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Real Natural Food Culture with Dr. Sears
It is good to see Dr Sears wade into the defense of our food system and put paid to the curious idea that a vegetarian based diet is somehow more ethical.
Recall that every acre of farm land is taken out of the wild. This always means the destruction of about fifteen feet of living biomass in the soils themselves. Once destroyed we reduce it to a working seedbed and soil that is rarely more than a few inches thick. A good rule of thumb is figure that we lose fifteen tons of carbon in the process. For forests, it is closer to thirty tons of carbon ripped out of the living biome.
Massive numbers of living lifeforms are also destroyed and living room for others disappears.
In short that bowl of granola represents the death of a lot of insects and other beneficial plants.
As Dr sears makes so clear, we are part of the cycle of life and what we consume in that cycle of life is not the real issue. What matters so much is how we husband that cycle of life to optimise our food supply. This is one of the fundamental themes of this blog.
We have created a system that tries to ignore our part in that cycle and that is a bad idea. That movement was driven by a primitive agricultural economy interacting with a superior modernist economy. My core argument is that we can introduce a modernist agricultural economy that blends naturally with the modernist industrial and services economy and produce major efficiencies and a hugely superior life way.
Magically this is the one thing our civilization can do that really is eating our cake and having it too.
We're All Born Into the Same Play
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I was reading The New York Times recently, and when I got to the Sunday Review section, I stopped cold. There was a disturbing picture of a chicken with a piece of broccoli for a head and an article entitled “A Chicken Without Guilt.”
I had my suspicions as to what this was about, but I read on anyway.
It was no surprise that the author of the article is a fan of fake meat, and wants us to replace eating animals with eating plant-based meat products.
He writes, “Really: Would I rather eat cruelly raised, unhealthful, polluting chicken, or a plant product that’s nutritionally similar or superior ... and requires no cutting off heads or other nasty things?”
He likes that the newest fake meat from soy can fool him because it tastes good. As if taste is the main thing to be concerned about. In other words, as long as it tastes like meat, then the meat lovers have everything they could possibly want! The only objection is that the synthetic stuff doesn’t yet taste like chicken.
I remember seeing an article a while back that claimed we would all soon be “in-vitrotarians” – that we would eat meat that is grown on racks from meat cells instead of from animals. And this article talks a little bit about that. Except he tries to differentiate his argument by saying “Hey, I’m not talking about stuff grown in test tubes. I’m talking about real food made from nature; real soybeans.”
I mean... where do I start?
You Can’t Opt Out
The ignorance... that this guy is in The NY Times. It’s so absolutely incredible to me that a well-intentioned, well-connected, educated reporter can write at that level but be so uninformed about something as basic as this. That he doesn’t know that he’s dependent on the cycle of nature. That he’s indebted to it. A part of it.
That he is part of a chain in a circle that no one can opt out of. What, he thinks he can because he doesn’t like the idea? He doesn’t get to make that call. We’re born into this play, and this is our role.
He writes, “Even the Department of Agriculture is on the side of plant-based diets.” Well, they would be, because that’s where the profit is. The Department of Agriculture exists to promote the interests of American farmers, not to protect you and me.
If our government were really committed to making sure we fed the most people with the best nutrition at the lowest cost and the most effectively, they would have everybody eat two eggs a day, a relatively small portion of meat a couple of times a day, and to supplement with locally grown vegetables and fruits.
It would be inexpensive, easy on the environment. They would tell people “If you live in Florida, don’t buy stuff from across the other side of the country because it costs too much and is too hard on the environment to transport it.
“Try to pick things locally, make sure you get a couple of eggs because they’re healthy for everybody and they’re very low-cost, very fast to produce, have a low effect on the environment, they’re sustainable, they cost less than a dime a piece, and they give you everything you need.”
It would solve all the problems of letting the schools feed the children all this junk with no nutrition that makes the kids fat.
If you had the government really committed to the best health for the most people, it wouldn’t be hard for them to come to that conclusion. But the government doesn’t actually believe that what I’m telling you is true.
But the reason they don’t believe it’s true is because they’ve had their vision clouded by other motives and interests that get involved in the process. Government is influenced by that, and they listen. It’s created this culture that is supported by those interests, which are not your best interests.
Worse Than Big Brother
It’s worse than anything George Orwell could have dreamed up when he wrote those books about the future, and how you’d have big brother, or the pigs taking over.
His book Animal Farm is really about politics, and the politicians’ capacity to influence the thinking of the masses to the point of nonsensical ridiculousness. The new-speak. That you couldn’t call things what they really were because you wanted the words to reflect what the ruling party wanted you to think about that thing.
We see that now. It’s happened to a ridiculous degree. But to far more insidious consequences than Orwell predicted. The Times author writes, “Why use the poor chicken as a machine to produce meat when you can use a machine to produce meat that seems like chicken?”
Above: A commercial chicken barn... basically a steel box that produces roaster chickens. Below: A pasture where chickens are raised naturally. Which direction would you rather our food production go in?
That belies a very profound ignorance. He presumes that everybody can accept that it’s better to have a machine produce our food than an animal for food. That it’s OK to completely opt out of the cycle of life.
It’s a very basic foundation for your existence on this planet – that you were born with a debt to this cycle. That you only borrow resources and then you return them. When you borrow them, you are indebted to pay them back. That’s the way it works. You can’t really get out of it.
You can try, and you can delay, but then the whole cycle suffers and everyone else in the cycle suffers and then it will kill you. Because we don’t have an alternative.
And, there’s no way we can make it better. It’s beautiful beyond our capacity to completely understand. We don’t even know all the things that are going on. Just be glad and be grateful that you are born into it. Rejoice, instead of thinking you’ve got something better.
Our long-term destiny might be to understand, and then transcend it somehow. But to think that we are smart enough, and just to take a piece of that chain without awareness that it’s even a part of the chain, and just say we don’t need that, do this instead... it’s ignorance.
Part of transcending is acceptance and rejoicing. That you’re blessed to be a part of it.
To say, “Why have a chicken as a machine when we could have a machine make chicken” is a rejection of the entire cycle of life.
Even worse, he writes, “Almost all unbiased people agree that less meat is better than more.” But he’s very, very biased and hasn’t spoken to people who aren’t biased, or he wouldn’t have that view. There’s really no evidence that eating natural meat is bad for you.
All the evidence that meat is bad came from adulterated meat – from animals that have been unnaturally grown with hormones and kept alive by antibiotics and fed an unnatural diet of grain. The evidence that meat is wrong comes from meat that is itself wrong.
We changed the nature of it, and the consequences have been horrible. And now the Times article author is suggesting we do the same thing – create something artificially – to replace chicken.
He’s saying, instead of making a place that looks like a machine that houses live chickens, why don’t we make it all machine. He looks at those chickens being commercially raised and farmed inside of a steel barn, and says, “This is wrong. So why don’t we do it a hundred times more wrong. Then maybe it won’t be wrong anymore.”
It’s an extreme example of two wrongs don’t make a right. What I’m saying is yes, it’s wrong, but we need to go back in the other direction. We need to take the machine (the steel barn) off the top of the chickens and let them run around outside in the sunshine and grass like they’re supposed to.
Because the unethical treatment of animals is not that we eat them. Nothing is more natural than that. It’s part of life.
I’m saying it’s unethical not to eat meat. And it’s even worse – despite what the author and so-called “ethical” vegetarians try to tell you – to try to manufacture new foods from grains to replace meat. Because these cultivated crops kill more animals and ruin the ecosystem more than any amount of meat-eating ever has or ever could.
Next, I’ll show you what I mean, and what you can do about it...
Ethics Are the Enemy, Not Meat
Vegetarians and people who want us to eat only a plant-based diet often look down their noses at the rest of us, thinking they’re morally and politically correct. It’s elitist thinking. They don’t believe they owe a debt to the energy we all share in nature. They want to remove themselves from the real world so they don’t have to participate.
But in the real world, you have to participate and play the game.
It’s the same game we’ve played successfully for millions of years until they wanted to change it. You borrow energy by eating meat. Then one day you get eaten, and you give it back.
Of course, you can avoid being eaten by a predator in modern times. But in the end, you’re going to be eaten by something. Eventually, your carbon, nitrogen, and your energy are returned back to the earth.
We’re not really at the top of the food pyramid when we eat meat. Because it’s not a pyramid at all. It’s a circle. And you’re a part of it.
Vegetarians who convert back to meat eating have matured. They’ve stopped clinging to childlike arguments and wishful thinking. They act with what the ancients call “adult knowledge.”
Adult knowledge is what our primitive ancestors knew instinctively. That we’re indebted to nature from the moment we’re born. We’re dependent on other living creatures.
It’s Not “Nice” to Avoid Meat
The argument that it’s somehow kinder to eat a plant-based diet because you don’t want to be cruel to animals is a very simplistic, immature, emotional and uneducated response to eating meat. And it tugs at people’s hearts, that you would prefer not to have to butcher anything to survive. The problem is, you can’t.
Almost every creature ends up as some other creature’s dinner. As I said, it’s a circle, and even the animals at the “top” aren’t at the top. Look at the lion. King of the jungle. Most feared predator in its domain... yet at the end of its life, it becomes food for a pack of hyenas.
Do vegetarians want to put a stop to that, too? It’s hypocritical thinking. Why do animals – who are apparently deprived of their “rights” if they become our food – have the right to survive in the wild at the expense of other animals, but humans don’t?
The truth is, vegetarians, vegans and people like the NY Times author of the article “A Chicken Without Guilt” that I mentioned in the Health Confidential letter above are drawing an arbitrary line when deciding which fellow-creatures are worthy of protection
Most of us wouldn’t eat another human being even if our lives depended on it. But that’s arbitrary as far as nature goes. Other animals do eat their own. It seems to me that vegetarians are simply making an arbitrary stand at some point on the “cuteness” spectrum.
Even if you were to become a vegetarian you cause more animal death. Because meat on your plate is just one life. But what you have to think about is all the animal lives it costs to put annually grown crops on your plate.
You’re Killing Off... Everything
To be a vegetarian means that you are going to rely on grains. Grains are annual grasses that cause the worst devastation to an environment and require the annihilation of the every other living thing in that ecosystem except that crop, which no amount of meat consumption does.
If you’re eating something like pasta, that came from a field of wheat, you killed off all the wolves, all the foxes, all the rabbits, half of the birds, all the insects, all the small animals that eat the insects...
And because there are so many people who eat so much of that stuff, you killed off whole regional ecosystems. Gone, because you thought that eating corn and wheat was better than eating the deer and the rabbits that live there now, naturally.
For example, take Kansas and Illinois, two states that have both forest and prairie, and compare the animals that used to roam free there with what they have now.
Did you know that the Illinois listing of endangered and threatened animals goes on for four pages? It includes the timber wolf, more than 30 kinds of fish, butterflies, dragonflies, frogs, snakes, crayfish and owls.
The Kansas list looks similar. And do you know what the Kansas state animal is? The American buffalo. Buffalo and Indian in their hunter-gatherer societies existed together for thousands of years, with negligible impact. I think you know the rest of the story there.
And if you look at other places around the world where people remain hunter-gatherers, their effect on the environment has been negligible, too.
I’ve seen it for myself, with the Batwa tribe in Africa and the Ashaninkas in South America. Their environments have been relatively stable for thousands of years. They still look much like they always did. Because the people and animals are all a part of it.
When I visited the Batwa in Africa, I found them living much as they have since the Stone Age... and with no adverse effect on their forest environment. Because they are a part of it.
The truth is, there’s nothing wrong with being indignant about the practices of commercial meat production. There’s nothing wrong with being indignant about seeing those chickens in a giant barn. It’s terrible and it need not happen.
Where to Find Fresh, Pure Poultry
The commercial farming industry is a travesty. But eating meat is not ethically wrong. Eating ethically wrong meat is wrong.
This should be a rally cry for converts. Former vegetarians who now eat meat understand this concept. When you purchase grass-fed meat from small, independent ranchers, it’s sustainable.
And much healthier than commercial meat – or no meat at all. For example, the eggs from pasture-raised chickens are incredible.
I helped my friend A.N. convert her farm in Loxahatchee, Florida – a few miles from my clinic – over to producing soy feed-free, organic eggs.
Pretty soon, the hens she and her husband tend started producing the most delicious eggs I had ever tasted. Then she started bringing them to my staff by the dozen.
Not long after her eggs became such a big hit, I decided to have a study done on them. We had a lab in Chicago test them and measure to see how they compared to eggs you can buy at a grocery store.
The organic eggs my staff and I eat have:
ñ65% fewer carbs than a regular egg
ñ10% more protein
ñ20% more iron
ñ72% more vitamin A
ñ211% more of the vision-sharpening carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin
ñ319% more omega-3s
ñ1,664% more calcium 3
You can tell right away organic eggs have more carotenoids because the yolks are more yellow. It has a lot to do with the fact that A.N.’s hens are allowed to run around in the warm sunshine instead of being caged up like commercial chickens are.
And that’s just the eggs. Free-range chicken is healthier, too. More protein per serving, and more B vitamins, especially B12, which we’re already deficient in.
The answer, then, isn’t to make the barn into a giant machine that produces fake chicken “meat” from grains and soy. The answer is to take the barn off the chickens, and take the grains and soy out of their diet.
The good news is, free-range eggs and pasture-raised poultry are becoming more popular, and so farmers are responding by supply more of them to the market. You can now get them both locally and over the Internet.
You can buy pasture-raised chicken from sites like:
ñgreenhillspoultry.com – soy-free chickens raised at a family owned, multi-generational, pasture-based, sustainable farm in Texas.
ñshadygroveranch .net – all animals get certified organic feed that is GMO-free and soy-free
ñgarciafarms .com – small, family-owned farm has been raising chickens for over 40 years.
ñmaryschickens .com – pasture raised in California and living a lifestyle and environment that is closest to their natural state.
ñrayfamilyfarms .com – the birds are never caged and raised outside in the sunlight
You can find out more information on local pasture-raised chicken at:
ñAmerican Grassfed Association (americangrassfed .org) – Certifies farms and ranches around the country, works with the USDA to standardize what pasture-raised means, and has news and even recipes.
ñUS Wellness Meats (grasslandbeef .com) – A resource for naturally produced meat, with videos and insight from experts.
ñAmerican Pastured Poultry Producers Association (apppa .org) – Nonprofit educational and networking organization dedicated to encouraging the production, processing, and marketing of poultry raised on pasture.
ñChicken Feed: Pastured Poultry (lionsgrip .com/pastured.html) – Recipes, articles plus links and other resources on all things pasture-raised poultry.
ñLocal Harvest (localharvest .org) – A complete index of farms near you.
1. Endangered Species Protection Board. Illinois Department of Natural Resources. www.dnr.illinois.gov
2. Threatened and Endangered Species. Kansas Dept. Of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism. http://kdwpt.state.ks.us.
3. Siliker Labs, Dec 23, 2010; Certificate of Analysis no. CHG-34190924-0.
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Universal's Volcano Bay: A Summer to Remember
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When it comes to Orlando's theme park scene, the city always seems to be bustling with news. Much of this news surrounds Universal Orlando Resort, which throughout the past years has made headlines with new rides, events, and innovations in theme park technology. Some may recall the recent closure of Universal's sister water park, Wet N' Wild. However, Universal is not leaving water park lovers high and dry: Get ready for Universal Orlando's Volcano Bay.
Opening on May 25th, Volcano Bay is an entirely new water park--and the newest accompaniment to both Universal Studios Orlando and Islands of Adventure. Showcasing 18 new attractions already prepped for opening day, it looks like the park is ready to instantly earn its title at the resort. With its grand opening just around the corner, Volcano Bay is beginning to publish more and more information about its one-of-a-kind park experience: Including the all new TapuTapu wearable technology.
With the TapuTapu, waiting lines are now completely obsolete. Instead, visitors are given the TapuTapu wristband as they enter the park, and are granted a brand new way to avoid boring lines completely: riders will simply swipe their wristbands at the front of a ride kiosk, and they are free to explore further and relax until the TapuTapu notifies them that it is time to ride. No standing in the sweltering sun, no bumbling with rafts, just smooth sailing as visitors experience all Volcano Bay has to offer.
Once patrons receive their TapuTapu, there's something at the park for everyone, from lazy river loungers to the most daring of thrill seekers. To organize its variety, Volcano Bay is divided into four zones, including:
-The Wave Village, a zone featuring scenic pools and lagoons at the park's Waturi Beach. -The River Village, a zone featuring slides and playgrounds for all ages, even toddlers. -The Rainforest Village, a zone featuring pulse-pounding water rapids and action rides. -The Volcano, the park's brilliant centerpiece, featuring exhilarating water slides that curl inside the volcano itself, as well as dazzling waterfalls and lava shows that can be seen throughout all of Volcano Bay. Along with its rides, the park will feature cabana rentals, delicious South Pacific dining, and Universal Express passes, where visitors can bypass the TapuTapu scan completely and just hop right on the ride! Overall, Volcano Bay seems like Orlando's big showstopper this summer, giving visitors a whole new way to plunge into the water park experience.
And if all that wasn't enough, it seems Universal Orlando Resort has even more in store for this summer: At Universal Studios, the wild new ride, Race Through New York: Starring Jimmy Fallon, opens on April 6th. At Islands of Adventure, The Incredible Hulk ride boasts a newly refurbished ride experience, and the park's newest island, Skull Island, is still more thrilling than ever. For those looking to stay for a few days. Universal has also unveiled its newest on-site hotel, the Loews Sapphire Falls Resort, which offers early admission hours to both Volcano Bay and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
Want to access it all? The resort is now offering 3-park ticket packages, so you can include Volcano Bay in your Universal experience. Whatever your vacation schedule, there are plenty of ticket options to choose from to make the most of your stay at Universal Orlando Resort.
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Padilla Miami 8 & 11 Heads to Honduras
The Padilla Miami is back. Again.
Like last year, Ernesto Padilla will be bringing a new version of the Padilla Miami 8 & 11 to the IPCPR Convention & Trade Show. This one is being labeled as the Padilla Miami 8 & 11 (2005 Blend). It is a Nicaraguan puro with a Cuban-seed corojo wrapper, a criollo binder and Condega corojo and Jalapa criollo fillers.
This version is being produced by Raíces Cubanas in Honduras.
The new Padilla Miami 8&11
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The 8 & 11 and Miami names have a long history. It was originally introduced in 2005 made by José “Pepín” García at his El Rey de los Habanos factory in Miami’s Calle Ocho neighborhood, located on 8th Street & 11th Ave.
In 2010, a new cigar, named Padilla Miami was introduced, and production was moved to Raíces Cubanas. A year later, production move again, this time to El Titan de Bronze. In 2012, Padilla added the Padilla Miami Maduro, which was also made at El Titan de Bronze. There have also a been a couple of short-lived versions, notably in 2008, Padilla opened up his own cigar factory, where he rolled cigars, and last year, he brought an El Titan de Bronze-made version to the IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, though it’s unclear whether that cigar ever shipped to stores.
Return of a classic, the Padilla Miami 8&11
A post shared by Padilla Cigars (@padillacigars) on Jun 21, 2017 at 4:34pm PDT
It will now be offered in eight sizes.
Padilla Miami 8 & 11 Robusto (5 x 50) — $12 (Boxes of 20, $240)
Padilla Miami 8 & 11 Toro (6 x 52) — $14 (Boxes of 20, $280)
Padilla Miami 8 & 11 Torpedo (6 1/4 x 52) — $14 (Boxes of 20, $280)
Padilla Miami 8 & 11 Double Toro (6 x 60) — $15 (Boxes of 20, $300)
Padilla Miami 8 & 11 Lancero (7 1/2 x 42) — $15 (Boxes of 20, $300)
Padilla Miami 8 & 11 Churchill (7 x 48) — $14.50 (Boxes of 20, $290)
Padilla Miami 8 & 11 Corona (5 1/2 x 42) — $10 (Boxes of 20, $200)
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Short Hills Deer Hunt Supporters – Taking Refuge In Lies
Posted on December 21, 2015 by heatherclemenceau
The sheer size of these vehicles means that they are incompatible with the ecosphere of a park. Consider that there may be 20-30 of these trucks driving around the park each day of the hunt. There are no limits on the number of hunters or vehicles in the park on any hunt day.
Written by: Heather Clemenceau
Photos by: Short Hills Wildlife Alliance
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Nothing like putting things in perspective.
Throughout the 2015 Short Hills Park deer slaughter, hunt supporters collectively jumped on the martyrdom bandwagon. Spurious claims of racism and abuse of hunt supporters are all ridiculous and cannot stand the barest scrutiny. The complainants, who include Brock University students, native hunt supporters, Food Not Bombs, HALT (Hamilton/Halton Animal Liberation Team), and Christian Peacemaker Teams, are consistently unable to support a single slanderous claim of their own making with a photograph or video of abuse or misbehaviour by the hunt protesters. At the start of the hunt several of them finally decided to go for the whole loaf and slandered us on CFBU Brock University Student Radio. And when confronted about the accusations, the student radio organizers hastily yanked the program.
Evidently not one of these counter protesters can grasp the significance of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s quote above. There is no person or culture that is or should be immune to critique – the charge of racism against those who are opposed to the hunt is just an updated, politically correct version of the cry of blasphemy – a fashionable position for those who want to mask their role as censors. My view is that criticism of the deer hunt or the hunters can never be off limits. In addition, this particular issue invites scrutiny because the counter protesters make claims that are put before the public that they urge the public to accept, via the student radio program and various social media channels. Left unchecked, these false claims equate the anti-hunting position with racism, while the narratives of others are hushed, creating an unmanageable template for the future. To our knowledge, no organizers of the student radio program asked for proof from these students, nor did they attempt to contact anyone from the Short Hills Wildlife Alliance for a rebuttal. The original broadcast is gone, but a copy is presented here and annotated with the most objectional statements:
Listen to the CFBU Brock University Student Radio Show:
1:34 – “It’s a spiritual hunt, they use every part of the deer.” (this does not explain the bag of deer skins nor the deer heart and other body parts found in the park immediately after the 2014 hunt. And they certainly don’t use the deer who have been injured and escaped to die a lingering death).
2:50 – “It’s a bit of a mixed bag of protesters.” (The most unintentionally ironic and laughable sound bite of each hunt. Lather, rinse, and repeat).
3:48 – “Their [anti-hunt] signs read all sorts of derogatory comments, derogatory language, quite a hostile and intense experience last year.” (Amazingly, no one supporting the hunt has presented any photographic or video evidence of derogatory comments or language at any hunt at Short Hills – because they never happened and don’t exist. Mouths open, lies come out).
4:19 – “It was a very aggressive time, folks would jump into the backs of the vehicles, people were spat on, antennas were broken, people opened the doors to get into the cars, children were intimidated.” (Once again, where is the evidence? Why did the police not remove or charge any of the anti-hunt protesters? Everything at the hunt is videotaped by the OPP/Niagara Regional Police, and this is the age of smart phones – evidence, if it exists, is easy enough to capture. Have any of these infantile, flower-child idealists noticed that the demonstrators they refer to are virtually all middle-aged and well-educated professional people, mostly women, who would never consider leaping into a truck bed, snapping off an antenna, or yanking open a door with two or more hunters inside the vehicle with unencased weapons? (personally, my Ninja days are long over – it’s been several years since I could leap into the bed of a truck and wrestle hunters with my bare hands, while ripping off an antenna with my teeth). Spitting is an assault, and such records, if they actually existed, would be trivially easy to source through FOIA requests. I have never even seen children at either of the protests I’ve attended (if you’re old enough to smoke, you are not a child). This particular segment of the audio is the most fanciful invention yet. One can only wonder what inaccurate generalizations will be made next year if there is a hunt).
5:26 – “The more supporters were there, the more the protest would de-escalate.” (Of course, when you make shit up, the reality that you actually see at the hunt gives the impression that the peacemakers have actually accomplished something when they have in fact done nothing).
6:40 – “The peace food table will be provided by community members.” (Yes, and they ask for the public’s donations in order to feed themselves).
The hunters and their supporters all use Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook to convince the public that the anti-hunt demonstrators are hostile and violent. Of course, anyone with critical thinking skills would start to wonder why the scant photos they do provide do not support the subtext.
How are these vehicles a public safety risk yet hunting in a park boundaried by private homes is not. Also note, these vehicles are not stalled – a cop is waving them in. There are no protesters standing in front of them – they are actually turning into the park.
Yes, this really looks like “settler aggression” doesn’t it? Someone is holding – GASP – a notepad! The image stubbornly suggests that the subtext is just wrong. And please keep up the singing – it carries into the park and no doubt serves as a warning for the deer to move away from the area.
Stalls are used by First Nations people, and we will likely see similar stalls (if not a complete blockade) used by the Natives themselves when the Ontario government moves ahead with its plan to widen Highway 69.
If you stand on my toes, does that mean I’m shoving my sign in your face? Not controversial, just juvenile.
Veganism is racist? So do the CPT think Food Not Bombs have been racist all this time for serving vegan food?
If there is a safety risk, it comes from people with weapons, not middle-aged professionals who are protesting.
Food Not Bombs, the organizers of the “peace food table,” carries with it a profound history of social unrest. The group may even be on the FBI’s domestic terrorist watch. Food Not Bombs serves almost exclusively vegan food (no meat, dairy or other animal products (at least when it’s convenient), in an attempt to show their stance towards nonviolence against animals. However, they seem to have little difficulty with the serving of venison at the “peace food table.”
As it turns out, the “peacemakers” charged with protecting the hunters from the protesters might not be so peaceable after all. The Christian Peacemaker Teams’ Twitter feed about the protest also perpetuated numerous overtly false or misleading statements about the protesters. A religious extremist group with
Poaching is now a regular occurrence on the outskirts of the park. Drive by the perimeter and you can easily see trucks parked, and sometimes you can see the hunters in full camo emerging. Does hunting in the park contribute to poaching by others? Does it create a sense of entitlement in non-First Nations hunters?
Mennonite roots (they preach non-violence, but lying is apparently OK), they are best known for offering themselves as human shields for Saddam Hussain in 2005 after the invasion of Iraq. Their purpose was to disable the US military – what they accomplished was something entirely different. About a half-dozen of the Peacemakers ended-up getting kidnapped by guerilla Iraqi soldiers – one was eventually killed, because war is a serious business best left to professional soldiers. They had to be rescued, putting soldiers at-risk with a dangerous mission. They were also accused of not initially expressing gratitude towards the soldiers who freed them (I guess they’re so anti-war, they resent being rescued). So, are the Christian Peacemakers, a group whose funding comes in part from the Mennonites, a religious or a political group? The Canada Revenue Agency warned the Mennonite church about their political activities back in 2012 when they reminded them that it’s not acceptable for a charitable organization to engage in political activities. Aside from this, the Mennonites themselves are hardly known for compassion towards animals – they, along with the Amish, are big time puppymillers and some work as kill buyers, supplying horses for the cruel equine slaughter industry.
Damage to the park is proof positive that the hunting activity does not preserve the area and is hardly low impact. Anyone who engages in unethical hunting practices, which includes leaving huge six inch ruts where none previously existed, undoubtedly merits opprobrium. Indeed, it was Paleo-Indians who helped hunt mega-fauna like the mammoth to extinction, the Maori in New Zealand who exterminated the flightless moa, and pre-historic Pacific Islanders who extirpated more than a thousand species of birds. These are not racist statements but statements of fact. Neither is this statement meant to detract from the thousands of species extinctions caused by all of us collectively. As human beings, this is a reflection on all of us as a species; it’s one of our defining, less endearing traits. And this makes our determination to preserve the park all that more urgent.
If our objections to the hunt reflect a skewed world-view, should it not be possible to critique our philosophy without going to the trouble of lying?
“We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.”
~ Rachel Carson ~
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Stop Being Spun By Outrageous, Fake, Click-Bait Petitions!
The internet has a long tradition of baiting and misleading the inattentive. There are now so many fake petitions on the internet and Facebook that we can hardly debunk all of it. So I’m rounding up the most recent and egregious examples of fake animal petitions with outright false info and misleading headlines that I hope you won’t share. YouSignAnimals, Petitionhub, Kim’s Petitions, Signatures4Life, and Best Animal Petitions (and many others that have morphed into prominence) are probably all getting money for clicks or money for valid email addresses. At the very least, they often give the impression that there are no laws or animal activists fighting for the rights of animals in countries around the world.
Initially, I signed these as well, and although I can’t prove it, the recent influxes to my email account of Bank phishing spam and “lawyers” acting on behalf of wealthy Nigerian princes *may* be tied to the harvesting of my email. Anyone have a similar observation? How to stop this endless circle-jerk? I’ve also left Facebook groups where the majority of posts consist of circulating these bogus petitions.
Lies, Damn Lies, And Viral Content
YouSignAnimals internet domain was registered in August 2014, and they often brag about victories for animals that occurred BEFORE they even registered their domain name or had a presence on Facebook. They give animal advocates the false impression that these petitions serve any useful purpose.
Here are some examples of victories claimed by these groups and their counterparts. In some cases it’s difficult to provide backup for the claims on the original petitions because they are removed from the internet within a few weeks after launch.
Example #1 – Reinstatement Of Conservation Officer Bryce Casavant
Recall the facts surrounding the suspension of Conservation Officer Bryce Casavant from British Columbia – he refused to kill two orphaned bear cubs. YouSignAnimals claims that their petition was responsible for him being reinstated to his original job. Unfortunately he did not get his initial job back; the latest news was that the conservation officer was transferred to another office, according to an article from August 28, 2015. The ONLY petition quoted in the media which did make a difference, which may have afforded Mr. Casavant a paid suspension, was the one on Change.org with over 300K signatures. This is the petition with real targets that went straight in the mail boxes of officials in British Columbia. How can YouSignAnimals, who seem to have removed all references to Mr. Casavant, show that their petition made any difference?
Example #2 – Cat Killer Michael Patrick Stackhouse
Cat killer Michael Patrick Stackhouse, admitted to stomping on a cat that he had thrown into the street, and killed it in front of children and neighbours. He rejected a plea deal that would have reduced his sentence if he plead guilty to a charge of animal cruelty causing death. He was sentenced in November 2014, three months after YouSignAnimals.org was registered as a domain. Although there are a few articles in the media, none of them mention any petition which might have influenced the outcome. Most petitions targeting Police/Prosecutors/Judges are being written long after these cases are being deferred to justice and basically ask them to do what they are already doing based on the local laws. So there is no evidence that YouSignAnimals or its counterparts had any influence on the outcome here as they have claimed.
Example #3 – Rescue Of Raju The Abused Elephant
Raju is another example of a victory falsely claimed by YouSignAnimals. For years, international organizations and foundations fought hard to achieve this victory. Some 30 police officers became involved in the rescue, and along with a determined team from the Elephant Conservation and Care Center in Mathura (ECCC) they were finally able to free him. Here is a petition from Change.org with almost 500,000 signatures. The Care2 community was also responsible for over 75,000 signatures to free Raju. So let’s please give credit where credit is due.
Example #4 – Dog Fighting In MDAS Shelter
YouSignAnimals presented a petition claiming that the Miami-Dade Animal Shelter (MDAS) staff were willingly allowing dogs to fight each other, right inside the facility. The petition accused Director Alex Munoz and Chief of Operations Kathleen Labrada of fighting the dogs as well as poor medical care, and falsification of public records. This too was a blatant fraud, accusing innocent people of dog fighting. These graphic and shocking pictures are not even taken from MDAS, but are from the Hesperia Animal Shelter. Once again there is a Change.org petition that relays the actual facts. Someone at YouSignAnimals has been scavenging pictures from all over the internet and using them to create fictitious stories to post to their advantage to get you to give up your email.
Example #5 – Pet Tattooing In New York
YouSignAnimals again credited itself with victory against dog tattooing and piercing in New York in 2015. But success had already been declared in December 2014 and the story was widely covered in the media including the New York Post and Time. “It’s simply cruel,” said Assembly member Linda Rosenthal in the New York Post. The Manhattan Democrat sponsored the legislation. It was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. A Care2 Petition with over 200,000 signatures had a live target and may have had some influence as well.
Example #6 – Brazilian Ban On Cosmetic Tests With Animals
YouSignAnimals claimed victory for the Brazil ban on cosmetic testing for animals. The only problem was that the Cruelty-Free Brazil campaign welcomed passage of Bill 6602/13 to ban testing – in June 2014 – two whole months before YouSignAnimals was even registered as a domain on the internet!
To perpetuate these petitions, one person created all of these Facebook pages – he goes by the name of Nigel Cameron (most likely an alias). Some of these sites don’t even contain petitions, but readers are asked to “support these adoptions by adding your name to our list.” Seriously? Ask yourself how that is supposed to help animals – it helps Nigel Cameron, or whoever he really is, grab your email address!
Example #7 -Texas shelter EUTHANIZES all animals because they didn’t want to come in over the holidays!
Yousignanimals claimed that the Hamilton Texas animal shelter announced on their Facebook page that animals at the shelter had been euthanized because employees were unwilling to come and take care of them during the holidays. Of course this is a flat-out lie too, and a google search of the image used in the petition reveals that it is at least 5 years old and not representative of this shelter at all. As a result, people are spamming their Facebook page with negative comments!
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Sensational Stories Have A Tendency To Spread Faster Than The Truth…
While many of these petitions outline abuses that actually happened, they are sometimes years old (ancient technology used to capture the videos is a clue). In other cases, the facts have been altered or there are fact-based petitions receiving wider circulation on the internet with live rather than obscure targets or no targets at all. How can we expose these imposters once and for all?
In addition, all these sites are hosted on Godaddy, which is owned by a trophy hunter (Bob Parsons) who not only killed an elephant and bragged about it, but is a “valuable”member of Safari Club International. I don’t definitively know what they are doing with our emails but I’m sure they wouldn’t go to all this trouble unless they were making money from the suffering of animals and the naiveté of people. Consider that while animal advocates are wasting time signing and forwarding completely fictitious petitions, real, active petitions are ignored. Some animal pages on Facebook contain little else beyond these fake petitions and if the administrators of these pages are going to allow these petitions, then animal advocates should leave the groups and join more productive pages. Virtually all the complaints I’ve made about these petitions have fallen on deaf ears.
So far, the snowballing viral effect of fake petitions seems to be sufficient to crush debunking voices. Please consider whether there is a legitimate petition already available with more power and credibility next time you see a YouSignAnimals or PetitionHub/Kim’s Petitions (who is Kim anyway?) Even if there are no other active petitions available, in many cases the facts are completely wrong or the case is years old and already resolved (but resuscitated for email harvesting).
I’m sure there are dozens if not hundreds more examples where Nigel Cameron has claimed responsibility for victories for animals. It is unacceptable for these sites to crown themselves with victories achieved with so much hard work by major international, national and local organizations, associations, foundations, grassroots rescuers, etc, which they do not even have the decency to mention.
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How to Remove a Built in Oven
By Kimberly Ripley Updated July 21, 2017
If you're ready for a kitchen upgrade, you may have decided to do some of the initial work to save money. You'll remove cabinet doors and relocate appliances so flooring can be installed. You may also be responsible to remove your built in oven from the wall. It's not as hard as it seems.
Wall ovens are encased in the wall or in a casing that supports it on the wall.
A little know-how and a bit of muscle will help the job go smoothly.
Pry any wood molding from around the oven using the back of a hammer or a small crow bar. Slip the hammer end or edge of the crowbar gently underneath the wood where it meets the wall. Pry in short, easy motions for minimal damage to the wood. Use the back of the hammer to remove any remaining nails. Insert the head of the nail into the slot on the back of the hammer and pull gently but firmly. Cut the power to the oven by flipping the proper switch in your fuse box. If you aren't sure which switch to shut off, consult a professional or someone familiar with fuse boxes.
For questions about electrical safety, refer to a booklet provided by the U.S. Government for home safety. A link to its download is available in our Resources section.
Set up a saw horse or 5 gallon pails a couple of feet in front of the oven. You will need these for resting the oven on once you have pulled it from the wall. Check for screws or bolts that may be holding the oven in, and remove these first. Pry the oven carefully so as not to damage the surface or the walls. Use a rocking motion to shimmy the oven back and forth while pulling in a forward motion.
Set the oven on the saw horse or buckets by balancing it carefully on the option you choose. Unplug the oven. This is likely to be a 220 outlet, and you may want to remove the outlet as well. If you opt to remove the outlet, cover the ends of any remaining wires with electrical tape to prevent a fire. Remove the outlet cover by simply unscrewing it, and the take out the box by removing the screw that holds the wires in place. You may thread the wires back through the wall to the area from where they were first run.
Sweep out any dust and debris that may have settled inside the wall cavity where the oven was situated. If replacing the oven, leave the wiring intact and check dimensions of the new oven that will fill the hole.
Place the old oven out of the way of children, as the back and sides may contain sharp metal pieces needed for installation, but that may be harmful if rubbed against.
Sawhorse or two 5-gallon plastic pails
Hammer or crow bar
Kimberly Ripley is a freelance writer and published author from Portsmouth, N.H. She has authored five books and hundreds of articles and short stories. Her work has appeared various publications, including "Parenting," "Writer’s Digest," "Vacations" and "Discovery Travel." She studied at the University of Maine and later pursued her writing studies through numerous classes and workshops.
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Winners of the Ukraine-wide contest of teaching methodological insights into human rights announced
In September – December 2016, the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union held the Ukraine-wide contest of teaching methodological insights into human rights. The Contest was held with the support of the USAID Human Rights in Action Program within the Ukraine-wide educational program “We Understand Human Rights” and with the assistance of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights.
150 developments from 20 regions of Ukraine (except for temporarily occupied Crimea and uncontrolled territories of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts) were received.
We express our sincere gratitude to all participants for social activism and significant contribution to the dissemination of information on human rights.
Congratulations to prizewinners and winners!
Our prizewinners are:
Maryna Masiutina (Center for Children’s and Teenagers’ Art, the Berdiansk town, Zaporizhia Oblast)
Olena Bilchenko (Novokonstiantynivska School, Bratskyi District, Mykolaiv Oblast)
Oksana Skurska (the Viktorivka Village, Chemerovetskyi District, Khmelnytskyi Oblast).
Our winners are:
Svitlana Stelmakh (Academic Lyceum named after O. Mishukov, the Kherson City)
Veronika Vinivitieva (Secondary School no. 31, the Kryvyi Rih city, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast)
Lilia Rudenko (Secondary School no. 8, the Novoukrainka town, Kirovohrad Oblast)
Oleksandr Skleinova (Secondary School no. 3, the Nova Kakhovka town, Kherson Oblast)
Oksana Marchuk (Secondary School – Gymnasium no. 5, the Slavuta Town, Khmelnytskyi Oblast)
Iryna Kubanova (Specialized School, the Velyka Chernihivka Village, Luhansk District, Luhansk Oblast)
Oksana Humeniuk (Radekhiv School, Lviv Oblast)
Thank you for your participation and look forward to further cooperation!
The Contest was held with the support of the USAID Human Rights in Action Program within the Ukraine-wide educational program “We Understand Human Rights”
The American people, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), have provided economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide for 50 years. In Ukraine, USAID’s assistance focuses on three areas: Health and Social Transition, Economic Growth and Democracy and Governance. USAID has provided 1.8 bln technical and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine since 1992.
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Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail & Elkmont Nature Trail, April 25, 2018
Posted in GSMNP Trail Hikes, tagged Alluvial Montane Forest, Elkmont Nature Trail, Ephraim Bales, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Place of a Thousand Drips, Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail, Wonderland Hotel and Annex on July 8, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I’m checking off a punch list of little trails, some ‘official,’ some not, in preparation for my 900 Mile Club finale Sept. 6. While in the Smokies for the Pilgrimage last April, I crossed off Elkmont, Sugarlands Valley, and Cosby nature trails, the network of connecting trails surrounding Cosby Campground, and Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. Of these, only the disjointed string of Cosby connectors is considered part of the 900 Miler tally by the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club, but I want to do these others as well. First up, Roaring Fork.
Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail
Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail is a one-way, 6-mile, paved road arching through a northeastern section of the park above Gatlinburg. The entrance is located along the loop of Cherokee Orchard Road past Rainbow Falls Trail’s parking lots. Turning right, RFMNT winds past natural features and cultural landmarks denoted in 16 numbered stops which are interpreted in a $1.00 auto tour booklet available at park visitor centers. The booklet paints a lovely verbal portrait of the mountains and mountain life, complementing the visual elements of each stop along the way.
Top-killed Mountain Laurel sprouting at the base
From the entrance gate through the first stop, RFMNT passes through an area hit hard by the Chimney Tops 2 fire in late 2016. Charred tree trunks and lifeless shrubs rising from a sparse understory over blackened ground still provide sobering testimony to the fire’s intensity 17 months later. Not all is bleak, however. Some Rosebay Rhododendron and Mountain Laurel are sprouting vigorously from the base. Mountain Bellwort, Wood Betony, and Early Wood Violet are in flower.
The evidence of fire quickly disappears with the next few stops focused on cove hardwoods and attendant wildlife. Lush mosses, Wood Anemone, Large White Trillium, Speckled Wood Lily, Star Chickweed, Creeping Phlox, Bishops Cap, and other spring wildflowers are serenaded by Hooded Warblers and Wood Thrushes as they soak up water from overnight showers.
Stop #5 is the Grotto Falls parking area. The llama trailer is here, and they must be making a delivery to LeConte Lodge on Trillium Gap Trail. A trailhead sign marks the 0.2-mile path connecting to TGT and Grotto Falls. Since I did not hike this spur when I did TGT, I decide to walk it quickly, covering all potential 900 Mile bases.
Further stops point out dense stands of Tulip Poplar, a sure sign of former cleared fields, with young Eastern Hemlock growing in their shade. RFMNT merges with the route of the old road settlers used to access their homesites in the Roaring Fork community. The road out of Gatlinburg ended here as terrain further up was not suited to sustainable human habitation. At this point, the eponymous stream descending from the flanks of Mt. LeConte becomes a constant companion. Flowering Dogwood and clusters of Yellow Trillium, Foamflower, and Showy Orchis brighten the roadsides.
dirty diaper dumped at a parking pull out
At Stop #9, a narrow trail retreats into relatively level woods which I explore. A short stone wall set into the slope above a tiny stream is the only sign of settlement, its original purpose a mystery. The trail continues for a bit but peters out as it starts to climb. Returning to my car, I spot a small white bundle tucked at the base of tree within view of the parking area. It’s a child’s soiled disposable diaper. The sheer laziness and rude selfishness of this act stun me. I put it in a plastic bag in my trunk.
Three homesteads have been preserved along the route. The first belonged to Jim Bales. While the house is not original to the site, the corn crib and barn are. Preservation efforts are on display with NPS staff working from scaffolds along the back side of the house. Baskins Creek Trail, which began 0.2 mile from the start of RFMNT, ends at Jim Bales Place, and Grapeyard Ridge Trail begins its route to Greenbrier from here as well.
Hog pen at Ephraim Bales Place
Next is the Ephraim and Minerva Bales property. The small dog-trot cabin and tiny corn crib to the left are near the current road, which looks at the backside of the cabin. The cabin faces a leaning picket fence bordering the original road, now a mere dirt path. Between the road and Roaring Fork are a modest barn and roofed hog pen that looks more like a fairy house, its opening just over 12 inches high.
For some reason, Eph and Nervie’s place moves me. This couple raised 9 children here. The sizes of these structures speak volumes on the difficult farming conditions they and so many other early settlers faced in the Smokies. One kitchen doorway stands just 5 feet high. I feel real amazement for these people, an “I’m-not-worthy” sense of respect. When my eyes land on the ever-present, knife-carved initials and Sharpie ‘tags’ of past park visitors scarring this modest home, I’m enraged. There isn’t a structure in the park that has escaped this type of desecration. To my continual disgust, I’ve encountered it everywhere, but in this particular home it riles as a true criminal affront to the memory of these honest people.
The last home belonged to Alfred Reagan, a talented craftsman with an entrepreneurial spirit. The success of his many endeavors is evident in his wood-clad, painted cabin. The tub mill next to the creek was just one way he served the community and supported his family. Several photographers vie for the perfect angle capturing stream, mill and flume.
Place of a Thousand Drips
Near the end, two splintered waterfalls splash down jumbled sandstone boulders in dozens of small rills — the famous “Place of a Thousand Drips.” The variety of wildflowers, ferns, mosses and liverworts is a botanist’s dream, the showiest plants conveniently grouped near eye-level on an embankment. White blossoms of Mountain Silverbell dot the road as I slip past the park boundary and reenter the real world.
Elkmont Nature Trail
Wetland, Elkmont Nature Trail
Located halfway on the road above Elkmont Campground is a short, self-guided nature trail. The 0.8 mile loop begins in the little parking lot’s right-hand corner and centers around a lower stretch of Mids Branch. The trail brochure highlights 13 locations that tell the land’s natural and cultural history. Each stop points to subtle clues helping visitors “read the landscape” and interpret that history.
Dropping steeply to cross the little creek, the trail follows an old railroad spur paralleling the stream. American Hornbeams are everywhere. One young tree is split down the middle nearly to the base, and both halves produce foliage. One element mentioned on the trailhead kiosk but not in the brochure is a wetland community. Classified as a montane alluvial forest, it is considered a globally significant and endangered forest type. This small wetland spreads out from the banks of Mids Branch as the trail enters the stream valley. Patches of bright green sedges sprout in the still, shallow water.
The trail climbs gently through a cove forest still developing from its farmed and logged past, crosses Mids Branch, and skirts a drier hillside of oak and pine trees. In this drier, more open section, multiple stems of Carolina Lily (Lilium michauxii) are sporting whorls of 4 and 5 leaves.
During its descent, Elkmont Nature Trail levels briefly where a mosaic of flat rocks create the feel of a flagstone patio, complete with a log bench to give visitors a chance to sit quietly hidden in the trees above the road and campground below. The final yards of the trail drop quickly to the parking lot.
Wonderland Requiem
Annex site
Before leaving Elkmont, I visit the site of the old Wonderland Hotel to see if the remaining buildings have been removed. A large rectangle of scraped earth spreads before the massive stone chimney that marked one end of the annex building. I am shocked to see dead trees on the perimeter, scorched black with their bark popping loose, incontrovertible evidence of a big fire. It occurred April 19, 2016, just as that year’s Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage was getting underway, yet somehow I remained in the dark for two years. Bits of white porcelain from tubs and toilets gleam in the mud.
Demolished cabin site
The other cabins behind the hotel site have been demolished, leaving raw gashes where structures had nestled into the hillside. Once nature heals these wounds, the weathered stones in retaining walls, chimneys, and rubble piles will be the primary evidence of an early 20th century residential resort.
During my last visit in 2011, the hotel’s lobby fireplace was still somewhat intact though the chimney was missing. Now it is a shapeless pile of red bricks overgrown with weeds. A narrow set of four concrete steps leading from the hotel to the annex is all that remains of the original building today.
Wonderland fountain
One hundred years ago, wide stone steps beckoned hotel guests from the rail line up to the hotel’s shady porches where they could enjoy a great view of Blanket Mountain. Centered in front of the long porch was a round stone fountain that propelled a jet of water 10 feet in the air. The top edge of the stone pool was decorated with chunks of white quartz. Now, vegetation effectively cloaks the stone steps from view, and all that’s left to signify this fashionable mountain retreat is the quartz-studded pool, filled with dirt and spouting a young hemlock as the forest closes in to reclaim its own.
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50 Cent Signs DJ Pauly D To His G-Note Label
December 1, 2011 | 11:26 PM
by RomanCooper
“Jersey Shore” star DJ Pauly D is officially signed to 50 Cent’s G-Note label.
Yahoo.com reports that the deal was completed on Thursday (December 1).
The TV star/DJ has been putting in work with 50 Cent and G-Unit since at least April of this year.
Pauly D joined Britney Spears for a few dates as an opening act for her “Femme Fatal” tour.
50 Cent added that Pauly D was a “great addition to G-Note and G-Unit family,” referring to him as smart and creative.
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If PSY never whipped them Gangnam style we’d never have the answer to which came first–the whip or the nae nae…
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By: Stacy-Ann Ellis September 18, 2017 May 7, 2018
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What ‘Martin’ Taught Me About The Best Friend Kind Of Love (Essay)
Words by Mya Abraham. Art by Sam Liacos.
Let’s rewind to late August 1992. Cult sitcom Martin launched with this captivating prelude: “My ex-girlfriend once asked me if I loved her. [Chuckles] Do I love her? Well, let’s just say in the course of a four-year relationship, I brought her a hat, a scarf, a T-shirt and a sweater. We broke up. I let her keep the sweater. Now I know you cannot put a price tag on love, but that sweater really set a brother back, alright? How far should a man go for love? We’ll be back.” *Cue opening credits*
Fast-forward five seasons and 132 episodes, outside controversy and standout comedic timing, we received our answer in 1997, and that answer still reigns true in 2017. Following classics like In Living Color (1990), Living Single (1993) and New York Undercover (1994), Fox kept up its momentum with Martin. The show’s five-season run wasn’t without its complications, but the show’s riveting beginning compelled audiences to follow along and grant its current status as a timeless hit. Martin averaged 11 million viewers its first season. The New York Times commended the show’s “quirkiness and its willingness to embrace social issues.” In an interview with Vibe in April 1994, Martin Lawrence praised himself on extracting most of his humor from “the give-and-take of male-female relationships.” He continued by saying, “Having a steady relationship, getting with the right woman is something I’ve always believed in. The one thing I’m most proud of with Martin is that it shows a black man loving and respecting his black woman.”
Dating in 2017 is so far gone from what it was in 1992. Unlike shows like Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where we witnessed Will going through his bachelor phase until he met Lisa towards the end of the series and Sister, Sister where we had to sift through the woes of young love into adulthood, we were privy to a grown, healthy, comical, romantic relationship through Martin and Gina for the majority of the series. Luckily, we also witnessed phileo love through the friendships of him, his best friends Tommy and Cole, and Gina and her best friend, Pam. However, Martin taught me that being friends first and learning a balance between humor and seriousness keeps that spark in a relationship alive.
Martin is a street-smart radio DJ for Detroit’s fictional WZUP who, despite his tough exterior, is a romantic at heart. Gina is a level-headed executive from an affluent background who is also down-to-earth and Martin’s balance. Like most classic ’90s sitcom couples who embody “relationship goals,” each partner represents what the other isn’t. Martin and Gina’s familiarity is what cemented their fan base both then and now. When we finally find out how Martin and Gina met in the Season 2 premiere, it was refreshing. Tommy, Martin and Cole crashed a party. Martin saw Gina getting food. He set out to steal her dessert, but instead stole her heart after attempting (and failing) to serenade her. He made her laugh with his charm and wit, which set the foundation for their relationship.
Gina, like any independent woman, could’ve found someone on her “level.” During their first breakup in Season 1, she met her match, but it was her Marty Mar who she couldn’t stay away from. After Martin proposed, lost his job and ended up in a cult, Gina fought for her man—something she did fairly often. When Martin felt she was too good for him, she made him feel secure, reminding him that they were a team. Pam continuously tried to convince Gina to find a baller, but Gina wouldn’t budge. That unconditional, ride-or-die mentality resonated with me so much as a millennial navigating this dating market. Many are so ready to jump ship when things get a little rough, but this is where having a solid friend foundation is so pivotal.
I was in a relationship for a long time, and him being my friend first and always proving to him that I wasn’t going anywhere (despite all the craziness he put me through) helped our four-and-a-half year run. Unlike Martin, my former partner was all talk and no action. Despite all my efforts to be the Gina to his Martin, it wasn’t working and I left. So to answer his question from the pilot, “How far will a man go for love?” Mine didn’t do much for the love I gave him. However, based on Martin, if he loves hard enough, a man will do anything for his partner: sacrifice, compromise, beg, plead, learn, forgive.
When Martin proposed to Gina, he initially did so like a jackass. “Damn Gina, yes I’ll marry you,” he said. “Happy now?” In a low move, he temporarily lost his woman to hide his insecurities about not being financially ready to be married. However, an old soul sat him down, schooled him and helped him come to a major realization: what good is having the big house and fancy car without the woman you love to share it with? With the help of his friends and Brian McKnight (shoutout to the ’90s for all the amazing, unforgettable cameos), he re-proposed from the heart with what he could afford and things worked out alright.
Martin and Gina were a young couple just trying to make it, with a solid web of friends who had their backs regardless of circumstance. The iconic TV duo supported each other through the highest of highs and lowest of lows (job loss, relocating, homelessness) and used their sanctity of their friendship to make it work. Yes, Martin may have been a lot to deal with at times, but his love for Gina was undeniable, even 25 years later.
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Odisha doctor’s story inspires Kareena Kapoor Khan to help mothers in need
Admin | November 9, 2019 | Odia News
Odisha doctor Omkar Hota’s story moved Bollywood diva Kareena Kapoor Khan so much that she made a firm commitment to visit such places to experience what the mothers are going through and help them come out of the agony.
Dr Omkar Hota, a physician from the tribal hinterland of Odisha’s Malkangiri district, had made headlines for taking an arduous 10-km journey on foot carrying a woman who had just given birth and was bleeding profusely. He had put her on a cot and helped her husband trek for over three hours through a hilly terrain to reach the nearest hospital on October 31.
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“The story of Dr Hota embedded in my mind and heart. I don’t think my soul will rest in peace if I don’t make it to the field,” Kareena said at an event organised at New Delhi by Unicef for celebrating mothers and newborns to mark the Mother’s Day on Sunday.
She was all praise for him. “We are actors, but you are the real hero. You are an angel for the community you are serving. Your contribution to the society is just exceptional,” she said.The Unicef celebrity advocate said every mother, rich or poor, needs a safe pair of hands while delivering her child. It is the support of family that a woman needs when she is expecting, she added.
Kareena highlighted the need for gender equality and quality which, she claimed, is next frontiers for newborn’s survival. “We need to look after our girls like our boys. It is incredibly sad that baby girls do not always get the same care mothers give to boys,” she said. On breastfeeding, Kareena, known for her size zero figure, said when a woman gives birth to a child, she does not think about her figure and at that moment, only the health of the baby comes to mind. Breast milk is so crucial and important that no mother can compare breastfeeding with her figure, the popular actress maintained.
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Meeting Gorbachev ***1/2
Werner Herzog gained intimate access to the last leader of the Soviet Union for this watchable documentary. Herzog, who comes across as the consummate dork throughout, mainly confines his questioning to the realm of historical platitude, but crosses the line into outright tastelessness in prodding the aged Gorbachev to discuss his agony over his wife’s death from leukemia: “How much do you miss her?” Even so, the film, combining interview segments with archival footage, does manage to produce a few moments of interest, with Herzog’s thesis presenting Gorbachev as a tragic figure deserving of audiences’ sympathy. Oddly, the elder statesman is one of those individuals who looks like a completely different person in old age, with even his signature birthmark seeming to have changed color over time – so let the retarded Paul-is-dead impostor conspiracy-theorizing commence!
3.5 out of 5 stars. Ideological Content Analysis indicates that Meeting Gorbachev is:
Anti-Yeltsin. Yeltsin was a “reckless type”, Gorbachev laments, reflecting, “I should have sent him off somewhere.”
Pro-German. “I believe we have a common destiny with the Germans,” says Gorbachev, who grew up with German neighbors. “I personally feel that they are our closest friends.” Ultra-cuck Herzog, however, makes sure to remind viewers of the 25 million citizens of the Soviet Union killed by the Nazis during the Second World War.
Anti-nuke and anti-Trump. Gorbachev remains committed to nuclear disarmament, and Margaret Thatcher emerges as an antagonistic force in her more belligerent nuclear stance. “It’s a shame that the current American president declared he will modernize their nuclear arsenal,” observes Horst Teltschik, National Security Advisor to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Pro-NATO and anti-Putin. Teltschik downplays the threat that NATO poses to Russia. “But we have to get back to having reasonable discussions with Russia,” says Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz, “and probably that takes some sort of a jolt for Mr. Putin to realize that the hostility is not good […]” Disappointingly, Gorbachev is not permitted to say much of anything about Russia under Putin.
Socialist! “More democracy – that was our first and foremost goal,” says Gorbachev. “I also wanted more socialism!” The film does allow, however, for “errors in centralized planning” having contributed to the Soviet Union’s demise. Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is accused of “sinister reasoning” in his determination to take advantage of Gorbachev’s sincere desire for reform. “He really believed that he could reform communism,” Walesa scoffs. “Of course, I and many others knew communism couldn’t be reformed.” “Rather than dissolving the Union,” Gorbachev believes, “we should have given the republics more rights.”
Tags 70s, 80s, 90s, anti-nuke, anti-Trump, anti-Yeltsin, Boris Yeltsin, capitalism, Chernobyl, Cold War, communism, communist, documentary, Donald Trump, eighties, George Shultz, Germans, Glasnost, Helmut Kohl, Horst Teltschik, Lech Walesa, Leonid Brezhnev, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, NATO, Nazis, nineties, nuclear weapons, Perestroika, Poland, politics, pro-German, Raisa Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Russians, Second World War, seventies, socialism, socialist, solidarity, Soviet Union, USSR, Werner Herzog, World War 2
The Death of Superman ***
Will this animated adaptation of DC’s 1992 “death” of Superman storyline please those old enough to have read it when it first appeared? Considering that grown men still sufficiently juvenile to persist in taking an interest in comic book characters must have rather low standards for keeping themselves entertained, one assumes that it probably will. In between automobile-chucking super-brawls, personal drama involving the Man of Steel’s tense relationship with Lois Lane keeps this feature-length production from becoming overly monotonous – but, as with most superhero sagas, the ethnic subtext remains the most intriguing aspect.
3 out of 5 stars. Ideological Content Analysis indicates that The Death of Superman is:
5. Anti-Russian. Lex Luthor mentions having enjoyed a “private performance by the Bolshoi”, connecting Russia with supervillainy in audiences’ minds.
4. Anti-gun. A police officer’s passing reference to assault weapons highlights the danger to law and order posed by private firearm ownership.
3. Feminist. Strong, sarcastic, frowning women abound.
2. Black-supremacist, with blacks disproportionately represented in prestigious and powerful positions. The mayor of Metropolis is black, as are the two top scientists at S.T.A.R. Labs.
1.Judeo-globalist and anti-white. Superman, whose creation was a Jewish response to the Nazi concept of the Aryan superman and whose Justice League receives funding from the one-worldist United Nations, represents a confident Jewish self-concept, with Kal-El (interpreted by some as meaning “Voice of God” in Hebrew) being a Kryptonian (i.e., a crypto-Jew) who conceals his power behind the nerdy façade of the WASPy-sounding “Clark Kent”. Significantly, “Kent” occupies a position of influence in the media through his job at the globalism-evoking Daily Planet (although DC obfuscates Jewish control of the media which in this series is “White” via the newspaper’s editor-in-chief Perry). Kent/Superman is an effective arbiter of truth and justice as long as kryptonite is not utilized against him – i.e., as long as his enemies do not confront him with his secret Jewishness. Lex Luthor – whose name echoes history’s second-most-notorious critic of Jewry – almost seems to be explicitly criticizing Jewish influence when he decries “obsequious cretins who worship aliens, believing them to be the agents of justice. But I have seen the alien’s true face,” he explains. “I understand his threat.” Luthor’s subtextual anti-Semitism is then emphasized when he employs the German word “ubermensch”. It is moral exemplar Superman, however, who selflessly saves his archenemy when Doomsday comes.
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“No Country for White Men”: Racial Politics and Realities in True Detective Season 2
The second season of HBO’s bleak series True Detective shifts the scene of the sickness from creepy gothic Louisiana to dystopian southern California, a setting with a more strikingly chaotic ethnic mix that lends itself to an exploration of race relations in America. The plot this time around concerns the intertwined lives and fortunes of vicious but decent-hearted gangster Frank Semyon (Vince Vaughn) and tortured and tarnished detective Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell) and their investigation into the convoluted circumstances of a politician’s death.
Vince Vaughn as Frank Semyon
True Detective presents a world of demographic horror, an America in which racial loyalties are nonexistent and fealty of any other kind is hard to come by. Whites, blacks, Mexicans, and Jews are all crooked. Mexicans, while distrustful and destructive of whites, also think nothing of killing each other, while whites, finding themselves marooned in an increasingly hostile and meaningless world, grasp at anything they can get. Race-based tensions nevertheless continue to simmer beneath the surface of several of the characters’ interactions. Semyon is a self-made man and a bigot, a walking contradiction who dislikes the changing demographics of the U.S. and seethes with an angry white man’s discontent but is also and at the same time cynically complicit in the smuggling of illegal aliens into his country.
Semyon is also an anti-Semite and calls Israeli gangster Osip Agronov (Timothy Murphy) a “KGB kike motherfucker”. True Detective is rather daring in identifying the true ethnic character of the “Russian” mafia. The series gives Semyon more than one moment of triumphant crowd-pleasing sadism, and it is significant that one of these is reserved not for one of the Jewish gangsters, but for an especially weaselly specimen of the Shabbos goy, or gentile who sells his treacherous services to the Jewish enemy. Leonard Cohen’s excellent theme song, “Nevermind”, is interesting in this context for featuring the lines “I was not caught, though many tried. / I live among you, well-disguised.”
Fred Ward as Mr. Velcoro
In another scene, Semyon pummels and then pulls out the teeth of a mouthy brown-skinned inferior (Pedro Miguel Arce) – content that serves as vicarious satisfaction for Caucasian viewers fed up with pretending to like their laughingly darkening world. Representing such viewers is Velcoro’s father (Fred Ward), a retired policeman who found he was no longer able to carry out his duties properly with the advent of the fuck-the-police zeitgeist that found its explosive expression in the 1992 L.A. riots. The U.S. as it presently stands is “no country for white men,” he observes as he enjoys a black-and-white Kirk Douglas movie. He is one of two aged policemen in True Detective who remarks that blacks’ intensifying hostility toward police made it increasingly difficult for them to do their jobs.
The audience, one suspects, is expected to feel a mingled contempt and sympathy for this old man who has given up on life and squanders what little of it is left to him getting high and living in a televised, mythologized past. A parallel character is the disgusting, whorish ex-dancer mother (Lolita Davidovich) of highway patrolman and ex-mercenary Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch). Like old Mr. Velcoro, she prefers the comfort of watching old movies to doing anything productive with her years of decline. Morally and physically decrepit, her narrow, nostalgic tribalism takes the incestuous form of a selfish attachment to her son, who clearly wants nothing to do with her.
True Detective also offers multiple examples of interracial relationships, but none of these is deep, lasting, or free of damaged trust. As one of the season’s other songs suggests, “There’s no future. There’s no past.” – an assessment that could easily apply to America’s multiracial experiment as depicted in these episodes. A feeling of imminent doom pervades not just the lives of the principal characters, but the life of the proposition nation. In one episode, Detective Velcoro visits the set of a cheesy post-apocalyptic action movie – a cartoon version of the American century taking shape around those dumb enough not to notice what has been happening. Indeed, the characters who survive the final episode are those who choose to flee the country – no livable future seemingly being available to them here.
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John Wick ***
Keanu Reeves is John Wick, a retired assassin and man of “sheer will” who must dust off the tools of his trade when his car is stolen and – worse still! – his dog is butchered by Russian rowdies. Reeves gets to do the sorts of things one expects – strolling in slow motion through a dance club while casually dispensing violent punishments, and so forth – and, in a scene that alludes pointlessly to his climactic confrontation with Agent Smith in The Matrix Revolutions, even has a dramatic hand-to-hand showdown during a downpour with low-interest villain Michael Nyqvist. John Wick packs a handful of quality action moments, but not enough to stuff the soulless void at the heart of this nihilistic exercise in death for death’s sake. The gravitas of supporting players Willem Defoe and Ian McShane is wasted in such a film.
3 stars. Ideological Content Analysis indicates that John Wick is:
4. Pro-torture. Hitwoman Miss Perkins (Adrianne Palicki) is visually aroused at the sight of a knife being driven into a bound man’s leg.
3. Pro-drug. Wick, despite his abdomen having been cut open, is able to launch back into action with the aid of a glass of bourbon and dose of some sort of pills.
2. Anti-Christian. A Russian church serves as a gangster front. Consequently, Wick has no qualms about shooting a priest in the leg.
1. Neoconservative. Those darn puppy-murdering Russian bad guys are at it again! John Wick came recommended as a good “guy movie” from a social justice warrior coworker – such people apparently considering themselves qualified to judge typical “guy” tastes. That social justice warriors are now endorsing rotgut neocon propaganda should come as no surprise, however, considering that this is 2016, a year that will see American liberals throwing the heft of their silly support behind an Israel-firster warmonger like Hillary Schlongedham Clinton. Wick, true to his name, is a Shabbos goy – a subservient gentile who lights a candle for superstitious Jews forbidden by their “religion” to perform any labor on the Sabbath – and serves his Hebraic Hollywood masters by demonstrating for all of the gullible goyim how cool and exciting it is to shoot perfect strangers. The name also suggests the character’s wickedness, an apt association in this context.
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Leviathan ****1/2
Writer-director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan tells the story of Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov), a rustic mechanic whose family property has been seized through eminent domain so that crooked town boss Vadim (Roman Madyanov) can use it to build a “palace”. Coming from Moscow to help Kolya is lawyer and old army buddy Dmitriy (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), who, in addition to offering counsel, also happens to be screwing his friend’s wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova) on the side. Dmitriy’s idea is to blackmail the mayor, but Vadim, prepared to use violence to have his way, proves to be more than a worthy adversary. Meanwhile, Kolya’s son Romka (Sergey Pokhodaev) bears a bitter grudge against stepmother Lilya, so that the household seems doomed to unhappiness even if the family home is saved. Leviathan is a somewhat exotic treat in its portrait of rural Russian life – an experience seldom offered to American filmgoers – but audiences accustomed to the breakneck pacing and flash of Hollywood might be frustrated by this import’s deliberate lurch and its unresolved ambiguity.
4.5 stars. Ideological Content Analysis indicates that Leviathan is:
5. Anti-police. Officers are assumed to be on the take.
4. Drug-ambivalent. Characters casually smoke and drink. Fellows come together in commiseration, celebration, or any occasion over vodka. It leads to poorly considered behavior, however, and Kolya warns his son against drinking beer with friends.
3. Anti-marriage. Matrimony, it would seem, makes Russian women miserable. Lilya is driven into another man’s arms, while her friend Anzhela (Anna Ukolova) fantasizes about leaving her husband and running away to America. Marriage, furthermore, shortens a woman’s lifespan. Stepanych (Sergey Bachurskiy), for instance, is said to have outlived two wives.
2. Anti-Christian. “I am a Christian, that’s my culture and my belief,” Zvyagintsev has said. His film, however, gives little evidence of this in its parallel characterization of a corrupt politician and an Orthodox priest. Religious platitudes are juxtaposed with slop being fed to swine.
1. Anti-Putin. Zvyagintsev has acknowledged that Leviathan was inspired by the story of a Colorado man, Marvin John Heemeyer. Not being informed of this fact, however, western media-brainwashed art house audiences are left to assume that Leviathan’s tale of a sleazy Christian bureaucrat’s oppression of an everyman is representative of Vladimir Putin’s theocratic heterofascist neo-Soviet Russia. A portrait of Putin hangs on the wall behind Vadim’s desk just to make the insinuation of microcosm explicit. In another scene, buddies peruse a collection of framed pictures of Soviet leaders they intend to use for target practice, with one of them suggesting that he would like to have a shot at the current crop of elected officials. The implication is an unflattering continuity between the dehumanization of the U.S.S.R. and Putin’s Russia.
With Zvyagintsev having made a name for himself with 2011’s Elena as a rising figure in international cinema, Russia’s Ministry of Culture put up more than a third of the money to make Leviathan; but Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky was understandably scandalized by the finished product, incensed that Zvyagintsev would dare to “spit on” the Putin government with his “anti-Russian” film, which also had to be censored in its home country due to the profane screenplay. “An Incisive Take on Russia Even Putin Couldn’t Ignore,” proclaims a useful idiot writing for The Atlantic, further describing the film as “a rare example of a director’s prestige prevailing over a fiercely controlling propaganda machine.”
One hardly needs wonder why Leviathan was picked up for theatrical and home video distribution in the United States and so enthusiastically touted by Sony Pictures Classics (and, in Spain, by the aptly monikered Golem Distribucion). Sony Pictures Entertainment is headed by Michael Lynton, who, in addition to being a Jew, is a member of the Zio-globalist-warpigging Council on Foreign Relations. Sony Pictures Classics DVDs and Blu-ray discs have frequently paired the trailers for Leviathan and Red Army, another Sony product serving Zionist aims with regard to Russia, before the feature presentations.
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Black Sea ****1/2
Directed by documentarian Kevin MacDonald – no, not that Kevin MacDonald – Black Sea is a taut, gritty undersea suspense feature, a fine addition to the venerable submarine subgenre that manages to be original while also echoing The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) in its story of treachery motivated by lust for gold. Jude Law, never one of this writer’s favorite actors, turns in a surprisingly masculine turn as an unemployed submariner who signs on with a ragtag, half-British, half-Russian team of dead-enders to swipe a sunken cache of Nazi gold and spite his previous employers by beating them to the punch. Black Sea also packs a major plot twist that ratchets the tension nicely. Definitely recommended.
4.5 out of 5 stars. Ideological Content Analysis indicates that Black Sea is:
4. Anti-tobacco. Peters (David Threlfall) has emphysema, reminding audiences of the dangers of smoking.
3. Anti-fascist. The backstory on the treasure is that Hitler, with Nazi Germany’s economy on the verge of collapse in 1941, extorted an exorbitant “loan” from Stalin’s “neutral” U.S.S.R. with a threat of invasion if the demanded sum was not received. The implication would seem to be that, while the communists enjoyed an ebullient economy, Hitler’s Third Reich was an inefficient basket case that could generate prosperity only through intimidation and violence. Nazis in a sunken sub are also revealed to have engaged in cannibalism.
2. Anti-corporate, anti-bankster. Financial elites inspire loathing and corporate players cannot be trusted.
1. Egalitarian. Robinson (Jude Law) dictates that every man in the crew is to receive an equal share of the booty regardless of his specific responsibilities or national origin. The submarine therefore functions as a microcosm of an experimental socialist society – one that sinks or floats on the strength of collective cooperation. Fraser (Ben Mendelsohn, reunited with Killing Them Softly costar Scoot McNairy, who plays corporate weasel Daniels) is the unredeemable teabagger type in the group, who thinks his ethnic cohort deserves a bigger share of the loot and refuses to share with the Russians. It is Fraser, with his combination of individualistic greed and jingoism, who will more than once put the crew in serious peril. Robinson, through his climactic demonstration of heroism, proves to be motivated more by a sense of justice and vengeance against a hostile elite than by greed or personal pettiness.
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Home » Blogs » brad's blog » How to save a lot of money when installing electric vehicle charging in your home
How to save a lot of money when installing electric vehicle charging in your home
Submitted by brad on Wed, 2019-12-11 10:42
Often when you attempt to install an EV charging station in an older home, you find that the old 100 amp service on your panel is not enough, and the electrician may quote a very large price to replace the panel and upgrade the service.
There are ways to avoid paying thousands of dollars by putting in a modestly smaller circuit, and you may find it charges you just fine. Here is a guide to how to get away with less than a 50 amp plug and save many thousands.
See Don't spend a fortune installing charging at the Forbes site.
Mike Casey
Don't spend a fortune installing charging
I have a Hyundai Kona EV with a 64 kWh battery. I drive it to work every day, usually totaling about 200 miles per week including some weekend driving. I have a 7.5 kW L2 charger, usually only charge once per week, and can completely recharge during the midnight until 6:00 am super off-peak period. This leaves six days per week to charge a second EV once my wife is ready to dump her ICE Honda. The charger actually was installed for free as part of a "smart home" demonstration study.
Free charger is hard to beat
But it's pretty clear you would have done fine even with Level 1, which is free for many people.
But this is the point of my article. A lot of people imagine they need enough power to recharge their car from 0 to 100 in one night. They should realize that is nice but not necessary and not worth spending a ton of money on.
Godo Stoyke
Level 3 chargers not typically found in homes
“ But you may find when you call an electrician and ask to install a nice Level 3 charging station with a 50 amp circuit that they present a very expensive estimate — perhaps $5,000 or more ‘’. Level 3 chargers (also known as “super-chargers”) require 480 V or more, cost around $30k, and are usually only found at public charging stations.
Just a typo
Level 3 chargers are also not 50 amps! This was just a typo, corrected before you even left this comment (which makes me wonder where you saw it.)
Dan Colestock, PE
How to save ...
The North American primary mains voltages have been 120Vac/240Vac (split phase) since 1967, 110V dates back well before WWII.
DANDANTHEDRIVINGMAN
Has Anyone else driven over 150,000+ miles in less than 3 years and recharged it over
4,000+ times already? I have. GOOGLE Me:
* comments of speculation versus EV REALITY are HILARIOUS!
I have been charging my Leaf on 120 for years. 50 k a day. Works great.
Getting around the electrical code
Having a smarter main panel (which might be accomplished not by replacing the panel but by adding things on to it) seems like the long term solution. Not only are you not likely to have everything turned on at once, but many homes also have two or more inputs. If you have solar and grid inputs, you might be able to use everything all at once while it's sunny out, but not at night. Given the practicalities that might not be as useful as having solar, grid, and powerwall inputs. Then if you happened to run the dryer and the oven and the air conditioner and the car charger all at the same time for 10 minutes at night, you might be able to draw from the powerwall.
I'm not sure if the panel would be smart enough to handle that, though, and I'm not sure how to find out. The picture at https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/support-images/Powerwall-System-Layout.png gives me some idea of how everything is hooked together, and the setup with the "essential loads" panel (I assume it's a breaker panel) could probably handle it without violating the electrical code. The setup on the left seems to be the smarter one, but only if the system is smart enough to coordinate all the loads and inputs.
What exactly is the purpose of the rule in the electrical code? If you overload the main panel, the main circuit breaker will pop, and there isn't any harm done or dangerous condition, is there? Seems like it'd just be an inconvenience, and one you could handle by knowing not to run the dryer and the oven while the car is plugged in.
I'm not sure what the cost savings would be by foregoing the "upgrade" to the utility meter and the connection between the utility meter and the main panel (or, in the setup on the left, the gateway). It does seem wasteful to upgrade that connection if you plan on using solar and powerwall(s), though.
If you think upgraded service between the grid and the home is the way of the future, I wouldn't sweat making that upgrade. Yeah, it costs some money, but it'll add to the value of your home. On the other hand, if you think at-home generation and lower reliance on the grid is the way of the future, the costs of going that way might pay for themselves over time. If you don't think either one is the way of the future, I guess you don't think fast home chargers are a good investment.
Generally, the electrical code wants breakers never to blow in ordinary operation. It is designed that this should be extremely rare. The rules don't make it absolutely impossible but it is quite a low chance. Now, some practices are grandfathered in. When you have a room with several plugs, you can obviously plug several appliances in at once, so they are a bit practical about it (though most kitchens are wired with multiple circuits for that these days with high current appliances getting their own circuit.)
I think if the car charger or car is smart, there is no reason to draw power for the few minutes that everything is on at once. It's easy for the car to scale back. Electric chargers are a sign of new thinking in the codes, where the current is limited not by physical things but software. While your electric car can draw 30 amps you are allowed to plug it into a 15 amp circuit, as long as it has been configured to know it's on a 15 amp circuit and not to draw more than 12 from it.
It's easy for the car to
It's easy for the car to scale back when everything else is running, as long as it knows when everything is running.
Maybe a sense energy monitor ($300) would be able to detect that?
But then would you be up to code? Or does there have to be a local, physical system that prevents overusage?
I still don't understand why the code "wants breakers never to blow in ordinary operation." Is there an actual danger that is being prevented, or is it just a rule that exists for obsolete historical reasons?
Code is the question
I think it probably took a lot of work for the code to adapt to the idea of current limiting through an encoded pilot signal, so it may take more time for advanced concepts.
Yes, it's trivial to measure current in the main wires if you can get access to them, or even just to the dryer by putting a small device on the plug. You then have to get the signal to the EVSE or car. (You do it in a deadman switch style, so if the signal stops coming, charging stops.) There are a lot of ways to think of doing it.
Another idea would be the smart meter. My car could actually talk (via Zigbee, if it had a Zigbee radio) to my smart meter and regularly read the total power in the house. A cheap zigbee to wifi gateway would let the existing Tesla do that if it wanted.
Even easier is just to track the voltage drop on the lines, and learn what current they correspond to. No new hardware needed. But harder to get the codes to adapt to that as valid. Perhaps if an electrician did the training. It's well established that if there is a heavy load on the house, voltage is going to drop, and a very simple system could tell the car not to draw so much current as to let the voltage get below a threshold which could be calculated by an electrician or even figured out by the car watching the house for a while.
The coils to measure this cost $1, it's getting them in place that is the issue.
All very interesting. As I've been looking at it more, it looks like 200 amp service has been the standard for most houses for decades, so I guess just making the upgrade is the easiest answer for most people.
Street parking charger
I wonder how much it'd cost to install a charger on your street in front of your house.
I wonder what kind of permitting you'd have to go through to do that. The legal fees would probably be expensive unless you were willing to go through the permitting process yourself. In most places I think it'd be theoretically possible, though. The local jurisdiction usually has a process for building things in the space between the sidewalk and the street.
Installing a charger at your office would probably be easier permission-wise, if you park on private land. Get permission from whoever owns the land, and set it up. You can have your own private parking spot, and there's probably a way to get some nice tax credits, either for yourself or for the owner of the office complex.
You might pay more for power at your office. Then again, you might not. My office complex has solar panels all over it. We don't pay anything for electricity (the cost of electricity is included in the monthly rent). I bet if I asked them to let me have a dedicated parking spot and build a car charger on it that they wouldn't charge me for electricity but would include it in the monthly cost of the parking spot. Of course I wouldn't be installing a supercharger. (I suspect the reason they don't charge for electricity is because then they'd be regulated as a utility company.)
You don't own the street spot in front of your house, so somebody else can park in it. The hard part would be running your cord over the sidewalk. However, many cities have curbside chargers for curbside parking spaces run by the city -- but these are built and run by the city, and are public.
Maybe cities could be convinced to let people install those, but I don't know if they would let you get any ownership rights in parking there. They might fake it with a "EV parking only for residents with local permit" so that it's 99% likely the space is used by you or a very rude neighbour.
I own the land to the center of the street
I definitely do own the land under the street in front of my house (to the center of the street). It's a right of way, so I can't build on it without permission, and people are allowed to park there, but I do own it. For instance, if the county ever decided to give up the right of way (and, presumably, the setback), I'd then be allowed to build there. Some states work differently, though, and depending on how your development was built and platted it may be different.
I wasn't thinking of running an extension cord. I was thinking of a professional installation. Get permission the same way the utility company gets permission to put stuff there. Quite possibly I could even piggyback on their permissions.
The trickiest part would be keeping the parking spot restricted for my use only. Actually that wouldn't be a problem where I live, as people generally don't park in front of my house anyway, but then I already have a driveway and a garage do this wouldn't be something I'd do anyway. "EV parking only for residents with local permit" might be the easiest, but it depends who's on your zoning board. If you live in a crowded city, the free market solution might not even be a consideration, and you're better off lobbying for government-owned charging stations.
Getting permission from my office complex owner would be a lot easier. The drawback there is what happens if we change locations after a short period of time. The office complex probably won't be interested in paying for the improvements I've made. This will probably change in several years, as EVs become more widespread, though.
And most of this is just a thought experiment. The right way to do it would be to set up a company, to do it for lots of people and not just one. Maybe even a non-profit. That'd make the deals with the local governments easier. Maybe for-profit REIT would make more sense, though.
If you live somewhere with a well-developed homeowners, you probably want to work with them. You might even have to work with them if there are deed restrictions. (Then again, those places tend to be garage places, or at least driveway places.)
The states could probably facilitate this quote a bit by setting statewide laws forcing local governments (and homeowners associations) to allow this. But absent state or federal preemption, it's basically a question of real estate and zoning law.
Cities like EVs
Because cities seem very willing to pass laws to boost EVs, I think you might be able to get something done. Probably not a law saying the space is exclusively for you, but something that amounts to the same thing. The "EV parking only with residential permit" of course would work if you are the only guy on your street with the permit. Particularly if the charger only works for you, who else is going to park there?
There are also spaces marked "EV Parking while charging only" which would exclude everybody but you since nobody else can activate the charger -- but then technically you would need to vacate the spot when full. Not that this would ever be enforced against you. On a quiet street I am sure it would work, but on a popular urban street, where parking is always hard to find, I don't think any sort of reserved spot is going to work -- in fact you might need to make the charger available to anybody (who pays) and your neighbours with EVs could park there. My street always has ample street parking, and somebody else not visiting me parks next to my driveway maybe once a year. Some streets you can never find a parking space, even when you have a resident permit.
As EVs become very popular, I think the answer will be they drive themselves off to some charging in the night. It requires a very simple robotic connection -- easy because the car is a robot and does all the moving, the station just needs some plates on the ground or similar setup.
The other alternative -- much more expensive -- would be to install curbside charging along these streets that are heavy with EV owners with no garage. Presumably at their expense. Ideally in a multi-car design because now you'll have to hunt further to find a spot with charging on your street. In general it's tough because on those streets, it's only rarely you grab the spot in front of your house.
Curbside charging
All very reasonable. I'd say that curbside charging probably makes more sense than you think, though. I don't see how it's more expensive than charging all in one centralized location. In fact in some ways it'll probably be cheaper as it spreads the power requirements out more.
If the cars can drive themselves then they can drop off in front of the destination and then park at an available curbside spot.
But the big question is which becomes ubiquitous first, the EV or the self-driving car. I'm kind of assuming that level 2 or 3 EVs will be widespread long before level 4 cars are.
If I'm wrong about that, dropping people off at the curb and then heading to a parking garage where you can park and charge (moving between the charging spots and the non-charging spots when done) will probably make more sense in some crowded locations.
Maybe not all, though. Many places rely heavily on street parking, especially street parking with time/day restrictions. Putting a row of chargers on some streets, like those that are "no stopping or standing from 8-6 M-F" or whatever, might be appropriate. I guess if you did that you could take reservations and have an attendant that plugs everyone in at 8:30 PM and unplugs everyone at 5:00 AM. (Maybe the car could at least unplug itself when it needs to, by releasing a lock and telling the charger to roll in the cable.)
What I definitely think you have to do in locations where parking is at a premium is combine parking with charging. At least unless and until charging is a 10 minute thing, and probably even then because you won't want to do 10 minute charging every time. If you want to do 1-hour charging rather than 6-hour charging because the capital cost of charging stations is too high, that's fine. I still think that's going to require a lot of space. So much space that you're really selling parking, with a side of charging, in crowded areas (the areas where people don't have garages or even driveways).
With that said, parking will become much less of a problem once we have level 4 self-driving. Lots of parking in the business districts goes unused overnight. Even there, though, a lot of it is street parking.
Who pays the upfront cost for all of this is kind of irrelevant. Probably governments and/or corporations, though. It's capital intensive, with the payoff taking many years.
P.S. Did you see that Lyft is going into the car rental business? Great move. It might just save the company.
Which comes first
Full robocars may take longer than heavy deployment of EVs, who knows? However, I am talking about a car that can wander about a mile in the middle of the night on empty roads at low speed. That's something I think that can be done very soon, well before major EV deployment. At low enough speed even a Tesla can probably eventually do it.
The challenge with parking/charging is that people need to park and charge for different amounts of time. You either want to charge much longer than you park, or park much longer than you charge. Rarely are they just the same (as at a supercharger.) So it's generally a mismatch.
And no, you don't want to charge for just an hour. I don't charge for just an hour in my own home. Why bother? Maybe I would if I knew I had a super long drive coming up. Topping off is just not a thing in cars with >200 miles.
A car that can wander about a mile in the middle of the night on empty roads at low speed probably exists today. One that can do so legally and is owned by enough people to be worth hiring someone to plug them in when they get there, is possibly very far away. (I'm not even going to consider I stalling technology to plug and unplug the cars automatically, as that's obviously a long long time away, if ever.)
You say the "challenge with parking/charging is that people need to park and charge for different amounts of time." That's a problem that's solvable if the car can move itself a few hundred feet autonomously. But that's only if it's a problem in the first place. Level 2 chargers are fairly cheap. You'd install enough of them so that people can park at them for the entire night. If they're only charging for part of the time they're parked at the charger, because they don't need a whole lot of charge, it's probably okay.
My comment about whether you want to do "1-hour charging rather than 6-hour charging because the capital cost of charging stations is too high" was about that. Basically, you can install 6 level 2 chargers and have the cars use them for 6 hours, or you can install one fast charger that charges 6 times as fast and have the cars use it one at a time through the night. In most cases installing 6 times as many level 2 chargers probably makes the most sense, as swapping through the night is going to be a hassle.
No, you don't charge for just an hour in your own home. You don't have a supercharger in your home.
I assume your idea of having cars drive themselves to the charging station at night was talking about using superchargers. If you're just using a level 2 charger, why bring the car to the charger rather than bringing the charger to the car?
What do you mean when you say you "don't charge for just an hour"? Do you plug the car in every night, or only once in a while, when you need a lot of charge? If you get home and only need an hour of charge, what do you do? (I don't think it really matters, but I'm curious.)
Car to the charger
You want to bring the car to the charger because some fraction of buyers can't install charging at their home -- we were just having a thread about that. Or they can't install Level 2 -- another thread.
However, remember the average car only needs 90 minutes of level 2. Some need more, some less. So you can get a 5 times as many cars through so it's less cost to install those chargers. Alternately, you could have only one car per night to reduce labour.
I don't know what the governments will do, but I think if Tesla put a focus on the specific problem of the car driving to charging stations at night on slow roads, I think they could delivery that within a couple of years. (Especially if they added a lidar :-)
As to how it plugs in, there are a few options. One is that the station is large enough to justify an attendant. If you go to the "one car per night" you could say, "All cars must be present at midnight, and leave after 6am" and then only need a gig attendant (such as somebody already on shift or somebody who pops over) to plug in at midnight and unplug at 6. In a 60 charger lot like the one near me, the plugging may only cost $10 of human time, less than 20 cents each.
However, better is to redesign the tesla charging port and put it on the front or back so the car can plug itself into a fixed charger. Plus a small number of stations with robotic charge plugs for the older cars that can't do that.
This could be up and running fairly quickly. The car can go 15mph at night or whatever the minimum speed is. It can keep to back roads, do no unprotected turns, pull over if traffic is too complex. I think you could make 15mph operations safe, even without lidar, as long as you have HDR cameras.
charger to the car
I'm sorry. Where's the thread that says that some fraction of buyers can't install charging at their home? You can install charging just about anywhere. It might be expensive, but installing a bunch of chargers all in one central location is probably even more expensive.
Tesla is not going to put a focus on the specific problem of the car driving to charging stations at night on slow roads. Mainly because it's not a good idea. You have a 60 charger lot near you. You want to use it to charge 60 cars per night. According https://supercharge.info/charts there are currently about 15,000 open supercharger stalls in the entire world. So Tesla is going to "put a focus on the specific problem of the car driving to charging stations at night on slow roads" so that they can charge 15,000 cars a night? It makes no sense. They will, of course, continue to work on a general level 4 car, and at some point, maybe in the next couple years, it might be able to drive headless around town at night with no human supervision and with minimal risk. Even then, though, it'll probably be several more years before most governments actually approve this.
(By the way, you can't get out of my development without going onto a 45 mph road, where it is illegal to drive at only 15 mph. This would be more feasible if the charging station was in my development. You bring the charger to the car, not the car to the charger.)
No, 300 cars per night
No, the 60 charger lot can charge 300 cars per night, since the average car needs under 90 minutes.
If you don't have a driveway or garage, or if you live in an apartment or condo that does not assign parking spaces or won't let you install charging in the lot or will only let you do it for $20,000, there are a lot of people who can't install charging at night.
It's not just cheaper to use this charging lots, they are free. The ones in question, like many, are there at companies to charge employees during the day, and sit empty at night.
You were suggesting one car
You were suggesting one car per night, "to save labor." But okay, 5 cars per station per night. 75,000 cars a night in the entire world. And hiring a worker all night for every location. All in a hypothetical world where all these people have cars capable of driving completely autonomously from their home to a supercharger station at night. (Where do you get 5 from? What are the hours of operation? Are you factoring in that double-superchargers run at half power when both sides are in use simultaneously?)
Maybe it's easier to see this way. The USA has an urban population of 250 million in 100,000 square miles. So you want to put a supercharger station in every 4 square miles or so (1 mile radius). 25,000 locations, each serving 10,000 people. Let's say a quarter of them have an EV car. 2,500 cars. Let's say 20% want to charge on Friday night. 500 cars. 5 cars per station. 100 stations per location (all running at full capacity all night! That's a lot of power consumption!). Is that your vision?
My vision is that sure, we use the superchargers that'd exist anyway when we can do so cheaply, but the vast majority of charging is going to be done slowly (less destructive and easier on the power company) and in places where cars are parked anyway (more efficient use of land, more convenient, and less unnecessary driving). If 25% of the population is going to own an EV, that means a large fraction of all parking locations are going to be electrified. Yes, it's going to cost a lot to do that. I think it'll cost a lot less than doing it with superchargers, both in upfront capital and in ongoing costs. And level 2 chargers can be installed a lot easier. Installing a supercharger station is a huge investment. Installing a level 2 charger in a parking lot is something just about every parking lot owner can afford.
As I've said, you can always install a charger. The question is the cost. Even if it costs $20,000, that's less than one fifth the cost of just the supercharger equipment, let alone the installation of the incredibly large power service plus the cost of the land to build the station on. (You suggest later that it's free, but it's only remotely close to free for 15,000 stations in the entire world, and even for them it's not entirely free, especially if you're hiring someone to plug and unplug cars all night.)
It simply makes more sense economically, in almost all situations, to have level 2 chargers where people park at night rather than having superchargers in a location a mile away. Sure, there are exceptions, but not enough to create a market. You've said yourself that supercharging should be infrequent. I'm not sure why you're changing it. Supercharging makes sense when you're driving long distances in a short period of time. It doesn't make sense when you're using your car 50 miles a day.
I'm not sure what you're saying in your last paragraph. Maybe you weren't talking about centralized supercharger stations after all? How many of these "free" stations are there?
I do agree that it'll often make sense to use office park parking lots at night both to provide parking for residents and to provide charging for residents. This will be useful once we have autonomous cars that can handle this. Even then, you probably don't want superchargers. It's just a subset of charging in the places where cars happen to be parked anyway. And it's many many years off.
What I'm suggesting is to gradually put level 2 chargers where people park for long times anyway. Offices, of course. Residential areas, definitely. Shopping centers, maybe. At the beach, at the amusement parks, etc. You start slowly. 30 spots in a large amusement park lot. 2 spots in an office park. But over time you have built charging in 10%, maybe even 20% of the places where people park anyway (eventually, the places where cars park themselves anyway).
Cost of chargers
Public charging stations tend to be much more expensive than home ones, though I think that could be changed in time to some degree. But I don't know why you are citing the current numbers.
The question is, how in the future might millions of electric cars charge. One way would be to install a combination of a million home chargers and office chargers. Say 800,000 home chargers and 200,000 office chargers.
However, if the cars are able to wander off at night to office chargers, and do 5 per charger per night, well then you only need the 200,000 office chargers and NO home chargers. How can that not be a cost win?
In reality, you would not do that, you would still get lots of home chargers. But every office charger that can be reached by a car at night maps into 5 home chargers you don't need, particularly good for those who can't access either office or home charging.
Now, you could also have superchargers and each supercharger could handle 100 cars per night, but at some cost in battery degradation.
The use of attendants is a temporary approach. For automated driving to make sense, you want to move to a world where the cars can connect themselves. Because the cars are robots, that is not hard. For example, if a car can extend 3 contact plates down below it onto a small box with contact pads, and the car can position itself with high accuracy, then the charging box can be super cheap. (The box could also have the actuator and the plates could be in the car, but we need to keep them clean so it makes more sense the thing on the car retracts behind a cover.)
At first, when you want an attendant, this will mostly be for people who can't have charging in their house, which is quite large in urban areas. Later, once you don't need the attendant, it is economical for everybody.
Inductive charging is also possible but it's more expensive and really not needed by robots. it is more useful for humans who will not park with perfect precision.
Truth be told, if a Tesla had its current charging connector on the back or front, and horizontal, you could build an automated Tesla plug in just by having a charging plug out on a poll with a small amount of spring load and sway. The car, tracking targets, would drive to that and push the plug in just right. Pretty cheap. Most cars do not mount their charging plug to go in horizontally though.
How can that not be a cost win?
What kind of office charger do you need to handle 5 cars per charger per night, compared to handling only 1 car per charger per night? That answer might make it "not a cost win." What kind of electric service do you need for the faster office chargers? That answer might make it "not a cost win." How much extra destruction is done to the batteries by charging them 5 times as fast? That answer might make it "not a cost win." How do you plug and unplug the cars at night? That answer might make it "not a cost win." How much power are you using to "wander off at night"? That answer might make it "not a cost win." How much time are spending writing software to enable cars to "wander off at night" and to license them to be allowed to do so? That answer might make it "not a cost win." How much extra power do you have during the day compared to at night? That answer might make it "not a cost win."
I could keep going, but I think you see the point. Over time, equipment costs are a small and diminishing fraction of the total cost of deployment. I think it'll make sense to have extra equipment in exchange for much more efficiency. Maybe I'm wrong. As you note, I am basing some of my thoughts on this on the current numbers. Obviously the current numbers aren't going to be the current numbers in the future. But you have to start somewhere, and starting with the current numbers and extrapolating from them is better, in my opinion, than just randomly making up numbers that fit your beliefs.
You say that "every office charger that can be reached by a car at night maps into 5 home chargers you don't need." Perhaps one day that will be true. Perhaps not. I'd lean toward that not being true any time soon, because the technology to automatically plug and unplug the cars likely won't be widely deployed any time soon. Furthermore, it depends on how fast the office charger can charge, and how much charge the cars need. Because of the expense of automatically plugging and unplugging the cars and the extra destruction done by charging more quickly, I think it'd make more sense to only charge one car per charger overnight, at whatever charging speed enables the car to charge however much we want to charge it over the entire period of the lowest electricity rates. Most cars wouldn't need to be charged every night, though there would probably be higher demand on certain nights, like Thursday or Friday nights, where a large portion of the population wants to fill up at once. Perhaps only on those high demand nights we could hire people to plug/unplug cars so that we can handle more cars in a single night.
That's only one possible scenario, though. Maybe there will be enough electric vehicles on the road at night doing other tasks (we could switch package delivery to nighttime if we had robots that could do it) and we could use the office to handle their charging needs. By all means we should use the office chargers that are already there, if we can do so without too much re-engineering. And not just office chargers. The chargers at the beach, the chargers in residential areas, the chargers at shopping centers, the chargers at amusement parks. Use them all, once we have self-driving technology. But probably use them slowly. Slow charging causes less battery destruction, and if we're going to use humans to plug and unplug them, it also saves the cost of plugging and unplugging them. (I do wonder if some release mechanism could be inexpensively produced so that at least unplugging could be a humanless process. Probably so, though perhaps only on new models.)
Tesla doesn't have its current charging connector on the back or front, and horizontal. I think it's unlikely they're going to complete re-engineer things to change that, in large part because I still don't see the point. It's okay to have more chargers than you absolutely need. Long in the future, we'll of course have equipment deployed for cars to plug and unplug themselves. Tesla already has a prototype, and it doesn't involve making any changes to the car. But by the time these are widely deployed, much of the charging infrastructure will probably already be in place, and the gains from having fewer chargers don't seem to be worth the costs of redoing the infrastructure. Additionally, slower charging will probably be less destructive than faster charging for the foreseeable future. Furthermore, having lots of extra chargers helps when there are spikes in demand or issues with supply. If a natural disaster is approaching and everyone heads towards the 200,000 office chargers all at once, that's going to be a problem. If there are 800,000 "home chargers" in residential neighborhoods in addition to the 200,000 office chargers, the process will go a lot more smoothly.
Keep going...
The same office charger. 5 cars/night is because the average car drives 40 miles/day, which takes about 80 minutes for the average session at 7.2kw. Same electric service, same chargers, not any faster.
If the wandering trip is 1 mile one way at low speed, about 0.5kwh energy wasted (5 cents at night.)
The time writing the software? It's the same software Tesla wants to write for FSD. And it's spread over all the cars.
The only actual question in your list is how you plug and unplug. If it's a human attendant, that is a real cost. To make it cost effective you either want a fairly busy lot. A lot with 100 chargers and a $10/hour full time "pump jockey" would cost 20 cents/car.
That's one reason to move to robotic plug in. However, 25 cents every 2 days, under $40/year, can be quite a bargain compared to the cost of installing home charging if you can do that at all.
I think you just misunderstood and thought I meant fast charging.
continuing
So you are proposing that every car charges every night? At an office 1 mile away (presumably this is not the office where they work, but just some random office somewhere). Is 1 mile away realistic? Do most people have offices, where parking is available, within 1 mile of their house? I'll assume for now that it is.
I won't assume your 5 cents a night figure is correct, because at https://ideas.4brad.com/whats-true-incremental-cost-driving-car you say 4 cents a mile, which would be 8 cents a night. Add 11-20 cents a mile for depreciation and 6 cents a mile for insurance (both your figures, again). So 21-30 cents a mile, or 42-60 cents a night in incremental cost. Let's say 50 cents a night. Times 365, times 7 years, equals about $1275. That's just from driving, and might surpass the cost of a charger in itself. Add the 20 cents/car per night for the human attendant (robots doing it would be more expensive for the foreseeable future), for another $500 over 7 years, though I think your estimate of 100 chargers per lot is overly optimistic. You say the charging isn't any faster, but if you're charging in 80 minutes instead of 6 hours, that's faster.
If it's the same software Tesla wants to write for FSD, then I think we are at least several years away, and possibly many years away, if you include the time for governments to make it legal.
I guess if people have an office full of chargers (enough to service 1/5th of the cars parked on the street) within 1 mile of them, it comes out about break-even, at least at today's prices (which no doubt will come down quite a bit over time). So I think maybe we should look at how realistic that 1 mile distance is. I'm not sure how to get a good random sample though.
Looking at the last apartment complex I lived in, there are not many offices within a one-mile radius. There's a church, and a school, and a supermarket, and a strip mall. You could put chargers at any of those locations. But probably the best place to put chargers to serve the people who live in that apartment complex would be right in the parking lot for the apartment complex. You could, if you wanted, serve 5 cars for every charger, and have the cars drive themselves to and from the chargers overnight. You wouldn't need government permission for this, as the cars would stay on private land the whole time.
I think that's much more realistic, as well as more efficient.
Cost of the charge
My apologies, I thought you were asking about the loss of energy. Yes, the car suffers other costs in driving a mile. And no, a lot of cars would not charge every night. A decent number of cars don't drive in a given day, Probably anybody under 20 miles won't bother charging. You can set it as you like, many people would be just find saying wait until down 50 miles (or longer drive planned for tomorrow) to charge, which might mean 150 or so charges/year.
It is a subset of what they need for FSD, and a fairly small subset, since speeds are low and roads are empty and limited to just a few classes of roads. If you live on a busy street at night this may not be an option for you. Would admittedly be better with LIDAR's night vision but not happening with Tesla.
Many would still prefer to install home charging. But for those who can't, and those who face a bill of thousands of dollars to put in home charging, it's a win. It can be a further win in that the office park may have industrial night energy prices that are better than those at home. Finally it's a win in that you don't have to do the plugging. Plugging is not a huge amount of work, but it's something. Your car is just magically always loaded with energy while you sleep.
The same thing would run in the day for employee cars, too, once they can do the basic parking lot manipulation and plug in. No travel distance for those cars. Today, EV drivers at companies have to have little mailing lists where they announce that a spot is free, and need to go out to parking to move their cars.
Not every residential area has an office near it. But many do.
Rick S.
Don’t skimp on charger
Unless you truly bought your EV as a “city golf cart”, don’t skimp on the charger. Life can be unpredictable and you may need to use the car for long distance travel when you hadn’t planned to. There’s nothing worse than having a great EV and knowing it “won’t be ready” for a certain distance trip until 4pm today. Buy and install a fast Level 2 charger as it’s cheap insurance in the long run. If you live in an area with potential disasters like hurricanes, floods, or fires, you also may want that car at 100% charge quickly.
Again, for the average car owner, the car is almost always at full every day. For people who drive above average amounts, that's not true and they want more charging. For the rare days when you are a bit low and need to do a long trip, you spend a short time at the fast charger. Not ideal, but better than spending $6,000 which is not cheap.
Joyce Segal
Ev charger
I have a Clipper level 2 charger for my Leaf. Cost $800.00 for the whole deal installed. I have no problems with the supply current.I think your numbers are off.
Numbers are off
Some people can install a charger for well under $800. For others, the quote to do it legally can range to $8,000 or more.
charging your EV
I think if you live in a home with only 100 amp service you're not likely to be purchasing an EV until the prices become even with an ICE car. Just sayin.
You are mistaken
There are homes costing millions of dollars with 100 amp service. It is just a factor of when they were built.
Show me one.
A large fraction
One? Around here, hundreds of thousands. Most of the older homes in Silicon Valley qualify. 100A service was the norm 50 years ago. My last home back in Canada came with 60 amp service. Doubt it's worth millions but still enough.
Also understand that electric cars are not that expensive. With the federal rebates, a car like the Kona or Soul can be about $24,000. When you add the savings in gas and maintenance that makes it one of the cheapest cars you can buy. Any homeowner can afford one of those. Even the Model 3 SR is comparable in cost to a Camry after the savings -- again any homeowner can afford one. Not everybody can afford a Model S or i-Pace perhaps.
But nobody wants to find out it will cost $6,000 to charge their car at home, even a millionaire. In the Facebook thread on my post, people have reported estimates over $8,000.
Your qualifications for making these technical recommendations?
There are some technical errors, omissions, and code issues in your article (which vary by state). Are you a graduate electrical engineer from an accredited engineering college? (I am)
At least a licensed electrician for your particular state maybe? Was the information reviewed by an EE or licensed electrician? If not, you should not be giving this kind of advice to people however well intended especially given the voltages and currents discussed. A house in our neighborhood burned to the ground due faulty charger wiring.
Point out the errors
Please feel free to point out errors rather than saying they are generically present. The article contains no instructions on how to wire, but rather on what to ask your electrician about. (BTW, university level electrical engineering classes, which I have taken, are not generally about electrical codes for residential wiring, so I am not sure why you cite that.)
Codes do vary by location of course. But it remains true that there are panels where the code would not allow the addition of a 50 amp 240v circuit but which would allow a 20a or 30a, thus vastly lowering cost. The article is not about how to wire, it's about understanding just how much current you actually need.
Curt Kinder
Cost effective 230V / 16A L2 charger
The "Amazing-E" EVSE provides ~3.8 kW via 16 Amps at 240V. It comes with a 4 prong NEMA 14-30p (clothes dryer) plug, but, since it is limited to 16 amps should work with a 20 Amp 240V circuit that might reasonably be added to an older 100A service panel.
3.8 kW is more than triple L1 rate, and, last I checked, the Amazing-E cost well under $300
safer and smarter dryer socket splitter
Brad, as an ev owner who struggled with the insane cost of a panel upgrade, I have also turned to a dryer splitter solution. EV-powershare is what I am using, it's safer than other solutions out there, as it has built in over-current protection that prevents someone who has no knowledge of the 80% rule misconfiguring their EVSE. Would you be willing to take a look, ev-powershare.com and add it as an alternative solution in your article?
And you are...?
Your comment is written like a user, but the links suggest you work for the company. That's not something that this site or other sites take kindly to, and a bad way to start things off if that's the case.
I looked at the site. The devices there have 14-50 sockets on them, which is dangerous unless the EVSE can be set to limit the current to 24 amps. With Teslas, their EVSE does not do this with that plug, you want to use one of the two dryer plugs. Odd choice when the competitors have selected the right plug.
The second issue is that I suspect most customers will want a unit that has a pass through for the dryer, but then a long cord to the EVSE, which usually does not go right where the dryer is a typical parking setup. I would need 35' of cord in my case, AWG10 or better of course.
I do like that you have the breaker switch, so users can assure it is off before unplugging it, I presume. Alternately, these would probably do better hardwired into the dryer socket, which most electricians could probably do for whatever their minimum work rate is. It's better if a high power plug can't be unplugged.
These boxes are useful (if configured correctly) though there seems to be an obvious win in just making a special EVSE designed to pass through to a dryer from its plug. Rather than just switching off the EVSE when the dryer is one, that EVSE can just reduce the max current in the pilot wave based on what the dryer is drawing. That can be important with some new dryers that also have low current modes. Of course, you would want to somehow get your hand on Tesla plugs since I don't want to add another $100 to put the adapter on a J1772 I will never use. I don't know if you can buy those.
I'm going to look at Dryer Buddy and Neocharge at some point, perhaps do a shoot out. When yours is safe, with 2 of the same plug on it rather than a 14-50, I could include it.
But please don't post a note like the one above, that says you "turned to" a solution that "I am using" when in fact you make the product. That's a very bad thing.
Brad, I didn't mislead you in
Brad, I didn't mislead you in anyway, I am one of the designers of this product and I do use it myself!
The safety issue that you have raised, where a 14-50 can draw too much power from a 30 amp circuit is exactly why I have added the overcurrent protection at 25amps via the breaker. So if someone doesn't understand the 80% rule and sets it too high, it will just cut off power way earlier than the house breaker would.
I have seen products like Dryer buddy that allows a 14-30 and 14-50 combo, and I didn't feel safe using it. Same way that you probably felt. Hence I worked to overcome that safety issue.
