in London. It’s the third marriage for Wood, who is 31 years older than his theater producer bride....
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Recent Developments In Benefit Fraud Legislation
Benefit fraud costs the UK upwards of £2 billion every year that has to be found from taxpayers’ funds. However, in an attempt to stem the outflow of funds, the authorities are sometimes a little too zealous in targeting the benefit cheats and can cause distress and hardship to some who have made simple mistakes when claiming or been put at a disadvantage by an errant spouse or partner. At Mark Jenner & Co Limited we have seen many cases involving benefit fraud, and in some cases have been able to temper the Crown’s efforts and mitigate the issues involved so that the outcome is more reasonable.
On one notable occasion, the Crown dropped their case when they learned that a forensic accountant had been appointed by the defence team! On a couple of occasions where substantial alleged benefit losses were at issue, prison sentences were replaced by community service and in other cases the Judge took into account the forensic accountancy findings and reduced the sentences accordingly.
There is clearly a big problem in the UK with benefit frauds, and we are happy to act as independent “mediators” in certain cases where the Crown may have jumped the gun or is ignoring mitigating circumstances. It will be interesting to see how the Crown Prosecution Service approaches benefit fraud now that it has taken over its prosecution from the Department for Work and Pensions’ in-house legal team. Mr Kier Starmer QC speaking for the CPS has indicated in September 2013 that a tougher approach will be taken, with more benefit fraudsters being tried under the Fraud Act 2006 that allows harsher penalties – including prison terms up to 10 years as opposed to 7 years under specific social security legislation. Moreover, even basic benefit cases tried in this way will avoid being heard in the Magistrates Court moving directly to the Crown Courts.
The Government is currently rolling out the new “Universal Credit” benefit system that will in time replace the whole range of previous benefits such as Income Support, Invalidity Benefit and Tax Credits. Crossing over from the old cumbersome system to something new is bound to cause confusion and mistakes will be made, by claimants and the authorities alike. Coupled with the increased use of the Crown Courts to target the fraudster, this will inevitably mean more defendants seeking forensic accountancy advice going forward.
At Mark Jenner & Co Limited our approach to dealing with benefit fraud is twofold. Firstly we unpick the actual financial circumstances, setting out clearly the quantum of household income actually enjoyed (separating benefit and other income streams). Then we apply broad brush benefit calculations to present actual entitlement if proper disclosure had been made. Sometimes this can bring the actual loss to the Crown to below the level of a prison sentence trigger.
Benefit fraud is a drain on the UK’s resources and should be dealt with robustly by the authorities. However, there are often cases where the full picture is not clear and a forensic accountant’s report can clarify and mitigate the matter. However, care should be taken as a full forensic examination of a person’s financial affairs could well reveal additional sources of undisclosed income and provide indicative evidence of more serious crimes!
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Apple signs former HBO chief to 5-year production deal
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Apple Inc. AAPL, +1.11% has signed former HBO Chief Executive Richard Plepler to an exclusive five-year production deal, the New York Times first reported Thursday, a major move to bolster its fledgling streaming service. Plepler quit HBO last February, about eight months after new owner AT&T Co. T, +0.92% took over. According to the Times report, Plepler's new company, Eden Productions, will produce original series, movies and documentaries exclusively for Apple TV+. Plepler spent 27 years at HBO, helping to build the premium-cable channel to a dominant position in Hollywood, winning more than 160 Emmy Awards in the years he was in charge. At HBO, Plepler was known for hiring top-quality talent and favoring quality over quantity, traits that Apple is likely to follow as it builds its content library from the ground up.
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November 22, 2011 - Martin Hoscik@martinhoscik
The Met Commissioner has suggested all police vehicles be equipped with Tasers
A suggestion that “every police car” be equipped with stun guns has been criticised by London Assembly Members.
The suggestion was made by Met Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe during an appearance on LBC radio.
Discussing increasing the availability of Tasers, the Commissioner told a firearms officer who called the show: “One of the options is every police car, another one might be one of our response cars.”
London Assembly Members Dee Doocey and Jenny Jones, both of whom also serve on the Metropolitan Police Authority, have criticised Hogan-Howe’s comments.
Liberal Democrat AM Dee Doocey warned that moving “from a relatively small number of highly-trained police officers being armed with a Taser, to a situation where 6,500 police cars in London routinely carry them on everyday patrols would do irreparable damage to the reputation of our unarmed police service.”
Jones, who is also the Green Party Mayoral candidate, said: “Over the last few years the Metropolitan Police Authority has limited the use of tasers over the years, for very sound ethical and health reasons. Although I admire some of the new Commissioner’s plans, in this area an urgent rethink is required.”
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Sadly, the “speech banana” isn’t a super fruit that improves hearing or is a reference to that old comic skit that goes, “Speak up…I can’t hear you…I’ve got a banana in my ear.” The thing that the “speech banana” refers to is a special pattern found in the results of an audiogram, which is a graphical representation of someone’s hearing proficiency within a set range of frequencies and volume levels. Audiograms are graphs of frequency (on the horizontal axis) and loudness (on the y axis). During a hearing test, each test sound is characterized by its frequency and volume and can be plotted on a chart.
When the common sounds of human speech – or phonemes – are graphed on such an audiogram, they have a tendency to all cluster within an area of the chart that is in the shape of a banana. The spoken sound of all of the letters in the alphabet, aside from q, w, x, and y, cluster inside the speech banana, as do the very widespread letter pairs ng, ch, sh and th.
The speech banana is extremely important because it encompasses nearly all of the sounds of human speech which is vital for our communications with one another. People with normal hearing, can hear many sounds outside the banana such as high frequency birds chirping or low frequency tubas. It is quite common for people to have difficulty hearing or understanding letter combinations such as ng, th, sh and ch and certain vowels.
Consequently, hearing professionals are most focused on hearing impairment that occurs within the range of the speech banana. If you’re having issues hearing sounds inside this range, whether you are old or young, you are probably having difficulty hearing people properly, and may encounter problems conversing with them.
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MeCCSA Statement of Research Ethics Guidelines
In view of the wide diversity of disciplinary orientation, methodological approach, and conceptual foundation of research in our field, MeCCSA does not publish a detailed code of research practice. It is for this reason that bodies such as the ICA and IAMCR have similarly not published such a Code (though the latter is considering doing so).
The Association believes that where research in our field has certain special characteristics, for example in its frequent commitment to the concerns and needs of the vulnerable or less powerful, that should inform its research practice. This view, however, states a position on the politics rather than conduct of research. We distinguish between a code designed to provide ethical guidelines for the conduct of empirical research, and one which addresses wider issues of the purpose, social implications, or policy application of research in our field.
The Research Councils do not collectively or individually have a prescribed Code, but simply, and perhaps rather vaguely, state that “The Research Organisation is responsible for ensuring that ethical issues relating to the research project are identified and brought to the attention of the relevant approval or regulatory body”.
We do wish to promote a brief set of broad principles that state why research in our field is important, and that it will always seek to comply with research codes relevant to its focus of interest. The broad principles the Association supports are as follows:
Research undertaken by higher education staff and students in media, communication and cultural studies should adhere to the highest possible standards of research practice and ethics, and in doing so should have regard to the guidelines on research practice and ethics published by the subject association or body of most direct relevance to the particular research project.
Research results, data and conclusions should be made available in the public domain wherever and to the greatest extent possible.
Wherever possible policy-making in fields relevant to our research competence should be informed by such research, and researchers should seek to ensure that relevant research is available to and informs the practice of policy makers.
The conceptualisation, design, formulation and conduct of research should be guided by the theoretical or applied concerns of the researchers rather than by the immediate or pragmatic needs of commissioners or funders of research, and should be independent of and unimpeded by those needs.
The interpretation of research findings should be undertaken by the researchers, who should ensure, and be allowed to ensure, that their analysis and explanation of research findings should be available to anyone with access to or using the research.
Research should always seek to develop new knowledge and understanding through original investigation, regardless of prevailing orthodoxies, assumptions, or authoritative social and cultural views uninformed by such research.
Where researchers feel unable to adhere to these principles or to appropriate research practice guidelines they should feel able to address their concerns, in confidence if need be, to the Association, which will investigate and address the matter on their behalf as appropriate.
We wish to draw to members’ attention the following sets of research practice Guidelines from various associations, which we believe may be of value in the conduct of members’ research. Members may also be interested in the relevant site of the International Communication Association, since this lists links to a number of codes, and also states that “While affirming our commitment to such widely recognized broad principles, ICA has not established a comprehensive code of professional practice providing detailed guidelines on ethical issues. Given the interdisciplinary diversity of research encompassed by ICA, a comprehensive code of ethics for ICA that would address this range of research methods and scholarly approaches would be cumbersome”.
British Sociological Association Code [PDF]
British Psychological Society Code [PDF]
The Social Policy Association Code [PDF]
The Social Research Association has both a Code and relevant discussion documents [PDF] which are very helpful
Another valuable overview developing a code for ‘all socio-economic research’ is the ‘Respect project’
For the Market Research view of this see the Market Research Society Code of Conduct
For a European dimension to the market research view see the ICC ESOMAR Code [PDF]
ESOMAR also publish their guidelines on ‘social media’ research [DOC]
The ESRC publishes a research ethics framework [PDF]
The AHRC publish only a very brief note on this topic
Members may find it helpful to see the guidance given by the Association of Research Ethics Committees
Internet research poses many of its own difficulties and the AOIR has produced a relevant code [PDF]. However, do note that this was produced in 2002.
Members may find it helpful to read the chapter on research ethics in D. Deacon et. al. Researching Communications (2nd. edn. Edward Arnold, 2007).
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Published by Ariel Jacoby on Monday, April 4, 2016 | Medical Professionals
Among the nearly 6,500 hospitals in the United States, only 235 are run by physician administrators - less than four percent.
It would be difficult to find a legal firm that is being run by someone without a law degree. Most of the top universities in our country are led by scholars, and sports teams often most excel when their leadership is an individual who has been an athlete themselves.
So why is it that so many of our hospitals - arguably the most important life-saving institution of modern society - are not run by doctors holding medical degrees, but by business executives who are several degrees of separation away from the patient for whom they are providing care?
There is research to support the theory that hospitals run by doctors will be more efficient and provide better patient care. In a study that compared hospital quality scores against the background of their leadership, researchers found that hospitals run by physicians had about 25% higher overall quality scores as compared to the scores of hospitals run by business managers - this increase rises to 33% in the category of hospitals dedicated to specialties such as cardiology or oncology.
Examples of hospital innovators who have gone against the grain in their efforts to promote physician leadership are Kaiser Permanente, the Mayo Clinic, or the Cleveland Clinic. All of these health systems are nationally renowned for focusing on quality patient care while successfully maximizing efficiency - the product of a hospital culture that brings physician providers and hospital administrators together to make important decisions, rather than separating the physicians from the administrators’ decision making process.
These examples underscore a recent trend of hospitals more frequently appointing physicians to prominent leadership roles. Here are just a few reasons why physicians are uniquely qualified to take on leadership roles:
Choosing a career in medicine is also making a lifelong commitment to continuously be learning. All physicians must complete continuing education requirements, and the best physicians will make concerted efforts to stay on top of advancements in this field. Physicians are constantly absorbing new information, making them more likely to seek out innovative ways to effectively run our health system.
Depending on the exact nature of their field, many physicians have been specifically trained to adapt and respond quickly in high-stress life-or-death situations. Their ability to balance the big picture and the smaller details is an important skill when it comes to problem-solving with a thoughtful approach to the many challenges we face in our healthcare system.
Collaboration of expertise
The purpose of medical training is to produce more experts in medicine and particular specialties, and physicians are accustomed to consulting with other medical professionals and seeking out second opinions. Physicians have the tendency to be more open-minded for this reason, and more likely to collaborate among peers and become exposed to diverse perspectives about the most innovative ways to manage hospital problems.
As a patient, I would much rather have my medical decisions made by a licensed MD who has my best interests at heart, as opposed to having major medical decisions be dictated by administrative protocols laid out by a business manager who I’ve never met. Physicians chose their career so that they could help people, and putting these selfless people in leadership roles (or at least consulting physicians regularly in large decisions) seems like an obvious decision if the true aim of the hospital is to improve patients’ health outcomes.
Scientists and communicators
The best physicians are the result of three factors: human compassion, medical expertise, and effective communication. Patient education requires that physicians can translate their medical jargon into a language that the average layperson can understand - in some ways, being a medical professional is a lot like being bilingual. Physicians who understand the science of medicine and can communicate it to non-medical persons are a major asset when working among a hospital’s administrative team instead of against them.
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Larry O. Boyd was born March 1, 1934, the son of Loicen and Marie (King) Boyd in Sheridan, Missouri. He attended school in Sheridan, and was involved in 4-H with his livestock. The family showed livestock at the American Royal on many occasions. He graduated from Horace Mann High School. When Larry was in school he met and fell in love with Rita Heitman. The couple were united in marriage on September 16, 1955. They moved to Phoenix, Arizona where Larry attended Arizona State University in Tempe, graduating in 1957, with his Bachelor's Degree. While in Arizona he served honorably in the United States Coast Guard Reserves. After moving back to Sheridan, they raised registered Polled Hereford cattle, as well as row crops. The couple were blessed with the birth of three daughters, LaRi, LouAnn and LaRue. In 1973, the family moved to Bedford, Iowa where Larry became the Secretary/Manager at Farmer's Mutual Insurance of Taylor County. He later started his own independent agency, Boyd Insurance, now known as Ewart Insurance. This business has been family owned for over 45 years. During the girls high school years, Larry and Rita enjoyed hosting a foreign exchange student, Jeanette Dodson of New Zealand. The family continues to keep in contact with Jeanette.
Larry always got involved in what he believed in, and that included politics, he was Proud to be a Democrat! He served in several capacities, including President at the Worth County Farm Bureau; Civil Defense Director for Worth County, Missouri; Sheridan, Missouri Lions Club, Bedford, Iowa Lions Club and the Bedford Industrial Corporation. He was a board member of the Albany, Missouri Production Credit Association for many years.
Larry enjoyed tinkering in his shop. He enjoyed garden tractor pulling and got his daughters involved in it also. He also loved to work on and pulling his John Deere 4020 tractor at all the local fairs.
He was proud to be a Master Mason at Taylor Lodge 156 in Bedford, and was a member of Za-Ga-Zig Shrine in Des Moines, Iowa. While in Arizona he was a member of the El Zaribah Shrine in Phoenix, Arizona. Larry and Rita enjoyed wintering in Arizona where they participated in the Shrine Club Parades for many years.
Left to cherish Larry's memory are his three daughters, LaRi Liberty and husband Ralph of Kansas City, Missouri; LouAnn Ewart and husband Rick of Bedford, Iowa; and LaRue Allee and husband Chris of Maryville, Missouri; four grandchildren, Jackie Minor and husband Brent of New Market, Iowa; Heather Hayes and husband Dusty of Bedford, Iowa; Gary Ewart and wife Chelsea of Bennington, Nebraska; and Nick Allee of Maryville, Missouri; four great-grandchildren, Lucas and Makenna Minor and Kane and Kashlynn Hayes; along with many other family members and friends.
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NHS Homeopathy Legal Challenge
I think most of us have balked at Homeopathic treatments being available on the NHS, that there are even Homeopathic hospitals in the UK seems ridiculous! (and no they don’t just consist of a memory of a hospital, they are actual real things!) Online I have often seen Homeopathy advocates citing this as justification of its efficacy. The very fact it is available on the NHS lends it false credibility that it just does not deserve. Well, now someone is legally challenging the NHS stance and spending on Homeopathy.
Who is behind the challenge?
The Good Thinking Society, working with Bindmans LLP is currently engaged in challenging Liverpool CCG. The Good Thinking Society is a charity set up by Simon Singh and is funded by donations. As their website states they want ‘to encourage curiosity and rational thinking’ and in so doing often find themselves battling quackery and pseudoscience. Their past projects include setting up www.homeopathyawarenessweek.org last year, which had 77,000 readers during last years homeopathy awareness week, becoming the top Google hit for ‘Homeopathy Awareness Week’ (higher, even, than official sites) and gaining coverage in the Guardian and Boing Boing. They also organised Psychic Awareness Month last October, during which they worked with the Skeptic community to distribute Mark Tilbrook’s information leaflet to Psychic Show attendees.
It’s the duty of CCGs (Clinical Commissioning Groups of which there are 211 in the England) to ensure the NHS funds are spent effectively. With this in mind, The Good Thinking Society and Bindmans LLP has invited Liverpool CCG to consider whether Homeopathic treatments offered on the NHS represent a a good and cost effective service to the patients and tax payers of Liverpool.
It should be noted at this point that not all CCGs budget for Homeopathic treatments, Milton Keynes happily does not, but there are pockets in England that do and for the most part surround areas in which Homeopathic hospitals are still operating.
In April 2015, Liverpool CCG conceded their challenge and agreed to make a fresh decision on the issue.
How much is spent?
In the current climate it is becoming increasingly common to hear of all sorts of treatments being refused to patients due to cost. My son was even refused prescription formula as a baby due to the high cost. Not to mention money that could be spent on doctors and nurses salaries. So it is understandable that great frustration is felt by many when they see funding for a worthless treatment such as homeopathy.
If the current spending were to continue at the same rate, just in Liverpool CCG alone, in a decade, they will have spent £350,000 on Homeopathy.
Happily prescriptions have fallen greatly in recent years and homeopathic hospitals have found their funding reallocated, which indicates that most doctors are acting responsibly, but a positive result will help the NHS bring to an end the funding of a this useless treatment and enable the money to be put to better use. Which will be better for patients and tax payers alike.
The Good Thinking Society is a charity and is entirely funded by donations but of course all this work and legal representation comes at a cost. Preparing for the Judicial Review took a lot of staff time and incurred significant legal costs. Because they were successful, they will recover most of their legal costs, but they still require £10,000 to cover ongoing expert legal advice and to play a role in the upcoming Liverpool CCG consultation on homeopathy. Moreover, they will be exploring similar legal challenges to homeopathy elsewhere in the NHS. They are looking to raise £10,000. At the time of writing it stands at £6,683.25
You can donate via the Just Giving website or directly from your phone.
Just text ‘NOHP99 £xx’ to 70070. (just replace the xx with chosen amount) Many have of course been pledging £10.23 to the cause! Make sure you follow the instructions so The Good Thinking Society can get the Gift Aid too.
If you would like a more detailed run down of the legal challenge you can find out more on The Good Thinking Society Website
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7 Impressions of IMTS 2018
The up-and-coming technologies hinted at during previous shows have now arrived, and they are being accepted as part of the now-standard means of making parts.
Surpassing 129,000 registrations and 1.4 million square feet of exhibit space, this year’s IMTS was the biggest and busiest ever seen.
Additive manufacturing is now a significant, established part of the show. The expanded AM Pavilion was relocated this year to the West Building.
Drawing more than 575 registrants, the two-day Additive Manufacturing Conference had its highest attendance in the event’s five years so far. Organized by Additive Manufacturing magazine, the conference is annual, but it is held at IMTS in every show year.
Showing the promise of real-time data monitoring, Mazak ran its IMTS booth like a digital factory. Machines networked throughout the booth provided live status information.
Makino gave attendees access to machines’ internal engineering using augmented reality. Devices available in the booth enable attendees to walk around the machines and see inside from any point of view.
More women at IMTS will in many cases mean women who are there as part of a couple, including couples involved in manufacturing together. The frequency of sights such as this emphasized that point.
Gardner Business Media displayed its history serving manufacturing with an exhibit of every cover of Modern Machine Shop from the magazine’s 90 years so far.
Peter Zelinski
Editor-in-Chief, Modern Machine Shop
RTI and On-the-Floor Learning
Scratching the Surface of What Femtosecond Lasers Can Do
Breaking Down the Brand Barrier
The International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) offers a showcase for disruptive technology, but this year’s IMTS faced disruptions of a different sort. Indeed, this was the most harried and challenged installment of the biennial show I can recall. The approach of a hurricane compelled many from the Carolinas to leave the show early or not come at all. In Chicago where the show takes place, hotel employees on strike chanted and beat percussion instruments in front of major downtown hotels throughout the entire week. There were also the small challenges adding to the flavor of this year’s show. One was the failure to find graceful accord between cab lines and the positioning of rideshare stations, resulting in a confusion that prompted drivers to encourage attendees to find them at a nearby hotel instead. And inside the convention center, the debut of a new format for booth numbers required long-time attendees to recalibrate their navigation of the show (though not a difficult recalibration, as it turned out).
Yet if any of the challenges had any effect on the success of the show, you wouldn’t know it from the numbers. The largest manufacturing event in North America had its largest year yet—another point that, like all the points above, I do not need to tell you if you were there. The record attendance is the reason you often had such difficulty making your way down the show aisles.
Leadtime Leader Q&A: X-Cell Tool and Mold on Quality Assurance
The technology exhibited this year significantly matured. Specifically, it matured in the way it was represented and in the way exhibitors and attendees understood it. The same currents we have seen gathering strength at previous shows—additive, automation, data, the embrace of higher-end machine tools—now showed that strength this year. Technologies that once seemed novel are now necessary; possibilities that once seemed promising are delivering on that promise.
Here is some of what I found at the show this year:
1. Record-Breaking Attendance and Exhibit Space
The final tally of 129,415 registrations broke the previous record (1998) by more than 6 percent. The over 1,424,000 square feet of exhibit space for 2,563 exhibiting companies also broke a record, making IMTS 2018 the first show since McCormick Place’s most recent expansion to occupy all the exhibit space this venue provides. To put it mildly, the show was busy.
Moreover, it was busy with visitors driven by serious agendas. The previous attendance record was 20 years ago. Back then, manufacturing facilities had more employees per machine, and there was a tradition of bringing large teams to the show. Today, leaner manufacturing facilities have to be more deliberate about who they send and why they send them. To a greater extent than in the historical past, attendees at IMTS are there with a focused mission.
“This is high tide,” said one long-time veteran of the machine tool industry. “You don’t often see an IMTS like this.”
2. Additive Manufacturing’s Sizable Presence
Additive manufacturing (AM) had a small pavilion in 2016, but this year’s pavilion was large enough that it took a determined stroll to traverse from one side to the other. The number of exhibitors in this pavilion tripled from the previous show, with plenty of AM companies and exhibits also spilling over into other booths and pavilions. The large presence for additive and the home it has found at this show demonstrated the widespread acceptance of industrial 3D printing as an option for making parts and tools, and it demonstrated the evolution of IMTS well beyond being a machine tool show.
This year, the additive pavilion was relocated to the West Building, a move that might have seemed like a downgrade until it was revealed how beneficial this change was. The pavilion’s previous position in the North Building near major machine tool builders drew in many attendees who were merely curious. The position in the West Building acted as a filter, because attendees had to be intentional enough to cross a street or causeway in order to see additive technology. Heavy traffic in this pavilion indicated that many were this intentional. A representative of one large, multi-site contract manufacturer said his company had sent a team to IMTS with a primary focus on additive. It was unclear whether this team would make it over the bridge to see machine tools. For all of this, though, the Additive Manufacturing Pavilion accounted for only 1 or 2 percent of the show, by space or by number of companies. We will see an even bigger AM Pavilion in two years.
3. Data as the Next Step for Hardware Performance
Major machine tool makers and even some tooling companies wished for attendees to see not just their hardware but also their analysis capabilities, and the chance for increased performance available to users willing to allow data about their use of the hardware to flow into analytical tools in the cloud. Mark Albert, MMS editorial director, described the development this way: “Everyone’s a software company now.”
Exhibitor personnel describing this data-analytics capability generally reached for the term “Industry 4.0” as an umbrella or category for what they are doing. They also frequently grimaced or rolled their eyes as they said it. “Industry 4.0” refers to a broad set of possibilities for digital manufacturing, with many of those possibilities still visionary and remote. By contrast, data analysis and data-driven refinement of machining and other part-making processes is on its way to becoming a practical, accepted, nuts-and-bolts part of manufacturing. We need another term for this transition, and we will need it in time for the next show, when we are likely to see greater capabilities for efficiency improvement tailored to individual manufacturing sites as a result of the analysis of those sites’ big data.
4. Automation as a Matter of Course
One major machine tool supplier well-known for integrating robots and other automation with machine tools did not have to imagine elaborate automated systems to show off as examples to exhibit at the show. Instead, every demonstration in the booth was a system currently in development to fill an order from a customer. A machine tool supplier at the front of the hall did not bother to demonstrate much at all in the way of automated systems (or even to show very many machine tools) because of the sense that the demonstrations at this point just get in the way. The options in robots, pallet systems and in-process automation are so numerous that the better display for this booth was a large graphical interactive touchscreen enabling visitors to dial in on the automated configuration possibilities best suited to their needs. Today, in other words, automation is a given. Robots are no longer an exciting draw to a booth exhibit because plenty of attendees see robots in their facilities every day.
5. Tooling and Accessories Revealing Machine Acceptance
The application of Swiss-type CNC lathes has expanded beyond its well-known applications, such as bone screws, with this machining capability now meeting needs such as the miniaturization of valve and control-system components. Cutting tool companies emphasized innovations in tiny, precise tooling in response to the expansion they are seeing of Swiss-type machining beyond specialty Swiss-type shops.
Meanwhile, exhibitors offering workholding for five-axis machining drew steady attention, their booth staffs often breathless from one encounter after the next in rapid succession. Five-axis machining has expanded well beyond specialists or niches as well, with the capability now used as as aid to setup reduction and therefore labor reduction in practically every industry in which simpler machine tools have long been used.
6. Hands Across the Concourse
Here is an observation that initially struck me as an odd surprise, but it has come to seem less frivolous the more I think about it: At IMTS this year, I saw couples walking through the show holding hands. I saw this plenty of times. I was not keeping count because it took me a long time to recognize this as noteworthy, but at a conservative guess I am confident I spotted this 15 times. In most of the previous versions of IMTS I have attended, I am confident I saw this once or not at all.
The crowds encouraged it. When being jostled by a lot of people, hand-holding keeps a couple in step. But the interesting thing is the presence of these couples. The demographic profile of IMTS attendees has changed. There has been a visible increase in attendees under 35—plenty of young faces (relative to mine) could be seen. In addition, there were more female attendees. Most attendees are still male, but women conversing with exhibitors or moving through the exhibits with focused attention were plentiful enough to be spotted with ease. And some women were there in close partnership with a man who was also there.
Indeed, some of the attendees I noticed in this way reveal that we are in danger of allowing our empowering images of women in manufacturing to become narrow clichés. Think “women in manufacturing careers,” and you might imagine a Rosie-the-Riveter-style machinist or a smartly dressed engineer—but in either case, a woman standing independent. Yet in many manufacturing businesses, a woman in manufacturing will be interdependent instead. That is, in many cases, she will be a spouse in manufacturing—a peer and a co-participant in a shared manufacturing enterprise. A woman in manufacturing will sometimes walk hand-in-hand (literally and figuratively) with a man in manufacturing.
7. 90 Years in One Exhibit
One final noteworthy sight at IMTS was one I am proud to say my own employer had on display. To celebrate the 90-year anniversary of Modern Machine Shop magazine, publisher Gardner Business Media displayed every cover of the magazine from the very beginning. Company Creative Director Jeff Norgord designed and helped build this unique display. Attendees slowly walked along the display to pick out covers of particular issues they remembered as meaningful to them in their own history with the magazine, and many took photos with the cover of the month and year in which they were born. Visitors also lost themselves in drifting through the issues, observing how MMS’s covers have marked the passage of time as reflected in manufacturing technology as well as the concerns and priorities of the day. (Our cover from September 1951 bore the copy “Drilling Holes in Communist Hopes.”) Many of the topics haven’t changed—we have been talking about the challenges of hole making for a long time, and a cover story on creep-feed grinding from decades ago caught my attention since that topic will appear on the cover of the next issue you see. Meanwhile, many of the topics have steadily transformed. MMS covers have documented the progression from punch tape to CAM to cloud computing. New technologies appearing, gathering strength and taking their place is an ongoing story spanning decades, and we are gratified to see how we are still watching and documenting that story today.
Laser Sintering And Conformal Cooling Channels
Moldmakers who are interested in exploring conformal cooling, but are concerned about its complexity and expense need to understand two things: it is neither complex nor expensive.
Methods of Rapid Tooling Worldwide
In the short term, indirect methods of RT will continue to flourish because these methods are the most developed. In the long term, however, companies will lean toward direct methods of tooling.
Reduce the Time and Costs of Jig and Fixture Manufacture
When it comes to the manufacture of jigs, fixtures and assembly tools, time-to-market for new products can be reduced, overall costs can be saved and the quality of the resulting components/production can increase with the use of additive fabrication—laser sintering and fused deposition modeling.
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The Art of Yellowstone Science: Mammoth Hot Springs as a Window on the Universe
Joint Presentation by
Bruce W. Fouke and Tom Murphy
Art and science both originate from the same human desire to understand the world within and around us. Photographic art at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park will be melded with cutting-edge natural sciences to search for common laws of nature through the power of observation and a willingness to embrace the unexpected. Biological evolution is the essential expression for this combination of photographic art and science. Mammoth is then shown to be a window on the universe, through which fundamental understandings of nature can be directly applied to other places and circumstances around the world and throughout the cosmos.
Book Citation and Websites
Bruce W. Fouke and Tom Murphy. The Art of Yellowstone Science: Mammoth Hot Springs as a Window on the Universe. Crystal Creek Press. 2016. 300 pages. ISBN 978-0-9973039-2-6
Book Website: http://www.artofyellowstonescience.com
Educational Materials Website: http://artofyellowstonescience.igb.illinois.edu
Illinois Press Release: https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/424796
NASA Press Release: https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/the-art-of-yellowstone-science/
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Payton cruises to mayoral victory
By Stewart Doreen sdoreen@mrt.coim
Published 11:34 pm CST, Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Patrick Payton speaks to the media about early election numbers Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019 outside the Midland County Annex.
Photo: Jacy Lewis/Reporter-Telegram
Former Stonegate Pastor Patrick Payton will be the next mayor of Midland.
Payton collected 10,867 votes to distance himself from current Mayor Jerry Morales, who received 6,775 votes, and Jenny Cudd, who garnered 3,302 votes.
“The first thing we are going to do (if we win) is make sure we are united as a city,” Payton said.
Lori Blong dominated the District 4 race, more than doubling the number of votes of the second-place finisher Kimberly Crisp. Blong finished with 2,824 votes. Crisp ended the night with 1,405, and Dan Corrales collected 806. Blong will replace J.Ross Lacy as the representative for the west Midland district. Her win also guarantees that a woman will be on the council because District 3 representative Sharla Hotchkiss will be off the council in January.
The race to replace Hotchkiss went to Jack Ladd Jr. He won a close race with Robin Poole for the central Midland seat. Ladd collected 2,017 votes, compared to Poole’s 1,967. E.J. Baldridge was third with 985 votes. Kathryn Chandler finished with 595, and Brandley James 143.
Cumulative results
Mayoral results
Jenny Cudd 3,302
Jerry Morales 6,775
Patrick Payton 10,867
Robin Poole 1,967
E.J. Baldridge 985
Jack Ladd Jr. 2,107
Kathryn Chandler 595
Bradley James 143
Lori Blong 2,824
Dan Corrales 806
Kimberly Crisp 1,405
MISD bond
For 11,560
Against 11,548
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The Four Unspoken Rules for Getting Into College
By Richard Vedder
The recent college admissions scandal is spectacular in its size and scope, but hardly surprising. Let me make four major points.
Whenever there are scarce resources in much demand and a non-market solution is used to allocate those resources, there are bound to be problems.
At the schools involved in this admissions scandal, there are probably at least five applicants for every student admitted. In a competitive market, prices will be forced up to the point that the number of buyers equals the quantity supplied. Harvard has an Admissions Committee; McDonald’s does not. Selective universities gain prestige by turning away customers. Universities deliberately sell their services at below equilibrium prices, benefiting mainly relatively affluent kids who make up the bulk of the applicant pool. Admission to a top-ranked school may be worth one million dollars over four years, yet is sold by the school for dramatically less ($250,000 or less). Therefore, some parents think it makes good sense financially to use shady, morally reprehensible means of achieving admissions.
This is particularly true for those wanting in the very top schools. Raj Chetty and his team of researchers have estimated the average family income of students at many Ivy League schools is about $500,000 a year (the median is “only” around $200,000). Rich kids want to network and bond with other rich kids, and if necessary, using an unscrupulous “private admissions counselor” to bribe your child into Elite U is money well spent. It is unfair, immoral, and prevents admission of some more deserving kids – but it happens. And rich kids then network with other rich kids and get super jobs through family connections.
This problem has existed at some level for decades, probably as long as there have been selective admissions.
Daniel Golden, Harvard alum and an ex-Wall Street Journal reporter, wrote a great book in 2005: The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. The lure of big dollars for buildings, endowments, etc., lead schools to sometimes accept the otherwise underqualified kids or grandchildren of very wealthy alumni. The “donation” may reach into the millions. The very overt preference schools give to alumni children (legacy admissions) is common, and no doubt also leads to some abuses.
Even at my only mildly selective university (Ohio University), as long as 40 years ago I heard stories about a dean who accepted a large bribe to let a kid into the medical school (!) he headed, and many years ago, I even heard rumors of an unscrupulous but fortunately long departed admissions official offering admission to a student in return for sexual favors.
Therefore, it is not only the elite private schools where this is a huge problem, as the recent scandal revealed (involving students at public flagship schools UCLA and the University of Texas, or UT.) A number of years ago UT Board of Regent member, Wallace Hall, complained publicly and aggressively about the admission of kids of politically powerful people despite poor academic records.
[Today’s College Admissions Scandal Started Years Ago]
The alums, some fellow Regents and UT and key politicians ostracized him and even tried to get him impeached (probably the only university trustee ever to face that indignity). The evidence shows Hall was absolutely correct, and the problem was widespread. In a recent interview with the Texas Tribune, Hall said “Politicians who take money and free dinners from people and then get their kids into universities are engaging in the same quid pro quo arrangements as the guy caught taking cash for the same service.”
So-called “Holistic” Admissions Criteria Allow for Corruption and Dilution of Academic Values.
Most top schools claim they now use a “holistic” admissions process to assure they do not attract nerdy dweebs possessing little personality but great test scores. This issue is at the heart of the current Harvard lawsuit alleging discrimination against Asians. In most parts of the world, admission to top schools is based strictly on academic performance – how well the student did in secondary school and/or how he or she did on a college entrance examination. Not in the United States. Why? Many factors are at work, I think, but very important is affirmative action. Skin coloration is of extreme importance to American university officials, regrettably in my opinion.
The extreme irony of this is demonstrated by Jerome Karabel in another superb book, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. In the interwar era, top Ivy League schools were finishing schools for mostly Protestant kids from wealthy families. Lots of very smart Jewish immigrant kids started applying, and effectively quotas were placed on numbers admitted. Aside from being anti-Semitic, it was an embarrassment, and led after World War II toward more objective criteria based on academic merit —hence the College Boards were born (today’s SAT test).
In modern times, in order to accommodate racial minorities not meeting high academic standards, the Ivies and other top schools have reverted to allowing admissions counselors and committees more discretion, opening the door to corruption, and bribes (although cheating on the SAT played a role in the latest scandal as well). The SAT is being downplayed by some schools that are now “test optional.”
The Absurdity of the Role of Athletics Plays in Admissions Is a National Embarrassment.
The notion that American colleges and universities are really quasi-country club/finishing school institutions providing a gap period between secondary school and the Real World rather than places where intellectual exploration and discovery is Job One is reinforced by the ridiculous emphasis put on proficiency in using balls – tennis balls, basketballs, volleyballs, footballs, soccer balls, etc. We see kids getting into schools like the University of Southern California on the basis of their alleged ability to handle balls. Nowhere else in the world is that an important or usually even any consideration in evaluating a student for admissions.
Bottom line: our admissions process is badly flawed. I blame it partly on the decline in the predominance in academic values coinciding with the bureaucratization of the university. Administrators are crowding out faculty not only numerically but in terms of power. I blame it partly on our academic obsession with evaluating people on the basis of group characteristics, not individual merit. What would Alexis de Tocqueville say visiting 21st century America, learning that students bribe their way into a ticket for economic success by lying about their ability to hit tennis balls? Is that the new American exceptionalism?
A final word. I fear the politicians will try to score points by trying to “solve” this problem. While changes are needed, I worry about the federal government attempting to take over a competitive, decentralized system of higher education. The cure could be far worse than the disease.
Richard Vedder
Richard Vedder teaches at Ohio University and is the author of "Restoring the Promise: American Higher Education Today."
9 thoughts on “The Four Unspoken Rules for Getting Into College”
artichoke says:
We’ve heard from schools on how they are tightening up their athletic recruiting. But we’ve not yet heard from two important culprits here: ACT, and the College Board, purveyor of the SAT. The companies that allowed these kids to get approved for 2 day testing that had essentially no supervision and allowed unlimited cheating.
Without that, most of these kids would not have had the SAT and ACT scores to try to get in via the athletic side door. In fact there’s not a single one of those cases publicized (did I forget any?) where there wasn’t a fudged SAT or ACT score. Kids who had already done pretty well on those exams were willing to take their chances with the un-corrupted process, it seems. (Or else, the cases were detected because of the test cheating — which would suggest there’s lots of athletic cheating still undiscovered.)
SAT and ACT have no right to be silent here. They need to own their culpability and say how they won’t let it happen again. Or else, they should be investigated by Congress. There are various other scandals with their tests — international testing comes to mind — that could fill out the docket of a congressional subcommittee.
BDavi52 says:
Very true. But equally true, as the author noted:
And in the end, the Market will out.
When formerly elite programs bypass merit, and choose instead “holistics” or “demographics”, or — in the case of Varsity Blues — sheer $’s to build enrollments, or stack faculty, quality dies. If rigorous standards would otherwise limit ‘holistics’ then rigor, obviously, must go. As rigor evaporates and program quality withers, the graduate becomes weak. And when top-notch firms hire high-rep grads from high-rep schools….only to discover that in place of ‘gems’ they’ve purchased gravel, the value of the high-rep commodity crashes and burns.
What we witness with this latest scandal (and the accompanying public hue&cry) is simply the open recognition of the dirty, little secret known for years by hiring managers throughout corporate America: a glossy degree from a glossy place and a shiny $1 bill won’t even get you a good cup of coffee.
In fact, the outrage at the ability of the so-called ‘elite’ (albeit a second tier, B-list elite) to buy glossy degrees, from declining programs, for their clueless progeny is actually more amusing than outrageous. A twit with a glossy degree is still quite obviously a Twit. And the more eagerly & enthusiastically high-rep institutions throw themselves upon the Twit-held sword of anti-merit, the more quickly their ‘brand’ will crash & burn.
The American auto industry PAINFULLY learned this lesson back in the 80’s when reliable, high-quality foreign product displaced & destroyed a fat and careless industry. So too will the Know-Nothing College Graduate destroy an equally fat and careless Academy which equally has lost completely an understanding of who and what they’re supposed to be. We suspect they don’t really care.
In the end, what has been happening already on a small scale will only enlarge and accelerate. Market dollars will stop flowing to the Glossy & Clueless and will move instead to those individuals who have demonstrated (in much less-glossy places) their ability to think critically, to work effectively, and to consistently and efficiently produce high quality results. Many of those success stories will not even come from the Academies (see Mike Rowe on Work & the Good Life).
And in the meantime, Buffy can get her picture photoshopped with the Crew Team…. Biff can gather his 4.0 with a degree in Self-Adulation….and names that used to be uttered with awe and envy will become little more than the punch lines to a knowing snicker.
As Eliot said, ““Oxford is very pretty, but I don’t like to be dead.”
Ed Cutting, Ed.D. says:
An interesting concept that I’d have taken one step further — why are colleges selective in the first place? Arguably, by admitting the best students, they are ensuring having the best graduates and hence are maintaining brand quality. Except that by watering down their applicant quality, they are watering down their product quality (i.e. the quality of their graduates) and thus jeopardizing the long-term quality of their brand name.
The example often given is that of a sausage company which is highly regarded for the quality of its product but increasingly uses cheaper and lower-quality meat which results in a lower-quality product. Eventually it gets to the point where people realize that the brand name doesn’t mean anything anymore and hence the product no longer can be sold for a premium price.
Conversely, is there truly excessive demand from the cadre of highly selective students or does there merely appear to be, and how much of it is artificially influenced by governmental policies? The average tuition discount rate of private institutions is currently something like 47%, they wouldn’t be discounting their tuition like that if they could actually charge even more. And look at the caliber of the purported students who entered college via this scandal, they’re definitely degrading the selectivity….
So how many students are there who could both meet the highly selective standards and pay the exorbitant tuition — and how many of the latter merely drift through a watered-down institution merely for credentialing purposes? In other words, is the Harvard degree still highly regarded because of what it meant in the 1950’s, and because people haven’t yet realized that the quality isn’t there anymore….
And what will happen when they do?
joe allgor says:
The last point about sports should really be more about the amount of emphasis. A person’s ability to work hard and excel at a sport is laudable and likely to translate to success in other areas of their life. It is something that should be considered like any other extra-curricular activity. I agree, however, that we have taken it too far particularly in basketball and football.
William N Chernish Phd, Emeritus from Somewhere U says:
The balls are important beyond admissions. Where the balls are bid, and profitable for football, basketball, for example, the favoritism extends to class schedules, class performance and general coddling. Look at “one-and-done” practices at big named basketball schools, now just pro league farm clubs.
Cappy says:
Bribing Ohio U. to get your kid in. This explains my city council.
Frederick says:
the average family income of students at many Ivy League schools is about $500,000 a year (the median is “only” around $200,000). Rich kids want to network and bond with other rich kids,
The first sentence contradicts the second. If the average is $500 K, and the median is $200K, then the mode, the most common value, is under $200 K. Obviously a small number of very-rich are driving this average, and the “typical” income is much, much lower.
And so what you’re saying here is the majority of students come from family incomes much less than $500 K–so most of them cannot be “rich kids” seeking to bond and network with other “rich kids”. $500 K is pretty affluent, and to some it may be “rich”, but $200 K is not rich
Dr. Ed says:
I disagree — neither of us knows what the mode (or modes) actually is/are, and it is impossible to guess without access to the actual data.
Above and beyond that, I also maintain that $200K is “rich” — remember that the median family income in 2017* was $73,891 so an income 2.7 times more than the median to be “rich” — much as one 2.7 times less ($27,368) would be considered “poor.” (In 2017, a child from a family of four with an income below $31,980 would have received a free school lunch, a common definition of “poor.”
Yes. I know that one can not statistically draw standard deviations on the basis of free school lunch eligibility, but in terms of how family resources are viewed as impacting on K-12 education, $200K is rich…
Look at it a different way — what can $500K provide a child that $200K can’t? What “things” will the parents with only a $200K income be unable to provide that they would if they had a $500K income? (NB: Not “could” but “would.”
*I used 2017 to have a common reference.
If mean is 500K and median is 200K, the standard deviation is at least 300K so a very wide distribution:
http://www.larrylisblog.net/WebContents/Interview%20Preparations/medianMeanInequality.pdf
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A new "sushi university" program led by English-speaking interpreters has been launched in Tokyo, for visitors in search of an authentic omakase experience -- a dining experience that can often be lost in translation.
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Updated:February 21, 2017, 9:52 AM IST
'Sushi University' launches in Tokyo for English-speaking travelers. (Photo courtesy: AFP Relaxnews/ studiocasper / Istock)
A new "sushi university" program led by English-speaking interpreters launched in Tokyo will help visitors in search of an authentic omakase experience -- a dining experience that can often be lost in translation.
One of the most traditional gastronomic experiences in Japan is the omakase, the equivalent of a Western tasting menu, in which diners surrender their meal choices to the creativity and whim of the chef. But in Japan, where few chefs speak fluent English, the concept can be an intimidating and confusing one for foreigners, who are unsure of what they're eating and even less sure of how to eat it.
Enter "Sushi University," a newly launched tour outfit led by interpreters who can school guests on the dos and don'ts of omakase dining, and serve as liaisons between diners and sushi chefs.
The meal is a door-to-door experience, with guides accompanying guests from the hotel to the restaurant in a shuttle bus.
At the restaurant -- normally a small, intimate affair -- the chef provides a short lecture on their culinary philosophy and the menu for the day and answers guest questions which are interpreted by the guide.
Also on the syllabus, students learn the dos and don'ts of omakase and sushi etiquette.
For instance, guests are taught it's considered bad manners to engage the sushi chef in conversation or ask questions while they are slicing the fish or molding the sushi rice.
Likewise, students are advised to skip perfume or cologne when dining at a sushi restaurant, or risk offending the chef and masking the subtle aromas for fellow diners. That also goes for smoking mid-meal.
Temperature plays an important role in omakase dining and sushi as well, which means that plates should be consumed within 10 seconds of being presented and not left languishing on the counter.
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The program is divided into three levels, basic, intermediate and senior, and prices range between $88 to $265.
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Germany's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere delivers a statement to announce new anti-terror measures in Berlin, August 11. Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images)
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German nationals who fight for extremist groups and hold dual nationality could be stripped of their German citizenship, the country's interior minister said Thursday.
Thomas de Maiziere announced a series of tough measures in the aftermath of two attacks claimed by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS).
"Germans who participate in fighting abroad for a terror militia and who have another citizenship should lose their German nationality," De Maiziere said. "So if someone fights for terror militia that is similar to an armed force, and which calls itself an army, I don't see why this should not be considered."
The measures still need to be approved by the ruling coalition of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany and the Social Democrats, as well as through parliament.
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Regional summit commits to open dialogue on peace, security and integration
James Karuhanga
Published : July 12, 2019 | Updated : July 13, 2019
(L-R) Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, João Lourenço of Angola, Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Félix Tshisekedi of DR Congo in a group photo after meeting in the Angolan capital Luanda for what has been dubbed as the Quadripartite Summit. / Village Urugwiro
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At yesterday’s meeting in Luanda, according to the statement, the leaders stressed the importance of a permanent, frank and open dialogue that should be strengthened “both bilaterally between regional states and multilaterally, for the consolidation of peace and security, and as a fundamental premise for economic integration.”
The meeting decided to continue to pay particular attention to the “creation of a climate conducive to fostering cooperation between their respective countries in areas of common interest, including in political and economic spheres.”
The four leaders also decided to prioritise the resolution of any dispute between their respective countries by peaceful means through conventional channels and in the spirit of African brotherhood and solidarity, the statement added.
“As far as the bilateral relations between the Republic of Rwanda and the republic of Uganda are concerned, the Summit welcomed the willingness of the two parties to continue the dialogue with a view to finding a solution to the existing problem,” the communique reads in part.
“In this regard the Summit also welcomed the readiness of the Republic of Angola with the support of the Democratic Republic of Congo to facilitate this process.”
Some of the issues that will need to be addressed include the arbitrary arrests of Rwandans in Uganda.
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Many were deported after spending months in Ugandan torture chambers, mostly run by military intelligence services.
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“The Heads of State welcomed the efforts of the DRC authorities to pacify the entire national territory,” a joint communique issued at the end of the one-day summit reads in part.
The meeting “condemned the persistence of armed groups in the east of the country that are in breach of the ongoing peace process and destabilizing neighbouring countries.”
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Academic & Professional Books Mammals Insectivores to Ungulates Shrews, Moles, Hedgehogs & other Insectivores
Series: The British Natural History Collection Volume: 4
By: Pat A Morris(Author), Guy Troughton(Illustrator)
209 pages, 8 plates with colour photos; b/w line drawings
Publisher: Whittet Books
ISBN: 9781873580905 Hardback Jun 2014 In stock
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In his refreshingly lighthearted style, Pat Morris presents scientific and down-to-earth information about one of Britain's best-loved wild creatures, the bumbling and endearing hedgehog. Dr Morris's book, in its various editions, has remained the principal 'popular' book on the hedgehog for over thirty years – a measure of its success and usefulness.
The 1983 (original) edition of Hedgehogs was 124 pages with no photographs, this latest edition is 204 plus 8 pages of colour photos from Pat Morris. Through the editions, it was updated four times with a major revision in 2006 (for The New Hedgehog Book) when all the illustrations were redrawn as well. This British Natural History Edition has been revised again, mainly to include the latest findings about the threat of the growing population of badgers on hedgehogs, but it has been generally updated and now has the photos.
Pat Morris is the UK's leading hedgehog expert. Having studied them over forty years, he has probably published more scientific papers on the European hedgehog than anyone. He is President of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, which recently celebrated its 30th year, and is an established writer and broadcaster, often appearing on television and radio wildlife programmes. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in Zoology, Royal Hollow (University of London).
The book is illustrated throughout with cartoon and fine line drawings by renowned wildlife artist Guy Troughton.
Reviews of the original 1983 publication include:
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Participation in meaningful work is an important contributor to health and wellbeing. Simon Stevens recently said the NHS needs to ‘raise its game’ to support people to remain in and return to employment, so how will this happen in practice? The Long Term Plan highlighted some of the national activity underway to develop new service models that better integrate health and employment support services. But ICSs, with their focus on improving population health through local community partnerships, will be the real leaders of change.
There are already great examples of NHS organisations working with system partners to improve employment outcomes for people in their area. The NHSE/I Strategy Team is working with the DHSC/DWP Work and Health Unit and Public Health England to identify and support these initiatives and help to share the learning. To find out more, join our webinar on 23rd July between 11am-12:30pm:
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Young Grenadian Artist’s work Featured at Airport Waving Gallery
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Nicholas 'Nico' Thomas
by Donella Hosten
The Waving Art Gallery at the Maurice Bishop International Airport has been transformed into a room of creativity, art and colours, as paintings from a young Grenadian artist, Nicholas ‘Nico’ Thomas, are being exhibited.
Nico’s artwork, themed “A Path to National Identity” features a number of images relating to national identity and introspection.
Nico hails from Malti, St David, and has been painting since the age of 6. He taught art at the St David’s Secondary School, and then grasped the opportunity to further his studies in Art at Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Padangpanjang, Indonesia. He currently holds a Masters in Art.
Nico says that “the environment that I live in and the circumstances that I’ve been faced with on a daily basis” serve as inspiration for his paintings.
The artist focuses greatly on building a concept rather than on technique, hence the concept of National Identity, and he prides himself on using visual arts to push towards national identity.
According to Mrs Wendy Francette–Williams, General Manager of the Grenada Airport Authority, this exhibition, which opened on Friday, 3 February, is very timely, in the lead-up to Grenada’s 43rd Independence anniversary celebrations on 7 February 2017, themed “Forging Ahead Together for Continued National Development.”
The Grenada Airports Authority has partnered with the Grenada Arts Councils since 2014 in order give local artists more visibility.
The paintings are placed strategically, so that when visitors come in on the tarmac and are in the aircraft, they can’t miss it, day or night. “That’s the first thing that you would see if you look up,” said Francette–Williams. She went on to congratulate Nico and said she hopes “he would be able to transcend this to the wider world.”
Representative from the Grenada Arts Council, Asher Mains, commended Nico on his artistic displays on identity. “The world is looking into people who are looking at themselves and their own identity.” Mains also reminded Nico that “this is something that can translate into multiple cultures and multiple places.’’
District Education Officer, Ms Meryl Lorde, offered congratulatory remarks to Nico on behalf of the Ministry of Education. “Your display of this marvelous work of art — God has given you such a talent, and for that, I can tell you that the nation is grateful.” She hopes that his work will be a motivator to everyone who come across it.
An elated Senator Brenda Hood, Minister Responsible for Culture and Cooperatives, said Nico is someone who is very committed and disciplined, and knows what he wants. The Senator noted that there are a number of young artists in Grenada who need a lot of support and encouragement. “As a Government, we will do what is necessary to promote and help these young people.”
As a means of achieving more recognition for Grenadian artists, Sen. Hood suggested having the works displayed in various embassies throughout the world.
To young aspiring artists in Grenada, Nico advised them to “think beyond this 133 square miles,” and never stop believing and creating.
Nico’s paintings will be freely on display for 1 month at the Waving Art Gallery (next to the Liftoff Restaurant, upstairs airport departures).
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Ougenweide has been played on NTS in shows including Circle Packing w/ Occo, featured first on 3 April 2018. Songs played include Tritons Ruf.
Ougenweide is a German folk-rock-band and pioneer of Medieval-Rock in Germany. The band was founded in the Spring of 1970 in Hamburg.Their music consists of “pastoral” folk rock compositions with Middle Ages influences. The band features Minne Graw (vocals, Harmonium…), Olaf Casalich (vocals, acoustic percussions), Stefen Wulff (bass guitar, accordion and keyboard), Wolgang von Henko (Mandoline, guitars and vocals), Jurgen Isenbarth (Marimbaphone, Vibraphone, vocals) and Frank Wulff (bombard, bouzouki, mandoline, sitar…). They recorded their first album in 1973. Since 1974 until…
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New Regional Vice-President South Appointed at Nuvias Group
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Patric Berger has been appointed Regional Vice-President South for pan-EMEA high value distributor Nuvias Group.
Nuvias plans to further grow its Southern European business
London, England: 14th December, 2016: 10.00 a.m. GMT – Patric Berger has been appointed Regional Vice-President South for pan-EMEA high value distributor Nuvias Group. In his new role, he will be responsible for all business aspects within the Southern European region, which includes France, Italy, Spain, Malta and the Mediterranean. Berger is also tasked with growing Nuvias’ business in this area. He will be based at the Group’s French office in Versailles.
Berger has the proven ability to successfully manage and deliver growth, alongside profitability, for overseas territories within a high value, international, IT distribution organisation.
He previously created and managed the French entity of security value-added distributor Infinigate, and was instrumental in it achieving both profitability and an excellent reputation after only two years. Before Infinigate, Berger drove the reorganisation of Computerlinks France, where, as country manager, he led the company to become a leading value-added distributor for IT security in France.
Patric Berger commented on his new role: “Nuvias is redefining international value-added distribution in IT. So I am excited to join the company and will be focussing on further growing its presence in Southern Europe, through providing a consistent, high value, service-led and solution-rich channel proposition. It’s an amazing opportunity for me, and will also provide great opportunities for the channel in the region.”
Paul Eccleston, CEO of Nuvias, said: “We are delighted that Patric has chosen to join Nuvias Group. He is uniquely qualified and experienced in international IT distribution, with a proven ability to successfully manage and grow regional branches, building both reputation and profitability. Patric will be instrumental in implementing our growth plan in the Southern region, helping us deliver customer success and new levels of business value to all our partners.”
Berger holds a masters’ degree in international economics.
About Nuvias Group
Nuvias Group is the pan-EMEA, high value distribution business, which is redefining international, specialist distribution in IT. The company has created a platform to deliver a consistent, high value, service-led and solution-rich proposition across EMEA. This allows partner and vendor communities to provide exceptional business support to customers and enables new standards of channel success.
The Group today consists of Wick Hill, an award-winning, value-added distributor with a strong specialisation in security; Zycko, an award-winning, specialist EMEA distributor, with a focus on advanced networking; and SIPHON Networks, an award-wining UC solutions and technology integrator for the channel. All three companies have proven experience at providing innovative technology solutions from world-class vendors, and delivering market growth for vendor partners and customers. The Group has seventeen regional offices across EMEA, as well as serving additional countries through those offices. Turnover is in excess of US$ 330 million.
For further press information, please contact Annabelle Brown on 01326 318212, email pr@nuvias.com https://www.nuvias.com.
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Brooklyn man dies after beaten inside his home
By Andy Mai and John Annese
Mack Wilson died after two men assaulted him inside his first-floor apartment. Pictured is the apartment building. (Ken Murray/New York Daily News)
A Brooklyn man who was beaten in his home by two men — one a relative — went to sleep after the attack and never woke up, police said Thursday.
Officers found Mack Wilson 65, in his first-floor single-room apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 1 a.m. Thursday, after his girlfriend found him in bed, not moving, police said.
On Wednesday, two men paid Wilson a visit at his home on Monroe St. by Malcolm X Blvd. and assaulted him, police said. Wilson did not seek medical attention afterward.
Police found trauma on his body, and medics rushed him to Woodhull Hospital, but he could not be saved, authorities said.
"He's a nice a guy. He had a good attitude," said Kenny King, 40, who lives in the same building. King was at a loss for why anyone would attack Wilson.
"He was an old frail guy. They didn't have to do that," he said. "You could've told him 'Give me something,' and he probably would've gave it to you."
The medical examiner will determine if the injuries from the assault caused his death, police said.
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New York|Study Says Fire Dept. Is Hurt By Communication Failures
Study Says Fire Dept. Is Hurt By Communication Failures
By Anthony Ramirez
The New York City Fire Department, while retaining a strong esprit de corps after the Sept. 11 attack, is nonetheless hurt by an inability to communicate during fires and other emergencies, a new workplace study reports.
Moreover, half of the firefighters and their supervisors who participated in the study said they had not received enough training to handle ''terror-related incidents.''
The findings are in a 40-page report written by Samuel B. Bacharach, director of the Smithers Institute at Cornell University, and released this week. Out of a sample of 3,600 firefighters and fire officers in the department who received lengthy questionnaires, 1,653 firefighters and 379 officers answered them last summer and fall. The sample represents one-third of all city firefighters.
The survey questions did not specify whether the communication problems involved equipment, like field radios.
While praising the department's team spirit and self-critiques after fires, Mr. Bacharach's survey investigators found that substantial majorities of firefighters and supervisors could not hear or understand instructions during fires or other emergencies.
For example, 75 percent of firefighters and 74 percent of fire officers reported that they had sometimes received incorrect information about the location and magnitude of fires. Eleven percent of firefighters and 2 percent of officers reported receiving such flawed information often.
Also, 61 percent of firefighters and 65 percent of officers said they sometimes could not communicate with colleagues ''when necessary.'' Eleven percent of firefighters and 5 percent of officers said this had happened often.
In the report, firefighters and officers both expressed concern about the adequacy of their equipment and training, especially terror training.
The report quotes one firefighter as saying, ''You worry about coming to work and wondering if you are going to have the support you need to get the job done.'' The firefighter adds, ''I think guys are willing to deal with all the dangers, but they don't like the idea of worrying about not having real equipment that works.''
Twenty-six percent of firefighters and 17 percent of officers told investigators that adequate ''cleaning, maintenance and repair materials'' were rarely available.
Fifty percent of firefighters and 48 percent of officers said terror-incident training was rarely available. And the quality of what is available is rated low by 52 percent of firefighters. (Fire officers were not asked that question.)
The survey also found that firefighters who worked at ground zero had high rates of depression, anxiety and stress, but that only 11 percent of firefighters and 9 percent of officers were ''at risk for a severe alcohol problem.'' These rates, while high, the survey noted, were not substantially higher than the rate of roughly 10 percent found in other workplaces.
Francis X. Gribbon, a department spokesman, said he was puzzled by the communication questions. ''It's not exactly clear what the specific issue is,'' he said. If the issue is equipment, he said, new field radios are ''overwhelmingly functioning well.''
As for terror training, he said, 600 firefighters have been given hazardous-materials and rescue-support training. ''But you can never have enough training,'' he said.
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Kulbhushan Jadhav Was Under Stress; Wife And Mother Had To Change For Meeting: India
India News | Reported by Bhairavi Singh, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Tuesday December 26, 2017
A day after the family of Kulbhushan Jadhav, the Indian man sentenced to death in Pakistan, met him in Islamabad, India called the exercise "lacking any credibility" and said the "overall atmosphere of the meeting was intimidating". Mr Jadhav's mother and wife were forced to change their clothes, not allowed to speak in their mother-tongue, and his...
Kulbhushan Jadhav's Wife, Mother To Visit Islamabad On Dec 25: Pak Foreign Office
India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday December 24, 2017
Kulbhushan Jadhav's wife and mother will visit Pakistan on December 25 to meet the Indian prisoner facing death row in Pakistan, Pakistan's foreign office said today.
'Travesty Of Logic' To Link Kulbhushan Jadhav To Civilian Prisoners: Pak
India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday July 2, 2017
Pakistan today said that it was "travesty of logic" to link the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav with civilian prisoners, a day after India sought early consular access to Mr Jadhav sentenced to death by a military court.
Petition In Pakistan's Supreme Court Seeks Immediate Execution Of Kulbhushan Jadhav
India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday May 28, 2017
A petition has been filed in Pakistan's Supreme Court seeking the immediate execution of Indian prisoner on death row Kulbhushan Jadhav if he failed to get his capital punishment overturned. Muzamil Ali, a lawyer, filed the petition yesterday through Advocate Farooq Naek a leader of opposition Pakistan People's Party and former Senate chairman.
If Pakistan Defiant On Kulbhushan Jadhav, India Can Go To UN Security Council
India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan | Thursday May 18, 2017
If Pakistan does not comply with the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of spying, then India can go to the Security Council.
Kulbhushan Jadhav Case: At 3.30 pm Today, UN Court To Rule On India vs Pak
India News | NDTV News Desk | Thursday May 18, 2017
India will find out today if it has won its case against Pakistan at the UN's top court over the execution of Kulbhushan Jadhav, a former naval officer, who has been sentenced to death after being convicted of espionage by a Pakistani military court.
US Urges India, Pakistan To Engage In Direct Dialogue Amid Face-Off Over Kulbhushan Jadhav
India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday May 16, 2017
The US urged India and Pakistan to engage in direct dialogue to reduce tension as they faced-off at the International Court of Justice over the the death penalty given to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav.
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Union Minister Sushma Swaraj today revealed how much senior advocate Harish Salve is charging to argue the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. The former Solicitor General of India today spoke for nearly one-and-half hours to present India's appeal against the death sentence to Mr Jadhav, whom ...
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There is an "immediate threat" that Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav will be executed by Pakistan even before a decision of the International Court of Justice, India on Monday said at an open hearing at The Hague in Netherlands. Mr Jadhav, a former navy officer, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court last month after being convicted ...
International Court Of Justice To Hear India, Pakistan On Kulbhushan Jadhav Case On Monday
India News | Edited By Aloke Tikku | Thursday May 11, 2017
The first set of hearing to decide Indian request on Kulbhushan Jadhav, the Indian national sentenced to death by the Pakistani military court, will be heard on Monday, the International Court of Justice has announced.
Kulbhushan Jadhav Appeal In Court Was 'Carefully Considered': Government
India News | Written by Nidhi Razdan | Wednesday May 10, 2017
The decision to move the International Court of Justice to order Pakistan to annul the death sentence of Indian Kulbhushan Jadhav on a charge of spying was a "carefully-considered decision" to save an Indian citizen's life, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
Kulbhushan Jadhav Case: India Must Approach International Court Of Justice, Says Petitioner
India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday April 18, 2017
A social activist today moved the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to the Centre to approach the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for release of Kulbhushan Jadhav, the Indian national on death row in Pakistan.