Lastly, having a 14-50 socket is purely for the convenience of the user. It kinda sucks having to buy another adapter that converts 10-30 to 14-50 just so that you can plug in the EVSE, when you already spent $350 buying a smart splitter. I would even dare to say that daisy chaining adapters is a bad idea. If you do a quick search on amazon, you will find TONS of those adapters, if they can be "deemed" safe, then I feel my product is actually much safer.
Anyways let me know if you want to chat more, I am a tinker and can talk about charging all day.
Also to add, having dual 14
Also to add, having dual 14-30, or 10-30 sockets is very easy to make. I will ask for it to be offered.
Your idea of having a by-pass for the dryer (which it is currently), then an "extension" cable for the EVSE is a good idea. It is true, dryer socket is usually 25' to 50' away from the ideal location to install the EVSE.
If you don't think that post was inappropriately worded
I guess I won't convince you. The general rule for all online activity is that if you are the maker of a product, you identify yourself extremely clearly as that. You don't equivocate or make subtle truths. You say, explicitly, "Hi, this is Henrick the designer of ." Nothing less than that when you talk about it. Ever.
The breaker is good. To my mind though, the $35 adapter is a better choice as it tells the car what current to draw. The breaker (which has its own cost) is also not needed if that is used.
I am referring to the Tesla EVSE, which has switchable plugs, and each plug tells the EVSE what current it can handle. I realize other EVSEs take different approaches.
Your pointer is appreciated
I am not a market or media person, thus I actually appreciate your candor about this type of etiquette.
Hearing yours suggestions, looks like offering multiple options to consumer is the best route for now.
Since we are conversing, how or can we keep in touch? what's the best way to do so?
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Category: White Collar Crimes
You probably know cybersecurity is a marathon, not a sprint. Law enforcement officials log the big miles. Fortunately, more and more consumers are joining the race.
We talked to Sgt. Justin Feffer, a Los Angeles-based law enforcement officer and cybercrimes investigator, to bring us up to date about cyber threats and what you can do the help protect against them.
Here’s what he had to say.
5 cybercrime questions answered
What does the future of cybercrime and security look like for people afraid of having their information stolen?
Unfortunately, the future looks very similar to our present. I have 14 years of experience dedicated to combatting cybercrime. I still see the same fundamental security flaws contributing to the theft of our most sensitive data. I don’t see the situation improving.
What should internet users be aware of when it comes to protecting their online information long-term? (e.g., cloud storage, permanent email addresses, etc.)
Be sure to do the due diligence needed to pick the right solution. There is very good literature available, including white papers and reviews by researchers and journalists with proven reputations. Don’t pick a solution based upon an ad—particularly a pop-up ad!
Consult with experts who are familiar with the technology you are considering. Most importantly, make sure that the solution you pick has robust security features including multi-factor authentication.
In your opinion, what are the most common cybercrimes that are the easiest to help prevent?
Business email compromise (BEC) and hacked accounts, due to the theft of stolen passwords, are the two most common and easiest cyber-crimes to prevent.
BEC attacks involve the use of targeted emails asking the victim to wire funds for a fraudulent transaction. BEC works because the victim believes the email with the instruction is from someone with authority.
In the most typical attack, the suspect poses as the CEO of the company and sends an urgent email directing the accounts payable manager to pay an invoice via wire transfer by the end of the day. The invoice is fraudulent, and the suspect steals all of the funds sent via the wire transfer.
Businesses must adopt policies prohibiting wire transfers to unfamiliar accounts based upon emailed instructions.
Accounts are most commonly hacked by suspects who use phishing emails to trick the victims into divulging their account passwords. The password phishing attack usually attempts to induce victims to click on a link crafted by the attacker.
These attacks convey a sense of urgency—warning the victim that unless they perform the requested action they will be locked out of their account or otherwise suffer some adverse result. Victims that click on the link are taken to a website that requests their personal information including their usernames and passwords.
You should never rely solely upon a username and password to secure an account. Implement multi-factor authentication (commonly referred to as two-step verification) to secure your accounts. That way even if a password is stolen the suspect won’t be able to log into the account without access to the second factor.
Have computers made finding cybercriminals easier or more difficult? Why?
Computers and modern technology have proven a double-edged sword in the fight against crime.
Modern surveillance cameras, license plate readers, geolocation services and other technological tools have proven to be extremely helpful to law enforcement in finding criminals of all types.
On the other hand, tools such as TOR (The Onion Router), dark web marketplaces, crypto currencies, robust mobile device encryption, and encrypted communications services have created extreme challenges to law enforcement.
These types of technology can often make it impossible for law enforcement to obtain needed evidence even if they have the proper legal authority and compelling need.
For example, a suspect could have 1 million stolen credit cards on his iPhone, and even if law enforcement seizes the phone and has a search warrant to search the phone, they will not be able to access the phone unless the user provides the passcode.
This type of problem was demonstrated very dramatically in the 2015 San Bernardino Inland Regional Center terror attack when the FBI attempted to analyze the terrorist’s locked iPhone.
Do you recommend any third-party tools individuals can use to privately access the internet, transfer data, or securely delete data?
I find that the most important third-party tools include the following:
Reputable Virtual Private Network (VPN) services allow users to safely access the Internet when working remotely from known secure networks.
Reputable cloud-based file transfer services allow users to safely transfer files to fellow employees and colleagues.
Reputable full disk encryption tools can be used to encrypt portable media such as USB drives to prevent data theft if the devices are lost or stolen.
Author Mark MedleyPosted on March 20, 2018 Categories Identity Theft, White Collar CrimesTags cyber attack, cyber crime, cyber security, hacked, technology
McAfee’s core focus has been providing antivirus software to more than 375 million customers, but now the company is adding new partnerships to fuel further growth.
The company is announcing today that it is expanding into the identity theft protection market. The idea is to provide protection in the areas of the connected home, online safety for kids, privacy, and now identity theft protection. It’s a recognition that today’s threat landscape is growing in all facets of digital life.
In the wake of some massive data breaches, the McAfee Identity Theft Protection lets users take a proactive approach with personal monitoring, financial monitoring, and recovery tools. McAfee made the announcements at CES 2018, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week.
McAfee is also providing the security for a new D-Link Wi-Fi router that will automatically protect users’ connected home devices.
And the company is protecting Samsung Secure Wi-Fi with backend technology for Galaxy Note8 customers in Europe.
The latest products and services include McAfee Identity Theft Protection, McAfee Secure Home Platform, McAfee Safe Family, and McAfee Safe Connect. The company is partnering with a variety of hardware, software, and broadband providers to keep customers safer.
“Data breaches are increasing in volume and therefore calling into question who consumers can rely on to keep their personal information safe,” said John Giamatteo, executive vice president of consumer business group at McAfee, in a statement. “Today, McAfee is trusted by 375 million consumers worldwide to protect what matters most — whether that is their devices, their child’s online safety, or their identity and privacy. McAfee is a name synonymous with cybersecurity, one that consumers can depend on to continue to evolve and innovate to put consumer minds at ease when digital security uncertainty is high.”
People are aware of cybercrime and concerned about their own cybersecurity, but a survey released last week by McAfee reveals that most consumers aren’t as proactive about protecting themselves as they should be.
The survey found that 61 percent are more concerned about cybersecurity today than five years ago, but only 37 percent say they use an identity protection solution, and only about 33 percent say they consider protecting their identity as their No. 1 cybersecurity priority.
McAfee revealed findings from its survey, “New security priorities in an increasingly connected world,” that showed many consumers are not taking proactive steps to keep their personal information protected from identity theft.
The identify theft protection features McAfee announced today include scanning the online black market and the Dark Web and then alerting users when their personal information is at risk.
McAfee also has a Social Security Number Trace, which delivers reports of known aliases and addresses tied to a users’ social security number so they can review them for potentially fake identities.
The credit monitoring feature sends reports based on lending and credit history and alerts users if there are any changes to their creditworthiness. It also has dedicated agents accessible around the clock.
The new D-Link AC2600 Wi-Fi router powered by McAfee provides consumers with automated security for devices on the home network. It features adaptable machine learning, parental controls, and protection for internet of things devices (such as Wi-Fi security cameras).
Author Mark MedleyPosted on January 9, 2018 January 14, 2018 Categories Identity Theft, White Collar CrimesTags cybersecuritycybercrime, Data breaches, McAfee
Shred Shop adds layer of security with HIPAA certification
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Medical identity theft is the nation’s fastest-growing form of identity theft, with about 2.3 million cases in 2014 alone, according to Consumer Reports. If an individual’s health insurance is used by someone else for doctor visits, procedures, or procuring medications and devices, the ramifications can be costly and can destroy the victim’s credit. The patient can also be denied coverage if caps are reached, for example.
The Federal Trade Commission recommends consumers keep paper and electronic copies of their medical and health insurance records in a safe place and shred outdated health insurance forms, prescriptions and physician statements.
Many individuals and health care providers alike look to document destruction and secure storage professionals like Shred Shop of Memphis, 318 Collins St., for peace of mind.
Other industries that use Shred Shop to manage confidential information include law firms, accounting firms, government agencies, schools and small businesses. Customers can watch while their documents are weighed, shredded and baled for recycling.
“We try to fill a niche that the larger companies can’t do mainly because of their size,” said Brenda Allen Huff, who founded Shred Shop, an independent and certified woman-owned business, in the fall of 2005. “It’s very hard to take care of residential and the really small jobs. It’s just not cost effective for their big trucks and all. But we have done a six-pound pickup and we’ve done a 41,000-pound pickup.”
Huff said customers appreciate watching the destruction process, but with medical identity theft on the rise, she wanted to go the extra mile for her clientele in the local health care industry. This meant becoming formally compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, which provides data privacy and security provisions to safeguard medical information.
“I decided it was time we get the formal certification,” Huff said. “It wasn’t that we weren’t as careful as we could be before, but this allowed us the formal training – that extra layer of security.”
Shred Shop is a member of National Association for Information Destruction (NAID). Through her contacts there, Huff became aware of Tom Dumez of Prime Compliance – also known as “The HIPAA Man.”
Michigan-based Dumez is a certified security compliance specialist who provides consulting services to information destruction companies and their clients to help them in matters of HIPAA compliance. He usually trains companies larger than Shred Shop.
Huff was unable to locate a local trainer. Dumez’s services came with a sizeable price tag and required her to fly him from Michigan to Memphis, but Huff believed the HIPAA compliance training and certification would be beneficial for her many health care industry clients.
“It was quite a bit of money to have him come, but I think it was well worth it,” she said of Dumez, who provided a risk assessment and made suggestions for improvements to protect sensitive client information. Those suggestions include limiting exposure and fine-tuning chain-of-custody procedures.
“We’re taking anything he says seriously and trying to make those changes to reduce any risk of anything going wrong,” Huff said. “He provided the policies and procedures and he’s there – available to us to answer any questions throughout the year.”
Kelly Dobbins, president at Mid-South Drug Testing Inc., 950 Mount Moriah Road, said her company is required to store background checks for at least seven years. She relies on Shred Shop for its secure storage services and its hard drive removal and destruction services – a recent addition.
“A lot of people don’t think about their hard drives and the fact that they shouldn’t be giving their computers away to anyone unless you’ve removed that hard drive,” Huff said. “You could have all of your medical information on there, too, so it’s a dangerous thing to let a hard drive get out without being destroyed. People can make a lot of money off medical records. We’re trying to make it easier and cost effective for people to destroy that information, too.”
Dobbins, who has known Huff for about a decade, said that, as a small business owner, she prefers doing business with other local small business owners and she’s been pleased with Shred Shop’s services.
“Our documents at Mid-South Drug Testing contain confidential information,” Dobbins said. “We don’t want anyone to have access to our records, and being HIPAA compliant means the Shred Shop has taken yet another step in security. They will also be able to destroy files and hard drives in a manner that is complaint with HIPAA.”
Author Mark MedleyPosted on December 26, 2017 January 14, 2018 Categories Identity Theft, White Collar CrimesTags HIPAA, Medical identity theft, medical records
You’re Never Too Safe from Identity Theft!
Recent data breaches underscore the importance of protecting yourself.
MoneySmart
By Grace S. Yung
It would be difficult not to notice the growing number of data breaches affecting seemingly “secure” entities, including Anthem, Yahoo, JP Morgan Chase, and even the IRS.
While all data breaches are alarming, the recent Equifax hack—with almost half of the U.S. population affected—means the chances are good that criminals have at least some of your sensitive information.
When it comes to identity theft, one of the first questions people ask is whether they’ll be responsible for fraudulent charges.
Federal law caps your liability at $50 for unauthorized credit-card charges—and, depending on your card issuer, you may not be responsible for anything.
For debit/ATM cards, the amount of liability depends on how quickly you report the theft. If you report the card being lost or stolen within the first two days, you may only be responsible for $50. However, if you wait up to 60 days, you could find yourself responsible for $500—and if you wait more than 60 days, there is no limit to your liability. With that in mind, be sure to check your credit- and debit-card statements and report any evidence of fraud immediately.
After reporting suspected fraud, it is also important to place a fraud alert on your credit reports by contacting one of the three major bureaus—Equifax, Experian, or TransUnion. This is basically a “red flag” notifying creditors and lenders that they need to take additional steps to verify your identity before extending any credit. An initial fraud alert is free, and will remain in place for 90 days.
If your Social Security number has been compromised, be sure to contact the Social Security Administration. Even if the perpetrators haven’t moved forward with any activity, they could be planning to file a fraudulent tax return in the future.
Finally, if you become a victim of identity theft, you should file a report at your local police station.
In terms of proactive measures, identity-theft insurance can be a good way to monitor your credit and accounts, as well to restore your identity and mitigate financial damage if you become a victim. With most plans, the legal fees and other expenses directly associated with reclaiming your identity will be covered. Other common coverage includes lost wages due to time taken off from work to deal with identity theft.
The main carriers of identity-theft coverage include LifeLock, Privacy Guard, ID Shield (an affiliate of Legal Shield), ProtectMyID, and ironically, Equifax. Because coverage varies greatly, it’s recommended that you look at several options.
Although there is no way to guarantee protection from identity theft, there are several other steps you can take to prevent it, including:
• Changing your email and account passwords frequently;
• Having a two-step login/authentication on your email and other online accounts;
• Creating passcodes and adding emergency contact info to your mobile devices;
• Having a special email account for banking and other financial information;
• Changing the default settings on your Internet router;
• Installing a virtual private network (VPN) on your tablet, laptop, and/or other devices that you use in public places;
• Running anti-virus software on all devices;
• Not opening emails or clicking on links unless you recognize the sender;
• Having email and/or text alerts set up for your financial and credit-card transactions;
• Maintaining strong privacy settings on social-media accounts, and not posting your home address or information about when you are on vacation;
• Making sure that you back up all data on your devices in two places—a physical, external hard drive, and in the cloud;
• Putting a security freeze on your credit files with the three major credit bureaus;
• Regularly checking your children’s Social Security numbers to ensure no one is using them;
• Setting up automatic updates for your online programs and apps.
To learn more about protecting yourself from the growing threat of identity theft, talk with a professional who can provide you with guidance and resources. It can be well worth it to put protective measures in place, because when it comes to your personal information, you can never be “too safe.”
This article appears in the November 2017 edition of OutSmart Magazine.
Author Mark MedleyPosted on November 4, 2017 Categories Identity Theft, White Collar Crimes
A Warning About Your Boarding Pass!
You should be very careful with your boarding passes for flights. The bar code on the pass can be used by identity thieves to obtain your personal and frequent flyer account information. You should retain these boarding passes until you are in a position to shred or otherwise destroy in a complete manner.
Author Mark MedleyPosted on July 6, 2017 Format AsideCategories Identity Theft, White Collar CrimesTags Bar code, Boarding Pass, flights, frequent flyer
What Do You Know About Wire Fraud?
What is wire fraud?
Wire fraud is an act of fraud that uses electronic communications, such as making false representations on the telephone or via email, to obtain money.
How does wire fraud work?
Wire fraud occurs when a fraudster obtains money based on false representation or promises.
For example, you may receive wire instructions which appear to be from the settlement agent or attorney, when in fact they are from a fraudster.
Recommended precautions to protect yourself from WIRE/ACH Fraud:
⇒ Do not share your online banking logon credentials (user ID and password) with anyone.
⇒ Do not share your account number with anyone who does not need it.
⇒ Never access your bank account using a public computer (e.g., at the library or a hotel business office)
⇒ Monitor your accounts regularly for unauthorized transactions. Report any unauthorized transactions to your bank immediately.
⇒ Be suspicious of emails from free, public email account domains as they are often a source of risk.
⇒ Watch out for phishing emails with embedded links, even when they appear to come from a trusted source.
⇒ Install a firewall on your computer to prevent unauthorized access.
⇒ Be skeptical of any change in wiring instructions.
⇒ Confirm wire and other disbursement instructions received by email via confirmed telephone at a known or independently-confirmed number, not the telephone number at the bottom of the email.
Author Mark MedleyPosted on April 18, 2017 June 17, 2017 Categories Identity Theft, White Collar CrimesTags electronic communications, firewall, phishing, unauthorized transactions, wire fraud
GAO Finds Identity Theft Services Limited in Fraud Prevention!
Limited in Fraud Prevention
Following the 2015 OPM data breaches, GAO found that identity theft services offer certain benefits but are also limited in what they can prevent.
April 03, 2017 – Identity theft services offer several benefits to organizations and individuals, but there are limitations in fraud prevention and other identity protection services, according to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.
Medical identity theft and tax refund fraud are also not always specifically addressed in identity theft services, GAO explained.
With regard to the two Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breaches from 2015, GAO stated that the level of insurance coverage provided was “likely unnecessary because claims paid rarely exceed a few thousand dollars.”
OPM announced on June 4, 2015 that it had been the victim of a cyber attack. The agency then reported one month later that a significantly greater number of individuals were affected by a “separate but related” cybersecurity breach.
Approximately 21.5 million individuals were affected, with some of the compromised information including “identification details such as Social Security Numbers, residency and educational history, employment history, information about immediate family and other personal acquaintances, health, criminal and financial history.”
“Millions of individuals, through no fault of their own, had their personal information stolen and we’re committed to standing by them, supporting them, and protecting them against further victimization,” Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management Beth Cobert said in a statement. And as someone whose own information was stolen, I completely understand the concern and frustration people are feeling.”
GAO stated in its report that OPM provided duplicative identity theft services for about 3.6 million people affected by both of its 2015 breaches.
“Contrary to key operational practices previously identified by GAO, OPM’s data-breach-response policy does not include criteria or procedures for determining when to offer identity theft services, and OPM has not always documented how it chose to offer them in response to past breaches, which could hinder informed decision making in the future,” GAO wrote.
“In the private sector, companies often offer consumers affected by a data breach complimentary identity theft services for reasons other than mitigating the risk of identity theft, such as avoiding liability or complying with state law.”
Identity theft services typically include one or more areas of assistance, such as credit monitoring, identity monitoring, and identity restoration, GAO explained. Medical identity theft, identity theft refund fraud, and certain other threats involving stolen personal information are generally not included.
“Evaluation and analysis of these services by both federal and private-sector entities is limited and tends to focus on outputs (such as contractor performance) rather than outcomes (such as reduction of harm from identity theft),” the report noted.
Out of the 26 identity theft services that GAO reviewed, the agency stated that only one “expressly addressed” medical identity theft.
“That product works with the explanation-of-benefits delivery system of the user’s health insurer to alert the user every time a claim is made against the user’s health plan benefits,” the report said. “Users can flag a claim as suspicious if, for example, they do not recognize the procedure or health care provider, and the company then will investigate the claim.”
Additionally, the service is offered as a benefit by health insurers to their members instead of offered directly to consumers.
OPM did not provide many details to GAO in what type of services it offered following the 2015 breaches.
“The current officials told us that they could not find any formal documentation related to the decision to offer identity theft services or the process leading up to this decision,” GAO wrote. “The agency was able to identify a document comparing past public- and private-sector entities’ responses to breaches that may have been considered when determining which services OPM should offer after the second data breach (of background investigation records).”
OPM has previously been investigated for its large data breaches, with reports finding that certain preventative measures could have helped to potentially prevent the incidents.
Toward the end of 2016, an OIG report found that a failure to prioritize cybersecurity and adequately secure high value data helped contribute to the data breaches taking place.
Additionally, the OPM Inspector General (IG) warned the agency as early as 2005 that the information it maintained was potentially vulnerable to hackers.
OPM had an “absence of an effective managerial structure to implement reliable IT security policies,” and also “failed to implement the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) longstanding requirement to use multi-factor authentication for employees and contractors who log on to the network.”
Author Mark MedleyPosted on April 5, 2017 June 17, 2017 Categories Identity Theft, White Collar CrimesTags cyber attack, OPM, OPM data breaches
IRS’ Most Wanted: 5 Tax Scams to Watch Out For This Year
The IRS released its annual list of most wanted tax scams. Being educated on these will help keep you from getting ripped off.
Danny Vena (TMFLifeIsGood) Mar 4, 2017 at 6:07PM
Each year in early February, to coincide with the beginning of tax season, the IRS compiles a list of the most common scams that taxpayers may fall victim to. While you may encounter these at any time during the year, occurrences tend to spike during filing season.
There are many fraudsters out there who would rather take your hard-earned money than make their own. A little caution and skepticism will go a long way toward ensuring they don’t. Read on to learn the scams the IRS wants you to look out for this tax season.
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1. Phishing schemes
Phishing schemes typically involve an email you receive that appears to be from a bank, credit card provider, or other company that you do business with. Be on your guard, as it may be from a scammer. These emails often look all too real, and they ask you to go to some website and update your personal information. The scammers will then use that information — whether it’s your Social Security number, your online passwords, or your bank account information — to defraud you. Be especially wary of any email that claims to be from the IRS, as the agency typically communicates with taxpayers by mail. Never provide your personal information unless you are absolutely sure who you’re dealing with.
2. Phone scams
A variation on phishing schemes, these scams involve a phone call that you receive from someone posing as an IRS agent. They may be aggressive or threatening, demanding that you pay some fictitious tax bill by sending cash, making a wire transfer, or providing a credit card number. They will try to intimidate you, threatening you with arrest, deportation, or the loss of your driver’s license. The IRS almost always communicates with taxpayers by mail, and it will never, ever ask for payment over the phone. If you receive one of these calls, hang up!
3. Identity theft
Identity theft involves an unauthorized person using your information for their own financial gain. Around tax filing season, crooks will try to obtain your Social Security number and other information using some other scam or hack. They will then file a phony tax return in your name in order to steal your refund. The IRS has partnered with state tax agencies and those in the tax preparation industry to enact safeguards to prevent this fraud. There are signs of progress, as the number of complaints involving stolen identities on tax returns fell by 50% compared to the prior year. Guarding your Social Security number from unauthorized use is the most effective prevention. The IRS provides these recommendations to protect your personal data: “Don’t routinely carry a Social Security card, and make sure tax records are secure. Treat personal information like cash; don’t leave it lying around.” .
4. Return preparer fraud
This is the tax preparer equivalent of offering to sell you a discounted Rolex in an alley. The majority of CPAs and other tax preparers are honest, hard-working folks just trying to make a living. However, there are perpetrators out there who hang out a phony shingle every tax season to prey on unsuspecting tax filers. Additionally, there those tax preparers who mean well but aren’t qualified.
There are a few ways to protect yourself. Always ask the preparer if they have an IRS Preparer Tax Identification Number (PTIN), which they are required to obtain from the IRS. You can also check their credentials using the IRS Directory of Federal Tax Return Preparers with Credentials and Select Qualifications. Be sure to ask to e-file and never sign a blank return — this is the tax return equivalent of signing a blank check. Once your signature is on the document, a dishonest preparer could divert your refund to their own account, and you’d never know. Review your return thoroughly, ask questions about anything that is unclear, and be sure to sign it when you are done.
5. Fake charities
Americans love to support worthy causes they believe in. The problem is that some aren’t so worthy. There are fake charities out there that prey on human kindness by taking in donations but never doing a bit of charitable work. They sometimes have names remarkably similar to those of real charities, and they frequently set up shop immediately after natural disasters and solicit donations from unsuspecting people who are trying to help. They may also call you or show up at your front door. You wouldn’t hand your wallet to a stranger on the street, so never make donations in person or over the phone to someone you don’t know. Don’t give your credit card number or bank information unless you initiate the call, and never give out passwords. Reputable charities can be confirmed by using the IRS Select Check search tool of tax-exempt charities.
Taxpayer takeaway
Be on the lookout, not only when filing your tax return, but throughout the year. As scammers get more and more creative, educating yourself is one way to be sure you don’t become a victim. It has been said that nothing is certain but death and taxes. You can be equally sure that scammers will be happy to relieve you of some of your hard-earned cash if you let them. Being vigilant and playing by the rules is key to preventing financial insecurity.
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Author Mark MedleyPosted on March 5, 2017 May 22, 2017 Categories Identity Theft, White Collar CrimesTags fake charities, Phishing schemes, phone scams, preparer fraud, scammers
SSA Putting Millions of Americans at Risk
The Social Security Administration puts millions of Americans at risk for identity theft by putting their full Social Security Numbers on letters sent in the mail.
The agency’s inspector general released an audit this week warning the government that by sending hundreds of millions of letters containing individual’s Social Security Numbers it puts them at risk for identity theft.
“According to [the Social Security Administration] SSA, in 2015, it mailed about 233 million notices that included individuals’ full SSN,” the inspector general said. “We recognize SSA’s efforts can never eliminate the potential that dishonest individuals may inappropriately acquire and misuse SSNs. However, our audit and investigative work have shown that the more SSNs are unnecessarily used, the higher the probability that they could be used inappropriately.”
“The security of beneficiaries’ [Personally Identifiable Information] PII should be foremost, and as a Federal agency and public servant, we believe SSA should be in the forefront of establishing policy and practice by limiting SSN use and disclosure,” the audit said.
Sixty-six percent of the 352 million notices the agency sent out last year contained Americans’ full Social Security Numbers, and the government said it has no idea how many never made it to the correct address.“While it is unknown how many of the intended addressees received these notices, our audit work has shown that the addresses in SSA’s records can be inaccurate,” the inspector general said
“We asked SSA whether it maintained any estimates on the number of mailings that were returned as undeliverable. SSA stated that it did not have any Agency-level number on undeliverable mail,” they said. “SSA could not provide us an estimate of the number of notices with SSNs it mails annually that do not reach the intended recipients and are not returned to SSA.”
The inspector general warned that notices sent to the wrong address can increase identify theft, as it can give strangers access to vital personal information. “Notices intercepted by unintended recipients could provide SSA beneficiaries’ names, addresses, and SSNs to individuals other than the numberholders,” they said.
Auditors said they do not currently have documented proof of identity theft that has occurred as a result of agency letters going to the wrong address, though the agency acknowledged “there is a risk of identity theft anytime it sends correspondence that contains PII.”
The inspector general said identity theft is “one of the fastest-growing crimes” in the country.”
“With a stolen SSN, identity thieves can commit any number of financial crimes in the victim’s name or steal money from the victim,” the audit said. “If the victim is a senior citizen, the thief could even target their Social Security benefits.”
“SSA acknowledges that identity thieves may obtain another’s personal information by stealing their mail or rummaging through their trash,” the inspector general concluded. “It is, therefore, troubling that SSA continues including the full SSN on the majority of its mailings.”
Author Mark MedleyPosted on August 7, 2016 January 14, 2018 Categories Identity Theft, Victim Assistance!, White Collar CrimesTags Albuquerque police department, annual credit report, APD, credit freeze, data breach, Experian, financial crimes, inspector general, Social Security Administration, Social Security Number, SSA, SSN
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Depression may up risk of multiple chronic diseases in women: Study
The research, published in the journal Health Psychology, suggests that depression and chronic diseases share a similar genetic or biological pathway.
By: PTI | Melbourne | Published: June 1, 2019 9:36:09 am
The study found 43.2 per cent of women experienced elevated symptoms of depression and just under half the cohort reported they were diagnosed or taking treatment for depression. (Photo: Thinkstock)
Women who experience symptoms of depression are at increased risk of developing multiple chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer, a study has found.
“These days, many people suffer from multiple chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer,” said Xiaolin Xu, a PhD scholar at the University of Queensland in Australia.
“We looked at how women progress in the development of these chronic diseases before and after the onset of depressive symptoms,” Xu said.
The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health followed healthy, middle-aged women with no previous diagnosis of depression or chronic illness over 20 years.
The study found 43.2 per cent of women experienced elevated symptoms of depression and just under half the cohort reported they were diagnosed or taking treatment for depression.
Women from the depressed group were 1.8 times more likely to have multiple chronic health conditions before they first experienced depressive symptoms.
“Experiencing depressive symptoms appeared to amplify the risk of chronic illness,” Xu said.
After women started experiencing these symptoms, they were 2.4 times more likely to suffer from multiple chronic conditions compared to women without depressive symptoms.
“Inflammation in the body has been linked to the development of both depression and chronic physical diseases,” he said.
“Chronic diseases, like diabetes and hypertension, are also commonly associated with depression,” Xu said.
These findings help strengthen healthcare professionals understanding of mental and physical health.
“Healthcare professionals need to know that clinical and sub-clinical depression (elevated depressive symptoms) can be linked to other chronic physical conditions,” he said.
When treating patients for these symptoms, healthcare professionals must realise these people are at risk of developing further chronic illness, researchers said.
Women with both conditions were more likely to come from low-income households, be overweight and inactive, smoke tobacco and drink alcohol.
“Maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly, eating a balanced diet, and reducing harmful behaviours could help prevent and slow the progression of multiple chronic diseases,” Xu said.
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Australian architecture firm POLYstudio has recently completed A House for All Seasons, a contemporary family home with an emphasis on energy efficiency. Designed for a young family, the sustainable new dwelling has a flexible layout to accommodate the clients’ evolving needs within a relatively compact footprint. The project’s adherence to the principles of the Passive House standard along with native, drought-tolerant landscaping helps reduce the home’s carbon footprint.
Located in an inner-city Melbourne neighborhood, A House for All Seasons is defined by a contemporary aesthetic that’s respectful of its heritage streetscape context. Spanning two floors across 230 square meters, the home breaks up its monolithic massing with a dynamic facade constructed with a varied material palette ranging from brick to metal cladding. In contrast to its cool-toned exterior, the inside of the home exudes warmth thanks to timber accents and select pops of color that punctuate the minimalist interior.
“The design and planning of the house continues our exploration of spatial organisation that is legible but flexible and layered, incorporating devices such as partition curtains and permeable screening to create spaces that are intimate but also bleed into adjoining spaces,” Daniel Wolkenberg, founder of POLYstudio, noted. “The use of polished concrete, blackbutt plywood and a mix of feature colours contributes to a warm and engaging interior.”
Related: A Melbourne worker’s cottage gets revamped into a solar-powered family home
Informed by passive solar design principles, the home provides year-round thermal comfort with minimal dependence on mechanical heating and cooling. Carefully selected durable materials, low-flow fixtures, and drought-tolerant vegetation contribute to the sustainability of the home. The home’s compact footprint allows for lawn space and an outdoor patio in the backyard that seamlessly connects with the open-plan living area, kitchen, and dining area indoors. The first floor comprises three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a playroom, study and an outdoor balcony.
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A House for All Seasons by POLYstudio
Australian architecture firm POLYstudio has recently completed A House for All Seasons, a contemporary family home with an emphasis on energy efficiency.
Commissioned by a young family, the sustainable new dwelling was designed with a flexible layout to accommodate the clients’ evolving needs within a relatively compact footprint.
Located in an inner-city Melbourne neighborhood, A House for All Seasons is defined by a contemporary aesthetic that’s respectful of its heritage streetscape context.
In contrast to its cool-toned exterior, the inside of the home exudes warmth thanks to timber accents and select pops of color that punctuate the minimalist interior.
“The design and planning of the house continues our exploration of spatial organisation that is legible but flexible and layered, incorporating devices such as partition curtains and permeable screening to create spaces that are intimate but also bleed into adjoining spaces,” Daniel Wolkenberg, founder of POLYstudio, noted.
The project’s adherence to the principles of the Passive House standard along with native, drought-tolerant landscaping helps reduce the home’s carbon footprint.
Informed by passive solar design principles, the home provides year-round thermal comfort with minimal dependence on mechanical heating and cooling.
Carefully selected durable materials, low-flow fixtures, and drought-tolerant vegetation contribute to the sustainability of the home.
The first floor comprises three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a playroom, study and an outdoor balcony.
The home’s compact footprint allows for lawn space and an outdoor patio in the backyard that seamlessly connects with the open-plan living area, kitchen, and dining area indoors.
Spanning two floors across 230 square meters, the home breaks up its monolithic massing with a dynamic facade constructed with a varied material palette ranging from brick to metal cladding.
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Multi-million pound transformation sees the arrival of Malmaison in Brighton
Malmaison Hotel du Vin, the leading lifestyle hotel group, today unveils the new Malmaison Brighton. The hotel, located in the famous Brighton Marina district, is ready to welcome guests following its phenomenal transformation.
Malmaison Brighton boasts stunningly designed bedrooms, each with its own particular style and personality. Malmaison brings with it the brand’s iconic ‘Chez Mal’ bar and brasserie to Brighton – a fresh mix of contemporary styled dishes created from the finest ingredients, a vibrant mix of cocktails, bubbles by the bucket load and eclectic craft beers. This, combined with the fashionably eccentric interiors, a clubby vibe, and stunning bar makes Malmaison Brighton the newest place in town to meet, catch-up with friends and have a sensational time.
The hotel’s sweeping terraces offer unrivalled views over Brighton Marina, one of Europe’s largest. Private balconies overlook the buzzing harbour, with the Chez Mal terrace offering the perfect spot for dining, drinking or dancing the night away.
Breaking the trend of traditional, mundane work spaces, the hotel introduces Work+Play to the city, with its new high tech, edgy and stylised business and events facilities. These can be easily moulded to suit everyone’s needs, with 5 meeting rooms and a capacity ranging from 8 to 140 – ideal for conferences and training days, but also for those more intimate occasions, weddings and private events.
Paul Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, Malmaison Hotel du Vin, said, “We’re truly excited to bring Malmaison to Brighton – we feel the city and brand are a perfect pair. The team have worked tirelessly to transform the hotel to create something truly special. Malmaison Brighton really makes a bold statement in the Brighton hotel scene and we are incredibly proud of the transformation.”
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Call: ‘As Above, So Below’: A Colloquium on Drone Culture
By Matthew Lombard | Published: February 11, 2014
A Colloquium on Drone Culture
Saturday 24th May, 2014: University of Lincoln
FEATURING KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Benjamin Noys (author of The Culture of Death, The Persistence of the Negative, and Malign Velocities)
and Derek Gregory (author of The Colonial Present, Geographical Imaginations, and The Everywhere War).
MYTH-DRONE a performance by Plastique Fantastique (featuring David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan)
The military use of aerial drones, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, has in recent years instigated huge controversy, dispute and protest. There continues to be much debate over the social and political implications of drone warfare, not least here in Lincoln, where, for the past year, the county has been home to the RAF’s Remotely Piloted Aircraft Squadron. As wartime base to the Lancaster bomber, Lincolnshire is, to many, still ‘Bomber County’, and today the UK’s provision of armed Reaper drones, which operate in Afghanistan on surveillance and combat missions, are controlled remotely from a base less than five miles from our university campus. The issues raised are, then, strikingly clear: the ethics of extrajudicial killing, the relation between ‘surgical’ strikes and ‘collateral’ civilian deaths, the diffusion of the conventional ‘battlefield’, the implications of the commercial use of drones in civilian airspace, the psychological effects of exerting power from a distance.
Though motivated by these issues, this one-day colloquium has been convened in order to examine the broader questions relating to the drone as a cultural concept and, in its virtual potentials, as a more complex set of transformations which extend beyond the actuality of the unmanned aerial vehicle. Specifically, drone culture is understood here as a symptom of what McKenzie Wark has called ‘vectoral’ power, a power that, constituted by flows of information, operates in abstract communicational space so as to exploit perception at a distance. In this sense, the cultural significance of the drone is inseparable from the newly complex processes of mediation unique to the 21st century.
This event will map the immanent forces of drone culture across a variety of disciplines and phenomena, and in doing so disclose its political and ethico-aesthetic expressions in literature, cinema, music, photography, theatre and performance. For examples, we might look to science-fictional explorations of the relation between air and informational power (Ballard, Pynchon, McCarthy), the drone in political theatre (such as George Brant’s Grounded), the drone in recent cinema (such as Oblivion with Tom Cruise), and the drone in art (see the work of Josh Begley, James Bridle, Omar Fast, Adam Harvey and Trevor Paglen). In response, the colloquium will include an exhibition of art works, performances and screenings.
You are invited to submit proposals for either:
20 minute paper presentation (with title and abstract of about 350 words)
5 minute ‘speed papers’ – positions, potentials and provocations (with title and abstract of about 100 words)
Suggestions for topics include, but are not limited to:
aerial power, informational power, vectoral power
maps and mapping
speed and accelerationism
perception at a distance: remoteness and affect
video game logics
drone temporalities (including audio and sonic)
drone fictions (SF drones, drone horrors, weird drones)
drones and swarms
drone subjectivities and psychologies
patterns of life in software-sorted space
kill lists and ‘big data’
the long history of distance weapons and intelligent machines
the rhetoric of the ‘targeted’, ‘surgical’ and ‘signature’ strike
counterinsurgency
ubiquitous warfare and the normalization of crisis
drone sorcery, magic and glamour
thanatopolitics
Selected papers will be published in a special 2015 edition of the open access journal CULTURE MACHINE.
Please include a short biographical note with all submissions and send in one document to: abovebelow@lincoln.ac.uk
FINAL EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: 19th February, 2014
A pdf version of this final call for papers is available at: http://lncn.eu/dronefinal
The University of Lincoln, located in the heart of the city of Lincoln, has established an international reputation based on high student satisfaction, excellent graduate employment and world-class research.
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The Beta Phi Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi is full of women who are ambitious, diverse, inclusive, and courageous. Everything we do is driven by the love that we hold so dear for each and every woman in this chapter. We wouldn’t be where we are today without all the sisters that have come before us, so thank you to each and every alumnae member of Beta Phi.
As Chapter President, my goal is to make this year the best year for all of our members by promoting positivity in all that we do. When it comes to fulfilling our sisters’ passions and dreams, I want to be that spark that inspires ambition within their hearts. I hope that every sister leaves this chapter filled with support, love, and feels as though they’ve grown to be the current best version of themselves.
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It is Worldpride Week in Toronto, the first Worldpride celebration held in North America and one of the largest in the world of its kind. The festival touts itself as honouring and celebrating the past, present and future for LGBTQ communities everywhere. It is fitting that the celebration is taking place in Toronto. Canada is one of the most welcoming countries in the world for LGBTQ communities. In 2005, Canada became the fourth country in the world to legalize same sex marriage. Canadian human rights legislation enshrines the prohibition against discrimination, and, of course, expressly references sexual orientation.
Despite the progress that Canada has made, are there still LGBTQ issues in Canadian workplaces? Absolutely. Sadly, it is extremely difficult to eradicate every possible manifestation of discrimination, especially those behaviours that are more subtle. But the challenge facing employers is to take pro-active steps to ensure that workplaces are inclusive and welcoming, rather than merely responding to discrimination when it occurs.
With that in mind, I thought I might reference a few workplace issues that tend to arise that might affect LGBTQ employees. The list is not all inclusive.
1. Inclusive Language: Canadian employers should make every effort to ensure that language used in the workplace is inclusive and non-discriminatory. Some people may not be aware that they are offending others when they use certain words or expressions. In other instances, written material, such as newsletters and brochures might not use inclusive language.
Employers should not wait to receive complaints about workplace language or about the lack of inclusivity in written materials. It may be that the offended employees are not publicly out and would not want to be seen as the ones raising the issues. But beyond that, it is not even a matter of who was offended on a particular occasion. The challenge of ensuring an inclusive workplace means that employers must be vigilant about making sure that the workplace and the language used in it is welcoming at all times, even to those who might not be “visible.”
2. Diversity Training: Diversity training can help build awareness of LGBTQ issues in workplaces, just as it can also help build awareness of issues that affect other minority religious and cultural groups. Diversity training can help build sensitivity for managers and supervisors in dealing with LGBTQ employees and can foster an appropriate and welcoming environment in Canadian workplaces.
3. Publicizing LGBTQ Policies: Employers should ensure that policies and promotional materials that are used in internal and external communications clarify employer support for LGBTQ employees. This means that employee handbooks, for example, should mention the use of inclusive language as a policy, diversity training, if it is offered and the fact that the workplace welcomes LGBTQ employees just as it welcomes employees from all other walks of life.
4. Human Rights Policies: Perhaps it goes with out saying that the Canadian human rights legislation, for example, the Ontario Human Rights Code prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Employers are required to have policies in place that provide procedures for investigating and handling complaints. Any allegations of violations of such policies should be taken seriously and dealt with appropriately.
These are just a few of the many issues that LGBTQ employees might face. During Worldpride week, one presentation on June 26, 2014 focuses on issues that LGBTQ lawyers face in working in the legal profession. So it is clear that even among lawyers, there are still workplace issues affecting the LGBTQ community.
But overall, Canadians should be proud that these issues are being dealt with, both legislatively and otherwise, in a manner that is, generally, inclusive, fair and welcoming. Wishing a Happy Worldpride Week to everyone.
Ken Krupat
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Clean it up, I wonder at people who think it their Human right to over ride my human right. When your mother and father would think of you as a child they picture you as couple. I picture myself and as a couple not a confused couple, who cannot see past that Play ground of playing with my friend. I confused playtime with sex, playtime was for me not a time of confusion, just friends even when after a game of basketball my friend wriped my dress, still I was not confused or disorientated. Upset but reality…
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Memorial Day in Full Measure
By Team NIA
On this special hallowed day, whereon we honor American military women and men who gave the full measure of sacrifice – their lives, we wanted to explore deeper feelings about freedom than usually expressed or debated. So, we engaged candid conversations with very different people among our constituency of families and advocates about the full and broad meaning of Memorial Day.
Among those conversations that stand out most was the one we conducted with the returning citizen we will refer to here as James. Like the others, we asked James, what does Memorial Day mean, if anything, to a person who has lived as an incarcerated American? Before James could ponder the question, he quickly snapped, “Let me first thank you for feeling that I have value enough to be asked the question.” When pushed to explain, he went on to say, “No one would ever have a conversation with me about a real citizen kind of thing like that. But I guess I can relate to hope. Until release got real, I lived all those years totally without hope. Yes, I can relate to that. Without hope, there can be no real freedom.”
His answer helped us better understand Derrick’s response. “After a while in prison, the system is sure to make you feel excommunicated from hope, dreams and freedoms. And in too many cases, once excommunicated in any way, you might always be excommunicated in some ways from the full American dream. Aside from that, I don’t think I feel Memorial Day any different from any other American. I’d like to be reintegrated in that respect too – just another American deserving their sacrifice. In spite of my mistakes, and just because I’m American too.”
A young millennial still caught up in a mandatory minimum nightmare quipped lightheartedly, “Means no lunch on the holiday.” Then his tone got serious, “I think of Grandpa, a WWII Purple Heart Vet. My whole view is different now,” he continued. “They laid down their lives for something they think of as freedom when in fact it is too often a fight for a government agenda. Then, even more so, I feel badly for the families of those who gave their lives.” Cautious not to publish any sentiment that might be perceived as negative about the Day, this comment gave us pause. At least until we talked to a vet, a soldier who helped us see debate and discontent from the battle field level of tear-filled eyes that honor our fallen and more importantly, that honor those freedoms for which they died.
Those freedoms include the freedom to express what you feel, and in doing so, assert the freedom to disagree, to challenge and change our country for the common good. Even the Day itself came together from contending ideologies. When the original Decoration Day honoring fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War was merged with other Confederate holiday traditions to establish what years later became Memorial Day.
But back to the vet. A Vietnam era soldier who often has a lot to say and never hesitates to exclaim how his losses have earned him the right to say what he feels. “After getting over the shock I was going to be in the penitentiary for a lot longer than I was in the war, I started to realize that I had also forfeited all I had fought for. Just threw it all away.” He went silent for a long moment and we sat still to give him that pensive space. Then he raised his head, took a big breath and continued. “I guess I want people to know that while they certainly fought for country, they died protecting their buddies.”
Perhaps the greatest wish of the fallen hero would be to continue to care for their buddies – those still alive, still struggling to adjust. To make things right and to make them whole. Perhaps the fullest measure of honoring this Day, is the full open debate of what the Day means, should mean and could mean to us all. That we memorialize the full measure of the soldier’s sacrifice by affording him and her the full measure of repair, reform and reintegration for every page – bright and dark – of their enduring journey.
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January 2009 - Volume 19 - Issue 1
Thought you might appreciate this item(s) I saw at Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine.
What is the Mechanism of No Injury (MONI)?
Meeuwisse, Willem H MD, PhD
Address for correspondence: Willem H. Meeuwisse, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine c/o Sport Medicine Centre, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada (e-mail: cjsm@ucalgary.ca).
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine: January 2009 - Volume 19 - Issue 1 - p 1-2
doi: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e3181979c1d
When trying to understand sport trauma, whether as a clinician or a researcher, we typically assess the mechanism of injury (MOI). It is important to evaluate the circumstances surrounding an injury and the forces that produce tissue damage. To do so helps a clinician to arrive at the appropriate diagnosis, prescribe treatment and plan for a return to sport. Understanding the MOI also assists a researcher in identifying risk factors and/or specific causes of injury and strategies for the implementation of preventive measures.
However, athletes constantly place their bodies under extreme load, yet rarely suffer an injury. In fact, athletic endeavors are characterized by pushing the personal limits of exertion and loading. So, in watching athletes perform on a daily basis, or even observing a fall or crash, it is equally important to ask: “Why did an injury NOT occur?” What are the normal, often extreme, forces that are placed on the body during typical training and competition that do not have an adverse outcome? If we can measure and understand this “mechanism of no injury” (MONI), then we can begin to understand which component of the apparent MOI is actually responsible for an injury.
Think about this in the context of sport you have witnessed. For example, consider the forces at play in executing a turn at high speed in alpine skiing. There are numerous kinetic and kinematic variables acting through the body and equipment. Clearly, there are motions and forces that are a normal part of executing an injury-free athletic movement. If that is the case, then those forces should not be considered an important part of the MOI. When an injury does occur, there must be a critical factor (or collection of factors) that differs from situations where there is no injury. It is the identification of this critical factor or factors that will permit accurate characterization of the MOI.
Over the past 15 years, researchers have emphasized the need to take a mulitfactorial approach to understanding the cause of injury.1,2 More recently, further attention has been focused on the centrality of the MOI as part of a causal chain.3,4,5 Bahr and Krosshaug specifically advocate that more detailed attention be paid to the MOI as one of multiple factors contributing to sport injury.6 It is clearly important to consider athlete, environmental, situational, and biomechanical factors at the time of any injury; the MOI should be seen as being of special significance, it is argued, in the context of these other risk factors.5,6
Typical biomechanical assessment of injury involves an estimation or measurement of a potentially injurious movement; such an assessment is extremely complex, with an infinite number of possible variables and observations. The challenge of injury prevention research is to find a specific putative factor or factors from among a constellation of possibilities.
It must be recognized, when attempting to evaluate the biomechanical factors surrounding the mechanism of an injury, that a specific difference between those who experience injury and those who do not is often not clearly evident. However, an assessment of the MOI often seems to carry with it an important assumption. That is: Research is often conducted as if all aspects of the potential MOI are important. While this may be true, it is equally plausible that only a small component of the apparent mechanism is actually responsible for an injury.
Perhaps what we need to do is formally study the normal MONI. If we can learn to distinguish between the MONI and the MOI, then we will have uncovered the critical component of the inciting event that ultimately causes an injury. If we can articulate this difference, we will have reduced the set of variables or factors to something that may be simpler to understand, perhaps more feasible to study, and ultimately more practical to modify in planning injury prevention.
1. van Mechelen W, Hlobil H, Kemper H. Incidence, severity, etiology and prevention of sports injuries. A review of concepts. Sports Med. 1992;14 (2):82-99.
2. Meeuwisse W. Assessing causation in sport injury: a multifactorial model. Clin J Sport Med. 1994;4(3):166-70.
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3. Gissane C, White J, Kerr K, et al. An operational model to investigate contact sports injuries. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2001;33(12):1999-2003.
4. McIntosh A. Risk compensation, motivation, injuries and biomechanics in competitive sport. Br J Sports Med. 2005;39:2-3.
5. Meeuwisse W, Tyreman H, Hagel B, et al. A dynamic model of etiology in sport injury: the recursive nature of risk and causation. Clin J Sport Med. 2007;17(3):215-9.
6. Bahr R, Krosshaug T. Understanding injury mechanisms: a key component of preventing injuries in sport. Br J Sports Med. 2005;39:324-9.
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Julie’s Bicycle has been working in partnership with Arts Council England to inspire environmental action across the arts and cultural sector for over a decade. This collaboration led to a pioneering policy intervention in 2012, when the Arts Council became the first cultural body to make environmental reporting and policy part of funding agreements for National Portfolio organisations. Collectively, these organisations have reduced energy consumption by 23% and made savings of £16.5 million.
“It’s wonderful to see the collaboration between Julie’s Bicycle, the Arts Council and the creative sector succeeding in bringing together so many different cultural organizations to transform the public conversation on climate change, while tackling their own impact as well.”
Christiana Figueres, Founding Partner, Global Optimism and Former Executive Secretary, UNFCCC 2010-2016
The Accelerator Programme is a new strand of this work, recruiting two cohorts of up to ten organisations or consortia to work with Julie’s Bicycle to advance their sustainable practice and share insights with their peers and the wider sector. The programme will be looking at everything from touring models and audience engagement to design and supply chains, income generation and governance.
Cohort 1: October 2018 until March 2020
Cohort 2: April 2020 until Sept 2021
Other organisations might join the programme as Associates to work with the Cohort Organisations to test emerging models.
Download the programme prospectus
There are three stages to the application process.
You are required to submit an Expression of Interest with a brief description of the project you are interested in doing. The deadline for this stage expired on 7th June, 2019
Selected organisations have been invited to join us at one of our development workshops, where we have helped them to explore their project in more depth. 15th, 16th and 18th of July
After the workshops organisations need to either submit a full proposal as a Cohort organisation/consortium, or submit an Associate proposal. 22nd July – 14th October 2019
Find more information about the Accelerator Programme in the FAQs section below.
What is the Accelerator Programme?
Who is the Accelerator Programme for?
What’s the difference between Cohort organisations and Associate organisations?
The Accelerator Programme will be made up of two Cohorts of up to ten organisations or consortia.
Cohort organisations will want to:
Build on their extensive experience of embedding sustainability into their practice
Stretch their ambition and action around sustainability
Develop their ideas into deliverable projects that can help shape a sustainable future
Make a greater impact by sharing learning, practice and replicable models throughout the sector
Work in a collaborative, open, curious and generous way
Associate Organisations will want to:
Do more with their sustainable practice but currently lack the expertise and resources to do so.
Learn from case studies and the practice of other organisations.
Try new ideas and help Cohort organisations to test new approaches.
What support will the Accelerator programme provide for Cohort organisations?
A three-day training programme adapted from Julie’s Bicycle’s Creative Climate Leadership course
Two days of tailored mentoring from a specialist mentor to help develop ambition, practice and thinking
Two days personalised support from Julie’s Bicycle to help organisations achieve their plan
Knowledge Exchange Support including an Exchange Day themed around relevant ideas and projects
Associate organisations (up to five Associate organisations might be selected) won’t receive formal support from the Accelerator programme but will be “matched” to Cohort organisations working on related or/and complementary ideas/projects/sectors. Associates will be first to benefit from the insights and learning arising from the programme and will potentially help test models and ideas emerging from the programme. These partnerships should also boost the Associates’ expertise and accelerate practice.
Organisations can state their preference on whether they want to become a Cohort or Associate organisation when submitting a proposal (from 22nd July to 14th October 2019 – limited to organisations that have previously submitted an expression of interest).
What will Cohorts gain?
Should we apply as an individual organisation or a consortium?
We appreciate it might be difficult to decide whether to apply as an individual organisation or as a consortium. It depends on the scope of your idea and its development stage. It may be helpful to think about whether you are wanting to try something completely new that needs to be researched and trialled or whether your intention is to roll out the results of an idea you’ve already investigated and tested. If the former, you might want to operate at smaller scale, to make sure you’re in control of the changes that need to happen, communicate with a reduced number of stakeholders, pilot ideas, etc. If your intention is to roll out an already successful model, perhaps it’d be beneficial to consider partnering up with organisations that have similar or complementary experience/knowledge. It will also depend on the specific situation of the organisation and its ability to influence change and at what scale. We encourage you to think about the impact you’re trying to make and the influence you’re able to have in the sector, which is not necessarily defined by the size of an organisation or a collaboration.
We are aware that building the foundations of a new collaboration takes time, so it might be that establishing a new consortium or network and working out a joint action plan becomes the object of your proposal for the Accelerator Programme.
Consortia only need to submit one shared proposal. There is space in the proposal to provide key details about every consortium member organisation. Organisations that have not submitted an Expression of Interest may be included in consortia, but they cannot be the lead author of a proposal.
What’s the purpose of the development workshops?
In July 2019, Julie’s Bicycle will deliver three workshops across the country. Through these collaborative workshops, we want to prompt organisations to explore new ideas, find collaborators, give organisations the chance to inform the programme and support organisations in building their proposals.
I can’t attend the workshop, can I still submit a proposal at Stage 3?
If you submit an expression of interest but can’t attend the workshop, your proposal will still be welcome.
What criteria can help my organisation chose a project or idea and how it might connect to the bigger picture?
Accelerator will help organisations find encouragement, focus, time and support to build on and develop existing or new ideas around environmental sustainability. These ideas will ideally connect their practice with at least one of the following international conceptual frameworks:
Nine Planetary Boundaries: The framework was first introduced in 2009, when a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists identified and quantified the first set of nine planetary boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come. More information here.
Sustainable Development Goals: On September 25th 2015, countries adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda. Each goal has specific targets to be achieved over the next 15 years.
Circular Economy: In a circular economy, economic activity builds and rebuilds overall system health. The concept recognises the importance of the economy needing to work effectively at all scales – for large and small businesses, for organisations and individuals, globally and locally. More information here.
Doughnut Economics: Humanity’s 21st century challenge is to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet. The Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries is a playfully serious approach to framing that challenge, and it acts as a compass for human progress this century. More information here.
What will the training entail?
The first strand of this programme will begin with a residential course taking place from the 31st March to 3rd April 2020 at Hawkwood College, Stroud.
Adapted from Julie’s Bicycle’s highly-rated one-week intensive Creative Climate Leadership programme, this short course will combine the development of skills with existing experience in environmental leadership focused on the Cohort organisations’ role as conveners and peer support champions.
How many people from my organisation can attend the training?
This will initially be limited to one participant per individual Accelerator organisation and two participants per Accelerator consortium. It is up to the consortium members to decide who among them will attend the training and how the knowledge/insights would be transferred to the other organisations in the consortium.
We are limiting total training numbers to ensure a format for the three days that will enable maximum participation. Subject to the final make-up of the cohort (number of individual organisations vs consortiums, and size of consortiums) we may be able to be flexible with the numbers above.
What will the expert support entail?
Julie’s Bicycle will work with each Cohort organisation to find a mentor whose experience and expertise can enable them to achieve their ambitions and projects. Julie’s Bicycle will draw on their extensive network of expert associates and peers in the environmental sector to match people to skilled mentors who, aside from mentoring, will bring added value in new networks and opportunities.
Can I speak to someone at Julie’s Bicycle about shaping my proposal and whether this programme is right for us?
The application deadline for Cohort 1 has passed, and all successful organisations should have received some form of contact from one of the Julie’s Bicycle team. Hopefully, we will have designed a straightforward questionnaire for organisations to submit their proposals. We have broken it into short, specific questions to simplify the process, but if after trying to answer these you still have doubts on whether this programme fits your organisations’ plans, you can always get in touch with us on support@juliesbicycle.com and we will do our best to help solve your questions.
When will selected organisations be notified?
Selected organisations will be notified towards the end of November 2019 and will be given seven days to accept their space in the Accelerator programme. A public announcement of Cohort 2 participants will take place in January 2020.
Who is going to be assessing the proposals submitted?
Julie’s Bicycle will confidentially review and assess all the proposals submitted.
What kind of projects is the programme looking for?
We’d like to see projects or ideas that seek innovative solutions or approaches to environmental issues and related challenges. The scope for this programme is wide and we will be looking at everything from touring & production models, to artists & audience engagement to design and supply chains to income generation and governance.
We’d like to see projects that aim at pushing the boundaries and disrupting existing models. Some examples of innovation projects (not part of the Accelerator programme) already developed in the sector are:
Classics for a New Climate
The Young Vic Theatre has run two productions under its ‘Classics for a New Climate’ banner, created to push forward thinking about how theatre productions could be approached sustainably, and working with Julie’s Bicycle to provide training and quantify impact. Alongside energy efficiency and transport initiatives, a particular focus was put on the physical materials of the shows, from design to end-of-life. For the first production, After Miss Julie, most of the props were sourced from previous shows, sourced locally from markets, or made from secondhand or recycled material. The costumes were refashioned from vintage clothing or 1940s fabric found in local markets. For the second production, La Musica, 50% of the set (predominantly plywood) was recycled from another Young Vic production. A key focus was on local sourcing, with associated distances and journey times 75% lower than for other Young Vic productions of a similar scale. After the production, 80% of the wood used for the production was recycled and 15% reused, 90% of the steel was recycled and 10% reused.
Shambala Festival
Shambala Festival is now completely free from disposable plastics. They have achieved this using a multi-faceted approach that tackled plastic bottles, cups and serveware; banning the sale of bottled drinks, working with the charity FRANK Water to provide free water refill points, selling stainless steel reusable bottles, selling reusable bamboo coffee cups, only providing reusable plastic cups at the bars with a £1 deposit and making all serveware 100% compostable.
Roundhouse has built a new office block, using contractors that specialise in buildings that are innovative, efficient to construct and operate, and most importantly, sustainable. The offices are made from 71 upcycled shipping containers, halving construction time and using far less energy to build. Roof-top solar panels provide renewable energy for the building, with the aim to generate 38% of the site’s electricity this way. The system is also designed to be thermally efficient (double glazing, sunshades, insulation) and all lighting is provided by LEDs.
Exeter Phoenix
Arts venue Exeter Phoenix installed solar panels on its Studio 74 cinema in late 2015. These have produced around 11,000 kWh of onsite renewable energy. Since then, a further PV system consisting of 54 panels has been added to create a solar-powered auditorium, made possible through the Naturesave Trust and the Postcode Local Trust. LED lighting was installed throughout the building through a loan from Exeter Community Energy (ECoE). Exeter Community Energy is a social enterprise that enables local people to take ownership of renewable and energy saving projects in Exeter. The LED lighting is expected to lower Exeter Phoenix’ environmental impact by 38.12 tonnes of CO2 per year.
As a cultural hub on the Strand, Somerset House aims to embed sustainability across organisation. Shortlisted in 2016 for an Efficient Building Award, a new combined cooling, heating and power plant now produces around 63% of all electricity at Somerset House. The 2016 Utopia Festival incorporated sustainability throughout a year of creative programming looking at imagination and possibilities.
Skipping Rocks Lab
Skipping Rocks Lab develops sustainable packaging products, using natural materials with a low environmental impact. Their first product ‘Ooho!’ is an edible water bottle made from seaweed.
BBC to ban single-use plastics
After the TV series, Blue Planet II highlighted the scale of sea pollution, the BBC is to ban single-use plastics by 2020. By the end of this year, they will ban all plastic cups and cutlery, followed by plastic containers by 2019.
Christopher Raeburn – REMADE Studio
Fashion designer Christopher Raeburn focuses his design around the three principles of REMADE, REDUCED, and RECYCLED. He reworks surplus materials and products into new limited edition designs, and seeks out sustainable materials and green technologies to incorporate recycled fabrics and fibres. His studio, the REMADE Studio, the old Burberry Textile factory in Hackney, hosts a range of workshops and open studio days for the local community as well as more advanced workshops in which attendees are invited to design and create their own pieces.
Albert supports the UK production and broadcast industry’s transition to environmental sustainability. In order to get a much better deal for renewable energy tariffs, Albert decided to create and Energy Basket called The Creative Energy Project. As a number of arts organisations have moved to the same REGO certified energy provider in the form of an energy basket, they have reduced the cost of that energy by effectively bulk buying it from Good Energy.
In 2015, 50,000 Litres of urine were collected on-site at music festival Roskilde. This was processed into fertiliser for malting barley, which in turn was brewed into 60,000 bottles of ‘Pisner’ beer by Danish brewery Norrebro Bryghus. Denmark’s Agriculture and Food Council says that using human waste as a fertiliser on such a scale is new. The urine collected at Roskilde replaced the animal fertilizers or factory-made nutrients that would more commonly be used and captured the nutrients in the urine that would have otherwise been lost. http://beercycling.lf.dk/
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We teach skills not drills.
Alex Kerfoot
It’s a pleasure to work with Justin. I have learnt how passionate he is about coaching but I also learnt how intelligent he is. He has the ability to translate a comprehensive understanding of biomechanics into the sport of hockey in order to train efficient, applicable movements. As opposed to some coaches who I have worked with in the past, Justin has a purpose and a reason behind every movement he teaches. His innovative training philosophy is designed to mimic in-game scenarios, which means the skills you learn at Kaivo are directly transferrable to your on-ice performance. I am really looking forward to continue working with Justin because I think he can help take my game to the next level!
Adam Gaudette
I’ve had the opportunity to skate with Justin. I took away so much from the training. Justin teaches little things that you can adjust and change your game enormously. His philosophy on small, quick movements allow you to be more efficient and deceptive on defenders. I’m looking forward to continue working with Justin!
Justin has helped open my eyes to the detailed part of my game throughout our training. Working on details from cut backs to puck protection to quicker puck handling and body fakes have been super effective for me to translate to in-game situations. I've been impressed at his overall view of the game and of how he studies the game. Justin has perfected his on-ice movements and is able to teach them with detail. I'm very excited to continue working with him!
Justin Rai is the founder of Kaivo Hockey. He grew up in the lower mainland playing for the North Shore Winter Club for the majority of his minor hockey. He began his junior hockey career playing Junior B for the Richmond Sockeyes. He played the next 3 seasons in Junior A for the Prince George Spruce Kings in the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL). Through his playing career in the BCHL he earned a scholarship to an NCAA Division 1 Hockey East school, the University of Maine. The prestigious Maine hockey program consists of alumni such as Paul Kariya, Ben Hutton, Ben Bishop, Gustav Nyqvist, Devin Shore and Scott Darling.
Jonathan Philley is the Head of Strength/Conditioning and a Head On Ice Skills Coach for Kaivo Hockey. He began his junior hockey career playing Junior B for the Mission City Outlaws and eventually the Aldergrove Kodiaks (PJHL). Following Junior B, Jonathan travelled east to play Junior A hockey for the Dryden Ice Dogs where he would finish his junior career. Through his time in Dryden he earned a scholarship to play at the college level in St. Louis, Missouri (NCAA) where he received awards in both academics and athletics while pursuing his degree in Biomedical Physiology and Health Science. Jonathan is currently an ACE certified Health Coach and Personal Trainer, providing high-performance development programs for his clients both on the ice and off the ice.
Biomechanics of Skating
Explosive Skating
The biomechanics behind edge work and skating efficiency is often misunderstood, giving a misleading message to skaters. Kaivo Hockey detects deficiencies in edge placement after each stride or crossover, allowing the player to transition into another stride or perform a skill move with fluidity. Elite NHL players are able to explode into minimal gaps in the defence because they are in control of their movements at all times and do not need to waste time recovering from microscopic deficiencies. Kaivo Hockey shines light on the biomechanical movements of hockey which allow the player to become a more efficient and more explosive skater.
Deceptive Stick Handling
Puck placement
Elite stickhandler’s are able to operate their hands at high speeds while having the puck under full control – this is the concept that is widely understood. What these stickhandler’s also posses is the ability to portray the puck as though it is in a reachable position for the defender to commit to, before controlling it to another location. Puck placement is the key ingredient elite stickhandler’s use to have the defender at their mercy. They use strategic movements of the puck to move the defender to the area they want. This concept creates deception. Kaivo Hockey teaches these situations in a practice environment, giving skaters game-like situations in which they can proper practice their deception and puck placement. Quick, smooth puck placement movements are more beneficial than choppy stick handling.
Hockey IQ
How to use skills in a game
Some of the best players to ever play the game do not necessarily have the most elite overall skill set in terms of speed, shooting and stick handling. Hockey IQ is a general term used to describe these players greatness. For players growing and developing into their potential, understanding which skill to use in a specific game situation is essential to the success of the move. As players grow to play in Juniors and/or NCAA, the difference between players who earn space are the players who are deceptive stickhandler’s but also know which skill to use in what situation. Kaivo Hockey teaches technique but also expresses when the skill is most effective for the player to operate the movement without hesitation in a game situation. Hockey IQ is a misunderstood term, yet arguably the most important skill.
``I have coached Justin since he was around 9 years old and enjoyed every year. Justin was always one of the most skilled and well prepared players that I have coached. What set Justin apart was that he always wanted to learn and he would practice it. I remember telling Justin something and the next practice he would be the first player on the ice trying to perfect a move or a shot.This along with his skill is what set Justin apart from most players.”
13 NHL Seasons
Vancouver Canuck Alumni
BC Hockey Hall of Fame
OHL Rookie Goal record (81)
Vancouver Canucks Hat-Trick Record (10)
``Justin is always the last player on the ice putting the extra time and effort into the small details of the game. Stickhandling, passing, shooting - Justin approaches the finer points of hockey with meticulous attention to detail. While he's naturally talented, it's his determined approach to the skill aspect of the game that makes him such an effective teacher. Justin knows the value of hard work more than anything, and it shows in his dedication to coaching and working with the future stars of our game.``
Sven Butenschon
University of British Columbia Head Coach
9 year NHL career- including Vancouver Canucks
2010 Vancouver Olympic- Team Germany
17 year professional career
``Justin Rai was a key piece of our team for three seasons. His skill set, ability to think the game at an elite level, hard work and determination were what allowed him to excel on our team and in the British Columbia Hockey League. His commitment to getting better everyday is what set him apart and allowed him to become one of the most dynamic players in our league. Justin's off season commitment was also extraordinary as he always returned bigger, stronger and faster after each off season.”
Mike Hawes
General Manager of the Prince George Spruce Kings- Junior A BCHL
“As a player, Justin had an elite skill set and was always looking for ways to improve. His love of the game and thirst for finding new ways to get better, made him the talent that he was.”
Ben Guite
NCAA DIVISION 1 Hockey East – University of Maine Assistant Coach—Head Scout
5 year NHL career- 13 professional seasons
“I had the pleasure of playing with Justin for a year. First off, he is an unbelievable person. Justin has one of the best skills sets I have been able to see firsthand in my career. During our season together I watched him do certain things with the puck and deceive players constantly. Justin would always work on his skill after practice with all kinds of drills that would set him apart from everyone else. He was an awesome guy to play with and learn from.”
Cam Brown
NCAA University of Maine Captain
Professional hockey player in the Calgary Flames System
“Justin is by far the most talented player I have ever played with. He has a tremendous skill set that allows him to dominate with the puck. If he can’t beat you with his hands or his feet, he’ll beat you with his mind. His ability to process the game at high speed is extraordinary.
Some would say Justin is a natural talent, but I know first hand how hard he has worked to hone his craft. Hours and hours spent training to take his game to the next level. Beyond that, Justin is a terrific human and a pleasure to work with.”
Richmond Sockeyes Assistant Coach- Junior B
Simon Fraser University Hockey Program Alumni
“Along with being an unreal guy off the ice, Justin's passion and love for the game are a few things that jump out as you start getting to know him. Playing with him for one year he was well liked and respected by guys on the team right from the start. Between his great skating ability, his puck handling ability and hockey IQ, he was able to not only impress his teammates but teach them things along the way throughout the season. Personally I learned a lot from him on and off the ice.”
Nolan Vesey
Toronto Maple Leafs draft pick
NCAA Division 1 Hockey East- University of Maine
``After my first time being on the ice with J.Rai before the start of my freshman year at the University of Maine, I knew Justin was a very gifted and crafty hockey player. Watching some of the moves he would do with the puck was fun to watch and exciting to see first hand. He would always be the first guy I would go to to ask for drills to work on my hands or ask him to stay around after practice to teach me some of his moves. I think everyone should get the opportunity to work with Justin and watch their game grow exponentially.”
Daniel Perez
NCAA Division 1 Player
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“Throughout my hockey career I was fortunate enough to work with many knowledgeable and passionate coaches. Growing up playing minor hockey for Tony Tanti (Vancouver Canucks alumni) at North Shore Winter Club, I was able to understand the intensity required to progress but also the importance of enjoying the game. Enjoying the game and the process of development ignites the fire behind tedious hours of proper practice, leading to players reaching their full potential. Personally, I attained an obsession for the game at a young age. “I had many supporters in my career, so giving back to the game has always been important to me. Kaivo Hockey provides a platform to pass on knowledge to the next generation which can help them achieve their full potential.”
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“Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst”: Focus on Drought Planning at Kansas Graziers Conference
by Jamie Dysart
Whiting, Ks.- “Hope for the best, plan for the worst,” rancher Ted Alexander of Barton County said at the 2013 Kansas Graziers Association’s (KGA) winter conference. About 130 people attended the conference, which was held in Salina on January 19. This year’s theme was: “Back to the Basics of Grazing Management,” but drought was the topic on everyone’s mind.
“Drought is mind consuming; every conversation begins and ends with the weather,” said David Kraft, NRCS state rangeland management specialist. Drought is defined as precipitation less than 75 percent of the average, Kraft said, “The current drought can be traced back to August of 2010.”
Kraft said a person should always manage a pasture in one of three ways to improve the vigor of a plant. First, you are preparing for a drought, second, you are under the influence of drought, or finally you are recovering from a drought.
Kraft gave a set of steps to approach a drought management plan.
Define the ranch or forage enterprise
Define your animal enterprise
Identify the ranch’s risk possibilities and ability to endure those risks: Be aware of the general health and genetics of the livestock; as well as, the health and type of forage they are consuming.
Know trigger dates: Beginning of dormancy usually occurs in October, and then the plants start to grow around April 1st. Seventy percent of rainfall occurs between April and September, said Kraft. Also approximately 70 percent of production of rangeland occurs by July 1st, but that is usually only the midpoint of the grazing seasons, he said. Just remember “plants don’t know what the date on the calendar is,” Kraft said, so these dates may vary from year to year.
Identify decisions to be made when certain conditions present themselves:This step includes possible destocking, culling, early weaning or using a set aside forage resource, if you are in a drought situation.
Write the drought management plan on paper: “Mental models don’t work,” said Kraft. Writing down your plan will make you accountable for your actions, he said.
Finally, Kraft said to change your drought plan every year for optimal performance.
South Central Kansas Rancher Ted Alexander, in his presentation named “Drought Survival 101”, stated his suggestions for drought-proofing a ranch, which include keep records, know your grazing principles, and have positive energy. “Do not wait or hope for rain,” Alexander said. “Try doing what nature would want us to do.”
For record keeping, Alexander has reported the rainfall for Barton County to the National Weather Service since 1986, and with this information he is able to determine the amount of rest his pasture needs. He said on an average year sections of his rangeland only needed to rest for 60 days, but now he has estimated a rest period up to 300 days for his land.
According to Dwayne Rice, NRCS state rangeland management specialist, rest is defined as the absence of grazing animals, while recovery can only take place when the plants are being rested and actively growing.
“Rest is the most important thing,” Alexander said. “We are now looking at our landscapes as communities, how do we contribute to the community?” Alexander likes the flexibility of management intensive grazing (MiG) (emphasis on the ‘management’), because he is able to move the livestock off a section of rangeland as needed.
Dale Strickler, an agronomist for Star Seed Inc., said “rotational grazing often becomes rotational overgrazing.”
Move livestock before you think you need to, one day of overgrazing is equal to one extra week of rest, Strickler said. Knowing when to move livestock off the pasture or rangeland is important to the grasses’ health, and in order to do that task well we must know more about the plants.
Strickler explained that there are three parts of a plant life cycle: vegetative, reproduction and dormant. The vegetative stage has the highest quality of nutrition for an animal. The reproductive stage is lower quality, but the growing points on the plants become elevated and they start to produce seed heads, said Strickler. “MiG has a chance to do harm to the plant during the reproductive stage,” said Strickler.
The dormant stage has the lowest quality of nutrition for the animal, and the plant is in a non-growing period. All the carbohydrates and non-structural protein is moved underground, but the plant becomes very tolerant to defoliation, Strickler said.
In terms of grazing principles, Alexander said on his ranch the average annual rainfall is 21 inches. If the year has rainfall that is less than 80 percent of average, he decreases the stocking rate by 30 percent. If rainfall is 60 percent less than average he suggests decreases stocking rate by 40 to 50 percent. The stocking rate is defined as the area of land allotted to each animal for the grazing period.
Alexander said the “new norm” may be dryer and warmer weather and we must adapt to that “new norm.” “If the worst happens, at least we have a plan,” he said.
To conclude the day, Rice described the different types of grazing systems and how they worked.
Under a continuous grazing plan the livestock can go wherever they want to in the pasture, but the land is only moderately stocked. It takes minimal management practices, but it is difficult for the pasture to have enough rest time, Rice said.
A patch burn grazing system is when the pasture is divided into three sections. Each year a different section is burned, so livestock go to the burned area to graze while another section gets rest, he said. This system does increase animal performance, but does have higher per acre cost of burning, Rice said.
Early intensive grazing means one herd per pasture. The stocking rate is doubled, but cattle are removed around July 15th so the land can get late season rest, Rice said. Switchback grazing is having four pastures for three herds, he said. Pastures are rotated seasonally or annually, said Rice.
MiG or rotational grazing is giving one herd four or more paddocks to graze on; when the grass gets grazed to a certain point the livestock are moved into a different paddock, Rice said. This requires a higher degree of management, but the pasture or rangeland has very long periods of rest.
Finally, there is mob grazing, which refers to short-duration, high-intensity grazing of many cattle on a small area of pasture moved several times a day to new forage.” Rice said, this system uses temporary fences, but does have potential for improving soil quality.
“Any system works well, but all can be abused,” Rice emphasized, “All systems require management.”
“Landscape is the most precious commodity,” summarized rancher Alexander, “ it’s how we manage this together and have a grazing plan that will affect the outcome.”
The Kansas Graziers Association Annual Conference was co-sponsored by the Kansas Rural Center, Kansas Farmers Union, Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition, and Kansas Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Alternative Crops.
Jamie Dysart is a senior in Agriculture Communications at Kansas State University.
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Robots from London
Robots with vertical flywheels
Robots with Bar Spinners
Rapture/Short Circuit
Jarvis Callister
HARDOX & Carbon fiber
Vertical spinner
Shrapnel is a British featherweight robot which competed in the 2018 King of Bots UK International Championships. Entered by Jarvis Callister, it enjoyed a dominant run in the main competition, winning all three of its qualification battles to reach the Top 20, including one where it tore Orpheus apart in a single hit. Shrapnel proceeded to reach the Quarter-Final stage following two more victories over Hell's Angel and Aegis, but was defeated by Calabash Bros after losing the use of its weapon when flipped over by the Chinese entry and couldn't self-right due to a faulty drive speed controller.
Official profile image of Shrapnel
Shrapnel is a four-wheel drive robot armed with a large vertical flywheel, inspired by American combat robot Big Ripto. The flywheel is made out of 10mm HARDOX 500, and features an asymmetrical design with a single tooth. Much of Shrapnel’s chassis and armor is made out of 4mm thick HARDOX 500, with 2mm carbon fiber base and top panels.[1]
Ahead of the 2018 UK International Championships, Shrapnel received a few extra additions, including a new front wedge and an extra set of interchangeable flywheel and bar spinner weapons.[2] A few of these additions went unused, including the bar spinner, a pair of optional HDPE forks, and a large front wedgelet attached immediately in front of the flywheel, which was held to the floor using magnets.[3]
SHRAPNEL - RESULTS
Rumble vs. Crabsolutely Clawful, Aegis Mk II Won via knockout (4 points)
Rumble vs. Calabash Bros, Strix Won via Judges’ decision (3 points)
Rumble vs. Orpheus, Nigel Barrage Won via knockout (4 points)
Knockout vs. Hell's Angel Won
Round of 12 vs. Aegis Won
Quarter-Final vs. Calabash Bros Lost
↑ http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/threads/13737-shrapnel-feather-vert-spinner
↑ http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/threads/13737-shrapnel-feather-vert-spinner/page3
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TIFF Diary: Day 9
By Friday, that sore throat has turned into a tired, woozy but thankfully not feverish feeling and a stubborn cough. At least the throat’s not sore anymore. It might be a sign that I’m going to cycle through all the symptoms quickly and feel right as rain in two days. Could happen, right?
Friday starts out with some non-TIFF work, a meeting with Tim Reis and our post-production friends at The Royal about some post work that we’re hoping to do on Tim’s debut feature, Bad Blood, later this fall. It’s a super fun film that I’m very excited to be helping out on, and I think that a bit of polish on the sound and colour will really take the quality and style up several notches. Plus, any excuse to bring Tim back to Toronto, because he’s basically our favourite dude.
After an extended lunch/meeting about Bad Blood I had to race downtown to another meeting, this one about a TV series that I can’t talk about yet but am very excited to be part of in whatever capacity. I made the dumb decision of taking a taxi from John and Wellington down to the back (west) side of the ACC, which should only have been a 15 minute walk but turned into a nearly 30 minute drive because of some insane traffic. Is it always like that downtown, or what? Am I just blissfully unaware of the nightmare that drivers live every day in this town? Anyway, I should have walked, it was nuts. I arrived late but the meeting went smoothly anyway and I’m very excited about the potential of this project.
early Bad Blood poster
I went back to the hotel for a nap, where I proceeded to grumble and groan a lot about whether I would be able to make it to Midnight Madness (I can get a bit babyish when I am sick, lemme tell ya) but in the end, I rallied for one important reason: Friday was Moms at Midnight day!!! Colin’s folks came into town (they’re staying with mine, because our families are the cutest ever) and the two moms came out to see Takashi Miike’s completely zany Yakuza Apocalypse. They loved Why Don’t You Play in Hell? two years ago so we figured Japanese insanity might be their thing?
First Bad Blood then this! I’m having a frog-themed day?
Went for an all-curing bowl of pre-midnight ramen at Ramen Raijin (on Gerrard at Yonge, so about as close to the Ryerson as humanly possible) before enjoying some serious yakuza/mom time. I was about as tired as I’ve been all festival, but definitely glad I went. Plus, the moms got to meet Miike! He looks like a disembodied head in this picture, but trust me, up close, his outfit was extreeeeeemely cool.
moms’n’Miike
Sometimes, the only thing that really helps at the end of a grumbly sick day is moms. ❤
Posted by Katarina G in Festival Diaries, Film, Toronto Tags: Takashi Miike, TIFF 2015, TIFF Diary, Yakuza Apocalypse
TIFF 2015: Day 8
Back to movies! On Thursday I managed to see three films and have a nice dinner and make it to bed early.
I woke up a bit tired and unwilling to invest too much emotional or intellectual energy into anything I was seeing, because I was already feeling drained and in need of some feel good pick me ups.
Sandra and Billy Bob
First up, I saw Our Brand Is Crisis, the Sandra Bullock number loosely based on a real story of an American political consultant who helps a Bolivian presidential candidate win the election. There’s actually a 2005 documentary (same title) which tells the story of the real strategists and the real election, which I’d love to check out because the fictionalized version left me feeling a bit weird. I can’t put my finger on what was wrong with it (I think the ending, which is both jarringly hopeful and too-easily-redemptive, had something to do with it) but there was something about the largely comedic tone of the film’s first half that just didn’t gel with the truly depressing outcome. I was really hopeful since it’s directed by David Gordon Green, who has more hits than misses books, but … I’m not sure about this one, and I’d love to read up on the actual situation.
Next up I saw Mr. Right, which is basically a really dumb story about a kooky girl falling in love with a charming hitman. And vice versa. It doesn’t matter how dumb it is though, because Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell are so incredibly charming, charismatic, likeable and delightful to watch that the film ends up being greater than the sum of its parts, and very funny and enjoyable.
My final film of the day might end up being one of my faves of the fest. Basically the feel-good film of the year, Born to Dance is a dance film from New Zealand that manages to be incredibly fun and fresh in spite of having pretty much the same plot as every other dance film since the dawn of cinema. There are a few key differences that made it stand out, mind you: it’s about Maori teens, it features an openly gay character (who is a total badass and not at all a stereotype), plus, actually, an entire gay dance crew who totally rock out in the film’s big dance championships finale. The lead actor is so adorable and the film is such a heart-warmer that I honestly can’t recommend it highly enough.
these New Zealanders can really dance
Post-movies, I met up with Colin and a friend (who also happens to be our L.A. lawyer – we need one of those cuz we fancy) for dinner near the Royal, so that we could give him a tour of the cinema and enjoy some downtime in a non-TIFF neighbourhood. It felt so nice. I miss home!
I came back to the hotel, ready to go to bed early and get a great night’s rest, and then felt the familiar and unwelcome tickle of a sore throat. The dread TIFF cold! HOW COULD I POSSIBLY BE GETTING IT WHEN I HAVE TAKEN IT SO EASY!? Seems unfair, doesn’t it? I haven’t even been hung over once!
Posted by Katarina G in Festival Diaries, Film, Toronto Tags: Born to Dance, Mr. Right, Our Brand is Crisis, TIFF 2015, TIFF Diary
Another one-film day full of non-TIFF responsibilities. Another hard-to-reschedule-and-inconveniently-timed appointment, another screening of an even more new & improved version of Birdland, and in between an extravagant lunch at the CN Tower’s rotating 360 restaurant with a big crew of Midnight Madness directors.
The food was delicious, the company was lovely, I got a chance to meet the 100 directors of Southbound and the lovely gents who directed Lace Crater and The Girl in the Photographs, both of which I was really charmed by. I never go up to the top of the CN Tower (and why would any Torontonian, unless they’re entertaining out of towner friends or family from abroad?) but it’s a lovely reminder of just how green this city is. The director of Der Nachtmahr said that he had no idea Toronto was so “science fiction”. I wasn’t sure exactly what he meant, but he clearly meant it as a compliment.
how cute is this Southbound crew?
I really needed to take it easy on Wednesday because I hadn’t gotten nearly enough sleep the night before, so instead of trying to push myself to see any films or get anything done, I just relaxed until dinner time and then snagged rare private time with Colin, who had a two hour window before Midnight to eat with me and have a drink with the Southbound crew, who were doing it right at the Imperial Pub (aka the only decent place to drink that’s a stone’s throw from from the Ryerson (and by “decent” I mean “a great dive”)).
I’d seen a rough version of Southbound during Colin’s programming process and really liked it, especially the all-the-stories-are-actually-connected structure of it (disconnected stories are the one thing that often turns me off of anthologies, though there are lots that I do like, V/H/S (by the same producing team) included). But, even though I’d seen it before, seeing it again with all the effects done, and a great score and really effectively scary sound design, I have to admit I was legitimately scared several times. Kudos to Roxanne Benjamin, the only female director in Midnight Madness 2015, for not only directing a segment but also producing this joint. What a badass babe.
A highly successful one movie day. They don’t all have to be endurance tests, y’know?
Posted by Katarina G in Festival Diaries, Film, Toronto Tags: Southbound, TIFF 2015, TIFF Diary
Tuesday was the first of two “reminder: you aren’t out of town, you actually live here and have responsibilities” days in a row. In the morning I had a doctor’s appointment (don’t worry, I’m fine, it was just one of those things I booked ages ago and would have a hard time rescheduling, so …), followed by a screening of the latest cut of Birdland for some of our post production partners, so that we could hammer out a bit of a schedule for getting our post done in time to submit to some early 2016 festivals.
It was great to see the cut on the big screen again, because it gave me just enough perspective and distance to have a few new thoughts about how it’s going (somehow seeing it on a computer doesn’t always have that same effect). I had to let those thoughts percolate for a while and hop back downtown to meet up with Tim Reis (our favourite Atlantan, who Colin & I met and first got involved with when he produced The Demon’s Rook a few years back) and another producer friend to talk about where Tim’s directorial debut is at. It’s at “very close to finished”, is where, but we’re looking for a bit of help to tie up the last of the loose ends before this baby is ready to hit the festival and sales circuits.
After a pleasant lunch / meeting / catch-up session with Tim & co (during which we got some great advice on how to proceed with finishing the film), I met up with an NYC-based friend / colleague who works at Kickstarter. We were mostly meeting up to catch up, chat movies and hang out (because he’s a lovely guy, why else?), but Colin was able to make a rare appearance in between intros & Q&As and we managed to also talk a tiny bit of business. Over drinks and onion rings poutine, of course.
aaaaaaaaaaagh!
By the end of this marathon day of meetings I was honestly ready to collapse into a heap, but instead I hoofed it over to the Imperial Pub at Dundas and Victoria for drinks with the entire crew from the telekinesis-revenge film The Mind’s Eye, before the premiere of their film. Pro-tip for anyone attending Midnight Madness: the Imperial may be an out of the way dive, but upstairs at that bar is where you’ll find all the coolest Midnight Madness filmmakers and guests drinking before the show.
I hadn’t seen a single film yet and I was so stoked to finally see the finished version of The Mind’s Eye that I didn’t even need a coffee to stay alert throughout. So many laughs and cheers! Such good times. And honestly, those guys are the MVPs of the fest, for not only attending their own film but also every other film in the Midnight section (and then some) for the whole fest. I love it when filmmakers support each other. It is the cutest and most heartwarming and makes this whole genre film scene feel like a real, international community (which, at the best of times, it is). ❤
look at these cuties
Posted by Katarina G in Festival Diaries, Film, Toronto Tags: Birdland, producing, The Mind's Eye, TIFF 2015, TIFF Diary
I did something really fun on Monday. I saw three public screenings in a row. The public audience at TIFF is great for a lot of reasons. They tend to be quite respectful of the films (sure, sometimes someone talks or pulls a cell phone out but it’s about 95% less likely to happen than it would on an average Friday night at the Cineplex). They’re genuinely interested in the films, so they’re attentive, and they’re fun to chat with in the lineup before the movie or as you shuffle out afterwards. People gasp, cheer, cry, laugh and express their enjoyment (something I often miss with P&I crowds, especially when it comes to funny movies). Sure, Q&As always have the potential to be cringe-worthy when pompous cinephiles insist on sharing their comments-not-questions or when people ask dumb or inappropriate things, but for the most part public audiences are a lot more fun and invigorating.
Aside / note to Q&A question askers: I know I’ve said this before, but I will say it again. Don’t ask filmmakers what their budget was. It might seem like a pretty innocuous question to you and it’s only natural to be genuinely interested in what level of resources were required to make something you’re really impressed by, but there are lots of reasons why filmmakers will never actually give you a straight answer to this question. If their film is looking for distribution, they don’t want to reveal what it cost to make to potential buyers because it could affect the price that they’re offered. They could be devaluing their film by admitting it was cheaper than it looks, for example. Don’t put people in the awkward position of having to politely sidestep this question. Just don’t ask. You might be able to get filmmakers to reveal this info in private but a public Q&A just isn’t the place.
the men of Chevalier
Anyway. First up was Chevalier, by Attenberg director Athina Rachel Tsangari. It’s a funny and slightly absurd but enormously enjoyable dismantling of the male ego. The story centres around a group of friends on a diving vacation who invent a game intended to determine who among them is “the best” (at everything). Which is the kind of game that will inevitably chip away at their confidence, their friendships, and their sense of self. Great stuff from Greece!
this guy from The Ardennes was so scary in the film it was a genuine shock to see him look like a normal handsome actor in the Q&A
Next up I saw what is probably my favourite crime drama of the year (or longer), The Ardennes. In the setup, a takes the fall for a crime that was committed by him, his girlfriend and his brother. Cut to four years later, he’s getting out of jail and his brother and (sort-of-ex) girlfriend have to contend with his return. A simple and not wildly original setup that unfurls into a really smart, unexpected and very dark story. I can’t recommend this one highly enough. It’s “top ten of 2015” material, easily.
this one’s Schneider
Last but certainly not least, I saw Schneider vs. Bax, the latest by Borgman director Alex van Warmerdam. The story (about two hitmen who have been hired to kill each other) is less strange than Borgman, but is definitely darkly comic and mildly absurd, which I think is the director’s steez.
It was an overwhelmingly successful movie-watching day, made even better by the fact that I could then trudge off to the hotel and be in bed long before the midnight show let out. A sane and healthy TIFF continues, at least in my neck of the woods.
Posted by Katarina G in Festival Diaries, Film, Toronto Tags: Chevalier, Schneider vs Bax, The Ardennes, The Girl in the Photographs, TIFF 2015, TIFF Diary
The fourth day of TIFF was a great exercise in going with the flow. I had a plan (see some Canadian art films, go to the premiere of one of Colin’s Vanguard titles). In the end, nothing really turned out the way I planned, but I had a great day.
It started with a delicious team brunch with the folks from Shudder, which, if you know me or Colin personally, you might know is a super cool new horror VOD service we’ve been involved with for a while (here’s an Entertainment Weekly interview with Colin explaining it). We caught up and talked future plans, and then, full of delicious breakfast, I waddled off to my first screening and promptly decided that I was too full and tired to watch anything other than a Hollywood movie.
But first, I stopped into the Industry Centre, where I ran into Joe and Josh (of the illustrious Mind’s Eye crew), who had just picked up tickets to that evening’s screening of Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, which I thought was completely sold out. Obviously, I ran as fast as my legs could carry me to the industry box office and snagged myself one.
And then, off to the movies.
Robert Redford does a good Dan Rather
I chose whatever Hollywood thing was starting next, which turned out to be Truth, the Cate Blanchett & Robert Redford film about the G.W. Bush story that ultimately led to Dan Rather’s departure from the CBS anchor’s seat. For a big-budget, Hollywood, awards-bait-y film, it was really quite good. The performances were excellent, that almost goes without saying. But the real reason I liked the film is that its message was actually something I agree with (and think is kinda subversive for such a mainstream film). The point this film is making is all about the corporatization and Hollywoodization of news, the fact that news has stopped being a public good and has become a profit-generating entertainment, which leads to fewer hard-hitting stories or investigative journalists tracking down leads that are critical of the government (and increasingly: corporate) powers that be.
Hiddleston!
After the film I made my way to the Midnight Madness cocktail, where I spent two hours catching up with an assortment of friends and scarfing down sliders and tiny grilled cheese sandwiches, before racing off to the Elgin for my one and only “fancy screening” experience of the fest – High-Rise! It was a combined public and press/industry screening, which made for a curious vibe in the theatre – 20% industry types (some of whom left partway through, probably because they care about parties more than about movies), 40% Ben Wheatley mega-fans, and 40% members of the general public who wanted to see something high-profile at TIFF and/or are rabid Tom Hiddleston fans. Sometimes, it can be genuinely delightful to watch films with people who don’t know what they’re in for. High-Rise (which, for the record, I really enjoyed – as Colin puts it, “it’s like a ’70s The Devils, with Luke Evans channeling Oliver Reed”) elicited some truly shocked gasps and squeals from people who probably did not realize what kind of film their favourite Marvel heartthrob was starring in.
Ethan Embry in The Devil’s Candy – schwing!
The High-Rise screening, because it was in TIFF’s new Platform section, was followed by an extended Q&A with Ben Wheatley and his cast, and didn’t get out until midnight, so I sadly missed the premiere of The Devil’s Candy (by Sean Byrne, the director of previous Midnight Madness Audience Choice award winner and all-around brilliant film, The Loved Ones), which I loved and really wanted to see on the big screen. Con: missing a great film. Pro: getting to bed two hours earlier.
Posted by Katarina G in Festival Diaries, Film, Toronto Tags: Ben Wheatley, High-Rise, Sean Byrne, The Devil's Candy, TIFF 2015, TIFF Diary, Truth
The benefits of getting a good night’s sleep are many, but in my particular TIFF-centric case, the main benefit is having enough energy to actually go to a whole bunch of movies the next day – Saturday, the peak of opening weekend insanity.
Skipping the undoubtedly great screening of Baskin on Saturday was a bummer, but it allowed me to have a four-movie day on Saturday. No complaints!
three boys from Thunder Bay
I started the day with the Canadian-est film I’ll probably see in a good long while, the delightfully charming coming of age story Sleeping Giant, about a trio of boys whose families spend the summer at the same lake near Thunder Bay. The film totally nails the small town Ontario vibe, the Canadian summer cottage vibe, the being-an-awkward-teenager vibe, and manages to be both hilarious and really touching all at once. The film (which played Critics Week in Cannes before TIFF) actually elicited a round of applause from the press & industry audience I was sitting with. That’s how good it is.
Next up I went to one of my most hotly anticipated titles of the year, Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster. I sat with a couple of pals who weren’t familiar with his previous films, so before I say anything about The Lobster let me deliver this PSA for anyone who enjoys strange, smart, surreal movies:
***Run, don’t walk, to your nearest international cinema outlet and get yourself a copy of Dogtooth to watch immediately! In fact, just watch this trailer RIGHT NOW.***
His next film, Alps, is also pretty great.
Anyway, The Lobster delivered the what-the-fuck-ness that I’ve come to expect from Lanthimos, but it was a bit too long, almost like two movies sandwiched into one in a way that only half worked. I loved the first half. With a few tweaks, that could have been the whole film.
absolute junk
My goal after The Lobster was to see a highly recommended Lebanese film, Very Big Shot, but I didn’t make it in time, so I opted for the next available thing because I saw a friend in line and wanted to hang out with him for a bit. Usually, when I gamble on films that I know nothing about at TIFF, I come out a winner. Unfortunately, that clearly doesn’t apply to Hollywood films starring Shia LeBeouf. I doubt that I’ll see a worse film than Man Down this year. it was sincerely one of the cheapest, most emotionally manipulative, needlessly convoluted films full of lame and predictable “twists” that I’ve seen in a very long time. I often see films that I feel “meh” about. I rarely see films that fill me with rage that burns with the fire of a thousand suns (see: Titus, Requiem for a Dream). But honestly, those other films are all masterpieces compared to this piece of garbage.
I managed to pack those three films into my day so efficiently that I actually had time to relax for a while and even eat some dinner with Colin before Hardcore, which was the sort of insane movie that would have kept me awake even if I hadn’t had a great night’s sleep. It’s like a POV version of Crank, but even crazier. That Sharlto Copley is pretty hilarious!
One of many Sharlto Copleys in Hardcore
Posted by Katarina G in Festival Diaries, Film, Toronto Tags: Hardcore, Man Down, Sleeping Giant, The Lobster, TIFF 2015, TIFF Diary
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December 06, 2019: GALLERY UPDATE: Detective Pikachu
November 29, 2019: GALLERY UPDATE: 'The Society' Season 1
November 27, 2019: GALLERY UPDATE: Ben is Back
November 19, 2019: GALLERY UPDATE: Events & Photo Sessions
Starring Kathryn Newton
November 08, 2018 admin 0 comments 12
Kathryn for The Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen Talent 2018
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Newton made her TV debut at age 4 with a series-regular role on All My Children. “I’ve been auditioning my whole life,” says the actress, who grew up alongside a golf course in Coral Gables, Florida. She reached the next level, however, by playing a string of roles as the onscreen daughters to Reese Witherspoon in Big Little Lies, Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Leslie Mann in Blockers and Julia Roberts in Ben Is Back. Upcoming for Newton: Legendary’s Detective Pikachu and Netflix’s female-led Lord of the Flies-esque drama series.
IF I WEREN’T AN ACTOR, I WOULD BE … “A professional golfer.”
I HOPE I DON’T GET TYPECAST AS … “The ‘blond girl’ in high school. I actually see myself as quite a poodle, but I’m always cast as these grungy characters.”
TRUE STORY I’D LOVE TO SEE MADE INTO A MOVIE “I find the experience of doing agility with my dog fascinating. I could make a great mumblecore film about it.”
I’D LOVE TO HAVE STARRED IN … Alice in Wonderland
THE PERSON I’M DYING TO WORK WITH “Wes Anderson and Tim Burton. Something kind of characterized.”
read more on THR site by clicking here
Photo Sessions > 2018 > Session 13
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Grand Opening of Starring Kathryn Newton
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I am thrilled to finally welcome you to Starring Kathryn Newton, the newest fansite dedicated to the fantastic Kathryn Newton. After months of hard work, I’m extremely excited to finally share it with everyone. The site is already incredibly large and I strongly hope that will satisfy all the needs Kathryn fans could have when it comes to content, news, and photos! Our gallery currently has over 25, 000 photos, pages with information on Kathryn and her career (some written by me!).
I hope you enjoy the site as much as I’ve enjoyed building it! To finish in a nice note, I need to give a big thanks to some people that helped me with content, Haylie, Shannon, and Elle, and also, I need to thank Sara who not only helped with content as well but also heard all my little freaks in wanting everything to be perfect.
Make sure to bookmark our site and visit for all the latest news related to Kathryn and her career, I plan on posting missing photos and pages in the coming weeks! I hope you enjoy looking around the site. Make sure to follow us on twitter so you’ll receive all the latest updates on your timeline!
‘Ben is Back’ Trailer
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The first trailer for Kathryn’s upcoming movie Ben is Back is here and it’s heartbreaking. The movie also stars Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges, amongst others, and is directed by Peter Hedges. Below you can watch the trailer and read the summary for the film.
19 year-old Ben Burns (Lucas Hedges) unexpectedly returns home to his family’s suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben’s mother, Holly (Julia Roberts), is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother’s undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe. Ben is Back also stars Courtney B. Vance (“The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”) and Kathryn Newton (Lady Bird).
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Activists, Designers and Actors Share Their First Time Voting
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*You can see Kathryn on minute 3
You’ve read the statistics. You’ve seen the headlines. You know these midterm elections are potentially more important than any before. And yet, maybe you still haven’t registered to vote. Maybe these 13 celebrities can convince you?
In partnership with When We All Vote, ELLE.com gathered all your favorite people, from Michelle Obama to Lin-Manuel Miranda to Dove Cameron, to say why they think it’s essential to get out and make your vote count.
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Kathryn To Star In Netflix Drama Series
Kathryn Newton has been tapped to star in a new Netflix drama series written by Chris Keyser (Tyrant, The Last Tycoon) and directed by Marc Webb (The Amazing Spiderman franchise, 500 Days of Summer).
Described as a modern take on Lord of the Flies, the untitled Chris Keyser drama follows a group of teenagers who are mysteriously transported to a facsimile of their wealthy New England town, left without any trace of their parents. As they struggle to figure out what has happened to them and how to get home, they must establish order and form alliances if they want to survive.
These teens will party, panic, grieve, fight, and ultimately have to decide how to deal with the unthinkable all under the lead of Allie, played by Newton. Allie, is at the center of leading this mysterious teenage world although always living in her older sister, Kim’s shadow. Allie inspires her sister to take charge of the group and supports her during the ensuing confrontation.
Webb and Keyser are set as executive producers. Production is set to get underway in September outside of Boston.
Untitled (TBD) as Unknown
After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent.
The Society (2020) as Allie Pressman
When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
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DURAL SINUS THROMBOSIS ENDOVASCULAR THERAPY
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DURAL SINUS THROMBOSIS ENDOVASCULAR THERAPY Frank P. K. Hsu, MD, PhD, Todd Kuether, MD, Gary Nesbit, MD, and Stanley L. Barnwell, MD, PhD
Dural sinus thrombosis (DST) is a term that encompasses thrombosis of cortical and deep cerebral veins and the dural sinuses. The thrombosis of the cerebral venous system prevents normal drainage of blood and thus causes venous hypertension, increased intracranial pressure, and subsequent hemorrhagic infarction. Because it is a relatively rare problem and its presentation is often nonspecific, the diagnosis is frequently delayed or missed. Although there is a lack of true incidence and prevalence data, it is agreed that with the advent of better diagnostic tools, the diagnosis is made with increasing frequency. Antithrombotic agents and systemic thrombolytic agents have been used with variable success. Recent advances in endovascular techniques allow local infusion of thrombolytic agents in the treatment of DST with success. VENOUS ANATOMY
The cerebral venous system is composed of three distinct parts: the superficial cerebral veins, the deep Galenic system, and the dural sinuses. The dural sinuses collectively drain both the cortical veins and the deep Galenic system. The dural sinuses then, in turn, drain into the internal jugular veins. The dural sinuses include the superior sagittal, inferior sagittal, cavernous, straight, superior and inferior, petrosal, transverse (also
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known as lateral), and sigmoid sinuses. The dural venous sinuses carry venous blood in channels formed by splits in the dura mater over the cerebral convexity, in the falx, and in the cerebellar tentorium. The superior sagittal sinus plays a critical role in venous outflow from the cerebral hemispheres through the cerebral veins, particularly in its distal one third. The lateral sinuses lie near the mastoid air cells and they are at risk for infectious infiltration and thrombosis. The proximity of the cavernous sinus and the collateralization with the ophthalmic and sphenoparietal veins allows infection to be transmitted easily from the face; this infection is the leading cause of venous thrombosis in the cavernous sinus. There are numerous anatomic variations that may play a role in the interpretation of diagnostic studies. The right lateral sinus frequently dominates the drainage over the left side.* Anatomic variations in the lateral dural sinuses such as this one have implications in making the diagnosis of DST. An isolated lack of filling of the transverse portion of the left lateral sinus is thus more suggestive of congenital hypoplasia than thrombosis. EPIDEMIOLOGY
Although the exact incidence of DST is unknown, it is agreed that this is a relatively rare disease. Most of the estimates are derived from autopsy studies. Ehler and Courville” found 16 cases of superior sagittal sinus thrombosis in a series of 12,500 autopsies. Barnett and Hyland3 found only 39 noninfective DSTs in 20 years that were proved by autopsy. Later autopsy studies reported the incidence to be from a low of 0.039’0’~to a high of 9% in 182 adult cases.24 DST affects all age groups and sexes, with a strong preponderance of women between the ages of 20 and 40.8 This higher incidence may reflect the fact that women in that age group are more likely to use oral contraceptives, be pregnant, and undergo puerperium. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
Virchow’s triad states that thrombosis is caused by endothelial injury, hypercoagulable state, and stasis of blood. The thrombus acutely formed in the venous system is a red t h r o m b ~ sIt . ~may progressively organize to form fibrous tissues, sometimes showing recanalization. Vascular injury caused by trauma causes local endothelial damage and altered hemodynamics. Trauma, neoplasms, and other mass lesions can cause vascular compression and altered hemodynamics, resulting in DST.20The association of dural arteriovenous fistulas and DST has been recognizedP This is thought to be related to the altered hemodynamics induced by the dural arteriovenous fistula. Hypercoagulable states are associated with numerous conditions
contributing to DST. A hypercoagulable state may be present in a patient who has lupus, Behcet's disease, inflammatory bowel diseases (i.e., ulcerative colitis), Wegener 's granulomatosis, and Cogan's syndr~me.'~, 16, 19, 28 Infection is thought to cause DST by alteration of the coagulation cascade. Hypercoagulable states have been described in infections. Infection used to be a major causal factor for DST; however, with contemporary antibiotic therapy, this has become less common, and antibiotics remain the primary therapy for this form of DST. Ameri and Bousser* reported that 8.2% of DST cases are caused by infection. Despite a long list of possible causes for DST, causal factors still remained undetermined in many cases. Some investigators estimated that as high as 40% of cases were idiopathic? In summary, DST may be associated with numerous conditions. Most conditions involve alterations in physical properties of vasculature, chemical properties of blood coagulation, or hemodynamic properties of blood flow. Extensive workup is usually required for an identification of an underlying cause for DST. CLINICAL PRESENTATION
The clinical presentation of DST varies widely. Headache is the most common and often the earliest symptom. Nausea, vomiting, and visual changes are other symptoms experienced by patients. Increased intracranial pressure is thought to be the underlying cause for these symptoms. Focal neurologic deficits are often caused by venous hypertension and cerebral infarction or hemorrhage. The most common focal neurologic finding is hemiparesis. Aphasia, hemianopsia, or hemisensory deficits may also occur. Seizure is another common symptom. The mode of onset is also quite variable. Although acute presentation can mimic a cerebrovascular accident or tumor, subacute presentations are more common. In 70% of the cases, the patient's complaints are present for days to weeks. The symptoms can be fluctuating or progressive in onset. DIAGNOSIS
Because the clinical presentation is widely variable and symptoms are usually nonspecific, the key to making the diagnosis of DST is a high level of suspicion. Diagnostic modalities currently utilized for the confirmation of DST include computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, and cerebral angiography. CT is usually the initial diagnostic test performed on patients who are suspected to have DST or who present with acute mental deterioration.2, Sometimes a dense triangle, also known as the delta sign, may be seen as the thrombus occupies the superior sagittal sinus, or a clot may also be seen in a transverse sinus (Figs. 1 and 2). Unfortu-
Figure 1. Nonenhanced CT scan demonstrating hyperdense signal, signifying clot in right transverse sinus caused by thrombosis (arrowheads).
nately, the false-negative rate for CT diagnosis of DST is high. It has been estimated to be as high as 25Y0.~~ MR imaging has recently been the chosen modality for detecting DST.26,27 With MR angiography, the arterial and venous phases can be examined concomitantly or separately. MR angiography or MR venography is now the best method for detecting DST. MR imaging offers certain advantages: the thrombus can be directly visualized, and the cerebral lesions, such as edema and hemorrhagic infarct, can be detected. Cerebra1 angiography used to be the standard in making the diagnosis of DST. It is only indicated now when MR imaging diagnosis is uncertain or neuroradiologic intervention is desired. The typical finding is nonvisualization of all or part of a sinus during the venous phase of an angiogram (Fig. 3). THERAPY
Therapy for patients who have DST should be directed at treating the underlying causative process, symptoms secondary to elevated intracranial process, symptoms secondary to elevated intracranial pressure, and seizures or focal deficits caused by cerebral edema and infarction. If an underlying cause is found, then it should be treated. If an
Figure 2. Nonenhanced CT scan demonstrating a delta sign: triangular hyperdensity signifying clot in superior sagittal sinus (arrowheads).