Pakistan Army Denies Consular Access To Kulbhushan Jadhav
Paksitan's army on Monday ruled out consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav, days after India had made a strong case for the access to the former Navy officer, who was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court last week.
Pakistan To Submit New Dossier On Kulbhushan Jadhav to United Nations: Report
India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday April 16, 2017
Pakistan has prepared a new dossier about alleged militant activities of Indian prisoner on death row Kulbhushan Jadhav and will share it with the UN and foreign envoys stationed in Islamabad, media reports have said.
Kulbhushan Jadhav Death Sentence: India Denied Access Again, Pakistan Toughens Stand
India News | Reported by Nidhi Razdan, Edited by Aloke Tikku | Saturday April 15, 2017
India will appeal against the death sentence handed over to Indian man Kulbhushan Jadhav by a Pakistani military court on charges of spying, Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale told Pakistani Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua on Friday and asked for consular access to the former Navy man, who New Delhi insists, was kidnapped from Iran and myst...
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Janelle Mann, 2019 recipient of KCDS’ Bev LaPointe Memorial Scholarship for Women in Trades, was awarded her $2,000 scholarship on Thursday at the WorkBC office in Trail. From left: Jessica Lunn, Scholarship Selection Committee Member/KCDS Coordinator; Rosanna Symington,KCDS; Megan Johnston, KCDS; Janelle Mann; and Laureen Barker, KCDS Board Director/Scholarship Selection Committee Member. Submitted photo
Kootenay Columbia grad receives scholarship for women in trades
Award in memory of Bev LaPointe, former chair of Kootenay Career Development Society
Janelle Mann, a 2019 JL Crowe graduate, is the fourth recipient of the Bev LaPointe Memorial scholarship for Women in Trades.
This special award from the Kootenay Career Development Society (KCDS), is in memory of founding KCDS board chair Bev LaPointe.
The scholarship offers $2,000 for a full-time or part-time female student in the trades, and is available to women residing in the KCDS service area of Nelson, Castlegar and Trail.
Mann was presented the scholarship on Thursday at the society’s new WorkBC office in downtown Trail.
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“I am very honored to be the 2019 recipient of the Bev LaPointe Scholarship,” Mann said. “It is great that there is a scholarship that recognizes women entering a trades path. For a long time, it was not common for women to enter in the trades field, and it’s amazing to see that shift for women to get recognized for it,” she shared.
“It can be intimidating in a male-dominated work environment, having this scholarship behind my name will help feel confident entering my new career. I hope this can encourage other women to consider a career path in the trades.”
Mann will be starting her Millwright/Machinist training in September at Selkirk College.
“We are so pleased to be able to award this scholarship for the fourth consecutive year, in honor of Bev LaPointe’s impact as a trailblazer for the full participation of women in the workplace, in our community, and in the trades,” says Sue Adam, KCDS board chair.
“I think she would be very proud of our scholarship recipients and of KCDS for continuing to provide this meaningful support.”
The Bev LaPointe scholarship supports women entering a career path that is under-represented by women.
She served KCDS from May 2004 until December 2012 and was passionate about the work being done through the society. LaPointe was a strong supporter of KCDS job seekers and employees and always championed worker’s rights and social justice.
She was fierce in her defense of women’s rights both in the workplace and community.
Employed by the City of Nelson for 32 years, LaPointe was the first woman to drive a snow plow for the city and locals often saw her travelling down the street in her snow plow, bus or street sweeper, joking “you bet I drive like a woman!”
According to the latest data from Statistics Canada, women accounted for only two per cent of carpentry apprentices, 1.9 per cent of plumbing apprentices, and 1.5 per cent of heavy equipment apprentices.
KCDS is a regional employment service and career development agency that works in partnership with communities and employers to support the residents of Nelson, Castlegar, and Trail in finding meaningful and sustainable employment.
For more information about how to apply for the scholarship, to search for jobs or to find out more about KCDS services, visit their website at www. kcds.ca.
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Media Create Sales: Week 10, 2015 (Mar 02 - Mar 08)
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It's not exactly a market I'd want to ignore. "Let's ignore this rapidly expanding, highly profitable market in favor of our slowly contracting, less profitable one."
The fact is, home consoles are not showing a sign of contraction, if we consider worldwide sales. PS4 is the fastest-selling home console ever, and Xbox One is not doing badly in the US and UK. The traditional market is also a lot less predictable than the mobile one. Nintendo might succeed with some IPs, but a. it's not automatic (we have seen traditional companies struggling on mobile, such as Capcom), b. it might not a good long-term investment (mobile market is less stable and people are ready to jump on the next big thing quite often), c. fidelization is something that on mobile is hard to achieve, unlike dedicated devices.
If Nintendo has this variety of IPs and characters it's because it was able to fidelize consumers. Mobile market has yet to see a success story in this sense. Angry Birds is the most important mobile IP and it's fading quite quickly.
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Isn't that the Wii?
But yeah, sort of agree for the rest, even if they are doing efforts to save what they mismanaged with Angry Birds.
A generous reading of the current ecosystem would be 200M units sold by the end of this generation; last generation was 260M.
That's pretty generous yeah. 160M is my (high end) personal prediction when everyone will have released a successor to those consoles (of course they'll keep selling a bit afterwards).
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The fact is, home consoles are not showing a sign of contraction, if we consider worldwide sales.
First, we're talking about Japan, since this is media create. Second, consoles are clearly contracting worldwide, too.
PS4 is the fastest-selling home console ever, and Xbox One is not doing badly in the US and UK.
PS4 is doing well for a first place console, but it isn't hugely outpacing the PS2 or Wii worldwide (it's actually behind the Wii at this point). Xbox One and Wii U are doing outright poorly relative to the second and third place consoles last generation. A generous reading of the current ecosystem would be 200M units sold by the end of this generation; last generation was 260M.
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casiopao said:
Hmmm..... i don't know here. I just don't see it lol. I feel that free game especially when it achieved maybe 2 or 3 titles can be the pushing button for those people. Especially parents when they heard from their children that they got free games. Parents would be less resistant into buying those dedicated consoles as this time, the already a number of free games on the system there and they don't need to buy new game for quite some time.
But maybe what u said is better or not i am really not sure lol.
It's not impossible, but I think what's most likely to win parents over is simply their kids asking for the system.
Like we are already talking about parents who can afford smartphones and/or tablets and let their kids sit playing with them.
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The only thing that I can't wrap my head around is that Nintendo owns 10% of DeNA, this is huge own its own merits
Sandfox
Nirolak said:
Pretty much. They basically just need to get kids interested in their franchises through mobile and other forms of media and then hope those kids will ask for the new Nintendo platform as their first dedicated device when they see an ad through one of these services.
I just don't think people realize how lopsided the market is becoming, particularly in Japan. I get that we tend to focus on consoles here -- and console like games, even if they happen to be on handhelds -- but in Japan, the market has spoken. Mobile/handheld dominates the market, and that dominance is only increasing over time, not decreasing.
It's not the sort of thing I think Sony can just handwave away. We're not talking about some small segment of the market here -- it's the dominant force in the market that's growing over time, not just in Japan but worldwide. An enormous international conglomerate the size of Sony which focuses considerable resources on games can't afford to simply shrug and say "Oh well, guess we lost out on that mobile/handheld thing."
MilesTeg
You can't say a market is contracting simply because 2/3 players introduced products that the market didn't like. The consumer doesn't buy something simply because it's available. It has to be desirable. Xbox One is changing it's negative perception, Wii U is done.
Anyway, Xbone+PS4 are doing better than PS3+360 in the same time span. Nintendo released a dud (Wii U) and that skews the numbers big time. The place where AAA products are released is pretty healthy; the Wii wasn't part of that space last generation, thus it's dubious to claim contraction when most spending by third parties was outside of Nintendo platforms.
PC is gaining users as well and is now a place where AAA games are favourable to release.
Of course, there is the possibility of contraction. Japan it's especially obvious that the products they like are increasingly released outside of set top boxes.
I want to see Nintendo's next round of devices. The 3DS and Wii U are their weakest hardware platforms to date, and justifiably are seeing the lowest sales of any Nintendo hardware to date. I think it's fair to say that if Nintendo releases products the market wants that they will be successful.
MilesTeg said:
You can't say a market is contracting simply because 2/3 players introduced products that the market didn't like.
I'm not saying that. I'm saying it's contracting because fewer consoles will be sold this generation than there were last generation (and likely by quite a margin, but we'll wait and see on that). That's literally what contraction is.
It's not the sort of thing I think Sony can just handwave away. We're not talking about some small segment of the market here -- it's the dominant force in the market that's growing over time, not just in Japan but worldwide. An enormous international conglomerate the size of Sony which focuses considerable resources on games like Sony does can afford to simply shrug and say "Oh well, guess we lost out on that one."
They seem to be doing above internal expectations right now with the PS4 and given their other recent announcements on the gaming side they will probably just be sticking with that for the time being whether its the right decision or not.
If anything you could say that early PS3 numbers are skewing current comparisons as well.
test_account
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Takao said:
It looks like the only Digimon game on Gameboy platforms to see a release in Japan was Digimon Racing. Japanltdrank doesn't have any sales data for that. Most Digimon handheld games were on Bandai's Wonderswan platforms:
I see. I wonder why they didnt release those games in Japan.
DXB-KNIGHT said:
It seems that they just "traded" shares with eachother. DeNA owns 1.24% of Nintendo's shares, which is also pretty big.
Aki-at
And if this generation does 200 million that would still put it about 10 million odd units behind the sixth generation! Market contraction is real and the success of the Playstation 4 is blinding the overall health of consoles
That being said if Sonic can do 500,000 users in the space of what, 3 weeks? In Japan, a franchise that is practically dead over there, I'm not sure why Sony don't attempt to push their own smartphone titles.
They didn't really have a successful console IP either when they took that market by storm with the PS1. I'm not saying it would be easy, but it's just not a market I would give up casually.
When you refer to the mobile market, are you speaking in terms of software or hardware? They already have their smartphones and aren't doing so well. They could ditch Android and create their own OS and app store I guess but I don't see that as having a strong chance of succeeding. They could make mobile games, but Sony rely more on third parties. Mobile is also a long way away from the AAA games market. Nintendo games are much closer to the offerings suitable for mobile.
theprodigy
wait, why would Sony care if their competitors fall? if anything that's a direct benefit to them, we're not exactly talking about third parties here
also Sony's strong point isn't exactly its first party games, so I don't see how a transition to mobile makes sense, and we all know how bad their venture into smartphones (as in the hardware) has gone so far
True enough, but in my opinion Wii U isn't failing simply because it's a console. It's failing because it has incredibly poor software support, a high price, bad idea and bad marketing. It's a bad product and bad products don't sell well. It's the opposite of the Wii in every sense.
Sure you can go ahead and subtract the 100 million Wii consoles from the equation and claim contraction. However there is no evidence that Nintendo can't release a better product and be more successful next time. And as I said most spending was done outside the Wii with third party. Xbone and PS4 are doing well in comparison to their predecessors and that's what big publishers like to see.
Of course, when you take handhelds into the equation as well, there is obviously contraction for gaming based devices on the whole. That is largely because they no longer have the full support of the Japanese gaming industry, which in turn means less games for everyone on these devices. That isn't as much of an issue on home consoles. At least outside of Japan of course.
I'll cross-post my opinion from the other thread on the DeNA/Nintendo deal since it's basically a business opinion:
I actually think a key point for Nintendo is the ability to keep it at arms length somewhat. Iwata said in the Q&A session that they've left the option open for DeNA and Nintendo to go their separate ways if it doesn't work out.
I'm interesting to see what shape NX is taking now. I would still bet on it being both handheld and consoles but I would be interested in seeing how it interacts with their mobile offerings. Iwata repeatedly stressed that they won't put console games on mobile but as far as I saw there was no talk of whether their mobile offerings will be available on their platforms.
I've only seen it second hand but apparently the possibility of cross-save and cross-play were mentioned and I think that could go further than what you suggest. Being able to load Pokémon Amie/Super Trainer, Meownster Hunters or Norende Village on your smartphone using your save from the full game.
Honestly though I didn't think it made sense to try mobile before dedicated hardware was untenable and I thought it was a ways off. Exciting times though.
heidern said:
I mean a mobile gaming ecosystem. That may include hardware, but doesn't have to.
Again, I'm not saying it would be easy, but then, I don't think it's going to be easy for Nintendo, either. They're having to do a (what is for them unprecedented) joint partnership thing to just get off the ground.
And if this were just, I don't know, the rhythm game market, I'd understand simply giving it up and focusing on your strengths. If you can't easily figure out how to fit that in to your strategy, no big deal. But this isn't some small submarket; it's the most profitable, fastest growing segment of the market which is already dominant in Japan and is looking to pass console revenue in the west within the next few years. It's something I would be extremely hesitant to simply concede to competitors because it's hard.
FoneBone
I'm not sure where this leaves Sony. If Nintendo maintains its dominance of handheld systems while moving in to mobile, it leaves very little room for Sony to squeeze in to. I had thought they might transition in to mobile more aggressively/successfully than Nintendo, but perhaps that won't happen.
Well, Sony still could be a successful mobile developer, in theory. They just don't have a strong existing IP stable to leverage.
(I have to wonder if the sheer strength of their third-party support in the PS2 era bit them on the ass in that regard. Easier said than done, but if they'd done a better job of launching their own franchises, I think their hardware now - especially the Vita - would be in a much better position.)
Sony have two options to make money from gaming. They either make their own games for profit or they get other game developers to pay them a fee. As a developer Sony are a pretty small player in the traditional gaming market. Transitioning to mobile success would be even more difficult than making new monster AAA console IPs.
So the alternative is convincing mobile developers to pay them a fee. To do this they'd need to provide them some kind of service. Hardware platform, app store/storefront, development tools, back end services, marketing, IPs. I'm not sure I see any sizeable low hanging fruit there. Maybe a Playstation gaming store I guess, although they'd have to distribute this outside of the Android Store.
ZSaberLink
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Darius said:
"We aim to construct a bridge between smart devices and dedicated video game hardware that connects consumers to our dedicated video game systems."
And that's where it'll all fall apart imo. Apart from JP, people don't spend money on mobile. There are some whales, but the vast majority of people just move from free thing to free thing while having their time cashed in as money by advertisers. On Android, nobody pays for anything at all and people pirate the paid apps. It's just incredibly naive that they'll get these folks to "upgrade" and I think it's going to kill them even faster while keeping them "relevant" in the stock market's eyes. Folks will have even less incentive to buy into dedicated devices, but Nintendo won't recoup the costs from the eyeballs they get from mobile gaming. I still am convinced that the current mobile pricing strategy is just an unsustainable bubble waiting to break. Before, Nintendo would have profited heavily from mobile gaming bursting. Now, I feel like it's going to hurt them quite a bit.
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duckroll said:
So, since Nintendo finally made the logical business decision and have done the responsible thing for their shareholders, I have a feeling that a lot of people here who were previously completely uninterested in discussing mobile sales and trends will have to start paying more attention very soon to stay relevant!
Well, maybe now people will care more about all the mobile analysis I usually make! So far, all the analytical posts I made about some mobile games / apps didn't start legitimate discussions as much as I hoped. Now that Nintendo's in the mix, maybe there will be interest after all! ;_;
I'm just catching up. Diversify?? Nintendo?? Holy shit! What a time!
Mpl90 said:
But the problem is that all those analysis usually tell us absolutely nothing. It's not your fault, there's just no transparency for mobile markets. That's going to limit discussion a lot.
It says a lot that everyone is ignoring Sony's Android/iOS games. It sounds like Nintendo is taking the same strategy they already have: companion experiences rather than replacements for dedicated devices.
test_account said:
Because Bandai wanted to support their own handheld.
Nintendo doesn't want companion apps, nor replacements. They want new apps tailored for the platform.
There's a huge difference in IP appeal too.
I thought they said that PC is only going to be like accompanied system? Like to buy some games or send message?
Well, Sony can simply ignore that market right? Especially when their smartphone product is not doing well last time i know. Tx to their idea of making tons and tons of product(Is it doing better now?)
It is not like Sony is doing much with Vita right now. And entering smartphone market is not easy at all.
Sony Xperia is a quality product that came to the market too late. Their mobile communication division (which is the division that was created basically to separate the smartphone business back in 2013 IIRC) was forecasted to have a performance of 1320BY in revenue and a operating loss of 215BY most of which came from Q2 after Sony did an adjustment in their assets in which basically cut short over 176BY on the perceived value of the division. I think its not long until Sony sell it as they did with Vaio, which is sad because the phone itself is incredible but I guess the momentum of Samsung, Apple and even HTC can't be stopped by a product that while great isn't ground breaking.
Of course, it's a Japanese sales thread, but business decisions are not made in a vacuum and if Sony is focusing on dedicated devices it's because worldwide they still have appeal. Also, the whole market might be contracting, but Sony's share is actually increasing with respect to the previous generation, both worldwide and in Japan. Worldwide its sales are also better than the previous generation, so it makes sense to keep investing in a highly lucrative market.
Finally, every generation is different from each other. In particular, this generation will see additional source of revenues, on top of mere hw & sw sales (digital games & DLC increasing YOY), therefore a comparison made on installed base doesn't depict the full situation in my opinion.
Perhaps because almost no one knew those apps even existed
Eolz said:
Companion experiences =/= companion apps
Sackboy Runs is a completely standalone game tailored for mobile platforms, but it has direct hooks to the proper LBP games. That doesn't sound dissimilar to what Iwata wants to have happen. He doesn't want a traditional Mario platformer on iOS, or else it would negatively influence the sales for their dedicated platforms.
Which is kind of the problem.
Aostia
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yes, but today's news was almost everywere, not only in Japan but even in Italy was on the primetime tv news, while I don't remember such coverage for Suckboy run. First party IP leverage is pretty different from zsony to Nintendo, as third party support on home console on the other hand. imho, of course.
I'm not denying that, or even arguing that Nintendo's IPs are more marketable than Sony's. I'm just talking about the conversation about what SCE will do in mobile. They've already dipped their toes into it, and few have cared.
Oh, I absolutely agree with that. That's a significant reason why I expected them to get there before Nintendo did.
So far, Sony has given mobile some modest support, and gotten commensurately modest results. No, the results haven't been spectacular, but neither has the effort. Nintendo may suffer the same fate if that's their ultimate approach.
If Sony Mobile is just the tip of the iceberg, then I want to see the rest of the iceberg as soon as possible. If it's just a few scraps that Sony threw out to say "See? We tried!" then that's a pretty poor showing for such an important, growing, profitable gaming market.
Aostia said:
I think the point is that Sony already tried to take on Mobile by making tie in games that wouldn't replace the console games but few people actually care, I did't even knew LBP had a mobile game.
Also I think that while Nintendo news taking on to mobile are huge, I wonder what their approach (or rather their partner and Nintendo) will be. Are they going to make a 2D platformer for mobile games with Mario characters and compete against themselves? Are they going to release back catalog games ported to mobile? Are they going to release small games tailored to mobile market for free as advertising tools and then tied them with their handheld/consoles offerings (this seems the case since DeNa has been tasked to build a network that would tie their offerings with the Nintendo platforms)?
I think that the third approach is the most obvious outcome (I don't know if Iwata already commented on the type of games that are going to be released on mobile) but I have to wonder if it is the best. For Nintendo as platform holders seems like the best scenario if their adventure on mobile succeed but I have my reservations, since the usual mobile customer is completely different than even the most casual handheld owner.
Sorry, I lost that. Btw, I am not even sure about N possible succes on mobile
Led_Zeppelin said:
Iwata did specifically rule out porting their console games to mobile, several times actually. The idea seems to be making new games suited to mobile based on existing IP. Not necessarily adapting game concepts(although it will be somewhat inevitable).
Here's how DeNA/Mobage's one successful native smartphone app has performed over time:
Edit, Sorry, just notice that it says grossing ranks.
Oregano said:
Then I wonder how much impact this games will have on the traditional Nintendo platforms and games, because I doubt that even if you give people that play your mobile games incentives to buy/play games on your handheld/console if they are going to do it. The other way around does work, since traditional gamers will put up with mobile app/games if they get something out of it for their games on handheld/consoles (I think the FIFA/MADDEN/NBA 2K companion apps prove this beyond doubt) but we still have to see someone trying to take the inverse way.
I always wonder, are those rankings based on downloads or revenue?
The ones I post are revenue. The download chart is available in the same format however.
Yeah, it remains to be seen. However it's still better for Nintendo for them to buy Nintendo mobile games than other mobile games.
SweetTeddie
I wonder if Nintendo is giving up any royalties on their console sales to DeNA if they're codeveloping the account system. It'd be fascinating to see how the deal is actually structured, and where DeNA gets a cut from sales aside from mobile.
SweetTeddie said:
That strikes me as the kind of thing where they'd just pay DeNA to run the service they same way you would for most hosted business solutions.
Like you generally pay X million dollars a year based on how many users you intend to have and/or how much data you're generating.
Where? Curious to know where the news was, precisely
vinnygambini
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Mobile offerings:
Mr. Iwata said the company hopes to reach hundreds of millions of new users via the service, which will be made available globally. He said Nintendo would take the lead on developing new games for it, while DeNA will operate the technical side. Revenue will generally be split 50-50, he said.
On Co-developping Account System. DeNA are paid for their services & infrastructure but that ends there honestly.
I agree, the nature of the deal seems to be that Nintendo bought 10% of DeNA and DeNA is now owner of 1.2% of Nintendo in a way that both parties bought the similar amount of money in stock from the other. So I guess they will both see benefits from this even if the mobile gamers don't take the bait the games will offer to jump to handhelds or consoles offerings.
Psycho_Mantis
Home consoles. Its still a massive market.
For those interested:
DeNA management will host a conference call to discuss the business and capital alliance with Nintendo Co., Ltd. announced on March 17, 2015
Tuesday, March 17 18:30-NYC / 22:30-LDN
Wednesday, March 18 6:30-HKG&SIN / 7:30-TKY
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Psycho_Mantis said:
Absolutely, but also one that is contracting and not very profitable. I'm not saying I'd want to abandon consoles, but I'd certainly want to make sure I had other avenues of expansion at this point, especially if I had Sony-like overhead. Hopefully they can expand on Sony/Playstation mobile or find a way to attract "casual" gamers back to consoles.
What Oregano said. I look at Media Create and NPD because there are actual #s that I can quantify. Mobile charts still have no numbers and interest me as much as GfK does, so not at all.
What do people expect from this in the long run? To me, it seems more like the big deal is about Nintendo crossing a boundry (to put it like that) rather than some big change is going to happen in the gaming market overall just because Nintendo make this decision. But it remains to be seen exactly how big the mobile game output will be (as in how many games that will be made).
That would make sense. I forgot that Bandai made Wonderswan.
Playstation mobile is just another one of many fragments of android, and not a particularly successful one. Sony itself at the moment has been far more concerned with trimming its own fat(which has included the smartphone division) than expanding into anything and I really don't see that changing anytime soon. The latter is more what they'll try, and what they have been trying(hell they tried to attract casual gamers to vita as well through call of duty and that backfired).
The thing I never quite understand is where is everyone actually making money (the bolded portion). Like I feel I might be missing something here. Is this entirely from in-game advertising and the usual in-app purchases + whales? If so, how is this exactly a healthy or sustainable model? If not, what other revenue sources are they getting? Is Japan different in this regard? If everyone goes for high volume, low profit margin per sale type of games, you're forced to have huge userbases (like Nintendo's targeted 100M) to really start taking money. People have a limited amount of time to really even spend time in these games, so there's only a limited # of games that can really coexist at one time.
Nearly everyone I know seems to say making money in mobile development is an utter nightmare, but I feel like companies left and right continue to dive into it because of the prospect of getting one of these hits. Is there seriously any stability in mobile? Even P&D, the one semi-consistent franchise (at least lasted 2 years on top?) seems to be declining now right?
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March 12, 2018 - Trump’s Chart in Pyongyang; Stormy Daniels Sues Trump; Oprah Winfrey in 2020?
March 19, 2018 - Stormy Daniels’ Birth Time; Trump and Black Moon Lilith; Stephen Hawking is Smiling.
March 26, 2018 - China Counter-Attacks in Growing Trade War; Top 5 Astro-Events for April; John Bolton
April 2, 2018 - Health Care Industry; Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream; the astrology of Royal Weddings
April 9, 2018 - The NYSE and Trade War; Mark Zuckerberg goes to DC; Kate Hudson’s Love Life
April 16, 2018 - Russia’s horoscope; Uranus Enters Taurus; Michael Cohen, Trump’s Pitbull
April 23, 2018 - Kim Jong Un, Peacemaker; Michael Avenetti, Stormy’s attorney; Allison Mack arrested.
April 30, 2018 - Trump’s High-Risk Style; May’s Top Five AstroEvents; Paris Hilton’s Online Fame
May 7, 2018 - Trump’s New Lawyer, Rudy Giuliani; NASA’s Mars Mission; Cheryl Burke’s Venus-Pluto.
May 14, 2018 - Strong and Proud, Israel at Seventy; Viktor Vekselberg; Hawaii’s Kilauea and asteroid Pele
May 21, 2018 - Trump’s 2018 Solar Return; Michael Avenatti Update; Meghan Markle's Part of Fortune.
May 28, 2018 - Kim Jong Un Makes Nice; June's Top 5 Astro-Events; Meghan Markle and the Great Mother
June 4, 2018 - Mars Rx in Aquarius; SpaceX Becomes Profitable; Roseanne Barr’s 12th House Mars
June 11, 2018 - Saturn-Pluto Culture Wars; Ambas-sador Dennis Rodman; Spade and Bourdain
June 18, 2018 - Trump on the Offensive; July 12 Solar Eclipse; Cristiano Ronaldo, the best soccer player
June 25, 2018 - Immigration Crisis; China Imposes $50b Tariffs; Atul Gawande, Healing the Health System
re: Florence - I saw your piece on Florence, thought you might like to take a look at my analysis. I find that solar contacts from hurricane asteroids are quite common (Sun was also conjunct Florence), and of course Storm and Flood are always active at such time. And asteroid Carolina was with Jupiter at 18 Scorpio:
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They really need to stop giving these things names with celestial correlations. :^)
A. Thanks Alex. That's a good insight about the Sun and the named asteroid.
re: Trump - I can’t wait for newsscope this week! Do you think Trump will end his presidency early? Resignation or impeachment? Or will he last the next election or worse, get re-elected? My hope is for the Dems to take control midterm, but I imagine the public hates him enough to vote in 2020 this time.
re: Ford – Did you look up Gerald Ford's chart to see what was going on with him the day he took office? His progressed Mars on Aug 9, 1974 was at 28°41' Gemini, so that's pretty close to the eclipse point. His progressed Moon was at 26°16' Aquarius conjunct the U.S. Moon.
re: Trump - I looked at Trump's horoscope for the 2018 November elections. It couldn't be much better. Expect the Republicans to do much better than Democrats are hoping for. I am neither Democrat or Republican and plan to vote for neither.
re: Trump - it now appears that the 12th house aspects you speak of now reflect not only the payoffs on his illicit love affairs but with his own criminal behavior in violating campaign finance laws in in hush money to Stormy Daniels and the other girl, whose name urrently escapes me. Hope more light is shed on Trump' s 12th house criminal Kremlin secrets. Would also like to see you do current interpretations on the natal chart of the Republican Party and it's future and/or hopeful demise.
re: Trump - Your analysis of Trump’s eclipse problems this week was utterly prescient, as usual. Can’t wait for this upcoming Felony Friday for the solar side of this evolving story!
re: Trump - So do you think then the possibility of Trump’s impeachment is becoming more plausible with the eclipse? He seems to be spiraling into self destruct mode, not even his minders can keep up with him. I’m delighted. I’d love to see him impeached and indicted.
A. Impeachment likely won't happen unless the Democrats win big in Nov. Otherwise, the GOP-controlled Senate won't go along with that.... But it's looking more and more like Putin has something over Trump.
re: NewsScope - I have been reading your NewsScope column for several years. I very much enjoy reading about world events and leaders. I am also an astrologer, have done a few professional readings, but it was not for me. I have a blog, which I loved writing, however needed to focus on paying bills.
I noticed you are migrating to Facebook, and some of your readers prefer a website. I don’t know much about Homestead, but it does not seem to the best solution for your work anymore.
re: Solar Eclipse - Is there significance to Part of Fortune conjunct Ascendant (exact to the minute) and quincunx the North Node?
A. The Part of Fortune is always conjunct the Ascendant during the New Moon or Solar Eclipse. And the Lunar Node axis is generally within a few degrees of the Ascendant, but it can be the North or South Node. By definition, the Lunar Nodes are where the Moon’s path crosses the ecliptic, so eclipses happen when the New or Full Moon is close to the Lunar Node axis.
re: Facebook - about "Putting NewsScope on FB might be a good alternative to using this homestead provider, since it takes so long to update pages." I'm not entirely sure what this means, but if it means that your column would no longer appear on Neptune Cafe, I'd beg you to not do this. I enjoy your column every week, ever since I found the site through Richard Nolle's site, but I am not on Facebook and never will be. Please don't make it so those of us that don't participate in a particular forum, however popular it might be, can't access your wonderful analyses.
A. I’ve gotten a lot of feedback on the migration of NewsScope to Facebook. For the time being, it will be both here and there. At this site, the pages take several hours every week to update, while on FB, it’s a straightforward copy and paste. The lead NewsScope piece is going up on FB on Sundays.
re: SA-PL - It's discouraging to think that US politics are going to keep getting worse until at least January 2020 with the exact Saturn-Pluto conjunction. Is there a way to dodge the bullet? Increase compassion? Any remedy?
A. As I’ve been suggesting, the placement of Ceres and Eris within the SA-PL configuration is a major clue, and refers to the empowerment of women. We’ve seen this already with the #MeToo movement, and the increasing number of women getting elected to Congress and other political and corporate offices.
re: Rodman - I have long touted Dennis Rodman as the mediator between the US and Korea, so thank you for your article about him being the unofficial ambassador. Deep down I think he was probably the real reason this summit happened, as he has been planting and sowing the seeds for nearly five years, as you pointed out.
Re: FB - I respectfully suggest Newscope not appear on Facebook, which is a proven privacy violator, and instead use a good alternative: 8 Best Facebook Alternatives With Focus On Privacy For 2018 - While most of us knew about Facebook's relentless data collection practices, Cambridge Analytica revelation has forced many of us to raise questions and look for Facebook alternatives.
A. I’ve been on Facebook for years and haven’t had any problems with privacy issues. Putting NewsScope on FB might be a good alternative to using this homestead provider, since it takes so long to update pages. There are vibrant astrology groups there, and unlike this page, it's mobile friendly.
Re: Trump – Hey, t pluto square US p mars @ 17:54 Libra for final time. I've mentioned before that I noticed this aspect first in spring of 2016 just as Trump was getting traction in the primaries and then again almost exact when he was sworn in. Again, during the Nov. 2018 election, Pluto is @19:10 Libra, hardly one degree past exact. I want to hope it means that the current gangster element in politics is over. Can you 'make my day'?
A. Good story idea, thanks...
re: Meghan - Duchess of Sussex .. About her Part of Fortune. Your article uses the Part of Fortune using the day chart formula, hence 17 ish deg Virgo. But her natal chart is nocturnal, Sun is below horizon...My software therefore gives her PoF as 1Ge 23" ? I thought it was standard practice to use the PoF formula based on whether the chart is day/night .
A. Yes, I always use the daytime formula. I've written an extensive article (published in Dell Horoscope magazine) explaining why this is the way to go. It’s an analysis of ten presidents and how the Part of Fortune is a key indicator in their elections and general good or bad fortunes.
SolarFire used to have the default Part of Fortune set to the daylight formula, but after Rob Hand’s research into ancient astrology (which I don’t agree with), the SF default was switched to day and night time formulas. You have the option of making the default the daytime formula for all birth times.
This is further explained in my article on Joan Quigley and the Part of Fortune. It was also published in Dell Horoscope magazine and re-posted on my website here.
re: Trump’s SR - Are you sure that he'll be in Washington when the Solar Return happens? Did you try it out in Singapore??
A. Solar Returns are set for the residence, not the point where one happens to be on the globe at the time. The notion that one can enhance their SR prospects by being at a particularly lucky place during the SR is fake news perpetuated by dishonest astrologers seeking to make a buck.
re: Kennedy - Since you're so good at analyzing the Kennedy clan, I thought I'd see something about the recently released "Chappaquiddick" film in your column. (Did I miss it?)
After watching the film, I looked up the charts of Ted Kennedy, his wife Joan, and Mary Jo Kopechne (the passenger who drown -- actually, she suffocated -- in his car on that fateful night of July 18, 1969). What's really interesting is that ALL THREE OF THEM HAD THE PROGRESSED MOON CONJUNCT SATURN!
A. You're referring to an article I wrote on the Kennedy clan for Dell Horoscope magazine, maybe 10 years ago. I haven't really kept up on their comings and goings. That's fascinating that the three people involved all have progressed Moon-Saturn, tragic event not only for them but for the nation.
Maybe there's a new bunch of Kennedys on the horizon who can escape the Kennedy curse.
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July 2, 2018 - Mexico has a new President; July’s Top Five; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Upset Victory.
July 9, 2018 - The Trump-Putin Summit; Jefferson and Adams Validate the U.S. Horoscope; Mr. Rogers.
July 16, 2018 - Louise Hay, th Queen of the New Age, how thoughts become reality with Mercury-Chiron.
July 23, 2018 - The Lunar Eclipse as Mercury Rx; Roe v. Wade Re-Visited; Maria Butina, the Kremlin link
July 30, 2018 - Astro-Event #6: the Uranus Station; August’s Top Five Astro-Events; Tech Takes a Dive
Aug. 06, 2018 - Neptune Conjoining the U.S. Prog. Sun; Hemingway’s Over-Active Mars.
Aug. 13, 2018 - Trump Declares Economic War on Turkey; Women Politicians Trending Up; Omarosa
Aug. 20, 2018 - Mercury in Trump’s 12th House; The Trump Taj Mahal; Brennan: “Trump is Drunk on Power”
Aug. 27, 2018 - Trump’s Midheaven Eclipsed; Mike Pence, Waiting in the Wings; September’s Top Five
Sept. 03, 2018 - Election Day Astrology; SA-PL and Neo-Nazis on the Rise;
Pope Francis Under Fire
Sept. 10, 2018 - Crazytown, USA; Canopy Growth, Weed Stocks Soaring; Jocelyn Bell Burnell recognized.
Sept. 17, 2018 - The Astrology of U.S. Disasters; Hurricane Florence; Willie Nelson Gets Political
Sept. 24, 2018 - Echoes of Anita Hill; October’s Top Five Astro-Events; Chris Hedges on Totalitarian Capitalism
Oct. 01, 2018 - Senator Flake Moved by Venus; Brett Kavanaugh’s Mercury-Neptune; Elon Musk's tweets
Oct. 08, 2018 - The #MeToo Movement advances; October’s Astro-Event #6; Is it Art? The Banksy Effect
Oct. 15, 2018 - Jamal Khashoggi’s Silence is Deafening; Market Sell-Off; Two Stars are Re-Born
Oct. 22, 2018 - Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman; Post-Election Developments; Elizabeth Warren in 2020
Oct. 29, 2018 - Mars in the U.S. 4th House; Top Five for November; Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Next President
Nov. 5, 2018 - Mueller’s Mercury-Uranus Config; The Migrant Caravan; Gwyneth Paltrow and Madame Ovary
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re: NewsScope - Thank you for the terrific service you provide with your weekly columns. You make Monday mornings a time of anticipation! I’ve learned from Rachel Maddow that court documents can provide useful information for astrological work. In case you may write about the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting, <snip>
A. Thanks for the data and positive feedback. I've already described this phase as likely to be violent, and generally prefer to not get into the details of a bloody mess.
re: Elizabeth Warren - This week's issue has prompted my response about Elizabeth Warren. She is born the same month, day, and year as Meryl Streep a phenomenal, woman herself. About the tie-in to the USA Moon, which I agree works, would having an angle, especially the MC, at 25 Aquarius work?
A. That's a great question, but I haven't seen any evidence of that. However, it may be true. The problem is we don't have reliable birth data on the Presidents before WW2, so the sample size is small.
re: post-election - You seem pretty sure that the Democrats will re-take the House of Representatives on November 6. Can we count on that? Shall we brace ourselves for the backlash?
A. The astro-conditions post-election look dire indeed, from many angles. To mention a few: transiting Uranus in the last degree of Aries squaring the transiting Lunar Node axis; Mercury turns retrograde squaring Neptune; Robert Mueller's ready to report, perhaps subpoena Trump.
re: economy - Our current sky map shows very close connections between now and Oct 1987 when the markets crashed from Asia to America.
re: mailbomber - He scrubbed his Facebook account which showed he was a Bernie supporter. He had a dozen or so arrests but repeatedly released and under the supervision of Broward County, Florida. The perfect patsy. The bombs were duds, intended to terrorize and most likely create sympathy for the addressees, hence a political act and attempt to sway the election.
Do you think we will see a decrease in these disruptive actions when transiting Neptune clears its conjunction with progressed US Sun
A. I'm sorry, but I don't buy your conspiracy theory on the mailbomber. Transiting Neptune conjoining the U.S. progressed Sun has more to do with the nation's disingenuous, scandal-plagued leadership (ie, Trump) than the media or any violent episode.
NewsScope for November 12, 2018
By Michael Wolfstar
Matthew Whitaker’s Appointment
Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker as the Acting Attorney General was anticipated in NewsScope’s October 22 issue: “With Mars opposing his natal Mars, Trump is going to feel the pinch and act accordingly immediately after the Democrats re-take the House of Representatives on November 6. Will he fire Jeff Sessions (Rosenstein’s boss) to block Mueller’s report?” And in November’s Astro-Event #2: “Expect huge, audacious power plays that may bring a constitutional crisis.”
Whitaker was born with his Scorpio Sun opposite Saturn (October 29, 1969; Des Moines, Iowa; time unknown), and his Mars in ambitious Capricorn, a determined combination that fights hard to get to the top. The political strategy asteroid Pallas (sometimes referred to as “the Goddess of Justice”) is also located in Capricorn and sextiles his Sun, making him a natural to play out his career in the political realm.
Whitaker’s Mars is unusually dynamic: its tight square to Mercury in Libra depicts an argumentative, edgy personality, generally unwilling to listen to others’ opinions. Mars is also closely opposite Black Moon Lilith in Cancer, which can lead to actions outside legal or traditional conventions. According to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s judgment, Whitaker’s appointment is unconstitutional because it wasn’t approved by the Senate.*
* See Slate’s article for further details.
Whitaker’s T-square involving Mars, Mercury and Lilith – all at 25º of their respective signs – was activated on November 7 when he was appointed. His progressed Sun is now at 25º Sagittarius, which has been energizing his T-square for the last months. Transiting Mars was at 25º Aquarius on the day he was appointed, activating this underlying configuration. Over the coming week, Venus will be turning direct at 25º Libra, further activating this T-square. Expect some wild developments in his oversight of the Mueller investigation.
Americans are favorably influenced by politicians with Mars in Leo. After all, a statistically improbable 11 of 43 presidents (including Trump) have this placement. Omar’s Mars in Leo makes her a confident leader, and it’s currently being fortified by a quincunx from transiting Pluto in Capricorn. Over the next six months, transiting Saturn will be heading to 20º Capricorn where it turns retrograde while quincunx her Mars. She’s certain to be a rising -- if not controversial -- star under these conditions.
Ilhan Omar was born with a responsible Sun-Saturn conjunction in socially aware Libra (October 4, 1981; Mogadishu, Somalia; time unknown). The Sun and Saturn are near Ceres, the feminine asteroid associated with nutrition and caretaking. Curiously, her Islamic counterpart, Rashida Tlaib, was also born with a Sun-Saturn-Ceres triple conjunction (July 24, 1976). The combination infers responsible nurturing of the less advantaged, and both support a $15 minimum wage.
Omar’s public profile is certain to rise when she comes to Washington since she has an electric aura of excitement about her, thanks to her Venus-Uranus conjunction in magnetic Scorpio. Yet with her Sun-Saturn opposite Eris, the Warrior Goddess, she (and we) can expect her to attract much animosity and be at the center of much chaos and discord (Eris key words). Her Moon-Neptune conjunction in Sagittarius reflects her strong religious beliefs.
Somalian Ilhan Omar Elected to Congress
Last week, along with Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar became the first Islamic woman to be elected to Congress. Born in war-torn Somalia, she spent four years in a refugee camp before her family made it to the United States in 1995. She quickly learned English and became a citizen in 2000. Her professional career then morphed from nutrition educator into successful politician.
Florida Re-Count Overseen by Mercury-Neptune
With Mercury turning retrograde on November 16 while exactly squaring Neptune, the outcome of three Senate and numerous Congressional races is still up in the air. Florida is getting most of the attention where a re-count has already started, even as absentee ballots in the Democratic stronghold of Broward County are still being tabulated. Florida’s horoscope (March 3, 1845; 11:00 am*; Tallahassee) provides further insights.
With its Sun in watery Pisces and Neptune at the Midheaven, Florida has become best known for its beachside resorts, entertainment centers, and retirement communities. Neptune, as King of the Sea, describes Florida as a peninsula with most of the state lying just a few feet above sea level. Mercury and Venus conjoin Neptune, and all three are conjunct the U.S. Moon in Aquarius, making the state a popular destination as well as pivotal in election season.
Problematically, the Sun is located at 13º Pisces where it’s being conjoined by transiting Neptune. Mercury is stationing at 13º Sagittarius this coming Friday and already within three degrees over the previous weekend. The Mercury-Neptune signature has become famous in astrological circles due to its presence in Trump’s natal chart, and responsible for his innumerable, unsubstantiated whoppers. He accused the Democrats in Florida of election fraud.
Florida’s current scenario resonates strongly with what happened during the November 2000 presidential race between Al Gore and George W. Bush. Just after the tight election results, Mercury turned retrograde at 3º Scorpio while squaring Neptune at 3º Aquarius. Also, transiting Pluto was exactly opposite the Gemini Ascendant, intensifying the situation. And now, Florida’s progressed Mars is right on the Aquarius Midheaven, which explains why people are getting so angry and confrontational over this outcome. And it’s just getting started.
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Why You Should Date a Traveler: Pinay Travel Bloggers to Die For
If you're feeling like Joaquin Phoenix because you are obsessed in finding your own version of Nicole Kidman, then you must be doing something wrong. Because you are looking at the wrong ones, the ideal woman do not stand long-legged nor has blonde hair and appear as a magazine cover girl - all the superficial package, but lacking the most important traits of all - The kick-ass level 9 and rising attributes. You know the girl in the "Twilight" movies who sits by the window and awaits for her man? nah-you won't read about that type in this post. Here is an impressive list of Filipina travelers who would make the Amelia Earhart's, Freya Stark's, Susan Calo Medina's and Kira Salak's of the world proud.
Adventurous, Daring, Beautiful, Hip, Bold, Cowgirl, Spontaneous, Trail-blazing, Intelligent, Generous, Loving. These are just some of the traits these women possess and its no coincidence that they all love traveling. It won't take someone like Stephen Hawking to realize that in traveling, a person really develops traits that makes them unique. The kind of lifestyle these Filipina travel bloggers have is their own way of saying a huge "F U" to the status quo that men is always the more adventurous gender. These are the women any man should take out to a lunch, but hey, do not expect that an expensive lunch in a fancy restaurant will easily get their attention. If you do, then you are clearly mistaken.
1. Gay Mitra-Emami (http://www.pinaytraveljunkie.com/)
Gaye is a throwback to the Janis Joplin and the beatnik days, where people revel in the most beautiful of ways that isn't superficial but based on human relationships - formed on the road and experiences of traveling around. In a stylistic hippie way, she has found love on the road when she met a kindred soul in the Middle East. Went home to a rock-style yet simple wedding at Paco Park, had a cute baby-doll (made in Beijing) and is now on her last leg of a round-the-world trip (last whereabouts: Brazil). She digs cheap markets and simple hang-outs like the neighborhood karaoke bar, street foods and no holds barred conversations. A romantic in a hippiest way, in a world she feels like its simpler to live if only one would learn to fit all priced belongings on one backpack and a baby backpack. A can't let go woman-though it wont be the case for every guys on this planet as the hippie mum is now happily married.
- was banned at Mama V's in Taft for excessive mic-hogging and belting out Aegis songs
- previously dated a member of the Pinoy rock band "Parokya ni Edgar"
- first out of the country trip was in Netherlands
2. Graciel Cecilio
From Japan to Hawaii to Bolivia to Peru to deep into Europe and the Continental USA and back to the Philippines, this girl has traveled solo and along each stop, an overflowing of information cracked open her cranium (figuratively) and poured new-found knowledge, making her an epitome of both beauty and brains. All the while making her "single" status such a mystery to me. I'm sure every member of the male specie would love to take her out to lunch and just immerse themselves with what could have been an awesome talk. Its no surprise as she was included in the "LA's top 100 non-Celebrity Bloggers You Should Take to Lunch". So if you got the mind of a Jose Rizal and the seal for adventure of an Ewan McGregor then you got yourself a shot at landing a romantic date on a secluded beach with this classy lady.
- experienced the art of backpacking and a whirlwind kind of love at the same time
- finds Carabao racing as rad!
- visited the famed ruins of Machu Picchu after being influenced by the Nickelodean cartoon show "The Wild Thornberrys"
3. Lauren Gaile Denoga
You don't have to be an Andrew E. look-alike who drives a pimp up car to ask her out for a date. What she wants is a man with a sense of spontaneity that matches hers. She once went out on a date that was supposed to be consisting of a boring movie and the usual wine and dine, but her sense of adventure got the best of her and she spent the rest of the night dragging her lucky date on a bus to Banaue and top loading along the scenic highlands. She is young in age, wild at heart and old in spirit. Sentimentally single with a hint of emoness during mid-nightime, a budding painter and already a seasoned traveler. Spell S-O-L-O in Zambaonga, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi, yes she did that route just last month. If you're not scampering and settling on the ordinary and unexciting girl who hangs out at the priciest club, then you might get a shot at her. That is, if you're willing to ride topload, keep up with her mentally, and ready to even consider New Zealand Holidays, all the while listening to an endless quips of "cutie patoootey" as only Lauren can deliver in such lovable manner.
- first took up dentistry in college (as if there's fun in that)
- was a cosplay artist and favorite of popular photographers during her teen fashion years.
- once thought there is a beach in Sagada (during her newbie days as a traveler)
4. Sole Sisters Lois Yasay and Chichi Bacolod (http://www.wearesolesisters.com/)
You heard the story of two classy corporate women who quit their jobs and backpacked across Asia for 6 months? chances are you already did. Their story has gone viral over the internet and talks they delivered on various venues in front of a wowed audience. Doing so they've become travel influences and advocates as well and has rapidly influenced many women to start their own journey. Such an inspiring accomplishment these two beautiful women has done. After they went home they became unemployed for a short time until they both got separate jobs that also includes *drumroll* traveling. Not only they showed the possibility of escaping the corporate world and living a real meaningful life on the road, they also proved that you can have the best of both worlds with more than enough grit, courage and determination. Three traits that makes sexy even sexier. These sole sisters are really to die for. One of them is still single while the other one is already taken. Good luck guessing which is which, but one thing for sure. You can't go wrong with the Sole Sisters.
- Shot their "Americano" dance across Asia. Watch the making of here.
- 2011 Philippine Blog Awards winner of "Best Travel Blog"
5. Gael Hilotin (http://www.thepinaysolobackpacker.com/)
When one mentions the topic of solo traveling, Gael always comes to mind. I've had conversations with strangers about traveling and each time they would mention her and where she's been. That is the scope of her reach and influence when it comes to solo female traveling. A sense of adventure to go along with her charming self and beautiful appearance puts this lady on top of every man's list for a romantic date. Her writings brings a mixture of melancholy, romance and profound contemplation of being on the road, which renders her readers a spell to do nothing but head out and pursue the wide wide world around us. A romantic heart and an adventurous spirit puts Gael in a league of her own.
6. Lisa Marie Mirasol (http://www.pinaytravelista.com/)
"We may pen beautiful words, have nice pictures, and seen and been to beautiful places --- but it would really mean more, to the stars and back, if one of these days we will have each other to share it with" wrote Lisa Marie in her "Traveler's Unread Love Letter". Such a head-on statement as if echoing Chris McCandless belief that "Happiness is only real when shared". In a testament to Lisa Marie's heart of gold, while she searches for her Prince Charming on the road, her generosity was on display especially at the aftermath of typhoon Sendong that wallops almost the entire Mindanao region. Playing a crucial role in the relief efforts has given me a glimpse of her wonderful side. A kind of girl whose experiences of traveling around Mindanao and the Philippines has entombed a deeper love for her countrymen. A winning combination of beauty and a heart of Gold indeed.
7. Monette Fernandez (http://www.fliptravels.com/)
Like the words and paragraphs she writes, Monette is hard to figure yet easy to get along with. A literature major who can pick up a smart conversation on the fly with everyone. Invite her out for a drink, let's say "two bottles" of beer and lets see how'd you'd stand straight at the end of the night. You cannot outdrink her same thing as you won't outwit her. You can make her fall in love with you, though after a million tries. But what does they say that the most challenging are the most worthwhile. A beaming sun-ray that showers you with an infectious presence. Serious for five minutes, belting karaoke songs like there's no tomorrow the next. Bad news though, someone has already succeeded in capturing her heart (Its not Ron though - he's just her BFF).
- "two bottles" of beer? don't count on it because she stops counting at two.
8. Mica Rodriguez (http://www.senyorita.net/)
Mica has a great talent capturing scenes and other poetic imagery as evidenced by her series of short films found on her blog. She loves living for the moment as shown by her recent trip to Thailand and Cambodia, out on a whim she decided to hop into a Chiang-Mai bound train from Bangkok and there she experienced a new delight and utmost freedom. Like the affairs of the heart, she searches for a man who exhibits such madness (in a good way) and zest for living outside of the norms. A special girl deserves somebody equally special,. Mica is the type who won't dwell and wait for her man unlike the girl from "Twilight" as she will continue exploring the world around her filming the ups and downs, recording the romance and chaos of the world, the black and white and other layers of multiple colors, until she finally meets the kind of man who would capture her own heart, not with a film camera, but with pure intentions and undying love.
9. Mich Borlagdan (http://www.chasingphilippines.com/)
Mich discovered the highs of traveling while mending a broken heart. It was an unexpected road to redemption and self discovery. Nothing beats than getting another shot at love, and the things Mich learned in love, is that nothing is set in stone and all the grandeur things are easily masked with deceit. Hence she wrote a personal set of rules on how to date a traveler such as herself. She starts off her list with "Don't ask her to be feminine and be on the sexiest clothes" - this shows the ability of Mich to get out of the prevailing notion that women have to wear the skimpiest clothes just to attract attention, Oh no, not this girl though. If you're willing to follow her rules, then you might get the chance to chase her while you pick up the broken pieces of her heart all over the Philippines, capping it off by sealing both your love at the peak of Mount Pulag.
10. Claire Raborar (http://www.lakwatseradeprimera.com/)
Yes, Claire has already found her "the one". She met her hubby Charles while traveling which gives us hopeless romantics a reason to believe in the possibility that the one meant for us are not within the same postal code. The world is huge and the possibility of finding your perfect match at the opposite side of the world is ever higher than before. Why would we ditch the idea of finding it just for the silly reason of distance and "we can't go". There are many ways to go and nothing should stop us from pursuing our heart's desire. Who knows at some random road someone will tap you on your shoulder and will ask for a direction to a foreign sounding street name. From there your journey will eventually start, seeing the world hand in hand, never to be alone again in a lonely hostel room or trying out a local dish on your own. Rather, making your happiness real, creating great memories and by sharing it with a special someone.
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Supreme Court dismisses PIL against ILP: Nagaland
Home » Law & Order » Supreme Court dismisses PIL against ILP: Nagaland
The Supreme Court of India, on July 2, has reportedly dismissed the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay challenging certain sections of the “Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873 which gives unbridled power to a State to prescribe ILP.”
Upadhyay contended that Nagaland has only eight percent Hindu population and the ILP allegedly discriminates against the minority.
“Supreme Court dismisses a petition filed by lawyer and BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay seeking direction to the Centre and Nagaland govt to not extend the Inner Line Permit (ILP) in new areas and ascertain the feasibility of withdrawing it,” an updated report stated on Tuesday.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, while dismissing the plea, said, “What we have to do with Inner line permit (ILP),” according to another updated report.
As Upadhyay persisted on a detailed hearing on the matter, the bench, which was rising after concluding the day’s proceedings, apparently got irked and refused to allow him to withdraw the petition, as he intended to present it before the ministry concerned.
The court took a sharp jibe at Upadhyay as he said that journalists are also supposed to acquire the permit to enter the state.
“You are trying to seek the support of the journalists in the courtroom,” Chief Justice Gogoi said.
Nagaland Chief Secretary, Temjen Toy, confirmed the news on Twitter by stating that information regarding the dismissal of the PIL has been received.
“Just got the news that the PIL filed on the ILP issue has been dismissed by the Supreme Court,” he tweeted tagging, among others, Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and Leader of Opposition, TR Zeliang.
The PIL, filed about two weeks back in June, had sought “a direction to the Centre and the Nagaland government to take appropriate steps for the protection of life and liberty, properties and other fundamental rights of non-Nagas living in the commercial hub of Dimapur following the imposition of the ILP.”
The petitioner also contended that the imposition of the ILP would “create a country within a country … and create a monopoly of trade, commerce, business only for new settlers who have come down to Dimapur from the Naga Hills and bar perpetual residency and right to free moment to others,” according to The Hindu.
Upadhyay, in his plea, equated the ILP to a quasi-visa system imposed on the Indian citizens, and sought it be gradually removed and eventually replaced by technology-oriented measures like border patrolling, use of technology, strong land rights, financial devolution and increasing accountability in order to achieve the cultural integration of these states with the others in the country.
The filing of the PIL had invited widespread condemnation by various organizations and political parties in Nagaland, including the State Bharatiya Janata Party Unit, with the party denying any association with the petitioner, allegedly a BJP leader, while urging for its withdrawal.
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Links 11/26/16
Posted on November 26, 2016 by Yves Smith
Fidel Castro dies at 90 Boston Globe
Fidel Castro is dead Miami Herald. A great piece, lively and detailed.
In Fiji, ants have learned to grow plants to house their massive colonies ars technica (Chuck L)
Does Chinese Civilization Come From Ancient Egypt? Foreign Policy (Wat)
Bella Bella Fights Massive Diesel Spill After Tugboat Runs Aground Indian Country (Wat)
Beyond business: Disgraced Theranos bloodied family, friends, neighbors ars technica (Chuck L). Note that David Boies has finally abandoned Theranos.
Germany vs. China – Neoliberalism strikes back Defend Democracy
Stratfor: China’s Economy is Living on Borrowed Time Fabius Maximus. Stratfor is a mixed bag, but this is as solid piece.
Pay to stay in Europe The Times
Ukraine/Russia
Government Purge in the Russian Federation? Putin Orders Arrest of Minister of Economy on Corruption Charges Defend Democracy
Syraqistan
World Bank: Only 10 percent of Gazans have access to safe drinking water Juan Cole (resilc)
Erdogan threatens to let 3m refugees into Europe Financial Times. We pointed out some time ago that the control over refugee flow gave Erdogan considerable leverage.
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
U.S. Police Cellphone Surveillance by ‘Stingray,’ Mapped CityLab
Fremont police quitely bought social media surveillance tool East Bay Times. Chuck L: “Large Afghan community in Fremont.”
WaPo Libels 200+ Sites Not in the Can for Hillary as Russia Stooges. We will have more to say in due course; the Twitterverse is all over this story, giving it a massive thumbs down as poorly executed McCarthyism. It also ruined my Thanksgiving holiday, when I desperately needed a break.
Washington Post Peddles Tarring of Ron Paul Institute as Russian Propaganda Ron Paul Institute
Boris & Natasha say: ‘Give to Antiwar.com – because those No-goodniks at WaPo are full of borscht!’ AntiWar
Mainstream Reporting Foggy While MoA Smeared As “Russian Propaganda” Site Moon of Alabama
Washington Post Thoroughly Discredits Itself With McCarthy-Style Smear Campaign Against ZeroHedge, Naked Capitalism, Truth-Out 200+ Others Michael Shedlock
Ukrainian nazis as a source? Can't imagine how that could possibly go wrong https://t.co/xREwNN3xJK
— Hotty McTakeface (@Phonycian) November 26, 2016
No coincidence that @blkagendareport targeted with smear that it’s Russian plant. It’s been consistently critical of Democrat establishment
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) November 26, 2016
Trump Transition
Donald Trump’s Revival of ‘Honest Graft’ Atlantic (resilc). Not to defend graft, but Lambert has repeatedly pointed out that honest graft would be an improvement over the sort of elite looting we have now. But let us not forget that one of the many reasons Sanders was not an acceptable candidate was that he was clean. Horrors!
Republicans at odds over prospect of Romney as secretary of state Financial Times. They’d be nuts not to have Romney if he’d actually take the job.
Donald Trump and the Lawsuit Presidency New York Times (furzy). Editorial.
Tulsi Gabbard’s screw-the-neocons meeting with Trump sparks anger and encouragement Mondoweiss
Make Your Christmas Tree Tacky Again With Trump’s $149 MAGA Ornament New York Magazine (resilc)
Wilbur Ross tries to turn round US heartland Financial Times. Sounds better than our current mega-rich Commerce Secretary, Penny Pritzker, and people I know who are Wall Street savvy but not fans of oligarchs think Ross is sound. But PR is cheap, policy is another matter.
Steve Bannon’s Deep, Weird Adoration of Sarah Palin Daily Beast (resilc). Well, she is foxy.
Electoral College must reject Trump unless he sells his business, top lawyers for Bush and Obama say Think Progress
Trump Names White House Counsel as Potential Conflicts Loom Bloomberg
Trump election: Request for Wisconsin vote recount sent BBC. However, there is no way to get a Pennsylvania recount request in by the deadline, so this is all moot. Lambert will have more details in Links tomorrow.
2016 Post Mortem
It’s Storytelling, Stupid: What Made Donald Trump Smarter Than Hillary Clinton Daily Beast
Blue-collar Democrats to party: It’s still the economy, stupid Reuters (EM)
The radically simple reason Hillary Clinton didn’t run a different campaign: she thought she was winning Vox. Lordie. No professional sports team would evah make that mistake. Lambert: “No mention of the Ada debacle, which surfaced briefly in WaPo and then vanished from the narrative.”
Business booms at Trump Tower, nearby retailers hit by security and crowds | Reuters (EM)
In Scotland, Trump Built a Wall. Then He Sent Residents the Bill. New York Times. The Scots, amusingly, have generally gotten the better of Trump.
The Economy Needs Higher Oil Prices – Goldman Sachs OilPrice
Saudis Said to Quit Russia Talks as OPEC Deal No Closer Bloomberg
Guillotine Watch
Giving Thanks: Hedge-Fund Managers Are Still Super Rich Edition Vanity Fair
What Happened When a Prison Brought in a Brain Injury Specialist Vice (resilc)
Capitalism in One Family London Review of Books (resilc)
Antidote du jour:
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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EndOfTheWorld November 26, 2016 at 7:27 am
On Tulsi Gabbard meeting The Donald—-right, she’s anti-war. Is that supposed to be a controversial stance nowadays?
One of the reasons Trump won is he was antiwar compared to HRC. It’s a popular position with the voters.
edmondo November 26, 2016 at 8:11 am
There’s only one reason Donald Trump won the election – he ran against Hillary Clinton.
sufferinsuccotash, normalized November 26, 2016 at 9:44 am
LBJ was antiwar compared to Barry Goldwater. It was such a relief when he won.
/so…
MoreFreedom November 26, 2016 at 7:53 pm
Well, LBJ didn’t turn out to be so anti-war. Just another Democrat lie.
RWood November 26, 2016 at 8:26 pm
Bigger than dem ol rats.
jgordon November 26, 2016 at 9:49 am
Tulsi Gabbard for Secretary of State. Wouldn’t that just throw everyone into a bigly unholy fit? It’d be funny seeing those bloodthirsty Democrats blocking Tulsi’s appointment because of her heretical pro-peace proclivities (err isn’t that in the job description of SOS though?!).
The R2P liberal special snowflakes sniveling in their safe spaces who only hope to shower the world with bombs out of love might all go into seizures when they hear the news. Here’s praying that everyone has cellphone cameras ready so we can watch the videos on YouTube later.
craazyman November 26, 2016 at 10:15 am
Not only that — she’s smokin’ hot! Whoa!
Can a Secretary of State appear on a 2-page spread in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition? Hahaha
Playboy would be over the top but SI could be OK. Rhonda Rousey did it.
Jim Haygood November 26, 2016 at 1:25 pm
Well there I was in Hollywood wishin’ I was doin’ good
Talkin’ on the telephone line
But they don’t need me in the movies and nobody sings my songs
Guess I’m just wastin’ time
Well then I got to thinkin’, man I’m really sinkin’
And I really had a flash this time
I had no business leavin’ and nobody would be grievin’
If I went on back to Tulsi time
Livin’ on Tulsi time
Gonna set my watch back to it
‘Cause you know I’ve been through it
— Don Williams, Tulsa Time
River November 26, 2016 at 1:59 pm
Playboy – Sexy Secretary of State Edition. Cover model – William L. Marcy; Centerfold – Daniel Webster.
Bugs Bunny November 26, 2016 at 3:17 pm
She’s a Modi supporter. Combining Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism. Not sure how that fits into your fantasy.
Alejandro November 26, 2016 at 6:38 pm
Not sure how you conclude that sharing a religion makes her a “Hindu nationalist”. Also not sure how, co-sponsoring HR-381 (restoring Glass-Steagall), calling for a ban on CDS’s, condemning banks that foreclosed on the homes of deployed troops, opposing TPP makes her a neoliberal.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/381/cosponsors
Daryl November 26, 2016 at 8:26 pm
She’s met with Modi and gave him some presents. It goes beyond shared religion, and is a point of concern for me personally.