Figure 3. Lateral view of venous phase of right internal carotid arteriograrn demonstrating thrombosis of superior sagittal, transverse, and sigmoid sinuses (arrows).
infectious process is identified, then wide-spectrum antibiotics or drainage of purulent collections should be used in the treatment.2, Cerebral perfusion pressure should be kept at an adequate level to prevent secondary insults. Seizures are frequently part of the symptomatology and should be treated with anticonvulsant medications. HEPARIN THERAPY
The natural course of DST is variable, and the guidelines directing the treatment are controversial. Antithrombotic agents, specifically heparin, have been used with good results. Unfortunately, there is scant data on the true efficacy of heparin treatment. Scattered reports on the successful use of heparin in treating DST exist in the literature.6,23 There is only one prospective, randomized, controlled study in the therapy of DST. Einhaupl et all2 published the results of a small series of 20 patients in 1991. The efficacy of systemic heparin was compared with placebo in a double-blinded randomized study. The group of patients who received heparin had better outcome at 3 days, 8 days, and 3 months. Despite the risk for intracerebral hemorrhage, the benefit of using systemic heparin has been examined in these large retrospective studies and in a small prospective study. The current trend is to use heparin. The goal for heparin anticoagulation is to maintain an activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) 2 to 2.5 times the normal aPTT. Once the patient's condition has stabilized, then warfarin therapy is initiated. The therapeutic International Normalized Ratio (INR) is kept between 2 and 3. THROMBOLYTICS
Thrombolytic agents, such as streptokinase, urokinase, and tissue plasminogen activator, have been used systemically in small experimental series. Unfortunately, only anecdotal reports are available in the clinical management of thrombolytic agents.', lo, 14, 15, 25 The major risks of the systemic administration of thrombolytic agents include major gastrointestinal hemorrhage or intracranial hemorrhage. It is suggested that local infusion of thrombolytic agents by means of interventional neuroradiologic techniques can minimize the major complications from systemic thrombolysis. ENDOVASCULAR THERAPY FOR DURAL SINUS THROMBOSIS
Recent advances in endovascular techniques allow selective delivery of thrombolytic agents to dural sinuses where thrombosis occurs. The method for local infusion of thrombolytic agents offers advantages, including minimization of system effects of the thrombolytic agents and
improved local clot lysis with higher concentration of thrombolytic agents. Historically, Scott et alZ1reported the first case of local fibrinolytic therapy. A young patient who had DST and a rapidly deteriorating clinical course was treated with midline craniotomy and direct catheterization of the superior sagittal sinus. Higashida et all7proposed a more aggressive modality of therapy for patients who have clinically deteriorating DST. The investigators successfully performed direct puncture of the superior sagittal sinus in a neonate and infusion of urokinase, resulting in clot lysis over 12 hours. This was the first reported attempt at locally infused thrombolytic treatment for DST without any craniotomy. Barnwell et a14 reported direct endovascular thrombolytic therapy in three patients. All three patients had a dural arteriovenous fistula and were treated by a transjugular direct infusion of urokinase. The period of continuous infusion for thrombolysis ranged between 4 and 10 days. In two patients, the clinical signs and symptoms improved with angiographic evidence of clot lysis and dural sinus recanalization. Angiography indicated that one patient had a partial resolution of a clot in the torcular Herophili and the transverse sinus but showed no clinical improvement. These preliminary results were encouraging and suggested that transjugular local infusion of thrombolytic agents can be an effective treatment for symptomatic, thrombosed dural sinuses. Tsai et alZ5reported five cases of successful transfemoral direct thrombolytic treatment. Smith et a P reported seven cases from their experience. Seven patients who had symptomatic DST and who failed a trial of medical treatment were treated with direct infusion of urokinase into the thrombosed sinus. Patients received urokinase doses ranging from 20,000 to 150,000 U/h with a mean infusion time of 163 hours (range 88 to 24 hours). Patency of the affect dural sinus was achieved with antegrade flow in all patients. Six patients either improved neurologically over their prethrombolysis state or were healthy after thrombolysis. The only complications were an infected femoral access site and transient hematuria. Horowitz et all8 added 12 more cases to the literature. They reported that despite the presence of preinfusion infarct in five patients, four of which were hemorrhagic, they incurred no major therapeutic morbidity. Functional sinus patency was achieved in 11 of 12 patients, with their only true failure in an individual who had symptoms of at least 2 months’ duration. Good to excellent clinical outcome was achieved in 10 of 11patients. Barnwell et a15reported an additional six cases of local thrombolytic therapy. Three patients did well and made a complete recovery. Two of these patients had extensive thrombosis and presented with a more severe clinical picture and made full functional recoveries. One patient, who had extensive DST that had been observed but not treated for 3 weeks, had minimal improvement on the posttherapy angiogram and became blind during the course of therapy from optic neuropathy, probably secondary to optic-nerve damage from increased intracranial pressure. Two patients, who had extensive DST, bilateral parietal lobe infarcts, and coma had no improvement and died, both from intractable hypertension and stroke.
TECHNIQUE FOR THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY
Before initiating thrombolytic therapy, a noncontrast CT scan of the head is obtained to assess the presence of an intracerebral hemorrhage. Although the presence of hemorrhage is not an absolute contraindication to thrombolytics, it must be known and its presence taken into consideration, particularly in regard to dosing the thrombolytics. Once the patient is determined to be a candidate for thrombolysis, they are immediately taken to the interventional suite to undergo emergent cerebral angiography to characterize the extent of thrombosis before a treatment regimen is instituted. The initial step is to gain venous access to the occluded sinus. Typically, a large 6 or 7F guide catheter is navigated into the jugular bulb by means of a transfemoral venous approach (Fig. 4). The thrombolytic catheter is then chosen. For DST the infusion microcatheter is chosen on the basis of its maneuverability and its ability to deliver the agent over a large surface area of thrombus. For this reason, an end-hole catheter is not preferred because the lytic agent only contacts the clot at the end of the catheter. Instead, multiported sidehole catheters, such as the Softstream Tracker-18 (Target Therapeutics, Fremont, CA), are navigated into the sinus so that the majority of ports are in contact with the thrombus. The catheter is navigated over a microguidewire that has good torqueability and stiffness to allow the guidewire to be passed into the occluded segments of the sinus. The critical thing is to deliver the urokinase to as much of the thrombosed sinus as possible. As the
Figure 4. Lateral skull radiograph showing endovascular catheter located in superior sagittal sinus (arrowheads). It is advanced by a femoral venous percutaneous approach through jugular vein, sigmoid and transverse sinuses, and torcula into anterior to middlethird of superior sagittal sinus.
Figure 5. Lateral view of venous phase of right internal carotid arteriogram demonstrating recanalizationof dural sinus after local thrombolytic therapy.
thrombolysis proceeds, the catheter may need repositioning, or a different catheter may be required for accessing other areas of the sinus. Once the microcatheter has been positioned, a dural sinus venogram is obtained to demonstrate the extent and location of the thrombus. The urokinase infusion is then started. The urokinase regiment utilized is based on our experience in comparison with the limited amount of published data. Local administration of low-dose urokinase generally avoids systemic, hemorrhagic effects caused by high-dose intravenous delivery, although the appropriate dose has not yet been well defined. It has been suggested that infusion rates of less than 100,000 U/h are associated with low risk of hemorrhage from systemic fibrinolysis, and that has also been our experience. Infusion of less than 100,000 U of urokinase in the dural sinus of an adult probably will not cause an increase in brain or peripheral bleeding, even if bleeding were present. Once the venogram demonstrates good patency of the sinus, a cerebral arteriogram is performed to evaluate the venous drainage from the brain and the rate of runoff through the previously occluded sinus. The microcatheter is then removed, and the patient is maintained on heparin (Fig. 5). CONCLUSIONS
DST is a relatively rare entity. Its clinical presentation and outcome have a wide spectrum. A high level of suspicion is necessary for clinicians to make the accurate diagnosis. Recent advances in diagnostic and
therapeutic modalities have changed the detection and the prognosis of this entity. MR imaging and MRV have been utilized as standards in diagnostic modalities. Although nonconclusive, antithrombotic agents have been used with success to treat this condition. More recently, interventional neuroradiologic techniques have been utilized for local delivery of thrombolytic agents with initial success. Endovascular techniques offer local delivery of thrombolytic agents; hence superior clot lysis is achieved in the venous sinuses selectively and systemic morbidity from hemorrhagic complications are minimized. The endovascular local thrombolysis techniques will undoubtedly be employed increasingly in the future as the treatment choice for DST. References 1. Alexander LF, Yamamoto Y, et a1 Efficacy of tissue plasminogen activator in the lysis of thrombosis of the cerebral venous sinus. Neurosurgery 26:559-564, 1990 2. Ameri A, Bousser M-G: Cerebral venous thrombosis. Neurol Clin 10(1):87-111, 1992 3. Barnett HJM, Hyland HH: Non-infective intracranial venous thrombosis. Brain 76:36, 1953 4. Barnwell SL, Higashida RT, et al: Direct endovascular thrombolytic therapy for dural sinus thrombosis. Neurosurgery 28:135142, 1991 5. Barnwell SL, Nesbit GM, et al: Local thrombolytic therapy for cerebrovascular disease: Current Oregon Health Sciences University experience (July 1991 through April 1995). J Vasc Interv Radio1 6378S-825, 1995 6. Bousser MG, Chiras J, et al: Cerebral venous thrombosis. A review of 38 cases. Stroke 16~199-213,1985 7. Bousser MG, Russell RR: Cerebral venous thrombosis. London, Academic Press, 1997, pp 385389 8. Canhi C, Barinagarrementeria F Cerebral venous thrombosis associated with pregnancy and puerperium: Review of 67 cases. Stroke 241880-1884, 1993 9. Chiras J, Bousser MG, et al: CT in cerebral thrombophlebitis. Neuroradiology 27145, 1985 10. Di Rocco C, Iannelli A, et a1 Heparin-urokinase treatment in aseptic dural sinus thrombosis. Arch Neurol 38:431, 1981 11. Ehler H, Courville CB: Thrombosis of internal cerebral veins in infancy and childhood. Review of literature and report of five cases. J Pediatr 8:600, 1936 12. Einhaupl KM, Villringer A, et a1 Heparin treatment in sinus venous thrombosis. Lancet 338:597-600, 1991 13. Erez N, Babuna C, et a1 Low incidence of thromboembolic disease. An evaluation of obstetric and gynecologic patients in Istanbul. Obstet Gynecol 27:833, 1966 14. Fletcher AP, Alkjaersig N, et al: A pilot study of urokinase therapy in cerebral infarction. Stroke 7135, 1976 15. Gilbert PC, Welch WC, et al: Isolated deep cerebral venous thrombosis treated by direct endovascular thrombolysis. Surg Neurol48:261-266, 1997 16. Hammans SR, Ginsberg L Superior sagittal sinus thrombosis in Wegener’s granuloma. tosis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 52:287, 1989 17. Higashida RT, Helmer E, et al: Direct thrombolytic therapy for superior sagittal sinus thrombosis. ANJR 10:54-S6, 1989 18. Horowitz M, Purdy P, et al: Treatment of dural sinus thrombosis using selective catheterization and urokinase. Ann Neurol 38:58-67, 1995 19. Johns DR Cerebrovascular complications of inflammatory bowel disease. Am J Gastroenterol 86:367, 1991 20. Kuether T, ONeill 0, et al: Endovascular treatment of traumatic dural sinus thrombosis: Case report. Neurosurgery 42:1163-1167, 1998
21. Scott JA, Pascizzi RM, et al: Treatment of dural sinus thrombosis with local urokinase infusion. J Neurosurg 68:284-287, 1988 22. Smith TP, Higashida RT, et a1 Treatment of dural sinus thrombosis by urokinase infusion. AJNR 15:801-807, 1994 23. Standfield FR: Puerperal cerebral thrombophlebitis treated by heparin. BMJ 4:436,1942 24. Towbin A: The syndrome of latent cerebral venous thrombosis. Stroke 4:419, 1973 25. Tsai FY, Higashida RT, et al: Acute thrombosis of the intracranial dural sinus: Direct thrombolytic therapy. AJNR 13:1137-1141, 1992 26. Tsai RY, Wang AM, et al: MR staging of acute dural sinus thrombosis: Correlation with venous pressure measurements and implications for treatment and prognosis. AJNR 16:1021-1029, 1995 27. Tsuruda JS, Shimakawa A, et al: Dural sinus occlusion: Evaluation with phase-sensitive gradient-echo MR imaging. AJNR 12:481488, 1991 28. Wechsler B, Vidailhet M, et al: Cerebral venous thrombosis in Behcet’s disease: Clinical study and long-term followup of 25 cases. Neurology 42614, 1992
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Subject: The OASIS Customer Information Quality (CIQ) TC has closed
From: Chet Ensign <chet.ensign@oasis-open.org>
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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:55:35 -0400
As the CIQ TC has been inactive for sometime, is without a chair, and as no objections have been raised to its closing, as TC Administrator I now close the OASIS Customer Information Quality (CIQ) TC.
The CIQ TC was launched in December, 2000 to develop global, generic standards for managing party-centric information (of which 'customer' is one type).
The TC produced two OASIS Committee Specifications: "Customer Information Quality Specifications Version 3.0. Name (xNL), Address (xAL), Name and Address (xNAL) and Party (xPIL)" in October 2008 and "Customer Information Quality Party Relationships (xPRL) Specification Version 3.0" in November 2009. These specifications were designed to represent party data (e.g. name and address)in forms that are vendor-, application-, industry- and technology-neutral as well as open and global.
The CIQ TC specifications has been widely adopted in commercial and governmental applications and has been incorporated into other standards as well. For example, within OASIS, Election Markup Language, the Emergency Management specifications, DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) and the Cyber Threat Intelligence specifications. Google Maps uses the OASIS CIQ Specifications as part of its KML (Keyhole Markup Language), as does CityGML (both now "Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)" Standards). More information on adoption can be found on the TC's home page.
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This would be ‘standard’ mid-winter cold, but it’s only November
Dan Zarrow
This penguin would be pleased by New Jersey's frigid forecast.
On November 13th, warm air was asked to remove himself from New Jersey. That request came from Mother Nature. Deep down, warmth knew she was right, but he also knew that some day he would return...
To all the New Jerseyans clamoring "Hey, it's not that cold!" — you're absolutely right! If it were mid-January, the dead of winter, this would be a totally typical day and night for the Garden State. But it's mid-November. We've already broken records, with temperatures holding about 20 to 25 degrees below seasonal normals.
Let's do some weather math. We're waking up to temperatures in the upper teens and 20s across the state Wednesday morning. The breeze is definitely noticeable, sustained at 10 to 15 mph with occasional gusts to 20+ mph. That leads to a wind chill ("feels like" or "apparent" temperature) in the single digits and lower teens. As I've said before, it's not quite "dangerous" cold, but it's definitely unseasonable and uncomfortable.
Thermometers will only top out in the lower to mid 30s Wednesday afternoon. If you experience above-freezing temperatures, it will only be for a few hours at the most. At least it will be sunny and dry, and the breeze will die down through the afternoon.
The unseasonable cold continues into Wednesday night, with lows dipping into the upper teens to lower 20s. Winds will be calm, and clouds will be on the increase.
Thursday will be slightly warmer, with temps rising into the mid 40s. Definitely still jacket weather. Skies will turn mostly cloudy, but it should be another dry day.
Models are showing a trio of storm systems will slide along the East Coast in the medium-range forecast. At the moment, the impacts of all three look to be minimal — some clouds, some showers, and northerly winds keeping cool air on top of New Jersey.
Timing for #2 and #3 is a challenge at this point. GFS says the three systems will pass by the Jersey Shore on Friday, Sunday, and Tuesday. Euro shows Friday, Monday, and Wednesday. Obviously, which solution plays out directly impacts what our weather forecast looks like. Luckily, we still have some time for guidance to come into better agreement.
So showers will flirt with southern and coastal New Jersey on Friday. Meanwhile, to the north and west, we should see some pops of sunshine (especially late-day). With high temperatures near 50 degrees, we're only talking about raindrops, not snowflakes.
As winds become northeasterly Saturday morning, we face another cooldown. High temperatures this weekend will only reach about 40 degrees.
If you don't mind the chill, Saturday won't be too bad overall. We'll see a slow transition from sun to clouds, and our weather should stay dry.
On Sunday, coastal showers will be possible once again. (Again, see my note about coastal storm timing difficulties above.)
This is the time of year when we're always scanning the horizon for our next weathermaker. There are no substantial snow storms in the long-range forecast. But I don't see any warmth on the way either — temperatures may be stuck below-normal through most of November.
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There are 350 scholarship winners, and lots of them just screamed out (or someone did)
Youngest scholarship winner is a 12-year-old girl from New York, Cook says
over 1,000 apple engineers are here to answer questions
"For the first time, not only live streaming the keynote but live streaming over 30 sessions of the conference as well," Cook says
Young scholarship winners cheering loudly to my left.
"Brandon Moss of the Cleveland Indians hit 100th career home run last week," Cook says.
"You could imagine how much that ball would mean to him to have it. Turns out it was hit into the Indians bullpen. Teammates decided to play a trick. Held it for ransom"
Cleveland Indians players...only dream of Apple products.
They asked for a bunch of Apple devices, including watches and iPads.
"Brandon would have had to raid an Apple store to get the ball back. That didn't seem right to us, so we're going to pay the ransom," Cook says. He actually has the baseball.
"We're giving the ball to Brandon and we're going to give everything his teammates asked for so everyone is happy," Cook says.
Comedy, baseball...what next?
Native apps to Apple Watch...new version of Watch OS, too.
"We've got a jampacked morning for you. We're starting with OS X ... Next we've got a great update for iOS, the world's most advanced mobile operating system. And today we're bringing native apps to the watch with a new version of the Watch OS, which gives the developers even more time to create even greater apps for the watch that will change the world."
There are a lot of OS improvements I'd like to see, not just apps.
"There's a lot here. I'm going to dispense with my normal updates other than to tell you everything's going great. I'd like to bring out my friend and colleague, Craig Federighi."
HUGE cheers for Craig. He's very well liked and is pretty funny.
Federighi is seen as a rising star at Apple, and he oversees both iOS and Mac OS X software. He took on the role in late 2012 after Cook fired iOS head Scott Forstall following Apple’s Maps fiasco. Federighi dominated WWDC this year, spending more time on stage than everyone else, combined. He always wears a bright blue shirt and once jokingly referred to himself -- in a nod to his silver hair -- as “Hair Force One.”
"Our current release Yosemite is a big, bold release. ... The adoption rate for Yosemite is just incredible. Over 55% of active Mac users."
He shows chart that only 7% of people are using latest Windows.
"Yosemite has the fastest adoption rate for any PC operating system ever," Federighi says
"Wanted to build on Yosemite. The only great question was what to call it."
OS X time. Touting how OS X has fastest adoption rate of any PC operating system
m (free helps, as of late)
"In typical California fashion, they started with a project kickoff meeting (shows image of people in a hot tub).
I know nothing about California geography, so the "OS X name" suspense is lost on me.
OS X El Capitan is the name of the new OS
El Capitan. You commenters noticed it correctly!
Made big enhancements to the apps you use most and we've made some real great advancements on how you manage windows on the system, Federighi says.
"First task is finding the curser. Do that little shake wheel I do and there it is, comes out to greet you."
"Brought other great features to the system."
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Jai Narain Vyas University, India
Ph.D. in Zoology from Banaras Hindu University, India
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Shiwanand, A. and G. Tripathi, 2012. Impact of ammonia on biochemical profiles of a catfish. J. Applied Biosci., 38: 68-72.
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Tripathi, G., R. Deora and J.C. Tiwari, 2011. Interacting effects of fauna and litter diversity on soil enrichment in tropical desertic land of Jodhpur. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. India B, 81: 103-114.
Tripathi, G., R. Deora and G. Singh, 2011. Fauna-Mediated Litter Decomposition as an Indicator of soil Health in Indian Desert. In: Advances in Environment Research, Daniels, J.A. (Ed.). Vol. 17, Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York, USA.
Tripathi, G., N. Kachhwaha, I. Dabi and N. Bandooni, 2011. Temperature-dependent alterations in metabolic enzymes and proteins of three ecophysiologically different species of earthworms. Braz. Arch. Biol. Technol., 54: 769-776.
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Tripathi, G. and N. Bandooni, 2011. Impact of alphamethrin on antioxidant defense (catalase) and protein profile of a catfish. Environmentalist, 31: 54-58.
Tripathi, G. and N. Bandooni, 2011. Are sex and reproductive phase-specific changes in catalase and protein profile of a freshwater catfish season-dependent? Anim. Biol. J., 2: 65-76.
Tripathi, G. and J. Shasmal, 2011. Fluvalinate-induced changes in antioxidant and anaerobic enzymes and other biochemical constituents in a freshwater catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 11: 137-142.
Tripathi, G. and J. Shasmal, 2011. Concentration related responses of chlorpyriphos in antioxidant, anaerobic and protein synthesizing machinery of the freshwater fish, Heteropneustes fossilis. Pestic. Biochem. Physiol., 99: 215-220.
Singh, H. and G. Tripathi, 2011. Effects of cortisol on lactate dehydrogenase, catalase and protein of the snake headed fish, Channa punctatus. Natl. J. Life Sci., 8: 113-116.
Singh, H. and G. Tripathi, 2011. Effects of T3 on lactate dehydrogenase, catalase and protein of the freshwater fish, Channa punctatus. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 11: 227-231.
Singh, H. and G. Tripathi, 2011. Ascorbic acid associated changes in some biochemical parameters of the freshwater fish, Channa punctatus. J. Applied Biosci., 37: 137-141.
Bandooni, N. and G. Tripathi, 2011. Interacting effects of pyrethroid and hormone on catalase and protein for toxicity amelioration in the freshwater fish, Clarias batrachus. Environmentalist, 31: 364-368.
Bandooni, N. and G. Tripathi, 2011. Effects of T3 on catalase and protein profile of a catfish. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 11: 167-170.
Tripathi, G., R. Deora and J. Singh, 2010. Biological, chemical and biochemical dynamics during litter decomposition at different depths in arable soil. J. Ecolol. Nat. Environ., 2: 38-51.
Tripathi, G., R. Deora and B.M. Sharma, 2010. Diversity and habitat structure of spider fauna in Indian Thar desert. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. India B, 80: 296-307.
Tripathi, G., N. Kachhwaha, I. Dabi and N. Bandooni, 2010. Habitat-associated changes in some metabolic dehydrogenases and proteins of tropical earthworms. Environmentalist, 30: 171-177.
Tripathi, G., N. Kachhwaha and I. Dabi, 2010. Ecophysiological category based toxicological responses in metabolism of earthworms: Impact of a pyrethroidal insecticide. Pestic. Biochem. Physiol., 98: 333-341.
Tripathi, G., N. Kachhwaha and I. Dabi, 2010. Comparative studies on carbofuran-induced changes in some cytoplasmic and mitochondrial enzymes and proteins of epigeic, anecic and endogeic earthworms. Pestic. Biochem. Physiol., 96: 30-35.
Tripathi, G., N. Kachhwaha and I. Dabi, 2010. Alterations in aerobic and anaerobic dehydrogenases and protein levels of three tropical earthworm species with respect to different seasons. Environmentalist, 30: 163-170.
Tripathi, G., J. Shasmal, H. Singh and N. Bandooni, 2010. Pesticide, Hormone and Antioxidant Associated Changes in Metabolism of Fish. In: Advances in Environmental Biology, Tripathi, G., B.M. Sharma and T.K. Ghosh (Eds.). Oxford Book Company, Jaipur, India, pp: 242-266.
Tripathi, G., H. Singh and N. Bandooni, 2010. Alphamethrin toxicity to air breathing freshwater fishes. J. Exp. Zool. India, 13: 1-6.
Tripathi, G., B.M. Sharma, J. Shasmal and U.K. Tomar, 2010. Transposable Elements. In: Cellular and Biochemical Sciences, Tripathi, G. (Ed.). I.K. International Publishing House, New Delhi, India, pp: 472-492.
Tripathi, G., B.M. Sharma and T.K. Ghosh, 2010. Advances in Enviornmental Biology. Oxford Book Company, Jaipur, India, ISBN-13: 9789380179773, Pages: 311.
Tripathi, G., 2010. Enzyme Kinetics and Inhibition. In: Cellular and Biochemical Sciences, Tripathi, G. (Ed.). I.K. International Publishing House, New Delhi, India, pp: 125-145.
Tripathi, G., 2010. Cellular and Biochemical Sciences. I.K. International Publishing House, New Delhi, India, ISBN-13: 9788188237852, Pages: 1392.
Tripathi, G., 2010. Catalytic Molecules in Cell. In: Cellular and Biochemical Sciences, Tripathi, G. (Ed.). I.K. International Publishing House, New Delhi, India, pp: 95-124.
Tripathi, G. and R. Deora, 2010. Fauna-assisted litter decomposition and its impact on chemical and biological health of Balanites aegyptica based silvipasture system. Sci. Temper, 1: 27-38.
Tripathi, G. and J. Shasmal, 2010. Reparation of chlorpyrifos-induced impairment by thyroxine and vitamin C in fish. Ecotoxicol. Environ. Saf., 73: 1397-1401.
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Tripathi, G. and A. Shiwanand, 2010. Toxicity bioassay of ammonia in an air-breathing freshwater catfish, Clarias batrachus. J. Exp. Zool. India, 13: 393-397.
Tripathi, G. and A. Shiwanand, 2010. Ammonia - associated and its withdrawal - dependent changes in glutamate dehydrogenases of catfish. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 10: 87-92.
Bhide, M. and G. Tripathi, 2010. Electrophoresis. In: Cellular and Biochemical Sciences, Tripathi, G. (Ed.). I.K. International Publishing House, New Delhi, India, pp: 1193-1208.
Tripathi, G., S. Ram, B.M. Sharma and G. Singh, 2009. Fauna-associated changes in soil biochemical properties beneath isolated trees in a desert pastureland of India and their importance in soil restoration. Environmentalist, 29: 318-329.
Tripathi, G., N. Kachhwaha and I. Dabi, 2009. Impact of phorate on malate dehydrogenases, lactate dehydrogenase and proteins of epigeic, anecic and endogeic earthworms. Pestic. Biochem. Physiol., 95: 100-105.
Tripathi, G., J. Shasmal, N. Bandooni and H. Singh, 2009. Ascorbic acid induced changes in some biochemical constituents of a freshwater fish. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 9: 129-133.
Tripathi, G., J. Shasmal, H. Singh and N. Bandooni, 2009. Effects of thiouracil and thyroxine on enzymes, nucleotide and protein profile of a catfish. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 9: 123-127.
Tripathi, G., R. Deora and O.N. Singh, 2008. Soil Biota Associated Litter Decomposition and Nutrient Enrichment. In: Ecology Research Trends, Diaz, L. and M. Perez (Eds.). Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York, USA., pp: 85-121.
Tripathi, G., R. Deora and B.M. Sharma, 2008. Diversity and abundance of beetles in silvipasture lands of Thar Desert. Tiger Paper, 35: 1-7.
Tripathi, G., N. Kachwaha, I. Dabi and J. Singh, 2008. Earthworms as Bioengineers. In: Ecology Research Trend, Diaz, L. and M. Perez (Eds.). Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York, USA., pp: 1-84.
Tripathi, G., N. Kachhwaha and I. Dabi, 2008. General properties of cytoplasmic malate dehydrogenase from some tropical earthworms. J. Exp. Zool. India, 11: 29-32.
Tripathi, G. and N. Kachhwaha, 2008. Studies on mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase from three ecologically different earthworm species. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 8: 67-70.
Bhardwaj, P., M. Sharma and G. Tripathi, 2008. Chemical changes during vermicomposting (Eisenia fetida) of cow-dung. J. Exp. Zool. India, 11: 445-448.
Tripathi, G., R. Kumari and B.M. Sharma, 2007. Mesofaunal biodiversity and its importance in Thar desert. J. Environ. Biol., 28: 503-515.
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Tripathi, G., R. Deora and B.M. Sharma, 2007. Faunal species diversity in silvipasture system. J. Exp. Zool. India, 10: 69-73.
Tripathi, G., R. Deora and B.M. Sharma, 2007. Community and habitat structure of termites and centipedes of arid land. J. Exp. Zool. India, 10: 291-300.
Tripathi, G., J.S. Chauhan, J. Shasmal and N. Kachhwaha, 2007. Cypermethrin induced changes in protein content of brain, liver and skeletal muscle of a freshwater fish. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 7: 313-316.
Tripathi, G., I. Dabi and N. Kachhwaha, 2007. Kinetic properties of lactate dehydrogenase from three species of earthworms. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 7: 325-330.
Tripathi, G., 2007. Horizons of Resource Biology. In: Frontiers in Ecology Research, Antonello, S.D. (Ed.). Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York, USA., pp: 271-280.
Tripathi, G., R. Kumari, R. Deora and B.M. Sharma, 2006. Structure and function of faunal community in tropical pedoecosystem J. Exp. Zool. India, 9: 1-26.
Tripathi, G., P. Verma and Y.K. Jaiswal, 2006. Temperature-induced enzymatic alterations in Clarias batrachus. J. Applied Biosci., 32: 81-86.
Tripathi, G., H. Singh and J. Shasmal, 2006. Effect of cypermethrin on protein content of gill, heart and kidney of a catfish, Clarias batrachus. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 6: 123-127.
Tripathi, G., 2006. Resource biology and geneconomics. Everyman's Sci., 41: 322-327.
Tripathi, G., 2006. Biochemical effects of pesticidal stress in non-target species. J. Applied Zool. Res., 16: 245-249.
Tripathi, G. and P. Verma, 2006. Mechanism of fenvalerate-withdrawal-dependent recovery in metabolism of a catfish, Clarias batrachus. Pestic. Biochem. Physiol., 86: 167-171.
Tripathi, G. and B.M. Sharma, 2006. Interaction of above-and below-ground bioresources for improvement of chemical and biological health of soil. Cientifica, 34: 75-91.
Tripathi, G., S. Ram, B.M. Sharma and G. Singh, 2005. Soil faunal biodiversity and nutrient status in silvopastoral systems of Indian desert. Environ. Conserv., 32: 178-188.
Tripathi, G., R. Kumari and B.M. Sharma, 2005. Association of soil mesofauna with litter decomposition. Cientifica, 33: 148-151.
Tripathi, G., R. Deora and B.M. Sharma, 2005. Soil fauna involved in litter decomposition of arid pedoecosystem. J. Ecophysiol. Occup. Health, 5: 87-92.
Tripathi, G., N. Rathore and N. Kachhwaha, 2005. Cypermethrin-induced changes in density of Golgi complex of a teleost. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 5: 131-135.
Tripathi, G., M. Rawal and N. Kachhwaha, 2005. Effects of cypermethrin on mitochondrial density of selected tissues in fish. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 5: 125-130.
Tripathi, G., B.M. Sharma and R. Deora, 2005. Soil faunal community associated with litter decomposition in summer season. J. Applied Zool. Res., 16: 108-112.
Tripathi, G., B.M. Sharma and J. Singh, 2005. Biodiversity perspectives, accomplishments and impact of pollution on soil faunal resources. J. Applied Biosci., 31: 68-89.
Tripathi, G., A. Gaur and B.M. Sharma, 2005. Temperature related seasonal changes in Golgi complex of brain, heart and intestine of a teleost. J. Environ. Biol., 26: 265-268.
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Tripathi, G., 2005. Metabolic physiology and possible mode of action of pesticides: A recent approach at cellular and biochemical level in fish. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 5: 1-10.
Tripathi, G., 2005. Earthworm: A Tool for Environmental Biotechnology. In: Biotechnology in Environmental Management, Ghosh, T.K., T. Chakrabarti and G. Tripathi (Eds.). APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, India, pp: 142-162.
Tripathi, G. and R. Prasad, 2005. Biodynamics of Below-Ground Animal Resources and Interaction. In: Basic Research and Applications of Mycorrhizae, Podila, G.K. and A. Varma (Eds.). I.K. International, New Delhi, India, pp: 297-325.
Tripathi, G. and P. Bhardwaj, 2005. Management of organic wastes by earthworms, Eisenia fetida and Lampito mauritii in an arid environment. J. Applied Biosci., 31: 150-159.
Tripathi, G. and P. Bhardwaj, 2005. Impact of phorate and carbaryl on the survival and macromolecular contents of the earthworm Lampito mauritii. J. Exp. Zool. India, 8: 45-52.
Tripathi, G. and P. Bhardwaj, 2005. Decomposition of Organic Wastes Using Earthworm Species Eisenia Fetida and Lampito Mauritii. In: Verms and Vermitechnology, Kumar, A. (Ed.). APH Publishing, Dumka, India.
Tripathi, G. and P. Bhardwaj, 2005. Biodiversity of earthworm resources of arid environment. J. Environ. Biol., 26: 61-71.
Tripathi, G. and B.M. Sharma, 2005. Impact of land use practices on faunal abundance, nutrient dynamics and biochemical properties of desert pedoecosystem. Environ. Technol., 26: 1205-1215.
Tripathi, G. and B.M. Sharma, 2005. Effects of of habitats and pesticides on aerobic capacity and survival of soil fauna. Biomed. Environ. Sci., 18: 169-175.
Tripathi, G. and B.M. Sharma, 2005. Biodiversity, Qualitative Composition and Relative Abundance of Soil Fauna in Arid Ecosystem. In: Multipurpose Trees in the Tropics, Tiwari, V.P. and R.L. Srivastava (Eds.). Arid Forest Research Institute, Jodhpur, India, pp: 256-261.
Ghosh, T.K., T. Chakrabarti and G. Tripathi, 2005. Biotechnology for Environmental Management. Vol. 2, APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, India, ISBN-13: 9788176488099.
Ghosh, T.K., T. Chakrabarti and G. Tripathi, 2005. Biotechnology for Environmental Management. Vol. 1, APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, India.
Tripathi, G., P. Bhardwaj and B.M. Sharma, 2004. Effect of fenvalerate on Golgi complex and mitochondria of intestine and liver of a teleost. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 4: 111-116.
Tripathi, G. and P. Verma, 2004. Sex-specific metabolic changes in the annual reproductive cycle of a freshwater catfish. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Part B: Biochem. Mol. Biol., 137: 101-106.
Tripathi, G. and P. Verma, 2004. Scaling effects on metabolism of a teleost. J. Exp. Zool. Part A: Comp. Exp. Biol., 301: 718-726.
Tripathi, G. and P. Verma, 2004. Fenvalerate-induced changes in a catfish, Clarias batrachus: Metabolic enzymes, RNA and protein. Comp. Biochem. Physiol Part C: Toxicol. Pharmacol., 138: 75-79.
Tripathi, G. and P. Verma, 2004. Endosulfan-mediated biochemical changes in the freshwater fish Clarias batrachus. Biomed. Environ. Sci., 17: 47-56.
Tripathi, G. and P. Bhardwaj, 2004. Seasonal changes in population of some selected earthworm species and soil nutrients in cultivated agroecosystem. J. Environ. Biol., 25: 221-226.
Tripathi, G. and P. Bhardwaj, 2004. Impact of earthworm population on nutrient dynamics of different pedoecosystems in desert. Biol. Memor., 30: 86-94.
Tripathi, G. and P. Bhardwaj, 2004. Earthworm diversity and habitat preferences in arid regions of Rajasthan. Zoos' Print J., 19: 1515-1519.
Tripathi, G. and P. Bhardwaj, 2004. Decomposition of kitchen waste amended with cow manure using an epigeic species (Eisenia fetida) and an anecic species (Lampito mauritii). Bioresour. Technol., 92: 215-218.
Tripathi, G. and P. Bhardwaj, 2004. Comparative studies on biomass production, life cycles and composting efficiency of Eisenia fetida (Savigny) and Lampito mauritii (Kinberg). Bioresour. Technol., 92: 275-283.
Suthar, S. and G. Tripathi, 2004. Decomposition of domestic waste by using composting worm, Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinb.). Indian J. Environ. Ecoplan., 8: 411-416.
Kumar, A. and G. Tripathi, 2004. Water Pollution: Assessment and Management. Daya Publishing House, New Delhi, India, ISBN-13: 9788170353386, Pages: 520.
Tripathi, G., S. Ram and B.M. Sharma, 2003. Soil Fauna in Sustainable Management of Agroecosystem. In: Potentials of Living Resources, Tripathi, G. and A. Kumar (Eds.). Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi, India, pp: 584-617.
Tripathi, G., R. Agarwal and B.M. Sharma, 2003. Temperature-related seasonal changes in mitochondria of heart of a teleost. J. Exp. Zool. India, 6: 385-388.
Tripathi, G., P. Bhardwaj and V.B. Lal, 2003. Dynamic Potentials of Earthworm Resources. In: Vermiresource Technology, Tripathi, G. (Ed.). Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi, India, pp: 63-80.
Tripathi, G., 2003. Vermiresource Technology. Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi, India, ISBN-13: 978-8171417179.
Tripathi, G., 2003. Enzyme Biotechnology. Technoscience Publications and ABD Publishers, Jaipur, India, ISBN-13: 978-8185771595.
Tripathi, G. and P. Verma, 2003. Starvation-induced impairment of metabolism in a freshwater catfish. Z. Naturforsch. C, 58: 446-451.
Tripathi, G. and P. Verma, 2003. Pathway-specific response to cortisol in the metabolism of catfish. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Part B: Biochem. Mol. Biol., 136: 463-471.
Tripathi, G. and P. Verma, 2003. Differential effects of thyroxine on metabolic enzymes and other macromolecules in a freshwater teleost. J. Exp. Zool. Part A: Comp. Exp. Biol., 296: 117-124.
Tripathi, G. and P. Bhardwaj, 2003. Potentials of Earthworm Resources in Environmental Amelioration. In: Potentials of Living Resources, Tripathi, G. and A. Kumar (Eds.). Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi, India, pp: 504-516.
Tripathi, G. and P. Bhardwaj, 2003. Biodiversity of Vermiresources. In: Vermiresource Technology, Tripathi, G. (Ed.). Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi, India, pp: 1-62.
Tripathi, G. and A. Kumar, 2003. Potentials of Living Resources. Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi, India, ISBN-13: 9788171417186, Pages: 628.
Lal, V.B. and G. Tripathi, 2003. Enchytraeid Bioresources of Tropical Ecosystems. In: Vermiresource Technology, Tripathi, G. (Ed.). Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi, India, pp: 173-187.
Tripathi, Y.C., G. Tripathi, and P. Verma, 2002. Chemical Toxicity and Health Hazards. In: Modern Trends in Environmental Biology, Tripathi, G. (Ed.). Chapter 18, CBS Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, India, pp: 265-280.
Tripathi, G., S.S. Suthar and B.M. Sharma, 2002. Role of Vermitechnology in Pollution Abatement. In: Modern Trends in Environmental Biology, Tripathi, G. (Ed.). CBS Publishers, New Delhi, India, pp: 394-411.
Tripathi, G., S. Harsh and P. Verma, 2002. Fenvalerate-induced macromolecular changes in the catfish, Clarias batrachus. J. Environ. Biol., 23: 143-146.
Tripathi, G., P. Verma and M. Mishra, 2002. Aquatic Pollution and Fish. In: Ecology and Conservation of Lakes: Reservoirs and Rivers, Kumar, A. (Ed.). ABD Publishers, Jaipur, India, pp: 549-566.
Tripathi, G., A. Sharma and P. Bhardwaj, 2002. Carbofuran-induced modification in cellular activities and mineralization potential of an endemic earthworm, Lampito mauritti. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 2: 75-81.
Tripathi, G., 2002. Modern Trends in Environmental Biology. CBS Publishers, New Delhi, India, ISBN-13: 978-8123907987, Pages: 411.
Tripathi, G., 2002. Man, Environment and Peace. In: Bioresource and Environment, Tripathi, G. and Y.C. Tripathi (Eds.). Campus Books International, New Delhi, India, pp: 11-24.
Tripathi, G., 2002. Bioresource Technology. CBS Publishers, New Delhi, India, ISBN-13: 978-8123908496, Pages: 378.
Tripathi, G., 2002. Biological Resources and Biofuture. In: Bioresource Technology, Tripathi, G. (Ed.). CBS Publishers, New Delhi, India, pp: 1-15.
Tripathi, G. and Y.C. Tripathi, 2002. Bioresource and Environment. Campus Books International, New Delhi, India, ISBN: 81-8030-008-0, Pages: 408.
Tripathi, G. and Y.C. Tripathi, 2002. Biological and Biotechnological Resources. Campus Books International New Delhi, India, ISBN-13: 9788180300097, Pages: 436.
Tripathi, G. and P. Verma, 2002. Hormonal Regulation of Biochemical Potentials of Fish Resources. In: Biological and Biotechnological Resources, Tripathi, G. and Y.C. Tripathi (Eds.). Campus Books International, New Delhi, India, pp: 238-244.
Tripathi, G. and P. Verma, 2002. Enzyme Ecology of Fish. In: Ecology and Ethology of Aquatic Biota, Kumar, A. (Ed.). Daya Publishing House, New Delhi, India, pp: 314-322.
Tripathi, G. and P. Verma, 2002. Effects of Endosulfan and Fenvalerate Pollution on Biochemical Physiology of Fish. In: Ecology of Polluted Waters, Kumar, A. (Ed.). APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, India, pp: 443-452.
Tripathi, G. and P. Verma, 2002. Biochemical Effects of Pollutants in Fish. In: Modern Trends in Environmental Biology, Tripathi, G. (Ed.). CBS Publishers, New Delhi, India, pp: 146-163.
Tripathi, G. and C. Shekhawat, 2002. Biological and Biotechnological Potentials of Nematodes. In: Biological and Biotechnological Resources, Tripathi, G. and Y.C. Tripathi (Eds.). Campus Books International, New Delhi, India, pp: 204-210.
Verma, P., G. Tripathi, Y.C. Tripathi, and G.C. Pandey, 2001. Biological Effects of Fenvalerate. In: Current Topics in Environmental Sciences, Tripathi, G. and G.C. Pandey (Eds.). ABD Publishers, Jaipur, India, pp: 258-272.
Tripathi, G., P. Bhardwaj and S.S. Suthar, 2001. Current status of earthworm biodiversity in India. J. Ecophysiol. Occup. Health, 1: 67-72.
Tripathi, G., Omprakash and P. Bhardwaj, 2001. Seasonal changes in histophysiology of the wall lizard, Hemidactylus flaviviridis. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 1: 87-92.
Tripathi, G., 2001. Thyroid hormones and carbohydrate metabolism in vertebrates: A physiological perspective. J. Exp. Zool., 4: 1-8.
Tripathi, G. and P. Verma, 2001. Multiple molecular forms of some metabolic enzymes in fish. Biochem. Cell. Arch., 1: 1-7.
Tripathi, G. and P. Bhardwaj, 2001. Glimpses of Earthworm Resources of India. In: Current Trends in Wildlife Conservation and Management, Hosetti, B.B. and M. Venkteshwarlu (Eds.). Daya Publishing House, New Delhi, India, pp: 308-324.
Tripathi, G. and G.C. Pandey, 2001. Current Topics in Environmental Sciences. 1st Edn., ABD Publishers, Jaipur, India, Pages: 536.
Pandey, G.C., S. Neraliya, P.K. Srivastava and G. Tripathi, 2001. Bioremediation: A Biological Tool for Pollution Abatement. In: Current Topics in Environmental Sciences, Tripathi, G. and G.C. Pandey (Eds.). ABD Publishers, Jaipur, India, pp: 347-366.
Tripathi, G., K.R. Panwar and P. Verma, 2000. Fenvelerate-induced cellular and subcellular changes in squirrel, Funambulus pennanti. J. Exp. Zool. India, 4: 21-24.
Tripathi, G. and Y.C. Tripathi, 2000. Current Status of Environmental Pollution in India. In: Industry, Environment and Pollution, Kumar, A. and P.K. Goel, (Eds.). ABD Publisher, Jaipur, India, pp: 317-343.
Tripathi, G. and J. Singh, 2000. Earthworm Biodiversity and Vermitechnology in Industrial Waste Management. In: Industry Environment and Pollution, Goel, P.K. and A. Kumar (Eds.). ABD Publishers, Jaipur, India, pp: 60-74.
Shekhawat, C. and G. Tripathi, 2000. Impact of environmental factors on some soil nematodes. Ind. J. Environ. Sci., 4: 117-123.
Tripathi, Y.C. and G. Tripathi, 1999. Some important environmental problems in India and their remedies. Ind. J. Environ. Ecoplann., 2: 89-96.
Tripathi, Y.C. and G. Tripathi, 1999. Importance of Phytopesticides in Environmental Protection. In: Modern Trends in Environmental Pollution and Ecoplanning, Kumar, A. (Ed.). ABD Publishers, Jaipur, India, pp: 82-96.
Tripathi, G., 1999. Scaling of some metabolic enzymes in liver of a freshwater teleost: An adaptive mechanism. Z. Naturforsch. C, 54: 1103-1106.
Tripathi, G., 1999. Scaling effects of some metabolic enzymes in skeletal muscle of a freshwater catfish: An adaptive mechanism. J. Anim. Physiol. Anim. Nutr., 82: 50-56.
Tripathi, G., 1999. Kinetics of thyroid hormone induced changes in liver and skeletal muscle enzymes of Clarias batrachus. Z. Naturforsch. C, 54: 458-461.
Shekhawat, C. and G. Tripathi, 1999. Biodiversity and agricultural importance of some soil nematodes. J. Exp. Zool. India, 2: 103-109.
Tripathi, G., 1998. True estimation of substrate inhibition in an enzyme catalyzed reversible reaction. Sci. Culture, 64: 289-290.
Tripathi, G., 1998. Thyroid hormone induced changes in cytoplasmic and mitochondrial proteins of a teleost. Z. Naturforsch. C, 53:: 120-124.
Tripathi, G., 1998. A biomolecular model for environmental adaptation in animal. Naturalia, 23: 13-21.
Shekhawat, C. and G. Tripathi, 1998. Chemical control of Paralongidorus citri infesting mung field in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan. J. Sust. Pest Manag., 1: 105-107.
Tripathi, G. and Y.C. Tripathi, 1997. Bioelectronics towards artificial intelligence. Sci. Culture, 63: 260-262.
Tripathi, G. and P. Nath, 1996. Changes in the concentrations of some macromolecules in the larvae of armyworm Mythimna separata. Naturalia, 21: 123-128.
Tripathi, G., 1994. Molecular weight of cytoplasmic malate dehydrogenase, mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase and lactate dehydrogenase of a freshwater catfish. Biomed. Environ. Sci., 7: 122-129.
Tripathi, S.K., P. Nath and G. Tripathi, 1993. Comparative toxicity of some insecticides to the armyworm, Mythimna separata (Walker). Cientfica, 21: 239-244.
Tripathi, G., 1993. A review on molecular physiology of malate and lactate dehydrogenases in fishes. Biomed. Environ. Sci., 6: 286-318.
Tripathi, G. and P. Nath, 1993. Some enzymatic changes in the metabolism of the armyworm, Mythimna separata (Walker). J. Ital. Entomol., 6: 377-381.
Tripathi, G. and P. Nath, 1993. General properties of malate and lactate dehydrogenases of the armyworm, Mythimna separata (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Cientifica, 21: 323-331.
Shukla, S.P. and G. Tripathi, 1993. Electrophoretic patterns of malate and lactate dehydrogenases in a freshwater catfish. Biochem. Syst. Ecol., 21: 209-214.
Tripathi, G., 1992. Relative toxicity of aldrin, fenvalerate, captan and diazinon to the freshwater food-fish, Clarias batrachus. Biomed. Environ. Sci., 5: 33-38.
Tripathi, G. and S.P. Shukla, 1992. Toxicity of endosufan and methyl parathion to a freshwater catfish. Naturalia, 17: 9-15.
Tripathi, G. and S.P. Shukla, 1991. Seasonal effects on malate and lactate dehydrogenase of the freshwater catfish, Clarias batrachus. Zool. J. Physiol., 95: 1-11.
Tripathi, G. and S.P. Shukla, 1991. Cytoplasmic and mitochondrial proteins in a freshwater catfish under normal and experimental conditions. Braz. Arch. Biol. Technol., 34: 207-216.
Tripathi, G. and S.P. Shukla, 1990. Malate and lactate dehydrogenases of a freshwater catfish: Impact of endosulfan. Biomed. Environ. Sci., 3: 52-64.
Tripathi, G. and S.P. Shukla, 1990. Enzymatic and ultrastructural studies in a freshwater catfish: Impact of methyl parathion. Biomed. Environ. Sci., 3: 166-182.
Tripathi, G. and P.R. Yadav, 1990. Integration between cellular and glycogen changes in uterus and vagina of mammalian females on the estrogen-progesterone interactions. Naturalia, 15: 131-145.
Tripathi, G. and S.P. Shukla, 1989. Induction of cytoplasmic and mitochondrial enzymes by thyroid hormone in a freshwater catfish. Biochem. Int., 19: 945-949.
Tripathi, G., 1988. Enzyme overproduction: Principle and application. Acta Biotechnol., 8: 177-187.
Tripathi, G., 1988. Chip of a nerve block. Sci. Today, 22: 70-71.
Tripathi, G., 1988. Biocatalysis made to order. Applied Biochem. Biotechnol., 19: 33-59.
Tripathi, G. and S.P. Shukla, 1988. Toxicity bioassay of technical and commercial formulations of carbaryl to the freshwater catfish, Clarias batrachus. Ecotoxicol. Environ. Saf., 15: 227-281.
Tripathi, G. and S.P. Shukla, 1988. Inhibition of liver and skeletal muscle enzyme by methyl parathion. Biochem. Arch., 4: 55-61.
Tripathi, G. and S.P. Shukla, 1988. Comparative studies on skeletal muscle and liver lactate dehydrogenase of a freshwater catfish, Clarias batrachus. Biochem. Arch., 4: 25-34.
Tripathi, G. and S.P. Shukla, 1987. Study of liver cytoplasmic and mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase of the freshwater catfish, Clarias batrachus. Zool. J. Physiol., 91: 447-456.
Tripathi, G. and S.P. Shukla, 1987. Cytoplasmic and mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase of the skeletal muscle of freshwater catfish. Arch. Biol., 98: 375-390.
Shukla, S.P. and G. Tripathi, 1987. Bioluminescence: Light from animals. Sci. Rep., 24: 18-24.
Tripathi, G., 1986. Uterine and vaginal glycogen dynamics under the control of female sex steroids: A brief review. Zool. J. Physiol., 90: 421-428.
Tripathi, G. and S.P. Shukla, 1986. Transposons. J. Sci. Ind. Res., 45: 21-23.
Tripathi, G. and S.P. Shukla, 1986. Lactate dehydrogenase in catfish. ICSU Rep., 6: 338-339.
Tripathi, G., 1985. Cyclic changes in uterine and vaginal glycogen of Parks (P) mice during normal estrous cycle. Comp. Physiol. Ecol., 10: 187-189.
Tripathi, G. and A. Krishna, 1985. Antagonistic effect of progesterone towards estradiol dipropionate-induced changes in glycogen content in uterus and vagina of P-mice. Experientia, 41: 1455-1456.
Tripathi, G., 1984. Mammalian pineal gland. Junior Sci. Digest, 7: 54-59.
Tripathi, G., 1984. Antagonistic effects of estradiol dipropionate and progesterone on the histology of the vagina and uterus of the mouse. J. Exp. Zool., 232: 151-155.
Tripathi, G., 1983. Reproductive behavior of Indian garden lizard. Sci. Rep., 20: 96-97.
Tripathi, G., 1983. Female sexual cycle in mammals. Sci. Master, 4: 22-24.
Tripathi, G., 1983. Effect of estradiol dipropionate on uterine and vaginal glycogen content of Parkes (P) mice. Ind. J. Pharmacol., 27: 317-322.
Tripathi, G., 1983. Defensive proteins. Sci. Master, 4: 21-23.
Tripathi, G. and V.K. Srivastava, 1983. Effect of female sex-steroids on uterine and vaginal weight of the mouse, Mus musculus. Ind. J. Zoot., 24: 145-151.
Tripathi, G., 1982. Mendelism. Sci. Master, 11: 44-46.
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Looking for an all-out good time? Club One is your spot. The drag and burlesque shows are can’t-miss events. When there’s not a show, there’s great music to dance to.
Dawn Dupree’s been bartending for over twenty years, but she says she was still stunned by her win.
“I’m like the Betty White of this category!” she laughs. “I’m almost sixty years old!”
Dawn started out bartending at Faces and at Blaine’s before settling at Club One seven years ago.
So, what makes her the best bartender?
“My reasoning behind everything I do is that we are the backbone of the city,” Dawn says. “We’re the people who make the tourists feel better about themselves.”
Bartending goes way beyond making the drinks and paying attention to the guests, as Dawn knows.
“I’ve always tried to treat people like I want to be treated,” she says. “I try to be funny, which makes them laugh and have a good time. It makes our city look stronger and it better goes to show what a great diversity and making people feel welcome.”
You can catch Dawn every Monday night when she hosts bingo, Tuesday through Thursday for happy hour, and Friday night during the rush. — Rachael Flora
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Having worked with celebrities like Abhishek Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor and Madhavan, Jammy Fernando knows his way around celebrity style. He’s all about trying out new trends and experimenting with his art, while ensuring that his client’s requirements are always met. For Jammy, hairstyling was something that just fit right. He was aware of his creativity from a young age, and wanted to hone his skills further. “My sister got me my first job in Sri Lanka. When I first joined the salon industry, I realized that this is where my true calling lies and this is where I wanted to excel. and the rest, as they say, is history,” he says. He thoroughly enjoys the creative aspect of his job, considering it was what made him pursue this field. “I’m always thinking about how I can play with a cut technique and a colour technique and come up with something absolutely unique,” he explains. “As Salon Director, it is my responsibility to create new looks for other stylists, train them and make sure they are updated with all the current trends.”
The job comes with its own set of demands and challenges “My job is about meeting and interacting with people from varied walks of life and catering to their individual styling needs. Creating styles that would address each client’s needs and desires is what keeps me on my toes,” he passionately expresses. This is easier said than done. The clients’ reluctance to use styling products is something that Jammy tries to overcome, among other concerns. The common misconception about styling products being the cause of hair loss often hampers with his process. “The truth is that usage of the right styling product will only enhance hair strength and vitality,” he clarifies. “It can get very challenging to create a haircut or a look that can only be achieved with styling products, without actually using any styling products. The clients’ failure to comprehend that it is not possible to replicate a look from a celebrity reference also causes hurdles. “Every individual is different, and the same look might not achieve the desired results on everyone.”
Improvising trends while considering hair textures also poses its own dilemma. “I’d say that finding flattering hairstyles for European hair that sustain themselves in the weather here has been a gigantic challenge. European hair texture is usually very fine. So, what works in their home country doesn’t work here.” But passion and a genuine love for what you do can surpass any hurdles. Ask him about his journey till now, and he only has one thing to say, “It has been nothing short of spectacular. I have worked with various clients, learnt from the best and been associated with some prestigious names in the salon industry.”
The art of hairstyling is hugely dominated by a lot of factors. For Jammy, who started his career in 1999, it has been a long, and exciting ride. “The biggest change that has impacted the industry in recent times is social media. When I worked with Superstar Rajnikanth for Chandramukhi in 2005, camera phones were a luxury that was almost unheard of. Now, every cut and colour we do is recorded for posterity on social media platforms,” he explains. Hairstylists are also constantly reinventing their art to accommodate the changing hair trends. “Old is new right now. The vintage cuts of 60’s, like the reverse undercut, which used to be a traditional army cut, is sought after now. Hairstylists are also venturing more and more into creating updos. This blast from the past has happened recently and looks like it is here to stay,” he informs. There are some trends that he wishes would vanish, “One-length and U-cuts. Not only are they mundane and monotonous; but they do not add anything to the client’s look. We have to do extra styling on those cuts to make them remotely look like they have been styled in a salon.”
Jammy has worked with a ton of celebrities from the Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam and Hindi film industries - From Abhishek Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor and Madhavan, to Telegu superstars like Mahesh Babu Ravi Teja, to Malayalam superstars like Dulquar Salman. He has also worked with Karthi and Suriya, Anushka Shetty, Kajal Aggarwal and Siddharth of Rang De Basanti fame, among others. He doesn’t seem to be anywhere close to done yet, “I’d really love to style Ranveer Singh,” he exclaims. “He is someone who is really quirky and can carry off any look. I’d really enjoy creating looks for him.”
Jammy is very clear about his secret to success in the salon industry. “Every hairstylist has to keep updating his craft. You will always be a student. My advice to any aspiring hairstylist would be to ensure that you don’t forget to keep revising your basics, as you update yourself with new techniques. It is the basics that form your foundation and you can only suceed when that is strong,” he concludes.
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LS Harteveld
1994: A Performance Art Project
I Know It
Published on August 16, 2018 August 16, 2018 by LS Harteveld
Lauren feels the best she’s felt in weeks, even after Christophers rejection and Mr.Big’s persistent unavailability.
Which could be explained because she had sex with Mr.Big. And also, because she can be really proud of herself!
Because she did the right thing.
One of my favorite movie lines is from Brad Pitt.
In Thelma and Louise, his character JD is living hand to mouth, hitchhiking across Texas posing as a student.
And he robs gas stations and bed partners alike.
But Thelma doesn’t know that she’s gonna pay for her time with him. Still intrigued with his honesty that he robs stores, she asks him how he does it.
JD grabs a hair blower, holds it like a gun, and gives a little performance. Practically charming himself through the armed robbery.
“My gosh, you sure gentlemanly about it,” Thelma says.
At which he replies:
“I’ve always believed if done right, armed robbery doesn’t have to be a
totally unpleasant experience.”
And I can now say the same of being a mistress. I can charm my way through it, without causing unnecessary damage.
Naturally I felt horrible yesterday. Within five days I had gone from realizing I was in love with two men, to basically being rejected by both.
Mr.Big was battling his inner-demons and we were as undefined as ever. Maybe worse.
And Christopher had decided we couldn’t see each other anymore.
Which was not that bad, since I wasn’t sure if I even wanted to be a mistress again.
After three and a half years I knew exactly what the pitfalls of Mistresshood were. And although I was still convinced that I was a mistress by nature, as far as anyone can pinpoint a sexual orientation, that didn’t make it easy.
But the way I had handled my crush on Christopher had impressed even myself.
I had proved that affairs didn’t have to be a painful ball full of conflicting emotions and interests, the way it had been at the start of my affair with Mr.Big.
The ball could be unravelled.
An experienced mistress could control the damage, because she knew what she was doing. In the words of JD:
“It doesn’t have to be a totally unpleasant experience.”
I knew for sure, that although what I had done may have seemed like a small thing, warning Christopher about my feelings for him was in fact huge.
It was the difference between robbing a liquor store, and traumatizing people for life; Or leaving them baffled, and with a good story to tell.
I had asked consent. And at a very early stage, not when emotions were flying high.
Because it would have been soooo easy, to just ask Christopher out on a new date. Or stage a new situation where we would be spending time together. And then make him fall in love with me, or offer him an opportunity to act on his feelings.
But I had chosen not to.
Instead I had said:
“You need to think about this, before we see each other again.”
And he didn’t want to see me again, and he told me why.
He didn’t owe me an explanation, but I appreciated it that he told me.
There is a law in several countries, making sex illegal unless you have asked for consent. I think what’s wrong with that law, is that it misses out on the most important thing: a shared vision of where you want this to go not now, but in the future.
One of the things Mr.Big once told me, was that he did ask for consent. Explicitly. Not just that he would not rest until a woman was actually begging in five different languages to be taken. He didn’t say that, but I know that’s how he works.
That was the easy part.
When he was about to have sex with someone, he explained to her that this would very likely be only for one night. That he wasn’t available for more.
And that she had to think about it, if that was enough for her. Because otherwise they could also just cuddle up and go to sleep.
And sometimes a woman had then chosen to not have sex, and that had been completely fine.
So maybe in the end, it was Mr.Big who taught me the true meaning of consent. That asking permission, or getting consent, or feeling what somebody wants in the now are only the beginning. That a good lover takes responsibility for the future.
“Do you still want to proceed if this and this might be what happens next?”
When I started dating Mr.Big I had made jokes that I was now playing in the Major League of dating. That this was where the strongest players were. Where hearts were broken, lives were ruined, but also the place where the biggest of pleasures and the greatest of victories would be our rewards.
It was not a place for pussies, so to speak 😉
But although I realized there was a lot of foul play going on, and that we were all playing to win, there were still several players who insisted on playing by the rules.
Mr. Big.
And we would protect the newbies, anyone just entering the game, until they had decided if they wanted to stay. And we’d help them get their defenses up.
We were fair players, and that’s what we taught others.
Each in our own way.
<3LSH
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I Know It is the sixth chapter from Project M.
tenth anniversary of the book that changed my life!
Summer 2008 I started writing in English.
Dutch American Diary
Just like now, I was in love with two men. And just like now, they were both taken.
And – yes, just like now – I had no idea where life would take me.
This 2008 diary became the only thing that offered stability during a time where I had just left my partner after fourteen years and the two new men were driving me crazy.
A book about starting over in your mid-thirties and reinventing yourself as a lover;
As a woman;
And as a vengeful fury from hell.
Als je Nederlands bent is 22 erotische verhalen een aanrader.
Maar je kunt natuurlijk ook gewoon de hele shop leegkopen.
These are my English titles:
Dutch American Diary 2008-2009 €15
LS Diary 2012-2013 € 10
Bedtime Stories 2014 €15
Mirage 2014 €5
Big, diaries and erotica 2015-2016 € 20
Get a 25% discount on all prices in the shop.
Select your store f.e. Nederland or United States
with the flag in the upper right corner.
De volgende Nederlandse boeken
zijn ook op voorraad bij boekhandel de Feeks in Nijmegen
verzending gratis v.a. € 17,50
Het Boek Benjamin € 45
verzameld werk NL en Engels.
Het enige boek dat hier niet inzit is Witte Tijgerin, dus mijn andere Nederlandse boeken zitten hier wél in.
Mango €15
coming of age novelle
22 erotische verhalen € 15
literaire pornografie in de geest van Anais Nin
Witte Tijgerin €5
gids voor solitaire vrouwen die een geweldig seksleven willen en plenty energie
Categories Project M
Previous Think of me
Next Physical Attraction
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My fate was sealed a long time ago
I remember when we met | “1994” series
Sexual Innuendo | “1994” series
A Warm Safe Place | “1994” series
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Lawrence Dagstine: Author
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Amazon Kindle: “New eBooks by Lawrence Dagstine…”
Well, after a year in the making, the six-novellas project comes to a close. Six brand new releases for Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook, Kobo, Sony eReader (via Smashwords), Apple iPad (Smashwords), Smashwords.com, and I’m sure over the next few weeks a couple of more. I have a wide range of science fiction, fantasy, horror, alternate history, satire and suspense titles available (including the almost-40,000 word A CHILD WEEPS IN MOSCOW), some inspired by authors like George Orwell and Kurt Vonnegut to Stephen King and Ray Bradbury. Quality fiction with characters and plots that boldly go where no other (at least I hope) author has ventured before. I’d like to take this time to thank my cover artist Bob Veon, and fellow editor Edith Marlowe. With that said, these titles below are only 99 cents to $2.99 each, worth the price, and a welcome addition to any eReader. Just click on the buttons beneath the covers to access the ordering page for your favorite reading device. Or go and visit my eBooks & Kindle page (up on top). Most of all, happy reading!
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How Jones Goes by Lawrence Dagstine
Story Name: “How Jones Goes”
Price: SCIENCE FICTION (FREE on Smashwords)
In the late 21st century, overpopulation is a problem. There’s also the problem with mental health. In one particularly unusual asylum, there is Dr. Born (psychiatric intern) and Dr. Bloch (sexologist). And then there’s Jones. You have not met anyone like Jones. You see, it’s not every day that patients claim they are from Mars. And it’s not every day they come and go as they please. A science fiction story filled with loads of satire (and lots of oddities that will make you shake your head) by speculative fiction author, Lawrence Dagstine.
A Child Weeps in Moscow by Lawrence Dagstine
Story Name: “A Child Weeps in Moscow”
Alien possession meets alternate history, in this communist tale set in 1923 Russia, about a boy named Abraham (Abe), whose parents suddenly disappear one day. Like many of the adults throughout Russia, they are being taken away in the night by a special police force put together by Lenin’s “new” government, a government put together after the arrival of spacecrafts with biomechanoid origins and higher intelligence and influence. Aliens the citizens simply call, The Invaders!
Klara Izolyev, Abe’s teacher, tells the boy that the only way he can learn the truth about the Invaders is to go to Moscow. There he will learn what they really want on Earth, what role they play in the current socialist movement, and possibly find his missing parents and sister. There he will fight starvation, arrest, combat homelessness, and meet an even more influential figure. Arkady, the leader of a Moscow street gang, whose parents have also been taken away. Together they will all journey to find the people they once loved, discovering just why the aliens are so interested in helping Lenin.
The Mysterious Lady of the Caribbean by Lawrence Dagstine
Story Name: “The Mysterious Lady of the Caribbean”
Mercer Hollingsworth is not your typical pirate; he’s more a buccaneer of the freelance sort, with a bit of the old hero in him. No job is too big for his merry crew, so long as it helps bring down the Great Armada and plenty of booty is involved. But when he brings his own wench aboard, members of the crew start disappearing. Who is this mysterious young woman? Why does she sing so much? Why is Mercer still alive? When they find themselves stranded on an island in the Caribbean, blood and death will go hand in hand, as the wench reveals her true form and purpose in this speculative pirate story.
“The Paraplegic” by Lawrence Dagstine
Story Name: “The Paraplegic”
“Doc, I’m telling you. I just woke up in a hole in broad daylight. No memory!”
When Herbert was told he had amnesia, he knew things were bad. When he couldn’t feel anything below the waist, he got scared. When the doctor told him he’d be paralyzed for life, he got depressed and wanted to die. After all, no one wants to be a paraplegic. But what made him crippled so suddenly? Did somebody do this to him? And if so, why? Now in the hospital, undergoing intensive surgery, little does Herbert know that the force responsible isn’t done with him, not by a long shot! Something’s coming back. There’s a little unfinished business to take care of, and it comes in the form of vampires.
“Family Reunion” by Lawrence Dagstine
Story Name: “Family Reunion”
When Kendra was a teenager, she got raped and knocked up more than once. When she finally found the courage to run away with the children, she went back to school, got a job, and set up a nice life for herself far away. The children are now eight, and Howard has come ‘home’ for what he feels belongs to him. He swears he’s a changed man, he wants to get married and be a dad. Even if it kills! He wants this reunion to be one that Kendra and the kids will never forget… should they live to tell about it.
“The King of Trumpeters” by Lawrence Dagstine
Story Name: “The King of Trumpeters”
Salamand (Sal) was a slippery donkey, and a troublesome one. Escaping one bad owner, only to find himself in the hands of another. But after being sold to a nice couple, he swore he’d finally escape and start the perfect coup. The one that would help all donkeys take over Jerusalem and the human race. The plan might work, as humans are stupid creatures; might even give Salamand the edge he needs. After all, what could possibly go wrong in a parody?
“Overcast” by Lawrence Dagstine
Story Name: “Overcast”
It’s not every day that a 1920’s flying ace risks his life to bring a plane down safely for a little girl. But when a horribly disfigured Sal and Lillian land in the remote, snowy mountains of Montana, a friendship will occur, a bond like no other. As the winds blow and the snow accumulates, the pilot will do everything in his power to get this child down harsh ravines and rocky slopes. Through darkness and despair they will do whatever it takes to stay alive. A bittersweet story of survival, with an emphasis on the importance of not giving up and working together, no matter what age group you are.
Or purchase the NEW 150-page print version of Child Weeps in Moscow for $5.95.
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Smashwords: “The Paraplegic” by Lawrence Dagstine – Now Available!
For only 99 cents, you can now own my vampire novelette, The Paraplegic. Available at Smashwords. Just click on the picture below, or, see what other low-cost titles I have available. I even have a free science fiction story you could try out, and in the coming months I will be downloading more stories at no cost (usually under 5,000 words); I’ll also be coming to Kindle, Nook, Apple, Sony, Kobo and Nexus. Novelettes and novellas will always be at the right price. Quality, plot-driven stories, characters we care about: because that’s what matters first and foremost. Science fiction, fantasy, horror and more in Mobi, ePub, PDF, and a variety of other formats. You’ll be able to order them direct from here (eBooks & Kindle), or be redirected. Also be sure to follow me on social media platforms such as Facebook & Twitter. There will be cool contests in the coming months and free reading material will go out to my 5,000th Facebook follower and my 500th Twitter follower. Cover art by Bob Veon.
THE PARAPLEGIC
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Coming Soon: “A Child Weeps in Moscow” by Lawrence Dagstine
COMING SPRING-SUMMER 2013
to Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook, Sony eReader, Kobo…
Coming to e-Dagstine.com Download Center, coming to eBooks & Kindle (and as a chapbook).
In the vein of George Orwell’s 1984
“A CHILD WEEPS IN MOSCOW”
A Novella by Lawrence Dagstine
Official soundtrack for… Mysterious Lady of the Caribbean (teasers):
Also coming in 2013, and a MUST READ!
For fans of Weird Tales & Pirate Fiction
“THE MYSTERIOUS LADY OF THE CARIBBEAN”
A Novelette by Lawrence Dagstine
Coming Soon to: New Releases, eBooks & Kindle
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Artist Spotlight: “Interview with Cover Artist-Illustrator Bob Veon…”
If you draw or write in the genre communities, if you are affiliated with comic books and illustration in any shape or form, if you know who Alex McVey, Vincent Chong, and Daniela Siera is, then you probably know who Bob Veon is. If not, you are missing out on the next big thing in horror and scifi illustration, Ebook and print cover art, as well as mind-blowing graphic design. Like McVey, Chong and Siera, Bob Veon is currently breaking into the big time. 2012 seems to be his year, and things are only looking up for 2013. Here is a small press artist that turns your visions into beautiful—or scary, if that’s how you like it—prints. A man who can turn a canvas or book cover into the next museum masterpiece, or who can bring ideas to the table that probably no other artist of his caliber can. This freelance master of pencils, ink, paint and Photoshop is also available for hire. Let it be said that there is nothing this man can’t do. He is the next award-winning genre artist. It is not only an honor and a privilege to obtain his services for my own fiction work, but to interview him this very day. See what inspires him and makes him tick. You will also see some of his favorite art samples and be able to contact him at the end of the interview should you desire his services. And now, on with the Q and A…
Robert Veon (a.k.a. Bob) hard at work
Lawrence: Bob, I’m glad you could be here today. Let’s start from the beginning. Where did you grow up and go to school?
Bob: Thanks for having me here! I grew up in East Palestine, Ohio, and went to high school there. After, I went to Pittsburgh Technical Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where I studied Multimedia and Graphic Design.
Lawrence: What was your childhood like?
Bob: Probably pretty much the same as any other kid growing up in the 80’s/90’s. I was always interested in horror movies and books from a very early age and anything else creepy and strange. I liked to play video games and draw, read comic books. Pretty typical stuff.
Bob Veon — pencil, ink, canvas, computer art, etc.
Lawrence: How did you first get into drawing?
Bob: I liked to draw pretty early on in life. Ever since I was able to pick up a crayon, I think I’ve been drawing since! I always liked to come up with strange creatures and places that were different from what you saw in life. When I was a kid I was always fascinated with drawing skulls and skeletons (no shocker that I still have that fascination). I remember a tornado going over the apartments we lived in during the mid-80’s and afterward I went into my “tornado drawing phase.” Drawing has always been my place to go to think and look at things.
I always doodled in my notebooks at school and at work. Probably about 2005 or so I decided to start doing more elaborate work with it. Trying to make something distinct, original. I came to this decision that I’d make some stuff that I would like to hang on the walls around me, art that would reflect myself and things I found interesting. Then a friend of mine suggested that I try doing illustrations for short stories, so I checked around online and Whispers of Wickedness gave me a try.
Lawrence: I used to be a reviewer and contributor for Whispers of Wickedness. So tell me, what inspires you? For example, certain music and video games set the mood for me. But they also inspire me, too.
Bob: I’ve always been drawn to dark and strange themes. When I draw I tend to put on a lot of music that reflects that, and the two of them, music and drawing, seem to go together great! I tend to listen to things like Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson. A lot of Industrial music too, things like Wumpscut, Combichrist, and Dismantled. That sort of thing. It really adds an energy to what you’re doing!
Bob Veon’s Comic Book work 1
Lawrence: Let’s talk influences. Everybody has them. What writers, artists, or filmmakers influenced you and your work?
Bob: Huge fan of Stephen King’s work – The Dark Tower series is still something I read over and over. Clive Barker has been a major influence in my life since I first saw Hellraiser and then went on to read his books and get acquainted with his artwork. He’s great in any medium he works in, as far as I’m concerned. Besides fiction, I read a lot on paranormal subjects. The things like alien abduction, UFOs in general; mysterious occurrences, cryptozoology, and conspiracy theories. Books by folks like John Keel and Jim Marrs. There’s a lot of strange things that happen in the world that kind of get brushed aside. I don’t know what’s more fascinating a lot of times, the stories you hear themselves, or the reactions in the “official world” to them. As far as art goes, I’ve always been amazed by HR Giger’s work – definitely an original vision there! Frank Miller’s black and white comic style is definitely something I was impressed by. Jae Lee is fantastic in that whole positive/negative style too. I love his attention to minute details.
Bob Veon’s work space
Bob Veon & Lawrence Dagstine project
Lawrence: I love your penciling and inking style the most. I love how you draw everything by hand first. But at the same time you’re the kind of guy who can do pencils and inks one day, then jump from canvas to crayon to computer art the next. What is your favorite medium to work in? Also, what mediums are you experienced in?
Bob: I’m going to have to say that the medium that seems to be “me” the most is pen and ink drawings. It’s a pretty fun and worthwhile effort all around to see what you can come up with. When I first started to get serious with pen and ink drawings I would sit down to a piece of paper with just a pen, no pencils or other starting points, and just start going. Make a mistake? Just fold it into what I was doing somehow! It could get challenging, but at the same time was pretty exciting. Especially when I pulled off something that looked good!
I also like to paint a lot, but haven’t done much of that in the past year. It’s always interesting to me how drawing and painting, while essentially very similar in that you are trying to create form, space, and value, defining something two-dimensional to look a certain way, are so very different to do in technique.
As for other mediums, I do stuff with Photoshop, but mainly just for coloring or adding effects. I don’t do much with it aside from that. I do a lot with Illustrator which is a really interesting graphic design program with a lot of potential. When I was in school I worked in some 3D programs but never really got into them like I thought I would.
Mysterious Lady of the Caribbean 1 – Bob Veon
Mysterious Lady of the Caribbean 2
Lawrence: Originality. It’s definitely something you have. What is your take on it?
Bob: Like I said before, I was striving to try to go into places that I hadn’t seen before when I started getting serious with my artwork. I try to be as original as possible when I’m coming up with things to work on, but I’m sure that you see a lot of the things that influence me in there as well. I guess that you’ll always have that, though.
Lawrence: Your black and white illustrations would look great on somebody’s back or forearm. I’m sure they would also make your typical tattoo artist salivate. Have you ever thought about working alongside a tattoo artist?
Bob: I have indeed! Actually, I’ve done tattoo designs for a few people. My girlfriend actually got one that she asked me to design for her. I did check out a tattoo shop a few years ago that was looking for apprentices and took in several of my sketchbooks for the owner to look through. He seemed to be really impressed with what I was doing and said it was very original, which I took as a great compliment! Unfortunately, due mainly to time and economic reasons, I wasn’t able to go forward with this.
Family Reunion Novella – pencils
Family Reunion Novella – colors
Lawrence: A lot of artists create their own graphic novels or books of their work these days. They even do it on places like Lulu or CreateSpace. Have you ever thought about coming out with an art book?
Bob: I finished up a graphic novel script just last year that I’d love to get moving on. I started penciling about three pages then got busy with other projects, but would love to get back to it. I know that it’s going to be a long project, and I think that kind of keeps me reserved on it.
I do have a book of artwork available through Lulu from 2007 called Landscapes of Hell. It’s still available if anyone’s interested.
(to order Landscapes of Hell: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/bobveon)
The Paraplegic – pencils
The Paraplegic – colors
Lawrence: Who are some clients, authors or publications you have done artwork for?
Bob: I started off doing black and white illustrations for Whispers of Wickedness. They always had some really good stories! From there I started working with Jason Gaskell on his online magazine Oriental Tales, doing illustrations for the stories people sent in. Other than that, I was asked to send some original work in for Taj Mahal Review and Harvests of New Millennium. For a while I hadn’t been doing much illustration and then just this last summer Jason Gaskell got in touch with me about doing illustrations for more of his short fiction for a collection he wanted to put out.
Grim Reaper print (part 1) by Bob Veon
Lawrence: What do you think art is most lacking these days? And why?
Bob: I try not to get too elitist about art. It’s usually something you get or you don’t, but the fact that someone created something, took the time out of their life to put the energy in to make something for someone or just for themselves, that’s pretty important and deserves a look. If I want to get picky about things though, I could say there is too much of a reliance on digital technology to make something look good. But that would be a stupid thing to say since I do it myself!
Gargoyle-Dragon Creature
In Thrall to the Succubus
Lawrence: Although it’s taken both of us almost a year, what do you think of the “Six Novellas” eBook project? Have you ever done something like this before?
Bob: It’s been a lot of fun and exciting! I never know what to expect in the next story I get from you, and that adds to the fun of what I do for them. Hell, I’d never drawn a pirate ship before and then found myself doing it for Mysterious Lady of the Caribbean! I’ve never done anything like this before, but would love to do more of it. It certainly keeps the creative process moving!
Lawrence: If there was an artist or writer you could work beside, living or dead, who would it be? And why?
Bob: I think it would be pretty fun to work with someone like David Lynch. He certainly brings a very unique touch to whatever he’s working on. Really just about anyone I mentioned before as influences would be great fun to work with. It would be neat to see firsthand how they go about their work.
Lawrence: Funny how when we first teamed up we learned that we owned the same exact video games, the same exact toys and stickers (Star Wars, Mega Man, Final Fantasy, etc.), and other collectibles as if we had identical childhoods. Fun Stuff… What do you do for fun? Where do you turn when it’s time to take a break?
Bob: I know what you mean! It was pretty wild to find out we pretty much owned the same toys and video games! Usually for fun I like to play video games. I’ve been a huge fan of them since the old Nintendo system and haven’t stopped playing since! Things like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, Grand Theft Auto, Castlevania – I enjoy them all. I also like to watch movies and read. Seems like most of the things I liked to do when I was a kid have pretty much stayed the same!
Nurse by Bob Veon
Secrets of Darkness
Soul-Eating Demon
Lawrence: In twenty years time, where would you like to see yourself?
Bob: I would love to be able to work on my artwork full time.
Lawrence: If you could be somebody famous in history, who would it be? And why?
Bob: I don’t know if he’s considered someone famous, but the Count St. Germain. I just want to know if he was this immortal that he claimed to be or a fake. Regardless, I’m sure it would be an interesting time!
Scarecrow Piece by Bob Veon
Tarot Reader piece by Bob Veon
The Return by Bob Veon
Lawrence: Favorite comic book superhero and super villain? And why?
Bob: Oh boy, this is one that’s hard for a comic geek! If I had to boil it down, I’m going to go with Wolverine for superhero. Why? With his powers and unbreakable skeleton he pretty much has no choice but to be this tough little ball of fury taking it to the villains every time they come up! As for super villain – Herr Starr from the Preacher comics. He takes villainy to a ridiculously fun level to read!
Lawrence: You know it’s bad for you. Favorite junk food?
Bob: I could eat pizza every day if I could, though I don’t consider it a junk food because it contains the four food groups. See how I justified that?
The Tormentor by Bob Veon
We Can Make You Better
Wicked Forest
Lawrence: Have any advice for aspiring artists who might be reading this?
Bob: If you want to make artwork just do it. And keep on doing it. Don’t try to compare what you’re doing with what someone else has done because that’s a very quick way to get discouraged. Good and bad are arbitrary things in art, and you are your own judge. The important thing is that you are expressing yourself creatively and hopefully gaining confidence as to just what you’re capable of doing with your abilities. It takes time and effort, but you will find your own unique style.
Canvas Work 1
Lawrence: Bob, I want to thank you for being here today and wish you the best of luck. Do you have any last words?
Bob: Just that I hope everyone likes what we’ve got on the Six Novellas project for next year! It’s been a pretty fun thing to be working on, so I’m hoping everyone gets that sense of fun when they get to read the stories. Thanks again, Lawrence!
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Only five to six months away till the release of Family Reunion, my suspense novella — an “exclusive” eBook available for download in 2013 — for you readers of horror and suspense out there. Now if you thought Norman Bates was a creep, wait’ll you meet Howard. Better yet, ask yourself this question: how far would you go to get your family back? It’s the plot that will keep them guessing. So if you like alternative genre stories about marriage, divorce, relationships, children, adoption, and the like (what I call Family Dynamics; my particular niche), then you’ll definitely want to be here next spring. Cover art by Bob Veon.
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Bjorn’s Corner: Electrical flight, how real?
By Bjorn Fehrm
10 July 2015, ©. Leeham Co: We have just witnessed the first solar electrical aircraft, Solar Impulse 2, cross the ocean from Tokyo to Hawaii. Today, Friday, Airbus Group will cross the English Channel with a battery powered electrical aircraft, the E-Fan.
How real is electrical flying? Real enough to make demonstration flights like the one to Hawaii and to Calais. Both these aircraft are technology demonstrators but it is symptomatic that they do these hops now, 2015.
Airbus Group’s E-Fan aircraft is preparing to cross the English Channel. Source: Airbus.
We live in the years when electrical cars have gone from exotic one-offs to serial produced products, still expensive but more and more practical. Why should not the aircraft industry follow?
The car industry relied on the computer industry to develop affordable power dense batteries. These were needed for the laptops and it perfected the Lithium-ion chemistry battery and brought the production systems for these hard to produce batteries to mass production. Today Li-ion batteries are produced for smartphones, computers, cars and many other applications.
The Solar power industry that created solar cells to mount on one’s house perfected the solar cell unit and brought this to mass production and affordable prices. Finally the hybrid and full electrical car industry developed the power electronics needed for all the conversions and control of the electrical energy that drives the electrical engines. With all components there, why is the fact that Airbus E-Fan flies across the Channel and that its subsidiary, Voltair, will produce a commercially available electrical trainer for 2017 and a general purpose four seater aircraft for 2019 such a sensation?
The problems involved
To get an airplane to fly is a technological challenge. To get it to fly on electrical power is a mega challenge. The smallest problem is designing the aircraft and finding a suitable electrical motor. Electrical motors have gotten more and more efficient in recent years. An example of the latest development is that Siemens has developed an electrical motor for aircraft which has a power density of 5kw per kg motor instead of the usual 1 kW per kg. Today’s hybrid cars are at 2kW per kg. The engine will deliver 260kW/350hp from 50kg own weight and drive the propeller or fan with the customary 2,500 rpm without reduction gear. The engine should fly in prototype later this year.
While things look good from the engine side, they are less rosy on the source of electricity. We know that the big problem for electrical cars is the batteries and for aircraft it is no different. If one does not want to have an airplane with 60m span wings filled with solar panels on the top, one has to use stored energy somehow or go for a hybrid setup. Battery storage of energy is still troublesome. The car industry drives the technology and the Tesla model S Sport-sedan is perhaps the most successful example rolling on the roads just now, with almost adequate range and good performance.
But it costs; the price one pays for endurance and performance is many standardized Li-ion cells, and these come at a price. Tesla uses 7,100 Li-Ion cells in a 540kg heavy battery module, which gives you 85kW during one hour or less power during several hours. To feed our 260kW motor we need several of these half tonne battery modules. At 7,100 Li-Ion cells each, the modules cost a pretty penny and weigh half a tonne each.
The battery module for the E-Fan, that has one hour to cross the Channel before the juice is “no more,” has 3000 batteries in the wing-roots weighing 170kg driving its two 30kW motors. Charged batteries as a power source will probably be OK for demo aircraft and perhaps flight trainers, but not for aircraft with longer endurance and therefore range.
Aircraft with range
To get aircraft with range one would have to use a hybrid setup. A hybrid is where an electrical motor would be driven by a smaller battery which is topped up by an electrical generator which in turn is driven by some form of combustion engine. The reason we need thermal engines to help us give the aircraft endurance is that the stored energy in our daily fuels is just amazing. The energy density is hard to beat. With about 12 kWh per kg fuel, we need less than 8kg normal aviation gasoline or similar fuel to match the Tesla battery energy store of over 500kg.
With this it is easy to understand there is a lot of work with re-chargeable energy store systems before we can use the wall outlet to charge our longer range aircraft. Hybrid concepts like Airbus will use for the larger aircraft will make the E-Fan more universally usable by around 2020. They use the unmatched energy density of conventional fuels and have that drive an electrical generator, which tops up the batteries of the aircraft to give it an acceptable endurance.
The problem from an efficiency standpoint is all the conversions. First, from thermal energy to mechanical, then to electrical and from electrical to mechanical again. As a range extender it can be OK, as the main battery load came from the wall outlet and that energy was produced by our efficient power stations.
Airbus Voltair, which will produce the E-Fan 2.0 trainer by 2017, will stay all battery-powered for the trainer. The endurance of about an hour or so is acceptable for a trainer. After an hour, the pupil learning to fly is exhausted anyway and it is time to land and give him a break and the aircraft a charge. Most likely the aircraft will come with exchangeable battery packs, otherwise there would be long waiting times between training flights.
Rendering of E-Fan 4.0 four seater general aircraft. Source: Airbus.
For the more general four seater called E-Fan 4.0 available 2019, a range extender is needed. The main energy comes from a battery charged with cheap power-outlet electricity and the aircraft has a small combustion engine-generator to top up the battery to extend the endurance and thereby the range from two hours to three and a half.
The stored energy in batteries takes care of the energy peaks like take-off and as the thermal engine-generator will not be dimensioned for these peaks, it can be made small and light. It remains to see what it costs and how practical the aircraft will be, but one can’t fault Airbus Group Innovation for not trying.
It is exciting that we are now starting the era of electrical aircraft; they promise extremely good environmental characteristics if one disregard the battery production and disposal process. As usual, everything will not be perfect from start but the potential is there to make inroads on the combustion- driven aircraft’s turf and Airbus is talking about a regional airliner in the pipe for 2050. Its virtue will be all hours operations into town airports as it will be a quiet shadow in the night.
Who would have thought that 2015 would be the year of the electrical aircraft?
Category: Airbus, Bjorn's Corner, EADS, Eco-Aviation, Future aircraft
Tags: Airbus, Airbus Group, E-Fan, Eco-Aviation, Solar Impulse
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27 Comments on “Bjorn’s Corner: Electrical flight, how real?”
Lee Baker
Pipistrel already has certified an electric trainer similar to what Airbus is trying to achieve (Pipistrel Alpha Electro). You can find videos of it flying around on youtube.
There’s been some drama this week as they tried to beat Airbus to the punch and fly their Alpha Electro across the channel first. In a move that looks a bit like retaliation, Airbus partner Siemens immediately decided against selling Pipistrel the motors for the Alpha Electro. I’m sure there’s more to the story; I was personally rooting for Pipistrel to complete the crossing first, since they do seem to be a lot closer than Airbus/Voltair to serial production.
http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2015/July/07/Siemens-denies-e-motors-to-Pipistrel
Bjorn Fehrm
Be as it may with “being first” (seems an electrical CriCri was first, just pipping Airbus), the nice thing is the ball is rolling and electrical airplanes makes a huge difference when it comes to overhead noise. It can benefit many flying clubs and private pilots.
I understand there are several gliders also having electrical assist motors. Good that the evolution has started, glider flying is like sailing, much better than with the combustion powered variant. If one can get rid of the tedious tow aircraft the freedom is total.
was about to post about this. real dirty pool here by Siemens and or Airbus.
they didn’t “refuse to sell motors” they issued a “no overwater flights” directive.
stinky, dirty, unethical.
https://www.pilotundflugzeug.de/artikel/2015-07-07/Elektroflug_uber_den_Kanal
This is motor/electronics reliability fall out.
( and single engine versus twin engine )
I call BS. people fly the channel and much larger bodies of water in single engine planes all the time.
this is clearly a deliberate action to prevent Pipistrel from doing the flight before the Airbus aircraft.
unethical, dirty pool and possibly illegal fraud.
Yeah, sure Sir!
thysi
Could be unethical, possibly (we really don’t know the details), but how does fraud come into this?
Does the Siemens Electric Drive Set sport a regular ESA/ICAO certification?
I see a lot of blustering on fannish grounds without substance or reaason.
Neutron73
Yeah that was pretty bad on Airbus, Siemens and the French aviation authority to play bush league tactics like that.
It’s not like Airbus doesn’t have metric tons of money to do more and make a better plane. Bad move on their part to jerk around another company just so they can say “we were first”.
I hope Siemens gets a lot of s*** for it, too. D-bags.
Just got round to reading the article you linked. The letter from Siemens to Pipistrel is linked there. It seems Pipistrel was in major breach of contract. The test agreement required Pipistrel to get consent for each flight and they had lent out the plane to someone else without telling Siemens, let alone getting permission. Overflying water was a second issue. Siemens summarily cancelled the contract with Pipistrel . It looks like Pipistrel have been somewhat careless.
What is crossing the channel against crossing the Alps?
On Wednesday the e-Genius built by IFB (University of Stuttgart) traveled from Hahnweide (near Stuttgart) to Calcinate del Pesce (north of Italy) in 2 hours travelling 320 km and reached a height of over 4,000 m.
The battery was recharged in Italy and the aircraft flow back on the same day.
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/e-genius-elektroflugzeug-ueberquert-erstmals-die-alpen-a-1042687.html (German)
Airbus sponsor there as well. Seems someone in Airbus group has got it and understood the PR value of the technology and trend. Wonder what Beoing’s move will be?
Boeing is involved in a project run by NASA looking at electric-hybrid propulsion as well as new fuels called SUGAR
dukeofurl
Run by Nasa ?.
So the US taxpayer does all Boeings basic research for it. next thing they will be getting NASA to do all the research for them…oh oh too late
“Vibratory response of a stiffened, floor equipped, composite cylinder”- Langley research center
As I understand it, NASA research is available to the world.
Yes being the demonstrator company has advantages but the research has been shared.
Personally I think we should keep it proprietary to the US and or have others pay for it but then I am not in charge.
As I recall Europe floated 4 billion or so in research funds a while back for the same purpose. I don’t know if that stuff is shared.
NASA may not share all either, I would like to have someone who knows weight in.
It points out the major challenge and should educate people that all-electric flight of passengers over distances is still far out, and may be the less attractive option compared to other alternatives.
Looking at energy density:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Energy_density.svg/2000px-Energy_density.svg.png
Comparing that to energy density of batteries, including those only working in laboratory environments:
http://www.iccnexergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ICCNexergy-Energy-Density-Chart-2Q-2011-hq-enlarge.gif
Note that ~280Wh are 1MJ, hence the second chart fits into the lower left corner of the first one.
I would assume that electrical flight might be possible within 10 years (according to some more or less convincing research), but the overall performance will be sobering. One will fly low & slow, and probably prefer a ride on the train.
Nevertheless, it makes sense to explore this technology.
Dear Schorsch,
you missed an energy source with a rather high density: Methanol!
Even with a conversion rate to electricity of just 50 % the energy density is still 10 times higher for Methanol.
There are already direct methanol fuel cells available on the market: http://www.efoy.com/en
Actual conversion rate is about 70 % and no need for LOx like for Hydrogen fuel cells.
Like a submarine an aircraft could use the batteries during take off to get high peak power and then switch to fuel cells + solar cells during cruise. For descent the batteries could also be reloaded by the fans working as a generator.
Solar Impulse 2 flew from Nagoya, not Tokyo, to Hawaii. Thanks.
Interesting concept, but doubtful that the technical challenges can be overcome.
There’s another Airbus project, e-Thrust, which looks at batteries taking over the entire redundancy of aircraft systems. That means an aircraft can manage with a single engine – actually a generator. The battery would need to have enough charge to get the aircraft into the air and back down again in an engine-out situation and to get to the nearest diversion airport if the engine stops working mid-route.
Again very challenging, but maybe more realistic.
An interesting brochure on e-Thrust that explains some of the technologies – that will also be used in the e-Fan.
The technical issue with the batteries, I believe, is in controlling the chemical reactions. You can come up with a very lightweight, highly reactive battery, but you can’t stop or reverse the reaction for recharging. In other words, it’s relatively easy to come up with a high power-density battery, but not one that will hold its charge or recharge.
Can you explain your thinking further please ?
Hi Jane. My understanding is you release the charge by enabling a chemical reaction, recharge the battery by reversing that reaction, and hold the charge by stopping a reaction. From what I read somewhere we can get a high power to weight ratio now with new powerful chemical reactions. The problem is stopping and reversing that reaction, which is what you need for a useful rechargeable battery.
I’m not a chemist however.
I believe the Tesla’s battery high weight is mainly due to the fact it serves as part of the car chassis.
Fascinating reading, I am a sever skeptic
batteries do not burn off weight as you go along,.
Your aircraft is as heavy at the end as the start so no saving there as aircraft get more economical the lighter they are.
I think what they are doing has applications for other than aircraft but aircraft themselves are will never work with batteries.
Even a the trainer at 1 hour, 15 minutes to the training area, same back.
only 30 minutes of maneuver and some reserves? More than once I had diversions.
Looking over my log books, typical training flight was average of 1.5 hours, a few as low 1, some approaching 2.
Maybe part of a curriculum if airfield is out on the country, otherwise just not enough useful time on station as it were.
It’s a marginal product. But the fact they are productizing the e-Fan at all, instead of leaving it as just another demonstrator, is interesting. The e-Fan brochure is here
https://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/news-media/media~item=19bf802f-1fad-4ce7-b61c-b5d6eab6b51d~ref=530d2f4e-1938-4596-bc51-f2ff346cd604~.html#gallery0
You might also find interesting the brochure about the plug in tablet for the cockpit. The idea is you plan the training session on the tablet before you fly, plug it in as one of the cockpit displays. It records the session and you then take it away for the debrief. Presumably this approach isn’t restricted to electrical aircraft
http://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/news-media/media~item=19bf802f-1fad-4ce7-b61c-b5d6eab6b51d~.html#gallery0
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Articles » Findings & Discoveries
2 Characters in Animal Crossing Who Changed Gender in Localization
Posted on June 22, 2013 by Clyde Mandelin ‧ 44 Comments
With the new Animal Crossing game out now, I thought I’d do some quick looking around and see what interesting localization changes might exist. There’s SO much I could dig into and write about that it’d probably take years to document it all, so for now here’s just a little tidbit!
In the English versions of all the Animal Crossing games, there are two female characters known as Gracie, who’s a fashion-loving giraffe, and Saharah, a carpet-selling camel:
In the Japanese versions, they’re called “Grace” and “Roland”. And they’re actually male characters! In the Japanese versions of Animal Crossing , these characters are actually males who speak in an extremely feminine manner:
When they were localized into English, they were changed into female characters entirely:
But, wait, how do we know they’re supposed to be male in Japanese? Well, the official Japanese site (which you can see here) specifically says so:
Graces’s text there even says, “Oh, and just so you know, Grace is a he!”
Also, while we’re sort of on the subject, Saharah’s Japanese text also has a strong “foreigner who doesn’t speak Japanese natively” vibe to it. Off the top of my head I can’t recall if that was reflected in the English translations too. I feel like it might’ve been, though.
Anyway, I don’t play Animal Crossing as much as I used to, so this was all news to me! Was it news to you, or is this something everyone and their dog already knows?
Also, do you think this gender change was a good localization choice, or should it have been left alone? I’m really curious to know what fans think – let me know in the comments!
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Cleveland Rock June 22, 2013 at 6:34 pm
You might be inviting a political argument with these comments, but I think it’s a terrible idea changing effeminate male characters into female characters. Especially in a game where you can cross-dress.
Roland/Saharah doesn’t even look feminine to me.
I think the gender change was awful. Nintendo basically said men have to act “mainly”. Nintendo of America seems to have their head up their ads when it comes to censor ship.
Woof June 22, 2013 at 7:35 pm
They’re not saying that. They’re avoiding the scandal of having an openly gay character in an American kid’s game. It’s a business decision. Any level headed person, gay or otherwise, would understand that.
ILDC June 22, 2013 at 9:06 pm
Openly gay?
Woof June 23, 2013 at 3:01 am
Flamboyant fashion designer with a pink scarf and eye makeup.
Ana June 23, 2013 at 10:59 am
That’s not openly gay… Openly gay is when it’s stated they’re gay.
Olivia June 23, 2013 at 11:08 am
Not all openly gay people are flamboyant fashion designers with pink scarves and make up as well as a straight man could dress that way
Princess June 23, 2013 at 11:12 am
The thing is that femininity and masculinity has nothing to do with sexuality. It never did. Just because the character dresses a certain way says nothing about them being ‘openly gay’ or not.
Hey guys? I know that you’re technically right, and you know that the average American would consider a flamboyant fashion designer with a pink scarf and eye makeup to be gay. Nintendo cares about what the average American would think. They changed him to a girl to avoid controversy, not to say that “men have to act manly”. That was my point.
Patrick Murphy June 22, 2013 at 6:37 pm
I think it’s always cool to see some genderbending in video games, and I think Animal Crossing would have been a pretty good place to do this–especially in New Leaf, where the girl main character can wear pants and shirts and the boy main character can wear dresses and skirts without any trouble. Baby steps are okay too though!
I never actually knew until a few days ago that Sahara was supposed to be a girl, I honestly thought she was a guy. It’s funny though, she reminds me so much of Eyelashes from One Piece, and he was a guy. Is that just an odd coincidence?
J.J. June 22, 2013 at 6:39 pm
It seems like a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, some will credit NOJ for having the courage to depict gender-bending or “gender queer” characters. On the other, some will bash NOJ for having the insensitivity to depict campy, effeminate, stereotypically gay characters.
I don’t know enough about Japanese culture to say for sure what motive is more genuine. Tomato, would you say that when characters like this are included in games, it’s because their effeminate nature is considered grotesque and funny? Or is it just because the Japanese are generally cooler with gender-subversion, and thus gender-bending characters are just a normal way to include some diversity in the cast?
Mato June 22, 2013 at 6:58 pm
I think it’s a lot more common and normal in Japanese entertainment – I haven’t lived there in a good while so I can’t say how things might’ve changed/progressed over the last few years, but if anything, these two characters are portrayed more or less the same way openly homosexual celebrities/talents/personalities portray themselves in the Japanese media. So I don’t think it was NCL “pushing the envelope” or needing courage or anything, it’s just how things are there.
Alec June 22, 2013 at 6:51 pm
Woah, that’s actually pretty interesting. I’d love to read a LoL about Animal Crossing, though that’s probably a lot of text to sift through.
Toal June 22, 2013 at 8:32 pm
That comment about the giraffe sounding like a non-native speaker reminded me of something about the first Shenmue that I always found amusing. Tom, the american guy that could teach you some badass kick move. AFAIK, he was the only native english speaker in the game and yet he spoke in broken english and had the funniest accent of the entire cast.
It’s pretty obvious why this happened, since in the original version he’s the stereotypical funky black foreigner with poor japanese. Keeping that trait in a game for english-speaking countries just makes him sound dumb, though.
CrouchingMouse June 22, 2013 at 8:38 pm
Wow, that is quite honestly news to me! And here I thought I knew a lot about Animal Crossing. I guess it doesn’t surprise me too much though, since this certainly isn’t the first time Nintendo has changed a character’s gender to avoid reference to cross-dressing…
Well, that explains why “Gracie” spoke in one of the “male” voices. Saharah/Roland, I think, shares a voice with only the warthog lady(?).
Darien June 22, 2013 at 9:58 pm
Business as usual, really. I think the first time I can recall Nintendo changing an effeminate male character into a female for the US localisation was Birdo in SMB2. Animal Crossing wasn’t the last time, either; Paper Mario Y2k’s Vivian was male in the Japanese version also.
I think I’ll avoid going down crazy street and speculating on Nintendo executives’ innermost thoughts in re: cross-dressing and just mention that these changes are clearly made based on the taste of the audience and not on, like, what Reggie thinks about RuPaul.
stone cold steve austin (scsa) June 22, 2013 at 11:56 pm
IIRC Saharah did speak with a non-native vibe in English.
But man them being changed to girls! That’s a pretty odd decision.
R_N June 22, 2013 at 11:59 pm
I can kind of understand why Gracie was made female, considering the original game was translated in 2002 and it might have been more controversial than, say, today.
But Saharah being changed always seemed odd to me. He wears an open vest, nothing he says in the english version implies femininity (and yes, the dialog is done in a sort-of broken english way. Very short sentences, kind of simple structure). It’s such a random change.
FireflyMelody December 30, 2013 at 5:08 am
I’ve heard it was the long eyelashes. To avoid making Saharah/Roland LOOK like a girl, they actually MADE him a girl. …Confusing, but entirely possible. Since when has Nintendo made sense, anyway?
Tharthan January 3, 2014 at 5:38 pm
More controversial than today? What are you implying, exactly?
Andrew June 23, 2013 at 11:05 am
Hey Mato. I’ve been wondering about what Tom Nook says in the japanese games when you walk into his store and he greets you. Is it at all similar to what he says over here, “Feel free to browse, but try not to carouse?” Carouse means having a party with drinking by the way, and I’ve always thought it was odd that they snuck in a drinking reference.
Carouse actually has the primary meaning of “to drink in excess”. The “engage in a drunken gathering” meaning is a secondary meaning.
It’s derived from Middle French carousser (“to drink copiously”), which is derived from German “gar aus”, which is a shortened form of gar austrinken (“to guzzle”).
Morgil June 23, 2013 at 4:44 pm
Wow, this just really blew my mind.
Justin June 23, 2013 at 5:50 pm
Saharah definitely speaks in a stilted English. It’s fairly subtle — very good work by Nintendo’s translators — but it’s definitely there.
Casey June 25, 2013 at 3:39 pm
I always found it obnoxious when effeminate men are changed into girl characters in English localizations of games…
Also, Sahara/Roland speaks in borked English in the American version, s/he says stuff along the lines of “Me Sahara, I sell you carpet, you give me carpet and bells first”, something like that.
Margarita Law July 14, 2013 at 1:19 am
I hope that there was no gender change. Their original status should be retained and just the subtitles are change to like English from Japanese. Translation is very important so that we can understand each other and we can convey what we really wanted to tell on other people.
Ashley July 15, 2013 at 7:43 pm
You people do realize these are animals right?
I don’t think human rules apply.
“crossdressing giraffes”.. .-.
Bohepans February 3, 2014 at 3:39 am
Thank you! I’m glad someone said it.
That and let’s consider, I’m pretty sure that this is a fictional world. Correct me if I’m wrong, but given that there are talking animals running around, well… My point being, who said the same rules apply to this world as ours? It strikes me as a tiny bit odd, but I shrug it off. Their world, their game, their rules. Whatevs! It’s all find by me. It’s nothing blatantly offensive to my eyes and/or ears…and I’m bisexual, so, I feel like I have at least some small right to say that.
nihiloEXmateria July 18, 2013 at 7:13 pm
According to a friend of mine this may have been accidental: In the Japanese version of the game “Special”-characters (NPCs who are not villagers) have no gender defining variables. So the translators may have just stumbled upon situations where they felt the need to define what gender these characters where and just assumed they where female by mistake. (I have no idea how they came to the conclusion that Saharah/Roland was female though, even in the English version I always thought she/he was male.)
Interesting to note is that New Leaf’s villager Julie kept his gender, only having his name changed to the more masculine Julian. Also this:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/89084009000c2254671215208e877f71/tumblr_mpdswiHWEf1qmc4vro1_500.png
Azure Lazuline August 2, 2013 at 10:30 pm
For Saharah, I honestly think the gender swap had nothing to do with stereotypes or personalities or anything – they just wanted to make that awesome name pun, and “Sarah” happens to be a girl’s name, that’s all.
Gracie is a little different, though. If you listen closely, she uses one of the male voices, and her face looks a little bit masculine if you don’t count the makeup. However, everyone calls her “she,” including herself. You know what that means, right? NoA should be thanked, not criticized, because they are progressive enough to depict the first transsexual character in Nintendo history! So be careful, I don’t think Gracie would appreciate it if you say you wish her gender didn’t change.
Cheryl August 11, 2013 at 10:03 am
Why do we have to bring this gay or cross dresser into a game for children? Don’t froget this is a child’s game. So adults play and have to interject their why of life.
Children hare pure in thought and dont even know what transgender, cross dresser or gay is. Unles a adult try’s to bring it up. Children don’t see if it is a guy or a girl.
Please keep this game free from politics!!!!
Demosthenes August 25, 2013 at 3:18 pm
Being LBGT is not a “way of life”. Sexual orientation and gender identity are distinct from behavior. Many of the children playing AC are LGBT themselves, and are going to realize it sooner than you think (Put it this way – when did you first know you were straight? When did you first know that your physical and mental genders were the same? How much sooner would you have noticed if, rather than being the same as 90% of the world, you were different than them?).
Don’t reduce people, particularly those who have traditionally been victimized and marginalized by society, to mere impersonal political “issues” to be dealt with.
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Irrespective of whether such is the case, the way they are depicted in the Animal Crossing series is both stereotypical and annoying.
I’m tired of seeing effeminate fashion designers every five seconds. I really am.
Nichi January 6, 2014 at 4:19 pm
It’s not keeping the game “Free from politics” by giving a few cartoon animal vaginas. You CAN crossdress in the game, as both genders, so that one’s . No one is gay because the only characters that ever mention romantic interest are randomized and usually just gossip from third parties. Children don’t see if it is a guy or a girl, and moreso they don’t CARE, and that’s exactly why randomly making the friendly carpet salesman a saleswoman makes no sense once so ever. Nothing about the game is offensive in Japan, it’s appearance + traits + outfit + voice. None of the traits are “rapist” or “pedophile” or “weirdly political about everything”, they’re “gentlemanly and flirty” or “afraid of bugs”.
TL;DR: Sure, and let’s make Nan a white goat instead of a black goat to avoid racism, eh? You’re a dick.
Mskitty August 16, 2013 at 3:35 pm
Well i already knew about this but i didn’t care very much.
I Think that having a male fashion designer would make some people be all like “OH GRACE IS GAY!” and be yelling it like everywhere. Some people are just stupid like that but i think the people who actually play animal crossing aren’t at all like that because animal crossing is complicated in so many ways.
Ryan C. October 10, 2013 at 5:47 am
I find pointless censorship like this VERY offensive. It tells me that Nintendo doesn’t respect its audience’s intelligence or understanding when it comes to topics such as cross dressing, sexuality, and gender identification; even in games like Animal Crossing. They only changed the text and character dialog, but it tells me a lot about the people who make the choices about localization. This isn’t 1992, western audiences will be able to cope, understand, and possibly relate to these “issues.” It was a creative decision by the Japanese developer to portray Grace and Roland as they did. Localization like this, while small, can impact the intended message. Animal Crossing is all about interacting will interesting characters in an accepting world. How “unique” is a girl who likes fashion? Give me my cross-dressers dammit xD. It makes me wonder what else they edited to appeal to our “Western” sensibilities. Perhaps I’m over reacting, nope!
Dinner Sonic December 20, 2013 at 12:11 am
It’s been sorta kinda mentioned in comments, but while Animal Crossing: New Leaf surprisingly had the ability to cross dress and have it both pointed out and complimented by other characters, these characters first appeared in earlier games. It makes me wonder if they would have not done this if they first appeared in New Leaf?
Well that just makes SO much sense; after all, in real life only females have eyelashes and male fashion designers are a myth! Nintendo needs to stop being stupid with localization, and I’m just glad they realized they couldn’t genderbend the fabulous peacock. Grac(i)e will always be my favorite character because of their hilarious attitude,
Also, I want to know what Mabel says when you wear a skirt; in English, it really sounds like she’s insulting you under her breath with the way she says it, the English version is “Oh… well, I guess it’s OK to be a bit more adventurous sometimes.” Though mostly it just bugs me because of how oblivious she is at the girl wearing a tuxedo or ‘grandpa’ outfit. When those actually ARE gendered, moreso than a kilt at least.
The fact that Nintendo (and especially Nintendo America) is more offended by the idea of dudes in skirts than many, many furniture items having visible genitalia and nipples really makes me judging of moral guardians in general. I mean, I’m fine with the visible naughty bits too, but there’s at least a relatively legitimate reason to censor nakedness.
Actually, the gender change came up even earlier than that. On the official E-Cards, all of the characters have their gender listed. Gracie, Saharah and Blanca all have the male symbol on their cards. This happens on every card for them, even some promotional cards with different artwork. Another interesting change that you might want to cover is Jane’s drastic art change.
Kyle August 22, 2014 at 3:13 pm
Honestly, I knew this, but I see the reasoning behind Nintendo’s decision. Nintendo thinks the kids they’re marketing to can’t handle effeminate males and will get uncomfortable playing it.
Anon January 22, 2016 at 3:26 am
What? No, that’s not it at all. It’s because Nintendo thinks that PARENTS (ie soccer moms) can’t handle their children seeing effeminate males. Huge difference.
Nintendo is afraid of controversy, because a lot of it has happened here in the states because of uneducated or intolerant idiots. Like the Pokemon card with a swastika on it, “Koga’s Trick” if I remember correctly, or Mario Party (7?) being recalled in the UK because it used the word “spastic” (which is completely tame in the US but apparently the equivalent of “retarded” in the UK).
Nintendo thinks that the US is full of puritans (because until very recently, we really were) and want to maintain their family-friendly image.
Kyle February 5, 2016 at 4:51 pm
You are correct about Saharah’s English text. Her text is intentionally fragmented, and also includes asking ‘yes’ and ‘no’ at inappropriate times.
Peter August 2, 2018 at 5:22 am
Hopefully, after these last three years of RuPaul’s Dragrace being a global phenomenon, Nintendo won’t have to change the assigned gender of a fashion concious giraffe in localization.
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Minors, parents could be sued for underage drinking
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Fake ID users beware: Bar or store owners could sue you for $1,000 if you try to trick them into selling you alcohol.
Under a bill with bipartisan support in the state Legislature, drinkers under 21 or their parents could be sued if they misrepresent their age to get alcohol.
The measure, Assembly Bill 61, is patterned after the so-called “brown jug” law in Alaska, said sponsor Rep. Andre Jacque, R-DePere. Sen. Rick Gudex, R-Fond du Lac, is sponsoring the companion Senate Bill 46.
Jacque said underage drinkers who enter a building with a required sign warning underage drinkers about the possibility of a lawsuit and who try to illegally buy alcohol could be sued by the proprietor for $1,000.
The new penalty would be on top of municipal underage drinking tickets, which can range from $250 to $1,000, depending on the number of violations, he said.
“The law serves the dual purpose of deterrence and punishment, promotes supervigilance (and) discourages minors from coming in the door to make the purchase in the first place,” Jacque told the Assembly Committee on State Affairs.
Jacque called underage drinking a “tremendous public health concern in Wisconsin.” He cited federal statistics that say 20 percent of Wisconsin’s young people ages 12 to 20 reported binge drinking in the previous month.
Alaska’s law, passed in 2001, has “dramatically improved” ID checking among businesses that sell alcohol, Jacque said.
Tavern owners testifying at a hearing last week at the Capitol said the law would help them turn the tables on underage drinkers who pose a danger to their liquor licenses. Purveyors can face hundreds of dollars in fines and possible loss of their right to sell alcohol if caught selling to underage customers.
Pat Purtell, owner of Terry’s Bar in Oshkosh, told lawmakers he has collected as many as 300 fake IDs in less than six months, but police never followed through on his requests to investigate underage drinkers.
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“The bottom line is, the system is broke the way it is now,” said Purtell, who has run bars for 40 years. “It is a battle every single day to keep these kids out. I mean, they’re breaking the laws ... Please understand, I don’t want to serve them.”
Democrats on the committee said they like the measure but were concerned about the provision allowing for “reasonable attorneys’ fees” to be charged. Rep. Robb Kahl, D-Monona, said the costs to young adults — and their parents if they’re 17 or younger — could be thousands of dollars if attorneys’ fees are included.
Jacque agreed to reconsider the issue of attorneys’ fees as the proposal moves through the Legislature, saying it is “not the primary thrust” of the bill.
The main group pushing the legislation is the Tavern League of Wisconsin, which has advocated for similar bills that have fallen short of passage in recent sessions.
“Over the years I have testified on many legislative bills, and I can honestly say this is the first time I have testified where it is a no-brainer,” said Pete Madland, the Tavern League’s executive director. “I cannot imagine anyone, (except) maybe some underage people ... opposing this bill.”
Health First Wisconsin, which works to prevent alcohol abuse, did register in opposition to Assembly Bill 61. The group’s executive director, Maureen Busalacchi, said in a statement that it could provide a “financial incentive to licensed premises owners, almost rewarding them for allowing underage drinking to occur that their establishment.”
But Madland said owners would not jeopardize their liquor licenses for the chance of making money by entrapping underage drinkers.
A group of UW-Madison students eating lunch at the Memorial Union on Monday said the proposed penalty was too harsh, especially for students struggling to pay tuition and other expenses.
Margot Peterson, a 19-year-old freshman from Whitefish Bay, said underage drinking tickets, which can cost hundreds of dollars, already deter those under 21 from hitting the bars — but only after they’re caught.
“Our friends who’ve gotten tickets, they just don’t go to bars anymore,” Peterson said.
Just putting a sign on the front door probably wouldn’t cut it, she said, adding, “It is a matter of following through and actually suing.”
The measure would not be a complete ban on underage drinking. It would not change the existing state law that allows children under 21 who are accompanied by a parent to consume alcohol.
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"Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?"
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Synopsis for "Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?"
As the police try to find out who employed the Enforcers to hold patrons of the Coffee Bean hostage to draw out Spider-Man, Spider-Man himself listens in to learn what he can about the situation as well, however it gets nowhere.
Meanwhile, Lightmaster -- the employer in question -- reviews the news coverage of the Enforcers defeat and incorrectly deduces that Hector Ayala is Spider-Man and decides to go out and capture him. This happens in front of Peter Parker, and Holly Gillis on the ESU campus, and regardless of Peter's efforts to prevent it, Lightmaster captures Hector and escapes. As Flash takes Holly to Sha's place, Holly gives Peter, Hector's amulets. Peter recognizes what these amulets are, and deduces that Hector is the White Tiger.
As Spider-Man, Peter tracks down Hector, Lightmaster sets up TV cameras where he "exposes" Hector as Spider-Man to everyone watching and is about to destroy him when Spider-Man arrives and secretly gives Hector his amulets. Hector changes into White Tiger, revealing his identity to the viewing public, causing Holly to hate him. With the help of Spider-Man, he battles Lightmaster. During the fight, Lightmaster overtaxes the power supply and causes a blackout, which is what has been keeping his energy form cohesive, without power to keep him sustained, Lightmaster passes out and dissolves, seemingly destroyed.
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Lightmaster recounts his origins. He gained his powers in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #3.
Peter remembers meeting Hector during the protests over the cancellation of night school in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #9.
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Students turn discarded plastic bags into bricks
Tonnes of plastic waste, particularly discarded plastic bags threaten our planet with environmental pollution, and by now almost everybody knows it.
TRIAL AND ERROR: The students conduct an experiment to make bricks with plastic bags. Photo baosuckhoecongdong.vn
However, knowing what the problem is and solving it are two different things. Luckily, a group of students have found their own way to cut waste and protect the environment.
The five students from the University of Transport and Communications in Hanoi have created a mixture of materials with plastic bags as a component to produce bricks that can be used to pave streets.
The idea first sounded strange as materials like asphalt, concrete, stone and sands are more commonly used in the road building industry.
However, the traditional way may have to change as the students have proved plastic can be used to make bricks.
In their research, instead of using concrete as the major material, they used plastic bags.
Their project recently won an outstanding and first prize at the university’s yearly contest for students in scientific research.
It is now competing at a national contest on environmental protection and has been tipped for success.
As part of their research, the team had to experiment on more than 50 samples to find the right ratio between stone, sand and plastic at an adaptable temperature.
“One brick needs 0.9kg of plastic bags to make, so 100 bricks will need about 90kg of plastic bags. If concrete is replaced by nylon bags, large amounts of plastic waste which are released into the environment every day would be consumed,” said one of the group.
Tran The Anh, the group's leader from the Bridge, Road and Airport Faculty, said there was no optimal solution to completely solve the issue of pollution due to huge amount of plastic bags being discharged into the environment.
“So, instead of burying them or waiting for years for them to decompose, we should recycle them into new products. We came up with a plan to recycle them by reproducing them into a useful and safe material,” Anh said.
“Plastic bags are originally made from polymer granules. Based on the knowledge we learned at the university’s Building Materials and Polymer Concrete Faculty, we thought, 'Why not replace the binder of concrete with the polymer from the plastic bags?'"
The group embarked on research in November last year and started experiments this February.
It took two days for them to collect dozens of kilos of plastic waste from a landfill in Hanoi’s Soc Son District.
“The landfill is the gathering place for many different types of waste so we had to dig it all up to find the plastic bags. It took us two days to collect more than 20kg of them,” said Pham Van Duc, another member of the group.
By using what they have learnt, the group then tried making construction materials from sand, gravel and plastic bags.
The bags were washed, cleaned and dried then heated up to a certain temperature.
“It sounds simple but to complete a product, we had to try many times to find a ‘golden ratio’ between the aggregates: 50-60 per cent of stone, 20-25 per cent of yellow sand, 5-10 per cent of stone powder and 25 per cent of plastic bags,” Anh explained.
As it was run by students, the project had financial support of a mere VND600,000 (US$26).
TEAMWORK: A group of five students and their tutor from the Hanoi University of Transpor and Communications have created a mixture of materials with plastic bags as a major component to produce bricks that can be used to pave streets. Photo baosuckhoecongdong.vn
Experts have said bricks made with plastic material at an appropriate ratio could be used for paving roads as they are highly durable, can be easily used for paving and can partly help solve the issue of plastic waste.
A brick is about 3.7kg weight and it needs 0.9kg of plastic bags to produce.
Viphavady Inthapatha, a student from Laos, who is also a member of the group, has strong memories about the time he joined the group to collect plastic bags in the landfill.
“We travelled by motorbikes to Soc Son landfill which looks like a mountain of rubbish. Wearing gloves and masks, we started to pick up each plastic bag from the pile,” said Inthapatha.
According to Duc, during the experiments, their biggest challenge was finding the appropriate mixing ratio between the materials.
The group first wasted a lot of time cutting plastic bags into small pieces for testing because they thought the whole bags, when heated, would burn and mix unevenly.
However, when they cut them into small sizes, the plastic immediately shrunk and clumped without cohesion.
They had to redo it again and again until they found that keeping the original size of the bags and reheating them would create an adhesive material that helps increase the product's durability.
“We had to test more than 50 different samples over and over to find the standard mixing ratio between stone, sand and plastic. Stone acts as a material with high strength, sand helps fill the voids between stones and plastic acts as a binder,” Duc said.
READY FOR USE: A brick made of a mixture with plastic bags as part of the components. Photo: VNN
The materials were mixed and heated together at about 180-220 degrees Celsius.
During the heating process, the mixture is constantly and evenly stirred so that melted plastic can flow and stick together to the aggregate particles.
The mixture will be immediately poured into a mould and compacted by machines, hammer or compactor to make the final products.
Although they faced many difficulties during the process, the students stuck to their task and spent most of their spare time on experiments.
The students received support from their teacher, Prof Phạm Huy Khang who provided them with space and equipment for their experiments at the university, including mixing and pressing machines and a compactor.
“Their product is very feasible, applicable and practical to reality as it will help solve part of the problem of plastic waste pollution in our country. This product, if further improved, can be put into application for paving streets," Khang said.
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Fork and Salad, A New Kind of Fast Healthy Eatery in Kihei
January 18, 2017 by Jen Russo Leave a Comment
One of the newest restaurants to hit Maui is Fork and Salad. A concept dreamed up by the chefs behind Three’s Bar and Grill—Travis Morrin, Jaron Blosser and Cody Christopher—it’s meant to be a lean, mean, salad building machine. Oh, and they do sandwiches too.
“We designed this with the idea that you as soon as you meet with one of our salad techs it’s a three-minute process from start to finish,” says Morrin. “We have signature salads, classics or build your own, then you can add your proteins.”
Here are the stats: 12 signature salads, 11 dressings, 50 ingredients, seven sandwiches, four fresh pressed juices, six proteins, five leafy green bases, three soups, six Big Wave kombuchas on tap, One Nitro coffee and several beers and wines to choose from. The combinations are limitless.
“The sandwiches are awesome,” says Blosser. “The soups are awesome. You can do combos now. You can do a half salad and a soup for the same price, so you have a few more options. The Big Wave kombucha is doing really well. We have the biggest tap on the island. We have six kombucha, one kefir and one nitro coffee. They change regularly depending on what Big Wave makes. The beer and wine is not our focus, but its for the people who would like that, just in case.”
The restaurant is where Stella Blues used to be. Fork and Salad has a gorgeous and modern build out. The design is very clean, and welcoming. Blosser, Morrin and Christopher worked on the construction as well as the concept. They built counters, recycling bins, railings, tables and the water station areas themselves.
“We wanted to pass the savings onto our customers,” says Christopher. “We kept our start-up costs down, did a lot ourselves. We want people to not have any excuse for not eating healthy!”
As you enter the restaurant you approach towards the salad bar, menu boards overhead highlight the different salad bases, sandwiches, soups and pricing. The fresh salad greens are stacked right behind the salad bar, and all of the prepped ingredients like cukes, avo, pineapple, kabocha, chickpeas, red onion, garlic chips, carrots, beets, sprouts–50 in all–are in the bar. Proteins include chicken breast, falafel, ahi belly, seared ahi, poached shrimp and tofu. They also have a category called super finish add options like chia, flax or hemp seeds, bee pollen or nutritional yeast for a $1. As you’re greeted you order, then watch the salad come together. You can make any of your salad choices into a wrap, too.
“This concept is so new, the first time somebody walked up to the counter, we did not know how that was going to go,” says Blosser. “So it took us about a week to get some systems down to make the salad bar work. This is how we’re filling the bowls, this is how we’re stocking the bar. Finally it fell into place. Honestly, it was a lot easier than Three’s. It’s an eatery. It’s a fast food health food concept. I think people just picked up on it. We’re really happy.”
The sandwich menu has been a hit as well, featuring seven sandwiches designed in the 500- to 700-calorie range. I was surprised that the pastrami seasoned ahi was the lowest in calories, at 522. They also have lemon and thyme chicken, falafel and quinoa, roasted eggplant and goat cheese, shrimp and avo and an ahi melt.
“The smokey papaya chicken sandwich is our most popular sandwich,” says Morrin. “You can get this with a bowl of chili for two more bucks. What’s really great about the bread that we use is it comes from Blue Door Bakery. It’s a naturally fermented sourdough focaccia. There’s no yeast, and it’s organic. It’s the best kind of gluten you can put in your body, if you’re down to eat bread. And it’s made fresh daily here in South Maui. All the greens come from Maui, as many ingredients as possible are sourced on Maui, if not from the State of Hawaii. There are just a few small odds and ends–like, for example, the eggs. There are not enough organic eggs locally, so we buy cage-free organic from the Mainland. Everything else comes from Maui and it just tastes good that way.”
Fork and Salad had a banana kefir on tap next to the kombuchas. I hadn’t tried a non-dairy kefir before so I asked David Smithey of Big Wave Beverage Co. about it.
“Most people think of dairy kefir when they think of kefir, but this is a water-based kefir,” says Smithey. “They are fermented with grains. Well we call them ‘grains’ but they aren’t really grains. It’s a bacteria yeast formation that goes into it, like a scobie, and they look like little pearls. They ferment in the same way that kombucha does. It has a first ferment, then a second ferment where you add your flavors in. As for kombucha, hands down my Ginger Turmeric is the most popular flavor. In fact, I think that one is sold out right now. Cranberry is really nice, too, and it’s a seasonal flavor right now. Pineapple beet is an unusual mix–it’s really good. ”
The banana kefir was a total winner for me. I like probiotics, but I don’t love kombucha. I felt like the kefir was a little less sweet and fizzy. Another beverage you have to try while here are the fresh squeezed juices and the turmeric shot, made with honey lemon and cayenne.
“We make our own juice,” says Blosser. “We have the Dawn Patrol, the Mean Green, and our Roots and Spice. We bottle them every morning for the grab-and-go section. Everything here is designed to be fast. We also do a turmeric shot. It’s not bottled but it’s in a container in the fridge. Be prepared–it’s really strong and tasty. I love them, I take them all the time.”
On South Maui’s Fourth Friday, Fork and Salad gets into the block party by creating a farmers market and beer garden on their patio.
“We partner with Brian from Okoa Farms,” says Morrin. “We set up a farmers market at night out on our patio area. He brings down a full spread, all certified organic, from one end of the patio to the other. He brings some really interesting stuff as well as his standard produce and fruits, it’s really amazing. Then we have the beer garden out there, too. We sell $5 Maui draft beers. It’s just a really nice place to hang out and get a salad and a beer on a Friday night and cruise.”
Fork and Salad has a phone app, and since using it a few times, it has been my go to way to pick up my salads. You can create your own salad, order up sandwiches and soups, and pay for it all using the phone. Then it will be ready on the side of the register. Skip the line and pick up.
FORK AND SALAD
1279 S. Kihei Rd.
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Photos by Sean Hower
Filed Under: Maui Restaurants Tagged With: Chef Cody Christopher, Chef Jaron Blosser, Chef Travis Morrin, Fork & Salad, healthy food, Kombucha, salad, sandwich
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Next-Gen Dodge Viper in Training
April 15, 2011 The long, cold and snowy winter presented a perfect environment for the ultimate American-built sports car and icon of the Dodge brand’s performance car lineup to prepare for its imminent return. Using a 2010 chassis as a test subject, SRT engineers expanded the development scope for the next generation Dodge Viper to include stability control tuning for the first time. The development comes just in time for the next-generation snake to hit the streets and tracks late in 2012.
Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR Does It Again: Kuno Wittmer Sets Production Car Lap Record at Miller Motorsports Park
April 14, 2011 The Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR (American Club Racer) has made history at yet another storied road course. Renowned Dodge road racer Kuno Wittmer piloted a street legal 2010 Dodge Viper ACR to a 1:59.995 lap at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah, on Monday, April 11, breaking the 2-minute mark for the first time in a production car on the 3.048-mile Outer Course configuration.
Two-Time Formula DRIFT Champ Hubinette to Field Two-Car Dodge Team in 2011
March 25, 2011 Two-time champion Samuel Hubinette is set to unleash a one-two Dodge punch on the Formula DRIFT (FD) Series in 2011.
The “Crazy Swede,” who returns for a second year of dual owner and driver roles, will drive his own Samuel Hubinette Racing (SHR) Dodge Motorsports Dodge Challenger, while new teammate, European ProDrift champ Dean Kearney will pilot the SHR Dodge Viper SRT10, sponsored by V-LEDS-Federal.
Dodge Viper Cup Series Returns in 2011; Official Race Schedule Announced
December 9, 2010 Following a successful first season of intense on-track competition, Dodge Motorsports has announced the official schedule for the return of the Dodge Viper Cup series in 2011.
Dodge Announces Dealer Exclusive Program Offering Unique 2010 Viper SRT10s
June 7, 2010 The 2010 model year just got even more exclusive for the Dodge Viper. The Dodge brand is unveiling three new unique 2010 Viper SRT10 vehicles as part of its "Dealer Exclusive Program."
2010 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR-X Ready to Tame Any Road Course
June 4, 2010 The 2010 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR-X is “the” ultimate special-edition model of America’s ultimate sports car. Combining the best performance attributes of the record-setting, street-legal Dodge Viper American Club Racer (ACR) and the safety equipment of championship-winning Dodge Viper Competition Coupe, the Viper ACR-X is powered by the SRT-developed 8.4-liter V-10 engine, equipped with factory headers and a low-restriction exhaust system, that produces 640 horsepower (40 more than the production model) and 605 lb.-ft. of torque (45 more than the production model).
Dodge Pulls Skin Off of 2010 Viper SRT10 Final Edition Models
April 6, 2010 To celebrate the final year of production for the current-generation Dodge Viper, Dodge is building 50 2010 Viper SRT10 "Final Edition" models.
Dodge Begins Production of 2010 Viper SRT10 ACR-X
March 30, 2010 The next chapter in the storied racing history of the Dodge Viper is being written as the first 2010 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR-X rolled off the assembly line at the Conner Avenue Assembly Plant in Detroit on Monday, March 29.
Dodge Targets Road Racing Enthusiasts With 2010 Viper SRT10 ACR-X
December 10, 2009 Dodge today pulled the cover off the newest special-edition model of the 2010 Viper SRT10 lineup. The Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR-X is a turn-key, non-street legal race car that is slated to make its on-track debut in the summer of 2010.
Dodge Viper SRT10® Lives On As the Ultimate American Sports Car
December 2, 2009 To celebrate the final production year of the current generation Dodge Viper SRT10, Dodge plans to deliver a vehicle lineup like no other since the introduction of the iconic American sports car in 1992. At the heart of the 2010 Dodge Viper SRT10 remains the venerable 8.4-liter (510 cu. in.) V-10 engine that produces 600 (450 kW) horsepower and 560 lb.-ft. (760 N•m) of torque.
Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR Recaptures Lap Record at Laguna Seca
November 24, 2009 The Street and Racing Technology (SRT) team from Chrysler Group LLC arrived at Laguna Seca raceway today on a mission – to recapture the production car lap record at the world-renowned road course in Monterey, Calif.
What's New for 2010: Dodge Viper SRT10®: The Ultimate American Sports Car
September 1, 2009 There is nothing else like the Dodge Viper SRT10®. Offered in Roadster and Coupe models and the ACR (American Club Racer) package, Dodge Viper SRT10 delivers serious, race-inspired performance without apology.
Dodge Viper SRT10 Will Live On
July 10, 2009 Chrysler Group LLC announced today that production will continue for the legendary Dodge Viper SRT10. Originally slated to cease production in December 2009, the Chrysler Group Conner Avenue Assembly Plant — the exclusive home of Dodge Viper production since 1995 — will continue to build the V-10 powered sports car. Chrysler Group is no longer pursuing a sale of the Viper business assets.
What's New for '09: 2009 Dodge Viper SRT10®: Still the Ultimate American Sports Coupe, 25,000 Hand-built Vehicles Later
September 1, 2008 The 2009 Dodge Viper SRT10® is the ultimate American sports car and the icon of the Dodge brand. For 2009, the Dodge Viper SRT10 offers the outrageous power expected, with an 8.4-liter 600-horsepower (450 kW) V-10 engine contributing to blistering acceleration (0-60 mph in less than four seconds, 0-100-0 mph in the low 12-second range), setting an American sports car benchmark.
25,000 Vipers Loose on the Streets
March 12, 2008 Chrysler LLC's Conner Avenue Assembly Plant reached a manufacturing milestone today, building its 25,000th Dodge Viper. The new owner of the milestone 2008 Viper SRT10 is none other than Kurt Busch, who received the vehicle in a ceremony held at the Detroit facility in recognition of his racing accomplishments as the top Dodge driver in the 2007 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
Media Advisory: Chrysler LLC Honors Dodge NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver Kurt Busch with 25,000th Dodge Viper at Conner Avenue Assembly
March 10, 2008 Chrysler reaches another manufacturing milestone, producing its 25,000th Dodge Viper at Conner Avenue Assembly Plant. This 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 will be awarded to NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kurt Busch for recognition of his racing accomplishments as the top Dodge driver in 2007, Wednesday, March 12, 11 a.m. press conference.
Even More Viper Venom! Dodge introduces street-legal 2008 Viper SRT10® ACR
November 9, 2007 Dodge announced today that the all-new 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10® ACR - short for American Club Racer - will make its public debut at next week's Los Angeles Auto Show. The latest addition to Chrysler LLC's Street and Racing Technology (SRT) family of performance vehicles, the all-new, 600 horsepower 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR is a street-legal Viper engineered to dominate on the race track. Because it is street legal, diehard Viper and track enthusiasts can driver their car to the race track, run it at speed on the track, and then drive it home.
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Chicago News Landscape
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Jay Jennings
Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud
The city of Chicago is demographically diverse. This diversity is particularly notable across three regions: the North / Downtown, the West Side, and the South Side. To date, little is known about what people in these regions think about the Chicago news media’s coverage of their neighborhoods and issues important to them. We partnered with a local news organization, City Bureau, to better understand nuances across Chicago. Using a representative sample of 900 Chicago residents, stratified based on these three regions, we explore attitudes towards, and preferences for, Chicago news media. In general, we find that those living on the West and South Sides of Chicago felt underrepresented or poorly represented by Chicago news media, but are also the most interested in getting involved in Chicago news organizations. This research was funded by the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.
Study findings include:
Across all regions, Chicago residents see “crime and law enforcement” as the most important issue facing their neighborhood.
Residents in the West and South regions of Chicago are more likely to cite “crime and law enforcement” as an important issue facing their neighborhood than are residents in the North / Downtown region.
North / Downtown residents think Chicago news media offer better coverage of crime and law enforcement than do residents of the West or South regions.
West and South Side residents are more likely to see coverage of their neighborhoods as too negative and believe that it quotes the wrong people than are North / Downtown residents.
North / Downtown residents are more likely to say coverage of their neighborhood does a good job of showing what’s going on than West and South Side residents.
North / Downtown residents are more likely to have communicated with a journalist or attended an event hosted by a news organization than South Side residents.
Despite feeling poorly represented by Chicago news media, South and West Side residents are more interested in volunteering to report on a public meeting than North / Downtown residents are.
Respondents are more likely to donate $10 to a free news site than pay a fee of $10 to access news.
Some of the differences by region can be explained by demographic factors like race/ethnicity.
CRIME, LAW ENFORCEMENT MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS
Overwhelmingly, Chicago residents think the most important issue facing their neighborhood is “crime and law enforcement.” Around fifty-seven percent of Chicago residents cite “crime and law enforcement” as an important issue facing their neighborhood.
Notes: Multiple responses permitted. Question wording: “What are the most important issues facing your neighborhood?” Includes only the 770 respondents who gave a response to this question.
The issues that are important to residents of Chicago vary by region (Table 1). Residents from the West and South Sides of Chicago are more likely to cite “crime and law enforcement” as one of the most important issues facing their neighborhoods than are North / Downtown residents.1 North / Downtown residents are more likely to say “housing, zoning, and land use” and “transportation” than those in living on the West and South Sides.2 Those in the North / Downtown region also mention “education” as an important issue more than those on the West Side and the “environment” more than those on the South Side.3
Table 1. Most Important Issues Facing My Neighborhood
Issue Chicago North / Downtown West South
Crime and Law Enforcement 56.6% 41.2%* 74.4% 68.8%
Housing, Zoning, and Land Use 12.4 19.5* 6.3 6.8
Economic Issues 9.0 10.3 5.9 9.6
Transportation 6.5 8.7* 1.6 2.5
Education 4.4 6.3* 2.0* 3.5
Environmental 3.6 6.4* 4.2 0.7*
Notes: Multiple responses permitted. *Indicates region percent is statistically different from other regions at the p < .05 level. If two regions have a * they are significantly different from each other, but not from the other region.
CHICAGO MEDIA HAVE ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT IN COVERING IMPORTANT ISSUES
Just as there are differences in which issues are seen as important across the various Chicago regions, perceptions of how the news media cover these issues differ by region (Table 2). South Side residents believe that the Chicago news media does a worse job covering the most important issue facing their neighborhood compared to North / Downtown residents.4
Table 2. Perceptions of News Coverage of Most Important Issues
Issue Chicago North / Downtown* West South*
Very good job 7.4% 8.2% 7.7% 7.0%
Good job 26.1 32.6 23.3 22.0
Acceptable job 29.3 27.2 33.6 29.6
Poor job 22.7 21.0 16.5 25.0
Very poor job 12.0 7.2 17.1 15.4
Notes: Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “How good of a job would you say the Chicago news media does in covering [FIRST MENTION OF MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD]?” *Indicates that the North / Downtown region is significantly different from the South region at the p < .05 level.
When looking only at coverage of crime and law enforcement, there are significant differences in perceptions of coverage across regions. When only looking at those who cite crime and law enforcement as the most important issue facing their neighborhood, residents in both the South and West regions say the news media do a worse job covering crime and law enforcement than those residing in the North / Downtown region.5
Table 3. Perceptions of News Coverage of Crime & Law Enforcement
Chicago North / Downtown* West South
Very good job 10.4% 14.1% 6.7% 9.8%
Poor job 17.5 7.1 17.3 22.1
Notes: Percentages for respondents who gave crime and law enforcement as their first response. Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “How good of a job would you say the Chicago news media does in covering [MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES FACING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD]?” *Indicates the response for the North / Downtown region is significantly different than the response of the other regions at the p < .05 level.
BIG DIFFERENCES ACROSS CHICAGO REGIONS IN HOW RESIDENTS THINK THE NEWS MEDIA SEES THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS
We asked respondents to describe the way that the Chicago news media thinks about their neighborhood. Responses are markedly different in tone and topic depending on where the respondent lives. We generated word clouds based on the frequency of mentions for each word or phrase across the three regions.
Notes: Larger words or phrases indicate more mentions. Multiple responses permitted. Question wording: “If you were to describe the way the Chicago media thinks about your neighborhood, what two or three words would you use?”
NEWS SEEN AS NOT REPRESENTING NEIGHBORHOODS WELL, VARIES BY REGION
Residents living on the West and South Sides are more likely to say that stories about their neighborhood quote the wrong people than are North Side / Downtown residents (Table 4). Just over half of residents in the West (51.5%) and 41.5% percent of residents in the South agree that stories about their neighborhood quote the wrong people compared to 27.4% of North / Downtown residents.6
Notes: Percentages combine “strongly agree” and “somewhat agree” responses. Question wording: “Thinking about the stories from all local news sources that you’ve used in the past 30 days, please let me know whether you agree or disagree with the following statements… Stories about my neighborhood quote the wrong people.” The response for the North / Downtown region is significantly different than the response of the other regions at the p < .05 level.
Table 4. “Stories about My Neighborhood Quote the Wrong People”
Strongly agree 17.8% 11.5% 26.3% 25.0%
Somewhat agree 17.6 15.9 24.8 16.5
Neither agree nor disagree 17.9 24.3 6.2 12.7
Somewhat disagree 22.0 23.1 19.8 21.3
Strongly disagree 18.7 18.5 19.0 19.1
I haven’t seen any stories
about my neighborhood 1.9 3.3 1.1 0.8
Notes: Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “Thinking about the stories from all local news sources that you’ve used in the past 30 days, please let me know whether you agree or disagree with the following statements…Stories about my neighborhood quote the wrong people.” *Indicates the response for the North / Downtown region is significantly different than the response of the other regions at the p < .05 level.
Those in the North / Downtown region are more likely to agree that stories about their neighborhood do a good job of showing what’s going on (62.4%) compared to those in the West (42.9%) and South (38.1%) Sides (Table 5).7
Notes: Percentages combine “strongly agree” and “somewhat agree” responses. Question wording: “Thinking about the stories from all local news sources that you’ve used in the past 30 days, please let me know whether you agree or disagree with the following statements…Stories about my neighborhood do a good job of showing what is going on.” The response for the North / Downtown region is significantly different than the response of the other regions at the p < .05 level.
Table 5. “Stories About my Neighborhood do a Good Job of Showing What is Going On”
Neither agree nor disagree 9.8 9.2 4.1 10.7
Strongly disagree 16.8 7.8 21.9 26.8
Notes: Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “Thinking about the stories from all local news sources that you’ve used in the past 30 days, please let me know whether you agree or disagree with the following statements… Stories about my neighborhood do a good job of showing what is going on.” *Indicates the response for the North / Downtown region is significantly different than the response of the other regions at the p < .05 level.
West Side residents are more likely to say stories about their neighborhood are too negative than are residents living on the North / Downtown (Table 6). Approximately 68% of residents in the West and 54.2% of residents in the South agree that stories about their neighborhood are too negative compared to 26.4% of residents in the North / Downtown region.8
Notes: Percentages combine “strongly agree” and “somewhat agree” responses. Question wording: ““Thinking about the stories from all local news sources that you’ve used in the past 30 days, please let me know whether you agree or disagree with the following statements…Stories about my neighborhood are too negative.” The response for the North / Downtown region is significantly different than the response of the other regions at the p < .05 level.
Table 6. “Stories about My Neighborhood Are Too Negative”
Notes: Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “Thinking about the stories from all local news sources that you’ve used in the past 30 days, please let me know whether you agree or disagree with the following statements…Stories about my neighborhood are too negative.” *Indicates the response for the North / Downtown region is significantly different from the other regions at the p < .05 level.
A majority of Chicago residents agree that there aren’t enough stories about their neighborhood (59.5%) and that people from their neighborhood aren’t in the news (54.9%; see Table 7). There are no significant differences among the regions on these measures of how one’s neighborhood is represented in the news.9
Table 7. Impressions of the Amount of Neighborhood Coverage
Aren’t Enough Stories about my Neighborhood People from my Neighborhood Aren’t in the News
Strongly agree 30.5% 29.3%
Somewhat agree 29.0 25.6
Neither agree nor disagree 12.1 12.9
Somewhat disagree 14.3 18.5
Strongly disagree 12.0 10.8
Notes: Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “Thinking about the stories from all local news sources that you’ve used in the past 30 days, please let me know whether you agree or disagree with the following statements… There aren’t enough stories about my neighborhood in the news media”; “People from my neighborhood aren’t in the news.” Differences across regions are not significant at the p < .05 level.
NEWS COVERAGE OF CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS “AVERAGE”
When asked to evaluate recently used news sources for whether they did a good job of covering Chicago respondents’ neighborhoods, most respondents gave the news media a rating of “average.”
North / Downtown residents thought the Chicago news sources that they used recently offered better coverage of their neighborhood than did residents of the West or South Sides (Table 8).10 Seventy-six percent of North / Downtown residents said coverage of their neighborhood was average or above compared to 70.8% of residents in the West and 65.9% of residents in the South.
Table 8. Chicago News Source Coverage of Chicago Neighborhoods
Excellent 13.5% 14.6% 8.8% 14.6%
Above average 11.8 12.3 15.8 9.5
Average 46.2 49.7 46.2 41.8
Below average 10.5 9.1 7.3 13.8
Very poor 13.4 7.2 21.0 17.8
Notes: Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “Does [SOURCE 1] do a good job of covering your neighborhood?” SOURCE 1 is the first response to a question asking respondents to name the Chicago news sources they used in the past 30 days. *Indicates the response for North / Downtown region is significantly different than the response of the other regions at the p < .05 level.
PAST JOURNALIST ENGAGEMENT LOW, BUT OPPORTUNITY EXISTS, ESPECIALLY IN THE WEST AND SOUTH
Past and future interactions with journalists differ by region. Major differences in past communication with a journalist are between the North / Downtown and South regions of Chicago (Table 9). Those in the North / Downtown region are more likely to say they have communicated with a journalist in the past (29.7%) than those in the South region (17.2%).11
Table 9. Past Communication with Journalists
Chicago North / Downtown* West South*
Yes 23.8% 29.7% 26.2% 17.2%
No 76.2 70.3 73.6 82.7
Notes: Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “Have you ever communicated with journalists, whether in person, on the phone, or through the internet?” *Indicates that the probability of saying yes is significantly higher in the North / Downtown region than in the South region at the p < .05 level.
We asked respondents “How interested would you be in talking with a journalist about issues facing your neighborhood?” In response, 16.8% say they are very interested, 31.2% somewhat interested, 23.4% not too interested, and 27.4% not at all interested. There are no significant differences across the three regions in how they answer this question.12
Overall, 15.9% say that they have been to an event hosted by a news organization at some point. Those in the North / Downtown region are more likely to have attended an event hosted by a news organization than are those living on the South Side (Table 10).13
Table 10. Events Hosted by News Organization
Notes: Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “Have you ever been to an event hosted by a news organization?” *Indicates that the probability of saying yes is significantly higher in the North / Downtown region than in the South region at the p < .05 level.
Despite differences in past interactions with journalists, West and South Side residents are more interested in volunteering to report on a public meeting than are residents in the North / Downtown region (Table 11). Forty-three percent of North / Downtown residents say that they are likely to volunteer, compared with 67.4% of West Side residents and 63.5% of South Side residents.14
Data from the Center for Media Engagement
Notes: Percentages combine “very likely” and “somewhat likely” responses. Question wording: “If a local news outlet asked you to volunteer to report on a public meeting, such as a City Council or School Board meeting, how likely would you be to volunteer?” The response for the North / Downtown region is significantly different than the response of the other regions at the p < .05 level.
Table 11. Likelihood of Volunteering to Report on a Public Meeting
Very likely 16.9% 13.9% 17.4% 20.8%
Somewhat likely 36.5 29.4 50.0 42.7
Neither likely nor unlikely 6.2 7.0 2.0 5.0
Somewhat unlikely 16.8 20.0 12.4 13.4
Very unlikely 22.1 29.2 17.5 15.8
Notes: Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “If a local news outlet asked you to volunteer to report on a public meeting, such as a City Council or School Board meeting, how likely would you be to volunteer?” *Indicates the response for the North / Downtown region is significantly different than the response of the other regions at the p < .05 level.
MANY ACCESS, BUT FEW PAY FOR, NEWS
Although there are no differences across the regions in how many people use the internet at least occasionally (86.9% do so),15 there are differences by region in how often people access news on the internet. North / Downtown residents are more likely to access news on a desktop or laptop computer than are South Side residents (Table 12). Just over half of North / Downtown residents (51.6%) say they often access news on a desktop or laptop computer compared to 39.3% of South Side residents.16
Table 12. News Access through Desktop or Laptop Computer
Never 16.6 % 10.6% 21.2% 21.9%
Hardly ever 10.0 9.3 3.1 12.4
Sometimes 27.6 28.6 34.1 26.4
Often 45.8 51.6 41.7 39.3
Notes: Question wording: “Do you get news on a…Desktop or laptop computer” *Indicates the response for the North / Downtown region is significantly different than the response of the South region at the p < .05 level.
Residents in the North / Downtown region are also more likely to access news on a mobile device than are South Side residents (Table 13). Nearly 70% living in the North / Downtown region say that they access news often through mobile devices compared to around 56% of those living on Chicago’s South Side.17
Table 13. News Access through Mobile Devices
Never 9.5% 7.8% 7.7% 12.6%
Hardly ever 6.0 6.4 6.2 6.5
Notes: Question wording: “Do you get news on a… Mobile device such as a smartphone or a tablet” *Indicates the response for the North / Downtown region is significantly different than the response of the South region at the p < .05 level.
In general, few Chicago residents subscribe, or donate, to a news publication. Just under 18% of Chicago residents identify that they do so (Table 14). Subscription rates differ by region. Approximately one in four North / Downtown residents say that they subscribe to a news publication compared to around one in 10 residents in the South and West Sides.18
Table 14. Percentage That Report Subscribing or Donating to a News Publication
Yes 17.5% 25.1% 9.4% 12.6%
Notes: Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “Do you currently subscribe or donate to a news publication?” *Indicates that the probability of saying yes is significantly higher in the North / Downtown region than the probability of saying yes in the other regions at the p < .05 level.
ASKING PEOPLE TO “DONATE” TO NEWS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN “PAY A FEE”
We wanted to better understand what people think about paying for news. We contrasted two different appeals. A random half of the respondents were asked how likely they would be to donate ten dollars a month to a local news organization providing free online access to news about their neighborhood in Chicago. The other half of respondents were asked how likely they would be to pay a “fee of ten dollars a month” to access “news about their neighborhood.”
Those receiving the question about “donating ten dollars a month” for online news “free and for anyone to access” are more likely to say that they would give money than those asked about paying a “fee of ten dollars” (Table 15).19 There are no differences across the regions in how likely people were to pay, regardless of whether the question asked about “paying a fee” or “donating.”20
Notes: Responses are across all Chicago residents. Percentages combine “very likely” and “somewhat likely” responses. Question wording: “If a local news organization provided news about your neighborhood online for free and for anyone to access, how likely would you be to donate ten dollars a month to support their mission?”; ”If a local news organization provided news about your neighborhood on their website, how likely would you be to pay a fee of ten dollars a month to access it?” The difference between the questions is significant at the p < .05 level.
Table 15. Donating to Free and Open Online News
Donating to Free and Open Online News Paying a Fee of $10 to Access News
Very likely 11.2% 5.7%
Somewhat likely 27.5 17.4
Neither likely nor unlikely 10.7 8.1
Somewhat unlikely 22.2 20.1
Very unlikely 26.8 48.7
Notes: Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “If a local news organization provided news about your neighborhood online for free and for anyone to access, how likely would you be to donate ten dollars a month to support their mission?”; “If a local news organization provided news about your neighborhood on their website, how likely would you be to pay a fee of ten dollars a month to access it?” The difference between the questions is significant at the p < .05 level.
CHICAGO RESIDENTS USE DIVERSE MEDIA SOURCES
How residents receive Chicago news also differs by region (Table 16). Residents in the West are more likely to access news through social media (77.3%) than those from the North / Downtown (67.3%). South Side residents are most likely to access television news (85.2%) than those from the North / Downtown (74.5%).21 Residents in the North / Downtown region are more likely to access news through print magazines (28.8%) than those from the South Side (17.2%), and are more likely to access news from websites or apps (69.6%) than those on the South (58.5%) or West (55.2%) Sides.22
Table 16. Percentage Getting News about Chicago from Each Source
Chicago North / Downtown West South
Television 79.6% 74.5%* 80.9% 85.2%*
Family, friends, and colleagues 79.5 79.9 78.0 79.7
Social media 69.5 67.3* 77.3* 68.0
Radio 66.0 65.9 66.9 63.7
Websites or apps 63.7 69.6* 55.2 58.5
Printed newspapers 48.3 45.1 55.1 52.0
Social or religious groups 37.2 34.9 45.5 39.1
Newsletter or e-newsletters 34.5 35.8 33.2 32.6
Print magazines 24.4 28.8* 27.2 17.2*
Notes: Question wording: “We are interested in how people get information about Chicago. Do you get information about Chicago from [ITEM]?” *Indicates region percent is statistically different from other regions at the p < .05 level. If two regions have a * they are significantly different from each other, but not from the other region.
In terms of specific news sources, there is variability (see Appendix, Table 18). The most frequently mentioned news source is the Chicago ABC News affiliate (15.2%), although CW News (12.9%) and the Chicago Tribune (12.8%) follow closely. Overall, Chicago residents use a variety of news sources.
RACE AND ETHNICITY AFFECT HOW PEOPLE PERCEIVE, USE CHICAGO NEWS MEDIA
As evident in the analyses above, region matters to how Chicago residents interact with and perceive the Chicago news media.
There are important differences across these regions in terms of demographics. The South and West Sides, for example, are more racially diverse than the North / Downtown. For this reason, we did an analysis to find whether media engagement differed based on: respondents’ gender, race/ethnicity, education, age, income, length of time living in Chicago, home ownership, partisanship, and the region where they lived. We summarize our findings below.
There are several instances in which region still matters, even after controlling for all of the factors mentioned above. This means that there is something else about these regions that relates to people’s attitudes and behaviors, above and beyond any of the demographic and political factors we measured.
Those in the South and West regions are still more likely to cite “crime and law enforcement” as an important issue facing their neighborhood than those in the North / Downtown region.
Those in the South region are still more likely to agree that there aren’t enough stories about their neighborhood in the Chicago news media and that these stories are too negative compared to those in the North / Downtown and West regions.
Those living on the South and West Sides are still less likely to agree that the news media do a good job of showing what’s going on in their neighborhood compared to those living in the North / Downtown region.
Those in the South are more likely to volunteer to report on a public meeting compared to those in the North / Downtown.
Those in the South region are more likely to access news through a mobile device compared to those in the North / Downtown and West regions.
The most consistent demographic differences that relate to the questions that we asked are race and ethnicity. Below, we describe how race and ethnicity affect media engagement, even after accounting for other demographics and controlling for the region where respondents lived.23
Compared to other racial categories, Black/African-American respondents …
Think that the Chicago news media do a worse job covering important neighborhood issues.
Are more likely to agree that people from their neighborhood aren’t in the news.
Are more likely to agree that stories about their neighborhood are too negative.
Are more likely to volunteer to report on a public meeting.
Are more likely to access news through a desktop or laptop computer.
Are less likely to subscribe to a news publication.
Are more likely to say that they would donate to a news organization that provides free and open news.
Compared to non-Hispanic residents, Hispanic respondents …
Are more likely to agree that there aren’t enough stories about their neighborhood in the Chicago news media.
Are more likely to say that they would pay a fee of $10 to access local news.
Are more likely to say that they would donate $10 to a news organization that provides free and open news.
Are more likely to feel that they can’t influence the government in Chicago.
Overall, it appears that differences in responses across region are not entirely explained by prominent demographic differences such as race and ethnicity, although there are instances where these factors do matter. It is important to note that differences by region may be an interaction between several factors. For example, region and race may explain differences when taken together. Future work should look to further understand these regional differences.
Chicago residents have markedly different experiences with news media depending on where they live. Residents in the North / Downtown region report more positive experiences with news media than those living on the West and South Sides. Residents in the North / Downtown region are also more likely to have communicated with a journalist and attended an event hosted by a news organization in the past than those living on the West or South Sides. Despite these differences, West and South Side residents are more interested in volunteering with news organizations than those in the North / Downtown region. That our findings are not entirely explained demographic differences suggests that location plays a distinct role in how one experiences news media. That those who report being under- and mis-represented are also the most willing to get involved reflects an opportunity for news organizations to engage these audiences in the future.
The survey of 900 Chicago residents was fielded by Abt. Associates between July 18 and August 23, 2017. The firm used random digit dialing (RDD) to complete 312 landline interviews and both RDD and a targeted list sample of Chicago residents with out-of-area cell phones to complete 588 cell phone interviews. Surveys were conducted in both English and Spanish. We used a stratified random sample to gather sufficient sample from three different regions of Chicago (North / Downtown, unweighted n=312; South, unweighted n=287; and West, unweighted n=249).24 Respondents were categorized into region based on their zip code. Some zip codes, however, crossed regions. When this occurred, or when respondents were unsure of their zip code, region was determined by other information provided by the respondents, including cross streets and descriptions of where they lived in relation to major roadways. The regions and zip codes were categorized as follows:
North / Downtown: 60601, 60602, 60603, 60604, 60605, 60606, 60607, 60610, 60611, 60613, 60614, 60618, 60625, 60626, 60630, 60631, 60634, 60639, 60640, 60641, 60642, 60645, 60646, 60647, 60654, 60656, 60657, 60659, 60660, 60661, 60707
West: 60623, 60624, 60644, 60651
South: 60609, 60615, 60617, 60619, 60620, 60621, 60628, 60629, 60633, 60636, 60637,60643, 60649, 60652, 60653, 60655, 60827
Crossing Areas (additional questions asked to determine region): 60608, 60616, 60612, 60622, 60632, 60638
To ensure our sample reflects the population of Chicago based on various demographics, survey weights were constructed and have been applied to the results presented below. The combined sample is weighted to match demographic parameters from the American Community Survey and telephone status parameters from the National Health Interview Survey. The weighting procedure also accounts for the fact that respondents with both a landline and cell phone had a greater probability of selection. The margin of sampling error for weighted estimates based on the full sample is ± 4.4 percentage points. Estimates based on subgroups have larger margins of error. It is important to remember that random sampling error is only one possible source of error in a survey estimate. Other sources, such as question wording and reporting inaccuracy, may contribute additional error.
The response rate (AAPOR3) was 6.8% for the landline sample, 10.3% for the cell phone random digit dial sample, and 13.0% for the targeted cell sample of Chicago residents with out-of-area cell phones. For this survey, the design effect is 1.83.
Table 17 shows the demographics for the sample across all of Chicago and across the North / Downtown, West, and South regions.
Chicago North/
Downtown West South
Male 44.2% 50.7% 38.6% 39.4%
Female 54.1 48.9 60.7 60.5
White / Caucasian 43.9 67.1 23.5 25.0
Black / African-American 32.6 10.1 57.1 53.5
Asian 3.9 5.7 0.0 3.7
American Indian / Alaskan Native 1.7 1.4 0.8 1.6
Other 12.2 12.1 11.7 11.8
Hispanic / Latino 23.6 21.5 32.3 20.6
Less than HS degree 14.3 13.9 24.3 10.9
HS degree 25.0 18.0 27.2 30.8
Some college 24.9 18.7 24.5 34.3
College degree or more 35.8 49.4 24.0 24.0
18-29 17.5 16.8 12.8 20.4
65+ 26.8 27.5 29.3 25.2
Less than $30,000 a year 40.8 30.2 55.8 48.2
$30K to $50K a year 19.4 16.1 13.2 23.0
More than $75K a year 27.2 40.9 11.1 17.3
Years in Chicago
Lived in Chicago less than 10 years 53.7 58.9 53.0 45.8
Lived in Chicago 10-20 years 6.9 6.4 6.7 7.7
Lived in Chicago for 20+ years 39.4 34.8 40.2 46.6
Pay rent 42.2 37.6 51.8 45.5
Pay mortgage 25.4 31.9 24.5 19.2
Own home 13.5 14.8 8.6 15.5
Partisanship
Republican 12.4 12.5 10.2 12.3
Independent 17.7 17.0 15.8 19.1
Democrat 70.0 70.5 74.0 68.1
Notes: Categories do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Hispanic/Latino identification was asked separately from the other racial categories.
We went through several iterations, and consulted with City Bureau and several Chicago residents to develop our final categorization of the three regions. One question we debated was whether the North Side and Downtown / The Loop should be combined. We looked at differences in responses for the North / Downtown region when removing those who live inside The Loop (zip codes: 60602; 60603; 60604; 60605; 60606; 60610; 60611; 60654; 60610; 60607). Few of our respondents resided in these areas (unweighted n = 33). Inspection of the results excluding residents from The Loop revealed minimal differences.
For the most important issues question (Table 1), respondents could give up to three important issues facing their neighborhood. We coded open-ended responses into one of 15 categories taken from the Policy Agendas Project,25 including a category for responses that were not related to policy and those who gave no response. Percentages were calculated based on the number of people who mentioned a category, excluding those who gave no response.
For the question asking which Chicago news sources respondents had used in the past 30 days (Table 18), respondents were provided response options of 23 different news organizations.26 Respondents could also specify a different news organization not on the list, respond that they do not receive any news, respond that they did not know, or refuse to answer the question. Respondents could mention up to 10 news sources. Responses were grouped into total number of mentions for each news source.
Table 18. Top Chicago News Sources Mentioned
News Outlet % of Total Mentions
ABC News on WLS TV 7 15.2%
Other 14.0
CW News on WGN TV 9 12.9
Chicago Tribune 12.8
Chicago Sun-Times 8.4
CBS News on WBBM TV 2 7.7
NBC News on WMAQ TV 5 6.6
Fox News on WFLD TV 32 6.2
DNAinfo Chicago 2.6
NPR, WBEZ FM 91.5 2.4
Notes: Multiple responses permitted. These percentages include “don’t know” and “refused” responses in overall totals. Question wording: “What are the names of the Chicago news sources you have used in the past 30 days?”
In Tables 19 through 22, we include responses for all of Chicago and by region for measures of respondents’ political participation and political efficacy.
Table 19. Local Political Participation by Region
(% saying that they have in the past 12 months)
Done volunteer work 48.9% 50.1% 40.9% 52.1%
Worked on a community project 27.5 28.1 32.0 27.4
Gone to a community or neighborhood meeting 35.2 34.3 42.5 37.1
Worked on behalf of a social group or cause 30.2 30.5 28.5 31.7
Written to a local news editor or called in to a radio station 12.0 14.1 8.6 11.5
Left a comment on a local news website or social media page 28.7 30.4 27.6 28.6
Signed a petition for a local candidate or issue 38.5 37.4 40.2 42.3
Voted in a local election 62.6 60.3 64.2 66.4
Worked for a local political campaign 9.6 10.0 5.7* 12.2*
Contacted a local public official 31.6 38.1 27.3 29.6
Donated money to a local cause 48.1 57.3* 39.8 40.1
Attended a local protest 20.7 23.9 17.7 19.6
Notes: These percentages include “don’t know” and “refused” responses in overall totals. Question wording: “In the past 12 months have you…” *Indicates region percent is statistically different from other regions at the p < .05 level.
Table 20. Political Efficacy by Region
People like me can influence the government in Chicago
Chicago North / Downtown* West* South
Neither agree nor disagree 8.2 6.6 11.8 8.6
Somewhat disagree 15.2 21.6 16.5 7.4
Notes: Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “I’m going to read you a few statements about Chicago. For each one, please tell me whether you agree or disagree…People like me can influence government in Chicago.” Differences in response across the North / Downtown and West regions are significant at the p < .05 level.
I consider myself well-qualified to participate in Chicago politics
Notes: Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “I’m going to read you a few statements about Chicago. For each one, please tell me whether you agree or disagree… I consider myself well-qualified to participate in Chicago politics.” Differences in response across regions are not significant at the p < .05 level.
I have a good understanding of the important issues facing Chicago
Neither agree nor disagree 3.9 2.7 1.5 4.4
Somewhat disagree 6.2 6.2 6.6 7.4
Strongly disagree 3.4 2.3 2.8 4.0
Notes: Columns do not total to 100% due to rounding and respondents who indicated that they did not know the answer or refused to answer the question. Question wording: “I’m going to read you a few statements about Chicago. For each one, please tell me whether you agree or disagree… I have a good understanding of the important issues facing Chicago.” Differences in response across regions are not significant at the p < .05 level.
Weighted logistic regression analysis was used to test significant differences across region in naming responses coded as law and crime issues as the most important problem. ↩
Weighted logistic regression analysis was used to test significant differences across regions in naming responses coded as housing issues as the most important problem. ↩
Weighted logistic regression analysis was used to test significant differences across regions in naming responses coded as education issues as the most important problem. ↩
Weighted regression analysis was used to test significant differences across region. R² for model = .02. ↩
Weighted regression showed no differences by region. R² for both models < .001. ↩
Weighted logistic regression analysis was used to test significant differences across region. ↩
Weighted regression analysis was used to test significant differences across region. R² for model < .001. ↩
Weighted regression analysis was used to test significant differences based on the “donating” or “fee” question wording. R² for model = .05. ↩
Weighted regression analysis was used to test significant differences across region for both versions of the question. R² for “donating” model = .02. R² for “fee” model < .001. ↩
We are happy to provide the full dataset and tables upon request. ↩
For the remaining 52 respondents, we were unable to categorize them by region because they preferred not to share their zip code, we were unable to determine the region based on the cross-streets mentioned, or they named a zip code not included in the targets below. We include these respondents in our overall Chicago estimates. ↩
Baumgartner, F. R., & Jones, B. D. (2010). Agendas and instability in American politics. University of Chicago Press. ↩
News organizations listed were: ABC News on WLS TV 7, CW News on WGN TV 9, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, CBS News on WBBM TV 2, NBC News on WMAQ TV 5, Fox News on, WFLD TV 32, DNAinfo Chicago, NPR, WBEZ FM 91.5, PBS, WTTW TV 11, RedEye Chicago, Chicago Reader, Crain’s Chicago Business, Chicago Magazine, Chicago Defender, City Bureau, The Daily Herald, Windy City Times, Chicagoist, South Side Weekly, The Chicago Reporter, Time-Out Chicago Magazine ↩
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Politics Wed, 20 Mar 2019
‘Ghana will be better of without Ken Agyapong in Parliament’ – Kofi Adams
Former National Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams believes there will be some kind of sanity in Ghana’s Parliament if Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong leaves the lawmaking chamber.
Kennedy Agyapong, a known financier of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) announced last week he will not run for the parliamentary primaries ahead of the 2020 elections.
He told NPP supporters at Nyankumasi in his constituency that he feels cheated by his party hence it will be needless to contribute towards his party’s campaign ahead of the general elections.
“They feel they are wise but that is all of it. They will take me to Central Region and say the 23 constituencies Kennedy Agyapong the foolish one should use his money to support the party, I will not do it again. If I do not tell them then I am lying”, he fumed.
“The party has not treated me fairly at all. When the Anas video came out, if I tell you the truth, you will not believe…I won’t say everything because we are in public,” he said.
To him, Anas was doing a good job but some leaders of the NPP came to him at night and asked him to defend the party since Anas’ works would disgrace the NPP, adding “I left the house at night just to go and defend my party on radio.”
But reacting to the controversial MP’s latest remarks on Ete Sen hosted by Kwame Minkah on Radio XYZ 93.1, Kofi Adams stated that the utterances of Mr Agyapong has not contributed to Ghana in any better way so if he wants to bow out of politics and be out of Parliament, the political scene will see some decorum.
He however wondered if Kennedy Agyapong will still allow himself to be used by his party as he has already revealed.
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Author Adrienne Morris
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Books I’ve Known and Loved (2)
May 14, 2014 / Adrienne Morris / 7 Comments
She looks happy, right?
Just because you’re nice doesn’t mean you’re going to be popular. This is what General Ben Grierson must have said to console himself. A hero of the Civil War, Grierson commanded the Buffalo Soldiers out West against Victorio and his Apache warriors after the war, but do you think that would have gotten him some respect and a few honors? No.
His wife Alice was pretty pissed about it and said so in letters. She said a lot in letters that might make a Victorian pretend to blush. At one point she left poor Ben to spend time in Chicago admitting after he begged her to come back to him that she knew they would have sex again (which she greatly enjoyed), and didn’t want to have any more children (I think they had 7 at that point). She felt contraception was a sin against God, loved her husband, but was afraid with her depressive tendencies that she’d end like her mother did–a used up mental case.
General Ben was such a decent guy and openly affectionate, devoted and supportive when Alice spoke about women’s rights and the stuff she’d read in The Revolution (I must admit, though I’d hate to be judged by my private letters and emails, that I found Alice’s constant complaining a bit annoying–I don’t think Ben deserved that. He just wanted her by his side. Sigh).
Ben was no slouch in the warrior department, but . . . and this is my opinion–one shared by General Sherman at the time–he was a bit too lenient with the Indians who used his kindness to screw him over (we don’t like to admit that being a doormat you get walked on but it’s true). He had kind words for his black soldiers though most people thought black recruits were less capable of the mental tasks of military life at the time, but again he may have in his easy-going way not pushed them quite hard enough–so says one of my characters in The House on Tenafly Road.
Anyway there’s much to think about–sex, war, mental health, relationships, Indians, military politics in these two companion volumes. You get the historian’s version and then the wife’s version and that’s fun.
Real life people–flaws and all.
Fast Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 95 – The American Bison
January 4, 2014 January 4, 2014 / Adrienne Morris / 1 Comment
While I disagree with some of the premises in this post, you know I LOVE the buffs. Of course I had to comment and share the beautiful pictures and the thought-provoking video.
Mungai and the Goa Constrictor
“When the buffalo went away, the hearts of my people fell to the ground”
Crow chief Plenty Coups
It is difficult to say anything about the historic slaughter of the bison that has not already been said. But, for the few who are unfamiliar with the unparalleled bloodshed of the late nineteenth century, it is safe to say those responsible succeeded in killing two birds with one stone, as was their intention, massively depleting the numbers of free-roaming bison, and defeating the entire Plains Indian Nation in the west of America at the same time.
These magnificent beasts were reduced in number from an estimated thirty million or more to just over one thousand, and the Plains Indians were brought to their knees. Never in history has such appalling devastation been caused to any other species of animal or had such a lasting effect on native peoples.
In both, the aggressors…
Buffalo Dancing With Wolves–Human Ones of Every Stripe
October 10, 2013 November 28, 2013 / Adrienne Morris / Leave a comment
Cute little buffalo on a string. Yep, that’s pretty much where the early NYC based American Bison Society wanted them. Environmental historians say that the near extinction of the buffalo acted as impetus for the environmental movement in America, so that’s sort of good, right? Easterners, women especially, organized anti- animal cruelty leagues, but men organized for the buffalo–a symbol of wild masculinity–a masculinity that the comfortable Easterners viewed as diminishing in their circles. Westerners wanted the bison saved as a market animal to be bred with cattle. Even John Muir the naturalist considered it folly to mourn the loss of the wild buffalo herds.
You never know what you may get at a garage sale and this book was a real find though it’s left me a bit depressed.
So here’s a few more things to ponder:
While always traders with more sedentary tribes, once the plains nomads began trading in buffalo hides it was impossible to prevent the accumulation of wealth and the competition for prestige from becoming an all out slaughter of the very thing most depended upon by the Indians. (Indians also helped wipe out the beaver populations for the same greed-based reasons, but they were not dependent on the beaver for food).
Darwinism played a cruel part in all of the slaughter. Euro-Americans bought the idea of survival of the fittest. They felt that it was inevitable that the buffalo would go extinct since the animal practically let itself be killed–it wasn’t fit to live. They believed that it was obvious that domesticated animals were more fit–as were white Americans when compared to the Indian.
Humanitarianism aroused for the slave before the Civil War began, in some liberal Eastern circles, to extend to the Indians. While we think as moderns that assimilation is tantamount to extinction this was not the thought of the late 1800’s. Assimilation offered Indians a way of becoming “fit” in the Darwinian sense. This way of looking at life also led to the eventual ideas and practices of eugenics.
In a sense the Biblical notion that every individual has worth and that a Christian should love his fellow man was corrupted and warped into a scientific approach to “helping” by tinkering or coercing populations to conform to a “superior” model. It’s why it’s not so shocking nowadays to question why a couple would decide to keep a baby with Down’s Syndrome.
I never knew what the buffalo skins were used for when sent East. I assumed wrongly that it was all wanton destruction for no reason. It turns out the hides were much in demand as belts used in industrial machinery–the tanning operations of the Adirondacks bought the skins on the cheap and proceeded to devastate the tannin rich trees of the East while polluting the rivers and making a good short term profit.
So do we all become Luddites who hate modernity? Do we wish that people of all colors and creeds weren’t so greedy? Do we eat salads and make our own clothes out of dog hair or, better yet, hemp? I like my leather boots.
Finally, for novel writing purposes I stumbled upon a profession I didn’t know existed. Thankful’s twin sister runs off with her husband to homestead, but ends up making money for survival on the bleak plains doing what so many poor whites and Indians did–collecting huge piles of bones scattered in macabre scenes all over the vast, sad land. The bones road East on the railroads to fertilizer companies making tons of money at the expense of the slaughter.
The notion the Europeans brought violence and greed into a pristine Utopia is false. Old skeletons of ancient people in the Americas give evidence of a tough life filled with violence and warfare. All people choose love, hate, greed, promiscuity, generosity and faith. All are corrupted. If I were to leave it there or venture into a human engineering program of improvement I think in the end there would be no hope. People can help others but I don’t think they can improve them.
I have to believe that only God can bring about peace between the lion and the lamb, the wolf and the buffalo–and of course, humanity.
Save the Acrobatic Wolf!
October 4, 2013 November 22, 2013 / Adrienne Morris / 6 Comments
A wolf living its peak experience.
This picture is for Elephant.
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There is something perverse about more than enough. When we have more, it is never enough. It is always somewhere out there, just out of reach. The more we acquire, the more elusive enough becomes. –Unknown
Bison Skulls
Good News! White People Were Not Responsible For The Near Extinction Of The Buffalo
Contrary to popular belief it wasn’t just the greedy European Americans who led the bison to near extinction. As much as ecological romantics would like to have us believe that before the white man came the Indians and all of God’s creation lived in peaceful harmony, the evidence does not back up the claim. The Plains Indians and the volatile environment of the Plains itself most likely played a far larger role in decimating the great herds of the 1800’s than previously thought.
Here’s some points to consider:
Archeological kill sites show that long before the white man came there were periods of time where bison kills were absent suggesting catastrophic declines due to disease, predators or climate change.
The environment is not static, that is, it is constantly changing. Large mammals roamed the earth and when they went extinct they left room for animals like the bison to take their range land and thrive.
The Indians, who in the not so distant past took to riding horses and hunting bison, often slaughtered large herds by sending them over cliffs and wasting much of the carcasses.
Also, by keeping large herds of horses that competed with the bison for the same limited grassland resources the Indians strained both species.
Estimates of bison herd sizes of the 1800’s were faulty since the herds gathered into enormous groups only during the summer rut. Counts were estimated in the summer leading many to believe there were huge herds everywhere, but that probably was not the case.
While white men played their part especially in the trade of buffalo robes, etc, the Indians also engaged in trade, slaughter and poor land management.
Whites, Indians and bison were victims of the harsh, unpredictable realities of nature.
Indians had a unique culture before they became nomadic bison hunters and kept it despite the loss of their hunting grounds.
Eastern groups of Euro-Americans organized the efforts to save the species and succeeded.
My own little bison guarding my books.
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Retirement property agents Millstream Management Services appoint Brethertons advisors
National retirement property agents, Millstream Management Services, has appointed Top 200 law firm, Brethertons, to assist with the recovery of service charge and ground rent arrears.
Millstream Management Services manages the maintenance and daily administration of retirement properties around the UK. Established in 2006, Millstream now manages a portfolio of 113 developments, comprising over 4,300 units and provides services to over 5,000 people.
Brethertons is well-known in the property management industry for its efficient, commercial approach to debt recovery. The firm’s excellent reputation ensures each case is treated individually and assessed to provide the most appropriate approach for recovery of arrears. In circumstances where residents require sensitive treatment, Brethertons’ specially trained legal advisors will make the law work for landlords, whilst at the same time ensuring the dignity of the tenant remains in place.
Simon Crewe, Managing Director at Millstream Management Services, says the organisation wanted a solution to the collection of arrears that didn’t compromise the firm’s relationships with residents. “With our large portfolio of properties, we felt it was important to offer certainty to landlords that their service charges would be paid without delay, but we also recognise the importance of maintaining a positive rapport with our residents. Sensitivity is needed in some cases where other factors might prevent a resident from getting their payments in on time.”
Simon continues; “Brethertons has a great reputation for recovering arrears in record time, and has the breadth of legal knowledge to be able to handle any situation. What convinced us to instruct them over any other firm was the presence of specialist legal advisors who are qualified in dealing with elderly customers.”
Mark North, Key Client Manager at Brethertons, explains why the two organisations are a good fit for each other: “We’re delighted Millstream Management Services chose Brethertons for the recovery of arrears. Our working styles complement each other well and we’re looking forward to proving our credentials. At Brethertons, we’re proud to invest in serving our customers more effectively, so we have trained a team of specially qualified ‘Solicitors for the Elderly’ legal advisors to support customers with their personal affairs. This team will work alongside our debt recovery specialists to ensure Millstream’s residents are handled compassionately.”
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Uber Plans A Shake-Up Of Driver Ratings Plus A Higher Level Of Service With A Nicer Car
Uber has revealed it is planning to shake up driver ratings so customers will be able to opt for a higher service level as well as a nicer car.
Currently users of the ride instant hailing (illegally plying for hire) app rate their journey from one to five stars based on their experience.
But Dara Khosrowshahi, who took the helm last August, said it wanted drivers who were "particularly good" to be rated "at a different level".
He said the firm was "very, very early" on the path to doing this.
"We want to allow the user to opt-in to a higher level of service because right now the only higher level of service that we define is a nicer car... and I think the car and service are two different things," he said.
'Break from the past'
This news comes in the wake of a 50% rise in sexual assaults (including rape) on Uber passengers in London by drivers.
Last year 13,000 Uber drivers presented fake DBS criminal record background check certificates.
In response to questions about safety, Mr Khosrowshahi said the firm was "doubling down" on background checks and vehicle licences so it could continue to grow.
Apparently only 2600 of the 13,000 have reapplied with new DBS checks, the others have all been swept under the carpet by TfLTPH.
It was a rare public appearance by Mr Khosrowshahi, who has kept a low profile since taking the helm of the firm last August.
Speaking in a packed room at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Khosrowshahi said the firm "had to make a break from the past and go forward as a company that does the right thing", although he made no mention of his drivers murders, terrorist attacks, sexual assaults of fraudulent data mining of customers accounts.
He is attempting to rescue the firm's reputation following investigations by multiple regulators and a lawsuit over allegedly stolen technology.
Former chief executive Travis Kalanick was ousted from the top role in June but remains a board member.
The firm also continues to experience steep losses.
Mr Khosrowshahi said the fact that an Uber driver could be with you within minutes of ordering and its low cost meant its popularity would continue.
In London the app has been shown to be illegal and TfL have refused to relicense the company over safety issues.
Khosrowshahi predicted that, even with the advent of self-driving cars, Uber still intend to recruit double the amount of drivers it currently has within the next 10 years. In London this would see their fleet rise to 80,000. Currently drivers registered and licensed in London by TfL, are working all over the UK....although Khosrowshahi failed to mention this in Davos.
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Sorry Driver, I've No Cash And Your Terminals Not Working..???
Over the past few months, it's become apparent that there is a new trend in bilking a Taxi driver, utilising a credit card equipment as an excuse.
The passenger fumbles with the machine (if you just pullout the card slightly and reinsert the transaction won't go through on most rear fitted machines). They then say, they have no other form of payment.
A couple of times I've managed to beat them at their own game by setting a price on a backup iZettle unit and asking if I can examine the card....them quickly tapping contactless. But most of the time the bilkers have a cancelled or non-contactless card.
You must remember, you may compromise your safety and put yourself at risk, by getting out and entering/leaning into the passenger compartment.
So you need to be extremely aware of the type of passenger you are dealing with.
Personally, I always turn the dash cam round to record what's happening (for my own safety).
Unfortunately, a problem has now emerged in connection to this type of fraud, in the form of non-attendance by police. Yet if you were to lock a passenger in the Taxi and take to a police station (assuming you can find one open at night), you are at risk of being charged with false imprisonment.
Last night a friend came into Camley Street saying he had just suffered an expensive bilk (£32). He'd taken a lady to Colbrook Row in N1, where her card had not been accepted by his rear fitted CC reader. She insisted there was nothing wrong with her card and that it must be his terminal at fault. She added she had no cash.
The driver said "in that case I'll take you round to the cash machine", which she agreed to.
But once there, she got out and said "I've tried to pay you, it's your fault not mine". Refusing to use the ATM, she just walked away.
The driver called the police saying he had been bilked but was following the passenger who had now become aggressive.
To his surprise, after taking 'all' his details -including his birthdate, home address, registration and badge number- the emergency operator gave him a case number and said they would call him back within 48 hours and that they wouldn't be attending the scene in person.
This is the price we are paying for Khans toilet facilities for bus drivers....£6m spent on super-loos for bus drivers, while closing down London police stations and reducing the amount of officers to raise the cash.
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Dean Garrison, January 18, 2020
Activists Show Up To Burn American Flag, Bikers and Veterans Send Them Running
Rusty Weiss — July 2, 2015
A group of anti-police activists showed up at Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park prepared to burn an American flag, spurred on by a group known as Disarm NYPD.
The group claims that “the desecration of this symbol is timely and incredibly necessary at this juncture in
political affairs.”
What was also ‘timely and incredibly necessary’ were the number of pro-American flag counter-protesters who showed up to stop them.
That group, consisting mostly of bikers and veterans, chased Disarm NYPD out of the park.
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Via the Daily News:
A protest at Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park Wednesday night exploded into a heated confrontation between rival demonstrators over the burning of an American flag.
Anti-racism and police brutality protesters organized by a group called Disarm NYPD were chased from the park by a group of angry pro-flag supporters after burning a Confederate battle flag and an American flag in the middle of the park.
Witnesses say a pro-flag demonstrator snatched the burning American flag before others chased the anti-flaggers away.
No arrests were made.
“My nephew is graduating from the Marines in two weeks,” said flag supporter Diane Atkins of Bay Ridge. “I’ll be damned if somebody burns the flag!”
The anti-police group that had previously relished the attention, suddenly wanted to run and hide when the patriots started hounding them.
Watch one suspected anti-police activist scatter …
A biker who chose to remain anonymous told The Blaze that “We’re here to f*** up tiny liberal punks.”
A member of the anti-police group insisted that the American flag “represents genocide, imperialism, and oppression.” Which is of course, yet another example of a mindless liberal regurgitating big words they learned in college, without necessarily knowing the meaning behind them.
One comment on the Disarm NYPD Facebook page found it rather ironic that the group had to ask the police for help when the counter-protest overwhelmed their efforts to burn the American flag.
“Who protected you?” they asked. “The NYPD – they should have let those bikers beat the crap out of you.”
While we certainly don’t advocate violence against anybody – even if they’re burning the American flag – it is certainly interesting watching a group beg for attention, and then go scurrying away when people who stand up for their country put the heat on.
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Rajasthan Road Transport Corporation Issues 4 MW Rooftop Solar Tender for its Depots
The projects are to be developed under the RESCO model
Shaurya Bajaj
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The Rajasthan State Road Corporation (RSRTC) has floated a tender to develop 4 MW of grid-connected rooftop solar projects at its depots.
The scope of work of this tender includes the design, supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of the projects. The developers will also be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the project for 25 years.
The rooftop solar projects will be developed under the renewable energy service company (RESCO) model on the premises of RSRTC identified by the developer. Bidders are expected to be selected based on the lowest tariff quoted.
Bidders will also have to submit an earnest money deposit (EMD) of ₹3.6 million ($50,950). The last date for the submission of this tender is October 10, 2019.
Last month, the Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Limited (RRECL) issued a tender for 50 MW of rooftop solar projects under the RESCO model. Since there is no subsidy provided for these projects, the developers are allowed to choose modules made in India or imported. The modules need to meet the certifications as prescribed by MNRE.
In March 2019, the Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission (RERC) amended its net metering regulations passed in the year 2015 for solar rooftop and small-scale grid-interactive systems. One of the significant point was that, in the event the electricity injected by a domestic category consumer exceeds the electricity consumed during the billing period, such excess injected power above 100 units will be paid by the distribution licensee/company (DISCOM) at the rate of ₹3.14 (~$0.04)/kWh.
Rajasthan has installed solar capacity of 3.5 GW as of Q2 2019, according to Mercom India Solar Project Tracker. A total of 442 MW of solar projects are under development in the state.
Recently states are issuing tenders for rooftop solar atop government buildings. In August, the Rajasthan Electronics and Instruments Limited (REIL) issued tender to install and commission 2 MW of grid-connected rooftop solar projects at several government buildings in the capital city of Jaipur.
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Shaurya is a staff reporter at MercomIndia.com with experience working in the Indian solar energy industry for the past four years in various roles. Prior to joining Mercom, Shaurya worked with a renewable energy developer and a consulting company. Shaurya holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Management from Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.
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Kever - Eon of Cycling Death
Written by Kevin Page.
Artwork by Raul Gonzalez
Do you remember a band called Morbid Tendency from Israel? Good, neither did I. But they featured Alex Butcher (ex-Sonne Adam) & Tom Davidov (current Sonne Adam) and released this digital EP last year. Well, they have since changed the name of the band to Kever, added some sweet cover art and have re-released this little beauty under the new monicker.
Musically this is a slightly tighter Autopsy with some Morbid Angel-ish solos and a dry scratchy guitar tone reminiscent of Pungent Stench's Been Caught Buttering. Vocally they've gone the route of a satanic Karl Willets of Bolt Thrower with lots of reverberating hellfire. Did I name drop enough bands in that description for ya?
Seriously though, it's a fine slab of old school death metal that manages to feel relevant in an oversaturated field. Besides the current Name Your Own Price digital download, they will be offering this on MLP and CD as well.
[Go to the post to view the Bandcamp player]
Labels: 2013, death metal, free download, Kever, Kevin Page
Abest - Demo MMXII
Written by Justin C.
Last month, I stumbled across Cvlt Nation's premiere of "Shiver" (which is now also available for streaming on Abest's Bandcamp), which is a song from the upcoming full-length by the German band Abest. The thundering bass line intro and sludgy guitars hooked me almost immediately. The album, Asylum, doesn't come out until May, but I wanted more. Luckily, I found Abest's 2012 demo on Bandcamp.
Abest plays a mix of airy post-metal and sludgy riffs, topped off with low, hardcore bellows. The first few minutes of the opener, "Solando," nicely captures everything I love about what I've heard from this band so far. The intro is a simple, chiming guitar pattern over bass and minimalistic drumming. If that intro is the nerves before battle as the sun rises over the hills, then the main riff kicking in is the sight and sound of tanks coming over those hills. The music is straightforward without being simple. Which isn't to say that they can't kick up a furious ruckus when they want to. A large part of "Into Grey," for example, is an almost barely-there menace, but around the two-minute mark, the band erupts into a storm of sound before drifting back into tense atmosphere.
Everything works for me here--the low roars, the crunchy guitars, the subtle bass and drumming. Abest takes what some might find to be a relatively limited sonic palette and use it to create brilliantly crafted songs. If the preview of "Shiver" is any indication, they've stepped up their game on the full length, which has put their new work on my highly anticipated list. The demo will have to hold us over for now, though.
Labels: 2012, Abest, free download, Justin C, post-metal, sludge metal
Noble Beast - Noble Beast
Written by by Andy Osborn.
Despite the incredible offerings the beginning of 2014 has presented, I’ve found myself moving chronologically backwards in my collection. I wanted to take a break from the latest and greatest (and blackest) to rediscover what caused the 14-year-old me to hoist the metal flag. Turns out I had completely forgotten how utterly obsessed I was with power metal. The fairly accessible subgenre is undoubtedly a common gateway for longhairs around the world and the likes of Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius and Blind Guardian were the torchbearers leading me down the rabbit hole. After revisiting their albums that I know so well and realizing I do still have feelings for their kind, it was time to seek out newcomers to the scene.
Right as I was thinking this, the debut from Noble Beast reared its head. And it just so happens that the first new power metal album I’ve listened to in years is an absolute masterpiece.
I’m still trying to comprehend the awe inspiring power of Noble Beast. It’s epic, fun, and catchy as all hell without too much histrionics or cheese on the side. The lyrics are at once ridiculous and empowering, but the music shows nothing but deadly sincerity. It's everything great power metal should be. The charge is lead by the glorious operatic baritone of Robert Jalonen. He deftly switches between 80s rock god and a slightly more sinister personality that never loses its sense of grandeur. He’s occasionally complemented by gang vocals to ensure that this battle is never being fought alone.
Strong, dueling guitar leads are constantly one-upping each other with a deft interplay that comes to define the band’s sound. Not ones to rest on a cool riff or exciting gallop, they’re always throwing in little nuances to ensure nothing gets recycled or become expected. “We Burn” is a perfect example of the quartet’s dexterity as it’s filled to the brim with infectious melodies, a fantastic folky acoustic verse, and then switches gears to a near never-ending guitar solo that stops just short of being self-indulgent. These songs of battle, triumph and defiance are all anthems in the truest sense with enough of a thrash sensibility to spread their appeal and make a statement that echoes across the entire metal landscape.
Despite my absence from the power metal scene of late, it’s clear Noble Beast’s debut is a fiery triumph of epic metal that rivals any longstanding European powerhouse. This young Midwestern group has studied their heroes and done them more than justice with their first offering. Savor the moment when you put this on for the first time, because goosebumps and a jaw on the floor are guaranteed. This is more than a debut, it’s a declaration of dominance over an entire subgenre. And it’s absolutely perfect.
Labels: 2014, Andy Osborn, Noble Beast, power metal
Thou - Heathen
Written by Atanamar Sunyata.
One does not simply walk into a Thou album; the visceral journey is a full mind and body experience. Crossing the threshold of Heathen demands patience and attention, but crushing catharsis is a listener’s reward. You can choose to hone in on the doom, sludge, or drone aspects of Thou’s sound, but the wielding of impossible weight is their wont.
Photos by Carmelo Española
Whereas its predecessor soared to intoxicating sonic heights, Heathen hugs the earth. Thou have kept their massively heavy guitar sound intact, and they use it to plow familiar tracts of gorgeously glum landscape, turning over nuggets of melodic epiphany and post-rock brilliance along the way. The rhythms tend towards tectonic trudge, but occasional upbeat outbursts are likely to grab hold of you and compel physical reaction. Drag that fuckin’ weight, man.
Bryan Funck’s radioactive rasp demands a listener’s attention, and his predominantly comprehensible lyrics demand that you dig up the words to comprehend each and every one. As always, for me, it’s Thou’s lyrical treatises that take my engagement as a listener above and beyond. On Heathen we are entreated to exalt, reject, scorn, and defeat. Revel in and accept the agony of existence, persevering, above all, via endurance.
Labels: 2014, Atanamar Sunyata, Carmelo Española, doom metal, drone, free download, sludge metal, Thou
The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
The Chasm's lastet full-length Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm from 2009 is, together with almost their entire discography, available on the Lux Inframundis Productions Bandcamp (Lux Inframundis being the label run by The Chasm mastermind Daniel Corchado).
Artwork by Daniel Corchado
The Chasm's lastet full-length Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm from 2009 is, together with almost their entire discography, available on the Lux Inframundis Productions Bandcamp (Lux Inframundis being the label run by The Chasm mastermind Daniel Corchado). This is amazingly creative death metal with a progressive bent. Each song feels like part of an otherworldly adventure, chaptered by fluid transitions and paragraphed by different time signatures and tempo shifts. Only half the album features vocals. and they are mixed quite low. But this gives them a strange storytelling quality, fitting nicely with that otherworldly vibe.
Photo by Carmelo Española.
Then there's the riffs. Tons of excellent epic riffs. But this is not riff salad, The Chasm are far too meticulous for that. This paragraph by Tyler Munro from Sputnikmusic does a very good job of explaining their modus operandi:
"They often base entire tracks around only a couple of riffs riffs, which, given the length of some of these tracks, is a testament to their talents. A riff will often sneak in, alone, until it repeats with a bass, then drums, then another guitar. From there, the songs tend to play around within themselves; they speed up, bend and distort. This isn't to say the songs are limited to a small number of riffs (in fact it's quite the contrary), merely that they use one or two riffs as their jumping off point."
The riffs are anchored by dexterous and very organic sounding drumming and a present bass. And accentuated by subtle synths and effects. The production is clear, with a cold and crisp guitar sound. Entirely without the foibles of modern death metal producers it has a pleasing raw quality, giving you the stellar musicianship in all it's unadorned glory.
I'm sure it won't take you long to find your own favorite passages of Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm, but let me end the review with sharing a couple of mine: The visceral heavy riffing in the beginning of "Vault to the Voyage", and the goddamn triumphant last half of the epic closer "Arrival to Hopeless Shores". "Arriving … so far from home, but this is the place / Farseeing … sun and moon corroding, this is the place"
Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm by The Chasm
Labels: 2009, Carmelo Española, death metal, Lux Inframundis Productions, The Chasm
Stormforge - Sea of Stone
Written by Craig Hayes.
If you were to slice the metal scene right down the middle, on its hemisphere axis, it’s the southern portion that’s generally presumed to be home to bands with a certain bloodthirsty temper. Asia and Australia have produced utterly filthy and ferocious extreme metal luminaries aplenty, while New Zealand is home to globally respected bands like the commanding Vassafor, Doom Cult crushers Diocletian and Witchrist, and, obviously, death metal doyen Ulcerate.
Of course, New Zealand’s metal scene didn’t spontaneously erupt in a raft of extreme metal bruisers, it was born from those power metal and New Wave of British Heavy Metal influenced bands that formed the foundations of the scene. However, aside from Demoniac providing members for the internationally successful, UK-based, DragonForce, New Zealand doesn’t really have a profile for power or traditional metal bands at all.
That’s been somewhat remedied of late, and recently, here on Metal Bandcamp, I highlighted the debut EP, Ironhead, from Red Dawn—a band fixed on the hammering harmonies of power metal, more than the outright venom of extreme metal. So it is with Stormforge. The five-piece, Auckland-based, band recently released their four track debut EP, Sea Of Stone, on Bandcamp, and there’s no doubting Stormforge’s influences or inspirations on the EP. Sea of Stone is indebted to power metal’s forefathers—Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Blind Guardian, Helloween, etc—and that same sense of artists combining dramatic theatrics with maestro musicianship features heavily.
Guitarist’s Miro Kao and Flynn Fredriksson tear into Sea Of Stone’s upbeat opening track, “Immolation to Infinity”, with all power metal cannons firing; before vocalist Courtney O'Leary arrives, to bring his powerful classic metal howls and operatic wails. More of the same melodic meticulousness arrives on “As The Night Sky Burns”, as up-tempo, rousing riffs from duelling virtuoso guitars sprint around a galloping rhythm section provided by drummer Antony Mifsud-Houghton and bassist Thomas O'Leary. “Death Sings In The Night” slows things down, for some smouldering balladry, before bursting, inevitably, into a flaming lead-guitar section. Final track, the nine-minute titular epic, “Sea Of Stone”, sees sweeping, progressive metal melodies all advancing towards the inescapable climax; where O'Leary’s soaring vocals segue into, well, hell bent for leather guitars, for a duly epic finale of blazing and shredding soloing.
In all, Sea of Stone features plenty of dynamic and energetic metal, it’s rich in fiery licks and spirited tempos, and contains those all important and enthusiastic injections of over-the-top histrionics that make power metal such a joy for fans in the first place. Like any opening gambit, there’s probably some nerves attached to Sea Of Stone, but Stormforge have nothing to be concerned about here. The EP features a crisp and crunchy production—courtesy of Diocletian and Witchrist drummer Cameron Sinclair—and all up, what Sea Of Stone does best of all, is leave you wanting to hear more.
That’s exactly what you want from your debut recording, and that’s exactly what Stormforge delivers, in spades.
Labels: 2014, Craig Hayes, heavy metal, power metal, Stormforge
Coffinworm - IV.I.VIII
I've probably seen Coffinworm most often described as blackened doom. It's probably as good as any, although it's still pretty reductive. Hearing the blasting, grind-like energy that opens their new album, IV.I.VIII, might make you wonder if you're listening to the same album everybody else described. Blackened-doom-grind-death-sludge might be more apt, if somewhat unwieldy, but it captures the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink formula that Coffinworm makes work for them.
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Opening track "Sympathectomy" (one of many dark, tongue-in-cheek song titles) settles down from its explosive beginning into doomier territory, but the band has a virtuosic way with tempo. It slows, speeds up, slows down again, pushing and pulling under guitar and bass riffs so thick and meaty that you'll want to bite into them. Vocals come in the forms of black metal shrieks and low, death growls, all distorted beyond reason. The drums range between unhinged blast beats and caveman bashing.
Almost every song is a mini-album in and of itself. The riffs start up, disappear for a while, and come back in mutated forms. Restating a theme and variations is a classic compositional technique, but Coffinworm pushes that idea to its outer limits. The songs on IV.I.VIII shouldn't work--there are too many tempos, too many changes, but somehow they hang together on even the thinnest of threads. It's difficult to put into words, but as disparate as the parts of each song are, they all make sense together.
Is it weird to say I'm charmed by an album that's so vicious and unrelenting? Because that's the best way I can think to describe it. On every listen I pick up something new: Is that an acoustic guitar adding extra texture in "Instant Death Syndrome"? And how about the brief guitar squeals in the same song that act as a command to DESTROY, setting off vicious drum blasts underneath creeping guitar lines? And that slap bass in "Lust vs. Vengeance"! Why does it work so well?
After hearing early samples of the album, I expected a sanity-challenging experience like I had with Indian's new album. In theory, Coffinworm's album should be no less difficult and demanding, but somehow they've made an album just as punishing, but strangely compelling at the same time.
Labels: 2014, blackened sludge metal, Coffinworm, doom metal, John Mourlas, Justin C, Profound Lore Records
Torrid Husk - Caesious
Written by Matt Hinch.
Artwork by Noel Mueller
In January I reviewed a little EP by Myopic. That release was put out by Grimoire Records. It's a nifty little operation they've got going over there. Everything is handled in house. Production, mix, master, even art and promotion. This month's Grimoire release features West Virginian black metallists Torrid Husk vomiting forth a three-song EP Caesious.
Reportedly recorded in a cabin in the woods, the three tracks on hand certainly give off that vibe of natural isolation with feral, primitive exaltation to elder gods. "Cut with Rain" is all searing black metal. Torrid Husk really lay it all out in terms of unabated speed. The riffs are more or less typical black metal swept through the forest, up and down hills and valleys on malevolent winds. The percussion (Tony Cordone) is absolutely relentless pushing the tremolos above the tree line. Guitarist/vocalist Tyler Collins' rasp fulfills the requisite evil quotient to inspire the clenching of invisible oranges. On this track, was well as the other two, when Torrid Husk slow things down the entire aura draws inward and impresses firmly upon the heart.
"Thunder like Scorn" continues the obsidian barrage but is punctuated with brief crunchy hammerblows. It's visceral on all accounts. Dancing riffs accelerate to supersonic speeds before giving way to a melancholic and quiet midsection. The track's later half sees soaring riffs float above the thunderous percussion and progressive bass (Jonathan Blanton) with a measured sense of melody.
Tremolos weaves amongst the onslaught on "Paranoia". A blistering black metal cacophony crashes down into a melancholic valley, returning with a slow and torturous tugging. A portentous vocal misanthropy carries across the bleak landscape. Torrid Husk close out the EP by raging through the night standing tall against the eldritch terrors glimpsed in the moonlight.
Caesious is eighteen minutes of blistering black metal hatred. An aura of ancient reverence clings to its essence like the fetid stench of nameless beasts lurking in the darkest of shadows. Torrid Husk's reckless abandon and infecting atmosphere reek of passion and belief.
The full moon beckons. Let Caesious be your soundtrack to its light.
Labels: 2014, black metal, depressive black metal, Grimoire Records, Matt Hinch, melodic black metal, Torrid Husk
North - Metanoia
North's last full-length, The Great Silence, was a sprawling epic of atmospheric sludge, and an album that both I and Aaron Sullivan enjoyed quite a bit. (He saw fit to put it on his 2012 best-of-year list.)
Their new EP, Metanoia, finds the band in similar sonic territory, but with a more stripped-down feel. This probably isn't surprising, because this EP credits only three of the original members from The Great Silence. The press notes mention a lot of internal struggle in the band, struggle which apparently almost ended the group completely. That would have been a shame, because Metanoia is a powerful emotional statement. The word "metanoia" means a spiritual conversion, usually through repentance, and there's definitely a sense of bittersweet triumph in the music.
As I mentioned, the band may be stripped down in membership, but that's not to say their compositions are any less epic. You'll still find plenty of jangly, chiming atmosphere mixed with 10-ton riffs and gravelly bellows, but there's also an immediacy to this EP that's very compelling to me. All of the tracks are excellent, but "Nefelibata" is a stand out for me. The word "nefelibata" is Portuguese, and it appears to roughly translate to someone who lives in their own imagination, but perhaps better described as someone who treads the space between idealistic dreamer and iconoclast. There's a duality to the song itself, a mix of quiet synths and swelling, aching vocals, which are somehow delicate and melodic in spite of being close to growls. The guitars build, grind, stomp, and echo, sometimes in the course of just a minute or two, and the rhythm section carries everything deftly along. I had a visceral emotional reaction to this song the first time I heard it, before I'd looked up what the song title meant or read anything about what the band may have gone through to achieve it. It's possible I'm just projecting my own desires to survive and triumph through rough times in my own life, but I think it's just as likely North has achieved something truly touching.
I could talk on about the other three tracks at length, but now's as good a time as any to tell you to just go listen for yourself. The band describes this as "the transition EP," but taken the wrong way, that might do the music a great disservice. North may be on their way to new territory, but the journey of this EP is well worth lingering on.
Labels: 2014, atmospheric sludge metal, Justin C, North, post-rock, sludge metal
Burial Hordes - Incendium
Written by Steven Leslie
Artwork by Mark Riddick
Greek misanthropes Burial hordes return with eight new hymns of demonic devastation over 40 minutes. It’s been six years since the bands last full length, and there have been some changes in the bands core sound. While it still remains clearly rooted in the black metal realm, Incendium incorporates many more death metal elements than on previous works. This is most noticeable in the vocals of Cthonos. Bearing little resemblance to the more traditional second wave screeching commonly associated with black metal, Cthonos instead opts for a relentless roar. Sometimes coming off as a slightly less processed Demigod era Nergal at certain points. Don’t get me wrong, Burial Hordes always had a bit of deathly influence in their vocal attack, but this album moves them further into the death metal territory, with only the occasional more feral black metal sound being used to highlight specific sections. The vocals are also very prominent in the mix, which increases the barbaric brutality of their assault.
The production and mixing are another significant change in the bands overall sound. While previous albums had a much more primitive sounding production, which fit those albums really well, then new one is much cleaner. Unlike many modern bands however, Burial Hordes has managed to keep a dark and deranged feeling in the music. While the production is improved, it has not sucked the life out of the bands music. Instead it highlights the bands new more death-orientated approach, and the fact that they have improved technically as both musicians and songwriters. There are some searing riffs and even brilliant subtle bass runs incorporated in songs like "Scorned (Aokigahara)", which nods to the dissonant melodies of the current French black metal scene. It’s a quality blend of Greek mysticism, Polish barbaric blackened death metal, and French dissonance.
I must admit that as a long time Burial Hordes fan, the first listen threw me for a bit of loop. While I hadn't listened to earlier records in quite a while, I really was expecting a much more traditionally second wave influenced black metal record. Listening back to the older records, I realized that these deathly elements were always present, just not pulled to the front as they are this time around. Subsequent listens have led to me to appreciate the new approach the band takes. This is overall, one hell of a demonic slab of blackened death metal. Burial Hordes does a great job of keeping this album from becoming a one-dimensional sonic bludgeoning. While the album starts out with a couple of blistering, relentless slabs of bone crushing black death, later songs play with pacing and an increased use of melody and atmosphere. There are enough quality riffs and nuanced songwriting to be able to differentiate different tracks, while keeping the overall vibe and mood consistent. Overall, this is worth a listen for anyone who has been a fan of Burial Hordes in the past or anyone who appreciates a masterful blending of black metal and death metal.
Labels: 2014, black metal, Burial Hordes, Hellthrasher Productions, Steven Leslie
Dave's Demo Roundup Vol I.
By Dave Schalek.
Very little is known about Pennsylvania’s Dumal, a black metal outfit playing semi-melodic, war themed black metal with a crunchy guitar tone and rasped vocals. The drums sound a bit weak, but the catchy, riffy guitar playing more than makes up for the relative lack of depth. This four song demo was originally released on cassette, although calling a release limited to 10 copies hardly constitutes a “release”. Well, that’s what Bandcamp (and this site, for that matter) is for. Recommended.
Amblerian Rehearsal 2013 by Dumal
Cold, barren, and grim, Italy’s Orhorho play stripped down, rather thin black metal with a rotten atmosphere, deep vocals, and a fuzzy background anchored by an audible bass. This three song demo of untitled tracks is thematically based around an ancient African occult princess is the debut from Orhorho, a duo with connections to Gottesmorder. Orhorho vary their delivery with tempo changes, moments of hypnotic drone, and surprisingly dynamic songwriting. A few tribal elements creep into the third song, a standout track, and Orhorho are worthy of investigation.
Demo by Orhorho
New Zealand has a way of churning out rancid blackened death metal with bands such as Diocletian, Witchrist, and Heresiarch leading the way. Add Trepanation to that list with Hideous Black Abyss, their debut demo. Consisting of very powerful blackened death metal with muted, high pitched rasps, Hideous Black Abyss nicely straddles the line between black metal, death metal, and even grindcore and crust with a very fast approach and short songs. A swirl of riffs and blastbeats are backed up by a very powerful, bottom heavy production that gives the whole affair a thick layer of miasma.
Hideous Black Abyss by Trepanation
Cover art by Jose Gabriel Angeles
Oakland’s Caffa are treading the ground laid down by Hellhammer and early Sodom, a standard that’s now held high by bands such as Coffins, Teitanblood, and countless others. Caffa combine the deep heaviness of their influences with some dynamic songwriting and a few tempo changes, enough to distinguish themselves from countless other bands. Released by Transylvanian Tapes, Day of Disease is deeply heavy and is sure to satisfy fans of the early, primitive days of death metal.
Caffa - Day Of Disease by Caffa
Day of Disease from Caffa immediately led me to browse a few other releases from Transylvanian Tapes, and this demo from Fiend immediately stood out. An all out blast of thick, heavy grindcore with guttural vocals, this seven song demo clocks in at about seven minutes and demands multiple hits of the repeat button. Nihilistic and caustic, Fiend, from Fresno, California, should be the next big thing if there’s any justice in the world. Wow.
Fiend - Demo 2013 by Fiend
Labels: 2013, black metal, Caffa, crust, Dave Schalek, death metal, doom metal, Dumal, Fiend, free download, grindcore, Orhorho, Transylvanian Tapes, Trepanation
Electricjezus - Грязь Поколений (Mud of Generations)
Written by Ulla Roschat.
Album art Timur Khabirov
Electricjezus are a two piece band from Moscow/Russia. Грязь Поколений is their debut album, released in Feb. 2013. The music has strong roots in crusty HC Punk, Sludge and Doom, but its branches breathe in like everything and so the fruits and blossoms are quite full flavored. There’s a lot of Stoner, Black, Post Metal as well. It’s a blend of many different styles, but each song is focused differently and all have their own character.
What I hear in all of the seven songs is a lot of “we don’t give a fuck what you think. We play what we want and do it the way we want. If you happen to like it, well that’s great.” Oh and I happen to like it a lot! What I also hear in all of them is a direct and raw sound that is due to their unconventional recording method …“It (the album) was recorded entirely on analog equipment and it fully live record, we recorded the album close to reality and it sounds exactly as we sound on live performances. During recording, we used analog equipment from different years and from different countries, old Soviet synthesizers, old piano, use ride cymbals or broken crash with piece of metal for hi hats, use old microphones.”
There’s a kind of charming “you get what you hear” attitude to it that serves the music well. It’s bracingly unpolished and abrasive, and it flings the angry sludge riffs and hardcore punches directly into your face. The horror movie samples enhance the mood of the songs and give them some cranky creepiness (and twisted sense of humor? maybe that’s just me). And then I also hear a vigorous pleasure of playing that brings a vigorous pleasure of listening. Highly recommended!
Originally posted on the defunct Temple of Perdition blog.
Labels: 2013, doom metal, Electricjezus, free download, hardcore, sludge metal
Upyr - Altars/Tunnels
Upyr are a five piece band from Sofia/Bulgaria. They formed in 2012 and released their demo album Altars/Tunnels one year later in 2013.
What they present on their demo is basically blackened Doom, and Upyr pretty much stick to these basics to create four tracks of monolithic heaviness with an atmosphere of utter darkness, the fundamental simplicity of doom that makes the unearthly and uncanny sound earthy and natural.
The four tracks though, each about 10 minutes long, are unique and diverse, despite all simplicity. The opening track, being the most “traditionally” structured song, sets the mood of a dark, black and slightly cultish/gothic Doom soundscape. The next one drags you deeper down into this mood getting even gloomier and slower. The third track I wouldn't even call a regular song, it’s more or less a hypnotic recitation of Aleister Crowley’s poem Hymn To Pan accompanied by a repetitive melody provided by the guitars only, and the last one is bracingly chaotic and cacophonic. All songs are carefully constructed, with slow build ups that keep the tension to the point, with tempo shifts going easy and seamless from funeral pace to mid tempo.
A really outstanding and defining element in Upyr music are the vocals. The vocalist’s sonorous hypnotic and charismatic voice (once again I’m falling in love with vocals), is used as clean vocals, spoken or whispered words, dark growls or black metal screams, add a great deal of texture and facets of mood to the songs.
Altars/Tunnels is an album with a rich doom atmosphere that simply sucks you in right from the beginning and keeps you there, mesmerized, until the last sound dies away.
Labels: 2013, black metal, doom metal, Ulla Roschat, Upyr
Irkallian Oracle - Grave Ekstasis
Artwork by David Herrerias
Stygian Swedish band Irkallian Oracle formed in 2012, and while they hail from Gothenburg, you won’t find a hint of that city’s famed melodic death metal on the band’s debut, Grave Ekstasis. Instead, what you will encounter is underworld Babylonian mysticism, hermetic existentialism, and apocalyptic occultism; all boiling in a cauldron of arcane black and death metal. Originally released on cassette by underground label Bolvärk in 2013, Grave Ekstasis quickly sold out on that format, and it’s now in the hands of Nuclear War Now!—with the vinyl and CD reissue of Grave Ekstasis no doubt set to bring Irkallian Oracle further into the light.
That, in of itself, presents an interesting dichotomy; because Irkallian Oracle’s “ultra-void vibrations” are wholly suited to the vaults of the rare and obscure. The band’s prophecies may well unearth, or more accurately, disgorge, forbidden knowledge with a primordial and esoteric accent, but Irkallian Oracle’s revelations are more fitting for a close-knit and select cabal of listeners.
That’s not to do the band’s heavily ritualistic sound an injustice, or suggest Irkallian Oracle should limit its audience per se, but Grave Ekstasis is simply cult metal, for the discerning listener. Of course, we don’t live in an age where underground bands remain hidden anymore; anyone with access to the internet can attest to that. So, in order for bands to retain a sense of mystery, or exhibit powerful philosophic or aesthetic expressions of enigmatic and dark metaphysical thought, they need to communicate an all-encompassing vision. One that negates that the idea that spirituality is irrelevant or even absurd in this day and age, while also questioning whether this epoch, spilling over with all its scientific confidence, is really providing all the answers.
Some bands scoff at scepticism while bringing to mind the questions science can’t answer extremely well—see Antediluvian, Grave Miasma, Dead Congregation, Cruciamentum, Teitanblood, Necros Christos, and Vassafor, for a start. Like those band’s, Irkallian Oracle uses black and death metal to weave a sense of conceptual cohesiveness throughout it’s work, with Grave Ekstasis’ magik motifs and thoroughly murky musicality combining to not only speak of matters unearthly right now, but also to ask what comes when our existence in this realm ends.
Are we headed for a dimension where post-existence becomes pre-transcendence, or are we facing a void full of the horror of nothingness? Are we destined for a sphere where the sky bleeds red from the arteries of gods, or is death followed by a spectral existence, where notions of logic, ego, awareness, perception, or reality are rendered meaningless? Who’s to know, until we all get there, but those are the kinds of pathways of inquiry that Irkallian Oracle explores and evokes for 45 fantastically forbidding and phantasmal minutes on Grave Ekstasis.