TK421 November 26, 2016 at 5:34 pm
I do hate to break it to you…but Playboy doesn’t contain nudity anymore.
bob November 26, 2016 at 5:59 pm
“contain nudity anymore”
I’m not sure they ever had a reputation for containing it
ewmayer November 26, 2016 at 6:09 pm
Not a problem, since I’m sure craazyman was only gonna read it for the articles anyway.
integer November 26, 2016 at 5:42 pm
craazyman: Do you like math?
Tulsi: No.
craazyman: Me neither…In fact, the only number I care about is yours.
craazyman November 26, 2016 at 6:32 pm
I’d be smoother than that. LOL.
Is it really surprising that out of the 400 or so congress persons Trump arranges a meeting with the hottest one?
Trump thinks manmade global warming is a hoax, but she’s so hot he might decide to blame her. Whoa!
If she went on a state visit to the North Pole they’d have to have air conditioning. Rim-Shot
She’s so hot Hawaii gets colder when she leaves.
Whoa. She’s so hot at the cabinet meetings even Trump would sweat. Whoa.
She so hot they wouldn’t even be able to turn down the temperature at heated policy debates. Whoa that’s not a very good joke! Haha
These aren’t very good but I haven’t started drinking yet. It’s only 6:30!
I might try that line myself. If she answers “yes” we can talk about calculus.
Still morning down here in Australia, but I’ve got beer in the fridge and the cricket starts in a few hours. Anything could happen.
Btw, a 2007 study found that the average Australian walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Australians drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Australians get about 41 miles per gallon. Whoa!
John Parks November 26, 2016 at 11:11 am
Gabbard would be a welcome relief as either Sec. of State or Ambassador to the UN. It was the vision of HRC, Gloria Nuland, and Samantha Power as a triumvirate of Batshit Crazy Blood Thirsty Bitches that steered me toward Trump as being the lesser of the four evils.
“HRC, Gloria Nuland, and Samantha Power as a triumvirate of Batshit Crazy Blood Thirsty Bitches”
You win the internets for today.
Bullwinkle November 26, 2016 at 7:30 pm
I think you meant “Victoria” Nuland
neo-realist November 26, 2016 at 1:27 pm
More likely hawkish tribalistic republicans will block Gabbard from appointing her if it came to that. But I think that when it comes to brass tacks, Trump will go with a so-called sensible choice from the GOP farm. As a matter of fact, none of his potential picks have been democrats and I don’t expect that to change.
and yeah, she’s a hottie in a swimsuit:). Just keep her in mind for 2020.
EndOfTheWorld November 26, 2016 at 7:08 pm
She’s an Iraq veteran and she was a medic, so she’d be good as head of the VA, maybe. That would be a tough job. Tulsi says she didn’t discuss any job offers with The Donald.
I hope her smarts are not buried in the muck of VA bureaucracy. Donald will only pick from Team Elephant IMO. Hopefully a mover and shaker for higher powerful office in a future democratic administration if not in the oval office.
jgordon November 26, 2016 at 6:52 pm
Holy crap, I just fell out of my chair when I saw this a few minutes ago:
http://www.thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/307527-tulsi-gabbard-is-the-pick-for-secretary-of-state-not
If this really happens, I’m prepared to say that despite his many flaws Trump might end up being a decent president after all. I really am curious how the left would take this!
Also important, I just saw Glenn Greenwald’s take on the continuing Propornot saga:
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgracefully-promotes-a-mccarthyite-blacklist-from-a-new-hidden-and-very-shady-group/
Washington Post huh? The Clinton Collusion scandal was bad, but this is on a whole new level of awful. I think we have a lead candidate in the running here for the toilet paper of record prize.
UserFriendly November 27, 2016 at 6:27 am
Wow, that would be big. I hope he does put her there. He has got to find at least a couple of D’s to put in his cabinet. Otherwise he would be the first president in modern times not to.
Wombat November 26, 2016 at 5:22 pm
Appointing a young (in the political sense) Gabbard on the fast track to Sec. of State, would be a great personal shot at HRC, who didn’t obtain the position until her late 60s after being appointed by her victorious opponent. Moreover after taking the moral highground and leaving the DNC (unlike DWS) and supporting Bernie, HRC and Co. quickly wrote Tg’s political future off (per wikileaks). Progressives should hope that Trump, whatever his motives may be, appoints TG to a high cabinet position.
uncle tungsten November 26, 2016 at 6:46 pm
What’s the bet all those State Department signatories to ‘more war now’ letter are keeping a low profile. The Donald should just clean it out or close the door and send that house of fools to the desert.
It would be an enormous irony if Tulsi Gabbard was given the task. “Peace leader vanquishes neocon crazies”. I like that!
Bryan Sean McKown November 26, 2016 at 7:56 am
On Jill Stein’s recount effort, why link to the BBC blurb? Michigan has not even certified Trump’s 1/4 of 1 percent lead.
Pennsylvania purportedly has a Monday litigation deadline hence the need for lawyers to file a complaint. Stein can speak for herself at jillstein.nationbuilder.com/recount. Stein is not over selling; she has posted several disclaimers. The recount(s) 3, 2, or just 1, are worth it just for the audit data.
Oregoncharles November 26, 2016 at 11:38 pm
Greens and Libertarians did the same thing in 2004, over the highly questionable count in Ohio. Democracy is a foundational principle of the party. I always favor recounts; checking up on the machinery is essential. American election equipment and procedures are shoddy in the extreme. If you want details, try Brad Friedman’s blog.
It will be interesting to see whether Wisconsin and the other states cheat in the recount, as Ohio did. Officials went to prison over Ohio 2004.
integer November 26, 2016 at 8:03 am
https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/on-russia-hacking-american-democracy
Details about this group continue to emerge. It appears there’s a chance that PropOrNot is connected to groups funded the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a CIA spinoff that manages the U.S. government’s foreign propaganda division. If true, that would make PropOrNot’s activities illegal — in violation of a federal law that prohibits the BBG from intentionally influencing or swaying public opinion inside the United States. Creating blacklists of American journalists, labelling them as traitors and then circulating this information to American newspapers would certainly fall into that category.
timbers November 26, 2016 at 9:32 am
I strongly object to being described as “Anti-Clinton Sophisticated Russian Propaganda Tool.”
I’m not a professional – I’m an amateur!
fresno dan November 26, 2016 at 9:46 am
I admitted yesterday that I was a Soviet communist agent (our whole plot is we’re just trying to make you think communism is dead, I say as I sit in my Lenin-Trotsky bunny slippers typing this)
ambrit November 26, 2016 at 10:57 am
Please forgive me, but; you get full Marx for that joke.
optimader November 26, 2016 at 1:14 pm
I still think the Marx Bros. were funny. Is that bad?
ambrit November 26, 2016 at 1:30 pm
Then of course, there was the Fourth Marx Bro, Tito.
not as funny :o(
A sad for Tito
“Not as funny,” true, but more relevant to the state of Socialism today.
Perhaps I should have constructed the “joke” along alt-right lines; “Then of course there was the Fourth Marx Bro, Bernie.”
As for the Balkan Tito; he did fairly well for his region. No one could have realistically called Yugoslavia a country until he applied himself to that proposition.
Yugoslavia was herd of cats that all had long simmering animosity toward eachother.Titos abilility to keep it integrated was actually amazing, not sure what the point was tho.
Otis B Driftwood November 26, 2016 at 6:27 pm
No, not bad at all. Quite the contrary. ;)
jgordon November 26, 2016 at 11:16 am
The funny thing is that the neocons are Trotskyites who were kicked out of Russia back in the old days because they were too bloodthirsty. They’ve been looking for payback ever since. You might think I’m shtting you, but it’s true. Look it up!
pretzelattack November 26, 2016 at 11:29 am
i don’t think stalin killed them or drove them out for being too bloodthirsty, but for opposing him. these days, they seem mostly interested in promoting israeli hegemony in the middle east through violence, and israel’s right wing.
olga November 26, 2016 at 1:01 pm
Yes, we do know of the neocon trotsky-ite roots. They have been at it for a long time (including papa Bush’s Team B back in the seventies). Reconstituted themselves as shrub’s (W’s) iraq-war-at-all-cost bunch… they never die, just multiply (sons took over the fathers’ efforts – e.g., the Kristols).
Actually, wapo did us a big favour – I’ve been trying to compose a list of sites to read and follow for a long time. Now they saved me all the work… Good job, Bezos!
Glen November 26, 2016 at 12:35 pm
As an avowed capitalist I have no morals and my views are available to the highest bidder.
Gee, that might be the working definition of an American politician.
polecat November 26, 2016 at 1:59 pm
Are those bunny slippers pink .. or red ?
LISTS….of commies. We have been here before. I’m so old I can remember when good liberals opposed listing commies….but the MSM does deny that they are liberal…..
During a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican-Wisconsin – AKA the Washington Post) claims that he has a list with the names of over 200 members of the NC commentariat that are “known communists.” The speech vaulted McCarthy to national prominence and sparked a nationwide hysteria about subversives in the American blogging community.
Speaking before the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator McCarthy whipped out….and waved before his audience …. a piece of paper. According to the only published Washington Post newspaper account of the speech, McCarthy said that, “I have here in my hand a list of 205 [NC commentators] that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working, commenting, bitching, and trying to shape the policy of the State Department.” In the next few weeks, the number fluctuated wildly, with McCarthy/Washington Post stating at various times that there were 57, or 81, or 10 communists in the NC commentariat. In fact, McCarthy/Washington Post never produced any solid evidence that there was even one communist in the NC commentariat. (HEY! I confessed! at 11:12 am in the 11/25/2016 thread!!! what am I, chopped liver?)
Steve H. November 26, 2016 at 3:36 pm
fresno dan, back in July we had a conversation about Austin police and Breaion King.
We have an answer.
fresno dan November 26, 2016 at 8:08 pm
Thanks for the follow up. I suspect the great deal of time for these things to play out – I mean, good grief, everything said and done is on video tape – you think that was good police work or not – – – is that this takes so long so people will forget or not have the resources for follow up.
And because I am the type that can’t resist saying “I told you so” (not you Steve H., but just as me as a “type”), I told the world so:
“Still, being Texas, I suspect the grand jury will essentially do nothing.”
and….the grand jury did nothing.
clinical wasteman November 26, 2016 at 8:52 pm
Impressive record keeping, fresno dan, if you found that date so promptly. I also confess to “confessing” a few times when it came up casually in conversation here — but always insisting on “lower case”, as in IWW, Midnight Notes, Insurgent Notes, Wildcat, Melancholic Troglodytes, CLR James (even though he spelled it “socialist”) & Rosa Luxemburg. What I object to is the defamatory word “known”. Surely many of us here have gone out of our way to avoid that misfortune?
andyb November 26, 2016 at 9:57 am
I would love to see a class action suit for defamation. Discovery would be a bitch. I do believe, however, that the timing of this is suspect, and could be the major distraction needed from the Pizzagate story which now has legs on a global basis. Although there is no proof as yet, the existence of political or religious pedophile rings is an established fact.
could be the major distraction needed from the Pizzagate story which now has legs on a global basis
Nope. I read the Podesta emails and they were talking about food. Note also that the Podesta family is known in Washington for their culinary prowess and they regularly held home cooked fundraising dinners for political donors.
Uahsenaa November 26, 2016 at 10:46 am
I’m not entirely sure the “it’s illegal” argument is as sound as many think. The law also contains this section:
Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors from engaging in any medium or form of communication, either directly or indirectly, because a United States domestic audience is or may be thereby exposed to program material, or based on a presumption of such exposure.
I already noted this in the post on the WaPo promoting it, but there’s more than enough wiggle room there to get around the “no influence” provision that precedes it. It basically says one thing then the opposite. I’d have to look at case law to see if this has been litigated one way or the other.
Also worth noting is that this was folded into the 2013 NDAA, which muddied (or rather continued to muddy) the waters with regard to who constitutes an “enemy combatant” and gave the administration more or less carte blanche with regard to how the executive conducts its wars.
a different chris November 26, 2016 at 9:49 pm
>It basically says one thing then the opposite.
There’s a shocker.
HopeLB November 26, 2016 at 6:48 pm
I think the US revoked that law about propagandizing US citizens;
http://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5
Big thanks for link!
Frenchguy November 26, 2016 at 8:10 am
Does Erdogan really have that much leverage?
I thought that the Balkan route had been closed so that any refugee making into Greece will have to stay there anyway and Greece is not a very welcoming country…
OIFVet November 26, 2016 at 10:21 am
The Balkan route is anything but closed. Rampant corruption among Bulgarian border police has allowed organized migrant smuggling to proliferate. I had linked to an Intercept article on the issue about a month ago, will try to find the post later and link to it.
Tom_Doak November 26, 2016 at 10:35 am
I bet Greece would love to have the leverage with the EU that Turkey has, right about now.
PlutoniumKun November 26, 2016 at 8:36 am
Re: Theranos, ars tecnica article.
Kudos to Yves for being one of the first (so far as I know) to call out Theranos as the scam its proved to be. I couldn’t work out when I first read about Theranos as to how such an obvious snake oil company could get away with it so long. But looking at the long list of establishment backers its clear how Holmes operated. You can get away with anything for a very long time if you have the right names behind you.
Michael November 26, 2016 at 11:03 am
I cannot comprehend how nobody is looking at jail time over this.
Propertius November 26, 2016 at 4:03 pm
Laws are for the little people, MIchael.
The article doesn’t mention it, but I think the biggest threat to China in 2017 is Trumps impact on the US$. If it continues to rise the Chinese will find it harder and harder to maintain the de facto Yuan peg. This would make devaluation inevitable. And the core reason the Chinese govt., doesn’t want this is that it will increase outflows to a flood – it could become uncontrollable. This could trigger inflation, which has always led to domestic unrest in China.
MyLessThanPrimeBeef November 26, 2016 at 3:57 pm
The increased outflows of money – will that be more likely to be before the move to devalue the Yuan, , like right now, as we speculate?
After devaluation (if there is to be only one), why would people want to send more abroad (other than what they normally do)?
John k November 26, 2016 at 5:14 pm
Devaluation is like cockroaches… there’s never just one.
The outflows are huge at the moment, but not big enough to be destabilising. But I’ve no doubt many wealthy Chinese have their finger hovering over the ‘exit’ button if a big devaluation seems on the cards. And no doubt people ‘with connections’ will get advance warning of any crackdown on capital flows.
Also, even after a devaluation, the big fear will be rampant inflation, another reason to shift capital out of the country.
Fiver November 27, 2016 at 1:57 am
I think US efforts of the last several years now to position more to ‘contain’ China were going to intensify in any case as the logical ‘next steps’ given the long unchanged US policy of dominance, but Trump’s views re China on money, trade, patents etc, his imagined ‘natural’ superior role of the US, and his temperament all augur poorly. The crew taking shape in Washington are deeply schooled in the ‘You are either with us as subordinates or are anti-American and against us’ mentality. What China needs most is to re-structure its economy away from its enormous dependence on foreign resources that can be interdicted by a hostile, lost US.
I expect oil to go up in 2017 for several reasons, which is a double win considering Chinese oil itself and the US dollar. However, I believe we are now, and have been for some time, in a more or less permanent crisis that will continue to escalate until something too big breaks or is broken, either deliberately, or in a doomed attempt to ‘fix’ it. For now, I think China should slow down further faster while ensuring all are supported and kept engaged during what is going to have to be a very rapid transition all over the globe.
RabidGandhi November 26, 2016 at 9:25 am
Germany vs. China – Neoliberalism strikes back [Defend Democracy]
I’m way beyond my pay grade on this, but my analysis is as follows, and I would appreciate corrections from my more knowledgeable peanut gallery peers:
So essentially German businesses are complaining that Chinese capital is flowing into Europe and distorting competition:
However, critics say that with some of its recent investments, China is distorting competition. “China uses an outbound industrial policy, using government capital and highly opaque investor networks to facilitate high-tech acquisition abroad…”
Their complaint is that Chinese businesses have an unfair advantage because many are state-owned:
“As we don’t have EU-owned companies we cannot [behave] the same [as China],” European Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen told POLITICO.
But here’s the issue as I understand it. China has surplus capital because it has been importing aggregate demand from the US and the EU in the form of its export surplus. Europe on the other hand, is in the middle of a decades-long experiment in cutting its own aggregate demand by means of austerity. This means the EU public sector is not investing, not going into debt. Double entry accounting means that if the state is not going into debt, then the private sector will have to go into debt, so they are seeking capital, and guess who just happens to have oodles of excess capital? (Hint: rhymes with “Lina”).
So in short, this is not a problem that can be solved per se by the usual tool of companies running to hide behind the skirt of the nanny state. The new regulations the Germans companies want that would keep out Chinese capital are a band-aid on a cancer patient. If the Germans would ditch the austerity and foment European domestic demand themselves, there would be far less demand for Chinese capital and the problem would be solved long term, in addition to other fun perks like fewer Greeks starving to death.
Lastly, when I read this
“China uses an outbound industrial policy, using government capital and highly opaque investor networks to facilitate high-tech acquisition abroad,” a report by the Mercator Institute for China Studies, to be published in December, states.
I got flashbacks to the 1980s when the Japanese were buying up everything and US firms couldn’t compete, ostensibly because the Japanese had more solid financing models from top to bottom. Well that little problem was solved with the Plaza Accords whereby Japan submitted to US pressures to raise the Yen, thus stemming the capital outflows and bludgeoning their trade surplus. The result of course has been Japan’s lost decade[s]. The Chinese are faced with a similar situation, but I can’t imagine a scenario in which China signs a Plaza Accord. So essentially, the Germans are clinging to their austerity in the hopes that China will self-destruct before they eat their lunch. Meanwhile, Beijing is already halfway through the hors d’oeuvres.
cnchal November 26, 2016 at 10:11 am
Where do the Chinese elite get their money from? It is not really any different than the Chinese Communist Party members buying up Vancouver houses with looted money from their own people. Interestingly, Vancouver housing prices have stopped screaming higher since the foreign buyer tax was implemented there. The screaming price increases have been shifted to Toronto, as if it couldn’t get any more insane.
What they are doing in Germany, they are doing in Canada, having very recently bought one of Windsor’s biggest tooling and manufacturing businesses. No doubt more are on the shopping list. No price is too high when paying with loot.
Two to three decades of globalization, and now we are being eaten alive by the Chinese Criminal Party elite.
Our politicians are totally stupid and corrupt.
Fidel had a much better system of state investment going in Cuba. Imagine what the US would do given their wealth and resources if they applied similar model to education, health, aged care, veterans, housing?
Does this prove the myth that NC should remain on that absurd list?
Ed November 26, 2016 at 10:39 am
John Michael Grier, the “Archdruid”, and a perfectly cogent take on this sort of thing that was featured on the links yesterday. Governments have always had tools to handle trade imbalances, as well as capital flow problems for that matter, that were called “tariffs” and “capital controls”. The analysis of the problem by RabidGandhi is good but the solution is not hand-wringing.
different clue November 27, 2016 at 3:45 am
How many tariffs are even “legal” nowadays under the various Free Trade Agreements and World Trade Organizations?
Steve H. November 26, 2016 at 11:09 am
“Beijing’s leadership assesses that the U.S. won’t get into a war against China within the next 10 years. Pay attention to the time frame: 2025 is when Xi expects China to have turned into a “moderately prosperous” society as part of the renewed Chinese Dream. And Xi for his part would have fulfilled his mandate – arguably basking in glory once enjoyed only by the Little Helmsman Deng Xiaoping.
The secret for the next 10 years, as General Liang framed it, is for China to overhaul its economy (a work in progress) and internationalize the yuan. That also implies striking an Asian-wide free trade pact – which is obviously not the Chinese-deprived American TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership), but the Chinese-driven RCEP.” [Pepe Escobar]
Qiao Liang co-wrote “Unrestricted Warfare” and is a significant strategic mind. While that doesn’t guarantee influence in changing conditions, certain aspects of his plan seem to be playing out.
cwaltz November 26, 2016 at 11:40 am
They are halfway there thanks to the idiots who have been running our State Department for decades.
We’ve managed to antagonize or alienate a lot of people so that they want nothing to do with us or the dollar when it comes to trade.
It’s good that they should get there (being a moderately prosperous society).
Somewhere, the assumption is the journey to get there involves losses for other countries. People should be made more aware of those,more often.
the Chinese are not immune to illusions of grandeur. It’s a very large country, but not very rich, and foreign exchange will not make up for the imbalance between population and land base. I feel sorry for the Tibetans and other colonized peoples, though, as they will have to suffer for China’s illusions.
Double entry accounting means that if the state is not going into debt, then the private sector will have to go into debt, so they are seeking capital, and guess who just happens to have oodles of excess capital?
Do corporations in the EU have a lot of cash, like those over here?
If those EU corporations want to invest, do they have to 1) go into to private debt, or 2) seek capital, if their corporations are hoarding cash?
Is it more a case of Chinese state owned or backed companies buying to acquire know-how, or other strategic reasons?
I assume the real fear is not the reality of Chinese capital outflows being used to buy up companies and property like the Japanese did in the 1980’s, but that their purchases are much more strategic, aimed at gaining key footholds in various forms of technology. An obvious example is the purchase of Volvo, which has allowed the Chinese to make a significant leap in the manufacture of over engineered cars.
Adam Eran November 26, 2016 at 2:48 pm
In a related story, Howard French’s China’s Second Continent describes what the Chinese are doing in Africa. It’s an interesting read because the “pioneers” are nearly as insensitive as the white folks colonizing the New World were, and the investment policy is “China First”… Which means Chinese construction firms often get the bid and employ few of the natives. They also have no compunction about taking advantage of whatever corruption is available. It’ll be interesting to see how this works out in Europe.
To be a global hegemon, you have to have a few places around the world you can exploit.
And so, before the second war, the Empire of Japan, rather than resisting colonialism, having been threatened with becoming a victim, got a few islands in the Pacific herself.
“I am just as good at this game as you are.”
It’s important if one wants to be a manly man.
Before the ww2 debacle Japan was resisting US colonialism and their resource squeeze. Japan was being treated as a villain because of its colonial adventurism in China plus it was eager/desperate for raw materials elsewhere in the Pacific and Asia.
The US fanaticism around monopoly capitalism was not about to tolerate an independent Asian state. That fanaticism continues to this day. There is only room for one hegemon.
I note French’s earlier work is ‘Africa – A Continent For The Taking’. With the US, UK and Europe all over Africa militarily, financially, resource-grabs, land grabs, the works, non-stop for centuries it’s just wearisome for a US journalist to go after China for engaging in what are in relative terms miniscule efforts, a number of which have been reported as having failed in any event. Anyone who thinks the Pentagon map of the US Empire doesn’t include Africa is in for a rude awakening when they attempt to run up another flag. Good grief. Facebook wants to market a service all over Africa that claims to provide access to the Internet, but in fact is a package of content chosen by Facebook – information re-colonization being sold as the gift of the Internet for the masses.
Even more reluctant to throw so much as a single peanut from my remedial row of the gallery, but this (RG) is much how it seemed to me, only much better expressed.
One thing maybe worth adding: although there are no EU-owned coproporations (no typo) as such, France, Germany and Italy have kept most of their key utilities, ‘defence’ suppliers etc. under state control with large minority shareholdings &/or through quasi-state investment bodies like the French CdD or Italian CDP. Apart from the ‘shock-treated’ ex-Warsaw Pact states where there was no choice offered, only successive UK (& occasionally Spanish) governments were fool enough to take their ‘free market’ doctrines literally and sell off everything, often to neighbours’ state controlled entities like EDF, E.On, France Telecom/Deutsche Telekom (hilariously rebranded in their antitrust-busting UK merger as Everything Everywhere, or the strangled scream ‘EEeeeeeeeeeee…’), ENI, Enel, Finmeccanica, etc. Of course, those quasi-state companies act just like private ones in the game of Competitiveness, Shareholder Value and looting labour. Hence eg. price-gouging on targeted energy markets (among others), with no discernible benefit for the surviving workers in the Lean, Mean gouging outfits, even in their “home” states.
There’s quite a good overview of this somewhere in the LRB within the last couple of years (John Lanchester I think), but it would take a while to find & bypass the paywall. I can try to do that if anyone’s interested though.
rjs November 26, 2016 at 9:25 am
so, was Naked Capitalism knowingly part of that Russian plot, or were they merely merely the “useful idiots”.
the recently resurrected joe mccarthy has a list of 200 treasonous websites, and is very upset.
We all post for the glory of Mother Russia ……..
I’m pretty sure that there was some Hillary Supporter calling us comrade here on more than one occasion because we pointed out that the Pentagon itself had assessed Clinton’s position of a no fly zone as likely to start a war with Syria and Russia.
But hey let me guess the Pentagon is also filled with Soviet infiltrators and Defense Secretary Ash Carter and General Dunford, Joint Chiefs of Staff are really KGB.
Emma November 26, 2016 at 12:48 pm
….Now if only the WaPo was filled full of writers like Solzhenitsyn, Bulgakov, or Pasternak, we might actually have a great witch-hunt or watch-list…..If those prats at WaPo keep up with this prattle, in next to no time they’ll be saying Larry David has Francois Mitterands concorde nose!
And why? Because “OMG!” Larry partakes in Grands Projets Culurels just the way Francois partook!
In which case the WaPo will conclude we’re all foo-fooed…… “OMG! becomes an Oh là là!”
NotTimothyGeithner November 26, 2016 at 9:27 am
Re: the anecdote.
My old Catholic elhi had a population of albino groundhogs behind the school.
NotTimothyGeithner
So where is the brown tail coming from? Is this akin to there are 4 or 5 or 6 zebras?
Maybe urine stains?
Second, maybe grass stains from dragging that tail around the sward?
It’s a “Furry Pangolin?”
It’s just dirt. Kangaroos use their tail for stability, so the underside of their tails are on the ground almost as much as their feet are.
Inode_buddha November 26, 2016 at 9:30 pm
Oh. I thought they were talking about politicians.
integer November 26, 2016 at 10:46 pm
Kangaroos are much better people than establishment politicians, imo. I also think Australian politics would see a vast increase in intelligence if the majority of our politicians were replaced with Kangaroos. We could then let the Australian politicians loose in the outback and farmers could periodically cull them.
clinical wasteman November 27, 2016 at 3:31 am
Excellent plan. Maybe burrows and myxomatosis would be suitable for their NZ peer group.
Nice conversation here between Sanders and Spike Lee.
Note how the Guardian writer of the preface still doesn’t get it. The sheer cluelessness of the liberal media is breathtaking.
Norb November 26, 2016 at 10:59 am
Thanks for the link. Sanders is great at simply, and clearly, expressing the way forward. It is truly amazing how liberals, Spike lee included, continue to fall for the divide and conquer techniques of identity politics. It is exhausting continually trying to refute or explain that yes, racism and bigotry exist and need to be defended against, but that is NOT the main motivational force to be addressed directly, but the needs and interests of the working class are. By downplaying the relevance of working class needs- stable employment, a living wage, affordable healthcare, affordable higher education, affordable housing – neoliberalism rambles on as a force ravaging the planet.
Race and gender equality will only be realized in an environment of economic equality and justice. Making politicians pay a political price for betrayal is finally a reality. Wealthy liberals have had an easy life up to now and that explains much of the discomfort they are feeling. The easy days are over. Building a political party of the working class is in order and that will be a long hard struggle.
nycTerrierist November 26, 2016 at 11:29 am
x1000! Couldn’t agree more.
Norb November 26, 2016 at 12:40 pm
Forgot to mention the push for peace over war and how the concept of religious freedom has been twisted out of all recognition from the intent of our constitution. It would be good for our democracy ifthe citizenry rediscovered the true meaning of Tyranny. Thomas Paine for the modern world is in order.
jrs November 26, 2016 at 12:44 pm
“Race and gender equality will only be realized in an environment of economic equality and justice.”
Likely true, but don’t be surprised if minorities especially blacks know darn well this may be necessary but it isn’t sufficient. As there are few historical examples of addressing this that haven’t left them still suffering. Radicalism has a tradition of addressing both at the same time sometimes (radical unions that weren’t just white etc.), but u.s. liberalism doesn’t so much and so it’s a hard sell. The closest it ever got was probably LBJ.
It’s true only class issues have any power to build a movement it seems, but don’t be surprised if minorities think it’s Not Their Movement, as they have seen it all before. Truly grass roots direct campaigns like low wage workers striking and the push for minimum wage increases seem to be going well though.
Lee November 26, 2016 at 12:29 pm
Sanders’ realistic never say die spirit on display. Thanks for the link.
begob November 26, 2016 at 10:34 am
I like how Bernie keeps soothing Spike’s worries away: “I hear you, brother – but here’s the deal …”
Carla November 26, 2016 at 11:14 am
I call BS on this “conversation” since Sanders refuses to state the obvious: the Clintons sold out the Democrat Party in the 90s, and Obama spent eight LONG years burying it.
B1whois November 26, 2016 at 11:29 am
I found Bernie’s focus to be on the future, not the past. So there’s that. Also, it’s well-known that Bernie Sanders is pragmatic, and likely sees little benefit from making your statement in that interview. Rage is just not productive alone.
Carla November 26, 2016 at 12:05 pm
You mean like this?
Sanders: OK, here is where the hope is. The hope is to understand that the Democratic party has stumbled very significantly in the last number of decades. It’s not just this election, Spike, as disastrous as it has been. It is the fact that the Republican party controls the Senate, controls the US House, controls something like two-thirds of the governor seats in this country, and that the Democrats have lost over 900 state legislature seats in the last eight years. What that tells me is that the Democratic party has got to very fundamentally rethink who it is and where it goes. It has to shed the current situation where it’s a party of the liberal elite, a party of wealthy people who give substantial sums – we can use that money, that’s fine, but it must reidentify itself as a party of working people. Whether you’re black, white, Latino, there are millions of people today who are working longer hours for lower wages, and they’re seeing almost all new income and wealth going to the top 1%. The Democratic party has got to say we are on the side of the 99%.
Pardon,
Mirkwood rumbles!
The great jinn swirls!
The left appears to be girding against the fearsomeness!
Joining their great legions!
Green, blue, purple, “the reds” —
But — qui bono?
Lurchers?
Sanders refuses to say that the Democrat Party is dead.
A truly pragmatic person would understand that the corporate interests that fund and run the Democrat Party will never capitulate to the interests of the 99%. After all, the Clintons got it more than 25 years ago, and Obama rammed it home when he appointed Geithner his Treasury Secretary.
Sanders presents as a man of the people while trying to save capitalists from themselves. Some future.
The challenge for the Bern and supporter is that creating a new political party is just overwhelmingly difficult in the USA. Mostly easy in almost every other democracy but not the USA. Every step is fraught with disabling legislation and regulation. There is no national system! instead there is a myriad of state systems, carefully crafted and brutally applied to silence all but the two major parties. The US democratic charade is a tweedledee and tweedledum oligarchy.
Grasping this once in 30 year chance to turn the Democrats around is infinitely easier that starting from scratch. That is the appalling truth of it! Sanders is perfectly correct, sometimes hugely challenging, but he is a wise man.
Oregoncharles November 27, 2016 at 12:07 am
You do realize exactly this has been attempted for at least those last 30 years, with the results we see before us?
Millennials are SEVENTY PERCENT “independent;” the whole electorate, about 50%. It’s over but the shouting – but dinosaurs are very dangerous in their death throes.
neo-realist November 27, 2016 at 1:23 am
The democratic party brand name is better known and has had a track record of success in the past, e.g., New Deal, Civil Rights legislation, Great Society. It’s just a matter of getting a 50 state strategy going on again w/ a new breed of populist democrat moving up the grass root ranks, running for and winning offices on strong economic populist principles and hammering the nails on the coffins of the neo-liberal has-beens. Hopefully a few of those #notmypresident demonstrators will seize the opportunity to bum-rush the party and create the changes they want.
It would mean Sanderwingers primarying-defeating every DLC Clintobamacrat before every Rep and Sen election, every time. And it would mean working /voting third party, ANY third party . . . if the primary challenge failed, in order to Naderize the DLC Clintobamacrat officeseeker.
It would mean being ready to take the pain of Republican officeholders in many states for decades to come as the price of demonstrating that no DLC Clintobamacrat will ever be permitted to win an election anywhere in America ever again. Are the BernieCrats ready to take the decades of pain needed to exterminate the DLC Clintobamacrats from politics in the long run?
“The pain of Republican office holders in many states for decades to come.” This is starting to become the reality right now w/ neoliberal dems in the driver seat running for office. The democratic party might as well start the reinvention now since what they’re doing isn’t working well, but work on the districts that they’ve lost to republicans rather than primary the few successful ones in office.
One cannot hope for a better (different) future without first understanding and coming to terms with the past. No soft ‘focus on the future’ will produce a result that is much different than what we have today. In other words, if you do not know what you’re struggling against – how do you even imagine the way forward?
Mo's Bike Shop November 26, 2016 at 12:46 pm
And alienates so many potential allies that he’s dead in the water. Clintonism is probably quite capable of imploding on its own. With some of my friends, I figure three years before I can mention that those little berries probably aren’t in fact rainbows. Let alone turn it into a pun.
This whole ‘burn all your bridges before I accept your sincerity’ trope seems a little counterproductive. And not genre savvy–that is not how a politician politics.
PlutoniumKun November 26, 2016 at 1:51 pm
I was among those who was disappointed in him for apparently rolling in behind Clinton in August. But he’s proven smarter than me or any of his critics. He has played it perfectly – he did just enough to prove his ‘loyalty’, while letting HRC and the rest of them self-combust in their hubris. He is in an incredibly powerful position now within the Dems – with luck, and lots and lots of support, he will genuinely change things. Who could have predicted this even 12 months ago?
He has the public, but remains public enemy no. 1 with all the super delegates because he wants to break their corporate rice bowls, no matter he’s shown them new, albeit smaller, bowls. Small donors will not hire you for 6-7 figures when you retire from politics. Why would you go into politics if you can’t get rich? There’s simply little financial rewards for a progressive… Bernie’s not even a half millionaire! Must be an awful existence.
This explains why so few progressives run, and why even fewer in politics now flip from neolib to progressive… excepting those wannabes with public and private positions.
Course, once you’re in you run up true colors, witness big o.
hidflect November 26, 2016 at 11:31 pm
Exactly. The Iron Law of Institutions applies.
The people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution “fail” while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to “succeed” if that requires them to lose power within the institution.
Is there a Rust Tendency of Iron Institutions to counter the Iron Law of Institutions? They say that Rust Never Sleeps. How to get the rusting process started?
“…top lawyers for Bush and Obama say”
All you need to know about the duopoly ……more suspense in professional wrestling
I’ve started to follow this, because there are developing indications that the GOP establishment really does have a plan to use faithless electors/ recounts in key states to throw the election to the House, which will then install a GOP establishment President. This of course is completely insane. If you want to undo the election, letting Trump take office and then impeaching and removing him on, well, trumped up charges has more of a chance of being sold to the public. But Trump’s recent pivot to GOP establishment positions has to be seen in the same light of similar behavior he did at the Republican Convention in Cleveland, when there was a similar plot in the background.
Wow. For the last six months I have had this very strong gut feeling that neither Clinton nor Trump would be our next President. If I turn out to have intuited that, well that would be wierd. Anyone else have that feeling? That all this angst will seem unnecessary to the future us because neither LOTE will be taking the oath?
Ed November 26, 2016 at 12:50 pm
I’ve had the same intuition but have been proved wrong so far. I was pretty certain that during the campaign, either/ both Clinton and/ or Trump would withdraw, Clinton for “health reasons”, and Trump in the matter of Perot in 1992. Then depending on which one withdrew and when this happened, the substitute candidate would win the election. Obviously this didn’t happen.
Neither did the idea of carrying Clinton over the finish line and then her stepping aside or being made to step aside using the 25th Amendment, again for health reasons.
I still would be amazed if Trump actually served a full term, but I suspect Trump and the “Washington Establishment” are in the process of negotiating, either explicitly or implicitly, a deal that would allow Trump to do that and get some of his agenda enacted. But if the deal falls through or doesn’t happen, the “establishment’ still has several cards they can still play. The President has fewer formal powers than president-centric media coverage leads people to believe.
annie moose November 26, 2016 at 12:55 pm
Pence will be your day to day operational president the donald will be busy expanding his brand.
fresno dan November 26, 2016 at 11:55 am
I’m still of the idea that Trump will get impeached. The repubs would love to put in Pence (calm, lawful, experienced I can hear the network news readers intoning). But I agree with you that shortly we might as well have elected any of the other repubs…
Yves Smith Post author November 26, 2016 at 1:41 pm
No, a lot of Rs are leery of evangelicals and Pence is a pretty hard core one. I regard him as impeachment insurance for Trump.
rd November 26, 2016 at 5:05 pm
It takes a 2/3 supermajority in the Senate for conviction in impeachment proceedings. That means a substantial number of Democrats would have to link up with Republican Senators for conviction. The Democrats are probably more likely to be able to work with Trump than Pence, so they may not vote for conviction.
Trump’s business conflicts of interest are going to be a fascinating application of game theory between many parties.
skippy November 26, 2016 at 6:18 pm
Game theory is not unlike Rapture ™ prophecy, both are founded on negatives being positives e.g. Hayekian, Nash, et al personality disorders comported to pragmatic virtue.
Disheveled Marsupial…. imagine society being conditioned not unlike the first shooter problem the military had… over a protracted period of time… NC cover this terrain in the waybackmachine…
Vatch November 26, 2016 at 12:46 pm
here are developing indications that the GOP establishment really does have a plan to use faithless electors/ recounts in key states to throw the election to the House, which will then install a GOP establishment President.
If any faithless electors vote for someone besides Trump or Clinton, this could occur. However, the Constitution requires the House to select one of the top three vote getters from the Electoral College vote. So if there is a conspiracy to install a Republican establishment candidate as President, that person would need to finish first, second, or third in the vote on December 19. The House can’t pick just anyone — their choice is constrained.
Tom_Doak November 26, 2016 at 3:03 pm
Not that I think this is a likely scenario, but since only two candidates earned Electoral Votes on November 9, it would probably take only a half-dozen well-compensated protest votes for Candidate C to finish in third place on December 19, and be eligible as a candidate in the House. You’d think that if the PTB were going to go this route, they would have their preferred candidate in mind by now.
Trump’s appointment to Justice will reveal it all. My guess is he will install an attack dog with the intimation that he will unleash said animal on the banksters and vampire squids. That will bluff the Congress and peace will reign over the Trump years. If Wall Street banksters try to shake him down, they will have to do business with a new FBI head and Justice attack dog.
He may not have read Machiavelli but he seems to understand the concepts/strategies very well. I don’t think there will be any successful step toward impeachment.
Antifa November 26, 2016 at 11:37 am
It’s not a media gag, fake wrestling, or a horse race for TV ratings. It’s quite real.
Article I, Section 9 restricts the US President: “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
Note that this restriction applies to every member of the Executive Branch. Please not also that the Founding Fathers knew, discussed, and chose that word “emolument” precisely — to them it meant profit, favour, influence, payment or transfer of any material wealth.
They certainly would not consider owning a big hotel just down the street from the White House as innocent of corruption of the office of President. Any visiting businessman, diplomat, lobbyist, or foreign leader who didn’t stay at the President’s hotel would get a chilly reception in the Oval Office. Hence, they would stay as often and as long as necessary at the President’s hotel, no matter the prices. It’s a straightforward recipe for graft.
Which is why Presidents have to divest or divorce themselves (through blind trusts) of all personal businesses while they direct the affairs of the nation. No exceptions, while they are in office. Of course, it is a grand old tradition for Presidents and other politicians to prepare a soft nest in the corporate world for themselves for when they become private citizens again. That’s also straightforward graft, but like a catfish it’s too slippery to get a real grip on. So we let it swim past.
Donald isn’t going to be able to defy or finesse this Emolument Clause. It’s a dealbreaker.
Sorry to tell you but if he assumes office it isn’t. I am pretty sure the only way to get him out even under this clause is via impeachment. The Federal AG won’t go after him and I am just about 100% sure neither private parties nor state AGs have a right of action.
Katharine November 26, 2016 at 2:01 pm
The clause doesn’t seem to me to have the effect you claim for it. It says no person holding office shall accept any emolument from any foreign state. A business venture in another country is not that country. The income is from the business, which he owns, not from the state in which it is based.
It’s in the Constitution but I don’t believe it is covered in an actual law. I believe that means that it becomes a basis for impeachment or a Supreme Court action, instead of standard prosecutor action.
The ammunition boxes are being loaded for impeachment proceedings. Within 12 months, it is likely that Trump will be in office purely at the pleasure of Republicans in Congress unless he can retain strong support among his voters and/or the Democratic Senate.
Simple to get around: the visiting kings of the Middle East can stay elsewhere, their entourage and security people can be housed wherever is available. More than enough hangers on will choose to stay at Trump’s towers for the same reason people gifted to the Clinton Foundation. As long as the payment is on a diplomatic travel basis and not a gift. No crime in that is there?
epynonymous November 27, 2016 at 2:55 pm
Reports say Donald will charge the government to live in his own house.
alex morfesis November 26, 2016 at 10:17 am
The bezos shopper just pointed out the bezos shopping site is a massive short and going to miss its numbers this closing quarter…
not sure why this burn notice is a bad thang…sounds like free new eyeballs and money…
although…if you want bux beyond fresh ad revenue….slander per se is basically a slam dunk in florida…
me and a certain genius (jtm) down here in tampabay area would be hard to break affiants and witnesses…
either way…enjoy the newly found notoriety…
and sue them anyway…
first lawsuit gets all the publicity…
And if the lazy lawyers caution against suit against the unknown enterprise since they are “hiding”…
florida(among a few other states) still has the “bill of discovery”…
same net effect of valuable publicity without the heartburn of potential liability for legal fees of the mystery defendant(s)…
and sue in pinellas county…a certain wrestler didnt do to bad down here…
then foia the cloud contracts the bezos shopper has with the federal guvmint…
More vittles for the kitties….
rd November 26, 2016 at 10:20 am
“They’d be nuts not to have Romney if he would actually take the job”
And there is the conundrum that our new ruling party will have for the next several years. They are actually going to have to address the insanities and contradictions residing within their party.
At this point I’d suggest that we no longer have a “Ruling Party,” but a “Dominant Movement.”
sd November 26, 2016 at 11:19 am
Funny. I read that as “Donut Movement” and immediately got the warm and fuzzies remembering the local donut shop as a kid. I had a soft spot for cinnamon cruellers and chocolate iced donuts.
Trump is proving himself more savvy of Washington than I thought. By bringing on those who criticized him, he knows he’s not getting sycophants.
Many an hour of my misspent youth during high school were spent in such a place. A little shop not far from school on what was then a two lane road next to one of the few remaining orchards in what is now silicon valley. When younger yet, there were 400 square miles of farm land, mostly orchards, growing out of some of the most fertile soil in the world, all under pavement now. Thanks for the hit of nostalgia.
Ignim Brites November 26, 2016 at 1:53 pm
This has got to be a case of keeping your friends close but your enemies closer.
Tulsi is my pick and hope, she’s eye to eye with trump on foreign adventures. And he likes hotties…
I’d love to be a fly on the wall for THAT discussion. However, not only does she not seem like the type to put up with anything, I gather he has a rep for treating female employees fairly (I first wrote “with due respect,” but that isn’t exactly what we heard.
Inode_buddha November 26, 2016 at 10:47 am
“Economy needs higher oil prices: Goldman Sachs”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/11/26/economy-oil-prices-goldman-sachs/94431546
Are they out of their effing minds? I want to know *whose* economy needs higher oil prices…. because mine needs higher wages.
tyaresun November 26, 2016 at 11:30 am
The rich are suffering, the trickle down economy has stopped trickling.
Altandmain November 26, 2016 at 12:17 pm
You mean people are too poor now for the rich to loot.
Let’s face it, large numbers of middle class individuals have been knocked into the working class or poor. The working class has been hit even harder (look at wage and net worth drops).
What does that leave? Them to loot the professional class (ex: between the 80-99th percentile)?
SB November 26, 2016 at 5:40 pm
Been near a (non-Ivy) university lately? They are planing to replace the current generation of tenured academics with video files and peer-grading.
hidflect November 27, 2016 at 4:36 am
The working class have been knocked into the meth-smoking class.
mK November 26, 2016 at 11:12 am
RE: WAPO & PROPORNOT – Amazon owns WAPO? Maybe a call for a national (international?) boycott of Amazon is due.
. . . Amazon owns WAPO?
No. Super predator owns both.
Jim Haygood November 26, 2016 at 12:01 pm
You and William Banzai7 think alike:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5331/31200171296_bdbdfb279c_b.jpg
I buy a lot of books, and I am proud to say that I have never bought a book (or anything) from Amazon.com.
Cynthia November 26, 2016 at 1:58 pm
We pay the CIA and every military branch intelligence service, not to mention NSA the big bucks to read all Russian dysinformation AND interpret it. If they faked news, Obama would be the first to know followed by Hillary. The Post is making its usual lame excuses for its handlers in the DNC.
Dave November 26, 2016 at 11:21 am
Elizabeth Holmes and her nauseating “medical expert” pal Chelsea.
“Holmes is hosting a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in Palo Alto. The event includes a conversation with former First Family member Chelsea Clinton, and participants who pay $2,700 get to go to a “host reception” with Chelsea. According to an email sent out to potential attendees, the fundraiser will take place at the Theranos Palo Alto headquarters.”
Histori-cat is shoveling the litter of time over Three turds quickly losing their luster.
https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/14/theranos-clinton-fundraiser/
Dave November 26, 2016 at 1:54 pm
make that “sands of time”…
Carl November 26, 2016 at 6:11 pm
You just cannot make this shit up. Wow!
lyman alpha blob November 26, 2016 at 11:22 am
RE: Does Chinese Civilization Come From Ancient Egypt?
Really interesting article but good to remain skeptical. This bit stuck out to me:
Of the 200 or so items of bronze ware he was responsible for analyzing, some came from the city of Yin. He found that the radioactivity of these Yin-Shang bronzes had almost exactly the same characteristics as that of ancient Egyptian bronzes, suggesting that their ores all came from the same source: African mines.
I participated in an excavation of a Bronze Age site in coastal Crete back in the 90s. At one point the lead archaeologist who hailed from the US found some sort of mineral in the excavation that had been used by the local Bronze Age artisans. He declared this mineral was only to be found in Anatolia, thereby proving an ancient trade route between Crete and modern day Turkey. That is until a local fisherman pointed him to large deposits of said mineral found just over the next hill…
Fun to speculate but as we fans of economic discussion realize , social sciences aren’t known for their exactness.
alex morfesis November 26, 2016 at 12:40 pm
or maybe mankind has been around and traveling the seas with commerce a bit longer than the average drunken apartheidish western archaeologists would like to imagine…
what was that line in a big fat greek wedding…
when the ellenes were developing philosophy…
Synoia November 26, 2016 at 12:57 pm
I refer you this piece of wisdom: Cargoes – John Masefield
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,
Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
With a cargo of ivory,
And apes and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.
Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus,
Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores,
With a cargo of diamonds,
Emeralds, amythysts,
Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores.
Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack,
Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,
With a cargo of Tyne coal,
Road-rails, pig-lead,
Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.
From Han Purple and Han Blue, Wikipedia:
Han blue and Egyptian blue[edit]
Han blue and Egyptian blue have the same basic structure and have very similar properties.[2] The difference is that Egyptian blue (CaCuSi4O10) has calcium in the position of Han blue’s barium (BaCuSi4O10). The similarities lead some to suggest that Han blue was based on Egyptian blue knowledge, which had travelled east along the Silk Road.[8] Independent innovation in China would still have been needed to replace calcium with barium[8] (the Han pigments start to form at 100–200°C higher than Egyptian blue).[11]
The suggestions are:
that earlier alkali metal glazing techniques were based on knowledge from Egypt, but that the copper silicate pigments (Egyptian blue and Han blue) developed from these glazes in two independent areas: Egypt and China.[2]
Alternatively, that examples of Han blue predate the official Silk Road and therefore that development was completely independent.[11]
Possible Chinese invention[edit]
yes, its a fascinating article. I hope Chinese archaeology is in a better state than in the 1990’s when I first visited. I went to a Xia dynasty site to find people casually picking up souvenirs (remains of pottery and tile) and putting them in their pockets. There were amazing untouched sites out in the Gobi desert, the remains of countless silk road camp fires forming mounds of charcoal – there must be an enormous amount of information waiting to be extracted from those sites.
But while the evidence from bronze is intriguing, it really doesn’t prove anything. Bronze was an incredibly valuable product in the early Bronze age and widely traded from the relatively small number of copper and tin mines known to the early metallurgists. Irish bronze and gold from that period has been found over most of Europe – unsurprising when you know that it was easily accessible by sea and most transport was by boat, so it wasn’t a great surprise that valuable objects could work their way up the Rhine or to the Mediterranean. Travelling by boat from the Red Sea to the South China sea would not have been a particularly difficult journey, there was plenty of coast to hug all the way.
lyman alpha blob November 26, 2016 at 7:58 pm
RE: “…casually picking up souvenirs..”
That isn’t just in China. I visited the Greek Bronze Age site Tiryns and the ground was littered with pottery shards. Most were very plain having been exposed to the elements however if you knew what to look for there were plenty that still had details of the ancient Mycenaean painting remaining.
Regarding the article, my guess is that similar to what you described, this bit is on the right track:
Since the 1990s, most Chinese archaeologists have accepted that much of the nation’s Bronze Age technology came from regions outside of China. But it is not thought to have arrived directly from the Middle East in the course of an epic migration. The more prosaic consensus is that it was transmitted into China from Central Asia by a slow process of cultural exchange (trade, tribute, dowry) across the northern frontier, mediated by Eurasian steppe pastoralists who had contacts with indigenous groups in both regions.
Yes, but the problem with a ‘cultural exchange’ theory is that the bronze would then likely have many sources due to constant trading and exchange across central asia. If it is true that all or most of the bronze has a very specific geographical origin, this to me suggests a direct sea trading route.
Oregoncharles November 27, 2016 at 1:09 am
Crete is as close to Asia Minor (Turkey) as to Greece; of course there was trade. It’s an island; the Minoans had a maritime empire. And there were Greeks on both sides of the Aegean. f
That said, a clear example of hubris on someone’s part.
The levels of radioactivity might be more distinctive, though. Still, that discovery doesn’t mean a sea route. Bronze might well have been traded through Central Asia to China, then probably recast by the Chinese.
Not sure of the Yinshang period, but Shang bronzes are utterly distinctive and bear no resemblance to Egyptian work. There’s an odd resemblance to Northwest Coast Indian imagery, though, as well as to Maori, as Claude Levi-Strauss pointed out long ago. Not strong enough to call for contact, though. Parallelism.
In general, people and ideas got around even in the distant past; it’s hard to overestimate cultural contact. But it only sticks if it’s useful to the locals, or if there was conquest.
tommy strange November 26, 2016 at 12:06 pm
FYI been watching where this crap WaPo stuff is being spread….Salon of course..and oh look! Rebecca Solnit on her FB page just reposted it in a string ‘of proofs’ that Russia ruined the election!! Love me I’m a liberal….and I”ll turn you un (Phil Ochs)… I can’t believe Harpers has been publishing her crap for a year now…I’m writing another letter to them……and pointing this out…..
DJG November 26, 2016 at 12:34 pm
Rebecca Solnit has never seen a straw man (and we know that they are all men of straw, ‘splaining to her) that she didn’t like. Most of her columns in Harper’s Magazine sought straw men like “jaded leftists,” “naive cynics,” and so on. The mediocrity of her thinking is telling.
sd November 26, 2016 at 12:35 pm
Separating the wheat from the chaff. This particular election has been a real eye opener.
tommy strange November 26, 2016 at 1:30 pm
Sure has SD! And for a lot of friends of mine that always called themselves ‘liberal’ but leaned left…..now they’ve been pushed left by their still capable rational thought. And DJG, her writing is horrible. Over 3 articles about gentrification in Harpers’ alone, and still not ONE mention of the bubble economics and hot money that is fueling it…each time…it’s the ‘tech sector’ that is causing all of it. gawd. She even said ‘reaganomics’ plagues san francisco still. What ??
sd November 26, 2016 at 8:32 pm
Every day, the list grows a little longer. I just added another….oh well. C’est la guerre.
I mostly skip her columns in Harpers. Waste of space that used to be filled with wise words.
It’s my belief that coining and popularizing the expression “Fake News” is only one more small step towards the slippery slope of justifying online censorship.
Kokuanani November 26, 2016 at 3:19 pm
I was horrified to see that Bill Moyers had an item on this in one of his Facebook entries, linking to the WaPo article.
Bill should be better than that.
Cue the line from Blue Velvet: “it’s a strange world…”
New frontiers in the Panopticon:
Financial institutions are increasingly gauging consumers’ creditworthiness by using phone-company data on mobile calling patterns and locations.
Equifax has started using utility and telecommunications data in Latin America over the past two years. The number of calls and text messages a potential borrower in Latin America receives can help predict a consumer’s credit risk.
“It turns out, the more economically active you are, the more people want to call you,” Robin Moriarty of Equifax Latin America said. “That level of activity, that level of usage is what’s really most predictive.”
FICO’s partner EFL sends psychological questionnaires of about 60 questions to potential borrowers’ mobile phones. FICO can check if users’ phones were physically present at their stated home or work address, and if they are in touch with other good borrowers — or with people with long histories of fooling lenders.
“The way you use the phone is a proxy for the way you live,” Cignify CEO Jonathan Hakim said. “We are capturing a mirror of the customer’s life.”
Several large phone companies contacted by Bloomberg declined to comment about whether they share data with financial institutions.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-25/no-credit-history-no-problem-lenders-now-peering-at-phone-data
“Capturing a mirror of the customer’s life” is exactly what a minority of us DO NOT WANT.
A neighbor who rents her second home on Airbnb uses Facebook to screen potential renters. What if they aren’t on Facebook, I asked her. “Then I don’t rent to them; they’re not social,” she replied.
What’s being proxied is not necessarily creditworthiness, but conventionality: that is, assent to the contemporary cultural demand to waive personal privacy and expose one’s life to any and all who care to pry.
I think she would have been surprisingly bipartisan and worked with people like Paul Ryan to get things done and solve big problems.
Precisely. That’s why she lost, more of the same. The “big problems” were and are her support for wars and trade.
She didn’t even embrace the Sanders movement – Deplorables that they are, probably because their inclusion broke the sides of one of her carefully constructed triangulations.
Both the writer of this article and Hillary are either idiots (which I doubt), or unbelievably arrogant (aka: Too clever for their own good). I refer to the Beatitudes:
Liberal Mole November 26, 2016 at 1:44 pm
Clinton’s whole career is about failing upward, so I expect it’s the former. And yet another one of the rarefied elites affirming she is warm and wonderful in person – to him. Naturally, he’s an important Republican, her true constituency.
She was also going to work with Ryan and the Catfood Democrats to stealth-slow-privatise Social Security and Medicare. Bipartisan.
Trump election: Request for Wisconsin vote recount sent BBC. However, there is no way to get a Pennsylvania recount request in by the deadline, so this is all moot.
Why is there no way to submit a Pennsylvania recount request by the deadline? The Wisconsin request was submitted by the Friday deadline; why can’t the Pennsylvania request be submitted by the Monday deadline? I’m not arguing — I just don’t understand the reason for the claim that this is not possible.
$$$ to pay for the recount cost.
I thought they had no problem getting $$$.
Vatch November 26, 2016 at 4:03 pm
That’s my impression, too. That’s the most interesting aspect of this: who’s donating all that money? And my personal gripe: why didn’t they donate some money to protest some of the results in the Democratic primary? It’s a rhetorical question; I know why rich people didn’t care about the dirty tricks used against the Sanders campaign.
RWood November 26, 2016 at 11:21 pm
Clinton Campaign Agrees to Back Jill Stein’s Election Recount Effort: Lawyer
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/clinton-campaign-agrees-back-jill-stein-s-election-recount-effort-n688601
RWood November 27, 2016 at 12:01 am
Oh! Ouch!
https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/11/26/self-serving-jill-stein-recount-scam/
EGrise November 27, 2016 at 12:05 am
Jeebus that was terrible.
sd November 27, 2016 at 2:09 am
Embarrassing. Sad to see EmptyWheel go off the deep end. My reading list gets shorter and shorter everyday….
flora November 26, 2016 at 1:57 pm
everyone (both sides) I know was so disgusted by the primary and general election season they, one and all, said on Nov. 8th, “Thank god *that’s* done.” Except it’s not done, it’s become the election that does… not… stop. Yeah, that’s making people happy. /s
It reminds of the movie, Fatal Attraction.
“Do you regret having electoral relationship with that woma..sorry, her?”
It’s rapidly turning into Groundhog Day…
Annotherone November 26, 2016 at 5:16 pm
@ flora
I didn’t realise, or had forgotten, that it was Yogi Berra who famously said “It ain’t over ’til it’s over” – a thought that has been on many minds, and mine, these last few days. That sports reference recalled one from my old homeland:
“They think it’s all over” a quote from Kenneth Wolstenholme’s BBC TV commentary in the closing moments of the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final, when England beat West Germany 4–2 after extra time to win the FIFA World Cup. In the final few seconds of the [soccer] match, Wolstenholme said:
And here comes Hurst! He’s got… (Wolstenholme gets distracted by some of the crowd spilling onto the pitch)
“Some people are on the pitch! ”
“They think it’s all over!”
(Geoff Hurst scores to put England two goals ahead)
“It is now……it’s four!”
Soon after the 1966 victory, Wolstenholme’s quote became a widely used expression.
(detail at Wiki)
I hope it’ll not be too long before someone tells us “It is now….it’s …[ ? ]”. I think I’m past caring now, but know I ought not to be.
Katharine November 26, 2016 at 12:56 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/26/us-army-orders-eviction-of-dakota-protesters-camp-tribe-says
Citing federal regulations governing public lands, Colonel John W. Henderson of the army corps of engineers wrote to Standing Rock Sioux tribal chairman Dave Archambault that he was ordering the closure by 5 December.
The order was “to protect the general public from the violent confrontations between protestors and law enforcement officials that have occurred in this area, and to prevent death, illness, or serious injury” from the winter weather.
What Molly Ivins would have called horse hockey. If that were the aim the order would have been issued much earlier. Clearly it was really to prevent the embarrassment of nonviolent veterans confronting the law enforcement bullies. I hope it fails to achieve that aim.
pretzelattack November 26, 2016 at 1:14 pm
how about protecting the protestors from the violent cops. a good way to prevent death, illness or serious injury” from the winter weather would be to stop the cops from using fire hoses to soak people. i’m encouraged by the peaceful veterans’ support, and i get the impression the cop community is divided on this, too. maybe you can’t always hire half the working class to shoot the other half.
True enough about the law enforcement divisions. RSN just provided this list of agencies that have participated, but some of them have already pulled out, and there was an article a couple of weeks ago (where, I no longer recall) commenting on the manifest ambivalence of some cops who were there. It’s good when people start asking why they are being called on to do things–though I imagine stressful, when they start feeling they can’t live that way but aren’t quite ready to quit.
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/40473-how-many-law-enforcement-agencies-does-it-take-to-subdue-a-peaceful-protest
The protesters should reach out to the cops who left and/or feel guilty. Ask them if they feel/felt what they did was wrong, come atone and take your place beside us.
The hoses would stop at least. One thing to soak some hippy, but to a fellow Brother in Blue?
Further interesting development: Gov. Dalrymple doesn’t want the responsibility of moving the camp out and says the federal government must take the lead.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/26/dakota-access-pipeline-governor-jack-dalrymple
“…ordering the closure by 5 December.”
Isn’t that around time the vets were intending to come? I will check.
Wonder if this will still happen?
“On Dec. 4, if everything goes according to plan, hundreds of veterans will muster at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. The mission: To stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.”
http://taskandpurpose.com/where-evil-resides-veterans-deploy-to-standing-rock-to-engage-the-enemy-the-us-government/
Well, the water protectors are saying they won’t go, so I imagine at least some of the vets will still show up to support them. I hope so, anyway. The government has been so stupid over this. Onwards, once again, to the wrong side of history!
Maybe they could scramble in a couple days early.
Jordan Chariton at TYT Politics has good ongoing vid news:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuMo0RRtnNDuMB8DV5stEag/videos
They didn’t seem as anxious to give an eviction notice for occupying Federal lands in Oregon a while back. But that was just a nature preserve in winter.
They also didn’t want a large scale shootout or worse with rightwing-identified gun owners. The DAPL protesters have said all along that they will remain non-violent ( and presumably gunless), so the Legal Enforcement personnel can kill them without fear of physical retaliation. That too might explain the difference.
Also, there is billions of dollars worth of oil at stake here. There was no such oil at Malheur. That three might explain the difference.
Col Henderson sounds like he has adopted the Custer persona, he wants a brawl and an ugly one. One thing is for sure, there has never been a shortage of thugs in the USA to carry out corporate bidding.
Will this be Obummers legacy? Dead American Indians and their allies struggling for land protection and slaughtered by the US Army? This is looking bad given the US’ history of thug rule.
Is Bakken oil totally generic? Does it just disappear across the whole field of refineries and then oil products sellers? Or does it take certain pathways to certain refineries and then get sold through certain sellers and not through others?
Would it be possible to identify which bussinesses sell most of the ultimate products of Bakken oil?
If it would, would millions of DAPL-protest sympathisers be willing to avoid Bakken sourced oil bussinesses and take their bussiness and their money to Bakken-free sources of oil products? If so, would enough people do it hard enough and long enough to make the North Dakota Oil Patch scream for lack of money? And keep screaming until its political servants tortured the various governments involved into stopping the pipeline?
Stone coins of Yap November 26, 2016 at 1:20 pm
CIA will need ventriloquists for Trump. Nimmo spotted one.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Two_Government_Insiders_Get_Key_Positions_in_the_Trump_Administration/55459/0/38/38/Y/M.html
NPR and Castro
This morning NPR reported on the death of Castro. It was clearly only propoganda since it emphasized that Castro did some good things but he was really a very bad man. One of the final comments by the snarky announcer was “In the end, he died a sickly old man.” The tone clearly stated that that served him right. I don’t know but suspect that most of us will die in a similar sickly way.
Several experts made comments giving Castro praise for his education & health care policies and denouncing him for relying on the Soviets for help.
Needless to say, NPR did not interview Wm LeoGrande who in 2014 wrote
Backchannel to Cuba: the Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
for a more complex picture.