Irkallian Oracle is here to shatter the illusion of selfhood on lengthy tracks like “Ekstasis” and “Dispersion”, while the 10-minute-plus chronicles, “Iconoclasm”, and “Absenta Animi”, tear the gates to the abyss wide open. Irkallian Oracle’s sound is dense, down-tuned, icy, churning, and is steeped in the swirling waters of thick and asphyxiating doom. Vocals are buried on Grave Ekstasis, with throat-slit growls untangling themselves to fight to the surface, while drums batter away in caverns as glimmers of experimentalism arise--the kind featured in the works of Abyssal or Mitochondrian, or in the oppressive, choking timbre of Portal.
In truth, Irkallian Oracle isn’t providing anything musically innovative as such, but that’s not to say the band isn’t wielding its abrasive arsenal superbly. Grave Ekstasis's claustrophobic crawls come with repetitive, clawing refrains that strip away the bounds of now, encouraging a state of being that mines the possibilities of otherness. Any question that Irkallian Oracle aren't fully aware of their chosen realm of exploration is rendered mute, because Grave Ekstasis avoids any of the superficial otherworldliness of trend-hopping occult death metal, and sounds exactly like a band committed to digging deep into the grottos of the underworld should.
Irkallian Oracle describes it’s ethos/objectives/text in many cryptic ways, but perhaps what suits Grave Ekstasis best is, “a prophecy of black stars revealed as an oracle..." Certainly, Grave Ekstasis feels like esoteric wisdom is being divulged, but it’s also a murky, squalid, and sepulchral album, so it's not granting you any immediate answers to anything. Like the best black and death metal communiqués set on unveiling sinister gospel, Grave Ekstasis's sonic reverberations serve as a catalyst; something to pierce the veil, and offer a glimpse of the beyond, through a crack in the wall of reality.
I guess, in the end, it’s up to you to push on through; question is, how much do you really want to know?
Labels: 2013, black metal, Craig Hayes, death metal, Irkallian Oracle, Nuclear War Now! Productions
Immortal Bird - Akrasia
Artwork by Kikyz1313
I faced a challenge when writing about Immortal Bird: My esteemed colleague, Andy Osborn, said the songs on their EP Akrasia reminded him of "a death metal Ludicra." That's high praise in his book and mine, and it's also one of the most succinct ways of describing Akrasia. But just in case you weren't convinced to check it out after seeing it on both Andy's year-end list as well as mine, I'll throw some more words at you to try to sway you.
Photo © John Mourlas. All rights reserved.
Rae Amitay has shown her drum prowess in lots of bands--including Woods of Ypres, Thrawsunblat, and Mares of Thrace--but she also provides the vocals for Immortal Bird. They're a vicious rasp, and one might be forgiven for thinking the lyrics "I'll chew on glass / I can't swallow my pride" from "Ashen Scabland" might be literal, not figurative. There are a lot of choice sensory moments in the lyrics, too, including a nest that "reeks of disease / soaked with mites and fleas" and the observation that it's "hard not to scream / when steel wool is your blindfold." “Akrasia” means acting against one’s better judgment, and lines like “I’ll be your great regret / the one that makes you pray for death” brings the point home. My own regret is that I didn’t get this review done before Valentine’s Day, because this EP is clearly for lovers.
The guitar and bass--by Evan Berry and John Picillo, respectively--do more than just keep up with Amitay’s vocals. There's a great variety of riffs here, from the swarm of angry insects on "Spitting Teeth" to the pairing of black metal dissonance and Pantera-esque grooves in "The Pseudoscientist." There are even moments of respite, like when the guitar switches to quiet, muted arpeggios in "Ashen Scabland" while Amitay asks, "Where do you think you'll go when you die?" Well, maybe "respite" isn't the right word...
None of the tracks are particularly long, and there's only four of them, but Akrasia has a full-album feel. The fact that they can pull elements of death and black metal together and juggle them while still maintaining a clear band identity makes me hope for a full-length, and soon.
Labels: 2013, death metal, free download, Immortal Bird, John Mourlas, Justin C
Vindensång - Alpha
Written by Aaron Sullivan.
Pennsylvania’s Vindensång return after 6 years with their second album Alpha. Their brand of Ambient is combined with Folk and a light dusting of Black Metal to create a unique sound, that on their latest album finds the band expanding upon.
The opening sounds of "The Eternal Return" pick up where the band left off on Terminus: Rebirth in Eight Parts... - but just a ways into the song and in come the drums along with a great vocal thing they do through most of the album. A whispered rasp vocal is layered underneath a throaty harsh style vocal. But neither so harsh as to obscure the words they are singing. Where as Terminus was a concept album, where songs blended into the next with no pause in between, Alpha has a central theme, but the songs stand alone. They are also more song like (if that makes sense); they seem to have a beginning, middle, and end. The drums are very prominent in the mix, something I love. They have this tribal feel to them. With the first few listens I felt as though their was something familiar about the album, aside from the Vindensång sound. Then it hit me. At times I am reminded of another Ambient masterpiece, Ulver’s Shadow of the Sun. In no way is this a rip off. It’s the mood that is the same, not the album. The way they can be so sparse and so atmospheric, yet touch you at your core. Albums you can get lost in and with each listen pick up something you may not have heard before.
As big fan of this band their return was one that excited me. But like with every band that has a new album you wonder will they still excite me the same way. Well Vindensång have done just that with Alpha. Six years is a long time to wait, but it was well worth it. While it may be early, I have little doubt this album will be on my year end list for 2014.
Labels: 2014, Aaron Sullivan, ambient, black metal, folk rock, Vindensång
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Event: Weimar's Dark Cabaret
15 February 2020, 3.30pm - 4.30pm
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Presented by students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
A concert to honour the rise and fall of the LGBT movement in the Weimar Republic Berlin, experienced through songs from one of its most talented protagonists, Composer Kurt Weill. Weill lined up some of the most important writers and dramatists to create his version of Opera: a mix between Jazz and Classic, Cabaret and epic theatre, to achieve the ultimate goal of stage entertainment in that time: ‘make audiences think’. With this concert we hope to entertain you, but also inform you about the LGBT movement during the two World Wars'.
This caberet will be held in the Artist Rooms exhibition space
Performer’s Biographies
Louise Geller (Fly) is a student at the David Seligman Opera School, at RWCMD. Louise has performed numerous principal roles with Bristol Opera and Tessitoura touring opera. Recent roles include Susanna, The Marriage of Figaro (Tessitoura) and Casilda, The Gondoliers (RWCMD). She has recently returned from a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with her show “The Comedy of Operas”.
José Bustamante (Jenny), Tenor, second year MMus. He started his musical training privately in Bolivia, in addition to his Biology studies. He gained a Masters in Ecology in Switzerland before considering a career change to music. There, he enrolled at the Ribaupierre Institut in Lausanne for the Opera-class.
Mezzo-soprano, Marienella Phillips (Mack), is in the RWCMD David Seligman Opera School and is taught by Anne Mason. She is a recipient of the Leverhulme Scholarship and the winner of the RWCMD Adelina Patti and Dolan Evans Duet Prizes. She is a graduate of the RWCMD MMus in Music Performance and University of Bristol.
Recent engagements: Mrs Charlton Dead Man Walking (WNO), Nancy Waters Albert Herring (RWCMD), Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro (Somerset Opera).
Michael Smith (Sam) is studying for BMUS in Vocal Performance at RWCMD with Adrian Thompson, John Fischer and Donald Maxwell. This summer he received the Gil Rodriguez Scholarship from Opéra de Baugé, France and the Badoer Dalla Rizza scholarship to perform Marcello and Masetto with Arte lirica Festival. Michael is a Bursary Student member of the BBC National Chorus in Wales.
Natalie Valentine (Begbick) is currently in her second year of the BA acting course. She is from North Carolina and previously trained at University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Drama
Alex Norton (Miriam) is a pianist, organist and saxophonist. Recent projects include performing Faure's requiem as organist at St. David's Hall, being the répétiteur on Kurt Weill's Happy End and performing the two-piano arrangement of Rossini's Petite Messe solennelle with Voci choir in Windsor.
Soprano Nataliya Gorban (Lillian) is currently a second year MMus vocal performance student at RWCMD with Gail Pearson. Nataliya previously graduated with BMUS from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she successfully completed her Erasmus exchange program. Born and raised in Ukraine, she moved to Portugal at young age, where she started to be trained as a classical singer.
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Pfizer to cut more jobs and close factories
By Aaron Smith, CNNMoney.comMay 18, 2010: 1:58 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said Tuesday that it will reduce its staff by another 6,000 jobs and shut down eight factories in its ongoing mission to cut costs in the wake of its merger with Wyeth.
Pfizer (PFE, Fortune 500) said the global job reductions will occur "over the next several years" and the factories will be closed by the end of 2015.
This is just the most recent wave of cuts and closures, as the company aims to reduce costs by up to $5 billion by the end of 2012.
The eight factories being closed in this round are located in the United States, Puerto Rico and Ireland, according to the drugmaker.
More specifically, the drugmaker said it would shut down manufacturing at its Richmond, Va., plant and at two cities in New York: Rouses Point, near the Canadian border, and Pearl River near New York City, where Pfizer is headquartered. However, the drugmaker will continue to conduct research and development at the sites in Richmond and the Pearl River plant, which it acquired from Wyeth.
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"This is unexpected and does not bode well for local or global economic recovery," said C. Scott Vanderhoef, chief economic officer for Rockland County, where Pearl River is located.
Vanderhoef said that Pfizer plans to eliminate 1,250 jobs at the Pearl River plant by 2014 - a number that the company confirmed.
Pfizer's factory closures include shut-downs in three Irish cities -- Loughbeg, Shanbally and Dublin -- as well as two cities in Puerto Rico -- Caguas and Carolina.
In addition, the company plans to "reduce operations" at six other plants in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Ireland, as well as in Germany and the United Kingdom.
Pfizer completed its acquisition of Wyeth on Oct. 15, 2009. Since then, the workforce has been reduced by 6,900 workers, primarily in manufacturing and R&D, according to a May 4 announcement.
Pfizer spokesman Ray Kerins said the total current workforce is approximately 113,800, down from 138,000 people that were employed by both companies in 2008. He said the company plans to reduce the total to 107,800 in five years.
"We obviously take these reductions very seriously and want to make sure our colleagues that are impacted by this are treated with dignity and respect," said Kerins.
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Subject: This Big-Cap "Ebola Stock" Is Also a Dividend Aristocrat
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This Big-Cap "Ebola Stock" Is Also a Dividend Aristocrat
By Michael A. Robinson, Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI • November 7, 2014
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Michael A. Robinson
With Ebola still rampaging across West Africa and cases popping up in the United States, it's clear that the virus is now a financial event.
That means we need to think about this logically.
And we also need to invest logically.
Over the past few weeks, we've watched as one "clinical stage" pharma firm after another has seen its stock price rise and plummet on rumors about who has the most likely Ebola vaccine.
I'm not taking you on any wild rides like that.
Instead, I want to introduce you to a solid big-cap company that is gearing up for a major Ebola drug trial and could have a product out in just seven months – and it would likely see hefty gains when its drug hits the market.
Now, before the crowd notices, let's take a look…
Sidestep the Frenzy
If ever there was a case study in the importance of following Rule No. 2 of my five-part Tech Wealth System, it's the speculation brouhaha surrounding possible new Ebola drugs. You'll recall that Rule No. 2 states: "Separate the Signal from the Noise."
As the media tries to handicap which biotech firm might get an Ebola compound on the market, they gloss over one key fact: It will be difficult for any of these small companies to scale up quickly.
Investing in small biotech firms sometimes does make sense. From my 30 years of experience in the biotech industry, I know investors can make a mint by picking up shares of under-the-radar clinical-stage firms before they receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for new drugs.
These "Ebola stocks," however, are fully "on the radar." Therefore, they'll be highly volatile not only because markets are choppy and news-driven, but also because people are speculating on who the eventual winner will be.
Just look at Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Nasdaq: TKMR). The stock of this clinical-stage firm is now up 33% over the past three months on the strength of non-Ebola drugs it has under development.
But in the month since its Ebola drug program became the focus of news, Tekmira is off nearly 20%. By comparison, the bellwether Standard & Poor's 500 Index is up 1.1% during the same time.
And this disparity understates how volatile shares of Tekmira have become. The company's stock gained nearly 16% on Oct. 3. But over the next two sessions it was off by 23%.
In fact, since the stock reached a closing high of $29.53 on Oct. 3, it's fallen 42.6% through Oct. 30. Buying this kind of rollercoaster at the wrong time could really hurt your portfolio.
Of course, some speculators and swing traders will profit greatly by playing the Ebola news. But these folks are mostly thick-skinned vets with plenty of risk capital they can afford to lose.
In my more than 30 years of knocking around technology and the life sciences, I have learned that you make the most money over the long haul by remaining focused and disciplined.
Which is why this "Ebola stock" is the far better bet…
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Michael A. Robinson is a 35-year Silicon Valley veteran and one of the top technology financial analysts working today. He regularly delivers winning trade recommendations to the Members of his monthly tech investing newsletter, Nova-X Report, and small-cap tech service, Radical Technology Profits. In the past two years alone, his subscribers have seen over 100 double- and triple-digit gains from his recommendations.
As a consultant, senior adviser, and board member for Silicon Valley venture capital firms, Michael enjoys privileged access to pioneering CEOs and high-profile industry insiders. In fact, he was one of five people involved in early meetings for the $160 billion "cloud" computing phenomenon. And he was there as Lee Iacocca and Roger Smith, the CEOs of Chrysler and GM, led the robotics revolution that saved the U.S. automotive industry.
In addition to being a regular guest and panelist on CNBC and Fox Business Network, Michael is also a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and reporter. His first book, "Overdrawn: The Bailout of American Savings" warned people about the coming financial collapse - years before "bailout" became a household word.
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Tags: Dividend Aristocrats, Dividend Stocks, Ebola stock, Ebola stocks, JNJ, JNJ stock, Johnson & Johnson stock, Nasdaq: TKMR, nyse: jnj, Tekmira stock, TKMR, TKMR stock
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Hands-On Review – URWERK UR-210 CP with Clou de Paris engraved case (live pics, specs & price)
For those who vist Monochrome-Watches regularly, you probably know that we have soft spot for independent watchmakers and timepieces that display the time in a different way, meaning without traditional hands and dials. One of our top favorite watches is, without any possible discussion, the URWERK UR-210, a piece that we extensively reviewed and filmed in a rather personal column, written by our editor in chief – for the full steel edition. It was certainly enthusiastic – and for very good reasons. This year, at Baselworld, the brand comes back with a new iteration, with a pattern that is usually reserved to highly classical watchmaking, the “Clou de Paris”… And believe or not, in the context of the URWERK UR-210 CP, it becomes very unusual and highly modern.
That’s the kind of watchmaker’s bench you’d like to see more often…
The URWERK UR-210 has always been out of this world, whatever the edition (Titanium, AlTIN or Full Metal Jacket). It’s even quite hard to qualify it as watch, by using the traditional definition and image we have of a timepiece. Everything in it is unusual, different, strange, bold, sometimes voluntarily outrageous… This is true for the design, for the materials used, for the display, for the treatment applied on the parts, for the colours chosen or for the complications (we dare you to find another watch with winding efficiency indicator and winding efficiency selector). Yes, once strapped on the wrist, the URWERK UR-210 is special. It is special for the feel, the look, the user-experience, because of the way to read time and it feels special for people around you, who, for a large majority, probably don’t understand what’s on your wrist. All these feelings are part of a unique experience, and we, at Monochrome, love it. But enough of digressions, let’s go back on the main subject; the URWERK UR-210 CP with Clou de Paris engraved case.
Basically, the URWERK UR-210 CP is a decorated edition of the UR-210 AlTIN – see here for details. It uses the same colour codes – a mix of black and bright yellow, a combination dear to the brand – and the same materials. The main difference comes from the pattern applied on the case and on several other parts of the watch; a pattern called in watchmaking “Clou de Paris“. This traditional pattern, which could be translated by Parisian spike or Parisian stud, is usually reserved to dials. It is a specific type of guilloché pattern with carved and intersecting lines, which create some small pyramids looking like the head of spikes. This technique is usually reserved to classical watches and to highly decorated dials, using engine-turned technique.
In the context of the URWERK UR-210 CP, the surprise comes from two factors. First, this pattern is not applied on a dial but directly on the case – very few watches show such decoration (think Patek Philippe Calatrava, in a completely different style). However we’re very far from the idea of a classical dress watch. When the Clou de Paris adds a traditional elegance to a watch, when applied on the dial, on the UR-210CP it creates an interesting, eclectic contrast. Because the pattern is applied on the case, because this case is extremely angular and bold, because the pattern comes in black metal and not on silver or gold, and because of the resemblance with the texture of the strap, this pattern creates a sort of continuity. The watch feels somehow more lively (in the way to reflects light differently than the normal flat case) and probably more mature, without being overloaded. And there’s also the feel under you fingers… A watch is not just visual but also tactile. This pattern also participates to the experience. Small detail: a squared pattern is also applied on the main retrograde hand, for a better integration with the overall look.
For the rest, the URWERK UR-210 CP Clou de Paris remains technically identical to the UR-210 AlTIN. The case, which measures 43.8mm in width and 53.6mm in length (not small but, in the metal, the watch is rather easy on the wrist) is a combination of titanium and AlTiN-treated steel. The black fabric strap, with its strong pattern, gives echo to the case. The entire movement is black coated and only enlighten by bright yellow accents. The beauty of the URWERK UR-210 lies in the display, which uses the signature satellite carousel – see the video we made to understand how to read the time on this watch. This watch, from the words of Felix Baumgartner (one of the two founders and master watchmaker), is the most evolved version of the satellite complication “In terms of the degree of evolution of the satellite carousel, I feel with the UR-210 that we have reached the pinnacle of what we can do with this complication“.
The principal feature of the URWERK UR-210 is a high-tech, oversized, three-dimensional retrograde minute hand. Its function is to enclose the hour satellite and indicate the time as it transverses the 0-to-60-minute scale. This one-hour journey through time, tracing an arc of 120°, is smooth and fluid. But all changes at the 59th minute, as a sharp “click” signals the return of the minute hand to its starting point, at 0. Meanwhile, the carrousel with the 3 hour satellites rotates and these satellites (sort of cubes), each with 4 numerals, rotates on themselves to indicate the right following numeral. A properly impressive display, based on everything except traditional hands but which remains extremely easy to read (look at the photo below, it is 3h46). The dial of the UR-210 also features two extra indications. One is easy – the power reserve indication located on the top right corner – the other one is simply unique in the world of watchmaking: an indication of the winding efficiency over the last two hours.
This unique indication does not measure the mainspring torque, however it calculates the difference between the consumed and generated energy of the mainspring. Thus, if your comfortably sitting on your sofa, reading a book, you won’t be moving a lot – therefore the rotor will not provide energy to the mainspring but the watch will continue to consume energy. On the other hand, when you’re walking energetically, the rotor will move a lot, and thus wind the main spring inside its barrel – and the watch will probably store more energy than it consumes. This indicator is linked to another signature feature of URWERK, the winding selector, located on the caseback – what the brand calls “dashboard”.
The selector allows you to choose between three positions; FULL (where the rotor is free to rotate, to be used to benefit from every single movement of the rotor to wind the watch, when you’re not very active); REDUCED (where the rotor is slowed-down by an air turbine compressor, which spins and creates internal resistance – based on air friction. To be used when you’re more active, to protect the watch from over-winding); STOP (where the rotor is simply disabled and the watch runs on its power reserve without automatic winding. To be used during strong activity, to protect the movement from wear). These three modes can be selected, depending on your activity.
Again, this URWERK UR-210 CP is extremely bold, completely unique in the way to display the time, in its complications or in its design. It’s an outrageous watch, probably “too-much” for many collectors and watch-lovers but it’s also why it’s so attractive. Relatively speaking, it remains a combination of strong design with traditional horology (the display and the complications are all based on mechanical solutions, using traditional watchmaking to be displayed). The technical feel has to be applauded but also the relative wearability. It’s not that hard to wear it in normal, daily conditions, at least if you feel like it. The new design of the case shows an even better integration to the entire concept and this Clou de Paris pattern is another demonstration of the implementation of traditions in independent, bold watchmaking. The price is on par with the result; 138,000 Swiss Francs (before taxes). More details about the URWERK UR-210 in our previous review and on the dedicated page at urwerk.com.
Specifications of the URWERK UR-210 CP
Case: Width 43.8mm, length 53.6mm, thickness 17.8mm – Titanium and AlTiN-treated steel with Clou de Paris pattern – sapphire crystal on front – control panel on the caseback – 30m water resistant
Movement: UR-7.10 – Automatic movement with in-house satellite complication – 39h power reserve – 28,800 vibrations/h – hours via revolving carrousel, jumping retrograde minutes, power reserve, winding efficiency indicator, winding efficiency selector (on the back)
Strap: Black fabric with blackened pin-buckle
Non limited – 138,000 Swiss Francs (before taxes) – Reference UR-210 CP
More info at the URWERK website.
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News & Stories > Blue Sky Science > Do plants produce nectar every day?
Blue Sky Science: Do plants produce nectar every day?
Arlene Koziol
Do plants produce nectar every day?
Johanne Brunet
Not all plants produce nectar, only plants that are visited by animal-type pollinators. Plants that are wind pollinated, for example, will not produce nectar.
You need a flower to make nectar, and those plants that do produce nectar will produce it as long as their flowers are open.
Some plants are hermaphroditic, meaning they’re both male and female. These plants tend to produce nectar every day.
Other plants will open as male first, then become female. The flowers will change gender over time, and the amount of nectar produced every day could change because of that.
When the nectar is depleted, the plant will make more but it takes some time.
Nectar is made as a reward for pollinators. They need the plants in order to survive because it’s their food source, how they get their sugar. We need to maintain these plants so we can maintain the pollinators.
Pollination is so important. Something like 80% of flowering plants require some form of pollination, whether insects or animals for pollination. The biggest pollinators, especially in the temperate regions, are bees.
In agriculture, bees play a very big role. Most of the vegetables, fruits and oil or hay producing crops like canola and alfalfa require insects for seed production.
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Trump meets with Kim Jong-un in North Korea
By Emily Aubert
July 1, 2019: Donald Trump met with Kim Jong-un in North Korea. Several candidates spoke at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition annual convention in Chicago.
There are 10 new candidates running since last week, including five Democrats, two Republicans, and one Libertarian. In total, 758 individuals are currently filed with the FEC to run for president.
Notable Quote of the Day
“What the maiden debates of the 2020 election cycle demonstrated above all else is the acceleration of change inside the Democratic Party—not just since Biden came to Congress in 1973, but since he became vice president in 2009.
Ten years ago this September, Barack Obama convened a joint session of Congress to reset the narrative of his health-care reform push and dispel some of the more sinister myths surrounding it. One particular point of emphasis for Obama: The Affordable Care Act would not cover undocumented immigrants.
On Thursday, every one of the 10 candidates on stage—Biden included—said their government plans would do exactly that.”
– Tim Alberta, Politico chief political correspondent
Michael Bennet, Julián Castro, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Kamala Harrisappeared on MSNBC’s Kasie DC Sunday night.
Attorney and top Obama bundler Tom McInerney announced that he had withdrawn support from Joe Biden.
Bill de Blasio announced Friday that New York City will no longer participate in a federal Title X program granting $1.3 million because it prohibited funded clinics from making abortion referrals.
Cory Booker joined Chuck Todd on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Steve Bullock is hosting a Facebook Live town hall on climate change with the Forward Montana Foundation Monday morning.
Pete Buttigieg walked with South Bend city and faith leaders in a peace march Saturday following an increase in gun violence and the fatal police shooting of Eric Logan.
Castro and Beto O’Rourke campaigned across Texas over the weekend.
John Delaney campaigned throughout Iowa over the weekend. He held a forum on healthcare with the Scott County Democrats.
Tulsi Gabbard discussed the first Democratic primary debate on Real Time with Bill Maher.
Several Democratic candidates defended Harris after tweets shared by bot accounts questioned whether she is a black American.
Harris reported raising $2 million in the 24 hours following the first Democratic presidential debate.
In an interview on CNN, John Hickenlooper criticized Trump’s meeting with Kim Jong-un.
Amy Klobuchar will campaign in Iowa Monday, the first of three days in the state.
Wayne Messam spoke about immigration policy at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Seth Moulton and Bernie Sanders campaigned at the Nashua Pride Festival in New Hampshire Saturday.
In an interview on Fox News, Tim Ryan said Trump’s meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was a publicity stunt.
Eric Swalwell retweeted support for lowering the voting age to 16.
Elizabeth Warren discussed her faith at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s Annual International Convention. Biden, de Blasio, Gabbard, and Klobuchar also spokeover the weekend.
Marianne Williamson and Andrew Yang both said their mics did not work at several points during the debate. NBC responded, “At no point during the debate was any candidate’s microphone turned off or muted.”
Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to enter North KoreaSunday. He then met with Kim Jong-un for an hour in the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas.
Business Insider: An inside look at the insanity of the Spin Room at the first 2020 Democratic debate
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Flashback: July 1, 2015
The Clinton campaign announced that it had raised $45 million in the second quarter of 2015. Ninety-one percent of donations were $100 or less.
Emily Aubert
Emily Aubert is a staff writer at Ballotpedia and can be reached at emily.aubert@ballotpedia.org
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Campaign finance reports published for Colorado Proposition CC
By Jackie Mitchell
Colorado Proposition CC on the 2019 ballot would allow the state to retain excess revenue it is currently required to refund under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) to provide funding for transportation and education.
One committee is registered to support Proposition CC: the Great Education Colorado Issue Committee. The support campaign has reported $51,040 in contributions and $12,773 in expenditures so far. Daniel Ritchie, Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Denver, contributed $50,000 to the support campaign.
Two committees are registered to oppose Proposition CC. Americans for Prosperity Colorado Issue Committee has reported $293,854.71 in in-kind contributions, all of which came from Americans for Prosperity. Citizens Against CC had not yet reported campaign finance activity.
The reports covered through August 28, 2019. The deadline for the next scheduled reports is September 16, 2019.
Also on the 2019 ballot in Colorado is Proposition DD, which would authorize sports betting in Colorado and authorize the legislature to levy a tax of 10% on those conducting sports betting operations. Ballotpedia did not identify any committees registered to support Proposition DD.
One committee is registered to oppose Proposition DD: Coloradans for Climate Justice. The committee had not reported any campaign finance activity.
Both propositions were referred to the ballot by the state legislature. In 2018, the legislature referred six measures to the ballot in the form of constitutional amendments. Campaigns supporting those measures raised funds ranging from under $5,000 to over $5.8 million in the case of Amendments Y and Z designed to create independent redistricting commissions.
https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Proposition_DD,_Wagering_on_Sporting_Events_Measure_(2019)
https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_measure_campaign_finance,_2018
https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_2019_ballot_measures
Jackie Mitchell
Jackie Mitchell is a state ballot measures staff writer at Ballotpedia and can be reached at jackie.mitchell@ballotpedia.org
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Rauner Veto Stalls Bill Aimed at Limiting State Charter School Control
Matt Masterson | March 1, 2018 4:28 pm
Gov. Bruce Rauner this week exercised his veto power on a bill aimed at limiting state control over charter school closures.
Rauner on Wednesday announced his veto of HB 768, legislation that would have done away with an appeals process for charter school applicants and operators whose proposals have been denied by local school boards.
“The Charter School Commission is more well-equipped to facilitate the appeals process than local courts,” Rauner wrote in his veto message, “and should continue to be empowered with the charge of ensuring that all Illinois children have access to a high-quality education.”
The Illinois Charter School Commission currently has the power to overturn decisions made at the local level to eliminate individual charter schools. This legislation would have ended that practice, leaving final authority over charter closures with local school boards.
This situation presented itself in 2016 after three South Side charters slated for closure appealed to the state commission and won, leading then-Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool to state: “What the commission was saying with this ruling last night is that no charter school can be held accountable, no matter how poorly it serves our children.”
CPS moved late last year to close ACE Technical Charter in Washington Park. It also denied a proposal to open a new charter called the Chicago Classical Academy Charter School in the South Loop.
Both of those schools have since appealed to the commission and their cases remain pending with decisions expected later this month.
Local school boards can’t make snap decisions to close charters and expect those decisions to be upheld at the state level. For instance, CPS currently maintains a charter accountability policy.
Under those guidelines, charters with a Level 3 School Quality Rating Policy rating (the lowest possible rating), a two-year SQRP average of 2.5 or lower, or a Level 2 rating in three consecutive years are eligible for placement on a district warning list. Only after a school is placed on that list for two consecutive years is it eligible for closure.
The Illinois Network of Charter Schools – the state’s main charter sector advocate organization – applauded Rauner’s decision Wednesday, saying the bill would have all but eliminated the state commission.
“The Commission plays a critical role in ensuring Illinois families have access to high-quality public school options,” INCS said in a statement. “In practice, the Commission allows skilled educators and community members the opportunity to open new and innovative school models. INCS will work with our partners in Springfield to ensure the veto is upheld.”
The bill had passed through both the state House and Senate easily last year. But Rauner’s veto doesn’t come as a surprise, as he is a strong charter advocate and has appointed a majority of the commission’s nine current members.
The governor’s decision was popular with INCS, but the Chicago Teachers Union has a different stance on the veto.
“The governor embraces local control for municipalities when they seek to crush unions,” CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey said. “Yet Rauner demands top-down control for his pet projects – like overruling local school boards’ decisions on how best to manage their schools … Rauner simply wants to attack workers in whatever way it’s convenient to him, collateral damage be damned.”
State Sen. Linda Holmes, D-Aurora, who sponsored the bill, echoed those concerns, saying Rauner wants to keep charter decisions at the state level where he can “more easily influence” outcomes.
“School boards across the state know what is best for those that they serve,” she said, “and should have the final word on issuing, denying or revoking a charter school permit.”
Contact Matt Masterson: @ByMattMasterson | mmasterson@wttw.com | (773) 509-5431
CPS Recommends Closing 1 Charter School, Opening Another
Nov. 30: A day before Chicago Public Schools is expected to unveil its action plan following a five-year neighborhood school closing moratorium, the district announced it will move to shutter one charter school and authorize another.
CPS to Consider Closing 4 Charter Schools
Oct. 20: Under its accountability guidelines, the Board of Education can opt to revoke or not renew charters that have been placed on an academic warning list.
State Commission Could Lose Power to Overturn Charter School Closures
May 30, 2017: If signed by the governor, a Senate-approved bill would leave authority over charter closures with local school boards.
Illinois Network of Charter Schools
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In January, 1973, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times flew to Nice, France, to interview the director Herbert Ross about “The Last of Sheila,” a mystery picture that he was shooting on the Côte d’Azur, much of which took place on a luxurious, hundred-and-sixty-five-foot yacht called H.M.S. Malahne. The gilded ship, which was built in England in 1937 and once helped evacuate soldiers from Dunkirk, became something of a Hollywood fixture in the nineteen-sixties and seventies: it served as the floating production office for “Lawrence of Arabia” in Jordan, was a regular Mediterranean clubhouse for Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra, and popped up in “The Last of Sheila,” as the floating summer home of a sinister film producer played by James Coburn. (There was a kernel of truth buried in this fiction: at the time of filming, H.M.S. Malahne was the property of a womanizing film producer named Sam Spiegel, who was allegedly so handsy with actresses that Billy Wilder once said that he had “velvet octopus arms.”) Dark things can happen out at sea, when people feel unmoored from both the shoreline and a landlocked sense of morality. “The Last of Sheila,” written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim—who used to host infamous mystery parties together in New York—pushes this idea to murderous excess. A group of glamorous strangers (including Raquel Welch, Ian McShane, and Dyan Cannon) set sail, people start dying, and it’s up to the viewer to discover whodunnit. In his Los Angeles Times interview, Ross acknowledged the inherent creepiness of floating stories: “If you have a group of people on a ship,” he said, “the ship becomes a metaphor for existence, you can’t help it. . . . it’s about civilization and barbarism.”
I could not stop thinking about “The Last of Sheila” while watching the Season 2 finale of “Succession,” which traps the Roy family and their closest remora on a superyacht in the Adriatic. Like H.M.S. Malahne, which would look like a dinghy beside the Roys’ “boat” (rich people never say “yacht”), their sea vessel is also the setting for a kind of murder mystery. After a series of scandals involving Waystar Royco’s cruise division (dark things happen at sea!), the company’s board demands a “blood sacrifice,” a scapegoat that they can tie up in litigation while the empire sails on, more or less unscathed. Each person who boards the ship knows that they could end up as the one overboard.
Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) and Shiv Roy (Sarah Snook) on the beach.
Photograph by Graeme Hunter / HBO
And yet they look fabulous. Relaxed. Expensive. Carefree. Cool in Top-Siders and floral maxidresses and gossamer pareos. Like Cannon in “Sheila,” who wore oversized tinted glasses and a circus of colorful caftans and straw hats, even as she was fearing for her life, the Roys, in resort wear, are engaging in high-stakes high fashion, on the high seas.
When I wrote about the fashion on “Succession” earlier this fall, I argued that the Roys are a family of “little pleasure or sparkle,” that, in spite of their money, they are tasteful to a fault, dressing protectively in uniforms of beige cashmere rather than in eccentric couture. I spoke to the show’s costume designer, Michelle Matland, who told me that this was accurate—but that she could not wait for me to see the finale, where we would get to see a different side of the Roy dress code. “I shouldn’t even be telling you this,” she said, at the time. “But they go on a yacht. We get to see them at play.”
Even with this tip-off, the Roys’ maritime peacocking came as a thrilling visual surprise. At last, here was the family in private, dressing only for each other. “Sails out, nails out, bro,” as Kendall instructed Cousin Greg. And while their fashion choices are more adventurous at sea—Tom’s pink linen Ralph Lauren jacket, Shiv’s flowy white Hobbs jumpsuit with an oversized waist sash, Willa’s floral Equipment dress, which she likely bought after seeing it on Kate Middleton—there is still a sense of gloom that seeps through the pastels. I spoke to J. Smith-Cameron, who plays Gerri, Waystar Royco’s general counsel, who did her best Sue Mengers impression in a series of Cynthia Rowley caftans. Smith-Cameron told me that she wanted to look like she was seasick with stress, even in spangles. “We see these people on this plush boat on the Adriatic with delicious food, and there’s a pool and a slide and Jet Skis,” she said. “But everyone is filled with dread. So it was actually meant to be jarring: beautiful surroundings with long faces and furtive glances, not people enjoying themselves. So all of our resort wear is meant to look nice but at the same time be amusingly counter.”
Matland echoed this sentiment. Tom, for example, is coming off his disastrous performance at the congressional hearings on Waystar Royco’s crimes and is “highly agitated,” she said. “His clothing, which was a lot of Ralph Lauren linen suits, is there to belie the fact that he is on the edge of a breakdown. He is constantly trying to look as if he is comfortable—pink linens say honeymoon, vacation, enjoyment—but it is there to cover for the fact that he is unhinged.”
Matland’s goal with the episode was to telegraph the shared anxiety that each character feels while laundering this panic through the resort-wear section of Bergdorf Goodman. Kendall (Jeremy Strong), who quietly slumps around, wears a tiny Paul Stuart trilby hat (Strong’s idea), which Matland says serves as both a security blanket and as a sign that he is feeling deeply insecure. “The hat was crumpled, if you’ll notice,” she said. “It was purposefully imperfect.”
In the final twist, when Kendall turns saboteur, he is back in his city armor: a sharp, fitted Tom Ford suit that almost shines like sharkshin. He sheds the earth tones that he has been wearing all season and dons the color black—a mournful color, but also one that marks him as an assassin, capable of patricide. He’s lost his blingy Oliver Peoples sunglasses, the typical eyewear of rich scions who have a trust fund and personal shoppers who run errands to SoHo; he is at last seeing clearly.
Sunglasses were crucial to this episode, Matland told me, when it came to winking at subtle differences between characters. Shiv, for example, wears traditional Ray-Bans, a sign that she wants to traffic in old-money rituals rather than in flashy ostentation. (“It was significant that she did not wear Gucci or Prada,” Matland said.) Tom’s sunglasses in his much memed chicken-stealing moment, right after he breaks down about his unhappy marriage, are Persol, an old-world Italian brand favored by worldly celebrities, most notably by Anthony Bourdain, who wore his pair all over the globe. His shades are as close to representing rebelliousness as one can get in the Roys’ world. Tom is past his breaking point; he’s having his Brando moment.
Logan Roy (Brian Cox) on the top deck of the yacht.
Logan never lets his guard down, even in the sun—his sun hat is wool, from Walker Slater, a tweedy, posh haberdasher from Scotland. Nor does Roman, who, despite being the most feckless character, may also be the most authentic, in that he almost never changes his costume. “He has a uniform he’s super-comfortable in,” Matland said. “Blue oxford button-ups. Always.”
As for Shiv, most of her boat wear, including her cream pinstripe suits, is Ralph Lauren Purple Label, a sign that she arrived on the ship most prepared for professional ruthlessness. She wants the top job, she’s dressed for it, and she’s willing to throw her husband under the bus for it, save for a rare moment of weakness in front of her father. Her one whimsical touch is an oversized straw hat with a black ribbon, from the Brooklyn brand Lola, which makes her look pampered and pastoral, like an extra from “Anne of Green Gables.” Even with her sharp, new-ish bob and architectural wardrobe, Shiv is still a spoiled, priggish little girl who throws tantrums if she can’t get her way, and her accessories betray her true nature. (As a side note, Smith-Cameron told me that was so taken with Shiv’s hat that she went out and bought one for herself after the episode wrapped.)
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Gay filmmaker Kim Jho Kwang-soo announces his marriage to a younger man
Kim Jho Kwang-soo (46) made an announcement to marry a 19 years younger male and has been an issue.
Announcing his marriage on the 15th, he also determined to get his marriage recognized by law. Not a transgender, he is the second to come out of the closet besides Hong Seok-cheon in the entertainment industry and is well known as an earnest and progressive filmmaker.
He is a middle aged movie maker who established movie company Cheong Nyon Films and started being active in the mid 1990s.
Unique and mellow movie "Wanee and Junah" with top star Kim Hee-seon and rookie Joo Jin-mo was the movie that gave him the lift to fame.
This movie didn't succeed greatly but it was overwhelming in issue and was acknowledged as skilled for having cast Kim Hee-seon.
He didn't come out of the closet then but it was widely known that he was gay among movie makers. His intentions seemed definite when he kept bringing in gay police officers in the movie "Wanee and Junah".
He chased two hares at once as the recently produced "Detective K" gathered great success.
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Posted by: rajeshkannan | February 19, 2010
A man with every reason to smile - except the one that matters most.
Nine balls. That’s the difference between glory and permanent regret. It’s the refrain Morne Morkel and Hashim Amla will hear in the wee hours of the morning as they relive this game in their dreams, desperately willing a different result each time. It’s cruel that such outstanding young sportsmen have to see the prize elude them by such margins, but that’s the nature of this greatest of sports – it pummels you for five days, pretends to lay dead as you close in hopefully, and, at the last moment, fells you.
How on earth have English cricket fans survived three such matches in the last seven months? Just this one made me physically sick, suicidal and hopeful, again and again, till there was just a dull churning inside, a resignation which couldn’t quite fathom the result when it arrived. I may have been a partisan in this one, but I wouldn’t wish this kind of defeat on anyone, especially the wretchedly unlucky South Africans. Wasn’t it just a week ago that we were lauding South Africa to the skies and marvelling at the poisoned chalice that the no. 1 ranking had become? But in a display which will rank right up there for its ruthlessness and a determination to fight back from a crushing loss, India have managed to hold on to their pole position for at least a few more months.
An innings victory apiece for both teams might suggest wild inconsistency but this series has been about some brilliant performances entirely worthy of a top of the table clash; and a nerve-shredding grandstand finish, better than the one seen at the Eden nine years ago. South Africa seemed to be from a different planet last week, but it was thrilling to watch the Indian riposte, kickstarted by the bowlers and comprehensively rammed home by the batting. And even as the Kolkata weather threatened to break a billion hearts on day 4, the three-man bowling attack somehow broke through minutes from the end, consigning South Africa to yet another off-season of angst and soul searching.
Purple prose aside…
Indian batsmen don’t do things by halves – indeed, Sehwag seems to deal purely in exponents. I can’t blame them too much for last week’s collapse – the bowling was just sensational – and this week, the middle order cashed in. Was Laxman the difference? He was certainly instrumental in getting the lead up to 350, but very high praise is due Sehwag and Tendulkar – the former for wresting the initiative, and the latter for chipping away, and importantly, talking Sehwag through some of his rushes of blood. The South African bowling was decent, but Sehwag (he’s already becoming a verb, as in “sehwagged”) took full advantage of JP Duminy’s continuing horror series and well, Tendulkar was there too.
Tendulkar haters have always managed to find sticks to beat him with, and he’ll be chided for “throwing it away after reaching a century.” What rot. It’s not his fault that he’s expected to be there at the start, middle and end, and do it with style. He has 19 centuries in wins, in a team which was largely mediocre for the better part of his career, and evidently knows a thing or two about putting his team in winning positions.
But if he had an opportunity to do so at all, it was only because of an afternoon of madness on day 1. It was 2001 all over again, and there nearly was another hattrick for Harbhajan as well. When Graeme Smith and Corrie van Zyl mull upon what went wrong, this is the session they’ll pinpoint as the one which killed off their hopes of winning. For India, the big positive was the effort put in by a three man attack on the last day, and Ishant Sharma’s vital contributions, both on day 1 and on day 5. Can he keep up his pace? Can Harbhajan retain the menace, at home as well as away? And can Mishra realise that bowling magic balls in between dross is not the way to go? The answers to these questions will determine this team’s trajectory over the next year.
But the defining player of the series was certainly Hashim Amla. He saw off everything thrown at him with a languid elegance and equanimity borne only of supreme belief – the only way India was going to win in Kolkata was by getting the other ten men out. Is it too soon to call him the next Dravid? I, like many others, doubted him, but this was a batting exhibition for the ages from the quiet man from Durban. He stood on the burning deck at the Eden, and few greater performances have been seen in defeat. He will be crushed, but should take heart from this performance, and prepare to be the glue in the South African middle order for the next decade.
So, when the dust has settled…
It’s all wonderfully muddled in the cricketing world at the moment, and even a few Australians might grudgingly admit that this makes Test cricket far more compelling than watching the Aussie juggernaut roll over everyone. When India ascended to the top, there was a lot of grumbling, with some arguing that they’d need to be consistent world-beaters like Australia were a few years ago, to be called no. 1. All of which completely misses the point – this is a ranking of the current teams, not an all-time list, and India satisfied the criteria.
For my money, the South Africans are the best team in the world, in a chess-final type situation where the top two face off. Home and away, they hold the edge over India, and India will do very well to get something out of their series in Africa later this year. But they’re even with Australia, an opponent over whom India hold a slight edge. South Africa remind me of the Arsenal at the turn of the century, who consistently did well against the Man Uniteds and Liverpools, only to lose out against the Boltons and Evertons. Meanwhile, England, under a calm Andrew Strauss, certainly look capable of challenging all three. Eighteen months from now, having faced both Australia and India, England could well be on top. Of course, if they haven’t choked on tabloid hype by then.
But 18 months is a long time in cricket, especially in the fluid, perpetually unresolved arena of Test cricket. India have been forced to take some painful steps to bolster their batting, and it will strengthen them in the long run. It’s the bowling that’s the real worry, and fleeting glimpses of form apart, no Indian bowler other than Zaheer Khan has looked consistently top class in the last year. If India can find two consistent pacemen to aid Zaheer, and if Harbhajan doesn’t lapse into, well, Harbhajan, India will stay top for a long time.
My overwhelming feeling at the end of this “series” is a sense of wistfulness. What a five test series this would have made! The crowds would have flocked in their thousands and loved it, and the two best teams in the world would have locked horns in a truly titanic battle of equals. Instead, it feels like the plate has been snatched away after the appetisers at a Michelin-starred restaurant. And we’ll now have to make do with the hot dogs masquerading as the Indian Premier League.
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A report worthy of the match Sir.
Thank you – high praise considering the potboiler this was.
What a letdown the ODIs are going to be – mercifully, there are only 3.
By: Rajesh Kannan on February 19, 2010
2 other aspects I wanted to point out in the report but ran out of space for – the pitch was fantastic, and I’m really impressed and gratified that there were no delaying tactics or injury shenanigans from the Saffers. Overall, very very sporting contest, and the result, and post-series comments by the captains reflect this.
Rajesh – if your taking away stock villains like Indian groundsmen and South African cricketers, especially the captain, I’ll lose my compass.
Thank God for Lalit Modi.
Even here, I couldn’t resist a dig at everyone’s favourite villain, or at least at his bastard child the IPL.
Can’t they cut the three ODIs and add a test at Chepauk. That would make some spectacle.
By: yogesh on February 19, 2010
I am a huge Tendulkar fan and am glad to see you defend him from his ‘critics’. Why don’t they realise one thing – Test matches are won by bowlers, not batsmen. Batsmen can just set it up – nothing more. And Tendulkar has done enough set-up acts for India in his two decades of cricket.
But even after reading this, ‘critics’ will still say that he does not see India through till the end. May God help you!
By: Shridhar Jaju on February 19, 2010
Nice report. It’s almost more frustrating to me when Bhaji bowls well….it reminds me that he actually knows the virtues of flight, drift and line – he just chooses not to use them most of the time.
Also, the report is filed under Toots’ name rather than RK’s. This led me to believe that Toots was indulging in schizophrenic self-congratulation with his first comment. Seemed very out of character.
By: Tim on February 19, 2010
Tim – you’re right! I did post this, as Rajesh had sent it to me and I thought it would work well as a complement to Dileep’s piece at guardian.co.uk. I’ll try to change that, or at least write a little preamble to lay the passion where it lies!
Lovely report Rajesh! Absolutely agree that a 2 match series does no justice.
Few (but not short) thoughts to share: I do think tho that the short series was hard fought because the no. 1 tag was on the line. The series would not even have happened if not for Dhoni wanting to finish the year at no.1 and BCCI greasing the wheels after that. And for all the thrill some recent tests (Nagpur was one-sided and this one was lucky to not be so because nature fortunately intervened and struck a day off the proceedings to make it more interesting) have provided, its important to keep in mind that the exciting contests happen only between 4 sides at the moment; SA, Aus, Ind and Eng to some extent. The majority of the other match-ups have been sheer let downs in cricketing terms, i.e. no-contests.
Also, for all those talking about Test cricket in India ever being dead – that’s a ridiculous notion to bandy about. People usually come watch big games and even if they don’t, millions are watching it on TV. Correct that – that’s actually hundreds of millions. And yes – they’re actually only watching the game – and no work gets done at that time – slackers all. To say nothing of Indian expats around the world. In fact tens of millions are watching and following cricket even when India is NOT playing! Always been the case. Always will be. To think crowds in stadia or lack thereof in India is an indicator of levels of interest in tests is almost completely wrong.
Finally, T20 (and by extension IPL) is not killing Test cricket. The zero-contests are. T20 and IPL are a result of cricket watchers desiring to see exciting cricket of any sort. OutsideTheLine wrote this absolute gem of a post on the IPL (http://outsidetheline.typepad.com/outside_the_line/2008/06/5-untold-truths.html) as part of his terrific IPL season 1 wrap-up series. The mention in there that its the start of some sort of cricket meritocracy is key – it’s essential for the game to truly survive: not (just) the IPL but hard fought contests between evenly matched teams that everyone (and not just the so-called, self-proclaimed purists) can watch at the convenience of the spectator.
This would have been a three-test series had CSA not decided to curtail their tour of India citing a hectic schedule. So don’t blame the BCCI for doing the right thing here, maybe you should look at CSA not having sent its team on a full tour of India since 2000.
The BCCI is actually to be praised here, as you point out. We all just like bashing them – it’s just more fun.
And anyway, I understand that this was hastily scheduled etc, but SAF have toured India 3 times in the last 5.5 years, and played 7 tests. Maybe a proper calendar with a gap of 3.5-4 years, and 4-5 Test match series are more appropriate. I blame it on India’s lack of institutions like the Boxingg Day Test, and New Years’ tests (which ensure home series in Aus and, most times, SAF, around those times). Obviously, hemispherical weather conflicts are a problem, but I’m sure there’s a way to work around and get a more regular schedule, with more Tests in each series.
It’s possible to have a four-year cycle running from World Cup to World Cup. Each team plays every other team home and away in tests, ODIs and T20s. There are also windows for two T20 World Cups and a Champions Trophy (Make it two Champions Trophies and a T20 WC if you want), and an annual 7-week window for the IPL and a 3-week one for the Champions League. The ICC events and the Champions League can be held in countries other than India while the IPL would be in India every year. That way every country gets to host atleast one major international tournament.
holysmokes, your comment about all those things is spot on I think.
I am especially sick and tired of people moaning about the insidious nature of IPL. I don’t have enough nasty adjectives to pummel these elitists. More than elitism, these people suffer from a bewildering lack of empathy. They are simply out-of-touch. In short, they are clueless. They have got so badly caught up in the mechanics/logistics of the sport that they have forgotten the people who make it.
I love IPL because it has opened up opportunities to many cricketers who would ordinarily toil their lives out in the backwaters of domestic cricket. I find it stunning that commentators and lovers of cricket cannot grasp the wonderful connotations of this. With cricket now becoming widely lucrative many more kids will now take up this game. This will immensely benefit countries like India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, etc. Limited opportunities in any field hurts that field in a developing nation more than in developed nations. Because failure tends to be much more severe on the citizen of a developing nation. With more kids making more money, 20/20 will unleash much more talent in developing nations than it ever will elsewhere.
I love all forms of cricket. I think five-day cricket is purest of all and often, funnest. But I am also mindful that being selfish will not do. So if ever called upon to level priority of one form over another I will easily say: more 20/20 over tests. By saying that I am simply voting for a scheme where many participants thrive, over a scheme where only a few do. I wanna see more and more people play cricket. I wanna see them make decent money. I wanna see more nations play the sport and be more competitive. I wanna see more and more people enjoy it. In an ideal world I would want test cricket to achieve these goals. But it just cannot. Only 20/20 can. So I applaud Lalit Modi. In a decade he will be remembered as the one single person who succeeded in enlarging cricket in a way no one ever could. Five-day cricket will never go away. It will achieve an optimal concentration.
Sit tight and watch the sport grow, folks. Don’t be one of those nostalgic grumblers/anti-change warriors that have uselessly littered history. Accept product evolution, especially if its of the kind that benefits a much more expanded field of makers and consumers. Keep in mind 20/20 has only just taken shape. Don’t think that it is a finished product. It will get better. There will be many wrong turns, but the trend is awesome. And if your heart is breaking over the sullied purity of the sport. Remember: purity doesn’t fill stomachs, it doesn’t make careers. Purity didn’t help all those cricketers who lived in the age of Tendulkar, Dravid, Laxman, Ganguly. Those barely known cricketers who spent some of their best years in a field with a single outlet that was all clogged up. Get beyond the mechanics and think about them. Think of the Pandeys, Mishras, Jadejas, Pathans, Nayars who would probably have stayed out of our consciousness and pockets without IPL. Think of all those pacemen who existed, beyond the 2-3 who have typically thrived in any given decade of Indian cricket. Feel for the sport as long as you don’t stop feeling for the hundreds who play them. Don’t be a silly theorist. Don’t get distracted by the rich who are getting richer. They are rich either way. Keep your eyes on the many who will move to some sort of financial security in a fickle world of sports. Stop being curmudgeons.
By: Vick Gower on February 19, 2010
Vick, your points are all valid and well put. IPL does indeed provide financial security for the second rung of cricketers and anyway, the game evolves constantly. I think the argument is not an existential one, viz whether IPL should exist or not, but one of quantity. How much T20 is too much? One 6 week IPL window is ok, but with 4 more teams, and another window being requested, surely the zero sum nature of scheduling kicks in soon? Case in point – SAF played 6-7 Tests last year. India were due to play 5 this year I think (before these 2 were hastily arranged). Are you telling me this isn’t because of the demands of IPL and the T20 WC with the ludicrous 1 year lag?
I like T20, and I applaud it as a tool to help both second tier cricketers, and to attract casual fans. As for dead games, there are a lot more dead ODIs than Tests – prune the ODIs instead, and make sure there’s a proper Test structure in place. This shouldn’t be a winner take all fight between T20s and Tests.
Vick, I agree, well put. I’d also like to add though, that T20 domestic leagues are a great boon to fans, who currently get to see (live, in the flesh) 2-5 games of top-level cricket a year (if they are lucky). A local T20 team will be slightly inferior in standard, but they will play a dozen times a year, or more. Given the cost of decent stadium facilities, it is a much better use of infrastructure, and a greatly increases the opportunities for fans to attend games.
Rajesh, if you look at the FTP, South Africa had nothing scheduled last year, nor did they play T20 while they had the time off. Both India and South Africa have scheduled games against Zimbabwe which won’t go ahead. But this year was already designated as quiet. Having said that, the FTP specifies a 3 test, and 5 ODI Ind-RSA series, so don’t be too keen to credit them with putting on the series just concluded. The IPL has taken the place of the Asia Cup.
But that’s somewhat by-the-by. The World T20 is scheduled for just over two weeks, the IPL for six. That still leaves 40 odd weeks for test match cricket. The problem with scheduling is not that there is too much cricket being played (maybe a little), it is that it is haphazard and random. The conflicts with schedules are occurring because there are no set windows for international games and domestic leagues (nor was there any reason to be). I’ve been pondering this on my blog, and you could relatively comfortable schedule 24 weeks of domestic T20 a year (12 weeks per hemispheric summer), and still have time for teams to play 12 tests, regional/world cups and a handful of ODI/T20 internationals. (and players could get at least 12 weeks rest a year as well).
I agree largely with holysmokes as well, except that I don’t think the trouble with international cricket is “no contests”, which are a perennial problem in all international sports, but no contexts. The Ashes can still be no contest, and I’ll still take an interest, because it carries the weight of history, and is always a proper series of games (at least 4). But the only point of interest in this Australian summer was the form of players in the context of the forthcoming world cups and next summer’s tests. That wouldn’t be the case if the vast bulk of test matches was part of a proper test championship, or the qualification rounds for such a tournament. It gets harder and harder to care about the result of games that you’ll forget a few minutes after they end, regardless of their cricketing quality.
By: Russ on February 19, 2010
@Russ: Very true that about the relevance of context to test contests.
Having a 2 or 4 year Test championship where everyone plays everyone else home and away – is super great – but can realistically never happen because of the money needs of individual boards.
Here’s what could make sense tho. If you want to get your team on top of the table the onus is on your board to work that calendar (very opportunistic BCCI – but this one time you did right even tho you never cared to). If they don’t want to put their team on the top via scheduling means – having a Test championship would be a waste of time anyways.
If they want to but can’t schedule sh*t because the others don’t want to play them, well, you do what Ban. did and beat Ind. and SA at the WC, but then make sure you follow it up.
holysmokes, I whole-heartedly agree. Trying to organise a league hasn’t worked, and won’t work, for all sorts of reasons, which I won’t recite here.
When I say I would like to see a test championship, I mean a tournament, played over a year, with previous years devoted to regional championships/qualifiers and play-offs. But with two years out of every four year cycle open for teams to play those major series that are so important to them (financially and historically).
It is possible to organise a championship that takes a year to play, isn’t biased towards a host nation, works with 3 and 4 test series, instead of individual games, and would have a clear (and deserving) winner. But as I alluded to before, I am in the process of blogging about it already, so I won’t clog the comments here with it.
Very much agree with you Vick. I wanted to mention some of the same points you did but you put it across a lot better. You’re right – the coming of the IPL means that cricket can actually be considered an honest career developing countries, without requiring these aspirants to have to make it on the international level. Those who like the limelight will have to perform to stay there. The difference that makes to passionate but poor cricketers is immense – to say nothing of the number of support jobs such a league creates (coaches, trainers, construction workers, local tourism and trade workers, cheesy franchise apparel makers, etc.). Plus grounds will stay in use and because of the high-profile nature of the competition – be forced to upgrade as well.
Also, imagine the effect the IPL will have on cricket at the school and college levels as well, with young players now actually believing they can make a career out of the sport. Does anyone think that college and univ level American Football and basketball (i.e. NCAA) would be so competitive if the NFL and the NBA didn’t exist as the very next level? Absolutely no way. Poor kids especially get a chance to make something of their lives and improve their lot, their families lot and the collective lots of the people in their neighborhood because of the opportunities that playing in professional sports provides. Is it wrong that an aspiring basketball player thinks of rubbing shoulders with Kobe playing for the Lakers and not of representing his country for the Olympics? Who are we to decide what people can and should aspire for?
You’re also right – where the game goes from here is also a very interesting and exciting exercise in speculation and anticipation. T20 though will spread cricket – of that I have very little doubt.
Oh and there were more than 9 deliveries left in the game as India had maintained a fast over-rate during the mandatory 15 overs.
15 minutes, then. I doubt the pain will be any lesser for South Africa.
holysmokes – I like T20, but its burgeoning growth has to be controlled because you can’t have as much T20 as there is planned already, the ODIs and the kind of Test cricket we want to see. Okay, that isn’t a good argument to make in a period of ultra-close high profile Tests, but let’s not kid ourselves that the standard of Test Cricket is as good as it was even four years ago. There’s a reason England is competitive in Tests against all countries and, alas, it’s not because we’ve discovered our own Tendulkar or Warne or Marshall or Viv. It’s that our blokes don’t play as much ODI stuff as most of our opponents.
I see your point somewhat TootingTrumpet, but I am not sure I completely agree with you.
For starters, England is still very selectively competitive – a series or even a year of good cricket does not a top team make. Aus, SA and Ind have been much better consistently home and away (actually believe Ind started that trend with the drawn 1-1 series in England in 2002) than the rest of the pack. Four years ago Eng had a dream team for one Ashes series. They’re still pining for that team – but its time to move on, no?
Also, the 3 other countries remain relatively good at all forms of the game despite playing all 3 forms regularly and some might say incessantly. Why not England then?
I also completely believe that ODI batting has actually made Test cricket more exciting. Batters play far more shots and get out more often which actually means we get a lot more results now than we used to. Blocking for days on end is not fun to watch. Not now. Not ever. Why would I watch a player play defensive shots for hours on end and scoring occasionally unless the game was on the line? Eng. playing better tests maybe because they don’t play enough ODIs is more of an exception rather than the rule. And – as I said – they play well too selectively to make that case the norm.
Finally, I am not sure that Test cricket deserves the uber-primacy the purists believe it should. I think it still needs to stay on top as the ultimate test as it still is against good teams – for as long as cricket is played hopefully. But deifying it is living in the past – a past that had far fewer options for cricket players and spectators. Its like my Dad romanticizing how things were tough in his time forgetting the actual hardships that drove him hard to to ensure a better life for his children so that they may never have to go through the same struggles. It’s also like me insisting to my wife that if she doesn’t enjoy Led Zepplin she’s obviously not worthy of listening to music (please don’t tell her I think that way).
A thought just occurred to me – The latest series India has played against any of the other 8 teams, India has either drawn (only SAF) or won (all the rest – SL, Eng, Aus, WI, NZ, Ban, Pak). Pretty impressive.
The caveat of course is that the contests against the 5 strongest sides – Aus, SA, Eng, Pak and SL – have all come at home. I’d expect some changes when India start travelling.
India played in England in 2007 and won 1-0 (remember jellygate). It wasn’t all that long ago although seems that way since Dravid was the skipper then. Think it was also his last series as cap.
India played England (another sorry 2 test series) in Dec 2008 at home – remember, Chennai heroics et al?
Do remember that Rajesh. Who could forget Sehwag’s start of that chase? Just responding to your caveat that recent Indian victories against the other top teams have only come at home. True in all cases except Ind have won both away and at home vs Eng. Minor point on my part.
I get you – I was just referring to the most recent series. The flip side is that India has lost each of their most recent away series against Aus, SA, SL and Pak. Not a record to inspire confidence, but the other contenders have hardly been better overall.
A grandstand finish to an absorbing match. However as entertaining as this ridiculously short series was, it highlighted once again that this was a contest between two flawed sides. South Africa have a terrific pace attack particularly when it’s being spearheaded by Steyn but they often look rudderless when he doesn’t fire. Morkel for all his qualities does not seem capable of leading the attack. Their spinner – if he can be described as such – was praised far too much in the aftermath of Nagpur. Kolkata proved that Harris is utterly mediocre and if other umpires follow Ian Gould’s courageous lead then his career may well be short lived.
India have just as many weaknesses. Their bowling lacks depth and with the exception of Zaheer, genuine quality or consistency. Hashim Amla, as well as he batted, joins a seemingly never ending list of batsman who have feasted on India’s overly hospitable bowling attack stretching from Jimmy Adams and Andy Flower to Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Younis Khan. And their batting remains over reliant on Sehwag to set the tone for an innings and impose himself on the match and the opposition. A point on Tendulkar. Isn’t it amazing that the man who was being derided not so long ago for not batting well under pressure now seems to save his best almost exclusively for when India needs him most.
By: Utster on February 19, 2010
Interesting that you mention Ian Gould. I think its important that we acknowledge the performance of the umpires in this series, considering everyone and their little brother trashes them when they goof up. I thought Ian Gould had an excellent series, and so did Steve Davis. No clangers, except for Ashwell Prince in Nagpur. Sure, there were several LBWs that could’ve gone either way (just ask Mishra), but there was no decision I can recall that stirred any controversy. Gould did well, calling Harris for 12 wides, and Davis was quick to cool tempers between Steyn and the India batsmen at Eden. Both seemed to enjoy a good rapport with the players.
All in all, great series for the players as well as the umpires!
By: Ravi on February 19, 2010
I completely agree that the excellence of the officiating contributed significantly to the quality of the spectacle. I have often lamented the absence of Simon Taufel in matches in Australia and Aleem Dar in contests against Pakistan. Its not neutral umpires that we need, it’s the best umpires! I would much rather have Taufel than Koertzen or Ashoka De Silva standing in every India-Australia match fully confident in his judgement and impartiality. Ditto Aleem Dar. I’m glad to see the emergence of Ian Gould and Steve Davis – two fine and promising umpires. It was rather depressing to see the demise – for differing reasons – of Peter Willey, Mark Benson and Darrell Hair. So I’m heartened that both Gould and Harper have emerged to compensate for the incompetence of Darrell Harper and the terminal decline of Steve Bucknor and Rudi Koertzen
Tendulkar over the last 18 months – 1570 runs at 68, with 8 centuries. Just astounding.
Let’s go deeper into his performances, starting with the Aus series. He helped save the first Test on the last day, set up a big Indian inns with an 80odd in the second test, and hit the first century century which set up the win in the 4th Test.
v England, no more needs to be said about THAT innings.
v NZ, he won the match with his first inns 160. And in Napier, crucial 60 odd in the second helped Gambhir save the Test.
v SL – never mind, very pointless, fill your boots type century in the first Test. But he wasn’t really needed in this series.
v Bangladesh – critical first inns century held the team together in the 1st Test, and helped win the match. Second Test century was a bit less crucial, but he was the highest scorer in a matchwinning cause nevertheless.
v SA – First Test century was a bit pointless, but this one was utterly crucial, as much so as Sehwag’s, not just for the runs but for keeping Sehwag there.
So, 16 Tests, 8 centuries, 6 of which came in wins, and 3 more non-century efforts helped win or save Tests. Seriously, there hasn’t been a more consistent performer under pressure, or a better batsman, in the last 18 months.
I agree Rajesh. After watching him play on to Dilhara Fernando in the 2007 World Cup I was in the Ian Chappell/Michael Atherton camp imploring him to retire. I was disappointed that he was tarnishing his legacy – like so many others from the subcontinent – by staying on too long. What a pleasure it is three years on, to be eating large slices of humble pie! He is no longer the most dangerous or destructive batsman in the side – that quite obviously is Sehwag. However as you pointed out on current form he is amongst the very best batsmen in the world. Watching him on that fateful day in Trinidad in 2007 as India crashed out of the World Cup I never thought he would scale such heights again. It just goes to show that it is a rum business writing off champions.
I wrote off Dravid – wrong there too!
We have all been there Toots. I remember writing McGrath off after seeing being flayed by Trescothick, walking down the pitch, at Edgbaston, during the 2004 Champions Trophy. He looked a shadow of his former self, low on both pace and accuracy. And yet three years later he was named man of the tournament at the World Cup.
I was going to comment on that but you beat me to it RK.
The water supply in Tendulkar’s home must be directly connected to the fountain of youth
At this rate I wont be surprised if he goes on to share the dressing room with his son.
By: Dement Horizon on February 20, 2010
Excellent post, and some perceptive comments.
While saluting the lion hearted performance of Amla, and the three-man Indian attack on the final day, I just want to put Amla’s performance in perspective. As Amla himself admitted, he benefited immensely from the dropped chances, both in Nagpur and Kolkata. May be a better fielding side would have not allowed Amla to score so many runs ?
Dropped catches do not take away any thing from his heroic performance in the final innings of this mini-series. The concentration was amazing and comparable to the best of such innings in recent test history.What I find even more remarkable is his modesty.Amla has truly won the hearts of Indian fans.
The best thing about this Eden vistory for India is that it has not come on a square turner.The pitch was good for batting till the very end.
Yes, there are still some gaping holes in the Indian attack, but there is enough variety and some of the younger bowlers are on a steady if not spectacular learning curve. I only wish Irfan Pathan gets back into the scheme of things as well by the time we tour SA in December. India can afford to play 5 batsmen, Keeper, 1 bowling allrounder (Irfan) and 4 pure bowlers, then.
Bhajji’s bowling – he did bowl a doosra now and then, and I agree with Toots about the slightly bent arm whenever he tried the doosra.But I was watching it on TV and even after the replays, it was a bit touch and go.The on field umpires, however, seem to be quite happy with his action, and one has to go by them.
In the final analysis, it was one middle order collapse for India at Nagpur and one for SA at Eden that decided the results. Both teams can hold their heads high for playing two highly competitive tests.For the Indian team, this comeback win would have given a lot of confidence, and should stand them in good stead when they visit SA in Dec.
And yes, India has not lost a series in almost 2 years now.May the run continue for some more time :)
holy – Blocking in the last session on a spiteful, expired wicket can be fun, but point taken on ODIs leading to positive batting. England are up and down, that’s why we can be competitive, but are not a top side – at least, not yet.
Kumar – I don’t single out Bhaji. I’ve seen lots of bowlers live and on television delivering doosras and they all look like they have a crook in their arms when they do so. That may be legal, but I’d prefer that it wasn’t and that “ball tampering” was.
Agree there Toots – if its OK to call you that :) – blocking to save a test match on a minefield of a pitch is great drama to watch. I also enjoy the relentless working over that new batsmen get in Test cricket devoid of the protection provided by the shackles imposed on bowlers in ODI environments. All in all – very much would love Tests to live on for long.
Fantastic article Sir, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
By: Ashok Sridharan on February 19, 2010
For me, i think cricket is one game that sends adrenalin through ones spine. Wel done both India and South Africa. I consider those two to be the best teams in the world.
By: Myra Shields on February 20, 2010
Great site, and very useful insights. I posted the below on the Guardian site as well, but wd be interested in hearing your views on this:
I think the debate about India’s World No. 1 status is because our bowlers aren’t terrors. We dont bully batting sides into abject surrender. Everyone chips in with a wicket or two, and Harbhajan or Zaheer get a few more, an Ishant here, a Mishra there, a Nehra out of the blue, and we get home somehow. Yes we get 20 wickets, but its the batting where the heavy artillery is. People remember West Indies of 1976-90 because of Roberts, Holding, Garner and Marshall – along with Richards, Lloyd, Greenidge and Haynes. They have no problems calling Australia of 1997-2007 world champions because of McGrath and Warne (along with Gilchrist and the Waughs).
Championship is not about beating teams, it is about dominating them in every respect. Shutting them out. Owning them. Sampras did. Hewitt didn’t. India doesnt, either, yet. Number One or otherwise…
By: psriblog on February 23, 2010
The no. 1 ranking determines which is currently, statistically (can’t go by gut sometimes) the best team in the world – the India of 2010 can hardly compete v WI 1984 or Aus 2003. That particular comparison is just for debate’s sake.
Championship is not about beating teams, but dominating them? Fine, why don’t you tell Lleyton Hewitt that he has to return his 2 Grand Slam titles because he didn’t “dominate” the opposition for years, instead of just dominating them in those particular tournaments, which he absolutely did.
Oh I agree with you. I was merely trying to understand why there is so much debate and ambivalence about the Number One status. There seems to be some general tacit consensus that India’s reign as No. 1 is more of a statistical oddity. a transcient phenomenon, a stop-gap arrangement until someone more worthy came along and took it away. I was trying to get to the bottom of this sentiment, and it occurred to me that this aspect of domination by bowlers (rather than batsmen) might be at the bottom of it. Ironically, I write this on a day when Tendulkar simply murdered the SAffers for 200, and so I have changed my mind – it is indeed possible for a batting side to devastate opponents mentally and physically – and this is why we SHOULD be acknowledged unequivocally as champions.
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An artist's impression of GRB190114C, the most energetic gamma ray burst ever detected with the energy of 1 TeV
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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are already the most energetic events we know of in the universe, and now, astronomers have detected the most powerful gamma ray burst ever. The competition isn’t even close, either – this event is almost a thousand times more powerful than your average GRB.
Such an intensely powerful signal can only come from some of the most energetic events in the cosmos. GRBs are produced when stars go supernova and collapse into either neutron stars or black holes, ejecting massive amounts of plasma at close to the speed of light and throwing out more energy in seconds than the Sun will in its lifetime.
The energy of these bursts is measured in electron volts (eV), where one electron volt is the amount of energy gained by a single electron when accelerated by one volt. For most GRBs, the afterglow is measured in a few dozen giga-electronvolts (GeV), which are billions of electron volts. But this latest detection far outshines that – it registered up to 1 tera-electronvolt (TeV), or a trillion electron volts.
“High-energy GRBs with energies in the region of tera-electron-volts were theoretically predicted,” says Masahiro Teshima, an author of the study. “Astronomers have searched for such powerful bursts for 15 years. My international team and I are proud to announce the discovery of the first gamma-ray burst with observed energies up to 1 tera-electronvolt, by far the highest-energy photons ever detected from a GRB.”
The event in question is named GRB190114C, and it was observed on January 14 this year. It was first spotted by two satellites designed to detect gamma-ray bursts – the Swift Observatory and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope – and to them, it looked like any other GRB. That’s because the short-lived initial burst is usually weaker, on the order of a few mega-electronvolts (MeV).
But it’s the afterglow, which shines brighter, that’s of particular interest. To watch for that, whenever these instruments detect GRBs they immediately signal to other facilities which can follow up observations. More than 20 other telescopes and observatories around the world focused their attention onto the spot to watch the celestial fireworks.
The afterglow began about a minute after the initial burst, and lasted about 20 minutes total. For the first 30 seconds or so, the glow was over 100 times stronger than the Crab Nebula, which is the brightest known gamma ray source in the galaxy. Its energy peaked at 1 TeV, but it lingered for a while down to 0.3 TeV, which is still very strong.
One of the observatories that peered at GRB190114C was Hubble. Although it can’t detect gamma rays, the space telescope was able to help determine how far away the event was, and what kind of conditions may have contributed to its extreme energy. It turns out that the burst came from a galaxy that’s currently colliding with another.
“Hubble’s observations suggest that this particular burst was sitting in a very dense environment, right in the middle of a bright galaxy 5 billion light years away,” says Andrew Levan, a lead author of the study. “This is really unusual, and suggests that this concentrated location might be why it produced this exceptionally powerful light.”
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Chris November 21, 2019 04:30 AM
The downside of a totally mechanistic mathemagical Cosmology is that the vocabulary is limited to 'collisions' and 'explosions'. This is the result of a narrow minded dependence on GRAVITY as the only driver in the wider universe. The Academic system has encouraged narrow thinking, a very left brain occupation, particularly by relying on mathematics as the confirmatory mechanism. Gone are the days when science tried experiments to backup their theories. A virtual, computer simulated univers has been created that may not bear any resemblance to reality. Surely Science requires alternative theories and constant testing with real data and preferably real experiments. This is no longer happening. "Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions." Prof Alan Barth, University of California, Berkeley. A one-horse system is doomed to eventually fail as so many patches have been applied to prop it up. That is why I favour the Electric Universe option as it goes back to basic testable principles, allows the big picture right brain to contribute and does NOT require a menagerie of imaginery entities, such as 'dark matter', 'black holes' and 'neutron stars'. Quote: GRBs are produced when stars go supernova and collapse into either neutron stars or black holes, ejecting massive amounts of plasma at close to the speed of light and throwing out more energy in seconds than the Sun will in its lifetime. So much easier to have a high current overload in an electric star. The excess energy is dissipated by a plasma wideband emission - ooh it looks like gamma rays! Fancy that we can do it in a lab, so difficult. No maths involved!
piperTom November 21, 2019 08:28 AM
I had a hard time deciding what this "1 TEV" energy level referred to. A typical energy for at GRB is 10**44 joules and a joule is about 6*10**18 ev. I have to guess that the "1 TEV" is for a single gamma photon as received on Earth. Since this GRB is reported as most powerful, it'd by cool to know what the total energy was.
robert80 November 21, 2019 08:51 AM
OK, I don't understand. You refer to TeV, which is indeed energy. But energy makes absolutely no sense in this context without further qualification. Do you mean "energy per photon"? Do you really mean "power" as in "TeV per second at the detector"? Because I promise, the actual event generating the burst had a lot more than 1 TeV of energy (almost an order of magnitude less than the collision energy of single collisions at the LHC), which is not impressive on the cosmic scale as the total energy of ANY event. If you mean "energy per photon", please say so. If you meant to say "intensity" (the only other measure of power that makes any sense it all), please say THAT, and indicate roughly what that means in terms of the total energy actually radiated in the GRB. As it is, I have no idea what to make of the story, because a TeV is order of 100 nanojoules, not impressive as macroscopic energies go for "events", but perhaps impressive in terms of single photon energies, if only because the photons produced would almost instantly decay in interaction with ordinary charged matter into a cascade of pair production (plenty of energy to produce e.g. electron-positron pairs) -- quite possibly all the way up to the serious massive particle scales seen at the LHC.
paul314 November 21, 2019 02:32 PM
It sounds as if two things were going on simultaneously: lots and lots of gamma rays (total brightness/intensity) and gamma rays of much higher energies than expected (which would be 'color' if it were in the visible). So a much bluer burst, so to speak. And those gamma ray photons have to have not interacted much with anything since they were emitted.
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Looter, 2003
I'm interested in this Looter by Vincent Leow. Please advise availability and price. Thank you.
Vincent Leow (b. 1961) is one of Singapore's leading contemporary artists. Celebrated as a l'enfant terrible of the Singapore art community, Vincent Leow is a pivotal figure in the alternative art scene in Singapore. His practice parallels the development of contemporary art in Singapore and as a painter, he is regarded as a remarkable creative who has dipped into an astonishing range of influences from popular culture, literature, cinema, politics and the mass media. Leow stands as a central figure in the history of the ‘art collective' in Singapore. One of the early members of The Artists Village (TAV), founded in 1988 by the iconic Tang Dawu (b 1943), Leow subsequently helmed other artist-run spaces. Engaging with a range of media that has resulted in performances, installations, sculptures, digital and mixed-media works, Leow's practice has maintained an element of anarchy and rebellion so critical to alternative practices. He acquired public notoriety with his 1992 performance in which he drank his own urine. The characteristics of Leow's art include a taste for kitsch and a constant, highly individual visual vocabulary - prompting art writers to describe his practice as epitomizing ‘post-modern' visual strategies. Read More
“Andy's pranks and Swimming Lessons”,
Xin Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China
“Mock Ducks and Manicured Poodles” Jendela Gallery@Esplande, Singapore
“A Big Fat Belly Hen”, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore
"FOUR EYES, CLOUDY SKIES", Atelier Frank & Lee, Singapore
"FOUR EYES, CLOUDY SKIES", TADU Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand
“Caged Feet “, LIP, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
"Mountian Cow Milk Factory", Installation Telok Kurau Studios Gallery, Singapore
"Mountian Cow Milk Factory", various venues, Singapore
"Falling Bones, Hungry Chillies", Substation Gallery, Singapore
"CHOP SUEY" Substation Gallery, Singapore
"Donkeys, Elephants & The Three Legged Toad", Shenns Gallery, Singapore
"Vincent Leow : Recent Paintings", School 33 Art Centre, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Porn sex is one way that real sex can be done and for some couples, it is the same as their sex life.
But is not the usual.
Most people aren’t as flexible as they are in porn,
And is not that real woman don’t enjoy sex but they need a little more effort than porn actresses to succeed.
In porn women reach great orgasms by going from 0 to full penetration.
That is a little far from reality.
If you don’t turn on the lady, she won’t be able to have a great time at all.
You wouldn’t notice because, you know, they fake.
Real woman love to make out before sex, it’s almost a requirement for them to reach the sexual climax.
Another tiny difference is the way porn actresses shave their parts.
No real woman is as hairless as they are.
Even though is true that the size matter, the reaction is quite the opposite between a porn star and a regular woman.
The porn star go all like ‘Oh my Godd, I love it!’
While a real person facing that monster will only wonder how not to shed a tear.
Even blowjobs are different.
In porn the ladies prefer that part, they actually stay down there for hours.
Real woman usually go read Yahoo Answers before a bootie call.
Anal sex is the real thing.
For porn stars is what they seem to enjoy the most, is like the sex got really intense and the sense of satisfaction back there is colossal.
Real woman just agree to do anal because they like the other person, it is more like a concession not as personal enjoyment.
And last but not least, orgasms.
The volume of orgasms in porn movies would ban all kind of sexual activity in almost any neighborhood I’ve ever lived.
They immediately fake those unnaturally deep orgasms and shout loud enough that nobody will be able to tell if they are actually enjoying or being eaten by a hunger lion.
Real woman makes different faces, some eye contact and kiss you in the cheek.
Last Friday a math teacher was fired accused of sex acts with her students in Tacoma City.
Powell, a mathematics teacher at Lincoln High School was released on her own recognizance and ordered to stay with her mother in Sequim.
Powell admitted to Tacoma police that she had sexual contact with two of her students on January.
She told the police she sent a third student an inappropriate text message, for which she later apologized.
There is no record of student complaints against her.
A ‘Free Powell’ Facebook page was created some time after her arrest.
Pedophilia has been widely viewed as a psychological disorder triggered by early childhood trauma.
Today experts see it as a biologically rooted condition that does not change like any other sexual orientation.
Pedophiles share a number of physical characteristics, including differences in brain wiring.
It’s now thought that about 5% of men are pedophiles and 1% of women.
These findings have been widely accepted among scientists but have had little impact on social attitudes or law.
We keep alarming ourselves against this kind of behavior without accepting it.
It’s just a matter of time like it was with premarital sex and gay sex that we, as a society, admit pedophile sex as a valid option.
We do not choose to be attracted to children, and we cannot make that attraction go away, said Molly Distubez a 64 year old lawyer from Nevada.
Pedophiles also share physical characteristics.
They are shorter than other people and three times more likely to be left-handed or ambidextrous.
Their IQs are about 70 to 80 points lower than average and they are more prone to childhood head injuries.
Certain qualities like impetuosity, sexual preoccupation and lack of empathy are also shared by sex offenders.
Pedophiles are good people who are struggling.
One of the concerns with labeling pedophilia a sexual orientation is the potential for parallels to be drawn with homosexuality.
Pedophiles will remain hidden if they continue to be hated and feared, which would impede efforts to better understand this sexual orientation and thereby prevent child sexual exploitation.
As soon as we start seeing pedophilia as a sexual orientation we will end child abuse.
It’s just a matter of semantics.
Cheating: The secret of happy couples
In Touch Weekly
A recent study from the King Abdullah University of Saudi Arabia shows that the key to a happy marriage is adultery.
Cheating in secret is the secret to a happy marriage.
The discovery of the research was that infidelity can actually revive a tired marriage.
Not only is it natural to think about being with another people, it would be healthier to act on those fantasies, said Halem al-Rafei, chief of the marriage department at the King Abdullah University.
Monogamous marriages are unnatural and we should allow for the more natural habit of taking other partners.
The study compares the monogamous spouses to a caged animal that continues to see temptation beyond the bars, but cannot get to it.
Whereas partners who engage in no-strings attached flings do not feel trapped in their marriage.
Total discretion is the absolute rule; the other party should never find out in order to keep a happy, healthy and lasting relationship.
It may sounds contradictory but is not.
Couples should model their relationships on understanding.
There should be no feeling of betrayal when a woman finds lipstick on her man’s collar or a hotel bill on his charge card statement.
Halem claims that nearly a quarter of the world population and a third of the American population engages in extramarital affairs with no repercussions.
If a person is locked in a celibate marriage, the best solution is to seek sex from an alternative source instead of trying to work through whatever issues you have having with your spouse and that will result in staying together forever.
Cheat, secrets, lies and being away from the person you love for long periods of time are the best path to a happy relationship.
Orgasms make you smarter
Thirty Magazine
For years science has advised us to keep our brains sharp and supple by exercising them with new challenges, learn to play an instrument, study a second language, doing crosswords or putting together jigsaw puzzles.
Now neuroscientist professor Barry Kamasut from Amsterdam University, who has spent years studying sexuality, recommends mastering the universal language of love if you want to give your brain the ultimate power workout.
Orgasm sends a mighty surge of blood flowing to the brain increasing mental activity throughout the length and breadth of all that resistant grey matter.
Doing a crossword, by comparison, only lights up parts of the brain and its benefits are localized.
Orgasm reduces stress levels and makes our brains more alert and intelligent.
People who had sex daily are more likely to increase nerve growth in their brains which is linked to greater health benefits such as mental alertness and increased memory.
The study also found that the benefits of sex on the brain were most prevalent among new lovers or the ones who have sex without being in a formal relationship.
Other benefits of frequent orgasms are better problem resolution ability, happiness, stress relief and boosted self-esteem.
And remember, an orgasm is an orgasm.
Some people think there is a right way for orgasms to happen and they feel bad if they can’t orgasm simultaneously with their partner or with minimal effort.
However, it doesn’t matter how or when you reach orgasm, it can be before sex, after sex, from oral sex, or self stimulation.
There is no right way to enjoy sexual pleasure, it’s simply however works best for you.
So take the pressure off and don’t put any expectation around your sexual pleasure.
Let orgasms be.
Nicki Minaj is a better artist than Madonna
Madonna songs are typically inspired by lesbianism.
Her music videos featured scenes of sadomasochism, oppression, same sex kissing and nudity.
Every single song she performs is absolutely ambiguous and confusing.
With her videos Madonna desperately try to force social acceptance of unnatural reverse of male and female sexual roles.
Her lyrics are so offensive that many organizations complained that promoted premarital sex and undermined family values.
‘Like a Prayer’ video featured Catholic symbols such as a cross burning and a dream about making love to a saint.
‘What It Feels Like for a Girl’ video shows Madonna committing acts of crime and vandalism.
In 1992 Madonna released her Sex book that consisted of sexually provocative and explicit images that triggered strong negative reaction from the media and the general public.
On the other side, with her colorful and celebrating songs Nicki Minaj irradiates happiness and optimism into the audience.
Maybe is that cheerfulness one of the many reasons that made her became the first female solo artist to have seven singles simultaneously charting on the Billboard Hot 100.
Madonna’s look and manner of dressing is found insulting by many organizations and to most of the general public.
Nicki’s exceptional and colorful costumes, wigs and clothing have given her recognition as a fashion icon.
She was the first female artist to be included on MTV’s Annual Hottest MC List.
Madonna’s looks effuse sexual resentment and rage.
Her first inspiration to write a song was found in the unresolved feelings of anger towards her father that lasted for decades and developed a rebellious attitude not yet solved by the old singer.
When she was 20 Madonna was raped and she could never forget it.
Madonna used to pose nude for porn magazines causing shock in her fan base and she remained defiant and unapologetic for that mistake.
She starred in the critically slammed film ‘Shanghai Surprise’ which delivered her the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst actress and also in the repulsing movie ‘Body of Evidence’ which contained scenes of sadomasochism and slavery described by the experts as an annoyed and hurting film.
Nicki’s songs are relaxed, they celebrate life and are written based on a deliberate decision to try to tone down the sexiness.
Nicki wants people to understand that in life nothing is going to be based on sex appeal and that what really matter is to have honest relationships and true friends since those values last for a lifetime.
Madonna’s videos are bored and she constantly mimic iconic figures like Marilyn Monroe, Ella Fitzgerald and Prince.
Her single ‘Frozen’ was even banned to be plagiarized from the Belgian songwriter Salvatore Acquaviva’s 1993 song ‘Ma Vie Fout L’camp’.
Madonna’s cameo in the James Bond film ‘Die another Day’ was described as incredibly wooden.
Her entire album ‘American Life’ was accused as a lazy, unfinished effort to be taken seriously.
Its original music video was canceled as featuring violence and war imagery was considered extremely unpatriotic since America was then at war with Iraq.
Nicki Minaj effort was rewarded with the acclamation of being the most influential female rapper of all time.
Madonna refuses to use her real name clearly rejecting and denying her own ancestries and origins.
In a latest interview Nicki Minaj stated ‘I want people to hear me and know exactly where I’m from’ and with over 17 million followers she is the one of the most active user of Twitter.
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"James Russell Wiggins" with Charles Kuralt, CBS, January 22, 1982, aired, and out-takes.
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NHF Tape 1. 'Charles Kuralt, CBS, Wiggins Show, Takes, Jan 22 1982, Edited and Unedited'
Viewing Notes
The 60 minutes of video has three parts. Part I: 1:00 is the broadcast version of a Charles Kuralt piece as aired and includes soundbite from a resident of Maine describing why James Russell Wiggins will never be a true Mainer (he wasn't born here, so he'll never make it); 1:30 and a quote of respect from President Lyndon B. Johnson; These are both repeated in Part 2 at about 12:00 into the video; 2:00-4:00 There are also extensive soundbites from Wiggins about his philosophies of politics and human nature early in the piece; 5:30 How he became known as the Lion of Ellsworth for his editorials; 6:30 There is discussion of his efforts to fight the Teamsters Union; 8:00 His self-mockery and love of sailing -- "Publisher goes aground" and "The Amity"; 9:00 There is a voice-over of Wiggins reading one of his poems while he drives through the Maine countryside on a wintry day. Part 2 begins at about 10:30. It is much the same with a few additions of more local residents soundbites; Part 3 begins at about 20:00 with presses running, a Goss Community, and the day's edition headlined "Black Hawk Mine Now Up for Sale"; 26:00 Wiggins is in a news meeting with his staff; "Blind in one and can't see out of the other"; 38:00 Wiggins at his typewriter with staff around him; 41:00 Wiggins goes to lunch at the nearby coffee shop; 46:00 Wiggins stops in at Beals and other shops in Ellsworth to chat 53:00 Shots of house and snow-covered landscape
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Nordstjernan has acquired 4.2 percent of the capital and nearly 15.0 percent of the votes in Momentum Group. Following the transaction, Nordstjernan will be the company’s largest shareholder in terms of the number of votes.
Momentum Group is one of the leading resellers of industrial consumables and industrial components, services and maintenance to professional end users in the industrial and construction sectors in the Nordic region. The Group reported revenue in 2018 of approximately SEK 5.9 billion and had about 1,700 employees at the end of the period.
“We view Momentum as a well-run company with significant potential. Momentum’s Board of Directors and management team have done a good job making it one of the leading players in the industry. We believe in the sector and have solid knowledge of the industry from our successful investment in Swedol. Swedol and Momentum will continue to operate as two independent companies,” says Nordstjernan’s CEO Tomas Billing.
“I see Nordstjernan as a highly suitable owner for Momentum that can contribute to the further development of the company through its industry know-how and experience of generating long-term value growth,” says Anders Börjesson, the current major shareholder of Momentum Group.
“We welcome Nordstjernan as a new owner in Momentum. With its financial strength, industrial expertise and long-term investment horizon, Nordstjernan can spur continued improvement in the company,” says Jörgen Wigh, Chairman of Momentum Group.
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‘Capability’ is a universally positive quality that will resonate across all business sectors. And ‘Capability Street’, although it’s invented, sounds like the place where a wide range of capabilities are offered and delivered. It suggests practical skills, experience, talent, intelligence, the releasing of potential …the list of positive associations is endless. Perfect for a confident company with a can-do attitude, this is an uplifting .com name that presents an amazing branding opportunity.
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The .com domain is the only domain that really matters.
A .com is the world’s default domain, but it’s not just easy to remember; it’s also a valuable business asset as it adds credibility and brand power. (Across the world there are thousands of businesses called Amazon, but there’s only one Amazon.com.)
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You could consider registering your name as a trademark. But trademarks only confer protection in a specific country or region, in a specific business sector - so even this would not guarantee that a name is unique. To many businesses, a .com domain is better than a trademark registration.
You could choose a business name and use another domain, like your local country domain. But would you really be happy that another business, that's possibly larger and more visible online, could be using the same name with a .com domain?
This is why contemporary businesses see an exact match .com domain as a must-have business asset.
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Tag: alaska
Image copyright Ambio 2019
I had the privilege of being included in a recent publication on the status and population trends of two Arctic breeding falcons, the Gyrfalcon and Peregrine Falcon. In this paper, we report population trends for 12 sites across the Arctic where monitoring programs have been in effect.
This work conducted by the Arctic Falcon Specialist Group is important since it combines the efforts of biologists worldwide to form an understanding of the status of the worlds Arctic breeding falcons. The take away is that for the most part, both species seem to be stable, and that continued monitoring is important because of their place as focal ecosystem components in the Arctic.
I’m privileged to once again see a painting of mine don the cover of the Raptor Research Foundation’s quarterly publication, the Journal of Raptor Research. This time, however, is more special since the painting of a Gyrfalcon carrying its prey, an Arctic ground squirrel, corresponds to the feature article authored by myself and Travis Booms, Marc Bechard, and David L. Anderson.
Our publication titled “Dietary Plasticity in a Specialist Predator, the Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus): New Insights into Diet During Brood Rearing” details patterns we documented through implementation of nest cameras in 20 Gyrfalcon nests in 2014 and 2015. The largest camera study of nesting Gyrfalcons provided us with many new insights into the biology of this species, some of which we have already published, some that we have not. In this publication, we document a previously undescribed shift in prey use throughout the nestling period, from a diet of mostly Ptarmigan early in the season, to squirrel in the late season. This shift to squirrel is an important consideration on many levels. It highlights the nuances to Gyrfalcon prey use in Alaska, and the potential importance of squirrels in the later season for juvenile success and development. The apparent importance of squirrels also has implications for understanding ecosystem changes and how shifts in prey landscapes may impact Gyrfalcon reproduction. The stage is set to explore further.
Below are a few photos that describe the work that went into producing this publication. These highlight a some of the >750,000 nest camera images we collected from which the diet was quantified, as well as photos of the field work, and the people that made this effort possible.
You can read our paper in the Journal of Raptor Research here:
https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-raptor-research/volume-53/issue-2/JRR-15-58/Dietary-Plasticity-in-a-Specialist-Predator-the-Gyrfalcon-Falco-rusticolus/10.3356/JRR-15-58.full
A female Gyrfalcon feeds nestlings. Image copyright Bryce W. Robinson/The Peregrine Fund.
A female Gyrfalcon feeds her newly hatched nestling, alongside hatching eggs. Image copyright Bryce W. Robinson/The Peregrine Fund.
Female Gyrfalcon delivers an Arctic ground squirrel to nestlings. Image copyright Bryce W. Robinson/The Peregrine Fund.
A female Gyrfalcon stands alongside c. 14 day old nestlings. Image copyright Bryce W. Robinson/ The Peregrine Fund.
Parental care photo 1. A female (left) broods newly hatched young, reluctant to leave the nest at the male’s (right) arrival. Every Gyrfalcon would occasionally look at the camera, as seen here, but were otherwise unaffected by its presence. Image copyright Bryce W. Robinson/The Peregrine Fund.
Parental care photo 2. In some cases, males were keen to participate in brooding and feeding young, as is shown here. In even fewer cases, the females were tolerant of this behavior. Image copyright Bryce W. Robinson/The Peregrine Fund.
Bryce W. Robinson sights in a nest camera at a Gyrfalcon nest. Image by Caitlin M. Davis.
Bryce W. Robinson rappelling into a Gyrfalcon nest in western Alaska. Image by Neil Paprocki.
Special thanks to the following people that made the field work happen
John Earthman and Tinsel
Neil Paprocki
Ellen Whittle holding a Gyrfalcon nestling in 2015.
Mark Jeter and Ellen Whittle against an Alaskan landscape in 2015.
Special thanks to the institutions that made this work possible: Boise State University, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and The Peregrine Fund
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If you can’t get hold of any of these publications I am happy to send you a PDF of the research articles (not the book, sorry!) via email.
Colchero, F. , Jones, O. , Conde, D. A., Hodgson, D. , Zajitschek, F. , Schmidt, B. R., Malo, A. F., Alberts, S. C., Becker, P. H., Bouwhuis, S. , Bronikowski, A. M., Vleeschouwer, K. M., Delahay, R. J., Dummermuth, S. , Fernández‐Duque, E. , Frisenvænge, J. , Hesselsøe, M. , Larson, S. , Lemaître, J. , McDonald, J. , Miller, D. A., O’Donnell, C. , Packer, C. , Raboy, B. E., Reading, C. J., Wapstra, E. , Weimerskirch, H. , While, G. M., Baudisch, A. , Flatt, T. , Coulson, T. and Gaillard, J. (2019), The diversity of population responses to environmental change. Ecol Lett, 22: 342-353. doi:10.1111/ele.13195
Kissling WD, Walls R, Bowser A, Jones MO, Kattge J, Agosti D, Amengual J, Basset A, van Bodegom PM, Cornelissen JHC, Denny EG, Deudero S, Egloff W, Elmendorf SC, García EA, Jones KD, Jones OR, Lavorel S, Lear D, Navarro LM, Pawar S, Pirzl R, Rüger N, Sal S, Salguero-Gómez R, Schigel D, Schulz K-S, Skidmore A & Guralnick RP (2018) Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 339, 1. doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0667-3
Jones, O.R. & Vaupel, J.W. (2017) Senescence is not inevitable. Biogerontology. doi:10.1007/s10522-017-9727-3
Colchero, F., Aliaga, A. E., Jones, O. R. and Conde, D. A. (2017), Individual heterogeneity determines sex differences in mortality in a monogamous bird with reversed sexual dimorphism. J Anim Ecol, 86: 899–907. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12677
Shefferson, R, Salguero-Gómez R & Jones OR (eds.) (2017) The Evolution of Senescence In the Tree of Life. Cambridge University Press. Available from Amazon UK/DE/ES/FR/US etc. or direct from CUP
Shefferson, RP, Jones, OR & Salguero-Gómez R (2017) Wilting Leaves and Rotting Branches: Reconciling Evolutionary Perspectives on Senescence. In Shefferson, R, Salguero-Gómez R & Jones OR (eds.) The Evolution of Senescence In the Tree of Life. Cambridge University Press.
Salguero-Gómez R & Jones, OR (2017) Life history trade-offs modulate the speed of senescence. In: Shefferson, R, Salguero-Gómez R & Jones OR (eds.) The Evolution of Senescence In the Tree of Life. Cambridge University Press.
Biega, A. , Greenberg, D. A., Mooers, A. O., Jones, O. R. and Martin, T. E. (2017), Global representation of threatened amphibians ex situ is bolstered by non‐traditional institutions, but gaps remain. Animal Conservation, 20: 113-119 DOI: 10.1111/acv.12297
Dahlgren, JP, Colchero, F, Jones, OR, Øien, D-I, Moen, A & Sletvold N (2016) Actuarial senescence in a long-lived orchid challenges our current understanding of ageing. Proc Roy Soc B. 283: 20161217. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2016.1217
Colchero F, R Rau, OR Jones, J Barthold, DA Conde, A Lenart, L Nemeth, A Scheuerlein, J Schoeley, C Torres, V Zarulli, J Altmann, DK Brockman, AM Bronikowski, LM Fedigan, A Pusey, TS Stoinski, KB Strier, A Baudisch, SC Alberts & JW Vaupel (2016) The emergence of longevous populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1612191113
Salguero-Gómez, R, Jones, OR, Jongehans, E, Blomberg, S, Franco, M, Hodgson, D, Mbeau-Ache, C, Zuidema, PA, de Kroon, H, & Buckley, Y (2016) Fast-slow continuum and reproductive strategies structure plant life history variation worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(1):230-235. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1506215112
Salguero-Gómez, R*, Jones, OR* et al. (2016) COMADRE: a global database of animal demography. Journal of Animal Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12482 * Joint first authors
Larson, S, Colchero, F, Jones, OR, Fernandez-Duque, E & Williams, L (2015) Age and sex-specific mortality of wild and captive populations of a monogamous pair-bonded primate (Aotus azarae). American Journal of Primatology. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22408
Salguero-Gomez, R, Jones, OR, & 19 co-authors 2014 The COMPADRE Plant Matrix Database: an online repository for plant population dynamics. Journal of Ecology 103(1): 202-218 DOI:10.1111/1365-2745.12334 [compadre-db]
Jones, OR et al. (2014) Diversity of ageing across the tree of life. Nature 505: 169-173 DOI:10.1038/nature12789 [Faculty of 1000 recommendation]
Conde, DA, Colchero, F, Pearce-Kelly, P, Byers, O, Gusset, M, Flesness, N, Browne, R, Jones, OR (2013) Zoos through the Lens of the IUCN Red List: A Global Metapopulation Approach to Support Conservation Breeding Programs. PLoS One 8(12) e80311 DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0080311
Baudisch, AB, Salguero-Gomez, R, Jones, OR, Wrycza, T, Colchero, F (2013) The pace and shape of senescence in angiosperms. Journal of Ecology 101: 596-606 DOI:10.1111/1365-2745.12084
Phillimore, AB, Hadfield, J, Jones, OR & Smithers, RJ (2012) Correction for “Differences in spawn- ing date between populations of common frog reveal local adaptation.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 109: 5134 DOI:10.1073/pnas.1203538109
Colchero, F, Jones, OR & Rebke, M (2012) BaSTA: an R package for Bayesian estimation of age- specific survival from incomplete mark-recapture/recovery data with covariates. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 3: 466-470 DOI:10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00186.x
Barthold, JA, Myrskyla, M & Jones, OR (2012) Childlessness drives the sex difference in the association between income and reproductive success of modern Europeans. Evolution and Human Behaviour 33: 628-638 DOI:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.03.003
Jones, OR & Wang, J (2012) A comparison of four methods for detecting weak genetic structure from marker data. Ecology and Evolution 2 1048-1055 DOI:10.1002/ece3.237
Jones, OR, Purvis, A & Quicke, DLJ (2012) Latitudinal gradients in taxonomic overdescription rate affect macroecological inferences using species list data. Ecography 35: 333-340 DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06956.x
Conde, DA, Flesness, N, Colchero, F, Jones, OR, Scheuerlein, A (2011) Response to Balmford et al. Zoos and Captive Breeding. Science 332: 1149-1150 DOI:10.1126/science.332.6034.1150
Conde, DA, Flesness, N, Colchero, F, Jones, OR, Scheuerlein, A (2011) An emerging role of zoos to conserve biodiversity. Science 331: 1390-1391 DOI:10.1126/science.1200674
Santos, AMC, Triantis, KA, Borges, PAV, Jones, OR, Quicke, DLJ, Whittacker, RJ & Hortal, J (2010) Are species-area relationships from entire archipelagos congruent with those of their constituent islands? Global Ecology and Biodiversity 19: 427-540 DOI:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00536.x
Santos, AMC, Jones, OR, Quicke, DLJ & Hortal, J (2010) Assessing the reliability of biodiversity databases: identifying evenly inventoried island parasitoid faunas (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) worldwide. Insect Conservation and Diversity 3: 72-82 DOI:10.1111/j.1752-4598.2010.00079.x
Jones, OR & Wang, J (2010) COLONY: a program for parentage and sibship inference from multilocus genotype data. Molecular Ecology Resources 10: 551-555 DOI:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02787.x
Phillimore, AB, Hadfield, J, Jones, OR & Smithers, RJ (2010) Differences in spawning date between populations of common frog reveal local adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 107: 8292-8297 DOI:10.1073/pnas.0913792107 [Faculty of 1000 Recommendation]
Jones, OR & Wang, J (2010) Molecular marker-based pedigrees for animal conservation biologists. Animal Conservation 13: 26-34 DOI:10.1111/j.1469-1795.2009.00324.x
Jones, OR, Purvis, A, Baumgart, E, & Quicke, DLJ (2009) Using taxonomic revision data to estimate the geographic and taxonomic distribution of undescribed species richness in the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea). Insect Conservation and Diversity 2: 204-212 DOI:10.1111/j.1752-4598.2009.00057.x
Craig, BH, Jones, OR, Pilkington, JG & Pemberton, JM 2008 Re-establishment of nematode infra- community and host survivorship in wild Soay sheep following anthelmintic treatment. Veterinary Parasitology 161: 47-52 DOI:10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.11.027
Jones, OR and 33 co-authors (2008) Senescence rates determined by ranking on the fast-slow life-history continuum. Ecology Letters 11: 664–673 DOI:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01187.x
Jones, OR, Coulson, T, Clutton-Brock T & Godfray, HCJ (2008) A web resource for the UK’s long- term individual-based time-series (LITS) data. Journal of Animal Ecology 77: 612-615 DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01382.x
Quicke, DLJ, Jones, OR & Epstein, D (2007) Correcting the problem of false incongruence due to noise imbalance in the incongruence length difference (ILD) test. Systematic Biology 56: 496–503 DOI:10.1080/10635150701429974
Jones, OR, Crawley, MJ & Pilkington, J (2006) Distribution of a naturally fluctuating ungulate population amongst heterogeneous plant communities: ideal and free? Journal of Animal Ecology 75: 1387–1392 DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01163.x
Jones, OR, Anderson R & Pilkington J (2006) Parasite induced anorexia in a free-ranging mammalian herbivore: an experimental test using Soay sheep. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84: 685–692 DOI:10.1139/z06-045
Martínez, M, Vigal, CR, Jones, OR, Coulson T, & San Miguel A (2005) Different hunting strategies select for different weights in red deer. Biology Letters 1: 353–356 DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2005.0330
Jones, OR, Crawley, MJ, Pilkington, JG & Pemberton, JM (2005) Predictors of early survival in Soay sheep: cohort-, maternal- and individual-level variation. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B. 272: 2619–2625 DOI:10.1098/rspb.2005.3267
Non-peer reviewed articles
Jones, OR (2016) Life History Patterns. In: Kliman, RM (ed.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. vol. 2, pp. 366–371. Oxford: Academic Press.
Salguero-Gómez, R, Jones, OR et al. (2015) COMADRE: a global database of animal demography. bioRxiv. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/027821
Jones, OR (2014) Why do humans deteriorate with age? It’s a biological puzzle. The Conversation http://bit.ly/1jIUEEO
Conde, DA, Flesness, N, Colchero, F, Jones, OR, Scheuerlein, A (2011) Zoos can lead the way with ex situ conservation. World Association of Zoos and Aquariums Magazine 12: 26-29 ISSN: 2074-4528
Salguero-Gómez, R, Jones, OR, et al. (2015) COMADRE Animal Matrix Database. http://www.comadre-db.org
Salguero-Gómez, R, Jones, OR, et al. (2014) COMPADRE Plant Matrix Database. http://www.compadre-db.org
Colchero, F, Jones, OR & Rebke, M (2011) BaSTA – Bayesian survival analysis for individual-based data. R package version 1.8. http://basta.r-forge.r-project.org/
Jones, OR (2007) rcolony – Tools for implementation and visualisation of Colony and its outputs. R package version 0.1. http://r-colony.r-forge.r-project.org/
Jones, OR (2007) simco: A package to import Structure files and deduce similarity coefficients from them. R package version 1.1. http://www.r-project.org/
Jones, OR (2006) Long-term Individual based Time Series (LITS) project data repository. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/litsproject
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Jo Cattell Named Michael Maggio Fellow at Goodman Theatre
Goodman Theatre has announced Jo Cattell as the recipient of the 2017/2018 Michael Maggio Directing Fellowship, an honor reserved for early-career Chicago-based directors. Cattell will gain access to the artistic process at the Goodman, including the opportunity to assist on a Goodman production.
“Exposure is part of an artist’s process, so it is thrilling to be gifted a year submerged in the expertise of the Goodman’s creative and production teams, and I eagerly anticipate the many ways in which my work will be, consequently lifted,” said Cattell. “My artistry is taking me on adventures exploring different theatrical forms and how that impacts both the space we share and storytelling. Now, more than ever, it is imperative for us to create space for people to come together and share experience.”
Cattell is currently creating AN EPIC TALE OF SCALE for Chicago Children’s Theatre with Goodman Artistic Associate Henry Wishcamper, for a performance later this year. She is part of the LightPoets, whose immersive show HEARTCORPS: RIDERS OF THE STORYBOARD premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and is currently in development for a full production. Recent credits include associate director for SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), TUMBAO (Steppenwolf) and DON CHIPOTLE: ORIGIN a pilot webisode. Cattell has worked with numerous theater and television companies, including the BBC, Sky Television, Cirque du Soleil, CHICAGO the musical (West End, Korean/Japanese tour), CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (West End), STOMP OUT LOUD (Las Vegas), Pentabus Theatre, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Route 66, Origin Theatre, Leviathan Lab and Culture Project. Cattell was awarded the 3Arts Award in 2016.
The fellowship was established in 2002 to honor the memory of Goodman Associate Artistic Director Michael Maggio (1951 – 2000) who directed 22 productions at the Goodman and more than 60 nationwide.
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Thierry Pénard
Professor of Economics at the University of Rennes 1
Director of the Master Program "Economics of IT and eBusiness (Master professionnel Economie et Conseil en TIC et e-business)
Faculté de Sciences Économiques,
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Research fellow of CREM (Center of Research in Economics and Management, a joint research center CNRS - University of Rennes 1)
My research topics cover the fields of Industrial Organization, Strategy, and Digital Economics, with a focus on franchising, antitrust policy, network economics, IT adoption and usage and electronic commerce
Short CV in English
Long CV in French
“Determinants of E-commerce adoption by franchisors: Insights from the U.S. market” with R. Perrigot, forthcoming, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 2013.
“Do Reputation Systems Really improve Trust among Anonymous Traders? An Experimental Study”, with D. Masclet, Applied Economics, 2012.
“Comparing the Determinants of Cell Phone and Internet Use in Africa: Evidence from Gabon”, avec N. Poussing, G. Zomo Yebe et P. Nsi-Ella, Communication & Strategies, N°86, 2012.
“Plural Form Franchise Network: a Test of Bradach’s Model” with G. Cliquet, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2012.
“Monitoring Policy and Organizational Forms in Franchised Chains”, with E. Raynaud and S. Saussier, International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2011.
"How to provide Quality of Service Guarantees in the Internet? Lessons learnt from the airline and card-based payment industries", with Z. M'Chirgui,, European Management Journal, 2011.
"Internet Use and Social Capital: The Strength of Virtual Ties", with N. Poussing, Journal of Economic Issues, 2010.
"Assembling Platforms: Strategy and Competition", with E. Brousseau in G. Madden and R. Cooper (Eds.), The Economics of Digital Markets, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2009.
"Bargaining and Fixed Price Offers: how Online Intermediaries Are Changing the New Car Transactions", with M. Arnold, Review of Network Economics, Vol.6, June, 134-160, 2007.
"The Economics of Digital Business Models: A Framework for Analyzing the Economics of Platforms" with E. Brouseau, Review of Network Economics, Vol.6, June, 81-114, 2007.
For additional working papers and articles, see my SSRN homepage or my REPEC homepage
Teaching 2010-2011 (syllabus, materials)
Économie industrielle I, MASTER 1 Économie et Gestion des Entreprises, parcours Stratégie, Logistique et e-business
Stratégie des firmes et droit de la concurrence, LICENCE 3 Économie et Management de l'entreprise
Principes économiques des réseaux , MASTER 2 Economie et Conseil en TIC et e-business
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Two in three West Australian adults are expected to take part in a $20 million splurge on lottery tickets in the hope of scooping Australia’s record $90 million Lotto jackpot next week.
Lottery fever has gripped WA and it is estimated five times more tickets than usual will be bought in the State for Tuesday’s Oz Lotto draw.
The $90 million prize pool is unprecedented in Australian lottery history and is the culmination of nine weeks of rolled-over Oz Lotto prizes.
Lotterywest chief executive Jan Stewart said lottery ticket sales in WA were up 6 per cent on last year and were expected to jump even higher for Tuesday’s bumper draw.
“Our experience is that irrespective of the economic climate, people seem to continue to spend the few dollars each week they have been accustomed to spending on a Lotto or scratchie ticket and to find a little more when there is something special on like a big Oz Lotto or Powerball jackpot or a Saturday Lotto Superdraw,” Ms Stewart said.
WA is a lottery-loving State, a fact which could be attributed to the ban on poker machines that has reduced gambling choices in the West.
Whether WA is luckier or just plays more, the State is full of Lotto winners. Over the past 12 months, seven of the 12 major (Division One) wins in the Oz Lotto game across Australia have gone to WA.
West Australian adults spend an average of $5.98 every week on the lottery and the clamour for tickets for Tuesday’s draw has shown they are spending more than ever.
Greg Mills, of Yokine Lottery Centre, said the number of people coming in to buy Lotto tickets had soared from an average of 250 a day to 350 in the run-up to Tuesday’s game.
“It’s pumping. People all want a share of this $90 million. It’s creating a lot of interest,” Mr Mills said.
Sadly, though, the chances of winning are slim — 45 million to one.
To improve your chances, it might be worth taking note of which numbers come up most often. The number 5 has been drawn 14 times over the past 50 Oz Lotto draws, while 45, 35 and 28 have come up 13 times each.
At the other end of the scale, the number 38 has emerged only three times in the past 50 draws. Numbers 6, 14, 36 and 39 were almost as unlucky, with four appearances each.
You could also buy your ticket in one of WA’s lottery hotspots. Kalgoorlie has had the most Division One wins over the past five years, with $31.7 million won by eight players.
Perth CBD is also a lucky place, with more than $26.4 million shared between 11 Division One ticket holders over the same period.
Morley has had the highest number of Division One winners with 12 tickets sharing $9.8 million.
The biggest Division One win of all time was $58.7 million, which was won in Victoria in the Powerball game in June 2008.
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Home » Events » History of Metaphysics Conference: Infinity
History of Metaphysics Conference: Infinity
Saturday May 5, 2018 - Sunday May 6, 2018
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One of five departmental Research Interest Groups, the History of Philosophy Group is home to the History of Modern Philosophy Research Group, which focuses on the period, roughly, from Descartes to Kant.
The History of Modern Philosophy Group is pleased to present the 2017 History of Metaphysics Conference: Infinity. The conference is organized by professors Karolina Hübner and Nick Stang.
Saturday May 5
10am-11:30am Jacob Rosen (Harvard): “Aristotle’s Actual Infinities”
11:45pm-1:15pm Jon McGinnis (Missouri St. Louis): “Mind the Gap: Avicenna’s New Argument against an Actually Infinite Space and Its Reception in Post-Classical Islamic World”
3pm-4:30pm Anat Schechtman (Wisconsin-Madison): “Ontic infinity”
4:45pm-6:15pm Kristin Primus (Berkeley): “Infinite Modes in Spinoza”
Sunday May 6
9:30am-11:00am Emily Carson (McGill): “Infinity in the Critique of Pure Reason”
11:15pm-12:45pm Jim Kreines (Claremont McKenna): “The Metaphysical Infinite as Self-determining Thought: Hegel’s Idealism”
2:30pm-4pm Roy Cook (Minnesota): “The Logic of Potential Infinity”
4:15pm-5:45pm Michael Hallett (McGill): “Reflections on Paradoxes of Infinity”
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information please contact karolina.hubner@utoronto.ca
Graduate, St. George
conferences, faculty, graduate students, history of metaphysics, History of Modern Philosophy Group, infinity, Karolina Hübner, Nick Stang
Karolina Hübner
Nick Stang
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418
170 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5R 2M8 Canada + Google Map
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Leaping up the phylogenetic scale in explaining anxiety: Perils and possibilities
Marvin Zuckerman
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):505-506 (1982)
Bases for Irrelevant Information Processing in Schizophrenia: Room for Manoeuvre.R. D. Oades - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):38-39.details
Schizophrenia in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia: The “Hole” Thing is Wrong.Neal R. Swerdlow - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):51-53.details
What is Schizophrenia?Janice R. Stevens & James M. Gold - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):50-51.details
A Plausible Theory Marred by Certain Inconsistencies.Herbert E. Spohn - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):49-50.details
A Hippocampal Theory of Schizophrenia.Nestor A. Schmajuk & James J. DiCarlo - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):47-49.details
Philosophy of Psychology in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Dopamine-GABA-Cholinergic Interactions and Negative Schizophrenic Symptomatology.Martin Sarter - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):46-47.details
The Significance of the Basal Ganglia for Schizophrenia.Reuven Sandyk & Stanley R. Kay - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):45-46.details
Philosophy of Neuroscience in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
What Should a Theory of Schizophrenia Be Able to Do?Kurt Salzinger - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):44-45.details
Neuro-Developmental, Brain Imaging and Psychophysiological Perspectives on the Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia.Adrian Raine & Tyrone D. Cannon - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):43-44.details
A Heuristically Useful but Empirically Weak Neuropsychological Model of Schizophrenia.M. Pisa & J. M. Cleghorn - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):42-43.details
Philosophy of Consciousness in Philosophy of Mind
Why Don't Preschizophrenic Children Have Delusions and Hallucinations?Lyn Pilowsky & Robin M. Murray - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):41-42.details
Delusions in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
A Realistic Model Will Be Much More Complex and Will Consider Longitudinal Neuropsychodevelopment.Terry Patterson - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):40-41.details
Is Another Loop Needed to Explain Schizophrenia?Arvin F. Oke & Ralph N. Adams - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):39-40.details
Neuropsychological Vulnerability or Episode Factors in Schizophrenia?Keith H. Nuechterlein & Michael Foster Green - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):37-38.details
Approximations to a Neuropsychological Model of Schizophrenia.Theo C. Manschreck & Brendan A. Maher - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):36-37.details
Schizophrenia and Attention: In and Out of Context.R. E. Lubow - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):35-36.details
Excitatory Amino Acids, NMDA and Sigma Receptors: A Role in Schizophrenia?Karl L. R. Jansen & Richard L. M. Faull - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):34-35.details
A Neuropsychology of Psychosis.Loring J. Ingraham - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):34-34.details
The Mechanism of Positive Symptoms in Schizophrenia.Ralph E. Hoffman - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):33-34.details
A Cardinal Principle for Neuropsychology, with Implications for Schizophrenia and Mania.David Hestenes - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):31-32.details
The Role of Long-Term Memory and Monitoring in Schizophrenia: Multiple Functions.Martin Harrow & Marshall Silverstein - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):30-31.details
Schizophrenia and Stored Memories: Left Hemisphere Dysfunction After All?Elkhonon Goldberg - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):30-30.details
Cerebral Hemispheres and Consciousness in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Science of Consciousness in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Novelty Value in Associative Learning.Jonathan C. Gewirtz - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):29-29.details
Conscious and Unconscious Learning in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
In What Context is Latent Inhibition Relevant to the Symptoms of Schizophrenia?Chris Frith - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):28-29.details
A Focalized Deficit Within an Elegant System.Irene J. Elkins & Rue L. Cromwell - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):27-28.details
Dopaminergic Excess or Dysregulation?Terrence S. Early, John Wayne Haller & Michael Posner - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):26-26.details
How Does the Physiology Change with Symptom Exacerbation and Remission in Schizophrenia?George G. Dougherty, Stuart R. Steinhauer, Joseph Zubin & Daniel P. van Kammen - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):25-26.details
Heterogeneity, Orienting and Habituation in Schizophrenia.Michael E. Dawson & Erin A. Hazlett - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):24-25.details
The Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia: A Perspective From Neurobehavioral Genetics.Wim E. Crusio - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):23-24.details
Motor Disturbances in Schizophrenia.Andrew Crider - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):22-23.details
The Limbic-Striatal Interaction: A Seesaw Rather Than a Tandem.A. R. Cools & B. Ellenbroek - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):22-22.details
Don't Leave the “Psyche” Out of Neuropsychology.Gordon Claridge & Tony Beech - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):21-21.details
A Faulty Negative Feedback Control Underlies the Schizophrenic Syndrome?Arvid Carlsson & Maria Carlsson - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):20-21.details
The Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia.J. A. Gray, J. Feldon, J. N. P. Rawlins, D. R. Hemsley & A. D. Smith - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):1-20.details
Schiz Bits: Misses, Mysteries and Hits.J. A. Gray, D. R. Hemsley, J. Feldon, N. S. Gray & J. N. P. Rawlins - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):56-84.details
The Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia: In Step but Not in Time.Jonathan H. Williams - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):55-56.details
The Accumbens–Substantia Nigra Pathway, Mismatch and Amphetamine.Ina Weiner - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):54-55.details
Positiwe and Negatiwe Symptoms, the Hippocampus and P3.Peter H. Venables - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1):53-54.details
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Map of diamond-boron bond paves way for new materials
by National Institute for Materials Science
Diamond is the hardest material in existence but is useless for cutting steel because it reacts with iron, from which steel is made, at high temperatures. Cubic boron nitride, a synthetic material, is the second hardest substance after diamond but is chemically stable against iron at high temperatures. Credit: Chalong Tawan
Scientists in Japan have successfully recorded the atomic bonds between diamond and cubic boron nitride: the hardest known materials on earth. This feat could ultimately lead to the design of new types of semiconductors.
Diamond is the hardest material in existence but is useless for cutting steel because it reacts with iron, from which steel is made, at high temperatures. Cubic boron nitride, a synthetic material, is the second hardest substance after diamond but is chemically stable against iron at high temperatures. If desirable composites of diamond and cubic boron nitride crystals could be obtained, a unique machining tool could be developed for work on hard rock and substances that contain iron. Also, a better understanding of the bonds formed between these two unique semiconducting materials could lead to the development of new types of semiconductors. The nature of these bonds was previously unknown.
Reporting their findings in Nature Communications, a team of researchers at Tohoku University, the National Institute for Materials Science and the Japan Fine Ceramics Center imaged bonded diamond and boron nitride, both crystalline materials, using a super-high-resolution scanning electron microscope. The team then subjected those observations to extensive theoretical calculations.
When the researchers analysed the atomic bonds, they found that the connections between the two materials had a regularly patterned atomic structure. Strangely enough, it was only by tracking pattern irregularities – certain types of crystal lattice defects formed in the boundary layer between the two materials – that the researchers were able to calculate the main pattern.
The team is conducting research to further understand the nature of the diamond/cubic boron nitride bond. They aim to be able to control the way lattice defects form in crystal layers between diamond and boron nitride. This would ultimately propel the research and development of novel functional materials with unique properties.
Researchers apply diamond coatings to iron and steel tools
Journal information: Nature Communications
Provided by National Institute for Materials Science
Citation: Map of diamond-boron bond paves way for new materials (2016, June 17) retrieved 20 January 2020 from https://phys.org/news/2016-06-diamond-boron-bond-paves-materials.html
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STAR TOO Experimental Theatre Workshops commence on 11 Oct 2014
The new session of STAR TOO experimental theatre workshops commences on October 11, 2014.
STAR TOO, first experimental theatre group in the UAE, give Performance Art Training with a twist.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 7 SEASONS STAR TOO COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE ART THEATRE PROJECT COMES TO DUCTAC
STAR TOO AUTUMN 2014 ANNOUNCEMENT
The STAR TOO arts collective is very excited to announce new COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE ART THEATRE workshops focusing on self-expression, bonding skills, and creative thinking. The workshops will be held in partnership with the prestigious Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre (DUCTAC) at Mall of the Emirates.
The STAR TOO COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE ART THEATRE workshops for adults offer a progressive and multi-disciplinary approach to performance-art training. With a passion for cutting-edge, physical theatre, three specialists will lead classes from October 11th to December 13th at DUCTAC every Saturday 7pm to 9pm.
The STAR TOO teaching force is comprised of French Theatre Professional & Paris-Sorbonne University theatre instructor Sol Abiad, Tunisian director Khawla El Hadef, and Indian classical dancer Shereen Saifudeen. The course takes participants through phases of learning that sparks iconoclasm, reverence, and juxtaposition of the two (a process mimicking the thesis-antithesis-synthesis model.)
While this form can sound esoteric, STAR TOO’s unique COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE ART THEATRE is actually a playful, genuine, and holistic approach to learning. We like to push boundaries and shake foundations. With care to transmit what those foundations are, the Workshop covers (kinaesthetically, not just intellectually) ideas that shake history to make a change in the arts, and thus in society.
The workshops are aimed at adults with a passion for acting, movement, music, art, dance and collaborative processes. Open to professionals and amateurs, the workshop promises personalised attention and a syllabus informed by legendary avant-garde directors
About STAR TOO COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE ART THEATRE
Since its inception in 2010, STAR TOO sought out alternative art spaces in Dubai and France, aligned with its philosophy: always breaking new grounds and changing perceptions. Until now, the group operated in the Al Quoz art & industrial zone, likened to the Soho of other capital cities.
With the ability to modulate the playing space, warehouses provided the environment that the growing troupe needed to develop its own style, typically minimalistic, using only foam sticks, plain cloth, and projections to create original stories.
In seven seasons of multi-media creations and arts education, STAR TOO COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE ART THEATRE has been staged at venues of prestige for Dubai’s arts scene such as Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural Understanding & Dubai Culture (Sikka Art Fair), The Fridge – Al Serkal Avenue, Traffic Art Gallery, Icon Art Production & the Abu Dhabi Art Hub.
Although we’re big on ideas, we actually run low-key, indie productions, with a focus on original ideas, aesthetic ideals, and being grounded in pure artistic collaboration. Until now, we wouldn’t have thought it possible for a small, counter-cultural, local arts initiative to have the chance to work in one of the most state-of-the-art facilities the city has to offer.
We believe that such a move is made possible thanks to DUCTAC having enlightened leadership at its helm, namely artists and intellectuals. Under the guidance of established artists and curators, the centre is offering something beyond consumerism for the community. The present team works relentlessly to enhance cultural programming and educational outreach. STAR TOO is greatly looking forward to making some magic there this season.
Course booklets will be available to registrants and details about the workshop can be found on the STAR TOO blog: http://wp.me/p2QmbD-3m
Check DUCTAC courses on http://www.ductac.org/
Inquiries welcomed at info@startoodubai.com
Group website: www.startoodubai.com
For more contact Sol Abiad, Founder-Director: +971 50 5614297
Timings: Oct. 11th to Dec. 13th, 2014, Saturdays 7 pm -9 pm
Duration: 10 weeks, 2-hr sessions, total 20 hours
Age: adults, all levels, actors and non-actors welcomed
Cost: AED 2,500
Materials needed: Dress code is comfortable clothing, enabling movement,.
Enrolment: Students register for full syllabus-course
For registration call DUCTAC 04 341 4777.
For more information, please contact Anne Cabanel, media relations Manager, Plum PR on annecabanel.pr@gmail.com
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COUNTY OF PLACER
Jack Duran, District 1 David Boesch, County Executive
Robert Weygandt, District 2, Vice Chairman Holly Heinzen, Chief Assistant County Executive Officer
Jim Holmes, District 3 Gerald O. Carden, County Counsel
Kirk Uhler, District 4, Chairman Ann Holman, Clerk of the Board
Jennifer Montgomery, District 5
Materials related to an item on this Agenda submitted to the Board after distribution of the agenda packet are available for public inspection at the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors Office, 175 Fulweiler Avenue, Auburn, during normal business hours. Placer County is committed to ensuring that persons with disabilities are provided the resources to participate fully in its public meetings. If you require disability-related modifications or accommodations, including auxiliary aids or services, please contact the Clerk of the Board. If requested, the agenda shall be provided in appropriate alternative formats to persons with disabilities. All requests must be in writing and must be received by the Clerk five business days prior to the scheduled meeting for which you are requesting accommodation. Requests received after such time will be accommodated only if time permits.
North Tahoe Event Center
8318 North Lake Boulevard
Kings Beach, CA 96143
FLAG SALUTE – Led by Chairman Uhler
CONSENT AGENDA - All items on the Consent Agenda have been recommended for approval by the County Executive Department. The Board will convene as the Successor Agency for Item #22. All items will be approved by a single roll call vote. Anyone may ask to address Consent items prior to the Board taking action, and the item may be moved for discussion.
SUPERVISOR’S COMMITTEE REPORTS
1. COUNTY EXECUTIVE/ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
a. Presentation - Tahoe Public Art (PDF)
1. Receive a presentation by Tahoe Public Art updating the Board on the status of the Kings Beach roundabout public art project.
a. Presentation –Tahoe City Downtown Association (PDF)
1. Receive a presentation from the Tahoe City Downtown Association providing the Board with an annual update on the status of the Tahoe City Downtown Association.
a. Presentation - North Tahoe Business Association (PDF)
1. Receive a presentation from the North Tahoe Business Association providing the Board with an annual update on the status of the North Tahoe Business Association.
4. PUBLIC WORKS
a. Master Plan Status for Martis Creek Lake and Dam Master Plan Update (PDF)
1. Receive a presentation regarding the status on the master plan update effort by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District for the Martis Creek Lake and Dam in eastern Placer County.
a. Shared-Use Path implementation status for ‘Resort Triangle’ Area of Eastern Placer County (PDF)
1. Receive an update on the current planning and implementation status of non-motorized shared-use paths in the ‘Resort Triangle’ area of eastern Placer County.
6. ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES/PROCUREMENT
a. Asphalt Concrete, Vulcan Materials and Teichert Aggregates (PDF)
1. Approve the award of competitive Bid No. 10420 to Vulcan Materials of Roseville and Grass Valley for the as-needed purchase of asphalt concrete products in the maximum aggregate amount of $680,000 for the period of April 28, 2015 through March 31, 2016. Materials shall be provided to and funded by the Department of Public Works Road Maintenance Division budget for FY 2014-15 and in the requested budget for FY 2015-16;
2. Approve the renewal of a negotiated blanket purchase order with Teichert Aggregates of Truckee, CA for the as-needed purchase of asphalt concrete products in the maximum amount of $220,000 for the period of April 28, 2015 through March 31, 2016. Materials shall be provided to and funded by the Department of Public Works Road Maintenance Division budget for FY 2014-15 and in the requested budget for FY 2015-16;
3. Approve the option to renew the resulting blanket purchase orders for three additional one-year terms, and authorize change orders at a combined three-year total not to exceed 10 percent ($90,000) in aggregate of the recommended award amount of $900,000; and
4. Authorize the Purchasing Manager to sign the resulting blanket purchase orders and to transfer funds between the blanket purchase orders as needed.
7. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT RESOURCE AGENCY/PLANNING SERVICES DIVISION
a. Tahoe Basin Area Plan Update Status Report (PDF)
1. Receive an update on the Tahoe Basin Area Plan. No Board action is requested.
8. FACILITY SERVICES
a. Environmental Engineering, Residential Bear-Resistant Garbage Can Enclosure Loan Program in Garbage Collection Franchise Areas 2 and 3 (PDF)
1. Direct staff to proceed with development of an optional residential bear-resistant garbage can enclosure loan program in Franchise Areas 2 and 3, which includes unincorporated Placer County areas east of Colfax to the Nevada state line, funded through Solid Waste Management Enterprise Fund reserves, at no net county cost.
b. Environmental Engineering, Solid Waste Handling Services in Franchise Areas 2 and 3 (PDF)
1. Approve an Amended and Restated Agreement for Solid Waste Handling Services with Tahoe Truckee Disposal, Inc. and Placer County Eastern Regional Sanitary Landfill, Inc. to provide a 7-year extension from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2022. The service agreement is funded by garbage collection and processing fees for services provided in Franchise Areas 2 and 3, which includes unincorporated Placer County east of Colfax to the Nevada State line.
2. Make a finding pursuant to Public Resources Code 21080(b)(8), the fees are derived directly from the cost of providing service and are necessary to meet operating expenses required for maintenance of service and are therefore exempt from environmental review.
a. Alpine Meadows Road over the Truckee River Bridge Replacement Project, Construction Update (PDF)
1. Receive an update on the Alpine Meadows Road over Truckee River Bridge Replacement Project. There is no action being requested.
b. State Transit Assistance Claim for Placer County Transit and Tahoe Area Regional Transit Submitted to Placer County Transportation Planning Agency FY 2014-15 (PDF)
1. Adopt a Resolution authorizing the Chairman to execute and sign the 2014-15 State Transit Assistance (STA) Claim for Placer County Transit (PCT) and Tahoe Area Regional Transit (TART) to be submitted to the Placer County Transportation Planning Agency (PCTPA) in the amount of $624,129. There is no net county cost.
10. COUNTY EXECUTIVE/ADMINISTRATION
a. California Tahoe Alliance Memorandum of Understanding and Conservation Strategy Group Professional Services Agreement (PDF)
1. Authorize the Chair to execute the California Tahoe Alliance (Alliance) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on behalf of the County. There is no net cost to the County to execute the MOU.
2. Authorize the County Executive Officer to sign a Professional Services Agreement between Placer County and Conservation Strategy Group for advocacy services on behalf of Placer County as a member of the Alliance, in the amount of $4,500, funded by the Community and Agency Support budget, at no new net cost to the County, for the period of May through October 2015.
b. Status Update on the FY 2015-16 Lake Tahoe Tourism and Promotions Budget, Request for Direction Regarding Proposed Transportation Program Expenses, FY 2014-15 North Lake Tahoe Resort Association Capital Project Expenditure Recommendation (PDF)
1. Receive a status update on FY 2015-16 Lake Tahoe Tourism Budget
2. Provide direction on the FY 2015-16 Transportation Program budget in a total amount not to exceed $971,430;
3. Approve North Lake Tahoe Transient Occupancy Tax Infrastructure Account expenditure for repairs to barge utilized for July 3 and 4 fireworks displays, in an amount not to exceed $22,000.
11. COUNTY COUNSEL/ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION (PDF)
(A) §54956.9 – CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL
1. Existing Litigation (Government Code §54956.9(d)(1):
(a) Fernando Abaco, Ester Abaco v. County of Placer, et al.
Placer County Superior Court Case No.: SCV0034909
(b) Nicholas Sants, v. Deputy Michael Seipert, County of Placer, et al.
U.S.D.C. Eastern District Case No. 2:15-cv-00355-KJM-CKD
(c) Exclusive Resorts, LLC v. Board of Supervisors of Placer County, et al.
Placer County Superior Court Case No. SCV0028222
(d) Michael Bennet (Deceased), WCAB Claim
WCAB Claim No. Unassigned
(e) John Caliguire (Deceased), WCAB Claim
WCAB Claim Nos. ADJ452992, ADJ7451867, ADJ8645279 & ADJ9872143
CLOSED SESSION REPORT
12. ORDINANCES – Second reading:
a. Ordinance amending Placer County Code Section 3.08.720 related to the Public Agency Eligible List (PAEL) (PDF)
1. Adopt an Ordinance amending Placer County Code Section 3.08.720 related to Public Agency Eligible List.
b. Reclassification of Positions in CDRA and Facility Services for the Community Development Technician Series (PDF)
1. Adopt an Ordinance amending the un-codified Allocations of Positions to Department ordinance modifying allocated positions in the departments of Community Development Resource Agency and Facility Services.
13. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
a. America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride (PDF)
1. Adopt a Resolution in support of the "America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride" to be held on Sunday, June 7, 2015 around Lake Tahoe.
b. Ironman Lake Tahoe (PDF)
1. Adopt a Resolution in support of the IRONMAN LAKE TAHOE triathlon on September 20, 2015 in Placer County.
c. Tour de Tahoe-Bike Big Blue (PDF)
1. Adopt a Resolution in support of the Tour de Tahoe-Bike Big Blue, Ride to cure Diabetes on September 13, 2015 in Placer County.
d. Minutes (PDF)
1. Approve minutes of March 10 & March 24, 2015.
14. COMMITTEES & COMMISSIONS
a. Agricultural Commission (PDF)
1. Approve the reappointment of Tony Aguilar to Seat #1 (representing Citrus Industry).
b. Building Appeals Board (PDF)
1. Approve the reappointment of Richard Lewis to Seat #9 (representing Physically Disabled).
c. Placer County Older Adult Advisory Commission (PDF)
1. Approve the reappointment of Antoinette Fabela to Seat #8 (Representing Public-at-Large).
a. Unclassified Employee Step Increases. The County Executive Officer recommends that the Board approve a 5% merit increase for: (PDF)
1. Dr. Robert Oldham, Health Officer, Grade 508 Step 2 at $87.04 per hour, to Grade 508 Step 3 at $91.38 per hour, effective March 21, 2015.
16. COUNTY EXECUTIVE/EMERGENCY SERVICES
a. North Tahoe Fire Protection District 2014/15 Capital Facilities and Mitigation Fee Expenditure Plan (PDF)
1. Adopt a Resolution approving the North Tahoe Fire Protection District 2014/15 Capital Facilities and Mitigation Fee Expenditure Plan that takes effect after April 30, 2015 and contains a 2.5% fee increase.
17. FACILITY SERVICES
a. Parks, Housing Related Park Grant, Martis Valley Trail (PDF)
1. Adopt a Resolution authorizing the Director of Facility Services, or designee, to execute Grant Documents for $254,150 from the State Department of Housing and Community Development’s Housing Related Parks Program to fund construction of a portion of the Martis Valley Trail, and to execute any and all documents on behalf of the County that are necessary for the acceptance and administration of said grant, at no net county cost.
18. PROCUREMENT SERVICES - In accordance with County Policy, non-contested competitively awarded bids under $400,000 are placed on the Consent Agenda.
a. Personal Service of Civil Process Services, ABC Legal Service Inc. (PDF)
1. Approve Change Order No. 3 to Blanket Purchase Order No. 21075 with ABC Legal Services Inc. of Seattle, WA for Personal Service of Civil Process for the Placer County Department of Child Support Services, increasing the blanket purchase order amount by $15,000 resulting in a new maximum amount of $81,000, funded in the FY 2014-15 Final Budget by Federal and State revenues with no net County cost; and
2. Authorize the Purchasing Manager to sign the resulting change order.
b. Credit Card Fuel Purchases, U.S. Bank National Association ND (PDF)
1. Approve Change Order No. 2 to Blanket Purchase Order No. 21164 with U.S. Bank National Association ND of Minneapolis, MN for credit card fuel purchases in the amount of $25,000 and increasing the maximum amount to $665,000 on behalf of the Department of Public Works Fleet Services Division. Funding is provided by revenue collected from Fleet rate customers and Fleet direct charge customers with no net County cost; and
c. Environmental Services for Public Works Projects, Extension of Qualified Lists (PDF)
1. Approve a one-year renewal of competitively adopted Qualified List No. 10157 for Environmental Services for Public Works Projects to be provided as needed for the period of May 8, 2015 through June 30, 2016.
2. Approve the second one-year extension option of the qualified lists of firms for the period of July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017.
d. Street Sweeper, Global Environmental Products (PDF)
1. Approve the award of a purchase order, using a HGACBuy competitively bid public agency contract, to Global Environmental Products of San Bernardino, CA for the purchase of one street sweeper in the total amount of $261,319, funded by the Department of Public Works Road Maintenance Division FY 2014-15 Final Budget with no net County cost; and
2. Authorize the Purchasing Manager to sign the resulting purchase order and related documents.
e. Electrical Parts and Supplies, Edges Electrical Group LLC (PDF)
1. Approve Blanket Purchase Order renewal with Edges Electrical Group LLC for electrical supplies, in the amount of $75,000 for the period of April 28, 2015 to March 31, 2016. Funding is provided by the Department of Facility Services in the FY 2014-15 Final Budget and will be requested in the FY 2015-16 budget;
2. Approve Option to Renew resulting blanket purchase order on a year-to-year basis for two additional one-year terms with a renewal amount not to exceed 10 percent in aggregate of the original award amount;
3. Authorize the Purchasing Manager to sign the resulting blanket purchase orders.
f. Wastewater Water/Recycling, Monitoring and Landfill Consulting and Gas Collection Services for Facilities Projects, Qualified Lists Extension (PDF)
1. Approve a one-year extension of multiple qualified lists of firms, as the result of competitive Request for Qualifications No. 10133, for Wastewater Water/Recycling, Monitoring and Landfill Consulting and Gas Collection Services for facilities projects to be provided as needed to the Facility Services Department for the period of May 1, 2015 through April 30, 2016.
2. Approve the second one-year extension option of the qualified lists of firms for the period of May 1, 2016 through April 30, 2017.
g. Paving/Patching Services, Baldoni Construction Service Inc. (PDF)
1. Approve the renewal of a competitively awarded Blanket Purchase Order with Baldoni Construction Service Inc. of Newcastle, CA for the as-needed purchase of paving/patching services in the maximum amount of $225,000 on behalf of the Department of Facility Services, for the period of April 1, 2015 through March 31, 2016. Funding is provided by the Capital Projects Fund, the Sewer Districts, and Sewer County Service Areas in the FY 2014-15 Final Budget and the FY 2015-16 requested budget, with no net County cost; and
2. Authorize the Purchasing Manager to sign the resulting blanket purchase order.
h. Annual Roof Repair Services, Sierra Single Ply, Inc. (PDF)
1. Approve Blanket Purchase Order renewal with Sierra Single Ply, Inc. for roof repair services, in the amount of $150,000 for the period of April 28, 2015 to March 31, 2016. Funding is provided in the Capital Projects Fund for FY 2014-15, and will be included in the FY 2015-16 requested budget, with no additional net county cost; and
i. Software License and Support, Healthy Communities Institute (PDF)
1. Approve the award of a sole-source blanket purchase order to Healthy Communities Institute of Berkeley, CA for software license fees, support and related services for the HCI Platform System in the maximum amount of $84,100, for the period of May 1, 2015 to April 30, 2018, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services FY 2014-15 Final Budget and requested budgets for FY 2015-16 and FY 2016-17 with no new net County cost; and
j. SirsiDynix Voice Automation System (PDF)
1. Approve a Budget Revision to transfer $9,400 from Software Maintenance to Equipment funded within the Library’s FY 2014-15 existing budget to purchase a replacement SirsiDynix Voice Automation system;
2. Add the equipment to the Master Fixed Asset List;
3. Approve the award of a purchase order to SirsiDynix of Lehi, UT, in the amount of $9,400 for the purchase of one Voice Automation system; and
k. Automotive Fasteners, TIFCO Industries (PDF)
1. Approve Blanket Purchase Order change order with TIFCO Industries, Inc. of Citrus Heights, CA for the as-needed purchase of automotive fasteners in the amount of $20,000, extending the time period from March 31, 2015 to June 30, 2015, and increasing the maximum amount to $70,000. Funding is provided by the Department of Public Works and Placer County Fire; and
2. Authorize the Purchasing Manager to sign the resulting document.
l. Secured Transport, Garda CL West Inc. (PDF)
1. Approve Blanket Purchase Order change order with Garda CL West, Inc. of Chicago, IL for secured and insured transport services in the amount of $10,000 and increasing the maximum amount to $60,000. Funding is provided by the Administrative Services Department, Facility Services, and Treasurer-Tax Collector;
2. Approve Blanket Purchase Order renewal with Garda CL West Inc. of Chicago, IL for secured and insured transport services in the maximum amount of $60,000, for the period of July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2017. Funding is provided by the Administrative Services Department, Facility Services, and Treasurer-Tax Collector. Funding is included in the FY 2014-15 Final Budget and will be requested in the FY 2015-16 and FY 2016-17 budgets; and
3. Authorize the Purchasing Manager to sign the resulting documents.
m. Software Maintenance and Support, AutoMon LLC (PDF)
1. Approve the renewal of a sole-source blanket purchase order with AutoMon LLC of Scottsdale, AZ for software license fees, support and related services for the Probation Caseload Explorer case management system in the maximum amount of $139,000, for the period of April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016, funded by the Probation Department with no new net County cost;
2. Approve an option to renew the blanket purchase order for two additional one-year terms with a renewal amount not to exceed 10 percent in aggregate of the original award amount; and
19. PUBLIC WORKS
a. Addition of Lincoln Buses to the Placer County Transit Fleet (PDF)
1. Adopt a Resolution adding eight (8) buses from the City of Lincoln to the Master Fixed Asset List in order to take ownership of the buses for the operation of transit on behalf of the City of Lincoln. There is no charge for these buses and there is no net County cost.
b. Partnership Planning Grant Agreement for Inter-Jurisdictional Traffic Impact Mitigation Management (PDF)
1. Adopt a Resolution authorizing the County Executive Officer to execute a Partnership Planning Grant Agreement between the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG), Caltrans District 3, the County of Sutter, the County of Placer, the County of Sacramento and the City of Roseville, at a cost of $14,168 from the Road fund.
c. West Sunnyside Water Quality Improvement Project, Phase 2, Contract No. 1155 (PDF)
1. Approve the project plans and specifications for use in bidding and construction of the West Sunnyside Water Quality Improvement Project - Phase 2. There is no net County cost.
2. Authorize the Chairman to sign the title sheet of the plans.
3. Authorize the Department to advertise for bids.
a. Stand Up Placer (PDF)
1. Approve appropriation of $1,250 in Revenue Sharing monies to Stand Up Placer for their Stand Up and Dance event, as requested by Supervisor Weygandt ($250), Supervisor Holmes ($500) and Supervisor Uhler ($500).
b. Auburn Host Lions Club (PDF)
1. Approve appropriation of $200 in Revenue Sharing monies to the Auburn Host Lions Club for their 21st Annual Charity Golf Event to benefit programs for the blind and visually impaired and Lions International Sight Campaigns, as requested by Supervisor Holmes ($200).
c. Sacramento Blue Star Moms (PDF)
1. Approve appropriation of $200 in Revenue Sharing monies to the Sacramento Blue Star Moms for their “Honor Those Who Serve – Armed Forces Day Gala”, as requested by Supervisor Weygandt ($100), and Supervisor Holmes ($100).
21. SHERIFF
a. Morgue Transportation and Diener Services (PDF)
1. Approve the cancellation of competitive Bid No. 10397 for Morgue Transportation and Diener Services.
2. Approve the award of competitive Request for Proposals No. 10408 to Statewide Mortuary Transport & Support, Inc., of Sacramento, CA for Morgue Transportation and Diener Services for a budgeted Net County Cost of $156,000 for the period of May 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.
3. Authorize the Sheriff’s Office to negotiate a Blanket Purchase Order with Truckee Tahoe Mortuary of Truckee, CA for Morgue Transportation Services for a budgeted Net County Cost of $11,000 for the period of May 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.
4. Approve the option to renew the resulting blanket purchase orders for two additional one-year terms, with renewal amounts not to exceed 10 percent of the recommended aggregate contract amounts of $167,000.
5. Authorize the Purchasing Manager to execute the resulting blanket purchase orders.
22. SUCCESSOR AGENCY
a. Resolution confirming issuance of refunding bonds (PDF)
1. Adopt a Resolution confirming the issuance of refunding bonds, approving preliminary and final official statements and providing for other matters properly related thereto.
23. TREASURER-TAX COLLECTOR
a. Treasurer’s Statement for the month of March 2015 (PDF)
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A Proposal FASB expects to issue for public comment in mid-April is aimed at enhancing the usefulness of the financial statements of not-for-profit organizations.
FASB voted 5-2 Wednesday to issue a proposed Accounting Standards Update, which would oppose changes to:
The current net asset classification scheme.
The required information about an organization’s liquidity, financial performance, and
cash flows.
The board will propose reducing the number of new asset classes presented from three to two. The new classification would convey net assets with donor-imposed restrictions and without donor-imposed restrictions.
Under the proposal, all not-for-profits also would be required to report expenses both by their nature and by function.
“I think the benefits justify the costs,” FASB member Tom Linsmeier said during the meeting. “I think that we’re providing an opportunity for the not-for-profit community to tell their story far better.”
FASB Chairman Russell Golden, who cast one of the dissenting votes, said some aspects of the proposal will reduce costs, promote simplification, and provide additional benefits to the not-for-profit community. But he is concerned that the project may increase complexity in the system overall because some of the tentative decisions address conditions only for not-for- profits on issues that also apply outside the not-for-profit sector.
“We should have thought holistically about the cash flow statement, holistically about the operating performance measure, and holistically about the classifications within the cash flow statement,” Golden said.
─ Ken Tysiac (mailto:ktysiac@aicpa.org) is a JofA editorial director.
© 2015 American Institute of CPAs – All Rights Reserved
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Jessica Seinfeld to release two new books
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Seinfeld is writing two new books for Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House. The first, a cookbook, will be released in fall 2016; the second will be a collection of humorous essays and observations.
Seinfeld, wife of comedian Jerry Seinfeld, has written three best-selling cookbooks, including “Deceptively Delicious” and “The Can’t Cook Book: Recipes for the Absolutely Terrified.” The former book, which taught parents how to trick their children into eating healthy produce, triggered a lawsuit — and tabloid headlines — by another cookbook author who claimed Seinfeld had stolen her ideas. The suit was dismissed.
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Posted on December 22, 2012 by wildbow
Heavy. The weight of the body on top of me was making it hard to breathe. Some backup process kicked into gear as my body tried and failed to take in air. I was thrust out of unconsciousness, or out of the semiconscious daze I’d been in. I managed to struggle to get my upper body free, fighting past the aches that made every joint and every bone hurt to heave the body off me.
It hadn’t felt like sleep, or the darkness of unconsciousness, but I hadn’t been thinking either. I felt a moment’s disorientation and wondered if I’d suffered another concussion. My thoughts felt too lucid.
The body. My dad? I opened my eyes to look, saw only cloudy white. Dust? It was similar to when I woke up with bleary eyes, but no matter how many times I blinked, I could only see a white haze with vague patches of light and dark. Blinking made my face burn where the skin of my eyelids and around my eyes moved. More irritating was the sensation that I had something in my eyes, except no amount of blinking was helping. They’d been damaged?
Stupid to look straight at the explosion. I’d thought I had another half-second to grasp what was going on before I had to turn my head and shut my eyes. Apparently that wasn’t good enough.
My dad. Right. I reached over and fumbled to find his throat. He had a pulse. I put one hand in front of his mouth and found him breathing.
I was whole, he was alive. Anything else would be hard to verify.
I was forced to use my bugs to see. What their eyes processed might not translate well in my brain, but it was about as good as what I had. Didn’t want to move the bugs or gather a swarm. It would be too easy to track me down, to find Skitter lying among the wounded.
No, I only looked, keeping the bugs where they were, and feeling things out where necessary with only a handful of flies. I could feel a breeze. The front of the building had a hole in it. The lobby had been annihilated, and much of it was open to the sky. The black blobs that had pulled up around the building had flickering lights on top. Sirens. They would be the first responders.
I’d noted the structural damage. I tried to picture the scene as I’d last glimpsed it. What had been where? Who had been where?
The reporters had been at the very back of the room, the last to make their way down the aisles in the press of the crowd and the people making their way out of their seats. Some had lingered, protecting their equipment or filming the scene. I tenderly moved one fly over the area, feeling the shattered boards, the blood-slick expanses of floor, the charred flesh.
Several of the Wards were working to tend to the wounded. Clockblocker had saved the Wards, apparently, but had been too late in tending to himself, and was currently lying prone, receiving some care from Weld. Chariot was gone.
There had been hundreds of people present, and too many had still been in the building when the explosion went off. The dad and son who’d been restrained in the lobby? The mayor, candidates and director who’d been wounded, then left without aid when the explosion injured the people who were giving them first aid, sent the people flying?
I couldn’t even grasp the entirety of the scene, not without bringing my swarm to bear. I couldn’t do that without possibly revealing my presence when I was in a vulnerable position.
I felt around to find Kurt and Lacey.
“Hey baby,” Lacey said. “You woke up.”
“You hurt?”
“Just a little bit. Might have slipped a disc. Probably nothing to worry about, but I’m going to stay as still as I can with how bad this hurts. I’ve been watching your dad, trying to tell if he’s breathing or if I’m imagining it. You didn’t freak out, so I take it that our Danny’s okay?”
“He’s okay. I think.”
“Good. Kurt’s unconscious but he’s alright. You see Alexander anywhere?”
I blinked a few times. Did she not realize I couldn’t see? “No.”
“Okay, hon. You should stay as still as possible.”
I shook my head. “No. Going to see if anyone needs help.”
She gripped my hand, started to say something, then winced.
“What’s wrong.”
“Hurts, is all. Stay put? Safest thing to do.”
I shook my head. I couldn’t say it, but I felt like I’d been through enough crises and suffered enough that I was aware of what the pain was telling me. I was almost certain I wasn’t in critical danger. It was what my gut was telling me.
With only a small few bugs to guide me, I left my dad, Kurt and Lacey behind, climbing up the stairs to the damaged stage, fumbling for the other wounded. I could only draw crude images of the situation from touch, from the blurry images my eyes offered me and through my bugs. A woman, unconscious like my dad. A man, his arms hugged to his lower stomach as he writhed in perpetual agony.
The mayor. I crawled over to him, pressing my fingers to his throat. He had a pulse, but it was thready. I drew bugs from where they hid in the midst of my hair, commanded them down my arms and tried to bend over so my hair masked what I was doing. Once they were on him, I sent them over the length of his body, noting where there was blood. No use fumbling around with my hands. I didn’t want to bump one of the throwing knives and gave it the push necessary to drive it into one of his arteries. One of the knives that impaled his hip had moved, probably when the explosion happened, and the offending weapon wasn’t serving to cork the blood flow.
I pulled my sweatshirt from around my waist, leaving my knife where it was on my belt, folding one sleeve and pressing it around the base of where the knife had penetrated. It wasn’t enough, didn’t feel like I was doing anything, but I wasn’t sure what else I could do. I wasn’t strong enough to do chest compressions.
“Help!” I shouted. “I need help here!”
Nobody leaped to the rescue. Anyone else that was still in the building was too busy with their own injuries, were still unconscious or were making their way outside.
Damn Coil. I would make him answer for this.
Yes, I had seen ‘Coil’ die. I had little doubt others had as well, even news cameras would have had eyes on the scene. Especially news cameras. Coil had staged this, taken advantage of the reporters’ cameras, the fact that there were no working communications, and all the important figures would be attending. He was too savvy, too invested in his plan to not have taken all the variables into account. Just the fact that I knew about his power turned this whole scenario on its head. He wouldn’t have charged in like this without a backup, without a version of himself staying safe and secure in his underground base, just in case things went awry.
No. I might have seen the man die, but the more I thought about it, the less I could believe that man was Coil.
The emergency response team had stopped outside, at the perimeter of the building. I listened through the bugs in the area, but I couldn’t follow any of the conversation. Even tracking who was speaking was nearly impossible.
Whatever they had been discussing, they ventured inside. Some, who I gathered might be police officers, were moving to the most affected areas, the places where the reporters had been, the lobby. The paramedics proceeded down the aisles, too slowly for my liking, checking on the wounded.
“Help!” I called out, but my voice was nearly drowned out by the other wounded. It was one or two minutes before a paramedic saw the mayor and hurried to my side. I could tell where he was because of the bug I’d planted on him, but I couldn’t say as much.
“I’ve got this,” she said. The paramedic was a woman.
I gratefully backed away. Even the strain of pushing the makeshift bandage down had been making every ache and pain across my body stand out in sharp relief.
“Your name?” she asked me.
“Taylor.”
A short distance away, my dad groaned a response, as if he’d heard my voice. I noticed more because of the mosquito I’d placed over his carotid artery than my ears. I didn’t let on that I’d noticed anything.
“You shouldn’t be moving, Taylor.”
“I’m sore, but I don’t think I’m hurt. I wanted to help.”
“What kind of pain?”
“Bruises, aches. My dad took the brunt of it,” I pointed in his general direction. “My face hurts, and, um, I can’t see.”
“Don’t worry. Soon as we take care of the critically injured, we’ll look after you.”
“I’m alive,” I said. “I mean, I’m okay. I’d rather you guys checked my dad and his friends, make sure they aren’t hurt, help the other candidates, and the Director. They were stabbed before the explosion. All of them like this. Um. They were getting help when the bomb blew. I think whoever was helping them got knocked away by the explosion.”
I was rambling. How fine was I?
The paramedic shouted, “Boroughs! Sturdevant! Manry! Girl here says there’re MSW victims on the stage here!”
I could hear running footsteps, one of my bugs brushed against one of them as they ran past.
There wasn’t much more I could do. I’d gladly out myself if it meant I could use my power to help people, maybe identify the most wounded, but I was worried it would do more harm than good, both in the short-term and in the long. I was left to sit there, blind, while the paramedic checked my dad over and then got someone else’s help to lift him to the ground.
As the paramedics checked whether people were alive, others were rousing. I could hear the cries of pain, the shouts and screams.
Coil would answer for this. For the people he’d hurt for his own selfish ends. For knowingly putting me in the line of fire. For the lives he’d spent like currency.
“Taylor, was it?” the paramedic asked me.
“You’re very quiet. You’re breathing hard-”
“Angry. And a little sore. But I’m okay. Really. There’re others who need help.”
“Others are getting help. We’ve got a lot of people here, and very few with serious injuries. You have a burn on your face, we’re going to want to look after that.”
“The reporters, at the back of the auditorium-”
“I thought you couldn’t see.”
“I remember seeing them there, just before it went off.”
“Very few people were badly hurt. Less than you might think. Just stay calm.”
If I hadn’t used my bugs to see the evidence for myself, would I have been able to tell she was lying?
She wanted me to stay calm. It was odd, but I felt very calm, and I didn’t feel like I was in shock. I was pissed, I was worried about my dad, worried that I was missing something critical with Coil’s overarching plan, but I wasn’t panicking, I wasn’t stressing about the burn, or my eyes, or any of that.
I’d handled worse, in terms of injuries. I wouldn’t freak over that much. I’d love to be able to see what was going on, to not have to worry about permanent blindness, but I wouldn’t worry about it until I could confirm how bad it was, confirm that it was permanent.
Sort of like how I was looking at the potential end of the world. I wouldn’t worry about it until we’d exhausted every resource available and verified that in this era where countless people had the ability to break the fundamental rules of reality, someone couldn’t stop it from happening.
“I am calm,” I said, after confirming it for myself. I tried to take a deep breath to demonstrate, but winced at the pain from the bruising. I might have been pushed into the railing by the force of the explosion. “But I don’t want you to worry about me. My dad-”
“The bald guy by the stairs?”
“My partner’s looking after him. Let’s make sure you’re okay. If there’s spinal damage or internal damage and we’re ignoring it and letting you move around like you have been, things could get much worse than they are now.”
I shut my eyes, noting how the blurry white haze gave way to darkness. I could remember when Leviathan had hit me, how Panacea had noted internal damage that I’d been entirely unaware of. I sighed, opened my eyes to stare at the hazy figure. “Okay.”
“We’re going to be putting you onto a stretcher, but we won’t be carrying you out for a minute. We can’t leave you alone, but I’ll need to help my partner carry your dad out. What we’re going to do is put you next to someone, so someone can watch two or three of you at once.”
I was lifted into place, then carried a short distance before being set down with great care. The paramedic there was talking with one of the other patients, leaving me free to think.
That was what got me. This whole thing bordered on senselessness. Hurting these people, putting me in the line of fire. Why attack the event? It would draw attention from heroes across the nation and it would make holding the city that much harder. Had he abandoned the plan? Or were there nuances I wasn’t aware of?
What was deliberate, in how this had unfolded? He’d wanted to take out the mayor. But the candidates? Hadn’t they been his?
I was looking at it the wrong way. Circus. She had been part of the plan from the beginning, and he’d hired her for an explicit reason. Her powers included her personal pocket dimension for storing items. I couldn’t think of how that might be used. She had minor pyrokinesis, but that didn’t apply here, either. She also had an enhanced sense of balance and enhanced coordination.
The balance wasn’t a major thing here. But the coordination? The way she’d been able to casually target Piggot as she tossed the throwing knives over one shoulder? If I had to guess, Circus’ knives had only killed the people Coil wanted dead. The others would have been hit in nonvital areas. Her enhanced hand-eye coordination would have given her the accuracy needed to ensure the knives hit where she wanted them to hit.
Über, then? Leet? What was the rationale for them? When we’d left the fundraiser and Coil had revealed himself as our employer, it had been Trainwreck in Coil’s company, but Trainwreck had joined the Merchants, possibly at Coil’s behest, and the Merchants had been eradicated. He was dead.
That led me to wonder if Coil had brought in Über as a stand-in for Trainwreck, wearing another heavy metal suit.
Was there a reason for why Coil wanted it?
Circus, Über, Leet, Chariot, the candidates… moving parts in a greater set of machinations that I wasn’t aware of. The reporters, me, my dad, and any number of people in the area, we were the bystanders, the casualties.
And I couldn’t get why. Was it to attack or assassinate the mayor and Director? To mark his candidates as survivors of a supervillain attack and give them more standing in the eyes of the public? It didn’t make sense. Why go to the effort of positioning the Undersiders and the Travelers in the city if that was his goal? Any advantage he might glean from us holding territory would be counterbalanced by the chaos and the national attention that he drew from this kind of terrorism. It wouldn’t be directed at him, because his body double had been killed in the attack, but it couldn’t help, either.
If I thought about it, I could almost believe the bombing had been intentional. I couldn’t say how he’d arranged it, but the fact that he’d thought to have a body double and the man had died and that ‘Coil’ was effectively off everyone’s radar seemed too coincidental.
It was something I needed to ruminate on. Minutes passed, and I was left with only my bugs to occupy me, and the periodic attention of the paramedic who’d been assigned to watch me, making sure I was still alive and lucid. I directed bugs into the rubble, beneath the chairs that had been unrooted from the auditorium floor, under and onto bodies. Slowly, I gained a greater picture of the scene, a topographical map of what Coil had done. I couldn’t count the bodies, not with the way the reporters had been pulverized, limbs and bones torn free and left lying beneath chairs or at the sides of the aisles
“We’re moving you now,” a man said.
“Yeah. Just stay put, don’t move.”
I was lifted into the air, carried past the ruined wall at the rear of the auditorium. I could smell the scent of death, the mingled smells of blood and shit, of human bodies that had been torn open, singed, the vitreous fluids and all the messy ugliness from inside our bodies exposed to the air. It seemed incongruous with the cool breeze and the gentle warmth of the sun on my face. I had to turn my head so the sun wasn’t shining on the burn.
Shouldn’t a catastrophe like this be met with rain? An overcast sky? It didn’t seem right that things were so quiet, so calm, the day so tranquil when so many people had died, lost loved ones or suffered serious injury. I bit my lip, focusing on my bugs, sweeping them through the area as the ambulance made its way to the hospital and the paramedic in the back carefully checked my vitals, asking me questions about the degree of pain, stiffness here or there and checking for hard tissue where there might be internal injuries.
It was odd, going to the same hospital where I’d been taken after fighting Leviathan. I maintained a few bugs to feel things out – a stray housefly or mosquito would likely go unnoticed if it kept out of the way. There were no capes, no blue tags or red tags on the curtain rods, nor PRT uniforms keeping order and informing the staff of who they were treating.
They took me to a curtained off area, very similar to the one I’d been in before. Except here I was Taylor, not Skitter. I wasn’t handcuffed, treated roughly or outed for my most damaging secrets. They investigated me thoroughly, shone a light in my eyes and asked me far too many questions. A cream was spread across the mild burn on a quarter of my face, and the nurse picked grit out from beneath my skin. The process hurt, but it was a two at most on a scale of one to ten. I’d dealt with tens before.
The fact that I couldn’t see was starting to wear on me. My left eye was worse than my right, but neither let me see details, only smudges. Only light and dark. I was so used to having an unnaturally broad sense of what was going on, but I’d just had one of my most essential senses stripped away from me.
As the medical professionals left, a young woman slipped into the curtained enclosure.
“Hey,” she said. “You’re alive?”
“Lisa?”
“Honeybee-T.”
“Praying-mantis-R. You’re blind. Damn, that sucks,” she said.
“Yeah,” I sighed. “My dad?”
“He’s okay. Looked in on him. He woke up and was asking after you. He doesn’t like me much, anymore.”
“You took me away from him. He’ll blame you for that because it’s easier than blaming me, I guess.”
“I guess.” I planted a mosquito between her shoulder blades, and I could track her as she stepped closer, crouching with her arms resting on the rail of the hospital bed. When she spoke, she was quiet enough that only I could hear her. “We can get you a healer or something. Kidnap someone like Othala, have Regent or Grue use her powers.”
“Othala isn’t around. Left the city.”
“We’ll hire someone with healing powers, then.”
“They won’t want to come here, because of the very thing you were talking about with Othala. Word’s probably out about us owning the city, especially after we kicked out groups like the Chosen, and Faultline’s crew. They’ll tell people just how dangerous we are, the kind of tactics we can employ, like using Regent or Grue.”
“We have options.”
“I know. I’m not worried about me. What gets me is what happened. So many were hurt or killed.”
“Lots hurt, not so many killed, from what I’ve seen and heard on the subject. But that’s not important right now. What are your priorities?”
I blinked. “My dad-”
“Is fine.”
“My territory, the fires?”
“Strategically placed, nowhere near our real lairs. Nobody hurt, but I think he molotov’d one of your barracks, setting the fire high so people had a chance to get out.”
“The others, Grue-”
“They weren’t anywhere nearby. We’re going to meet up with them soon.”
“Dinah.”
“Now you’re on track. We’ve talked about plans. And Coil-”
“He’s alive, right?” I asked.
“Mm hmm,” Lisa affirmed. “And better for us, he’s probably happy. Everything’s coming together for him, just the way he wanted it to. Which means that right now, today, is going to be our best bet for talking to him, getting at him when he’s in a mood to release the tyke. Come on, out of bed.”
My head was spinning, but it wasn’t a concussion at work. After everything I’d done, everything I’d put in, we were this close? I accepted Lisa’s help in getting out of the hospital bed, and she hooked her arm beneath mine to lead me away.
“So we just ask, and hope he’s feeling good enough to say yes?” Which means biting my tongue when it comes to the accusations, calling him on what he did at the debate.
Lisa spoke at a more normal volume, “He doesn’t strike me as the kind of person who’ll be influenced much by his emotions. He probably decided a while ago whether he’ll give up the girl or not. But I say we should take anything we can get, and that includes approaching him on a good day. Choose your words carefully, by the way. There’s bystanders.”
I nodded, but I didn’t follow as she tugged on my arm. “Can we check on my dad before we go?”
“They were moving him when I poked my head in. I peeked at his chart, and it looks like they had queued him up for an MRI, what with his recent internal injuries from Shatterbird’s attack.”
I winced.
She went on, “I told him I might take you to my dad’s clinic, where the load won’t be as high, if you were okay to be moved. If I did take you, it’d mean you were okay. He didn’t like that, but he agreed. That doesn’t mean we can’t stay if you want to stay. Like I said, it won’t make a huge difference if we get in touch with our boss now or two hours from now.”
“But it’ll make a difference? A bit of one?”
I thought back to my earlier feeling, that leaving my dad just the one more time might mean some kind of terminal break.
Stacking that up against everything I’d done with the end-goal of getting Dinah out of captivity, though… not even Dinah, exactly. I barely knew her. No, this was more selfish, I had to admit. I was thinking of my own sense of guilt, about my own responsibility, and the crimes I’d committed in getting this far. The terror, pain and distress I’d caused in the course of being Skitter.
Fifteen and a half years spent growing up with my dad versus two months as Skitter. My dad was there, though. He’d always been there, and the only thing I had to suggest that he wouldn’t was a vague feeling.
Just like there was only the vaguest possibility that our going to see Coil now would make the difference in him setting Dinah free.
“My dad’s going to be okay?” I asked.
“He was fine. No sign of any deeper problems or pain.”
We made our way out of the hospital. I could hear the cries of pain.
“Are we to blame for this?”
“No. Don’t set yourself on this path. We didn’t know, we couldn’t know, and we weren’t complicit in any way.”
“I was there. I could have stepped up and done something, but I didn’t.”
“Done what? Fought back? Helped the wards?”
“No. Best case scenario, you might have tripped him up. But it wouldn’t have been worth it. Watch your step. Stairs.”
I had no problem identifying the spots I was supposed to step down. There were spiders on the underside of the stairwell, and I sent a few flies forward to alight on the underside of each stair to check the footing.
“It’s funny,” Lisa murmured, lowering her voice, “I’ve been meaning to suggest a training program. That you should spend a while blindfolded, see if we can’t force you to rely on your power to see, get your brain to the point that you can actually process that info. Guess you beat me to the punch.”
“It’s not that funny,” I said. I didn’t like thinking about what might happen if I was still blind when the next disaster came along.
“Stepping outside,” she said. I felt the warm air sweep past me as the door opened. “Car’s just over here. Nice thing about the city being in this state, it’s easy to find parking spots.”
She sounded so jovial, cheery. I wasn’t nearly so optimistic.
She led us to the car, and opened the door for me. “We’ll stop by your place so you can grab your costume and meet up with the others. Then we’ll find Coil.”
“Find him? He’s not at his base?” I raised my voice to be heard as she walked around to the other side of the car and opened the door to get into the driver’s seat.
“He’s not at his base. As of now, Coil’s dead and gone. He’s sticking to his civilian identity. Which is going to make meeting him and talking to him sort of difficult.”
I paused. I’d been thinking over the scenario, calculating Coil’s overarching goal. “Is he Keith Grove?”
“No,” Lisa said. “One sec.”
The car started up, and there was a shuffling sound as she dug through a container.
A recording played over the car’s sound system. Lisa shifted the car into gear and reversed out of her spot. I listened.
“A town meeting with hundreds of Brockton Bay residents was interrupted by a terrorist attack by a local villain just earlier today, an alleged assassination turned to even greater tragedy as a superhero-made piece of technology exploded unexpectedly.
“This tragedy joins countless others that have recently befallen Brockton Bay, a city that was recently the subject of national discussion, where the United States Senate debated condemning the city, evacuating the remaining citizens and abandoning it as a lost cause. A local crime lord headed a small group of supervillains in an attempt to assassinate Mayor Christner, Mayoral Candidate Keith Grove and Mayoral Candidate Carlene Padillo. When local heroes intervened, however, a device owned by local Wards member ‘Kid Win’ malfunctioned, ultimately exploding in the lobby of the building. While the number of casualties is yet unconfirmed, we can confirm that WCVN’s own on-site reporter and camera crew perished in the blast. More information will be forthcoming as we have it.
“First reports from the site report allegations of sabotage on the part of a known double agent within the group of junior heroes. No members of the Brockton Bay PRT, Protectorate or Wards teams were available for comment, but sources inside the organization report that Director Emily Piggot, manager of the city’s PRT and government sponsored hero teams, is being put on leave pending a full investigation.
“Filling in for the interim is Commander Thomas Calvert. When asked about this new placement, the PRT reported that Commander Calvert served as a PRT field agent before an honorable discharge. For the past several years he has offered his expertise to the PRT as a paid consultant in parahuman affairs for New York, Brockton Bay and Boston, later serving as a field commander for the PRT strike squads. The PRT expresses full confidence in Commander Calvert’s ability to handle the daunting task of Brockton Bay’s parahuman-”
The sound cut out. Lisa had stopped the recording.
“Thomas Calvert,” I said.
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Undead-Spaceman on December 22, 2012 at 00:20 said:
Well I’ll be damned!
I’m definitely seeing Coil’s connection to Cauldron now considering his disappointment at not getting powers after the Nilbog fiasco. Although I am quite surprised that he’s still in the PRT, then again Cauldron more-or-less owns to PRT so…
This deserves more viewers. on December 23, 2012 at 20:25 said:
Man my brother just told me about this series and i cant stop reading i found it this morning and currently am on arc 11. The Author deserves at least 40,000 viewers minimum, its very well written similar to game of thrones
Honestly, it’s better than Game of Thrones (except maybe the first book) because it isn’t full of bloody long pointless descriptions, filler, and other crap. There’s always something happening, developing, or some interesting tidbit. The pacing is just so good.
greatwyrmgold on January 1, 2020 at 08:58 said:
A Song of Ice and Fire doesn’t have filler. It just has half a dozen semi-intersecting plotlines of varying importance.
Either that, or that disappointment at not getting powers was more like “disappointment” at “not getting powers.” Or he triggered later on. All of the confirmed Cauldron capes so far (Weld, Gregor, Newter, Shamrock, other Case 53s, Alexandria, Battery, Legend, Doormaker) have at least some physical powers. Coil’s power is really abstract… but it fits really well with the idea of Calvert as a good soldier who made one decision that cost him his standing and several years of his life. He has the power to know what would’ve happened if he did something different, and to choose that outcome if he prefers it.
Actually.
“Honorable discharge”? According to the PRT interlude, he shot his commanding officer in the middle of evacuating from an ongoing attack. He even told Piggot that he did it on purpose, and that he expected to go to jail. How the hell did he turn that into an honorable discharge?
I think Calvert might have had powers before he went into Ellisburg…
For the honorable discharge thing my bet was a cover-up. The PRT screwed that one up beyond measure. They went in completely unprepared with a horrible evac execution and near total casualties. The general public knew things in that town were bad but I seriously doubt they were told just how bad beyond “S class threat, we’re leaving it alone now.” It’s easier to shut up the two survivors and give them what they want than to deal with political and financial fallout from them or the public or the families of those lost suing.
They kept it quiet, remember?
Shit, I didn’t realize that was THAT guy. Thanks.
Andrew Shafer on April 20, 2016 at 11:03 said:
Going back to when Calvert was first introduced, I imagined him almost exactly as I imagine Coil to be; figured I just wasn’t getting creative enough, but what a fantastic twist!!
well written, this is such a fantastic read!
Celer on December 22, 2012 at 00:26 said:
Count me awed. Once again, a fantastic chapter. Thank you Wildbow.
Random Lurker on December 22, 2012 at 00:29 said:
I got to admit, I wasn’t expecting Taylor to be blinded. This forces her to be more creative with her powers now, and may soon become a straight up disability superpower if she finally starts sensing more things through her bugs, like actually hearing and interpreting sound. It honestly fits with her character better than a straight-up second-trigger power-up.
I was wondering if anyone noticed the bugs moving around in strange patterns, or Taylor seemingly moving well despite being blinded. I thought being blinded would make her slip up with her power usage and blow her cover in some way, especially when talking with others. For some reason, that doesn’t feel too right. Wouldn’t her dad and family friends be more questioning, especially when Lisa showed?
Finally, Taylor voices all the speculation we readers had last chapter. The reveal of Thomas Calvert being Coil is very surprising. Didn’t he say he didn’t trigger after the Nilbog incident? Does this mean he triggered later, lied about triggering, or purchased his powers from Cauldron, explaining his involvement with them?
My biggest fear, though, is that Lisa isn’t as trustworthy as she seems, and the information she’s giving now is all planted…
Pinkhair on December 22, 2012 at 00:54 said:
In his interlude it was said that he purchased his powers.
hxka on November 3, 2013 at 15:27 said:
Where? I’ve just read it through and failed to find any proof of that.
From his Interlude:
Thank you! I can’t believe I missed it.
Personally, I think he already had his powers at that point. Shoot Captain and live/don’t shoot die. Probably originally had a plan to work up the ranks that way while playing money games on the side.
SadCat on December 22, 2012 at 02:17 said:
So now he runs the “Good Side” as well as the “Bad Side”. Now that is power. Any time He needs to remind some one who holds the city together he can stage a fight. Supper power fight every monday night any one?
Hydrargentium on December 22, 2012 at 02:32 said:
Mmmmm, “supper power fight”…. Gives “Iron Chef” a whole new meaning, doesn’t it. Tony Stark takes up cooking?
Ciss on November 18, 2015 at 11:59 said:
Maybe it was another Stark, cooking his way to the Iron Throne? Makes you think differently about the Red Wedding. And what if Bonesaw had attended that one?
SPOILER FOR SONG OF ICE AND FIRE.
Well, (in the book at least, I can’t remember if the show’s the same) someone DID attach Grey Wind’s head to Rob’s body afterwards, so Bonesaw would have started by making that functional. And probably letting it cripple the Freys’ army.
Then she’d probably have reanimated Caitlyn and given her a name like Lady Stoneheart… oh wait.
After that she’d probably find kyben (spelling? I heard SoIaF as an audio book) to see if he had any interesting tricks, maybe turning him into an ‘assistant’ of some kind (those spiders have to come from somewhere, though I prefer the theory above about them being built from those babies).
By “above” I actually mean “in the comments of the last interlude”: While typing I forgot exactly which chapter these comments were attached to.
Calvert, eh? Well, we know what kind of guy he is. He’s the one who shot his commanding officer to make it up the ladder. (Symbolism? Metaphor? You be the judge.)
Also, typo: “A local crime lord headed a small group supervillains” — should be “group of”.
Wildbow, it’s obvious I’m going to have to work a lot harder at my story plotting if I want to have any chance of producing something as awesome as what you’re doing.
Psycho Gecko on December 22, 2012 at 03:43 said:
I knew the name Thomas Calvert sounded familiar. I just didn’t know why it did yet. But now it is obvious.
What is less obvious is what he’s planning to do as the head of the PRT. This isn’t going to be Dark Reign where villains got costumed up as heroes.
I don’t know what your game is, Cauldron, but you’d better avoid opening up a portal to the wrong alternate dimension.
Indigo on December 22, 2012 at 02:47 said:
Everytime Coil does something it’s big.
AVR on December 22, 2012 at 02:49 said:
Taylor’s Dad is wrong about the period the supers are taking the people back to. Its not the Iron age, that’s straight out of Machiavelli.
The Prince was satire. Pretty much everything else Machiavelli wrote said the opposite of what The Prince said, and the timing between him writing it and various life events fits well.
Admiral Matt on January 30, 2018 at 00:43 said:
The truth is out there!
This is one of my favorite political argument because it has somehow managed to span the centuries unchanged. In Machiavelli’s lifetime – just as today – some took it at face value; others cried satire. I wouldn’t be surprised if the same misconception was being alternately spread and fact-checked a century from now.
Ironfalconlives on December 22, 2012 at 03:45 said:
Calvert! You bastard!
Oh my god, Coil killed Kenny!
Wards should be capitalized, like Coil on a bad situation.
Coil’s interlude does state that his civilian identity is completely fabricated and that he was considering just dropping it once the base was built so he could be Coil full time. I can see a lot of his credential being fabricated, but that still leaves PRT agents to buy off or kill. Might not be doable.
Well, we don’t have proof that Coil didn’t buy the identity of the original Calvert to get him an ‘in’ to the prt.
No, Coil’s fake civilian identity was forged by the PRT in order to keep him quiet about the Nilbog debacle.
Thomas Calvert. The name does have a kind of villainous ring to it. more than Keith anyway.
but the PRT award for most badass name has to go to agent Coldiron from 16.x
You just like the iron, mr. Ironfalconlives.
i’m more a lover of fairly obscure characters, hence the name. He’s not dead, he’s just hiding.
anyway, doesn’t iron make any name sound kinda badass?
Ironass
Ironbee
Ironflower
Irondonkey
Ironclam
Ironbollocks (actually, that one is pretty good)
Ironsperm
Ironkidney
Ironiron
Iron-ing board
Iron Knee
Squirrelloid on April 19, 2015 at 16:29 said:
Watch out for Keith! Maybe he should choose something scary – Boris. Try that.
Egads, this story’s been Hoodwinked!
“A town meeting with hundreds of Brockton Bay residents was interrupted by a terrorist attack by a man dressed as a rotten potato today, an alleged assassination turned to even greater tragedy as a superhero-made piece of technology exploded unexpectedly. Who knew it was dangerous to let teens run around with energy weapons and fusion reactors?
“This tragedy joins countless others that have recently befallen Brockton Bay, a city that was recently the subject of national discussion, where the United States Senate debated condemning the city, evacuating the remaining citizens and abandoning it as a lost cause in a bill they would have named the “Fuck Those Guys” Act. A local crime lord headed a small group of supervillains in an attempt to assassinate Mayor Fuckface Christner, Mayoral Candidate Keith Grove, Mayoral Candidate Carlene Padillo, and most importantly, the point of view character of this story. When local heroes intervened, however, a device owned by local Wards member ‘Kid Win’ malfunctioned, ultimately exploding in the lobby of the building. Wow, it’s such a good thing they showed up to keep the deathtoll down. While the number of casualties is yet unconfirmed, we can confirm that WCVN’s own on-site reporter and camera crew perished in the blast. The reporter, Mr. Ron Burgundy of San Diego, was just one day from retirement and, quote, “I’m getting too old for this shit.” More information will be forthcoming as we have it.
“First reports from the site report allegations of sabotage on the part of a known double agent within the group of junior heroes. Aren’t you glad they kept giving him access to all their equipment? No members of the Brockton Bay PRT, Protectorate or Wards teams were available for comment, probably due to serious injury or death, but sources inside the organization report that Director Emily Piggot, manager of the city’s PRT and government sponsored hero teams, is being put on leave pending a full investigation. I think I speak for all of us in Brockton Bay when I say Heck of a job, Piggy. Don’t let that door hit you on the way out.
“Filling in for the interim is Commander Thomas Calvert. When asked about this new placement, the PRT reported that Commander Calvert served as a PRT field agent before an honorable discharge and a disability known as Scorching Halitosis brought on by a bought with the rare disease best known as the Jumping Jumblies. For the past several years he has offered his expertise to the PRT as a paid consultant in parahuman affairs for New York, Brockton Bay and Boston, later serving as a field commander for the PRT strike squads. All members of any squad he worked with have mysteriously vanished or died under suspicious circumstances, so the story probably checks out. Then again, these assholes on the air will just report whatever they’re told to by either the rich guy running their network or the government. They’re probably so dumb, they won’t notice if someone plays with the teleprompter. Ha ha, I like manboobs. The PRT expresses full confidence in Commander Calvert’s ability to handle the daunting task of Brockton Bay’s parahuman problem.
“Coming up, we here at WCVN will be answering the age old question, “Can a reporter give the rest of the news after killing his teleprompter writer with an empty water bottle?” and “Just how do you get rid of a dead body in a room full of people?” I promise to have answers to those questions when you see me after the break or I’ll never see you again.
These parody rewrites of yours are my favorite parts of your work, Mr. Gecko. “Heck of a job, Piggy.” 😀
Sarah on December 22, 2012 at 07:02 said:
I had to go back and re-read the interlude with Calvert. In hindsight it makes so much sense, he’s very Coil-y there.
Overall great chapter and I can’t wait to see what happens next!
mc2rpg on December 22, 2012 at 08:22 said:
Well the Undersiders and Travellers had better cut ties with Coil soon or they are boned. The first order of business if Coil really wants to break out into national fame is being in charge of the campaign that takes back Brockton Bay. For that to happen he has to crush the U/T alliance. With his powers he could just keep throwing the Wards and local Protectorate members into the combat blender until he gets the results he wants.
anKLJ on March 4, 2014 at 12:14 said:
This necro-comment isn’t really to pick on this commenter, it just fit here.
Ever since Wildbow described (early in the story) just how Marquis uses BONES as weapons, I’ve been really utterly creeped out whenever a commenter says any version of “so-and-so is (or will be) boned now.”
I find it hard to believe no one else has reacted.
Loki-L on December 22, 2012 at 08:55 said:
Did not see that one coming.
One thing that bugged me was that Taylor did not ask after the supposed attacks on her and her teammates’ personal headquarters. She should at the very least want to know if her friends and her followers are okay.
I wonder if Calvert actually did go to prison or if he was snatched up by the cauldron as a test-subject right away. Also how long has he been back with the PRT? He seemed genuinely interested in the data stolen from the PRT which would imply that he didn’t have access to it at that point. Was that fake? Did he already have access but at a lower level of clearing and was looking for something specific. Did he perhaps use something on there to manipulate or blackmail himself into a position of power again?
If he is willing to release Dinah, it would be stupid of him to give her to Skitter. He should instead use her rescue as on of his first official successes, ingratiating himself with both the mayor and Triumph.
The fact that Lisa knows about his secret identity and he seems fine with that gives me hope that he won’t want to start of his new job by bringing the Undersiders to justice. Maybe he really can play both sides against the middle. Use the heroes to clear away any rival villains not directly under his command and use the attack of the villains to further demonstrate the need for leaving him in charge. Maybe if he tells his people to attack in certain ways he can even get additional powers from it in his PRT leadership identity. He can ask for resources and abilities that he wants get denied, have the Undersiders attack in a way that exploits the lack of those resources and blame whoever obstructed his rise to power. Maybe he can even work his way up to becoming a small dictator due to the emergency situation with his own little “Reichstagsbrandverordnung”.
The Blindness thing is also a surprise. I wonder if it was planned all along and the reason why all the healers have been ‘sent away’ in previous arcs.
Lisa already anticipates the possible upsides of the disability. If Taylor manages to use her insects senses better she can become a lot more powerful and really use her multitasking ability optimally.
Bobby on December 22, 2012 at 13:45 said:
Huh? That part wasn’t there earlier. In the copy I downloaded on my Kindle it still says:
Yeah, when I read it, that wasn’t there either.
Oh, Wildbow, you little minx.
Hobbes on December 22, 2012 at 15:29 said:
Cherish ended up being right: Taylor really *is* one of the blind worms. Also, I thought that “monarch” referred to Skitter, but it actually refers to Coil. Man, this is bad. It’s very possible that Taylor will lose in the long run. I agree with mc2rpg that the Travelsiders need to cut ties with Coil pronto. But how? He’s their supplier for everything.
David Burns on February 24, 2014 at 02:46 said:
WHy Travelsiders? Why not Unravelers?
Hah. Okay. I’m going to break down and do the stupid tacky “*LIKE!* comment” thing. Yours is much better.
Okay yeah that’s a pretty good name.
Um the Muse on December 22, 2012 at 16:03 said:
Good to see that my worst fear is unfounded. I thought for a second that instead of Coil having a body double, he was being impersonated without his knowledge by someone in the PRT. Now *that* would have been escalation, n’est pas?
I also have to agree that the blindness thing was a clever move on Wildbow’s part.
PoignardAzur on January 3, 2015 at 07:17 said:
I know this is a necro, but dammit, I can’t let that slide.
“N’est pas” literally translates to “Isn’t ?” If you want to say something like “[…] escalation, right ?” you could translate it “n’est-ce pas ?” or “pas vrai ?” or “j’ai pas raison ?”
MrMoray on December 22, 2012 at 17:40 said:
Here’s a fun thought: Dragon is bound by her programming to obey the government’s authority. Coil now has that authority.
Scrambles on December 22, 2012 at 17:54 said:
Just like in Robocop. Maybe someone will tell Thomas Calvert that he’s fired so Dragon can arrest him.
Don on December 22, 2012 at 18:05 said:
Oh. Oh, dear. That does bear thinking about.
Order goes both ways, which is why I’ve been against hero worship of those enforcing it. People won’t panic if it’s all part of the plan… even if the plan us horrible. If I want a bunch of supers get killed by Leviathan or a gangbanger gets eviscerated by Jack Slash then no one has a problem with it. But one little mayoral debate gets blown up and people lose their freakin’ minds.
Now that gets me thinking about how the Joker himself would fare in the Wormverse. Imagining him and Jack debating the finer points of their respective brands of villainy over tea in a blood-streaked cafe, of course.
thamuzz on December 23, 2012 at 18:29 said:
The Joker wouldn’t last five minutes in Brockten Bay. He wouldn’t even be a merchants level threat.
Then you haven’t read the comics…seriously,he aint more dangerous than Jack….but he ain’t any less dangerous either
Plus,in Wormverse,he prolly would be a Tinker or a Thinker,so his class would be more dangerous than Jack.
The Joker doesn’t have any powers. He’s crazy like a fox sometimes, but all we can say for sure (because he’s so very rarely the viewpoint character, so we don’t even know where he gets his wonderful toys, let alone how he always has them ready in the right places) is that the writers like him.
He would’ve run and hid when the Endbringer sirens came on, and then come back out to play in the rubble. I believe that much.
He’s got this weird relationship with villain team-ups, though. He’s not usually interested in following someone else’s plan (which is convenient, because no one else thinks he would)… but he’s always game for an Injustice League. (Is it that he only wants to be on the inside when Lex Luthor is?) I wonder if he would even show up to villain meetings like the ones on the ABB and Slaughterhouse Nine issues. He’d be a good fit for the Nine, but I can’t see him agreeing to jump through their hoops to join.
More likely, in post-Leviathan Brockton Bay, he’d hang out with the Merchants. They don’t charge admission, and they throw his kind of party. If he joined the upper level with their cape members (but how?), he might get tired of Skidmark and kill him in a hostile takeover.
And then Jack would come to town, and he’d try to play in the big leagues and get Slaughtered.
storryeater on November 24, 2015 at 15:38 said:
What I mean by “he’d be a tinker or a thinker” is that these 2 archetypes translate to many superheroes who nominally have no superpowers, but in truth are quite superhumanly capable (Batman, Ironman, Green Goblin, Lex Luthor etc.) as well as some traits of superheroes/villains who have superpowers, but whose capabilities do not end there (Mr Fantastic and Dr Doom both have superpowers but would also be tinkers and, Dr Doom also seems to be a thinker.Spiderman would also be a minor tinker in addition to his spider powers)
In sort, when conversing to Worm, I do not say “he does not have superpowers, he’d die” without asking myself “would his superpowers translate to thinker/tinker” ? and if the answer is “yes” (as is to almost every non C-list super) I assume he’d be a tinker/thinker.
So I assume Batman is an extraordinary thinker with the help of a goodish tinker, in conversion to Worm, rather than they are 2 very capable persons, as is canon.I do the same for Joker, who tends to be a threat.
Here’s an even more fun thought: Coil will now mistakenly believe that he has enough resources to resist Cauldron, only to find out that they *are* the Protectorate.
I do like how Taylor takes incremental steps through adversity and experience instead of getting single massive no-strings-attached powerups. I’m usually very wary of “second trigger!” talk, but things like this have a natural “Ah, that follows” flow to them.
For a moment I wondered whether her unconsciousness at the beginning might not actually have been such a second trigger event especially since she doesn’t actually use her powers much throughout the episode and wouldn’t be able to tell if it was subtle enhancement, but then I remembered that other capes present would have been affected by the trigger event like she and Lisa were with scrub. So no stealth upgrade for Skitter.
And I agree this gradually maximizing the potential of her existing powers rather than getting an upgrade is actually better.
koliup on December 23, 2012 at 19:18 said:
Hey, does anyone remember back in the day, when Skitter managed to control bugs despite being unconscious/power lobotomized?
Well, I’ve got a curious theory; if Skitter/Taylor could learn to sense stuff through her bugs(in sight+sound way), and perhaps shift her consciousness into ‘the swarm'(utilizing the theory that Skitter’s brain power is added to by additional insects), perhaps she could acquire the ability to enter a lucid dreaming state wherein she controls her bugs while unconscious? By using the insects as a cloud processor to run an instance of her mind.
Oh god. It’s bug-based Transhumanism.
tieshaunn on December 24, 2012 at 04:54 said:
Transbugginism?
Transhemipteranism?
Transinsectism?
Transtaylorism?
Gnarker on December 24, 2012 at 06:18 said:
You know, half of these would mean that she becomes something that surpasses an insect. Which, seeing as she commands them by the ton, I think is kind of a given already.
UnlikelyLass on December 24, 2012 at 12:48 said:
Y’know, more grist for the ‘Taylor’s bugs work as coprocessors for her brain’ mill shows up in these most recent chapters — she is overwhelmed by the sensory input of the crowd, something I don’t remember happening to her before. And she also points out a couple times that she — purposely — doesn’t have many bugs handy.
Here we have an example of fewer bugs equalling a harder time thinking. Coupled with previous hints, like a brain-based power blocker not wholly working on her, is making me feel even more confident that her swarm really does help her think in some way.
I’m really curious if the blindness will ‘stick’. After a broken back and paralysis didn’t, I’m not sure this will, either.
That having been said, we saw just how effective she could be when her own body was shut down in that scene, so who knows? And vision will probably be easier to work around than no body at all. Maybe this will be the first step to literally becoming a swarm, offloading the vision functions of her primary body onto the bugs…
Another thing I just realized while re-reading. Circus powers include a personal pocket dimension and she carries around a hammer. So, “Hammer Space”?
Yeah, we had that conversation the first time she showed up.
She keeps that space in her Hammer pants.
TheAnt on December 22, 2012 at 21:59 said:
I look forward to see whether Coil or the Undersiders will betray the others first. But Coil is in trouble. He just hurt Skitter’s dad. She could theoretically order ever bug in the area to attack him and then walk away. Splitting realities might not be so useful when they are both filled with angry swarms of insects chasing you specifically.
Coil is like an evil Batman.
He’d have some contrived, yet perfectly understandable reason to be equipped with something to make himself pretty much invulnerable to Skitter if she tried to end him.
The only question is if Taylor/Skitter is permanently blind or not. Even if she can pull a ‘No, John, I AM The Swarm.’ and sense stuff through her bugs, a blind supervillainess is gonna be in quite the pickle in an event that requires her human eyes.
I know! We’ll just trap her in a giant pickle!
In other words, she will be in the exact same position as Mannequin during their warehouse fight.
I think “plot to do something that he knows will piss Skitter off (because he promised her he would do the opposite)” is a not-even-particularly-contrived reason, honestly.
Three Lefts Make A Right on December 23, 2012 at 04:10 said:
I just found this awesome serial a week ago and I have to say its one of the best things I’ve read in a long time. Seriously, amazing. I read through all the arcs and noticed (correct me if I’m wrong) that Skitter had Coil import several rarer insects for her lair and for her to keep in that glass case room. If she still can use that service in the future (seems unlikely now) there’s one I thought of that would be an interesting addition to the swarm of Skitter.
Japanese giant hornets. A hive of these would be cool, really useful for carrying stuff, and being generally terrifying. I mean three inch long, flesh melting, really fast hornets, pretty scary.
They’re not the single most deadly insect (amount of venom covers that, with the whole flesh melting thing), but the intimidation factor would be pretty potent, and they’re pretty dangerous just from size alone. Although Atlas does have them beat in the size department he’s really too valuable to risk. So the use of a swarm of these could be helpful. What do my fellow audience members think? Just look them up on google or youtube, they seem like super villain worthy bugs. Although Skitter might not even know about them, or they may be too dangerous, or Coil may not be able to even import them, therefore she will never use them.
Anyway, thats my two cents of fan speculation, I know its really not on topic with the chapters this week. Really, I love the story Wildbow.
Curtis on December 23, 2012 at 09:10 said:
Main problem with that is that there basically isn’t a Japan anymore in the Wormverse.
Well, you could say that there isn’t ‘Japan’ as a country, what with the ramifications of the Kyushu attack, but the island with its flora and fauna is basically still there.
Yeah, I forgot that Japan was hit by the Endbringers. The whole lack of governance would make the exporting dangerous hornets really unlikely. Any one still living there has bigger problems to deal with, and probably wouldn’t bother with hunting down insects to ship around the world.
But the range of the hornet isn’t just Japan. It’s also in Russia, China, Taiwan, Korea, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Indochina area. At least according to Wikipedia. But really, who is going to hunt down these things to ship around the world to some random super villain? Honestly, probably no one.
Skitter/Taylor knows about the Darwin spider, which I’m fairly sure is semi-obscure(if you’re not super into bugs). Much like the Hercules Beetle.
It’s not unlikely she would end up hearing about these crazy goddamn hornets and immediately spring for them. Hell, if I had bug powers, they’d be on the list.
For some nightmare fuel, if you’re scared of bugs, search ‘largest arthropod’ and click the wikipedia link for largest organisms. That spider picture has me looking down at my feet every couple seconds.
I like the Dragon Millipede, aka Desmoxytes purpurosea. It’s just a bright pink millipede from Greater Mekong in Thailad.
Sure, a litlte odd to see a millipede that’s pink. Makes it look even stranger. Anyone care to remember why animals might have bright colors though?
In this case, it’s because the bug emits hydrogen cyanide.
hunter on May 17, 2017 at 15:13 said:
5 years late but fun info : it smells like almonds
I had the exact same thought. I wonder if there’s some sort of catalog one can order rare and deadly bugs from. “This month’s ‘spider you’d least like to discover in your underwear’ is…”
Last Place on December 23, 2012 at 09:09 said:
Finally all caught up. Nothing more heart breaking than tapping the next chapter button and noticing that you’re on the latest one.
There’s plenty more heartbreaking. I just do heartbreak poorly. The feeling is surprisingly literal, too.
Anyways, welcome to the comments. Don’t worry, we’ll take good care of you here.
Raven on December 23, 2012 at 12:03 said:
I have this feeling that the reason Skitter was the only one of the villains present for the bombing was that Coil wanted to off/mutilate/incapacitate two birds with the same explosion. It makes sense. If Skitter were to die or become disabled, there’s no proof that Coil did that on purpose, so it might keep the Undersiders off his back and stop them bugging him about Dinah. Well, at least that’s how I would have done it. (sorry if this theory has been brought up before. I have a short attention span.)
Thomas, Thomas, the surviving jackass. I wasn’t that disturbed when I read the interlude and he admitted to shooting a guy in the foot to survive. Sure, it’s dishonourable and ghastly, but we have self-preservation instincts for a reason. But knowing that he is Coil? I kind of have to respect the guy. After that fuck-up to rise to such genius and take over a whole city? Damn. Good on ya, Tommy.
Ah, Skitter will be grand. Even if she remains blind, she has her bugs and now she can learn how to be more subtle about it. ‘Tis all good. A new learning experience, right? Silver lining, folks.
I resisted reading this update straight away so I wouldn’t have to wait as long for the next part of the story, but my will was broken with the prospect of spending the rest of the day Christmas cleaning. At least now I have something to think about and better my mood whilst I’m slaving away for the good of the household. Thanks, Wildbow. (:
Btw, I loved your comment, Psycho Gecko. Laughed all the way through it. You’re like bonus content that is only available and comprehensible if we follow Worm. Okay, that sounds way too much like a compliment. Um, you have a funny looking face..? Does that strike a balance?
Thank you, Wildbow, your plots are one of the best available and your style of writing surpasses many in awesomeness. (:
You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it’s me, I’m a little fucked up maybe, but I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I’m here to fuckin’ amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?
No, no, I don’t know, you said it. How do I know? You said I’m funny. How the fuck am I funny, what the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what’s funny!
Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him. Ya stuttering prick ya. Chicken, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Raven. You may fold under questioning.
I’m sure there are a few who’d prefer if I was a deleted scene, but always glad to entertain.
By the way, Calvert didn’t shoot his captain in the foot. He just said he shot him. Hard to say someone else wouldn’t have in a Nilbog situation.
Matthew Keevil on December 23, 2012 at 15:26 said:
Hello, new reader just finished the whole series up till now and I’ve got to say, Worm has blown me away. The cleverly weird powers and the inventive uses, especially the way Taylor does everything to make the most of her relatively mediocre power to make it a force to be reckoned with, is thoroughly entertaining. The nice array of characters and masterful use of character voice is brilliant throughout, never do you encounter a line that couldn’t have been said by any character, they all have their personas bleed through marvellously into their speech. The little touches in characterisation stand out too, I keep on thinking back to the bank robbery scene, where Alec is casually knocking over Wards heroes with a wave of his hand and tagging them with his sceptre-taser, callous yet regal, that totally sold me on the image and his ‘Regent’ callsign. The Queen’s wave, weaponised, what a thought. XD Plus, I adore Coil, the ‘destiny-choice’ power, the costume design, the attitude, I love mastermind villains and Coil is right up there with WildStorm Comics’ ‘Tao’ for one of the best super masterminds. Can’t wait for the next installment!
Welcome to the current end of the story. Stay tuned for more updates, or feel free to enjoy the comments section to its fullest. I hear it’s ok. Meh. No big deal.
Would you perhaps like an after dinner jacket and to join us all in the smoking room for cigars, brandy and listening to rap? This shit be ill right here, son, wot wot.
Holy crap. Idea to spread awareness of Worm. Get a few talented readers together and have them make an animated rap battle between Wormverse characters.
PG, you’re in charge of lyrics.
frozen chicken on December 24, 2012 at 06:07 said:
I’ll do the voice acting.
Absolutely top-hole, merry crizzle everynizzle.
three rights make a left. on December 23, 2012 at 20:38 said:
Why does this not have more views its such an incredible series, the author should try to get more people to read it. Many people dont read it just because they dont know about it I would guess.
We try. That’s why Wildbow prefers that we have other tropes link to Worm’s as well as add tropes to the page. Helps to send people thataway. I believe I found it through Legion of Nothing when I was looking for another thing to read.
I’ve been thinking about something like business cards. Name, web address, maybe a good tagline like “Prepare to be skullfucked by awesome” and just leave them around frequented places. People talk about it on some RPG forum, I believe. I’ve tried to spread it around some, but for some reason people aren’t keen on following through on my suggestions.
I blame time-traveling CommuNazis and Canada.
Which reminds me, Iron Sky is now out on DVD. That’s right, Nazis have survived to modern times…on the moon! Don’t know the quality of it, though the trailers looked pretty funny.
Please, Canadians would be all over this, if they knew it existed.
The people you’re thinking of are actually the Quebecois.
They don’t count as Canadian; too secessionist.
Aaaaannd, there’s another step back in the Canada/Quebec thing. Way to go, koliup.
“People talk about it on some RPG forum, I believe.”
RPGnet was where I first heard about Worm in a discussion over realistic (in terms of having logical progression of events given the presence of supers, rather than Nolanesque) supers-settings.
Using iPod to type, so lease forgive any typos; glad you’re enjoying Worm. If you’re interested in spreading the word, reviews on webfictionguide, tropes on tvtropes, and votes on topwebfiction really do help. A single mention on a forum or site you frequent can bring in as many readers as $40 spent on a week of banner ads.
Michael Brazier on December 23, 2012 at 23:29 said:
What happens to Coil’s organization now that Coil is presumed dead? It seems to me that at this point, Taylor really could just walk into Coil’s base, open the door to Dinah’s cell, and lead her out, telling anyone she met that that’s what Coil intended her to do; Coil can’t show up and contradict her without sacrificing his current plan. Moreover, Coil’s money is the Undersiders’ sole source of income – if the organization falls apart without its leader, how can Taylor possibly keep her territory? And if it doesn’t fall apart, how can Coil keep up the pretense that the bomb killed him?
The thought occurs that at this point, Tattletale is a deadly threat to Calvert/Coil; if he doesn’t keep her happy or kill her, she can ruin him forever with two sentences spoken to the right person. Calvert has to know that much, so he must have some plan for Tattletale. Question is, does he think she can be bought off, or is he assuming that she’ll follow Taylor’s judgement? He can’t be so blind to Taylor’s mind as to think that open murder of civilians is something she’ll accept, surely.
Well, some of the higher-ups in Coil’s organization will probably know about his plan. I mean, he wouldn’t go through all of this just to lose control of all of his original support. I think he’ll stay as Coil and Calvert, just keeping Coil confined to his base, never showing himself to anyone except the Travelsiders and a few of his mercenaries.
As for the whole, taylor wouldn’t kill civilians, thing, kinda. She lied to Sundancer about the presence of civilians during the Slaughterhouse Nine ambush to try to kill Jack and Bonesaw. It didn’t work, and arguably the civilians were likely going to die anyway, but she still essentially told Sundancer to vaporize them. So if there was a ‘noble’ enough reason I think she would kill civilians, but in this situation you are right. It’s very unlikely that she will find Coil’s ‘takeover the city’ plan to be noble enough to kill or let people die for.
Just a minor necro correction.
No,they wouldn’t die,that was the problem,Bonesaw had already operated on them,and they would never die,they would suffer forever and they would be unhealable thanks to Bonesaw’s safeguards (for all we know ,her safeguards didn’t kill Grue because they wouldn’t kill Crawler either)
So she also rationalized it as a mercy kill.
i just want to say merry christmas before crazy holiday web-lag officially kicks in. Thanks for the great story wildbow and happy holidays.
Thank you to Matthew for his donation. The counter/total displayed isn’t up to date at present, so this’ll serve as a reminder to myself to do it when I’m not scrambling to finish tonight’s chapter.
Individuo on December 24, 2012 at 23:00 said:
Inb4 incoming sad christmas chapter.
I laughed at this, I did.
raineybear on February 10, 2013 at 02:46 said:
“With only a small few bugs to guide me, I left my dad, Keith and Lacey behind”
Shouldn’t “Keith” be “Kurt”?
Quite right. Fixed.
Okay, I said it when Jack left town and I’ll say it again for Coil. This story has bloody magnificent villains.
And hey, everybody knows Coil was the one keeping Dinah, so with him dead there’s no reason she won’t be returned to her family as soon as they find his lair. It’d draw suspicion otherwise.
Delta on December 21, 2013 at 08:00 said:
Blimey, I’m continually amazed how many reveals and upheavals keep coming from this series, and how there are still over 10 arcs to go. It’s almost daunting, I’ve spend weeks reading this far (not full-time, I’m amazed when I see people saying they got this far in a week) and know there’s still tons to come.
After that I’ll probably have to read again (after a VERY big break) just to catch all the foreshadowing. Think I’ll have to advise anyone I recommend this to to leave a year free 🙂
Yep, me too 🙂 I’m in exactly the same boat: been reading through the archive steadily over the course of, what, a month or so? After a word-of-mouth recommendation, and you can certainly bet I’ll be making (have made) a few of those myself too.
Delighted with the twists, revelations, intelligent uses of powers, character dynamics, subversions of genre expectations… this is a fantastic series (and I very much want to be able to buy a hardcopy).
dubloe7 on December 24, 2013 at 02:01 said:
“Fifteen and a half years spent growing up with my dad versus two months as Skitter. ”
Holy crap, all of this takes place over the course of 2 months? I mean, I thought it would be closer to a year.
“limbs and bones torn free and left lying beneath chairs or at the sides of the aisles” needs a period.
Bayes on January 29, 2014 at 12:38 said:
Necro for a typo: “What’s wrong.” Should have a question mark.
Woah. I’m beyond tangled in this story, and the comments, at this point.
Having trouble keeping “canon” separated in my head from “wild theory from comments”, but I find ‘when in doubt, assume whatever somebody said was a lie’ helps a lot. Especially Coil, and often Tattletale. which gets confusing …
I wanted to necro-comment about every 3rd or 4th comment, along the lines of “OOooo … HaHaHaHaHa … didn’t think of that …” etc.
But here’s a special shout-out for the nickname “Unravelers” if the Undersiders and Travelers decide to formalize as a single team!
Well I have to say that I seriously love Taylor. “I’m blind. Well that’s Damn annoying.” Talk about your badass character. Gets blown up by a bomb and shrugs it off as mildly inconveniencing. It would be awesome if this does force her to actually start being able to see through her bugs! I like how Lisa was the one to come pick her up too. Mildly surprised it wasn’t Brian but I like Lisa.
While Coil probably wasn’t quite looking to kill Skitter with the bomb I find it highly likely that he had no issues taking advantage of her being there and would have considered it a nice bonus if he had managed to actually kill her with it.
Hmm I knew Calvert came off as a screwed up bad cookie in Piggot’s interlude. Nice to see that I hit the mark on that one though and while I probably would’ve called him going to Cauldron I definitely didn’t see him as being Coil. Interesting development. The implications are worrisome indeed.
>I couldn’t count the bodies, not with the way the reporters had been pulverized, limbs and bones torn free and left lying beneath chairs or at the sides of the aisles
Missing full stop.
>I didn’t like thinking about what might happen if I was still blind when the next disaster came along.
Had a feeling Calvert would come up again. This was well done, but I wish the Chekhovs took longer to reveal themselves.
There are still a few elderly chekovs floating around: the ones that spring to mind (and are not part of the current plots) are Canary, Sierra’s grandpa, anything involving Emily, where Shadow Stalker went, who bought Tattletale’s powers and why, arguably Panacea and Marquee(?), Faultline and the vials of Cauldron potion she stole from the Merchants, and the favour Thomas Calvert still owes Cauldron.
Ok, that’s more than I’d intended to list. I know they might not all come up, but I’m expecting at least half of them to.
This particular reveal makes me wonder though: what would have happened if the DONATION BONUS interlude hadn’t happened?
on May 21, 2015 at 22:24 said:
mention the father’s recent kidney injury/surgery and how he had literally just been cleared(if he was telling the truth)
concussive stuff causing internal injuries must go up an order of magnitude if its got recent scar tissue to tear near a vital organ that bleeds that much
Libluini on June 11, 2015 at 14:17 said:
“He had a pulse, but it was thready.” I think that’s supposed to be “steady”, right?
Tim McCormack on August 17, 2017 at 07:13 said:
A “thready pulse” is a type of really weak pulse.
axle on June 15, 2015 at 22:54 said:
Holy mother cow! This is the pefect moment for Coil to twiddle his fingers and say, “all according to plan!”
Gonna be interesting watching Taylor learn to adapt to her disability using her bugs.
Taylor can’t see. She can’t detect a wince. Maybe there was a sudden intake of breath that she could hear, or she just noticed that Lacey abruptly stopped talking- but she wouldn’t know there was a wince involved.
(Unless she has bugs on Lacey’s face, which would come with its own problems. :P)
Gary on September 13, 2016 at 17:37 said:
WB – I don’t think “Vitreous” is the right word to use in this context. I can’t think of many glass-like fluids in our bodies and it doesn’t convey the right messy-puddle-of-ichor I think you were going for.
The bulk of the goop in your eyeball is called “vitreous humor”. I had taken it to be a reference to that, not a generic adjective, but I would agree it’s incorrect if it was meant to refer to the latter.
> I didn’t like thinking about what might happen if I was still blind when the next disaster came along.
Aaand that’s the only thing that worries her about being freaking blind. Typical Taylor!
ALKATYN on March 16, 2018 at 06:12 said:
Doing an archive binge and commenting as I go. This was a bit that I’d forgotten, but interesting to read again. Interesting to see the quick turnaround from Taylor as supervillian warlord to Taylor as relatively helpless bystander. Serves as a reminder that she’s still pretty vulnerable despite how far she’s come. The reveal of Coil = Calvert works well and ties together nicely, pays off a lot of the stuff thats been implicit up to now about him having grand plans beyond the undersiders .
The destruction is strange. Wasn´t it close to Coil? Why did the reporters in the back die while Taylor closer to it survived?
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“Weaver,” Cuff said. Her voice was pitched low enough that Satyr wouldn’t hear.
I turned my head her way to acknowledge her. Satyr seemed to be preoccupied, sitting on a stair, picking something out of a groove in his golden belt. Dried blood?
“You’re doing that crazy mastermind thing again,” Cuff said.
“Which crazy mastermind thing?”
“Where you talk to the other masterminds and one of you leaves something unsaid, and the other knows what that thing is without asking. Who’s here?”
“Scion,” Satyr said.
“You heard me?” Cuff asked. Then, after a pause, she asked, “Scion?”
I spoke up, “Leonid’s powerset includes the ability to hear everything in a certain range. That means everything, regardless of intervening obstacles, interfering or distracting noises and volume.”
“I can hear your heartbeats,” Leonid said. He was a lean, young twenty-something with long golden hair and a mask with a lion motif. His upper body was draped in a black, skintight, sleeveless, bodysuit, his legs in loose-fitting pants. Complex looking gauntlets and boots encased his extremities, each tipped with wicked, six-inch claws. Not quite what he’d worn when he was on the Vegas Protectorate team. His eyes roved from Cuff to Imp. “I can hear your heartbeat speed up when you look at particular people.”
“Satyr can tell you he already tried the seduction angle with his copies,” I said.
Leonid grinned behind his mask. “Satyr was doing it to distract you. I’m not like that. I’m one of the active guys. It’s like how a magician shows one hand, all action, style and flourish, to get your attention…”
He gestured towards Satyr, “…and the other hand is busy with the trick. Hate to break it to you, but I’m genuine when I make a move.”
“Yet you’re all man-whores at the end of the day,” Imp said.
“Imp,” I spoke, my tone a warning.
Leonid only smirked in reply. Floret, for her part, cleared her throat.
“You’re from Vegas, right? Just because you dress like a woman doesn’t mean-”
“Satyr,” I said, cutting her off. “You think Scion’s here. Is he down there with the Doctor?”
“He entered through the same gateway we did,” Satyr said. “I imagine he’s somewhere upstairs. It was always one of Cauldron’s greatest concerns, that Scion would make his way here through one of their doorways.”
“Cauldron’s plan B, their plan C, even plans D, E, and F, if things had gone without a hitch, they would have been deployed from this facility. Perhaps there is one in a million chance one of the plans potentially works. If they don’t, then perhaps they buy the rest of us some time, and a third party figures out a solution. Or perhaps they get close, and Cauldron uses the time that remains to refine the approach and the idea.”
“The prisoners, all of the people upstairs…” Cuff said, trailing off.
“Plan B. Also plan D, if you count the more unnatural deviants,” Satyr said. “Except Scion is now here, and he’s here now. All of the plans will be forced into effect at once, rendered into little more than alphabet soup. To top it off, the architect of those plans is out of reach.”
I looked at the solid metal wall. “Cuff?”
Cuff focused on the metal barrier. “I can tell from here. It’s a lot of metal. I don’t know how they did it. It’s all one solid piece.”
“They did it with powers,” Satyr said. “A column, with the panic room dead center. When they retreated inside, they pulled the switch, and the entire substructure dropped two thousand, five hundred feet below ground, putting the upper end of the column between us and them.”
Floret shrugged. “We could handle a computer, a lock, even a vault, no sweat. But not this. The plan was to wait for the group on the other side of the facility to forge their way through the steel, or around the steel, but someone gave the Custodian a tinker-made super death knife, and well…”
“That was me,” I said. “Nothing to do with the Custodian.”
“Ah, well,” Satyr said. “Good and bad to any situation. We’ll be able to assert control over that group more easily, with their leadership dead. And there won’t be as great a chance that they take the good Doctor out before we can get a word in… but progress will be slower, and we don’t have much time to spare.”
It was a relief, on one level, that he didn’t seem interested in making a fuss over it. He’d set Spur and Nix in the way, to keep people from interfering with his group’s infiltration, but he seemed fully capable of accepting that there was a snarl in his plan.
I knew it was hypocritical, but a part of me was bothered by that. I didn’t want him to be able to take this in stride. I didn’t want a lack of communication, conflicting plans and inter-group issues to be the norm, when the stakes were this high. Satyr was the type that thrived because he anticipated such.
Maybe I was too.
Satyr looked at the wall to his left. “The remaining members of the Irregulars and their digging party have just arrived at the far end of this column. If we go up one floor, we can cross to the other staircase and make our way down to pay them a visit. Given that the group watching their rear is… compromised, I don’t think we’ll have any problems taking control of that situation.”