For any nation, especially a very small one so close to the U.S., to survive has to be considered to be a miracle. Communist or capitalist, Cuba maintained its sovereignty for all these years while providing education and healthcare to everyone. Sending doctors to South American & African countries is a success story of immense proportions.
I applaud LeoGrande’s tenacity since obtaining the documents necessary to write this account took a very long time. From Eisenhower to GWB, this account reports the formal and informal talks between the two nations. To learn more see the Amazon reviews since my link did not take.
he didn’t recover from the Cubs win
Synoia November 26, 2016 at 1:49 pm
Would that not also eliminate 50% (or so) of the males in the US?
Correlation is not causation, perhaps.
my bad, no question mark
He outlasted 11 presidential terms…:-), from Eisenhower onward.
OIFVet November 26, 2016 at 2:30 pm
One of the final comments by the snarky announcer was “In the end, he died a sickly old man.”
So Cuban deplorables die of old age, and American deplorables die ever younger from drug ODs and Type 2 diabetes complications. USA!!! USA!!!
JohnnyGL November 26, 2016 at 3:04 pm
http://www.american.edu/spa/gov/leogrande-back-channel-to-cuba.cfm
Found this while taking a look. Seems interesting, thanks for the tip!
Castro’s death appears to be prompting a lack of understanding of the differences between communism, totalitarianism, and socialism. Its hard to equate Scandinavian socialism with Cuban communism and dictatorship, but I guess it is possible.http://us.cnn.com/2016/11/26/opinions/socialism-should-die-with-castro-mcternan/index.html
I agree. I liked LeoGrande’s book since it gives the facts and let me come to my own conclusions.
My own conclusion is that in many situations, it came down to the U.S. wanting to dictate Cuba’s relationships with other nations such as their sending troops to South American and African countries whose own independence was at stake. Castro consistently stated that he could be flexible but that he would not agree to give up Cuba’s full sovereignty. That usually was seen as a threat by the U.S. Our desire for control was not much different from the Dutch hegemony during the 1800s in Indonesia. Many could arguably disagree & say I am overstating this but, in any case, Cuba paid a high economic price for its independent decision making.
I don’t think the videos get at this issue.
Thanks for the tip Beth, I particularly agree with the comparison with the Dutch in Indonesia. A good read there is the Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Ananta Toer: first book titled This Earth of Mankind. It covers a persons life through part of the Dutch thuggery in Indonesia. All of Toer’s books are worth the time.
Fidel was a great leader and a remarkably astute politician, his primary consideration for the wellbeing of the people of Cuba and elsewhere was the hall mark of excellence for any leader. Sure he was a tyrannical bully to many opposing his and the communist parties rule. But the infrastructure he created to enable people access maslow’s ladder of self improvement and security was second to none. The world needs more people of this calibre.
most of us will die in a similar sickly way
Half of us, I think.
dcblogger November 26, 2016 at 1:58 pm
Pentagon Plans to Invest Billions in Undersea Drone Network
One of these days the Earth itself is going to vomit the Pentagon into the Sun.
marym November 26, 2016 at 2:21 pm
Lambert was asking yesterday about average contribution to the Jill Stein recount. The website faq page says:
Frankly, we’re proud of our grassroots roots and our small-dollar donors. We are grateful to have received about 110,000 contributions at an average amount of $45.
http://www.jill2016.com/can_a_wealthy_person_donate_the_whole_amount_you_need
Actual amount collected since whenever that was posted is now close to $5.8M
An average amount of $45 doesn’t indicate the distribution of those 110,000 contributions.
Do they have to be concerned about violating any donation laws?
so bill gates walks into a bar…
From the same link:
The Federal Election Commission’s rules on campaign contributions still apply here. The good news: If you had donated the maximum amount of $2,700 as an individual contributor by November 8, you are now permitted to donate up to $2,700 to fund this recount initiative.
That $2,700 is contribution to a candidate or candidate committee. The limit is higher if an entity is contribution to a national party committee.
For ‘additional national party committee accounts,’ such as for recounts, the limit for an individual is $102,000 per year, I believe. I got that from OpenSecrets.
DemsThey must know the recount won’t amount to anything, judging from this tweet from stupid/evil Iglesias:
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/802203509831692288
“Angry and frightened Democrats getting suckered into donating to a woman whose mission in life is to make sure Democrats lose elections.”
uncle tungsten November 26, 2016 at 10:38 pm
That is priceless. And who just made absolutely certain that the Democrats lost the immediate past election? Throw these grifters out PLEASE!
Kim Kaufman November 26, 2016 at 10:01 pm
It first went up Wednesday.
Anon November 26, 2016 at 2:55 pm
RE: Castro/Miami Herald
This article is great in it’s breadth, but a little shallow on explaining the outsized role the US had on backing Batista, and our general distortion of Latin American politics. (Claiming Costa Rica had population literacy advances equal to Cuba is to ignore that CR was a Banana Republic controlled by US interests (corporations).
Regarding Castro,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNpXUC391vc
Most media in the US will paint him in a horrid light. However, the truth is more complicated and the good things he did are very important. Fighting Apartheid-supported proxies in South Africa’s neighbors and successfully boxing it in was a big factor contributing to its demise.
Apartheid’s fall was as big for Southern Africa as the fall of the Berlin Wall was for Europe.
Quentin November 26, 2016 at 3:14 pm
I thought Cuba achieved wonders fighting Ebola in West Africa, ,more than the US I understand. Has anyone given the Cubans credit? Compliments and thank-yous are not US style. On the contrary: only the US does GOOD!
I’m reading an excellent book, Havana Nocture, which gives a picture of what Cuba was like before Castro. The subtitle is “How the mob owned Cuba . . . and then lost it to the Revolution.”
The Cuban “exiles” in FL long for a past that was not so rosy for most Cubans.
The links to the Bacardi family fortune are also worth noting. HUGE money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacardi
“More recently, Bacardi lawyers were influential in the drafting of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, which sought to extend the scope of the United States embargo against Cuba.[17] In 1999, Otto Reich, a lobbyist in Washington on behalf of Bacardi, drafted section 211 of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Appropriations Act, FY1999 (Pub.L. 105–277), a bill that became known as the Bacardi Act. Section 211 denied trademark protection to products of Cuban businesses expropriated after the Cuban revolution, a provision keenly sought by Bacardi. The act was aimed primarily at the Havana Club brand in the U.S. The brand was created by the José Arechabala S.A. and nationalised without compensation in the Cuban revolution, the Arechabala family left Cuba and stopped producing rum. They therefore allowed the US trademark registration for “Havana Club” to lapse in 1973. Taking advantage of the lapse, the Cuban government registered the mark in the US in 1976.[18][19] This new law was drafted to invalidate the lawful trademark registration. Section 211 has been challenged unsuccessfully by the Cuban government and the European Union in U.S. courts. It was also ruled illegal by the WTO in 2001 and 2002.[20] The U.S. Congress has yet to re-examine the matter. The brand was assigned by the Cuban government to Pernod Ricard in 1993.”
MakeItStop November 26, 2016 at 3:34 pm
Re: Antidote – awwwwwwwwwwww
Plenue November 26, 2016 at 5:34 pm
Syraqistan update:
The SAA is a little over a kilometer of terrain away from slicing the Eastern Aleppo pocket in two. The ‘rebels’ were doomed already, but this is only going to accelerate their inevitable surrender. Only a matter of weeks before tens of thousands of Syrian troops are freed up to be deployed to other fronts, where the SAA is already mostly having continued success. Other positive news is that there are confused reports of Egypt sending planes to join the fight on the Assad side, and the SAA and Kurds seem to have formed an alliance to take al-Bab. On the negative side, it seems the SAA and Turkish forces have taken to bombarding each other.
The US Navy’s Most Advanced Warship Is Yet Another Victim of 2016.
Warships are associated with being steady, strong, and resolute. That’s kinda their thing. But 2016 has obliterated everything in its path, so it should be no surprise that the American Navy’s best warship just broke down for the second time in two months.
Navy’s best ship?! Broke down because of 2016?! I can’t believe someone got paid to write this crap.
War Nerd: “The F-35 of the Sea”
“Steve Bannon’s Deep, Weird Adoration of Sarah Palin Daily Beast (resilc). Well, she is foxy.” | Yeah, which is more bizarre – Bannon’s crush or Michael Moore’s deep, weird adoration of the Pantsuited One with the soul-killing nag-voice?
jeremy November 26, 2016 at 6:43 pm
Good Glenn Greenwald article on PropOrNot:
Proporno t has Soros and Dem machine echoes all over it. “The Russians are coming” was their catchcry in the frenzied last months of the campaign and their imaginations and red herrings were running amok trying to bamboozle voters. What a pathetic bunch they were! In the end the people they needed wouldn’t dignify their crap and go to vote and the winner was flagging “friendship” with the non-enemy (the soviets being long gone was discernible to most eligible voters).
If this is payback for independent media, it is a tragic and stupid effort. A bit like Podesta and Mook et al in the campaign.
kareninca November 26, 2016 at 8:34 pm
“It also ruined my Thanksgiving holiday, when I desperately needed a break.”
It really upsets me that you have been stuck with this. Okay, so now I’ll be sending in a donation as moral support (check by mail, nothing thrilling). I disagree with loads of things on this site (and every other site I visit), esp. the gun control stuff, but it is crucial to take a stand against neo-McCarthyism. I’m guessing Charles Hugh-Smith is not happy, either.
Looking relentlessly on the bright side: “No such thing as bad publicity.”
robnume November 26, 2016 at 9:31 pm
On Fidel Castro: Fidelito was a heroic figure to me. He stood up to power and he got rid of Batista. He educated countless numbers of his citizens and he truly cared about his nation. The history of his revolution is astounding. Any American who doesn’t understand what he did for his nation needs to study Cuban history, from the Cubano viewpoint. Fulgencio Batista was a weapons- grade son-of-a-bitch who was in complete collusion with U S Imperialists. The Cuban leaders before Batista were no better. Fidel, a young attorney at the time, made his revolution successful, when the many who tried it before him were not and because of the strength of his vision and his love for his country he succeeded. He then attempted to normalize relations with the U S, who would have nothing to do with him, so, having no viable alternative, he turned to Russia. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Could not agree more. He was one of the few great leaders of the post-War world and Cuba’s accomplishments second to none given unremitting US hostility. The world’s jaw just goes slack at the US reaction to his death.
If reading NC on a regular basis lands me on a watchlist, that’s a badge I will wear with pride. As Rage Against the Machine says in “Guerilla Radio,” “…all hell won’t stop us now!” btw, Putin made me write this!
On Theranos: George Schultz should be thoroughly ashamed of himself. Family always comes first and it is beyond repulsive that this old man still doesn’t seem to get it at his advanced age. His grandson is a hero in my book and I would be proud of any member of my family who stood up to power and did the right thing. This company was literally endangering the lives of people. I dearly hope that Elizabeth Holmes goes to prison. Shameless!
a different chris November 26, 2016 at 10:20 pm
I was thinking that, too. If it was my blood in that situation (sadly we don’t have that kind of financial clout, but whatever) Ms Holmes would be seriously screwed if there was any truth at all in the accusations. I would give her a chance to respond, but…. yes Mr. Schultz, you are the lowest of the low. Are you even sure that’s your grandson, b/c it looks like the apple rolled really, really far from the tree.
Kim Kaufman November 26, 2016 at 9:57 pm
Here are two rather different views of Tulsi Gabbard – and they are not pretty. She’s had long-time right wing, anti-gay views, she’s friends with Modi (she’s of Indian descent) and was associated with a cult in the past. Quitting the DNC post and supporting Bernie seems to have been the act of an opportunist and nothing more.
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2016/11/so-whats-wrong-with-tulsi-gabbard-she.html
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/11/tulsi-gabbard-is-not-who-you-think-she-is.html
Well, if that’s all true: She was DNC vice chair. Yup that’s an organization the Left can support.
Waldenpond November 26, 2016 at 10:39 pm
It’s pretty typical for Ds to present new comers as progressive when they aren’t. Ellison and Gabbard are no different to me than Booker and establishment Ds go out and look for Rs to convert. I would like to see a list of 25 positions(out of hundreds) or so that define ‘progressive’. Some of the people trotted out for support have horrid positions that are routinely criticized when Rs have the same position but some hold one progressive position (or, the hand wave that they supported Sanders) and it’s ‘lesser evil’ all over again. Even neocon is acceptable as ‘progressive’. It’s bizarre.
I don’t know enough about Tulsi Gabbard to properly evaluate the claims in the articles. However, she has voted correctly on several of the bills that have been discussed at NC over the past couple of years. I haven’t included links, but you can do web searches with this information.
She voted against fast track Trade Promotion Authority (indirectly she voted against the TPP). HR2146, Roll Call vote 374, June 18, 2015.
She voted against the repeal of Country of Origin Labeling for meat. HR2393, June 10, 2015.
She voted against HR37, which would have repealed some financial regulations. Coincidentally, Roll call 37, January 14, 2015.
She voted against the DARK act, HR1599, Roll Call 462, July 23, 2015. What eventually passed a year later was the Senate version S764, Roll Call vote 466, July 14, 2016. She also voted against that.
She voted against HR185, which NC called “another Wall Street gimmie”. Roll Call 28, January 13, 2015.
Most Republicans and many corporate Democrats voted the other way on these bills.
” The Scots, amusingly, have generally gotten the better of Trump. ”
They had loads of practice dealing with the English. (Scottish ancestry on both sides, here.)
Incidentally, this is an example of the inherent difficulty of investing in another country: unfamiliar legal system and mores. And a tendency to gang up on the foreign exploiter.
Chauncey Gardiner November 26, 2016 at 11:11 pm
Regarding the informative Defend Democracy article on Putin’s purge of some senior Russian government officials ostensibly due to their corruption, I was reminded of Winston Churchill’s observation: “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
H. Alexander Ivey November 28, 2016 at 7:39 am
Yes, the Miami Herald piece is lively and detailed. But at ‘great’, I humbly raise my hand. The following are some reasons to read the Castro piece (Fidel Castro is dead Miami Herald). Read it if:
1. you don’t know the history between the USA and Cuba and you only want the USA view
2. you have read Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” and want to raise your blood pressure at the usual one-sideness of the US’s political elite presentation
3. you have some ideas about how political systems work and want to read yet another example of a long lived political leader who lead for decades; yet the piece never offers any political reasons or craftmanship for his longevity except for the violence assigned to said leader
4. you have lived through the 60, 70s, and 80s and you want to remember the thrill of those times, of Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan…, when being a white guy was supreme
5. you want to see yet another piece of superior propaganda on how the USA is always right, their assigned enemies are always wrong; how the US never does violence except when absolutely necessary for all the right moral reasons while their stated enemy always does violence for the sadistic pleasure of being a ‘Communist’
5a. for social slander, watch for remarks about Fidel’s fatherhood, husbandhood, and general not-nice-guy-to-be-aroundness
5b. for language usage pay particular attention to the adjectives around Fidel – always present, always over the top, never simple nor usually needed
5c. for the US’s enemy blood lust, don’t miss how Fidel is call to account for killing X people over Y periods but with no offered proof of the numbers; nor any contrasting account of the corresponding US president killing 10X or 1,000X people over the same period of time
5d. and note, yes this is a piece about Fidel, so his name would be prominent, but somehow, it is usually Fidel against the US or some named nation-state, not Fidel against John Kennedy or Robert Kennedy against Fidel, or Ronald Reagan and Fidel Castro. Names matter and this is a good piece of how ‘naming’ your enemy makes it personal (the enemy) and not naming his antagonists makes them impersonal; like it’s not personal, the attempts to kill him by the (nameless) US’s agents, agencies, and presidents and directors who over saw them
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In the Know: Taco Bell and more coming to Cameron Commons
Culver's, Taco Bell, Sherwin-Williams and more businesses are coming to Cameron Commons retail center on Immokalee Road east of Collier Boulevard.
In the Know: Taco Bell and more coming to Cameron Commons Culver's, Taco Bell, Sherwin-Williams and more businesses are coming to Cameron Commons retail center on Immokalee Road east of Collier Boulevard. Check out this story on naplesnews.com: http://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/columnists/tim-aten-in-the-know/2018/06/25/know-taco-bell-and-more-coming-cameron-commons/729662002/
Tim Aten, Naples Daily News Published 8:00 a.m. ET June 25, 2018 | Updated 11:04 a.m. ET June 27, 2018
Groundwork for a new Taco Bell restaurant recently began in the Cameron Commons retail center on Immokalee Road just east of Collier Boulevard.(Photo: Tim Aten/Naples Daily News)Buy Photo
Q: Isn’t there supposed to be a new Taco Bell being built in the plaza at the intersection of Collier and Immokalee? I see the new bank, a new Culvers, but no sign of TBell progress!
— Kevin Williams, Naples
A: Groundwork for Taco Bell began last week on a narrow lot in the Cameron Commons retail center on Immokalee Road just east of Collier Boulevard.
“Taco Bell is coming. They should be starting their construction in the next month or two,” said Bill Young, senior associate for CRE Consultants.
The freestanding eatery in the Mexican-inspired chain recently broke ground between the future sites for Culver’s restaurant and Brickyard Express Car Wash, which will be built just west of the RaceTrac gas station and store. The 42-seat Taco Bell with covered patio dining will be positioned perpendicular to Immokalee Road, similar to its sister location in Green Tree Center at Immokalee and Airport-Pulling roads in North Naples, architectural plans show.
Expect Florida-based franchisee Coastal QSR to open the 1,747-square-foot Taco Bell in the first quarter of 2019. The quick-service drive-thru is being built by Florida-based CW Hayes Construction Co., which also built three of the five other Taco Bell locations in Collier County.
A Culver's restaurant nears completion in the Cameron Commons retail center on Immokalee Road just east of Collier Boulevard. (Photo: Tim Aten/Naples Daily News)
Next door to Taco Bell, Culver’s will open first. The 4,218-square-foot restaurant is under construction by Naples-based Build LLC. The fast-casual franchise of the Wisconsin-based chain known for its burgers and frozen custard is targeted to open at the end of next month, said Mike Busalacchi, the Naples resident who co-owns the two other Culver’s franchises in Collier County.
“We are right now scheduled for July 30,” he said. “We’ll know pretty hard here in the next couple of weeks.”
The site still needs electrical power and is scheduled to receive its equipment shipment in early July.
“If that happens we are on track for the 30th,” Busalacchi said.
Stores for Sherwin-Williams Paints and Verizon Wireless will share this building that is nearing completion in the Cameron Commons retail center on Immokalee Road just east of Collier Boulevard. (Photo: Tim Aten/Naples Daily News)
In another building immediately to the west of Culvers, Dr. Nestor Villarreal and Dr. Vanesa Vaquer started seeing patients May 4 at the new Bellaire Bay Dental Care. The full-service dental office is part of Illinois-based Heartland Dental Care, which through its Professional Resource Development company also owns the recently completed 5,680-square-foot building immediately to its west that will be shared by Verizon Wireless and Sherwin-Williams Paints. Pending permits, those retail stores are targeted to open in August, said John Collier, real estate manager at Heartland Dental and Professional Resource Development.
Meanwhile, Chase Bank opened May 8 next to CVS Pharmacy on the last lot in the first phase of Cameron Commons. The new bank, at 8843 Immokalee Road, has a 24/7 drive-thru ATM, but not a drive-thru teller window. Lobby hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.
Chase Bank opened May 8 at 8843 Immokalee Road, next to CVS Pharmacy on the last lot in the first phase of Cameron Commons. (Photo: Tim Aten/Naples Daily News)
Also in the original retail strip, a dry cleaning business is coming soon to the unit between Pelican Larry's Raw Bar & Grill and Edison's Smart Fitness center.
Two lots remain vacant in the second phase of Cameron Commons. The aforementioned carwash is planned on the acre that fronts Immokalee Road next to RaceTrac on commercial property owned by Naples-based Niagara Falls Hydro LLC. Information on when the 4,800-square-foot business will begin construction was not available.
The final lot, another commercial acre on Sage Avenue between the Goodwill store and The Warehouse restaurant, is still available for sale, Young said.
Have a local question? Email it with your name and city of residence to intheknow@naplesnews.com. Tim Aten’s "In the Know" is published every Monday and Wednesday. Follow In the Know on Facebook now at facebook.com/timaten.intheknow.
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Most of the following information, and all of the family photographs, come from Nancy Frey, a descendant of Frederick Eli Rodgman.
Very many thanks to Nancy
In the following account extra information is in italics, within square brackets.
Nancy writes:
'The RODGMAN family did not remain long in Ashburton but they made their mark. Frederick Eli RODGMAN was born 11th August 1871 in Bideford, the son of George RODGMAN, a gardener, and his second wife Mary Ann HEAL.
He married Edith Mary NICHOLLS 1 May 1893 in Bideford and came to Ashburton some time between the birth of his daughter Edith 9 Mar 1896 in Bideford and daughter Florence registered 4th quarter 1898 in Newton Abbot Registration District.
[On 1st May 1893 Frederick Eli Rodgman married 21 year old Edith Nicholls in Bideford parish church. Frederick, aged 22 and living in Bideford at the time, was a tailor.
The birth of Frederick Charles Rodgman, mother's maiden name Nicholls, was registered in the December quarter of 1893 in Bideford.
The birth of Edith Mary was registered in the June quarter of 1896, also in Bideford.
The birth of Florence May was registered in the December quarter of 1898, in the Newton Abbot district
and George Henry's birth was registered in the June quarter of 1900, also in Newton Abbot district.
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/
Florence May was baptized in Ashburton in September 1898, with Frederick Eli's occupation being given as tailor. The address of the family was Back Lane.
By the time of George Henry's baptism, the address is just Ashburton.
At the time of the 1901 census the couple were living in Ashburton with four children: Frederick C.,7, Edith M., 5, Florence M., 2, and 10 month old George H. The parents and two eldest children were all born in Bideford, whilst the youngest two children were born in Ashburton.
Frederick Snr. is a tailor (cutter), and the family's address is shown as Kingsbridge Lane, with Berry's Office written alongside in brackets.
1901 census RG13, piece no 2053, folio 22, p10]
I believe Frederick Eli RODGMAN came to Ashburton to serve an apprenticeship with Abraham EASTERBROOK who operated a Tailor & Outfitter shop from his home on West Street, which is today (2018) the Ella Artisan Bakery at 9 West Street. At that time the RODGMAN family lived at Berry's Offices in Kingsbridge Lane and in the 1901 census Frederick Eli is listed as a Tailor/Cutter.
[The birth of a third son, Archibald, was registered in the June quarter of 1902 in Newton Abbot
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro
The family were still in Kingsbridge Lane when Archibald Rodgman was baptized in May 1902, with his father being described as a tailor cutter.
Parish records.]
This relationship appears to have soured as in 1905 the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette headed an item 'Trouble among the tailors' Abraham Kivell Easterbrook sued Frederick Eli Rodgman for £50 damages, for breaking an agreement not to carry on business as a tailor. Mr Rodgman had worked as a cutter for Mr Easterbrook, and on leaving his employment had allegedly agreed not to set up business within 10 miles of Ashburton for 10 years. The case hinged on whether Mr Rodgman had left voluntarily, and as there was some confusion about this, judgment was awarded to the defendant.
In 1908 Abraham EASTERBROOK and his family sailed to New Zealand listing himself as a farmer. They went 'steerage'.
Above: West Street, Ashburton, showing Abraham Easterbrook, tailor, on the left.
From my own collection
Having a wife and by that time five children to support, Frederick Eli RODGMAN set up his own tailoring business at 26 North Street, opposite the Town Hall. In the 1891 census the building was occupied by Thomas HILL, a 58 year old Tailor & Outfitter from Somerset. I suspect that Frederick Eli RODGMAN obtained both the leasehold and the business. In the 1901 census Thomas HILL, now a widower, was the owner of a Clothiers next to the Bank House on West Street.
The RODGMAN family lived where they worked at 26 North Street. Edith Mary RODGMAN, nee NICHOLLS appears to have been a kindly woman in all the photos I have of her. She raised not only her own children: Frederick Charles (Fred), Edith Mary (Mary), Florence May (Flo), George Henry (Jack) & Archibald (Archie), but also my mother Elsie Edith May RODGMAN who she insisted on calling Billie after her favourite songstress Billie Holiday. The children participated in local festivals and plays.
[In the 1911 census the family are in North Street. Frederick Eli is a master tailor maker, and his wife Edith is an assistant in the business. Frederick Charles (who signs the census form) is a journeyman tailor, and his sister Edith Mary is a shop girl (drapery). The three younger siblings are at school.
With the family on census night are 19 year old Florence Rodgman, a niece; sister-in-law Ethel Rodgman, a tailor's machinist; Mary Kate Rodgman and Jessie Maud Rodgman, both nieces. These last four were all born in Bideford.
1911 census RG14, piece no. 12727]
Frederick Charles RODGMAN, my grandfather, the eldest son of Frederick Eli RODGMAN was born 25 October 1893 in Bideford, and moved with his parents to Ashburton. I have yet to find any school records, but he likely received a basic education there. He also attended school in London, and was then apprenticed as a tailor under his father. In 1913 he left to seek his fortune in Canada, taking a position as Journeyman Tailor with the Toronto firm of Hobberlin at Yonge & Richmond Streets.
But his stay in Canada was short. After meeting Mabel MERRETT, the love of his life, he was faced with a decision that would change his life forever. War broke out in Europe and Frederick Charles RODGMAN felt compelled to do his part. He left his sweetheart behind and enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, trained at Val Cartier, Quebec, and sailed for England in September 1914 on the "SS Tunisian". While on board ship, he wrote a daily message to Mabel which he posted on his arrival in Southampton on the 14th of October 1914. That letter is heart-wrenching, and finding it amongst her treasures and reading it, I can understand why she kept it.
Try as he might Fred was unable to contribute much to the war effort. While training on Salisbury Plain he became ill with appendicitis. His medical record states he was operated on on the 27th October 1914 in Tidworth, Wiltshire. He spent 7 weeks in hospital then went home to Ashburton for two weeks furlough.
Above: Mabel Merrett in Toronto
His unit left Bristol for Lazarre, France on the 8th February 1915, February 1915 in Rouen, France and March 1915 in Bologne, France. He was hospitalized as a result of complications from his operation and this time he was sent back to England on a Hospital Ship. He spent time at the Canadian Military Hospital at Shorncliffe, and was officially discharged from the Canadian Expeditionary Force as a Sargeant on the 22nd June 1915.
With this turn of events, Mabel MERRETT and her family set sail for England so that the couple could be reunited. They narrowly missed a disaster as they were originally scheduled to sail on the "RMS Lusitania" from New York in May of 1915. However, their train from Toronto to New York was delayed by snow and they missed the boat - literally! The "RMS Lusitania" was sunk on 7 May 1915 off the coast of Ireland and all but 764 lives were lost. The MERRETT family - James (labourer), 44, Mary Jane (known as Polly) (housewife), 36, Mabel (domestic), 18, William John (child), 8, and Charles James (child), 6 - sailed from New York to Liverpool on the "SS Orduna" arriving in England 27 May 1915
Above: The family during WWI
Frederick Charles RODGMAN, 22, bachelor, tailor (journeyman), of 26 North Street (father Eli RODGMAN, tailor), and Mabel MERRETT, 18, spinster, of 26 North Street (father James MERRETT, soldier), were married by licence at the Wesleyan Chapel district of Newton Abbot on the 28th November 1915 by Tomas HOLTON, minister.
But Fred 'soldiered on' and on 17th November 1916, a month after the birth of his first daughter (my mother), he enlisted in the Leicestershire Regiment. In early 1917 he completed a 20-week officers' training course in Newton Ferrers, Devon and received a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant. He was then seconded to the 23rd Reserve Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces but spent most of his military service in hospital with recurring problems resulting from the appendix operation, or at home in Ashburton recuperating.
He was eventually discharged on 20th February 1919 by King's Regulation 392 Sec. xxv which is 'service no longer required'. He was allowed to keep his temporary rank of lieutenant. There is a note written on his medical papers giving a summary of his military career with the notation "He is a tailor and he ought not to have gone. He stole his way into the trenches".
Frederick Charles RODGMAN then turned his attention to tailoring and on 4th December 1919 received a Certificate of Merit from the West End School of Cutting in London, with special mention for proficiency in Ladies and Gentlemen's Garments and Breeches and Liveries. He worked with his father in Ashburton until he took his wife back to Canada with their children.
The family grew with the advent of the births of Elsie Edith May (Billie), Oct 1916, Edgar Archibald George (Edgar), Feb 1919, Frederick Charles Jnr. (Charlie), Mar 1923 and Leslie John (Jack) in Mar 1926.
Above: Certificate of merit for Frederick Charles Rodgman from the West End Scnool of Cutting
When Edgar came along Mabel Rodgman (nee Merrett) sent Elsie Edith May to live with Elsie's grandparents Frederick Eli and Edith, who raised her. They had a much bigger house and business at 26 North Street while the Rodgman Jnr. family had a smaller place at 2, Roborough Terrace. Grandmother Edith, believed to rule the roost, called Elsie 'Billie' (after the singing sensation of the day Billie Holiday) and the name stuck.
Right: Billie, Charlie and Edgar at Roborough Terrace
Above: Gardening at Roborough Terrace
Right: 2 Roborough Terrace today (2018). The houses are believed to have been built circa 1926/27.
Many thanks to the current occupier for the information and for permission to take the photograph from her garden.
My own photograph 2018
Above: Elsie Edith May Rodgman ('Billie') on the left, with Annie Morrow, taken in Ashburton. Circa 1927, Billie was about 11 years old.
Right: Siblings Florence and Archibald
Following the family tradition, the RODGMAN Jnr. children also participated in festivities in Ashburton. Billie and Charlie were always dressing up, but I don't seem to have any photos of Edgar doing the same - possibly because he became the family photographer. One photo of his father Frederick Charles RODGMAN taken on Dartmoor has a note on the back "This is the first picture Edgar has ever taken. Very good isn't it." Edgar was only ten when he left England and he went on to take some fabulous photos which he developed himself.
Fred and Mabel Rodgman with their three children Elsie (Elsie Edith May), Edgar (Edgar Archibald George) and Charlie (Frederick Charles) re-emigrated to Canada in 1929. Little Jack only lived for a year.
They sailed to Canada on the "SS Ausonia". They landed in April 1929, docking at St. John's, New Brunswick, and took a train to Toronto. Polly MERRETT, now a widow, followed on the "RMS Duchess of Athol" in 1935.
They settled in Toronto, where Fred and Mabel had met, and Fred worked for the legendary Walter Beauchamp Tailors who were on King Street West in Toronto from 1908 to 2014. One of their specialities was riding habits for equestrians, and that became Fred's expertise.
Above: Mabel Rodgman
Right: Fred Rodgman in 1928, dressed as a tramp for the carnival
With his wife Mabel making stocks and shirts, Fred opened RODGMAN's at 3 Temperance Street (Upper), just off Yonge St. and became tailor to most hunt club and national equestrian competitors in Eastern Canada and parts of the northern US until he retired due to ill health.
When I was a child my grandfather used to take me with him when he went to estates or hunt clubs for fittings. I was often placed in the saddle and taken for rides around the paddock on hunters or jumpers. One special treat was my first ride in an airplane - a DC3 - around 1948, so that grandpa could fit the jodhpers of an American who lived in Rochester, New York. There was no stretch material in those days.
I have two very special things in my RODGMAN collection. One is an oil painting of my grandfather Captain Frederick Charles RODGMAN of the Canadian Veteran Guard done by one of the German prisoners he was guarding during WWII in Canada. The other is a blazer made of "hunting pink" which is a red broadcloth, trimmed in white, made for me by my grandfather and on which I used to display my various sporting accomplishments.
One by one Fred's siblings also married and emigrated to Canada, leaving only Frederick Eli and Edith RODGMAN in Ashburton. Edith died in 1930 and her widower remarried. But his new bride Annette (Neta) ROWLAND only had 10 years with him before Frederick Eli died in 1940.
[Frederick E Rodgman married Annette C Rowland in the September quarter of 1931, in the Newton Abbot registration district.https://www.freebmd.org
Left: Edith Mary Rodgman
Below: Frederick Eli at Buckland Beacon
In the 1939 register Frederick and Annetta are living at 26 North Street. Frederick is a master tailor, and Annetta, in addition to her unpaid domestic duties, is a member of the ARP
1939 register via https://www.findmypast.co.uk]
Above: The grave of Edith Rodgman
Right: The grave of Leslie John Rodgman, son of Frederick Charles and Mabel.
Fred and Edith RODGMAN are buried together in the churchyard at St. Andrew's in Ashburton. A fellow researcher has sent me a photo of Neta RODGMAN, now a widow, at his wedding in 1959. I do not know what happened to Neta RODGMAN.
The RODGMAN family were avid photographers and my grandmother, my mother and I are packrats. I ended up with boxes and boxes of photos and memorabilia which I am just now wading through and scanning for posterity.
Nancy Frey
Windsor, Ontario, Canada.'
1891 census of Ashburton - HILL (image)
1901 census of Ashburton - RODGMAN (image)
1901 census of Ashburton - EASTERBROOK (image)
1908 passenger list - EASTERBROOK (image)
The children of Frederick Eli and Edith:
Edith M Rodgman married Edgar C Kelly in the Newton Abbot registration district in the March quarter of 1916.
https://www.freebmd.org.uk
This marriage fits in with information from Nancy Frey, who believes that the family remained in Ashburton.
In 1920 Edgar Christopher Kelly is on the electoral register, living in North Street, Ashburton.
England and Wales electoral registers, available via https://www.findmypast.co.uk
The births of 3 children with the surname Kelly and the mother's name Rodgman were registered in the Newton Abbot district between 1920 and 1925:
Mona P(atricia), known as Pat
Edgar Archibald (died as an infant)
Edith M(ary) E(rnestine), known as Mary
Extra information from Nancy Frey
Right: Flo and her niece Pat
In August 1926 Archibald Rodgman and Edgar Kelly, both of North Street, Ashburton, embarked at Liverpool to travel to Quebec. Archibald, aged 24, was a railway fireman; Edgar, aged 33, an engine driver.
Passenger lists leaving UK 1890 - 1960, via https://www.findmypast.co.uk
Left: Frederick Rodgman and Edgar Kelly
Below: Archibald Rodgman 1921
Mona Patricia Kelly married Whittle
Edith Mary Ernestine Kelly married Brown
Florence M Rodgman married George M Casely in the Newton Abbot registration district in the September quarter of 1923
Below: The marriage of Florence ('Flo') and George
Frederick G R Casely's birth was registered in the Newton Abbot registration district in the September quarter of 1925, with the mother's name being given as Rodgman.
Frederick George was known as Georgie
In March 1928 George and Florence Casely, and their 3 year old son Frederick, left Southampton, destined for Halifax, Canada. Their address in the UK was 26 North Street, Ashburton; George was a baker by trade.
Above: 'Flo and Georgie'
George Henry Rodgman, known as Jack, was the black sheep of the family.
In November 1937 George Rodgman of North Street, Ashburton, embarked at Southampton for Quebec and Montreal. Aged 38, he was a tailor like his father.
Passenger lists leaving UK 1890-1960, via https://www.findmypast.co.uk
Left: Jack Rodgman and Towser.
Archibald Rodgman is probably the A Rodgman who after an examination was allocated one of 8 free places at Ashburton Grammar School in 1914. The examinations were open to scholars from elementary schools aged under 13.
Western Times 26 June 1914, p14 col1
Archibald Rodgman married Margaret Llewellyn in the June quarter of 1923, in the Merthyr Tydfil registration district.
Their son, Frederick A(lan) Rodgman was born in the March quarter of 1924.
Archibald's wife Margaret and 3 year old Frederick followed Archibald to Canada in 1927
'[Alan] made his mark in history when on behalf of the tobacco companies he testified that cigarettes were not harmful to our health...'
Alan Rodgman's biography can be found in a book that he co-authored: Alan Rodgman and Thomas A Perfetti, The Chemical Components of Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke, 2nd ed., Florida 2013
Above: Various members of the Rodgman family and their children
Left: 26, North Street, Ashburton, where Elsie Edith May Rodgman lived with her grandparents Frederick Eli and Edith.
At various times Fred's siblings also emigrated to Canada, leaving only Frederick Eli and Edith Rodgman in Ashburton.
Graeme, a son of Frederick Charles Jnr., and Christopher, a grandson, became, respectively, a doctor and a psychiatrist. Dr Graeme Rodgman and his then wife Dr. Susan Rodgman travelled with the royal family on one of their visits to Canada.
Many thanks to Nancy for this.
For more on the Rodgman family see Tailors and Drapers, under Banks and Businesses 3, and Days Off and Nights Out, under Joining Together
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All Music Guide Review
Every once in a while I do read a review… and this one baffles me. What is he saying?
Liebert is a fine composer. He understands the intricacies of harmony and melody, but more importantly, he understands dynamics and groove. Cuts like “Caballada,” with its driving rhythmic patterns, short funky bridge, and dovetailing guitars, all barely contained by the bass line, make for an exciting mix. Likewise, “Cocteau,” with its mysterious guitar line as standing into — not apart from, or on top of — the rhythm track, weaves an ethereal, nearly delirious exotica around a relatively simple lyrical frame. The six-against-four beat in “Longing” is heady — shimmering and seductive as it stretches out over its seven minutes. The raw, bluesy flamenco within “Underworld,” with its repetitive melodic frame, is very effective and hypnotic, and the dreamy, nuage jazziness of “Cave in My Heart” and “Echoes of a Caress” are unabashedly romantic.
That all seems very nice to me. I mean, I would buy the album after reading this much. And then I think the reviewer got cold feet about liking this record and ends with this:
Fans are likely to swoon, while the rest of us are still scratching our heads.
You got lice, or what? Ah, well, I should not be reading this stuff in the first place.
Reaching Out 2 U
Quicktime file of the Epic Video Reaching Out 2 U from the album Solo Para Ti. The video was made in the beginning of 1992.
Saturday Night –
Carolynn said: …Oh, to have been a fly on the wall to hear those conversations…
You might be in luck. Stuart had a video cam with him and recorded until the tape ran out… and then we started talking about the really wild stuff…
I had a jet engine … so I put it on the mother-in-law’s wheelchair. Humanity does have purpose!
Read – Jet-powered wheelchair surprise [BBC]
via [Gizmodo]
The Ottmar Liebert + Luna Negra Pool
I went ahead and created a Public Group. Click on the above link to see the group and click here to create a free account on Flickr. The Flickr web site explains how to upload photos via computer or cell phone.
Update: I added a permanent link to the Ottmar Liebert + Luna Negra Pool on Flickr in the sidebar.
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Controversy Surrounds Woman Who Allegedly Cries Solid Crystal Tears
By Spooky on October 1st, 2019 Category: News
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A 22-year-old Armenian woman who supposedly cries up to 50 jagged-edged crystal tears every day has been accused of faking her “biochemically and anatomically impossible” condition by placing glass shards in her eye sockets.
For most people, crying is the result of great pain or suffering, but for Satenik Kazaryan, a young woman from the Armenian village of Spandaryan, the act of crying itself is a source of excruciating pain. That’s because she allegedly cries solid crystal tears with jagged edges that scratch her eyes as they come out of the eye sockets. The 22-year-old first started crying crystal tears a few days ago, while visiting a dentist. It felt kike sand had gotten in her eye, and when she went to visit an ophthalmologist about it, the doctor extracted several crystals from her eye. Since then, her life has become a living hell, as she claims to cry around 50 crystals a day.
All the doctors are in shock,” Kazaryan told Armenian TV channel Mir24. “They have not encountered such a disease and do not know how to treat it. They have not even diagnosed it.”
At first doctors didn’t even want to examine the young woman, thinking that she was faking her condition, but now people aren’t so sure. Video evidence of glass-like crystal being extracted from her eyes have gone viral online, and some solid tears have been sent to a lab for analysis. Armenian deputy health minister Oganes Arutyunyan has come out with a statement, saying that Satenik Kazaryan’s condition is being investigated in order to figure out a way to help her.
Russian ophthalmologist Tatyana Shilova said that the formation of such crystals in the human body is theoretically possible if a person’s body composition changes, like if the level of salt rose drastically. However, she added that the person would most likely suffer serious heart or brain issues before experiencing this kind of bizarre symptoms.
Dr. Ivan Schwab, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of California Davis School of Medicine, told Insider that he believes Kazaryan’s to be impossible.
“I’m not claiming absolute knowledge of this, but I’ve never seen anything like this in my 30-plus years as ophthalmologist. I don’t see how this could happen biochemically or anatomically,” he said.
A couple of days ago, Armenian media outlets started reporting that Satenik Kazaryan may be suffering from Munchausen syndrome, a type of mental disorder that pushes people to fake serious illnesses for attention. Professor Anna Hovakimyan, of the Armenian Republican Ophthalmological Centre, was one of the medical professionals who claimed Munchausen was a likely explanation, adding that the crystals collected from the woman’s eyes looked like normal glass shards.
ATV crew from Russian station NTV took some of Kazaryan’s tears to gemologist Olga Radionova who said they were “simple glass”. The team later reported that people in the 22-year-old’s village told them that she started crying the bizarre tears after her five-year-old son, Vanik, broke a glass vase and a shard got in her eye.
Satenik Kazaryan and her mother-in-law continue to claim that the tears are genuine, and the Armenian health ministry is still investigating the case.
Interestingly, this sin’t the first time we’ve heard of people crying solid tears. Back in 2015 we wrote about Laura Ponce, a Brazilian woman who claimed to have been crying crystal tears for 20 years, and two years ago we featured the case of Manasi, a young Indian girl who allegedly cried small white pebbles every day.
Posted in News Tags: Armenia, crystal tears, medical mysteries, News, Satenik Kazaryan, solid tears
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"He's confident, can sing, can play football, good looking"
Phil Egan
Republic of Ireland manager Mick McCarthy was pleased with the performance of Troy Parrott on his senior international debut.
The 17-year-old started in the 3-1 friendly international win over New Zealand at the Aviva Stadium.
Troy Parrott naturally said it was a night he won't forget for a while: "I was just delighted to get out there, and walking out in the green jersey in my home town of Dublin was just the best feeling that I have felt.
"I felt like I did well, I had a couple of chances, could have taken them maybe but I felt that I did well."
The Tottenham striker added: "It was unbelievable just to be out there, running around and getting a kick of the ball in my international debut.
"I said during the week, it is about scoring goals and getting assists, and creating chances, so unluckily enough I didn’t get the goal tonight, but I am happy that I came away from the game with an assist (for Sean Maguire)."
Mick McCarthy was pleased with the performance of the teenager: "Troy did okay, he didn’t set the world on fire, but what he did, I was really pleased with.
"He held it up at times, ran the channels and had a couple of chances."
The Ireland manager believes Parrott has it all, especially confidence: "He stood up and sang last night (Wednesday) and he was double confident, he can sing and all.
"He's confident: stand up and sings, he can play football, good looking. He'll be alright, will Troy."
Attention now turns to Monday night's crucial Euro 2020 qualifier against Denmark. McCarthy will select a completely different starting 11 for the visit of the Danes.
The likes of Sean Maguire, Callum Robinson and Josh Cullen did themselves no harm with their performances.
The Boys in Green know a win on Monday would secure a place in next summer's tournament.
Mick McCarty Republic Of Ireland Tottenham Troy Parrott
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†Enaliarctos mealsi Mitchell and Tedford 1973 (pinniped)
Mammalia - Carnivora
Full reference: E. Mitchell and R. H. Tedford. 1973. The Enaliarctinae: A new group of extinct aquatic carnivora and a consideration of the origin of the otariidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 151(3):203-284
Belongs to Enaliarctos according to T. A. Deméré et al. 2003
See also Barnes 1979, Barnes 1989, Barnes 2008, Berta et al. 2018, Koretsky and Barnes 2006, Mitchell and Tedford 1973 and Repenning and Tedford 1977
Sister taxa: Enaliarctos barnesi, Enaliarctos emlongi, Enaliarctos mitchelli, Enaliarctos tedfordi
Type specimen: LACM 4321, a skeleton. Its type locality is Pyramid Hill Sand Member grit zone, which is in a Chattian marine sandstone in the Jewett Formation of California.
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
• Miocene of United States (1: California collection)
• Oligocene of United States (1: California)
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Chandan Roy Sanyal talks about his new role
Actor Chandan Roy Sanyal will be seen in the avatar of a government school teacher aspiring to become an investigative journalist in Ravi Adhikaris "Dheet Patangey".
Written By I.A.N.S 16290 reads Mumbai Published: January 13, 2020 07:55 pm
Talking about his role in the film, the actor shared: "I play a character called Ananda Lahiri. He is a teacher in a government school with a very basic salary, basically a lowlife. But he aspires to be an investigative journalist and wants to be famous. He wants people to respect him as a journalist. The film showcases his journey of becoming a top-notch journalist."
"Dheet Patangey" narrates the journey of four friends who are trying to make it big in their lives. The story is set against the backdrop of the 1983 cricket world cup. The movie has been shot at various locations -- Mumbai, Himachal Pradesh, Agra, Chambal and Goa. Sharing his experience of working in the film, Chandan added: "Since it is a travel film, it has been shot across various breathtaking locations in India. It has been a treat working with director Ravi. It was so much fun shooting. I am now looking forward to the release." The movie also stars Shivin Narang, Ali Murad, Hardik Sanghani, Priya Banerjee and Tilotama Shome. The Ravi Adhikari directorial is expected to release in the first half of 2020.
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Pitch – 6.4
With the rain we’d had, there was a degree of slipperiness to the dirt and grass. Twenty five, maybe thirty people were coming at us- it was hard to count when the allegiance of some of the hostages was so unclear, and some had guns. All had a loose arrangement of hostages in front of them. Some of the hostages slipped as they ran, and they were trampled by those behind.
Gilpatrick gave me a worried look over his shoulder. He was using the remote- three green flashes. I was left to back up, letting Erin go ahead of me. I crouched by the front tire of one bus. Erin climbed up onto the bar at the side, so her feet wouldn’t be sticking out below the bottom of the painted bus.
The color coding of Fallen came to mind- two were in white, with Mama Mathers being one, held up by two people at the treeline. Another wore white and hung even further back, peering through the woods while wearing a pale leather animal mask.
There were two options there, if I went by what Rain had told me, and both were messy. Animal Master, likely, and the Changer geyser.
One in black- a Fallen that was holding Mama Mathers up. From the way they were handling her, she was still alive. They were trying to take her to safety.
One pointed at me, lifting his gun as he turned to his buddy, who had slipped in mud and fallen a few paces behind. I pulled my head back behind cover.
People opened fire, but they were our people. Gilpatrick stood on the wheel of a bus, and fired over the hood. I peeked at the result with my defenses up- the Fallen who wasn’t in black that was supporting Mama Mathers had created a wall of white-blue material with faces embossed on it. The material cracked as the bullets hit it, and the cracks closed up almost as fast as they appeared.
I’d peeked too long, and one shot me. It pinged off of the Wretch, and I ducked back behind the front of the bus, where the wheel at least partially protected me.
I knew the Mathers were notorious for their involvement in kidnappings and their connections to other families. It was what defined them as a sect of the Fallen. Now I was seeing the long term results of that kind of operation. Rain had already spelled some of it out.
Mama Mathers was a nightmare to deal with, and she’d traded for multiple capes who could protect her. Layers of defenses, and Looksee had slipped past those layers to take her out of action.
Rain dripped off of the front of my hood as I hunched over. My arm was limp at my side, and it hurt all the more because of my position. Even crouching, somehow, made my arm hurt more, because the angle was different, or because the blood flow had changed.
“Captain Gilpatrick!” I heard the voice.
Ashley.
“What is it?” Gilpatrick replied. He had his back to a truck much like I did. Many of his students were crouched in the ditch, the road, another ditch, and a bit of mud and grass between them and the Fallen.
“I want your-”
A series of gunshots from a handful of the oldest patrol block members interrupted her.
“-your permission to fight!” she finished.
He hunched over, back to the wheel rim, reloading. He called back, “I’m not going to do that!”
“It’s not easy for me to ask! I’m trying to respect-”
He looked at me, not her, and interrupted, “You don’t need my permission to fight!”
I didn’t hear the start of her sentence, as someone else on our side fired a gun. A Fallen returned fire and shot the bus.
“-want it,” she said.
“Too bad!” he called out. “You choose, I’ll be a witness and I’ll testify how you handled it, good or bad!”
I looked across the far ditch, furthest from the Fallen, and saw where a stone had been rolled away to make way for the dirt road. It was large enough a tractor or team of horses would have been involved.
They’d be close in a matter of seconds. I put one hand out, pressing it against the stone, and brought out the Wretch. I pulled back, and the Wretch held on. Together, we heaved the stone free from the earth that surrounded it.
“Don’t fuck me,” I whispered to the Wretch. I could hear the fingers and teeth biting into the stone, arms wrapping around it and squeezing until it threatened to break.
Two hundred and fifty, three hundred pounds of rock. The dirt road was constructed so it formed a hump, with vehicles traveling along the raised portion, with rainwater flowing into the ditches on either side, to be reabsorbed or to run off into some larger water source. It was the cover the patrol block people were using, and it was cover I could use, albeit in a different way.
I left the scene, flying low and hauling the rock with me. The Wretch continued to wrestle with it, mindless, carving into it. I worried it would break in half.
Once I was far enough away I couldn’t see the people, I flew over the road, and flew at them from the sides.
Fights were about information first, positioning second, action third. It was why I studied parahumans, and it was why I favored the faux thinker-one power I had in my bird’s eye view, when I could use it without being shot.
Without information, people couldn’t know where they needed to be. If they weren’t in the right place at the right time, they couldn’t act. Positioning was second.
I was fast, silent, and approaching from an unexpected angle. I looked for where the people with guns were, and I released the stone. It hit the ground with no sound but an impact that saw them react. I pushed out with my aura for good measure.
With momentum, it rolled a short distance. It rolled into the group, and four people toppled, a stone that came up to almost hip height hitting their legs with crushing force.
If I was a police officer, I would have been clear to shoot, faced with people that had rifles and handguns. I considered myself clear to demolish anyone who was armed. The Warrior Monk would have been fine with it.
I saw one person who had a gun I could make out, a rifle painted a dark green with a coarse, grippy texture. The Wretch and I relieved him of the burden of having to carry a rifle and having unbroken hands.
I knew I was risking getting shot by the first person with the presence of mind to point a handgun at me in an casual way, instead of drawing the thing and sticking their arm out. Risky too, to fight when I didn’t have the use of my left arm, and a good hit to my arm when I was defenseless could bring me to my knees with the pain.
The aura helped make people stupid, and I could use positioning in another way, moving fluidly and unpredictably as I ducked and darted between people.
I wasn’t about to back off when they were this close to Gilpatrick, potentially Jasper, and others I’d worked with. Even the pissy anti-cape types deserved to come out of this okay.
Handgun? I brought the Wretch out and slapped at arm or weapon. Knife? I did the same. Bat? Easy to hit the weapon and send it back toward the wielder’s face.
A few braver members of their group pressed in, trying to dogpile me, grabbing instead of punching or swinging. Harder to deal with, until I brought the Wretch out a bit longer. I could see them react as it unfolded, like an irregularly shaped bubble around me.
I withdrew the Wretch before it could get a grip on anyone or anything.
One pointed a gun at me, and I flew past the gun to drive my forehead into his face. Instinct, not pre-planning, but I was thinking the Warrior Monk would forgive me on that. My arm hurt, inexplicably, from me delivering a hit with my head, and my forehead hurt. I wasn’t wearing my mask- it still dangled from my waist, the curve allowing it to rest against my thigh.
I didn’t let it show. I watched the others back off, the recent damage and the aura being ample reason. One had four bloody marks swelling on his chest, and I realized I’d been too slow to dismiss the Wretch, or it had been too quick to unfold. She had managed to stab her fingertips into flesh.
Hate. The feeling hit me so suddenly and so unexpectedly that I thought it might have been one of Rain’s cluster-mates. Hate like when I had been in middle school, arguing with a classmate who had spewed out insane, vile rhetoric that would have made them a perfect fit for Empire Eighty-Eight or the Fallen, and he had refused to listen because I was a ‘pretty, privileged white girl’ and that had somehow meant my experiences and opinions weren’t valid, even though he was an okay looking, privileged white boy. I’d hated him and I’d hated that I couldn’t talk or shout sense to him and make him stop or even pause in being such a shitty person.
Hate like I had channeled at my sister, because she had broken something intrinsic in me. Because she had torn open emotional doors I had really wanted to protect and be tender with, so soon after I had lost Dean. She had violated that and staked her claim to what lay beyond those doors, and it was only by twisting devoted, passionate love into devoted, passionate hate that I had briefly been able to retain something of myself and my boundaries. Only briefly.
I hated the Wretch, in that same way. I hated the blood spots I could see where fingers had dug in, the guy now on his knees, fingers at his chest with blood seeping between them. I hated the scratches on Moose’s face.
I hated the ones with broken hands, arms, and legs, the ones who were lying on the ground screaming. I hated that when I’d had the ability to be gentle, I hadn’t been, and now that I wanted to be gentle, I couldn’t.
To top it off, I hated the Fallen.
“Stand the fuck down!” I shouted. “Or I won’t hold back anymore!”
Rain fell all around us. In the ditches by the road, the water made small trickling sounds. I could hear gunfire in the distance, and I could hear the patrol block.
My aura burned dark and intense, and I knew that they wouldn’t be feeling the pause or the odd mid-fight peace of rain and the ongoing violence being more distant.
One of them looked at the hostages, who’d made it to the dirt road and now crouched there. I flew straight for them, pushing past the people in the way with enough force to knock them over.
My thought, my instinct, was that if they had a gun, I wanted to already be there, ready to stop them. They didn’t have a gun, so I went easy. I kicked them across the lower legs, the Wretch momentarily active.
“Stand down and don’t even fucking look at them,” I said, pointing at the people they’d used as human shields. “And don’t fucking think of raising a weapon. I will shatter you, and you can see how well they take care of you here, or you can go to the hospital, get fixed up, and they’ll send you back home.”
I paused. I stared at them, meeting each one’s eye in turn. Roughly half their number were on the ground.
“Do you really think the Fallen are going to look after you when the weather gets colder, food is short, and you can’t be a farmer or a soldier?”
I saw movement. A blur. I moved away, ready to raise the Wretch, and as much as I could raise my defenses as fast as I could put my thoughts together, the attacker was fast and I hadn’t anticipated being blindsided.
The hit was hard, and the only reasons it wasn’t harder were that it hit my armor, at least partially, and I was moving back and away.
I winced, my hip aching. Maybe it was telling, that I’d been driven to get back and away before I’d thought to make myself impervious.
Mama Mathers had kept bodyguards close, but she either had reinforcements from the other family, or this mob had more powered Fallen in it.
It was a Fallen woman. She was younger than me, going by stature and frame. A Leviathan theme to her mask, but with a fin on top and at the sides.
She came at me again, and this time I had the Wretch up. She hit it hard, winced, and turned pitch black, freezing in space.
She got me from behind, a cord encircling my neck, pulling tight. With my breastplate set up the way it was, there was a little flare of spikes, a few inches in front of my chin, pointing slightly outward. The cord or wire caught on that, and I brought my good hand up, gripping the wire.
I pulled to get free, and I met resistance- at the same moment the obsidian black figure in front of me resumed motion. She hit the ground with one foot, and launched herself at me.
I activated the Wretch and tore through cord, catching on something solid enough that the Wretch flickered out.
Metal wire, it seemed. A garotte, no association with my friend and teammate. In the course of moving away from the attacker, I moved closer to the unfrozen woman, and put her off her rhythm. She changed, freezing in place, and the attacker I hadn’t yet seen attacked me from behind, hit me sufficiently hard to make me crash into the frozen woman. The hit was enough that I’d bruise, but the residual impact made my gunshot wound explode with pain.
I twisted around, exerting force against the immobile obsidian statue, and she came to life, stumbling back, just as I saw the attacker behind me freeze.
One attacker, with two bodies. Whatever one wasn’t active was immobile and apparently invincible. Whichever one was active had enhanced speed and the strength that came with hitting things very fast.
The scholar in me wondered for a moment about just why so many Fallen were such massive pains in the ass, with such a solid crop of powers.
Conflict drive? Close associations with other powers? Careful selection and sharing of powers through breeding, insofar as powers were inherited that way?
Wretch out, I punched one woman- hit statue. I pulled the same arm back, elbowing the one behind me- only for her to become statue just in time. The one in front was already moving out of the way of any follow-up attack, the Wretch grazing her, making her stumble a little. She still moved too fast for me to give chase.
She attacked relentlessly, and with a speed sufficient that the Wretch only blocked one in three hits. I could use some basic fighting sense or flying away to protect myself against another one in three, but it still left a gap. One or two hits made me stumble. Another cracked me hard enough across the side of my head that I momentarily couldn’t make sense of what I could see.
I connected one hit, then followed up with a swing, Wretch active, hitting the ground hard enough to send a spray of stones, dirt clumps and mud at her. She went statue and attacked me from behind with her other self, but when I retaliated, the original self had to shake off the residual mud.
I heard Ashley use her power.
She sailed over the heads of Fallen, landing with a bit of a skid. Her hair was wet and slicked back, and her eyes were wide with the extent of their whites showing. No pupils.
I wasn’t sure what to say, so I stated the obvious. “You came.”
“R needs help.”
He did. That he’d run into trouble had been the window Mama Mathers had needed. I would have helped him already, but I could hardly leave my patrol block.
Sveta had been with him, too.
The lizard-demon Fallen came after me. I fended her off, flying a bit away to position myself closer to Ashley.
“Is it alive?” I asked the Fallen. “Your other self.”
The lizard-demon Fallen charged after me again, in lieu of answer. I lashed out, and she became statue. It was like hitting something Clockblocker-affected, from my hometown’s old Wards team. No result, nothing got through.
“I’m giving you one chance to-”
Ashley’s power misfired. She stumbled.
The lizard Fallen went after her. Another cord. Harder to get it around Ashley’s neck, when Ashley was bent double- Ashley brought her injured hand up, and the wire pulled against her forearm, cutting into flesh. Blood welled out.
Power welled out too. The power flared, and the cord broke. The Fallen stumbled back, and became statue as Ashley turned to look at it.
“If you’re a pair and not one cape with a gimmick, you’ll both want to stand down, because my friend hits pretty darn hard.”
“I do,” Ashley said. Long, wet white hair had fallen across her face while she was bent over. It stuck there.
The lizard Fallen cackled, but didn’t respond.
She went after Ashley, instead of me. Two of her at once, but never acting at the same time. One became a statue the moment Ashley looked like she might have her bearings and be able to respond. I flew over, and the Fallen girl moved around behind Ashley, shoving her in my direction, maneuvering to never give either of us a clear shot or angle.
She hit Ashley in the midsection, and Ashley reached out, putting a hand on the Fallen’s collarbone to steady herself. She was hit from behind, one hit to the kidney.
She used her power, and it tore through the statue, ripping it apart. Ashley was thrust away by the blast, and she landed not very far from where the lizard Fallen had dropped to the mud and grass, sitting there in shock.
Ashley hadn’t been lying when she’d suggested her power could hurt me.
It had been the final test, in a way. The group of Fallen soldiers were hanging back, the patrol block having emerged, guns held up. One or two in the Fallen still had guns as well, or had picked them up, but they were badly outnumbered.
Had the lizard Fallen won, I wondered if they would have pressed the attack, even faced with equal numbers and more guns. I wondered if they would have had a choice.
Choice. I looked for the instigator and leader. Mama Mathers had disappeared into the trees, along with the Fallen in black, the one who had conjured the blue-white wall of faces, and the beast-masked Fallen in white.
Gilpatrick’s group began to disarm, arrest and manage the Fallen soldiers, some tending to the wounded, others hanging back and keeping their guns raised.
“R is in trouble?”
“I overheard,” Erin said. “One of Bamet’s animals came to relay information. R was attacked.”
“Rain,” another of the human body shields said.
“I was leaving the full name out, dad.”
“Don’t betray your own, Erin,” the man said.
“Our so-called own betrayed us!” Erin shouted. “Fuck! They never cared. We were only tools to use. Shields to get in the way so they could get up close.”
“No,” I heard his response. I cut him off before he said anything else. There were other priorities. “Attacked where? How?”
“I- I don’t know. I’m sorry,” she said. And in that instant, she didn’t sound like the confident girl I’d talked to. She was shaken. “It- bad. Bamet’s animals, they barely speak English. But his situation is bad.”
I frowned.
“If you find them, don’t kill the animals?” Erin asked.
“The animals?”
“There’s something human in there.”
I frowned. I had to go.
“You good?” I asked Gilpatrick.
“Yes,” he said. “An awful lot of wounded, but- we’ll manage.”
I looked at Ashley.
“I’ll stay,” she said. “Call if you need me, but-”
But she’d turned herself in?
Did she cut herself off because she couldn’t bring herself to say it?
“I’ll protect these people if they need it,” she said, instead.
So many people didn’t look like the ones I’d known. Erin and Ashley both lacked the confidence they should have had. Gilpatrick looked more like the grizzled soldier than the teacher. Even the Fallen- well, they’d been threats and now the most aggressive and armed of them were on the ground, defenseless, making noises of pain.
I didn’t look like the me I wanted to be, probably. So soon after donning my new, pretty costume.
This other me took to the air, flying against the falling rain, so that the gentle patter became something sharp in the brief ascent.
Rain, Mama Mathers, and the remaining leadership figures of the Crowley and Mathers branches.
Roughly in that order, anyway, as far as priorities went.
I could see Capricorn’s work, and he had raised walls in a way that left the Fallen with far less in the way of places to go. Some reached as high as the treetops, most others were shorter, speedbumps and momentary obstacles, such that going around was probably easier than finding a way through or over.
I reached for my phone and dialed.
“-n’t find him,” Capricorn’s voice came through. There was a whoosh of air on his side of the conversation, stopping as he finished talking.
“I can’t do much,” Looksee said. “Victoria’s on the line now. She was fighting. Are you okay, Victoria?”
“Fallen to the Northeast were arrested. One powered among them. Erin’s okay.”
“Rain will be so happy to hear that if we can actually find him,” Capricorn said. Still with the whoosh.
“Mama Mathers got away. But she’s out of action,” I said.
“She’s alive?” Looksee asked.
“Last I saw,” I said.
“Okay,” Looksee said. She sounded funny. “Damsel?”
“She’s staying behind. Protecting them, she said. But she wants to stay in custody, I think. I think it’s a good idea.”
“Okay,” Looksee said, barely audible.
“It makes sense,” Capricorn said. I heard Vista’s voice, and still with the whoosh.
“Are you flying?” I asked.
“We caught a ride,” Capricorn said. “Traveling Narwhal style. We’ll be coming around your way soon.”
Narwhal style?
“Okay,” I said. “Sveta, Chris?”
“Gone, same as Rain,” Looksee said. “And changing. He thinks Keen Vigilance might be able to hear something.”
“Traveling up the east perimeter,” Capricorn said. “Vista says she would appreciate a lift down to solid ground. She’s not super confident of her ability to land.”
“Land? You’re actually on a Narwhal forcefield?”
“Doing loops. They travel in straight lines, but Vista can bend straight.”
Okay. I wasn’t just catching my two friends, then. I was doing it while they were surfing on a flying, crystalline cleaver.
Fuck me.
“I’ll use my power. Tell me when you start to feel it,” I said, my attention all over the place, as I looked for any sign of Rain, Sveta, Mama, Capricorn, and Vista.
“Feeling it,” Capricorn said.
I spotted them, and flew to match my trajectory to theirs. “Only one working arm.”
Vista’s power warped space around us, slowing their speed. It took me a second to adjust. I let the thing catch up to me, and rested my foot against it, leaning back and moving with it.
“Catch him, catch me after,” Vista said, her voice briefly doubled on both phone and in person, slightly out of sync.
I caught Capricorn’s hand. I couldn’t use the Wretch, and the strain of my arm carrying him reached across my shoulder to my injured other arm.
“I’m okay if it’s rough,” Capricorn said.
It was rough. He landed hard, clipping a branch on the way down. He didn’t react or seem to mind, letting go and pointing.
Vista had jumped, and she was descending slower, the space between her and the ground extending.
I flew to intercept. I caught her hand in mine. Again, my arm complained.
Not as heavy as Capricorn.
“Thank you,” she said.
I lowered her to the ground. Capricorn put his hand out, catching her by the upper arm and helping with the final couple of feet.
“Mama knew where Rain was. If we track her, we might be able to find him.”
“I can’t help,” Looksee said, through the phone. “Both of my active cameras broke. I’ve got another covering myself and Tattletale, I could send that.”
Vista seemed confused. I motioned for her to come closer, fished in between my armor and my top for my other earphone, rubbed it against the edge of my hood, and offered it to her.
“It would take time to get here,” Capricorn said. “Don’t worry about it.”
“Shouldn’t I very worry about it?” Looksee asked. “I should send them now in case they’re needed.”
“Cameras broke?” a voice came through the phone, hissing.
“Yes,” Looksee said. “Don’t get on my case about it, vigilant dumbnuts, I’m not in the mood.”
“Wondering… how?”
“I dropped one on Mama Mathers and I dropped another on someone with a gun.”
“It worked,” I said. “I don’t know how you aimed that without looking through the camera-”
“I didn’t. My cameras were already fritzing out, so I sent them a slice of program, with facial recognition. I centered it over them, accounted for wind, and when things sounded worst I had my cameras stop hovering.”
“You weaponized… cameras?”
“I told you not to get on my case about it,” Looksee said.
“Am not.”
“I didn’t weaponize the cameras, just so you know. I’ve said I’m not good at making my cameras function like weapons.”
“I remember,” Chris’ snakelike voice came through the phone.
“I weaponized the off switch, obviously.”
“Obviously,” Capricorn said. “Send your camera. If Mama Mathers is out-”
“Pretty sure she is,” I said.
“We can use all the help we can get.”
“It’s not like Tattletale is responding,” Looksee said.
“Victoria, can you give us another set of eyes from above?” Capricorn asked.
I nodded, taking back my earphone from Vista.
“I really hope he’s okay,” I heard Capricorn, the tail end of the sentence almost inaudible as I was already flying.
The weather seemed to be easing up. I noticed the precipitation wasn’t as sharp as I flew up into it. Not like it had been minutes ago.
Capricorn’s walls to the southern end of the camp had served to funnel the Fallen in other directions. The road seemed untouched, the settlement was almost half and half for buildings that had been abandoned and leveled, and the fighting seemed concentrated at the north end, Crowleys and Advance Guard, and where I’d been helping the patrol block to the northeast.
The northeast was a starting point. I imagined they would want to go to where there was help. That meant they’d either head for the center, through open space where I would have to be able to see them, or they’d cut north. The latter would let them move through the trees.
I reported it to the others.
I spotted the first of the animals. A man with a hunched back and the head of a pig, his body heavy with muscle that didn’t match an ordinary person’s. There was a horse, too, but its normal long face had been replaced with a human’s, folding around at the sides in a way that distorted the mouth and made the eyes bug out. Mama Mathers was draped over the back of the horse.
My pulse pounded as I approached. I turned sideways to appear less threatening and held my good hand up for the animals, trying to get them to ease up. My only experience with horses had been at Dean’s family’s place.
The pigman made noises, and I winced. It sounds like a stuck pig. An animal in pain.
I’d wondered how the barnyard cape had blended in with the Fallen aesthetic. I wasn’t wondering anymore.
“Is she alive?” I asked.
“Uuuuuhrh,” the horse moaned, in a halfway sound between a moan and a whinny.
I held my hands up, easing them as I drew nearer. I hesitated, then put a hand at her neck. I felt for a pulse, felt one, and then pried open one of her eyes. I watched it dilate in the light.
I didn’t consider the administration of first aid or medical know-how a strength of mine. I’d taken a class in first aid, and I’d learned it, a long time ago, and I’d refreshed myself when I had joined the patrol, but…
Suffice to say, that base had been covered, for most of my hero career.
The animals reacted, heads turning. I glanced back. the others had arrived. Capricorn, Vista, and Chris as a broad mountain of hair and layered plates with massive ears and huge eyes, a foot taller than Capricorn.
“Mierda,” Capricorn said.
“Erin said there’s something human in there,” I said, staring at the animals.
Chris started to approach. The animals shied back.
“We’ll help if we can,” I told the animals. “But can you show us the way to the others?”
“You don’t want to do that,” yet another strange voice came through the phone.
“I’ve been trying to get in touch, Tattletale,” Looksee said. “You’ve been ignoring my calls.”
“The fact you’re saying we don’t want to do this is a pretty good motivator to do this.”
“Don’t be a child, Victoria. You’ve got the Mathers leader in your hands. Good one. Now leave. Or go help Advance Guard, because they really need it. Your friend Rain is done for. He was always going to be done for.”
“Even if I was willing to accept that-”
“Which we aren’t,” Looksee interrupted.
“Our friend was with him. Sveta.”
“Garotte,” Tattletale said.
“Sveta,” I said, more firmly.
Capricorn and Vista were lowering Mama Mathers to the ground. The ‘animals’ seemed more relieved than anything to have that taken care of. The existence of human mannerisms and expressions on animals was disconcerting.
Capricorn began creating a cage for her, to encase her body.
He apparently deemed it better to contain her and risk that she wouldn’t be okay than to rush to give her medical care and risk other lives. We’d already tried the more merciful route.
“Okay,” Tattletale said. “I don’t think it matters at this stage. You don’t need Bamet’s beasts. I’ll tell you where you need to go, if you promise not to stir up shit with Cradle and his friend.”
I glanced at Capricorn, then back at Chris.
“Promise,” I said.
“That’s a lie. Whatever. I’d remind you this is me being nice again, but you don’t care. There’s a barn southwest of you. You overshot when you approached.”
I looked. A barn, in the middle of pen fields, with some stone-and-mortar fences separating fields from road, so no car would drive off the road and into the field without meeting an obstacle first.
The rain was only a trickle now.
Vista warped the space, to bring everyone closer. It only served to make my trip there even faster, as I flew.
The first thing I noticed was the blood and the bodies. Animals had been slaughtered, and their parts made for a macabre, eerie picture, with human and animal mixed and blended. The two Fallen bodyguards were dead, and there were a few others, besides.
The second thing I noticed was Cradle in the rafters. His robot was large enough that its hands could touch multiple walls, grip the rafters and touch the ground at the same time. Cradle was perched on the back of one hand, crouching as he stared down. Another parahuman, dressed in black with a red handprint on his mask, was gripping one finger, dangling. He had a cleaver in his hand.
And in the corner, almost impossible to see, Sveta was huddled. Her body was damaged, and tendrils snaked out, gripping herself, none long enough or positioned well enough to do more than snake around her shoulder and chest, twisting at cloth to reveal the painted shell beneath. She was glaring, hate, and in the moment she looked at me, the hate broke, and she looked like she might cry in relief, or in grief.
She held what remained of Rain in her arms, as he gasped out short breaths, like a fish out of water. The damage done- it hadn’t been her.
“Let’s not make this a thing,” Cradle said.
It was going to be a thing.
Author WildbowPosted on April 24, 2018 April 28, 2018
200 thoughts on “Pitch – 6.4”
Kingcurly says:
The Wretch and I relieved him of the burden of having to carry a rifle and having unbroken hands.
This line was just perfect. You’ve been killing it with the one liners this arc WillyWonka, and I am loving it.
Moon Cousin says:
I felt the same. Put a massive dumb grin on my face.
LimeHatGuy says:
Reminiscent of Strong Bad- “Oh, that’s it! Allow me to relieve you of that located shoulder!”
Great chapter, as always! Spotted a typo: “had picked the[m] up.”
Typo thread thing:
“I watched it dilate in the light.”
Not sure if intended; usually pupils contract when exposed to light, anything else is indicative of drugs or some nasty eye/brainstem damage.
“I glanced back. the others had arrived.”
Oh dear. Rain is done for?
But where’s Love Lost?
Also, the entire thing about Tata being off the grid and away from her team and then barging in on the line at the eleventh hour? Skeeeevy.
But in the meantime, Glorious Cooperation between Ashley and Victoria, Mama captured (sadly, kept alive?), no other losses (that we know of) among the heroes.
The fight against the obsidian statue cape was pretty fun, up until Ashley flipped the table over.
And again, I feel as if Victoria’s passenger is an outright deuteragonist for the story, it’s just that only now she’s starting to acknowledge that.
Very well done. Let’s make this a thing.
Bal. says:
It makes sense tho, sine Mama Mathers makes thinkers go insane. Plus tats doesn’t have much for fighting, so it’s like a general being behind the lines and directing.
Ariesus says:
I’m really enjoying Victoria’s perspective, especially in fights like this. Also, the throwback mention to her talking about holding back was one of the most memorable moments for me in this chapter, but also it seems that she’s getting more comfortable and used to using the Wretch, and that’s also fantastic.
And now we get to see her make something a thing! That’ll be exiting. Speaking of making something a thing, how about voting for Ward? http://topwebfiction.com/?for=ward
It’s not in first and we need to fix that.
Don’t skip the php…
http://topwebfiction.com/vote.php?for=ward
Evidently the Fallen animal hybrid guy was a fan of Berserk, given how he decided to make Farnese’s horse (also known as the Rape Horse by fans) a thing that actually existed…
Lambnbacon says:
Was thinking about getting into Berserk on a friend’s recommendation. After hearing the words “Rape horse” I can honestly say I am less interested in the show but more in the fandom.
It’s actually a rather short scene in the original comic or anime (the main character decapitates said horse before it can do anything other than threateningly menace one of the female characters); it’s just one that’s become relatively iconic in the fanbase.
Trust me, once you get past the Eclipse, you get much harder to phase.
It’s not really worth reading as a story. The art in the manga is absurdly good, though. (I don’t want to call it beautiful because while it can be, quite a lot of it is Hieronymus Bosch style demonic horror which is very well drawn but can’t really be called beautiful)
“What remained of Rain” doesn’t sound… good.
VRC7MMC5 says:
Well…if he can survive this fight there is one person who could help restore him…
oh no. 😀
stormking678 says:
Fuuj says:
I guess there will be conflict when she decides to ask Amy for help.
Yeah, but if Rain starts dying it’ll take Cradle out of action… unless his contraption has some level of automation.
I have a theory on the fifth “member” of their cluster as well… the unborn foetus from the woman in Snag’s shop. It would have only known dreams and darkness and we know the younger triggers are influenced more by the passenger.
Ascoat says:
Nursery, perhaps? I found it odd that a fetus would trigger. We don’t really hear about triggering from the trauma of childbirth so I’d assume the agents look for a certain level of maturity. It could be a broken trigger, but I’d guess some combination of a lower trigger threshold from the cluster trigger and agent confusion due to the pregnancy.
If the agents can somehow merge twins because they can’t tell they’re separate people, I can easily see Nursery triggering and her child mistakenly acquiring the shard. That would explain some things, like why there’s no traumatic flashback on its nights – it’s trying to show Nursery’s trigger, but she’s not connected to the shard. It’s also possible that the fetus isn’t mentally developed enough to participate and will join in later.
After so much suffering I REALLY don’t want Rain to die like this.
Goddammt Wibblybob! You sadistic genius! Making us wait how long for the next chapter after a cliffhanger like that!
aquabuddha says:
Yeah, I’m hoping they manage to get out of this one with Rain alive. Maybe it’s because we’ve focused so heavily on him the past couple of arcs, but he’s really become one of my favorites.
I do worry about how his personality would change if he managed to take out his cluster. Would he keep being the Rain we’ve seen so far or revert back to the shitty Fallen Soldier-wannabe from his interlude? Or maybe something in between?
If Rain does die… Well the cluster might learn something Nathan Explosion and DethKlok warned about…
“When you seek vengence others will seek vengence on you!”
Wretch? Check.
Subject? Check.
Location? Check.
Desire? Check.
Vengeance? Check.
Catus Cetus says:
Was his change in personality simply the bleed from his cluster, or did he break when he had his trigger and this is what he put himself back together as?
I feel like it’s just shy of being confirmed that the personality changes are due to his cluster and that it was a gradual thing.
In one of the interludes, Cradle makes a comment about how Rain doesn’t deserve a second chance and that the first night they shared a dream, Rain was insulting them and telling them they all deserved what happened, etc.
Then you have Snag’s most recent interlude where we see he really wasn’t a bad guy at all before the mall cluster. And, most importantly, we see that after he dies, he returns to that nice, rational guy and even tries to convince his clustermates that what they’re doing is wrong.
So we do see that these personality changes are not permanent, which could point to the fact that the shard is influencing them in order to pit them against each other. If that’s the case, it makes me wonder what will happen once there’s only one remaining clustermate – do they go back to being who they were, like Johnathan did before passing? Or do they stay who they’ve become?
Neither/both. I think most of it is that he’s spent three out of five nights for the last year reliving his actions from the point of view of those he hurt. The bleed helps, sure, as does the sheer trauma of anyone’s trigger.
With Snag’s interlude, we saw that bleed played a part- but also he spent one out of every five nights for the last year watching the person who hurt him the most get called a hero and have a handjob the day before his worst day.
Don’t forget that Rain triggered there. He was out or harm’s way, personally, but he was under enough mental pressure to actually trigger. I’d say he was already 90% of the way to knowing that what they were doing was super fucked up and he wanted out, and the cluster thing violently shoved him to the end of the tunnel.
floofy fluff says:
My guess is that Cradle and LL hurt him enough to make him die really slowly so that they have an hour or so to get clear before his death knocks them out. Normally he’d be toast, but Victoria does know the best healing cape out there, so he has a chance. Not really the best odds, though.
Said healing cape may be unnavailable, the last we saw of her she was cradling one of Nilbog’s desperate creations that had managed to live in vending machine death zone. In short, she may be absent a while.
Kristof says:
Well then she also knows how to contact the second best healing cape.
Adept Arcanist says:
That was a while ago…
I know they’re in the business of heroing and all, but it seems like a bad decision to keep Mama alive when you have her unconscious and vulnerable, especially after what happened last time they had her like this.
Also, Kenzie’s “weaponized off-switch” line might be my favorite thing so far…
I don’t think any of them are comfortable executing someone in cold blood while they’re unconscious. Delaying medical help for a head injury, yes, but not on the spot murder.
beige says:
Yet this is a universe with explicit Kill Orders – and I can’t imagine the leader of a cult of kidnappers/enslavers/rapists/terrorists would somehow skirt by without one
it’s not murder, nor is it in cold blood. she is the leader of a group actively trying to kill or enslave them all and has threatened to drive them all insane/kill them in their mind – her loosing consciousness does not absolve her of her actions
>Yet this is a universe with explicit Kill Orders
Yeah, so?
it’s not murder, in that case, and it’s not the first time Victoria has actively fought to kill someone
Just because it isn’t legally murder doesn’t mean it’s more moral or humane than taking her in alive, given the opportunity. Nor does it make it not cold-blooded. Maybe Miss Militia in their place would not have hesitated to execute MaMa, but that doesn’t mean Victoria or Capricorn would act the same.
Besides, legally speaking, Kill Orders are a thing of the old world, before the amnesty. They probably don’t automatically carry over – or also likely, the legal status of acting on Kill Orders from before Gold Morning is still undecided, given the general state of the parahuman justice system. Not that they’re likely to be punished for it, but it’s also not as clear cut as it would have been before.
Mama Mathers never had a kill order—they were never certain she existed.
That’s true. She wasn’t as prolific as Seir so there might not have been a kill order when things eventually fell apart during the aftermath of Gold Morning.
That being said, there are numerous well-respected capes on hand who could easily attest to the need for such a decision given what they’ve experienced. By leaving Mama alive, they again open themselves up to mental attacks and the reduction of usable Thinker abilities. And this can happen literally anytime she’s awake and crosses someone’s thoughts. “Oh, I wonder if Mathers is still contained…” thought idly would be enough to cause issues.
And that’s not even accounting for the fact that Victoria touched and looked into her eyes. She was unconscious so hopefully all was good on that front, but she is a cape that legit poses a danger to everyone.
We know that when she’s unconscious, her power ends. It makes sense that were she deceased, the same would also be true. It makes tactical sense to eliminate the threat.
But again, we’re dealing with a nascent group with a speckled past who are trying hard to be heroes. Sure, most of them have killed before, but from what we’ve seen, they’re trying to better themselves and step away from that, which we saw when Sveta wouldn’t take down Seir despite his Kill Order.
I remember reading something about why they wouldn’t kill her through Victoria. Something about how some powers didn’t just stop after death and that killing her might just be the trigger that would hurt everyone that was affected by her. Until they have her quarantined and make her release her power over then I don’t think killing her is a choice.
starshadowx2 says:
Jack Slash was only contained instead of being killed and look how that turned out.
David Hunt says:
If you’re talking about the Dragon’s Tooth who covered him in foam, I’m certain that was the most effective weapon he had at the moment, or he would have used something more deadly. The reasoning would be that once he was helpless, he could be executed by whoever was on hand with the power to overcome all the protective mods Bonesaw had installed in him. Containment foam is a highly effective weapon and I can’t fault the guy using it as first choice.
Of course right after he was captured, Gray Boy stuck him in a timeloop so the heroes options were close to nil. To their knowledge, anyone in those things can’t be affected by anything/anyone except Gray Boy himself. If they’d been thinking quickly, they’d have had Foil make the attempt, since she managed to kill Gray Boy. Personally, I think that would probably have worked. But it didn’t occur to them before Jack managed to push Scion over the edge and I don’t recall when they figured out Jack was still dangerous in the loop. I’m pretty sure that it was considered axiomatic that they couldn’t actually affect Jack himself was he was in the time loop.
Kenzie: I’m going to turn off my camera like this. If you get hit, it’s your own fault.
Xsen says:
Whoa, I didn’t really expect this to happen.
MaMa in a box – Acceptable. Needs a more long lasting solution, get her the fuck away from her base of support and into a deep concrete cell ASAP. Parole never. Killswitch built into the walls. Dual function light fixture/claymore mine.
Rain dying – Well fuck. Oh shit. Guys. What if all the prosthetic powers are because Rain’s about to lose limbs?
Kenzie – is wonderful. Still probably unstable, but wonderful. Weaponised off switch, god damn yes.
Above all else…I find myself vaguely annoyed that Team Therapy seemed emotionally unready for this to turn into a real fight in which people really get hurt.
I do wonder if Capricorn’s constructs can block sound though.
Probably not. If they’re not going to kill MaMa, they need to make sure she spends the first eight to ten months of her term in prison in a coma.
Torvaun says:
They can if he doesn’t include air in the box. Not like he doesn’t have experience with straight-up murder, and this one really has it coming.
Good point. “The subject is contained.”
“Contained in what exactly?”
“Did you poke holes in it so they could breathe?”
“I was in a hurry so I might have skipped a step or three.”
“DAMNIT CAPRICORN!”
More than just not including air holes. Sound weakens as it moves from one material to another, but it is not removed entirely. Removing the air, creating a vacuum inside the box, would work though. Regrettably hard to do with his powers alone
>straight-up murder
Capricorn said he has killed someone before.
But I’m doubtful it was just unprovoked murder.
This is pretty provoked.
Again, I don’t really understand this apparently very important distinction between ‘an enemy who is awake, alive, has colossal power to kill and cause mass suffering, and is actively trying to kill you and cause mass suffering’ and ‘that same enemy but temporarily unconscious’. They’re not somehow going to wake up as a different person who has turned a new leaf after an hour of being knocked out.
To me, the entire set of moral reasoning there comes across like this: ‘No matter what happens, we are going to either kill this person, or surgically mutilate them to put them in a semi-permanent coma. This is inevitable because of what she is, what she can do, and what she wants to do to other people. We can never truly trust her and never truly control her without on some level doing some nasty unethical shit. However, when we do this, we’ll feel somehow better about it if she’s at least armed and fighting back.’
Do you understand why I might see that set of reasoning as being, well, weird? Do the thing which needs to be done. Or don’t.
I wasn’t talking about MaMa?
I’m just saying that the first time Capricorn killed someone was probably in self-defense.
@Exejpgwmv
Oh, right. Possibly? We know that Capricorn is totally on board with hiring hitmen, though.
@Lee
Question, ’cause this seems to be headed this way. Would killing Hitler when he was a child be right? If you could have no other interaction with him to change his care so course, other than the kill him when he was a child, is it your moral obligation to?
@Catus Cetus
Yes, but only if he’s been tied to the trolley tracks by Mike Godwin and I find myself standing beside the switch lever, in an otherwise blank white plain which stretches to infinity and is otherwise comfortably free of any kind of moral context.
Now that I’ve demonstrated my contempt for the trolley problem, let me engage with your question and its implied comparison.
First off, you’ve completely divorced your situation from any helpful comparison by explicitly saying “Hitler! But as a child, and you have no other possible interaction, kill or no kill, huh? Moral obligation?” To which the answer is “No, because while World War 2 and the Nazis would not have taken the exact form which they did without Hitler, the underlying powderkeg of increasing industrialisation, mechanised warfare, massive economic problems, and the unlanced cultural boil of extreme anti-semitism mean it is almost certainly the case that had Hitler died as a child there still would have been some kind of European war in the 20th century, a war accompanied by ethnic cleansing. In particular, fascist movements would have, and did, exist independently of Hitler anyway. Also, in case it isn’t clear by now, I think this is a silly ‘gotcha’ question which doesn’t actually hold up to the historical context.”
That aside, stick to looking at MaMa. She has now had multiple chances to surrender. She is an adult. She is not going to stop unless she is stopped by either death or permanent unconsciousness. I do not see forcibly keeping someone in a permanent coma as somehow morally or ethically superior to just killing them.
You know what, that was a really snarky way for me to respond, and I do apologise for that. However, attempting some kind of comparison between this situation and “Is it morally required to kill Hitler as a child, no other options allowed, kill or no kill?” is pretty daft.
No apology necessary. The analogy doesn’t carry very well. I was just curious. I’m of the unpopular opinion that I would not kill Hitler. I agree with you that simply killing Hitler would not have had the implied affect, however even if it did I would not want that affect. I believe that, tragic and horrifying as it was, WW2 had good results that helped us grow as a species and continues to help us prevent future problems.
Lena27 says:
Aaaaaaand the ethnic cleansing part? What about that?
@Lena27
Is tragic and horrifying, no question. But it helps us understand and prevent future travesties. Similar to if you touch a burning oven you learn not to do it again. Learning not to touch it again doesn’t make the oven any less hot. (Over simplification, I know)
I’ve never found the moral train to be logical in any way. It asks if everything else is equal, would you kill one or many? (Of course save as many as you can.) But then it goes on to say you know the person which makes the entire thing invalid. If I know the person, then everything isn’t equal and every choice made from this point on HAS to be morally wrong. Save one or many, impossible. What if one member of the many is the new Hitler? What if the One is going to give birth to a child who becomes the doctor who cures cancer? Unless you can see the entirety of time, you cannot answer the moral train, because every answer is wrong. And if it has no right answer, then what point does it have?
Nyarlathotep says:
Some brain surgery seems called-for.
Vilheim says:
A la Bonesaw.
Does anyone who matters really trust Riley enough yet to give her that job? She already understands lots of awful powers and their associated shards well enough to clone an army of them. Do we really want to give her an opportunity to experiment on another horrific and OP shard? It feels like every weapon that Riley gets her scalpel on is another weapon that will be used in regrettable ways later in the story, probably in some sort of nightmare-fuel chimeric form.
Oddly enough, I trust Riley enough. If she wanted to do that, she could have- but she didn’t, partially because Jack wanted it to be ‘sporting’ for the others. The moment he was in suspended animation for a couple years, Riley started to think of herself as Riley, not Bonesaw. Bonesaw was originally a construct built by Riley to survive Jack and the Nine. She didn’t want to join up; she was tortured into it. Now she’s free to actually find out who Riley is, and Bonesaw’s the mass-murderer.
I REALLY want to see what Nilbog, Valkyrie, and her can do.
arandomperson1234 says:
While Bonesaw/Riley is not fully trustworthy, she is still more trustworthy than Mama, as she lacks a long term agenda/mission and seems to just be going along with the flow.
@Earl of Purple,
I don’t think the move away from Bonesaw toward a more Riley persona was as quick and complete as you seem to imply. People don’t change like a switch has been thrown even after they’ve had major revelations. If she had really been even close to fully restored to what we consider Riley, she could have simply murdered Jack and the entire cadre of S9 clones in their pods and then tried to make a less evil life for herself, after altering her appearance.
I can’t blame the Wardens for having Panacea check all her work to this day. She’s still got that shard in her helping to inspire all sorts of new art she could make out of her patients. Right now, she knows that she couldn’t pull it off. She’d be caught and imprisoned in a cell like Nilbog’s as a best case scenario and then he wouldn’t even be able to do the limited work she’s allowed. Stop monitoring her and I don’t know how long she could resist.
@ David Hunt It wasn’t quick, and it wasn’t easy for her. She started to regret and move away back then, but ultimately was still too scared of Jack to risk offing him in stasis and running away to join Circus. Not least because she would have still had a kill order on her head, and there’s all kinds of ways a face change wouldn’t stop some capes. Thinkers like Tattletale might catch a hint of it, or a Bio-Tinker might track her down using her DNA, or a smart cape (or not cape) might connect the dots between the teenage surgery-tinker with no past and the mysterious disappearance of America’s most feared super team.
But it’s two years later, and she’s got Panacea’s oversight (though I think they’re overseeing each other, since one is ex-Nine and the other ex-Birdcage), she’s relatively free- not kept in a box like Nilbog, even if she can’t leave the Warden HQ unaccompanied. So despite all that, I’d still trust her to remove Mama’s corona pollentia.
Yes lots of people would trust her. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine someone more capable of modifying her own mannerisms and behavior to make herself inspire more trust in everyone she meets. She did that during her whole time with the Nine, although her intended audience was smaller then. However, one doubts that the real decision-makers on this topic are so swayed by emotion as we average humans are.
Rain nooooooooo…
Though I admit I’m really looking forward to finding out how Cradle’s robot works, I like the imagery of a mech made up of a bunch of giant hands jammed together. Presumably he also has some version of the other three powers as well, but does he use them personally or channel them through his robot?
And where’s Love Lost? Don’t focus too hard on Cradle and forget about her guys.
Great chapter overall, I love Victoria going a little wild.
Abraham Golden says:
WavlyBavly, y u gotta tease like this? Saying “what was left of Rain” could be a LOT of different things. We could be talking missing limbs, missing organs, being turned into barely-sentient hamburger meat, a lot of things.
Personally, I’m expecting serious, hospital-inducing injuries that would require the assistance of a certain Striker 12. That, or gratuitous and inappropriate use of a Tinker power (maybe the tokens his picks up from the dead Snag will let him make less-crap arms).
The question I have is whether or not another member of his cluster is dead or not. Snag is gone, but as someone else noted, where’s Love Lost? It would be too neat and easy for his entire cluster to get iced like this, but two out of three isn’t impossible, if unlikely.
>That, or gratuitous and inappropriate use of a Tinker power (maybe the tokens his picks up from the dead Snag will let him make less-crap arms).
Snag was the one with the Mover power. Cradle’s the one with the Tinker power.
Am I the only one interested in what happened to Snag’s secondaries? His ability to punch through walls, his skill at building arms and tech he can apply his other powers to? His loss-and-guilt-and-mental-anguish strikes?
Chances are they’re gone, but… Wouldn’t it be fun if Cradle got some of Snag’s expertise in arms, Rain could apply his boomerangs in a more striker-y way, and Love Lost could scream emotional-loss as well as rage, as his secondaries coalesce into his cluster’s primaries? And it’d give everyone a flat boost, to encourage more conflict.
Soadreqm says:
He’s breathing, and instantly recognizable as Rain, which puts some upper limits on the damage. And yeah, Victoria might be very resistant to the idea of going there, but she does know the best damn healer in the world, who in turn is BFFs with the second best healer. As long as they put Rain in ice within a few minutes of his death, he’s going to be fine. Probably better than he was before.
Noooooo. Rain!
Another heartbreaking chapter…
Mike E. says:
I bet Riley could patch Rain up nice and good…
“So while we where working, we collaborated, and we realize that since Ashley always breaks her arms, we make that a design feature! She’s got rocket punch now, and can just plug in new ones as needed!”
Ultimate_Procrastinator says:
“Yeah, we figured March wasn’t meeting the “anime-style capes” quota on her own, so…”
This just makes me chuckle. And, honestly, it would probably be a less lethal way for Ashley to fight than just using her power.
Vista is going to come away from this experience so confused.
A conversation that will happen later:
“So Rachel, uh, no judgement but why was Tattletale helping that tinker guy ambush Victoria’s teammates and torture them to death in the middle of the Fallen fight?”
“She what?”
Why did tattletale direct Victoria exactly where to go to stop said torture once mama Mathers was neutralized?
I’m guessing she’s trying to cheap out on the deal, so Rain and Sveta only get a little bit tortured and Cradle still owes her. She has to know if Rain or Sveta die because of her their friends will go rage-mode on her.
She’s still going to do some explaining though. It’s very bad form to screw over allies when fighting a joint threat, and the Undersiders need to be able to work with others like the Wardens. They built a rep for showing up to help in Endbringer fights, but they need to keep it now, and they can’t do that if TT goes off grid and enables the torture and murder of Wardens affiliated supers. Not just for some free labor for a while.
Tattletale also probs heard about Rain from the Cluster members perspective though. Tt probably thinks she’s been more than fair giving Team Therapy a warning, including Rain, even when Rain is (partly) responsible for the death of many civilians, including children. Also, @negadarkwing, Rain isn’t exactly a Warden-affiliated super. Until recently, he was a member of the Fallen and while he is planning on making up for the blood he’s shed, it doesn’t change the fact that he *has* shed blood. Tt doesn’t want to be involved in his death but she doesn’t know how he’s changed. So she’s probably not losing any sleep either.
Thing is, signing on for the explicit torture and murder of some random guy in exchange for cash or favours owed is…not exactly in character for Lisa.
She’s a shitty person, not a baby-eating monster. Thus, I’m inclined to wait and see. This strikes me as more likely to be a fuckup on her part than intentional malfeasance, especially given that she specifically addressed Rain and warned him to get away from the hunt before she closed the deal.
Fluffy Bunny Slippers says:
I think tattletale has information (shocker i know) about the fallen aligning themselves with the other earth who is about to go to war with this earth. She figured she could use all the allies she could in taking out the threat before it could metastasize so she struck a deal and kinda got over her head on their vehemence in murdering Rain. She is trying to balance the scales of her conscious while doing what she can to prevent greater dangers… maybe.
Is cradle worth the hassle?
My read has always been that tattletale wanted to get rid of mama Mathers and she needed a core locus who would be willing to attack the fallen. If she had to promise them Rain in order to put together a massive attack force… Well that’s the breaks.
She didn’t need the Cluster to attack the Fallen though.
The Cluster was a group of B-rate parahumans at best and have so far played no pivotal roles in the current war.
And I doubt that fucking Snag was just so charismatic that Tattletale needed him to gather together a sufficient fighting force.
@ Exejpgwmv: Snag wasn’t charismatic, but he had an excuse. Tattletale’s recruiting villains to attack the Fallen? She’s enough of a major player that people will notice, and ask questions. And her enemies/rivals will tip off the Fallen, to screw with her.
Snag, on the other hand? He’s hiring capes to attack the Fallen, and making mention of a young lad he wants particularly hurt? Any minor amount of research will find they’re a cluster, and where they triggered- a Fallen attack on a mall. It’s Kiss/Kill, no more and no less. They’ve got Tattletale on board? Wow, they’re serious, well-connected and wealthy. And Tt’s rivals don’t screw with her, because she’s just the hired help, not the driving force.
A group of 60+ villains gathering together will make anyone notice and ask questions.
That’s not even acknowledging the fact that Tattletale and the Undersiders went to a meeting to discuss tactics with the other leaders of this raid.
And it seems unlikely that Lisa was all that concerned about traitors considering she couldn’t even be bothered to look over the people her teammates would be fighting beside.
March and her body-part swapping capes are still lurking around somewhere. If there is no willing donor available, I imagine March would have no issue separating someone from their organs.
Phaedos Zahn says:
I feel bad that Rain get’s got off-screen after that epicness with Jonathan. Still, fantastic chapter WB. Hoping my boy pulls through.
*goes off in the corner hoping all of this is building to them being forced to go to Amy for help
Singularity says:
…I’m an outlier in that I think Rain is going to live, it seems. The lack of description makes me think, personally, that we have finally REALLY reached the nightmare territory event horizon. After all, he’s being kept near human-animal hybrids, and theoretically a cape who makes them–and Wildbow’s most recent work was Twig. I fully expect this to be where things start taking a turn for the brutal and harrowing, honestly. Whether that means Rain losing 3/4 of his limbs and having to go for prosthetics, or Rain /gaining/ pig hooves and having spider-like extra prosthetics for balance, who knows, but I doubt he’s going to end up 86’d, here and now.
cranefly says:
Took me a second to stop searching my brain for when Case 86 was explained…
Lol, same
I didn’t even think of cronenberging as a tool of revenge, yikes. Fate worse than death indeed…
PhilzuNeide says:
If Rain isn’t dead Amy could probably restore his body.
pharmadan says:
Don’t forget Damsel knows Bonesaw, could probably convince her to make some… improvements…
“Okay, I usually don’t do this kind of thing any more, but they were brought in at the same time and I got a bit carried away. The good news is that her power is slaved to him now, so you don’t have to worry about the hallucinations.”
| RadiantLegacy | says:
My actual favorite Ward character better not die, or I’m protesting at the Senate.
Animal people were creepy as shit.
Also, AMAZING fight. Easily the best so far. Keep up the epicness, willyboggle.
Were the animal people made from real animals? If so, that’s just really sad…Victoria said that they sounded like they were in pain. Obviously on the list of sad stuff that’s happened in Ward, it doesn’t take the cake but the thought animals being mutated and twisted like that then forced to do Fallen’s bidding… 🙁
So it turns out those things were animals once. I’m an animal person so… *cringes/shivers*
Wait, are you an animal person or an animal-person?
emmavoid says:
It seemed to me that they’re chimeras- humans and animals combined together. Loyal and easy to force to do your bidding, but also smart enough to follow orders
Trebar says:
One of them was named Nina
Rain’s not dead. Saving him is going to be the mechanism that gets Victoria at least communicating with Amy again. It’s the last thing in the world Victoria wants, but I think she wants Rain to die even less. If it means Rain lives, she’ll do it.
That’s what I’m guessing too. Fuck…
Nah, gotta keep the drama going. Victoriamy will only happen right before the climax of the series.
AmkG says:
I agree. I think at this point Victoriamy has to happen or they can’t climax.
omg this is main, AmkG
damn. I really hope Rain doesn’t get off-screen killed after just starting to get some resolution. that’d just be sucky and really anti-climactic
also, reading this chapter really helped solidify my opinions on something – ridding Victoria of her reliable control of her abilities and powers just to give her something extra angst about is starting to feel turgid and tacked on considering the issues she already has from her past experiences.
The Wretch doesn’t feel like it adds anything to the series at all, it simply exists to force her powers to fail at inoportune times and make her feel bad about doing good things, and force her to use her emotional/manipulation based power to stay in the comfort zone of wildbow protagonists since it’s not like her strength/resilience even with her shield is anything near storybreaker levels, and it makes very little sense it’s out of her control when the shield was fully under her control before, even if the shape has changed.
this is just my opinion of course, but it feels like every time it’s brought up it’s just to drag it into the eventual bleak myopia sooner, and I very strongly hope Victoria can control the wretch soon so we can focus on actually well-incorporated issues and growth 🙂
Bothekangaroo says:
I believe her shield was probably controled subconciously, and still is, Victoria has so many issues her shield is taking a diferent form and attitude than she conciously wants but deep inside it might be that she wants to just let the ugly out, to let go and tear everything apart and maybe the wretch represents that.
I don’t think its a power malfunction but a Victoria malfunction so I believe the wretch is here to stay because it represents Victorias current state, the moment she finds resolution and peace is when she will be able to control her forcefield.
Methinks.
Well, she used to be wearing the field as a slightly loose second skin – it had her shape (give or take whatever pounds she gained here and there), same count of limbs, followed her gestures, and it was as invulnerable as it is now – she punched harder when it was up and didn’t rip people’s faces off because her hand was closed in the ‘glove’ it produced, so her field had a closed fist too.
Now it has way too many extra limbs for her to control it, so those just whip and lash out in a wild fashion when the Wretch reacts to aggression, and cause large collateral due to her fingers/nails/every bit that juts out being Siberian-like impossibly hard.
The main issue is that Victoria never really controlled her wretched self – she used her emotion power to communicate, and could use that special keyboard somewhat, but she never got past that. Amy healed her body, and now she still has to learn to wrap her brain around something she wasn’t able to do in 2 years, with nothing else to disturb her – while fighting and flying around.
I don’t expect her to succeed in this story, really. Maybe if she second-triggers, but that would be way too convenient and Wilbur rarely follows that path (if ever). Possibly if her situation worsens even further, to make up for it. Still, that’s wishful thinking.
We can already expect a larger dose of frustration and accidental injuries in the future. However, Victoria learning to deal with it can definitely lead to excellent moments, which I’m looking forward to.
She started talking to it with interesting results, maybe something else will help her go further.
my complaint doesn’t come from the changed shape, it comes from the forcefield gaining a will and clearly malicious intent to destroy everything as a means to prevent her from using her abilities and force her into reliance on her emotion powers.
even as the wretch in the asylum, she wasn’t violently flailing around and seemingly actively destructive like her power is now. We know from the interludes’ she wasn’t considered a violent or dangerous prisoner in the asylum and we know she kept her forcefield up most of the time due to mentions of her interactions with Svetta and how Svetta liked her because she couldn’t hurt her, and her own admissions in Ward. if Victoria was at all flailing around like her forcefield now does, with her forcefield active, she would have been a much more dangerous patient and one no-one would have been allowed to go near, and yet she wasn’t – she didn’t have specific requirements or equipment to visit her
My issue isn’t it changing shape or reminding her of her time trapped like that. I honestly feel that part works. my issue is it’s now been made to be a destructive, seemingly violent and aggressive monster that openly and actively destroys everything around her with a large amount of dexterity and versatility yet completely out of her control, contradictory to the fact she could barely move at all when trapped in that form – and that it never puppetted her to destroy everything before when it was smaller, despite clearly being able to act against her will here – and being the source of her strength so able to effortlessly overcome her own muscles. Even saying it’s subconscious doesn’t work there, as Victoria would still have had subconscious thoughts and impulses before her trauma – yet she never destroyed everything around her then.
Turning her power into a foe and a monster doesn’t add anything to her struggling with the memories or trauma. If anything, it gets in the way of it, by making her past something of an antagonist. it just tacks on extra, undeeded nonsensical drama to it that contradicts the events of worm and serve to add a convineint excuse for why she can’t help, let wildbow write a protagonist that must solve everything through sideways thinking, generate aditional guilt from her results, and give her something extra to angst over.
and honestly, the fact she’s taken to bargaining with her passenger to corole it’s subconcious actions, coupled with switching to the very tactical, analytical mindset, the fact she can’t help but hero, and all events conspiring to fill her and motivate her with guilt/angst is not helping establish Victoria – it’s just making her more like Taylor, which helps reinforce my issue with ridding her of the abilities that distinguished her from Taylor, as Victoria should be distinct from Taylor.
that’s why I hope she can get control of it soon, and I do genuinely hope it’s not a millstone the entire series. Her never gaining control over this thing, her constantly being forced to hate and fight herself, to feel guilty over it and her choices, would just add an unneeded bitter note and get in the way of Victoria establishing herself as a distinct character
OnionKid says:
The behavior of the wretch is actually markedly similar to Valefor’s power change. A situation outside of your control results in a power that manifests itself differently.
Consider: When the force field was under control, Victoria wasn’t. When Victoria no longer had control of her own body (and thus no practical way to USE the force field), the force field changed to be a power outlet without the previous dependence on here body… but Victoria is now in more control of her own self. If you buy into the theory of passengers driving conflict, it’s possible that the conflict drive is now hooking directly into the force field, bypassing the useless body.
morebeer says:
Who says the Wretch has a mind of its own?
Victoria does.
She might be wrong and is using “the Wretch” as an excuse. It lets her blame her unresolved rage and self- loathing on something out of her control. It’s not her lashing out at anything close to her. She isn’t the one needing therapy. She is free to be the warrior monk so long as she doesn’t let that dark and dangerous past of herself free for too long.
OFC this is all just my speculation. Seems plausible to me though. More plausible than that the power literally had a mind of its own.
Wololololo says:
That sounds about right. I hope that a day will come when Victoria’s self-image and mental state will improve enough to change the Wretch into something more like this, with the level of control it implies (Warrior Monk go!)
https://i.imgur.com/cOhyuzs.png
ShawnMorgan says:
Typo query
-Shouldn’t that ‘her’ be a ‘him?
No. “I want your-” is spoken by Damsel, who is a ‘her’.
Coda says:
> Rain fell all around us.
That’s HORRIFYING — oh wait, no, it’s just wat–
> what remained of Rain in her arms
That very nearly confused me, too.
GoldGoose says:
I enjoyed the literal rain changing throughout the chapter, and have a feeling that thematically it’s tied into Rain’s ascendancy / getting hurt.
Uhh, either everything with Rain just became a bit of a shoot the shaggy dog, or something else is going on here.
And Lisa, listen love you, but honestly Cradle and Love Lost were never worth this much trouble. You’d have been better off playing a bit nicer with Team Therapy.
Personal theory – Lisa’s playing the long game here; tweaking Victoria in just enough ways to get her to behave in predictable manners. I’ve been thinking this since the original warning of Victoria away from the peninsula. Good old reverse psychology.
Problem is there’s several times that trying to do that too directly resulted in shit like Jack giving her a glasgow grin or Cody crushing her trachea. She doesn’t have the best track record with that tactic.
And yet she still continued using it, and is still alive to do so… Old habits, etc.
overconfidence and a tendancy to poke things she really shouldn’t are pretty much trademarks of tattletail’s character 😀
she’s smart and she’s very, very good at what she does, but she’s not infalable and it is her main flaw
OmniscientQ says:
I’ve said before that Tattletale is like an MMO character who picked up the Taunt skill, but none of the tankiness skills necessary to survive its use.
There’s times it worked, too. More often, as it happens. The discussion in the bank with Amy and Vicky springs to mind. And when she revealed Cherish’s plan when Cherish tried it on her. And when she talked Lung into helping them fight the Yangban (despite being unaware of their history). And she’s good enough at it that the one time she met Dauntless, he was wearing earplugs- at Armsmaster’s suggestion.
Her power makes it a viable strategy and one that, in the meanwhile, is fun and interesting for her and any teammates in earshot. It doesn’t always work, because like all strategies it has flaws and sometimes she just misjudges someone.
For what reason?
Victoria isn’t all that important.
Gryphonic says:
“She had managed to stab her fingertips into flesh.”
Victoria referring to the Wretch as a she? Either a typo or a VERY interesting character development…
Ya know it’s a pity Vista never got involved with the Shatter-sleds… Nice bit of nostalgia inducement there.
Now if they can get Rain out alive they have potential access to both Panacea and Bonesaw, so fixing him up shouldn’t be too much of a challenge.
On the bright side Erin finally fucking calls her old man out, and is definitly quiting the fallen after this.
Not too sure about the latter, really. Family stuff is complicated.
Also: reminder that Victoria’s moral code is to do 75% of the harm to a villain that they’ve caused someone.
There are multiple dead people in this room, and Cradle and the mystery cape are responsible for them. Unless they’ve got some pretty funky powers, I’m pretty sure that one or both of them are about to meet their ends, especially since they’re outnumbered two-to-one in a confined area that they aren’t going to be able to easily escape from.
Again, tattletale really does not want to help these people since she put Victoria in that barn.
Yes well she also put Rain and the people that tortured him in that barn. If she really didn’t want to help these people, she could have abstained from helping them.
Her motivation is probably a little bit deeper than “get paid”, and I’m willing to accept that she might hold some sympathy for Rain, but she’s still working for Rain’s mortal enemies. She told Victoria she was working for them, and she seems to have carried out her part of the bargain, some mild treachery notwithstanding.
Tattles got PAID for helping them. Whatever her motivation for accepting that job (I’m in favor of the ‘plausible deniability for gathering an army against the Fallen’), she needs to be known as someone reliable, someone who does what they’re paid for if they’ve taken the money. The cluster paid her to point them at Rain, she did that. They did not pay her to not also point Rain’s allies at them, so she didn’t do that 😀
I don’t care about Tattletale right now. I just want to see Victoria fully unleash the power of the Wretch without holding back, and just let it loose to kill the shit out of somebody that deserves a killing.
Ehh. As grimly satisfying as those moments are, I don’t think it’s really Victoria’s style, you know? There’s like three people in that barn right now who have never killed anyone, and Victoria’s one of them.
Cradle is another, funnily enough.
Anyway, if Victoria starts killing people at some point, I’d like her to have a bit more motivation for it.
Oh heck, Victoria referred to the Wretch with she/her pronouns!
Sorta sounds like Looksee was hoping she had killed MaMa…
Oh Rain, please don’t die here 🙁 you’ll give Sveta MORE trauma-induced issues…! Also, we’ve grown accustomed to your face 😛 (lol, I’m honestly pro-Rain, but it’s too fun to join in on the joking)
Honestly, /I/ was hoping Looksee killed MaMa -_-
it’s the objectively less messy outcome that takes care of the biggest problem they have
If only she’d ordered it to accelerate ‘down’ before she weaponised the off switch. That could have done it. Or mounted a big spiky antennae on the bottom, or the top, had the camera do a flip, and then turned it off.
But… Yeah, if Looksee had joined the Team Therapy Killers Club, it would have probably sorted their problems. Not definitely, though.
Besagew says:
I’ve been waiting for Victoria to finally start throwing things. That was cool. Seemed like the whole Mathers attack petered out pretty easily, though.
At first I thought the cape with the red-handprint mask was one of the Fallen, fighting Cradle, but I guess not. He must be pretty scary, if he’s the reason Tattletale seems to think Rain’s death is a done deal.
Anyway, Rain will probably get healed but I actually can’t see why it would cause drama. The Wardens can just take him, teleport or drive him back to headquarters, he gets healed while unconscious, wakes up in the outpatient area. Easy. There are lot of other people on this field who need help, admittedly, but it’s probably too dangerous and too minor a situation to risk the powerful healers in.
Or at least I hope so. I really like the idea of Victoria being forced to call her sister to heal a dying friend, but I think it should wait until later on. Sometime when the team is more isolated and totally engaged in something else, so it comes as a shock.
Aisaaax says:
I decided to give a bit of Feedback for WIldbow, and I’ll try to be short.
I liked Worm. I liked Twig’s worldbuilding and characters, but it wasn’t fulfilling for me so I dropped it.
In the same way, Ward is not fulfilling for me to read, in a very similar fashion with Twig, and I think I know why.
In Worm, there was a formula of dark worldbuilding. The world becomes shittier and shittier place as the book progresses, but it all doesn’t seem like a downer. Why? Because the formula was “Have a crisis – then have a struggle overcoming it – which eventually ends in a glorious victory or at least a stalemate.”
In Twig, however, the pattern is different. The characters are often victorious, they fulfill their task – but every victory is then spoiled by some bitter details. The victories are short-living, but the problems are long-term and they pile up. In the end, any joy that I, as a reader, feel for the victory is vastly overshadowed by the mountain of problems that just grew larger. The characters don’t resolve their problems – they accumulate them as they go. Then they get broken, and this seems to be the punchline.
In Ward, I have very similar feelings. The heroes are set up to have drama. They are INTENDED as a drama sinks, and every good moment they have is just a set-up so that their loss or breaking moment would feel impactful later. I honestly don’t know what your plans are, but it feels that way – the doom that is about to come onto them later. Just like in Twig where you know from the start that characters have no perspective for a happily-ever-after – you know the same in Ward. And that makes every victory or breakthrough feel like a manipulation for an eventual tearjerker moment.
This is not fulfilling for me.
What made Worm populat? It’s not the dark world – it’s first and foremost a comic-book feeling of it. A “Hell yeah!” feeling that was delivered in the end of every crisis. A feeling that the characters were FREAKING AWESOME, even with all their drawbacks and insecurities. It’s not about being strong fighters – it’s about having a survivor attitude, an energizing will to push forward and crush every walls in their way.
Whad does Ward offer? First, it offers a main protagonist who’s neck-deep in problems, but unlike Skitter he doesn’t rebel against the world – she’s desperately trying to fit in and failing.
Then she’s given a group of misfits, each of whom is on the verge of a catastrophe. They aren’t really friends – they just cling to each other because there’s no one else left near them. You depict them all as desperate, with little options left, with pressuring issues and problems.
Then, you make them do a deliberately dubious decision of forming a team. It’s like they are riding down the cliff and flooring the gas pedal. The entire time the reader feels that everything is going to end up in ruin. That voids any smile, any victory or good time they have, because as a reader I go “Yup, you are so paying for this carefree time later on – with blood and tears and loss of everything you have left to treasure.”
Worm was about anti-heroes rebelling against the system and constantly, CONSTANTLY kicking ass.
Ward is either looking to be a story of “crawling out of the gutter”, or “being trodden deeper down into the dirt”. Both are a downer. Both do not have a place for AWESOME. Both do not have a ruthless hero who reaches their goals no matter the cost.
Both do not have a hero who feels proud about what they are doing. At best, Victoria will look back and shudder in disgust at the road of corpses she left behind. Something that Skitter never did.
Even just staying alive after Endbringer attack, beaten and broken but alive – was delivered as an achievement. Ward delivers them only as “Oh my god I’m in such a pain now, I failed to make any difference.”
It’s not about being hero or villain. It’s not about having crisis after crisis. Worm was good because it was the story of being awesome, being empowered by your actions and developing as a person. It wasn’t about problems, it was about flashy and cool solutions.
Something that your further writing isn’t.
it’s a downer. Not meaning it’s bad, but it aims at and glorifies causing sadness and feeling of worry for the heroes’ current situation and future. It’s aim are negative emotions, and it’s not why I read novels. Pact, Twig and now Ward – all share the same general feeling of “everything will be bad no matter what you do”. And I can’t read them.
I want an “Everything will be bad, but you grit your teeth and push through, higher and higher until heavens break. The world will burn around you, but you’ll be standing in the ashes” kind of feeling – something that Worm had.
Worm was Action genre set up in dark universe – Ward is so far an emotional thriller with some action scenes.
You are still is and always be deep in my heart as a creator of Worm. I hope you can deliver a story of the same general feeling as Worm once more. I personally think it’s a shame that Ward has such a different feel to it than Worm, because I think that sequels should never change genre or pattern.
I’m not gonna write a huge response, but… I disagree, to be honest? To me, Ward feels like a natural extension of the themes of Worm, with characters who have experienced even lower lows than Taylor had- PTSD, extreme trauma and abuse, shame for who they are, being seen as monsters, dealing with disabilities, etc. And I fully expect that they’ll all reach some impressive highs before the end of the story, and help the world in some pretty huge ways.
Then again, I enjoyed Pact, so… To each their own I guess 😛
It’s 6th arc already, and they are still in the gutters. If they start becoming awesome later – I would only be able to say that this book has a hell of a long and dragged-out prologue.
Taylor joined a successful, fully-capable team almost right away. She started solving problems sucessfully in her first ark. She didn’t get to face consequences untill much, much later.
In Ward the first ark is about how bad Victoria’s life is. Her first job ends in a disaster and crying. Then she has her family problems, the broken trigger event that is nothing but witnessing people die and not being able to make any difference. Then we witness her fail repeatedly to have a job. Then she takes on this group of kids which she KNOWS right away will end really poorly. They do some jobs and they don’t win cleanly – they fuck up.
Ward is all about problem pileup with little to no progress.
I agree that part of the thrill of Worm was the juxtaposition of the personal success of the heroine versus the rapidly deteriorating status of the setting as well as the quick dopamine bursts of rapid action and short chapters. However, i find it early to criticize Ward as we haven’t even finished the first big action piece.
I also disagree that sequels should be of the same genre or pattern. Just look at Alien and Aliens or Terminator vs Terminator 2. They are very different genres and very different patterns but the key of good continuity between them is that they have the same spirit and the same themes even if the ultimately answer the questions raised differently. The spirit of the piece should be true and in the case of ward the spirit is there, just coming from a different direction of communication and cooperation in a broken world as opposed to destruction, division, and assimilation (for the greater good).
I would also like to note that it is a very different experience agonizing through the various weeks to get the next dopamine fix for Ward as i have caught up on the writing as opposed to Worm where i can blitz through and feel my brain sparkle with all the excitement. This makes me wonder just how it was reading Worm as an actual serial compared to reading Ward.
I personally stopped reading early and then swallowed 4 arks in like 2 days. It doesn’t have any dopamine sparkles so far. At all. I probably will not keep reading it further.
As for sequel continuity – Terminator 2 and Aliens are indeed different genres. And they are sucessful pieces. I do not say that Ward will not be loved by some people and won’t be sucessful – I hope it would.
But I think that the whole POINT of sequels is giving your fans more of the same. If you completely change anything – why would you make a sequel at all? You could as well make a separate piece with a different genre. Making a drastically different sequel only makes your fan’s expectations conflict with the story. For example, I have nothing against Twig or Pact – they are different books that just happen to be not for me. But I’m actually quite upset with Ward, because I was waiting for this awesome thing – and instead got doom and gloom that actually made my mood drop upon reading it, just because there’s so much negativity in it.
Anyway, these are my personal opinions.
If you completely change everything – I meant.
I also don’t think that Terminator 2 and Aliens are valid examples of sequels. Movie industry is notorious of taking the cheap route and “milking” franchises. They create multiple sequels, which are written and produced by completely different people and have little to do with one another. That happens because they are owned by the studio, not an original script writer.
fel95 says:
Queen 18.3:
“Except now Clockblocker’s words and his tone were resonating within me, and I was left just a little less confident about the conclusions I’d come to, in terms of the stuff we’d discussed and all the little events that had added up over time. I’d made peace with who I was and who I was becoming in part because my peers were limited to other villains and civilians who I could dismiss because they didn’t have the full perspective of life on the battlefield. My dad was among those civilians, it almost pained me to admit.
I wasn’t entirely certain I felt so peaceful now. Most things, I couldn’t imagine I’d really do them differently, given the circumstances and the knowledge I’d had at the time, but the decisions weren’t sitting quite so easily as they had been”
Extinction 27.2:
“I know what that’s like,” I responded. “I’ve walked down that road. Maybe not so ugly a road, but I’ve gone that route. All the way along, I told myself it sucked, but I wouldn’t do it differently. I did everything I did for a reason. Except now, having reached the point I was working towards, I finally do regret it all. The last two years, the way I treated my teammates, leaving the Undersiders… I’d change it all in a heartbeat.”
“Leveraged power,” I said. “Yes, I have.”
“Because you’re better. You’re a little arrogant, maybe? A little less forgiving of mistakes?”
“I was,” I said. “Thing is, when it came down to it, I wasn’t stronger or cleverer because of it. It wasn’t an advantage in the critical moment. Maybe the opposite.”
She dropped her feet to the floor and leaned forward, folding her arms on the ledge, her face not even an inch from the glass. “But it got you that far. Others there, and they couldn’t fix it either. Not a reason to change your mind.”
“It was a pretty important moment,” I told her. “The most important moment. But I wasn’t in the right place, wasn’t in contact with the right people. More than anything, I wasn’t asking the right questions.”
She looked profoundly disappointed. “See, now you’re just being a whiny bitch again. Negative.”
“Retrospective,” I said. “Figuring out what I did wrong, changing.”
“Maybe,” I said “But if I was like you, I was better at it than you were, went further, tested the limits more.”
I could see her eyes narrow further.
“And I think it’s a pretty shitty way to exist,” I finished.
This was from a pretty cursory search, I could probably find a lot more quotes of Skitter regretting stuff.
Also, Worm was never about action scenes, or cool and flashy solutions:
“He doesn’t factor? He isn’t a consideration, at the end?”
“Fighting him… always more about us than about him. Not a consideration.”
It was about the characters, the trauma they go through and trying to live with it.
It’s not like she broke down into depression after that. Sure, skitter felt shitty about having a bunch of people dead. But at the same time she knew that she’d saved much more, and improved lives of many. She never had this “Oh shit, I did nothing but make things worse” which Victoria seems very predispoed to thinking.
Also it was never about the drama for me. There was not much drama to begin with. I’ve always read it for the action comic-book feel, with a bit more adult attitude.
As for characters – any good novel needs well-executed character building. Or at least most of them. Good characters is not a defining part of Worm, it’s not what makes it stand out. There are things with just as good or better character building and development in them. It’s not a unique aspect of Worm.
manicMagician says:
Hmm, I hadn’t been enjoying Ward quite as much as Worm either, but it hadn’t quite clicked with me why. I thought it might have been that I just don’t like Victoria much, but I think you’ve got it pretty well. Though…part of that is Victoria. She is a much more negative person than Taylor, though one might not be able to tell from looking at them. Well, she’s a more negative person after the incident during the Nine attack anyway.
But yeah, Ward is a lot more negative on a whole than Worm. Worm was about rising up, surviving, the contrast between heroes and villains and how heroes can be bad and villains can be good. Even as the world and situation got worse, they kept pressing forward and kept pulling out wins despite it all. I loved all of that. And like you said, some pretty fucking awesome moments. I still remember when Taylor was trapped in a burning building, unarmed, at gun point, and surrounded by armed enemies. Then an hour later she was standing over the guy who arranged it with a gun trained on him. How fucking awesome is that!?
Where as Ward…the protagonist is a lot more negative and yeah she presses on determinedly, but she doesn’t have too many fixed goals aside from “trying to do hero work again”. And has the attitude of just hating villains. Which off the bat got rid of one of my favorite themes from Worm. I loved that grey morality and trying to do good regardless of what the system and people think of you. Then like you said, bad stuff keeps happening that the protagonists have no way to stop or prevent and things keep going wrong. I hate no win situations. I hate that feeling of helplessness. It comes up a lot in games and rp I do and just really puts me in a terrible mood. Less so in stories because I’m not the one in the situation, but still. As you said, every victory they get is soured, and half the time they just don’t even get that victory. Yeah, Taylor didn’t win all the time and they had their bad moments, but they always pushed through it and came out on top in the end!
Also doesn’t help things that just…in general I like Amy and her story and arc better than I like Victoria’s, and now Victoria is the POV and hates Amy. So…that doesn’t do great things for me.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m still enjoying the story and will continue reading it. But the tone, theme and main character just don’t do as much for me as Worm did. Its still the same world and has a lot of the excellent characters Wildblow is so great at making, but I’m hoping as things develop we’ll get closer to the things that made Worm great.
Ultimately, to me Ward feels a lot more positive than Worm, perhaps because it’s so focused on the protagonists as survivors of trauma. For most of the team, and for the world, the worst has already happened. Now they’re picking up the pieces and trying to move on with their lives, confronting new challenges, and that resonates with me.
Exactly this- Ward is definitely shaping up to be a survivor story, about people with trauma and disabilities having agency and making a difference. I think it’s easier to see for those of us who share perspective with the main characters- who have undergone trauma, struggled with disability in a world that says we’re abnormal and unworthy.
See here, I’ve no doubt that some people really like the way Ward is going. I was just giving my own feedback.
I also know at least 3 people who read Worm, were super-hyped for Ward, but either stopped reading it already or thinking to stop and complaining that they’re disappointed.
The problem is that Ward IS very different from Worm. Objectively it probably is better for some folk, than Worm was. But the problem is that this change has left a lot of Worm fans disappointed and dissatisfied. And that’s what I’m giving feedback for.
And one last thing to consider is that those who didn’t like Ward have probably already dropped out by this point. So the comments would not be representative – because it’s mainly people who have stuck with Ward for 60+ chapters, and are naturally feeling content enough with that. Those who got disappointed – left, and 3 out of 4 people I know that loved Worm, did just that. It’s of course not representative, but it tells me something’s wrong.
Anyway, I’m not here to hate or bash Wildbow for it. I just thought that I’d point out the issue I personally see in Ward, and one that he may have been consciously not aware of. Being an amature writer myself, I know that things like this can creep up on you. You may get too used to writing thrillers and Horrors, and when you get back to the genre you’ve started with, you find yourself making it unnecessarily gloomy. That, I think, is what actually happened with Ward. For many years Wildbow was writing very dark novels – he did it to “get some rest” from Worm, as he stated himself. But now he had brought that doom and gloom into Parahumans, even though the first part had a VERY different feel.
Thing is, even if Ward doesn’t have the theme of morally gray dilemmas like Worm did, Victoria’s black-and-white perspective can still change. I’m holding out hope for Victoria finding out that Tt isn’t actually a bad person (like, shown actual proof or something) and having to wrap her head around the possibility that her hate for Tt is redirected from her hate for Amy. And *that* would be very interesting and totally worth all this negativity for me.