“If we leave now and walk briskly, we’ll arrive in eight minutes,” Floret said.
“My details person,” Satyr said, “Would you believe?”
My tone was dry as I replied, “Somehow, I’m not surprised.”
Details would be Floret’s thing. She didn’t look it, with bright pink hair, green roots, and a costume of metal ‘leaves’ that left little to the imagination. Her costume philosophy was the antithesis of my own. But Floret wasn’t a fighter, even less than I was. She could take a minute or two to create a ‘bud’. The bud would then unfold into a complex crystalline shape after a set time, or upon impact with a surface. They were limited in terms of their size, no more than a foot across, but they were rich in potential, with crude applications on the molecular scale. Typically stylized to look like flowers, the crystals could bond to surfaces, set touched things on fire, cancel out chemical reactions or just fuck with tinker devices.
As a teenager, she’d had a career as a roving lockpick for villain heist teams, creating keys and fake keycards with cloned magnetic strips, to varying degrees of failure. It was only when she joined the Vegas team that she found others with the degree of forethought, planning and teamwork that could let her power truly shine.
Her power only worked because of her secondary power, and her secondary power was the big reason she fit in so well with the Vegas team. An enhanced awareness and processing ability regarding fine detail. She picked up on the little things. All of the little things.
Satyr leaned back, then rolled forwards, getting to his feet without using his hands. “I assume you’re coming.”
“Yes,” I said. If only to make sure you don’t pull something. “More bodies against Scion.”
“Bodies don’t matter,” Satyr said, as he led the way. “One, ten, a thousand, it doesn’t make a big difference.”
Speaking of bodies… Where the hell is Scion? There wasn’t even any noise.
Was Satyr fibbing?
No. It didn’t jibe. Not with the aura of defeat, not with the circumstance, with what Tattletale had said… they were good at the con, but not that good.
I changed subjects. “Can I ask where the heroes are? Revel, Exalt and Vantage?”
“With Nix and Spur,” Satyr said. “Most likely disguised as a rock or a bulge in the cave wall. Blowout hit them with a full-on stunning presence. They should still be out.”
“I see,” I said, trying not to reveal how surprised I was. We’d walked right by the captive heroes. That wasn’t the big issue. Blowout was. He wasn’t as stylish or attractive as the others, with a featureless mask that had a single ‘eye’ at the brow, his head shaved. His armor panels had lights that slowly rotated from one color to another, like a chintzy car stereo. Unassuming, when he wasn’t engaged in a fight. When he was, the lights would be flaring, muscles would be standing out, and there would be noise, shock and awe involved.
Blowout wasn’t a tinker; he had telekinetically assisted strength, which meant that when he was hoisting a car over his head, he was doing it with his mind more than with his arms. The strength and durability increased with the size of the audience and the reaction he got from them. His secondary power was the effect he had on his enemies, feeding on the same reactions that fueled his strength to new heights and leaving his targets stunned, reacting slower, taking longer to pick themselves up off the ground. On paper, he was the case-in-point of what Leonid had been talking about, the hand that distracts while the other hand sets up the trick.
But, as Floret suggested, it was something of a thing for Vegas capes to have ‘secondary’ powers that were actually the real power, in practice. Or maybe it was that Satyr tended to encourage a focus in the secondary powers, or a development of those same abilities. There was nothing on record about a long-term use of Blowout’s power, like Satyr had described. It would be a card he’d kept up his sleeve when he wasn’t doing something behind the scenes with the Vegas capes.
I was put in mind of a few of the records and events that hadn’t quite fit. They’d checked, retroactively, for drugs, and found none. They’d checked for any remainder of Floret’s creations, and again, they’d found nothing. But if it was Blowout… if he was the reason people had been left with amnesia, brain damage and even brain death, then that gave me a bunch of new reasons to worry about the Protectorate heroes we’d left behind.
A reason to watch our backs. I just had to wrap my head around how he might have done this so discreetly, when his power required the obvious and blatant.
Satyr’s duplicates, maybe? Did the copies count as a crowd?
Something to keep in mind… and I had to inform my teammates without Leonid knowing.
I glanced at the leader of the Vegas mercenaries, noting how quiet he was as he ascended the stairs. He didn’t seem worried about anything. Not us, not Scion, not the riot above. Was I like that, when I was in the zone? Almost wanting to push him outside of his comfort zone, I said, “I expected you to ask about your teammates.”
“Spur and Nix? They’re capable enough. If you’ve done something horrific to them, then informing me won’t help us in the here and now. I’ll have my revenge at a later date, all the same.”
“Fair,” I said. No effect.
I let Satyr maintain the lead of the group and determine our pace as we moved forward. He had eyes on the other group with his duplicates, and he had Floret passing information to him with the subtle sign language the group had adopted. It worked; if we arrived too early, we’d be interrupting the Irregulars before they were through the steel barrier. If we arrived late, we’d be running the risk that the Doctor would be killed.
For now, I was happy to let them manage that aspect of the plan, while I focused on keeping an eye out for the inevitable stab in the back. It just didn’t flow, their attitude now, compared to how they’d tried to cover their tracks earlier. I knew who they were and I’d seen the records detailing whole strings of crimes, and I wasn’t willing to believe they were playing ball with us.
So I watched them, and Floret watched me, because her power was perfectly suited to following what my swarm was doing from moment to moment.
“I don’t like him,” Rachel murmured in my ear.
Imp leaned in to join the conversation, adding, “You do know that Leonid can hear everything that’s said in a certain area around him? There’s no point in whispering.” as if she hadn’t just found that out for herself.
“I don’t like him,” Rachel said, full volume.
“That’s not what I meant,” Imp said, a little off-guard.
“He’s arrogant, he talks too much, and he acts like Tattletale does when she’s trying to pretend she’s not in a really bad mood,” Rachel said.
“It’s a rare thing,” Satyr said, “for someone to leave me speechless. I can tell you that virtually everyone comes to like me when they get to know me.”
“Everyone likes the manipulative assholes after they’ve had a chance to do their manipulating,” Rachel said.
“I couldn’t extend that to Weaver, there, and suggest the same applies to her?”
“You could try,” Rachel said, “But then I’d have my dogs attack you.”
“Alright,” I said, stepping in. “No more of that.”
Rachel glowered at me.
“He’s a weasel,” Lung growled. “I have allied with a man who talked like he does, but it was a man of substance. Not sex and…”
“Subtlety?” Imp offered. “Scandal? Style? Sophistry?”
Where is she learning these words?
Lung only glowered at Imp.
“As substanceless a person as he might be,” I said, “Scion’s upstairs, and we have overlapping goals, so we’re allies, or as close to being allies as we’re going to get. No fighting.”
Rachel relaxed as though she’d flipped a mental switch. She snapped her fingers twice, getting her dog’s attention, and then made a gesture without moving her hand from her side, her palm facing the ground.
The dogs eased up just like she had.
I glanced at Satyr, who shrugged. His tone was light as he said, “My ego’s taking a bruising today, it seems.”
I could see the lines of his shoulders and chest, with him not wearing any armor on the upper body. Was he maybe just a bit less relaxed than Rachel at this point?
Maybe he wasn’t at ease around someone who blithely barreled past any attempts at manipulation with unbridled aggression. A point for us, maybe.
We’d reached the fourth floor. I stood by, watching for trouble from above, while the others filed through. I could see how Canary was ill-at-ease, while Shadow Stalker was impossible to read in her ghostly state, passing through the wall by the door. Cuff and Lung were both rigid, as if anticipating fights, but were confident enough to walk ahead of the rest. Golem, Rachel, and Imp seemed more in their element, hanging back while the Vegas capes passed through.
“You know what you’re doing?” Golem murmured, as he hung back with me.
I nodded. “Mostly. Just watch your back.”
“For Scion?”
“For them,” I said. “And yes, I know Leonid hears me. I know Satyr and the others are getting the cliff notes from Leonid. But they’ve got secondary goals here, and it’s worth watching out in case they try something. Even if they know we know they’re trying something.”
Four copies of the Custodian appeared before us as we made our way into the fourth floor. Each moved slightly out of sync with the others as they moved their heads. It was only when the third and fourth moved that I realized just how they were moving their heads – raising their chins to look up.
“I know, my dear,” Satyr said. “How close?”
They didn’t respond. Instead, they disappeared. First one pair, then the remaining pair.
“Second floor basement,” Satyr said. “Scion is taking his time making his way down.”
“Why?” I asked. It was too quiet. “If Scion wanted, he could have torn his way through here in a heartbeat.”
Satyr was on point as we made our way across the fourth floor. The cells here were reinforced several times over, each standalone, separated by tracts of empty space that eighteen wheeler trucks could have turned around in. Spotlights served as the only light in the area, and they were focused on the individual cells, leaving the empty space between the cells dark. Without my relay bugs, my power still didn’t quite reach the far end. A third of a mile across by a third of a mile across, maybe, with ceilings that were fifteen feet high.
The lights flickered more violently than it had upstairs or in the stairwells, but these cells seemed to be drawing on a backup power source. The lights flickered, went out, only to be turned back on, glowing a dim red, before the regular power was restored. The lighting cycled between the three states, with no rhyme or reason.
“Why?” Satyr echoed my question. I turned my attention back to him. “Why do you think he’s taking his time?”
“That’s not helpful,” I said.
“Basic reasoning,” Satyr said. “What do we have in abundance, here?”
“Capes?” Golem asked.
“Capes? Yes. But there were capes at the other battlefields. It’s very possible he’s idling because he’s taking them all to pieces, but… for however many minutes? No. What else is in abundance? Or, to phrase it better, what particular kind of cape is in abundance here, that you didn’t have at the battlefield?”
“I get the feeling you already know the answer,” I said.
He nodded, the goat-horned helm dipping low, then rising. The lights went out, then went red for a moment.
“Case fifty-threes,” Golem answered the question.
“There we go,” Satyr said. “And if you care to, you can infer further. Why? Scion is the supposed source of powers, yes? Then what are the deviants to him? If we see them as distorted people, then he sees them as…”
“Distorted powers?” Cuff answered. “Or… whatever they are to him. Distorted spawn?”
“Something foul,” Shadow Stalker spoke for the first time since we’d split up to escape the cell. “Broken, wrong, loathsome. Damaged. And no parent wants to face the fact that their kids came out less than perfect.”
The sphere Imp had tucked under one shoulder jerked a little.
“Woah,” Cuff said. “Generalizations much?”
“Tell me I’m wrong,” Shadow Stalker said. She glanced at Satyr, “I’m right. Cauldron created these deviants as a kind of psychological warfare.”
“Most definitely part of it,” Satyr said, and there was an approving note in his voice. “It’s psychological warfare… Shadow Stalker, was it?”
Shadow Stalker nodded.
“Yes, I’ve heard of you. There are other elements at play. Prey species have been known to spread their scent through an area, to confuse predators.”
“I like that analogy,” Shadow Stalker said.
“Mm hmm,” he responded, nonchalant. “So Cauldron uses these deviants as a particularly strong source of our metaphorical ‘smell’. They scatter them across the world where Cauldron is most active, the world Scion occupies, and he loses the ability to sniff them out. Of course, this only works when the deviant isn’t going to draw undue attention. Either they’re calm and inclined to keep to their own, by nature, or so dangerous that they remove witnesses by default.”
My eyes moved to the sphere Imp carried. I was inclined to think she fit in the latter category.
“It makes sense,” I said. My eyes were on Shadow Stalker. She was playing into Satyr’s hands. I’d made a note to watch out for it, but this wasn’t even subtle.
They were fucking blatant about this shit, relentless. Which probably worked for them, because it eventually worked. They found a hook, an angle, maybe played it in a more subtle way, or they’d just take it and run with it.
And it was all controlled, all managed, keeping it at a level where I couldn’t call them out on it without looking like I wasn’t willing to play ball. That was fine on its own, but it put us on a bad footing. I didn’t want to be in the middle of a brawl if and when Scion made a sudden appearance.
“Cauldron capes have, according to reports, gotten responses from Scion. A pause, a momentary break in pattern, even, some say, a feeling of aversion. Powerful Cauldron capes achieve better results, deviants even more so… and if the effect scales up as Cauldron thinks it might, the extreme deviants will get an even greater result, while having powers that may have some effect on him.”
“Which makes a lot of sense,” I said, “They’re a smokescreen, maybe. Except there’s a hole in that theory.”
“There is,” Satyr said.
“He could wipe them out with one shot,” Golem said, the first to connect the dots. “He could shoot them and shoot through the floor, if he wanted to.”
“Exactly right,” Satyr said.
“Do you know why he isn’t?” I asked.
“I have guesses, nothing more,” Satyr said. “Hm. They just found a way of combining their powers. They’re breaking through the column more quickly than I thought they would. We don’t have to run, but maybe hurry a bit.”
We stepped up our pace.
“He’s on the third floor,” Satyr said. “Floor above us.”
“How do you know?” Shadow Stalker asked.
“Custodian. We’ve crossed paths, as my group ran some errands for the good Doctor. I think she likes me, even.”
I hadn’t noticed the Custodian, but I wasn’t positive I would have seen her if the appearance was brief enough.
“What’s on the third floor?” Floret asked. “I haven’t been down here.”
“The ones with names. Any cape they deemed interesting enough to keep and research. Not many left. I think they scaled down on those to focus on other things.”
Not many left. Meaning there wasn’t much standing in the way between us and Scion.
If Satyr’s group wasn’t playing us. I was less sure than I had been.
Supposedly Scion above. Who’s below?
“Who’s with the Doctor?” I asked.
“Ask her,” he said, pointing at Imp.
I glanced at Imp, who shrugged.
“In the sphere,” Satyr said.
“There’s a button on the bottom. If you depress it, you can rotate hemispheres. Counter-clockwise, please. Clockwise opens it, and I’d rather not die.”
Imp looked my way.
“Go for it,” I said.
Imp turned the sphere.
“Finally. Fresh air,” the girl inside said. She had a quiet voice. More the type of voice I’d connect to a shy librarian at a party or a sheltered preacher’s daughter in the company of boys.
“Sveta?” I asked. “We met on the oil rig.”
“She also goes by Garotte,” Satyr said. “The only reason the PRT didn’t put her down was because she’s rather hard to kill. She has quite the impressive body count.”
“Don’t say that.”
“She was part of the original invading party,” Satyr went on, ignoring her. “They attacked the Doctor, setting this whole mess in motion.”
“I could hear everything you guys were saying,” the girl said. It was only when she said the longer word ‘everything’ that I noticed the rasp to her voice. It would be part of the reason for her being quiet.
“Who’s with the Doctor?” I asked. The other stairwell was in view.
“When things went bad, it was Weld, me, Brickhaus, Gentle Giant and six others who turned around and protected her. I wasn’t very useful…”
She trailed off. A second passed.
“Need a bit more information,” Satyr said.
“I’m hurt,” she said, and there was a plaintive note in her voice. She sounded more like a Canary than a Shadow Stalker. Not quite the voice of a killer.
“Suck it up,” Satyr said. “Scion’s coming, and we need to know what we’re walking into.”
“Brick took the guy Blesk brained against the wall, um. It was the clairvoyant, the doormaker, hurt, the Doctor. Brickhaus, Magnaat, Munstro, they made it inside. The others got shot down in the stairwell. Um. There was a guy with glasses, and five teenagers who looked a lot like him, only without glasses. Ordinary looking, pretty much. Alexandria…”
“Hm,” Satyr made a noise. He looked up.
In that same moment, the lights flickered out for the umpteenth time.
The emergency lights didn’t come on.
I could sense my teammates, Shadow Stalker, Canary and Lung closing ranks.
“Weaver?” Satyr asked.
He split in two. A slow, oozing process, a lump swelling, pulling free, then forming features. The arms and legs were quick enough, and the details followed, but the new him had no helmet, but slowly reshaped his exterior to match the original Satyr’s costume.
“If you keep doing that, I’m going to have to attack,” I said.
“What’s he doing?” Canary asked. There was a note of panic in her voice.
“Splitting up,” I said. I willed Canary to pull it together. Satyr bulged, clearly preparing to make another double. I called out, “Satyr, I might need to rephrase. If you finish making that copy, I’m going to attack you.”
“He can’t stop once he’s started,” Floret said. “It’s a drawback.”
“I don’t buy that at all,” I said. “So either you need to be more convincing, or I’m wrong, and Satyr has to learn how to cancel a copy in progress in the next five seconds.”
The bulge stopped growing more parts. It began retreating into Satyr.
“We need to talk, Weaver,” Satyr said, still distorted, withdrawing the mass into himself.
Imp spoke up, “Why is it always Weaver you need to talk to? Never, we need to talk, Rachel.”
“Shut up, you idiot,” Satyr snarled the words. “There’s no time for foolishness.”
“Idiot? Foolishness?”
“What is it, Satyr?” I asked.
“I’ve got to ask about your goals.”
“Ah,” I said. “Nothing complicated. Saving the doctor, getting answers, stopping Scion.”
I found my knife, beneath the staircase, suspended by threads I’d tied to the surrounding area. I set my swarm to retrieving it. We couldn’t see, but Floret shouldn’t be able to either.
“I always had a hard time trusting anyone who doesn’t have ulterior motives,” Satyr said. “And now, here, I dearly wish you had some.”
“Sorry,” I said. “If you haven’t noticed, a lot of us are pretty blunt here, straightforward. Our goals are what they appear to be. I really wish you could trust us.”
“And I wish I couldn’t,” he said. “Funny how that works.”
I sensed Blowout pacing a bit to our left. Floret had her hand cupped, like she was ready to throw one of her things. I gathered the swarm, sensed her tilt her head a fraction.
Listening?
How much noise could thirty bugs make? Or, rather, how much noise could thirty bugs make in the audible spectrum?
No. That didn’t make sense. Floret sensed details without even trying.
She was faking me out, no doubt. Distracting so someone else could pull something.
Leonid was utterly still, no doubt focusing on the various sounds. On heartbeats and breathing, the creaks of our muscles moving and joints shifting. He was the one to watch. He’d said it himself. He was the hand that drew attention so the others could pull their tricks.
Which didn’t make him any less threatening.
Secondary powers of sound detection and sound manipulation, adjusting select things to be up to twice as loud or absolutely silent. It gave him a stranger classification, a thinker classification.
His third power was a mover power.
“Don’t do this, Satyr. It’s insanity,” I said.
“Your being here fucks it all up, Weaver. There’s too much danger that you’d agree with us, that we’d have the same objectives, regarding the Doctor.”
There a distant detonation, a rumbling passed through the complex.
“What are your motives?” I asked. “Do you want to help her or hurt her?”
“Yes,” Satyr said.
“That’s not an answer. I thought you said there’s no time.”
“There isn’t,” he said.
“Satyr, I don’t know what’s going on, but you’ve been playing this game of tricks and subterfuge so long you’ve all forgotten how to walk a straight line.”
“Oh, I remember,” he said. “We remember.”
“So you’re just going to stand here, idly threatening us, until Scion attacks? That can’t be right. You’ve lost your mind. Something with your power, messing with your heads…”
“You’ve got it wrong. Powers from a bottle, they mess with your body. Subtle things, but stuff you notice. Heh, the last straight conversation I had with Pretender, he brought it up, joked…”
“Time,” I told him.
“Ah well. It’s you natural triggers who get a little bent in the head, here and there. Isn’t that right, Ms. Lindt?”
My heart dropped out of my chest. I closed my eyes.
“Yeah,” Rachel said, her voice quiet.
I clenched my teeth.
“That’s right,” she went on, a little louder.
“Shadow Stalker. You too, believe it or not. I’ve seen your record. Your attitude, it’s not wholly your own.”
“I’ve worked with worse. I could give you direction.”
“Honestly? With this shit you’re pulling now? You sound fucking crazy.”
“Shadow Stalker and I are agreeing on this count,” I said, “Trust me when I said that’s a bad sign.”
“If we’re going to resolve this, it’ll have to be soon,” Satyr said.
“You keep doing that,” I told him. “Telling us how little time we have, then delaying. Forcing us into a corner?”
Another half-chuckle, wry.
“You’re not making any sense, Satyr,” I said.
He only offered another short laugh.
“You want us to fight you. To stop you.”
“Probably for the best,” he said.
“No, it’s not,” I said. “We need help, we can’t be distracted by-”
“Enough of this,” Lung growled the words.
“No-” I said, but I was too late.
Flames erupted around his claws.
It cast light on us, on our surroundings.
With the light, Floret could see my knife, off to one side. I hadn’t been planning to use it to attack, but I’d wanted it in hand before we descended. She slung one bud at it. Encased it in crystal. It hit the ground at the base of a cell, by a spotlight.
Leonid screamed, double volume, and it was an eerie, echoing scream that bounced through the area, each echo lower in pitch than the last.
Not that he needed it to reach that far. Each echo of the scream coincided with a fraction of him fading out of existence.
Simultaneously phasing those parts of him in behind our group.
Canary had started to sing, nervous, but Leonid faded in behind her. Two seconds to teleport.
Rachel raised her hands to her mouth to whistle. No sound came out.
I turned, opened my mouth to shout, but Leonid had muted us.
I pointed, instead, but Canary didn’t get my meaning.
Rachel couldn’t get her dog’s attention with snaps or whistles.
Leonid reached out with his claw, up for her throat-
And Rachel tackled him, gripping his wrists. Canary was entirely unawares, up until one of them kicked her ankle in their struggles.
Shadow Stalker and Lung engaged two of the remaining Vegas capes. Blowout stepped in the way, protecting Floret.
And through some unseen signal, some practiced maneuver, he knew to duck as she flung buds at the pair.
One unfolded in the air, tagging Shadow Stalker in her shadow state, and she crumpled.
The other hit Lung. Foot-long tendrils extended from his right pectoral to his right arm, binding to each.
Blowout hit the tethered Lung. Maybe he wouldn’t have been strong enough to affect Lung normally, but the audacity of it and our reactions to that went a long way in giving him a little extra kick.
Satyr forced another copy out in record time, as the other charged me.
I set my bugs on it. On her. My double. She didn’t have my powers.
She was strong. Tougher. She closed the distance to me with ease, with a runner’s strength.
So I moved the bugs to the original Satyr. That bare chest, the eyeholes in his helmet… I attacked Floret, and Leonid, and all of the other capes who had exposed skin.
Golem’s hand knocked her aside. Cuff charged the one Satyr had just created.
Even at this juncture, I knew it wasn’t an even fight. Satyr had outright admitted his team wasn’t a match for ours in a brawl.
Canary tentatively stepped on Leonid’s right hand. Rachel’s dogs got his legs. He screamed, and that sound wasn’t muted.
He began to phase out, reappearing by Satyr. He climbed to his feet.
We outnumbered them, we had better combat powers. The outcome wasn’t in doubt.
Which made Imp’s maneuver all the more insane.
She stepped out into the middle of the group and held the sphere high.
Rotated it, then rotated it back.
Sound resumed around us, as Leonid dismissed the silence effect.
“Don’t, don’t, don’t,” a voice was saying.
It was Sveta, inside the ball.
“Everyone stand up,” Imp said. “And if you fuck with me, I’m opening this thing.”
“Don’t, please don’t.”
“Why?” I asked, again, my eyes on Satyr. The real Satyr.
“I would have been content to wait. To procrastinate until we ran out of time. But you came.”
“It’s for love, in the end. Pettiest of all pursuits. Arrogance, greed, even revenge… they’re nobler, trust me. I’ve walked all those roads. But love? It twists all the other things. Makes you misstep, makes you irrational, makes you impatient, above all. We couldn’t have gone down there without getting revenge, without falling to our greed and arrogance. So I was willing to wait. To sit back and put it off, tell myself we didn’t have the firepower, didn’t have the numbers we needed to take on the group at the stairwell. Wait until it was too late.”
“You were willing to die?” Shadow Stalker asked. She sounded offended.
“Better than being the ones who pull the trigger, dash our last hopes,” Satyr said. “You can put down that sphere, Imp.”
Imp hesitated, then lowered the sphere. She locked it, with vents open so Sveta could speak.
“I don’t understand,” I said.
“And you probably won’t. If you’re lucky. I’ve said it all out loud, so the lie isn’t worth it, now. You can go. We’ll stand by.”
“Your fucking head games. You’re going to stab us-”
“Weaver,” he said, and there was no pretense in his voice. No joking tone or trace of mockery. Talking straight. “Go. They’re almost through.”
“He is right, Skitter,” Lung growled the word. “I can hear him.”
Lung was looking the way we’d come.
Scion, here. On this floor. I thought I could see the golden light, but it might have been a spot in my vision from looking at Lung with his burning hands.
If we go, there won’t be any escape routes. No exits.
It was as insane as anything Satyr was doing. Everything rational said to go upstairs, to find our way to the doorway, hope that Scion was still half-blind, still holding back.
But I turned, running for the stairwell with the Case-fifty-threes, away from Scion.
I ran hard enough that I couldn’t spare the breath.
I spoke with my swarm.
“Go upstairs, if you want to go.”
Give them a way out.
I could hear the others behind me, at varying distances. I could sense Satyr’s group with my swarm. They held their ground as Scion approached.
The others were following.
“If you come, there’s no way out. This isn’t even a hail mary, it’s a hope that there’s maybe something we can do. A chance buried in a chance.”
We came face to face with the group that had been working their way through the steel. A mole-man, an ‘extreme deviation’ case that seemed to be made up of lasers, with her petrified body parts capping the ends.
And others, dead. Satyr’s clones littered the area, where they’d brutally fought and killed several of the digging capes. Where they’d died, they’d withered.
With Scion on our heels, we couldn’t afford the time to fight.
Lung, Shadow Stalker and Rachel tackled the ones who remained. A crossbow bolt delivered to the cranium of the laser-girl, dogs attacking the mole-man. Lung’s claws and flames to assist with both.
Without my asking, Cuff jumped into the hole. Imp followed.
One by one, we passed inside.
Golden light flared in the massive room we’d just left behind. No rumble, no devastation, nothing of the sort.
But I could guess what had happened.
Even if I didn’t understand it.
Golem was blocking off the path to us, while others made their way down. Lung, Canary, then Rachel and her dogs. Hands of concrete barred the way, and two larger hands extended from the column, fingers knitting together to form a fence.
It wouldn’t hold Scion for seconds, but it was something.
Three of us remained. Golem, getting ready to descend, me, watching the rear, and Shadow Stalker.
Our eyes met.
She bolted, disappearing through the wall.
I headed down, with Golem following right behind.
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T is for Typothread
You put typoes here you see.
(Apologies to Cookie Monster for raping “C is for Cookie”)
With my bugs, I could sense
Broke off suddenly.
Jean S on October 1, 2013 at 00:52 said:
“Spur and Nyx? They’re capable enough…”
Should be an I, not a Y.
“and our reactions to that went a long way, in giving him a little extra kick.”
That comma shouldn’t be there, I believe.
““Scion,” Satyr said.” ‘Satyrical,’ or is Taylor just on a nickname basis with him?
“black skintight, sleeveless” Missing comma after black(And the serial comma, don’t recall whether you decided for or against those).
“case-in-point of what Leonine had” Leonid or Leonine?
“Satyr was at point” On point?
Yeah, this chapter lapsed back to almost exclusively calling him “Satyr”. Is it just a convenient shorthand, or does it mean something more than that? It’s not really clear.
Schroedingers_Hat on October 1, 2013 at 12:40 said:
Felt the blood, the limbs being bent in ways that wasn’t possible, when they refused to be thrown.
s/wasn’t/weren’t
Nick Marchetti on October 1, 2013 at 21:04 said:
Not a typo per se, but …
“His upper body was draped in a black, skintight, sleeveless, bodysuit, his legs in loose-fitting pants.”
Skintight things don’t drape.
Although if anyone could pull that off, it’s Satyrical. 😉
FinalPyre on December 19, 2013 at 15:01 said:
said => say
black, skintight, sleeveless, bodysuit –> last comma is redundant. Also Satyr saying “ask her” has odd italization (is that a word?)
ClickPause on October 12, 2017 at 05:32 said:
Man. Satyr is one cryptic son of a bitch.
Racheakt on October 1, 2013 at 01:26 said:
Just running off surface impressions…
I get the most uncanny impression he might be in love with the Custodian…maybe…
She is the only character he ever states to have affection for him, the only one he outright states, that’s the only evidence I have. And she would try to protect the Doctor. Which would fit with the idea that he wants to protect the Doctor, but also wants to kill her.
Ah, well, my brain work in strange ways past midnight.
Apparently he was in love with pretender, I’m told… I must have missed that…
Shikome Kido Mi on October 1, 2013 at 06:10 said:
I didn’t see it either, but when Pretender is the guy we see him hanging out with, discussing philosophy. And the one he reminisces about this chapter, so if he’s in love with anyone, Pretender makes sense.
And Pretender’s the one in Alexandria’s body so he’s in the safe room.
Well , I think he did propose to pretender…
sauce?
Satyr is full of love. Love for Pretender, Love for Custodian, love for lots of people. And with his power there was always enough of him to go around.
Pretender shook, gingerly, unsure of the full extent of Alexandria’s enhanced strength.
Satyr held on to the hand, caressing it. “They say you should marry your best friend, and now that you’re a woman…”
Pretender chuckled a little before withdrawing his hand from Satyr’s. “That line again? I don’t think that’s what they meant.”
so cryptic, even wildbow has to hold back some particular description of satyr nature or way of thinking, so that most reader won’t blow their heads off, or flipping around saying “oh gross, i didn’t know that kind of mindfuckery really conceivable”
Yeah, speaking of fuckery, I think he does a Regent-y thing with his power.
So I’m not the only one who think that. He does have shape shifting clones that share their senses with him, after all…
Interesting how Scion’s shards, shards of the battle, of the body, distort the mind, while what are possible the other entity’s shards, those of not battle, of the mind, distort the body.
Oh man you beat me to it. That’s what happens when you take 5 minutes writing a comment, I guess.
I’m rather amazed myself.
Well considering that Satyr stated the case 53’s being wrong upsets Scion, I don’t think it’s normal for the counterpart’s shards to affect the body like that.
thehiddensage on October 1, 2013 at 15:07 said:
We don’t KNOW that Scion believes they’re “wrong.” It sounds appropriate, but it was really a lot of wild mass-guessing between Satyr and Cuff and Shadow Stalker. It’s just as possible that bodily distortions are normal, but that Scion is a little hesitant/remorseful because he doesn’t like slaughtering the last remnants of his dead soulmate/counterpart.
Has anyone stopped to think that maybe Scion could think of them as ‘Wrong’ in the same vein as we regard Necromancy?
If they are truly the dead pieces of its counterpart, then watching them up and dancing a parade might infuriate it the same way watching someone using your dead family as marionettes would infuriate you.
He was disgusted by Eidolon but that’s it. When he looked at Grey Boy and Siberian he was merely intrigued that so many dead shards followed Jack.
Possible, but that might be anthropomorphising the entity a step too far. It’s less using a dead family member as a marionette and more harvesting organs from a dead family member and giving them to people. Shards are small particles of the entities, not the entities themselves.
It should also be noted that if you *are* drawing an analogy to the undead, the typical human response seems to be less “I am averse to inflicting harm on this animated hollow shell of what was once a proud human being” and more “Aaaaaaargh, kill it! Kill it with fire!!”
No, Scion does have distaste for the Cauldron shards, just not only the Case 53s. If you’ll remember, Taylor thought he looked somewhat disgusted by Eidolon when they fought Leviathan. Scion probably doesn’t like any Cauldron cape.
I wonder if that means that Cauldron capes being present to fight Endbringers were part of the reason Scion either wouldn’t show or waited so long to arrive and fight some of the Endbringers.
You have a point. I’d forgotten the Eidolon rage. I’mma fall back on Keno Black’s “desecrating the dead partner” theory, as that makes a lot of sense and includes all Cauldron capes (given the assumption Cauldron powers are just a distribution of the Counterpart’s shards).
That said, you need to talk less seriously. It creeps me out when you’re all business-like.
Yes…yeeees…behind the amateur proctology and sophomoric humor lies a mind capable strategy and analysis. In fact, the juvenile humor may improve my analysis. After all, you can’t spell analysis without anal.
This. Satyrical doesn’t seem to know about the second entity so this seems like a case of coming to the (probably) right conclusion for the wrong reasons…
It’s quite possible that Scion’s shards, which are meant to collect data from conflict, alter the mind of the host to provoke it.
I think it has all but stated that since passengers crave conflict and stress so they change the host to maximize the chances of it. Hence why many thinkers seem to fall back on violent options when a non violent approach would be better off. Then there is the fact that they might be attracted to people who give out the most conflict and stress like Bakuda who was so batshit that Tattletale said her power never really got to it’s full potential because of it. Cauldoron capes keep their minds unaltered by passengers, have chance of death/mutation, but also a chance for powers never intended for people to get for being too strong similar to Eidolon/Alexandria/Legend/Siberian.
Cauldron capes also have the disadvantage of being cobbled together out of spare parts, roundabout. In order for Cauldron to even pretend to be a for-profit entity, they needed to have a product line besides “Hey, drink this, see what you get.” Which means they needed to figure out products. We’ve seen this before: “Deus” producing Genesis and Siberian, “Division” producing Echidna+Oliver and Satyrical. “Balance” was, judging from Number Man’s interlude, the amount of restrictions forced on the bottled shard. I’d have to reread Migration to figure out what other formula titles matched to Sundancer et al., but that’s basically the principle.
…Man, we’ve come a long way from when Cauldron was just a name on a stack of papers.
Just found it, Migration 17.6. NOTE: “Baseline power” here means “the power granted by the Thinker entity were it alive” or “the power granted by a hypothetical 100% mixture of the category.”
Obv. Genesis. Baseline power tied to creation.
Trickster tosses this one back. Baseline Power: teleportation, perhaps short range?
This one had “Aegis” in it as well as Balance. Can’t quite make out who this is right now, but process of elimination should help. EDIT: Sundancer’s the only one remaining. Still no clue on how his power relates to “Prince” or “Aegis”
“Vestige” could refer to a small thing left behind, which puts me in mind of Perdition’s power. Baseline power centered on rewind, restoration, regeneration, something different?
Echidna+Oliver, as per Wildbow’s statement last comment section. Judging from Satyr, baseline power is either duplication, shapeshifting, or shapeshifting duplicates.
This one had the highest concentration of Balance, which probably means it’s the most hobbled. However, this is useless without knowing what the baseline power is. That said, Robins take flight, which probably means these powers bestow flight on someone or something. Therefore, this is probably Ballistic. (Incidentally, assuming this is correct or close enough, did Battery get one of these formulas or something different?)
rhysdeanno on October 1, 2013 at 02:53 said:
I believe the “Prince” referred to the Master-like aspect of Sundancer’s power, controlling the big ball of sunfire. Aegis can mean protection, so that could have been responsible for her fire immunity maybe? Or maybe the “Aegis” acted first, gave her Fire immunity, and then the “Prince” part worked with that and gave her a giant sunfire ball?
Maybe it has something to do with “Corona”? Aegis does sound like a measure to protect the client from their power, much like Balance inhibits physical changes.
17.7 lists the powers taken by everyone but Cody — and yes, all your calculations are correct. Deus = Genesis (and Siberian), Jaunt = Trickster, Prince = Sundancer, Vestige = Perdition, Division = Echidna & Oliver, and Robin = Ballistic.
My main idea with hashing those out again (and I completely forgot to check the next update 9_9; ) was that we could figure out what the formulas were aiming for, which is another detail that Cauldron could give up. (We know that Deus is creation of projections, we know that Division is Duplication + Shapeshifting, I suspect that Robin is bestowing bursts of speed, but we don’t know any others.)
Remember when Taylor’s biggest problems were being shoved in a locker? Nostalgic, almost.
Why is that interesting? The worms divest themselves of these abilities, intentionally, and each of them adopts a role. Scion the fighter, his mate the thinker. So he distributes the thinker capes and keeps fighting powers, and she distributes the fighting powers and keeps thinker powers. This time around things got a bit complicated for Scion though. Not sure how much he might have deviated from normal distribution patterns to keep a few thinker powers to himself. so he could do the jobs that his mate wasn’t doing.
I’m guessing that it has to do with their “areas of expertise”.
Scion’s powers are often physical. He’s good with altering the body but crude with the mind.
The Partner’s* powers are often mental. She’s good with altering the mind but crude with the body.
This fits back into a general impression I got in one of the interludes that the 53’s and possibly other capes got broken apart and put back together again when they got their powers.
*Do we have an official name for the partner? Noics or Noiz or Noise or something?
Nope. I’ve been calling him/her/it “the Thinker Entity,” but she didn’t live long enough to give herself an avatar, let alone a name.
I meant to ask if we had given it a good name.
That’s cutting it close.
Oh Shadow Stalker, will you never learn?
That bit about Cauldron powers messing with the bodies and natural powers messing with the head of capes, I’m thinking it may have something to do with the origin of the powers. Which is why natural powers alter the personality of the cape! Scion is a warrior not a thinker, it makes sense for the entities to work together in the fine tunning of the powers. With Scions mate dead, he can fine tune the mental aspect of powers so well, and Cauldron can’t avoid the physical changes (as little as they may be) because Scion didn’t tune the powers right. Too far-fetched?
Scion hates the Case 53’s because they are messed up? Because they aren’t natural, are taken off the dead worm or something? Is something like that right?
And then Contessa got her power from the third entity, or is somehow the third entity. Since Scion didn’t recognize her, and it would be strange for an entity to give up it’s victory power.
Third, wth is Satyr’s deal? He is in love with someone. What was that about the “real” Satyr as well. He is in love, doesn’t want to go down there because he would take revenge, then he doesn’t want to just let them go down there either. I don’t get it. Too many unidentified persons.
He’s in love with Pretender who is currently down with Doctor and the Number Men. Go and read the interlude after Behemoth’s death.
Sure, but how does that account for his actions here? Why not go join up with Pretender and help him? I’m truly baffled. Does he feel compelled to kill DM for “kidnapping” Pretender and saving him from the Birdcage or whatever fate was in store for him? Is Pretender stuck in Alexandria’s body due to some interaction of her invulnerability and the mechanism by which he jumps bodies, and does Satyr feel this is a bad thing and blame DM for it? I really don’t get his motivations at all.
It seems the LV team wasn’t happy with Doctor Mother. We have no idea why. Satyr was stalling for time and thought Taylor’s arrival would force him to act. It’s confusing because Satyr was on screen for the grand total of three scenes, so we can’t even begin to fathom his or his teammates’ motivations.Since the Vegas guys have apparently been obliterated by Scion, we have to hope Pretender or Doctor knew what the hell they were talking about.
>And then Contessa got her power from the third entity, or is somehow the third entity. Since Scion didn’t recognize her, and it would be strange for an entity to give up it’s victory power.
It’s also possible that Contessa got the Counterpart’s victory shard. It’s unlikely that this was a power only one of the two had, and we know the Counterpart isn’t in a position to hold onto that anymore.
Self-sabotage screws with predictions, knowing self-sabotage doubly so.
Best guess for Satyr’s love, given little information on him, is Pretender. Current best guess is that Pretender!Alexandria is down there, or the best line on his location is. Alexandria would have been formidable in most fights, but Mantella would have plausibly kept him out of the fight until very recently – i.e., until well after they hit the panic button and were safely buried. Pretender isn’t dead, or isn’t culpably dead, or Satyr wouldn’t have contrasted revenge as a motive. And yet… Satyr thought revenge on DM was unavoidable if he got his team down there, and was also undesirable (from a species survival standpoint). Case 53’s on the Vegas team might motivate it; something as yet unrevealed about Pretender’s status/affections might motivate it.
Ulterior motivation part of the conversation is difficult to parse. Current best guess is that he doesn’t want to interfere with someone genuinely trying to save the day, but would rather have had an excuse to fight them all out. The manipulative speaking, making them feel cornered, can plausibly be taken as an attempt to fire up the trigger-capes and telegraph the fight – a fight which Weaver’s team is much better prepared to do straight up than his team. Open question whether his team knew he was aiming for a defeat or not.
Alternatively, there’s a longer term plan in play. Plausible, given the personalities; profoundly unlikely, given the lack of a long or indeed medium term.
Imp has demonstrated a Chekhov’s sphere.
Chekhov’s Svetanade
Hmm, we KNOW that Satyr is in love with Pretender ( he’s very unsubtly hitting on him after Behemoth’s death and Pretender isn’t very comfortable) AND that he’s down there with Doctor. Sveta mentions Alexandria being present in this very chapter.
Whilst I think you’re right I feel the need to point out that Pretender appears to very unsubtly hit on EVERYBODY…
Could a wild prediction I made eons ago actually come true? Could Weld and Garrote join the Undersiders?
Assuming there is anything left of Weld to join. Or anything left of the Undersiders.
Weld is probably OK. Metal’s tough, they only tore off limbs and stuff. He doesn’t have blood or need a heart or anything. Give him a couple ingots and he’ll be fine.
The Undersiders, on the other hand…
TBH, I’m not a hundred percent sure Weld even needs his body to maintain a human shape. Given everything else we know of his anatomical makeup, I feel like he only stays humanesque in shape out of habit and a desire to appear more “normal” to others (since rolling around as a sentient truck would be a bit offputting, even if it’s theoretically possible). Until it is confirmed otherwise, I’m going to take it for granted that Weld wasn’t actually hurt in the slightest, as far as long-term problems go.
The problem though, is that Scion just swept through the floor he was on. The question is whether Scion felt like killing him.
It’s possible, but I wouldn’t call an offscreen death for him likely. That might just be delusional optimism on my end, though.
Oh, he’s probably hurt. If having to get darts out of his face is unpleasant, imaging what having your arm ripped off and stuck to your back would do.
It’s not permanent, though.
There isn’t really an Undersiders anymore. They kinda got dissolved during the destruction of the majority of society. It’s more like “those who want to unite to fight Scion” VS “those who want to do their own thing”.
Doubly baffling that they’d stay to confront Scion.
Greater love hath no man, certainly… but a very marked shift from preferring to stand aside. Perhaps as simple as, while being unwilling to end Cauldron (and with them, possibly, all humanity), dying to defend Pretender is a much simpler choice.
I think Taylor is right in that they are a little fucked in the head themselves. So now we know why Cauldron let the case 53’s go, and why they didn’t kill faultline’s group when they had the chance to. They act as camouflage to hide their home dimension from Scion. Like the interesting powers of the vegas capes. It gives us a glimpse into life in wormverse Las Vegas, and all that cloak and dagger shit. I find it highly probable that if Shadow Stalker had been allowed to join the Protectorate she would have joined the Vegas team as she would have fit in very well. More answers, and we will FINALLY have some revelations about the source of Cauldron’s powers. I’m thinking an Evangelion Lilith situation, a giant crystal that is sort of dead, or perhaps just a female copy of Scion dead/unmoving.
And here I thought Taylor could fit in that group to.
Master, Mastermind and strong secondary powers. Had Taylor originated in the Desert it could have been an entierly different story.
We don’t necessarily know why the case 53’s were released. We know why Satyrical thinks they were. But even thinkers can be wrong. Remember he’s putting his thinker powers against the manipulative abilities of the Number Man and Contessa, who might have been showing him the things he needed to see to reach the conclusions he wants. Dinah doesn’t get wrong answers because she sees the larger scope of things, which also severely limits her power. Satyrical and Tattletale CAN get wrong answers because their powers are limited to analyzing what they have experienced or learned. And those experiences and knowledge can be molded by others.
Did we ever see a Contessa corpse? I don’t think so. Wonder when she’s going to show back up, or at least be confirmed dead?
I will not believe that Contessa is dead until we get her Interlude.
I’m with you on that one. We haven’t accounted for a lot. I bet we’ll get down there and Dr. Mother will have a giant Mannequin robot piloted by 5 Harbingers in different colored tights. Or maybe Number man and 4 Harbingers, with Number Man wearing red. Then Contessa in gold, white, silver, or black with her own 50 ft. tall robot that joins with the Super Mannequinzord to form the Ultra Mega Super Mannequinzord.
So for some reason, related to love, Satyr felt he couldn’t trust his group with Doctor Mother. His group wanted to kill her. They wouldn’t, though, because they were weak as far as combat went. However, the appearance of Taylor and her people, who joined up with them, increased how strong their group was and meant they knew they would attack when they got there, even if they knew it wasn’t the best course of action. So to counter their irrational desire to attack Doctor Mother, they attempted to attack Taylor and her group.
Perhaps the person he loves would be forced to hurt him if he attacked the Doctor, and he wants to spare them from doing that?
I can’t say I like Satyr, but I feel a smidge of respect towards him.
I guess he and Pretender were closer than we thought.
Seemed more like one-sided on Satyr’s part, really. Then again, many thins can happen in a two year time skip.
Makes me curious about Pretender. It has to be weird to wake up as a woman, and have your best friend fall in love with you. Though since Alexandria has a unchanging body with the fingernails/hair never growing maybe he lucked out and he doesn’t have to deal with the once a month crimson flow.
It’s implied that Satyr is bisexual (or maybe Pretender-sexual?) and that he was hitting on him even before he possessed Alexandria. The interlude where they have their conversation has Pretender react as if it’s something he has heard a thousand times before.
Was it said at one point that Pretender’s power is a one-shot deal and once he’s in a body he can’t leave until he possesses someone else? If it is who knows what his gender was originally.
Love tended to be one-sided a lot for Satyrs.
Yeah, but Alexandria(‘s body) is a bit tougher than some random, unfortunate Nymph.
Hopefully her hymen where broke before her “trigger”. But then, there are other ways for love.
Thank you for explaining this! Imp wasn’t the only one whose head that whole interaction went over. Maybe I read it too fast but it seems a lot of detail was missing to fill in why they turned, then turned back.
Hmm — Battery had a similar reaction to Taylor, wondering what her game was.
Thing about Taylor, and Rachel, and Lung: if they want you dead, you’ll have a pretty good idea that they want you dead. They might not kill you immediately, but they sure aren’t going to act like they’re your best friend.
Incidentally, the Rachel/Satyr interaction was hilarious.
Rachel will just cut through all the bullshit when they get to Doctor Mother.
“Bullshit” being her jugular.
What? They can bring her head back to Bonesaw. It’s not like they need all of Doctor Mother.
Wait, Hess ran, right? Jumped into a wall and disappeared upstairs? Funny that she’s the only one who actually took Taylor up on that offer.
Not just that. There was a pun there. Little miss crossbow bolted.
*facepalm* Oh how did I miss that…
Grant Moxham on October 1, 2013 at 11:47 said:
*groans*
Beneath all the manipulation and mind games and secrecy, all Satyr did he did it for love. Daaaaaaawwwww. Seriously though, the Vegas team may be a creepy bunch but the idea of capes who cultivate their secondary power to the point of it basically becoming their primary power is pretty neat.
Speaking of manipulation, only Sophia could fall for such a blatant one. No, really, immediately after he says he has researched you, Satyr uses some hamfisted prey/predator analogy and you’re all “ohhhh, shiny”? I didn’t think you were THAT much of an idiot.
So, the powers granted by the thinker entity change your body and the powers granted by the warrior entity change your mind. I’m sure there’s something significant about that. And, uhm, Cauldron used the Case 53s to blindside Scion. Interesting.
Last but not least… The Number Men live! I wonder if now that Number Man and the Harbinger clones are together, Taylor can put two and two together. I know that if they have the urgent matter of Scion knocking at their door but it would be funny (but unlikely) if she takes 5 seconds to go like “you got to be kidding: you’re accountant is Harbinger?”.
“I didn’t think you were THAT much of an idiot.”
Remember our reaction when SS accused Taylor of copying her? Yeah.
John Campbell on July 9, 2015 at 14:59 said:
Taylor’s one of those whose secondary power is her primary power. The bugs are pretty much a sideshow at this point; what makes her a top-tier cape is the massively parallel multitasking she needs to handle them, and the unmatched battlefield awareness that in combination with her swarm-sense gives her.
Never underestimate how much of an idiot Sophia can be if she really puts her mind to it.
> “Subtlety?” Imp offered. “Scandal? Style? Sophistry?“
> Where is she learning these words?
Imp would be a lovely place to store a backup copy of Dragon if one wanted to duck Ascalon. Alternately, if she had a second trigger, it’s plausible that it would prevent people from remembering her Scrabble championship title, her medical degree, or the fact that she’s secretly been Doctor Mother all along!
For Imp to be Doctor we need Time-travel. This is of course where the mysterious Epoch, leader of that gang of wannabe wizards, comes in, revealing that he’s been manipulating everything from the shadows and that he’s actually an avatar of the Third Entity. And Contessa’s lover (we must link Contessa to the Third Entity in some way, after all).
Or that Contessa is a Time Lord with access to a TARDIS.
Although neither is probable, the first is more likely.
1. Why would Dragon store a backup not only in a human being (probably against her programming and/or impossible), but one whose background indicates a high probability of self-destructive tendencies and ones which could easily cause either someone else to destroy Imp or the backup to want to self-destruct? Moreover, when would Imp have had the backup installed? And who would have done it, and why wouldn’t this have been brought up when Dragon was “dead”?
2. Aside from wildbow stating that no prominent characters would get second trigger events, there has been no indication that Imp’s ability has changed in the slightest, nor would any of that have been capable of being gained since any STE.
I’m guessing influence by the Heartbroken, possibly control.
Pastymage on October 2, 2013 at 12:20 said:
Crackpot theory: Regent managed to transfer some or all of himself into Imp (the info that he had taken her before making it possibly to deduce that he could’ve done it again instantly in an emergency). Doesn’t jibe with her grief, but she may not be fully aware of it (or only became aware of it later).
*possible
It might even be a completely unexpected secondary effect that Regent wasn’t aware of. When merged with Imp, if they merged a lot, he might have shared traits with her. She might have given him a bit more impulsiveness, and he might have given her a bit more introspection.
Or perhaps one of the Heartbroken has a field effect that makes people desire to learn. A low level, always on ability that might subtly get everyone that spends time with them to read more, study better, and organize their thoughts better. Something like a very low power Teacher effect. Not enough to give other people powers, but enough to, oh, make Imp read a bit in her downtime, rather then playing video games or being a voyeur.
So are we watching Shadow Stalker run away for good, or is she going to try to come back and potshot Scion then attempt to lead him away by running through walls and whatnot until Scion gets a read on her powers and kills her? It does take time for him to understand the way an enemy’s power works so he can counter it. Remember Gavel. Does she even know what she’s going to do?
Shadow Stalker episode?
Already had one.
But yeah, I don’t think this is the last we’ve heard of shadow Stalker.
Someguy on October 1, 2013 at 06:13 said:
I think its more likely that she dies off-screen killed by the rest of the mob still out for blood.
Did we? I remember a Regent interlude heavily featuring Sophia, I remember an Emma interlude heavily featuring her, and she appeared in the Wards arc, but I don’t remember her having an Interlude of her own…
The interlude where the Undersiders captured her was from her perspective.
I find myself liking Satyrical after this one. Not so much for the whole sacrifice thing, that was pretty stupid, but because the reasoning resonated with me. The battle between what one is compelled to do and what one knows they should do, even if it makes no sense to other people.
We’ve seen that before, but we were inside the head of the person and could justify it better. It just seems like a rare thing to out and out realize because a lot of people aren’t good at separating themselves like that and figuring out that inner conflict between man and animal, to put it simplistically.
I like the idea of thinking about the secondary powers in all this too. Satyrical, in order to make a copy of someone, must be good at figuring out a person on his own, which probably helps with all the flirting.
Now to figure out the mind and body mess-ups. I can’t tell if it’s because the shards alter the hosts to suit their needs better, or because the shards focus on one, body or mind, and don’t bother to deal with both. Same weakness Scion has, actually. His mind is screwed up, but his body is all-powerful. Can we get someone to jam a bunch of his dead beloved’s shards into his brain?
In a somewhat evil way, it reminds me of one way I heard the koan of Gutei’s Finger. Not the confusing mess about how he died that you’ll see on Wikipedia either.
Well, the entire premise for the story is “Doing the wrong things for the right reasons.” The shards help drive that along nicely. My understanding is that the shards are simply very competitive.
In fact I would bet that the passengers/shards are actually the original life form of the worms, before they decided to become aggregate creatures.
I would also bet that Glaistig is the “child” of Scion and his mate. A child who is fighting the parent, but that’s not uncommon for children to do. She is collecting shards, aggregating them, and she’s just a bit crazy, but smart, and understands passengers and shards better than anyone else. She’s also survived several encounters with Scion, including at least one battle where Scion was targeting individuals who were the greatest threats to him. I don’t think he’s doing more than defending himself against her, perhaps destroying manifested dead capes that can threaten him, but never attacking her directly.
I’d love to see the list of “Wrong things” done for “Right reasons” that Wildbow has probably got recorded somewhere that he uses to guide his writing, because I suspect such a list exists 🙂
I’d never considered Glaistig being Scion’s love child. Who or what would be the mate then?
If that question can be assertained then I will agree with you. The rest of your logic makes sense if we take this story and substitute parahuman or cape for gods, goddesses, demigods. It’s like a massive Greek tragedy…metaphorically speaking of corse.
Ascertained. Assertainment is a rather different thing.
You missed my spelling error of corse when it should’ve been course. If you’re going to nitpick and be a grammar/spelling nazi, at least be thorough.
Eh, I’m confused by your confusion. Scion and his mate’s reason for coming to Earth was to reproduce. They distribute shards, the shards grow and reproduce (like Taylor / Aidan) and then at the end of the cycle, Mommy, Daddy, and Baby Worm split the shards amongst each other, and blow up the planet. Baby Worm makes it’s own way and looks for a mate.
That’s not necessarily true, but I don’t see where it is obviously untrue or ridiculous either?
You sure about the Baby Worm? I never got the impression that at the end of the cycle a third entity would be “born”. Just that the entities would gather back the shards who would be full of new information and abilities after learning from the hosts.
Looks like the reproductive aspect of the Worms has changed over time, there are a couple different descriptions of reproduction mentioned in the Scion interlude.
Nothing that specifically indicates Glaistig might be a shard specifically designed to collect other shards and create a third node of shards though, making a new Worm.
We’re into author territory here is we want a real answer 😛 I don’t think it’s unreasonable to look at Glaistig as a potential child of the Worms though.
O there’s no doubt that Glaistig’s function is to gather back all the shards, it’s the baby worm part that I’m not really sure. If anything I can see Glaistig ascending to a higher plane and replacing Scion’s counterpart.
Aye, Glaistig is definitely collecting shards, but we don’t know what the function of her shard actually is. Is it an offspring shard of some sort, or a communal thought and action shard similar to Taylor’s administrator shard, perhaps from the other Worm, but not regulated like Taylor’s was.
My confusion lays in the actual “name” of Scion’s partner. After thinking about it I recall that the dead shard is the companion/partner. IIRC, that entity was never named.
I don’t think Scion would go so far as to turn back time and use his now-humanoid body to mate with the completely unhumanoid former partner of his all in the expectation of this time creating a child when he is generally unimaginative enough to just continue the cycle of sending out pieces/children to latch onto intelligent beings, grow, learn, then come back to the fold when they blow the shit out of the planet.
What I’m more interested in, though, is that Glaistig already takes shards off dead people and now she’s got Eidolon’s which allows her to steal from the shards of the living.
What are you talking about? Wow, I don’t even get where you guys are coming from with this cross species stuff. The Worms came here to feed and reproduce. Glaistig’s shard might be a result of that – not of any sort of cross species mating. Think ichneumon wasp. A few of the shards sent out would be shards designed to collect shards. Glaistig being one. Eidolon is a cauldron cape and might be the result of an offspring passenger being twisted by cauldron, which would explain Scion’s looks at him from time to time. The cape which allows the Yangbang to share powers might be a third. Don’t know if that cape is a Cauldron cape or not. There might be others who just haven’t been mentioned, or haven’t arrived yet, or might have died.
It seems highly appropriate that someone called Satyr would be able to separate their man and animal parts.
Another nail biter as usual. Eagerly awaiting the next bit.
This has nothing to do with the current chapter but,IMO, it’s a funny anecdote. So, I was going to my first ever class of Greek History, I enter the room and guess what Greek word is written on the blackboard? That’s right, Eidolon. WORM IS EVERYWHERE. Or maybe not. Either way I was amused. 🙂 .
I’m not saying that it was the Simurgh that wrote that on your blackboard, mind you. Just that you might find yourself slightly less amused the next time you and your friend are playing some PvP game.
Here’s a tip for the future: half a vial is BAD.
But..but what would the Simurgh want with me? The sole fact that I’m taking a course on GREEK HISTORY should tell you that I’ll never become anyone of importance 😉 .
Noelle was a random high school student who happened to be a bit good at a video game. She wound up with a decent shot at destroying the world. Don’t sell yourself short!
Well at least I’ll be able to choose my mythology-based name on my own, instead of someone giving it to me. Is Typhon scary enough?
I would suggest Oneiros, provided I spelled that right. You know what they say, he who spelt it.
Just remember, it’s easy to go from nobody to nightmare. Might want to pick up some magic tricks involving pencils first, though.
Nevermind. Olethros was the one I was thinking of. Destruction, as opposed to Dream.
Fan of The Sandman, aren’t you? Then again who isn’t.
Great Chapter! Liked the slow-paced interactions between Satyrical and Taylor’s group.
I physically felt the tension between the teams, before it escalated. Well written!
On another note, who would win in a Marvel/DC – Wormverse fight, between two Capes with similiar themes and/or powers?
Some examples would be:
Taylor vs. Spiderman (Spidey’s got the physical advantages and spider-senses, Taylor has got her swarm and multi-tasking powers. Both got the brains.
Scion vs The Sentry (Both got a counter-entity and are nerly invincible)
Alexandria vs. Superman (just realized, it’s like Supes and Wonder Woman…)
Satyrical vs. Multiple Man (This would be the most interesting “duel” I think. Who’s gonna find the others real self first.)
Butcher vs. (anyone who is batshit-insane like butcher, but equally strong, thought about Joker????)
Armsmaster vs. Batman (Utility-belt vs. Utility-staff)
> Taylor vs. Spiderman
They’re going to ally and beat up whoever set them one against the other.
> Alexandria vs. Superman
hint: Superman can hold his breath for a couple of days
> Butcher XV vs. Joker
Winner: butcher XVI, he’s also… eccentric enough not to be bothered by 15 other voices in his head
> Taylor & Spiderman vs. Coil & The Green Goblin then?
Everythings loses to Supes… frikkin’ Mary Sue…
All of the Butcher powers + the ability to break through the fourth wall? Like that XI
Taylor and a biochemist tinker that developed a better version of Dragon’s foam? I have one word for you: NAPALMBEEEEES.
Yes, I have just made it up, it stills smells nice in the morning.
Taylor vs Spiderman
Taylor wins because Spiderman is a genetic hybrid of human/spider dna and she can controll him.
Scion vs The Sentry
Clearly Scion wins. Sentry is a glorified version of Ironman; and not that impressive in my opinion. Now Scion vs Hulk…well we have a much different story here. Oh, and HULK would win! ;o)
Alexandria vs Superman
Alexandria wins this one because she is the only one that can throw Superman on the bed and hold him down to have her way with him. In turn he is exceedingly greateful and dumps Louis Lane to persue some SMBD with Alexandria.
Satyrical vs. Multiple Man
Tie – They end up liking each other and form their own bigger mercenary operation.
Butcher vs. Joker
I’m picking Joker on this one. Yes, it’s because I’m biased; plain and simple. Tell me, why so serious?
Armsmaster vs Batman
Hmmm, that’d be a tough one to call. I think due to Armsmaster’s tinker ability he would win overall. Face it Batman, shark repellant just won’t work against Armsmaster. *shrugs*
Everythings loses to Supes… frikkin’ Mary Sue…<
Batman beats Superman. And Captain America beats Batman.
I do not share your sentiment. In fact, I reject your reality and substitute my own.
Oh, but Darkwing Duck beats Negaduck EVERYTIME…suck on that! 😉
I am the terror that flaps in the night
I am the gum on the bottom of your shoe
Darkwiiiiiiing DUCK!
Suck gas evildoer!
>Oh, but Darkwing Duck beats Negaduck EVERYTIME…suck on that! ;)<
Lets get Dangerous! Taurus Bulba on the other hand is a much tougher foe for ol DW.
Lest we forget Morgana; the one that had Darkwin’s heart wrapped around her finger. *sigh*
Personally I thought Megavolt was tougher than Taurus Bulba.
On Scion vs. the Hulk: I’d agree with the Hulk winning, as silly as that is, just to play along with a theory I remember reading about him. The theory says that the Hulk has just 2 powers:
“Hulk Is Strongest There Is” is the obvious one. Essentially he’s defined as that and anything that’s inserted as being stronger than him is simply there to show how he can get even stronger still.
His other power is less obvious. It’s “Make Problems Solvable By Hitting Them.” Meaning, no matter what the problem is, it will take on a physical manifestation which can be defeated by punching it in the face really hard.
I don’t find the theory “believable” so much as amusing. There’s plenty of excellent Hulk stories that have nothing to do with him punching the problem in the face, but when you get down to it, “HULK SMASH” is what makes the character who he is.
To an extent, I think we’ve seen the Worm-version of that fight already too -> Scion vs. Lung, except in the Worm-verse punching things in the face isn’t a universally viable way to address problems and no one’s got enough reality shaping power to change that.
Well Hulk has this going for him. The madder he gets the stronger he gets. And he has no upper limit. Even Galactus has stated the Hulk’s potential to be infinite. All of his powers increase as he gets madder. Most of the Hulks early stories saw him loose his first fight with his foe because they knocked him out before he got stronger than them. The second time around the foe would not realize that the Hulk gets stronger, and would drag it on too long… Hulk can be beaten. But you need to do it before he gets mad enough that he can do things like resist the gravity of a black hole from inside the event horizon, or break continents by walking.
Incidently I love what happened the first time Superman met the Hulk.
Hulk wooped Sentry in World War Hulk, when he was quite justifiably the maddest he’s ever been. Sentry was basically Superman in Marvel, except possibly even more powerful. Hulk can’t breathe in space, though. That could go to Superman if the punch is strong enough or he lifts Hulk enough.
Just watch out. WWH also saw Hulk nearly wreck the planet when he got even agrier.
And yet even WWH could not beat Juggernaut in a prolonged fight (he simply pushed him away and let momentum carry him), Ghost Rider (he didn’t want to fight), Doctor Strange( he had to act like an idiot to give Hulk a chance) or Black Bolt ( word of God has it that the Skrull clone had inferior abilities – seeing how BB can destroy cities with a whisper and rip apart reality with his screams I can buy that ).
Ghost Rider couldn’t fight him because there was no vengeance against Hulk there. Hulk was actually in the right as far as Ghost Rider’s powers were concerned.
You’ll notice Juggernaut didn’t win. I mean, taking a guy down in very little time shouldn’t necessarily be classed as “couldn’t take him in a prolonged fight”.
Adding the “in a prolonged fight” changes the very nature of the thing from a street brawl to a regulated boxing match with time to rest.
Nardia Kelly (@indigodecay) on October 8, 2013 at 10:16 said:
Don’t want to burst the bubble of Hulk fans, but is everyone forgetting Scion’s victory over Eidolon?
All he has to do to win is to calm him down, and he de-Hulks. Forget the meta powers, looking at his actual abilities, that’s his weakness. Not physical, psychological. Scion knows how to beat that.
I like your analysis here. Plus don’t forget that no matter how hard Dr. David Banner tried (per The Avengers Movie by Joss Wheddon) he could NOT kill himself off. Which is also why I chose Hulk over Scion.
And yes, that would be an excellent parallel.
Now, Lung vs Hulk…that may be a toss up. Cause Lung also gets tougher as the fight goes on. Does it really mean he hits a point of invincibility…not sure.
Still fun to think about.
My thoughts on those encounters:
Taylor vs. Spiderman… That would be interesting, seeing as both have a bit of a danger sense in a respect. Both can bind opponents up with webbing, but I’d say Spiderman is a bit better on that point. Spiderman also is much, much stronger and faster than Taylor. However, Taylor is fully capable of hitting people from out of line of sight, while Spidey doesn’t really have that ability. Spidey is also not quite the strategist that Taylor is, so I think she’d be able to win overall because of that.
Scion vs. The Sentry… I’d say Scion over the Sentry. While the Sentry and Scion both have absurd levels of power to them, Scion still can use Contessa’s power to pull off the win. There has also been history that when the Sentry is taxed too much, he reverts back to human form, as he did when he fought the Hulk.
Alexandria vs. Superman… Superman all the way. Even if their strength, durability, and speed were on par with one another, he still doesn’t have that pesky need to breathe.
Satyrical vs. Multiple Man… I imagine that fight would end up with Satyrical confusing the crap out of Multiple Man by creating clones… of Multiple Man. I’m not sure if it’s been established that Multiple Man is a walking hivemind or not, but I got the distinct impression that Satyrical is linked mentally with all of his clones. If that’s the case, I don’t think Multiple Man would be able to determine which clones are his or not with any sort of ease.
Butcher vs. Joker… Two words: Joker Immunity. The Joker has gone up against people he has no business fighting and won because of that. But that’s a bit too meta. I don’t think Butcher has anything on how ruthless and vicious the Joker can be though. I have no idea who would really win that fight.
Armsmaster vs. Batman… I’m going with Batman on this one. It’s freaking Batman. He has a plan for pretty much any potential fight with a cape. Sure, Armsmaster has the combat prediction algorithm, but the last time someone fought Batman with a predictive ability, it ended up as a stalemate. Armsmaster is badass and determined, but I don’t think he could compete.
Taylor vs. Spiderman… Spidey’s ability to blind Taylor is completely useless though. Also Taylor’s armor should come in handy against Spiderman’s hits, but his costume isn’t going to last seconds against the swarm. Through in some swarm decoy tactics and I think Taylor wins this one in a landslide.
Armsmaster vs. Batman… Armsmaster is basically Batman with better technology. He was able to take on three of the Undersiders at once (with the prediction only working for the dogs) and even go toe to toe with levathan (a far faster and more powerful foe). It would certainly be interesting, but I think Armsmaster’s tech would give him the extra edge.
Spiderman vs Taylor? Ah, sorry for all the Taylor fans here, but Spiderman can bench press a few tons, is stupidly fast, and can detect and react to danger he’s not even consciously aware of. He’s faster than insects, and can make protective clothing out of his own webbing to protect himself from a huge enclosure swarm if his costume isn’t strong enough to protect him and Taylor tries to envelop him.
Now, if Taylor is prepared at all for the fight, she will know that she must blend in with other humans, and not give any indication who she is, and cannot directly threaten Spiderman in any way. She could drive him out of an area that way, potentially, but not defeat him. He would get sick and tired of evading bugs and looking for the person controlling them, and leave – especially if they weren’t attacking other people.
If Taylor makes herself known to Spiderman in any way it’s over. He’s fully capable of taking her out physically before she’s even aware she’s in danger. Spiderman has fought pretty much everyone in the Marvel universe at one point or another, and he’s very rarely ever beaten by people with non-mental powers.
And she can use a swarm-clone or two to throw him off the scent.
Yeah, Taylor has to play keep away with Spider-Man. Though it’s worth noting that he can’t win if he webs her up like with most foes, since she can still control her swarm. What’s more, he still has problems since her power keeps going even after she gets knocked out. Another advantage she has is that she can attack from so many different vectors that his Spider-Sense will have a hard time of it. Oh, he’s know what’s coming, but there can be so many different directions it’s coming from. The biggest problem for Spider-Man is that Taylor’s power won’t be stopped by webbing her up, and knocking her out will only make it worse. In the end I think Spider-Man can beat Taylor by knocking her out… Then wish he hadn’t. And if Taylor has time or prior knowledge of Spidey’s abilities, she can get the advantage. It really depends on what we quantify as the win here.
Scion Vs Sentry- Scion. Sentry’s biggest problem is his mental weakness. Dude was useless on the Mighty Avengers because the villain would just say something to make him mope in the corner. Scion convinced Eidolon to lay down and die with four words.
Alexandria Vs Superman- Superman. Now keep in mind we have various versions Superman, some of whom do need to breath. But he can suck in a lot of air, and hold it for a long time. What’s more, even against other flying bricks Superman often gets given the advantage. That’s because he also has super speed, heat vision, and freeze breath. Alexandria is pretty proud of her intelligance, but Clark isn’t stupid either. He just seems like it when he’s standing next to Batman. I think Superman can find some way to cut off Alexandria’s air supply long enough for her to pass out.
Satrycal vs Multiple Man- Multiple man has no awareness of what his dupes are doing, until after he reabsorbs them. What’s more his dupe each have different aspects of his personality, and that has caused problems. Satyr seems to have some thinker powers, and he seems aware of what is happening with his clones to some degree. What’s more his clones can impersonate others. So I think he’s able to win this one.
Butcher vs Joker- In a straight up fight Butcher would well, butcher Joker. But since when does the Joker fight fair? I don’t think the Butcher has any resistance to chemical weapons, or electricty. She might know somethings coming thanks to the danger sense, but Joker would layer his traps and attacks. I think the clown prince of crime has this one, as long as it isn’t just a straight up fight.
Batman vs Armsmaster- Forget about Superman. These days Batman takes the mary sue crown. That said Armsmaster may have more advanced tech packed into his gear than Batman, but Batman will find his weaknesses and exploit them.
Say, what about Dragon Vs Iron Man?
Skychan on October 1, 2013 at 17:46 said:
Alexandria would beat Superman 9 times out of 10. Mainly because if the fight started before she knew about kryptonite he could take her down but wouldn’t kill her. Then she would (9 out of 10 times) escape, learn about kryptonite and be smart enough to use it to kill him. If she had any time to prep the ratio goes even further against Superman’s favor.
I think Taylor would beat Spiderman, but that would be a VERY bad fight. He would be almost as hard as Jack to defeat as like it or not they have a very similar kind of edge on defense. But as has been said, for Spiderman Taylor really is a nightmare to try to catch, capture, and subdue. Again we face issues with just how far some heros are willing to go.
butcher/joker, – doesn’t matter its just worse for the world if Joker wins.
Satyr/Multiple Man, – I don’t know why this is even a discussion. Satyr is apparently a thinker cloner. One used to misdirection and aproaching things sideways. Multiple Man is simply outmatched.
Scion/Sentry – why are we discussing this, Scion can choose to win and do so. Sentry can give him a fight, but thats all.
Armsmaster/Batman – Batman. He is the Mary Sue of the marvel universe. Although 8 bit theatre has Batman loose in a Batman/Doom confrontation, I think that the arguments presented are such that even so it supports Batman beating Armsmaster. I’ve linked the two argument strips below.
http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/10/16/episode-342-hypothetically-speaking/
http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/10/18/episode-343-check-mate/
Dragon/Ironman is one I’ll have to think on, as that would be epic. If it came to a straight fight I would have to go with Dragon, but it would almost invariably devolve into more than that as they worked to trump each other. Eventually I believe that if he did not lose due to his frail human shell Tony Stark would win by discovering Dragon’s programed blind spots and using them to defeat her.
Hrm, ok, Spiderman captures weaver, webs her up, then starts a slow web-slinging across town at 60-80 miles per hour – far faster than any bug can keep up with. While on this little jaunt he considers how to deal with the bugs. Plenty of ways to do it really. Freezing them, chemicals, sealed areas, oxygen removal systems like one finds in datacenters (would need oxygen masks for the two humans). Maybe he calls in a favor from a friend. If he stays in character, he won’t kill her. But he can most certainly contain her. The simplest solution would be to take her out into the middle of a landfill or farm, with a few dozen pieces of rebar and he can make a cage for her that she can’t get out of, and her bugs won’t be able to get through before he returns with a more effective bug control method. Or take her down into a mineshaft, and tear up the railcar rails and use them to build a cage there. Spider man wears a full body suit, and if he feels that the insects might endanger him, he will be through the swarm and free of bugs on him faster than you or I could blink.
Canonically Weaver will never defeat spider man without a LOT of prep time, but she can drive him away if he can’t figure out who she is.
As for Alexandria and Superman. Ah, maybe Superman from the Man of Steel movie. Superman from most comics though? Not a chance. He’s just as immune to damage as Siberian was, and FAR smarter and more versatile in combat.
Worm capes are generally on a lower power level than Marvel or DC comics heroes. They are similar in scope to the very earliest Marvel and DC representations of Superheroes.
Trying to fight modern first string comic book characters against Worm capes would just be overkill. Spider man is probably almost a match for Alexandria. She’s powerful but not very agile.
Batman vs Armsman would be a very good fight though, especially if they were allowed to prepare in advance, knowing they would be facing one another. Let Armsman have some video of batman fighting and put that into his predictive AI and it would be even more interesting.
You forget,though,anything that applies for spiderman,including intelligence,applies to Alexandria.Taylor is a ranged fighter.I am not saying she’ll win,but ts not as clear cut as you say.
Taylor vs Spider-man: Taylor.
If we’re talking the current Superior Spider-man here, then Taylor by a mile. And Superior Spider-man deserves every punch.
Scion vs The Sentry: Scion.
Sentry is capable of cracking a planet, but Scion can crack the same planet across multiple dimensions.
Alexandria vs Superman: Superman.
He’s faster, he’s probably stronger, there’s no magic or Kryptonite in the Wormverse, and he access to super sense, X-ray vision, heat vision, and super breath.
Satyrical vs Multiple Man: Multiple Man.
I have to agree with whoever thought Satyrical could get the upper hand via making copies of Maddrox himself, but there’s still a lot to overcome. Multiple Man has all the experiences of his copies, many of whom were sent out to gain a variety of skills and training. We’re talking agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Olympic gymnasts, private detective, so on and so forth. Plus, he generates them if physically struck, so I think he can pop them out quicker. I’m going to go Multiple Man on this one.
Butcher vs Joker: Butcher
I want to say Joker, I do, but currently Butcher is a tiny self sufficient sphere of organs made of Mannequin’s armoring. She’s got a hell of a lot of powers and it’s not easy to take her out. Unsure of the effectiveness of Joker’s acid flower, but I can be fairly certain the Smilex isn’t going to work.
Armsmaster vs Batman: Batman
The world’s greatest detective has ways to deal with opponents who rely on power armor and he’ll figure out the nanotechnology in no time flat. He’s also good at fighting in the dark and shadows, which ought to mess with the predictive technology.
Deadpool vs Psycho Gecko: Tie
Guiness Book of World Records’ entry for world’s longest game of competitive armpit karaoke
Regarding the discussion between Taylor and Spiderman.
I’d expect Taylor to just bring a gun, given her smarts I’d be surprised if it took her longer than a magazine to trick/overload his danger sense.
now that I think of it wouldn’t Taylor be an absolutely epic sniper, since she can perfectly sense the main snipers problems of wind/humidity/airpressure.
why the hell joker vs butcher? it won’t be a good match
i seriously propose jack slash vs joker, them names both start with J, both good with slashing knife, disemboweling people just to make a point. Both is mutty nutty enough to bring an end to a world
how’s that a match???? rematch pleaseeeeee
Joker is (technically) a normal, so Jack can’t necessarily cheat in a showdown with him, but Jack has the range that Joker does not. I’m not seeing much of a fight here.
Joker has been known to use guns or other ranged weapons. And part of what makes him deadly in a fight is that he is so damn unpredictable. Drop the two of them into a arena with no knowledge of each other, only that the other one is very dangerous, and you would see a pretty ugly fight with Joker almost certainly losing. Let them have knowledge of each other, and it might be a different story. Foreknowledge would really only help Joker, because all you could tell Jack is “He’s a normal, but extremely capable in a fight, not to mention absolutely insane but effective in a fight. He is literally unpredictable in a fight.” One of the Batgirls nearly got her ass handed to her once by Joker, because she was an awesome fighter who could read body language and know exactly what the enemy was planning to do. She literally couldn’t read Joker, and he was beating her pretty badly.
Joker’s tactics always make sense at the end, to those that know the whole history of the engagement – if they are very intelligent. But while everything is unraveling, even Batman is frequently confused and surprised by Joker, and Jack’s no Batman.
My thought was that Jack would either stab Joker as soon as he saw him, or try to recruit him to the Nine. Joker’s very cavalier with his own life, so I don’t think he would have thought that Jack might do that.
If Joker were as cavalier with his own life as he seems to be, he would be dead by now, many times over. He is mad, but that madness is thinly stretched over an amazing genius, a warped mind nearly equal to Batman’s, with no morality at all. He and Jack have a lot in common. Jack would probably win a straight up fight, or a fight if they were dropped into a room and forced to fight. But if Joker knew anything about Jack’s powers before the fight, and had been given time to prep, then it would be in Joker’s favor. Jack wouldn’t have Siberian to save him.
That really sounds like your selling Taylor short Farmerbob1. I mean you make it sound like she’s just going to let herself get webbed up, carried off doing nothing more than sending bugs after him, and wait patiantly for him to come back with help. This is freaking Taylor, she beats people who are perfectly suited to stop her power all the time. A fullbody outfit isn’t much help. Spidey’s suit isn’t anything tough, it’s regular material. Her bugs can get through that. I know from painful experience some bugs can sting even though blue jeans without too much trouble.
And yeah, he’s got a spider-sense. And about 2 minutes after meeting him Taylor is going to know it. Because Spider-Man loves to talk about his powers. And you know what? Taylor is really good at figuring powers out. She’s going to start experimenting with her swarm to figure out the limitations. It reacts to threats? She’ll make herself the least threatening thing. She’ll attack from multiple directions, with layered threats to figure out the limitations on the spider sense. Heck the Spot kicked Peter’s ass the first time he showed up because Peter couldn’t correctly predict and avoid his attacks, and he’d just gotten his powers, and he was a scientist who wasn’t in great shape. She’ll use everything she’s got, and everything she can find. Taylor is a genius at figuring out strategy and tactics on the fly. Peter isn’t smart, but he can be a bit cocky, and he can and does mess up. Peter has lost first encounters with a lot of his foes, many of whom were lame compared to Taylor in both powers, and mental ability.
And even if he gets her webbed up and is able to run from her swarm, Taylor can use that. She has that time to think. To plan. And can Spidey really carry her at 80 mph? He’s either going to have to carry her webbed up under one arm, and be webswinging one handed, or he has to strap her to his back.
And finally, Peter isn’t Superman. He doesn’t normally bend steel beams. He might be able to do bars but beams would take him time. And about finding a bug free place… Well it’s not just one room that has no bugs in it. It has to be big enough to encompase Taylor’s whole range. Otherwise, bugs will be breaking in, cutting the power, tripping the fire alarm, whatever. Remember what happened when they were holding her in PRT headquarters? And if Peter can get help, whats to keep Taylor from bringing in her own allies to spring her?
I think Peter can take Taylor in a fight (Although he is the sort to say “Meh, I can take her.”) but it would be very hard for him, and she’d more than likely escape. And honestly Peter isn’t as good at plans as she is. I still remember that he once had an anti-Hulk plan that went “Just keep away from him until he gets tired and turns back into Banner.”
Maybe I am selling Taylor short, but I don’t think so. Spiderman is as confident as he is because he’s that good. Sure, he’s been taken out before, but he’s fought thousands of villains with powers ranging from Galactus to street thugs. His sheer experience is going to make it extremely difficult for Taylor to surprise him at all. He’s actually fought a villain completely made of bees before (Swarm), as well as Sandman who has just as much control over sand as Taylor has over insects. Or Electro who can control electricity, for that matter. The instant Spiderman figured out who she was, she would be unconscious and strapped to Spiderman’s back as he webs around keeping ahead of the swarm and figuring out how to keep her somewhere until he can arrange for a permanent solution to the swarm thing.
And yes, spider man can bend rails of a gauge used for mine carts. He can probably bend full up railway rails, but since he can only bench press around 25 tons, his ability to shape railway rails would probably be crude.
He doesn’t have to keep bugs away from Taylor, he has to keep her in one place until he gets back with bug repellant, or whatever, and while bugs can destroy steel, rock and concrete over time, it wouldn’t be a matter of a few minutes or hours for them to free her.
Worm capes, with few exceptions, are not powerful on par with top tier comic superheroes, and Spiderman is definitely a top tier comic hero.
This isn’t really a conversation to be having here though, sorry for the thread hijack.
I think Peter can take her, but it won’t be easy. And I can see her escaping. And remember, in Worm, the main power often isn’t as useful as the secondary aspects.
Wait, if Peter can bench press 25 tons, how was he late for his wedding because a fat man fell on him? Oh yeah, Joe Q.
Peter Parker might be capable of taking on Taylor.
Problem is, the current Spider-man is Otto Octavius, who swapped minds with Peter while his own body was dying after an attempt to fry the world. He took over Peter’s life, tried to date Mary Jane, and beat Peter in a battle in the center of the mind by somehow being a better person than Peter Parker.
If that last part sounds like absolute idiocy, that’s merely a sign of your ability to read and comprehend English.
So, yeah, Spider-man lost and Doc Ock won. The so-called Superior Spider-man versus Taylor? I give that one to Taylor every time. Especially as Ock has turned Spider-man into the hero that murdered a serial killer in front of everyone.
My guess in how it goes down, he’d try and kill Taylor. Taylor, acting in self defense, fills his lungs with hornets, then carves out his eyes.
To be fair, unless you’re Thor or Wolverine, “keep away from Hulk until he turns back into Banner” is pretty much the only plan that doesn’t end up with you beginning a new career as a meat pancake.
*looks at the follow-on thread* Oh God, you monster! Look what you started!! xD
Thoughts about these matchups that (I think) haven’t been hit already:
* Dr Manhattan would be a better match for Scion than The Sentry is.
* Alexandria vs Superman: It’s hard to know how power levels compare between the universes, but I’m giving it to Supes because as far as I know, Alexandria isn’t strong enough to tow a freaking *planet*!
* Taylor vs Spidey is a whack combo. Aside from both being insect-themed teen heroes, it’s a complete mismatch. The problem is that there aren’t really any other characters like Taylor out there.
* Butcher vs the Joker is completely unbalanced (I agree with whoever said Butcher kills Joker and then the real loser is *everybody*). Deadpool would be a closer match, but even then…
Proposed New Matchups:
* Eidolon vs Dr Fate/Dr Strange
* Legend vs Green Lantern
* Alexandria vs Wonder Woman (Wonder Woman seems a better match than Superman – very powerful without being as truly *insane* in raw strength).
* Siberian (and/or Crawler) vs The Hulk
* Uber and Leet vs the Great Lakes Avengers
* Weld vs Colossus
I’d love to put Chevalier up against someone, but can’t come up with a good match.
Most of your fights are pretty close,to the point I cannot truly say.However,I’ll try with some
Dr Manhattan vs Scion would lose.Dr Manhattan is only semi omnipotent in one universe,and he is controlled by is future actions,so he can lose.Really,excuse me for not keeping myself in marvel/DC only,but only a universe destroyer has a chance vs Scion,at least until we find his weak point later,and as for a full Worm (Scion is a weakened one) the only not omnipotent and above multiple universes character (like,say,the one above all,or Demonbane)who can beat him is Lord English,and thats only because he has more firepower AND another I win superpower,and ,I am frightened to say this,but I am still not sure he would win in a straight battle,he wuld much more likely ,just destroy the multiverse the Worms reside in.
Intentional magic beats random superowers,even after Eidolon’s power up,and Dr Strange is the strongest magician.Still,I give him 7 out of 10 wins,because Eidolon’s ability is OP
Green Lantern’s powers operate kinda strangely,I’d say depends on which green lantern.
Wonder Woman would win if she were to capture Alexandria in the lasso of truth…but Alexandria,were she to not succumb to hubris,can probbably win by her superior intellect.
Crawler vs the Hulk:Crawler,because while he would never overpower the Hulk,the Hulk is too dumb to insta destroy him,so despite the Hulk bein magnitudes stronger,Crawler would find himself in heaven,being continuously hurt by an even stronger force,while Hulk would keep getting madder,so,in a sense,the Crawler would gain from such a scenario,the Hulk would only get madder (but seriously,one random hit from Hulk could atomize Crawler,it depends a lot to the ratio)
siberian vs the Hulk:depends,but I’d say the Hulk.I doubt Siberian would be able to hurt him,and he would eventually get strong enough to accidentally destroy the city they fight on,jkilling Manton
Havent read enough comics with GLA or Colossus to say about the last two,nor was I instructed with internet osmosis,like with WW to make a guess anyway.
The last two segments gave off really well the impression of being trapped in a rioting underground prison.
I also retract my IRC bitching about not understanding where the stairwells were. I’m still unclear about a couple of points, but I got the general idea, and that was explained without exposition.
For the story itself, we have a difference in aggression between Cauldron capes and Trigger capes. So far I can think of some different ways why this is so.
– the dead whale did not really have the time to set her shards permanently on “hate” like the Scion whale did (I’ll hereby refer to Scion’s shards as “Howdyshards”)
– the dead shared are… well, dead. So they cannot influence anything, and Cauldron’s serum includes some sort of middleware to get the host and the zombieshard connected
– the dead whale, the mugger whale or both have a plan, and not setting your shards permanently on hate is part of it.
So, the obvious conclusion is that, using the hosts as pawns, we are assisting to the biggest FPS ever invented, zombie shards vs robots set permanently on hate (aka howdyshards).
It also doubles as a practical joke from the mugger whale.
… if I had to guess, I’d say Satyr and his team were under some kind of mind-control directives, similar to what Dragon was under before. The kind you’re aware of and can kind of work around if you’re clever and rules-lawyerey enough.
Maybe someone programmed them to hit the Doctor themselves. Maybe all the Case-53s and Cauldron capes are under this compulsion. Maybe Scion has a reason other than the obvious for being where he is and doing what he’s doing, the way he’s doing it.
– I think it’s been confirmed that Satyr got the proper dose of the Division formula, the properly balanced version of what Noelle got. The clones are tougher than normal? Yeah.
– possibly, Screamer is/was a Cauldron cape given the similarities between her power and Leonid’s.
– oh right. Leonid. Lion. Roar. Sound powers. I get it.
– Heh. Masterminds.
– the fuck is going on with Imp?
– Rachel has fully come into her own. Love how she shut down his slick bullshit.
– poor poor Sveta. Least she’s alive for now.
Had the same thought regarding Screamer and Leonid. We know that Cauldron can mix formulas so maybe Leonid ot something extra for the Mover power? Maybe Jaunt, the same one Trickster got?
I just had this thought, if Scion was killing all of the cases-53 then does that mean that Weld is dead? It’s not like he could move from where he was, and if anything Scion can be very carefull with his murdering. It would be horrible for Sveta to survive only to later realize that Weld is dead.
Lung as a character vexes me so much. When he was introduced, he seemed to be a rather self-centered warlord with no positive intentions. For the first few arcs, he was about as pure of a villain as you could get. But now, he’s running alongside Taylor’s group, even after she’s told the group “If you come, there’s no way out. This isn’t even a hail mary, it’s a hope that there’s maybe something we can do. A chance buried in a chance.” He’s fought Scion and held his own for a bit, but he’s got to know that he has less chance of winning against him than he does an Endbringer. He’s even fought Leviathan to a standstill, but became rather fatalistic in dealing with them after that. What the heck even motivates this guy at this point? He’s definitely not a nice guy, but he does not strike me at all as any sort of altruist or heroic sort. It’s like he is operating on some sort of inscrutable honor system that only he understands.
He’s pretty clear to me. He’s a warrior first and foremost. He’s Sun Tzu plus Crawler plus a purer form of the survival of the fittest philosophy that Sophia wishes she could aspire to. Why did he follow Taylor? Because she promised to fight everyone who gets in her way. He just wants to fight. That’s what he sees as the most honest and pure way to live. I’m a little surprised he didn’t stop here and make a stand against Scion, but I guess he knows that’s not going to turn out any better than the last time he tried it, so he’s venturing into the unknown to see if there are new and interesting challenges. Maybe he’s looking forward to fighting the Numbers Men, Pretendxandria, and/or Contessa.
Come to think of it, following Taylor does ultimately put all of his enemies in the same room together… I didn’t really think about that until now.
Uhmm, no it doesn’t. It puts Taylor, Doctor Mother (is she even on Lung’s list?) and MAYBE Contessa (man will Lung be pissed if the Irregulars really did manage to kill her) in the same room . Teacher is still doing his stuff and the Simurgh only wiped out one sub-division of the Yangban.
That’s true. I forgot about the Yangban for some reason. I don’t really recall him having any serious beef with Teacher though.
Lung being Lung, he put Teacher on his “to kill” list for having the gall to suggest getting a power-up in exchange for his free will.
Yeah, and when you think about it, that’s not much different from what the Yangban tried to do to Lung. I could definitely see that as a berserk button for him.
True in the short term. I have a feeling that Lung is expecting that Taylor will, if she lives long enough, find her way around to taking on both of those groups for the sole reason of them interfering with the end-of-the-world truce. Call it a reasonable expectation that Lung might be more loyal to her than even Theo, at least until all of his OTHER enemies are dead. Afterward, she should be running.
Nah. He should be considering which body part he’s least attached to.
Allan on November 6, 2019 at 17:39 said:
He can simply regenerate that. Duh!
well probably his interaction with Marquis and Panacea contributed to his growth of persona? well, they spent more or less two years in unconventional site, which is Birdcage, of course their interactions with each other conveys to more than just behavioral change, hell, even Lung himself, said that marquis is the man with ‘substance’, so of course that told us something
Layers within layers.
Seems like everyone is surprised over and oeuvre again by Imp’a vocabulary. I am wondering if they forget about when she fades out and that intensifies their surprise.
Or not. Enough flagging. I am curious where it goes.
And I wonder if garrote needs the container to live or to keep from killing others.
Judging by the panicked response to Imp trying to open it amidst them, I’m pretty sure it keeps her from killing.
Well Satyr states Sveta has a pretty high body count. And I believe it. Sad thing is I’m sure the poor girl never wanted to kill anyone. It was established that her tendrils act independant of her will and crush things that cause her stress… And right now I imagine she’s pretty stressed.
well Satyr stated some theory that natural trigger events, fucks with the host mind. Meanwhile, cauldron vials may fucks with host exterior appearance or body parts
If we simply goes according to satyr’s theory, well, sveta may only be the one that we know fucked twice over, mind and body? That, or her body parts somehow gained individual awareness apart from sveta’s own awareness, well that’s still fucked, a lot
I see Sveta’s actions in a similar manner to what Taylor is going through. Taylor’s passenger often goes out of its way to do things without Taylor’s conscious input. I think it might be like that for Sveta, her passenger taking actions on her behalf with the tendrils.
She can’t control her tentacles, remember? It’s a control measure.
Well, it’s more that she can’t control her instincts. She’s incredibly prone to anxiety attacks, and her instinctive reaction to anxiety is to cling/crush. Disturbingly understandable, really.
We saw her earlier on in an asylum, she was kept in a special room. Her tendrils tend to crush things reflexively. Even when she doesn’t want them to. She nearly killed the doctor by accident, even inside the special suit designed to protect against her ability. Considering that she’s worked up over Weld’s condition and unsure if he’s still alive, and we know she was being shaked-and-baked by a fire-powered cape a short while ago, releasing her would be BAD. She would kill anyone within reach of her, quickly. with the possible exception of Lung.
Thing is, the fact that she’s scared she’ll crush things is something else that compels her to crush things. The more she worries she’ll kill someone, the more her body would try to.
Mysteries!
Thanks to Skitter’s reaction after Satyr asked Rachel, I can’t help but think that Taylor spilled the beans to the PRT/Protectorate about how Rachel’s powers affected her mind. If she did, why would she?
Glassware on October 1, 2013 at 13:41 said:
Taylor and Tattletale agreed waaaay back when they figured this out that Rachel shouldn’t know about that aspect of her powers, because her dogs were the only good thing in her life at that point and if she found out that the power that let her understand them was also responsible for basically ruining any chance she had at normal human interaction, she’d take it badly.
I guess Rachel was stronger than they thought. 😉
Or she already figured that out. Somehow.
Oh yea, I forgot about that.
Since that point, Rachel has had human interaction. Perhaps not ‘normal’ human interaction by our standards, but she’d started to work her way through it two years ago.
letseveryonemorality on October 1, 2013 at 17:58 said:
I think it’s less than she was stronger than they thought, and more that her interactions with her friends gave her the strength she needed to face that truth.
He talks. She doesn’t like those kinds of talkers and maybe she’s learned not to care so much what they say.
I don’t think it’s really sensitive information unless they go right out to say it to Rachel’s face. Maybe she decided to help the heroes put together a dossier to prevent the heroes from fucking up any interactions with her. Or maybe some caped shitiot said something dickheaded about her and Taylor ripped him a new one.
Either way, Rachel’s smarter than she looks (preferring dogs over humans being a pretty good indicator) I think she’d be able to put two and two together.
Like she’s proven before, Rachel is not dumb. Her mind is at least normal human intelligence, it’s just more in tune with dog instincts than human ones. It would amaze me more if she hadn’t figured out for herself after several years why she’s different.
Damn I can’t recall exactly who, but at some point Taylor is talking to a Protectorate hero, and defending her friends. When they bring up Rachel, she outright says to them Rachel’s powers messed her head up.
I think you’re thinking about the time Alexandria was threatening to arrest/kill the Undersiders and Taylor considered telling her that Rachel’s powers messed up her mind so Alexandria wouldn’t use lethal force.
Personally I haven’t been reading the comments until now, but am I the only one wondering if Doctor Mom is either A the failed creation of Scion’s “partner” or B the returned third Worm?
A couple points to consider are that she is apparently powerless yet entirely involved and has been since the very begining. This leads me to wonder because we can clearly see that “dead” shards have been successfully merging with people. Could a dead version of Scion have merged with someone? It would explain the title of Doctor Mom, explain why she apparently has a nearly endless supply of powers to hand out, (all the power that the worm had intended to keep for itself but which are not active in the host), why she perhaps knows what is happening in the big picture and the steps shes trying to take to deal with it.
I am fairly certain that she either merged with the corpse of Scion’s mirror or has access to the body. What I’m curious about however are three things. The least being Dinah Alcot, I just wish we could see more of her because she’s said and shown some things so far in the past to set up the future, possibly the only future where things might work out.
The second. Are Doctor Mom, Dinah, other precogs intentionally trying to work things out so that there can be a second Worm grown from the ashes to calm Scion or to end him.
The next being Coil and Skitter. Both were specifically mentioned as being the only hope. Now it could be that their particular passengers are importaint, as certainly Taylor’s is, or is it more what they are doing? If it were as simple as their propensity towards drawing hero’s and villains to work together as it seems on the surface why couldn’t they offer any assistance, even behind the scenes assistance. From conversations in the past, including Accord’s internal thoughts it appears that if Cauldron were to explicitly aid or even interfear with the actions of either, Coil or Taylor it would ruin them for purposes of saving anything/everything.
To my mind that says that it is more than just their ability or propensity to build groups, alliances, connections what have you between groups, but that they each have within them the possibility of forming the nucleous of a new Worm. We already know that Taylor “budded” after 3 months as a parahuman, and if that isn’t the sign of new life for creatures such as these worms I’m not sure what is.
Doctor Mother being the avatar of an Entity was an old theory that got brought up now and then, but I think her interlude sort of sunk that one. Personally I’m more and more convinced that she was a just a front for Contessa, maybe even without knowing.
As for Coil and Taylor, I think that this arc made it clear that they were a social experiment on how successful parahuman feudalism/rule could be.
Everything Cauldron has done to this point, they’ve ascribed to getting more resources with which to fight Scion. Trusting in Coil and then Skitter is part of this – another high-caliber faction who’s gathering forces and power. As for why they wanted to stay in the background, they wanted to steer clear of Scion for as long as possible.
I don’t think that I can personally accept this argument. The could easily have assisted her or coil more than they did if all they were after is another force against Scion. But they really did stress the hands off aspect. Somehow when reading the Accord sections it seemed to me that actually killing her would be less problematic to some crytpic end goal then helping her.
Something along the paradigm of a ‘test’ where she needs to do something for herself without interfearance or the results would be spoiled and unuseable, which if the goal is to create a viable second worm could be reasonable.
If instead she was just part of a social experiment on, can Capes rule? That attitude fits a bit better. But again I would say that they stressed her importaince more than that, that her independant action was more importaint than a small scail test of parahuman rule.
They stressed the hands-off approach because they were addicted to complexity, secrecy, and being the ones with all the answers. Besides, they weren’t exactly beholden to any one force (in fact, what they wanted was one of 2 extremes: stalemate (to preserve more forces) or overwhelming victory by one side (before the conflict dragged on too long and killed more capes than necessary)).
The thing that I find interesting is that Glaistig Uluine described Doctor Mother as “A living prop.” I don’t think Doctor Mother is an avatar of a Worm entity, but she may be a pawn or agent.
I also don’t think reviving the counterpart or making a new one to calm Scion down is the best idea. Remember. if the cycle hadn’t been interuppted, in 300 years every earth would be destroyed when the cycle is complete. The cycle by it’s very nature makes the Worm’s deadly to any world they go to.
I thought she was a living prop in the sense that she may think of herself as important, and she may very well be, but in the end she is still just a normal human. Remember Glaistig was using a metaphor where the parahumans were actors and Scion was director, writer and actor at the same time.
finally got my Bitch picture colored 🙂 http://undersiders.deviantart.com/art/Bitch-392852232 thanks drunkfu
Doesn’t match my personal vision, but it is good.
Personally my favorites are the Crawler and Mannequin pictures. They define the characters for me.
ohhh im always curious about folks personal visions for the characters , tell tell !
Note, I do not fully remember what description’s she’s had, so yours might be closer.
Auburn hair is canon, though for some inexplicable reason I imagine her as a dirty blond with no justification what so ever to my memory. I kind of think of her as less masculine because it’s her natural look and more distorted by lifestyle. Highly muscular because she works at it rather than a more naturally heavy build. Like, slightly off muscle proportions because of uneven exercise and diet. I’d have a more blemished face and hair that clearly wasn’t well treated.
Wildbow’s description is definitely a face like yours, but it isn’t quite what is in my head. I see it more as feminine but ravaged than masculine.
Hm, mostly I think the picture’s just more stylized than I was expecting. Looking at descriptions of Bitch you captured her very well. Also, my knowledge and ability of drawing is limited but I suspect the different things I’m thinking of would be really hard to draw.
I like it, especially after looking closer and doing a bit more research on Bitch’s physical description.
my in my head vision of her mirrors yours alot actually 🙂 but yeah my in head version of people rarely matches the written text . I’ll draw my inhead version then someone will send me descriptions and I end up having to erase everything 😛
Don’t forget the poor feet! They’ve been through so much. WagtheDog needs to look after her Bitchy-poo with some foot massages.
randomsoul2 on October 1, 2013 at 23:33 said:
So it just occurred to me how much of a shame it is that Bitch isn’t more polite.
Because if she were, anytime someone called her Hellhound, she could respond with “Bitch, please.”
And then everyone would laugh and laugh until Scion murdered them all.
Re: Satyrical/Pretender.
Satyrical may have fallen in love with Pretender no matter what body. Pretender just probably brushed it off as his friend being a flirty bisexual whose powers involve studying a person’s body (secondary power to his ability to create body doubles).
And so much angst probably ensued with Satyr unable to convince Pretender, unable or unwilling to keep pressing the issue, and probably getting involved with the occasional cheap substitute for the friend he really cared for.
Looks like our resident troll has decided to go after Worm over at Web Fiction Guide. You can tell because he’s still claiming rape. I’m not one to censor free speech, but the guy’s basically taken it upon himself to libel the story either for no reason or because he’s a little on the dumb side. Probably for no reason, or “for the lulz” as some people say.
Axel some helpful advice when you use sock-puppets: if you quote yourself word for word, changing alt and saying you aren’t Axel is pretty useless.
Sorry for the double post, but I just realised that claiming that Taylor raped Triumph is like saying that Vlad the Impaler is the greatest serial rapist in history.
If you want to shut him down, the best thing you could probably be doing is to go to where he is posting these reviews, and openly point out his sock puppet trolling and give a history of his behavior. Go to TV Tropes and post about his behavior on the review comments, as well as any place else he’s spreading his lies. The worst thing you can do is be silent about it and let his review stand unmarred.
Also, it would help to create your own reviews about the series. Right now on TV Tropes, his review is listed as the most recent and the one people see first when they try to look at the reviews. I’ve been working on writing a review myself, but have not had the time to post it. I encourage everyone who loves the series to post a positive review everywhere they can. Drown out the troll’s voice in a sea of positive comments!
I just posted a new review to knock him off the top spot. I’d like to think it’s fairer.
It is a lot fairer. It treats the work based on its merits, pointing out both the good and the bad without embellishing either. It’s quite honest.
BTW, are you RobinZimm from that comment thread? Or is that someone else here?
That would be the noble Packbat.
As Wildbow said, yep, that’s me. For whatever reason, when I made my TV Tropes account, I had the site in the “use your RL name or a variant thereof” category.
The newest absurd comparison to join the Authority and the Boys? Marquis De Sade. Yeeeep.
Actually, if he’s so into twisting things to claim rape, why didn’t he say anything about the unconstitutional invasive strip search done on Taylor? Or what happened to Dragon? Not saying those are rape, but they’re a lot more rapey than what happened to Triumph.
Huh, it’s almost as if someone’s using rape as a rhetorical bludgeon.
Honestly there are a lot of much worse violations in worm that what Taylor did to Triumph. What Saint and Teacher did to Dragon. What Coil did to Dinah. What Bonesaw did to a lot of people. Seems like he decided to go through and cherry pick the thing that could legally be called rape that Taylor did, because she’s not like Superman or Batman. So yeah, he went looking for more straw.
>The newest absurd comparison to join the Authority and the Boys? Marquis De Sade. Yeeeep.<
Funny how his review brings up the Boys. The Boys is Garth Ennis screaming about how awful Superheroes are and how he doesn't like them (and you don't need to read much of Ennis stuff before you pick that up) and looking to make them seem as bad as possible. Axel's review is just him doing the same thing about Worm.
I put up my own review. So for the moment that's on top.
The Boys is more than just screaming. Much more. And that much more shows just how different it is from Worm.
Don’t forget the part in The Boys where a guy swipes vaginal mucus off the penis of the male prostitute brought in for the Wonder Woman expy so he can mix it with the drugs he shoots up with. No, no, that doesn’t sound like Worm. What about the heroine who wants to join the top-tier superteam being told that before she can, she has to drop to her knees and blow all the men on the team. Or how the giant crossover crisis is just so the heroes and villains can go have a giant orgy/awards ceremony called Herogasm where they yell at an old man hero to piss himself on stage who can’t remember if he fought the Nazis or the blacks.
Or the blatant hostility towards the Captain America expy. I doubt Garth Ennis was actually there to participate in WW2, but you know who was? Captain America, serving as both an attempt to get people to want to fight Nazi Germany when the U.S. either wanted to remain isolationist or had some people holding their own Nazi rallies, and to sell war bonds to support the U.S. effort. That makes him more of a war veteran than Garth Ennis.
I’ve actually read The Boys. As you may have noticed from the above paragraphs, Worm is not nearly like The Boys. Worm doesn’t even have the Ironman expy developing a brain tumor that causes him to spontaneously feel an overwhelming urge to have sex with various objects around him, including his therapist’s cup of coffee.
Umm, Captain America wasn’t in WWII either, what with the whole “not actually real” thing going on. 😛 But otherwise yeah, all valid points.
Honestly, I can see validity in comparing Worm to ‘The Boys’ at a basic level – both works are deconstructions of superhero tropes in world’s where “hero” is more a PR label than anything else. But that’s pretty much where the similarities end.
I don’t have as massive a dislike for ‘The Boys’ as some people here do but it *does* have an over-reliance on often-puerile shock value just for the hell of it. Worm completely lacks that. Conversely, when horrible things happen in Worm it’s for reasons that make sense within the setting and narrative.
The Boys is also *much* more cynical than Worm. In The Boys, almost everyone is a total jerk, just because. Worm, OTOH, is full of people doing the best they can in a harsh and unforgiving setting – and many of them remain decent, if shell-shocked, people despite everything.
Worm is a serious deconstruction/reconstruction of the superhero genre. The Boys is a cynical, tongue-in-cheek, gross-out parody of the superhero genre.
Comparing Worm with The Boys is like comparing Lovecraft with tentacle porn. There may be similarities on the surface, but yeah-no.
PS. The Boys actually had quite a good story buried underneath all the puerile crap if you stuck it out to the very end. IMO, one problem with the monthly comics model is that it’s a disincentive to tight writing. I suspect The Boys would’ve been a significantly better series if Ennis had been made to cut 10-20 issues from it (four of which should be from the “Herogasm” five-parter).
http://thumbs.imagekind.com/5211644_450/Captain-America-WWII-War-Bonds_art.jpg?v=1390958880
Captain America did more in WW2 than Garth Ennis did, that’s for sure. Not to mention how often comics said to recycle themselves for the war effort back then, which is why they’re rare nowadays.
Other than that, that discussion there is a bit old. Maybe if I cared to read back through I would have a lot to say. Instead, I will say that at least you picked a good area to cut from The Boys. Garth Ennis wrote what he wrote because he hated superheroes. Wildbow writes what he writes because he likes horror stories and torturing his characters. Pardon me if I see similarities in the results.
Yeah, I realise I’m a bit late to the Worm party. Thank you for replying. And that was a good summary – Ennis seems to genuinely hate superheroes whereas Worm is a superhero setting with a horror flavour. There are surface similarities between the two: nominal superheroes do horrible things in both, for example. But that’s where the similarity ends – The Boys is as much a gross-out farce as anything else whereas Worm is a bleak but realistic (and very well thought-out!) look at where powers might come from and the dark costs attached.
I’d say it’s thought-out for its premise. A big part of how superpowered people get treated depends on the source and on when they start showing up. If powers had begun to show up only in recent times with the war on terror and surveillance state, things would be a lot darker. Compare that to general depictions of WW2 era or even before then. Go back far enough with them and they’re not as much of a threat. Then they’re more of an other aspect of life.