Both Victoria and Amy got this black-and-white view on villains and heroes from their mom (and maybe their family as a whole). Lady Photon couldn’t shake the association she had of Amy with her father. If she had been able to, Amy could’ve had more of a childhood and been less vulnerable mentally. And just like her mom, Victoria can’t shake the association she has with Tt and all the absolutely *shitty* things that happened to her in the S9 arc. It doesn’t really matter that Victoria doesn’t know all the facts, Tt was the one who first hinted that Amy was keeping something secret from her that was huge.
Amy had her time in the Birdcage to grow, develop into someone less whiny and more able to *deal*. Although its still there, her black-and-white perspective has lessened somewhat, especially since getting close to her dad.
So now I’m hoping something similar will happen with Victoria. Just as Amy became less whiny and more resilient, Victoria can continue to mature–to realize and admit she doesn’t have all the facts, to have an open mind.
You mean the Victoria who had a semi-friendly chat with Moose, is maintaining friendly contact with Fume Hood, gave Tattletale the benefit of the doubt, and accepted fucking Damsel of Distress and Rain?
So black, much white. Very mental.
One day I’ll find whoever is responsible for this retarded ‘DALLONS VERY BACK AND WHLITE!’ meme supported by exactly nothing and slap them with a glow-worm.
Seriously? Victoria isn’t the most black-and-white person in the world, but she’s still pretty black-and-white. And when did she truly ever give Tattle the benefit of the doubt? The first conversation that post-GM, Victoria was fishing for info and sounding Tt out. She didn’t accept DoD off the bat, it took a while for her look past Damsel’s history. She approached the whole therapy group with an open mind because she knew that if they were with Mrs. Yamada, they were trying to change. Every single time Tattletale has given them a tip or warning, Victoria has always been “Oh she’s Tattletale. Therefore we can’t trust her and I’m gonna ignore everything she says. If she says she’s actually trying to warn us about xyz and to run the other way, it *must* be some sort of malicious scheme on her part.” Victoria acknowledged that she didn’t have all the facts and yet she’s still placing the majority of the blame for what happened with Amy on Tt, using Tt as a convenient scapegoat for all the anger she feels because its easier than thinking about how much she still hates Amy.
Also if she heard *everything* that Rain did, I doubt she’d be as accepting of him. Rain never told the group straight up what happened, he kinda glossed over it.
I wonder if Victoria has read up on what Tt and the Undersiders have done during her 2 years in the hospital. How they took part (*especially Tattletale!*) in every single Endbringer battle, how they tried to stop the end of the world from happening. Tattletale used her power to give info and help run ops on all the S Class threats during the time skip. I also wonder if Victoria knows what the Undersiders did for Dinah Alcott. If any of this info is available to Victoria in some shape or form, I’d imagine she might want to learn about it a bit. We know she likes to read up on cape stuff and keep herself updated. She did that a lot in the hospital. If info was available about who was fighting in the Endbringer fights, did she read up on it? Because if she did and she knows even a little about how the Undersiders have tried to help, she might think “Hmm. They’re helping face down terrifying monsters a lot. With chances of survival very slim. Maybe they’re not *that* shitty people” *If she actually heard about the Undersiders helping with S-Class threats, then the fact that she still has this attitude is pretty indicative: seriously black-and-white perspective on good and bad guys. If not, then she’s got a somewhat black-and-white perspective.
She’s gotten to know Damsel and see that there’s a person in there. But she won’t consider that Tattletale is a person too because she’s too biased emotionally. And unlike Taylor, Victoria isn’t as introspective or open-minded so she doesn’t stop to consider that she might be biased. Don’t get me wrong, most people in her situation would be pretty biased but I still miss Taylor. Overall, I think we all know which protagonist was smarter and more intuitive.
*Edit. What I mean about them being with Mrs. Yamada–basically Victoria knew when Mrs. Yamada asked her to help the group, these must’ve been good people.
*Also how much they participated in fighting Scion. Obviously.
Victoria was willing to give Tattetale a fair shake from the very beginning. Even going so far as to talk to her at a location of Lisa’s choosing.
And even when that meeting went sour and ended with hurt feelings Victoria still gave Tattletale the benefit of the doubt concerning Rain:
[QUOTE]“She…” I started. I bit my tongue.
“What?” Tristan asked.
“I don’t want to jump to conclusions. I don’t want to give you the wrong impressions, either.”
“Any impressions help,” Tristan said.
“I don’t know,” I said. “But what she said when I talked to her, the way she wanted to make herself out to be one of the good guys, bringing good things to others…”
“Oh,” Kenzie said. She fiddled with her phone.
“It doesn’t necessarily jibe with her working with people who are out for blood and murder. She seems to want to be a very low-key villain or even a Robin-Hood type desperado while simultaneously leaving a trail of bodies in her wake, or she wants to portray herself as such,” I said.
“I’m now sharing the love and bringing some of that security, stability, and safety to others, in my very, very roundabout way,” Kenzie’s phone said, in Tattletale’s voice.
“Yeah, that’s it, thank you,” I said. Kenzie gave me a thumbs up. I felt a bit of the heebie-jeebies at having heard Tattletale’s voice without being braced for it. It took me a moment to gather my thoughts before I added, “It makes me wonder what she would say if she were told that Snag and the other two were out for your head.”[/QUOTE]
It was only when Tattletale hijacked Kenzie’s camera and told the all of them that she knew exactly what the Cluster was doing, had no intention of stopping them, and would in fact help them to the best of her abilities as soon as she got paid.
^ By the time that happened Victoria was already on a time-crunch and needed to; notify the Wardens, gear up, and plan for the rescue effort.
Maybe, MAYBE, if Tattletale had adjusted her approach Victoria might have had more faith in her moral fiber.
But as things stand: What possible reason would Victoria have to legitimately assume that Tattletale meant the opposite of the words coming out of her own mouth and to go out to meet with her again instead of preparing?(This isn’t even factoring in that their first meeting ended with veiled threats, armed thugs, and hurt feelings on both sides.)
Victoria’s general dislike and lack of trust in Tattletale has nothing to do with “black and white morality” and everything to do with how Lisa is just an overall sketchy and unpleasant person to be around.
Also: Victoria only really dislikes Tattletale. She has been shown to be lukewarm at worst about everyone else.
@Exejpgdmv
I literally cannot count the number of points in your argument that I disagree with and find pretty ridiculous. Guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. One more question before we leave this debate alone because I’m curious–I’m guessing Tattletale is your least favorite character at least among the Undersiders since she’s “just an overall sketchy and unpleasant person to be around”?
Tattletale is the type of person who’s very good with her friends, but who is an absolute disaster for everyone whom she doesn’t consider as such. Remember how many times she fucks with people’s heads.
She IS an unpleasant person to be around, for most people.
Yeah, I have been hoping myself that it changes. I’m aware it can, I was mostly making observations on my opinion so far. As of yet she is still clinging to this idea of heroes and seeing all of the villains as bad. Even if she can tolerate or reluctantly work with some, she is so fixed on this ideal of “good”. I hope she does come to be a bit less rigid, but I am still just having trouble liking her for several reasons.
I love all the other members of the team and their interactions though. Even if Rain can be a bit of an idiot.
Worm was just a perpetual downer to me due to the world at large and Taylor’s perspective.
Ward is far more uplifting, and due to Victoria’s way of thinking, vastly more entertaining. And not in small part because Victoria is funny.
Can’t say I completely disagree with any of your analysis, but on the subject of sequels changing tone/genre:
I find myself thinking that, after the end of Worm, any sequel that takes place within a relatively short time frame would almost have to be different to make sense. As you said, “The world will burn around you, but you’ll be standing in the ashes.” Well, it has, and they are, and now they have to make something of those ashes. I am hoping that, eventually, the heroes will start having major victories, and start reclaiming that feeling from Worm a bit, and I do see potential for that to happen – possibly the ending to the Fallen fight (assuming it doesn’t involve a meeting with Amy that triggers more Vicky angst, which admittedly, it probably will), and maybe the impending war with Earth Cheit – though personally, I’m pretty okay with the way the story has been going thus far, with just the relentless and frequently failed struggle to put something, anything, back together. That said, Pact is probably my favorite Wildbow story, so… Different strokes, I suppose.
You could preserve the feeling of Worm by having a bit more positive cast and have them deal with smaller things at first, without having a bitter victory every time. If they were starting having issues later on, it could be OK, but as things stand, Ward STARTED with a pile-up of major crisises one on top the other. And heroes stick their necks into it and lose, basically.
The feeling of a comic-book could be easily preserved, especially given that you have a built megalopolis on your hands. Victoria could easily have a “getting back into heroing” ark, and things like broken trigger, worker riots, cross-dimentional conflicts and Fallen could be left to the future.
I honestly don’t remember a single victory in Worm that didn’t end up as worse things happening in the next arc except of course the last one. The big difference in Ward is that the story starts in a much less comic book situation.
Funny, I think my opinion might be the exact opposite of yours, Aisaax. I got really tired of Taylor’s constant victories in Worm, and the way they dominated the story. I’d be sorry to see things go that way again.
My complaint with Ward, on the other hand, is that it hasn’t been dark enough. To me it feels like everything so far has been too easy, too convenient, with too many allies and too much support structure for our heroes. I feel like there hasn’t been nearly enough of a struggle. They haven’t won much, it’s true, but they haven’t risked very much either. Not until the events of this chapter, at least, and it’s too early to say there.
Taylor did kind of get in more wins than you’d think I guess, but any time it came to the Slaughterhouse things went sideways. And Endbringers a lot. Honestly, most of her wins were by the skin of her teeth actually, or at a cost which is probably what made it reasonable and enjoyable to me.
Though I guess you’re right with Ward. It simultaneously is really negative due to the main character’s outlook and angst, and likewise for our Deuteragonist Rain and his cluster, while also not really letting the protagonists really risk anything. They may not get many “wins” often, but they also didn’t lose much and half of their wins weren’t even from them so much. This recent battle has been a nice change of pace from that though. Still a lot of allies, but they were needed since they’re still kind of losing or pulling through just barely. It’s like the Endbringer fights in Worm I guess.
To each their own, I guess, and I’m glad that you are enjoying the story as it is.
I just know that I don’t, and most of my friends didn’t.
I just loved Worm, and I’m sad and annoyed to see that the sequel is so much drastically different that I can’t and don’t want to read it. It spoils my mood reading about failures. I’d rather go read something more positive instead.
Honestly, I’m seeing a lot of people complain about Victoria’s angst, negativity and ruminating over bad memories…but it would be highly unrealistic for her *not* to be that way. For all those complaining, let’s review her multiple sources of trauma. Even if we put aside the grief from her relatives and boyfriend dying in the Leviathan fight *and* the mindrape by the person she considered herself closest too, there’s still being turned into a hideous, horrifying flesh monster/puddle of flesh that was so disturbing and disgusting to look at that her own mother couldn’t sleep with the lights off for years. Aaaand she was transformed into this thing by the person who she considered herself closest to. I know some people are getting tired of her angst but really, I’d rather have it be realistic. Two years isn’t *nearly* enough to recover from the amount of trauma she’s suffered. Of course I hope and willing to bet that she’ll *start* the healing process sooner and we’ll see her make progress. And as a result, she won’t dwell on the past so much. However, one of the things I love about the Wormverse is that WB makes everything realistic to a tee. Forget DC and Marvel, *this* is pretty much how the world would had superpowers come into existence. Things may not be as chaotic if the source of the powers is fueled by conflict. But even more recent hero shows and movies that are more grounded in reality don’t hold a candle to the Wormverse. WB writes everything in fantastic, realistic detail and people’s natural psychological responses to stressors are included in that.
Hey, I’m not arguing that things are realistic or not. It’s just that this means that the novel is changes too much because of this. You could have Tt as a main character, and the novel would get a differnent feel to it too – not necessarily in a good way.
No, Victoria’s angst is realistic enough. There’s no problem with realism. But it ruins the book for me personally, and that’s not OK.
Also, Taylor was also in a very bad spot emotionally when she started. But she got a good team who could give her a shoulder, she had a clear goal, she had wins that boosted her confidence. This all helped Skitter remain more positive and confident. If Victoria got the same – then even with her issues she would be much better off.
Instead, Victoria gets a team whom she can’t rely on, simply because each one of them has the same or more issues as her. She can’t even trust them to do the right thing or have a good time together on a day off. Victoria doesn’t have a clear goal – her goal is “Doing something, not yet sure what”. And the jobs she does all end in disaster or bitter “victory”.
It’s only natural that she’s so negative!
The thing I dislike about Ward is that most characters give off the vibe of deep depression and exhaustion – something that Worm had only periodically. And this depression isn’t caused by something that they can fight – it’s caused by issues that they have no control over, like family, living conditions, etc.
It’s not fulfilling for me to read about depressive people, because it makes me depressed in turn.
Dammit, every time you started a line with “Rain” I kept expecting it to be the guy, not the natural phenomena and I kept getting confused. XD
Anyway, great chapter though. Disappointed they’re taking Mama alive again though. Worked so well the first time. Also, hadn’t she been with that one cape who could make the white and blue walls when she fled into the forest (or rather the cape fled with her)? But then she was with some of Bamet’s creatures when they found her. Really hope that doesn’t mean this is an impostor.
And just…really curious whether “What is left of Rain” implies he’s whole but heavily injured or…just a torso and head or something. Presence of “Guy with a Cleaver” is does not make a description like that bode well. Also worried about Sveta. Is she actually injured, or just have a damaged suit and is not up to fighting given circumstances?
So many questions! Looking forward to next chapter.
Everyone keeps saying “Guy with a Cleaver” no one in the comments has speculated whether its the assassin the Cluster members hired to kill Rain slowly and painfully. I think it definitely is him and is the reason why Tattle said Rain was done for and they should just abandon him. She prob thinks he’s too OP for them to handle, way too dangerous.
Joey-Zoey says:
And so, I am finally caught up on A Wildbow fiction. Also when does this update?
Tuesdays and saturdays. Sometimes thursdays.
SyntheticRat says:
Aw come on, fucking kill Mama already! I’m starting to want her to escape and break havok just to say told you so!!
It’s still the same fight, dummy. If Victoria hasn’t killed Mama yet, she’s probably not going to. At least not before she does something evil that Victoria actually knows about.
I guess Rain or Chris or someone might, though. Well, not Rain, he’s got other problems right now.
concerned citizen says:
I enjoyed Worm, Pact, and Twig, but Ward is just unsatisfying. I do not care what happens to any of these characters. Your previous protagonists all bantered with their coterie and built up a pleasant rapport with each other and the reader. The protagonist also had clarity of purpose – even when they are out of their depth, there is at least a sense of momentum and immediate next steps. This story, we have a sullen and fuzzy-minded protagonist, who almost exclusively thinks and talks about her personal angst. She lashes out emotionally at or condescends to all the other characters, except Sveta who is not developed as a humanized character, and displays limited cognitive or social skills. Whenever Victoria has the mic, I want to stop listening.
The broader conflicts in Ward do not have a personal gravity to them that makes me as a reader care. They might be going to war against the Blue Goddess? Heavens forbid! There is a cult of poorly developed characters doing bad things to other poorly developed characters? Curses!
Beyond an unlikable and poorly developed cast of characters that seems focused on selfish navel-gazing while a world-I-don’t-care-about-burns, this storyline is frustrating because the real dramatic tension is between the characters and their not-well-defined better selves. There are only so many times I can read about someone not doing something that is within their ability and objectively would make things better. The character motivations and personalities seem amorphous, guided only by whatever will keep them incompetent the longest. It is stagnant and dull.
Reading this story feels somewhere between boring and masochistic. I have been staying tuned for updates in hope it picks up the pace, but it is because of Wildbrow’s other work. This piece is inadequate as standalone fiction.
I think Wildbrow’s pivot to Rain was because he realized Victoria is just an unendearing, limited character, with limited ability to drive a plot. Rain is the same, and the drawn out focus on his mini-arc (oh no, his cluster is full of mean people! oh no, a cult is abusive of fictional characters we have almost no introduction to!) is not giving this larger story actual momentum. I feel like all the Interludes are attempts to make this readable by briefly putting us in the shoes of a more interesting character in a more interesting conflict.
There are kernels of an interesting story here. If they had focused on things from the perspective of the law student trying and failing to mentor and restrain the behavior of mentally ill, souped-up vigilantes; or the mom trying to forge a lasting governmental and legal system while dealing with petty household squabbles; or take your pick from the dozens of throwaway story lines that have been launched but then disregarded for the next episodic display of “this narrator is a poor thinker, just like her crew.”
Also, the sexual stuff between characters below age of consent is in poor taste, and the hand job scene might qualify as child pornography. Please no more of that.
While I do agree with a lot of your points about Victoria, I do like some of the other characters and don’t really agree with you there. Though it’s not promising that any time a character from Worm shows up I get really excited because I do kind of like them a lot more. I have enjoyed some of the stuff with Rain, and his cluster. The conflict with the Fallen has also been fairly interesting, though them not taking the chance to kill Mama, and the side moment of telling off Damsel for killing Bob have been just…not great. Then again, that’s kind of Victoria again. Don’t like her black and white attitude and while, yeah she has a right to be angsty and traumatized after what happened to her, it gets a little repetitive when it’s brought up multiple times a chapter with no real progress against it made. From a story and character development perspective it does get a little dull.
As for the sexual stuff between minors I…don’t really recall any of that aside from the scene you’re mentioning? And yeah I guess they were minors, but only barely and they both were. Teenagers do stuff like that, weird as it is. Given how dark this setting is, I’m more surprised there hasn’t been worse in regard to minors and feel like they’ve been deliberately censoring it for people like you. Think Wildblow even commented they were iffy on the scene you mentioned because they try to avoid the sexual stuff.
Tieshaunn says:
Small matter, but I keep seeing this in the comments – wildbow is very definitely a “he”.
I like how you complain about child pornography in Ward when you forgot that Taylor had sex 2 times with Brian, despite being only 16. Taylor losing her virginity to Brian only because she wanted to see him less stressed after his second trigger trauma was WORSE than an innocent hand job scene where Rain had a little fun. WTF, people?
Yeah, neither Rain nor Taylor’s sexual experiences were written to be titillating, but rather for the purpose of character building. And, as much as some people try to pretend it isn’t so, minors have libidos and have sex? Displaying those things in a matter-of-fact, non titillating way isn’t pornography.
Taylor was always attracted to Brian both emotionally and physically, them hooking up wasn’t only to make him feel better. She was nervous but if it was non-consensual, it would’ve been a point the morning after. It was from her point of view, she clearly said it was nice and didn’t give any indication in that chapter that she was pressured into it. After her crushing on him for so long, them sleeping together was the official sign that the attraction had become mutual. Brian needed emotional support to cope with his trauma and Taylor provided that. But she had already gained a lot of self-esteem at that point, she wouldn’t have lost her virginity to him *just* to make him feel better. It was a combination of reasons. It would’ve been *clear* the next day that Taylor was pressured into consenting, had that been the case.
There’s no statutory rape here, the characters are the same age if not around the same age. You’ve never heard of teenagers hooking up? Plenty of people lose their virginity when they’re 17 rather than 18 or older. Not sure how old Rain is but even if he is 16, that’s no older than Taylor when she lost her virginity. I’m guessing you had a problem with Taylor and Brian too then?
And lastly, there wasn’t even any sex…It was a hand job…
Voldearag says:
Tattletale is really short with everyone even when she’s trying to be nice, it reminds me of wanting to make someone I like happy when they don’t want anything to do with me, so just watching from the distance and powerlessly hoping nice things will come. I miss seeing her talk with real friends.
Impact Blue says:
First time ever comment incoming.
So.. some time ago I read Worm for the first time. It was already finished, Pact on its way to completion and Twig on the horizon.
I loved every minute of the thrillride of that first read. I laughed and cried.
Pact I enjoyed, too, even if it felt more rushed. Loved the End.
Twig I gave up on around the time of Sy‘s heart to heart with Whatshername in that City with the canals.. because it kinda felt like tedious reading.
Gave it a second chance after WilBurn finished it and started Ward because I wanted to be able to binge on Ward.
Whaddya know, the descent (or ascension?) to madness kind of got to me and I enjoyed Twig, too. It left a bittersweet melancholic feeling… reminded me of meeting with an ex lover after some years passed, reminiscing on the past and looking forward.
After, I read glowworm and Ward.
I love the mix of old and new cast.
I like V‘s introspection and I wonder and look forward to how all the broken people are going to manage the end of the world.
At the same time, the story has not gripped me yet in such a way that I am emotionally attached to V or TeamTherapy. Got a private tinfoil theory concerning Kenzie without proof – more like a „wouldn’t that be awesome twisty“ thing.
I am looking forward how it will play out and if I will be pulled in again in your worlds.
Maybe once I’m done with this stressful getting married thing next Friday.
To finally close this rambling rant regarding reading reams really rad reading … a heartfelt Thank You for the whole experience so far.
|| “I want your–your permission to fight!” she finished.
|| He hunched over, back to the wheel rim, reloading. He called back, “I’m not going to do that!”
|| “It’s not easy for me to ask! I’m trying to respect-”
She’s trying. She is trying. And maybe some of it is more uncertainty than respect but it adds up to: she really is trying.
|| Instinct, not pre-planning, but I was thinking the Warrior Monk would forgive me on that.
|| … I’d been too slow to dismiss the Wretch, or it had been too quick to unfold. She had managed to stab her fingertips into flesh.
that sure is multiple parts of your psyche that you’re dissociating from there V
|| Hate. The feeling hit me so suddenly and so unexpectedly that I thought it might have been one of Rain’s cluster-mates.
I like this whole section.
|| My aura burned dark and intense, and I knew that they wouldn’t be feeling the pause or the odd mid-fight peace of rain and the ongoing violence being more distant.
But Victoria does. She often does.
|| Maybe it was telling, that I’d been driven to get back and away before I’d thought to make myself impervious.
Yup, I agree. It is telling.
|| to protect myself against another one in three
…third?
|| She used her power, and it tore through the statue, ripping it apart. Ashley was thrust away by the blast, and she landed not very far from where the lizard Fallen had dropped to the mud and grass, sitting there in shock.
|| Ashley hadn’t been lying when she’d suggested her power could hurt me.
|| So many people didn’t look like the ones I’d known. Erin and Ashley both lacked the confidence they should have had. Gilpatrick looked more like the grizzled soldier than the teacher. Even the Fallen- well, they’d been threats and now the most aggressive and armed of them were on the ground, defenseless, making noises of pain.
It feels so basic to say but I do like this.
|| “She’s alive?” Looksee asked.
|| “Last I saw,” I said.
|| “Okay,” Looksee said. She sounded funny. “Damsel?”
|| “She’s staying behind. Protecting them, she said. But she wants to stay in custody, I think. I think it’s a good idea.”
|| “Okay,” Looksee said, barely audible.
I’m so glad Kenzie hasn’t killed anyone.
|| Suffice to say, that base had been covered, for most of my hero career.
|| She held what remained of Rain in her arms
|| as he gasped out short breaths, like a fish out of water.
With the rain we’d had, there was a degree of slipperiness to the dirt and grass.
From the way they were handling her, she was still alive.
My arm was limp at my side, and it hurt all the more because of my position.
With momentum, it rolled a short distance.
With my breastplate set up the way it was, there was a little flare of spikes,
I don’t know what this thing is—it’s not passive voice, it’s not nominalisations, it’s just something with a similar effect, a similar distancing and analytical dryness. But I don’t think she’s meant to be dry in the middle of a battle, and also everyone else does the same thing.
Poudou says:
Oh yes, do make it a thing.
I feel like this Fallen-war arc has gotten the main team so scattered that it is not so clear anymore if it is the main team, or if it will continue existing. I am just so curious about everyone and I don’t want them to disappear before we have thoroughly enjoyed them, so please let us find a way to the peace of easy banter and team building exercises? No, you say it doesn’t work that way? Well i am there for all the things that will come, anyways 🙂
Fontheweg says:
“… Vista can bend straight.”
I guess that means there is still a chance for Tristan and Vista! You know, as soon as they figure out how to separate Byron and Tristan.
Axle says:
Team Therapy vs team cluster is about to happen. Poor Sveta, first Damsel and now this?
Sancdar says:
Oof, heavy comments section.
As far as this chapter went, I was glad to see Victoria expressing some of the same questioning attitude I have about how many crazy useful powers the Fallen have. I did have an issue with the fight scene, but it’s pretty minor.
This comes a few paragraphs before the reveal that Victoria’s dealing with a two-body problem, so it reads like there’s a single opponent that’s frozen in front of her and then unfreezes and teleports behind her. I had to double-check that a second attacker hadn’t already been mentioned. I think it would be much clearer if it was just “someone else” that got her from behind.
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Circa twelfth century, an evil monk returned from the dead as a vampire, leaving his grave at Melrose Abbey to feed at a local nunnery. When the other monks discovered this, the bravest stayed up one night with a large axe, and when the vampire climbed out of its tomb, it was beheaded. The vampire's evil presence still remains in the abbey. The building is also the final resting place of Michael Scot, a great wizard who discovered the secret of flying, and was locally named as single handedly building Hadrian's Wall.
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Peters to Convene Field Summit on PFAS Contamination in Michigan
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) will convene a Senate subcommittee field summit titled “Local, State and Federal Response to PFAS Contamination in Michigan” at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, November 13th in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Federal Spending Oversight & Emergency Management Subcommittee summit will highlight how exposure to PFAS chemicals impacts Michigan communities and inform potential federal actions to support local efforts to address PFAS contamination. The summit will build on a Subcommittee hearing held last month in Washington, DC at Peters’ request to assess the federal role in PFAS contamination.
“Despite Michigan’s abundance of freshwater, communities from Parchment to Oscoda are facing man-made drinking water crises due to PFAS contamination,” said Senator Peters, Ranking Member of the Federal Spending and Emergency Management Subcommittee. “Families across Michigan have been exposed to these dangerous chemicals, and the federal government has a responsibility to assist local communities as they monitor this crisis, begin cleaning up contaminated sites and prevent further harm to Michiganders.”
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of approximately 4,700 toxic chemicals that have been used for decades in firefighting foams and commercial applications, and have been linked to cancer as well as a wide variety of thyroid, kidney, liver, heart, reproductive and autoimmune problems.
Invited witnesses:
Panel I:
Sandy Wynn-Stelt, resident of Belmont, Michigan
Adam London, Administrative Health Officer, Kent County Health Department
Dr. Rick Rediske, Senior Program Manager and Professor, Grand Valley State University Robert B. Annis Water Resources Institute
Drew YoungeDyke, Communications Coordinator, National Wildlife Federation Great Lakes Regional Center
Panel II:
Dr. Patrick Breysse, Director, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR)
Robert Delaney, Environmental Specialist, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ)
Carol Issacs, Director, Michigan PFAS Action Response Team (MPART)
Cathy Stepp, Region V Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
*Witness list and panels are subject to change.
WHO: U.S. Senator Gary Peters
WHAT: Peters to Convene Senate Subcommittee Field Summit on PFAS Contamination in Michigan
WHEN: Tuesday, November 13th at 10:00 AM
WHERE: Charles W. Loosemore Auditorium
Richard M. DeVos Center, Building E
401 Fulton St W
Last month, Peters included a provision in legislation signed into law to give commercial airports the ability to discontinue the use of firefighting foams containing PFAS, since previous regulations requires the use of such foams. A member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Peters included language in the annual defense bill signed into law in September urging the Department of Defense (DoD) to develop fluorine-free firefighting foams. In August, Peters joined Senator Debbie Stabenow in introducing two bipartisan bills to require nationwide testing for PFAS contamination and to hold federal facilities, including active and decommissioned military bases, accountable for addressing PFAS contamination in Michigan and across the country.
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Metasurface Polarimeter Meets Telecom, Nanotechnology Demands
A novel architecture for in-line polarimeters enables monolithic, on-chip integration of polarization sensors for applications as varied as drug design and telecommunications, as well as for emerging nanotechnologies.
A research team led by professor Federico Capasso of Harvard University sought to address the slow, bulky and expensive nature of existing polarimeters, which are the ubiquitous technology for measuring the polarization of light.
The team reduced the complexity and size of standard polarimeters by building a 2D metasurface covered with a thin array of metallic antennas, smaller than a wavelength of light, embedded in a polymer film.
Light from an optical fiber illuminates the metasurface and is scattered in four directions. The intensities are measured by four detectors, and from this measurement, the state of polarization of light is detected. Courtesy of the Capasso Lab/Harvard SEAS.
As light propagates down an optical fiber and illuminates the array, a small amount scatters in four directions. Four detectors measure the intensity of the scattered light and combine the data to give the state of polarization in real time.
"One advantage of this technique is that the polarization measurement leaves the signal mostly intact," said graduate student J.P. Balthasar Mueller. "This is crucial for many uses of polarimeters, especially in optical telecommunications, where measurements must be made without disturbing the data stream."
In telecommunications, optical signals propagating through fibers will change their polarization in random ways. New integrated photonic chips in fiber optic cables are extremely sensitive to polarization, and if light reaches a chip with the wrong polarization, it can cause a loss of signal.
The researchers said their method provided polarization state measurements matching those of a state-of-the-art commercial polarimeter. Chip-based polarimeters could provide comprehensive and real-time polarization monitoring to boost network performance and security, and help providers keep up with the increasing demand for bandwidth.
Researchers led by Kristjan Leosson at Innovation Center Iceland are now working on incorporating the metasurface component into a prototype polarimeter system.
"This device performs as well as any state-of-the-art polarimeter on the market but is considerably smaller," said Capasso. "A portable, compact polarimeter could become an important tool for not only the telecommunications industry but also in drug manufacturing, medical imaging, chemistry, astronomy, you name it. The applications are endless."
The research was published in Optica (doi: 10.1364/optica.3.000042 [open access]).
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After a strong showing in November 2015, both U.S. inbound deal volume and U.S.-sourced outbound deal volume contributed to the overall decline in December. While the largest U.S. inbound deal in November was valued at $37 billion, no U.S. inbound transaction in December topped the roughly $14 billion deal between Keurig Green Mountain Inc. and an investment group including Mondelez International Inc., BDT Capital Partners LLC and Agnaten SE. Canada continued to be the greatest source of U.S. inbound deals over the previous 12 months with total deal volume ($130.78 billion) 72.72% greater than the U.K., Canada's closest competitor in 2015. The overall decline in the market was further reflected in the absence of any especially large transactions in U.S.-sourced outbound activity. The largest recipient market of U.S. outbound activity in December 2015 was Taiwan at $4.03 billion, a far cry from the U.K.'s $32.15 billion in November. Figure 3.
Chemicals surged to the top spot in target industries by total transaction volume in December 2015 ($73.40 billion) having not appeared in the top five industries since September 2014. This was largely due to the $61.72 billion deal between E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company and the Dow Chemical Company. Healthcare maintained its position as the leading industry of the last 12 months ($574.65 billion) by a significant margin, while Computers & Electronics maintained its lead in number of deals both in December (173) and over the past 12 months (2,809). Figure 2.
Tender offers accounted for only 7.69% of public mergers announced in December 2015, falling from 32% in November and well below the 12-month average of 22.6%. Figure 11. Cash-only and stock-only deals each made up 38.5% of deals, while cash and stock deals nearly doubled to 15.4% in December 2015, a figure more in line with the 12-month average of 19%. Figure 9. Average break fees, reverse break fees and level of hostile activity remain in line with their 12-month averages as well. Figures 7 and 12.
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Corporate partner Scott Barshay will moderate a panel at the 18th Annual International Mergers & Acquisitions Conference.
Brexit – New Deadlines and Prolonged Uncertainty
In this video, London-based corporate partners Mark Bergman and David Lakhdhir discuss Britain’s upcoming deadlines and the MEP elections, political complications and potential next steps, against the backdrop of continued…
Marco Masotti to Participate in Conference on Globalization of Investment Funds
Funds partner Marco Masotti will moderate a panel at the International Bar Association Investment Funds Committee’s 30th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Investment Funds.
Funds Partners Quoted in Part 2 of Private Equity Law Report on Paul, Weiss Private Equity Funds Survey
Funds partners Marco Masotti, Matthew Goldstein, Conrad van Loggerenberg and Lindsey Wiersma are extensively quoted in part 2 of a Private Equity Law Report article discussing various issues arising in the private equity landscape,…
April 2019: Private Equity Digest
In this issue of the Private Equity Digest, we look at current trends in GP stakes investing in an interview with Paul, Weiss M&A partner and Corporate Department Deputy Chair Ariel J. Deckelbaum and Paul, Weiss M&A partner…
Paul, Weiss Hosts Annual Hedge Fund General Counsel Forum
Paul, Weiss hosted its Annual Hedge Fund GC Forum. The event brings together clients and friends from the industry’s most prominent hedge funds to discuss significant issues confronting the industry.
Funds Partners Quoted in Private Equity Law Report on Paul, Weiss Private Equity Funds Survey
Funds partners Marco Masotti, Matthew Goldstein, Conrad van Loggerenberg and Lindsey Wiersma are extensively quoted in a Private Equity Law Report article discussing the concerns of sponsors and the evolution of the relationship with…
Delaware Supreme Court Clarifies MFW’s “Ab Initio” Requirement and Partially Reverses Chancery Court Dismissal
In Olenik v. Lodzinski, the Delaware Supreme Court held that plaintiffs had sufficiently pled facts that the dual protections of a special committee and majority-of-the-minority-vote under the MFW roadmap was not in place before the…
In this issue of the Paul, Weiss Delaware M&A Quarterly, we discuss several decisions of significance to the M&A practice issued during the first quarter of 2019.
Steven Williams to Participate in Harvard Corporate Governance Roundtable
Corporate partner Steven Williams will speak at the March 21 Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance.
Mark Bergman to Participate in PLI’s Annual Institute on Securities Regulation in Europe
London-based securities partner Mark Bergman will speak on a panel at the Practising Law Institute’s 18th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation in Europe.
Marco Masotti and Udi Grofman to Participate in IBA’s International Conference on Private Investment Funds
Corporate partners Marco Masotti and Udi Grofman will participate in panel discussions at the International Bar Association’s 20th Annual International Conference on Private Investment Funds.
Ross Fieldston to Participate in Tulane Corporate Law Institute
Corporate partner Ross Fieldston will speak on a panel titled “Special Issues Carve-Out Transactions” at the 31st Tulane Corporate Law Institute.
Richard Elliott Participates in CFIUS/Export Control Panel at Georgetown University Law Center
On February 21, International Trade Counsel Richard Elliott participated in a panel discussion concerning CFIUS and export control developments at Georgetown University Law Center.
Betty Yap, Hans-Günther Herrmann and Rui Bu Discuss China’s Draft Foreign Investment Law
In an article published in China Law & Practice on January 31, corporate partner Betty Yap, counsel Hans-Günther Herrmann and China associate Rui Bu discuss the newly published Draft Foreign Investment Law and its practical…
Paul, Weiss Hosts Cross-Canada Panel Discussion on U.S. Legal Developments
Corporate partners Chris Cummings, Andrew Foley, Adam Givertz and Ted Maynard and litigation partners Susanna Buergel, Jessica Carey and Jaren Janghorbani participated in Paul, Weiss's 12th annual seminar on U.S. Legal Developments…
2018 Year-End U.S. Legal & Regulatory Developments Affecting Canadian Companies
In this video, corporate partners Chris Cummings and Andrew Foley discuss significant U.S. legal and regulatory developments during 2018 that may be of interest to Canadian companies and their advisors.
China Issues Market-Entry Negative List And Publishes Draft Foreign Investment Law for Public Comment
Since late 2017, in the context of the escalating trade war between the United States and Chinese governments, Chinese political leaders have signaled that they are willing to address some of the issues that the U.S. and other…
January 2019: Private Equity Digest
In this issue of the Private Equity Digest, we take a look at private equity trends in 2018 and possible developments for 2019.
Brad Karp and Steve Williams to Participate in Securities Litigation & Enforcement Institute Event
Firm chairman Brad Karp and corporate partner Steve Williams will participate in the New York City Bar’s seventh annual Securities Litigation & Enforcement Institute.
Update on the Federal Government Shutdown
As the federal government shutdown is poised to enter a fourth week, its impact on companies and their corporate operations grows. To help our clients and other interested parties navigate these developments, below is an update on…
In mid-December 2018, speakers and panelists representing regulatory and standard-setting bodies as well as auditors, registrants, securities counsel and other industry experts gathered in Washington D.C. for the 2018 AICPA Conference …
Attached is a link to the Paul, Weiss Private Funds Regulatory Compliance Calendar for 2019.
Scott Barshay Featured in WSJ Article on M&A in 2018
Corporate partner Scott Barshay is featured in a Wall Street Journal article featuring market commentary by the 7 top bankers and lawyers involved in the biggest M&A deals of 2018.
Jeff Marell Quoted in Reuters Article on Potential Drop in M&A in 2019
Corporate partner Jeffrey Marell is quoted in a Reuters article discussing a potential drop in mergers and acquisitions worldwide in 2019.
Scott Barshay Quoted in Financial Times Article on Global Dealmaking
Corporate partner Scott Barshay was quoted in a Financial Times article discussing the deceleration of global dealmaking in recent months.
Delaware Court of Chancery Declines to Dismiss Claims against Conflicted CEO
Recently in In re Xura, Inc. Stockholder Litigation, the Delaware Court of Chancery denied a motion to dismiss fiduciary duty claims against the CEO of Xura, Inc. for his actions in negotiating a sale of the company
Amran Hussein and Bob Hirsh to Speak at StreetWise Partners New York Graduation
Corporate partner Amran Hussein and of counsel Bob Hirsh will deliver the keynote address at the 2018 StreetWise Partners New York Graduation.
A Decisive Moment for Brexit Negotiations
After months of negotiations, the British Parliament was scheduled to vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit Withdrawal Agreement on Tuesday, December 11.
Paul, Weiss Announces Election of New Partners
Paul, Weiss is pleased to announce that the following attorneys have been elected to the partnership, effective January 1, 2019: Justin Anderson, Robert Britton, David Carmona, Harris Fischman, Christopher D. Frey, Matthew B.…
Directors Denied Corwin Protection Due to “Information Vacuum”
The Delaware Court of Chancery recently held in In re Tangoe, Inc. Stockholders Litigation that directors who approved a sale of the company were not entitled to business judgment protection under Corwin v. KKR Financial Holdings LLC…
Hans-Günther Herrmann Speaks on Foreign Investment in China
Corporate counsel Hans-Günther Herrmann gave a seminar to the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hong Kong entitled “Foreign Investment in China in the time of the Trade War.”
Q3 & Q2 2018 U.S. Legal and Regulatory Developments Affecting Canadian Companies
In this video, corporate partners Andrew Foley and Ted Maynard discuss significant U.S. legal and regulatory developments during the third and second quarters of 2018 that may be of interest to Canadian companies and their advisors.
Marco Masotti, Matthew Goldstein and Robert Tananbaum Publish Article in AIC’s Newsletter
Corporate partner Marco Masotti, counsel Matthew Goldstein and associate Robert Tananbaum co-wrote a guest article that was featured in the American Investment Council’s (AIC) October newsletter.
October 2018: Private Equity Digest
In this issue of the Private Equity Digest, we look at four ways PE firms have adapted to the current competitive environment: (i) engaging in more buy-and-build approaches or add-on acquisitions, (ii) investing in early-stage…
Delaware Supreme Court Clarifies That “ab initio” for MFW Purposes Means before the Start of Substantive Economic Negotiations
In Flood v. Synutra International, Inc., the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Chancery’s holding that the controlling shareholder satisfied MFW’s “ab initio” requirement by conditioning the deal on the required procedural…
AFME and Euro IRP Publish Guidance on New Rules Governing UK IPO Process
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (“AFME”) and the European Association of Independent Research Providers (“Euro IRP”) recently published industry-wide guidance (the “Guidance”) in respect of the rules adopted by the UK…
Jordan Yarett Contributes Article on Structured Finance to Lexis Practice Advisor
Finance partner Jordan Yarett contributed an article, “Structured Finance, Securitization and Derivatives,” to Lexis Practice Advisor.
Five Paul, Weiss Partners to Participate in Annual IBA Conference
Corporate partners Mark Bergman, Ariel Deckelbaum, Marco Masotti, Alvaro Membrillera and Tarun Stewart will participate in the International Bar Association’s annual conference.
Steve Williams Discusses Best Practices in Activist Defense With The Deal
In this video, corporate partner Steve Williams discusses tactics for activist preparedness, engagement and defense with The Deal’s Scott Gamm.
The Financial Crisis 10 Years Later: Lessons Learned
Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, market participants and other global companies operate in a markedly changed regulatory enforcement and compliance landscape. This memorandum discusses the legal and business…
Brexit - Looming Deadlines and Competing Visions
In this video, London-based corporate partners Mark Bergman and David Lakhdhir discuss key issues, including the possible scenarios for the UK leaving the EU and the implications of the splits within Prime Minister May's cabinet, the…
Udi Grofman to Participate at ALM’s Annual Hedge Fund General Counsel & Compliance Officer Summit
Corporate partner Udi Grofman will speak on a panel at ALM’s 12th Annual Hedge Fund General Counsel & Compliance and Officer Summit.
Delaware Court Clarifies When MFW’s Protections Must be in Place Under “Ab Initio” Requirement
The recent Delaware Court of Chancery opinion in Olenik v. Lodzinski held that the parties to an acquisition had met the now well-known roadmap for controller transactions to receive business judgment review under Kahn v. M&F…
July 2018: Private Equity Digest
This edition of the Paul, Weiss Private Equity Digest continues our discussion of key considerations for private equity transactions resulting from the new tax law.
Eric Goodison and Margot Wagner Co-Author Overview of Covenant-Lite Loans
Corporate partner Eric Goodison and practice management counsel Margot Wagner published an overview of covenant-lite loans on the Thomson Reuters Practical Law website.
Marco Masotti, Lindsey Wiersma and Conrad van Loggerenberg Co-Author Chapter in ICLG’s Alternative Investment Funds Guide
Corporate partner Marco Masotti, counsel Lindsey Wiersma and associate Conrad van Loggerenberg co-authored a chapter of The International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG) to Alternative Investment Funds 2018.
Alan Kornberg Interviewed by INSOL International
Goodmans LLP Partner Brendan O’Neill (PW 2000) interviewed Paul, Weiss Partner Alan Kornberg as part of a series of interviews conducted by INSOL International’s Younger Members. The series covers various high profile cases and topics …
Marco Masotti to Participate in PLI’s Annual Private Equity Forum
Corporate partner Marco Masotti will speak at the Practising Law Institute’s 19th Annual Private Equity Forum.
Corporate partner Scott Barshay was quoted in a Financial Times article discussing the record-breaking pace of global dealmaking, which reached $2.5 trillion in the first half of 2018.
Delaware Court Dismisses Misappropriation Claim Against Private Equity Firm for Investing in Competing Company
Recently the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed claims that a private equity firm and affiliated funds misappropriated trade secrets acquired from their portfolio company via their director designees and then misused the information …
Delaware Court of Chancery Finds It “Reasonably Conceivable” That Two Minority Stockholders Form Control Group
Recently in In re Hansen Medical, Inc. Stockholders Litigation, the Delaware Court of Chancery declined to grant defendants’ motion to dismiss, finding that plaintiff stockholders had sufficiently pled a “reasonably conceivable” claim …
FCA Publishes a Consultation on an Update to a Technical Note on Periodic Financial Information and Inside Information
On June 11, 2018, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) published a special edition of its Primary Market Bulletin containing a consultation (the “Consultation”) on an update to its existing guidance on periodic financial…
In this edition of the Paul, Weiss Private Equity Digest, we discuss key considerations for private equity transactions resulting from the new tax law. This is part one of a two-part article.
Scott Barshay, Jeffrey Marell and Steven Williams Participate in The Deal’s Corporate Governance Conference
Corporate partners Scott Barshay, Jeffrey Marell and Steven Williams spoke at The Deal’s 2018 Corporate Governance conference, an exclusive gathering of corporate decision makers and their advisors to discuss strategies and challenges …
Jonathan Ashtor to Participate at Fifth Annual Conference on Empirical Methods in IP
Intellectual property counsel Jonathan Ashtor will present at the Fifth Annual Conference on Empirical Methods in IP, hosted by the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Cardozo Law School and the United States Patent & Trademark…
FTC Gets New Leadership
Less than a week after the U.S. Senate voted to approve a full slate of new commissioners to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), four of those appointees were sworn in to their new positions.
Key Implications of the EU’s new PRIIPs and MiFID II Regimes for Offerings of Debt Securities
Two new European regulatory regimes came into force in January 2018, bringing about sweeping changes for many market participants involved in offers and sales of financial instruments in Europe.
Alan Kornberg and Elizabeth McColm Contribute USA Chapter to Corporate Recovery & Insolvency Guide
Bankruptcy partners Alan Kornberg and Elizabeth McColm co-authored the “USA” chapter in the 2018 edition of The International Comparative Legal Guide to Corporate Recovery & Insolvency
Eric Goodison Authors Article on M&A Financing for Lexis Practice Advisor
Finance partner Eric Goodison authored an article titled “Market Trends 2017/18: M&A Financing” for Lexis Practice Advisor.
Implications of the New EU Data Protection Regime and Its Expanded Application for Non-EU Entities
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”), approved and adopted by the European Union in April 2016, takes effect in all member states of the European Union on May 25, 2018.
The Proposed CFIUS Reform Bill’s Potential Impact on Private Equity
As the possibility of trade and other protectionist policies looms in the U.S. and globally, we highlight the pending Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2017 (FIRRMA) and its potential impact on private equity.
CAQ Publishes a Roadmap of Non-GAAP Financial Measures for Audit Committees
On March 16, 2018, the Center for Audit Quality (the “CAQ”) published Non-GAAP Financial Measures: A Roadmap for Audit Committees (the “Roadmap”) to provide guidance to audit committees on advancing their oversight and involvement…
Taurie Zeitzer Profiled in Diversity & The Bar Article on Women in M&A
M&A partner Taurie Zeitzer was featured as a top M&A lawyer in the Spring 2018 issue of Diversity & The Bar magazine.
In this issue of the Paul, Weiss Delaware M&A Quarterly, we discuss several decisions of significance to the M&A practice from the first quarter of 2018.
Delaware Court of Chancery Finds 22% Stockholder to be Controller Due to Unique Facts
The Delaware Court of Chancery recently ruled that Tesla stockholder Elon Musk is a controller of Tesla Motors, even though Musk held only 22.1% of Tesla’s stock.
Jonathan Ashtor to Participate in USPTO Visiting Speaker Series
On March 29, intellectual property counsel Jonathan Ashtor will present to the United States Patent and Trademark Office as part of its Visiting Speaker Series.
March 2018: Private Equity Digest
In this edition of the Paul, Weiss Private Equity Digest, we discuss the complex issues that can arise when parties in private transactions negotiate how to split transaction tax deductions, as illustrated by the recent Delaware…
Corporate Partners to Participate in ABA/IBA International Conference on Private Investment Funds
Corporate partners Marco Masotti (who co-chairs the conference), Ariel Deckelbaum, Amran Hussein, Udi Grofman and Ramy Wahbeh are taking part in the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association’s 19th Annual…
Brad Karp and Scott Barshay to Participate in Securities Litigation & Enforcement Institute Event
Firm chairman Brad Karp and corporate partner Scott Barshay will participate in the New York City Bar’s Sixth annual Securities Litigation & Enforcement Institute.
Lindsey Wiersma to Participate in Women’s Private Equity Summit
Corporate counsel Lindsey Wiersma will attend the 11th annual Women’s Private Equity Summit.
Delaware Court of Chancery Uses DCF Analysis to Appraise Merger Target below Deal Price
Recently in In re Appraisal of AOL Inc., the Delaware Court of Chancery, in an opinion by Vice Chancellor Glasscock, relied solely on its own discounted cash flow (“DCF”) analysis to appraise the fair value of AOL Inc. below the deal…
SEC Issues Updated Guidance on Cybersecurity Disclosure
The SEC recently provided updated guidance on cybersecurity-related disclosure obligations. We discuss the SEC’s new interpretive guidance, which seeks to assist companies in preparing disclosure concerning cybersecurity risks and…
Delaware Court of Chancery Appraises Company below Merger Price Based on Unaffected Market Price
Recently in Veriton Partners Master Fund Ltd v. Aruba Networks, Inc., the Delaware Court of Chancery, in an opinion by Vice Chancellor Laster, appraised the fair value of Aruba Networks, Inc. to be about 30.6% less than the agreed…
Paul, Weiss Hosts Seminar Series on U.S. Legal Developments Affecting Canadian Companies
Corporate partners Christopher Cummings, Andrew Forley, Adam Givertz and Ted Maynard, litigation partner Susanna Buergel and bankruptcy partner Alice Eaton participated in Paul, Weiss's annual seminar series, "U.S. Legal Developments…
New York Court Declines to Approve Disclosure-Only Settlement, Even Under More Lenient Gordon Standard
The New York Supreme Court recently declined to approve what the court described as a “peppercorn and a fee” disclosure-only settlement in a public company M&A litigation, noting that while until recently most courts would…
Jack Lange Interviewed By Bloomberg
Corporate partner Jack Lange was interviewed by Bloomberg Markets in Hong Kong about the impact of the U.S. Administration on businesses in Asia.
In this edition of the Paul, Weiss Private Equity Digest, we review private equity M&A market trends from 2017 and look ahead to 2018.
Valerie Radwaner Featured in LEADERS Magazine
Deputy chair Valerie Radwaner was featured in a Q&A in LEADERS magazine’s latest issue.
Video Summary: M&A at a Glance - 2017 Year-End Roundup
2017 was an active year for M&A, though year-end results did not surpass the records set in 2016.
Q4 2017 U.S. Legal & Regulatory Developments Affecting Canadian Companies
In this video, corporate partners Andrew Foley and Ted Maynard discuss the significant U.S. legal and regulatory developments during the fourth quarter of 2017 of interest to Canadian companies and their advisors.
Marco Masotti to Participate on Panel on Development Finance at Oxford University
Corporate partner Marco Masotti will speak on a panel on development finance in emerging markets at an event sponsored by the Queen Mary-UNIDROIT Institute of Transnational Commercial Law.
Ryan McNaughton Discusses Esoteric Asset Securitization at PLI Seminar
Corporate counsel Ryan McNaughton discussed esoteric asset securitization at the Practising Law Institute’s “New Developments in Securitization” seminar on December 13 in New York City.
Delaware Court of Chancery Specifically Enforces Oral Settlement Agreement with Activist Investor
Recently the Delaware Court of Chancery used its equitable powers to specifically enforce a disputed oral settlement agreement in a proxy contest resulting in two dissident directors being seated on the company’s board. The court…
Attached is a link to the Paul, Weiss Private Funds Regulatory Compliance Calendar for 2018. The calendar covers certain (but not all) regulatory obligations of a typical U.S.-based private fund adviser. Please note that any words…
Delaware Court of Chancery Dismisses Fiduciary Duty Claims Despite Inapplicability of Corwin
Recently in van der Fluit v. Yates, the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed fiduciary duty claims against the board of a company stemming from its acquisition, even though the court concluded that business judgment review did not…
Paul, Weiss Announces Election of Five New Partners
Paul, Weiss announced that five new partners have been elected to the partnership, effective January 1, 2018: Yahonnes Cleary, Brian S. Grieve, Kyle J. Kimpler, Lindsay B. Parks and Ramy J. Wahbeh.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced that five new partners have been elected to the partnership effective January 1, 2014: Ross A. Fieldston, Brian P. Finnegan, Jaren E. Janghorbani, Patrick N. Karsnitz and Jane …
Marco Masotti Featured in UVA Lawyer Magazine
Corporate partner Marco Masotti was featured in a Q&A in this month’s UVA Lawyer, the alumni magazine of the University of Virginia School of Law.
Jonathan Ashtor to Present at IP Statistics for Decision Makers Conference
Intellectual property counsel Jonathan Ashtor will be presenting at the IP Statistics for Decision Makers conference from November 14-15 in Mexico City.
Ariel Deckelbaum Moderates Panel at Financial Times Conference
Corporate partner Ariel Deckelbaum moderated a panel at the Financial Times – Outstanding Directors Exchange conference.
Carolyn Casselman Participates in CLE Hosted by Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
Entertainment counsel Carolyn Casselman was a panelist at a CLE event sponsored by the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and hosted by Paul, Weiss.
Ross Fieldston and Jonathan Kanter to Speak at Business-Government Relations Council’s Annual Meeting
Corporate partner Ross Fieldston and antitrust partner Jonathan Kanter will speak on the topic of M&A in regulated industries at the Business-Government Relations Council’s 2017 Annual Meeting.
M&A at a Glance
In this month’s M&A at a Glance, we review the most significant trends in M&A activity for the month of September.
Preferred Stock Minority Investments in the Private Equity Context
Corporate partners Angelo Bonvino and Ted Ackerman co-authored an article, “Preferred-Stock Minority Investments in the Private Equity Context,” for Lexis Practice Advisor.
Treasury Issues Report Outlining Proposed Reforms to U.S. Capital Markets
The Department of the Treasury recently issued a report outlining proposed changes to U.S. capital markets regulations, providing a regulatory “road map” for the SEC and the CFTC. The reforms, including several aimed at expanding and…
In this video, corporate partners Andrew Foley and Ted Maynard discuss the significant U.S. legal and regulatory developments during the third quarter of 2017 of interest to Canadian companies and their advisors.
Mark Bergman and Sofia Martos Co-Author Article in Securities Law Daily
London-based partner Mark Bergman and associate Sofia Martos published an article in the October 5 edition of Bloomberg BNA Securities Law Daily.
In this issue of the Paul, Weiss Delaware M&A Quarterly, we discuss several decisions of significance to the M&A practice issued during the third quarter of 2017
Private Funds Spotlight: GP-Led Secondary Transactions
With several headline-grabbing GP-led secondary transactions, 2017 has witnessed the maturation of a relatively new feature in the private equity industry’s liquidity tool kit. In this issue of Private Funds Spotlight, corporate…
Screening of Foreign Investments in the EU
The European Commission recently issued a proposed regulation establishing a framework for screening foreign investments into the European Union. The regulation, if adopted, would authorize EU member states, as well as the Commission…
New SEC Disclosure Requirements on Form ADV Become Effective October 1
In this alert, we describe the new SEC disclosure requirements applicable to investment advisers under amendments to Part 1A of Form ADV that will go into effect on October 1, 2017. The amendments require additional information…
Hans-Günther Herrmann Speaks on Developments in China’s Foreign Investment Regime
Corporate counsel Hans-Günther Herrmann gave a seminar to the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hong Kong on China’s regime for foreign investments.
Richard Elliott Appears on Trade Panel on Capitol Hill
International Trade Counsel Richard Elliott appeared on a panel yesterday on trade issues organized by the US-China Business Council for the benefit of House of Representatives staff members.
Mark Bergman to Participate in PLI Webcast
London-based securities partner Mark Bergman will participate in an hour-long briefing by the Practising Law Institute, “Accessing the U.S. Capital Markets From Europe Without SEC Registration: Understanding the Interplay Between…
In this month’s M&A at a Glance, we review the most significant trends in M&A activity for the month of August.
Udi Grofman to Participate at PLI’s Hedge Fund Management Program
Corporate partner Udi Grofman will speak at the Practising Law Institute’s 2017 Hedge Fund Management program.
Jonathan Ashtor Participates at EPIP Conference
Intellectual property counsel Jonathan Ashtor presented at the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) conference.
Marco Masotti to Deliver Keynote Address at AIC’s Chief Financial Officers Day
Corporate partner Marco Masotti will deliver the keynote address at the American Investment Council’s (AIC) Chief Financial Officers Day.
Delaware Court of Chancery Extends M&F Worldwide Doctrine to Third Party Transactions with a Selling Controller
Recently, the Delaware Court of Chancery extended the Kahn v. M&F Worldwide roadmap for invoking business judgment review in controller buyouts to third-party transactions where the controller acts as a seller only, but is…
China Publishes Official Guidelines on Overseas Investments
On August 17, 2017, the Chinese Government published new regulatory guidelines regarding overseas investments, the Opinions on Further Guiding and Regulating the Directions of Overseas Investments (the “Guiding Opinions”).
In this video, corporate partners Andrew Foley and Ted Maynard discuss the significant U.S. legal and regulatory developments during the second quarter of 2017 of interest to Canadian companies and their advisors.
While the Clock Continues to Tick, Brexit Positions Continue to Evolve
Since Prime Minister Theresa May lost her majority in the U.K. Parliament on June 8, there has been much speculation as to whether the British government would continue down the road of a “hard” Brexit or would move to a softer…
M&A at a Glance (August 2017)
In this month’s M&A at a Glance, we review the most significant trends in M&A activity for the month of July.
Jonathan Ashtor Participates in Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference
Corporate counsel Jonathan Ashtor spoke on a panel titled “Patents and Innovation” at the 17th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, hosted by the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Court of Chancery Appraisal Decision and Directs Greater Reliance on Deal Price
In a recent decision, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed the Court of Chancery’s determination of the fair value of DFC Global Corporation, finding that the Court of Chancery erred in not giving greater weight to the deal price. The …
President Trump Signs Sanctions Legislation Targeting Russia, North Korea and Iran, Creating New Compliance Risks for U.S. and Non-U.S. Companies
President Trump recently signed into law H.R. 3364, the “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act.” The law significantly expands U.S. sanctions targeting Russia and restricts President Trump’s ability to lift them…
OFAC Breaks New Ground By Penalizing Non-U.S. Companies for Making U.S. Dollar Payments Involving a Sanctioned Country
On July 27, 2017, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced a $12 million settlement with two Singapore-based companies over their use of U.S. dollar payments in connection with providing…
China’s Insurance Regulator Issues Revised Draft Measures for the Administration of Equity Interests
In December 2016, the China Insurance Company Regulatory Commission (CIRC) released draft measures for the administration of equity interests in insurance companies, as we noted in previous updates here and here. On July 20, CIRC…
Steve Williams Discusses Activism Defense With The Deal
In this video, corporate partner Steve Williams speaks with The Deal’s Ron Orol about activist defense, including strategies for activist preparedness.
David Huntington and Roberto Gonzalez Quoted in Compliance Reporter Article on Treasury Report on Financial Regulatory Reform
Partners David Huntington and Roberto Gonzalez were quoted in a Compliance Reporter article discussing the U.S. Department of Treasury’s first of four reports recommending reforms to financial regulation.
Jeff Marell Discusses Delaware Appraisal Decisions with The Deal
In this video, Jeff Marell, corporate partner and co-head of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice, speaks with The Deal’s David Marcus about recent Delaware Court of Chancery decisions in Petsmart and SWS Group and their impact on…
CFPB Adopts a Ban on Arbitration Clauses that Prevent Class Action Litigation
In a sweeping new rule published today in the Federal Register, the CFPB barred providers of consumer financial products and services from entering into or enforcing contracts that include arbitration clauses precluding class action…
M&A at a Glance (July 2017)
In this month’s M&A At a Glance, we review the most significant trends in M&A activity for the month of June.
Video Summary: M&A at a Glance, July 2017
M&A activity generally declined in June 2017, both in terms of deal volume and number of deals.
Jonathan Kanter to Participate at CWAG Annual Meeting
Antitrust partner Jonathan Kanter will speak on a panel at the Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) annual meeting.
The European Union Publishes Its Final Prospectus Regulation
On June 30, 2017, the final text of a new EU regulation entitled “Regulation on the prospectus to be published when securities are being offered to public or admitted to trading on a regulated market” (the “Prospectus Regulation”)was…
SEC Permits All Issuers to Submit Certain Registration Statements on a Confidential Basis
The SEC will allow all issuers to submit for review IPO draft registration statements and certain other registrations on a confidential basis beginning July 10.
Treasury Issues Report Outlining Reforms to U.S. Banking Regulation
The Treasury Department recently issued the first of four reports in response to President Trump’s February executive order setting forth “Core Principles” intended to guide U.S. financial regulatory system reform. This first report…
Alvaro Membrillera Hosts Private Equity Seminar at London Business School
London partner Alvaro Membrillera held a seminar on the legal aspects of private equity for more than 60 MBA students. The event took place at the London Business School on June 3.
M&A at a Glance (June 2017)
In this month’s M&A at a Glance, we review the most significant trends in M&A activity for the month of May.
Video Summary: M&A at a Glance, June 2017
M&A activity showed mixed results in May 2017, both in terms of deal volume and number of deals.
House Approves Financial CHOICE Act
On June 8, the House of Representatives passed a revised version of the Financial CHOICE Act that would repeal or modify significant portions of the Dodd-Frank Act and address a wide range of other financial regulations.
PCAOB Adopts New Audit Standard Requiring Disclosure of Critical Audit Matters
On June 1, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board adopted a new audit standard requiring disclosure of “critical audit matters” in the auditor’s report. The new audit standard is subject to approval by the SEC.
Delaware Court of Chancery Finds Vote Coercive and Insufficient to Cleanse Board Action
In a recent decision, the Delaware Court of Chancery held that a stockholder vote approving both stock issuances and the grant of a voting proxy to the company’s largest stockholder was “structurally coerced” and therefore…
Recent Delaware Court of Chancery Appraisal Decisions Continue to Highlight Reliance on Deal Price to Determine Fair Value Absent a Problematic Sale Process
Two decisions by the Delaware Court of Chancery in the past two weeks reached seemingly disparate outcomes on fair value for the companies involved, but together stand for the general trend of recent appraisal decisions that deal…
Scott Barshay and Jeffrey Marell to Participate at The Deal’s Corporate Governance Conference
Corporate partners Scott Barshay and Jeffrey Marell will participate at The Deal’s upcoming conference, “Corporate Governance 2017: Navigating New Challenges to Value Creation.”
Scott Barshay and Stephen Lamb to Participate at PLI Seminar on Delaware Law Developments
Corporate partner Scott Barshay and litigation partner Stephen Lamb will speak at the Practising Law Institute’s Delaware Law Developments 2017: What All Business Lawyers Need to Know seminar.
May 2017: Private Equity Digest
In this edition of the Paul, Weiss Private Equity Digest, we discuss appraisal risk in private equity transactions and possible ways to address this risk.
Robert Fleder Participates on ABA’s Tax Section Lecture Panel
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation partner Robert Fleder spoke on a panel about “Partnership Equity-Based Compensation” at the May meeting of the American Bar Association’s Tax Section in Washington, D.C. hosted by the…
Jonathan Ashtor Participates in Roundtable on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property
Corporate counsel Jonathan Ashtor participated in the Fourth Annual Roundtable on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property.
Matthew Abbott Speaks on Trends in the Private Equity Market in Forbes Q&A
In a Q&A for Forbes, corporate partner Matthew Abbott speaks on changes in the private equity market, and addresses mega-buyout funds, the expansion of funds’ geographic focus, the outlook for the economy, and the market’s effect…
Paul, Weiss Adds Prominent M&A Lawyer in London
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that Alvaro Gomez de Membrillera Galiana has joined the firm as a partner in its Mergers & Acquisitions Group, resident in the London office.
Secretary Johnson, Rick Rule and Adam Givertz Participate in Seminar on Canada and U.S. Relations
Litigation partners Jeh Johnson and Rick Rule and corporate partner Adam Givertz participated in Paul, Weiss’s lunch seminar in Toronto, “Perspectives on Canada and U.S. Relations.”
Video Summary: M&A at a Glance, May 2017
Global M&A activity declined by most measures in April 2017, while the U.S. showed more mixed results.
Brexit Negotiations – Potential Outcomes and Political Context
As the UK and the EU prepare for upcoming negotiations over a withdrawal agreement and the terms of access by the UK to EU markets for goods and services, it is clear that the parties are extremely far apart, which could have…
Release of UK and EU Negotiating Positions Provides Little Clarity on Brexit Outcome
For many businesses, knowing the contours of the eventual Brexit deal is critical to evaluating what contingency plans may be required and, if required, by what point in time. In this memorandum, we examine the British and EU…
Jonathan Ashtor Participates in Northwestern’s Research Roundtable on Patents and Technology Standards
Corporate counsel Jonathan Ashtor participated in Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Fifth Annual Research Roundtable on Patents and Technology Standards.
Q1 2017 U.S. Legal Developments Affecting Canadian Companies
There was a flurry of U.S. legal and regulatory developments during the first quarter of 2017.
Ray Russo to Participate in PLI Seminar on Private Placements and Hybrid Securities Offerings
Corporate partner Raphael Russo will speak at the Practicing Law Institute’s 2017 Private Placements and Hybrid Securities Offerings seminar.
Secretary Johnson to Speak at CUNY School of Law’s Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice
Litigation partner Jeh Johnson will deliver the keynote address tonight at an event sponsored by the CUNY School of Law’s Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice.
Betty Yap to Moderate Panel at IFLR Asia Women in Business Law Forum
Corporate partner Betty Yap will moderate a panel at the International Financial Law Review’s Asia Women in Business Law Forum.
M&A at a Glance (April 2017)
Global M&A activity in March 2017 was generally stronger than in February and also outperformed U.S. activity, where a decline in average deal size overshadowed an increase in the number of deals.
Video Summary: M&A at a Glance, April 2017
Global M&A activity was generally stronger in March 2017 and outperformed U.S. activity, where a decline in average deal size overshadowed an increase in the number of deals.
Betty Yap and Hans-Günther Herrmann Co-Author Article on China’s Insurance M&A Reform
Corporate partner Betty Yap and counsel Hans-Günther Herrmann co-authored an article in the April issue of China Law & Practice.
Delaware Court of Chancery Holds That Stockholder Vote on Equity Incentive Plan Ratifies Later Awards
In a recent decision in In re Investor Bancorp, Inc. Stockholder Litigation, the Delaware Court of Chancery held that a fully informed stockholder vote approving adoption of an equity incentive plan also ratified subsequent equity…
SEC Reporting Requirements: Updates and Trends
The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a notice with new disclosure requirements that further modernize reporting standards.
SEC Issues Statements Following Recent Conflict Minerals Decision
Following a recent judgment by the D.C. District Court finding that certain provisions of the SEC’s “conflict minerals” disclosure rule violate companies’ First Amendment rights, the SEC has indicated that it will not enforce those…
Brexit: Britain Formally Enters Uncharted Waters
Nine months after the British voted to withdraw from the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May has provided formal notification of the country’s intention to begin the mandated two-year period of negotiation to effect that…
Delaware Court of Chancery Declines to Apply 'Corwin' to Dismiss Post-Merger Claims against Directors in Stockholder-Approved Merger
In a recent decision in In re Saba Software, Inc. Stockholder Litigation, the Delaware Court of Chancery demonstrates the limits of the application of the business judgment rule under Corwin v. KKR Financial Holdings LLC. The court…
Rick Rule to Participate at the Institute for Energy Law’s Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures Conference
Litigation partner Rick Rule will speak at the Institute for Energy Law’s Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures conference.
Ross Fieldston Participates in Tulane University Law School’s Annual Corporate Law Institute
Corporate partner Ross Fieldston participated in a panel at Tulane University Law School’s 29th Annual Corporate Law Institute.
Delaware Supreme Court Affirms Decision Permitting Merger Termination Based on Failure to Satisfy Tax Opinion Covenant
In a 4-1 split decision in The Williams Cos., Inc. v. Energy Transfer Equity, L.P., et al., the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Chancery’s decision permitting termination of a merger agreement by the acquirer based on the …
SEC Adopts T+2 Settlement Cycle for Securities Transactions
On March 22, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted, as proposed, an amendment to Rule 15c6-1(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to shorten by one business day the standard settlement cycle for most…
M&A at a Glance (March 2017)
M&A activity generally declined in February 2017, both globally and in the U.S. Total deal volume, as measured by dollar value, decreased globally by 30.1% to $202.45 billion, and in the U.S. by 3.7% to $106.47 billion.
Video Summary: M&A at a Glance, March 2017
M&A activity generally declined in February 2017, with total deal volume and the number of transactions falling in the U.S. and globally.
Judie Ng Shortell to Speak at Private Equity & Venture Forum in Beijing
Corporate partner Judie Ng Shortell will take part in the Asian Venture Capital Journal’s annual China Private Equity & Venture Forum.
Robert Schumer Examines a New Paradigm for Corporate Governance at NYU Law
Corporate partner Robert Schumer participated in a panel discussion titled “A New Paradigm for Corporate Governance,” hosted by the NYU Law School’s Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance.
Law Firm Leaders Send Letter to OMB in Support of Funding For Legal Aid Agency
As reported in The Wall Street Journal and The American Lawyer, Paul, Weiss is among six major law firms spearheading an initiative to prevent cuts to the Legal Services Corp. (LSC)’s budget that would affect LSC’s ability to provide…
Secretary Jeh Johnson Addresses the Oxford Union
Secretary Johnson delivered a keynote speech to a capacity audience at the Oxford Union on March 8.
Current and Former Paul, Weiss Attorneys Celebrate the Paul, Weiss Alumni Network
Paul, Weiss is a close-knit community with a distinct culture and shared values. In this video from our Alumni Reception, current and former Paul, Weiss lawyers share their thoughts on the firm and their ongoing connections to its…
Peter Jaffe Quoted in GIR Article on DOJ’s New Guidance on Corporate Compliance
Counsel Peter Jaffe was quoted in a Global Investigations Review “Just Anti-Corruption” article addressing a new set of questions the U.S. Department of Justice may ask when evaluating the strength of a company’s compliance program.
Gitanjali Workman Participates on Women’s Panel Hosted by Duke WLSA
Corporate counsel Gitanjali Workman spoke on a panel sponsored by Duke University’s Women Law Students Association (WSLA).
Corporate partners Christopher Cummings, Andrew Foley, Adam Givertz and Ted Maynard and litigation partners Susanna Buergel and Roberto Gonzalez participated in Paul, Weiss's annual seminar series, "U.S. Legal Developments…
Udi Grofman to Speak at Maples Investment Funds Forum
Corporate partner Udi Grofman will speak at the upcoming Maples Investment Funds Forum conference.
President and Congress Eliminate SEC Resource Extraction Rule
On February 14, President Trump signed a joint resolution of Congress passed under the Congressional Review Act eliminating an SEC rule requiring resource extraction issuers to disclose payments made to the U.S. or foreign…
Video Summary: M&A at a Glance, February 2017
M&A activity showed mixed results in January 2017, with the global market generally down and the U.S. market generally up.
Client Alert: Draft Regulations Set to Change Landscape of Investments in Chinese Insurance Companies
On December 29, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission released draft measures for the Administration of Equity Interests in Insurance Companies. The measures, expected to be finalized and implemented soon, will affect future…
Brexit – Next Steps and Political Implications
Brexit has moved one step closer, as Britain's lower house of Parliament has passed legislation to allow Prime Minister Theresa May to officially begin the process.
Client Alert: SEC Lists the Five Most Frequent Compliance Topics Identified in Examinations of Investment Advisers
On February 7, the SEC's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations identified five areas of compliance deficiencies or weaknesses frequently found during the staff's examinations of registered investment advisers. In the…
Claudia Tobler Examines Environmental Claims and Obligations in Bankruptcy
The tension between environmental regulation and bankruptcy law makes environmental liability an issue that must be considered as part of any bankruptcy strategy.
Jacob Adlerstein Featured in Upcoming PLI Panels on Distressed Debt, Restructurings and Workouts
Bankruptcy partner Jacob Adlerstein will speak on three panels at the Practising Law Institute's upcoming seminar, titled "Recent Developments in Distressed Debt, Restructurings and Workouts 2017."
Judie Ng Shortell Examines Global Trends Fueling Chinese Deal Activity
In a Q&A titled "M&A Madness," corporate partner Judie Ng Shortell discusses the hottest trends fueling Chinese deal activity, solutions to top regulatory issues and vital tips for foreign and domestic M&A parties.
Client Alert: Delaware Court of Chancery Dismisses Complaint Seeking Quasi-Appraisal Remedy Based on Post-Closing Disclosure Claims
In In re United Capital Corp. Stockholders Litigation, the Delaware Court of Chancery granted the defendants' motion to dismiss a complaint filed by a former minority stockholder of United Capital Corporation seeking "quasi-appraisal" …
Client Alert: Reported Foreign Exchange Restrictions in China Affect Outward Remittances
Chinese media have recently reported delays in remittance of funds for outbound direct investment transactions, as well as certain other forms of repatriations of funds out of China due to enhanced enforcement of foreign exchange…
Client Alert: M&A at a Glance (December 2016)
After the spike in activity due to megadeals in October, M&A activity returned in November to more normalized levels both in deal volume and number of deals. Total deal volume in the U.S. and globally declined in November…
Hans-Günther Herrmann Speaks on China’s Foreign Direct Investment Reform
Corporate counsel Hans-Günther Herrmann gave a seminar to the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hong Kong on recent trends and developments in China's Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Invested Enterprises reforms.
Brad Karp Featured in Forbes
Paul, Weiss chair Brad Karp discussed how the firm has managed to generate 20 consecutive years of revenue and profitability growth in a Forbes Q&A.
Ryan McNaughton to Address Esoteric Asset Securitization at PLI Seminar
Corporate counsel Ryan McNaughton will discuss esoteric asset securitization at the Practising Law Institute's "New Developments in Securitization" seminar on December 14 in New York City.
Paul, Weiss Announces Election of Three New Partners
Paul, Weiss has announced that three new partners have been elected to the partnership, effective January 1, 2017: David M. Klein, Brian C. Lavin and Richard C. Tarlowe. All are resident in Paul, Weiss's New York office.
Client Alert: ISS and Glass Lewis Publish 2017 U.S. Voting Policies
U.S. proxy advisory firms ISS and Glass Lewis recently issued their respective voting policies for the 2017 proxy season. In this client memorandum, we summarize key policy changes. The changes show a consensus in approach…
The CFPB Issues Guidance on Effective Compliance Oversight Over Sales and Other Incentives
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently published a bulletin outlining a demanding compliance standard for companies that use incentive programs as part of employees' compensation arrangements. In light of the bulletin and…
Brexit – Legal Developments and Political Uncertainty
The uncertainty around Brexit has only increased in the wake of the U.K. High Court's recent ruling that the process cannot begin without approval from Parliament.
Below is a link to the Paul, Weiss Private Funds Regulatory Compliance Calendar for 2017. The calendar covers certain (but not all) regulatory obligations of a typical U.S.-based private fund adviser. Please note that any…
M&A at a Glance (November 2016)
M&A volume in October 2016 increased to record levels, as measured by total dollar value, largely due to a spike in the number of megadeals, with eight October deals valued at or above $10 billion dollars. Total deal volume…
Video Summary: M&A at a Glance, November 2016
M&A volume increased to record levels in October 2016, largely due to eight megadeals valued at $10 billion or more.
Q3 U.S. Legal Developments Affecting Canadian Companies
In this video, corporate partner Andrew Foley, a member of the Canadian Practice Group, discusses third-quarter U.S. legal developments that could impact Canadian companies and their advisors, including increased scrutiny of…
Client Alert: High Court Rules U.K. Government Cannot Trigger Brexit Without Parliamentary Authorization
The U.K. High Court today held that the U.K. Secretary of State does not have the power to give notice pursuant to Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union for the nation to withdraw from the European Union. According …
Client Alert: Embraer SA Pays $205 Million to the SEC and DOJ to Settle FCPA Violations
On October 24, 2016, U.S. authorities announced that Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer SA agreed to pay more than $205 million to resolve violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act's anti-bribery, books and records and …
Hans-Günther Herrmann and Jack Sun Co-Author Article on China’s FIE Reform, China Law & Practice
Corporate counsel Hans-Günther Herrmann and associate Jack Sun co-authored an article in the November/December issue of China Law & Practice.
Transactional Real Estate: Greater Clarity Needed for New HVCRE Regulations
Real estate partners Mitchell Berg and Peter Fisch published their quarterly Transactional Real Estate column in the October 18 issue of the New York Law Journal.
M&A at a Glance (October 2016)
M&A activity in September 2016 rebounded across most metrics as compared to August 2016, both in the U.S. and globally.
Video Summary: M&A at a Glance, October 2016
M&A activity rebounded across most metrics in September 2016, both in the U.S. and globally.
Client Alert: Delaware Court of Chancery Applies Business Judgment Rule to Going-Private Transaction Based on 'M&F Worldwide'
In In re Books-A-Million, Inc. Stockholders Litigation, the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed the fiduciary duty claims of former minority stockholders following a going-private, squeeze-out merger because the transaction…
Client Alert: Delaware Court of Chancery Dismisses Post-Closing Disclosure Claims for Failure to Show Disloyalty or Bad Faith
In Nguyen v. Barrett, the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed post-closing claims that the board acted disloyally or in bad faith by failing to make the challenged disclosures.
Lawrence Witdorchic to Participate in PLI Seminar on Tax Strategies
Employee benefits partner Lawrence Witdorchic will take part in a panel discussion at a Practising Law Institute seminar entitled "Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings,…
Judie Ng Shortell to Speak at ALM Corporate Counsel Forum
Corporate partner Judie Ng Shortell will take part in ALM's annual Corporate Counsel Forum Beijing.
Scott Barshay to Participate in PLI’s Hot Topics for In-House Counsel Event
Corporate partner Scott Barshay will speak at the Practising Law Institute's "Hot Topics for In-House Counsel" seminar.
Corporate Partners Contribute Article to The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Corporate partners Scott Barshay, Ariel Deckelbaum, Ross Fieldston, Stephen Lamb and Jeffrey Marell co-authored a client memorandum that was featured on The CLS Blue Sky Blog, Columbia Law School's blog on corporations and capital…
Kaye Yoshino to Speak at ABA’s International Law Conference in Japan
Corporate partner Kaye Yoshino will take part in the 2016 Fall Meeting of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law.
Client Alert: Delaware Court of Chancery Dismisses Post-Closing Merger Challenge Due to Fully Informed Stockholder Approval
In Larkin v. Shah issued last week, the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed a stockholder challenge to a merger due to the cleansing effect of fully informed stockholder approval, applying the Delaware Supreme Court's recent…
Client Alert: Amendments to the HSR Rules Including Allowing Submission of HSR Filings via DVD
On August 26, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") approved several final amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Rules ("HSR Rules"), the most notable of which permits the submission of HSR Notification…
Alice Eaton to Participate in PLI’s Hot Topics in M&A Seminar
Bankruptcy partner Alice Eaton will participate in a panel discussion at the Practising Law Institute's Hot Topics in Mergers & Acquisitions seminar.
M&A activity declined by most measures in July 2016. Deal volume, as measured by dollar value, decreased in the U.S. by 25.8% to $126.52 billion, and globally by 2.3% to $326.23 billion. The total number of deals…
Video Summary: M&A at a Glance, August 2016
M&A activity declined by most measures in July 2016. In this video, corporate partner Ariel Deckelbaum discusses the latest changes in U.S., global and sponsor-related M&A activity.
Scott Barshay Quoted in Financial Times on Decline in U.S. Lawsuits Contesting Takeovers
Corporate partner Scott Barshay was quoted in a Financial Times article titled "US Lawsuits Contesting Takeovers Plunge After Trulia Ruling."
Ray Russo to Speak at PLI’s Private Placements and Hybrid Securities Offerings Seminar
Corporate partner Ray Russo will participate in a panel discussion at the Practising Law Institute's "Private Placements and Hybrid Securities Offerings" seminar.
Udi Grofman to Speak at PLI’s Hedge Fund Management Program
Corporate partner Udi Grofman will participate in a panel discussion at the Practising Law Institute's Hedge Fund Management seminar.
Client Alert: SEC Proposes Updates to Rationalize Disclosure Requirements
On July 13, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed amendments to certain of its disclosure requirements that may have become redundant, duplicative, overlapping, outdated or superseded, in light of other SEC…
Scott Barshay Quoted in FT Article About UK M&A Opportunities After Brexit
Corporate partner Scott Barshay was quoted in a Financial Times article, titled "UK M&A Opportunities Open up After Brexit," which discusses whether falling share prices and the devaluation of sterling is lifting…
Transactional Real Estate: Exceptions in Rights of First Refusal Provisions
Real estate partners Mitchell Berg and Peter Fisch published their quarterly Transactional Real Estate column in the July 13 issue of the New York Law Journal.
Mark Bergman and David Lakhdhir Co-Author Article on Effects of Brexit on Public Disclosure Obligations
London-based corporate partners Mark Bergman and David Lakhdhir co-authored a client memorandum, titled "Brexit: Disclosure Implications for SEC Reporting Companies," that was featured in the July issues of Insights: The…
M&A activity in June 2016 was relatively flat, compared to the last two months. In this video, corporate partner Ariel Deckelbaum discusses the latest changes in U.S., global and sponsor-related M&A activity.
SEC Proposes Rules on Business Continuity and Transition Plans for Investment Advisers
On June 28, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") proposed a new rule [1] requiring SEC registered investment advisers ("advisers") to adopt and implement a business continuity and transition plan (a "BCTP") to …
Brexit: Disclosure Implications for SEC Reporting Companies
In the short period since the June 23 UK referendum on whether to remain in, or leave, the European Union, the United Kingdom has faced a remarkable range of political, monetary, economic and even constitutional…
Stephen Lamb and Jacqueline Rubin To Discuss Recent Developments in Delaware Law
Litigation partners Judge Stephen Lamb and Jacqueline Rubin will participate in a Practicing Law Institute full-day seminar titled "Delaware Law Developments 2016: What All Business Lawyers Need to Know."
Corporate Partners Co-Author Article on the Delaware Court of Chancery’s Ruling in In re Volcano Corporation Stockholder Litigation
Corporate partners Scott Barshay, Ariel Deckelbaum, Ross Fieldston, Stephen Lamb and Jeffrey Marell authored a client memorandum, titled "Expansion of the BJR to Stockholder Approval of 'Medium Form' Mergers."
Delaware Court of Chancery Holds That Tendering Stockholders in a “Medium Form” Merger Have the Same Cleansing Effect as
In In re Volcano Corporation Stockholder Litigation, the Delaware Court of Chancery held that the acceptance of a first-step tender offer by fully informed, disinterested, uncoerced stockholders representing a majority of a…
Client Alert: Delaware Court of Chancery Holds That Outside Counsel’s Refusal to Render Tax Opinion Required for Closing of Merger Was in Good Faith and Permits Termination of Merger Agreement
In The Williams Companies, Inc. v. Energy Transfer Equity, L.P., et al., the Delaware Court of Chancery held that an acquirer in a merger did not fail to use "commercially reasonable efforts" to obtain a tax opinion from its tax…
Alan Kornberg and Brian Hermann Co-Author USA Chapter of The Strategic View - Corporate Restructuring
Bankruptcy partners Alan Kornberg and Brian Hermann co-authored the "USA" chapter in the 2016 edition of The Strategic View - Corporate Restructuring, published by the Global Legal Group, Ltd., London.
Brexit: What Comes Next? What Are the Potential Consequences?
On June 23, 2016 voters in the United Kingdom were asked in a referendum whether the UK should remain a member of the European Union or leave the EU. By a vote of 51.9% to 48.1%, the voters opted to leave.
Alan Kornberg and Elizabeth McColm Co-Author USA Chapter of Corporate Recovery & Insolvency Guide
Bankruptcy partners Alan Kornberg and Elizabeth McColm co-authored the "USA" chapter in the 2016 edition of The International Comparative Legal Guide to Corporate Recovery & Insolvency, published by the Global Legal Group Ltd,…
Litigation Partners Author Article on Dell Appraisal Decision
Litigation partners Lewis Clayton and Stephen Lamb co-authored a client memorandum that was featured on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation website.
Marco Masotti to Participate in PLI’s Private Equity Forum
Corporate partner Marco Masotti will participate in a panel discussion at the Practising Law Institute's Private Equity Forum.
SEC Increases “Qualified Client” Net Worth Threshold
On June 14, 2016, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission increased the net worth test threshold for "qualified clients" under Rule 205-3 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, from $2 million to $2.1 million.
The M&A market continued to stabilize in May 2016, after a slow start to the year.
Brad Karp Delivers Keynote at Bloomberg BNA’s Big Law Business Summit
Firm chair Brad Karp delivered the keynote address at Bloomberg BNA's second annual Big Law Business Summit.
In this video, corporate partner Andrew Foley, a member of the Canadian Practice Group, examines first-quarter U.S. legal developments that could impact Canadian companies and their advisors, including the Delaware Court of…
Alan Halperin Delivers 2016 Mortimer Hess Memorial Lecture Series
Personal representation partner Alan Halperin presented the New York City Bar Association's 2016 Mortimer H. Hess Memorial Lecture.
Client Alert: Delaware Court of Chancery Holds That Board’s Decision to Disregard Speculative Projections Did Not Support Claim of Bad Faith
In In re Chelsea Therapeutics International Ltd. Stockholder Litigation, the Court of Chancery dismissed claims that the board of a target company acted in bad faith and breached its duty of loyalty by instructing its financial…
M&A at a Glance (May 2016)
The M&A market was mixed in April 2016, with the U.S. market generally faring better than the global market.
Peter Jaffe to Participate in Panel at SEC/DOJ Enforcement Event
Counsel Peter Jaffe will speak on a panel at the annual SEC/DOJ Enforcement Update.
Peter Jaffe to Participate in Compliance Week Conference
Counsel Peter Jaffe will speak on two panels at the 2016 Compliance Week conference. The first discussion, titled "Compliance Officer as Strategic Business Partner," will look at how the value of compliance can go far beyond…
Client Alert: Delaware Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal of Aiding and Abetting Claim against Financial Advisor Where Merger is Approved by Fully Informed, Disinterested Stockholder Vote
In Singh v. Attenborough, the Delaware Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of breach of fiduciary duty claims against directors of a target corporation and aiding and abetting claims against the target's financial advisor in…
Paul, Weiss Adds Experienced Compliance Counsel to FCPA Practice
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that Peter Jaffe has joined the firm as counsel in its Washington, D.C. office, expanding the firm's deep bench of skilled United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act…
Client Alert: CFPB Proposes a Ban on Arbitration Clauses That Prevent Class Action Litigation
On May 5, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a 377-page notice of proposed rulemaking that would prohibit, going forward, banks and a variety of other companies from including in contracts arbitration…
Matt Abbott and Angelo Bonvino Co-Author Article on PIPEs in Law360
Corporate partners Matt Abbott and Angelo Bonvino co-authored an article that appeared in the May 5 issue of Law360.
Client Alert: Financial Regulators Propose Incentive Compensation Rules under Dodd-Frank
On April 21, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing…
Meredith Kane Contributes U.S. Chapter in The Real Estate Law Review
Real estate partner Meredith Kane authored the "United States" chapter in the latest edition ofThe Real Estate Law Review, an international legal reference publication covering developments in real estate law in 33…
Transactional Real Estate: Pension Fund Investments in Real Estate
Partners Andrew Gaines and Peter Fisch co-authored an article appearing in the Paul, Weiss transactional real estate column of the April 20 issue of the New York Law Journal.
Ross Fieldston Discusses Shareholder Activism With The Deal
In this video, corporate partner Ross Fieldston speaks with The Deal's David Marcus at the 28th annual Tulane Corporate Law Institute, one of the premier corporate and securities law conferences in the U.S.
Kelley Cornish to Discuss Out-of-Court Restructurings at American Bankruptcy Institute Conference
Bankruptcy partner Kelley Cornish will participate in a panel discussion at the American Bankruptcy Institute's New York City Bankruptcy Conference.
Alex Oh to Participate in ACI’s China Forum on Anti-Corruption
Litigation partner Alex Oh will moderate a panel discussion at the American Conference Institute's 9th China Forum on Anti-Corruption.
Client Alert: M&A at a Glance (April 2016)
Despite an encouraging February, M&A activity in March 2016 resumed its recent downtrend across all metrics, both in the U.S. and globally.
Significant U.S. Legal and Regulatory Developments for Canadian Companies
In this video, corporate partner Andrew Foley, a member of the Canadian Practice Group, discusses recent U.S. legal and regulatory developments that could have significant effects on Canadian companies and their advisors.
Mitchell Berg and Peter Fisch Author Article in Spring Issue of Commercial Insight
Real estate partners Mitchell Berg and Peter Fisch authored an article in the Spring issue of First American Title's Commercial Insight.
Jeff Samuels Quoted on New Inversion Rules in The Wall Street Journal
Tax partner Jeffrey Samuels was quoted in an April 7 article in The Wall Street Journal, titled "New Inversion Rules Draw Concerns Outside U.S."
Client Memo: New Sun Capital Ruling Considers ERISA Obligations of Private
Private equity funds should consider the impact of a March 28 lower court decision in the Sun Capital case, which may increase the risk that funds will be held responsible for ERISA obligations of portfolio companies.
Client Memo: M&A at a Glance (March 2016)
Following a contraction in December and January, broader M&A activity showed signs of recovery in February 2016.
Following a two-month slowdown, M&A activity showed signs of recovery in February 2016.
Paul, Weiss Supports Launch of Women in Law Hong Kong’s Pilot Mentoring Program
Women In Law Hong Kong (WILHK), hosted a launch event of the first cross-firm mentoring program for legal professionals as part of its commitment to enhancing the profiles, skills and networking opportunities available to women in the …
Jack Lange and Greg Liu to Speak at Private Equity & Venture Forum in Beijing
Corporate partners Jack Lange and Greg Liu took part in the Asian Venture Capital Journal's annual Private Equity & Venture Forum in Beijing.
Jordan Yarett Authors Article in The Journal of Structured Finance
Corporate partner Jordan Yarett authored an article in The Journal of Structured Finance's winter 2016 issue.
Paul, Weiss Supports International Women’s Day in Hong Kong
In support of International Women's Day (IWD) on March 8, the Paul, Weiss Hong Kong office participated in The Women's Foundation IWD gala lunch at the Conrad Hotel on March 4.
Alan Kornberg and Brian Hermann Co-Author “USA” Chapter in Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Guide
Bankruptcy partners Alan Kornberg and Brian Hermann co-authored the "USA" chapter in the 2016 edition of The Strategic View - Corporate Restructuring, published by the Global Legal Group.
Marco Masotti, Udi Grofman and Amran Hussein to Participate in ABA/IBA International Conference on Private Investment Funds
Corporate partners Marco Masotti, Udi Grofman, Michael Hong and Amran Hussein will take part in the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association's 17th Annual International Conference on Private Investment Funds.
Marco Masotti to Speak at Global Fund Finance Symposium
Corporate partner Marco Masotti will speak at the sixth annual Global Fund Finance Symposium, which will address key developments and trends in the subscription credit facility and fund finance markets.
Bob Zochowski Speaks at ABS Vegas Conference
Corporate partner Bob Zochowski spoke on a panel at the ABS Vegas 2016, the largest capital markets conference in the world.
Client Alert: Delaware Court of Chancery Holds That a Buyer’s Fraud Claim
In FdG Logistics LLC v. A&R Logistics Holding, Inc., the Delaware Court of Chancery held that a seller's disclaimer in a merger agreement of extra-contractual representations and warranties was insufficient to bar a buyer's…
Law360 Recognizes Two Paul, Weiss Practice Groups Among the Year’s Best
Paul, Weiss was recognized by Law360 with “Practice Group of the Year” awards in the Banking and Mergers & Acquisitions categories.
Betty Yap and Greg Liu Listed on China Business Law Journal’s 2019 “A List”
Corporate partners Betty Yap and Greg Liu have been listed on China Business Law Journal’s annual "A List" for 2019.
Claudia Hammerman, Amran Hussein and Loretta Lynch Named Notable Women in Law by Crain’s New York Business
Litigation partners Claudia Hammerman and Loretta Lynch and corporate partner Amran Hussein have been named to Crain’s New York Business’s 2020 “Notable Women in Law” list.
Ariel Deckelbaum and Michael Vogel Featured in Variety’s Dealmakers List
Corporate partners Ariel Deckelbaum and Michael Vogel are featured in Variety’s 2019 Dealmakers List.
Matt Abbott, Angelo Bonvino and Taurie Zeitzer Recognized by Business Insider as Top Private Equity Dealmakers
Corporate partners Matt Abbott, Angelo Bonvino and Taurie Zeitzer are recognized by Business Insider as top private equity dealmakers.
Paul, Weiss Is Named Law Firm of the Year, White Collar Litigation Department of the Year
Paul, Weiss was recognized with The American Lawyer’s most prestigious award, “Law Firm of the Year,” at the American Lawyer Industry Awards Gala. Additionally, the firm was named “White Collar Litigation Department of the Year.”
Seven Paul, Weiss Partners Named Law360 MVPs
Firm chairman Brad Karp and partners Scott Barshay, Paul Basta, Harris Freidus, Lorin Reisner, Rick Rule and Taurie Zeitzer have been honored with Law360 2019 MVP Awards, which recognize an elite slate of attorneys who have…
Robert Schumer Named Sports & Entertainment Trailblazer by The National Law Journal
Corporate chair Robert Schumer was recognized as a Sports & Entertainment Trailblazer by The National Law Journal.
Paul, Weiss Named “Private Equity Legal Advisor of the Year” by Mergermarket for Chinese M&A
Paul, Weiss was awarded “Private Equity Legal Adviser of the Year” by Mergermarket at its annual China M&A Awards event in Shanghai.
Paul, Weiss Ranks Number One Among Law Firms for Adoption-Friendly Workplace and Fifth Overall
Paul, Weiss has been recognized as the most adoption-friendly law and professional services firm in the United States by the Dave Thomas Foundation’s “100 Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces” list.
Paul, Weiss Transaction Named Energy & Industrials “Deal of the Year” by The Deal
Paul, Weiss was recognized by The Deal for its work advising the board of directors of the Harris Corporation in a merger with L3 Technologies, Inc.
Amran Hussein Named “Best in Investment Funds” at Euromoney Americas Women in Business Law Awards
Corporate partner Amran Hussein was named in the “Best in Investment Funds” category at the eighth annual Euromoney Legal Media Group Americas Women in Business Law Awards.
Four Paul, Weiss Partners Featured in Variety’s Legal Impact Report
Corporate partner Robert Schumer, litigation partners Jay Cohen and Jonathan Kanter, and entertainment/intellectual property partner Chuck Googe were featured in Variety’s 2019 Legal Impact Report.
Brian Scrivani Named Rising Star by The Deal
Corporate partner Brian Scrivani was profiled in The Dealmaker Quarterly as one of the brightest newcomers to the ranks of M&A partners at major law firms.
Angelo Bonvino and Paul, Weiss Recognized at The Deal Awards Middle Market
Corporate partner Angelo Bonvino and Paul, Weiss have been recognized with several awards as part of the inaugural The Deal Awards Middle Market.
Scott Barshay and Rick Rule Recognized as “Dealmakers of the Year” by The American Lawyer
Corporate partner Scott Barshay and litigation partner Rick Rule have been named American Lawyer “Dealmakers of the Year.”
Paul, Weiss Partners Receive Law360 Distinguished Writing Award
Firm chairman Brad Karp, corporate partner Mark Bergman and litigation partners Susanna Buergel, Roberto Gonzalez, Jane O’Brien and Elizabeth Sacksteder have been selected to receive the Law360 Distinguished Writing Award at the 2019…
Two Paul, Weiss Transactions Named Deals of the Year
The China Business Law Journal has named two Paul, Weiss transactions as 2018 “Deals of the Year.”
Paul, Weiss Ranked 1st in Global Legal Rankings by Bloomberg and Mergermarket
Paul, Weiss ranked 1st among U.S. firms and 2nd among international firms for China announced deals, by deal count, in Bloomberg’s 2018 Global M&A Legal Rankings.
Law360 Recognizes Three Paul, Weiss Practice Groups Among the Year’s Best
Paul, Weiss won three Law360 “Practice Group of the Year” recognitions for the firm’s achievements in 2018 in the Asset Management, Life Sciences and Trials categories.
Taurie Zeitzer Listed Among The Deal’s “Powerhouse 20” Top Women in M&A
Corporate partner Taurie Zeitzer is featured in The Deal’s “Women in M&A: The Powerhouse 20,” a list identifying 20 female M&A lawyers and bankers at the top of their professions.
Paul, Weiss Receives FinanceAsia 2018 Achievement Award
Paul, Weiss was recognized by FinanceAsia at its annual Achievement Awards for the “Best Equity Deal.”
Chuck Googe Featured in Variety’s Dealmakers Impact Report
Entertainment/intellectual property partner Chuck Googe was featured in Variety’s 2018 Dealmakers Impact Report.
Three Paul, Weiss Partners Named Law360 MVPs
Law360 has honored firm chairman Brad Karp, litigation partner Susanna Buergel and corporate partner Marco Masotti with 2018 MVP awards.
Robert Schumer Named M&A Trailblazer by The National Law Journal
Corporate partner Robert Schumer was recognized as an M&A Trailblazer by The National Law Journal.
Valerie Radwaner Honored by the Student Leadership Network
Deputy Chair Valerie Radwaner was honored at the Student Leadership Network’s 2018 (Em)Power Breakfast.
Chuck Googe Featured in Variety’s Dealmakers Elite New York
Entertainment/Intellectual property partner Chuck Googe was featured in Variety’s Dealmakers Elite New York 2018 report, which features attorneys and executives behind some of the year’s most significant entertainment industry…
The Deal Recognizes Paul, Weiss With Three Awards
Paul, Weiss was recognized by The Deal in three categories in the 2018 Deal Awards
Taurie Zeitzer Named Best in Private Equity at Euromoney LMG Americas Women in Business Law Awards
M&A partner Taurie Zeitzer was named “Best in Private Equity” at the seventh annual Euromoney Legal Media Group (LMG) Women in Business Law awards.
Robert Schumer Named "Distinguished Leader" by the New York Law Journal
Corporate partner Robert Schumer was recognized as a 2018 "Distinguished Leader" by the New York Law Journal.
Paul, Weiss Recognized by M&A Advisor
Paul, Weiss was recognized in two categories at the M&A Advisor’s 10th annual International M&A Awards.
Variety 2018 Legal Impact Report Features Jay Cohen, Ariel Deckelbaum & Chuck Googe
Litigation partner Jay Cohen, corporate partner Ariel Deckelbaum and intellectual property/entertainment partner Chuck Googe were featured by Variety in its 2018 Legal Impact Report, which spotlights the top lawyers in the…
Paul, Weiss Transaction Named Deal of the Year by Asia Business Law Journal
HP’s acquisition of Samsung’s printer business for $1.05 billion, in which Paul, Weiss represented HP, has been recognized as one of the Asia Business Law Journal’s “Deals of the Year.”
Judie Ng Shortell Awarded Commended External Counsel of the Year
Corporate partner Judie Ng Shortell was recognized by In-House Community as a “Commended External Counsel of the Year.”
Five Paul, Weiss Deals Make Lexpert’s Top 10 Canadian Deals of 2017
Paul, Weiss set a new firm record on Canadian legal publication Lexpert’s annual list of top-10 deals of the past year.
Jack Lange Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From Chambers
Hong Kong-based corporate partner Jack Lange received the 2018 Chambers Asia-Pacific Lifetime Achievement award in recognition of his contribution to the Asian legal arena.
Valerie Radwaner, Audra Soloway and Taurie Zeitzer Named Leading Women Lawyers in NYC
Deputy Chair and corporate partner Valerie Radwaner, litigation partner Audra Soloway and M&A partner Taurie Zeitzer were named to Crain’s New York Business’ inaugural list of Leading Women Lawyers in New York City.
Jack Lange Elected Chairman of American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
Corporate partner Jack Lange has been elected as the Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (AmCham) for 2018.
Jordan Yarett and Taurie Zeitzer Deal Recognized by the Financial Times
Paul, Weiss was commended in the “Accessing New Markets and Capital” category of the Financial Times’ annual feature recognizing the year’s most innovative North American law firms and lawyers.
Paul, Weiss Partners and Matters Recognized By FT Innovative Lawyers - North America
Litigation partner Nick Groombridge, corporate partner Scott Barshay and Paul, Weiss were recognized by the Financial Times in an annual feature recognizing this year’s most innovative North American law firms and lawyers.
Six Paul, Weiss Partners Named Law360 MVPs
Law360 has honored firm chair Brad Karp, corporate partner Scott Barshay, litigation partners Jay Cohen and Audra Soloway and real estate partners Harris Freidus and Meredith Kane with 2017 MVP Awards.
Paul, Weiss Transaction Awarded Best Singapore Deal
A Paul, Weiss transaction was awarded the “Best Singapore Deal” at FinanceAsia’s annual Achievement Awards.
Paul, Weiss Honored with Asia Women in Business Law Awards
Paul, Weiss has been recognized with Asia Women in Business Law Awards by the Euromoney Legal Media Group.
Judie Ng Shortell Named a Top-15 Female Lawyer in China by Asian Legal Business
Corporate partner Judie Ng Shortell was recognized as one of the Top 15 Female Lawyers in China by Asian Legal Business.
Paul, Weiss Among NYLJ’s Professional Excellence Awards Winners
Paul, Weiss was named Litigation Department of the Year in the Class Action category of the New York Law Journal’s 2017 Professional Excellence Awards.
Ellen Ching Named to Private Funds Management’s 30 Under 40
Private Funds Management (pfm) named corporate partner Ellen Ching to its “30 Under 40” list, which recognizes the top 30 private fund lawyers under the age of 40.
Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Four Asia Women in Business Law Awards
Corporate partner Betty Yap was shortlisted by Euromoney Legal Media Group in the in the “Best in M&A and Private Equity” category.
Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Five ALB Hong Kong Law Awards
Paul, Weiss has been shortlisted by Asian Legal Business, a publication of Thomson Reuters, in five categories in its 2017 ALB Hong Kong Law Awards.
Ellen Ching and Jaren Janghorbani Named Rising Stars by New York Law Journal
Corporate partner Ellen Ching and litigation partner Jaren Janghorbani have been named New York Law Journal Rising Stars for 2017.
Media Law International Recognizes Paul, Weiss as a Tier 1 Firm in China and Hong Kong
For the third consecutive year, Paul, Weiss was recognized by Media Law International as one of four Tier 1 firms for media law in China and Hong Kong.
Paul, Weiss Ranked #1 in Canada Announced M&A Deals by Bloomberg
Paul, Weiss was ranked as the leading advisor for Canadian announced M&A deals by volume, as reported in Bloomberg’s 2017 second-quarter league tables.
Ted Wells Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From New York Law Journal
Litigation partner Ted Wells has received the New York Law Journal’s 2017 “Lifetime Achievement” award.
Brad Karp Named “Man of Distinction” by Legal Momentum
Legal Momentum, a national nonprofit organization advocating for the legal rights of women and girls, named firm chairman Brad Karp as its “Man of Distinction” at its annual Aiming High luncheon celebrating the power of women.
Valerie Radwaner Receives Euromoney Women in Business Law Award
Deputy Chair and partner Valerie Radwaner was recognized by Euromoney Legal Media Group in the “Best in Corporate Governance” category of its Americas Women in Business Law Awards.
Paul, Weiss Wins Two ALB Japan Law Awards
Paul, Weiss was recognized in two categories at the Asian Legal Business Japan Law Awards, including “Debt Market Deal of the Year” for our role in advising Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s TLAC Bond Issuance, and “M&A Deal of the …
Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Seven ALB Japan Law Awards
Paul, Weiss was shortlisted in seven categories by Asian Legal Business, a publication of Thomson Reuters, as part of the 2017 ALB Japan Law Awards.
Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for “M&A Deal of the Year” at Southeast Asia Law Awards
Paul, Weiss was shortlisted by Asian Legal Business, a publication of Thomson Reuters, for "M&A Deal of the Year (Premium)" as part of the 2017 Southeast Asia Law Awards.
Paul, Weiss Ranked #1 by Experian in Asia-Pacific Deal Value
Paul, Weiss ranked first for deal value in Experian’s legal advisory league tables in the Asia-Pacific region for the first quarter of 2017.
Paul, Weiss Awarded Deal of the Year by Asian-mena Counsel
Paul, Weiss was awarded a 2016 “Deal of the Year” by Asian-mena Counsel for our involvement as international counsel in MUFG’s groundbreaking TLAC (total loss-absorbing capacity) bond offering
Paul, Weiss Ranked #1 by Thomson Reuters and #2 by Bloomberg and Mergermarket in Deal Volume in Japan
As noted in The Asian Lawyer, a publication of The American Lawyer, Paul, Weiss was ranked number 1 in deal volume in Japan in M&A league tables published by Thomson Reuters and number 2 by Bloomberg and Mergermarket in the first…
Greg Liu Named Top M&A Lawyer in China by Asian Legal Business
Corporate partner Greg Liu was named one of 2017’s top 10 M&A lawyers in China by Asian Legal Business, a Thomson Reuters publication.
KPS Capital Wins Buyouts “Deal of the Year” Award
Paul, Weiss client KPS Capital Partners LP has earned a Buyouts “Deal of the Year” award for KPS’s $1 billion-plus sale of its portfolio company Anchor Glass Container Corporation to BA Glass B.V. and funds advised by CVC Capital…
Paul, Weiss was awarded “Deal of the Year – Capital Markets” by the Asia Business Law Journal for our role in representing IDG Capital and its portfolio company Titan Gas Technology Investment in Shun Cheong’s reverse takeover and new …
Four Paul, Weiss Partners Named BTI Client Service All-Stars
Corporate partner Ariel Deckelbaum and litigation partners Jay Cohen, Nick Groombridge and Catherine Nyarady were recognized as 2017 "Client Service All-Stars" by BTI Consulting Group in its annual survey of corporate counsel,…
Paul, Weiss Honored by Chinese-American Planning Council
Paul, Weiss was honored as the "Volunteer Extraordinaire" at the Chinese-American Planning Council's Lunar New Year Celebration.
Two Paul, Weiss Transactions Named Deals of the Year by China Business Law Journal
The China Business Law Journal has recognized two Paul, Weiss transactions as Deals of the Year.
Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Two IFLR Asia Law Awards in Private Equity
Paul, Weiss has been shortlisted in two categories as part of the 2017 IFLR Asia Law Awards.
Three Paul, Weiss Partners Featured in Variety’s Dealmakers Impact Report
Corporate partners Robert Schumer, Ariel Deckelbaum and Chuck Googe are profiled in Variety's 2016 Dealmakers Impact Report.
Paul, Weiss Wins Asian Lawyer Emerging Markets Award for M&A
The Asian Lawyer honored Paul, Weiss with an Emerging Markets Award in the "M&A Deal of the Year: Other Sectors" category for our role in Yokohama's $1.2 billion acquisition of Alliance Tire Group.
Five Paul, Weiss Partners Named Law360 MVPs
Law360 has honored firm chair Brad Karp, corporate partners Robert Schumer and Marco Masotti, and litigation partners Ted Wells and Catherine Nyarady with 2016 MVP Awards. Brad and Ted were selected as MVPs in the sports practice…
Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Two Emerging Markets Awards by The Asian Lawyer
Paul, Weiss has been shortlisted by The Asian Lawyer in two categories in its 2016 Emerging Markets Awards.
Alice Eaton and Andrew Rosenberg Receive TMA Turnaround & Transaction of the Year Awards
Bankruptcy partners Alice Eaton and Andrew Rosenberg were honored by the Turnaround Management Association with 2016 Turnaround & Transaction of the Year Awards.
Our Hong Kong and Tokyo offices were shortlisted for their gender diversity efforts in their respective countries by the Euromoney Legal Media Group at the 2016 Asia Women in Business Law Awards.
Paul, Weiss Wins Three China Law & Practice Awards
Paul, Weiss was selected for honors in multiple categories at the China Law & Practice Awards, including "Real Estate & Construction Deal of the Year" and "TMT Firm of the Year - International."
Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Six ALB Hong Kong Law Awards
Paul, Weiss has been shortlisted by Asian Legal Business in six categories in its 2016 ALB Hong Kong Law Awards.
Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Six China Law & Practice Awards
Paul, Weiss has been shortlisted in six categories as part of the 2016 China Law & PracticeAwards.
Paul, Weiss Recognized in Two Categories at Am Law’s Global Legal Awards
Paul, Weiss was recognized in two categories at The American Lawyer's fourth annual Global Legal Awards.
For the second consecutive year, Paul, Weiss was recognized by Media Law International as one of four Tier 1 firms for media law in China and Hong Kong.
Paul, Weiss was shortlisted by Asian Legal Business for "M&A Deal of the Year (Premium)" as part of the 2016 Southeast Asia Law Awards.
Paul, Weiss Ranked Among Top Counsel to Creditors in the Energy Sector
Paul, Weiss was ranked third among the top firms in The Deal's Out-of-Court Restructuring League Tables, based on distressed companies that have announced financial restructurings for the first quarter of 2016.
Steve Simkin Named Power Lawyer in Commercial Observer’s “Power 100” Issue
Real estate partner Steven Simkin was featured as a Power Lawyer in the Commercial Observer's annual "Power 100" issue for his work on major development projects, acquisitions and financings.
Paul, Weiss Ranked #1 in Private Equity by MergerMarket
As reported by MergerMarket in its quarterly league tables, Paul, Weiss ranked first in both global and U.S. private equity buyouts and exits by deal value in the first quarter of 2016.
Richard Rosen and Udi Grofman Selected for Distinguished Legal Writing Award
Litigation partner Richard Rosen and corporate partner Udi Grofman were recognized among the finest law firm writers of 2016 with Burton Awards for their article, "Political Intelligence and U.S. Insider Trading Regulations."
Sal Gogliormella and Roberto Gonzalez Named Rising Stars by Law360
Real estate partner Salvatore Gogliormella and litigation partner Roberto Gonzalez have been named to Law360's Rising Stars for 2016 in the Real Estate and Banking categories, respectively.
Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Five ALB China Law Awards
Paul, Weiss has been selected as a finalist in five categories of the 2016 Asian Legal Business China Law Awards.
Paul, Weiss Wins China Business Law Award for Private Equity
Paul, Weiss was recognized by China Business Law Journal as an international law firm winner in the "Private Equity and Venture Capital" category of its 2015 China Business Law Awards.
Paul, Weiss Shortlisted for Asia Legal Award
The Asian Lawyer has shortlisted Paul, Weiss as a finalist for an Asia Legal Award in the "M&A Deal of the Year: North Asia" category for the firm's involvement in Universal Studios' $3.3 billion Beijing theme park.
Paul, Weiss was honored by Law360 with "Practice Group of the Year" awards in the Real Estate, Securities Law and White Collar categories.
Financial Times Recognizes Paul, Weiss in Innovative Lawyers Report
Paul, Weiss was recognized by Financial Times in several areas in its 2015 North America Innovative Lawyers report.
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Google makes timely purchase of Swiss app developer
By Elizabeth Heichler
Editorial Director, IDG News Service |
In a move likely designed to bring into its fold a team of Swiss Android developers, Google has apparently bought Bitspin, according to a post on the website of the maker of an Android alarm clock app.
”We’re thrilled to announce that Bitspin is joining Google, where we’ll continue to do what we love: building great products that are delightful to use,” the post reads.
For its part, the search engine giant has not issued any confirmation or further details of the apparent acquisition.
Bitspin’s post added that the Timely app “will continue to work as it always has.”
The Zurich firm is made up of a small team that studied computer science at ETH (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule) Zurich, according to Bitspin’s site. It includes Jorim Jaggi and Adrian Roos—both previously Google interns according to their Google+ profiles—and Selim Cinek.
Elizabeth Heichler is vice president and editorial director of the IDG News Service.
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Mellanox Demos Souped-up Version of Infiniband
By Mikael Ricknäs
Networking company Mellanox Technologies, along with Hewlett-Packard and Dell, is demonstrating a next-generation FDR Infiniband network running at 56G bps (bits per second) at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg.
The company has set up a network that connects 10 booths, using the company's InfiniBand adapter, switches and cables, and running Scalable Graphics' Remote Desktop over Infiniband application.
The products will start shipping late in the third quarter, said John Monson, vice president of product marketing at Mellanox.
Infiniband is used in high-end data centers to connect clusters of servers or storage systems, or to link servers to storage.
Mellanox, which develops its own chipset, will be shipping a number of different products that can all handle data throughput at 56G bps, including both modular and fixed switches from its SX-6000 family. One, the SX-6036, will come with 36 ports. It will also sell adapters, which can be purchased separately or integrated directly into servers or storage devices, and cables.
Using copper cables, 56G bps Infiniband can travel up to five meters; over fiber it can go up to 50 meters. Copper is mainly used in a rack, while fiber connects different nodes in a data center. The long-term goal is to extend the reach over fiber to 100 meters, Monson said.
Besides better throughput, the move to FDR Infiniband will also offer better latency and reliability. The price will be about 35 percent to 40 percent higher per port than current QDR Infiniband switches, according to Monson.
[ Further reading: The best media streaming devices ]
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Hardback 2019
Slaughterhouse 5
Imprint: Vintage Classics
50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION
As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens.
For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come. When he did write about it, he combined his trademark humour, unfettered imagination, boundless humanity and keen sense of irony to create one of the most powerful anti-war books every written, and an enduring American classic.
This special edition is published with notes of appreciation from some of the book's ardent fans (Kate Atkinson, Richard Herring, Robin Ince) as well as fascinating extra material from Vonnegut's archive which casts light on the genesis, reception and enduring influence of an iconic American classic.
Design © DIEGO BECAS
"Marvellous...the writing is pungent, the antics uproarious, the wit as sharp as a hypodermic needle"
"A laughing prophet of doom"
"Mr Vonnegut knows a great deal about what is probably the largest massacre in modern history - the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1945. Slaughterhouse Five is a reaction to the event by one of our most gifted and incisive novelists. A work of keen literary artistry"
Joseph Heller, author of 'Catch-22'
"I came to this book later in life. I think it is, among other things, the loveliest, most delicate account of post-traumatic stress I've ever read — like the water that simply runs from the eyes of Billy Pilgrim."
Elizabeth Strout, author of 'My Name is Lucy Barton'
"Unique...one of the writers who map our landscapes for us, who give names to the places we know best"
Slaughterhouse Five and Other Writings
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
Fates Worse Than Death
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
While Mortals Sleep
Deadeye Dick
Look At the Birdie
Armageddon in Retrospect
Bagombo Snuff Box
Timequake
Welcome To The Monkey House and Palm Sunday
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut has been described by Thomas M. Disch as 'an artist surely destined for canonisation,' in the Times Literary Supplement. His novels include: Galapagos, SlaughterHouse- Five, Breakfast of Champions, Jailbird and Deadeye Dick.
VINTAGE letters and diaries to inspire you
Where to start reading Kurt Vonnegut’s books
11 of the best Kurt Vonnegut quotes
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Notes on a Nervous Planet
By Matt Haig
Read by Matt Haig
Category: Personal Growth | Psychology
Category: Personal Growth | Psychology | Audiobooks
Jan 29, 2019 | ISBN 9780143133421
Jan 29, 2019 | 315 Minutes
About Notes on a Nervous Planet
A follow-up to Matt Haig’s internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader look at how modern life feeds our anxiety, and how to live a better life.
The societies we live in are increasingly making our minds ill, making it feel as though the way we live is engineered to make us unhappy. When Matt Haig developed panic disorder, anxiety, and depression as an adult, it took him a long time to work out the ways the external world could impact his mental health in both positive and negative ways. Notes on a Nervous Planet collects his observations, taking a look at how the various social, commercial and technological “advancements” that have created the world we now live in can actually hinder our happiness. Haig examines everything from broader phenomena like inequality, social media, and the news; to things closer to our daily lives, like how we sleep, how we exercise, and even the distinction we draw between our minds and our bodies.
Listen to a sample from Notes on a Nervous Planet
Also by Matt Haig
See all books by Matt Haig
About Matt Haig
Matt Haig is the author of the internationally bestselling memoir Reasons to Stay Alive and Notes on a Nervous Planet, along with six novels, including How To Stop Time, and several award-winning children’s books. His work has been translated into thirty languages.
Published by Penguin Books
Jan 29, 2019 | 304 Pages | 5 x 7 | ISBN 9780143133421
Jan 29, 2019 | 315 Minutes | ISBN 9781984846150
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“A personal favourite and the best reminder during the summer season… or any season, as a matter of fact.” –Meghan Markle, for British Vogue on “A Note from the Beach” from Notes On A Nervous Planet
“A primer for how to live in the present moment, this book will find grateful readers everywhere.” —Nigella Lawson, author of How to Be a Domestic Goddess and Nigella Bites
“Take Notes on a Nervous Planet twice daily, with or without food. Crammed with wisdom, insight, love and wit.” —Stephen Fry
“Likable and thought-provoking . . . A wonderfully perceptive chronicle of life in the always-on social media age.” —The Guardian
“Witty, honest, and engaging. Haig shows great skill in describing the ‘invisible cyclone’ of depression. . . A worthy successor to Reasons to Stay Alive.” —The Sunday Times
“Notes on a Nervous Planet contains lists, imagined conversations, essays, and personal stories that critique the damage that worry—about the environment, politics, the news, and everything else that demands our attention on a daily basis—wreaks on our ability to live a full life. Haig artfully, powerfully counters these challenges with battle-tested advice from his own hard-won experience.” —Booklist
“Readers who have experienced anxiety without a tangible cause will find comfort in Haig’s words and vulnerability. Haig articulates much of what isn’t working for humans in today’s world while refraining from being too cynical.” —Salon
“If technology and social media make you anxious, you’re not alone. . . .Should you need a positive influence right now, Matt Haig has your back.” —HelloGiggles
“In this illuminating follow-up to his memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, novelist and children’s author Haig (How to Stop Time, 2018, etc.) continues to explore how the rapid pace of our modern world can adversely affect our psyche… In bite-sized chapters, the author considers the various issues that plague us, including our increasing addiction to smartphones and social media, the emotional impact of absorbing 24-hour cycles of often grueling international news events, and our collective lack of sleep…. [An] often wise and inspiring self-help title strengthened by the author’s very personal experiences and acquired insight.” —Kirkus
“[Haig] is a smart operator who knows his readership and genuinely wants to help them . . . I reached the last page admiring the author’s inventive energy and insight.” —The Daily Mail
“Warm and wise. If the modern world is making you anxious, this is the perfect book for you.” —Claudia Hammond, author of Time Warped
“Beautiful, honest and wise.” —Fearne Cotton, BBC Radio
“A convincing, wise, and reassuring book.” —The Irish Times
“Is the modern world doing our heads in? Matt Haig shares our fears and gives answers to the question from many different angles. An enthralling book.” —Jo Brand, author of The More You Ignore Me
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People of Medieval Scotland
> Document 2/10/97 (_SEA_, i, no. 222)
Permalink: www.poms.ac.uk/record/source/1289/
Document 2/10/97 (SEA, i, no. 222)
Hugh, bishop of St Andrews, for St Andrews Priory; establishes possessions and revenues from royal donations.
Firm date
1178 X 30 December 1184
Dating Notes
Consecration of Bishop Hugh × death of Bishop Andrew of Caithness
Source for Data Entry
Scottish Episcopal Acta, i, no. 222 (formerly no. 223)
Trad. ID
SEA, i, no. 222
Calendar number
Total number of associated factoids: 28
Transaction factoids (5) Relationship factoids (4) Title factoids (18) Possession factoids (1)
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unavailable Gift of King David no
unavailable Gift of King Malcolm no
unavailable Gift of Countess Ada no
unavailable Gift of King William no
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 Renewal of royal donations to St Andrews Priory yes Alexander, chaplain of bishops of St Andrews (12C); Andrew, archdeacon of Lothian (fl.1147×59-1178×84); Andrew, bishop of Caithness (d.1184); Henry, steward (St Andrews); Hugh, clerk, brother of Michael; Hugh, king's clerk (TRW); Ilbert, prior of Haddington; Matthew, bishop of Aberdeen (d.1199); Odo of Kinninmonth, steward, marischal (d.c.1195); Robert II, abbot of Scone (d.1186); Roger of Wilton, knight; William of Benniworth, master (fl.1165×88); William, brother of Bishop Hugh of St Andrews
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 Clerk of William I, king of Scots (d.1214)(Employment relationship) Hugh, king's clerk (TRW) William I, king of Scots (d.1214)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 Brother of Michael, brother of Hugh the clerk(Familial relationship) Hugh, clerk, brother of Michael Michael, brother of Hugh the clerk
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 Brother of Hugh, bishop of St Andrews (d.1188)(Familial relationship) William, brother of Bishop Hugh of St Andrews Hugh, bishop of St Andrews (d.1188)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 Clerk of Hugh, bishop of St Andrews (d.1188)(Employment relationship) William of Benniworth, master (fl.1165×88) Hugh, bishop of St Andrews (d.1188)
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Title Holder
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 bishop of St Andrews Hugh, bishop of St Andrews (d.1188)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 bishop of Caithness Andrew, bishop of Caithness (d.1184)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 bishop of Aberdeen Matthew, bishop of Aberdeen (d.1199)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 abbot of Scone Robert II, abbot of Scone (d.1186)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 archdeacon of Lothian Andrew, archdeacon of Lothian (fl.1147×59-1178×84)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 prior of Haddington Ilbert, prior of Haddington
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 clerk (king's) Hugh, king's clerk (TRW)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 clerk Michael, brother of Hugh the clerk
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 chaplain Alexander, chaplain of bishops of St Andrews (12C)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 Master William of Benniworth, master (fl.1165×88)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 steward Odo of Kinninmonth, steward, marischal (d.c.1195)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 steward Henry, steward (St Andrews)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 clerk (bishop's) William of Benniworth, master (fl.1165×88)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 king of Scots David I, king of Scots (d.1153)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 king of Scots Malcolm IV, king of Scots (d.1165)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 countess Ada de Warenne (d.1178), countess of Northumberland
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 king of Scots William I, king of Scots (d.1214)
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 lorimer Baldwin, lorimer of Perth
1178 X 30 Dec. 1184 Toft in Perth Baldwin, lorimer of Perth
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The moon has always been the most obvious feature in our night sky. It is our nearest celestial neighbour, orbiting the earth at an average distance of 384,400 kilometers, and is large enough to display significant detail even to the unaided eye. Our moon has drawn observers since the dawn of humankind, and all people have tried to make sense of the puzzles it poses and the questions it raises. The moon provided our ancient ancestors with one of the earliest means of keeping and measuring time, and many early religions had cults that worshipped it. When it eclipses the sun it provides one of the most awe-inspiring views in nature.
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Home » Browse » Academic journals » Psychology Journals » The Journal of Parapsychology » Article details, "The Jungle of Hypnotic Psi: Part 1. Research on..."
Academic journal article The Journal of Parapsychology
The Jungle of Hypnotic Psi: Part 1. Research on Hypnosis Relevant to psi/La Jungle Du Psi Hypnotique: Premiere Partie. la Recherche Sur L'hypnose Pertinente Pour le psi/Der Dschungel Des Hypnotischen Psi: Teil I. Psi-Relevante Forschung Zur hypnose/La Selva Hipnotica De Psi: Parte 1. Investigacion En Hipnosis Pertinente a Psi
By Parker, Adrian
In a previous paper (Parker & Millar, 2014) the crisis in psi research was related to the failure to deal with the psi-based experimenter effect. The myth here was that by studying psi like any other ability, as a normally distributed variable, progress would be made. The current two-part paper is a companion to this and deals with another apparent myth that exacerbates the crisis: the excessive belief in the historic strength of the association of hypnosis with psi. It will be argued here that research has headed off in wrong directions with the result that it has now lost itself in a forest of findings. Like experimenter effects, a critical review of the evidence suggests there are nevertheless some promising ways forward.
Research on what I call "hypnotic psi" is one of the few consistently active areas of research remaining in contemporary parapsychology Arguably, the revival of interest in using hypnosis to facilitate psi is appealing in psi research circles because it promises a refuge for what appears to be the robust historical association between the two areas.
It will be argued here that poorly financed and ill-equipped ventures of this nature are potentially perilous given the complexity and demands of the issues encountered. Most of the contemporary publications on the topic of hypnotic psi (to be discussed fully in Part 2) have implicitly assumed--actually on little or no evidence--that hypnosis has been established not only as an altered state but also as a psi-conducive one. These current reports of the investigations of hypnotic psi show unfortunately little overt awareness of the complexity of the issues surrounding the nature of hypnosis that have evolved during recent years. Moreover, it will be later argued that in the face of this complexity, the need for maintaining the rigorous research tradition in parapsychology has been neglected. The risk is that the application of a less than state-of-the-artmethodology to a heavily disputed area can actually worsen rather than improve the credibility of parapsychology.
The fact of the matter is that the existence or nonexistence of a hypnotic state has been and still is the subject of 60 years of intensive research and debate in which there is little agreement (Accardi, Cleere, Lynn, & Kirsch, 2013; Kallio & Revonsuo, 2003; Kirsch, 2005; McConkey, 2008). What is more disconcerting is that many of the above studies based their claims for hypnosis being a psi-conducive state on the meta-analysis by Stanford and Stein (1994) as having established that such a state probably exists. Stanford and Stein were, however, very cautious, especially given the number of methodological flaws that they discovered (along with numerous other problems in the database), to avoid any simple and firm conclusions about the effect of hypnosis above and beyond control groups.