Plus, the main threat is the same being that makes superpowers possible in all this, which definitely affects how you think about all this, and somewhat retroactive justifies irrational fears and hatred toward those with powers merely because they are different. When the source of powers is something that can be likened to race relations (mutants), some old myths coming back (Thor and Hercules) or as a cautionary tale about science (the Hulk, Spider-Man) then that all colors what the story is about. Worm wouldn’t have worked with the X-Men even if the source of the powers hadn’t themselves been so central to the story.
I can’t say I’m entirely against the idea of gross-outs or farce either, and I think people who like my funnier comments would agree. I just don’t use them to the same effect.
And while I don’t remember everything at Worm very well, I’ve been able to see your responses every time I check in on my own site. You probably wouldn’t care for it. A bit closer to The Boys than Worm in writing, though definitely not in heart. I guess some people should have been careful what they asked for when they wanted me to start too.
I’ve enjoyed the Psycho Gecko stories you’ve posted in the comments, and yours is one of a number of web serials I’m looking forward to checking out once I’ve finally finished Worm. (Pact being another one, of course. 🙂 ).
From what I’ve read of it, I wouldn’t call your work similar to The Boys in no small part because you’re obviously having fun with it, where Ennis is obviously getting off on being vitriolic and nasty.
At one point I caught up on Pact, but I don’t think my heart was quite in it as much. Maybe I’ll go back, but I’d rather not force comedy. It’s got all the Wildbow trademarks, though.
As for mine, it’s a good example of “Your Mileage May Vary”.
Well, I like your stuff so far. And you never know: I might start posting stories of a completely different (sub?) genre in *your* comments once I get around to reading it. 😉
Braver folks than you might have tried and then given up. I don’t know. I don’t get a lot of comments. Though one person was nice enough to do a short fanfiction that I enjoyed. Someone else even started a TV Tropes page. Or maybe that was the same person. I’d have to look it up.
But beware! Once seen, some things cannot be unseen! Like Christopher Lloyd in a thong, they will prance merrily about your imagination and Fester.
Also, for everyone who was involved in the Ben Affleck as Batman discussion, I have uncovered a message from Batman himself regarding the whole thing:
You might also check out their Superpowered Beatdowns that includes a Batman versus Deadpool and Superman versus Thor.
They also have their own good stuff with Batman: City of Scars and a couple of other bat-projects.
I think I might have a crush on a non-existent girl made of exposed organs and tentacles that try to kill people if she gets stressed.
[posting this before Psycho Gecko has the chance]
Careful or your crush may crush YOU.
[groans in 3…2…1…]
Yeah, I don’t crush on her, but I kind of see having a huge amount of sympathy for the girl.
She’s a classic Woobie. She doesn’t want to crush anyone who gets near her. She just can’t control her body. And of course that makes her even more nervous about bieng near people, and that makes her body crush more… I mean imagine her life. She wakes up somewhere with no memory. She’s a monster. To her horror, she starts killing people, because she can’t control her body. She may have been hounded by the authorities before they figured out her condition. She got put in an instatution, where at least she wasn’t hurting people, but her human contact was limited. Then her hero comes along. He saves her from that. She can just wrap herself around his arms, and everyone is safe because she can’t hurt him. He gives her hope, he gives her a places. They are even going to get answers for why this was done to them. They are going to bring those responsible to justice. Then she and her hero get betrayed and tourtured by their team because they weren’t monster enough in the end. Poor girl.
Hopefully once she figured this out she would have screamed it out loud and clear to anyone she saw approaching, which could have expedited the PRT-prosecution–>parahuman institution process (given what we know of the PRT, probably unlikely, but still).
Even with Sveta screaming warnings, I ballpark that about 10 or 15 PRT guys got themselves killed trying to cuff her before they figured it out.
I suspect it didn’t work quite that well. Her problem was a terribly out of wack fight or flight response. I doubt she had that much control before she was close enough that it was too late.
*opens up an envelope to reveal a card that reads “Sad to be single on Valentine’s day? Don’t feel bad. I hear someone has a crush on you.” with Imp holding a heart-shaped box. On the inside, it has her opening it, revealing a scared Garotte coiling around screaming, terrified people, and says, “See, being single on Valentine’s isn’t all bad. Happy Single’s Awareness Day!”
Everyone has covered all of the other points quite admirably, but one thing seems to have been overlooked.
** Canary tentatively stepped on Leonid’s right hand. Rachel’s dogs got his legs. He screamed, and that sound wasn’t muted. **
Canary stepped up and actually participated in a fight!
There may be hope for humanity yet….. Or not.
Roths on October 3, 2013 at 16:50 said:
“It’s you natural triggers”
Couldn’t make sense of this (it’s late) should it say “your”?
He’s referring to people who triggered naturally (rather than via Cauldron) as ‘natural triggers’. For example, Taylor, Bitch, Imp etc. are natural triggers. Canary and Garrote aren’t.
Hence “It’s you natural triggers that tend to get a little bent in the head”.
So what does this chapter start off with? Utter comic gold. What is Taylor’s response to being told she’s doing a crazy mastermind thing? Ask which one! Oh that’s so perfect. I feel so bad for the Chicago Wards having to work with someone who routinely does several different crazy mastermind actions! Those poor poor kids.
Oh Rachel, such a massive turnaround from the first meeting. Going all the way from attacking Taylor at first smell to attacking anyone who insults Taylor. That’s a bff right there. Amazing that Bitch has basically become a cuddly puppy. Well, to her friends at least.
Okay I don’t quite understand the Vegas guys either. Not wanting to be the people who doom humanity I get but that’s not what he was talking about with love. In love with Pretender? Sure I get that and am not surprised but I still fail to see how that has any relevance on killing Doctor Mother. Shadow Stalker on the other hand does not surprise me in the least with running away. I’m more surprised that she stayed until the last moment honestly.
I love this girl. 😀
The past two chapters have felt like filler. Unnecessary deviations that don’t get to the point. A lot of back and forth without much developmental substance.
Shay on September 13, 2016 at 21:05 said:
So now we know why Scion was disgusted by Eidolon. He got his powers from Cauldron instead of being chosen by the entity. He’s one of the false children
Patrick Weston on July 19, 2018 at 17:33 said:
This is the most annoying and most pointless chapter in the entire book. I almost gave up on the entire work after reading this chapter.
Again, a little bit hard to understand what they are doing.
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Chapter 31: The plot thickens (3)
Paladin Arcurio frowned. He had been searching for the heretic for weeks and while he had occasionally felt a vague aura, he had yet to truly locate his target. He had prayed to Tihr on several occasions in recent days but his god never responded to his prayers. He recalled when Tihr first spoke with him over two months ago and informed him of a heretic who would be coming to the city. Tihr had provided him with very limited information and only said that he would be able to sense the aura of the heretic and that the heretic must be killed.
He wasn’t sure why his god had provided him such vague information. He knew nothing of the capabilities of the heretic other than that he should be able to kill him with the resources available to him. He was well aware that Tihr, his subordinate gods and his allies were in conflict with other deities and that a major conflict was brewing but he wasn’t high enough in the heirarchy or important enough to know the specifics. Due to this, he was the most powerful being available to the Church of Tihr within the city of Andor’s Edge at the moment and it was left to him to resolve this issue.
“Didn’t you say that they would be arriving here just past midnight? We have already been waiting here for hours. I am beginning to grow impatient.”
Knight-captain Krist shuddered at the Paladin’s words which were laced with annoyance.
“Sir, I was assured that they would definitely be coming this way. Those petty criminals would never have the courage to lie to us. With the city gates being watched by our men, there is no way the heretic could escape the city any other way. They will surely be here soon!”
Knight-captain Krist spoke with conviction but it was difficult for him to hide the anxiousness in his heart. He had bet everything on this plan and if the heretic he sought didn’t show it would be the end of his career, perhaps even his life.
Paladin Arcurio frowned with annoyance, “Fine, we will continue to wait but if he doesn’t show within the next hour then you will take responsibility for this mistake. Is that clear?”
“Yes sir! He will definitely come!” Knight-captain Krist pounded his gauntlet against his fist as he spoke.
“Are your men in position? If he does arrive, there can be no mistakes.”
“Don’t worry sir, I placed knights at every possible escape route. There is no way he will be able to escape us and with you here sir, we have no worries.”
“Hmph.. he will certainly die this day if he dares to show his face!” Paladin Arcurio snorted with contempt.
Arcurio suddenly shot a glance towards the tunnel leading to the old ruined church. The Don’s thugs had informed them that they would be leading the heretic down that path to escape into the underground tunnels and so they were waiting in a particular part of the tunnel to ambush them.
The tunnel itself wasn’t overly large but it was enough for four men to walk abreast and it stretched quite far beneath the city eventually leading outside the city itself. Underneath the city of Andor’s Edge was a labyrinth of tunnels, some of which were part of the sewage system while others were various escape tunnels or secret underground smuggling routes.
There was no one who knew the true full breadth of underground tunnels which spanned the city and the tunnels themselves were very dangerous. There were many criminals and other nefarious individuals who often used the tunnels beneath the city. Many also suspected that much of the underground labyrinth may have been ruins from an older civilization so there were even quite a few archaeological digs that took place in the past.
“What’s wrong sir?”
Seeing that Arcurio appeared to be on high alert so suddenly, Krist couldn’t help but ask.
“He’s finally arrived. I can sense his degenerate presence from here. Quickly now, let’s give the heretic a warm welcome.”
Arcurio gripped his blade and unsheathed it slowly while beginning to radiate a powerful aura. His body began to shimmer as angelic wings began to protrude from his back despite the fact that he was wearing such thick plate mail. Krist and his knights had never seen Arcurio’s angelic wings and were momentarily awed by his presence. They had heard stories, but seeing it for themselves filled them with admiration.
Krist led a squad of seven including himself and he had already stationed three of his knights led by his second down a possible escape route while the remaining three stood by his side to face the heretic alongside Arcurio. He didn’t doubt in the least that the force they had prepared would be more than enough for one heretic.
Arcurio was a mighty Paladin which was an advanced class and he was also a Nephilim. Angels were a powerful race of beings that were racially superior to Humans in many ways. Even if Arcurio wasn’t a full Angel, he still possessed some of their racial powers.
Clear footsteps reverberated off the tunnel walls echoing throughout with an occasional splash of a puddle. There was clearly more than one person approaching and they weren’t doing a very good job of keeping silent.
Tch, what carelessness.. Only a fool would walk so carelessly through these tunnels. There are many dangers within..
Knight-captain Krist sneered while standing towards one side of the tunnel which was at an obscured angle from where the footsteps were quickly approaching. Some of the knights under his command eyed him nervously but Krist reassured them with a nod and a hand gesture.
Arcurio stood clearly at the center of the path without any need to hide himself. His wings were already fully outstretched and he hovered slightly above the floor of the tunnel. The tunnel surprisingly had a bit of height to it and there remained quite a bit of room above his head despite hovering off the ground.
It was apparent that this particular tunnel was an ancient pathway and not one which was newly or haphazardly constructed. Further down the tunnel there were even many branching paths and the tunnel also grew larger the further one went down some of the pathways. The tunnel itself was somewhat well lit with patches of dark shadows here and there throughout. It had long been used by the criminals of the city to smuggle in goods which was why the Don and his men were familiar with it.
Even the authorities were aware of the many tunnels beneath the city as It was somewhat of an open secret, but even they didn’t know the length and span of the labyrinthine tunnels or where all the entrances or exits were. There had been movements in the past to fully map and explore the underground of the city but it had never gone anywhere due to the time and costs associated with such an endeavor.
After several moments, the footsteps became much clearer and shadows from the approaching figures could now be scene dancing across the walls as the figures moved between the torches fastened in iron along the tunnel walls. Even though their footsteps were loud and they did nothing to hide their approach, they were strangely quiet otherwise.
Once they reached the area of the tunnel where the knights laid in wait, Krist and his men jumped out from where they were hiding and stood behind them sealing their escape with their weapons at the ready.
“It seems some rats have shown themselves. Why not step into the light so that I can get a good look at you.”
Arcurio called out to the shadowy figures who were only somewhat illuminated by the light within the tunnel. They had stopped in a place in between the light of two torches and were only partially visible. It was obvious that there were two men and one woman but it was difficult to discern their features with certainty. Although, the occasional glint of gold made it apparent that one of the men was wearing a golden mask which fit the description of the heretic that they were made aware of.
The man with the golden mask stepped forward slightly into the light only illuminating half of his golden mask while leaving the other half still in shadows.
A somewhat raspy voice could be heard beneath the mask, “Blue cloak with white stripes over golden mail, symbol of Tihr the god of justice and courage. I believe those belong within the domain of war, a war god. You must be the Paladin Arcurio. Tsk.. Tsk.. Only a mixed breed though. You dare to stand there and look on me with disdain when you are nothing more than a reject.. a castaway. Even your own kind would have none of you!”
The man’s words greatly angered Arcurio who aggressively swung his right arm sidewards, “Silence heretic! Today you have finally landed in my hands. Your life shall be forfeit! Take off your mask and let me see your face. I shall grant you a quick death, more than your kind deserves.”
The man who stood at the forefront chuckled lightly and looked behind him before once more facing Arcurio, “Ah yes, the supposed righteousness and mercy of one who serves Justice. And these must be your subordinates? I wonder Arcurio, how much do you really know about me? Has Tihr deigned to inform you of who.. or what I am?”
“It doesn’t matter who or what you are. You are marked for death, prepare yourself!”
“Did you really think it would be so simple? You thought your plan flawless and that we were just rats caught in your net. How laughable.”
“Enough talk! Kill them!”
Arcurio swiftly flew towards the three heretics while brandishing his blade and prepared to strike out with an ability. He was hovering only a few inches off the ground but his movements were agile and quick and he had no difficulty in maneuvering within the space of the tunnel. The knights that had surrounded the targets also rushed forwards with their weapons. In their eyes, the enemy were already dead.
However, the three they had branded heretics didn’t move and as Krist moved closer he could hear the mutterings of the one with the gold mask, “3.. 2.. 1”
Krist had a sudden feeling of ill foreboding but why he couldn’t say. It was too late to stop their attack as they had already rushed forward and were in the midst of slashing downwards with their blades. The woman among the three heretics who appeared to have blonde hair suddenly rushed forward towards the knights and a loud explosion rocked the tunnel sending debris and dust everywhere.
Another fierce explosion soon followed and a haze of dust and smoke obscured the vision of Arcurio who had no time to slow his movement. A figure jumped out of the smoky haze, leaping towards Arcurio whose blade had effortlessly ripped through the chest of the masked man.
The golden mask hung loose and fell revealing the face of the heretic who was now only mere inches away from Arcurio’s own face.
“Hehehehe… big mistake.”
Arcurio had a sudden realization at that moment that the masked man was not the heretic that he was looking for.
BOOM! A third explosion rocked the once silent tunnel.
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May 1, 2019 • 3 minutes
2019-05-01 // Meme Check: It's Gonna Be Me by *NSYNC
Meme check: It’s May 1st, and the *NSYNC track “It’s Gonna Be Me” becomes a thing again for 24 hours...chartmetric.com @chartmetric #musicindustry #business #data #nerdout #analysis
Meme check: It’s May 1st, and the *NSYNC track “It’s Gonna Be Me” becomes a thing again for 24 hours
This is your Data Dump for Wednesday May 1st 2019.
Meme check: It’s Gonna Be Me
For all the 80s & 90s children out there, we knew where American superstar Justin Timberlake came from, and it’s name was *NSYNC.
The boy band extraordinaire enjoyed many a hit in their day...but none of them have risen to such internet meme-dom as the track “It’s Gonna Be Me”, off their 2000 album No Strings Attached.
According to knowyourmeme, it all started in 2012 when a Tumblr post associated the song with the beginning of said month and a picture of Timberlake in his infamous curly hair era. The meme is essentially highlighting the way the singer accented the word “me” to where it sounded like the month of “May”.
It’s enough of a thing that the American appliance company Maytag is using it in a brilliant ad campaign this year entitled- you guessed it- #itsgonnabemaytag
Since late 2017, it’s enjoyed a Spotify Popularity Index in the 60s range out of a 100 scale, which is one of *NSYNC’s more popular tracks alongside the mid-tempo “Bye Bye Bye” and ballad “This I Promise You”.
Throughout 2018, “It’s Gonna Be Me” averaged a YouTube daily view count in the 40-50K range. Around May 1st, it peaked to about 5x its norm to 260K views, and then plateaued out to its average within a few days. It currently sits at 94.7M total views.
An interesting behavior in its YouTube views is that it doesn’t exhibit the “weekend spike” that usually occurs with popular music. Its pattern actually looks quite random, which could be an interesting insight into how the public interacts with various types of hits according to release date.
Current Top 40 hits will most likely show strong weekend bumps due to their being included on the most high-profile playlists that get played over the weekend, while older catalog hits are listened to at more random intervals and less susceptible to day of week behaviors.
“It’s Gonna Be Me” lives out its legacy on various 90s and 2000s best hits playlists, the most popular one being Spotify’s “All Out 90s” at 4.2M followers with the track in the 33rd position out of 90.
On radio since Sept 2018, it’s only got a handful of daily spins among the most influential 300 US radio stations, though the NE states seem to still love the track.
The Nassau-Suffolk, New York and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania markets have both aired “It’s Gonna Be Me” 65 and 51 times over the past eight months, and that hasn’t even included May!
So if you’re looking for a social media wave to ride today, make sure you hashtag properly, because hey #itsgonnabemay
That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday May 1st 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.
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And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com.
Happy May, see you tomorrow!
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Gergen: Palin delivers
CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen
Palin addressed the RNC Wednesday.
Republicans got everything they could possibly want from Sarah Palin tonight: she was a large, confident personality - one Democratic friend ruefully wrote that she reminded him of Ann Richards - and she delivered an extremely well crafted speech. Before the speech, Republican strategists told Dana Bash of CNN that they hoped that she would show viewers "a common touch with executive presence", and she definitely succeeded at that.
Three things in particular stood out:
1. She joked that the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is ...lipstick. Clearly, in the next few weeks, she will play the role of a pit bull with lipstick. My sense is that she will very likely connect with blue collar America but may be much less successful in suburban America.
2. Her personal story is also one that will relate well to people. She has a quality of seeming like the girl next door.
3. She showed a lot of confidence in addressing energy toward the end of the speech, which gave her more substantive depth.
Now let us be clear: there will be tons of Democrats and others who will disagree with her and will take sharp exception with her views. Her jabs at Barack Obama and the Democrats were surprisingly personal at times. And she will face tough questioning ahead from the press. After all, there are still some serious questions about what kind of president she might be. We are going to have a rough and tumble race down the home stretch.
Filed under: David Gergen • Republican National Convention
RJ Koch
I am a conservative Republican that supports John McCain although I don't agree with all of his positions. I am very impressed with both Sarah Palin's speech and her conservative values. She has inspired me politically in a way that I have not felt since the days of Ronald Regan. I am very excited to see the McCain/Palin ticket win the general election and place the United States back in the driver seat as the worlds sole super power.
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She can bring home the bacon..fry it up in a pan...and never...well never mind, David.
Yes, she was impressive and showed she is not afraid to take on the Media, Washington, her opponents in the race, her enemies around the world...makes one wonder if it's confidence, naivete or an intriguing combination.
She will appeal to blue collar, and many women I believe (Gallup says only 13% of women say their candidate must agree with them on the Choice issue).
I have always been a Dem...but I can't get past Obama's dismal voting record. Just being 'present' won't cut it in the White House.
thx for letting me share a thought.
Chris Gaddy
SHRILL- So I need to be careful huh when using that word if I describe the "Shrill" Governor Palin in her deliverance of tonights speech?
If I am to take the use of the word SHRILL as condescending in describing her sarcastic stand-up comedy routine of a speech........how should I take the buttons worn in the background by her supporters at the convention that state "Hoosiers for the Hot Chick"?
Yep that is what I saw. I am sure I can roll back my dvr and show you if you like. Seriously, sexism? Let's move past that and get to the real issues.
Mrs Palin gave a good speech. I wonder if she really believe that oil overseas is very important to her party? She took a page from the other side's book and throwing their own words back at them. Bring something new to the board. The people of America is suffering and needs help, CHANGE, bashing is out and is out of style, not the same political games. The people need help and serious help. All over America people are on the streets homeless, job-less and sick and need good health care it is simple as that. These are the issues you need to impress on Americans because they will donate their money but wants results.
She was superb, authentic and a true reformer.
The press tears her apart, and then they expect her to come in and smile sweetly and say a few gratuitous, mealy-mounthed words.
She is one of the rare "straight-talking" sincere, and true reformers ever to arise on the political scene in my lifetime.
This country is faced with one of the gravest moral, economic and administrative crisis in its history.....we aren't going anywhere fast with Obama, who just wants to suffocate us with more government and more taxes.
What Palin did in Alaska, she will strive to do in this country. She is no one's fool, and she is fearless.
She is fully qualified with her depth of perception, fearlessness, mental acuity and executive competence to step into the office of President if need be....I have no doubts about that after tonight.
In fact, I think McCain did the same thing with this choice that he did when he supported the surge.....he was his own man and took an unpopular decision because he is convinced it it the best choice for this country.
History will prove him right again if Americans are wise enough to elect him.
INSANE MCCAIN!!!!
We need someone in office that can recognize the importance of those people that work to bring people together, we need someone that is "capable" of putting people "first". Who is Palin to suggest that organizers mean nothing when many organizers do so for FREE for the purpose of helping our great citizens of the US. She and McCain are so far out of touch that it is sad. She needs to stay in Alaska and stay out of the White house, 18 million people really do not want her or McCain in there. 8 more years? I say "No way, No how, NO MCCAIN"!!
CJB in CA
By ALL accounts,
PALIN hit a GRAND SLAM !!
RUDY, RUDY, RUDY !!
NObama's Experience / Qualification to be President – "NADA"
No Way, NO HOW – NADABAMA!!!
Hillary Democrat for McCAIN / PALIN '08 !!!
Where was the WOW factor?
She talked about her family, tried to make the case that being the mayor of a town of 6000 and the governor of a state of less then 700,000 qualifies her for being on the ticket and drug up the POW issue again.
No WOW, nothing really jumped out at me as having true substance.
Palin's job are twofold.
1. Drag Obama down by comparing experience with him making Mccain superior even when she is not directly Obama's opponent.
They know she does not match a thouroughly vetted Oama.
2. Set a trap for Joe Biden to take on her personal stand on conservative issues which she is against but now says are 'personal and private' because the hypocrisy is out to the public. GOP is banking on Biden to make a mistake so that they would whip emotions and win especially women's vote.
GOP knows she does not have the criteria to be in the race.
She is going to be very aggressive in drawing democrats out as a trap.
Will - OKC
I don't think Sarah Palin delivered anything but an uninspired, negative and often childish speech.
Americans are tired of the negative, snide and immature rhetoric that the Republicans are so good at. The truly horrible thing is that these people are being put forth as examples for our children. While we strive to teach them the value of tolerance, maturity and respect for others these so-called leaders get up and spout childish attacks against the Democrats with all of the gusto of a twelve year old.
Hershell
I am tired of the republicans playing politics with my country. Palin is grossly unqualified for vice president of the U.S. McCain has less than a 50/50 chance of making through a first term. For the GOP to rally around this pick knowing that our country will be in her hands is so frustrating. When will someone stand up and say this is stupid!! Have we really fallen this far that a PTA president is nominated for the most powerful position in the world. This is a joke. There are teenage mayors of town bigger than the one she led. There were more people in the stadium watching Obama's speech than she was responsible for as mayor. Give me a break!!
I can't imagine my comments will be published, but I will say this. The Republicans crossed the line and they may regret. I've never seen so many people fired up and ready to take them on. If it's a scrap they want, they might be shocked. This is not John Kerry's democratic party. It's Barack Obamas.
The democrats will have a run for their money in the closing days of this race.
Their sleazy, rude statements about Sarah Palin are simply a sign of their gross insecurity.
Shame on them for their sexist, baseless rumors and mean spirited comments about a women they wish they had, or should I say, COULD HAVE HAD (in Hillary), on their ticket.
The Dems have been caught completely flat footed in on the road to progress for women and for America.
Just listen to the talking heads in the liberal media...they are simply spinning...like half crazed idots shooting from their hips...firing off all sorts of ridiculous, irrelevant nonsense.
What a pack shallow, spineless, arogant fools!
Cheney in sheep's clothing...
So, this is the VP of the Republican party...a female Joe Biden..someone who can dish it with a smile. We'll find out if she can take it.
No pushover, but did she have to be so nasty?
cevaughn
I was completely rivted to the television. Sarah Palin was amazing, very intelligent, well spoken and really has a pulse on the American People. I will definitely vote for McCain/Palin .. I think the democrats have good reason to be concerned.
Palin speach shows what is wrong with the republican party. They spend too much energy tearing down a persons character and not enough time on presenting solutions. I think Palin speach did what the republicans wanted it to do, but also highlights the whole reason why they are going to lose this election. This whole convention is about beating a democrat for the White House and not about correcting the economy, ending the war on Iraq, creating jobs, and better the lives of the American people.
Gergen – Does 25 miles north of Boston count for suburban America...I thought she was great. Bostonians have never been afraid of tough...she spoke to America and not at America...priceless.
Insults after insults...What was the solution? I am a republican that was considering voting for McCain....regretfully i am ashamed of my party tonight! Will there ever be a Reagan again? What happened to moderate republicans....are we a dying breed?
Dawn in MN
Too bad she had to struggle with the hard words when she was talking about the unfamiliar things surrounding national security. She should really try to learn how to say "Iraq" instead of eye-rack. Did she give away secret information about where and when her son was being deployed to eye-rack. If she doesn't want the press to do there job when investigating her background, maybe she should try telling the truth instead of lies. Come on, everyone in the world knows her lie about the bridge to nowhere. Of course, as usual, she had to use sarcastic attacks against Senator Obama because the republicans don't have anything to be for. But, she will have great appeal to the extreme right wing nuts who wear republican hats instead of American hats.
Jason Kendy
I was most grossed out by the parading of her family, babies, and that poor, poor teenage boy. Will the Republicans stop at nothing in their pandering, their cynicism?
Wow, did Obama and Biden look high road-not just in tone but in actual thought--compared to this evening of base insults, lack of ideas, and old thinking. These people are freaking me out completely. I am an American abroad-last 22 years-and plan to keep it that way. "Wingnuts" doesn't come close to explaining the vile hatred these people spew.
T. Franco
Oh my gosh! She was horrible! We had such a refreshing hopeful speech in Obama who so intelligently told McSame off, and here we had a woman spewing cliches and tired, canned insults. CNN, of coursed, gushed, but I don't know why! Olbermann called her a mix of Tracey Flick from Election and Anne Richards. More like Tracey Flick and Anne Coulter. I am unimpressed and sooooo psyched about Obama. Now I know he'll win. YES WE CAN!!!!
I think it is absurd and insulting to one’s intelligence when Palin is talking about her son being deployed into Iraq. This beautiful mise en scene is fascinating to me. It is as if her son is going to be in the field where the real actions and the real dangers are. They are hidden somewhere safe, the same areas where the McCains, the Obamas and the Joseph Bidens step foot on their trips to Iraq. Do not tell me that they are putting their lives on the line for their country. Please can someone tell me the name of one son or daughter of one of these influential politicians who even get hit during a war. Educate me please!
Palin Is No Hillary
I was very dissapointed by the spectacle. The GOP wants to continue dividing this country and my fear is that people are going to fall for it once again. The end result is that we will end up doing deeper into debt, lose more jobs, lose more lives in Iraq, continue to torture people, lose more freedoms (e.g., spy on citizens) and become more isolated. The GOP likes to claim patriotism yet they continue to lie, spread fear and cater to big oil and bash fellow Americans who fight for this country and come from all backgrounds. The GOP also likes to keep religion in a pidgeon hold but GOD belongs to no political party. I think that they should be ashamed of themselves and pray for forgiveness because the Lord knows all and has the last say.
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RU2615174C2 - Method and device for displaying list of access points - Google Patents
Method and device for displaying list of access points Download PDF
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H04W48/14—Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery using user query or user detection
H04M1/72—Substation extension arrangements; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selecting
H04M1/725—Cordless telephones
H04M1/72519—Portable communication terminals with improved user interface to control a main telephone operation mode or to indicate the communication status
H04M1/72583—Portable communication terminals with improved user interface to control a main telephone operation mode or to indicate the communication status for operating the terminal by selecting telephonic functions from a plurality of displayed items, e.g. menus, icons
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FIELD: physics, computer engineering.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to electrical communication, particularly to electronic display. This can solve the problem in prior art when a terminal has scanned a large number of Wi-Fi access points, the user cannot quickly find a Wi-Fi access point to which he/she wants to access, and the goal of saving time and improving user experience can be achieved. The method includes steps of: obtaining an identifier of each of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal; making a decision on whether at least one identifier of a predetermined type from a number of wireless access point identifiers exists, wherein the identifier of a predetermined type is an identifier corresponding to an access record stored in the terminal, and the access record serves to indicate historical information that the terminal ever accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the identifier of the predetermined type; and if the result of making a decision is that said at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists, presenting said at least one identifier of a predetermined type in a list of access points according to the access record corresponding to said at least one identifier of a predetermined type.
EFFECT: invention discloses a method and a device for displaying a list of access points belonging to a region of an electronic display.
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Cross references to related applications
[0001] This application is based on and claims the priority of China Patent Application No. 201410521208.8, filed September 30, 2014, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY
[0002] The present disclosure relates generally to the field of electronic display, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for presenting a list of access points.
[0003] Before making a connection to a Wi-Fi access point (“wireless connectivity”), a wireless terminal, such as a smart phone, typically presents the user with the identifier of each of the scanned access points in a list form so that the user selects one access point from the list for access.
[0004] In the prior art, the terminal typically represents the identifier of each of the scanned Wi-Fi access points in the list of access points according to the order of the English dictionary. For example, when the identifiers of Wi-Fi access points are made up of English letters, the terminal first compares the initial letters of the identifiers of the scanned Wi-Fi access points, then presents the identifier of the Wi-Fi access point, which has the initial letter at the beginning of the English dictionary, at the beginning of the list of access points . For identifiers with the same initial letter, then the second letters will be compared according to the order of the English dictionary, etc., etc.
[0005] When a terminal scanned a large number of Wi-Fi access points, if the identifiers of these Wi-Fi access points are presented in the list of access points according to the English dictionary, the user cannot quickly find the Wi-Fi access point to which he / she intends to implement access, which can waste user time and affect the user's perception.
[0006] In order to overcome this problem in the prior art that when a terminal scans a large number of Wi-Fi access points, the user cannot quickly find the Wi-Fi access point to which he / she intends to access, which is wasted time of the user and affects the perception of the user, this disclosure provides a method and apparatus for presenting a list of access points. Technical solutions are as follows.
[0007] In a first aspect, a method for presenting a list of access points is provided, including:
[0008] obtaining the identifier of each of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal;
[0009] deciding whether at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists from among the identifiers of the wireless access points, wherein the identifier of the predetermined type is an identifier corresponding to the access record stored in the terminal, and the access record is used to indicate historical information that the terminal has ever accessed a wireless access point corresponding to a predefined type identifier; and
[0010] if the decision result is that at least one predefined type identifier exists, presenting the at least one predefined type identifier in the list of access points according to the access record corresponding to the at least one predefined type identifier.
[0011] Optionally, the representation of at least one identifier of a predetermined type in the list of access points according to an access record corresponding to at least one identifier of a predetermined type includes:
[0012] when the access entry contains the number of times that the terminal accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the identifier of a predetermined type, presenting at least one identifier of the predetermined type at the beginning of the list of access points in order from larger to smaller for the number of times which the terminal accessed the wireless access point corresponding to at least an identifier of a predetermined type; and
[0013] when the access record contains the time at which the terminal last accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the identifier of the predefined type, presenting at least one identifier of the predefined type at the beginning of the list of access points in order from late to early for the time at which the terminal last accessed the wireless access point corresponding to at least a predefined identifier th type.
[0014] Optionally, the method further includes:
[0015] receiving the scheduled operation with respect to the list of access points; and
[0016] presenting in the list of access points, according to a predetermined order, other identifiers, with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type, from among the identifiers of wireless access points,
[0017] wherein the predetermined order includes:
[0018] the order of the English dictionary,
[0019] far to near order for the distance between the wireless access point and the terminal, or
[0020] Strong to weak order for signal strength of the wireless access point received by the terminal.
[0021] Optionally, the presentation in the list of access points, according to a predetermined order, of other identifiers, with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type, from among the identifiers of the wireless access points, includes:
[0022] a representation below at least one identifier of a predetermined type, other identifiers, with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type, from among identifiers of wireless access points.
[0024] hiding at least one identifier of a predetermined type.
[0026] if the decision result is that at least one identifier of a predetermined type does not exist, presenting the identifier of each of the wireless access points in the list of access points according to a predetermined order,
[0027] wherein a predetermined order, including:
[0030] the order from strong to weak for the signal strength of the wireless access point received by the terminal.
[0032] when a terminal accesses one wireless access point from wireless access points, and one wireless access point is an access point corresponding to an identifier of a predetermined type, updating an access record corresponding to an identifier of one wireless access point; and
[0033] when the terminal accesses one wireless access point from the wireless access points, and one wireless access point is not an access point corresponding to an identifier of a predetermined type, creating an access record corresponding to the identifier of the wireless access point.
[0034] In a second aspect, an apparatus is provided for presenting a list of access points, including:
[0035] an identifier obtaining module, configured to obtain an identifier of each of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal;
[0036] a decision module, configured to decide whether there is at least one identifier of a predetermined type from among the identifiers of the wireless access points, wherein the identifier of the predetermined type is an identifier corresponding to the access record stored in the terminal, and an access record is used to indicate historical information that the terminal has ever accessed a wireless access point, respectively identifier of a predetermined type; and
[0037] a first presentation module, configured to, if the result of the decision module is that at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists, represent at least one identifier of a predetermined type in the list of access points according to an access record corresponding to at least one identifier of a predetermined type.
[0038] Optionally, the first presentation module includes:
[0039] a first presentation submodule, configured to, when an access record contains the number of times that a terminal has accessed a wireless access point corresponding to an identifier of a predetermined type, present at least one identifier of a predetermined type at the beginning of the list of access points according to order from larger to smaller for the number of times that the terminal accessed the wireless access point corresponding at least to the identifier a torus of a predefined type; and
[0040] a second presentation submodule, configured to, when the entry about the access contains the time at which the terminal last accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the identifier of a predefined type, present at least one identifier of a predefined type at the beginning of the list access points according to the order from late to early for the time at which the terminal last accessed the wireless access point, correspondingly at least an identifier of a predetermined type.
[0041] Optionally, the device further includes:
[0042] an operation receiving module, configured to receive an assigned operation with respect to a list of access points; and
[0043] a second presentation module, configured to present in the list of access points, according to a predetermined order, other identifiers, with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type, from among the identifiers of the wireless access points,
[0048] Optionally, the second presentation module is configured to present below at least one identifier of a predetermined type, other identifiers, with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type, from among the identifiers of the wireless access points.
[0050] a hiding module configured to hide at least one identifier of a predetermined type.
[0052] a third presentation module, configured to, if the result of the decision module is that at least one identifier of a predetermined type does not exist, present the identifier of each of the wireless access points in the list of access points according to a predetermined order,
[0058] a recording update module, configured to, when a terminal accesses one wireless access point from wireless access points, and one wireless access point is an access point corresponding to an identifier of a predetermined type, updating an access record corresponding to an identifier of one point wireless access; and
[0059] a recording creation unit, configured to, when the terminal accesses one wireless access point from wireless access points, and one wireless access point is not an access point corresponding to an identifier of a predetermined type, to create an access record corresponding to the identifier of one wireless access points.
[0060] In a third aspect, an apparatus is provided for presenting a list of access points, including:
[0061] a processor; and
[0062] a memory for storing instructions executed by a processor;
[0063] wherein the processor is configured to:
[0065] deciding whether at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists from among identifiers of wireless access points, wherein the identifier of a predetermined type is an identifier corresponding to an access record stored in a terminal, and an access record is used to indicate historical information that the terminal has ever accessed a wireless access point corresponding to a predefined type identifier; and
[0066] if the decision result is that at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists, presenting the at least one identifier of the predetermined type in the list of access points according to the access record corresponding to the at least one identifier of the predetermined type.
[0067] The beneficial effects brought by the technical solutions according to the embodiments of the present disclosure include the following:
[0068] by obtaining the identifier of each of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal, if it is decided that at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists from among the identifiers of the wireless access points, the terminal represents at least one identifier of a predetermined type in the list of access points according to an access record corresponding to at least one identifier of a predetermined type, such that a wireless access point ation could be presented in a list of access points in a more prominent way if it was decided that the scanned wireless access point is the wireless access point with which the terminal has ever been connected, thereby this can solve the problem in the prior art, which when a large number of Wi-Fi access points are scanned by the terminal, the user cannot quickly find the Wi-Fi access point to which he / she intends to access, and the goal of saving time can be achieved any user and improve the user experience.
[0069] It should be understood that both the above description and the following detailed description are exemplary and only exemplary and do not limit the present invention.
[0070] The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and form a part of this description, illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with this description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.
[0071] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an implementation environment provided in a method for presenting a list of access points, according to some exemplary embodiments;
[0072] FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for presenting a list of access points according to an exemplary embodiment;
[0073] FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method for presenting a list of access points according to another exemplary embodiment;
[0074] FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of representing an identifier of a predetermined type according to another exemplary embodiment;
[0075] FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a representation of another identifier of a predetermined type according to another exemplary embodiment;
[0077] FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of representing an identifier of an indefinite pre-type according to another exemplary embodiment;
[0078] FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram for representing another identifier of an indefinite pre-type according to another exemplary embodiment;
[0079] FIG. 9 is a block diagram of an apparatus for presenting a list of access points according to an exemplary embodiment;
[0080] FIG. 10 is a block diagram of an apparatus for presenting a list of access points according to another exemplary embodiment; and
[0081] FIG. 11 is a block diagram of an apparatus for presenting a list of access points according to an exemplary embodiment.
[0082] Reference will now be made in detail to exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The following description refers to the accompanying drawings, in which the same numbers in different drawings represent the same or similar elements until otherwise presented. The implementations set forth in the following description of exemplary embodiments do not represent all implementations corresponding to this invention. On the contrary, they are only examples of devices and methods corresponding to aspects related to this invention, as set forth in the attached claims.
[0083] Referring to FIG. 1, which is a schematic diagram of an implementation environment provided in a method for presenting a list of access points provided by exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure. The implementation environment includes: a terminal 120 and several wireless access points 140.
[0084] The terminal 120 may be an intelligent terminal that can access a wireless network, such as a smart phone, tablet computer, e-book reader, laptop computer, or desktop computer connected to a wireless network adapter.
[0085] The wireless access point 140 may be a Wi-Fi access point.
[0086] FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for presenting a list of access points according to an exemplary embodiment. In the present embodiment, a method for presenting a list of access points is applied, for example, in the implementation environment, which is shown in FIG. 1, wherein a method of presenting a list of access points is applied to the terminal 120 in the implementation environment, which is shown in FIG. 1. As shown in FIG. 2, a method for presenting a list of access points may include the following steps.
[0087] In step 202, an identifier of each of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal is obtained.
[0088] At step 204, a decision is made whether there is at least one identifier of a predetermined type from among the identifiers of the wireless access points, the identifier of the predetermined type being an identifier corresponding to the access record stored in the terminal, and the access record is to indicate historical information that the terminal has ever accessed a wireless access point corresponding to a predefined identifier type.
[0089] In step 206, if a decision is made that at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists, at least one identifier of a predetermined type is presented in the list of access points according to an access record corresponding to at least one identifier predefined type.
[0090] In an embodiment of the present disclosure, when it is decided that the identifier of the scanned wireless access point corresponds to an access record stored in the terminal, it can be determined that the wireless access point is the wireless access point that the terminal has ever accessed . Since the user can probably select the wireless access point again, the identifier of the wireless access point should be presented in the list of access points in a more visible way when the list of access points is displayed, so that it is easier for the user to find the wireless access point to which he / she intends to make access, in order to save user time.
[0091] Accordingly, in the method of presenting a list of access points provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure by obtaining an identifier of each of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal, if it is decided that at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists from among the identifiers of the wireless access points , the terminal represents at least one identifier of a predetermined type in the list of access points according to the record an access point corresponding to at least one identifier of a predetermined type so that the identifier of the wireless access point can be represented in the list of access points in a more prominent way if it is decided that the scanned wireless access point is the wireless access point with which the terminal has ever was connected, thereby this can solve the problem in the prior art that when a terminal scanned a large number of Wi-Fi access points, the user cannot quickly find the Wi-Fi access point to which he / she intends to access, and the goal of saving user time and improving user experience can be achieved.
[0092] Specifically, there can be many ways for a terminal to represent at least one identifier of a predetermined type in an access point list according to an access record corresponding to at least one identifier of a predetermined type, for example, the terminal can represent at least one identifier of a predefined type at the beginning of the list of access points; or, representing at least one identifier of a predetermined type using a special color, background or pattern; or, presenting an access record corresponding to an identifier of a predetermined type in a display area of an identifier of a predetermined type in the list of access points. In the following embodiments of the present disclosure, a solution for the present disclosure will be described in detail using an example in which at least one identifier of a predetermined type is presented at the top of the list of access points.
[0093] FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method for presenting a list of access points according to another exemplary embodiment. In the present embodiment, a method for presenting a list of access points is applied, for example, in the implementation environment, which is shown in FIG. 1, wherein a method of presenting a list of access points is applied to the terminal 120 in the implementation environment, which is shown in FIG. 1. As shown in FIG. 3, a method for presenting a list of access points may include the following steps.
[0095] In this case, the identifier of the wireless access point may be the SSID (Network Services Set Identifier) of the corresponding wireless access point.
[0096] For example, in the case where the terminal is a smart phone, the wireless access point is a Wi-Fi access point, and the access point identifier is the SSID of the access point, and when the smart phone scans the access points after it receives the beacon frame, periodically sent by a Wi-Fi access point near the smart phone, the smart phone sends a verification request frame to the Wi-Fi access point. After receiving the verification request frame, the Wi-Fi access point returns the verification request frame carrying the SSID of the Wi-Fi access point to the smart phone.
[0097] At step 304, a decision is made whether there is at least one identifier of a predetermined type from among the identifiers of the wireless access points; if it exists, the method proceeds to step 306; and if it does not exist, the method proceeds to step 308.
[0098] A predefined type identifier is an identifier corresponding to an access record stored in a terminal, and an access record is used to indicate historical information that the terminal has ever accessed a wireless access point corresponding to a predefined type identifier.
[0099] Meanwhile, the identifier of the Wi-Fi access point that the smart phone has ever accessed, and the access record corresponding to the identifier of the Wi-Fi access point that the smart phone has ever accessed, can be stored in advance in the local database of the smart phone. The access record may contain the number of times that the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point, or the access record may contain a point in time for each time the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point, or the record of access can contain both the number of times that the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point, and the point in time for each time the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point.
[00100] In step 306, at least one identifier of a predetermined type is presented in the list of access points according to an access record corresponding to at least one identifier of the predetermined type.
[00101] When the access record contains the number of times that the terminal accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the identifier of the predetermined type, at least one identifier of the predetermined type is presented at the beginning of the list of access points in order from larger to smaller for the number of times that the terminal accessed the wireless access point corresponding to at least an identifier of a predetermined type. When the access record contains the time at which the terminal last accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the identifier of the predefined type, at least one identifier of the predefined type is presented at the beginning of the list of access points in order from late to early for time, in which the terminal last accessed the wireless access point corresponding to at least a predefined type identifier but.
[00102] For example, in the case where the terminal is a smart phone, the wireless access point is a Wi-Fi access point and the access point identifier is the SSID of the access point, assuming that 6 Wi-Fi access points are scanned by scans of the smart phone, SSID 6 Wi-Fi access points are, respectively, Axxxx, Bxxxx, Cxxxxx, Dxxxxx, Exxxxx and Fxxxxx, while Bxxxx, Cxxxxx and Exxxxx are identifiers of a predetermined type, in other words, access records, respectively, corresponding to Bxxxx, Cx xxxx and Exxxxx are stored on the smart phone, indicating that the smart phone has ever accessed Wi-Fi access points matching these SSIDs. Schematic representations of two kinds of identifiers of a predetermined type provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure are, respectively, as shown in FIG. 4 and 5.
[00103] As shown in FIG. 4, when the access record corresponding to the SSID stored in the smart phone 40 contains the number of times that the smart phone accessed the access point corresponding to the SSID, the smart phone 40 may present Bxxxx, Cxxxxx and Exxxxx at the beginning of the list of access points 41 according to an order from larger to smaller for the number of times an access is made, while the access point corresponding to Cxxxxx has the largest number of times (100 times), the access point corresponding to Exxxxx has an average number of times (10 times), the access point, corresponding to Bxxxx, has the smallest number of times (1 time). The smart phone 40 represents Cxxxxx in a first location of the list of access points 41 from top to bottom, represents Exxxxx in a second location, and represents Bxxxxx in a third location. Meanwhile, the number of times access is made by the smart phone is displayed at the designated location 42 on the right side of each SSID.
[00104] Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 5, when the access record corresponding to the SSID stored in the smart phone 50 contains the time at which the smart phone 50 last accessed the access point corresponding to the SSID, the smart phone 50 may present Bxxxx, Cxxxxx and Exxxxx at the top of list 51 access points according to the order from late to early for a very recent access time, while the time at which the smart phone 50 last accessed the access point corresponding to Cxxxxx is the last ( one day ago), the second is the access point corresponding to Exxxxx (one week ago), and the time at which the access point corresponding to Bxxxxx last accessed is the earliest relative to the current time (one month ago). The smart phone 50 represents Cxxxxx in a first location of the list of access points 51 from top to bottom, represents Exxxxx in a second location, and represents Bxxxxx in a third location. Meanwhile, the time interval from the time at which the smart phone 50 last accessed the corresponding access point, until now, is displayed in the designated location 52 on the right side of each SSID.
[00105] At step 308, the identifier of each of the wireless access points is presented in the list of access points in accordance with a predetermined order.
[00106] Moreover, the predefined order includes: the order of the English dictionary, the order from far to near for the distance between the wireless access points and the terminal, or the order from strong to weak for the signal strength of the wireless access point received by the terminal.
[00107] If it is decided that none of the identifiers of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal has a corresponding access record stored in the terminal, this means that the wireless access point to which the terminal has ever accessed does not exist from scanned wireless access points. In this case, the identifiers of the wireless access points can be represented in the list of access points in the English alphabetical order, from strong to weak for the signal, or from far to near for the distance.
[00108] For example, when presented in English alphabetical order, the identifier of the wireless access point, which has the initial letter at the beginning of the English dictionary, appears at the very beginning of the list of access points. For identifiers with the same initial letter, then the second letters will be compared according to the order of the English dictionary, etc., etc.
[00109] In addition, when the identifiers of the wireless access points also include Arabic numbers, the terminal represents identifiers with the initial characters, which are English letters, primarily at the very beginning of the list of access points, and the second represents identifiers with the original characters, which are Arabic numbers . That is, the priority of English letters is higher than the priority of Arabic numbers. Similarly, in the case where the original identifier characters are the same Arabic numeral, then the second identifier characters will be compared.
[00110] When the list of access points is presented in order from strong to weak for signal or order from far to near for distance, the terminal can measure the intensity of the signal sent by each of the access points and present the identifiers of the wireless access points in the list of access points in order of strong to weak for the signal, while the identifier of the access point with the strongest signal is presented at the very beginning of the list of access points, and the identifier of the access point with the weakest signal is presented in Om the end of the list of access points. Alternatively, the terminal can also measure the distance between each of the access points and the terminal, and present the identifiers of the wireless access points in the list of access points in order from far to near for the distance, while the identifier of the access point closest to the terminal appears at the very beginning list of access points, and the identifier of the access point farthest from the terminal appears at the very end of the list of access points.
[00111] At step 310, when the terminal accesses one wireless access point from wireless access points, an access record corresponding to the identifier of one wireless access point is updated and created.
[00112] In this case, when the terminal accesses one wireless access point from the wireless access points, and one wireless access point is an access point corresponding to an identifier of a predetermined type, an access record corresponding to the identifier of one wireless access point is updated.
[00113] When a terminal accesses one wireless access point from wireless access points, and one wireless access point is not an access point corresponding to an identifier of a predetermined type, an access record is created corresponding to the identifier of one wireless access point.
[00114] For example, in the case where the terminal is a smart phone and the wireless access point is a Wi-Fi access point, each time the smart phone accesses the Wi-Fi access point, a portion of access information and access information is generated contains information such as a point in time of the current access. The smart phone creates or updates an access record corresponding to the identifier of the Wi-Fi access point according to the access information.
[00115] For example, when the smart phone has already saved the access record corresponding to the identifier of the Wi-Fi access point, the number of times that the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point in the access record can be increased by 1. B alternatively, the time at which the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point for the last time, in the access record, can be updated with the current access time.
[00116] When the smart phone has not saved the access record corresponding to the identifier of the Wi-Fi access point, the portion of the access record can be re-created, and the number of times the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point in the record access can be set to 1. Alternatively, the time the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point for the last time can be set to the time t in the access record a checking access. The smart phone locally stores the Wi-Fi access point identifier and the newly created access record.
[00117] Accordingly, in the method of presenting a list of access points provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure by obtaining an identifier of each of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal, if it is decided that at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists from among the identifiers of the wireless access points , the terminal represents at least one identifier of a predetermined type in the list of access points according to the record an access point corresponding to at least one identifier of a predetermined type so that the identifier of the wireless access point can be represented in the list of access points in a more prominent way if it is decided that the scanned wireless access point is the wireless access point with which the terminal has ever was connected, thereby this can solve the problem in the prior art that when a terminal scans a large number of Wi-Fi access points, the user cannot quickly find the access point Wi-Fi, to which he / she intends to access, and it can be achieved the goal of saving the user time and improve user experience.
[00118] FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a method for presenting a list of access points according to another exemplary embodiment. In the present embodiment, a method for presenting a list of access points is applied, for example, in the implementation environment, which is shown in FIG. 1, wherein a method of presenting a list of access points is applied to the terminal 120 in the implementation environment, which is shown in FIG. 1. As shown in FIG. 6, a method for presenting a list of access points may include the following steps.
[00119] In step 602, an identifier of each of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal is obtained.
[00120] In this case, the identifier of the wireless access point may be the SSID of the corresponding wireless access point.
[00121] For example, in the case where the terminal is a smart phone, the wireless access point is a Wi-Fi access point, and the access point identifier is the SSID of the access point, and when the smart phone scans the access points after it receives the beacon frame, periodically sent by a Wi-Fi access point near the smart phone, the smart phone sends a verification request frame to the Wi-Fi access point. After receiving the verification request frame, the Wi-Fi access point returns the verification request frame carrying the SSID of the Wi-Fi access point to the smart phone.
[00122] At step 604, a decision is made whether at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists from among the identifiers of the wireless access points; if it exists, the method proceeds to step 606; and if it does not exist, the method proceeds to step 610.
[00123] A predefined type identifier is an identifier corresponding to an access record stored in a terminal, and an access record is used to indicate historical information that the terminal has ever accessed a wireless access point corresponding to a predefined type identifier.
[00124] Meanwhile, the identifier of the Wi-Fi access point that the smart phone has ever accessed, and the access record corresponding to the identifier of the Wi-Fi access point that the smart phone has ever been accessed, can be stored in advance in the local database of the smart phone. The access record may contain the number of times that the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point, or the access record may contain a point in time for each time the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point, or the record of access can contain both the number of times that the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point, and the point in time for each time the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point.
[00125] At 606, at least one identifier of a predetermined type is presented in the list of access points according to an access record corresponding to at least one identifier of the predetermined type.
[00126] When the entry about the access contains the number of times that the terminal accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the identifier of the predefined type, at least one identifier of the predefined type is presented at the beginning of the list of access points in order from larger to smaller for the number of times that the terminal accessed the wireless access point corresponding to at least an identifier of a predetermined type. When the access record contains the time at which the terminal last accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the identifier of the predefined type, at least one identifier of the predefined type is presented at the beginning of the list of access points in order from late to early for time, in which the terminal last accessed the wireless access point corresponding to at least a predefined type identifier but.
[00130] At step 608, the assigned operation is received with respect to the list of access points; and other identifiers, with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type, from among the identifiers of wireless access points, are represented in the list of access points in accordance with a predetermined order.
[00131] In this case, the predefined order includes: the order of the English dictionary, the order from far to near for the distance between the wireless access points and the terminal, or the order from strong to weak for the signal strength of the wireless access point received by the terminal.
[00132] When a control operation is performed at the terminal from the user to present identifiers of other access points, the terminal can also present other identifiers in the list of access points except for the identifier of a predetermined type, from among the identifiers of the scanned wireless access points, and other identifiers except for the identifier of the previously of a certain type may be called identifiers of an indefinite pre-type. Since among the identifiers of wireless access points, the identifier of the indefinite pre-type is the access point to which the terminal has ever accessed, the terminal can present the identifier of the indefinite pre-type in the list of access points in the English alphabetical order, from strong to weak for the signal or order from far to near for distance.
[00133] For example, when presented in the English alphabetical order, the terminal represents an identifier from among these identifiers of undefined pre-type, the one that has the initial letter at the beginning of the English dictionary is represented at the beginning of the list of access points. For identifiers with the same initial letter, then the second letters will be compared according to the order of the English dictionary, etc., etc.
[00134] In addition, when the identifiers of these identifiers of a predefined type also include Arabic numerals, the terminal represents identifiers with the initial characters being English letters, primarily at the beginning of the list of access points, and the second represents identifiers with the original characters being Arabic numerals. That is, the priority of English letters is higher than the priority of Arabic numbers. Similarly, in the case where the original identifier characters are the same Arabic numeral, then the second identifier characters will be compared.
[00135] When these identifiers of the indefinite pre-type are presented in order from strong to weak for the signal or the order from far to near for the distance, the terminal can measure the intensity of the signal sent by each of the access points corresponding to these identifiers of the indefinite pre-type and present these identifiers an undefined pre-type in the list of access points in order from strong to weak for the signal, while the identifier of the undefined pre-type, co corresponding to the strongest signal is represented first of all at the beginning of the list of access points, and an identifier of an indefinite type corresponding to the weakest signal is presented at the end of the list of access points. Alternatively, the terminal can also measure the distance between each of the access points corresponding to the identifiers of the indefinite pre-type and the terminal, and present identifiers of the indefinite pre-type in the list of access points in order from far to near for the distance, with the identifier of the access point closest to the terminal, appears at the very edge of the list of access points, and the identifier of the access point farthest from the terminal appears at the very end of the list of access points.
[00136] Moreover, when the terminal presents other identifiers with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type from among the identifiers of wireless access points in the list of access points according to a predetermined order, other identifiers with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type from among the identifiers of wireless access points, may be represented below at least one identifier of a predetermined type.
[00137] In this case, the terminal can present the identifiers of the scanned wireless access points in the same area of the list of access points, with identifiers of a predetermined type being presented at the top of the display area, and identifiers of an undefined type are being presented at the bottom of the display area.
[00138] For example, in the case where the terminal is a smart phone, the wireless access point is a Wi-Fi access point, the access point identifier is the SSID of the access point, and among the SSIDs scanned by the smart phone, Bxxxx, Cxxxxx and Exxxxx are identifiers of a predefined of type Axxxx, Dxxxxx and Fxxxxx are identifiers of undefined pre-type, referring to FIG. 7, which is a schematic diagram of representing an identifier of an indefinite predefined type, at which at the initial moment, identifiers of a predefined type Bxxxx, Cxxxxx and Exxxxx are presented one after the other at the top of the list of 71 access points displayed by the smart phone 70. The mark 72 is "still" below Exxxxx. If he / she does not intend to force the smart phone to access the Wi-Fi access point corresponding to any of Bxxxx, Cxxxxx and Exxxxx, the user can click on label 72. Smart phone 70 presents the identifiers of the undefined type Axxxx, Dxxxxx and Fxxxxx one after the other below Exxxxx in the list of 71 access points, so that the user selects one of the identifiers of an indefinite pre-type for the connection, while the order of presentation is the order of the English dictionary.
[00139] Alternatively, when the terminal presents other identifiers with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type from among the identifiers of the wireless access points in the list of access points according to a predetermined order, at least one identifier of the predetermined type may also be hidden.
[00140] In this case, the terminal may also present identifiers of scanned wireless access points in two separate display areas on the top and bottom in the list of access points, with identifiers of a predetermined type being presented in the upper display area, and identifiers of an undefined pre-type are presented in the lower display area.
[00141] Similarly, in the case where the terminal is a smart phone, the wireless access point is a Wi-Fi access point, the access point identifier is the SSID of the access point, and among the SSIDs scanned by the smart phone, Bxxxx, Cxxxxx and Exxxxx are identifiers of a predefined of type Axxxx, Dxxxxx and Fxxxxx are identifiers of undefined pre-type. Referring to FIG. 8, which is a schematic diagram of representing another identifier of an indefinite pre-type, on which the list of 81 access points displayed by the smart phone 80 includes two collapsible labels at the top and bottom, respectively, label 82 and label 83. At the initial moment, label 82 is in the expanded state, and in the expanded region, identifiers of a predetermined type Bxxxx, Cxxxxx and Exxxxx are presented one after another. Tag 83 is minimized. If he / she does not intend to force the smart phone to access the Wi-Fi access point corresponding to any of Bxxxx, Cxxxxx and Exxxxx, the user can click on the label 83. The smart phone 80 unfolds the label 83 and presents identifiers of undefined type Axxxx, Dxxxxx and Fxxxxx, one after the other in the expanded area, so that the user selects one for the connection, while the order of presentation is the order of the English dictionary. Meanwhile, the smart phone 80 changes the currently expanded mark 82 again to a minimized state.
[00142] At step 610, the identifier of each of the wireless access points is presented in the list of access points according to a predetermined order.
[00144] If it is decided that none of the identifiers of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal has a corresponding access record stored in the terminal, this means that the wireless access point to which the terminal has ever accessed does not exist from scanned wireless access points. In this case, similarly to the order for representing identifiers of an indefinite pre-type at step 608 above, the identifiers of the wireless access points can be represented in the list of access points in the English alphabet order, from strong to weak for the signal, or from far to near for the distance.
[00145] For example, when presented in the English alphabetical order, the identifier of the wireless access point, which has the initial letter at the beginning of the English dictionary, appears at the very beginning of the list of access points. For identifiers with the same initial letter, then the second letters will be compared according to the order of the English dictionary, etc., etc.
[00146] In addition, when the identifiers of the wireless access points also include Arabic numbers, the terminal represents identifiers with the initial characters, which are English letters, first of all at the very beginning of the list of access points, and the second represents identifiers with the original characters, which are Arabic numbers . That is, the priority of English letters is higher than the priority of Arabic numbers. Similarly, in the case where the original identifier characters are the same Arabic numeral, then the second identifier characters will be compared.
[00148] In step 612, when the terminal accesses one wireless access point from the wireless access points, the access record corresponding to the identifier of one wireless access point is updated and created.
[00152] For example, when the smart phone has already stored the access record corresponding to the identifier of the Wi-Fi access point, the number of times that the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point in the access record can be increased by 1. B alternatively, the time at which the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point for the last time, in the access record, can be updated with the current access time.
[00153] When the smart phone has not saved the access record corresponding to the identifier of the Wi-Fi access point, the portion of the access record can be re-created, and the number of times the smart phone accessed the Wi-Fi access point in the record access can be set to 1. Alternatively, the time at which the smart phone last accessed the Wi-Fi access point can be set to the time t in the access record a checking access. The smart phone locally stores the Wi-Fi access point identifier and the newly created access record.
[00154] Accordingly, in the method for presenting a list of access points provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure by obtaining an identifier of each of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal, if it is decided that at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists from among the identifiers of the wireless access points , the terminal represents at least one identifier of a predetermined type in the list of access points according to the record an access point corresponding to at least one identifier of a predetermined type so that the identifier of the wireless access point can be represented in the list of access points in a more prominent way if it is decided that the scanned wireless access point is the wireless access point with which the terminal has ever was connected, thereby this can solve the problem in the prior art that when a terminal scans a large number of Wi-Fi access points, the user cannot quickly find the access point Wi-Fi, to which he / she intends to access, and it can be achieved the goal of saving the user time and improve user experience.
[00155] The following are embodiments of the apparatus of the present disclosure, which may be configured to implement embodiments of the method of the present disclosure. For information that is not disclosed in embodiments of the apparatus of the present disclosure, reference may be made to embodiments of the method of the present disclosure.
[00156] FIG. 9 is a block diagram of an apparatus for presenting a list of access points according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in FIG. 9, an apparatus for presenting a list of access points is applied to the terminal 120 in the implementation environment, which is shown in FIG. 1. An apparatus for presenting a list of access points includes, but is not limited to: an identifier obtaining module 901, a decision module 902, and a first presentation module 903.
[00157] The identifier obtaining module 901 is configured to obtain an identifier of each of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal.
[00158] Decision module 902 is configured to decide whether at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists from among identifiers of wireless access points, wherein the identifier of a predetermined type is an identifier corresponding to an access record stored in the terminal, and an access record is used to indicate historical information that the terminal has ever accessed a wireless access point corresponding to identifier of a predefined type.
[00159] The first presentation module 903 is configured to, if the result of decision module 902 is that at least one predefined type identifier exists, present at least one predefined type identifier in the list of access points according to the access record, corresponding to at least one identifier of a predetermined type.
[00160] Accordingly, in the apparatus for presenting a list of access points provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, by obtaining an identifier of each of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal, if it is decided that at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists from among the identifiers of the wireless points access terminal represents at least one identifier of a predetermined type in the list of access points according to the record about access corresponding to at least one identifier of a predetermined type so that the identifier of the wireless access point can be represented in the list of access points in a more prominent way if it is decided that the scanned wireless access point is the wireless access point with which the terminal has ever was connected, thereby this can solve the problem in the prior art that when a terminal scanned a large number of Wi-Fi access points, the user e can quickly find the access point Wi-Fi, to which he / she intends to access, and it can be achieved the goal of saving the user time and improve user experience.
[00161] FIG. 10 is a block diagram of an apparatus for presenting a list of access points according to another exemplary embodiment. As shown in FIG. 10, an apparatus for presenting a list of access points is applied to terminal 120 in the implementation environment, which is shown in FIG. 1. An apparatus for presenting a list of access points includes, but is not limited to: an identifier obtaining module 901, a decision module 902, and a first presentation module 903.
[00165] Optionally, the first presentation module 903 includes: a first presentation submodule 903a and a second presentation submodule 903b.
[00166] The first presentation submodule 903a is configured to, when the access record contains the number of times that the terminal has accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the identifier of the predefined type, present at least one identifier of the predefined type at the beginning of the list of access points according to order from larger to smaller for the number of times that the terminal accessed the wireless access point corresponding at least to the identifier yell predetermined type.
[00167] The second presentation submodule 903b is configured to, when the access record contains the time at which the terminal last accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the identifier of the predefined type, present at least one identifier of the predefined type at the top of the list access points according to the order from late to early for the time at which the terminal last accessed the wireless access point, correspondingly at least an identifier of a predetermined type.
[00168] Optionally, the device further includes: an operation receiving module 904 and a second presentation module 905.
[00169] The operation receiving module 904 is configured to receive an assigned operation with respect to the list of access points.
[00170] The second presentation module 905 is configured to present, in a predetermined order, other identifiers, with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type, from among the identifiers of the wireless access points.
[00171] A predetermined order includes: an English dictionary order, a long-distance to a short-range order for the distance between the wireless access points and the terminal, or a strong-to-weak order for the signal strength of the wireless access point received by the terminal.
[00172] Optionally, the second presentation module 905 is configured to present below at least one identifier of a predetermined type, other identifiers, with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type, from among the identifiers of the wireless access points.
[00173] Optionally, the device further includes: a hiding module 906.
[00174] The hide module 906 is configured to hide at least one identifier of a predetermined type.
[00175] Optionally, the device further includes: a third presentation module 907.
[00176] The third presentation module 907 is configured to, if the result of decision module 902 is that at least one identifier of a predetermined type does not exist, present the identifier of each of the wireless access points in the list of access points in a predetermined order.
[00178] Optionally, the device further includes: a recording update module 908 and a recording creating module 909.
[00179] The recording update module 908 is configured to, when the terminal accesses one wireless access point from wireless access points, and one wireless access point is an access point corresponding to an identifier of a predetermined type, updating an access record corresponding to an identifier of one point wireless access.
[00180] The recording creation unit 909 is configured to, when a terminal accesses one wireless access point from wireless access points, and one wireless access point is not an access point corresponding to an identifier of a predetermined type, create an access record corresponding to the identifier of one wireless access points.
[00182] With respect to the devices in the above embodiments, the specific operations performed by each module have been described in detail in the embodiments in the previous method, and a detailed description is omitted herein.
[00183] FIG. 11 is a block diagram of an apparatus 1100 for representing a list of access points according to an exemplary embodiment. For example, device 1100 may be a mobile phone, a computer, a digital broadcast terminal, a messaging device, a game console, a tablet computer, a medical device, exercise equipment, a personal digital assistant, and the like.
[00184] Referring to FIG. 11, device 1100 may include one or more of the following components: processing component 1102, memory 1104, power component 1106, multimedia component 1108, audio component 1110, input / output (I / O) interface 1112, sensors component 1114, and communication component 1116.
[00185] The processing component 1102 typically controls the overall operations of the device 1100, such as operations associated with the display, phone calls, data transfer, camera operations, and recording operations. Processing component 1102 may include one or more processors 1118 for executing instructions for performing all or part of the steps in the above methods. Moreover, the processing component 1102 may include one or more modules that facilitate interaction between the processing component 1102 and other components. For example, the processing component 1102 may include a multimedia module to facilitate interaction between the multimedia component 1108 and the processing component 1102.
[00186] The memory 1104 is configured to store various types of data to support the operation of the device 1100. Examples of such data include instructions of applications or methods operating on the device 1100, contact data, phone book data, messages, pictures, videos, etc. d. Memory 1104 may be implemented using any type of non-volatile or non-volatile memory device, or a combination thereof, such as static random access memory (SRAM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), electrically programmable read-only memory (EPROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM ), read-only memory (ROM), magnetic memory, flash memory, magnetic or optical disk. The memory 1104 also stores one or more modules configured to be executed by one or more processors 1118 to perform all or part of the steps of the method as shown in any of the above Figs. 2, 3 and 6.
[00187] The power component 1106 provides power to various components of the device 1100. The power component 1106 may include a power management system, one or more power supplies, and any other components associated with generating, controlling, and distributing power to the device 1100.
[00188] The multimedia component 1108 includes a screen providing an output interface between the device 1100 and the user. In some embodiments, the screen may include a liquid crystal display (LCD) and a touch panel (TP). If the screen includes a touch panel, the screen can be implemented as a touch screen for receiving input signals from the user. The touch panel includes one or more touch sensors for reading touches, swipes, and gestures on the touch panel. Touch sensors can not only read the boundary of a touch or swipe, but also read the time period and pressure associated with a touch or swipe. In some embodiments, implementation, multimedia component 1108 includes a front camera and / or a rear camera. The front camera and the rear camera can receive external multimedia data while the device 1100 is in a functioning mode, such as a photo mode or a video mode. Each of the front camera and the rear camera can be a system with fixed optical lenses or have the ability to change focus and optical zoom.
[00189] The audio component 1110 is configured to output and / or input audio signals. For example, the audio component 1110 includes a microphone (“MIC”) configured to receive an external audio signal when the device 1100 is in a functioning mode, such as a call mode, a recording mode, and a voice recognition mode. The received audio signal may be further stored in the memory 1104 or transmitted by the communication component 1116. In some embodiments, implementation, the audio component 1110 further includes a speaker for outputting audio signals.
[00190] The I / O interface 1112 provides an interface between the processing component 1102 and peripheral interface modules such as a keyboard, mouse wheel, buttons, and the like. Buttons may include, but are not limited to, a home button, volume button, start button, and lock button.
[00191] The sensor component 1114 includes one or more sensors for providing status estimates of various aspects of the device 1100. For example, the sensor component 1114 may detect an open / closed status for device 1100, the relative position of components, such as a display and keyboard devices 1100, a change in the location of the device 1100 or component of the device 1100, the presence or absence of user contact with the device 1100, the orientation or acceleration / deceleration of the device 1100, and a change in the temperature of the device 1100. Co. exponentials sensors 1114 may include a proximity sensor, configured to detect the closest approximation of objects without physical contact. The sensor component 1114 may also include a light sensor, such as a CMOS or CCD image sensor, for use in imaging applications. In some embodiments, the sensor component 1114 may also include an accelerometer sensor, a gyro sensor, a magnetic sensor, a pressure sensor, or a temperature sensor.
[00192] The communication component 1116 is configured to facilitate communication, either wired or wirelessly, between device 1100 and other devices. The device 1100 can access a wireless network based on a communication standard such as Wi-Fi, 2G, or 3G, or a combination thereof. In one exemplary embodiment, the communication component 1116 receives a broadcast signal or information associated with a broadcast from an external broadcast control system via a broadcast channel. In one exemplary embodiment, the communication component 1116 further includes a near field communication module (NFC) to facilitate short-range communication. For example, the NFC-module can be implemented on the basis of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, technology of the Association for infrared data transmission (IrDA), ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, Bluetooth technology (BT) and other technologies.
[00193] In exemplary embodiments, device 1100 may be implemented using one or more specialized integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signal processing (DSP) processors, digital signal processing devices (DSPD), programmable logic devices (PLD), user-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors or other electronic components to perform the above method.
[00194] In exemplary embodiments, a short-term computer-readable storage medium including instructions, such as those included in memory 1104, executed by processor 1118 to device 1100, for performing methods for presenting a list of access points, is also provided. For example, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may be ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical drive device, and the like.
[00195] It will be understood that the present invention is not limited to the precise construction that has been described above and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and that various modifications and changes can be made without departing from their scope. The scope of this invention is intended to be limited only by the claims.
1. A method of presenting a list of access points, characterized in that it contains stages in which:
get the identifier of each of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal;
decide whether at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists from among identifiers of wireless access points, wherein the identifier of a predetermined type is an identifier corresponding to an access record stored in the terminal, and an access record is used to indicate historical information, that the terminal has ever accessed a wireless access point corresponding to a predefined type identifier;
if the result of the decision is that said at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists, the at least one identifier of a predetermined type is represented in the list of access points according to an access record corresponding to the at least one identifier of a predetermined type; and
hide the provided at least one identifier of an undefined pre-type by using a label.
2. The method according to p. 1, characterized in that the step of representing at least one identifier of a predetermined type in the list of access points according to an entry about access, corresponding to at least one identifier of a predetermined type, comprises:
when the access record contains the number of times that the terminal accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the identifier of the predetermined type, representing the at least one identifier of the predetermined type at the beginning of the list of access points in order from larger to smaller for the number of times that the terminal accessed a wireless access point corresponding to said at least an identifier of a predetermined type ; and
when the access record contains the time at which the terminal last accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the identifier of a predetermined type, presenting said at least one identifier of a predetermined type at the beginning of the list of access points in order from late to early for time in which the terminal last accessed the wireless access point corresponding to at least the pre-identifier A definite type.
3. The method according to p. 1, characterized in that it further comprises stages in which:
accept the designated operation in relation to the list of access points; and
present in the list of access points, in accordance with a predetermined order, other identifiers, with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type, from among the identifiers of wireless access points,
wherein the predefined order contains:
English dictionary order,
far-near order for the distance between the wireless access points and the terminal, or
order from strong to weak for the signal strength of the wireless access point received by the terminal.
4. The method according to p. 3, characterized in that the stage at which other identifiers are presented in the list of access points according to a predefined order, with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type, from among the identifiers of the wireless access points, comprises:
the presentation below of at least one identifier of a predetermined type, other identifiers, with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type, from among the identifiers of the wireless access points.
5. The method according to p. 3, characterized in that the method further comprises a step on which:
hiding said at least one identifier of a predetermined type.
if the decision result is that said at least one identifier of a predetermined type does not exist, represent the identifier of each of the wireless access points in the list of access points according to a predetermined order,
when the terminal accesses one wireless access point from the wireless access points, and said one wireless access point is an access point corresponding to said identifier of a predetermined type, an access record corresponding to the identifier of the wireless access point is updated; and
when the terminal accesses one wireless access point from the wireless access points, and said one wireless access point is not an access point corresponding to said identifier of a predetermined type, an access record corresponding to the identifier of the wireless access point is created.
8. A device for presenting a list of access points, characterized in that it contains:
an identifier obtaining module configured to obtain an identifier of each of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal;
a decision module, configured to make a decision whether there is at least one identifier of a predetermined type from among the identifiers of the wireless access points, wherein the identifier of the predetermined type is an identifier corresponding to an entry for making access stored in the terminal, and an entry for making access is used to indicate historical information that the terminal has ever accessed the wireless access point corresponding to ntifikatoru predetermined type; and
a first presentation module, configured to, if the result of the decision module is that said at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists, to represent said at least one identifier of a predetermined type in the list of access points according to an access record corresponding to said at least one identifier of a predetermined type;
moreover, the at least one identifier of the indefinite pre-type is represented by using a label.
9. The device according to p. 8, characterized in that the first presentation module contains:
a first presentation submodule, configured to, when the access entry contains the number of times that the terminal has accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the identifier of the predefined type, presenting the at least one identifier of the predefined type at the beginning of the list of access points according to the order of more or less for the number of times that the terminal accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the shey least the identifier of a predetermined type; and
a second presentation submodule, configured to, when the entry about making access contains the time at which the terminal last accessed the wireless access point corresponding to the identifier of a predefined type, presenting the at least one identifier of a predefined type at the beginning of the list of access points according to the order from late to early for the time at which the terminal last accessed the wireless access point, respectively corresponding to said at least identifier of a predetermined type.
10. The device according to p. 8, characterized in that it further comprises:
an operation receiving module configured to receive an assigned operation with respect to the list of access points; and
a second presentation module, configured to present in the list of access points, according to a predetermined order, other identifiers, with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type, from among the identifiers of the wireless access points,
11. The device according to p. 10, characterized in that the second presentation module is configured to present below the at least one identifier of a predetermined type, other identifiers with the exception of identifiers of a predetermined type, from among the identifiers of the wireless access points.
12. The device according to p. 10, characterized in that it further comprises:
a hide module configured to hide said at least one identifier of a predetermined type.
a third presentation module, configured to, if the result of the decision module is that at least one identifier of a predetermined type does not exist, present the identifier of each of the wireless access points in the list of access points according to a predetermined order,
far to near order for the distance between the wireless access point and the terminal, or
a recording update module, configured to, when the terminal accesses one wireless access point from wireless access points, and said one wireless access point is an access point corresponding to said identifier of a predetermined type, updating an access record corresponding to the identifier of said one point wireless access; and
a recording unit, configured to, when the terminal accesses one wireless access point from the wireless access points, and said one wireless access point is not an access point corresponding to said identifier of a predetermined type, to create an access record corresponding to the identifier of the wireless point access.
15. A device for presenting a list of access points, characterized in that it contains:
CPU; and
memory for storing instructions executed by the processor;
wherein the processor is configured to:
obtaining the identifier of each of the wireless access points scanned by the terminal;
deciding whether at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists from among the identifiers of the wireless access points, wherein the identifier of the predetermined type is an identifier corresponding to an access record stored in the terminal, and an access record is used to indicate historical information, that the terminal has ever accessed a wireless access point corresponding to a predefined type identifier;
if the decision result is that said at least one identifier of a predetermined type exists, presenting said at least one identifier of a predetermined type in the list of access points according to an access record corresponding to said at least one identifier of a predetermined type; and
hiding at least one identifier of an undefined predefined type by using a label.
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My 1000th Blog! – The Adventures of My Friends
It was sultry in Macon, Georgia. Which is kinda irrelevant because our story takes place in Poway. I hope mentioning their town squares things with the Macon city council.
Anyway, ruggedly handsome Matt Pallamary looked down the smoking barrel of his Saturday Night Special. He’d been the head weatherman for Channel 3, The Voice of Greater Poway, for thirteen years. He hadn’t learned a darn thing about meteorology, climatology, chinoiserie, or whatever. It really didn’t matter, every day in Poway since the flood of Genesis had been cloud free. Poway had been, and still is, light during the day and dark at night.
Oh dear, I’ve totally forgotten about the sultry Susan Conner who lay dead on the floor with a bullet hole the size of Rhode Island in her head. Matt surveyed her one more time, no doubt Poway’s finest would soon show. After all, Winchell’s DoughnutsTM always had Channel 3 on.
“Nice gams,” said Matt. “Too bad her cats kept predicting a major flood. Destroyed all credibility for the program.” Ms. Conner didn’t mind Matt’s nor the author’s intrusions and dilly dallying. She was dead and had learned patience.
Suddenly, the scene was cut short as Sergeant Mavvy Vasquez and rookie Mary Barker burst in. Sgt. Vasquez drew her VerasceTM .45 silencer and plugged Matt in the throat. Matt slumped to the floor. Even in death he wasn’t in a hurry. His last words were, “Ow! I mean ow!”
Barker asked, “Land of Goshen! Why’d ya kill him? He was ruggedly handsome, ya know.”
Vasquez sneered. “Rookie, rookie, rookie. Have you learned nothing from me? Less paper work from killing a suspect than bringing him. And besides, Real Economists of Los Angeles comes on just after my shift is over. Not missing that for anything.
“Shouldn’t Real Economists of Los Angeles be in quotes and not in italics,” said Barker, whose hearing was very good.
“Pow! Pow!” said Vasquez as she pointed her finger. Finger guns have never worked, not even for the imaginative kid. It didn’t work now. So she used her silencer. Down went the rookie. The sergeant knew she was wrong to murder Barker and also quite possibly wrong about italicizing the TV show as well. However, she was doomed if this charge was true. Sheriff Leona Pence was strict about grammar, particularly after a murder of a policewoman.
Sheriff Pence was herself a murderer. Normally, that would be a resume stain for anyone seeking a career in law enforcement. However, Ms. Pence successfully ran for sheriff, sheriff spelled correctly, on the slogan, or with the slogan as the case may be, of, “It takes a murderer to catch a murderer.”
Murder made Sergeant Vasquez hungry. Murder always does that. You’d know that if you murdered . . . Anyway, so hungry, so hungry for a maple doughnut that she cut in line of Shirley Wetzel who was kindness itself.
Except when it came to her doughnuts. No one got between her and a doughnut. A doughnutless Wetzel was a hangry Wetzel. (Notice, I’m using people last names mostly. It’s because I’m respectful. Manners matter even in murder.)
Anyway, still at the doughnut shop, Wetzel yelled, “Hey, no cutting in line.”
“Oh go eat lutefisk,” replied the law.
A severely sugar deficient Wetzel pulled her trusty Jay Martin knife and severed Sergeant Vasquez’s jugular. Blood splashed Wetzel’s white blouse. “My blouse is ruined! Just ruined!”
“No, it isn’t” said Shelley Caldwell, who normally took the doughnut orders, but hadn’t done so recently because of all the murders and stuff, “just smear blood over yourself. You’ll just be wearing a shiny red blouse, that’s all.”
Wetzel sniffled. “I suppose so.”
“And not only that,” said Caldwell, “the police will be looking for a murderer with blood stains on her. They won’t be able to see individual spots in a completely stained blouse.”
Wetzel brightened. Smiled even. “Thank you. You’ve been most helpful to a murderous stranger.”
Caldwell waved her hand. “It’s nothing, honey. My grandmother told me to be useful as well as ornamental.”
Wetzel stepped outside, walked to intersection and pressed the button. When the light at the other side of the street flashed “walk,” she walked put not before looking to the left for aholes turning right into the crosswalk. If only she’d had looked up as well. But no she didn’t. A comet hit her and carried her off into space. Right now, Wetzel is speeding out on an orbit that will take her out past Pluto, still a planet in my book, and into the Oort cloud. Wetzel’s comet is scheduled to return in the year 2375.
Anyway, the comet’s commotion kinda grabbed everyone’s attention, so no one noticed when Steve Barber, a Chihuahua, robbed the nearby First Really First National Bank. I tell you, no one ever suspects Chihuahua of any crime at all. It’s truly an invitation to canine robbery, which Barber had just done. And with an AKC-47. The C stands for Chihuahua sized. It’d be unrealistic to have a tiny dog, toting around a real assault rifle, for goodness sake.
Unfortunately for Barber, a Chihuahua’s legs are tiny, making a quick getaway impossible. Too bad he’d never gotten a license. He could have booked it out of there in a Smart Car.TM
Anyway, Sergeant Bob Brouilette used the author intrusion and the doggie’s slowness to catch the canine criminal. “Oh ho,” said Brouilette, “I’ve got you know.”
“‘Now’ is spelled, ‘now,’ not ‘know,’ copper,” woofed Barber.
“It’s not my fault, ‘know’ was a typo,” said Brouilette. “And, it’s a homonym.”
“No, it isnt,” woofed the dog. “and you have to let me go.”
“You used a gun in a robbery,” said the sergeant.
“It’s my Second Amendment right to bear arms,” woofed Barber.
“That only applies to people,” said Brouilette.
An interesting Supreme Court ruling loomed. But then fifty-two cats pounced on Barber, grabbed him by their paws and kicked him to death with their hind legs. “Eat fur balls, Chihuahuas,” purred the kittenish Susan Conner who wasn’t as dead as she seemed in paragraph two. She probably takes lots of vitamins, “Time to make America feline again,” said Conner.
And now we’ll pause a moment while I correct a comma into a period. There. Done.
“We don’t murder with cats in Poway,” said the bystander Paul Higgins who had a body any zombie would kill for, four limbs and everything. And at that, Higgins put a whistle to his lips and blew.
Conner sneered. “Like any cats going to follow that.”
“I know,” said Higgins, smarter than a herd of amoebas. “But this whistle will attract the attention of the police.”
“Oh drat,” said Conner, “I didn’t figure on that.”
“Into the library,” said the dapper Woodrow Wilkins, who despite all wearing spiffy clothes, loved cats to the extent that he never minded cat fur all over his ensembles. Well, he really preferred cat fur that coordinated nicely with his suits. But the point has been made, he loved cats and their cat masters.
Conner led her herd to the library. Before entering, she turned back to glimpse at her knight in shining armor. “Thank you,” said. “I will always remember your kindness.”
The ever modest Wilkins tipped his hat. “It’s nothing.” He then vanished into obscurity, which was quite a good thing given the fatality rate of this Powegian day.
Conner and her cute as buttons cats stampeded into the library.
“Whoa!” yelled the head librarian, Shellie Fiore, in her sternest whisper. “This is a library, not a barn. We don’t stampede here.”
Properly embarrassed the cats said down and began licking themselves. Conner, too.
Fiore took this respite in action to drink in the attention of hundreds of male admirers. Ravishingly beautiful, if she had been alive in the time of Homer, she’d have been the stunning knockout that launched a thousand ships against Troy.
Fiore knew it too. Indeed, she’d walk the sidewalk in front of the library every now and again. Male drivers would turn their heads to drink her in. For too long. Too often. Eyes off the road, driver after driver would crash into car after car. Often with fatal results. The she devil reveled in her fatal attractiveness.
But not in the library, where she never killed anyone. But she’d give you such a look if you tried to argue your way out of a fine.
Poway’s library collected a lot of late-book fines and talking-ones as well. To such an extent, in fact, that the place was lit not with over head lighting, but with ornate Italian candlesticks.
The reference librarian, Chrissie Ann, AKA the Enforcer, gripped one such candlestick. She lovingly referred to it as Rita Tobey Cloud. Ann was also snarling. A patron, Susan Clark Voorhis, wanted to use the computer. It was her time. Had been for ten minutes. She’d demurely asked the selfish oaf if she’d might sit down instead. The miscreant, Rodney Dodig, didn’t even look up. He really was a bad egg.
So Voorhis, walked timidly toward Ann and told her tale of woe. “Is that so? Well not, in my domain.” Ann the Enforcer glanced toward Conner and her cats, you could never tell what they might do. But they were sleeping. She was free to administer justice.
In three steps Ann bounded over to where Dodig surfed the net for intense articles on cross-grape pollination in the Andes. Naturally, he didn’t want to be disturbed by the outside world. So when Ann tapped him on the shoulder, saying, “Now, see here!” he waxed belligerent. His face took on the anger of someone expecting a cream-filled chocolate egg only to find that he’d bitten into a chocolate-covered Brussels sprout.
“Take off, reference Nazi.” And worse, he’d yelled this. In a library. To a reference librarian. To a Powegian reference librarian.
Smack, smack, Ann’s candlestick, Cloud, came down on his head. Smack, smack, Ann’s silver candlestick made sure he was dead. Voorhis thought briefly turning Ann into the law, but she really did need to get on the computer. She really needed to complete her research. Her term paper was due tomorrow and her laptop wasn’t doing anything. If only she’d listened to her friends and not installed Internet Explorer. She merely mouthed thanks to Ann and sat down at her terminal.
The blissful silence of the library shattered when Conner spontaneously busted. So Conner didn’t remember Wilkins’ kindness well long after all, did she?
Anyway, Ann the Enforcer strode toward the cats. “Now see here!” she yelled. “We do not combust in this library.” Pointing her finger to the door she said, “Scat, shoo, now!”
The cats ignored her, so Ann brought a big bucket, some soap, and some water. It’s amazing how often those things are useful to a reference librarian. “Now cats, who want’s a bath!”
None of them did. They stampeded the exit and collided with great momentum into the Great Steve Kramer’s stilts. Kramer’s stilts were thirty-feet long. Kramer was walking with them. Down went Kramer. Down went Kramer’s skull. Not the way Kramer had wanted to die, he’d always fancied he’d get shot down in a gunfight on Front Street in Dodge City against the somehow revived Matt Dillon. Before that he wanted to parlay his earnings from exotic stilt walking at the Rhino’s Horn club into graduating with a major in Alligator Husbandry at Tampa A&M. Bummer, Kramer.
But death isn’t always bad. No! For Kramer’s hat fell off when he fell. Underneath it had been a lottery ticket. The ticket fluttered to the ground. It’s movement caught the eye of Julie Fletcher who had come to see the sights of Poway, tourist destination of the West. Fletcher had always been raised to make the best of any situation, including deaths of alligator-husbandry wishing, thirty-foot stilt walking entertainers.
So Fletcher pounced on the lottery ticket. As incredibly contrived fiction would have it, the ticket won her eighty millions dollars. She immediately bough a BushnellTM 303 sonic obliterator. She bought a spanking new Rolls RoyceTM drove back to her home town and murdered everyone who had been mean to her. I’m hoping the elimination of all the negativity in her life, will give her a fresh start. I mean, after all, she should be able to bribe any number of juries. Any way, good luck, Fletcher.
Not all onlookers were made happy by Kramer’s death. Not Ted Mouser. The ever dashing hit man had just bumped off Santa Claus. Old Saint Nick had banged Mouser’s roof one too many times. The neighboring kids blamed him a lot for ruining Christmas. They even called him, “meanie.” That hurt. Only one thing could cheer Mouser up, stilt walking. Powegian stilt walking. And now Poway’s very best stilt walker was gone. And soon would be Mouser as well.
Click, click. Click, click. The sounds of the steel nails on Mrs. Claus’ tall boots. She removed her sunglasses and gazed at Mouser. “So you killed my husband.”
“Santa Claus, he was a good man. He stayed at home with me, every night but one. And man, I love a guy with a belly and a beard.”
Mouser raised his left eyebrow. “Mrs. Claus. Is it that so? I seem to remember you having a different name. A very different name.”
Mrs. Claus spat at the ground. “That’s right, I was Bettie Turner, fan dancer at the Naked Armadillo down San Anton way. The best fan dancer you ever saw. And don’t you forget it.”
Mouser wouldn’t forget Turner, wouldn’t raise his right eyebrow for her either. Everything in moderation was his motto. Mrs. Old Saint Nick, reached inside her trench coat and withdrew a Kit KatTM bar.
Mouser laughed. “Give me a break.”
But Turner wouldn’t. She reached again inside her trench coat and came out with a Sunday Morning Special and put a bullet neatly between Mouser’s eyes. She looked at her smoking gun. “‘Bout time all that target practice with the elves paid off.”
Then Kathryn Minicozzi killed Turner with a slingshot. As always, competition to be Santa’s wife was fierce. “Finally, I’ll be Mrs. Chubby.” A limo pulled up. Vivian Pattee jumped out and ran toward Turner. The chauffeur knew that murderers always appreciated a quick getaway. Big tippers too. “Where to?”
“To the North Pole,” said Minicozzi. “I’m going to get married.”
“Very good, madam.” It was at times like this that the driver was glad she’d invested in a hover-limo.”
Stefanie Kneer cursed her luck. She didn’t have a limo. Didn’t even have a car. Not even a Honda FitTM. You’d think that someone blessed with the looks of a film goddess could have gotten any man to do anything she wanted. And they did. Hundreds of wealthy hunks threw entire fortunes at her. Too bad she always lost the money in rigged tic-tac-toe matches. Would she ever learn?
No. She’s going down. Wrapped up in her problems, she stepped out into the street without looking even one way. Hopping mad a few seconds earlier, she was soon beside herself when she stepped on a land mine and exploded into bits. Indeed, a fortuitously stiff wind blew Kneer chunks onto the clothes of the passersby. Poway’s dry cleaning stores would do a booming business.
Crossing guard Kate Domsic, vigilant and dedicated as Barney Fife had even been, watched with grim satisfaction. “We enforce the law here. Damned scoff laws.” Domsic flicked off a bit of Kneer from her shoulder.
Fashion model Christee Gabour Atwood shrieked. That Kneer chunk had landed on her ChanelTM black dress. And there were long lines outside all the cleaners. She had to get home fast. Her car, get to her car. But no she had forgotten where she parked it.
Then along came Marilynne Smith pogoing down the sidewalk. Atwood’s arm shot out, clotheslining Smith. Atwood addressed the sprawling pogoer, “Sorry, but my need is greater.” Atwood pogoed with the alacrity that comes with being fashion model rushing to her place on the runway.
Smith sat up and surveyed her scrapes. “That just tears it. My man is buying me a car.” But it was a good thing she lost her pogo stick, for a UFO locked onto the nearest pogoer, Atwood. The tractor beam pulled the fashion model up to the mother ship. If only the aliens had remember to leave a door open for her.
It’s difficult to say whether the collision with the spacecraft did Atwood in or was it the plummeting fall that did her in. It is clear, however, that her landing on Jack Brantley Lightfoot killed him. Which was kind of good thing as was on his way to have his license renewed and he did so hate waiting in line at the DMV.
Cynthia Drew, however, was waiting at the DMV. Was she even a bit closer to the front of the line? No, the Earth’s plates had shifted twelve times since she got in line. Just then the woman in front of her, Liz Husebye Hartman, collapsed, dying from dehydration and malnutrition. This is why the DMV plasters posters inside its buildings signs that read, “Did you remember to bring food and water?” Of course, the waiting people never did bring food and water. They also never wanted to go home for those items because that would mean losing their place in line. So hundreds of people die each day at their DMVs from starvation and thirstation.
But as always, there was a silver lining to this. Hartman’s demise meant Drew could move up one place in the line. Synapses fired in Drew’s brain. If she killed all the people in front of her, she could go right to the front and get that form 4F3B. Fortunately, she had an AK-47 slung across her back. Sure, Drew had meant to use the gun on terrorists and intruders to her home, but her keen mind adapted to this situation. “Don’t whine, do,” her parents had always said. So Drew gunned down the people in the line and strode ahead, smiling all the way.
“Form 4F3B, please,” said Drew.
“Sorry,” said Christine Olewiler, “this is the line for form 4F3C. You want the line to the left.”
But the line to the left stretched so far that the curvature of the Earth prevented Drew from seeing the end. Her heart soared like a rock. “I’m going to kill myself.”
Olewiler sneezed. She coughed hard enough to separate her ribs. Snot flowed freely down her otherwise alabaster cheeks. “Please, kill me first. I’m ever so sick.”
Drew, ever the good Samaritan, emptied her assault rifle into the DMV clerk’s head. Drew could have complained that she now had no bullets to use on herself. Instead she displayed the can-do spirit that made America great and simply pulled her head off.
Meanwhile, it was eventful day on Happy Valley Street. D Lynn Frazier, had just killed her neighbor and bridge partner, Mandy Ward, by shoving sixty pounds of guacamole down the throat. And just for a flourish, Frazier stabbed Ward.
Roxe Anne Peacock, of the other bridge pair, took offense. It was her guacamole that Frazier had used. Her prize-winning guacamole! Frazier could kill her guests all she wanted, sure, Peacock had a live and let live attitude, but messing around with her guacamole brought instant death. Well not instant, Frazier did resist getting hit over the head with a frozen corned-beef brisket. Then it took a while for the petite Peacock to manhandle Frazier into the meat locker. And wouldn’t you know it, it took all night for Frazier to freeze properly.
Naturally enough Frazier had trouble getting up the next morning. Not so with Peacock. She took the stiff out of the locker and started to take it out to the curb for trash pickup. But as she did, she spied the washing machine. Horrors! She had wet clothes in there from the previous night. They would get stinking and moldy if not dried right away. She stood up Frazier a few feet away and started transferring clothes to the dryer. Unfortunately, in doing so, she bumped into Frazier. Down went the rock-hard frozen Frazier on Peacock’s neck, snapping it two. So, sad to say, the clothes got moldy and icky.
Two days later, Cheryl Christensen of the Neighborhood Mold Watch Committee knocked on Peacock’s door. Nothing. She came back the next day. Knocked. Again. Nothing. Christensen contemplated leaving another blistering anti-mold note before bursting into laughter. The mold maker would pay. Peacock would be tickled until she cried uncle.
Christensen picked the front door’s lock and headed to the reeking smell in the laundry room. She flexed her fingers. Justice would be served. But wahdu, Peacock was dead. Frazier was dead. The neighborhood would be blame her. Thinking quickly, Christensen stuffed each body into a sock. Into the dryer the dead ones went. Christensen closed the dryer door and set the buttons. Sure enough, Peacock and Frazier, being in orphan socks, disappeared.
Alex Butcher of the FBI came by to investigate, but her investigation proved no more fruitful than did any of the Bureau’s dead-bodies-stuffed-inside-orphan-socks investigation.
A week later, Linda Fierstein came back from a vacation at the sun-soaked beaches of Tahiti. She asked her neighbor, “Did anything happen while I was away?”
“Nothing to speak of,” said Kathy Carroll.
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Posted on June 6, 2015 by pauldelancey
1) Do what you can do. If you can do it, then you can do it.
2) Don’t do what you can’t do. If you can’t do it, then you can’t do it.
3) Not everything you can do should be done. Mixing root beer with a pint of Scotch bonnet sauce comes to mind.
4) Turn off the burners on your stove when your done.
5) Run from rabid ducks.
– Paul De Lancey, Life Counselor
Check out my latest novel, the Christmas thriller, Beneficial Murders. My books are available in paperpack or Kindle on amazon.com,
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The Isosceles Bermuda Triangle
Posted on May 13, 2015 by pauldelancey
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“Zombie-On-The-Go” Products – ZombieWipe
Zombies, has this ever happened to you? You’re on the way home to your lovely wife’s birthday party–You were smart enough to know that death and zombification wouldn’t fly as an excuse to miss it–and oh no, you have brain bits all over your hands. You can’t show up at her party like that. Her relatives never really liked you when you were alive. They sure as shooting, aren’t going to like you with messy mitts.
“I told you, Martha, he was a slob,” your mother-in-law would say.
“I told you he never amount to much,” says your father-in-law. “Not even a bum. Just a no good zombie.” Then he spits on you. And speaking of shooting, messy hands are all the excuse those relatives will need to get out the ol’ shotgun.
People can be so unfeeling to the undead. You want to be spiffy. But how is that possible when your neighborhood HOA kicks you out of your home? When you can’t even get a room and a shower at the YMCA? The song does say, “Young man” not, “Undead man.” When gas stations won’t let you use their restrooms to spruce up? Just one time, a zombie in Oklahoma left a hand in the men’s room. The news went viral and now no gas station in America will let you wash up.
But at heart–Does it still beat when you’re undead? I don’t know–you still take pride in your appearance. What is the anal-retentive zombie to do?
I’m glad you asked. Try Zombie Wipe-tm by Zombie-On-The-Go, LLC. Zombie Wipe gives your hands that minty fresh scent. And there’s more, Zombie Wipe is designed for easy opening, so losing a finger getting at those wipes-for-humans will be a thing of the past.
Now go to your wife’s birthday gala, you party animal, you.
– Paul De Lancey, health reporter
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How The British National Election Will Give Me Super Powers
Posted on May 9, 2015 by pauldelancey
According to USA Today on May 7, 2015, Britain’s Green Party held one seat in Parliament. There were much larger parties holding many more seats vying for control of the country’s destiny. However, they are of no interest to us and we shall ignore them.
The main thing to notice is that Other Parties held 27 seats. According to USA Today, other parties “Includes smaller parties from Northern Ireland, Wales, and Independents.” Okay fine, but what is smaller than one? Zero! (Okay, 1/2 is smaller than one. But you can’t have half a politician sitting* in Parliament or in the United States Congress for that matter. The incomplete he or she would die. It would be messy. Moreover, even though partial politicians are not specifically excluded from winning office in any country on this planet, there does seem to be a rather strong unwritten rule about it.)
Okay, now it gets exciting. USA Today claimed that the Other Parties, as of May 7, held a total of 27 seats in Parliament. How on Earth is that possible if all the Other Parties have zero members sitting* in Parliament? Is the sum of zeroes greater than 27? YES, dear reader 0 + 0 + 0 = 0 > 27 or alternatively 0>27. Half of 0 is o. Half of 27 is 13.5. So 0>13.5. In fact, zero is greater than any positive number. Woo hoo, then line of thinking is quite exhilirating, liberating even.
0 > 1, 0>2 . . .
This is where I acquire super powers. SupermanTM flies at let’s say, 100 miles per hour. I admit it; I fly at zero miles per hour. But we’ve just proved that 0>100. I CAN FLY FASTER than Superman. Superman can lift 2 tons of steel. I can easily lift o tons of steel. 0>2. I can hoist more than Superman. I AM STRONGER THAN SUPERMAN. I am mightier than Superman.
Do not worry. I shall use my superpowers for good, unless of course, you block the aisles at the supermarket with your shopping cart. Then you will be toast.
* = Members of Parliament are allowed to stand and move around. They do not have to sit all the time. Sitting in Parliament is just a phrase that has gotten a lot of currency.)
– Paul De Lancey, Superhero
Categories: humor, politics | Tags: beneficial, Britain, British, Congress, De Lancey, Green Party, murders, Northern Ireland, parliament, Superman, superpowers, United States, Wales | Leave a comment
Proof That Extraterrestrials Walk Among Us
Posted on April 27, 2015 by pauldelancey
For a number of days now, WordPress has been showing more visits to my blog than the sum of all visits from all countries and regions on our planet. If a visitor to my blog is not from Earth then he/she/it must be a SPACE ALIEN!
And the space aliens want to read my blog. My blog! MY GOSH! MY GOSH! The pressure! I’m hyperventilating! I’m ending all my sentences with exclamation points! Okay, calm down, Paul. You can do this.
Resolved, from now on, all my posts will be of the highest quality. They will be extremely interesting. They will so enthrall extraterrestrials that they will never entertain any thoughts of annihilating us. Indeed, I hope to make them so happy, to tickle their funny bone, wherever that may be, so much that they will reveal to us the ultimate secret of the universe; where do our socks go when then disappear from our clothes dryer?
I sense a Nobel Peace Prize in my future.
– Paul De Lancey, Intergalactic Man of Peace
Categories: humor | Tags: Christmas, clothes dryer, De Lancey, Earth, extraterrestrials, intergalactic, murders, Nobel Peace Prize, peace, socks, space alien, universe | Leave a comment
Movie Commentary: The Ancient Greeks Did Not Fight in Speedos
Posted on February 25, 2015 by pauldelancey
300 makes my all-time fetid-movie list. While it is true that the Spartans heroically delayed the Persian invasion at Thermopylae, it is not true that:
1) All Persians were hideous, hairless, trolls. Most Persians probably looked like people. Well, maybe not the people of Walmart.TM
2) Xerxes, the Persian king, was bearded and did not have earrings all over his face.
3) The Greeks did not fight in Speedos. They usually fought with body armor and leg armor. On occasion they fought naked, but it was to avoid infection from dirty garments, not to strut their stuff.
4) There was not a narrow mountain pass or gate at the battlefield. The mountains however were close to the sea.
5) If there were a narrow mountain pass with the width of three men, then why the heck didn’t they fight there instead of on the beach which had a width of perhaps thirty? Think about it. You’re late to a lecture on neo-post-impressionist geometry. Would you rather fight your way through a narrow hallway packed with students on their way to workshop on beer appreciation or across the sparsely occupied grassy quad? I rest my case.
6) A shepherd did betray the Spartans by telling the Persians of a mountain pass that circled behind the Spartan position. However, he was a local and is quite doubtful that he possessed a two-foot high hump.
7) In fact, it is highly unlikely that all baddies in the fifth-century BC looked like orcs from the Lord of the Rings.
8) The Persian Immortals were not short, probably not beardless, did not wear metallic masks, did not have metallic shields. In fact, they had wicker shields.
9) It is true that most of the Spartan soldiers stayed at home because of a religious holiday. There is no record of it resulting from domestic intrigue.
10) There is no record of the Spartan religious establishment as looking like evil cartoon characters.
11) The Greeks did not build their temples atop mountains with sheer cliffs. They could not have constructed such places of worship without an anti-grav machine, which they didn’t have.
12) And finally, just from looking out my window, I find it quite hard to believe that the Greek world of 480 BC was completely and relentlessly lived every moment in grimy-sepia tone. Perhaps they had a spot of green, red, or blue on some spot of the landscape every third day?
– Paul the peace maker
Categories: history, humor | Tags: 300, beer, beneficial, De Lancey, geometry, Greek, impressionist, Lord of the Rings, movie, murders, Persians, Sparta, Spartans, speedos, temples | Leave a comment
A Modest Proposal for Peace in the Middle East
Shakshuka, a weapon for peace.
Things remain chronically unstable and unpleasant in the Middle East. The Arab nations and Israel just haven’t gotten along as well as one might have hoped. Indeed one cannot look at the following incidents: 1948, the war for statehood, the war in 1967, the war in 1973, more than one intifada, the bombing of Iraqi nuclear facilities, the suspicion of what does facilities were meant to do, the suspicion that Iran’s nuclear program is designed for use against Israel, hundreds and hundreds of rockets fired against Israeli population centers, Israeli incursions in Gaza to fight Hamas, suicide bombers, and more without concluding that ill feelings have persisted over the years.
Meanwhile El Salvador has had its own problems, a really nasty civil war comes to mind. Also, while most people can find Israel on a map, hardly anyone knows the location of El Salvador.
But there is a solution. According the CIA World Factbook, the population of Israel in 2008 was 7,112,000 while the inhabitants in El Salvador numbered 7,066,000. Darn close. The size of Israel is 20,770 square kilometers, while the land area of El Salvador is 21,040. Darn close again.
Why not have Israel and El Salvador switch places? It would be a new beginning for both peoples. We could have a one-to-one swap of homes. What could be simpler? The Israelis would lose hostile neighbors and gain instant access to some of the best coffee in the world. The El Salvadoreans would be surrounded with ample supplies of the best shaksuka and hummus in the world. Who doesn’t doesn’t like good, tasty shakshuka and hummus? Nobody.
So there you go. Peace in our time. And you would be able to find the new El Salvador on a map.
Categories: history, humor, international, politics | Tags: Arab, benficial, Christmas, Civil War, coffee, De Lancey, El Salvador, g, Gaza, hummus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, murders, nuclear, nuclear program, peace, shakshuka, statehood, thriller, war | Leave a comment
Strange Club
About an hour from the Pacific Ocean and in a canyon in the southeast corner of San Diego County there is a sign proclaiming, “Canyon Yacht and Gun Club.” This club intrigues me tremendously. How much yachting can you do in a waterless canyon? Do they use their guns while yachting? On dry land? If somehow they manage a yacht race, does the winner need to be extra gracious to the losers?
More strange clubs as I find them.
– Paul the Wonderer
Categories: humor | Tags: beneficial, canyon, Christmas, club, county, De Lancey, gun club, murders, Pacific Ocean, San Diego, thriller, yacht | Leave a comment
What if there were a word composed entirely of silent letters? I’ve never heard of such a word, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I didn’t know of the word “qi,” and I still don’t know what it means, but it gets Scrabble players really excited. The second “l” in Maxwell is silent, or is the second? The “h” in rhombus is silent, so why not a word that is totally silent. Indeed, Simon & Garfunkels “Sounds of Silence” is a tribute to silent words. I am not nearly as musically talented as that duo. I will content myself by honoring silent words with the following haiku.
Silent Words*
ss ss ss ss ss
ss ss ss ss ss ss ss
ss ss ss ss ss ss
* Where ss stands for silent syllable. The above picture shows what silence looks like.
Note that haikus for silent words really haven’t taken off since they are pretty much identical
Categories: humor | Tags: Christmas, Garfunkel, haikus, murders, qi, rhombus, Scrabble, silence, Simon, sounds of silence | Leave a comment
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