Stanford and Stein were well aware that any procedure that appeared powerful to the participants could thereby have an enabling effect similar to that of a physician administering a placebo or indeed a magician possessing showmanship. The fact that Mesiner was both a physician and a showman did in fact set the stage for future practitioners of the art and prepared the ground for the ensuing controversies over the true nature of hypnosis (Buranelli, 1975). This is not to say that some of these later hypnotists were not reputable and successful practitioners. One of these, the Swedish physician Axel Munthe (best known in parapsychology for being the attending physician at F. W. Myers' death in Rome) lived on until 1949 and left us with a vibrant autobiographical link with the heyday of hypnosis. After an intense dispute with neurologist-hypnotist Jean-Martin Charcot over Charcot's dubious form of hypnosis and exploitation of women patients, Munthe became himself a celebrated high society physician while at the same time maintaining a benevolent practice for treating the destitute. …
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The Jungle of Hypnotic Psi: Part 1. Research on Hypnosis Relevant to psi/La Jungle Du Psi Hypnotique: Premiere Partie. la Recherche Sur L'hypnose Pertinente Pour le psi/Der Dschungel Des Hypnotischen Psi: Teil I. Psi-Relevante Forschung Zur hypnose/La Selva Hipnotica De Psi: Parte 1. Investigacion En Hipnosis Pertinente a Psi By Parker, Adrian The Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 79, No. 1, Spring 2015
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Sex Drive [2008]
Road movies are always fun, especially if you like that combination of college kids, toilet humor and nudity. I guess the whole thing started with National Lampoon’s Vacation from 1985, perhaps even Dumb and Dumber, but this exact formula has been updated and changed somewhat to fit the modern times. I remember watching Road Trip and thinking that movies like this are so rare. In the following few years EuroTrip, Harold and Kumar and ultimately Sex Drive were released to my overwhelming joy. The actual, physical journey adds a lot of dynamic to the atmosphere of this hilarious comedy and it also enables the writers to set up some really outrageous scenes. I implore you to check out the unrated version of Sex Drive because it’s just so much funnier, with a lot added nudity and jokes. Yes, this has been seen before, but this version has much to offer. The cast is relatively unknown, but they did their job perfectly.
After they met online Ms Tasty and Ian_Gunz69 decide to consummate their Internet relationship with real life sex, only problem is the fact that Ian_Gunz69 is a virgin. Horny and willing to do anything in order to get that pussy, Ian enlists help from his best friends Lance and Felicia. The three of them steal Ian brother’s 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge and start their long journey to meet Ms Tasty, living in Knoxville, Tennessee…
Sex Drive is actually based on a book All the Way, written by Andy Behrens. Perhaps this is the reason why the structure of this movie is so good. Sex Drive features almost non-stop laughs with an interesting story and likable characters. It’s much livelier than other road trip movies, comparable only to Harold and Kumar. I just loved everything about this movie, especially large quantities of nudity and crude jokes. Behind all those crude jokes there’s a surprising amount of honesty, especially from the three leads. We all know how that teenage period of our lives felt like, so that almost childish honesty brings more positive vibes from within. For unknown reasons this movie flopped and now when people are remembering the comedies from that decade, they immediately go for Superbad or American Pie, leaving this masterpiece out. In the end, if you’re looking for that movie that will cheer you up, look no more because Sex Drive has everything you need.
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Canada Countries ENVIRONMENT Environment General Highlights
Indigenous village in northwestern Canada to declare climate change emergency
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Posted: Friday, April 12, 2019 at 14:03
Residents of Old Crow say they’ve been watching the effects of climate change in their community for years. (Leonard Linklater/CBC)
The chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in Yukon, northwestern Canada says his community’s traditional way of life is at stake and the time to act is now.
Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm says declaring a climate change emergency is not only good governance, but is his community’s responsibility to the rest of the world.
“This is a powerful way in which to invite people into what we are experiencing in the North, in our daily lives, and as a government,” he said.
Tizya-Tramm says the official declaration will be made in May, at Old Crow’s annual Caribou Days celebration, but there are bigger plans in the works as well.
‘This is a powerful way in which to invite people into what we are experiencing in the north,’ says chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, Dana Tizya-Tramm. (Alexandra Byers/CBC News)
“It is just a matter of time before this declaration will land on other tables among the other 14 First Nations in the Yukon,” Tizya-Tramm said.
In June, delegates will travel to the Arctic Indigenous Climate Summit in Fort Yukon, Alaska, where they will invite Gwich’in communities across the Arctic to join them in their fight.
“The Gwich’in Nation is from Alaska, from northern Yukon, into the Northwest Territories. And as First Nations, our original founding mandate, our original constitution is the land — so it’s easier for us to galvanize around the land and around these issues far more than international communities,” said Tizya-Tramm.
Old Crow in summer. Temperatures are rising across the north, there is less snow cover, winter is warmer and wetter and the permafrost is thawing. (Karen McColl/CBC)
The people of Old Crow are watching the effects of climate change unfold firsthand; recent reports only confirm what they already know. The Arctic landscape is changing dramatically. Temperatures are rising, there is less snow cover, winter is warmer and wetter and the permafrost is thawing.
‘It’s something we have been seeing’
William Josie, an elder in Old Crow and the executive director of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, says the weather has been getting warmer and wetter for years now.
“It’s something that we know, and it’s something we have been seeing here for some time now — and it’s quite concerning for my people,” said Josie.
“What’s at stake is the future of Arctic people — it’s survival.”
Tizya-Tramm says it’s not too late to make a difference.
“These implications are very far-reaching and there’s a lot that we can do today about the emissions,” he said.
“As for the long term, a lot of that is set in process. But the point is on focussing on the solutions and there are many of them.”
Related stories from around the North:
Canada: Canadian Arctic is warmest it’s been in 10,000 years: study, CBC News
Finland: Finland has used up its annual share of Earth’s resources, Yle News
Greenland: Tall ice cliffs are slumping and may trigger rapid sea-level rise, study finds, CBC News
Norway: Temperatures on Svalbard have been above normal for 100 straight months, The Independent Barents Observer
Russia: Warmest winter ever on the Northern Sea Route, The Independent Barents Observer
Sweden: Sweden ‘too slow’ in meeting emissions goals: climate report, Radio Sweden
United States: 2018 was the 4th-warmest year on record, NOAA and NASA reveal, CBC News
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Do You Have What It Takes to Work Remotely?
If you want to be a remote worker, you may need to convince your boss. Daniel Mobbs has the lowdown on the skills required, from effective time management to confident communications
While remote working is increasingly popular, not everyone is a natural-born remote employee. Where some people are primed to excel beyond the four walls of the office HQ, others are more likely to crash and burn without plans and strategies in place for a new way of working. “Candidates must be honest about their own ability to handle the heightened responsibilities and expectations that accompany remote work,” says Anthony Curlo, CEO of IT recruiting and staff augmentation firm DaVinciTek(1).
The good news is that these skills and strategies can be learnt and developed by almost anyone. Look at successful remote workers and you’ll see many of the same traits popping up again and again. So if you’re trying to convince your boss (or even yourself) that remote working is the right thing for you, start by asking yourself honestly how many of the characteristics below you share in common with your free-range colleagues.
1. They’re ruthless time managers
Just because you’re working remotely doesn’t mean your time’s your own. Bosses want to know that you’re managing that time as effectively as possible. “The goal is to show that you’re just as responsive, productive and efficient as you would be in the main office,” says Emma Sue Prince, author of workplace guide, The Advantage.
She recommends taking time at the start of each week to plan your priorities and estimate how long each task will take you to complete. “Throughout your week, track your progress against these goals so you’re held accountable,” she says. “Even better, extend your weekly planning to daily planning and ‘chunking’ your time to focus on specific tasks.”
Tobias van Schneider, a remote-working freelance designer in New York, recommends(2) using a time-tracking app such as Toggl(3), which not only records your time but also sends you reminders to track your time every few minutes or so, so you stay on top of it. “Whether you’re billing by the hour or not, track your time to make you more aware of how you’re spending your day,” he says.
2. They set clear boundaries between work and leisure
While some studies show(4) that remote staff can easily work up to 75 hours per week (averaging consistently longer days than their co-workers at HQ), working remotely shouldn’t mean working 24/7. Some bosses may see an always-on employee as a positive for the business, but sensible ones will see it for what it is – a recipe for burnout and dissatisfaction.
“It can be easy for remote employees who love what they do to keep working non-stop,” says Chris Dyer, author of The Power of Company Culture. “But you need boundaries to put down the work and disconnect, to avoid burnout and frustration. Knowing when to take breaks keeps remote workers on task and contributing at their highest potential.”
Successful remote workers are clear with their colleagues about their office hours and the best ways to get in contact – whether that’s via Slack, Skype, email or phone. They also convey when they need to be away from their computer during those hours and – most importantly – when they are logging off for the day.
3. They’re conscious communicators
“Communication is key for remote workers, but it doesn’t happen by itself,” says Susana Rowles, commercial director of Target Internet, a business that employs an entirely remote team. “Just because you can’t look someone in the face doesn’t mean you can’t build a rapport. Take time every day to communicate with your colleagues and make it part of your working mentality.”
In a piece for Harvard Business Review(5), Erica Dhawan and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic warn against conflating brief communications with clear communications. “In our efforts to be efficient, we sometimes use fewer words to communicate,” says Dhawan. “But such brevity can mean that the rest of the team wastes time trying to interpret your messages (and then misinterprets them anyway).”
“Don’t assume that others understand your cues and shorthand,” adds Chamorro-Premuzic. “Take the time to communicate with the intention of being ultra-clear, no matter the medium.”
The pair also recommends introducing communication norms with your team in the office to help establish clarity. They point to companies such as Merck that have created acronyms for their digital communications – such as ‘Four Hour Response (4HR)’ and ‘No Need to Respond (NNTR)’ – which bring predictability and certainty to virtual conversations.
“Norms can also exist on an individual level, such as people’s preferred response time, writing style, and tone,” says Dhawan. “For example, some individuals prefer short and quick messages, while others favour lengthy and detailed responses; people also differ in their preference and tolerance for humour and informality.”
Experts recommend taking the time to communicate with the intention of being ultra-clear, no matter the medium
4. They’re tech-savvy
If you’re already considering remote work, being tech-savvy is something of a given, says Anna Johansson, writing for Entrepreneur(6) : “The last thing you can afford is for your remote employees to constantly be tying up your IT team with simple problems that shouldn’t be an issue.”
But while your boss will probably assume you know how to use the cloud, video conferencing and enterprise messaging services such as Slack – that doesn’t mean you should rest on your laurels. “It’s important to show that you’re willing to learn and adapt – perhaps even more important than demonstrating flawless organisation skills,” says Tom Livingstone, head of marketing at recruitment agency, Talentful.
Make sure you’re up-to-date with the latest remote working technologies – and don’t be afraid to make suggestions to your boss if you can see a way to use technology to better streamline a process. Deepina Kapila, product manager at Visa(7), recommends YouTube Live(8) if you need to record a quick video or host a live broadcast or training session for your team. “It’s Google Hangout’s alternative to scaling a broadcast globally,” she says.
“If you’re managing a remote team and want to get a sense of their happiness levels, try Chimp or Champ(9),” she adds. “This weekly anonymous employee happiness meter is a quick tool designed to do just that, and allows teams to provide feedback as well, much like an old-school suggestion box.”
5. They keep in touch
One of the biggest worries for a new remote worker is that they’ll fall victim to the principle of ‘out of sight, out of mind’. A recent study(10) of 1,100 employees found that remote workers frequently feel shunned and left out. After all, if the boss can’t see you, how can you be offered a promotion or new opportunity?
In contrast, successful remote workers know that they can do something about feeling included and noticed. “Confidence and proactivity are vital,” says Tom Livingstone. “A message here and there, before it’s requested, to keep someone informed of your progress and ideas goes a long way.”
The key is to show initiative and enthusiasm for your role wherever possible. This might include letting your boss know of your eagerness to take leadership roles on projects, a readiness to share new ideas on your next catch-up call or sharing positive feedback from your clients and customers with your boss every now and then.
Find ways to make yourself as ‘present’ as you can be in the eyes of your boss. This might be through using a project management system, such as Basecamp(11), which allows you to more actively discuss ideas and show what you’re working on with your colleagues. Or it might be something more straightforward: Michael Ferguson, CEO of Rainmakers, recommends(12) scheduling video calls rather than relying on email communication. “It enhances collaboration,” he says. When the team can see the remote worker and the remote worker can see the team, “It’s a boon to effective collaboration, which improves productivity, efficiency, and innovation.”
Daniel Mobbs is a UK-based journalist writing about business
(1) https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/how-to/human-resources/2016/02/working-remotely-isn-t-right-for-everyone.html
(2) https://www.vanschneider.com/manage-time-remote-worker
(3) https://toggl.com/
(4) https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/centers/cwf/research/publications/
researchreports/Bringing%20Work%20Home_Telecommuting
(5) https://hbr.org/2018/02/how-to-collaborate-effectively-if-your-team-is-remote
(6) https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/289370
(7) https://skillcrush.com/2016/10/24/remote-work-tools/
(8) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4R8DWoMoI7CAwX8_LjQHig
(9) http://chimporchamp.com/
(10) https://hbr.org/2017/11/a-study-of-1100-employees-found-that-remote-workers-feel-shunned-and-left-out
(11) https://basecamp.com/
(12) https://hbr.org/2018/01/stop-neglecting-remote-workers
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The End of Owning Music: How CDs and Downloads Died
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"I definitely believe the next decade is going to be streaming plus vinyl," says Jack White. "Streaming in the car and kitchen, vinyl in the living room and the den. Those will be the two formats. And I feel really good about that."
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If you visited Austin’s Waterloo Records recently, you might have noticed a construction project that was unthinkable not so long ago: The 36-year-old Austin music staple was replacing 24 feet of CD racks with space for more vinyl. “After 30 years of CDs, a lot of people are moving on from that format,” says Waterloo owner John Kunz. “Whether they’re going back to vinyl, or streaming, people are selling off those CDs.”
As streaming gives the music industry its biggest profits in a decade, the CD business continues to plunge. CD sales have fallen 80 percent in the past decade, from roughly 450 million to 89 million. Since Tesla began manufacturing cars without CD players, other companies like Ford and Toyota have recently followed. Downloads – once seen as the CD’s replacement – have plummeted 58 percent since peaking in 2012, their profits now even smaller than physical sales. Artists have taken note; Bruce Springsteen released his latest box set, The Album Collection Vol. 2, 1987-1996, exclusively on vinyl, with no CD option, unlike 2014’s Vol. 1. “It’s a streaming world and a vinyl world with a quickly diminishing CD,” says Daniel Glass, president of Glassnote Records, indie-label home of Mumford & Sons and Phoenix.
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Jack White, arguably the most visible vinyl advocate in recent years, agrees: “I definitely believe the next decade is going to be streaming plus vinyl – streaming in the car and kitchen, vinyl in the living room and the den. Those will be the two formats. And I feel really good about that.”
Who’s still buying CDs? “The Walmart customer,” says Glass, adding that sales are still strong in “country, greatest-hits, soundtracks and baby records.” In the country world, Chris Stapleton’s second LP sold an impressive 373,000 physical releases last year. CDs are also doing fine in some international markets – in Japan, where streaming has been slow to take off, 72 percent of last year’s music sales were physical.
Introduced in the early Eighties, the CD prompted massive record-business expansion over 20 years—and was surprisingly resilient even after Napster and online piracy, then the iTunes Store, threatened to destroy the format. As for modern-day CD enthusiasts, Glass points to older listeners who still prefer loading CD carousels rather than configuring Spotify or Pandora on car stereos or home-theater systems. And touring bands still find it far easier to sell a portable CD as a concert memento than an LP or portable hard drive. “Is it imperative to have a CD?” asks Dan Baker, marketing director for Disc Makers. “If you’re an independent artist, it kind of is.” Baker adds noting his average orders have shrunk over the last 10 years from 1,000 CDs to 300. A bulk order of 1,000 CDs costs about $1,000, while 200 vinyl LPs cost about $1,800. “Vinyl is expensive,” says Kevin Breuner, marketing vice president for CD Baby, which helps artists sell and stream music independently.
Still, artists, labels and record stores have been preparing for years for the CD’s inevitable death. Sony closed a key CD plant in 2011 and laid off 380 workers from another, in Terre Haute, Indiana, earlier this year; meanwhile, as vinyl sales have increased from less than a million in 2007 to more than 14 million last year, new LP plants have popped up all over the place. “It’s just the way technology is going these days,” says Sharon Agnello, manager of Son Volt, which released 2005’s Okemah and the Melody of Riot on vinyl for the first time on Record Store Day (minus CD or download formats, but those will arrive later). “They’re not making it easy for people to listen to CDs.”
When vinyl sales started to climb in 2006, some experts saw it as a fad. No longer: Those sales hit a 25-year high last year, and labels are investing in more sophisticated packaging than ever, such as Concord’s Concert for George, which was just released for the first time on vinyl, featuring Jeff Lynne-approved lacquers. Rhino put out a five-LP 1969 Grateful Dead Fillmore Westset, which sold out instantly. White’s label, Third Man, recently opened its own pressing plant in Detroit with the first newly built vinyl presses in 35 years. “It’s really important for preservation of not just historical music but new music coming out right now,” says White. “Vinyl is written in stone. I think if it’s made it for 120 years now, it’s here forever. That’s a beautiful thing to think about.”
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Macroinvertebrate Community Index (MCI) score
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Purpose of indicator
A macroinvertebrate is described as an animal large enough to be seen with the naked eye and having no backbone. An example might be a koura, snail or insects like a May Fly. The number and types of macroinvertebrates found in a stream is telling of water quality. While some species are sensitive to changes to their habitat or pollutants in water, others are hardy and can withstand more extreme changes. Macroinvertebrates are an important part of the food chain and are a food supply mainly for fish and birds.
Macroinvertebrate Community Index (MCI) is a score given to what is found at a site based on the type of macroinvertebrates and the number found. From this the extent of pollution in a stream can be determined. Pollution sensitive macroinvertebrates are given higher scores than those that are more pollution tolerant. This means the higher the MCI score, the less polluted the stream. Land use in the catchment of a stream and extent of riparian vegetation are important factors affecting the health and quality of water.
Current information and trend
In general sites with MCI scores greater than 100 are considered to be in good condition and sites with scores above 120 are deemed pristine. Sites with scores of less than 100 are considered polluted.
In Rotorua, streams monitored include those running through horticultural, forestry, farm and urban environments as well as a reference site. Reference sites are streams and catchments that have little or no modification. The reference site, Waiiti Stream, is included in figure 1.
Pastoral, urban and forestry sites all show pronounced changes in scores when compared to the more gradual changes seen in the reference site. This suggests that high value native forest riparian environments buffer streams from abrupt change.
Compared with the reference (Waiiti) stream site, the pastoral streams’ MCI seldom reaches scores exceeding 100, with the exception of Ngongotaha Stream (Paradise Valley Road. Streams in plantation forestry can have MCI scores comparable to native forest sites. However when forests are harvested, light, sediment and nutrient levels can abruptly affect the stream habitat and fauna including macroinvertebrates. Retaining permanent, intact riparian buffers protects streams from events like this, and climatic events such as storms and flooding.
Figure 1 shows that the trend for all sites has decreased in MCI scores between 2006/07 to 2008/09, except for Ngongotaha Stream. However, this trend is also apparent in the reference site suggesting that land use is not the cause. The decreasing score may be climate or weather related. Both Paradise Valley Road and Hamurana Road sites of the Ngongotaha Stream show a state of recovery likely due to planting of riparian vegetation in 2006.
Both sites of the Ngongotaha Stream and the Pongakawa Tributary show increasing MCI scores from 2004/05. The Okaro tributary shows the same trend from 2005/06. The Puarenga Stream shows marked variability in yearly scores but the overall trend from 2001/02 shows it is steady.
Source: Bay of Plenty Regional Council, 2011
Ngongotaha Stream (Hamurana Road and Paradise Valley sites) is in a period of recovery following community riparian planting in 2006.
All sites irrespective of surrounding land use show a decline in MCI scores at 2005/06, including the reference site, suggesting land use is not the driver of the decline in MCI.
All sites, except the reference site show marked variations each year, suggesting vegetated riparian zone and surrounding land use protects the stream from abrupt changes.
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This prestigious lecture is given annually by a younger chemist (within 15 years of the completion of their PhD) working in the area of macrocyclic and/or supramolecular chemistry in its widest sense. The award lecture is given in memory of Professor Bob Hay, one of the pioneers of macrocyclic chemistry in the UK, at the MASC Interest Group meeting that is held annually in December. The award is open to anyone working at an institution in the UK or Eire or who can otherwise demonstrate a strong link to the MASC Interest Group.
Self-nominations for the Bob Hay lectureship should consist of a one-page cover letter outlining suitability for the award, a CV and full publication list highlighting the applicant’s top 20 papers. Supporting statements from nominators are not required and will not be considered.
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The award is open to doctoral students working in the area of macrocyclic and/or supramolecular chemistry in its widest sense. It is open to doctoral students in the final year of their studies, or those who have had their viva and been recommended for the award of a doctorate in or after October in the year preceding the call. Candidates must have conducted their doctoral studies at an institution in the UK or Eire or be able to otherwise demonstrate a strong link to the MASC Interest Group.
The award consists of £100 and a lecture at the MASC Interest Group meeting that is held annually in December.
Self-nominations should consist of a thesis abstract, a list of publications and a one-page supporting statement from the PhD supervisor that includes a statement confirming that the student is eligible for the award. Only complete nominations will be considered.
For further details about either award please contact the Secretary.
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How suddenly-precious cobalt that powers Teslas and iPhones also fuels child labor in Africa & armed heists in Europe
9 Dec, 2019 11:03
An artisanal miner carries raw ore at Tilwizembe, a former industrial copper-cobalt mine, outside of Kolwezi, the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo © REUTERS/Kenny Katombe
It’s an unwanted side-effect of the world’s growing desire for environmentally friendly vehicles: rare metals that are key components of electric cars are becoming prime targets for criminals, as demand sends their values soaring.
How to steal $10 million
On a sunny July weekend in Rotterdam last year, a gang of men pull up in trucks at an unremarkable bonded warehouse situated among an industrial landscape of cranes, shipping containers and depots that sprawls 25 miles along the banks of Europe’s biggest port.
Having purloined the secure codes that give them access through the warehouse’s main gates, they make their way inside and head first to the building’s security unit, punch in the number that disables the alarms and quickly remove the recording unit for the cameras that are aimed at the doors and windows.
Satisfied they are no longer being spied on, they head to a section towards the back of the warehouse and cut the padlock on its sliding door to reveal hundreds of orange and blue drums piled four-high on pallets. All are stuffed full with the prize the men are after: cobalt, a formerly obscure, unwanted metal that, thanks to the electric vehicle revolution, has become a highly desirable commodity nicknamed “blue gold”.
Five or six hours later, the last of the pallets stowed on board their trucks, the gang drives away with 112 tonnes of cobalt, worth around US$10 million. The Dutch police who will investigate when the heist is discovered on the Monday morning spend months failing to catch anyone for the crime or recover any of the stolen goods.
A conveyor belt carries chunks of Raw cobalt after a first transformation at a plant in Lubumbashi © AFP / SAMIR TOUNSI
Electrifying demand
Cobalt has become of particular interest to organised crime since its price rocketed by 250 percent between 2016 and 2018 (from about US$26,000 a tonne to more than US$90,000) thanks to demand from electric car manufacturers such as Tesla, Volvo, Ford and Volkswagen, and smartphone makers like Apple.
Its unique qualities prevent lithium-ion batteries in mobiles and electric cars from overheating and going up in flames. More than 50 percent of all cobalt demand is now for battery use, and the EU and the US both class it as a critical raw material.
As electric vehicle production gears up - manufacturers worldwide are investing US$300 billion over the next few years so as to build 35 million electric cars and trucks annually by 2030 - experts believe that the price of cobalt will rise again and make it even more attractive to criminals. According to the prediction of one American cobalt investor: “A wave of demand for copper, nickel, lithium and cobalt is coming that almost no one - miner, investor or banker alike - has anticipated or planned for.”
‘The new gasoline’ fuels abuse
The value of cobalt, which takes its name from the German kobold, or “goblin”, derives from its novel properties and relatively short supply. It is an element that does not occur in a "free" form, but is gathered during the mining of copper or nickel and needs to be chemically prised from them using acids and heat.
Clean energy dream fuels a dirty mineral rush
For hundreds of years, it was used to impart a distinctive blue tint to glass or ceramics, but in the 20th century scientists discovered it to have qualities crucial to our most advanced technologies. Combined with other metals, it produces alloys that are extremely strong, stable under high temperatures and anti-corrosive for use in aircraft engines, rockets, nuclear power stations, turbines and cutting tools.
However, it is the demand created by its critical role in batteries for electric cars that is not only producing the unwanted attention of criminals, but is also fuelling a human rights crisis involving exploited child labour in one of the world’s poorest countries in Africa.
Around 70 percent of the world’s supplies come from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has been beset by decades of war, corruption and unrest. The country is described as being to cobalt what Saudia Arabia is to oil - Goldman Sachs, the merchant bank, has called cobalt “the new gasoline".
Every day, tens of thousands of desperate Congolese, including children as young as four, illegally mine cobalt by hand in horrendous conditions. Unicef estimates that there are 40,000 children working in mines across southern DRC, earning as little as 8p a day to crawl through discarded mines, some more than 100 meters deep, to scavenge for rocks containing cobalt in the discarded by-products.
Reports from Amnesty International and others catalogue frequent injuries and deaths, prompting television and newspaper reports detailing the dreadful human cost. One headline in a British newspaper states: “Child miners aged four living a hell on Earth so you can drive an electric car.”
Campaigners estimate that hundreds of miners die every year or have their health seriously damaged. The hazards include mine collapses such as the one in June this year that killed more than 40 miners working illegally on a site in Lualaba province in south-east DR; asphyxiation due to inadequate ventilation; and illnesses such as the respiratory disease cobalt lung, a pneumonia which can cause permanent incapacity or death.
A man digs through some mine waste searching for left over cobalt in a mine between Lubumbashi and Kolwezi © AFP / FEDERICO SCOPPA
It’s feared that thousands more children will be sucked into the hellish trade, particularly now that many countries have pledged to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars between 2025 and 2040.
Such damaging reports and headlines have forced companies like Apple, Tesla, Volkswagen and Volvo to try to find ways to ensure that the metal they buy is not “conflict cobalt” produced using child labour. One avenue being explored is the use of blockchain technology, the cryptographic tech behind digital currencies like Bitcoin, to ensure traceability.
Thriving black market
It may be difficult to enforce. The rocks that the children find are sold on cheaply to traders, mostly Chinese middle-men who, in turn, ship the cobalt back to their country to be made untraceable; it is smelted down before joining the supply chain that feeds the needs of giant multinationals, and whets the appetite of organised crime gangs in Europe.
Carmakers face supply bottleneck of this crucial metal
Another cobalt heist occurred in 2012 down the coast in Antwerp. Three containers of cobalt had been shipped to a warehouse at the Belgian port. When truckers arrived to pick them up, they discovered that two had already been “collected”; thieves had once again somehow obtained the access codes used for deliveries.
Experts believe that the robberies are being carried out by organised crime gangs who not only know the docks well, but have extensive knowledge of the metal and understand the market for it. “Cobalt is not as fungible a commodity as many believe – this makes it a difficult product to ‘fence’ without a knowledgeable middleman with routes to market,” says George Heppel, a senior cobalt analyst at London-based CRU group, which offers business intelligence on the metals and mining industries.
So what happens to the stolen cobalt? “It is highly unlikely to have made its way into the battery supply chain,” Heppel says. “My best guess is that it was probably sold into the alloy scrap and revert sector to be used in superalloys, speciality steels or diamond tools. It’s more likely to be in a jet engine than a smartphone.”
But whatever the use the black market that exists for scarce and valuable metals like cobalt is thriving. Jan Struijs, the chairman of the Dutch police union and the former head of a criminal investigation squad in Rotterdam, told the business channel Bloomberg that the warehouse robbery there was simply “the tip of the iceberg".
David Weight, the president of the UK-based Cobalt Institute, says: “If something is valuable then it becomes a target. You saw it with copper: when its price was high, people were stealing manhole covers and pulling up electrical cables from the ground - and some were killing themselves doing it. When the price is high, people do the most extraordinary things.”
By Richard Ellis, freelance journalist in the UK
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The story of a Glory Lost – Kolleru Lake
by AS Bishnoi
The pristine glory lost of Kolleru Lake – erstwhile largest pelicanry of the world, shocks the author when he reaches the site to conduct the Annual Flamingo Count, by BNHS.
Sunset at Kolleru Lake
The Annual Flamingo Count, by the BNHS, is an exercise by said organization, where volunteers are requested to carry out a census of the flamingoes at one specific day and time; and the details are collated to arrive at a conclusion. Being members of BNHS, we(my wife Shakti and I) were asked to cover Andhra Pradesh (Kolleru lake). So we, along with our daughter, left for Flamingo census at Kolleru lake. All of us were ecstatic at the chance to see them and I was equally excited to click good photos and make our contribution in bird census, which led to us volunteering for the annual bird census, centrally monitored by BNHS, Mumbai. It was Saturday, the 23rd of February2019,when we started our journey from Visakhapatnam early morning towards Kolleru Lake. Our aim was to cover 300 km and reach well before time to take stock of the situation. We reached and unpacked our luggage at Haritha Resort(which I booked online due to its proximity to Kolleru lake)an erstwhile property belonging to APTDC, currently leased out to local merchant. To our dismay, the property has been converted into liquor shop and dwelling places for goons. Since the resort faces the Kolleru lake, we decided to stay to get a first-hand information of the birds and assess the situation. What we could gather was the information was stark reminder of the fact that humans can go extremes to make their survival a priority, overlooking the existence of other species of the nature.
The Kolleru Lake is the largest freshwater lake located in Andhra Pradesh. Kolleru is located between Krishna and Godavari delta and covers an area of 308 km². The lake serves as a natural flood-balancing reservoir for these two rivers. The lake is fed directly by water from the seasonal Budameru and Tammileru streams. It serves as a habitat for migratory birds, supports the livelihood of fishermen and riparian population in the area. The lake was notified as a Wildlife Sanctuary in November 1999 under India’s Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, and designated a wetland of international importance in November 2002 under the international Ramsar Convention. It was also identified as an “Important Bird Area” of India by the Bombay Natural History Society.
The glimpse of Kolleru lake: The left over
As planned, we wanted to get acquainted with the roads and local habitat before starting our census, therefore, we left for kolleru lake watch tower from our hotel. The local populace speak only Telugu, a language my wife is familiar with, so we were comfortable. We reached watch tower of Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary (KWLS) and wanted to see if flamingos are visible as that was our target. So we trained our binoculars, camera to look for flamingoes. We could not spot, but it took us 30 minutes to reach to the conclusion that they are not here, we need to visit Atapaka, a place around 25 Km from our present location to trace them.
River terns feasting on left over fishes in the lake
Our binoculars and naked eyes gave us the message that the thousands of fish tanks have been dug up inside the wetland converting the lake into a mere drain. Apart from this, the farmers have converted the land use pattern of the lake. This has resulted in pollution leading to even difficulty in getting drinking water for the local people as we could see young children and women folk carrying steel/earthen pots to fetch water.
As per the statistics, the total area of the lake converted to aquaculture ponds accounts for 110.0km2 (approx) in comparison to 29.95km2 in 1967. The area under agricultural practice in the wetland also increased, sewage inflow from the towns of Eluru, Gudivada and even Vijayawada and industrial effluents, pesticides and fertilizers from the Krishna-Godavari delta region contaminate the lake.
The watch tower at KWLS
One nascent bird lover(a local youth), looking at our utter disappointment, told us to visit Atapaka, some 25 kms from our present location, to spot flamingoes. With further detailed deliberation with locals, we were made to understand that adequate birds(Pelicans and Painted stork) are there. We are ecstatic and steered our wheels for acquaintance of area and road condition, so that in the morning, it will be easy for us to reach on time to start our census. It was an arduous journey as the roads were pathetic, offering us a view of frequently plying fisheries’ trucks, with local authorities turning the blind eye to them. Finally we reached destination and took the stock of the situation and returned on the same day to our so called “Resort” or “Liquor Mansion”.
We slept early and got up at 0400 AM to reach the Kolleru lake watch tower by 0530 AM. At the watch tower, we trained our binoculars and cameras to get glimpse of flamingoes and other migratory birds. To our astonishment, our ears heard the first gun shot and the birds flew helter-skelter particularly river terns. The shot was fired by the fishermen who were busy shooting birds, preventing them from feeding on the fish. The aim was to catch the maximum number of fishes from their lake converted to fish tanks. The early morning hour, with an equally rare presence of any tourist or forest officials, gave them liberty to exercise their option, which seemed to be a routine activity. We were questioned several times by inquisitive fisherman (as I was carrying a camera); and when they realized our purpose, stopped shooting and withdrew from the location to another, out of the reach of the watch tower.
The first gun shot
The Birds Flew
The second gun shot
Egrets flew
Still looking for opportunity
The sunrise at Kolleru
The men returning with good catch
From a distance we could hear and see the smoke of country made gun shots. A continuous pumping engine is deployed in the middle of lake and in front of watch tower. These men were not government officials, they changed shifts to pump water, as was evident from clothes hanging near the watch tower. In-fact, the ecosystem has been degraded due to fish tanks, however, the fishermen association claims that the ecosystem of lake has degraded not due to the fish tanks but due to sewage coming out from the industries and the residential areas. When I went into the details, I came to know that in 2006, the Central Empowered Committee (CEC), appointed by the Supreme Court, directed the state to remove all sorts of encroachment including the fish tanks. This caused a huge hue and cry among the fishermen community. Even the Kolleru Lake Development Authority took measures to check encroachments, regulate and monitor pollution, clear the lake of weeds and use it as compost and raw material to produce biogas. The court gave preference to the ecology of the lake first. However, today the situation is grim and lake has deteriorated to the extent that recovery is near impossible unless intervention of higher authorities and State government impose serious restrictions.
The lake divided
Extensive fishing
Continuous pumping of water from lake
Traditionally, water was seen as a responsibility of citizens and the community collectively took the responsibility of not only building but also of maintaining the water bodies. Since independence, the government has taken control over the water-bodies and water supply. This, over a time, has led to the neglect of the water bodies and catchments areas. People have become used to getting water at the turn of a tap and are no longer interested in maintaining water bodies. However, there is still hope as concerned citizens across the country have to come together to fight and halt this degradation of urban water bodies. In state after state, citizens and NGOs have filed legal cases for protection of urban lakes. Public interest litigations (PILs) have been filed for the protection of the water bodies in many cities and lakes, to restore to its pristine glory as before, but still the situation is not positive.
Extensive illegal fishing
The Government issued a notification constituting Kolleru Wild Life Sanctuary and defining boundaries and margins. Because of the enforcement of GO Ms No 120, through which the State government declared the lake a Wildlife Sanctuary, the rights of nearly two lakh people, who are basically fishermen, came to be at stake. By doing this, the government had made it clear that the right of the local fishermen to do fishing by traditional methods is not taken away, but aquaculture in the form of any tank is prohibited. Notice was issued for demolition of all fish tanks in the area, however, they are still existing and growing in leaps and bounds. The state government is putting pressure on the forest department to finalize a proposal to reduce the sanctuary area of famous Kolleru Lake from the present plus five to three contour-levels. Telugu Desam Party (TDP)’s President, N Chandrababu Naidu, said that the Lake would be regularized and the surplus land from the lake will be distributed to the poor farmers. The State Government has taken the decision to protect the lake up to contour-3.
Looking for food
We headed for Atapaka, to complete our bird census in the stipulated time frame (0730-1000AM). But the forest department begins operation at 0930 and opens gate at 1000AM. So we did not wait for them and walked the around the lake looking for mighty Flamingoes. Instead we found pelicans, painted stork, cattle egrets, stilts in abundance and we could capture good photographs. We keenly observed the habitat and various activities going around the lake and have penned down in the form of articles. We completed our bird census at 1130 and headed back to Visakhapatnam on the same day. Our observations is enumerated below:-
Importance of Kolleru
The Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary in Andhra Pradesh, known for its rich bio-diversity, is under threat from illegal fishing tanks, industrial pollution and a number of other factors.The catchment area of Kolleru is about 6,121sq km with a flow of 65,000 to 1.1 lakh cusecs of water into the lake. The lake drains out into the Bay of Bengal through the Upputeru drain, its only outlet. The lake serves as a foraging ground for resident as well as migratory birds. At present, 6,000 Spot-billed Pelicans, 5,000 Painted Storks and 5,000 Asian Openbills are estimated to be found in Kolleru. The lake also supports 63 species of fish.The Kolleru Lake plays a vital role in absorbing carbon, which in turn, mitigates the effects of global warming. Currently, the emission of carbon into the atmosphere is a major global issue. This freshwater lake acts as a carbon sink similar to any other thick forest area. It also acts as a filter for pollutants released as a result of industrial activity.
Conservation Status(Duck Rearing)
We observed that the people living in the vicinity of Kolleru lake mainly depend on fishery, agriculture and rearing ducks’ eggs for livelihood. As per the study conducted nearly 30 years ago, these activities were entirely depended on traditional methods which did not disturb the lake’s biodiversity. We interacted with local populace and came to know that previously the locals used to rear ducks, each of them having a flock size ranging from several hundreds to thousands. The duck-rearers traditionally fed their ducks in Kolleru’s marshy lands and in the paddy fields surrounding the lake. During night, they made the ducks roost in harvested paddy fields. The droppings of the birds helped in the growth of plankton, which supported the fish population of Kolleru lake. Now, duck rearing activity has considerably decreased.
Present Threats
The ongoing construction of illegal fish tanks, apart from those already in use situated in the lake, pose a major threat to the lake at present. Post monsoon, the flow of water stops into the sanctuary and the water drains out through Upputeru. Most of the sanctuary dries up early by February and it becomes convenient for the villagers to burn the Phragmyt is karka, an aquatic plant which grows up to 8-10 feet high, and other water weeds for digging illegal fish ponds in the sanctuary area. Weeds are the habitats of birds such as cranes and herons. The diversion of Budameru into the Krishna river and the construction of a project on the Tammileru river at Nagireddy gudem has further affected water flow into the lake, thus reducing the size of the Kolleru lake.
Sewage and industrial pollutants from nearby towns are other threats to the sanctuary. Roads without proper bridges affect the free flow of water in the sanctuary, pose a threat to the lake.
The state government has identified 14,681 acres of land belonging to private people in the sanctuary area. These lands are referred as Zirayathi lands. As compensation is not being paid to the Zirayathi land owners, locals are agitating and preventing the forest department from constructing a boundary around the sanctuary.
Fish farmers and politicians are eager to reduce the sanctuary area from +5 contour (308 sq km) to +3 contour (135 sq km).The Andhra Pradesh assembly also passed a resolution to reduce the sanctuary area and state’s wildlife board also did the same thing. The only concern was that the farmers are not getting adequate income from traditional agricultural methods ;while payment of compensation to displaced land owners is putting a huge burden on the government exchequer. Reduction of the sanctuary area may affect the Pelicans, Painted Storks and other water birds because the foraging ground has already reduced and shall shrink in future with population growth and ever demands of fishes. Locals who were meandering in the lake triggered multiple gun shots at regular intervals when river terns hovered in good number over the little remaining so called lake to quench their hunger. Humans don’t even think twice when they take away the share of birds. Looking at their bodies, it was evident that they had all the fishes which could be part of the struggling birds’ diet. Local populace enjoys self-made laws to exploit the resources of lake which belongs to everyone be it birds and animals.
Conservation Measures.
According to the wetland rules of 2010, the state government has a responsibility to protect wetlands. For several years now, public interest litigations and cases had been filed in the high court and in the Supreme Court by environmentalists to conserve Kolleru. After the Supreme Court’s demolition order, illegal fish tanks were demolished, but sadly, sometime later the tanks were built again.
As the Andhra Pradesh government feels that the compensation to zirayathi land owners is a huge burden, both state and central governments can think about paying the compensation jointly. As part of protection measure, the sanctuary’s water can be controlled up to +5 contour throughout the year or at least for 10 months by a regulator so that fish production will be good. There is severe pressure from the locals to explore livelihood opportunities and there is enormous tourism potential too.
Promoting Tourism
The International Migratory Bird Day shows that a relationship among tourism, conservation and livelihood is possible. Bharathpur’s Keoladeo National park is the best example of tourism and livelihood surviving at the same time.People in this area depend on the sanctuary for earning their livelihood. Not only Bharatpur, some families in Agra and Jaipur also depend on the Bharatpur sanctuary for a living. A sizeable area of Kolleru lake can be maintained just like the Bharathpur National park. Coconuts, mangoes and other trees can be planted in and around the lake area for enhancing scenic beauty and attracting the birds.
The local community and zirayath land owners can be roped in to promote tourism. Tourism can also be maintained by eco-development committees and locals under the supervision of the forest department. Proper micro plans should be prepared for developing tourism and strategies of sharing the revenue should be planned for stakeholders involved in conservation of the lake.The importance of Kolleru has been recognised globally. At present, coastal Andhra Pradesh is facing water scarcity and the government is urging people to conserve water by constructing percolator pits. It is ironical that the same government seems to be intent on destroying one of India’s most important lakes.
The Worlds Largest Pelicanry
Atapaka
As part of the improvement of the 270-acre migratory birds’ habitat in the Kolleru Bird Sanctuary,120(approx) iron poles have been installed for breeding and nesting in the absence of tree cover. The efforts to grow various species of plants did not yield result due to the toxic droppings of the birds. The Wildlife Management Division (Eluru) procured the poles with a circle of fencing mesh on the top of it and installed them in the strategic two mounds. We observed that most of the poles have broken down due topoor grade material and not being prepared properly. The need of the hour is more iron poles so that more space for breeding of the grey pelican and the painted stork is catered. The absence of the trees is the reason to explore the option of iron poles.
The Forest Department has appealed to owners of aquaculture ponds not to release contaminated water into the Kolleru Lake, which also houses a bird sanctuary, as it will pose a serious threat to the existing fish species and birds. The authorities should keep a strict vigil at strategic locations surrounding the Atapaka Bird Sanctuary to put an end to the harmful practice. In fact aquaculture farmers should find alternative ways of releasing water contaminated with pesticides and fertilizers instead of letting it into the sanctuary portion and concerned about the habitat of birds. But this can happen if we involve local population into conservation and educate them about birds and their advantages.If farmers minimize the usage of pesticides and – conducting auction for the fish in the lake and diversion of lake water into fishponds, it will help a lot. In fact the exhibition will help visitors and local people realize the need for protection of the birds, including numerous migratory species. Educating farmers on a periodic basis will serve the purpose and forest officials should take proper action.
The lake dried up
Many birds are migrating to the nearby tanks, fields in search of food.Many villages of fisher-folk and more than 50 other villages in West Godavari and Krishna districts are likely to suffer as the lake has dried up at the beginning of the summer season.All that one can see now are parched fields, small pools; and cattle and birds searching for food in the largest freshwater lake in the country. Being a bird lover, I am worried about the drought-like situation, as many species are flying off to the nearby water bodies in search of food.
Fish, bird species under threat
The lake that was formed due to the coalescence of the deltaic deposits of Krishna and Godavari rivers was later cut off from the sea. At its prime the inter-delta lake rose to contour 10+ during the monsoon and shrank to contour 3+ in the summer. The problem arises as the size of the lake changes seasonally. Some hundreds of species of birds are nesting in Atapaka. Birds such as painted storks, grey pelicans, large whistling teals, common teals, black tailed godwits, Northern pintails, Stilts and many water birds roost in the lake and they depend on the fish in Kolleru
No fishing activity
Kolleru was the safest place for the pelicans and other migratory birds. It was world’s largest pelicanry. Painted storks, grey herons, black-tailed godwits, stilts and others are scattered in the lake and in nearby villages now. The government should take measures to maintain the water level and protect them. However, some farmers have shifted their cattle to nearby villages in the delta area due to shortage of water. Boating is not possible and people depend on manual labour.
There is constant pressure from vested interests to encroach and destroy environmental hotspots like the unique Kolleru Lake, primarily for the production of food. But it is wetlands like this large freshwater lake and the flora that it supports, that scrub and cleanse the effects of the Greenhouse gases being produced by encroaching urban development. The Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary is also a second home for thousands of migratory birds that come here in winter. The lake provides them the food required to take the long flight back to the area where they roost. All these birds will become extinct if the lake is destroyed. Reducing the wastage of food will reduce the demand for food production which in turn will reduce the pressure for destruction of such hotspots.
Poles erected for Pelicans/stork
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Covert Affairs - Season 3
DVD | Drama | 05 Sep 2013
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Everything changes for savvy CIA operative Annie Walker (Piper Perabo, Looper ) in season three of the hit series Covert Affairs.Reassigned to a new and even more covert division of the Agency, Annie takes on missions that become personal and finds herself on dangerous forays into inhospitable territory, while a series ofexplosive revelations forces her to question her role and what (and who) matters most. From the producer of The Bourne Trilogy and co-starring Christopher Gorham (Ugly Betty), Kari Matchett (Leverage), and Peter Gallagher (The O.C.), watch all 16 action-packed episodes back to back and uninterrupted of the pulse-racing series that will keep you at the edge of your seat (Jeanne Jakle, San Antonio Express News). International shooting locations this season include Moscow, Paris, Barcelona, Morocco and Puerto Rico.
Title: Covert Affairs - Season 3
Actor(s): Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett, Anne Dudek, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Peter Gallagher, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Eion Bailey, Evan Sabba
Catalogue No: DP39776
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Dubbed Languages: English, Dolby Digital
Genre: Action/Adventure, Crime, Drama
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Most Cancer Cases Arise from "Bad Luck"
Environment and heredity are smaller players than researchers previously believed
By Sharon Begley, STAT on March 24, 2017
Metastatic melanoma cells. Credit: NIH Wikimedia
It was the study that launched hundreds of scientific rebuttals, insinuations that the authors had been paid off by the chemical industry, and charges that it was a “massive” stunt “hidden behind fancy numbers of doubtful quality.”
The claim that sparked this controversy? That “bad luck,” more than environmental factors or inherited genes, affects whether someone develops cancer, implying that preventive efforts from smoking cessation to environmental cleanups were largely pointless.
Now the authors of that 2015 paper are back. In a study published on Thursday in Science, they double down on their original finding but also labor mightily to correct widespread misinterpretations of it. This time, using health records from 69 countries, they conclude that 66 percent of cancer-causing genetic mutations arise from the “bad luck” of a healthy, dividing cell making a random mistake when it copies its DNA.
The scientists go to great pains to explain that this doesn’t mean that two-thirds of cancers are beyond the reach of prevention. But understanding the role of these unforced errors “could provide comfort to the millions of patients who developed cancer but led near-perfect [healthy] lifestyles,” said cancer biologist Dr. Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University, senior author of both the original study and the new one. “This is particularly true for parents of children who have cancer” and might blame the tragedy on the genes they passed on to their child or the environment they provided, he said.
“They did it right this time,” Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said of the authors. “In the first paper they upset a lot of people who are advocates for cancer prevention, and confused a lot of people,” by leaving the impression that most cancers are beyond the reach of prevention. “But a reasonable person can read this one and think, prevention is not useless.”
Separate research has shown that roughly 42 percent of cancers are preventable by, for instance, not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, and not being exposed to cancer-causing pollutants.
Not all critics of the first paper were swayed, however. “I am not very impressed with the overall conclusion,” said Dr. Yusuf Hannun, director of the Stony Brook Cancer Center, who led a 2015 study showing that the vast majority of cancers are due to extrinsic factors, not random mistakes in DNA copying.
The original “bad luck” study as well as this one compared how rates of cancer in different tissues relate to the frequency with which healthy cells in those tissues — lung, bone, brain, and more — divide.
They found a very close correlation. Cells of the large intestine divide frequently, and 5 percent of people develop cancer in that tissue. Cells of the small intestine divide rarely, and only 0.2 percent of people develop cancer there. Because dividing cells do not always copy their DNA perfectly, every division is an opportunity for a cancer-causing mutation to arise; more divisions, more cancers, the Hopkins team argued.
Overall, they found, about two-thirds of the difference in cancer rates from one kind of tissue to another is due to differences in the rates of cell division in those tissues. That conclusion echoes the one in their previous, US-only study, and held for all 17 cancer types and all 69 countries they analyzed.
That doesn’t mean that two-thirds of cancers are caused by unforced errors in DNA copying, however. The high or low rate of cell divisions account for two-thirds of the differences in cancer rates from one kind of tissue to another. For instance, the “cause” of the Himalayas is the Indian tectonic plate smashing into the Eurasian Plate. That has produced more than a dozen peaks reaching above 26,000 feet. But the difference between K2’s 28,251 feet and Annapurna’s 26,545 feet is nevertheless partly due to random factors, from wind erosion to the angle of the rock strata underlying each mountain.
Similarly, the cause of many cancers might be environmental factors. But the difference in cancer rates in different tissues can still be the result of different underlying rates of cell division. That’s what the Hopkins scientists found.
A key advance in the new paper is its analysis of cancer genomes in a United Kingdom database to classify where cancer-causing mutations came from: the environment, heredity, or those random DNA-copying mistakes. “This is the first time someone has looked at the proportions of mutations in cancer and assigned them” to one of these categories, said Hopkins mathematician Cristian Tomasetti.
After a roundabout calculation, the researchers concluded that DNA-copying mistakes are responsible for 66 percent of the mutations, while 29 percent are due to environmental factors and 5 percent to heredity. Different cancers differ significantly: At least 60 percent of mutations triggering skin and lung cancer are due to the environment, they calculate, compared with 15 percent or less in prostate, bone, brain, and breast cancers.
The scientists stirred controversy last time for an inference they drew from the “bad luck” finding. If so many cancers arise from mistakes that cells make when they divide, then reducing exposure to cancer-causing compounds such as those in cigarettes or workplace carcinogens won’t help much, they argued.
But that does not follow, other cancer experts said. Several mutations are required for cancer. Therefore, if two out of three required mutations arise from copying mistakes, but the third comes from an environmental carcinogen, then avoiding that carcinogen prevents the cancer.
This time the Hopkins team agrees. There is a difference between how cancer-causing mutations come about and whether that cancer is preventable, they acknowledge. For instance, 65 percent of mutations in lung cancers arose randomly but 89 percent of those cancers are preventable by avoiding smoking, Tomasetti said.
Their critics argue that the environment’s effect on cancer goes beyond mutations, in which case prevention might have an even bigger role to play. Whether a few malignant cells form a dangerous tumor depends on, among other things, levels of inflammation, insulin, and obesity. Those influences don’t show up in genomic analyses like those the Hopkins researchers did but are affected by lifestyle and environmental factors, said Ross Prentice, a renowned cancer biostatistician at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle.
“Environmental exposures can influence cancer risk in many ways,” he said, including whether cells repair cancer-causing mutations and whether the immune system destroys tumor cells before they cause actual disease.
Republished with permission from STAT. This article originally appeared on March 23, 2017
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True Blood Season 5 showrunner Alan Ball replaced
True Blood Season 5 executive producer Alan Ball will be replaced by Mark Hudis in Season 6. Do you think the show will be worth watching without him?
By Jodie Tyley 23-05-12 4,997
True Blood Season 5 will see more humans versus vampires, more Pam and Eric flashbacks, and more of Sookie exploring the men Bon Temps has to offer, but it will also see the end of showrunner Alan Ball’s reign.
If HBO renews the show for a sixth season then his replacement will be co-exec producer Mark Hudis, who has worked on True Blood for the past two seasons (four and five).
However, Deadline reports that although he will not be working on it full-time, he will continue to have some involvement alongside exec producing a new series, Banshee.
For those of you who can’t wait for the new season to start, here are the synopsis of the first three episodes:
“True Blood” Season 5 Episode 1 “Turn! Turn! Turn!” (Sunday, June 10)
Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) struggle with the aftermath of Tara’s (Rutina Wesley) shooting, while also cleaning up after Debbie Pelt. Meanwhile, Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Eric (Alexander Skarsgård), cleaning up a mess of their own, are visited by the Vampire Authority, one of whom is Nora (Lucy Griffiths), a woman from Eric’s past.
In search of the missing Marcus, Alcide’s (Joe Manganiello) werewolf pack comes after Sam (Sam Trammell). With Bill away, Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) enjoys her new freedom by partying with local college kids; Jason (Ryan Kwanten) is visited by the recently turned Rev. Steve Newlin (Michael McMillian); Terry’s (Todd Lowe) PTSD is reignited by Patrick Devins (Scott Foley), an old Iraq War buddy; and Alcide turns up at Sookie’s to warn her about the recently resurfaced Russell Edgington (Denis O’Hare).
“True Blood” Season 5 Episode 2 “Authority Always Wins” (Sunday, June 17)
At the Vampire Authority headquarters in New Orleans, Bill and Eric meet Salome (Valentina Cervi) and become acquainted with the Authority’s interrogation techniques. Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten) recalls her human life as the madam of the Comstock Brothel in San Francisco, and her first encounter with Eric. Werewolves J.D. (Louis Herthum) and Rikki (Kelly Overton) pay tribute to Marcus, but Alcide refuses to participate or take his rightful place as the new packmaster.
Martha Bozeman (Dale Dickey) shows up wanting to see her granddaughter, causing conflict for Sam and Luna (Janina Gavankar). Fearing Russell’s return, Sookie procures a home-protection system; Arlene (Carrie Preston) tries to get to the bottom of Terry’s erratic behavior; Steve Newlin stops by with an offer for Jessica; and Jason feels the brunt of his womanizing ways.
“True Blood” Season 5 Episode 3 “Whatever I Am, You Made Me” (Sunday, June 24)
Bill and Eric barter for their lives with the Authority Chancellors and their leader, Roman (Christopher Meloni). Salome and Roman enlist a new ally in the face of Russell’s return. Sookie goes to Fangtasia to ask for help from Pam, who is still caught up in her memories of Eric and the strange murders at the Comstock Brothel.
Andy’s dalliance with Holly (Lauren Bowles) comes back to bite him in the butt; later, he’s visited by Gordon (Steve Rankin) and Barbara Pelt (Linda Purl), who are searching for Debbie. Jason bumps into an old high school teacher, but their reunion brings up conflicting feelings.
Do you think the show will be worth watching with Alan Ball gone?
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Secretariat Bobblehead Information & History
As the Secretariat Bobblehead seems to have spawned an industry and following of its own, we thought it would be helpful to our fans and customers to create an information sheet on all of our past releases. The bobbleheads continue to have a diverse appeal and their sale has raised thousands of dollars for nonprofit organizations within the Thoroughbred community. So for those of you who were fortunate enough to purchase one, or for those of you interested in acquiring one on the collectible market, we offer the following:
In October of 2002, history was made when Secretariat became the first Thoroughbred horse to be represented in bobblehead form. The bobblehead was exclusively produced and distributed by Secretariat.com in an edition of 1000 total pieces with the original selling price of $73.00 ea. It was produced in conjunction with Secretariat’s owner Penny Chenery, with a portion of the proceeds from each doll benefiting the Kentucky Horse Park Foundation.
This edition is now known as the First Limited Edition Secretariat Bobble. It is distinctive in that it shows Secretariat in a galloping pose wearing a RED saddlecloth with the number 1A, which he wore to victory in the 1973 Kentucky Derby.
Measuring nearly 11″ long and 7″ tall, this edition came with a certificate of authenticity notecard showing a watercolor image of Secretariat during a morning workout and was hand-signed and numbered by Mrs. Chenery.
The First Limited Edition Secretariat Bobble sold out in approximately eight days, enjoying immense popularity that can be attributed to the continuing appeal of Secretariat as well as being the unique first offering of an equine bobblehead in a horizontal form. It is now considered one of the most valuable bobbleheads ever to be produced, with sale prices now reaching as high as $1400 (Sept, 2017) on the secondary market. They are occasionally offered through collectors or on eBay, but these offerings have become increasingly few and far between. Their rarity and collectible significance ensures their investment value will continue to rise.
Due to an overwhelming number of requests from individuals and collectors who missed the first offering, the Second Limited Edition Secretariat Bobble was released in January of 2003. This edition was produced in a quantity of 1,973 pieces, again selling with the original retail price of $73 each.
The second edition also known as the Belmont Edition is distinctive in that it is large, measuring 11″ x 6″ and shows Secretariat in a stretched pose in mid-stride wearing a white saddlecloth with the number 2 that he carried to victory in his record-breaking 31-length victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes. This bobblehead also came complete with a signed notecard certificate of authenticity showing a graphic representation of Secretariat on the cover and a black and white watermarked photo image on the interior.
The Belmont Edition sold out in September of 2003. Because of the larger edition number, this edition is more readily available with secondary market prices for excellent condition pieces currently in the lower triple figures. We expect this edition to continue to increase in value on the secondary market over the next several years.
In June of 2003, in conjunction with Churchill Downs, a miniature version of the Secretariat Bobble was produced by Secretariat.com as part of a Triple Crown give-away promotion also featuring the mini-bobblehead versions of Seattle Slew and Affirmed.
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Although the Mini-Bobble Secretariat was produced in a pose similar to the larger First Limited Edition Secretariat Bobble, it is distinctive by its smaller size being 7″ long and 5″ tall as well as its BLACK saddlecloth showing the number 1A. It also has slightly different forelock and mane and the year 1973 engraved on the back of its pedestal base.
The Mini-Bobble Secretariat has shown the most varied range within the collectible market due to differences in its distribution. It also has the most erroneous information describing it on several eBay listings. To set the record straight, the Secretariat mini-bobblehead was produced in a total run of 15,500 pieces all with a corresponding individually numbered certificate card of authenticity. 10,000 of these were allocated to Churchill Downs for their give-away promotion and internal usage. These 10,000 have “Churchill Downs engraved on the front of the pedestal” and their card numbers begin with #5001. The remaining 5500 pieces were allocated in the following manor: 500 to other Churchill Downs tracks and employees, 4000 to the Kroger Grocery store chain within the Louisville and Lexington areas of Kentucky, and 1000 to Secretariat.com for online sales at a $24.95 retail price.
Contrary to what many people think, it is the retail versions of the mini-bobble which are less common with production numbers being about half those of the Churchill Downs version. Of the 5500 allocated for retail sales, Secretariat.com retained the first 1000 pieces with their corresponding certificate cards with 150 of these 1000 being sold individually and the remaining 850 sold in sets with the retail versions of the Affirmed and Seattle Slew mini-bobble models. It is only through Secretariat.com and a few select retail partners that matched sets (which offered the same number certificate card for each of the three horses) were available for purchase.
The market status of the mini-bobblehead varies but all versions have long since sold-out. Typically, mini-bobbles can be found on secondary markets usually through eBay, but very rarely as matched sets of three which are further distinguished by the certificate numbers being lower than #1001. Currently prices are between $350-$400 for the complete Triple Crown matched set of three and these prices appear to be gradually climbing. More commonly the Kroger allotment of mini-bobbles (certificate cards #1001 – #5000) can be found but only as individual non-matched pieces. The Secretariat mini-bobble is by far the most coveted of the three mini-bobbles with prices nearly doubling those of Seattle Slew and Affirmed.
The mini-bobble versions that seem to be the most readily available on eBay are usually from The Churchill Downs Give-A-Way Promotion (certificate cards #5001 and higher). Prices can range between $35-$75 each with the lower end of the prices usually reflecting Seattle Slew and Affirmed, or poorer condition versions offered by fans who attended the promotion event, received their free bobble and choose to sell for a profit.
The fourth and last Secretariat bobblehead edition to be produced was the 2004 Secretariat mini-bobble, also known as the Prancing Edition. The most readily accessible Secretariat bobble, the prancing edition was produced in conjunction with the Bronze statue unveiling at the Kentucky Horse Park, primarily for wholesale and retail sales. Approximately 7″ long by 5″ tall, 12,500 were produced featuring Secretariat with a black saddlecloth wearing 1A signifying his Kentucky Derby victory. This edition did not come with any corresponding certificate card. Like all Secretariat bobbleheads, the prancing edition sold-out, and has now attained a very collectible status in its own right with prices reaching $175 or more. The prancing bobble is the only edition that was originally offered with the option of being signed directly on its base by Mrs. Chenery. Only about 150 were signed in this manner and their collectible value increases dramatically as in any Secretariat memorabilia actually signed by an original Meadow Stable team member.
How can I get one of the sold-out editions of the Secretariat bobble:
We recommend you contact us at Secretariat.com to help locate your specific requests as we are constantly searching for rare Secretariat collectibles. Our network also consists of several fans and collectors who will occasionally ask us to broker the sales of their Secretariat memorabilia (Click Here for our current inventory of sold out Bobblehead Editions). For editions we cannot locate, we encourage you to check eBay and other similar internet auction houses.
Will there be a Third Limited Edition Secretariat Bobblehead:
Nothing is definite but there has been continued discussion to produce a third and final Limited Edition Bobble showing Secretariat wearing a saddlecloth with the number 3, the number he carried to victory in the 1973 Preakness Stakes. This would be a fitting finale to complete the larger Limited Edition set representing all three of Secretariat’s victories in the Triple Crown.
Why do they have such big feet:
The dolls were made by choice this way to convey a humorous approach. To Mrs. Chenery, a bobblehead Secretariat seemed more fitting to have a whimsical, fun quality rather than a rigid realistic feel.
Are the bobbleheads numbered on their body:
No, this was to minimize handling during their productions. Only their corresponding cards were numbered.
What is an AP edition/certificate:
AP stands for Artists Proof and these are the rarest of the Secretariat bobbleheads. There were only about 20 produced for each of the two larger limited editions, primarily to be used for Mrs. Chenery’s personal usage. It is very uncommon to see one available on the collectible market. They are most likely to be found as an auction item offered as part of a charitable event. You can contact Secretariat.com if you have questions about a bobblehead certificate’s authenticity.
Will there be other mini-bobble editions, Secretariat or other:
Only time will tell, but any new Secretariat edition will have a completely different pose from previous models. Register below to sign up for our website newsletter to stay informed about pre-publication offerings.
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